Imagine that.

If China is the only hegemon in the world, China can manufacture the world's most advanced products, especially the military industry, the middle circle is the world's best hard currency, China has the world's largest financial consortium, the world's best and most universities, the world's best national education, the world's largest high-quality population, the world's largest territory and the most abundant land resources.

So, what will happen to the world?

What about China?

What is China going to do?

This is an important question.

The most important thing is not how to achieve China's goal of becoming a world hegemon, but how to maintain this position in the long term.

…… The Reich had been closely following the course of the Soviet-German war.

This is destined to be a war for the Germans, even if Germany adopts the adventurous strategy of dividing the troops into two attacks, the Soviet Red Army is still unable to effectively resist the offensive of the German steel torrent, it is worth noting that the main tanks of the two sides are almost identical, especially between the medium and heavy No. 4 tank and T34, both sides have made extensive reference to the technical information of the MBT30 tank provided by the Chinese Army in the design.

In order to completely overwhelm the opponent's tank, Germany is developing a new tank based on the No. 4 tank, and absorbing the Chinese Army's concept of the main battle tank, trying to construct the combat parameters and mobility of the medium tank on the protection of the heavy tank, in order to hope to use a main tank to defeat all the opponent's models, in fact, the work carried out by Germany is to make up for some key designs of the MBT30 tank that China failed to provide, especially the V-type diesel engine used in the MBT30 tank.

The Soviet Union, which was at a disadvantage in the war, received covert assistance from the Central Military Intelligence Department of the Reich to obtain more detailed information about the MBT30 tank, and accordingly made new improvements to the T34 tank.

Similarly, the Reich is also seizing the time to develop the MBT40 tank, and increasing the mass production scale of the MBT33 tank improved version of the MBT35 main battle tank, according to the current plan, the MBT35 main battle tank will be more likely to be the main tank of the Reich in the next three years, and the MBT40 tank will not be officially put into service until at least around 1942.

The Reich Central Military Department was indeed planning the final plan for a decisive battle with Nazi Germany, and according to this conception and demand, the Reich needed to guarantee more than 14,000 MBT35 tanks after the end of the Soviet-German war, that is, in the second half of 1941.

According to the best plan of the Central Military Department, before declaring war with Germany, the Imperial Air Force will be equipped with at least 4,000 J-6 series fighters, plus J-4\5 and other series fighters and other combat aircraft, and the Imperial Air Force will ensure that it has more than 25,000 aircraft before the war.

The Reich Navy also has a special plan, for which the Reich is speeding up the pace of seeking suitable naval bases in Brazil and West Africa, and the Reich and Belgium have signed a secret military cooperation plan to establish an Atlantic naval base in the Congo, and once China and Germany declare war, the Reich Navy will directly intervene in the Atlantic as needed to carry out a large-scale blockade war against the German Navy.

In this Sino-German war, which has a probability of breaking out more than 70%, the Imperial Navy can not play a big role, and the Imperial will mainly intervene in the Balkans from the Middle East through Eurasia, and directly intervene in the German-Polish alliance from Russia.

Once the war begins, the Reich Central Defense Force will not be slowly encroaching as it did against the Reich, and the Reich will only advance faster than the German super-blitzkrieg.

The Reich did not need to prove its military strength by defeating Germany, the Reich only wanted to contain the expansion of Nazi Germany, and the Reich would never allow the birth of a new Germany in Europe that could challenge the boundaries and power of the Reich.

As long as Nazi Germany tried to create a new empire comparable to the Chinese Empire through war and conquest, Sino-German war could never be avoided.

So, the Reich was very concerned about the ongoing Soviet-German war.

In exchange, the Central Military Intelligence Department sent a large number of military intelligence officers to the Soviet battlefield to closely collect all military information related to Nazi Germany, and to make all preparations for a possible new war.

For this purpose, the Ministry of Military Intelligence set up MI3, which was responsible for collecting military intelligence on Nazi Germany and trying to decipher the German telegraph code as much as possible.

The Military Intelligence Department has reliably verified that Nazi Germany is carrying out mass murder and that it is carrying out a frenzied nuclear weapons development program, and after confirming Germany's nuclear weapons program, the Reich has one more reason to wage war against Germany - the absolute prohibition of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from possessing nuclear weapons.

