Song Biao was reluctant to get involved in the actual negotiations, but he was forced to get involved and fight with Vyacheslav over trivial issues. Commissar Molotov was entangled.

The USSR did not want to perish, and China did not want the USSR to die prematurely.

After a long period of negotiations, Vyacheslav. Commissar Molotov and the Central Military Department of the Reich reached a preliminary new secret agreement -- the Soviet Union renounced the Kazakh and Georgian regions, recognized the reading power and freedom of the Republic of Georgia and Kazakhstan, recognized the leadership of China and the Asian League in Central Asia, and promised not to support the Soviet organizations in the member states of the Asian League.

On this basis, China will agree to sell to the Soviet Union a total of more than 4 billion yuan of military supplies, including 3 million M35 assault rifles, 7,550 tanks and other armored vehicles and self-propelled guns, 2,400 J-5D Tiger Shark fighter-bombers, 1,700 J-404 fighters, and 1,500 BF120 rocket launchers...... Moreover, China and the countries of the Asian Union would buy the foreign debt of the Soviet Union, which was tantamount to supporting the Soviet Union in purchasing all the necessary materials in disguise.

Whether China and the Soviet Union can finally reach this contract will actually have to wait for Vyacheslav. After returning to Moscow, Commissioner Molotov asked Joseph Molotov again. General Secretary Stalin reported that if Stalin did not agree to the deal, it would be as if nothing had happened.

As for Vyacheslav . Molotov's proposal that once China and the Soviet Union reach a final secret treaty, China and the Asian League must give up all support for Germany and instead fully support the Soviet Union's conditions for winning the war did not agree to and would never accept it.

At the same time that the Central Military Department of the Reich was preparing to engage in a huge arms purchase trade with the Soviet Union, Chen Wu, who had restored his reputation as a senior army general and succeeded General Cai Yi as commander-in-chief of the Northeast Defense Force and the East Asian Military Region of the Asian League, was carrying out a large-scale readjustment of the surname of the Northeast Defense Army.

Chen Wu is a veteran expert in mountain warfare and traditional Suvorov movement warfare theory, and the adjustments he made to the Northeast Army are obviously different from Cai Yi, who is steady and innovative, and he first adjusted the upper limit of the army's squad level soldiers, increasing the size of each infantry squad to the level of 18 to 20 people, which is equivalent to half an infantry platoon in peacetime, and greatly increasing the firepower configuration of the infantry squad, and comprehensively replacing the M1925\33 Hanyang semi-automatic sniper rifle with the M1938\40 8mm sniper rifle, commonly known as the 38 sniper. Each infantry squad guarantees at least two heavy sniper gunners to make up for the disadvantage of medium and long-range shooting brought about by the replacement of M35 assault rifles in the whole army, and the M40 7.62mm general-purpose machine gun is a large-scale replacement for light machine guns, and is in large-scale service in the army.

Second, the 33N system is adopted, each platoon has 3 infantry squads under its jurisdiction, and each company has 3 platoons under its jurisdiction, and the previous mortar squad is banned through the expansion of infantry squad personnel, and the mortar combat squad is directly assigned to the infantry squad to expand the combat capability at the squad level, but at the battalion level, each battalion is usually expanded to a huge scale of 10 to 14 companies, and a large number of specialized companies such as engineers, communications, reconnaissance, and logistics are established, so that the battalion level can have the combat scale and scope of the combat units at the regimental level in the past. In actual operations, it also relies more on battalion-level troops, so as to adapt to the characteristics of mountain operations with many small-scale conflicts and a large number of garrisons and attack points.

Third, in addition to the three elite armored divisions and seven light tank brigades that were retained for urban warfare, Chen Wu dismantled all the armored units under the jurisdiction of the Northeast Defense Force into armored battalions and placed them in each infantry regiment.

Fourth, Chen Wu re-established the Army Center of the Northeast National Defense Force as artillery, and formed 4 artillery divisions, 14 artillery brigades, and 9 rocket artillery brigades on a large scale, and replaced the 120mm caliber howitzers that were not suitable for the DPRK and the local battlefield, and equipped the ZP15 88mm self-propelled howitzer and the ZP18 105mm self-propelled light howitzer that were especially suitable for the battlefield, as well as the M1937 truck-towed 105mm light howitzer.

