The King-class battleships of the German Empire are indeed very good, and Song Biao also likes them very much, but they are buried in the vast sea of history and few people remember them!

The third phase of the Navy's plan has been handed in, but what about the Army?

Considering that it is really difficult for Cheng Biguang to come back later, Song Biao specially invited Cheng Biguang and Song Wenhui to dine in the palace in the evening, and it was very formal to invite Cheng Biguang to the specifications of the royal banquet, which can be regarded as a reward for this loyal minister, and then left him until the evening, played two games of chess, and talked about some things related to China Shipbuilding Industry University, which allowed Zhang Futian to send Cheng Biguang and Song Wenhui out of the palace.

It's getting late, so you always have to go to bed and rest.

It's always a hassle to have two wives, so who should you sleep with at night?

Song Biao always felt that if the emperor in the past had a conscience, he would always feel sorry for the queen when he slept with a young concubine, maybe he was the only one who thought so, he accepted the concubine at the fastest speed, and he was only recently ready to put forward the old proposal again, and choose a Muslim wife in the northwest to show the royal family's open attitude towards religious freedom, and also hoped to use the right choice to maintain the stability of the frontier.

Chen Qimei is leaving, and this matter is the last thing he is responsible for.

Cheng Biguang was sent away in the evening, Chen Qimei took a thick stack of information to ask the emperor to do a preliminary selection, the last time because of insufficient preparation and lack of experience in many aspects, this matter was still messed up later, and the emperor temporarily chose the concubine sent by the Qiao family by luck.

It's not going to be good.

Song Biao also felt bad, he was reusing his old tricks and choosing concubines again, the number is not a problem, in case they are all Han concubines, Queen Shu Xuan will definitely think that he is deliberately looking for an excuse to accept concubines.

Therefore, this opportunity must be for ethnic minorities.

There is a Dai girl, a Central Asian girl, and a Russian girl, so I don't know if he can afford it, after all, he is old.

There are no eunuchs in the palace, and it is easy for the guards to deepen the combination of palace resentment women.

Chen Qimei was very well prepared this time, and sent special personnel to take pictures of the candidate list selected and contacted by the local government, and verify the information, because some people took pictures, some people did not, and as much as possible, each candidate took a group of six photos.

Song Biao looked through it roughly, and basically confirmed that they were all real young beauties, which were very in line with his aesthetics, especially a pair of Kyrgyz girl sisters in it, because their hometown happened to be the birthplace of the great poet fairy Li Bai, who could speak some simple Chinese, and his father was a very important local religious leader.

This one is still a bit interesting.

The empire now included Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan directly into the western frontier of the empire, and the two regions plus the Ili region were divided into a Western Xinjiang province, the provincial capital is Almaty, and the complex surname of this province is that the population of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajik, Uzbek and Uyghur is about the same, and the Han population is less than 1%.

How to govern this place is really a more complicated problem, more complicated than governance is how to stabilize this territory for a long time, whether there will be a more complicated reading problem in the future, one way must be to grasp the work of sinicization, promote the Chinese language, and deepen the connection between here and the mainland, but the symptoms are not cured, and even the symptoms cannot be cured.

In the long run, regional autonomy is one aspect, and it is better to increase the scale of the Han population in the commercial and industrial fields, maintain an evenly dispersed trend in the proportion of ethnic groups, and especially if the settlements are further dispersed so that they cannot unite into one force.

Of course, the more important palliative rule than these is the control of religion.

After reading the information, Song Biao deliberately ticked more boxes on the information of the two Kyrgyz girls and handed it to Chen Qimei: "Pay more attention to these two candidates, check them clearly, and strengthen the education and training work before they go to work in the Secretariat, and temporarily take charge of the translation of the materials." ”

Chen Qimei nodded slightly, he had a premonition that it would be these two girls, in addition to being beautiful, a pair of sisters themselves is quite attractive, and they are from a religious family.

