Song Biao returned to the Far East Hotel that night to receive Franklin. Roosevelt's telegram, after reading the whole letter, he was also a little surprised, as one of the three greatest presidents in American history, Franklin. President Roosevelt's telegram of humble inquiry is still very interesting.

In the luxurious study room of the Far Eastern Hotel's head of state suite, Song Biao carefully studied the telegram letter translated into Chinese several times before deciding to give a formal and comprehensive answer.

Although the Song Emperor was more politically qualified, after all, this Franklin. President Roosevelt is five years older, and he is the president of the United States, and Song Biao can only say that he is discussing, not answering.

Franklin. President Roosevelt first talked about the China he had seen during his early travels in China, and the China he is now in, lamenting and congratulating on the success of China's Liberation Revolution, but also talked about some of his own difficulties, and wanted to ask Emperor Song for answers.

His general approach to asking questions was, "If you were me, what would you do to protect the interests of the United States and the American people?" ”

This is an interesting way of asking questions, both as an inquiry and as a kind of diplomatic showdown.

After thinking about it carefully, Song Biao was very cautious about Franklin. President Roosevelt's questions were answered and discussed in detail.

Among these problems, two are the most important, one is how the U.S. economy can recover to be the first in the world; The second is how to deal with complex political issues such as Sovietism, fascist militarism, and **ism in the international world.

For the first question, Song Biao's answer is that the living standards of the American people are the first in the world is more important than the first economic aggregate, national strength does not simply depend on the total economic volume, per capita value is more important, China has a population of 480 million, about four times that of the United States, as long as the Chinese are half as rich as the Americans, the total output value of the national economy is definitely twice that of the United States.

It is normal for China to have a higher economic aggregate than the United States in terms of the number of people trained in university education each year, and the level of universal education is basically the same as that of the country's science and technology, industry, and agriculture.

The United States has two choices in this regard: one is not to accept it, then no matter what method it adopts, in the end it will gather the strength of the whole country to start a war with China and use war to contain China's development; as long as it does not accept it, this will be an inevitable result; Second, if the United States acknowledges that this is an irreversible general trend, then it is better to continue to maintain Sino-US economic, cultural, and educational cooperation, and to make use of and adapt to China's economic development.

Diplomatically, it is inevitable that China and the United States will divide and merge for the sake of their national interests, but cooperation can find a win-win path, and no one country should be allowed to unilaterally bear such pain, and the two sides should solve problems through consultation and negotiation, share some pain with each other, and share some fruits with each other.

For example, China should appropriately and gradually raise the exchange rate of the central yuan and increase the per capita income under the condition that the world economic environment is relatively good, although it will have some negative factors affecting China's economy, it can also effectively ease the pressure on the US economy and other European industrial countries, so that the world economy can develop steadily and peacefully.

However, such an environment requires the efforts of the whole world, the international environment should be stable and peaceful, the world economy should develop in a good direction, China's education should continue to develop, and the social welfare system should be gradually built.

That's a good direction.

For Franklin. The second question raised by President Roosevelt, Song Biao's answer was only one sentence -- actively guide correct public opinion, propagate a positive world outlook, actively prepare for the most difficult situations and wars, absolutely never bow to evil, and firmly believe in the justice of the world.

In addition to this sentence, Song Biao also told a fable of the farmer and the snake, suggesting that China and the United States should not adopt a policy of appeasement and should not bow to evil ideas and countries, but at the same time maintain normal exchanges, adopt non-war means as much as possible, and maintain peace and stability in the international world for a longer time.

Franklin. President Roosevelt was also very interested in the macro planning of the 1st and 2nd Five-Year Plan of the Chinese Empire and the financial investment of the central government, in this regard, Song Biao suggested that the United States should not take such an extreme way, and the reason why China wanted to do this was because the national foundation was weak, and if there was no economic crisis, the macroeconomic control of the empire in recent years should be gradually weakened, and more markets should be allowed to make free choices.

As for the financial investment of the central political axe, Song Biao also believes that luck accounts for the majority, and the reason why the financial surplus of the imperial central political axe and the total amount of investment assets at home and abroad are also caused by specific historical conditions, and if there was no World War, there would be no such situation.

