Although the imperial premier Gu Weijun also came to greet the imperial driver, on the way back to the Central Palace, Emperor Song did not have much conversation with the prime minister.

As the 30th anniversary of the founding of the empire is approaching, with the leading support rate of the Liberation Party and his personal prestige, Gu Weijun will easily complete his re-election as prime minister.

This gave Gu Weijun plenty of time and energy to work more on the formulation of the Seventh Five-Year Plan of the Empire, and in the first half of the year, he had already held dozens of seminars for this purpose, and roughly formulated the overall plan of the Seventh Five-Year Plan.

According to Premier Gu Weijun's vision, the new Seventh Five-Year Plan will continue to focus on education and science and technology, and on the basis of the Sixth Five-Year Plan, it may be necessary to appropriately reduce the construction of infrastructure, and at the same time reduce the proportion of state-owned assets, because military spending is inevitable and will continue to increase and maintain, and the expenditure of the central government is in a deficit state for two consecutive years, in order to ensure the continued promotion of education and scientific research in the empire, reducing fixed public infrastructure, and selling a part of the political axe assets to maintain the financial balance of the political axe is the only choice.

After the emperor returned to the Central Palace, Premier Gu Weijun had half an hour to explain his decision and the future plans and policies of the Seventh Five-Year Plan to the emperor.

Back in the office of the Central Palace, Emperor Song got the draft of the Seventh Five-Year Plan from Premier Gu Weijun after sitting down, and he spent ten minutes roughly flipping through it without too many doubts.

Song Biao generally recognized and supported Premier Gu Weijun's efforts to maintain a balance between the central government's fiscal expenditures, after all, in the next few years, the empire may continue to wage war with Germany, which will be a larger military expenditure.

If the central government's financial situation is already unsustainable at this stage, it will only become more difficult in the future.

After reading the draft of the 75 Plan, Song Biao put the draft together, lit a cigar for himself, and smoked it lightly and calmly, thinking about some more important details in his mind.

Gu Weijun's Seventh Five-Year Plan is very clear and simple on the whole, and it is also consistent, that is, it will continue to emphasize the importance of higher education and universal education, the important surname of scientific research, and maintain and develop the nine industries of metallurgy, machinery, electrical, electronics, automobiles, aviation, shipbuilding, chemical industry, and military industry as the long-term pillars of the imperial economy.

The difference with the Sixth Five-Year Plan is that the country's investment in infrastructure projects has been reduced, and the important surname of the electronics industry has been raised before the aviation and shipbuilding industries, and the important surname of the automobile industry has also been raised.

There is no doubt that the empire is the world's largest metallurgical, mechanical, and electrical power, and it is also a long-term national policy, which determines the foundation of the empire, and the new electronics is also one of the foundations for the empire to continue to maintain strong development.

After thinking briefly for a while, Song Biao used a red pen to make some adjustments to the order of these nine industries, adjusting the chemical industry to electronics, and readjusting the car back to the ship.

Regarding the order of Gu Weijun's policy of "continuing to strengthen imperial secondary and higher vocational education, strengthening imperial university education and universal education", Song Biao, after a short period of weighing, adjusted universal education to before "middle and higher vocational education" according to the order of the Fifth Five-Year Plan, and changed the name to "national basic education".

In such planning at the national level, the order of each word is a true portrayal of the overall policy.

For a world power like the Empire, which emphasizes the status of an industrial power, secondary and higher vocational education is the core pillar of imperial education, but the basic education of the people is the foundation of the entire country and the nation, and the foundation of imperial education, which has been disputed in the Sixth Five-Year Plan in the past.

This is wrong.

Song Biao felt the need to readjust the mistake of overemphasizing specialized education in the Sixth Five-Year Plan, so he rejected the first few pages of the draft, asked Gu Weijun to read his comments again, and continued to make some new revisions in the later draft of the plan with a red pen.

If Gu Weijun insisted, he could ignore the emperor's opinion, because this was his job and his power as the prime minister of the empire, but he couldn't be so stupid.

Gu Weijun thought about the emperor's adjustment carefully, he didn't want to make any rebuttals, but he still had a lot of surprises in his heart about the adjustment of the status of the automobile industry.

