That night, Song Biao personally presided over a banquet in the summer palace to entertain Wei Lihuang and Huang Botao, a group of representatives of middle- and lower-level officers of the Zhili Military Region.

In general, Song Biao is still very satisfied with these two people, their level has improved rapidly in the past few years, and their understanding is deeper than when they graduated from the Central Military Academy.

In particular, Wei Lihuang, because he experienced World War I and the Sino-Soviet War, has a very deep set of self-views on the understanding of modern warfare and modern mechanized troops, and also has a very deep understanding of the traditional theory of mobility, rapidity, and onslaught of the Imperial Army, which can be said to be the essence of the Imperial Army.

This person is very good, he can be called the kind of Confucian general admired by Song Biao, familiar with the scriptures and history, virtuous and healthy, diligent and thoughtful, with a lofty mind to serve the country, and a loyal and honest guard, a corporal of etiquette and virtue, and is very good at being a man.

Such generals have always been Song Biao's favorite.

This time, Song Biao already planned to promote him to brigadier general and transfer him to the Fourth Division as the brigade commander of the tank brigade attached to the division, urging him to continue to strengthen his research and study in the field of tank armored forces so that he could become a more excellent and comprehensive military commander.

Huang Botao is different, this person is too upright.

Song Biao has always kept him in the tank unit, initially stayed in the Central Military Academy to study mechanical armor, and now he is an army major in the armored brigade attached to the Fourth Division.

Huang Botao was only a sergeant when he participated in the Sino-Soviet War, and he had just graduated from the Xuzhou Army Non-commissioned Officer School.

Song Biao has always paid attention to this person, and the overall impression is also very good, this person and Wei Lihuang's surname is more complementary, Wei Lihuang is cautious and smart, and Huang Botao has the style of an ancient brave general, not afraid of death, and the two are still very suitable partners.

The empire has 152 three-year youth military academies equivalent to vocational high school education, 14 three-year non-commissioned officer schools for the navy, army and air force, eight three-year military academies, and finally the Central Military Academy, the highest military academy with a comprehensive surname.

Starting from the average of four national youth military academies in each province nationwide, the empire has invested a lot of energy and teaching resources in modern military and quality education, and the annual admission and graduation rate of youth military academies is only 1/4, and it has already absorbed the best young cadets in the country, and the admission and graduation rate from youth military academies to non-commissioned officer schools is 1/3, and the direct admission rate from non-commissioned military schools to eight military academies is 1/4.

Starting from the time junior high school students apply for the youth military academies in various provinces, only one out of every 48 students can be trained as a military academy lieutenant graduate, and there are very few people who finally have the opportunity to enter the Central Military Academy.

The military education of the empire was originally taught by Russia, with reference to the scriptures, and then learned from Germany and the United States, and gradually absorbed the advantages of British and French military education, and finally formed its own system, forming this very systematic military education system, which can be described as unique in the world, and this also ensures the abundance and endless emergence of imperial talents.

In the past 17 years, the imperial [***] military education system has trained a total of 134,000 non-commissioned officer graduates, in the military armed forces of the empire, on average, there is a cadet for every 22 people who have received at least six years of rigorous military education, and these young and middle-aged non-commissioned officers are called the new department, the imperial Central Defense Force, the National Patrol Force, and the General Administration of the Coast Guard have a total of 1,442 regimental officers, and the new department accounts for 92%, among the generals at the division and brigade level and above, the emperor [***] The Far Eastern Department cultivated by the education system accounts for half of the country, and the study abroad departments such as the Fujian Department, the Department of Overseas Studies, and the study abroad departments of Germany, Russia, the United States and France together account for the other half.

It can be said that from the founding of the empire to 1928, the modern military education system established by the empire was a model of the highest level in the whole world.

Not one of them.

The 1,470 officers invited by the Lushan Conference represent the outstanding achievements of imperial education, and they will happen to become the most important group of military commanders in the empire during World War II.

They will prove that China's military is the best in the world.

Song Biao has great expectations for this, and has also put in 23 years of hard work and cultivation for it, from the beginning of the establishment of the Far East Army Non-commissioned Officer School, he hopes to realize this great dream, because this is his most brilliant and persistent dream.

He vows to die and lead the [***] people to prove their talents.

Since ancient times, starting from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, to the Shang and Zhou Taigongs, Chinese famous generals have emerged in an endless stream, shining as stars, shocking the history books, and there should be no exception in today's imperial era.

