Bai Nan, who had just presided over the National Industrial Construction Conference, was a little tired, although he was still full of energy, but he could never return to the era when he was younger, working for more than ten hours without rest and still feeling nothing. Sitting in the president's office www.biquge.info drinking a few sips of white tea is also very comfortable.

It's just that someone will always come to disturb him, the door of the office was knocked, and after Bai Nan called in, Pan Pu, the chief of staff of the president, walked in and reported: "The intelligence department has a major situation that needs to be reported." ”

Bai Nan nodded, his expression still relatively calm. Such a situation is not common, but it does happen occasionally, and the reason why there is no fuss is because there is no need for this at all, and Datang has the ability to deal with most emergencies except for events such as the three-body invasion.

After a while, Pan Pu brought in a few more people, led by two, one is Niu Bin, minister of state security, and the other is Qu Zhanyong, deputy director of the National Defense Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense. Datang's intelligence apparatus underwent new reforms after two mistakes in the War of Unification. The old intelligence units were reformed internally, and at the same time new ones were created.

The Ministry of State Security formally handed over the task of intelligence gathering to the newly established Central Intelligence Agency, and the Ministry of National Defense assumed the intelligence work of the restructured Defense Intelligence Agency. In addition to these two major intelligence units, Datang also re-established the Judicial Investigation Bureau, plus the original State Secrets Bureau, to form four major intelligence units.

After Niu Bin entered the office, he presented a material to Bai Nan, which was not too thick. The president doesn't have time to read hundreds of pages of investigative reports, so what is shown to the president is always concise and to the point.

Bai Nan has been working for so many years, and his speed reading ability is even more extraordinary. Niu Bin also explained when Bai Nan read the materials, and these people in the State Council basically understood Bai Nan's habit and listened to the report while reading the materials.

"Based on the intelligence collected and analyzed by our intelligence officers in the United States, the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency have made similar judgments that the Americans are brewing a war, and this war will be launched in six months at the latest, and its target is Canada, the last British colony on the North American continent."

Bai Nan browsed through the materials, then pointed to a paragraph on the materials with his finger and said, "I had a vague premonition before, but I can't be completely sure. Judging purely from the pace of defense procurement, equipment renewal, and military expansion in the United States over the past few years, it is impossible to say that the United States does not have an overall goal of military progress. ”

Qu Zhanyong, a military man, has a say in this regard, saying: "The U.S. economy has maintained an astonishing pace of development over the past two decades, with an average GDP growth rate of about 8 percent in the past decade, and even a 10 percent increase in some years. This high-speed economic growth is almost second only to China's high-speed in the world. This economic growth has also given the United States more budget to build up its military strength. On the one hand, we cannot accurately estimate that the growth of the US military budget and the development of the armed forces will normally expand along with economic growth, and on the other hand, we cannot accurately judge whether the main imaginary enemy of the US military development is us or Britain. ”

In these years, even Datang will not disclose the national defense budget, and Datang's national defense budget is not only a matter of the sum of European countries, but in fact it is much larger than the total fiscal revenue of European countries. The United States' fiscal revenue and military budget, Datang can generally know the situation. However, when it comes to the national strategic level, there is still a suspicion of seeing flowers in the fog.

Historically, the United States did not invest heavily in the military for a long time after the founding of the United States, and even before the outbreak of World War II, its military strength continued to be ignored by countries around the world. In this plane, the situation is very different. The United States gained independence from Britain with the help of the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time, the economic development rate was astonishing in the era of early industrialization. On the other hand, even though there is Canada in the north, the defense needs of the United States are still weak. But in this plane, Britain is not only wary of the United States, but mainly the Tang Dynasty, so the militarization of Canada is obvious. On the other hand, Americans will not simply trust the Tang people, and they are also wary of the Tang Dynasty. Politically, the United States is a federal country, and many other political models are explored by itself, with the states retaining great power and the federal government being relatively weak. In this plane, Americans are more than Datang in many aspects, so the authority and power of the federal government are more than one or two points stronger than the other plane, which also enables the US federal government to do more things.

Considering these factors, the United States has more abundant, complete, and solid conditions for developing its military, and this is what the Americans are doing.

Bai Nan sighed a little, "If you don't look at it comprehensively, I don't know that the United States has reached this point, and there was only one big concept before, so it's not as intuitive as numbers." ”

In the 1800 census of the United States, the number of people in the country had exceeded 6 million, and this is still not including the figure of more than 800,000 slaves. In fact, it is not easy to say whether the Chinese are Tang nationals or American nationals, because these people live east of the Mississippi River, but they actually still hold Datang ID cards. There is also a very important factor is the change of medical conditions, Datang's medical achievements, including traditional Chinese medicine, in this world to save the lives that should have died is probably not less than millions, the improvement of medical standards has made the birth rate in the United States rise, the death rate is down, and the population growth is naturally fast.

However, compared to the Tang Dynasty's growth from 100,000 to 40 million (excluding the Chinese population) in more than 20 years, it is still nothing.

The plague attack on the aborigines of North America launched by an extreme Tang nationalist underground force that is not mentioned by people finally disintegrated the tribal social form of the vast majority of the aborigines, and the beneficiaries were not only the Tang Dynasty, but also a considerable number of aborigines chose to flee to the American colonies after the tribal disaster, where there were special drugs sold by the Tang people, and then most of them stayed in these places and became vassals or slaves of the white colonists.

The population base of 6 million, the solid economic base, and the ******** environment that could not be isolated and self-protecting, eventually prompted the United States to take action to strengthen the military. The figures that Bai Nan saw came from the accurate spying of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the United States now has a standing army of 55,000 people, as well as a reserve militia of a certain size, the army is organized into nine brigades, and the size of the navy's main combat ships is more than 40. (To be continued.) )