readx; At this time, the military strength of the Imperial Chinese Army was about 3 million, and the remaining 3 million were production corps, which belonged to the training of reserves, and would not be put into the battlefield until a certain extent. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the United States was scared half to death, after all, it has six million troops, and the Chinese Empire has always been a country that takes the route of elite soldiers.

Generally speaking, it will cost a lot of money to maintain such a large number of troops, and it must be for the purpose of war to expand the recruitment.

It's just that what the United States doesn't know is that the Chinese Empire is expanding its production corps this time, which is a mode of raising troops that can be self-sufficient to a certain extent, but it still has to invest a certain amount of financial resources to form it.

The length of service in the production corps is about three to four years, mainly because many soldiers are illiterate and have not received much military training before, so they need to serve longer, while general compulsory soldiers, the service time is two years, and good performance is selected as professional soldiers.

The strength of the Imperial Chinese Army is about 3 million, which is a relatively constant number in the future, and the construction of production corps and other troops will continue to rise, but the cost will not be too large.

In terms of the Air Force, the number of pilots trained by the Chinese Empire had risen to 120,000 by this time, and with the addition of other logistics personnel, the number of air force service reached 600,000 per year.

As for the navy, it was also expanded to 300,000 at this time.

The total strength of the army, navy and air force is close to 4 million.

For such a large country, and a country with such a large population, there is indeed not much regular army of 4 million, but what China wants at present is development, and it makes no sense to maintain too large a large number of troops.

As for the judgment of the United States, there is also a certain degree of truth, after all, the Soviet Union at this time was already half-crippled, and the domestic economic order was extremely chaotic, the social order was not very normal, and the strategic buffer was not large, and the Chinese Empire was fully capable of destroying the Soviet Union at a not too great cost.

The Soviet Union was very important to the United States, after all, the United States was not strictly a land power country, and the United States was actually very rotten in terms of land power.

When it comes to war, the United States has very poor willpower and relies heavily on firepower bombing, which is one of the main reasons why the United States cannot become a land power country.

Another reason is that American GIs are afraid of death.

The United States is a capitalist country, and its nationalism is basically equal to none, although there is white nationalism in disguise, but it is not clear, the political axe is not advocated, and many American GIs are black.

In the United States, fighting a war is the same as hiring employees. There are various regulations on how much the salary is, how much the pension is, how to get the pension, and so on.

In the Chinese Empire, if a soldier dies in an accident on the battlefield without fighting, he is still given a pension and treated as a martyr. This is not the case in the United States, where a soldier does not receive a pension unless he is wounded or injured in battle. It's like the boss is settling with the employee.

Of course, this is also necessary, if I don't do this, it may cause some damage to the American GIs themselves, and I can go home without fighting, and I can still get a sum of money. This may be a complete existence, and it may exist on a large scale.

This is not the case with the Imperial Chinese Defense Forces, which can only be said to be extremely rare, because the Chinese Empire is a single-nation state with its own nationalist ideology, and therefore spiritually strong.

American GIs seem to be materially powerful, very advanced in equipment, or something, but they are actually very bad mentally, and this leads to greed for life and fear of death on the battlefield, and it is okay to abuse small countries in the Middle East, but it is not okay to run to East Asia, which is a traditional radiation area of China, and the nation is generally precocious, and the willpower is very strong.

Therefore, the United States needs a land power country, and the Soviet Union is the best goal of unity, and it is also the only land power country on the Eurasian continent that can balance China, and the strength of Germany and France has not yet been restored, and these two countries hate each other and are very unreliable, only the Soviet Union is more reliable.

With the capture of the Kiev region of Ukraine by the Chinese Empire, the grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union have been knocked out, and the Soviets now have a problem even eating.

If the Chinese Empire attacked the Soviet Union again at this time, the probability that the Soviet Union would be able to resist the sharp edge of the Sino-Russian coalition was basically equal to zero.

At this time, the eastern part of Ukraine was occupied by the Sino-Russian coalition at this time, while the western part was under the control of Poland.

Poland took the opportunity to capture half of Ukraine in the Soviet-Russian Civil War, and this country is also [***], but not under the Soviet system, but a Soviet power.

In the face of the pressure of the Sino-Russian coalition forces, the Polish political axe was also very frightened, but the Sino-Russian coalition forces obviously had no intention of attacking Poland for the time being, but actively contacted Poland.

Poland is a newly restored country, in order to prevent waves and the Soviet Union, Nicholas II reluctantly accepted the advice of the Chinese political adviser, and promised the Polish political axe, as long as the Polish political axe reforms, abandon the [***] system, Russia recognizes the legitimate status of Poland's restoration, and can even form a military alliance with the Polish political axe to achieve offensive and defensive coordination.

Poland was previously under Russian rule, and Nicholas II spoke very effectively, which was also a good reassurance for the Poles.

Of course, whether Poland's political axe can be reformed depends on the internal political landscape, but it may be a big surname.

After all, at this time, the Soviet Union was losing and retreating, and if the Polish political axe still adhered to the communist system, then it was the choice of the Soviet political axe, although they did not choose the Soviet political axe, but China and Russia gave Poland the political axe two ways out.