…… Representatives of middle-aged and young officers from the navy, army, and air forces, national defense forces, and coast guard forces from all over the country arrived at the Lushan Summer Palace one after another, and elites from all walks of life gathered together.

On the night before the opening of the Lushan Conference, Air Force Minister Shu Fangde arrived at the Lushan Summer Palace on an Air Force transport plane, and he was one of the very few high-ranking generals invited to the conference, with the rank of Lieutenant General, but after this meeting, in recognition of his long-term contributions to the Chinese Imperial Air Force, Song Biao would award him the rank of Air Force General as Emperor and Supreme Commander of the Three Armed Forces.

This will be the first Air Force general in the history of the Reich.

Before Shu Fangde, there was not a single general in the navy and the air force, and the existing 14 generals in the empire were all from the army, and Song Biao's official military rank was Marshal of the Imperial Central Defense Force, which was also the only special military rank that could directly use the Wehrmacht.

On the night of Shu Fangde's arrival, Song Biao asked the queen to hold an ordinary family banquet for him, and theoretically speaking, they were members of a family.

After the dinner, Song Biao and Shu Fangde went to the study together, where they re-poured two glasses of tequila from Papua New Guinea and sat down to chat.

When all the windows of the study are opened, it becomes a gazebo on a high mountain.

The wonder of this place in Lushan is that even in the middle of summer, there are no mosquitoes and other disturbances, about because of the altitude, in short, it is a very suitable place for vacation, the cool mountain breeze blows along the mountains outside the pavilion, which makes people feel refreshed.

After drinking half a glass of wine, Song Biaocai and Shu Fangde asked, "Do you know that you will leave the position of Minister of the Air Force after the meeting?" ”

Shu Fangde was silent, he had heard such news, but he couldn't confirm it, he always felt that he was doing a good job, if it weren't for his prestige and special status to support the development of the Air Force, the Imperial Air Force would obviously not have the strength it has today.

He really felt like he was doing a good job.

Song Biao was also silent for a while before he said: "I plan to let Pan Zhaoqin take your place, Gu Weijun will be transferred back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs next month and serve as the governor of the overseas province in Central New Guinea, which is a very good appointment." I'm thinking of having you succeed him, and it's unlikely that there will be any more changes in the future, which means you may retire from the Wehrmacht. This is an important and special decision, so be sure to ask your opinion before deciding. ”

Shu Fangde was still silent for a while before he said: "Your Majesty, your subordinates must obey the emperor's holy decree in everything." ”

Song Biao knew that he must have some confusion and confusion in his heart, as well as emotions such as sadness, and explained to him: "For so many years, the selection of the chief of the inner court is like a stage, which is always given to those talented young people. It was only in the last few years that it dawned on me that this was a very personal position, and perhaps I should appoint a family member to such a position. You can also understand this to mean that I no longer wish to dedicate everything to this country, maybe I have not done enough, but everyone's life is limited, even you and I cannot give everything, we need a small piece of land for ourselves, so I have decided to arrange for you to take the position of chief of the inner court, and preside over the work of this great steward as a relative of the royal family. ”

Shu Fangde thought for a moment and replied cautiously: "Your Majesty, your subordinates think that the emperor should have done this a long time ago, because you have contributed too much to the empire, you should really think about yourself." ”

Song Biao drank silently in the cool breeze, savoring the bitter taste of New Guinea tequila.

He didn't want to tell Shu Fangde that he had no friends at all in this era, which was a tragedy, but it was also a fact, maybe there were still some friends, such as his wife and children, Zhang Binglin and Cai Yuanpei, these are the few people who can be counted as friends.

Schofonder is also one of them.

They can come and go like friends, drink, and talk.

Song Biao didn't think this was a problem before, and when he realized that this was a problem, he guessed that he might be old, because he was old, so he no longer had the ambition of his youth.

Or rather, as an emperor, he would have had such an ending.

He began to be able to understand the pain in the hearts of those emperors since ancient times, and he had to keep precautions against everyone, so that they lived very hard and tired, if there was no prevention, the final outcome would be basically the destruction of the family and the country, allowing his cronies to wreak havoc on the country, destroying the foundation of the national team, and making himself the king of the country.

Such sentimentality can only be hidden in the depths of Song Biao's heart, he can't describe such pain to anyone, sitting here, he recalls his battle outside the Erwolf Cave, it was his own battle, and now he is still full of passionate passion when he thinks about it.

What a pleasure.

It's a lot of fun.

It's just that everything becomes a memory.

