In the past six months, the third Sino-Chinese war has gone through a number of different stages, from August to September 1939 is the offensive period, the three main battles are the Battle of Samduao, the Battle of Incheon, the Battle of Kaesong, and then the two sides entered the stage of strategic stalemate, in January 1939, in order to try to break this stalemate and launched the Battle of Jeju, which resulted in the destruction of the Navy, and in late January, China launched the Seoul Offensive, The annihilation of the two front armies deployed in the western coastal areas of Korea has brought the entire situation from a stalemate to a new stage of China's all-out offensive.

During this period, new changes were taking place in the international situation, first of all, Germany signed a paramilitary alliance with Italy, and under the coordination of China and the United States, Germany also signed a peace treaty with Britain and France promising never to fight.

In the past six years, especially under the strong pull of the military industry, Germany's economic recovery has been extremely fast, with the accumulation of military technology, with a large number of German scientists who have been engaged in research and development work in China for a long time have returned to China one after another, coupled with the close and frequent long-term secret military technology exchanges and cooperation between China and Germany, Germany has also built a perfect large-scale mechanized military system and a new air force system, and has obtained various related technologies for aircraft carriers from China.

At this time, Germany's self-confidence was super strong, coupled with the fact that the international situation was very favorable to Germany, as well as the unanimous anti-Soviet position of the German-Polish alliance itself and the intensification of the conflict in the territorial dispute between the Soviet Union and Poland, Germany already had all the preparations to attack the Soviet Union, and at the same time had absolute confidence to destroy the Soviet Union.

Germany and Nazi Führer Hitler also wanted to establish a great German empire as strong and vast as China, and the Germans wanted to recover the lost territory from France more than attacking the Soviet Union, and they wanted to force France to permanently give up the huge claims of the First World War against Germany.

The Germans were confident that they would defeat the Soviet Union, so Germany preferred that China would be caught up in the Sino-Chinese war, so that it would not be able to spare more military strength to intervene in the Soviet-German war.

In the same way, China also hoped that Germany would start a war against the Soviet Union to prevent the Soviet Union from intervening and interfering with China during the Sino-Chinese war, and at the same time, it also hoped that the Soviet Union and Germany would be caught in a long-term whirlpool of war.

The German envoy representing Hitler's Führer was still German Foreign Minister Alfred Brown. Rosenburg, in the past two years, Rosenburg Foreign Minister has met with Joachim. Feng. The open and covert rivalry between Ribbentrop's deputy foreign ministers has become a well-known thing in European politics.

Rosenberg's leading ideology was to oppose the Soviet Union, maintain cooperation with China, Britain, the United States, France and other countries, and despise Italy and other countries. Feng. Ribbentrop, on the other hand, was peculiar and even self-righteous, with a particular preference for a closer alliance with Italy, and directly opposed to Britain and France.

The intelligence of the CIA proves that Hitler may be more inclined to the latter, even if Germany's overall foreign and military policy is still dominated by Rosenberg's anti-Soviet ideology, especially the special relationship between China and France and China and Italy makes it impossible for Nazi Germany to easily ally with Italy and carry out anti-French activities together, which is tantamount to directly becoming an enemy of China.

Foreign Minister Rosenberg is visiting China for the third time, and he has a deep understanding of the strength of the Chinese Empire in this era.

During his meeting with the US Vice President, Song Biao arranged a time to meet with Foreign Minister Rosenberg, the German special envoy who had been waiting for him for nearly a week, on the morning of the 20th day of the lunar month, before the arrival of the Spring Festival.

Considering that when he met with the vice president of the United States before, he invited the other party to attend the royal family's royal banquet, and Song Biao also arranged for Foreign Minister Rosenberg to have dinner at noon in the royal family's Furong Room.

The morning meeting was not long, and Song Biao did not discuss too many things with Foreign Minister Rosenberg, and after the royal banquet at noon, he took another half hour of rest time to drink another afternoon black tea with Foreign Minister Rosenberg in the West Flower Hall, which could be regarded as making up for Foreign Minister Rosenberg's nearly half a month in China before he was summoned.

Foreign Minister Rosenberg's mission to China this time is very clear, Germany has basically decided to go to war against the Soviet Union, but this news was only known to the Imperial Chancellor Gu Weijun in a secret conversation, and Gu Weijun promised not to disclose any information except to inform the Chinese Emperor.

