With the Empire's victory on the three fronts of the Ryukyus, the Korean Peninsula, and the South Pacific, the Empire's circular blockade strategy against Yuben was about to succeed, and there were only three things left to do, that is, to launch the Battle of Sakhalin, the Battle of the Korean Peninsula, and the Battle of Iwo Jima.

At this time, the United States was already embarrassed to continue to use diplomatic efforts to try to invite the United States to join the coordination, hoping to reach an acceptable armistice agreement with China through the United States, and the United States really could not continue to sit idly by and watch China completely occupy the country and become the sole hegemon in the western Pacific.

Such efforts have had no effect.

The Empire has made up its mind.

After many attempts, the United States has become more and more clear that the emperor of the empire has made up his mind to solve the problem once and for all and to eliminate the militarism of the empire, even if the empire is the largest militaristic empire in the world.

Song Biao's inspection of the Korean battlefield continued until June, and during this time, the Imperial Air Force and Navy also worked hard to prevent the retreat of the Japanese army, and to prevent the Japanese army from providing support and supplies to the Korean army from the mainland.

The Imperial Navy occupied Tsushima Island, and accordingly held the north and south, cutting off the retreat route of the Japanese army, but on the island, the Imperial Army did not station an air force, because the Japanese army still had a large number of aviation units on the mainland, and the two sides had many small-scale entanglement battles in the Tsushima Strait.

Even so, the Empire's blockade of the Falklands on the basis of Tsushima was effective.

Song Biao did not visit Tsushima, but he reached a private agreement with the provisional president of the Republic of Korea, Ri Kyung-hoon, that in order to make up for the "losses" of North Korea on Jeju Island, the empire would adopt the principle of reciprocal bargaining, acquire ownership of Tsushima in the defeated agreement, and transfer the ownership of the island to South Korea free of charge.

Song Biao's strategy is very simple: instead of waiting for the future to be entangled with South Korea on the sovereignty issue of Jeju Island, it is better to expand the sovereignty dispute between South Korea and South Korea, so that both countries will never be at peace, and China only needs to be a mediator.

Just when Song Biao inspected the Korean front, German Foreign Minister Rosenberg also arrived in Yanjing again, and during this visit, Foreign Minister Rosenberg hoped to reach a series of deals with China again on behalf of the German head of state Hitler, including the ballistic missiles used by China during the Sino-Chinese war.

Chiang rejected the German argument that it needed longer-range and more accurate ballistic missiles to attack Moscow and eastern Russia, arguing that Germany did not need ballistic missiles from such a long range to defeat the Soviet Union, and that the Reich would never legally transfer this technology, even to its allies in the Asian League.

…… Song Biao's inspection and visit to North Korea was very long, and he went to many places, including schools, factories, and railway systems left over from the rule of China, to assess the current situation in North Korea at close range.

On the whole, the foundation of the DPRK is still very good.

Song Biao did not need the Republic of Korea to develop into a member of the developed countries in Asia, although this trend is relatively unavoidable, and the current Republic of Korea is unified, especially with a large number of mineral resources in the north, which is the foundation of Korea's development into an industrial power.

In the vision of Song Biao and Premier Gu Weijun, the DPRK should be a resource base in the Northeast Industrial Zone, and if the Northeast wants to develop further, it will inevitably need more resources, and the DPRK is undoubtedly an excellent region.

Of course, North Korea can also develop into an industrial power, which will play a very important role in suppressing the economy for a long time, provided that the financial industry of the Republic of Korea is controlled by the empire.

On this point, Song Biao intends to make a two-pronged preparation, first of all, to control the financial industry of the DPRK, and secondly, to control the resource industry and industry and commerce of the DPRK, and to establish enough branches in the DPRK to control the economic lifeline of the DPRK.

It was not until the end of June, after avoiding the German and American envoys, that Song Biao flew back to Shenyang on a special plane, and returned to Yanjing after a week of inspection in the northeast.

War is brutal.

But there is reason to believe that, at least for this year, the most brutal period has passed.

As an experienced and aging emperor, Song Biao seemed more confident and calm, he had a premonition of all these changes, and firmly believed that all this would become a part of the history of the empire.

