On the issue of the German Navy, the commander-in-chief of the German Navy, Erich Raeder, is in Yenjing and is secretly negotiating with the General Staff of the Chinese Navy, Germany wants to build 35,000-ton battleships, and at the same time, China would better support the German Navy for 10 Valian-class battleships and 4 Congo-class cruisers free of charge.

It's a lion's mouth wide open.

Sa Zhenbing, Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, did not dare to make this decision, so he had to let Erich Raeder come to Hu Chuyuan himself.

It is only 47 days before Hu Chuyuan leaves the presidency.

On this calm afternoon, Hu Chuyuan invited Erich Raeder, who rarely came to China, to have a warm afternoon tea and take a look at the snow scene in the Zizheng Garden.

He sat in a sunny corridor, surrounded by a glass screen to block the cold wind outside, and Hu Weitang, as a German translator, sat beside him, his eyes a little fluttering.

Erich Raeder sat silently in the chair next to him, with his legs crossed, wearing a black woolen coat and a cigarette in his hand, before that, Hu Chuyuan did not know that he smoked.

Erich Raeder is fifty-seven years old this year, and he looks a little younger, as if he is only fifty years old, and since he has been here, he has been very silent and has not spoken a few words.

In silence, Hu Chuyuan was also figuring out Erich Raeder's thoughts.

If it is said that it is to sell 10 Valiant class battleships to Germany, it is nothing, even if it continues to be in debt, and gratuitous support is a bit excessive.

Hu Chuyuan thought in his heart, inferring that Erich Raeder was more testing China's determination and will to go to war with the Anglo-American-French Atlantic Alliance.

Thinking of this, he suddenly opened his mouth and asked Erich Raeder, "How do you feel about China?" ”

After Hu Weitang translated into German, Erich Raeder thought for a moment and said, "Now, we can generally confirm one thing...... That is, in the last war, Germany's biggest defeat was that it did not do its best to ally with China, or avoid war with China, which was the most strategic mistake. ”

Tut!

Hu Chuyuan sighed in his heart.

A soldier is a soldier and will not talk nonsense with you.

"If possible, we don't want to face the threat of a second war in the world, in fact, for us, the market is enough for the long-term development of China and Germany...... However, wars are so difficult to avoid because we may not really intend to avoid them. ”

Erich Raeder was silent for a moment.

He thought for a moment and asked, "Why?" ”

Hu Chuyuan replied very simply: "If we learn to be satisfied, we will lose motivation, lose motivation, we will gradually learn to be weak and give up, and give up those interests that belong to the future." ”

"Perhaps!"

Erich Raeder's answer is simpler.

"So?" He asked Hu Chuyuan again, "What do you think about the proposal of the German Navy?" ”

Hu Chuyuan sighed and said: "That's not important, Germany's sudden increase in so many warships will only make the situation more complicated, war is always the last resort, but we must always be ready for war, and the first thing to prepare for war is to always win the war." ”

After a pause, Hu Chuyuan said again: "If you are not sure, then don't start a war." ”

Erich Raeder was silent for a long time, and finally, he said: "Perhaps, we should start with small warships, four cruisers and about 10 destroyers would be more suitable for the current German Navy, however, I am more interested in submarines." In our new submarine development program, we have always had long-term technical reserves for research, but due to military spending, these technical reserves are also insufficient. ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "This is a very good and more realistic idea, you can continue to negotiate with Chief of General Staff Sa Zhenbing on this matter, I support it." However, I will remind you that there is an idea in our Navy that the era of battleships may be over, and for this we have done a lot of secret experiments. The truth is...... Even if the era of battleships is not over, it is already not too far off, the new era may belong to aircraft carriers, and if the German side is interested, we can transfer some technology, and Germany can build one of its own for experiments. ”

"That's good, too!"

Erich Raeder did not ask more, on the question of whether a battleship or an aircraft carrier, he trusted his own judgment more.

Hu Chuyuan did not explain too much, even if he transferred technology, he did not plan to transfer the technology of the most advanced Yabinsk-class aircraft carrier, at least not now.