Chen Wu completely regarded these three types of self-propelled and body-barreled artillery as the main equipment of the entire Northeast Defense Force, while the M1934 120mm towed howitzer, the M1930\38 130mm cannon, and the M1933 152mm cannon were only specially deployed in various artillery divisions and artillery brigades, and were used to cooperate with infantry and armored units to suppress a small number of heavy fortresses of the Japanese army.

The artillery regiments under the jurisdiction of each infantry division will completely replace the ZP15 88mm self-propelled howitzer or the M1937 105mm light howitzer, and the artillery brigades will take the ZP18 105mm self-propelled light howitzer as the main body.

Fifth, Chen Wu comprehensively rectified and sorted out the four group armies, ensuring that each group army had 5 to 7 infantry divisions, at least 2 armored tank brigades, 1 artillery division, 3 artillery brigades, and 2 rocket artillery brigades, and that each infantry division, whether it was the main elite unit or the newly formed infantry division, would have a comprehensive infantry brigade under its jurisdiction to serve as the reserve force of the division and adapt to the difficulties of high casualty rates in mountain operations and urban operations.

Sixth, Chen Wu removed all the previously poorly performing units and turned them into various logistics and reserve units, regardless of the history and honor records of the troops, including the Third Mountain Division, which he had personally created.

Through this series of adjustments, Chen Wu overhauled the whole army in just a few months, reducing the size of the main force to 1.275 million, while the size of the reserve force and logistics force increased to 1.1 million.

After Wei Lihuang was transferred to the Siberian Military Region, he promoted Huang Baitao to be the commander of the Second Group Army, the commander of the First Group Army was succeeded by Lieutenant General Liu Yazhao, Xue Yue was appointed commander of the Fourth Group Army, and Zhang Zizhong continued to serve as the commander of the Third Group Army.

A large number of school officers, including Xu Wei and Su Bin, were suddenly promoted to major generals and served as division commanders and chiefs of staff of the main divisions, and almost half of the instructors of each division were replaced.

Chen Wu's actions on the Korean battlefield were too great, which more or less aroused some criticism within the Central Defense Forces, but no one dared to say too much, after all, he was the first batch of senior generals, and when it came to military exploits, apart from Zhao Tingzhu and Cai Yi, there was no way for several senior army generals on active duty to compare with him.

In fact, it is precisely because of such qualifications and the emperor's trust that Chen Wu was able to make such large-scale adjustments and changes on the Korean battlefield.

After such adjustments, the Northeast Defense Army had a more obvious advantage in a decisive land battle against the Yue army than before, and with such a foundation, the Battle of Pusan finally began on July 22, 1940, and after this battle, the Yue army would be completely eliminated.

When the Sino-Japanese war continues to such an extent, the situation will inevitably be very bad when the Chinese army faces Chen Wu's Northeast Defense Force, and as far as the battle of Pusan is concerned, the fact that China has basically completed the deployment of the circular blockade strategy is that it has basically completed its deployment, and once the Ryukyu Islands repeat the mistake of the Ryukyu Islands in the Iwo Jima, the Chinese navy, land and air force will be completely blocked, and all foreign trade and exchanges will be completely interrupted.

It is said that it is a country with no manganese ore at all, and once it is blocked, even if it has a certain scale of coal mines and a small amount of iron ore in the country, it will not be able to smelt steel, so what kind of modern war is it fighting?

It is impossible to avoid a ring blockade, and the base camp of the Japanese army is well aware of this, and they are also looking for many ways, including using submarines to transport overseas resources to continue the war.

For the Chinese Empire, it was a relatively easy time, the country's military expenditure was reduced compared with last year and the first half of the year, and the total burden and pressure on the central government was not serious, with the collapse of the navy, the empire's foreign maritime trade routes returned to the calm of the past, and after eliminating most of the military forces outside the country, the empire occupied most of the colonies in the Pacific.

After the occupation of the Marina Islands and the Marshall Islands, the empire established a new military base in Guam, just as the United States feared, without the containment of the navy, the imperial navy has occupied control of the entire western Pacific, and the huge naval size surpassed Britain and the United States, becoming one of the three most powerful naval powers in the world.

The empire maintains its consistent policy in Southeast Asia, continuing to cut Indonesia out of Kalimantan and Sulawesi, while Papua is establishing a new republic to prepare for joining the Asian League, and the empire also continues to migrate to these three regions on a large scale, in the next ten years, the empire will immigrate 1.5 million people to the overseas provinces of Sulawesi, so that the proportion of Chinese in the local population will expand to 70%, so as to firmly control the Sulawesi region within the borders of the empire, from the overseas provinces to the same as Guangxi, Chahar autonomous province.