After returning to Yanjing, Song Biao would spend half an hour alone every day listening to the latest intelligence statistics of the Military Intelligence Department on the Soviet-German war and Nazi Germany.

In the past few days, the Ministry of Military Intelligence is considering a special plan of action.

In order to prevent Nazi Germany from obtaining heavy water from Norway, the Ministry of Military Intelligence planned to cooperate with Soviet spy groups to secretly destroy Norway's hydroelectric power stations and heavy water refining plants.

Norway's counterintelligence efforts against the Soviet Union were very tight, which meant that it was difficult to achieve its goals by counting on Soviet actions alone.

As the head of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, Zhang Jun did a series of in-depth investigations, and in the end, he concluded that the Ministry of Military Intelligence had to do it on its own.

At the debriefing meeting that afternoon, Zhang Jun submitted the action plan drawn up by the Military Intelligence Department to the emperor, and made his own analysis of both action plans.

Song Biao didn't rush to answer, and asked Zhang Jun to keep both plans and give him a little time to weigh them.

After Zhang Jun left, Song Biao put on his reading glasses and carefully re-studied the two plans, and he was unsure whether to make a move or simply support the Soviet Union's actions, which in itself was a difficult question to choose.

Soviet spies in Norway were few and far between, and they could not obtain sufficient quantities of explosives, let alone find suitable opportunities for action.

An even bigger concern on the part of the Soviet Union was that if it was discovered by Norway, it would anger Norway and make Norway declare war on the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union could not take this risk, and similarly, if the imperial action failed, Sino-German relations would break down early.

After studying the two action plans submitted by the Ministry of Military Intelligence again, Song Biao still decided to veto these two plans, but he still lacked suitable countermeasures for the time being.

In any case, the military intelligence department has warned the Norwegian political axe through special channels, and the Far Eastern consortium is trying to buy the largest hydroelectric power plant in Northern Europe and its attached heavy water refinery.

If it is refused, the Reich will have no choice but to blow up the heavy water refinery, whether it is for Soviet agents or British agents to do it, even if it is directly done by the Ministry of Military Intelligence.

There is enough information to prove that the Germans have not yet discovered a more suitable process for chemically refining heavy water, but they are already conducting relevant theoretical research and experiments, and it will be a disaster if Germany and the Reich find a suitable method.

The MIA suspects that a German Ph.D., a former professor of chemistry at the Central Polytechnic University, may have obtained some relevant information from the Central Polytechnic University before returning to China, and is currently conducting a secret investigation, and once the matter is confirmed, the MIA will begin to arrange a secret assassination.

It is absolutely impossible for the Reich to allow Nazi Germany to complete the development of nuclear weapons, this is the bottom line of the Reich, in fact, the Reich does not want the United States to complete this plan, the Military Intelligence Department is secretly monitoring the United States, and if necessary, the Reich will also take action in the United States.

If the United States' possession of nuclear weapons is difficult to stop, Song Biao at least hopes that the United States will not achieve this goal until 1945, and that the empire will do whatever it takes to ensure that the empire's nuclear deterrence has a far superior advantage over the United States.

Soon after Zhang Jun left, Jiang Fangzhen, chief of the general staff of the Central Military Department, also entered the office of the Central Palace with the latest information about the Sino-Chinese war.

At a position six steps away from the emperor, that is, in the center of the phoenix picture specially marked on the carpet, Jiang Fangzhen stopped and bowed in salute, and said, "Your Majesty, the Northeast Defense Force has captured Busan. ”

Song Biao bowed slightly.

He already knew the battle report from the Central Secret Service at the first time.