If he could, he would still prefer to be a simple sergeant, fighting on the front lines and standing guard for the country, rather than looking down on the whole world as an emperor.

He wants to be a hero, but he doesn't want to be such a hero.

He wanted to save the country, but he didn't want to do it in such a way.

But he didn't have any other choice.

There will be no one in this world who can understand the emperor's mood of wanting to be an ordinary person, and this feeling can only be understood by those who are also emperors.

It is one of the most mysterious and unspeakable tragedies in the world.

Song Biao drank all the wine in the cup, then got up and patted Shu Fangde's shoulder, and said, "In the end, I have to work hard for you!" ”

Shu Fangde got up suddenly, bowed respectfully, and sent the emperor back to the palace to rest.

After leaving the study, Song Biao did not go to the queen to rest, nor did he go to Concubine Ning, Concubine Rong, and Concubine Shu, he stayed alone in his bedroom and couldn't sleep all night, thinking about the future of himself and the empire, or what serious things didn't take seriously, he just wanted to be alone and quiet, so that he could return to the past.

The past was obviously no longer able to come back, he could no longer be a junior lieutenant officer, walking on the front lines of the war simply and without much thought, and the people who could really do so were elsewhere in the summer palace, where they were the new military generals of the Empire.

On the shoulders of the elites of these empires, once upon a time, they also began to pin their hopes on Song Biao.

…… It wasn't until the early hours of the next morning that Song Biao took a short nap, woke up and made some preparations, and then went to the Chinese Conference Hall in the Summer Palace, which is where the Lushan Conference is officially held every year.

But that morning, just before Song Biao was about to hold a meeting, the General Intelligence Agency handed him a piece of information that had nothing to do with military, political, and economic affairs: in the second Chuju Challenge held in Hiroshima, Chinese players were all out of the game in all six divisions.

This news made Song Biao very embarrassed, classical judo is what he actively advocated and promoted in China, and the Zhongyu Judo Challenge was also the first time he held in Yanjing, last year's result was 3:3, and this year it suddenly became 6:0.

This made Song Biao very embarrassed, he can even imagine that the media will take the opportunity to seize this opportunity to set off a number of ethnic discrimination reports, under his restrictions, China is not a country that particularly focuses on ethnography, and the tendency of **ism is greater than that of ethnosocial Darwinism, and it is a country where ethnographic Darwinism prevails, actively promoting a special ethnography that is higher than that of Asians.

During this period, he firmly believed that he was not a yellow race, because their skin was whiter, so they should belong to the race between the white race and the yellow race, and made up a green race.

White JBM, short and frustrated, and thought he was Caucasian.

Song Biao was very disgusted with this kind of ethnography for a long time, but he organized the Judo Challenge to better promote this kind of competition in China and improve the competition awareness of young people, but this result was not what he wanted.

Very unpleasant.

Song Biao just walked all the way and looked at the information directly transmitted by the General Intelligence Bureau from the book, and he was very unhappy. When he arrived at the China Conference Hall, as soon as he entered the conference hall, all the representatives of the captains and officers of the whole military academy who were waiting here got up collectively and bowed together.

Song Biao glanced up, then walked up to the podium and laid the speech he had prepared on the table, and then looked down at the outline of the speech that had been prepared.

He confirmed his surname and looked at the draft of the speech again, and waited for all the representatives of the young and middle-aged officers to sit down again, and then he thought about making a slight revision to the content of the speech.

At this moment, he looked down at all the middle-aged and young officer representatives of the country's navy, land, air force, and patrol coast guard forces, and felt a very special sense of pride in his heart, proud of the empire's military education system and achievements.

This is the result of his 23 years of perseverance.

It is not easy, and he and China's military educators have made very hard efforts to achieve such an achievement today.

In the past 23 years, modern military education and training courses have been Song Biao's most focused work, until today, the textbooks used in the emperor's affairs education have all been reviewed by him, of which 1/3 is personally responsible for the editor-in-chief, starting from the youth military academy, all military cadets will begin to study the "Sun Tzu", "War Theory", "National Defense Theory", "Sea Power" four military theory books step by step, thus opening the theory and history education of classical military science and modern military science.

Based on "On War", "Introduction to the Art of War" and the history of world wars, "On National Defense" is a military theory co-authored by Song Biao and Jiang Fangzhen, focusing on the gradual analysis of the Napoleonic Wars, the North and the South, the United States and the West, the Franco-Prussian War, the Russian-Russian War, and the Sino-Xinhai War, starting with the Franco-Prussian War, so as to analyze and sort out the entire modern war.