There is a blowout demand for the development of the automobile industry in China, an important factor in this is the general expectation of the Chinese to become the world's first automobile industrial country, and the huge economy that can be driven behind this industry, people are discussing all this, and especially expect it to become the pillar of the empire's industry, become the symbol of the empire as the world's largest industrial power.

Gu Weijun's high status in the Seventh Five-Year Plan to improve the status of the automobile industry is largely a reflection of domestic public sentiment.

Song Biao did not think about the problem in this way, in his opinion, the empire has a large population, if it wants to develop into a car kingdom like the United States, the consumption of fuel and the occupation of highway resources will be very terrible, which will mean that more than 70% of the empire's cities will be overthrown and rebuilt.

He didn't want to see that.

Gu Weijun did not rush to raise objections, but quietly waited for the emperor to finish reading the rest of the parts.

Song Biao also patiently read through the Seventh Five-Year Plan carefully, and made a large number of revisions and annotations in dozens of places, especially the "Population Balance Act," a special bill considered by the current cabinet, which was annotated in more than 100 words.

The empire introduced the theory of population balance from the Fourth Five-Year Plan, and made inferences about the current overall territorial resources of the country, believing that the total population of the empire should be about 500 million, and the maximum should not exceed 800 million.

By the time of the Fifth Five-Year Plan, the Imperial Central Cabinet had officially launched a series of population balance programs, which imposed restrictions on the national compulsory education and social health care indicators, imposed certain restrictions on families with more than one pair of children, granted special medical subsidies to women undergoing birth control surgery, and given more medical and educational support to families with only one child.

During the Sixth Five-Year Plan, with the further development of birth control technology and new investment in related medical research, the Imperial Central Cabinet began to control the population more strictly, and in the Seventh Five-Year Plan, Gu Weijun intends to promote the new "Population Balance Act", which will impose additional public taxes on families with more than 2 children, and exempt families with only one child from part of the tax, the guiding principle is that families with more children must bear more responsibility for national compulsory education and public medical care.

The bill has been heavily criticized by opposition parties during its gestation, with the general belief that families with more children tend to be poorer, while the majority of families with many children are concentrated in rural areas, and that Song Jiaoren's ** party believes that strengthening rural education is the main way to reduce the rural population excess, and that imposing more taxes on these families who are already impoverished is an inhumane and anti-social option.

In this regard, Song Biao chose to continue to support the ruling party's plan.

Song Biao has always maintained a tough attitude towards the population problem of the empire, but the imperial family itself has seriously violated the concept of public opinion, and the number of children of the imperial family is a typical overbalance situation within the empire.

Even so, Song Biao supported the new policy.

In some respects, the increase in the number of royal children was basically before the fourth or fifth day, and it can be understood that the royal family and the emperor had not considered this before, but now they recognize this, which is explained by the General Administration of the Inner Court and the pro-imperial media.

Due to the special status of the emperor and the imperial family in the empire, no political force has dared to criticize the ruling party's population policy with the imperial family as a negative example, but when it is basically impossible to refute the ruling party in terms of economic and war policies, the population issue is indeed the focus of the opposition parties' concentrated attacks and arguments against the Guangfu Party.

Song Biao has not yet seen the draft of the "Population Balance Act" that the cabinet is about to submit, but he still supports the principles advocated by Gu Weijun's cabinet, regardless of whether the national family is poor or not, the increase in children will inevitably increase the financial burden of the political axe, and it is not the job of the political axe to rob the rich and help the poor, and if it causes the country's financial burden to increase, it should bear more responsibility.

If we do not adhere to this seemingly inhumane principle of fairness, the population problem of the empire cannot be truly and effectively contained, and it is impossible for a ** country to implement the compulsory population family planning work like TG, and the compulsory tax policy is the only means of the ** country.

It is undeniable that with the improvement of the level of national education and the development of the economy, the birth rate of the empire will gradually and naturally decline, but that will be at least twenty years later, for the time being, most of the citizens still have not received a complete education, among the citizens under the age of 40 in the empire, only 42% of the population has received nine-year compulsory national education, and among the citizens under the age of 25 in the empire, 87% have received the twelve-year national compulsory education.

From the analysis of the data, it will take at least fifteen years for the imperial population to reach a natural equilibrium state, but considering the influence of the concept of more children and more blessings in traditional Chinese culture, this process is actually very slow, definitely more than twenty years.