After answering all these questions, Song Biao asked the Inner Court Secretariat to translate the letter into English and send it back to the White House in the form of a telegram.

When the letter was sent, Song Biao was not unaware that he and Franklin. This correspondence between Roosevelt would greatly change the entire history of mankind, and their two letters will go down in history as two of the most famous personal letters in human history.

…… If the Chinese Navy wants to take the aircraft carrier as the military center, it will inevitably need the world's first-class carrier-based aircraft program, after 1928, the empire adopted a new system of aircraft numbering, in the past, the emperor [***] aircraft numbering mainly from the downsizing of aircraft manufacturing companies, this way was more common at that time, and the Soviet Union has been like this since then.

After 1928, the Reich merged the Admiralty, the Air Force and the War Department into a new Ministry of Defense, and adopted a unified new numbering system for the military aircraft used by the three services, with carrier-based fighters being the J series, carrier-based torpedo bombers, land-based torpedo bombers, and attack planes being unified as attack aircraft, numbered as the G series, medium and large bombers as the H series, transport planes and patrol planes as the S series, trainers and light fighters as the K series, and jet fighters as the P series.

At this stage, the newly commissioned carrier-based fighter is the J-4 produced by the Shenyang Aircraft Company under Northeast Heavy Industry, and its prototype is the P-36 fighter under the Curtiss Company.

During the Great Depression, the Far East Consortium merged its American subsidiaries into United Technologies Industries, which included Curtiss and Pratt & Whitney, two aviation manufacturing companies, and transferred the 18-cylinder twin exhaust cooled engine technology developed by Northeast Shenyang Machinery Power Company to Pratt & Whitney, on the basis of which the new Wasp series engines were developed. Although the P-40 fighter was not favored by the U.S. Army Air Corps because of the rise of the new anti-Chinese turmoil in the United States, the Imperial Air Force redeveloped the J-4 carrier-based fighter based on this type of aircraft.

The empire in the field of aviation power investment in technical research and projects to be more in-depth, compared with the United States has a more obvious technical advantage, in the field of engine air-cooled and turbocharged engine technology has a higher advantage, in the P-40 fighter introduced Northeast Heavy Industry for redesign, the new J-4 fighter has a very high maneuvering, rolling and diving ability, strong horsepower, even if the Northeast Heavy Industry has always been the characteristics of the aircraft leather, but still has a strong sensitive surname ability, The high-intensity turbocharging technology is also enough to ensure that the aircraft still has a very high output power in high-altitude environments.

Prior to this, the Empire's J series carrier-based aircraft had always been monopolized by Jiangnan Fudao Company, because in the early stage of aircraft carrier development, the Fokker Company, which was controlled by the Jiangnan Consortium, maintained a close cooperative relationship with Fuzhou Shipyard, which made Jiangnan Fudao Company firmly occupy an advantage in the early development of carrier-based aircraft.

When the J-4 was put into service, the J-2\3 carrier-based aircraft previously used by the empire were all produced by Jiangnan Fudao Company.

Because the whole empire is extremely concerned about the development and technology accumulation in the field of aviation, the empire has more than 30 aircraft manufacturing companies in China, which are generally concentrated in Northeast Heavy Industry, Jiangnan Fudao, Nanyang Heavy Industry, Han Yeping four companies under the umbrella, by the four major consortiums compete with each other, Jiangnan Fudao focuses on cooperation with the United States, Nanyang Heavy Industry focuses on Britain and France, although Han Yeping is a late star who began to involve aviation manufacturing after World War I, because of the long-term strategy of cooperation with Germany, Absorbing almost a group of Germany's best aircraft designers and engineers after World War I, it soon established two aircraft manufacturing bases in Hanyang and Laiwu, and completely merged German cooperative companies during the Great Depression, gradually forming a strength to compete with the aircraft industry of the first three major consortiums.

As a result of this situation, the empire had a wide range of aircraft in the field of aviation manufacturing, and before 1928, there were more than 60 models of military aircraft named by each company, and each of the four major consortia had a company specializing in aero engine manufacturing.