The reason why the German side wanted to notify China in advance was precisely because it hoped that China would agree to give more aid and promise not to sign a peace treaty with the Soviet Union, forcing the Soviet Union to divide its troops to guard against the Chinese Wehrmacht on the Sino-Soviet border, and Germany hoped that China would promise to continue to sell war materials to Germany during the war, maintain normal trade relations, and stop trade relations with the Soviet Union.

If China were to make this series of promises to support Germany's defeat of the Soviet Union, Germany would be willing to fulfill its previous promises to support the Kazakh region or come under Chinese rule.

In all these matters, Gu Weijun has already made a secret agreement with Foreign Minister Rosenberg, so His Majesty the Emperor Song Biao does not need to negotiate with Foreign Minister Rosenberg on this series of issues.

After sitting down in the West Flower Hall, Foreign Minister Rosenberg took the initiative to convey Hitler's greetings to His Majesty the Emperor of China, and gave Song Biao a dispensable bilateral briefing on the current stage of cooperation in the German-Polish alliance and the intensification of contradictions between the German-Polish alliance and the Soviet Union.

Song Biao simply listened.

After a brief briefing, Foreign Minister Rosenberg eagerly turned the conversation back to the issue of special trade and anti-Soviet cooperation between China and Germany, and he quickly revisited the idea of buying Tiger Shark fighter-bombers from China and designing and manufacturing them.

In this matter, Gu Weijun had previously rejected the German proposal on the grounds that the military department did not agree.

Gu Weijun has studied the issue of German fascism very deeply, and has always believed that Germany will fight France sooner or later, and that fighting France will be tantamount to declaring war with China and Britain; if Germany has a large number of Tiger Shark fighter-bombers, it will not only have a lot of air superiority in the Soviet-German war, but will also have a very powerful air superiority in dealing with Britain and France, especially in dealing with France.

In terms of interests, China supports Germany in fighting Britain, but does not want Germany to defeat Britain, which is not good for China.

It is impossible for China to really support Germany to become the Chinese empire of Europe, like China, which has the territory of half a continent, which is an unacceptable thing, and Germany's intention to buy Tiger Shark fighter-bombers from China is obvious, not only to get this real super-range fighter-bomber, but also to get the Tiger Shark's night airborne radar technology.

The German intelligence work is very meticulous, and they now know that the Tiger Shark's radar is very powerful, but the specific surname parameters, raw materials and processing technology, as well as the theories involved, are not very clear.

Europe is currently working on the theory of Doppler radar, but a high degree of semiconductor materials is required to realize this radar, and in the entire global world, only China can produce a high degree of semiconductors.

In addition, Germany also wants to buy two to five high-quality electronic computers from China.

This is obvious, Germany is also secretly engaged in the development of nuclear weapons.

For these two German demands, Gu Weijun's cabinet refused to respond, but the refusal was very tactful, basically using the Central Military Department as a shield, and Foreign Minister Rosenberg did not give up, and waited in Yanjing for a week to see the emperor, just to put forward these two urgent demands to the emperor in person.

After Foreign Minister Rosenberg couldn't wait to say these two proposals, Song Biao thought for a moment, but still refused: "The new breakthrough in the field of electronics in front of us should be a special case in the international world. Because the impact of this technology on the military industry and modern weaponry is too great, the Chief of the General Staff of the Military Department and the Minister of Defense are severely opposed to the export of this technology, so it is impossible for the Reich to agree to the export of this technology to any foreign country for the time being, whether it is Germany, the United States, or the Empire's allies. ”

The number of German scientists and engineers in China is very large, and many of them are involved in the research and development of the computer field, and many of them have used advanced electronic computers within the empire, so it is not difficult for the Nazis to obtain information in this area, but whether it is the Nazis, or Britain, the United States, France, the Soviet Union and other countries, it is still very difficult to realize the manufacture of semiconductors in a short time.

The foundation of semiconductors is the purification and growth control technology of semiconducting crystals, and it took the empire 20 years to study the technology and theories in these fields.

Unless they get the technology directly from China, which is very little and almost impossible.

