Chapter Twenty-Five: Strange Asia

"This is cruising in the stratosphere, the outside temperature is minus 57 degrees Celsius, which is relatively stable, and the air resistance is relatively small. Originally, the altitude would have been lowered a little more, and the aircraft would have been more fuel-efficient. However, for other purposes, the plane flew in the middle of the stratosphere. Bei Zeyu explained.

"At this altitude, the plane, although traveling at just over 2,000 kilometers per hour, has already exceeded twice the speed of sound. You've left the sound far behind. At this height, birds can't come up, so it's relatively safe. ”

The propagation of sound requires a medium, and the air at high altitude is rare, so the propagation velocity is low. It can reach 1.4 kilometers per second in water. The propagation speed in iron is 5 kilometers per second.

The aircraft is capable of cruising at a speed of more than two thousand kilometers. A few hours later, von Kármán landed at Busan Airport.

Von Kármán stepped off the plane and saw the sleek fuselage of the gray-looking plane. Its four engines are integrated with the wings, and the air intakes and tail section are more peculiar, more like a rocket.

Some technicians surrounded and actually wanted to remove the engine. Obviously, this is not the engine that was originally used in this aircraft. The shape can fit because of the implementation of some uniform standards.

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Von Kármán was robbed by force when the U.S. military had made adequate defenses.

This really angered the US military.

An hour after the incident, the United States announced a blockade and manhunt for the entire territory. But by this time von Kármán had already boarded a Zhou-class submarine and arrived a day later at the Chinese First Pacific Fleet cruising in the vast Pacific basin.

The United States is really angry. The blow to the scientific research system in Europe and the United States has reached the point of breaking the muscles and bones. There are more than 100,000 scientific and technological personnel in Europe and the United States, and the loss of a few thousand is nothing, but what cannot be stopped from losing are some core figures and genius-type figures. This has greatly slowed down the progress of research in all aspects. In the end, when it comes to core technologies, both Europe and the United States find that they cannot achieve their set goals.

At the same time, the Soviet Union was catching up. China, China is clearly at the forefront of the world, just because they never announce it to the public.

All indications point to that it was the Chinese who planned the attack on the European and American technological systems. And I have been preparing for it for a long time.

But as von Kármán said, modern science and technology are no longer the business of individual scientists, but the policy and economic power of the state. Demonstration of educational achievements. In order to demonstrate this strength, the United States broadcast the first launch of a long-range rocket to the world in a very high-profile manner. Although there is a range of less than a thousand kilometers. But it caused an uproar in the world. The huge body of the arrow, the violent explosion, was very shocking.

On the contrary, Germany is silent, in fact, Germany already has a better rocket and program. But because of the small size of the country. Locked inland and unable to experiment.

In March 1940, Germany launched the war against Denmark and Norway ahead of schedule. The second European war entered the substantive stage.

At this time, it was no longer a world war, because East Asia was in a wonderful equilibrium after an ice disaster. In South Asia, the independence movement, with the support of the Republic of China and the United States, is rapidly reducing the power of Britain and France. The Republic of China had defeated the Dutch and occupied the islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra, as well as the entire Malay Peninsula, and became one with Long Yun. Negotiations are underway with Siam for the return of the Republic of China. Just Siam thinks. It is necessary to recognize the suzerain, and China as the suzerain. How is it possible to recognize a defeated regime as its suzerain?

Siam was very annoyed by the Kuomintang's forcible occupation of the Malay Peninsula because it was a country of elephants, and now that the elephant's trunk was gone, the Siamese were very annoyed by the Kuomintang's actions. In the northern mountainous areas of French Indochina, a large number of Chinese have arrived, and they have built roads down the Lancang River to Luang Prabang, and many ethnic groups close to China, known as North Vietnamese, have formed guerrillas to conquer cities in the countryside. The French are retreating to the south.

Although China was also occupied, it began with the construction of roads and schools, and many Siamese people followed elephants to Chinese mainland. The Chinese have great respect for all animals, and elephants can actually reach the ferry on the Yangtze River to go to Jiangbei by themselves.

This surprised the Siamese people, who regarded elephants as sacred objects, because elephants were closer to the Chinese, and the superior environment in China made elephants prefer to stay in the interior and return to Siam only when it was cold in the interior.

