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The second battleship of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the Zhejiang, was officially launched this morning, and the second battleship Zhejiang, compared with the first Fujian, had some changes, and the problems on the Fujian were improved.

At this time, most of the Fujian's launching test has been completed, and the last part is to test whether the Fujian can withstand high sea conditions, and must wait for the arrival of summer typhoons before going to sea for testing.

From a design point of view, there is no problem for the Fujian to withstand high sea conditions, but in fact, whether it can withstand it depends on the test.

After most of the test was completed, the Fujian was officially handed over to the navy, and the officers and men of the Fujian immediately began to adapt to the surname.

It will take some time to form combat effectiveness.

At least within this year, it is impossible to form too strong combat effectiveness.

The 10-year Army, 50 years of the Air Force, and 100-year Navy are not unreasonable conclusions, but this is not entirely conclusive, and the Chinese Navy is developing rapidly, and it is very likely that this conclusion will be broken.

At this time, the Chinese Army was only nine years old, and when it was established seven years ago, it defeated the Yueben Army, and it was still a complete victory over the Yueben Army, and the Chinese Army had already broken the conclusion of the 10-year Army.

As for the air force, China's air force is the earliest air force, coupled with vigorous development, not only advanced hardware, in terms of training and management system and other software, Xia Jun directly borrowed from the air force model of later generations, and directly jumped to a very advanced point, other countries want to catch up with and surpass the Chinese air force, it is obviously not easy.

The launch of the Zhejiang went smoothly and there were no breakdowns on the first voyage, a good start, which meant most of the success.

At the shipyard, the remaining five battleships have all started, and the construction of two second-generation aircraft carriers, the Pangu and the Nuwa, has also begun.

The rest are seven Sea Shield Type 3 battle cruisers, and ten Sea Shield Type 2 light cruisers, which are also under construction.

The most built belong to frigates, which are used for anti-submarine, air defense, for following large formations, but also for protecting merchant ships and fighting pirates.

At this time, the navy was well funded, and it built warships without blinking an eyelid.

The Grim Reaper-class submarines, which were originally planned to be built only five, have been expanded by the Navy to ten. The Chinese shipyards of the Reaper-class submarines could not be fully built, and some of the equipment still needed to be purchased by Xia Jun from the exchange platform.

With the strength of the Chinese Navy's hardware facilities, it is followed by pressure on software facilities, that is, on the quality of personnel.

Training is being intensified, training soldiers and officers, and the navy is immersed in a vigorous spirit of forging ahead.

The launch of the second super-dreadnought battleship has once again strengthened the strength of the Chinese Navy, and although the combined fleet of the Chinese Navy has been trying to recover its strength since it was hit like a catastrophe, it has been left far behind by the Chinese Navy.

However, the United States has also begun to vigorously develop its navy, and is constantly increasing the strength of the Western Pacific Fleet, and there is a faint momentum of joint efforts with the United States to balance the Chinese navy.

The countermeasure taken by the Chinese Navy is to vigorously develop aircraft carriers, and at the same time, the Air Force has also begun to build strategic airfields in the Nanyang Republic and deploy ship-to-ship bomber formations at the airfields.

The warships built by the Navy were expected to be launched by the end of 1919 and were expected to form a preliminary overall combat strength by the end of 1921.

The growing strength of the Navy has also greatly encouraged the people.

At this time, the Chinese people had already achieved food and clothing, so they paid more attention to national affairs.

Many people admire the great powers, and that is because the great powers can bully other countries, so that the people can go out of the door and have a face, so that they can not be bullied.

At this time, the Chinese Empire also embarked on the path of great powers.

After the establishment of the empire, it began to actively expand diplomatically internationally, and in the Asian region, the Chinese empire formalized diplomatic relations with Myanmar at the end of last year.

Myanmar is the only country in Asia that has not been colonized, mainly by Britain and France, which have colonies on the Indochina Peninsula, and Myanmar is listed as a 'buffer zone' by both countries.

The best way for the two countries to avoid direct conflict is to create a buffer zone in the middle, so that direct contact can be avoided.