After hearing the official answer of the Chinese Emperor, Foreign Minister Rosenberg could not help but be a little disappointed, but it was also what he expected, and he proposed again: "Your Majesty, can you separately allow the export of Tiger Shark fighters to our country, and it is a model with night radar, and authorize our country to license the production patent of this fighter?" ”

Song Biao thought about it for a while and thought that this was not a serious problem, and with the German technical foundation combined with the aerodynamic layout and design structure of the Tiger Shark fighter, Germany quickly completed the design and finalization of the new fighter.

Throughout World War II, even at the beginning of World War II, there was actually no shortage of such large fighters as the Tiger Shark.

What does Germany really want.

The answer is very simple, that is, the pulse magnetron tube, this technology is jointly developed by China and France, France has, China also has, based on this technology to develop a new type of tube radar with higher transmission power, smaller size, instead of like the early German airborne radar in the aircraft full of receiving antennas.

However, during the period of joint development, China and France had already promised each other not to leak this technology to other countries, and it was precisely because France used it that Germany wanted Germany more, and this is enough to show that the country that Germany really wants to attack is France.

China can use pulsed magnetron tube radar as an alternative to Doppler radar and install it on the Tiger Shark fighter, but this just meets the real requirements of Germany, because Germany does not know that China's latest generation of airborne radar belongs to the semiconductor era, and its guess is that it is magnetron tube technology.

After a little consideration, Song Biao was still clear Foreign Minister Rosenberg emphasized: "Many of the technologies of the new airborne radar were jointly developed by China and France during the alliance period, and we have abided by the confidentiality clause of the agreement at that time. The design and authorized production of the Tiger Shark fighter itself is not a problem, and Germany may not necessarily really lack it, but if Germany wants to get the authorized production and products on this technological breakthrough, it is still very difficult, even if China agrees to sell, it needs to obtain the consent of France. ”

Sometimes, seeing is really like not seeing.

Song Biao did not want Sino-German relations to be damaged by this, but before he agreed to meet with Rosenberg's foreign minister, Gu Weijun's cabinet had already made many conversations with Rosenberg on this matter, and politely rejected the German proposal, out of consideration of Sino-German cooperation, China still provided most of the design drawings of the Northeast-class aircraft carrier, as well as the manufacturing drawings of the J-303 carrier-based aircraft, and the empire also gave special support to Germany in the latest sonar technology.

In the past two years before that, the empire has also carried out a large number of technological exchanges with Germany in the armored vehicle system, but on the whole it still exports more and exchanges it less, and it can be said that it does not take care of Germany and does not give preferential treatment.

If Germany is not satisfied, threatens to attack the Soviet Union, and wants more, the Reich will really prefer to fight the Soviet Union by itself.

Foreign Minister Rosenberg also has no choice, the war is imminent, it is a good thing to be able to ask for more benefits, but the opportunity to meet the Emperor is very special, which also represents the highest level of diplomatic occasions between China and Germany, so directly refused, not only makes Foreign Minister Rosenberg and Germany lose some face, but also is a very unhappy and disappointing thing for the Emperor of China.

Song Biao's face was not good-looking.

Foreign Minister Rosenberg could only avoid talking about it.

After the meeting between the two, Song Biao asked Gu Weijun to meet him in his office, and he was still talking about the semiconductor industry.

Although Germany has not yet realized that the radar and computer technology of the empire has broken through the barriers of electron tubes, vacuum tubes, and magnetron electron tubes, and has stepped into the era of electrocrystalline semiconductors and digital electronics from analog electronics, Song Biao still has more worries about this, and asked Gu Weijun to continue to strengthen scientific research and education investment in the field of imperial semiconductors, and at the same time, it is also necessary to strengthen the secrecy work during the years of preparation for the trial industrialization.

After Gu Weijun left, Song Biao sat quietly and pondered in the office alone.

There were too many thoughts flashing in his mind, and he did not have Hitler's crazy pride because of the scientific and technological progress of the Reich and the prosperity of the country, on the contrary, he had more of a sense of crisis.

There are also many troublesome things in the current Sino-Chinese war, but they are all things that can be solved and predicted, and the development of the country is difficult to determine and full of unknowns, and the problem here is that the bigger the country, the more problems there are, and China has exceeded a certain limit.

In Song Biao's view, although China is very large, but it is still not strong enough, and now it can only be said to be relatively strong, to maintain this "relatively strong" advantage, to further promote China to become stronger There are only two ways, that is, to continue to vigorously promote China's education and scientific research, political axe must not only have large-scale investment and support, but also to ensure the fairness and freedom of education and scientific research.