After sitting down, Jiang Fangzhen sat in front of the emperor's imperial table, opened the briefcase in his hand, took out the latest military summary from it and submitted it to the emperor, and said, "Your Majesty, is there any need for new discussions about Lieutenant General Wei Lihuang's transfer to China?" ”

Song Biao put on his glasses again to browse the latest military situation summary of the Central Military Department, and vetoed Jiang Fangzhen's proposal while watching, and said: "You can let him return to China and be transferred to the Northwest Defense Staff Bureau as the chief of staff, and let him cooperate with Zhao Tingzhu in the follow-up preparations!" ”

Jiang Fangzhen nodded slightly and asked, "Then do you still want to transfer General Cai Ye back to the military headquarters?" ”

Song Biao thought cautiously for a moment, put aside the summary of military intelligence for a while, and replied to Jiang Fangzhen: "I think this time period is still more appropriate, when I inspected the Korean battlefield, I discussed this issue with Cai Yi, he did not refuse to return to the Central Military Department in principle, and the successor he proposed was the same as what we considered, and it was the right time to transfer Chen Wu to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast National Defense Army. The battle in the back, it is not difficult to fight, in fact, I thought it would become more cruel and bloody, this is something we recognize, at this time, it is the most suitable to change Chen Leopard, Cai Ye left him is not a mess, Chen Leopard and Liu Gengyun are decades of old partners. ”

Jiang Fangzhen agreed: "The emperor is very far away, and he originally planned it early on and wanted Chen Wu to serve as the commander-in-chief. ”

Song Biao did not deny it, and said: "As long as Chen Wu does not underestimate the enemy, he is still good at fighting this book, and Chen Wu is an expert in mountain warfare, especially in large-scale mountain operations like this." He said in the Central Military Department that he was the second in mountain warfare, but I am afraid that no one dared to say that he was the first. ”

Jiang Fangzhen continued to agree: "The emperor is sage. ”

Song Biao said: "I know you're worried that Cai Yi is uncomfortable, after all, you have survived the hardest time, and finally let the palace be given to someone else, I don't think Cai Yi has this kind of thought, he is a person, we still know each other very well, not such a stingy person." ”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "Cai Ye is definitely not such a stingy person, but as an army general, he has just made great contributions, but he has to serve as the commander of the Central Military Region when he is transferred back to China, even if Cai Ye doesn't say anything, I'm afraid others will criticize." ”

Song Biao snorted and said, "Let him be the chief of the Strategic Forces Command and the commander of the Central Military Region." ”

Jiang Fangzhen nodded in agreement.

Song Biao sighed and said: "Actually, the position of the commander of the Central Military Region is important, and the responsibility of defending the Beijing Division is heavier than Mount Tai." ”

Jiang Fangzhen didn't answer anything.

In the position of commander of the Central Military Region, Emperor Song basically only used five people in the past few decades, Zhao Tingzhu, Zhang Xiaohuai, Zhang Yahu, Han Chunlin, Jiang Zuobin, and Zhao Tingzhu was changed three times.

Song Biao transferred Cai Ye back to China this time, mainly to make way for Chen Wu, and also hoped that Chen Wu would give him a ruthless battle and a beautiful battle on the premise that all conditions were already in place.

After all, it is a temporary arrangement for Cai Zuoyi to return to China to serve as the commander of the Central Military Region, and after the end of the war, if Fu Zuoyi has the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, he can still hold this position, and if Fu Zuoyi does not work, there are many other people who can concurrently serve in this position.

Huang Baitao and Xue Yue are all good candidates.

Song Biao was not worried, the weight of the commander of the Central Military Region was not the same in the war stage and the post-war peace stage, and there were many options at that time, unlike now, when he could only choose one of the most reliable senior generals to prevent accidents.

In order to deal with the Sino-Chinese war and the possible outbreak of the Sino-German war, the elite troops of the Central Military Region have been roughly dispatched, and now the troops newly transferred to the Central Military Region are not absolutely reliable, although the possibility of mutiny and military coup is still very low, but at least it is not as absolutely reliable as before, so it still needs senior army generals such as Cai Yi and Zhang Xiaohuai.

The army is like that.

Many times, seniority and prestige are still very important things, and it determines whether a general's words work or not.

After taking care of some work in the military department in the afternoon, at about 4 p.m., Emperor Song temporarily stopped working and went to Cizheng Garden for afternoon tea, usually a plate of peanuts, almonds, nuts and a few biscuits, or a bowl of almond black sesame paste with a cup of Qimen black tea.

