In the past 35 years, the empire has developed the fastest not in the economy and military, but in education and scientific research, purely in terms of the overall level of education, the empire is indeed in an absolute leading position in the world, because the empire has a large population, and young, the total number of college students and colleges trained by the country's colleges and universities every year is equivalent to the scale of Britain and France in ten years.

The empire currently has 197 comprehensive surname universities, 358 professional colleges and 1,190 colleges and universities, ranking first in the world, with a total of more than 1.2 million college students and more than 3.5 million college graduates every year, accounting for 61% of the population of the same age, and in the past ten years, the average annual number of new births in the empire is 7.7 million, and the 12-year national education rate is 94%.

The average annual high school entrance examination acceptance rate of the empire is about 50%, that is, 1/2 of the students can receive higher education, and the extra 850,000 college students and college students every year are generally from the large-scale return of overseas Chinese students, as well as students from Asian Union countries, in the past five years, the scale of overseas Chinese students and foreign students has increased significantly every year.

In fact, there is no lack of educational resources for Chinese overseas, taking the United States as an example, almost all institutions of higher learning in the United States currently recruit Chinese students, such as Yale University, Columbia University, Vanderbilt University, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, University of San Francisco, etc. have special middle schools, and Chinese University of California is also the most unique American university specializing in teaching in Chinese.

The total population of Chinese in the United States is only about 9%, but in American universities, Chinese students can account for 17% of the scale, an average of one in every six college students, the United States once made a statistic, in the United States at this stage of 20 to 28 years old, the proportion of Chinese who have received and received college education is 2.1 to 7.3 times that of other ethnic groups.

In Southeast Asia, where overseas Chinese are concentrated, almost 70% of colleges and universities adopt Chinese teaching, and these colleges and universities are basically private schools funded by Chinese businessmen and Chinese society, and in fact, they only recruit Chinese.

Taking Thailand as an example, there are currently 15 million Chinese in Thailand, and if you count the mixed-race Chinese in the general sense, the total number is as high as 18.5 million, accounting for 66% of the total population of Thailand, and there are now 152 colleges and universities in Thailand, 147 schools that adopt Chinese teaching, and 113 schools that only teach in Chinese, and the proportion of Chinese college students in the total number of college students in Thailand is close to 90%.

The importance attached to education in the entire Chinese world is very amazing.

In China, 12% of university students have returned from overseas, but at the postgraduate and doctoral levels, the proportion of overseas Chinese students has increased to 21%.

Now it is a very common situation that Chinese people live overseas, receive basic education, and return to their homeland to receive higher education, especially at the graduate level and above, and every year a large number of college students go overseas to look for opportunities after graduation, and there are also a large number of Chinese college students who return from overseas to stay in China to work.

In the Chinese world, this is a very special situation, completely different from those of countries such as Britain, the United States, and France.

There is also a very special place in the higher education of the empire, that is, the nationalization of higher professional education, the empire is actually pursuing the goal of a national university education, the ultimate direction is that all the peasants and workers of the younger generation must receive higher education, and the whole country is developing in the direction of high education and high technology. One-third of college students who graduate with a bachelor's degree will go on to graduate school under the pressures and demands of the social environment.

In 1940, there were 3,423,000 college students, 1,224,000 bachelor's graduates, 355,000 master's students, and 73,000 doctoral students graduating from the empire's colleges and universities.

Compared with Britain and France, this multiple is even more striking.

Even when comparing high school and secondary school students, the total number of graduates who complete 12 years of education each year is five times that of the United States, and it is this high-quality overall education that drives the empire forward at a high speed.

In the past five years, the gap between China and the United States in terms of economy and science and technology has not been narrowing, but is gradually expanding; taking the most fiercely competitive household appliance industry between China and the United States at the present stage as an example, China's invention and technology patents in the household electrical appliance industry last year were as high as 40,000, while the United States had only 9,752 patents in the same period.

This is actually already a very staggering gap.

Education is the foundation of a country and the foundation of a nation, and if the competition of a modern country is the competition of scientific research strength, then education is the basic condition for scientific research.

In 1933, when the two countries signed the World Free Trade Treaty, the U.S. trade deficit with China was only $230 million, and by 1941, the U.S. trade deficit with China had expanded to $1.7 billion. In other words, the United States, the world's second largest economy, is becoming a supplier of raw materials to China.