The Chinese Empire will continue to expand its territory, mainly by land and by sea.

The empire is also re-examining its territorial policy, and now there is a more controversial issue at home about how to deal with the post-war Yuben, Gu Weijun put forward a more daring proposal, but has never been made public, he believes that just as the Yuben had ceded Taiwan and the Ryukyus in the First Sino-Japanese War, the empire should cede Hokkaido from the Yuben.

Considering that the total population of Hokkaido is about 800,000, this is still a lot of difficulty, but it is a very good proposal.

Compared with the proposal of the military department to occupy Kyushu Island, Gu Weijun's proposal was easier to do.

The strategic position of Kyushu Island is not important to the empire on the premise of having Jeju Island, and if the empire can get Hokkaido, the empire will completely consolidate the entire Far East and hold the entire Bering Strait together with the United States.

After signing a secret treaty with the Soviet Union, Song Biao's attention has been on the battles of Hokkaido and Iwo Jima, as for other things, he did not pay much attention, after the arrival of the hot summer, Song Biao decided to go to Chengde for summer vacation for four consecutive years, and then changed to Lushan Summer Palace again to escape the summer.

On the eve of the outbreak of the Battle of Busan and the Battle of Iwo Jima, the royal family collectively took a special train to Lushan County.

In recent years, the Lushan Conference has been under the responsibility and preparation of the National Assembly, and the topics discussed have been broader, but they are still limited to the country, while major issues in East Asia are held in the annual Macao Forum, and issues in Central and Western Asia and the Arab region are held in Almaty.

These three forums, together with the Yenching Asian Union Cooperation Forum and the Shanghai Free Trade Forum, are the five most important forums in the empire, and they are also the main meeting areas for the discussion of various issues in China, Asia and the world inside and outside the empire.

Unlike the Lushan Conference, which discussed various issues in China as in previous years, even the Seventh Five-Year Plan that was being formulated was not included in this year's Lushan Conference, and this year's Lushan Conference had only one very magical theme -- China in 20 years!

This year, the Ministry of Culture and Education has ingeniously set the essay topic of the national joint examination as "China in Twenty Years", which is a complete science fiction exam question, and for those young people who like Verne, this is simply a once-in-a-century joint examination question.

On the special train to Lushan on this day, the Ministry of Culture and Education prepared a very interesting train reading for the emperor, "National High School Entrance Examination Full Score Essay Collection", and this is the reading material Song Biao himself selected, he wants to see the thoughts of young people in this way, and see the imagination of Chinese young people.

The train is speeding along the Beijing-Guangzhou line.

This is a national artery railway that has been completely electrified, in the Central Transportation Research Institute and Northeast Heavy Industry, the Central Railway Corporation, the Far East Railway Corporation, the Southern Railway Corporation, the Southern Railway Company in the joint research program, China's first high-speed electric railway development project will also be initially completed at the end of this year, first of all, such a new high-speed railway will be built from Hangzhou to Shanghai.

After the technical verification is completed, the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and the Far East Railway will work together to use relevant technologies to speed up the second major railway artery in the country, and the imperial railway technology is far ahead of other countries in the world.

In 1903, the German company Siemens completed the development of a three-phase AC electric train, and in the test in October of that year, the prototype reached an astonishing speed of 210.2 km / h, although for a long time, the electric railway was just a legendary science fiction work, far from human life, and the amazing speed could not be shown in actual operation.

With the continuous progress of science and technology, various problems and difficulties have been overcome, in 1933, the Imperial Far East Railway Company completed the development of the electric high-speed railway project, which made the Imperial Electric Railway enter the first stage of speed-up, and the average speed of the national electric railway began to break through the 120 km/h mark.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Communications, in 1945, the average speed of the national electric railway in the empire will reach the standard of 140 km/h, and the proportion of national railway electrification will also exceed 75%, while the high-speed railway standard formulated by the empire is more than 180 km/h, and the Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed railway with a maximum experimental speed of more than 220 km/h will be the first high-speed railway in the true sense of the empire.

Even though the era of highways has arrived, the proportion of road transport is getting higher and higher, but railway freight is still the center of gravity of the empire's transportation industry, considering the energy efficiency ratio, the empire still gives more policy support to railway freight, and freight railways are gradually parting ways with high-speed passenger railways, separating into two systems.