One is to carry out reforms, join the Sino-Russian alliance of military alliances, and jointly deal with the Soviet Union, then Russia will recognize the legal status of the Polish political axe, and China will give Poland all kinds of assistance so that the Polish political axe can develop.

If the Polish political axe does not accept this line proposed by China and Russia, then it is tantamount to offending China and Russia, and then the Polish political axe will have to join the Soviet Union if it does not join.

China and Russia are tantamount to forcing Poland to a crossroads, and they must choose a way to go to the black, and it is impossible to curry favor with both sides.

This is the sorrow of small countries, which can be rounded and flattened at will.

Although the Polish political axe was established with the support of the Soviet Union before, the problem is that the Soviet Union is now unable to do it, and it has been defeated all the way from the Urals to the west bank of the Volga River, and it has lost half of Ukraine, and now the Sino-Russian coalition army has bordered Poland.

If China and Russia are offended, then the Sino-Russian coalition may attack Western Ukraine at any time, and then hit Poland.

At this time, the Sino-Russian coalition army can be extremely prosperous, how can Poland, a small country that has just recovered, be able to compete with China and Russia.

The capture of eastern Ukraine by the Sino-Russian coalition is tantamount to the capture of the Soviet Union's iron ore producing areas.

Ukraine is very rich in iron ore resources, basically the most abundant iron ore resources in Europe are in Ukraine.

The iron ore resources of the Ukrainian region are very concentrated and easy to mine, accounting for a considerable proportion of the world's iron ore.

The USSR was already completely crippled by this time.

Most of its vast resources have been recovered by New Russia, and the remaining European regions, although habitable, are not rich in resources.

China and Russia, on the other hand, have seized a lot of resources with their continuous counteroffensives.

If the Soviet Union wants to develop in the future, there will be many obstacles, and the shortage of some resources will be able to put the Soviet Union's development into a bottleneck.

The Soviet Union is also a [***] country, exports are not strong, foreign exchange is not much, plus there is no gold reserves, where there is money to import what resources, then you can only reach out to the American father, the American father has always not done loss-making business, maybe he can be ruthless to give the Soviet Union some assistance, but after all, there is a limit, to a certain extent, it can't go up.

In the original history, the Soviet Union would develop into the world's second largest industrial country, but it was only huge in quantity, but in terms of quality, it was the Soviet Union's usual stupid and crude style, which was also developed on the basis of huge resources.

Today, the Soviet Union has not yet developed, and it has been crippled by China.

The crippled Soviet Union, now it is difficult to develop.

First of all, there is no gold, and the gold reserves have been seized by China. There are no resources, and most of them have been seized by China.

There is not such a large strategic buffer, and there is not so much population, as well as food.

The war potential of the Soviet Union was reduced and reduced, and at this time it had been reduced to a certain extent by the Chinese Empire, and to this extent, Xia Jun felt that it was almost there.

Because the Soviet Union at this time was basically abolished, but it was not something that New Russia could deal with alone.

If New Russia had dealt with the Soviet Union alone, then there would have been absolutely no possibility of victory, because New Russia had not developed much at this time, and its foundation was very weak.

Previously, Russian industry was mainly concentrated in Europe, which is now the territory of the Soviet Union.

As long as the Chinese Empire does not cooperate, New Russia will definitely not want to destroy the Soviet Union alone.

If it is said that the Soviet Union will be weakened again, then the result will be that New Russia itself may destroy the Soviet Union, and with the surname of the brute bear of Russia, it will definitely have greater ambitions at that time, and the actions will be very clumsy, and the political performance will be very rough.

Political performance is actually an art in the eyes of politicians, and the Yankees are good at performing all kinds of political performances, and they are very realistic.

The Soviet Union, or later Russia, was very clumsy, and basically others could see at a glance what interests this brute bear was doing.

Therefore, the Sino-Russian alliance in later generations is unreliable, and as long as Russia has enough interests, it will be both snakes and rats.

In the future situation, it stands to reason that China and Russia do want to jointly counter the United States, but Russia is engaged in natural gas development in the South China Sea and Vietnam, and nakedly grabs the interests of other countries.

As a traverser, Xia Jun naturally knows what the real surname of the Russian brute bear is, so even if he is related to Nicholas II at this time, Xia Jun is not worried about this old man, making New Russia half-starved and half-full is actually a good state, if he is too full, he will eat people if he is too strong.

Therefore, at this time the Chinese Empire was strengthening its control over Russia, first of all, in industry, and Russia's national industry must not be allowed to develop.

The main thing, of course, is not to allow Russia to develop the arms industry.

It is possible for Russia to develop some industries, and for the time being it is allowed to develop their national industries, but the development to a certain extent will be completed.

When the time comes, we will use the bubble economic means of the United States to bring down these enterprises and buy them at a low price.

Under this means of an empty glove white wolf, Russia's national industry has no desire to develop.

At the same time, the existence of the Soviet Union can lead the main direction of the contradiction to the Soviet and Russian civil wars, so that Russian society ignores the existence of Chinese capital.

Ignoring does not mean not seeing, just choosing the surname of ignorance.

