The international situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for Japan, and who are their real allies left? Except for the British, who may not be able to completely abandon Japan because of their own interests, it seems that the other powers have already left Japan behind, right?

For the sake of Asia's interests, and at the same time to avoid seeing the Japanese navy become stronger and stronger, the Americans quietly supported the Chinese navy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Compared with China, Japan is obviously more attractive to the United States, and the development potential of the two is not at the same level at all, coupled with the number of 400 million people, if the United States has a good relationship with China, then many of their goods can enter the Chinese market normally, so as to squeeze the interests of Britain, France, Russia and other countries.

The voice of the French in Asia has not been very loud, after all, with the hegemon of Britain, the French do not dare to go too far, and it is okay to follow the autumn breeze, but it is limited to this point.

The Russians are now in a difficult position to defend themselves, and besides, they have already started a war with the Chinese Empire, but the situation is very embarrassing, and there is no possibility of victory at all.

Then, from a military point of view, the army of the Chinese Empire has become a world-class power, and the navy is also rising, and the current Chinese Empire can barely be regarded as gaining a firm foothold among the first-class powers.

It took the Japanese almost twenty years to finally catch the last train of the great powers, and now what about the Chinese? How long did it take them? It's only six or seven years at most, right?

This is the gap between Japan and China, the Japanese want to develop, but they have no resources, they can only continue to expand outward, but expansion does not cost anything, each expansion gets back a dollar, military spending alone will cost half, or even more, so the funds left for Japan's development are actually not much.

But the Chinese Empire is different, they themselves have a huge land area, all kinds of strategic resources are countless, and even for the Japanese, what originally belonged to strategic resources can even be wasted at will by the Chinese, just like steel.

In Japan, every pound of steel needs to be calculated, but in China, they use steel for household use, such as door noses, which is unimaginable to the Japanese.

But no way, who let the family have resources, in the resources are sufficient, plus the strong government, the support of the powers, the three parties, the Chinese only took a few years to become a great power, as for the economy, well, after Japan's vitality was greatly damaged, the economy of the Chinese has already surpassed Japan, and now it has surpassed Japan by nearly two times.

It is conceivable that even if Japan recovers in the future, it will not be easy to catch up with the Chinese Empire. Although, although the Japanese are higher per capita than the Chinese, who can guarantee what will happen in a few years?

Since Xiyuan Temple Gongwang came to power, he has been under great pressure, not only to balance the contradictions between the army and navy, but also to shoulder the heavy task of restoring the domestic economy and regaining the confidence of the people.

Originally, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang felt that he was doing a good job, but now it seems that he is still far from enough, after seeing this data, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang has already determined that Japan must build more advanced battleships, otherwise, Japan will be blocked on the island in the future, and they can't easily touch any overseas places.

This is the sorrow of Japan, they want to change, they have made changes, everything is going according to their expectations, but now they are in danger of being beaten back to their original shape.

The navy is the last barrier of Japan, and once the navy is defeated, the whole of Japan will be defeated.

"You go and see if you can transform the Satsuma-class battleships, if not, immediately stop the construction, and the rest of the battleships that are being built or planned to be built will also cancel the construction plan, and immediately start developing a new generation of battleships, the performance must be comprehensively surpassed by the Chinese, in addition, the cost must be controlled as much as possible, we already have no money." The Saionji Gongwang quickly made a decision.

Rather than letting those warships that have not yet been built become cannon fodder, it is better to stop the construction and save some resources and funds for the construction of more powerful warships.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that the Japanese finally came up with a battlecruiser, well, although the battlecruiser did meet the conditions of the dreadnought-class battleship in terms of firepower, but it was poor in terms of defensive capabilities, and even an ordinary cruiser could penetrate his defense with one shot, and if it met a dreadnought-class battleship, the battleship would basically be scrapped after one shot.

And this kind of battleship is actually similar to the early ironclad pseudo-ironclad ships wrapped in iron, although it looks majestic on the surface, but in fact it can only be hehe.

And it is precisely this decision of the Japanese top that dooms the Japanese to lose faster in the future, and Japan will also become a stepping stone for the Chinese Empire.

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While the Japanese tried their best to increase their strength, the Chinese Empire was not idle.