This time period is generally allocated to the central cabinet, but usually no important matters can be discussed, and the heads of organizations such as the Central Economic Commission and the Education Committee will be arranged, or the National Assembly will send people to report on some work.

On the side of the Economic Committee, Chen Qimei retired last year because of physical discomfort, and the temporary replacement of the vice minister is Liao Zhongkai, Liao Zhongkai is also a good candidate, who has been serving as the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and has been the vice minister of finance in the Ministry of Finance for two years, and has been serving as the vice chairman of the Central State Economic Commission in recent years.

According to Gu Weijun's idea, he wanted to elect Finance Minister Liu Dajun to serve as vice minister, but Liu Dajun's political qualifications are insufficient, the party is not very supportive, Liao Zhongkai's situation is relatively complicated, in the early days, he has always been the first party, and he was elected as the governor of Zhejiang Province by the ** party, after Sun Yat-sen's death, because of discord with Song Jiaoren, he was transferred to the Liberation Party, this person's reputation is very good, and his ability is also good.

Gu Weijun did not pass the election of Liu Dajun, so he had to push Yang Zhaolin again, Yang Zhaolin refused this appointment, and there was no way, Gu Weijun chose Liao Zhongkai, and also hoped that Liao Zhongkai could have better communication with the ** party in the next cabinet political axe, which is conducive to governance.

Song Biao does not interfere in this regard, as far as he is concerned, Liao Zhongkai's appointment as vice minister is not a bad thing, he is actually more optimistic about Chen Jin, Chen Jin is now the first vice minister of finance, and concurrently serves as the chief of staff of the Central Economic Commission.

After arriving at Cizheng Garden, Song Biao rested for a while, waited for about twenty minutes, and under Jiang Shoulin's arrangement, Liao Zhongkai and Chen Jin entered Cizheng Garden to meet the emperor.

At this time, the weather was also a little hot, Song Biao was drinking afternoon tea in the corridor of the Water Pavilion to escape the heat, Liao Zhongkai and Chen Jin walked all the way along the corridor and stepped forward to meet them, because Chen Jin, the son-in-law, was present, Song Biao did not give them a seat as usual.

This is the first time Liao Zhongkai has visited the emperor in this situation, and he is not the emperor's favorite choice in his heart, and he really does not expect to have the treatment of being given to sit, so he respectfully submitted the Seventh Five-Year Plan re-planned by the Central Economic Commission.

This one is different from the one submitted by Gu Weijun on behalf of the Central Cabinet, Gu Weijun's part is the general plan, while the Central Economic Commission's part is a separate case, which specializes in planning the work in the economic field, and the planning is more detailed, and it also involves more work related to finance and finance.

Song Biao was more concerned about the gold reserves of the Central Reserve Bureau at this stage, the empire was different from Britain and France, the empire had huge domestic industrial production capacity and rich mineral resources, so it rarely needed to purchase foreign resources in a state of war.

Even under the premise of the great expansion of the empire's [***] industry, the empire also exported military equipment to the Soviet Union and Germany in exchange for the Soviet-German gold reserves.

With the expansion of the empire's gold industry, especially in Central Asia such as Uzbekistan, the empire's annual gold production accounted for about 1/3 of the world's gold production, and the empire's annual increase in gold reserves was 1/2 of the world's gold production.

The empire remained the world's largest foreign trade surplus, and its control and leadership over Asia meant that the empire was destined to absorb gold reserves far better than Britain and the United States.

Song Biao looked at the Seventh Five-Year Plan for fiscal and economic purposes, and the first goal was to ensure that the imperial economy continued to maintain an annual growth rate of more than 5.5% in the Seventh Five-Year Plan, and that the gold reserves would reach 7,750 tons after the end of the Seventh Five-Year Plan.

As the empire's economy surpassed that of the United States for a decade, the empire has increasingly demanded the establishment of a global financial leadership, and the empire needs to have more world-class banking giants to support the development of the empire's financial industry, and the most important thing to support this is to maintain the strong position of the central circle and maintain the strength of the empire's gold reserves.

Although the Empire has been taking advantage of the tensions of the war to sell its silver reserves over the past few years, it will remain the largest silver reserve in the world for the next decade.