After all, the Soviet Union was still in existence at this time, and Russia did not dare to do anything to Chinese capital, let alone restrict the circulation of Chinese capital.

With the current intensifying economic kidnapping, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Russia to break free from China's grasp.

…… In the autumn of 1921, the United States sent an unprecedented invitation to the Chinese Empire to visit, and it had a great attitude of wanting to improve relations between the two sides.

In the face of the invitation of the United States, the Chinese Empire decided to send Yan Xishan and Zhu Xiaocheng to visit the United States after deliberation.

Xia Jun appointed Yan Xishan with diplomatic powers, and Yan Xishan could make his own decisions on general issues.

In October, Yan Xishan and Zhu Xiaocheng flew to Washington, D.C., and their visit to the United States immediately attracted the attention of various international media.

At this time, China and the United States have become the two rising countries after the Great War, but there are many disputes between the two countries.

This time, the United States invited China to visit, and China also sent a deputy cabinet assistant and a foreign minister, which shows that China is also very concerned about this visit. This visit, which had the potential to change the situation in the world, was a relatively formal official exchange between the two powers after the war.

After Yan Xishan and Zhu Xiaocheng arrived in Washington, they were received by US Secretary of State Lansing Robert.

In front of the media, the two sides smiled and shook hands kindly, looking harmonious, and the surface work was done very well.

As if the world was at peace at this time!

This is the first time that Yan Xishan has visited other countries as a large province, and it is a major potential threat to a large country like the United States, a future empire.

However, he saw the world situation clearly, so he was appointed to visit the United States.

After going through the motions, the American political axe hosted a banquet to receive the two Chinese imperial officials, and Wilson also attended the banquet, and the two sides chatted very casually at the banquet, without the slightest tension.

"As the two largest industrial countries in the world at present, I think we should strengthen cooperation, instead of the current situation, there are too many disputes between the two sides, maybe we should discuss it well." Robert and Zhu Xiaocheng touched a small glass of wine, and then said to Zhu Xiaocheng.

The two had contact before, and they were able to communicate better.

"Naturally, we will not refuse your country's kindness, but I think most of the previous disputes were caused by your country's hostility towards our Chinese Empire. We, the Chinese Empire, have never intended to provoke any disputes. Zhu Xiaocheng said: "Our actions are what any rising power must experience, and your country's vain attempt to rebalance the power of Asia is already unrealistic." ”

If it had been before, Robert would have felt that this was too arrogant.

However, it has been proved that the United States is indeed powerless to influence the situation in Asia, even when it has the support of both the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union.

However, Robert does not fully agree, in his view, although it is doomed to be unable to influence the situation in Asia, the United States must and absolutely needs to stop the momentum of China's expansion into Europe at this time, otherwise the consequences will be serious.

"Of course, we did make some bad decisions that hurt the feelings of the two countries, but that's all in the past, isn't it? Now that both sides are aware of the error, why not sit down and talk? Robert then said.

"Your country should also give us the opportunity to make mistakes, otherwise it is not fair." Zhu Xiaocheng replied.

"So that's the main reason why we have to talk about it." "I think there should be some agreement on all sorts of things," Robert said. ”

"The food today was good, I loved it." Zhu Xiaocheng suddenly changed the topic and concentrated on eating.

"Of course, this is carefully prepared for friends." Robert said, no longer talking about state affairs, but continued to chat, Zhu Xiaocheng has a match, and the interest is not very high.

…… During the subsequent visit, in an official conversation, the United States once again put forward its desire to restore the "Zhu Xinlan Agreement," and the United States said that for the sake of world peace, it hoped that the Soviet Union and Russia would have a ceasefire in the civil war, as well as stabilize the situation in South America, and at the same time limit naval armaments so that countries would not fall into a new naval race, and so on.

During the talks, Yan Xishan keenly felt that the United States wants to create a stable environment for economic development and to defeat China through its economy.

With the current development mode of the United States, there is no doubt that China will indeed be left behind by the United States soon if it follows the general development model.

The ordinary development model is not developing fast at all.

If any country wants to develop rapidly, it is completely inseparable from the bubble economy, and it just depends on which aspect of the bubble economy is.

If it is only a real estate bubble, then it will only plunge the country into the point of intensifying internal contradictions, but if it is like a railway bubble, then although it will cause a very serious economic recession in a short period of time, it is not irreversible, and the material basis for the bubble economy will also pave the way for future prosperity.

Moreover, Yan Xishan could sense the urgency of the attitude of the Americans, especially when it came to the issue of the civil war in Soviet Russia.

Although the Yankees didn't seem to be very nervous, Yan Xishan was still keenly aware of it.

The United States wants to seek a stable economic development environment, but China also needs a stable economic development environment.

The top leaders of the Chinese Empire are confident that the United States will definitely not be China's opponent in the future compared to economic development, and the tricks that the United States is playing now have been thoroughly studied by the Chinese Empire.

Although the Chinese Empire has not followed up now, it does not mean that it will not follow up in the future.

Yan Xishan, who had insight into the intentions of the United States, immediately sent a wireless telegram to the mainland in the form of special encryption.

(To be continued)