After the inspection in the northeast, Song Biao returned to the Central Palace in Yanjing, and on the way back he had been thinking about the establishment of a royal Chinese scientific research and education foundation, as the middle and early stages of nuclear weapons development were basically completed, all that remained was the miniaturization of the hydrogen bomb, which will also come to an end in the next two years.

If the Imperial Family's funding for nuclear weapons research comes to an end, it means that the Imperial Family can save at least more than 250 million yuan a year, which is a huge amount of money.

The Imperial Family currently funds more than 40 universities and more than 600 other schools through the Inner Court, and among the top ten private universities in the country, Aurora University, Fu Jen University, Yenching University, Fudan University, Yangtze University, and Tongji University are the main sponsors of the Imperial Family, and the total annual sponsorship does not exceed 100 million yuan, half of which is still used for scientific research funding.

Even so, the four private universities of Aurora, Furen, Yenching and Yangtze River are among the highest in the world in terms of annual teaching and research expenditure, especially Aurora University and Furen University, which have been the world's highest-level comprehensive universities in the past decade, and are known as the four major institutions of higher learning in Asia along with Central Imperial University and Central University of Technology.

If 250 million yuan is saved from the nuclear weapons research project, and the central government, enterprise groups, and the military department undertake more follow-up research on the nuclear project, it is obvious that the imperial family will be able to make more contributions to China's investment in education and scientific research.

On the train back, Song Biao was thinking about this in his heart, and he had decided to sell part of the royal property and inject 10 billion yuan into the scale of the establishment of a general association of the Royal Scientific Research and Education Fund to increase investment in scientific research in China, especially in the field of basic industry and theory, to make up for the lack of state expenditure.

Not only that, but he also intends to use the emperor's appeal to let the General Association of the Royal Science and Education Foundation of China absorb other funds and donations from the country, ensure a long-term investment of at least 500 million yuan per year, and gradually increase the fund capital of the General Association of the Royal Science and Education Foundation of China to 40 billion yuan in the next 20 years, at that time, the annual expenditure of the Royal Science and Education Foundation in the field of scientific research in China will be enough to be equal to the support of the central government, and the expenditure in the field of education will at least ensure the long-term operation needs of more than 40 comprehensive universities.

It will be the world's largest charity and social institution for science and education, which is unprecedented.

The time has come.

Along the way, Song Biao's mind kept echoing this voice, he knew that he had completed a great mission, making the empire the first nuclear power in the world, and had put in thirty years of hard work and huge funds for this, and now he needed to transfer these funds to another field.

…… Song Biao only returned to Yanjing on the afternoon of April 14 of this year, and returned to the Central Palace, and he was not in a hurry to put forward his new idea.

Returning to the palace from the train station, Song Biao took a short rest, went home with the crown prince Yuhua and other family members to enjoy a sumptuous dinner to celebrate the return of their father and son from the inspection, and several married princesses also attended the dinner with their respective families, and among the 24 members of the entire family, except for the prince Yuqing who served in the navy, all arrived, plus three concubines and four princesses, and the whole family was exactly 30 people here.

After inspecting the Northeast, he immediately took a 6-hour train back to the Central Palace, which made Song Biao a little tired, but he was really happy to see such a family and all the young generations gathered together.

Because of the large number of people, the Hibiscus Room has always had long tables where the whole family sits at one table to eat, so the dishes must be arranged very cleverly, usually with four to six small plates and plates per person, with an average of eight large plates for every six people.

Emperor Song always sits in the first position as a parent, and he is always flanked by Empress Shu and Concubine Qiao, Empress Shu Xuan's health has not been very good in recent years, and she rarely accompanies the emperor to go out on inspection, because Crown Prince Yuhua was born to Concubine Qiao, in order to avoid suspicion that she has the intention of seizing the queen, after Yuhua established the inheritance of the first priority, Concubine Qiao rarely accompanied the emperor on patrol in public.