What Germany has to do now is, after all, to concentrate all possible forces to develop the air force and army, and the navy only needs to remain defensive.

China is different.

The real opponents that China wants to defeat are Britain and the United States, and from then on completely establish the status of the world's number one power, and let itself dominate the world's interests.

Actually, Hu Chuyuan still has an idea.

He believed that Britain, France, and the United States did not necessarily want to start a war, and that no one wanted to start a war that might not have a chance of winning.

It should have been an exception.

If Russia enters the war, it is pure gambling, betting on whether it will hold out until the American army enters the war.

However, the United States is, after all, a boiled country.

It is very difficult for the United States to really enter the war unless it is absolutely necessary.

Britain doesn't necessarily want to fight.

The problem is that China actually wants to fight, and China wants to be the world's number one real hegemon, while Britain, France, the United States and Russia just don't want China to become a world hegemon.

The great thing about Erich Raeder is that he sees through this, and when he gets to China, he knows it.

In China today, almost everyone is talking about a possible war.

Because China has not been defeated for so many years, the biggest victorious country after each war is China, and China has brought greater benefits to the country every time.

Sometimes, especially these days, Erich Raeder even thinks Chinese has gone crazy, but ...... They have the capital to go crazy, the country is already too big and quite capable of defeating both Britain and the United States at the same time.

All Germany had to do was deal with France and Russia.

Hu Chuyuan and Erich Raeder don't talk much about it, but it seems amazing to others, and he seems to be very easy to make the arrogant Erich Raeder bow his head, and is willing to buy 4 Congo-class cruisers and 4 Chaoyu-class destroyers from China in a "buy" way, and look for some new technology.

They think it's magical, but they don't understand the truth!

Hu Chuyuan is like a countdown, counting every day that passes.

Forty-five days before he left office, news finally came that Ben and Russia had officially confirmed their membership in the Atlantic Entente Alliance, and in return, the Atlantic Alliance would grant the Russian-Russian community a market position, and in particular, more loans and technical assistance would be given to Ben.

There is no doubt that this is a troublesome thing.

Both Ben and Russia hate it.

Its industrial and technological strength was actually stronger than that of Persia and Poland, and its biggest problem was only a lack of resources and markets, and the Atlantic Entente alliance solved these problems for it at one time.

Population is the basis of war.

With the current population base, it is possible to desperately push out 7 million troops, of course, the actual combat power is definitely far inferior to another World War II, in any case, the real war still depends on elite troops, and the second-line troops will always be second-line troops.

That is why the country has been maintaining the establishment of 84 army divisions and at the same time deploying the 52 divisions of the National Guard, which are the second-line divisions used for reserves.

For Hu Chuyuan, the time for him to leave his post at the end of his term is getting closer and closer.

In the last time, most of his time was spent discussing the issue of preparing for war, perhaps in the eyes of Britain, the United States, France and Russia, the greater their power, the lower the probability of war breaking out, but the fact is the opposite, without Russia may still be able to go to war, with Russia, this war will definitely be fought, unless the Americans have built atomic bombs, and they have built them earlier than China.

Is it possible?

…… As Hu Chuyuan speculated, the Atlantic Alliance had no idea of fighting World War II at all, they just wanted to avoid the outbreak of war by inflating their strength.

However, there are some things that are destined to emerge.

There is a certain inevitable surname in history, which Hu Chuyuan may not have thought about.

As Erich Raeder judged, China is a crazy country, more crazy than the Germans believe in the power of war.

Regarding this issue, this is by no means what Hu Chuyuan wants, but it is precisely that.

While importing technology from Germany, we also brought a special kind of thinking into China -- militarism, and the army is the pillar of the country, the soul of the country, and the cornerstone of the country.

In today's China, there is no ideal that shines brighter than becoming a great professional officer.

Almost all the most gifted young people want to become professional officers.

In China, career officers are not only well paid, but also have a social status that is superior to other classes, and they are enthusiastically revered, praised and sung like countless Greek heroes.