In the past seven years, the aviation, machinery, electrical, household appliances, electronics, shipbuilding, automobile, chemical, textile, and food industries in the United States have all suffered a cold winter-like impact.

For the United States, its most difficult problem is that its gold reserves are being gradually eroded in international free trade.

With the destruction of the European economy, the United States suffered a very serious shock during the same period, and the United States, which had just climbed out of the Great Depression, was hit by another violent shock head-on, and the United States at this time had decided to let the dollar depreciate sharply during the year to alleviate the country's economic difficulties and the huge trade deficit between China and the United States.

After the basic collapse of the pound sterling, the US dollar is the only currency in the world that can compete with the Chinese yuan for the status of the world's circulating currency, and the Chinese yuan and the US dollar are also the main foreign exchange reserves of various countries at this stage, especially the central bank of China, the total amount of US dollar foreign exchange reserves held in the hands is also amazing.

Without the consent of the central bank of China, it is difficult for the United States to directly devalue the dollar, and if it provokes the central bank of China and causes the dollar to depreciate completely out of control, the result will be that China will completely crush the entire national economy like the United Kingdom.

Therefore, the United States can only negotiate with China in a very painful way, seeking to implement the depreciation of the dollar with China's support to rescue the real economy of the United States, which is in difficulty.

As long as there is a strong education, the stronger the stronger is the eternal law of this world.

China's population is three times that of the United States, and in the competition between China and the United States, once China surpasses it, it will be very difficult for the United States to catch up, and in this kind of competition on a global scale, as long as the United States slips one step, it will be difficult to curb the long-term decline in the future.

This is the same as the Sino-US competition in the 21 st century, once China surpasses the United States in terms of education, economy, and scientific research, it will be difficult for the United States to maintain the dollar exchange rate and reverse the situation of the national economy, and the entire US economy will fall into a huge quagmire from which it will be difficult to extricate itself.

The empire is so powerful, how many things in this world need to worry about His Majesty the Emperor, even in the face of the madness of Nazi Germany, the Empire and His Majesty the Emperor do not have too much to worry about.

For the traditional powers such as Britain and the United States, once China surpasses them as the world hegemon, the situation will be completely out of control.

This is the case now.

Imperial Chancellor of the Exchequer Chen Jin has gone to Hawaii to hold a new round of talks with the US Treasury Secretary, either the Chinese dollar will increase by 20% or the dollar will depreciate by 20%, and there is no other way.

Compared with the option of depreciating the dollar, the empire would rather let the Chinese yuan appreciate, but the proportion of appreciation cannot reach 20%, and the upper limit of the central political axe is "the central yuan rises by 7.5%, and the dollar depreciates by 5%", and the two sides reached a new treaty to end the current dispute and temporarily stabilize the international trade between China and the United States.

The United States is China's largest export market, and it is clearly not in China's interest to sit back and watch the collapse of the American economy.

If the United States collapses, the World Free Trade Association in Shanghai will inevitably fall into collapse, which is even more inconsistent with China's national interests, of course, if China wants to make appropriate concessions and support to save the American economy, the United States will also inevitably make major concessions to China in the South Pacific, the bargaining chip of the American political axe is to withdraw from the Philippines, recognize the Philippine reading power, the empire actually wants this matter, and the two sides do not have too much controversy in theory.

Facts have proved that once the ancient empire of China is rejuvenated, the advance of this empire will no longer be able to be stopped.

This is a youthful new empire, and its mainstream class is a group of young people between the ages of 20 and 40 who have grown up with the empire, and in almost all fields, they are the most mainstream forces that have promoted the empire to continue to develop at a high speed, and in the past thirty years, the rapid development speed and scale of the empire have also been the rarest great revival movements in the entire history of the world.

Even though it is already the most powerful empire in the world, accounting for more than one-third of the world's GDP, the empire still has more room for development.

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Emperor Song Biao wanted to go to the devastation to see what the devastated book was like, but he did not make it, and after his visit to North Korea, he flew back to the northeast to inspect the development of the new jetliner.

Because the fuel consumption rate of turbojet engines is too high, the new Northeast Aviation Industry Holding Group formed on the basis of the Shenyang Aircraft Company did not choose the turbojet passenger plane program, from the very beginning, they linked the jet airliner with the turbofan engine, and developed the WS202 commercial airliner engine with a large bypass ratio on the basis of the military turbofan 2 engine, while the WS205 engine, which also belongs to the large bypass ratio, was used in the new military transport aircraft.