Therefore, in recent years, Princess Yuanyuan has generally accompanied the emperor on his tour, and this year's situation is more special, Crown Prince Yuhua is the first time to publicly accompany the emperor on patrol, and the domestic press and military and political circles are very concerned about this, and there must be some discussions within the royal family.

What this means, everyone knows in their hearts.

In his opinion, as the state system of the constitutional monarchy is gradually stabilized to the point of being unshakable, and with the power and status of the prime minister gradually improving, it is not very important which prince will inherit the unification within the imperial family.

Song Biao himself actually admires the aggressive surname of Song Futao, the prince of Yuqing, who has performed very well in the Air Force and Navy, and may have the opportunity to become the commander of the aircraft carrier fleet in the future, and is the son of Empress Shu, which is also quite special in itself, and has been very liked by Song Biao since he was a child, or among the several sons, the second son Fu Tao is the one who is most like him.

Even so, Song Biao did not intend to violate the principle of priority of the law of succession.

The old and sophisticated old man Song sat here and watched his family laugh and laugh, and he actually knew very well that his wife and children were thinking about the final ownership of this position in their hearts, but at this moment, in this life, as long as he was alive, as long as he was not confused, no one dared to ask more than half a sentence.

At the age of fifty-four, it is the time when the emperors are experienced and strong, and their energy is enough to support the hegemony, Song Biao already has strands of silver in his hair, but his thoughts are still keen, even if everyone looks normal, but he is not old and confused after all, and everyone's voice seems to be able to be seen through by him.

He's not old yet.

However, Emperor Song did not pay much attention to the various ideas within the imperial family.

The law is the law.

There is no room for manoeuvre or suspicion in many things.

What's more, he knows best that this throne is not important at all, even if it is still the most powerful throne in the world, compared to the important surname of the throne, as the heir of the emperor and in charge of the family business, controlling the entire Far Eastern family is the most concerned issue for the family.

If others don't know, how can the royal family not know the vastness of the Far East?

The question is that for the imperial family of the Chinese Empire, does money really matter?

Song Biao doesn't think it's important, of course, there must be people who think it's important, but he is used to saying a lot, and no one dares to say anything around him that is not to sow discord.

Song Biao smiled in his heart, and also sighed that there are many rights and wrongs of wealthy families, and there are even more rights and wrongs of the royal family, and because it is a royal family with strict rules, the wives, princesses, princesses, and princesses dare not go beyond half a step.

During the meal time, Queen Shu asked Song Biao about some old things in the Northeast with a match, and she also had a lot of feelings about reminiscing about the past, but Concubine Qiao didn't dare to say a word.

While talking, Empress Shu remembered one thing, and reminded Song Biao: "By the way, Your Majesty, Mrs. Vanderbilt died, and I only found out yesterday that someone had been sent to the Vanderbilt family to condole, and it happened that my eighth child was in the United States, so I asked him to go first on my behalf." ”

Song Biao sighed with some regret and said, "Then you and Lao Ba tell him to go together on our behalf, so that I don't have to arrange another envoy." ”

Empress Shu bowed slightly, still sighing.

I think that at the beginning, the couple and the Vanderbilt couple were really good personal friends.

After the dinner, before Jiang Fangzhen came to report the new battle plan, Song Biao asked his eldest son Song Furen to accompany him to the imperial study, all the way through the corridor, Song Biao had nothing to say, he still clearly remembered the excitement when the eldest son was born, and remembered the scene of the eldest son Shanshan, he was already the emperor at that time, and it was a busy matter.

Back in the imperial study, Song Biao looked through some of the documents displayed on the table, and felt that it was still a little difficult, so he had to put on the new reading glasses, and at this moment, he already clearly felt his aging.

The towering old trees are majestic, and they have finally reached their twilight years.

Song Biao's body is still very strong, and it is rare to suffer from a minor illness such as a cold once a year, but aging is not something that human beings can resist, and inadvertently, he is already fifty-five years old.