After Chen Qimei left, Song Biao slowly and leisurely continued to read some information, and finally decided to go to Concubine Shu's side, after all, she was pregnant again, and the dragon and phoenix were in need of care, in fact, he was basically the kind of man who slept as soon as he fell on the bed, and he really couldn't say a few words of comfort.

The emperor's life is very boring, there are basically no short things in the family, there are all kinds of opportunities, they are all state secrets, and it is not suitable to talk to the woman's family, there is basically no common language when he goes to bed, except for that, basically that.

The queen is naturally different, so she is still comfortable with an old husband and wife, but at the beginning, she wanted to have more children and grandchildren, and she also wanted a new feeling of being young and beautiful, but now she is really asking for trouble.

It is said that Tajikistan is a very good place, it is said that there are a lot of uranium mines, and they are very pure and rich.

With the good agricultural conditions, water resources and rich mineral resources in Western Xinjiang Province, the development potential of this place is much greater than that of Xinjiang Province, let alone that of Tibet Province and Qinghai.

That's really going to happen.

In addition, considering the factors of foreign wars, whether the Soviet Union started a war or infiltrated Central Asia on this basis, it was necessary to establish a strong industrial and agricultural support foundation in this region rich in mineral resources.

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As the Minister of the War Department, Shu Fangde is still a very suitable candidate, upright and middle-aged, energetic, and has won the trust of the emperor, even then he cannot be the Minister of War for a long time, and he needs a more new thinking person, especially the kind of person who comes back from the battlefield.

After careful consideration, Song Biao decided to arrange Chen Qicai to serve as the new Minister of the Army, and Shu Fangde was transferred to the Minister of the Air Force, and the business of the Air Force was no stranger to Shu Fangde, because the previous work of the Air Force had been under the control of the War Department, and Shu Fangde's military and political status could also mobilize more military and political resources in the Military Department and the Cabinet to vigorously develop the Air Force.

The Air Force is even more important, and the development of the Air Force is closely related to civil aviation, so the Air Force is still in charge of the work of the Aviation Bureau at this stage and is intensifying efforts to develop the domestic civil aviation industry.

Many of the existing large bombers in China have been directly converted into postal transport planes for transporting emergency mail and parcels, and some have been changed to pesticide spraying planes and patrol aircraft, and the political axe has given subsidies to support development, and the most important point is to place air force pilots.

This means that the provincial patrol forces and police departments will place some patrol aircraft, and the coast guard will also have patrol aircraft, so as to comprehensively expand the scope of pilot replenishment and the employment rate.

In principle, each phase of the five-year plan is to be negotiated between the old and new ministers, and the new ministers are the mainstay, and the old ministers only provide opinions and supplementary references, Chen Qicai is still in Poland at this time, Soviet Russia has already started a counteroffensive, and the empire is acting as a coordinator for Poland and Soviet Russia, trying to broker the two sides to reach peace talks.

When the Empire reached an armistice treaty with Soviet Russia, it had already negotiated the territorial dispute between Poland and Soviet Russia, but the result of this negotiation did not satisfy Poland, and Poland's demands were indeed too great.

Soviet Russia's concessions to foreign countries also depend on strength, the original concession to the German Empire, and now the great concessions to the Chinese Empire are based on the strength of the other side to the extent that they can't be provoked, what kind of thing is your Poland?

Kindness is regarded as a donkey's liver and lungs, Poland did not agree to the Empire's negotiation conditions with the support of Britain and France, and the Empire got rid of him without asking, and when Poland was defeated, he now wants the Empire to come forward to coordinate.

Cheap.

It's also cheap.

If it weren't for Poland's opening at the beginning, the Imperial Expeditionary Force in Europe would have been withdrawn by now, and it would not have retained 300,000 elite troops to help Poland defend the capital, and according to the plan of the Imperial War Department, the total number of Imperial troops stationed abroad should be 300,000, 1/3 in the Middle East, 1/3 in Central Asia, and 1/3 in other places.