The expansion of the empire will not be hindered by anything.

Back in Yanjing, Song Biao seemed to say goodbye to the haze of war, looking down on Yanjing from above, which is still a quiet and beautiful city, and its industrial zones are limited to the surrounding counties, especially in Tongzhou County, Langfang County, and Shunzhou County, which are instead industrial zones.

The prosperity of the city lies in its business and finance, in the luxury and history of its ancient capital, in its uniqueness, in the strictness of Kyoto Prefecture, in the excellence of Imperial University, and in the innumerable number of scientific research institutions.

The emperor personally designed a capital city that he liked, the ancient city was an ancient city, the new urban area was transferred to Tongzhou for construction, and the status of Tongzhou was elevated to a directly administered county, Huairou and Miyun were merged into Yanjing County, Langfang County was divided into Jingzhao, and the county moved to the northwest for twelve kilometers, maintaining a straight line with Tongzhou, and connecting Kyoto County.

After this adjustment, Yanjing Prefecture is actually composed of Yanjing County, Kyoto County, Tongzhou County, and Langfang County, and the center of the four counties is located in the four corners of a cube, forming a whole, sharing different urban functions with each other, Yanjing County and Kyoto County are more focused on cultural, political and commercial centers, while Tongzhou County and Langfang County are more focused on industry and economy, plus the surrounding Shunzhou, Changping, Xianghe and other counties, forming a loose urban agglomeration.

This is the Yanjing that the Song Emperor needed, which protects the ancient architecture of the old city of Yanjing and takes into account the prosperity and development space of the capital.

The war has entered a stage of strategic circular blockade, a new period, a more cruel and bloody period, but within the empire, people seem to be still in an era of peace, and their lives and economy have not been affected too much, which depends on the strength of the entire empire's economy, on the strength and vastness of the country, and on the huge population base.

So far, even though the total number of members of the Imperial Central Defense Force has expanded to 4 million, it is still only a tree in the forest in this huge empire with a population of more than 500 million, and it has not had any adverse impact on the normal functioning of the country.

War prospered.

The huge expansion of the emperor's industrial expenditure has made the empire's economy more prosperous and the employment has increased, so that the unemployment rate does not need to be carefully counted by the political axe, and the promotion of the women's liberation movement has also made the empire have more young and middle-aged laborers, and the textile industry has developed from the initial large number of male workers, and the vast majority of them have relied on female workers to support them.

Even in machine factories and steel mills, the number of female workers has increased considerably, and the highest employment rates are in textiles, education and social institutions, where women account for more than 52 per cent of the country's more than 1.7 million teaching staff and 33 per cent in political institutions.

Thirty years of construction, thirty years of change.

Today, the Chinese Empire is truly the world's largest power, and even in the face of maintaining the huge political expenses of the Sino-Chinese War, the development of the empire's economy still maintains an absolute advantage over the second-place United States.

The development of the empire's high-tech industry has ushered in a blowout in the past two years, and general-purpose computers have begun to appear in the commercial market, and enterprises only need to register and buy, and enterprises can get superior computers to help enterprises manage huge amounts of data, and the number of computers in educational and scientific research institutions has surged.

Televisions, washing machines, air conditioners, rice cookers and other household appliances began to form the mainstream of the home appliance industry in the market, and the empire's automobile industry is accompanied by the development of highway infrastructure, with annual sales are breaking records, and will gradually surpass the United States to become the world's largest automobile manufacturer and consumer.

Although in the total scale of the automobile industry, the empire's annual sales volume is not as good as the United States, but the empire also has its own advantages, power supply and popularity is the empire's leading industry in the world, the empire's total power supply of more than 58 million kilowatts, equivalent to the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Soviet Union and France in 1940 combined.

This depends on the development of the Empire's power industry, the abundance of coal reserves and mining, the abundance of hydropower resources in the Empire, and the advancement of the Empire's transmission and distribution system.

The Empire's highways still have a greater advantage than the United States, and the railroads are 2.7 times longer than the United States, and about 40% of them have been renovated with electric railroads.