China is indeed pushing for the outbreak of World War II, and Nazi Germany is a greedy and unrestrained European tiger, but from the perspective of the long-term needs of China's overall national interests, China also needs to support Nazi Germany to attack the Soviet Union, and even support Nazi Germany to attack Britain and France, interrupting the order and development of the whole of Europe.

If the situation develops to an uncontrollable situation, China needs to send troops, and at the last moment to eliminate Nazi Germany, it can join forces with the United States, or it may not need the United States to send troops, it may be difficult for Reading Power to support the war situation, but in terms of long-term national status, Reading Power to solve World War II is undoubtedly the best choice.

In order to take advantage of the international situation to become the final victorious country, China needs to reserve more technology and national strength for the final war, and it needs to compete with the Nazis in science and technology and national strength.

It was based on this assumption that Song Biao decided to inspect the domestic scientific research work before Germany officially launched the war against the Soviet Union, and he set this time after the Spring Festival, so that the Inner Court could immediately start arranging.

The Chinese New Year in 1940 came in such a seemingly calm and uncharted international environment.

The members of the royal family returned to the Central Palace in Yanjing three days in advance, this is a real big family, after taking in a new young concubine two years ago, Emperor Song had five wives, five daughters and eight sons, except for the five sons who died young, the rest were all healthy and entered the school one after another, and the youngest daughter had just turned one year old.

The eldest daughters, Princess Yuanyuan, Princess An Yi, and Princess An Xian, have all been married, and Prince Yuhua, Prince Yuqing, Prince Yuchen, and Prince Yuying have also married princesses, and there are seven grandsons and grandsons.

Thirty years of calm like a stream, inadvertently, the imperial family from the original only two Emperor Song and Empress Shu increased to as many as 24, flourishing.

The children generally have their own interests, Princess Yuanyuan works in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Princess An Yi teaches at the Central College of Chinese Foreign Affairs, Princess An Xian and her husband both study science and engineering materials science, and they also work in the Central Institute of Materials Engineering, Prince Yuhua serves in the Joint Staff Department of the Military Department, Prince Yuqing serves in the Navy, Prince Yuchen serves in the Ministry of Culture and Education, responsible for sports and traditional national arts, and Prince Yuying is still studying at the Central Academy of Chinese Studies, and wants to work in the National Museum in the future.

The children say that it is not big, and it is not small when it is small.

Every year's Spring Festival is like this, the princes and princesses will generally return to the palace a few days in advance, and the Song Emperor will also take a vacation during this time to spend time with his family at home.

Although there are several daughters, the one who can really understand her father's voice and understand her father is Princess Yuanyuan, who works in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and she has always been such an understanding and good child, but she has slowly changed from a good child to a very good mother.

In the past few days of the Spring Festival, it snowed heavily in Yanjing, and the Central Palace was also dressed in pure and neat silver makeup.

At noon on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, after having lunch in the Furong Hall, Song Biao asked his eldest daughter, Princess Yuanyuan, to accompany him for a walk in the imperial garden and talk about the family's shortcomings.

Princess Yuanyuan finally married Chen Jin, the marriage was quite happy, and she had two children very early, both of whom were sons, and she didn't participate in much work in the past few years, and most of the time she stayed at home to take care of the children, and translated some documents that were not very important for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at home.

Such work is also only a symbolic arrangement of surnames and caring for surnames.

She could choose not to work and take a leave of absence from work to take care of her children at home, but that didn't meet the rules.

She still hopes to work, but hopes that her two children can be older, and her husband Chen Jin has been working in the Central Reserve Bureau, which should be said to be very good, and is considering transferring to the central bank this year.

Whether it is an emperor or an ordinary family, family life is like this, or a happy family is roughly the same, there is no financial trouble, life is carefree, and you can try to do something meaningful.

Song Biao set up a very large fund for the princes and princesses, which would ensure their living needs, and even if they left the royal family in the future, as part of the family members, they could still obtain the continuation of the inheritance.

The future is always far away.

No one can think forever.

The ups and downs of every royal family will be inevitable, and it is still at its peak at this time, and it is necessary to consider the long-term future and future, but in fact, there is no need to worry too much, because even if you think about it farther, it may not have practical significance.

It's better to let things be.

(To be continued)