The Kuomintang has formed a tradition of export-oriented economy, not only did most of the Chinese who came here in the past advocate commerce, but all the people who came from the mainland were businessmen and eunuchs, and the number of people reached as many as 50 or 60 million, and these people were inextricably linked with overseas. With no farmland and no domestic servants left in the country, they quickly bought land in Nanyang and bought the locals as domestic slaves.

Of course, no matter how high and low the Chinese are, Confucian culture still maintains a trace of humanity towards domestic slaves, far better than the Dutch and the British French.

Later, with the arrival of a large number of cultural people on the mainland, they seemed to have learned the lesson of their failure in the mainland, and preached the need to be polite and respectful to their subordinates. Of course, there is respect for identity, not like China, which makes the subordinates turn the sky upside down and has no dignity. Even let the beast ride on the head of man.

Cultural people think that the current continent has simply reached a ridiculous level.

Perhaps because of the fiasco on the mainland, these proposals were supported by the vast majority of the elders. In Kalimantan and Sumatra, it played a role in rapidly stabilizing the situation. At this time, the Kuomintang was not the backward image of the Qing people with long braids in the past, but maintained the Confucian culture while being extremely Westernized, with suits and leather shoes, which was more civilized than the foreigners.

It's just that Americans don't like these cultural people who came later, because they play a role in uniting the hearts of everyone in the Republic of China. Perhaps it is because the taste of failure is too painful, and the cultural people also have doubts about the concept of the West, believing that only foreign use for China is the right way, and the atmosphere of practicing literature and martial arts is very strong.

This made the Republic of China different from the Manchurian and Mongolian courts and Korean nobles in the United States, and they gradually gained independence. For example, Pu Yi and Syngman Rhee are completely dependent on the United States. In particular, after Song Ziwen arrived in the Republic of China, he resolutely believed that since the Kuomintang wanted me to come, then the finance and banks would have to listen to me, or you would send me back to the mainland.

Sun Ke, Kong Xiangxi and others naturally refused, because few people were as familiar with finance as Song Ziwen. After Song Ziwen arrived in Kuala Lumpur, the first thing he did was to put aside the United States and Freemasonry to reorganize the Bank of the Republic of China, which was completely composed of some children of the old eunuchs of the Republic of China who had studied banking knowledge in China, and was an extremely xenophobic financial system. They believe that since China has formed its own independent banking system and is still operating very smoothly, it proves that Chinese do not have to learn from the West, and that China's silver trumpet has a thousand-year history and is not without experience to absorb.

Under the strong sense of restoration, Freemasonry is rapidly being squeezed out of the territory of the Chinese.

But in any case, the retreat of the British and French forces will only be good for the United States, not bad. The export-oriented economy and geographical location of the Republic of China determined that even if the Republic of China had an independent banking system, it could not rely on the United States.

The Republic of China and the United States had a mutual defense treaty, although, unlike Japan, the Republic of China did not agree to the formation of a joint command and a combined fleet.

This is the opinion brought by Song Ziwen.

Soong Ching-ling and Mao Shishan have made it abundantly clear that China cannot tolerate an anti-China alliance like the Japan-US alliance. If Japan does not withdraw from the Japan-US alliance, China will mobilize the strength of the whole country to fight back. The same is true for the Republic of China and the United States Alliance, whether it is mutual defense or other names, there can be no treaty of substantial incorporation into the United States.

The Communist Party and the Kuomintang are only politically different, but they are both Chinese. Now that the Kuomintang has recovered its territory, it is meritorious. It is impossible for the Communist Party to fall into the trap at this time. It is okay to be hostile, but it cannot betray the country, this is the bottom line of the Chinese people.

Sun Ke and Kong Xiangxi, Chen Lifu and Chen Guofu also believed that if this was not insisted on, the Kuomintang would soon fall apart and become fragmented. If the national righteousness is not adhered to, how can we talk about the restoration of the country?

In this way, the Kuomintang, which had an enterprising spirit, developed rapidly in Southeast Asia with the acquiescence and support of the United States, and it was only a matter of time before Java and other islands were incorporated into the Republic of China.

In the face of the critical situation in French Indochina and the heavy pressure of German troops at home, France had the consideration of transferring the southern part of French Indochina to the Republic of China in exchange for France's commercial and economic interests in the territory of the Republic of China.

So there was no large-scale war in Asia. If the Republic of China can gain enough strength to break out a civil war with China, this may be the best way to disintegrate China. Because China and the Republic of China's ideas of governance are incompatible, there is no room for compromise at all. If you want to compromise, you will compromise when you are in the Guangzhou government. (To be continued......)