Because Nanyang Heavy Industry and Northeast Heavy Industry are involved in the French machinery industry at the same time, both sides are exporting technology to France, the existence of such multinational enterprises makes the aircraft manufacturing technology of China, France, the United States and Germany close to the same level, while in the field of turbojet, China, Germany and Britain are carried out separately, and each other cannot clearly know the progress of the other.

Similarly, the Soviet Union also acquired some key technologies in the technology trade with the empire, introducing a single-row 18-cylinder air-cooled star engine and aluminum alloy technology, which enabled the Soviet Union to make great progress in the field of aircraft construction.

For example, China United Industry Holding Corporation controls Northeast Heavy Industry, United Technologies Industries of the United States, Renault of France, Bavarian Aircraft Manufacturing Company and Bavarian Mechanical Engineering Plant of Germany, and Savoya of Italy in the world. Huge profits from it.

It can be estimated that once the world enters a new World War II, the aviation industry of all countries will remain at about the same level, and the future air war will be more tragic.

Therefore, capital is always the original sin of the world's degeneration, but Song Biao did not reject this kind of technical input and output, for the Northeast Heavy Industry and Han Yeping, two consortiums that were originally difficult to cut from German industry, taking advantage of the German economic difficulties during the First World War and the Great Depression and investing heavily in Germany, and buying German enterprises cheaply for commercial speculation, he has never stopped anything, in fact, Song Biao does not know what these domestic consortia are doing in many cases, Even for the royal family's direct control of Northeast Heavy Industry and Hanyeping Company, which holds more shares.

In the merger of Bavaria, Germany, Northeast Heavy Industry merged the Bavarian Machinery Factory, which was in trouble because of the production of motorcycles, which is commonly known as the BMW company, because this company could not produce the original aero engine, Northeast Heavy Industry merged it, and transferred it and the aviation talents of the Bavarian aircraft factory in the same area to the new German area in Shenyang.

At the same time, Northeast Heavy Industry also licensed its own automobile technology and models to BMW company, solved the motorcycle technical problems faced by the company, and invested capital to maintain the expansion of the company and the automobile industry, because the German industry was very difficult for a period of time, Northeast Heavy Industry decided to sell the company's products back to China, selling 2,000 vehicles a year to maintain its survival.

This should be the first time BMW cars have been sold in China, but its Chinese name is Bayir.

Why it's called Bayil, Song Biao doesn't know, it's such a company anyway.

The scale of the empire's industrial investment in Germany is very high, Song Biao can't say that fascism is going to happen in Germany, you can't invest, and Germany in the period of the great devaluation of the mark, tens of thousands of dollars can buy a machinery factory with hundreds of people, which is equivalent to the assets that can only be obtained in the past millions of yuan, and there are many German talents in the empire, the dual nationality of the German population is also large, the two sides have a long history of technical cooperation and economic exchanges, after the First World War, Sino-German relations recovered extremely quickly, In addition, German industry is still far ahead of China in technology after World War I, and it used to cost millions of Chinese dollars to import technology from those companies, and in several special periods after World War I, it only took tens of thousands of Chinese dollars to buy the entire company, so why not buy it?

After the end of World War I, the Reich invested a lot of money in Germany, and the war reparations owed by Germany to the Reich were also under the "debt-to-investment" agreement, and a large amount of money was invested in the central government of the Reich, and these huge amounts of money poured into Germany, buying companies, and at the same time buying back a large number of technology and talents, reducing the technological efforts of the Reich for at least ten years.

In addition, direct ownership of these companies allowed them to limit their exports to the European region, and after the transfer of technology, these exports became the privilege of Imperial Industries around the world.

From this point of view, the reason why Germany and Americans now dislike and reject the Chinese and consider them the threat of the Caucasian race is to a certain extent very justified and reasonable, but the development of China and the Chinese to this level today is not afraid of their disgust and rejection, and the reason why Song Biao's global visit should pay special attention to Germany and the United States is also to use his own goodwill to resolve this anti-Chinese storm, but unfortunately the effect is not particularly good.