Since its compilation and publication, "On National Defense" has undergone three major revisions, successively adding supplements and analyses of World War I and the Sino-Soviet War, and is now a compulsory subject for military education in China; in addition to "On National Defense," Song Biao and Jiang Fangzhen have also co-edited another set of military theory books, "Modern Military Science," which is a compulsory subject for all noncommissioned officer schools.

"On National Defense" is the foundation of Chinese affairs education, while "Modern Military Science" is an advanced stage of professionalization of Chinese affairs education; compared with "Theory of National Defense", it obviously focuses on emphasizing the four major development trends of air and sea supremacy and modern warfare: mobility, rapidity, firepower, and precision.

Song Biao's understanding of modern warfare is like this, and he believes that the development direction of modern warfare is these four major trends, and the army must become faster and faster, more and more mobile, more and more powerful firepower, and higher and higher precision, and his theory is also implemented throughout the army.

In addition, such classic military theoretical works as "Military Guidance", "Military Lessons", "Introduction to Military Art", and "War Command Science" have a great impact on the development of modern military science, and they all occupy a certain position in the education of imperial affairs.

Every year, the Central Military Department's Lessons Department, General Staff Department, Intelligence Department, and Logistics Department are all units of the same level, and every year they devote a great deal of manpower and energy to the study of military education, conduct comprehensive statistics and research on war science and weapons science, and set up a separate military theory research institute and a war history research bureau to continuously strengthen military modernization education within the empire.

A journey of a thousand miles is based on steps.

After 23 years of unremitting efforts, the education of the emperor has reached the level and scale it is today.

The 1,470 representatives of young and middle-aged officers in front of Song Biao are the achievements and treasures of the emperor's education, and they represent the future of the emperor's affairs.

At this moment, Song Biao really felt proud and proud, and he suddenly felt that as an emperor, the loneliness and all kinds of pressure he had endured over the years, as well as all the efforts and other costs he had paid, were worth it.

As a soldier, he felt a heartfelt pride in this.

With such passion surging in his heart, Song Biao was extremely happy and joyful, so that the frustration of the judo challenge suddenly became insignificant, thinking of this, he decided to change the original speech, calmly glanced at the 1470 emperor [***] elites in front of him again, and said softly into the microphone: "Before I officially give a speech to you, I need to talk about a small matter, in the morning, I got a message from the CIA that made me personally embarrassed and regretful, That is, in the second Nakakusai Judo Challenge in Hiroshima, which just ended yesterday, all six players appointed by our country were defeated. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the audience was in an uproar, and everyone couldn't believe what they had heard about the latest intelligence news.

The army places great emphasis on competition, and in addition to some regular competitive sports, classical judo and grappling are compulsory subjects in combat training, and under the influence of the emperor, there are definitely a large number of young and middle-aged officers here who are enthusiastic about classical judo.

In the imperial era, classical judo was called the Jiao Tai that originated in the Qin Dynasty, and it was the strongest sport in the national arts, and was awarded the standard of nine dan according to performance and seniority, and the highest dan was called Guoshi, which was equivalent to the ten dan of the book.

In addition to the three youth groups and youth groups, the other three are all national standard nine-dan representing the highest level of classical judo in China, and enjoy a high reputation in China.

It's very hard for everyone to accept.

Song Biao was silent for a moment, and waited for the venue to gradually calm down before making a formal speech on this topic: "We are one of the countries and nations that know Yuben best, and we can roughly imagine what the domestic media will take the opportunity to promote, which is nothing more than the superiority of the Japanese race over the Asian race, especially the Chinese race, or to reconfirm the judo they advocate is inherited from the Yuben, and to promote the invincible spirit, samurai spirit, and their martial spirit, and so on." Since the Xinhai War, the exchanges between China and China have actually been in a state of shrinkage, and the economic, trade, and military-political exchanges between the two sides have gradually decreased. I clearly remember that in 1911, the first year of Shenwu, although it was in the war stage, there were still more than 4,000 Chinese students studying in China, and last year, the total number of Chinese students in China was less than 1,000, the total number of Chinese students in the United States exceeded 14,000, and the total number of students in Europe exceeded 30,000. Since the beginning of the fifth year of Shenwu, China and the two countries have basically stopped military exchanges, the two sides have stopped assigning students to study abroad, and other cooperation in the field of military industry and military theory research has also been suspended. In terms of commercial contacts, the population in China plummeted from 210,000 at its peak to less than 40,000 at the end of last year, while the total number of foreigners in China increased to 5.3 million during the same period. In Shandong, Liaoyang, and Aurora, the German population in China is close to 700,000, and in the northeast and north, the Russian population in China has exceeded 2.5 million. ”