Thailand is also this buffer land, the British occupy Burma, the French occupy Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and in the middle is Thailand, now called Siam, not yet called Thailand.

Later, in 1904, Britain and France established spheres of influence: the east of the Chao Phraya River was the French sphere of influence, and the west was the British sphere of influence. Although Siam did not become a colony of the Great Powers, and was exceptionally the only country in Southeast Asia to maintain political literacy, it was already surrounded by Western powers and was still under much repression by Britain and France.

The same is true of the situation in the Indochina Peninsula as a whole.

Now that most of Myanmar is occupied by the Kokang Kingdom, the situation has changed for Thailand.

Britain and France reached a buffer agreement, but China apparently did not.

Siam was at this time under the rule of the Bangkok Dynasty, whose previous dynasty was the Thonburi Dynasty, a dynasty founded by Cheng Sin, a Chinese of descent Cheng Sin. At that time, Siam was invaded by Burma and was already on the verge of extinction, and it was at that time that Zheng Xin established the Thonburi Dynasty, because of his obsession with Buddhism, the whole Siam was a national belief in Buddhism at this time.

However, this Zheng Xin did not end well in the end, and was beaten to death.

Siam's relationship with China was the closest in the Ming Dynasty, and the envoys of the two sides had frequent exchanges, except for some cultural transmission, nothing else had to do with it.

At this time, the Chinese Empire launched a plan to expand into Indochina, and the next one to penetrate was Siam, which was an economic infiltration.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kokang Kingdom began to talk with the Siamese Bangkok Dynasty about the proposal of 'economic integration of Burma and Siam', the so-called economic integration, which is the free monopoly of capital.

If Siam agrees to this proposal, then Chinese capital can drive from the Kokang Kingdom to Siam and gradually control Siam's economy, politics, culture, education, and other fields with advanced productive forces.

In the face of the strong rise of the Kokang Kingdom, the Siamese Bangkok dynasty also understood that behind this was actually China's expansion into Indochina.

The issue of economic integration, the Bangkok dynasty is somewhat interested.

Because the meaning of the Kokang Kingdom was to attract Siamese merchants to invest in Myanmar.

The fifth generation of king, Rama V, that is, Chulalongkorn the Great (reigned 1868~1910), conformed to the trend of historical development, learned from the experience of Western countries, led a modernization reform movement, introduced Western administrative, tax, educational and military systems, the traditional "Sakdina" system was replaced by a salary system, abolished slavery, the king hired foreign advisers to serve in various departments of the political axe, and selected young people to study in the West, the focus of diplomatic activities also tended to the West, Siam embarked on the road of learning from the West.

Because of certain reforms, Siamese capital has an advantage over Burma, which has just ended the conflict, so on the surface it seems to be a very profitable thing.

However, Siam ignored Chinese capital, and in the traditional view of Siam, China's economic power was not too strong, but China's defeat of Yuben and the status of the strongest country in Asia also made the Siamese Bangkok dynasty have to carefully consider this proposal of the Kokang Kingdom.

Seeing that it was profitable, Siam signed the "Burma-Siamese Economic Integration Agreement" on May 19 with the Kokang dynasty, which stipulated that merchants from both sides could freely enter any economic sector of the other side, adopt a zero-tariff system for imports and exports, and unify the two sides in terms of taxation.

First of all, in terms of Siam's investment in Kokang, Huaxia will cooperate with the team to contain Siam, and in terms of Siam's business expansion, Huaxia will also expand in a teamwork manner.

The capital of Myanmar is pitifully weak in the face of Chinese capital, and although Chinese capital is not yet able to compete with international capital, it is n times stronger than the capital of Siam.

At the same time, the Huaxia Society will also set up a branch in Siam, which will focus on absorbing Siamese elites, so as to provide Chinese capital with the advantage of contacts and voice in the expansion of Siam, so as to gradually control the whole of Siam.

In Vietnam, the Chinese political axe has begun to secretly make contact with the Vietnamese emperor Nguyen Phuc Chang, who came to the throne last year.