In today's situation of the development of the empire's industry, the level of the aviation industry is naturally in the forefront of the world, the speed of replacement is very fast, and it is easy to absorb the sporadic innovation and improvement technology of other countries, and in the case of its own technology research and development scale is the largest, continue to absorb the technological advantages of various countries, and firmly maintain the dominant position of the empire in the field of aviation industry, for example, in the production of large passenger aircraft and transport aircraft (more than 35 seats), although the American Boeing Company can also produce the same passenger aircraft, The empire's Northeast Heavy Industry and Jiangnan Fudao are the world's large aircraft hegemons, occupying the leading position in the industry and the largest market share, and can even be said to have monopolized the world market, and Germany, France, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union all have to import large aircraft from China.

The Yellow Peril, the China Threat...... It's really not groundless.

People hate you, and they wish you were divided, declined, collapsed, and exterminated soon...... There's always a reason for that.

Just as the Song Emperor sent a reply to Washington, D.C., the head of Nazi Germany and Chancellor of the Reich, Adolf Murphy. Hitler's trusted envoy Hans. Feng. General Kersett, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany Alfred Brown. Accompanied by Rosenberg and Crown Prince Wilhelm, the three arrived together on a visit to China.

The Nazis did not hate the Chinese Empire.

It is clear that while there is a certain risk of exclusion in Germany, it is normal for the Nazis to be more actively anti-Semitic and anti-Soviet, and to praise China as a positive example, because China was one of the countries that helped Germany the most after the First World War, and at the same time the most friendly country.

Among the three people who came this time, Crown Prince William and Song Biao had more contacts, and Song Biao lived in the Hohenzollern family during his two visits to Germany.

When they arrived in the central special zone of the imperial capital, Song Biao also inspected some new developments in the aviation, shipbuilding, electrical, and mechanical industries in the northeast, and also inspected some new breakthroughs in the nuclear physics industry and the electronic computer field of the empire. Feng. After General Kerset, Foreign Minister Rosenberg, and Crown Prince Wilhelm held meetings with important officials and generals of the Central Cabinet and the Central Military Department, Song Biao returned to the capital on a special plane on 3 October to receive them.

The Chinese Empire is a very dark country, and the great power diplomacy of the empire can also be said to be a model of world political belly black, or Chinese are born the best diplomatic experts in the world.

Between the Soviet Union, Germany, Britain and the United States, even though the empire has increasingly fierce and acute contradictions with them, it has always maintained a very friendly cooperative relationship, and through this balanced diplomacy, the Soviet Union, Germany, Britain and the United States are forced to take measures of containment against China.

Although France has always been dissatisfied with the empire's foreign trade policy and the imbalance between Sino-French trade, in the face of pressure from Nazi Germany, France has never dared to directly put the contradictions on the table and bargain with China.

The empire is very dark-bellied.

The empire called this "China is a peace-loving country, and we support the international community in expanding exchanges and coexistence, promoting just and equitable reciprocal diplomacy of friendship and peace, and do not support hegemony, confrontation and war".

Between the Soviet Union and Germany, the empire also engaged in balanced diplomacy, with support and support on both sides, exchanges and trade on both sides, the empire provided Germany with the industrial raw materials and agricultural products it needed, exchanged British, French, and American technology for German technology, absorbed German talents, exported funds to invest in Germany to make money, provided technology and industrial products and grain to the Soviet Union, exported technology and military products and materials, and balanced the military strength between the Soviet Union and Germany.

Not only that, the empire also engaged in a great discordant intelligence war between the Soviet Union and Germany, supporting the Soviet-German confrontation, secretly supporting Germany against the Soviet Union, and also secretly supporting the Soviet Union against Germany.

After the German delegation arrived in China, the Reich also received them very warmly and intimately, invited them to visit many cities in China, consciously arranged for them to visit Shanghai and Tianjin, and then arrived in Yanjing to meet with the Central Cabinet and the Central Military Department, and visited the Central Military Region, the Northern Fleet, the Central Imperial University, and the Central Military Academy, and finally arranged for them to meet His Majesty the Emperor.

The empire is very good at diplomatic work, very oriental human touch, sent to receive German diplomats are all senior intellectuals, basically high-level generals, cabinet officials, scholars who have studied in Germany, as if the entire Chinese high-level are pro-German, many are old friends of the Germans, in fact, the empire treats any country like this, even to the Empire, the empire can also send a high-level team of the Zhiyue faction to be responsible for visiting and receiving the mission.