Wearing reading glasses, he took a cursory look at the new official letters submitted by the General Administration of the Inner Court, picked out the more important parts to read, and confirmed that there were no special major events in the country during this time, or that there was nothing worthy of his attention, so he put these official letters aside, took off his glasses and glanced at the Prince Yuhua who was accompanying him.

Crown Prince Yuhua is a gentle, knowledgeable and filial Qing.

He has his special merits.

Crown Prince Song Biao Yuhua felt more and more that his aging was a fact that could not be ignored, and at this time it was necessary to consider the issue of the crown prince's succession, and this kind of thing could not be delayed until his death, which was not necessarily a good thing.

For the sake of safety, when he is still alive, it is suitable for the crown prince to succeed to the throne at the age of 70 and ascend the throne himself, so as to maintain the stability of the overall situation and prevent unnecessary repetition and controversy in the matter of the crown prince in China.

China is too big to need an old prime minister or a hardened old emperor, an empire that needs the kind of experienced, but equally energetic people to govern.

Only young people can truly keep pace with the times.

After approving several more important parliamentary bills, Song Biao asked his eldest son Song Furen, who had been standing next to him, to sit down and asked, "How do you feel about this trip to the Northeast?" ”

Song Furen pondered for a moment and replied: "The Northeast is the foundation of our country, which is indeed extraordinary, but the long-term continuation of the war has also had a certain impact on the port business and foreign exports of the Northeast. ”

Song Biao didn't like this answer, because such an answer buried a real sense of immaturity, the crown prince in his thirties, his eldest son is just at this level?

No father likes to undermine his children's confidence.

It doesn't matter how old the father is, how old the children are.

Song Biao looked calm and continued to ask, "Then what do you think should be done?" ”

Song Furen seemed very calm and replied: "Returning to my father, my sons thought that they should follow the situation of the Xinhai War, mobilize the strength of the whole country to concentrate on the Korean Peninsula to annihilate the Yue army, and then use Korea as a base to bomb the Yue Ben mainland with the air force to force the Yue Ben to accept the peace treaty. ”

Song Biao asked him rhetorically: "What if Ben is stubbornly resistant?" ”

Song Furen didn't know how to answer for a while, and after a while, he said, "Presumably not so." ”

Song Biao sighed: "National affairs cannot be taken for granted, not to mention that there are many scruples about mobilizing the strength of the whole country, you serve as a second-class staff officer in the military department, and naturally know that the elite of our army is basically in the northwest, although now the battle with Yueben is very fierce, but you must understand in your heart that after the defeat of the Yueben Navy, it has lost the strength that can really threaten our country, and the Soviet Union still has such strength?" ”

Song Furen said: "Father, my son-in-law thinks that the Soviet-German war is imminent, and the Soviet Union has no spare strength to fight with our country at the same time, so it is better to sign a peace treaty with the Soviet Union and transfer the elite units of the Central Army to the east." ”

Song Biao asked him: "In the Korean, Zoben, and Ryukyu battlefields, can you really make the main armored vehicles and tank clusters develop the advantage of high-speed heavy attack and defense?" How much space is there for combat, and will the tank be able to adapt? These are all problems, not to mention that the east and west span thousands of kilometers, how long will it take for the large troops to be transferred back from the northwest, and how long will it take to be transferred back? ”

Speaking of this, Song Biao pointed out to him: "The most taboo in the way of using troops is not a mistake in decision-making, but swaying from side to side, and a temporary change of plan is the most deadly. What's more, how do you know that the main forces in the northwest must be guarding against the Soviet Union? Nowadays, there are not many enemies that can really threaten our country, and the Soviet Union and Germany are all listed, and for our country, the best situation is that Germany destroys the Soviet Union first, and Britain and France destroy Germany later, and the Soviet, German, British and French four countries are inseparable, and the national strength is declining. ”

Song Furen was silent for a long time, and he stopped talking, and finally couldn't help asking: "Father, what is the benefit of our country, what is the benefit of the people, and what is the benefit of my China?" ”

Is Lao Tzu impatient when talking to his son?