At this time, the empire has gradually formed three major and seven small aviation industry layout, with the Northeast and Jiangnan as the two major aviation bases of the empire, the center of Northeast Airlines is in Shenyang, and the industry of Jiangnan Aviation is scattered in Nanjing, Shanghai, Ningbo, Nanchang, Hefei and other places, and gradually transferred to Ningbo to build a new Jiangnan Aviation Technology Group, the third largest aviation industry base is located in Fuzhou, but there is a large gap in the overall strength of the Northeast and Jiangnan, and the others are in Xi'an, Tianjin, Chengdu, Wuhan, Taiyuan, Yanjing also has a certain scale of aviation industry and enterprise distribution.

Because the main strength is concentrated in the Northeast Aviation Engineering and Jiangnan Aviation Engineering, the development contract of the next generation model of the Central Military Department of the empire is basically occupied by the two major aircraft manufacturers, the contract for the next generation of heavy twin-engine fighters, large military transport aircraft, and large-tonnage helicopters is in the Northeast, while the development contract for the next generation of medium-sized single-engine fighters, medium-sized tactical military transport aircraft, medium-sized helicopters, and armed helicopters is in Jiangnan, and the contract for the Navy's twin-engine medium-sized carrier-based aircraft is in the Fuzhou Aircraft Industry Company, which is not a simple distribution of the Central Military Department. Rather, it is the result of the election of three major aviation companies in their respective programs.

Of course, the three major aircraft groups have a strong consortium behind them, even without the contract of the Central Military Department, the three companies can join other small companies to fund the development of new military aircraft to seek overseas markets, especially in the military transport aircraft and helicopter election failed in the Fuzhou Heavy Industry, with the support of the parent company Nanyang Consortium at the same time launched two non-military scientific research projects, and tried to occupy more share in the market of small and medium-sized jetliners.

It's good to have competition.

Under the pressure of Jiangnan Heavy Industry, the Northeast Aviation Industry Group also relies on the support of the entire Northeast Heavy Industry Consortium to devote itself to the development of the three major military aircraft projects and large jet airliners, which of course is also to ensure the leading position of the Northeast in the entire Chinese aviation industry, which is related to the collective destiny of the entire consortium and more than 400 affiliated enterprises.

In this imperial era, the strength of the Northeast has many inevitable factors, such as the first-mover advantage, and the Northeast and the surrounding areas are rich in mineral resources and other factors, in order to compete with the Northeast consortium, the Jiangnan and Nanyang consortiums are congenitally insufficient in the region's resource reserves, coupled with the local rise of the Northwest, Southwest, Huguang and Shanxi consortiums, they can only adopt a large-scale overseas expansion strategy, the Nanyang consortium will mainly concentrate on the resources in Southeast Asia, and the Jiangnan consortium will set up the main resource supply in the Central and South American market.

It is precisely for this reason that the empire must surpass other countries in the scale and plan of naval construction for a long time, and Northeast Heavy Industry has signed a contract with the Central Military Department to begin the pre-research work on the nuclear power system of large ships, and it is expected that around 1950, this plan will be officially launched.

Prior to this, the empire's first-generation nuclear power plant had been determined to be on Sakhalin Island in the Far East, and construction would begin in 1945, and it was expected that it would be built in other coastal areas around 1950, and the development of the second-generation nuclear power plant project would be carried out at the same time.

Due to the needs of the development of the Empire's nuclear weapons, there are special heavy water reactors in the first and second generation nuclear power projects, and from the main point of view, the Empire will consider light water reactors more in the long run.

Song Biao visited more than 60 scientific research institutions and factories along the way, and also went to Aurora University and Northeastern University, feeling that it was basically very good, and at this rate of development, it is expected that by the 1950s, the technological gap between the empire and Europe and the United States will be further expanded.

This is important.

The Reich was strong, and destined to grow stronger, and now that both the policy and the immigration policy were about to have new results, the only question now was to deal with Nazi Germany as quickly as possible.

After returning to Yanjing, Emperor Song Biao reviewed the information provided by the Central Military Intelligence Department on the progress of the nuclear weapons programs of Germany, Britain and the United States, and the empire had completed the development of the miniaturization of hydrogen bombs with a yield of 500,000 tons and a yield of 1 million tons, the latter of which began to be officially installed and produced as the main nuclear warhead in 1940, and the maximum yield of the airborne hydrogen bomb carried by large bombers could reach the scale of 5 million tons.