Historically, Vietnam was once part of China's territory, and as a vassal state for a long time, the degree of sinicization was very high, and the Confucian imperial examination system was still maintained at this time.

Under the control of the French, Nguyen Phuc Chang did have some unwillingness, but to the disappointment of the empire, this guy was not a monarch with courage.

The process of recovering Vietnam was put on hold for the time being, as the empire's temporary target was Russia, and a confrontation with France would make diplomacy very passive.

Although France was also in the middle of World War I like Britain at this time, Xia Jun did not want to offend Britain, France, the United States, and Russia.

Russia and China will inevitably come into conflict, and this is a geographical will, and the three countries will have to expand, and irreconcilable contradictions will inevitably arise in the process of expansion.

The United States is a country controlled by international capital, China is a nationalist country, and the two sides also have a conscious and inevitable contradiction, and the most obvious place of this contradiction is the commercial contradiction, nationalism will keep international capital out, and international capital will begin to suppress the country after it cannot enter its country, so the contradiction between China and the United States, with the escalation of commercial conflicts in the future, is very likely to escalate to military conflicts, and the contradictions are also irreconcilable.

The contradiction with Britain is also obvious, Britain is the world boss, China wants to expand to the periphery, it will inevitably offend Britain, and China's continuous strength, for this Britain, which in order to maintain the position of the world boss and does not hesitate to spend a huge price to participate in the European war, is obviously unwilling to see China continue to grow stronger, so the contradiction between China and Britain is irreconcilable to a certain extent, but the contradiction will not be as strong as the three countries of the United States and Russia.

As for France, its nationalist component is relatively large, and its compromise with international capital is mainly to counter Germany, and there will be no big contradictions and conflicts with China in the future.

Therefore, France is the Chinese Empire, although it will not win over France in the future, but at least it can prevent France from becoming an enemy of China in the international community.

Germany is the only great power that China may support and win over in the future, and with the loss of Germany's colonies, there is basically no contradiction between China and Germany.

In fact, the two rivals of Germany and France have always been used as guns by international capital, and they have been fighting back and forth, while international capital has made a lot of war money.

If France can't beat Germany, Britain will have to jump out, because Britain is an island country, and once France fails, the European continent will be occupied by Germany, which will be a very terrible threat to Britain.

Perhaps international capital has also found a new enemy in Asia, that is, China and Yueben, and international capital has begun to support Yueben to contend with China, but Yueben does not have much money, not as rich as Britain and France, and does not have much profit, but at least it can hinder China's expansion to the world.

After the war, China is likely to face the phenomenon of being surrounded by the world's powers, and in such a situation, it will have to see the seams, respond flexibly, and then divide the relationship between the great powers.

On the Vietnamese side, China's political axe does not need to be taken care of for the time being, after all, Vietnam was once Chinese territory, and it will be easy to recover it in the future, as long as Vietnam is not further de-sinicized by France.

...... filming of "The Rebirth of a Nation" was in full swing in June, and the shots taken by Xia Jun and other dignitaries were all filmed in a month.

Xia Jun has a more concentrated scene at the beginning of the film, telling that after he returned to China, he got lost in the mountains, and then went to Linjia Village, and then encountered bandits attacking the village.

Because the whole family was killed by bandits, Xia Jun ignored Lin Debao's persuasion the next day, put on a weapon and went alone to suppress the bandits.

After squatting in the mountains for two days, the bandits led by Zhang Sigou finally returned, and Xia Jun then captured them all with tear gas.

Because the plot says that Xia Jun's whole family was killed by bandits, he should be very angry at this time, and the most reasonable development is to kill all the bandits, so it is not in line with the development of the plot if he doesn't kill all the bandits.

Therefore, the subsequent plot is that Xia Jun wrote a letter to his unwarranted uncle, in which he said: "After my nephew returned to China, he saw that the land was full of bandits, and if he wanted to sweep away the bandits, it would be useless to kill them, so the nephew intended to recruit the bandits and make them good." In addition, the bandits were all caused by the Manchu Qing Dynasty's oppression of 40,000 Han compatriots including us, and my nephew wanted to start an incident in Jian'an, so he needed some weapons and ammunition......"