Song Biao could hear Song Furen's dissatisfaction, and sighed for a long time before replying: "The country must not lose justice, but it must not be like ordinary people who rush with enthusiasm and ignore the interests of the people and the country, and rush forward to suffer losses." Whether it is the ultra-left Bolshevik ideology or the ultra-right fascist ideology, these two isms are a great threat to the empire and the world, and if we do not deal with this matter, even if we are thousands of miles away, we will suffer sooner or later, not to mention that the Soviet Union is located in the northwest of the border. ”

Speaking of this, Song Biao didn't want to continue, and simply said to Song Furen: "You are still young, the road is long, some things have to be experienced slowly to understand the truth, my advice to you is very simple, that is, don't always think that you are right in everything, think about it, think about why others do it, you can understand others, and you can understand." Go back to bed early, I haven't been with my kids all day. ”

Song Furen could only say yes silently, and then turned around and left the imperial study.

He still felt all kinds of confusion in his heart, and like many of his countrymen, he always felt that if the empire really wanted to defeat Yuben quickly, it was not impossible, but it might be extremely high, and there was no need to even take too much risk.

Wouldn't it be better to let Yuben admit defeat and end the war sooner?

So, there are still a lot of things he doesn't understand.

Shortly after Song Furen left, Jiang Fangzhen hurriedly came to report to Emperor Song on the two battle plans recently drawn up by the military headquarters.

When an industrial power like China is fully engaged in the operation of a state of war, the power that can burst out is astonishing, far beyond the imagination of the United States and Europe and the United States.

The profound accumulation and layout of the empire's military science and technology in the past two decades have made the empire's military production capacity in wartime more powerful, and the general staff of the central military department of the empire, which has experienced many major wars, is very clear about a very simple truth -- the generalization of military equipment and parts is the basis of large-scale production.

Under the active promotion of the Central Military Department, the Imperial Ministry of Science, Technology and Industry introduced the GFGB1931 standard system for the military industry based on the national standard quality process system in 1931.

It is based on the role of this system that the empire, which began to mobilize for the national war after the outbreak of the Sanduao naval battle, produced 17,000 tanks and armored vehicles in only half a year, such as 75\88mm caliber self-propelled howitzers, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, amphibious infantry fighting vehicles, amphibious tracked armored transport vehicles and a series of armored vehicles Although there are multiple models, their chassis designs are derived from MBV1 tracked armored transport vehicles and MBV3 amphibious armored fighting vehicles, with 60% of each other The above parts and parts are completely identical, and the body design of the 75\88mm self-propelled howitzer is derived from the M1907\33 towed light howitzer.

This series of common surnames allows more than 20 enterprises in the empire to quickly put into the licensed production of armored vehicles such as amphibious combat vehicles and self-propelled howitzers, and more than 6,000 enterprises have the production and processing capacity of spare parts.

This industrial strength allowed the empire's military industrial manufacturing capacity to remain at least ten times or even twenty times that of the capital.

Purely in the field of military equipment, the diversity of military equipment and the depth of technical reserves also enable the empire to quickly adjust and upgrade the existing equipment to adapt to the changes of war, the newly designed M1940 75mm light self-propelled howitzer is a new weapon and equipment, this light self-propelled howitzer uses the base of the MT22 light tank production, lighter than the original 75mm self-propelled howitzer, mobile off-road surname can be stronger, can be faster with infantry units in the mountains, subtropical woodlands, island areas of combat.

Although this was a new armored vehicle that was only finalized and put into production in the second half of 1939, by February 1940 there were more than 2,300 light self-propelled howitzers of this model.

Based on these conditions, and the failure of the previous plan to be approved, the Joint Staff decided to adopt a large-scale mechanized landing operation with an extremely strong revolutionary surname in the Ryukyu Campaign, and codenamed this plan the "Poison Toad Offensive."