The empire is fierce, and now it is really needless to say.

It is only that Chen Qicai, the new Minister of the Army, has not been able to return for a long time, and the War Department's third-phase plan has not been launched, and it is estimated that it will take another year and a half for Chen Qicai to come back, and after Song Biao approved the third five-year plan of the Navy Department and the Air Force, he asked the General Staff Headquarters to directly replace the War Department and draw up the third-phase army plan.

Normally, the War Department should be responsible for planning, and the General Staff should be responsible for carrying out the main work in it.

As the deputy chief of the general staff, Cai Yi, who was directly in charge of army affairs, personally took the knife, and the efficiency was very fast, and the first draft of the plan was submitted in two days, but unfortunately it was changed beyond recognition by Song Biao, which was basically equivalent to fighting back and doing it again.

This is not Cai Yi's problem, because Song Biao's direction of consideration is a problem twenty years later.

The empire's territory had expanded to 18.9 million square kilometers, and with the expansion of overseas reserves, the minimum number of army personnel had to be 2.7 million, with 65 percent for the CSKA and 35 percent for the Patrol Army.

In order to meet the most brutal world war, Song Biao broke through some customary restrictions that the following people did not dare to break through at all, abolished the setting of integrated divisions, and partially adopted a three-level system, with the Central Army as the first and second level troops, and the patrol army as the second and third level troops.

The establishment of the first and second levels of the Central Army is maintained at the normal scale of 22,000 troops, and the level of equipment is roughly similar, which basically means that all units are developing into regular main forces in an all-round way.

With the development of modern equipment, the army's logistical supply and rapid mobile operations will be qualitatively improved, and the imperial army no longer needs to rely on increasing the number to make up for the firepower deficiencies in light mobile and rapid operations; Song Biao still kept each infantry division of the imperial army at the scale of 22,000 people, and the idea is still to strengthen the total combat strength of the infantry divisions, reduce the number of troops, and quickly expand each division to a size of 50,000 by expanding the number at the company level during the war, so that three to five divisions can be expanded into a group army.

This was one of Chiang Kai-shek's biggest mistakes in the civil war and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it shows that Chairman Chiang still does not understand military affairs at all, and adding a number and increasing the number of divisions requires a large number of high-ranking officers who have been tempered and tested for a long time; if this cannot be achieved, even if the establishment of a division is increased, a group of officers with unsatisfactory ability can only be transferred to serve as generals, and even if the equipment is first-class, it will be a unit that has been given equipment for nothing when it comes to fighting.

Once such a force is defeated, it will be completely wiped out from the command headquarters to the logistics, and the entire loss will be worse than the 100,000 dead and wounded infantry.

If it is only a main division that is constantly consuming soldiers, and the command and logistics systems are still stable, then it is only necessary to replenish new soldiers; at most, with the reduction of veterans, the combat quality will decline somewhat, and the overall combat effectiveness will not decline much; with the experience of war, as long as the methods and appropriate training are maintained, and appropriate tactics are adopted, the overall combat strength will not even decline.

Jiang Zhongzheng did not understand military affairs, did not know how to pretend to understand, and thought that it was very simple to use troops to fight a war, but as a result, he misled the country and himself, and the military always seemed to be very simple, and it seemed that he could command a strategic decisive battle by reading a few history books, but in fact it was far from the case, because it was never the maps, history, and materials that determined the strategic plan, but the actual situation of the troops on both sides.

According to Song Biao's redesigned three-phase plan, the entire Imperial Central Army will be greatly renovated, and the Imperial Central Army will be organized into 45 divisions, 63 brigades and 24 cavalry regiments directly under it.

The infantry division adopts two kinds of formations: each infantry division of the first-level unit has a subordinate tank regiment, an artillery regiment, a baggage regiment, and an engineer regiment, and three infantry regiments, and each infantry regiment has an armored tank battalion; Each infantry division of the second level unit has one less tank regiment and one more infantry regiment than the former.

