However, this is only the best expectation, and Li Hui must prepare for the worst while trying his best. In order to cope with www.biquge.info the possible world war, the industrial development plan of the Chinese Republic has been greatly adjusted, for example, in 1910, the steel output index increased from 15 million tons to 20 million tons, for which in addition to the construction of the second and third phases of the Benxi Iron and Steel Project to speed up the construction, Handan, Ma'anshan, Laiwu, Fuxian, Baotou these five large steel plants have also accelerated the construction progress, and the "150,000 kilometers of railway" that was originally not ready to be completed until 1916 It will also have to be completed five years ahead of schedule, and even if this year's territorial expansion adds more than 20,000 kilometers of railway miles, the pressure will still be high.

In order to cope with this ambitious plan, the Chinese government has significantly postponed the original timetable for the inclusion of junior high school in compulsory education, and it is likely that in the next ten years, most children in the country will still be able to enter technical schools to learn various job skills after graduating from primary school, and the expansion of high school enrollment has also been urgently suspended, replaced by the expansion and construction of more secondary specialized schools, so that a large number of skilled workers can be trained as soon as possible to meet the needs of rapid industrialization.

In the long run, this will undoubtedly have a great negative impact, one is to greatly delay the training progress of middle school teachers, and the other is to suppress the development of lower-class children and cause a certain degree of class solidification, because even if the children of the rich have average grades, they can also pay for their own studies by their families, while the children of poor families can only honestly respond to the government's call to go to technical schools or technical secondary schools (fortunately, Li Hui has always attached great importance to adult education, which has played a little role in making up for it.) ）。 But this is also something that cannot be helped, just like the Soviet Union in history focused on heavy industry, especially the military industry, to put it bluntly, not all of them were forced by the harsh external environment? If only the economy and people's livelihood were considered, and there was not enough military force as a guarantee and deterrent, the Soviet Union would have been destroyed long before it disintegrated......

Of course, China is safer than the Soviet Union because of its geographical location, and Li Hui has a system of golden thighs to hold, so it is not necessary to do that level, and unlike the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China in history, because of the weak naval strength and forced to spend several times more than the cost of giving priority to the construction of industrial bases in the inland areas with a weak foundation, China now has one of the world's most powerful navies to guard the sea frontier, so it has always given priority to the development of coastal and riverside areas, even if it is now facing the threat of world war, Li Hui's choice is not to move the industry inward, Rather, it is to further expand the navy.

Of course, it is impossible to build the capital ship for the time being, and the eight giant ships with a standard row of 20,000 tons are already a big burden for China, which is still far from completing industrialization, and it is worth mentioning that unlike the last time the Haitian-class patrol was sold at a high price, due to the advent of the dreadnought era, the eliminated Mozi-class battle cruiser was given a cold reception in the international market. Only the first ship named after his ancestor Mozi entered the newly built Chinese Naval Museum and survived. As a result, the Chinese navy's funds are naturally even tighter than they were at the beginning, and unless Li Hui orders a nationwide general mobilization, it will certainly not be possible to build new capital ships for at least a few years.

If you can't add capital ships, then add auxiliary ships, and Navy Minister Liu Buyun, who has already had the idea of retiring, went to his son-in-law's house twice in three days, wanting to do something for the Navy as much as possible before he retired. After the Battle of the Gulf of Mexico, Li Hui also found that there is a large vacuum between the battle patrol and the light patrol among the current ships of the Chinese Navy, so he designed a heavy cruiser with a standard row of more than 10,000 tons, this battleship adopts a full central axis layout, equipped with 4 twin 210mm main guns, and its maximum speed is close to 30 knots, which can well make up for the vacuum between the battle patrol and the light cruiser, making the Chinese Navy more invulnerable.

According to the plan, this will be the famous generals of ancient China (who are real famous generals such as Han Bai Weihuo, but also those who are both fierce generals and famous generals. The heavy cruisers were to be delivered to the Navy by the end of 1909, or the beginning of 1910, or eight. In another three years, Li Hui will unveil the work he is most satisfied with at present, which is a real giant optimized on the basis of the Hood-class battlecruiser, with a standard displacement of no less than 40,000 tons, and new technologies such as oil-fired boilers and 406mm cannons will also be applied......

By then, at least five years later, China's national power, especially its industrial strength, would have at least doubled, and even such a giant would be able to afford it, and the country's naval bases and important ports would have been further expanded. And if it is not taken into account by the Western powers after five years to catch up and then launch it, the panic caused will be reduced a lot, speaking of which, if this is not taken into account, and the naval base is not up to the requirements for the time being, Li Hui will directly take out this work, instead of taking out the legendary battle cruiser, which is obviously reserved for the transitional model, to deal with the US Navy.

"In fact, as long as this war does not turn into a world war, after five years, no matter whether this war is fought all the way or a truce, China's steel output should be the first in the world, even if it turns against the West, there is nothing to be afraid of......", Li Hui laughed confidently, but he also knew that even so, the decisive battle with the Western world should not be too urgent, not only because time is on China's side, the further it drags on, the greater China's chance of winning, In addition, because of such unconventional industrial development, there are many hidden dangers like the historical Stalinist model.

In fact, it is only possible to complete the compulsory education at the primary school level with the talents cultivated in the first decade after the founding of the People's Republic of China, let alone desperately promote industrialization, so where does the talent needed for the latter come from? In fact, only a small part of the self-trained personnel are counted, and if we only count those positions with relatively technical content, the number of biochemical soldiers who have not even been retained is large, and it cannot be compared with the large number of foreign workers, mainly Japanese workers.

Before the outbreak of the Three Kingdoms War, the number of Japanese living in China was no less than 5 million, which is an extremely terrifying number, and the total number of naturalized people registered by the Japanese government is less than 35 million (due to a series of consequences caused by the defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese population is much smaller than the same period in history). In other words, less than one in seven Japanese people work in China, and almost all of these 5 million Japanese are young people!