Lu Guangquan, Li Kaiye, Duan Qirui, Yang Zongli, Zhang Shiying, Feng Guozhang, Ye Fu, Lin Yongsheng, Deng Shichang, Sa Zhenbing...... These naval and army marshals are being glorified, worshipped, and influenced by more and more young elites to join the army as god-like beings by the Chinese.

When a nation is not afraid of war, it can become extremely powerful but also extremely terrifying, although there are also many people of insight who are worried about the hidden dangers of the Germanization of the Chinese nation, and are worried about this kind of excessive blind worship of war and military strength.

But no one can stop it.

Because, Hu Chuyuan himself did not realize this, he has lived in the senior administration garden for too long, and has lost the basis for the position of neutral judgment on the whole society, just like another person in another era.

He is far from society, but he is controlling the whole state apparatus.

Perhaps, even if he was really defeated, Hu Chuyuan would not be able to understand what he was wrong with.

Perhaps, he can make up for this fatal flaw, because he is too rich, and he has accumulated too much wealth for the country.

How much money does he have?

In fact, it is difficult to count, and almost every day, his wealth is still rising.

The same is true of the wealth of China's central political axe.

China is being guided and tormented by a dream of common prosperity, in order to pursue the "grand ducal world" in order to achieve quick success, to make all Chinese people become incomparably rich, and to make the Chinese nation incomparably prosperous, not the grand ducal party, but the entire social class is actively seeking war.

It's a pity that Hu Chuyuan has been too far away from this country, and he can't see it anymore.

They may be able to see it, but they also stubbornly believe that there is no war in this world that the Chinese cannot win.

Since Britain and the United States are unwilling to make China a world hegemon, they can only go to war.

We can only go to war and use war to tell Britain, the United States, France and Russia that there is only one hegemon in this world, and that is China, and only the alliance supported by China is qualified to dominate Europe, and only the alliance supported by China is qualified to dominate the Americas.

For this dream, the whole of Chinese society is running like a machine, using the country's best strength for the military.

If Hu Chuyuan could still understand what this meant in the end, he would definitely feel pain and disgust from the bottom of his heart, and he would hate himself endlessly.

He didn't realize it.

He only knew that this war was not easy to win, however, at the most critical moment, he made a very important decision, a decision that would affect the fate of the entire era - less than a month before his resignation, when the new president was about to be reassembled, he and Lee Kai-ye made an extremely special decision.

They decided to nominate Cai Ye as vice chairman of the National Military Commission in the National Assembly.

It is an indisputable fact that China is a militaristic state -- the most crucial proof of this is the existence of the State Military Commission, which alone controls all military forces in the country and reads the existence of the Chinese Prime Minister's cabinet.

The President of China has the power of military command and control over the country, and the core body of the President exercising this power is the State Military Commission.

Although the National Military Council is a system of collective leadership, the President also serves as the chairman of the National Military Council, and there is a deputy chairman and five permanent members, for a total of seven people to vote together.

Among the five permanent members, the Prime Minister occupies one seat, the Chiefs of General Staff of the three armed services each hold one seat, and the Minister of Defence holds one seat.

At present, the chairman of the State Military Commission is Hu Chuyuan, the vice chairman is Duan Qirui, and the other five permanent members are Premier Yang Shipai, Li Kaiye, chief of the Army General Staff, Sa Zhenbing, chief of the Navy General Staff, Wang Huaiqing, chief of the Air Force General Staff, and Zhang Shiying, minister of national defense.

Among these seven people, Duan Qirui and Wang Huaiqing are both Tide files, that is, Hu Weizhong's main supporters, Li Kaiye and Zhang Shiying are a force, Yang Shipai and Sa Zhenbing are neutral, let Cai Yi serve as the vice chairman, and remove Duan Qirui's seat is actually to weaken Hu Weizhong's power.

For Hu Chuyuan, making this decision was extremely difficult.

He knew that Hu Weizhong was a very good leader, with a warm love for the country and integrity...... But Hu Weizhong is not strong enough to be prime minister rather than president, at least not now.

The people who can really be presidents, Hu Chuyuan and Li Kaiye are more optimistic about Cai Yi.

(To be continued)