All cavalry divisions were abolished, divisions were converted into brigades, and brigades were changed into regiments directly under them, with a total of 7 cavalry brigades and 24 cavalry regiments directly under the military district. Except for special circumstances, all infantry divisions have abolished the establishment of cavalry battalions, and only have cavalry companies directly under the regimental headquarters.

The army has 15 artillery brigades, 12 tank brigades, 4 railway engineering brigades, 2 railway artillery brigades, 18 baggage brigades, 5 armored artillery brigades in the artillery brigades, 10 conventional artillery brigades, 8 of the baggage brigades belong to the mechanical baggage brigade, and 10 belong to the horse baggage brigade.

The total strength of the Central Army is 1.75 million.

Unlike the Central Army, which dismantled a large number of cavalry, the patrol force appropriately increased the number of cavalry, and retained a large number of cavalry personnel in the northwest, the four northern provinces, Xinjiang Province, western Xinjiang, Siberia, the Far East, the northeast, and north China.

The military regions of the National Army are set up in seven military regions, namely Zhongbei (Yanjing), Zhongnan (Nanchang), Northwest (Lanzhou), Southwest (Kunming), Northeast (Changchun), Northern (Tangnu Wulianghai), and Xinjiang Province (Almaty), as well as the Central Military Headquarters stationed abroad, which is equivalent to the Eighth Military Region.

The reason for adopting the system of large military regions is very simple, that is, in response to regional division and large-scale invasion wars, the eight military regions, except for the 300,000 military departments stationed abroad, have an average of 200,000 troops, and the patrol army has increased to an average of 22,000 in each province.

According to the new military expenditure adjustment policy, 50 percent of the expenditure of the patrol force will be shared by the provinces, and the provinces will allocate funds to the Ministry of War in a unified manner, and the total military expenditure of the army will be maintained at 420 million yuan per year in the next five years, 200 million yuan for the navy, and 75 million yuan for the air force.

Compared to the total size of the army of 2.75 million, on average, the actual military expenditure per person in the army is only 152 yuan, which is still not enough to support the revolutionary development plan of the imperial army, even if the empire adopts a compulsory military system.

In particular, considering that the army will go through a relatively high stage of development in the next five years, as well as a large amount of equipment costs, the problem of funding will inevitably make Song Biao feel a headache. The total military expenditure of the imperial [***] ministry is about 70 million pounds, accounting for about 10% of the national fiscal expenditure, and the military expenditure of the central government accounts for 18%, which is the condition that he and Ouyang Geng negotiated very early, in fact, if you think about it carefully, it must be insufficient, but for the central cabinet political axe, this is indeed a more appropriate level, after all, the war has just ended, the empire is facing a good development opportunity, and more expenditure is needed to maintain the comprehensive development of the economy, education, science and technology.

Compared with the issue of military spending, Cai Ye and Jiang Fangzhen's surprise was even greater, they never thought that the emperor would actually implement a comprehensive reform of the imperial army, although in the general direction, they also felt that it was the general trend, but this magnitude was inevitably too big, and even the two of them who were determined to reform could not stand it.

Soon after Song Biao sent back the new three-phase army plan, the next afternoon, Jiang Fangzhen, Cai Yi and Shu Fangde came together to ask for an audience, Han Chunlin meant to report on the premise and come back tomorrow, but these three people relied on being the emperor's henchmen, and they were all Han Chunlin's bosses, which was the bloody dog who scolded Han Chunlin, forcing Han Chunlin to report.

At this time, Song Biao and the queen were accompanying the concubine to relax in the imperial garden, and the style thunder joined hands with several rockery masters in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to build a rockery that can be called a masterpiece in the imperial garden, covering an area of nearly one acre.

The children were also playing around the neighborhood and were quite elated.