The total number of nuclear warheads in the empire is 145, 33 on board, and it is expected that in October next year, the number of nuclear warheads will be expanded to 220, and the number of airborne nuclear bombs will be increased to 50, and the total number of CNW5-40-100D thermonuclear warheads, the most advanced 1 million ton yield, is 93 in the current nuclear warheads.

This level of quantity is enough for China to raze Germany and the United States at the same time, and among the nuclear weapons programs of Germany, Britain and the United States, Germany, which has been preparing for the longest time, has made the fastest progress, followed by the United Kingdom, and the United States is relatively still in the early stage of preparation, even Germany, which is about 3-5 years away from the actual usable stage, and about 10-15 years behind the empire.

After reviewing the latest information, Emperor Song Biao made a telephone call to Jiang Fangzhen, chief of the General Staff, and the two talked about this issue for more than ten minutes, and they basically agreed on the same idea, that is, to strive to declare war on Germany before October next year, and no later than October 1943, they hoped to end the war.

October 1943.

This was the deadline for the Reich to decide on a nuclear attack, and if Nazi Germany had not been eliminated before then, they would have directly and without hesitation to use nuclear weapons on a large scale, the first principle being to destroy the main German-Italian forces, and the second principle was to destroy the major industrial cities.

After the end of this war, the empire did not need to think about facing the threat of the Soviet Union, so after the end of the war, the empire not only did not have a large-scale plan to aid Britain and France in reconstruction, but also took away most of the machinery and equipment from Germany and Italy as war reparations.

The goal is simple - to let Europe decline.

After the end of the war, the empire will continue to maintain the national policy of taking Asia as the main investment area, so as to avoid other powers in the world from challenging the special hegemony of the empire in the world.

The premise of the agreement between Emperor Song Biao and Jiang Fangzhen, Chief of the General Staff, on the issue of declaring war on Germany was actually more and more information proving that the Italian army was ready to attack Tunisia and Egypt, and there was also information that Germany was very concerned about this matter and demanded that Italy guarantee not to expand military operations in North Africa in order to prevent China from declaring war on this ground.

China needs a reason to declare war, it needs a reason to occupy Africa, and Italy is about to provide a great opportunity for this, and in Mussolini's view, China's declaration of war is also good, and he and the great Italy need a chance to take revenge.

With the support of the Reich, the war in Europe was turning to a more stable equilibrium, Britain had withdrawn from the European continent, but Germany could not effectively attack Britain, through the sale and lease of military supplies, the Reich provided Britain with 1,400 J-6 fighters, 4,500 J-5 Tiger Shark fighter-bombers, 4 Northeast-class aircraft carriers, 75 destroyers and 22 submarines, as well as a large number of other military supplies, including anti-aircraft armored vehicles and short-range missiles that Britain urgently needed.

The Reich completely provided Britain with two aircraft carrier formations and a large number of anti-submarine forces, which ensured Britain's superiority over the German submarine forces in the Atlantic, and avoided Britain being isolated by the German submarine forces, while in the field of air force, the large-scale involvement of J-6 fighters also caused the Luftwaffe to suffer heavy losses and was unable to effectively organize the bombing of Britain.

Germany's plan to force Britain to sign an armistice had failed, but Britain lacked the strength to attack the continent, and the two sides were at a stalemate.

Nazi Germany, which owned most of Europe, relied on the resources of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and at this time had extremely strong national war resource reserves, Germany was not in a hurry to solve the war quickly, and Italy could not bear it, in this expansion, both Germany and Poland gained more benefits, occupied a large amount of land, while Italy gained nothing, and even suffered many setbacks in the military campaign to invade the Balkans.

Under such circumstances, Italy decided to attack North Africa and occupy more interests.

The Central Military Intelligence Department has very reliable intelligence that can confirm that Italy may launch a military operation in North Africa within this month, and they have concentrated more than 40 infantry divisions in Libya and deployed a large number of aircraft and armored vehicles in a vain attempt to replicate Germany's lightning tactics to occupy the whole of North Africa in one go, dominate the entire Mediterranean, and restore the ancient Roman Empire.

Italy is not blindly ignorant, and they are more likely to use speed and blitzkrieg to quickly occupy North Africa, without giving China time to intervene in this matter, but their plan to occupy the entire Mediterranean Sea will inevitably threaten the overall interests of the Asian League.