The return of the fleet has indeed caused a wave of patriotism in the country, and the recruitment points in various places are crowded with those patriotic young people, and many people even directly express their desire to serve in the navy.

Although this phenomenon is a good thing, it is also very in line with Wang Sirui's future strategic plan, after all, a full-scale war with Russia cannot be satisfied with the existing troops, but at present, the Chinese Empire is on the cusp of the international storm, and it is inconvenient to be too laxous about some of the army's plans.

Therefore, in the end, Wang Sirui could only choose another plan, which was somewhat similar to the ancient military service system, but it was completely different.

First of all, for these young people who have signed up to join the army, those who meet the physical conditions will be registered, and then the county units will be arranged in batches by the garrisons in various localities, and one battalion of recruits will be arranged at a time to enter the camp for a three-month military training, and then an assembly-line training plan will be carried out.

In principle, each soldier undergoes three months of recruit training in a year, which basically sets the number of soldiers in each county at four battalions.

The garrison needs to train these recruits differently at different stages, and at the end of the three-month training period, each soldier must complete a live firing training of no less than 20 bullets.

Then, these soldiers can go home, and in the next year, they need to carry out military training for half a month every three months, which do not need to go to the barracks, and the garrison will send soldiers to be responsible for this training, mainly to consolidate what they have learned during the recruit period, and each training is basically about five days, only once a month, this kind of consolidation training is on the grain field of each village, and after the training, you can go home directly, and it does not affect the normal life.

And for each soldier, the treatment given by the military is a subsidy of five taels of silver every three months, and these people will also be automatically converted into reserves, if the state calls for intensive training, otherwise it will continue until the age of thirty-five.

One of the advantages of this military service system is that in the event of war, the active army only needs to withstand the initial six months to a year, and then they can wait for a large number of reinforcements.

And because of the basic military training, if necessary, these soldiers will be gathered for training, so as to start a real military career, this only takes about a week or so to consolidate the previous training, and the remaining about two and a half months to five months to learn tactical movements, after completing the training, basically can go directly to the battlefield.

Although there is no guarantee that they will be as elite as the active army, they will still work well when used as a regular army.

More importantly, there are currently 1,549 counties in the country, and excluding remote areas and those counties and districts that are not under control for the time being, there are 1,267 counties and districts under the direct control of the central government, and if each county is calculated according to four battalions, then the whole country will have 5,068 battalions, and if all of them are counted according to the full number of battalions of 808 people, then the whole country will have more than 4 million troops, and this is definitely a force that cannot be ignored.

With the help of this wind, Wang Sirui successfully made the first step in the expansion of the army, it only takes one year, once necessary, they only need half a year of preparation to increase the army to more than 6 million and nearly 7 million, if it is two years later in the riot, I am afraid that there will be a total strength of nearly 8 million.

Of course, Wang Sirui is still very clear about the principle of exhausting soldiers, and he also knows very well that the current empire's finances cannot support such a huge army, so he can only choose this method.

At the same time, it continued to increase its support for industry and commerce, and the most basic change was that the Chinese Empire abolished the hierarchical concept that had been passed down by Chinese history for thousands of years, that is, Shi Nong Industry and Commerce.

The removal of taxis has improved the status of agriculture and industry, and made taxis completely a service role, rather than suppressing the role of other industries.

And the effect after the reform is also amazing, the tax revenue can basically be doubled every year, and according to the Ministry of Finance's prediction, in 1910 will be the first full tax year, and with the accumulation of these years, in 1910, the national tax revenue will be very likely to exceed two billion.

And in the five years after 1910, it will probably triple or quadruple. How much is a battleship? Five million and fifty thousand dollars, which is about six and a half million taels of silver.

As far as the current taxes of the Chinese Empire are concerned, there is no pressure to build ten battleships, let alone in the future.

Of course, it is impossible to use all the money to build warships, in fact, the current central government really does not have much money in its hands, most of the money is invested in infrastructure and industry, and the government basically only reserves half of the tax revenue of the previous year as a backup, and all the other funds are invested.

And now, the Chinese Empire's tax revenue last year was 550 million taels of silver, about six times more than during the Qing Dynasty. (To be continued.) )