The family loved the place.

Han Chunlin came in and found the emperor to tell him, saying that the three powerful people in the War Department were clamoring to see the emperor.

After listening to Han Chunlin's words, Shu Xuan sighed with some dissatisfaction: "It's the three of them who are the most unruly!" ”

That's true.

Song Biao knew very well the intentions of these three people, so he instructed Han Chunlin: "Let them come back in the evening, I don't plan to deal with official business today, let them go back and think about it carefully, you can also make it clear to them, everything is always in the long run, Marshal Foch said that the Versailles contract is not a real contract, but a twenty-year armistice agreement, I think it is." ”

Han Chunlin silently said yes, and then turned around and left the Imperial Garden.

When he left, Shu Xuan and Song Biao sighed: "The emperor seems to have something big to do!" ”

Song Biao thought for a while and replied: "Things are always big things, it's just that they are not in a hurry, they are in a hurry, so it is said that the emperor is not in a hurry, and the eunuchs are in a hurry!" ”

Shu Xuan laughed quite interestingly, and said: "How can there be a few people who can lift weights like the emperor, but speaking of which, I heard that the emperor is going to choose a new concubine recently." ”

Song Biao knew that she would definitely ask about it, and immediately replied with righteous words: "After all, we still have to think about the long term and stabilize the frontier, and it is expected that one or two young girls from religious families will be selected from the Kyrgyz Ministry, and if they have children in the future, they will definitely be of great use when they are older." Isn't that the case for the royal family, and what is most worried about now is not civil strife, but the instability of the frontier, but there are too many frontiers in the empire. ”

Shu Xuan had nothing to say, and replied: "Yes, there are enough of Xinjiang here, in previous years, I felt that Xinjiang Province and Outer Mongolia were frontiers, and I didn't know how far away it was, as if it was far away from Britain and France, but now even Xinjiang Province and the four northern provinces are considered inland areas. ”

Song Biao replied noncommittally: "Maybe!" ”

That afternoon, Song Biao did not meet Jiang Fangzhen and the others, nor did he deal with other things, but he was playing with his family in the Imperial Garden, and planned to continue to play in Zhenguo Temple and Longtan Valley tomorrow.

After dinner in the evening, Song Biao summoned Jiang Fangzhen, Shu Fangde and Cai Ye in the imperial study, and when they entered the imperial study, Song Biao said to Cai Ye without waiting for Jiang Fangzhen to speak: "Your plan is a bit sloppy, I will inevitably have to revise more, if you have to be responsible for this kind of thing in the future, you still have to think more about it." ”

Cai Ye hurriedly pleaded guilty: "Your Majesty is derelict in his duties, and I ask the emperor to forgive me." ”

Song Biao didn't take it very seriously, and said, "The sin will be forgiven, let's all sit down." I know that you came to me in the afternoon because of two problems, one is that the change is too big for fear of mistakes, and the other is that the military expenditure is obviously not enough to support such a big change. ”

Saying this, Song Biao also sat down on the dragon couch, asked Cai Yi and the three of them to sit beside him to discuss the matter together, and continued: "A few months ago, I asked you to summarize the pros and cons of the Sino-Soviet war, and you summarized it very well. Mechanization alone is not enough, the key lies in a big word. The enmity between the empire and Soviet Russia is very deep, and we have to guard against it, so we must have the courage to forge ahead in the army, and we must not be complacent. ”

Jiang Fangzhen immediately replied: "The emperor is sage, but the ministers think that the emperor's request for a major reform of the army may be too hasty, not to mention that now it is just a big victory, everyone is happily waiting for the emperor's commendation, who would have thought that the war just ended to usher in such a big reduction, the cavalry is almost equivalent to the cancellation of most of the cavalry, the new mechanized troops are of course the trend of the times, the emperor, whether we are advancing too eagerly, I am afraid that there will be a problem of lack of preparation in all aspects." ”

