Chapter 488: Roof of the World - The Commanding Heights of the Air Force
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Wang Chenhao's worries are not unreasonable, Hitler himself is the most powerful Nazi leader in history, and Roosevelt, as the most powerful anti-fascist fighter in history, is now also forced to become a Nazi leader by the Chinese Empire, the strength of the anti-fascist camp and the Nazi camp is declining, and the situation in the future World War II has suddenly become confusing. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.infoββ (ζ°΅ε€ζ°΅ε€ηΉηΉ)
Considering that the First World War has become unprecedented in scale and destructive power under the intervention of the Chinese Empire, perhaps, the more tragic the World War II will be, the more fragmented the Western world will be, and the Eastern world will completely become the world's dominant.
Suddenly, the corners of Wang Chenhao's mouth rose with excitement, and he remembered Gorky's words, "Let the storm come more violently!" β
Hurried footsteps sounded in the corridor outside the main hall, and then the imperial secretary came in in a panic to report: "Your Majesty, the royal hospital has called urgently, and the Minister of Transportation, Zhan Tianyou, Lord Zhan, has died." βββ
"What?" Wang Chenhao stood up suddenly, and asked again in disbelief: "What did you say?" He died? β
The imperial secretary bowed down and said: "Lord Zhan collapsed due to overwork, and his immunity was insufficient to the point of dying of influenza virus, Your Majesty, please mourn!" β
Wang Chenhao sat down dejectedly, and the loss of Zhan Tianyou, an important minister, made him sad.
After a long time, Wang Chenhao said: "Spread my edict, and the officials of the five provinces and nine ministries will go to mourn with me!" β
The Imperial Secret Officer received the order and withdrew from the main hall.
Wang Chenhao smashed his fist on the imperial case, and couldn't help but feel sad and indignant. The two worst waves of the Spanish flu have passed, but the third wave took Zhan Tianyou's life when it was the weakest, and Wang Chenhao felt sorry for Zhan Tianyou and was not worth it.
Soon, Bi Ankang, Minister of Health, hurriedly came to the royal room, and when he came in, he immediately said: "Your Majesty, if you fail to save Lord Zhan Tianyou, you deserve death." βββ
Wang Chenhao was naturally quite angry, and said, "You deserve to die for your crimes, do you know how sad it is for me to lose an important minister?" β
Bi Ankang hurriedly cried, shouting that he was guilty and kept repenting.
If it had been before, Wang Chenhao would definitely have directly dismissed Bi Ankang and sent him to prison, but now Wang Chenhao is much calmer and knows that Zhan Tianyou's death cannot put the blame on Bi Ankang.
Wang Chenhao rubbed his temples and asked, "How is the flu epidemic under control?" β
When Bi Ankang heard Wang Chenhao ask this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, after the first two waves of the Spanish flu, the third wave has weakened significantly, and only three people have died in the empire so far. One of the reasons is that the flu becomes less contagious when the climate gets hotter, and the second is that after the pandemic, humans themselves produce antibodies to defend against the virus. The third is that the virulence of the influenza virus is greatly reduced after a certain period of time. β
Wang Chenhao nodded and sighed: "A total of three people died in the third wave of the epidemic, but the sincerity is included, it is really a god who is going to kill me!" β
Bi Ankang also sighed and said, "Your Majesty, please mourn!" The unfortunate death of Lord Zhan Tianyou was indeed a great loss to the empire. β
Bi Ankang didn't dare to say much, for fear of getting burned.
A short time later, Minister of the Interior Nguyen Trung Thu arrived and said that everything was ready. So Wang Chenhao led the officials of five provinces and nine ministries to Zhan Mansion to express condolences to Zhan Tianyou.
After the end of the condolences, Wang Chenhao issued an order to posthumously crown Zhan Tianyou as the Duke of Yangguo, and awarded the title of baron to his descendants, and instructed the relevant departments to take care of him.
Zhan Tianyou's death is undoubtedly a great loss to the Chinese Empire, but during his tenure, Zhan Tianyou has helped the Chinese Empire complete the construction of 500,000 kilometers of railway transportation, 2.2 million kilometers of highways, and the construction of 1,241 domestic airports, 145 international routes, and 233 port bases. ββAfter the Sino-American War, the rise of the Chinese Empire in the national highway construction, 250,000 kilometers of highway construction has been completed, and the other more than one million kilometers of highway construction planning has also been completed, and it is expected to be completed in the next 15 years.
It can be said that the rapid economic development of the Chinese Empire is inseparable from the large-scale construction of the national transportation network, and Zhan Tianyou deserves to be the founder of the Chinese Empire.
"I am very much looking forward to what Xu Aiqing will do when he takes over as Minister of Transportation!"
