China's Cruel War

During the cruel war, China also faced many financial and military problems. Firstly, China was hitten by “a broad economic, fiscal, and financial crisis. The destruction of transport line and disruption of markets worsened the crisis and collapsed the fiscal structure” (Van 252). In addition, the exhaustion of recruits made the condition even worse. In order to better the situation, Chiang “reduced recruitment, off-loaded forces it could not sustain, encourage armies to live off the land and switched to taxation in kind of the land tax” (Van 252). Besides, he allocated scarce goods, “discipline the bureaucracy and provided social service to key constituencies such as officials and educators” (Van 252). All these actions had helped China’s
economy and military situation.