Riding the Vostok train, Song Biao and his royal family enjoyed the joy of speeding on land at high speed, although the speed of 140 km/h was far from the apex of the Empire's technological limits, but for the passengers of this era, people already had enough reason to be happy, and people had enough reason to be proud of the Empire's scientific and technological achievements.

The train is fast and the train is quiet.

Song Biao can smoke a cigar very leisurely, looking at the full score essays written by high school students in the answer sheet of the joint entrance examination, in this more than 140 full score essays, almost all the imagination of the younger generation is covered, and the strange science fiction essays make Song Biao, as a reader, quite interesting.

These essays range from soft sci-fi to solid hard sci-fi.

Imperial high schools are strictly forbidden to set up liberal arts and sciences, all students must receive a complete preparatory education, and only begin to receive education in professional subjects during the sophomore year, such as the Central University of Technology, Central Imperial University, Aurora University, which is a leading research university in the country, does not set any major restrictions in the early stage, students only need to be admitted to the university, and the sophomore year needs to choose a major, and the science and engineering majors of Aurora University and Central University of Science and Technology take five years to get a bachelor's degree.

Therefore, in high school, students learn a wide range of subjects, but the wide range of imperial higher education is enough to ensure that more than 40% of high school students can get a suitable university education, so the vast majority of students do not have to devote all their energy to the high school entrance examination, and the joint examination score is only a reference for the first-class universities, except for public universities.

The public universities and colleges of the empire have strict admissions evaluations, the joint entrance examination score accounts for 3/5 of the total score, the social score accounts for 1/5, and the usual and other comprehensive scores account for 1/5, there is no recommendation score, no interview score, the only exception is Central Imperial University, theoretically speaking, only those best active students recommended by each famous high school, or the best students in the interview can be admitted to this university, and the joint examination score is just a stepping stone to enter Central Imperial University, and it is enough to meet that standard.

Private universities in the empire usually decentralize the joint entrance examination score to 1/2 of the total score, and leave more admissions points on other criteria such as interviews and recommendations.

For all high school students and technical secondary school graduates, it is certainly the best choice to be able to get into the best school, but in addition to the higher vocational colleges funded by the central government, the tuition fees of most well-known universities are not low, and for more students, the best choice is to apply for local public universities, vocational colleges and social universities in the province or city, or even in the county.

Of course, students who have a full score in the high school entrance examination essay and are included in the joint entrance examination excellent essay collection will almost always be admitted to the best universities or specially recruited according to the practice of previous years.

This year must be a bit complicated, for the middle courts and national colleges of various universities, whether these students with full scores in this year's college entrance examination essay can be specially recruited and admitted to the hospital, is it really a very entangled thing, right?

Song Biao read the first ten full-score essays, and soon found that today's young people are really an interesting generation, and even he was surprised by the richness of imagination and precociousness.

Among the ten full-score essays he saw, only two really focused on science and technology, and the others were historical essays and political essays, especially many essays that expounded political and cultural topics through such topics, accounting for almost half.

In fact, there are several essays on family, clan, and hometown that are limited to 20 years.

Very good, very nice.

A very loving, ambitious generation of children.

In other words, under the free education of the empire, a generation of freak teenagers is cultivated, and everyone's ideas are crazy.

If they can't all be recruited into the Central Imperial University, the talent of these young people is really blind!

That's how Song Biao sighed.

He began to admire the education of the empire, different from the examination-oriented education he received as a teenager, such a free education really has a very strange result, the education of the empire actually has several great characteristics, one is freedom, public schools in all provinces have the right to choose their own textbooks, and private schools are even more free; the second is the pursuit of traditional education and comprehensive quality education, which occupies a very large proportion of traditional Chinese culture education; Third, there are many practical education and social education courses, which encourage students to practice more and think more with their brains.

It is undeniable that the characteristics of the Chinese have always been diligent, parents are diligent, students are also diligent, the best young people are always those who are diligent and studious, and there are a large number of freaks who can achieve more than 530 points in the high school joint examination every year.

The good thing is that the universities of the Empire don't just take nerds.

It's just that the nerds are really talented too.

Song Biao saw a very pure hard science fiction essay, which was actually written about Verne's trip to the moon, and the subtitle of his essay was "From China to the Moon", planting the imperial flag on the moon and occupying the moon.

The strange thing is that another advertorial directly writes that the empire and the USSR landed on the moon at the same time, and started the Second World War for the ownership of the moon, well, the young man did not realize that the Second World War was just around the corner, right now.

The train kept moving forward.