And then ...... When his uncle received the letter, he replied with a letter from overseas, "My dear nephew, it is very gratifying that you have such an idea, and he also supports your decision. Uncle has hidden weapons and ammunition in Jian'an a few years ago, although my uncle has compatriots in Nanyang to fund, but the funds are still unsustainable, now except for 3,000 guns and ammunition, Uncle here only has 100,000 yuan for the purpose of the incident, and everything is up to you......"

Subsequently, Xia Jun got guns and ammunition and set up an anti-Qing team in Jian'an.

Xia Jun originally wanted to omit such a plot, but even the old subordinates who followed him to fight the world inside were very confused about how to obtain those advanced weapons in the first place, and Xia Jun had to make this plot to eliminate internal and external doubts.

Moreover, such a plot makes the following development more interesting.

Because Xia Jun's uncle's support is only like this, the following is the stage where Xia Jun leads the troops to become self-reliant. Subsequently, the Jianzhou Security Corps continued to expand its team by suppressing bandits and recruiting soldiers, until it almost controlled the entire rural area of Jian'an.

At the same time, there is a paragraph that focuses on the advantages and methods of 'surrounding the city from the countryside', which is actually a correct guide for those who have become colonial countries to resist colonial rule and tyranny.

As for the current China, it is completely impossible to encircle the cities from the countryside, because the empire has solved the people's food and clothing, and this kind of rural encirclement of the cities no longer has a popular base.

Then entered the Xinhai Revolution period, in this paragraph, Xia Jun directly got the "March of the Volunteers" into it, this song was plagiarized by him during the Xinhai Revolution, and it was a very popular song in China during that period.

The whole movie not only truly restores the special history of the Xinhai Revolution, but also shows the awakening of the national consciousness of the Han people under the oppression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Xia Jun didn't pull down government affairs during the filming, and at this time, as the head of state, he actually didn't have much to do, the main thing was to look around, make decisions everywhere, and let the empire's chariot move in the right direction.

In the summer of 1917, Xia Jun launched a number of military science and technology research projects, such as rockets, radar, guidance technology, 203mm towed howitzers, 75mm self-propelled cannons, 155mm self-propelled howitzers and other technologies.

Even if the empire is no longer facing war without provoking it on its own initiative, it must always be prepared for war.

For example, rocket technology, as long as it can be developed, and with the addition of guidance technology, missiles can be built, and when the time comes, all surface-to-surface missiles, surface-to-air missiles, air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface missiles, ship-to-ship missiles, and ship-to-air missiles can be used.

It would be even better if an ICBM could be made.

This year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force have sufficient research funds, and many projects have begun to be studied.

As soon as Xia Jun finished filming the movie, the Army Artillery Research Institute came with news that the 81mm mortar was successfully developed, and now the Chinese army is equipped with 60mm light mortars.

Since the Army Artillery Research Institute reported that the development was successful, it was good compared to the surname, Xia Jun immediately went to the Army Artillery Research Institute to watch the 81mm artillery test after reading the report.

Coming to the Artillery Research Institute, the staff of the Research Institute had already placed two 81mm mortars on the site, which looked a little larger than the 60mm mortar.

"How's the data?" Xia Jun asked Lin Yuxi, the dean of the Artillery Research Institute.

Lin Yuxi immediately reported: "This mortar has a maximum range of 5,870 meters, high accuracy, a rate of fire of 15 rounds per minute, and a total gun weight of 63 kilograms. It is the most successful 81mm mortar researched by the institute so far. ”

Xia Jun squatted down, easily lifted the 63-kilogram mortar with one hand, and looked at it over and over with both hands.

Lin Yuxi on the side couldn't help but feel embarrassed, the Führer was really young and strong, looking at that easy, holding this cannon in his hand was like holding a light machine gun.

"Give me a test shot." Xia Jun put down the mortar and said to Lin Yuxi.

"Okay, Führer, you step back first." Lin Yuxi nodded.

(To be continued)