Song Biao was very unhappy and said: "It's normal to be unprepared, if there is a problem, it will be solved in the process of development, and if you rely on the past forever, of course there will be no problem." The army should not think that after so many great victories in a row, you can rely on the merit book to eat, drink and wait for death, the era of great change in the army has arrived, and it is to take this world war as a clarion call, it only opens a new prelude to the army era, not the death knell of the complete cessation of the world war, stop the reform and follow the pace of the times, then you will give me the death knell every day. The army must be reformed, there are no difficulties to change, there are difficulties to change even more, if there are problems, find ways to solve them, if there are insufficient funds, find ways to save military spending, if you can't do it in five years, you will strive to complete it in seven years, and if you want to sleep on yesterday's merit book and eat and drink and wait for death, you should get out of the army now. ”

Hearing the emperor's anger, Jiang Fangzhen, Cai Ye and Shu Fangde didn't dare to speak anymore.

Song Biao also drank half a cup of tea in silence, and only asked after a while, "Do you have anything else you want to add?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen dared to add, and replied: "No...... I just think that this kind of change is always too fast, and there will inevitably be some trouble. ”

Song Biao asked: "If there is no trouble to deal with, then what do you want you to do, drink tea and play cards in the office every day?" ”

Get!

Jiang Fangzhen regretted coming with Cai Ng, he originally said let's sum it up again, and wait for the emperor's new meaning, but he was hard-pulled over by Cai Ng, in fact, Cai Ng's mind is not very simple, the imperial cavalry's credit to the empire is so high, and it was cut 70% at once, it is really difficult for him to accept.

The most wronged person is Shu Fangde, who is already the Minister of the Air Force, who was pulled over by Cai Yi and Jiang Fangzhen, and was scolded by the emperor for no reason.

Shu Fangde is also a shrewd person, so he immediately changed his tone and proposed to the emperor: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty is really worried about the lack of military spending of the Air Force this time, and now the Air Force has a large plan and little expenditure, and it has to control the Aviation Bureau, how can this Aviation Bureau only lose money and not make money, and the Air Force's military expenditure of 70 million a year is probably really insufficient." ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, and said: "I have also considered this matter, but in general, it is not as bad as the lack of military spending on the army's side, so you don't have to complain, the matter is not so serious, open source and reduce expenditure, as the Minister of the Air Force, you naturally have to think of more ways." Revitalizing and developing the aviation industry is not your business, so you can communicate more with the Cabinet of Ministers and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Communications. ”

Shu Fangde immediately replied: "The emperor is sage, and his subordinates understand in their hearts that they will definitely live up to the emperor's trust." ”

He didn't expect the emperor to grasp the affairs of the army so harshly, and he came up to suppress their conservative mentality, so he immediately ran out of the small camp of Cai Yi's alliance, and made Cai Yi and Jiang Fangzhen regret it.

Although he was scolded, Cai Ye was still not happy in his heart, he was not afraid of things, and he was not afraid that the emperor would scold him for being a bloody dog, he endured it, and felt that he couldn't help it, so he continued to advise the emperor: "Your Majesty, your subordinates are not afraid of accidents, trouble, and lack of funds, no matter how difficult it is, as long as it is for the empire and the emperor, for the country and the nation, the subordinates should also throw their heads and spill their blood, but the emperor cut seventy percent of the cavalry troops with one knife this time, which will inevitably make the subordinates feel cold." His Majesty recalled that back then, the emperor's words were still in his ears, and the emperor himself said that our empire should take cavalry first in order to stabilize its territory. ”