With the support of the Empire, Spain and Mexico, Chile and other countries with a large economic proportion in the Americas ended the silver standard during the Great Depression, and the world silver price fell sharply, and in 1936, the world silver price was only equal to 1/42 of gold, setting a new record for the low price of silver in the world, and during this period, the Imperial Central Reserve Board also took the opportunity to continue to set a new record for the imperial silver reserves.

The empire's silver reserves have always been sold at a high price and bought at a low price, and the most favorable situation for the empire is to stabilize the price of silver at 1/30 of gold, if this is the price, the total value of the empire's silver reserves is basically the same as gold reserves.

This world is like this, the poorer the political axe, the poorer, and the richer the political axe, the richer.

The empire is definitely worthy of being the richest central political axe in the world, and the current world situation is very unstable, the Soviet Union and Germany are selling gold reserves in exchange for war resources, and they are simply unable to talk about political axe investment, while the imperial political axe has strong financial resources and a high degree of credit, while selling bonds at home and abroad to raise military spending on the premise of not affecting the central financial expenditure as much as possible, while taking advantage of the war situation to sell the silver reserves absorbed at low prices in the past ten years.

At this price, the empire only needs to sell 1/4 of the central silver reserves, which is enough to ensure that the empire has sufficient military funds to fight the war.

Of course, silver reserves are not important now, the key is to look at gold reserves, in such a big era, whether China's financial industry can dominate the full power, to see the total amount of China's gold reserves.

With the establishment of the Asian Union and the development of China's economy, as well as the high reserve rate of the Chinese dollar, the Chinese dollar has actually thrown off the British pound and the US dollar by a large margin, and deserves to be the world's largest international currency.

This positive position makes China's banking industry have an absolutely dominant position in international operations.

Far Eastern Bank, Crédit Agricole CIB, China Commerce Bank, CITIC International Bank, Jiangnan Bank, Nanyang Bank, Bank of China, China Fortis Bank, United Bank of China, Agricultural Credit Bank of China, Asia International Bank, Nanyang Commercial Bank, and Bank of Shanghai are all giant banks in the world.

In particular, Far Eastern Bank, as the central holding bank of the Far East consortium, owns controlling stakes in more than 40 international or regional banks around the world, such as Crédit Agricole, China Commerce, Nanyang Bank, Bank of America, Banco Nacional de Mexico, HSBC, BNP Paribas, Banco Internacional de España, and Swiss Commerzbank.

The cooperation between these banks has actually pushed Zhongyuan further to the status of the world's financial hegemon.

The passage of the Chinese yuan as a world currency and a large number of overseas reserves, but also to the expansion of China's economy and central debt has played a huge role in fueling the boom, such as the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, Sweden These countries gold reserves are seriously insufficient to ensure the issuance of national currency, it can only hold a large amount of the Chinese yuan as foreign exchange reserves, and these yuan as a currency other than M2 will inevitably flow to China to buy Chinese government bonds, or as a national credit investment into the Asian Union market.

The richer the country, the better it is to develop, especially a country like China, which controls the world's financial hegemony.

The central government can sell a large amount of treasury bonds for domestic infrastructure construction, investment in education and scientific research, and maintain the stability of the central government's finances, and the additional abundance of money also allows Chinese enterprises to receive more credit support, which is conducive to the expansion and development of enterprises.

To put it simply, the international status of the Chinese Circle is much harder than that of the US dollar during World War II, and a very important foundation is the existence of the Asian League, which is the natural foundation of the Central Circle, and the Asian Union controls the oil output of the Middle East.

Song Biao spent half an hour carefully reading the "Seventh Five-Year Plan for the Central Economy and Finance" submitted by the Central Economic Commission, and according to some of his previous proposals to Gu Weijun, this plan has made relatively large changes, re-elevated the status of electrified railways, and will continue to give more financial expenditure to ensure the development of railway construction and installed power capacity.

Because education expenditure clearly accounts for 1/4 of the central treasury of the empire, which is a fixed proportion and absolutely impossible to change, as a result, with the planning and expansion of new railways and power infrastructure, the total expenditure of the central government will continue to increase during the Seventh Five-Year Plan period, which is about 5%-7% more than originally expected, that is, about 3.5 billion yuan more per year.