In short, the Empire has always been so insidious.

Returning to the capital zone, Song Biao did not even take any rest and hosted a banquet at noon on the same day for Crown Prince Wilhelm, who was visiting China in a private capacity, although he was no longer the real crown prince, but after all, he was still the heir to the former German royal family, and the two families still maintained a close relationship.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Song Biao continued to meet with the special envoy of the head of state of Nazi Germany, Hans. Feng. General Kersett and German Foreign Minister Alfred. Rosenberg, when Song Biao visited Germany last year, it was they who accompanied Song Biao to visit the German Ministry of Defense.

Both were friends of Chinese and had worked in China for a while, and Song Biao invited them to sit down and chat with him over tea in a very cordial way, as if they were regular contacts between neighbors.

Before sitting down, the Führer's envoy Hans. Feng. General Ksetst first presented Song Biao with a handwritten letter from the Führer, accompanied by a printed copy of the Chinese translation, but also Adolf. Hitler's autograph.

Song Biao read this translation manuscript directly, and was still very surprised after reading it. His Excellency Führer Hitler was a bit whimsical and tried to persuade China and Germany to form a stronger anti-Soviet alliance, to use strong military means to destroy and conquer the Soviet Union, and to divide the Soviet Union between East and West.

Follow Adolf. Hitler's Führer's plan that China would be able to get the region east of the Urals, including the whole of Kazakhstan, if China was willing to draw all its strength, Adolf. Hitler's Führer was even willing to demarcate the Volga River and divide to China the Caucasus oil zone, which Germany was eager to need, but demanded that China should guarantee the supply of oil and other resources to Germany under any circumstances.

What a bold imagination.

The genius is really extraordinary, and Song Biao has never had such an arrogant extravagance.

Having said that, it was not very difficult for China and Germany to join forces to destroy the Soviet Union at this time, the question was whether Britain and the United States agreed? Moreover, in what way was Germany going to war with the Soviet Union? Occupy Poland?

Therefore, under this seemingly extremely favorable proposal for China lies Germany's ambition to annex Poland.

After reading the letter, Song Biao did not make any answer, but simply sent a letter to the Führer's envoy, Hans. Feng. General Kersette thanked him and hoped that he would convey such thanks to His Excellency the German Führer.

After a polite sentence, Song Biao shifted the topic to a new round of negotiations on the supplementary agreement to the Sino-German trade treaty, especially on Chinese investment in Germany.

For the total scale of Chinese investment in Germany, Song Biao also got a comprehensive report a few months ago, it should be said that the scale of Chinese investment in Germany is a bit too large, Song Biao hopes that on the basis of not affecting Sino-German relations, steadily began to withdraw investment to Sweden, when he visited Sweden, he had such considerations, but these Chinese-funded enterprise investment in Germany is not the central government has the final say, let alone he has the final say, which requires the political axe cooperation between China and Germany, through the formulation of policies to adjust.

After some representations on this issue, German Foreign Minister Alfred Murphy Murphy Rosenberg could not wait to say that Germany would definitely protect Chinese investment in Germany, and there would definitely be no anti-Chinese turmoil like the United States.

After he finished speaking, Song Biao thought about it for a while and said: "Everything always has a cause, Chinese philosophy emphasizes the relationship between cause and effect, everything has a result, there must be a reason, and if there is a cause, there must be a result, this is an unbreakable truth." Compared with the friendship between the Chinese and German countries and peoples, China's economic interests in Germany are not the most important thing, and one of our current considerations is to gradually withdraw some capital from Germany and invest in poor countries in Asia without affecting the overall state of the German economy, which is a good thing for both sides. Personally, I suggest that Germany can use the method of state acquisition or state-supported buyback to recover part of China's investment in Germany, but whether Germany's finances can support it, and whether Chinese capital will be misunderstood and misinterpreted by other conscious countries in the process of voluntarily withdrawing from the German market, I think it is a matter that needs to be considered by both of us. ”