The Empire's aviation industry was similarly more prosperous than in the United States at the same time, and large aircraft manufacturing was recently moving towards the world's first jetliner.

Flying in the sky over Yanjing, looking at this beautiful and free country, Song Biao felt sincerely proud from the bottom of his heart, this is not his credit alone, but it must have his strength.

His youth has passed, and he is so old when he sits in the plane, no matter how well he is maintained, the frowns at the corners of his eyes and gray sideburns still can't hide from his own sight.

He is not afraid of death, let alone aging now and in the future, and it is always worth it to exchange his aging for the prosperity of an empire and a nation.

The empire is so powerful that what is he afraid of?

Therefore, since the start of the war, he has not taken the enemy of Yuben in his eyes at all, nor has he taken it to heart for too long, and after the end of the Jeju naval battle, he has been relieved.

The past will be in the past and become a part of human history.

That's all.

He no longer looked at the capital under the plane, calmly closed his eyes, holding a black imperial cane inlaid with a golden phoenix, and the handle of the cane was also inlaid with the largest golden rooster diamond in the empire, this 281.25-carat diamond shimmered yellow, symbolizing the prosperity and prosperity of the empire.

It was not plundered by the invading army, nor was it collected by the royal family.

It remained in the Imperial Family's collection as the Emperor's Staff carried with him.

Song Biao calmly enjoyed this moment of Qingning and waited for the plane to land.

For him, the Third Sino-Chinese War was over.

The Central Military Department can deal with the rest of the things with great confidence, maybe it's just a matter of money.

Money is not an issue.

If it weren't for the need to keep enough money to deal with the Nazi problem, the Reich would have been able to fight the war more violently in this war, without the need to use this circular blockade plan to weaken the army step by step.

The empire could have expanded its military strength to five million in half a year, sweeping across the entire capital.

The empire didn't do this, just because it wasn't enough to make the empire so boiling to inspire a real national war, and it wasn't enough to let the empire show all its strength.

If it took a pair of iron fists to hit Germany, or the USSR, the Reich would now at most flick it with the middle finger.

Much of the military spending is now largely about continuing to prepare military supplies and equipment for the larger war of the century, and it is already clear that sooner or later the Reich will have to advance westward, whether it is the Red Soviet Union or the Black Nazis, the Reich will ruthlessly crush the past and destroy them.

It is clear that the Empire does not need to use war to establish the prestige of the world hegemon, and the Empire wants to eliminate them only because they are threatening the Empire's hegemony, position, and interests in the world.

They have not yet really threatened the United States, so don't expect the United States to foolishly fight for China, the new world hegemon, if Germany wants to build a new empire as large as the empire in Europe, and hopes to trade temporary peace for time, in order to seek a long-term competition with China for the world hegemon, then Germany is wrong.

The Reich would not allow Germany to unify the European continent.

The empire would not allow the Soviet Union to establish a Soviet world and would not allow the Soviet Union to dominate Eurasia.

For an empire as large as the Chinese Empire, one is enough in this world, and if there is another one, it can only be a mortal enemy.

The plane landed at the Central International Airport, and when Song Biao stepped out of the plane, he raised his head and saw Jiang Fangzhen, chief of the General Staff, and Gu Weijun, the Imperial Prime Minister, who came to pick up the plane.

The perimeter of the airport was quiet, not a single plane took off or landed.

During this time period, when the emperor's special plane arrived, the airport was completely banned, which was the prerogative of the emperor, but it was not a privilege that only the emperor could enjoy, and the prime minister of the empire, Gu Weijun, also had such a right, but the time was much shorter than that of the emperor.

In any case, it is clear that the empire still belongs to the emperor, at least while the Song Emperor is alive, it is destined to belong to His Majesty the emperor, and everything else is just a floating cloud, even if it is thought that China has entered a new era of constitutional monarchy, and the prime minister is already the highest real power in the empire.

Song Biao raised his hand with Gu Weijun and Jiang Fangzhen from afar, thanking them for coming to pick up the plane.