Considering that military spending also accounts for one-quarter of the central government's finances, this is tantamount to forcing the central government to continue to maintain the total national debt of 7 billion yuan every year.

Song Biao put this plan together, put it aside, and only then gave Liao Zhongkai and Chen Jin a seat, and when they sat down, Song Biao and Chen Jin asked: "With the state of the central government's finances, this amount of treasury bonds should be acceptable, right?" ”

Chen Jin nodded and said, "There is no problem at all, but if the follow-up military expenditure still has to be expanded, the central government will be really tight." ”

Song Biao sighed and said, "That's for later, let's talk about it later!" ”

Chen Jin said: "Prevention in advance or a better choice, in the case of gold reserves can not be moved, it is appropriate to continue to speed up the sale of a part of the central trust assets, and keep about 10 billion yuan of reserve funds available for use at any time, which may be more stable." ”

Song Biao thought about it roughly and instructed Chen Jin: "You can be directly responsible for this matter." ”

Chen Jin's living environment is relatively special, and there are many sources, in fact, in the cabinet, he is one of the few ministers who knows that the empire may go to war with the Soviet Union, and Liao Zhongkai may not be very clear in this regard.

Song Biao asked Liao Zhongkai at this time: "How do you feel about this Seventh Five-Year Plan?" ”

Liao Zhongkai pondered for a moment and replied: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this plan is more relaxed than the previous two times, the amount of rigid regulations has been reduced, and the positive intervention of the central political axe in the imperial economy has also been greatly reduced, and the only thing that remains is that the investment in infrastructure in the railway field has maintained its original strength. ”

Song Biao could hear what Liao Zhongkai meant, and now there is a relatively unanimous opinion in China that the central government of the empire should reduce positive intervention in the economy, especially reducing the investment in national infrastructure with commercial surnames.

According to Liao Zhongkai and Gu Weijun's original intention, the empire's investment in the railway field should be reduced, and allowing the market to develop freely is equivalent to promoting economic progress through the commercial construction of roads and the development of the automobile industry.

This idea is good, but after Emperor Song expressed his position, the two of them still hurriedly made a 90-degree turn.

Song Biao has Song Biao's thoughts, and his ideas do make sense.

The empire is too populated, and if the automobile industry is really allowed to develop, the pressure on the country will be very great.

Song Biao didn't want to explain too much to Liao Zhongkai, at least it wasn't a good opportunity now, he just advised: "You are a little overcorrected, I think what the automobile industry needs is to control the development of the surname, not to limit the development of the surname, to have a controllable surname, not only to give the market enough space for development, but also to focus on the needs of the international market, the domestic is not allowed to expand unlimitedly, but it does not mean that the foreign market is not expandable, to encourage the export policy of the automobile industry." On this issue, I suggest that more workshops and more opinions could be convened before the plan is formulated. Second, on the issue of the railway industry, it is not necessary to come up with the policy of large-scale investment by the state, and it is the right idea for the central government to reduce the stimulus and intervention in the economy, but in terms of macroeconomic regulation and control, through taxation and other support policies, we can still effectively ensure the progress of the railway industry. ”

Liao Zhongkai didn't dare to argue, so he could only nod.

Chen Jin said: "Your Majesty, regarding the railway industry, I think there are two points that need to be treated with caution: first, if you rely too much on the investment and construction of the market and enterprises, it is difficult to effectively ensure the low price of railway operation; Second, railway investment belongs to the type of high investment and long-term returns, the scale of investment is too large, the average enterprise is difficult to bear, and in the long run, the long-term return is not very high. Therefore, if the empire wants to promote the development of the railway industry, in addition to higher subsidies, for the high construction cost and relatively low rate of return on the line, it should still be directly invested by the political axe. ”

Song Biao did not deny what Chen Jin said about these two issues, he nodded in agreement, and said: "What you said makes sense, you still have to make more arguments on the issue of railways and automobiles, and don't rush to finalize the Seventh Five-Year Plan." There is still time, don't be in a hurry, the central political axe would rather delay this matter slowly, be cautious, and not be in a hurry. ”

Liao Zhongkai and Chen Jin both agreed.