Song Biao said: "Yes, I said this, and now I think so, after all, the cavalry is much cheaper than the tank army, and it is suitable for various complicated situations in the north and west, so the cavalry should be delegated to the patrol force, rather than completely abolished." You must understand that the empire is not afraid of civil strife today, but there are only two great worries, one is the reading power and division of the frontier, and the other is a large-scale invasion by foreign enemies. The empire is getting stronger, and the small enemy does not dare to peep, but if the big enemy is present, or if several countries jointly invade, it will be millions, or even tens of millions of large troops like the First World War. Therefore, there must be a clear division of labor between the CSKA and the provincial patrol forces, and the military operations of local civil strife and border division should be handed over to the patrol forces, and the goal of the CSKA Army is to defend against foreign enemies and safeguard the rights and interests of the empire overseas. From this point of view, the empire must do a good job of patrolling, and the transfer of cavalry and other main forces to the patrol army is the best way, and the finances of the provinces are becoming more and more abundant, and the central finances are relatively tight, and the expenditure of the patrol army has always been half of the local government and half of the central government, which is also a very important thing for saving and rationally using military spending. ”

Cai Ye said: "Your Majesty, your subordinates think that even if the cavalry is to be withdrawn to the patrol army, it should be gradual, so as not to chill the hearts of the soldiers, after all, the treatment of the Central Army and the local patrol army is a little worse, and the social status gap is also very large, which soldier does not want to stay in the Central Army?" ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said: "What you said is also true, but you have to understand that there is never the best of both worlds in this world, either it chills the hearts of the soldiers or the hearts of the people, you always have to choose one of the two." I understand your feelings for cavalry, but neither you nor I can reverse the general trend of world military development, blindly counting on confrontation with the trend of the world, we will eventually have to pay a very tragic price, and even ruin the country. These matters have been settled in this way, and there should be no more disputes, what the War Department and the General Staff should consider is not to force me to choose to retreat, nor to play tricks against me, but to handle the matter properly, to appease the troops who have been retrenched, to be reasonable, to lay out the facts, and to adjust the matter under the stability of the army's mind. ”

Cai Yi still wanted to persuade again, but Jiang Fangzhen hurriedly preemptively said: "The emperor is a saint, but the ministers are ignorant and do not know the severity, and the ministers will definitely live up to the emperor's trust and the responsibilities of the ministers." ”

Song Biao is actually very impatient, if there is a difficulty, he can discuss it together, if there is not enough military money to deal with these tasks, he can find a way to solve it together.

It is clear that the general trend is in front of him and cannot be stopped, but he refuses to reform for the sake of this kind of interest, that kind of interest, which really makes him feel surprisingly angry.

Jiang Fangzhen and the three of them didn't dare to delay here any longer, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they hurriedly withdrew from the imperial study, and the three of them went back to the military headquarters together to discuss countermeasures, the emperor's intention was already too firm, and there was no justification at all, and the matter could only be done according to the emperor's wishes.

Jiang Fangzhen and Cai Ye originally thought that the army was different from the air force and navy, and that they were already well formed, based on the world's top level, and they didn't need too many new plans at all, as long as they maintained the current state was the biggest task, so they took it lightly and simply wrote a three-phase plan to deal with things.

Who would have thought that this would be the case, it was a great surprise to both of them.

Now it is impossible to change things, and we can only re-compile the third five-year plan on a large scale according to the emperor's wishes, so it is a big job, and the emperor just spends two days weighing the overall situation and proposing a general goal, and it will be troublesome to go down to the details.

There have been so many major changes, which units are first-class and which are second-class, how to resettle the old military system that has been dismantled, how to select the new military system, what kind of equipment to choose, how to control military expenditure, so that the tasks can be accomplished, how to arrange the various units that have been laid off and which brigade to which province, and all kinds of factors and problems must be considered.

The General Staff Headquarters has an even more annoying problem, that is, with the great improvement of equipment and establishment, how to enhance combat effectiveness, how to reorganize the detailed establishment, how to design training subjects, how to adjust equipment, how to achieve the maximum value of combat strength within the limits of military spending, and how to ensure the unity of operational thinking and tactics.

Military affairs is both a science and an art, and the details are mathematics to the depths.

(To be continued)