Xu Shichang hurriedly said: "Don't hide it from Your Majesty, the minister plans to complete the unfinished transportation network construction plan of Lord Zhan on the one hand, and on the other hand, Weichen believes that the empire needs to strengthen its control over the Northern Region, the Western Region, and the Southern Xinjiang Region, and the newly incorporated Western Siberian Tsarist era railway in the Northern Region has been completely destroyed, and in the face of the threat from the red power of Soviet Russia, the minister plans to build a trunk railway and road from Lake Baikal to Transcaucasia to strengthen the control of the Transcaucasian Federal Republic." In addition, the Western Xinjiang Railway was only built to Lhasa, and the minister believed that the British would strengthen their control over India after the war, and their wolf ambition to spy on Tibet would not change, so the minister planned to expand the Western Xinjiang Railway until Ali under the Himalayas, and extend the Xinjiang Railway to the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to strengthen its control over Afghanistan. After these plans were completed, the minister planned to use Afghanistan as a springboard to extend the railway from the Wakhan Corridor to the Persian Empire, directly to the Persian Gulf, and connect with the Empire-controlled Kuwait, so that the Baghdad railway to Europe could also be directly connected. β
Tang Shaoyi said: "Your Majesty, the railways in the western region are the most difficult to repair, especially the Alishan Mountains and the Wakhan Corridor, and when Chengcheng was alive, he only built the railways to Lhasa and Urumqi, and it cost a lot. The railway to the Alishan Mountains and the Wakhan Corridor was also studied at the beginning, and it cost no less than one billion dragon coins, and it did not take ten or eight years to think of a breakthrough. β
Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "This is indeed a problem!" What about the others, what do you think? β
Zhang Jian said at this time: "Your Majesty, the construction of the transportation network is indeed costly and time-consuming, but its leading role in the national economy is self-evident, and the great achievements of the empire over the years are closely related to this. In particular, the eastern and central regions of the empire are now very developed, but the western regions are relatively much more backward. Today, when the international economy is in a recession, should we learn from the US strategy of developing the western region in order to enhance our national strength? β
Ruan Zhongshu nodded and said: "The western development strategy of the United States is very successful, and now the economies of Europe and the United States are in recession, and the empire needs to expand domestic demand to maintain ultra-high-speed economic growth. β
Defense Minister Wang Shizhen suddenly said: "As the roof of the world, Tibet has an extremely important strategic position. It took 20 years for the Imperial Army to gradually adapt to life on the plateau and have the ability to fight on the plateau. Not long ago, when five Hellfire fighters of the Lanzhou Military Region of the Imperial Air Force were transferred to Lhasa Airport, the pilot almost had an accident because of the lack of oxygen, and it took five hours for the fighters to fly from Lanzhou Airport to Lhasa Airport, and the speed could not be increased because the fighters kept climbing. However, it only took two and a half hours to return from Lhasa Airport to Lanzhou Airport, and the speed was very fast, and it was a swoop all the way down. This made Wei Chen suddenly think of a problem, controlling Tibet on the roof of the world is equivalent to occupying the commanding heights of the northern hemisphere, and the fighters of the Tibet Military Region only need one hour to dive to the Persian Gulf, and two hours to cross the South Asian subcontinent into the Indian Ocean, which is quite important for the military level. Similarly, the Wakhan Corridor was the Silk Road of the year, Afghanistan was located on the main road in Central Asia, Britain and Soviet Russia both wanted to control it from the new level, especially the oil in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea must be the focus of competition among the powers in the future, so Lord Xu proposed to build a railway to the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan, and extend the plan into the Persian Empire to connect directly to the Persian Gulf and the Baghdad Railway, and the minister agreed from a military point of view. β
Wang Chenhao nodded, Wang Shizhen's opinion is very important, and it is basically the same as what Wang Chenhao thinks in his heart. So he turned his head to look at Song Hanzhang, Minister of Finance, and asked, "What does Hanzhang think?" β
Song Hanzhang looked at everyone's expressions and knew it in his heart, so he said: "Back to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Finance has sufficient funds, and there is no problem with one billion dragon coins." β
Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "Since there is no problem, then Xu Aiqing will hurry up and hand over a note!" β
Xu Shichang was very happy and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty is wise! Wechen obeys! β
Just now Wang Shizhen mentioned the issue of military deployment in Western Xinjiang, and Wang Chenhao was very interested, so he left Wang Shizhen after the meeting.
"Has the Army adapted to highland operations?"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Wang Shizhen replied: "At present, the Imperial Army has formed a plateau armored division and two plateau mechanized infantry divisions, which have strengthened its control over the entire western territory. At present, the Lhasa Air Wing of the 22nd Air Wing of the Air Force has been stationed at the Lhasa Air Base of the Western Xinjiang Military Region, but the altitude of Tibet itself is high, and most of the pilots have no experience in flying on the plateau, and the combat aircraft also need to be improved to facilitate their operations on the plateau. β
"It's going to take five years!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Although Wang Chenhao feels that five years is a long time, if he wants to actually deploy the air force on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, he will have to go through a long period of adaptive training before he can truly develop combat effectiveness. Fortunately, Wang Chenhao believes that there will be no hostile countries and forces in the world that pose a threat to the Chinese Empire in the next twenty years, so five years can still be tolerated. Moreover, once the Chinese Imperial Air Force completes the deployment of the air force on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, then, as Wang Shizhen analyzed, the Chinese Imperial Air Force will use the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the roof of the world, as a commanding height, to look down on the entire northern hemisphere, and combat planes taking off from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau can quickly maneuver to any place in the northern hemisphere, which is of great significance to the Chinese Imperial Air Force.
Thinking of this, Wang Chenhao's mood suddenly improved.
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