The Italians knew nothing about this, and blindly believed that the military might of the German-Polish Iron Alliance would intimidate any opponent.

In this era of the Empire, after eliminating the threat of the Soviet Union and the Empire, the Empire is living in the most secure and peaceful atmosphere it has ever seen, far from the war, and people are enjoying a new life full of hope, as if the Second World War was still far away from China.

In the evening dusk, citizens of large and small cities will gather in the teahouse, listen to the story and cross talk, the theater of Peking Opera, Hui Opera, Kunqu Opera and storytelling and lyrics are always sung over and over again, some old gentlemen who do not like to be lively will sit at the door of the house and listen to the radio, there are old-fashioned and bulky radios, there are also new and small.

Rural farmers will also gather together in twos and threes at this time, each village has a loud loud broadcast, playing people's favorite songs, the development of land and the improvement of the minimum standard of farmland for each farmer, the promotion of small-scale mechanized agriculture, so that the population of each village seems to be decreasing, people live more and more scattered, many remote villages have only a dozen households, surrounded by that endless farmland.

Old-fashioned white school buses run around the university township, taking young students home.

In the past 30 years, the country's cultivated land has more than doubled from less than 1.2 billion mu at the beginning, while the total number of local peasant households has dropped to one-third of that in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The countryside gossiped, chatting about the east family and the west family, talking about the fact that the son of the Ge family sold his family's forty acres of land, bought a large field in that place in Nanyang, and could earn more than 100,000 yuan by planting sugarcane every year, saying that he would write a letter back, and then return to China to set up a factory after working for more than ten years, just like the plastic factory in the town.

In the windbreak in the countryside, there are harvesters and agricultural vehicles driving by, the sound of clicking can be heard far away, each family raises chickens, ducks, fish and sheep, it is said that it is gradually prosperous, that is, there are fewer and fewer people, when the founding of the People's Republic of China, there can be more than 100 households in a village, and now there are only more than 30 households left.

More and more people moved away, and after many old people died, the land was left there and sold cheaply, and the children never came back, and occasionally middle-aged people who grew up in the village when they were children came back, driving the city car on the road as if looking for acquaintances.

It seems that this is the case in the village, there are many young children, but few of them will stay, and after studying, they will go to work in the city, and they will only come back during the Chinese New Year, and some old people who have known each other for most of their lives will also go to live in the city with their children, and then die there, and some are not even buried back in their hometowns.

Life is always getting better every year, but many people inevitably feel that something is missing, and they just hope that their children who have left home will have a better life.

Some people say that Chinese people will talk about politics when they meet in a pit.

The same is true for the countrymen, smoking dry tobacco, squatting at the entrance of the village and saying some marginal words, boasting about their knowledge, saying that it is all about the provincial governor and the prime minister, and there are some even more marginal gossip rumors, watching TV and listening to the radio, so that the old men in the village also seem to be knowledgeable, and when it comes to the county magistrate, they are scolding and scolding that they have not done a few good things.

I won't choose that old brute next time.

People are so ruthless, in fact, many people have not voted seriously, a few years ago there will always be people to buy votes, 10 votes are worth two or three yuan, now the grip is too tight, the person who buys the ticket will go to jail, the ticket seller will also be fined, and gradually no one will do this thing.

Countless villages are like forgotten places by the Empire, and only during the election every year, all kinds of trucks come down to hand out leaflets, and loudspeakers blow louder than the radio.

Some old people can't see these messy things, and they will always say things like "It's still a good year when the emperor was in power", and they will also say some complaining words like "Why doesn't the emperor ask about things".

In the quiet life, there are always the county's armed forces chiefs who go to the countryside to recruit soldiers, shouting from village to village, and the radio is always shouting over and over again the voices of young people to serve the country, as for where to go to war, young people are not as clear as in previous years, when they fought this and the Soviet Union, everyone really enthusiastically joined the army.

Changes are always gradually changing year after year, the old people are buried under the soil one after another, the children are born one after another, in the flow of time, the people who left this homeland quietly left, the people who stayed behind planted more land, raised more livestock, agricultural machinery and household appliances flooded every place like a tide, the popularization of electricity made the village always bright at night, and the fireflies that were common when I was a child disappeared so slowly.

Life is always changing and evolving.

Just this year, an even bigger change awaits all Chinese.

(To be continued)