If there is no more stringent national policy during the Seventh Five-Year Plan period, the empire's new population in the next two decades may reach as much as 400 million, and the population will exceed 900 million in 1970, and the empire's long-term goal is to reach the upper limit of 800 million in 1970 and continue to stabilize this size for the next 30 years.

With the empire's current territory of nearly 20 million square kilometers, if the total population can be maintained at 800 million for a long time, it will be good news for the central government in the long run.

Song Biao was most concerned about the population policy, and he returned the draft after the review to Gu Weijun, emphasizing: "There should be no hesitation on the part of the cabinet about the debate over the population policy, and even the plan should be completed at all costs. To guide the support of the media and public opinion, the population of the empire should not expand indefinitely, and as we have emphasized the theory of balance, the responsibility of the political axe is simple: to curb the growth of births when the country's birth rate is too high, and to stimulate the growth of births when the birth rate is too low, only in this way can the long-term stability of the country be guaranteed. ”

Gu Weijun nodded silently in agreement and agreed: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Song Biao thought for a moment, put the half-smoked cigar aside, and asked Gu Weijun, "Do you have any other questions?" ”

Gu Weijun thought for a while and asked, "Regarding the development order of the automobile industry, does Your Majesty have other considerations?" ”

Song Biao hummed and replied: "Of course, the automobile industry is a very important pillar of the national economy, but for the empire, we have a large population, if everyone has a car, the national infrastructure of the empire will almost face the necessary need for reconstruction, and in the long run, our demand for oil will also become a factor in the security of the country." The empire has a vast territory and a large population, which determines that the empire should focus more on the development of railways, shipping, aviation, and electrified public transportation systems, rather than the development of the automobile industry. Objectively speaking, we should encourage the people to take more railways, and the state should give more subsidies to railway companies, reduce the cost of taking railways, provide more favorable conditions for railway construction, and support the development of urban rail and intercity rail transit. Metallurgy, machinery, electrical, electronic, and chemical industries are the basic industries, which determine the overall level of the empire's industry, and for the automobile industry, we must also adopt a certain degree of restriction while supporting it, and we can consider imposing a fuel tax to maintain the construction of the empire's highway system with this part of the tax revenue. ”

Gu Weijun thought about it for a moment, feeling that he might encounter relatively large national pressure on this issue, because the people aspire to become the world's most powerful automobile power, in fact, he also has such enthusiasm.

Of course, no matter how high his political prestige in the empire was, he did not have the strength to challenge the emperor's authority.

Gu Weijun knew very well that he did not have the necessary surname to argue with the emperor on this issue, and he did not have such a basis, so he could only acquiesce in the emperor's reply and replied: "The emperor is sage, and his thoughts are extremely far-reaching, and non-ministers can reach it." ”

Song Biao didn't care about Gu Weijun's attitude, he continued to think for a moment, and continued to propose with Gu Weijun: "Regarding the issue of reducing investment in infrastructure construction, I think it is appropriate, but this does not mean that the state should reduce investment in this area, and can adopt a certain degree of policy preferences to encourage commercial institutions to invest in roads, electricity, and water conservancy systems. Some of the assets of the central government axe in China can be sold continuously at a suitable price to ensure the stability of the political axe's finances, so as to avoid the possibility of new expansion of the political axe's fiscal expenditure in the future. ”

Gu Weijun understands this reminder, which means that the war between China and China will not only continue, but the empire may also start a war with the Soviet Union.

As the Prime Minister of the Reich and the vice chairman of the Central Defense Commission, Gu Weijun actually failed to penetrate into the core area of the imperial affairs domain, and he did not know that the real target of the Reich's troops was Nazi Germany, even though he knew very well that the countries that posed the greatest threat to the Reich in the long run were the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

After a short period of consideration, Gu Weijun suddenly mentioned a bill that was not involved in the Seventh Five-Year Plan, and asked Emperor Song: "Your Majesty, what do you think about the issue of female prostitutes being given surnames?" ”

"Oh, this question?"

Song Biao was a little surprised, he hadn't seriously considered this issue.

Due to the influence of traditional Chinese culture, the empire has not legally confirmed whether the surname service is legal, neither has issued a law to confirm the illegality of the surname service, nor has it been clearly illegal, and the debate within the Guangfu Party is relatively large, and the parties are relatively conservative in general, hoping to introduce a law to confirm the illegality, but the possibility of a complete ban on the surname is also very low.