Jiang Fangzhen waited outside the imperial study for more than ten minutes, watching Crown Prince Yuhua leave the study with a disappointed expression, and after entering the study to meet the emperor, he did not dare to mention the emperor's family affairs, and first presented the "poison toad offensive" battle plan of the Ryukyu Campaign and the comprehensive offensive plan of the southeastern theater of the Korean Peninsula codenamed "Random Arrow" to the emperor for his attention.

The basic general strategy had already been laid down before Song Biao went to the northeast to inspect these two plans, and what the Central Military Department submitted at this time was the overall operational plan submitted by the Central Joint Staff Operations Department.

The most important role of the General Staff in modern military affairs is not planning, but preparation, preparing all work to the highest level.

The General Staff of the Reich and the modern military system are still very well developed, and they are certainly not as strange and alternative as Italy.

Song Biao roughly read the two plans drawn up by the Central Joint Staff Operations Department, and the soldier's intuition told him that this time he was really right, and that he was the best in terms of strategy and tactics.

A very simple adjective is called "fit".

The planning of the entire grand tactics is very much in line with the current overall strategic situation, and it can be said that the advantages of the empire at this stage have been brought into full play to the best level, and the most lethal suppression of the Japanese army has been achieved.

The "poisonous toad" and the "indiscriminate arrow" occurred in the southeastern theater of the Korean Peninsula and the Ryukyu Islands almost at the same time, and the overall direction of the two operational plans was to advance at multiple points at the same time, completely disrupting the deployment and mobilization capabilities of the Chinese army, and turning the deployment of the Chinese army in these two theaters into a hornet's nest with indiscriminate guns.

The planning of the entire major tactic is very similar to that of the Tumen River Campaign in the Sino-Chinese Xinhai War, that is, the situation of attacking at multiple points at the same time, and maintaining the simultaneous exertion of force between the north and the south; the whole country is at a disadvantage in terms of troops, resources, and equipment, and the navy and air force are also in a state of passive attack, and a large-scale multi-line breakthrough will further expand the disadvantage of the Japanese in these areas.

In the "Random Arrows" plan, a number of light tank divisions of the Imperial Army, with the cooperation of armored brigades, will quickly intersperse and directly cut off the connection between the headquarters of the East Asian Dispatch Army and the front line, preemptively eliminate the headquarters of the Dispatch Army, and occupy Pusan with the cooperation of the Navy and Air Force, so that the hundreds of thousands of army soldiers stranded on the front line of the Japanese army will be in the most passive state. Then, they carried out island-by-island landing operations to completely clear the Japanese army from the Ryukyu Islands.

At the same time as the "poisonous toad" and "indiscriminate arrow" were carried out, the Imperial Air Force would rely on Jeju and other air bases to carry out a large-scale bombing of the military factories and supply ports in Yuben, and further carry out maiming attacks on Yuben, so that it would not have the ability to counterattack at all.

When the Imperial Army wiped out the Japanese troops on Sakhalin Island, the Korean Peninsula, the Ryukyu Islands, and the South Pacific Islands, the Imperial Army would establish a huge blockade around the entire Imperial Army, and it could carry out any air raids on the Japanese as it wanted.

At that time, the empire can consider landing on the mainland to attack, or it can continue to adopt a lower-cost blockade war, locking the island in the encirclement of the sea chain, and at this moment, the fate of the empire is really in the hands of the empire, and life and death will be taken.

After reading these two plans, Song Biao thought about them very carefully for a while, and then nodded to Jiang Fangzhen, who was standing quietly beside him: "That's basically it, the military department will continue to weigh more carefully." ”

Jiang Fangzhen paused and said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the minister should personally preside over this matter." ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, he was still very happy in his heart, a good plan means half the success, his efforts in the thirties, the passage of thirty years of youth have finally seen the final results.

(To be continued)