This proves that in the era of China's and foreign exchanges becoming larger and larger, and in China's increasingly open and inclusive era, China and China have gone farther and farther apart, and the trend of being close to each other but becoming mortal enemies has become irreversible. To a certain extent, this has something to do with the Empire's diplomatic strategy of long-distance friendship and close attack, and we ourselves have a very important responsibility, but it has more to do with the [***] policy of disagreement with China. ”

"Our strategy of long-distance and close attack is not only a continuation of the geopolitics originating from the Qin Dynasty, but also a temporary land fringe policy. The crux of the problem lies in the fact that we never reflect on ourselves, blindly challenge our country's leading position in Asia, and demand that Asia be divided equally with our country. ”

As soon as Song Biao said the word "roll", the audience gave a warm collective standing ovation.

He looked at the audience calmly, briefly glanced around, and slowly waited for the atmosphere of the audience to regain tranquility again, before pointing to his temples and continuing: "But we must be clear, we must understand that for today's Chinese Empire, this is not our main opponent, and it is not at the same level. Our opponents are the British Empire and the Soviet Union, because we are striving to become the most powerful empire in the world, to become the greatest civilization in the world again, and to rise again as the greatest nation in the world. We must also be clear that among all the long-term and short-term opponents, it is said that Ben is the weaker but the most sinister, and the most insidious and despicable. It is undeniable that Ben is a very powerful nation, a very crazy nation, and a very powerful and crazy country, and it is a mad dog around us. I'll give you an example to illustrate this, and if you still have any impressions, you should remember the Kato China incident that took place during the negotiations on the Washington Treaty. At that time, Yuzaburo Kato, as Admiral and Minister of the Navy, directly used the disparaging title of Shina to me at the meeting, and he had two answers to this, one was a slip of the tongue, and the other was that Shina was a proper title, that is, either I heard it wrong, or Shina belonged to the official Chinese word that should be used in our country. ”

"For this problem, we and the study of the book are very in-depth, the book has been using the word China since the Tang Dynasty to refer to China, China has always been in the Chinese language to the word 'China' as a self-proclaimed, regardless of whether the word 'China' corresponds to the idea of the surrounding for foreign countries, this is a long history after all, and China has formed a complex and huge Chinese nation. In his view, China's territory is limited to the areas within the Guannai, Tibet Province belongs to the Tibetan nationality, the four northern provinces belong to the Mongolian nationality, the four northeastern provinces belong to the Manchu nationality, and Xinjiang Province belongs to the Hui nationality, and China should be divided into many countries, so it is absolutely impossible for the Chinese nation to be recognized, and therefore it is impossible to recognize it. To this day, the term "China" continues to be forcibly used in official political documents, and the media are not allowed to use the word "China", and in China, China ”

"So, I said that Ben is a mad dog, and it is crazy without any reason."

"What kind of country is China? We will not talk about the past, we will not talk about the turn of history between China and China, but only about the present. According to the latest statistics of the Ministry of Land and Resources, our actual territory is 19.04 million square kilometers, and the total area of our overseas colonies, overseas provinces, and protectorates is 10 times the size of our own country. After the end of World War I, China's total economic output was 7.8 times that of the previous year, and today, our economic aggregate is 11 times that of the original capital, and the per capita output value is 1.45 times that of the previous year. The per capita output value is a very important data, our total amount is higher than the capital, and I can not be convinced, but we not only have a total population of 7.5 times that of theirs, but the per capita output value is also 50% higher than theirs, so what are they not convinced? We don't understand, and other countries may not understand either, only Ben himself thinks that they are superior, noble, and powerful than us, and still look down on us Chinese! ”

Saying this, Song Biao himself was surprised, and he didn't understand where Yue Ben had a nervous disorder, and he finally emphasized: "The fact is that as long as Yue Ben deliberately deviates [***], they can always find enough reasons." Obviously, this is a very difficult place to explain, and now if we look at the media and the military reports, the whole country and the military can be said to blindly believe that they can still defeat us and divide our country, and they will dominate Asia, and they will occupy the four northeastern provinces. This is the whimsical and very absurd place of my own, and probably they are the only ones in the whole world who think so. Therefore, I would like to emphasize here that although this is not a very important opponent in the short term, it is a crazy wild dog that may bite us at any time, and what we have to do is to warn this that if it dares to provoke the third Sino-Chinese war, we will guarantee that this will not be the scale of the previous two times, and if there is a third time, we will completely defeat the entire Yueben, and make them pay the heaviest price to completely and fundamentally eliminate the Yueben. Not only do we have to warn us about it, but we also have to make sure that we do have it, and that needs to be done by all of you here. ”

He is a mad dog with no reason to speak of!