He stepped off the plane and shook hands with these two important gentlemen, and then took the car back to the Central Palace with Jiang Fangzhen, and on the way to the palace, he sighed with Jiang Fangzhen: "For us, this war is over, Chief of the General Staff, let's think more about the situation on the Soviet side." ”

Jiang Fangzhen nodded silently in acknowledgment.

It is said that it no longer has any ability to resist China's attack, and its remaining military strength can certainly rank a certain sequence and name in the world, but for the Imperial Central Defense Force, there is really no threat at all, and all that remains is the number of people, even if the army continues to form millions of land forces, the actual significance is not great.

It is doubtful how much ammunition resources the army has left.

War is always changing, through these two years of continuous fighting, the empire has formed a solid and effective tactical model, J303 \ 4 \ 5 fighters, attack aircraft and MT22 light tanks to form an air-ground combination, in front of the army is invincible, this has been proven in the indiscriminate arrow combat, MT22 light tank even in the most complex mountain environment can play a good tactical assault role.

The advance strike of missiles, the covering attack of the air force, and the frontal penetration of tank units and infantry armaments can be used as a fixed offensive tactic to destroy the enemy's forces, whether in the mountains or on the plains.

War is like this, and simple tactical theories are more difficult to reverse and destroy.

Even without all these leading advantages, the Imperial Army, with its diversification of light weapons and system advantages, and with the firepower advantages of assault rifles and general-purpose machine guns, can also carry out a fire suppression attack on the Japanese army.

Especially after the elite grassroots commanders of the army were largely depleted, it was difficult for the army to compete with the empire even at the level of tactical execution.

The longer the battle lasts, the greater the disadvantage of the Yue army, and the more miserable they are consumed.

Therefore, Song Biao's conclusion will not be wrong, even if the follow-up war will still be cruel, the ending will definitely not change in any way.

This war is now over, and all that remains is to completely destroy the opponent.

Jiang Fangzhen couldn't help but recall the past when he was studying at the Lushi School, at that time he obviously didn't expect that the end of history would be like this, and he sighed silently.

After a moment of nostalgia, Jiang Fangzhen said to Song Biao: "Your Majesty, the military department's suggestion is to strike first, regardless of the reaction of the German side for the time being, organize a part of the Kazakh national armed forces to liberate the Kazakh region, and if necessary, the Central Defense Forces will also participate in the war against the Soviet Union, and the goal is to occupy Kazakhstan first." Since we have such strength, and the war between China and China is no longer an obstacle, it is better to entrust the Kazakh region to us after waiting for Germany's victory over the Soviet Union, and then it will depend on Germany's face at that time, and it is better to occupy it directly. ”

Song Biao was noncommittal about this proposal.

After thinking for a moment, he replied to Jiang Fangzhen: "I think that the current goal is not to ensure control of Kazakhstan, but to continue to encourage Nazi Germany to believe too much in their military power, and to rush to continue attacking France after defeating the Soviet Union, although France may not be able to resist the German attack at that time, but we have enough reason to intervene militarily against Germany." There is no shortage of intrigues in this world, we can call it strategy, and the elimination of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union is the strategic goal we really want to achieve. ”

Jiang Fangzhen thought for a moment and replied: "It seems to be more in our interests if we can let the Soviet Union and Germany consume each other longer in the war." ”

Song Biao agreed: "Yes, but if Germany is consumed too much, they decide not to rush to attack France, which is not conducive to our ultimate goal, we have no need to read to complete this strategic goal, we still need to pull Britain and the United States in." Yes, this is our goal, but it would be better if Anglo-American begged us to achieve it. ”

Jiang Fangzhen replied, "Yes." ”

He had a certain worry in his heart, for the Reich, going to war against Germany was always a very nervous thing, if the elimination of Nazi Germany was a necessary thing, then it was not a bad thing to recruit as many helpers as possible, after all, the Nazi Germany in front of him was already fierce and out of control.

Song Biao didn't care about Germany's strength at this stage, he sighed: "What a cruel and ruthless enemy we are to the Soviet Union and Germany!" ”

Jiang Fangzhen smiled, still with some indescribable hesitation and worry in his heart.

(To be continued)