Foreign Minister Rosenberg replied: "China has absolutely no intention of restricting Chinese investment, and on this point, I must make assurances and promises to His Majesty that if China is for long-term considerations, we are willing to cooperate with your country, but we do have some difficulties in terms of political and financial affairs at this stage." ”

Song Biao did not deny it, and said: "Yes, this problem is still relatively difficult to solve. ”

After a pause, he proposed: "If the situation allows, we will consider selling some of our assets to other foreign consortia, most of which will be sold to Germany itself, and restore the reading surname of German industry." One of my views on the world economy is that industry needs competition, and some of the current business strategies of Chinese-funded enterprises are also something that I do not quite appreciate, and only free competition can make the world prosperous and progressive, and relying on the power of capital to implement monopoly management and technological blockade is not conducive to the long-term development of the world. ”

Foreign Minister Rosenberg replied: "You are absolutely right. ”

This kind of problem is not a big problem for Song Biao, he has learned that during the collapse of the German mark, the Far East consortium invested about 40 million yuan in Germany, because the depreciation of the mark at that time reached more than 300 times, and the German business community at that time would rather be merged by China and the United States than by Britain and France, at that time it only took 7 million yuan to buy Krupp Steel.

There are always very few opportunities to merge large German enterprises, at that time Germany was really annexed the most small and medium-sized enterprises, the Far East consortium later reorganized these small and medium-sized enterprises into the United German Industrial Corporation, so that the Far Eastern consortium has three United Industrial Groups in the world, CUI, AUI, and GUI, in fact, whether it is German United Industry or American United Industry, the scale of total investment is very small, even in the years of the Great Depression, the investment cost has been recovered.

Compared with the scale of Chinese assets in the United States, the initial capital invested by Chinese investors in Germany is not only low, but even the total scale at this stage is not very staggering, and it is not as critical as the United States.

It is precisely because there is not too much pressure that Song Biao and German Foreign Minister Rosenberg negotiated very happily, and the two talked eloquently, talking about the problems of Sino-German economic cooperation, there are some more difficult places to solve, but there is no fatal conflict in principle, at least not as difficult to solve as the Jiaoao colonial issue in those years, the empire is not a rigid country like the German Empire, as long as it is profitable, everything can be discussed.

The two talked for a long time, but Song Biao considered that he could not completely throw Hitler's proposal aside and avoid talking about it, and only when the economic topic touched on the technology and capital cooperation of the military industry did he turn back to Foreign Minister Rosenberg and General Kersert and take the initiative to mention: "The military cooperation between China and Germany has a long history and has continued for a long time, and this should be a good situation that both of us and both countries are willing to continue to maintain." As for the proposal advocated by Führer Hitler, we certainly have a strong rejection of the Soviet Union, but the proximity of China and the Soviet Union makes us need to think carefully and weigh the pros and cons before making any decisions. In principle, we are also opposed to the Soviet regime, but as far as the current relations between China and the Soviet Union are concerned, the current stage is still good, and we have said more than once in the international community that China is a country that is not afraid of any war, and at the same time it is a very peace-loving country, and we are indeed aware of the fatal damage that the Soviet Union may cause to mankind and China, but at this stage, we still prefer to guarantee peace through exchanges. We are not yet in a position to give a definite answer to Hitler's proposals, but depending on the development of the situation, in general, what we have to do at the present stage against the Soviet Union is not an economic and technological blockade, but a struggle at the political and ideological level, a stiflment of political influence and territory. We cannot contain the normal development of the Soviet Union, which will intensify the contradictions and eventually lead to war, but we must also curb the Soviet Union's ideological and territorial expansion. ”

Germany also apparently knew that it would not be possible to convince China to support Germany's plan at once, especially since it was embarrassing to face the Polish question. Martos had a close relationship, and the German plan was to want China to give up its superficial protection of Poland.

Regarding Song Biao's statement, Foreign Minister Rosenberg and General Kerset kept nodding their heads and saying yes, and did not raise too many objections.

Song Biao's time is still quite tight, and there is no need to personally ask all kinds of questions, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Central Military Department will be responsible for the negotiations on the Sino-German economic and trade agreement and further stable cooperation.

(To be continued)