This problem is the same as gambling.

The empire did not make this clear in the constitution, but delegated the power to interpret this law to the provincial councils, and one of the guidelines of the empire was that large-value gambling and illegal gambling in non-public industries were illegal, such as Shanghai, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hong Kong, all of which legislated to recognize gambling as a specially licensed industry, allowing commercial establishments to operate openly, but in the vast majority of mainland provinces, gambling was illegal.

In the inland provinces, only Shaanxi and Yunnan recognize the legality of gambling, in fact, this layout is also the result of the internal coordination of the imperial central government, that is, some areas are allowed to maintain the casino industry, most areas are prohibited from public gambling, and illegal gambling is very severe.

After all, the Liberation Party is different from the G Party.

If you say it's illegal, it doesn't seem to be appropriate for you to remember prostitution, and if you say it's legal, it's even more inappropriate.

Song Biao really didn't think about this problem, he thought about it carefully, and said to Gu Weijun: "If there is no clear provision in the constitution, then like the gambling industry, continue to delegate to the provinces, but it is still necessary to maintain communication with the provincial councils, try to coordinate, limit as much as possible, and it is okay to keep a part of the local areas open and legally managed." The layout should be reasonable...... But different policies can also be adopted, and the provincial councils are responsible for what is legal and what is not, how to manage what is legal, and how to punish what is not lawful. ”

Gu Weijun asked: "If the local provinces are delegated to self-determination, I don't know what Yanjing Mansion should do?" ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said: "Tianjin is legal, Yanjing is not legal, Hebei will not vote for the time being." ”

Gu Weijun nodded and acquiesced in this disposition, which is basically similar to the situation of gambling legislation, Yanjing and Tianjin are coordinated with each other, Tianjin allows the gambling industry to be legal within a limited range, while Yanjing and Hebei are not legal, this time Hebei Province is in the middle, and is not in a hurry to confirm whether the prostitution industry is legal.

Prostitution is not the same as gambling.

Gambling this kind of thing, small gambling is the national situation, will not be caught, big gambling can go to legal areas to gamble openly, this is a regular demand, can be planned, and most of this kind of thing is an emergency, it is impossible to say that Yanjing customers want to scoop temporarily, but also have to take a car to Tianjin to pay.

That's what the law is.

Whether a law can be effectively implemented depends to a large extent on whether it is close to daily life and in line with the people's feelings.

On the whole, the student movement is relatively indifferent to the gambling industry, but the surname industry is very exclusive and opposed, and it is likely to set off very large demonstrations in various places, but so what?

Emperor Song obviously did not care about such a problem, and there would always be a suitable solution at that time.

It seems that the characteristics of the empire can be seen in this very small detail, like the characteristics of the whole body are found in the pores of a person, the empire is like that, it is already a completely different empire, there are good sides, there are bad sides, and the most important point is that the empire is more powerful than anyone in the world expected.

It is worth mentioning that a few days ago, the Reich had just completed a miniaturization test of a hydrogen bomb in the northwest, which meant that the Reich's D-10 ballistic missiles could already be equipped with nuclear warheads, and in two years, the Reich's secret military base in Kurmenistan would have the capability to launch a nuclear missile attack on Berlin.

When that day comes, the empire will be able to grant nuclear protection to all the members of the Asian League in the seat of the lord of the Asian League, and spread its own nuclear bases throughout Asia, and the empire will also have the strength to destroy any country in the world.

The empire will not prevent the United States from having the same power for the next two decades, so the development of nuclear containment against the United States will become a new national strategic task.

For such a task, Emperor Song was more willing to maintain a pan-Pacific alliance with the United States, and contain the United States through financial and economic control, so that the United States could only be a long-term cooperative country of the Chinese Empire, and was in a state of long-term containment by China.

He doesn't want the U.S. to go to war for at least the next five years.

Because China can, and has the means, to end the war, to wipe out both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and to keep a few socialist countries in a closed state.

Even keeping the Soviet Union was not a terrible thing, but if the Soviet Union committed to developing nuclear weapons after the war, it would be really bad for China, which is why Song Biao was determined to destroy the Soviet Union.

He sat calmly in his chair and thought about all this.

He's a little old.

It's just that who can understand everything about the precise calculations and deductions in his mind.