Song Biao read all the 140 essays on the national outstanding joint entrance examination in his special train car, and after reading them, he was full of unprecedented confidence in the generation of the new youth of the empire, this is really a generation of young people who can make great things, they are peerless, and they have the best qualities in the human world - imagination and confidence.

They are full of confidence in the empire, full of confidence in themselves, with unlimited imagination, and also have a logical surname worth mentioning.

They're amazing.

It is so powerful that Song Biao can't believe that these essays are from the hands of the 17-18-year-old generation of teenagers in the empire, in short, there are strange and powerful young people everywhere in this empire, and they obviously have enough enthusiasm and future to ignite the whole country and ignite the world.

Until the evening, just as the train was about to cross the Yellow River to Wuchang.

Song Biao put down his reading glasses, opened the window and looked at the brightly lit Wuchang City, he couldn't help but smile, and smiled contentedly, he suddenly felt that the greatest legacy he left to the empire was not a territory of 20 million square kilometers, not half of the Pacific Ocean, not nuclear weapons, but countless young people with a bright future.

It is precisely because their future is infinitely better that the future of this empire will be infinitely better.

They have all the qualities that will make them successful, and when they succeed, the success of countless young people will make the empire continue to grow and develop indefinitely.

The important surname of education can be seen from this.

Without a free and great education, there will be no free and great youth, and without a free and great youth, there will be no free and great country.

What a simple truth.

"Okay!"

Song Biao was very happy, full of joy, he re-covered this compilation of excellent essays for the national high school entrance examination, gently patted the cover of the book with his hand, thinking about more things worthy of his pride and joy in his heart, imagining China in 20 years, no matter what he thought, he no longer had any hesitation and worry, there are countless young people full of hope, and no country has to worry about the future.

Education is really important.

Song Biao thought that from this point of view, the empire's education is still successful, but it should be more successful, the empire can lag behind other countries in science and technology, military, and economy, such as the United States, the only one that can challenge the empire, but as long as education is ahead of the United States, the empire will eventually become the most powerful country in the world.

And vice versa, even if the empire is ahead of the United States in science and technology, militarily, and economically, if education is backward, it will not be able to maintain the lead forever, or even be short-lived.

From Cai Yuanpei to Liang Qichao, from Liang Qichao to Zhang Boling, from Zhang Boling to Huang Yanpei, from Huang Yanpei to Mei Yiqi, the empire has gone through five different ministers of culture and education in the past 30 years, and it is they who are the bull's ear of modern Chinese education, making "free modern education" from a dream into a reality.

Since Cai Yuanpei put forward the concept of "China's education should be a free modern education", after 30 years, from the initial public school system in Northeast China to the six-year compulsory education, to the current 12-year national education, the education of the empire has developed to a very mature stage, absorbing many characteristics of modern education in the United States and Germany, and also making a lot of reading innovations on the basis of national conditions, and finally developed into one of the best modern education in the world.

The 12-year national education of the empire, in addition to six years of primary school, three years of junior high school, there are also three years of high school or secondary college education, the 12-year national education is free of charge, and has a mandatory obligation, students in the junior high school according to a variety of evaluations and their own needs to transfer to high school, vocational secondary school admission, from high school to university, there are four-year applied degrees, there are also five-year research degrees, the latter can continue to study for a master's degree, doctorate, from secondary school can go straight to the junior vocational college to continue study.

In order to encourage students to choose more vocational colleges, which is conducive to the training of middle and senior skilled workers and basic engineers, Imperial High School still maintains a high proportion of state support, and a large proportion of students complete an applied bachelor's degree in one to two years at their own expense.

It is precisely this foundation that makes the empire firmly occupy the position of the world's industrial hegemon, and the development of the empire on industry has obviously surpassed virtue and is moving towards a higher, broader and more advanced direction.

The empire is already the most important locomotive in the world, leading the whole world forward.

The newly appointed Minister of Culture and Education, Mei Yiqi, has made up his mind to continue to promote higher education in the empire during the 15-year term promised to him by the emperor, and strive to ensure that after 15 years, 70 percent of young people can receive higher education every year, making it the national higher education program he admires, ensuring that 100 percent of young people can receive 12-year national basic education, and finally realizing the "modern national education of universal freedom" that he hopes to achieve.

Everyone has a big dream.

It is precisely because everyone pursues great dreams that the world can progress, and the Chinese Empire can unite the great aspirations of the 500 million Chinese sons and daughters to continue to move forward.

(To be continued)