Zhang Meng continued to stay in the National Academy of Sciences to inspect the progress of various scientific research projects, after seven years of development and growth, at this time the Tang Empire has collected more than 10,000 scientists, scholars and Jishu engineers in various fields from the whole Shijie, they have become the backbone of the National Academy of Sciences, Zhang Meng has arranged more than 600 scientific research projects are progressing step by step, and the assistants and apprentices who assist these scientists, scholars and Jishu engineers have grown to 100,000 people. Almost every foreign scientist has an average of 10 Tang assistants and apprentices, and the main purpose of these assistants and apprentices is to assist foreign scientists in completing the engineering projects assigned by Zhang Meng, and at the same time to cultivate a team of local scientific talents in Datang in the future, which is also one of Zhang Meng's long-term plans.

The orbital kinetic cannon has completed all the tests of the Shiyan chamber stage, and although the maximum range is only seventy or eighty kilometers, it exceeds the general range of twenty or thirty kilometers of traditional gunpowder booster cannons. As far as the Navy's capital ships are concerned, the current international mainstream is still battleships, and the main gun range of the largest caliber Iowa-class battleships is only more than 30 kilometers.

However, if the Tang Imperial Navy wants to rebuild the battleship project, it must choose to install an orbital kinetic energy gun as an attack weapon, but it is not realistic at present, a set of devices costs hundreds of millions of Tang yuan and is very large and bloated, although it can attack targets 70 kilometers away, but it does not have much actual combat cost performance before the missile comes out.

In addition to the orbital kinetic energy cannon project, hundreds of major projects such as nuclear engineering, wireless power transmission, meteorological control, biological and chemical weapons, computers, electromagnetic jishu, jet turbine jishu, deep-sea diving, space rockets, laser weapons, etc. have made progress, and this expenditure is huge. But Zhang Meng thinks it's worth it and is willing to spend money.

After inspecting the National Academy of Sciences, Zhang Meng learned that the three women were fighting fiercely in the Daming Palace. However, to Zhang Meng's surprise, Han Qingxuan actually withstood the joint attack of Wang Keer and Mira's two daughters, worthy of being a communist fighter, and she was really strong enough, and if she changed to other women, she would have been scared away.

However, Zhang Meng thought that it was not the time to go back, and that he would have to hang around outside for a few days to see the situation, so he went to inspect the various bases of the army, navy, and air force. Boost the morale of the Tang Dynasty soldiers.

Since the Tang and China jointly fought against Japan, the Tang Imperial military will also send a force into Chinese mainland to cooperate with the Chinese army in fighting against Japan, and many of the Tang army have fled from the three northeastern provinces. They have been waiting for this day for a long time, and Zhang Meng has to spend some effort on them, otherwise the Tang Dynasty has worked hard to cultivate them, and as a result, they have just returned to China and defected to the Kuomintang or the Communist Party, or it will be bad if they run away. Of course. This is just Zhang Meng's personal speculation. However, it can't be guarded against, because the Kuomintang no longer digs into the corners of Datang all the time, and the Homeland Security Bureau has already reported this to Zhang Meng.

On this day, Zhang Meng received two messages at the same time, one good and one bad. The good news is that the Japanese army in Taiwan lost the Battle of Taichung because of the long interruption of supplies, and the Japanese army suffered more than 30,000 casualties, and Taichung was lost. The three marine divisions of the Tang Army successfully joined forces in Taichung. Advancing to Taipei, the remnants of the Japanese army of more than 20,000 men were preparing ships to evacuate Taiwan.

The Japanese base camp took the initiative to abandon Taiwan. This is good news for Datang. However, the reason was that the Japanese army took the initiative to abandon Taiwan in order to ensure the absolute security of the three northeastern provinces and to transfer the main army to North China to fight against the Chinese army. There was also bad news, but the Onodera Itsunori fleet finally gave up reinforcements to Taiwan, because the Japanese navy believed that the war against the Tang should be mainly defensive, and concentrate on defeating the Chinese Nationalist government army first, and then fighting to the death with the Tang army, otherwise a two-front attack would defeat both fronts.

The preservation of the strength of the Onodera Gonori fleet once again played a game of hide and seek with the Tang army, which constituted a deterrent to the Tang Navy to a certain extent, making the Tang Navy dare not easily risk transporting troops to Chinese mainland, which was bad news for the Tang Dynasty.

In the next few days, Zhang Meng inspected various industrial groups in Datang. He focused on inspecting the Fiji Islands, which are the largest islands of the Tang Empire, and 90% of the country's territory is on the Fiji Islands, which has also become the top priority of the Tang Empire.

At this time, the Fiji Islands have completed various infrastructure construction, and the whole archipelago is the same as Chang'an, Yanjing and other islands in the Tang Dynasty, which is divided by a network of horizontal and vertical highways and streets, which is very neat and beautiful from the air. Since the August 15 Incident, the three million Northeast fathers and villagers are no longer refugees, at this time they are all living and working in peace and contentment on the Fiji Islands, the Tang government provides them with shelter, job opportunities, educational opportunities, social welfare security, medical security, etc., they earn money with hard work to repay the money lent to them by the government, and the rest is distributed by themselves, they can buy whatever they want, the Tang Empire is extremely rich in materials and commodities, and has everything.