Gu Weijun seemed to have got all the answers, knew what he should do, and wanted to get up and say goodbye, but before leaving, he still asked Emperor Song: "Your Majesty, is there anything else?" ”

"No ......!"

Song Biao replied briefly, and then conceived another topic in his mind, just before Gu Weijun was about to bow and salute before leaving, he suddenly looked at Gu Weijun and asked: "Premier Gu, in your heart, what should China look like in the next twenty years?" ”

"This?"

Gu Weijun didn't know how to answer for a while, this question seemed a little too sudden, beyond his expectations.

Song Biao also knew that this question was mentioned in a hurry, but he still asked, "Have you thought about this problem?" ”

Gu Weijun thought cautiously for a moment and replied, "I think about it occasionally." ”

Song Biao didn't have a plan to hear the answer immediately, at least he didn't expect to hear a complete answer at this time, he and Gu Weijun instructed: "Go back and think about this issue carefully, maybe you can make such a report in the Congress, and then ...... We should probably involve everybody in this discussion, and then we can think systematically based on everybody's answers, think about what the real Seventy-Five, Eighty-Five, Ninety-Five, Tenth Five-Year Plan should look like, you know, we should look a little bit further afield, twenty years, thirty years, even fifty years. ”

Gu Weijun couldn't go against such a proposal, and replied cautiously: "Your Majesty, your majesty will handle this matter as soon as you go back." ”

Song Biao bowed slightly.

He was starting to look forward to it.

He felt that by allowing everyone to participate in such a big discussion, perhaps he would be able to find a way forward for the empire in this kind of discussion.

While asking questions to others, he is also asking questions of himself.

His answer may seem very simple, that is, under the impetus of the Empire, the world's science and technology can advance in about ten years, or even fifteen or twenty years, just as the Empire has promoted in the field of computers and semiconductors.

In fact, everything can develop faster, all it takes is a start-up with determination and strength, and the long-term efforts of the empire in this field with the will and plan of the country are definitely not comparable to one or a dozen commercial companies.

In the field of basic semiconductor research, the empire is now basically close to the level of the late sixties of another era, but a lot of work still needs time to be completed gradually, and in the fields of software, systems, and microprocessors, the empire is only close to the situation of the early sixties.

Now, large-scale and medium-sized commercial computers have begun to appear in the domestic commodity market, and in the next five years, or ten years, microcomputers suitable for individual and small and medium-sized enterprise users will also appear, at least in the laboratory of Dongdao Company, such products are actively promoted and developed.

In the years when the ban was opened, and in the next ten years, computers will revolutionize the entire empire, in the securities industry, in the financial industry, on the China Stock Exchange, in the State Bank of China, in the Imperial Ministry of Finance, in the National Library, in the Central Supreme Court, in the Central Military Department, in the Emperor-class battleships, in the Far East-class aircraft carriers, in the ...... In many fields, computers have begun to take on a lot of computational and statistical work.

The computer is no longer simply the secret weapon of the imperial scientific research institutions and military units, it is allowed to be used in the authorized field, when this wave gradually pushes to the end of the war, the empire's computers will be allowed to be sold abroad, a large number of prohibitions in the domestic and foreign markets will be completely opened, in the 50s of the 20th century, the empire will build a new era.

It's a huge industry.

In Song Biao's heart, the China he hopes to see in 20 years, the China in 50 years will be completely different from the United States, which is also in the world hegemon, and the Chinese empire he hopes for must be a long-term world's top industrial power, and at the same time have the real financial power to influence the world.

He was not under any illusions that Britain would collapse in all its industries, except for finance and the military industry.

The reason is simple, such a world hegemon is not destined to last long.

This means that China must ensure the development and advantages of its domestic industry for a long time, and ensure all the resources and policies that China needs as a world industrial power.

The Chinese should produce those products in a down-to-earth manner, while ensuring the stability and leadership of the financial industry, as well as the balanced development of the whole, so as to maintain the status of world hegemony, rather than relying solely on the world hegemony of the middle circle to maintain the prosperity of the empire.

If this is to be achieved, the most important thing is to create an international environment and a new order that is conducive to China's goal.

In short, balanced development is a very important principle, focusing on industry, but at the same time giving the financial industry a wider space, focusing on the military, and at the same time giving the real power of foreign affairs and the means of joint inundation, the empire either does not become the world hegemon, but should be done for 10,000 years.

(To be continued)