Song Biao and Liao Zhongkai were still not very familiar with each other, and there was not much to say, so he asked Liao Zhongkai to go back first, and he left Chen Jin behind, wanting to hear Chen Jin's views on the automobile industry.

After Liao Zhongkai left, Chen Jin continued to stay here to accompany the emperor.

Chen Jin thought cautiously for a moment, and then replied to Song Biao: "The matter of the automobile industry, I think that we should look at the pros and cons of everything, everything has advantages and disadvantages, and this matter is also the most obvious, on the one hand, the automobile industry can stimulate the development of the national economy, on the other hand, it will indeed cause great pressure on the infrastructure of the political axe and the traffic of the city, but it is not visible at this stage, but with the long-term development of the industry, it will definitely be seen in the future." As far as the present stage is concerned, I think that in the development of the control surname that the emperor is considering, the first thing should be to focus on development, not control, but this kind of control needs to be based on long-term gradual control. ”

Song Biao didn't rush to answer, but also thought carefully for a while, and asked Chen Jin: "You mean there is no obvious pressure at this stage, so there is no need to rush to emphasize control?" ”

Chen Jin said: "Yes, there are no obvious drawbacks now, but in Shanghai, because of the relatively large number of cars, there is already a certain amount of traffic pressure, I read the local Seventh Five-Year Plan submitted by Shanghai, there are about 40 streets that need to be expanded and renovated, which involves a number of main roads, and the reasons are also related to cars." The cost of this aspect will be very high, and I have already reminded the Shanghai side that since it is going to be expanded and renovated, it is necessary to have a forward-looking surname, and the expansion of the surname must be in place at one time, and do not repeat the construction, let alone wait for ten years to expand. ”

Song Biao agreed: "Your idea is right. ”

Chen Jin said: "Except for Shanghai, other cities do not have this kind of problem now, including Yanjing and Tianjin, and there seems to be no such pressure because the subway is built relatively quickly." In addition, in the automobile industry, although the number of cars occupies a large proportion, it is not enough to represent the entire automobile industry, such as agricultural vehicles, buses, trucks, engineering vehicles, these are all part of the automobile industry. ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said: "Your consideration in this regard is still very comprehensive, so let's do it, on how the automobile industry and the railway industry should develop in the Seventh Five-Year Plan, as well as in a longer-term period of time, you specially set up a working group to conduct research, and strive to come up with a more stable and comprehensive draft before October." ”

Chen Jin nodded and said, "The minister respectfully obeys the holy decree." ”

Although Song Biao made it clear that he asked Chen Jin to investigate, he still had his own thoughts to express, so he and Chen Jin continued to do something about these two issues.

Song Biao's hope is to support more for the development of public transportation, intercity railways and urban light rail, but for the central government, supporting the automobile industry is obviously more conducive to economic development, and how to find this balance is very difficult work.

If we want to promote the great progress of railway construction, it is inevitable that state-owned investment should be the main body, and if we want to take private railway companies as the main body, how the state should give subsidies and support according to the policy may still need more ideas and experiments, including the extent to which the amount of subsidies needs to be reached.

Song Biao and Chen Jin have been discussing these two issues for a long time, and in general, the two people have the same idea, hoping to promote economic development and reduce the pressure on urban construction and infrastructure as much as possible.

Relying on investment to promote economic development is already a relatively backward way for the empire, and the gains outweigh the losses, and the empire needs to stimulate capital to pour into scientific research, not infrastructure, and there are indeed too many trade-offs to be weighed.

The development of an empire has many possible surnames, and any kind of policy and any direction will have a variety of unpredictable effects on the empire.

Britain used to be the world's most famous automobile power, the world's leading military industrial power, and the world's most powerful aviation power, but different policies, especially the strong pursuit of financial rights, made Britain eventually lose all these advantages.

There is no policy in this world that can make an empire indisputably the strongest in all aspects, and for the empire, maintaining the leading edge of the industrial power is the most important goal of the empire no matter what, first to ensure the absolute leading position of the empire in the industrial field, the second is the financial position of the empire, and finally the sustainable development space of the empire.

Song Biao's understanding of this is very clear.

(To be continued)