At this time, the population of the Tang Empire had stabilized, and the population of 15 million had become the basic population, meeting the needs of the Tang Dynasty's various national industrial construction and the needs of the Tang Dynasty's national defense. Datang Menxia Province has raised the immigration threshold, in the past, only those with a secondary school degree or above and jishu can enjoy Datang's preferential immigration policies, but now it has been upgraded to a high school graduation or university degree of Western standards.

However, at present, the population composition of the Tang Empire is basically dominated by young people, and the Tang Empire will usher in the peak of population aging in the next 50 years, so take precautions, and the Tang Empire will issue incentive regulations to encourage married couples to have more children, and families with more than three children will be directly rewarded with 10,000 Tang Yuan for each additional country. Not all Tang people have higher education and jishu, and many Tang people who fled can only survive by strength, this bill is of great help to them, 10,000 Tang Yuan is enough to help them support their families and even do a small business. It is precisely because of this bill that in the territory of the Tang Empire, all citizens of the Tang Empire can basically live a stable life of abundant food and clothing, which has also become the target of more people who want to smuggle into the Tang Dynasty, which has brought a severe test to the Datang Police Department.

From 1929 to 1933, in the global economic crisis, Zhang Meng made a windfall with unprecedented courage and iron-blooded means, plundered the wealth of the world's leading financial centers such as Wall Street in New York, Downing Street in London, and Caesars Avenue in Paris, and launched the Silver War to plunder the silver reserves of the third country. Master the economic lifeblood of shijie.

Then Zhang Meng used finance as a means to take advantage of the large-scale demolition of advanced factory equipment and industrial jishu accumulated over hundreds of years in various countries during the economic crisis of the major capitalist powers, thus constituting the industrial state framework of the Tang Empire. The smelting and manufacturing of new materials in the iron and steel industry with rare earth as the core, the new pharmaceutical industry based on the development and production of spectral antibiotic drugs, the emerging manufacturing industry based on the development of aircraft, automobiles and ships and the derived deep petrochemical industry, the new optoelectronic industry with television, radio and radio stations as the core, and the modern military manufacturing industry to enhance national defense are all booming and have become the pillar economic industries of the Tang Empire.

In the first few years of the founding of the Tang Empire, Datang Industry has been losing money to maintain operations, and now with the industrial products of the Tang Empire being introduced to the international market one after another, and then beating the international counterparts have turned losses into profits, Zhang Meng has invested tens of billions of Tang Yuan in huge sums of money has finally paid off, and the funds have begun to be withdrawn on a large scale, with huge profits.

By the end of 1937, the total GDP of the Tang Empire had reached 50 billion US dollars, slightly more than the Soviet Union's 48.9 billion US dollars, and slightly less than Germany's 50.3 billion US dollars. This is still under the condition that Zhang Meng has looted the Wall Street financial center and the entire American industry on a large scale, and it is conceivable that if Zhang Meng does not take over, the total GDP of the United States will be even more.

Of course, in terms of achievements, the Tang Empire reached the capital accumulation of the Western powers for hundreds of years in only eight years after its founding, and even exceeded the total GDP of the United Kingdom, which is enough to make the Tang people proud. In contrast, Japan's total GDP has fallen to less than 20 billion US dollars, all of which are due to Zhang Meng, which directly dragged Japan down and shattered Japan's dream of surpassing the United States to become the first shijie.

However, in terms of per capita GDP, then the Tang Empire deserves to become the first in Shijie, with a per capita income and living standards exceeding the United States, not only the dream country of the Chinese, but also Western whites are also looking forward to immigrating to the Tang Dynasty to become citizens of the Tang Dynasty and enjoy the rich social welfare benefits of the Tang Empire.

In terms of the Tang government organs, the system of three provinces and six ministries established by Zhang Meng has been completely stabilized, and all officials have adapted to their roles. Eight years ago, the prime minister of the Tang Empire only needed one person who had been a personal butler to be competent, but now the position of prime minister can be taken care of by professional statecraft recommended by Tang Shaoyi, which shows that the Tang Empire has undergone tremendous changes in recent years, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as earth-shaking.

Zhang Wei returned to the Tang Dynasty from the new and resumed her position as Minister of Foreign Affairs, she is still the eldest princess of the Tang Empire, this is what Zhang Meng said, and the people below have to do it, it can be seen that Zhang Meng is a person who is a drop of water in return, and it makes all the friends of Zhang Meng Haode people admire and rejoice, if he accidentally became Zhang Meng's enemy back then, then now the iron end is very miserable, this Zhang Meng is a person with clear grievances.

On this day, Zhang Meng was inspecting a Datang government-run livestock farm in Australia, encouraging Datang employees there to withstand the pressure of avian flu and create a rare virus-free livestock base in Shijie, providing delicious and clean green meat products for Datang and the people of Shijie.

"Your Highness, the ministers of the Cabinet and the Ministry of Defense, please return to the palace quickly!" A guard officer hurried to report.

"What's going on so urgently?" Zhang Meng frowned suddenly, feeling that something big had happened.

"Your Highness, I heard that the German army suddenly blitzed Poland, and Britain and France have declared war on Germany!" (To be continued......)