This is Song Biao's conclusion about the book, and he only wants to say so much about the book.

In the meeting room, all the officers and representatives sat silently, everyone sat up straight, and their expressions were inevitably filled with a kind of scornful anger, although everyone knew about this and thought that they were mentally ill, but once they said it publicly, everyone would still feel unusually angry.

The East Asian Research Bureau of the Central Academy of Social Sciences and some other sociology experts and scholars in China have conducted systematic research and investigation on the current rigid problem in China, and one of the more accepted answers is that the country and society are too deeply influenced by ethnography and social Darwinism, and the entire country and society are now unwilling to recognize that China is strong, because once they admit this fact, in their view, it is tantamount to admitting that the Chinese race is stronger than their own.

For example, in this year's Zhongyu Judo Challenge, China did select the best champions at multiple levels of the national competition, the national youth championship and the national junior competition to participate, but the work done on the whole was far inferior to the book, and the pre-competition training of the players was even worse than the book.

In this matter, Yue Ben really invested a lot of energy, that is, he hoped to prove the superiority of his own race under the condition that he was economically inferior to China, and thus to a certain extent he could also prove that the reason why China now looks strong is nothing more than because of its vast territory and abundant resources, and if such territory and resources were given to Yue Ben, Yue Ben would be completely more powerful than dozens of times.

Song Biao still has a deep understanding of this mentality and tricks at the moment, but when he organized this event before, he understood that no matter what the result is, the ultimate beneficiary will only be China, even if he loses, he can stimulate the fighting spirit of the nation, inspire the domestic classical judo sports association to strive for self-improvement, and no longer be satisfied with the current achievements.

China does not have much to praise if it wins, and only when it loses is it a shame and it is easy to boost morale.

China can afford to lose, but it can't afford to lose.

Song Biao only wanted to say so much about the words, and it was useless to say more, so he returned to the original topic and continued to say into the microphone: "You are all the best young and middle-aged officers in China at present, as I have always emphasized at the Central Military Academy, a strong empire needs strong people, and even more needs a strong army, and whether our army is strong or not depends on you." You are strong, the soldiers you train can be strong, and if you are strong, the military generals in the upper echelons of the empire can boldly command and show their strengths. You have to be a group of hyenas on the African continent, you must have super bite power, super team cooperation ability, super group combat ability, super group combat ability, like a pack of hyenas to sweep the whole world, knock bones and marrow, defeat all enemies, and be the most fierce protector in the world. We have also always emphasized that from the moment you enter the Youth Military Academy, we require you to be a group of brave and fearless people, without any fear, and dare to fight against all enemies, and this is what I ask and expect from you. ”

"Facts have also proved that you are strong soldiers, excellent soldiers, a group of soldiers who can reassure me and the country."

"A week ago, I spoke with one of you from the Army, and he had something that inspired me a lot."

Song Biao sold a porch and didn't say that directly, and when these young and middle-aged officers in the venue had a lot of curiosity, he continued: "He said that we always criticize the Army's Continental Armyism for being too stubborn, but he believes that every branch of the military has the inherent right to pursue greater power, and the Army aspires to become a Continental Army, the Navy aspires to become a Great Navy, and the Air Force aspires to become a Great Air Force." I thought about it for a long time, and I thought that what he said was very beautiful, very good, and that the goal of our Imperial Central Defense Force is precisely this, yes, we should build a large army, a large navy, and a large air force, including our patrol force and coast guard force, and we should also have such ambitions, and on the other hand, if our air force and navy cannot compete with other forces at home, and are replaced by the army, patrol force, and coast guard force, then what is the point? Who can you fight and who can you fight after you go out? ”

Speaking of this, Song Biao emphasized again: "A cowardly army that pursues stability and self-protection is a wreck, and it can't defeat any army!" ”

The emperor seems to have revealed the direction of the future development of the Central Defense Force, the patrol force, and the coast guard force, that is, every armed force must be stronger and compete with each other.

This is uncompromising good news for every branch of the military.

Song Biao also has a lot of thoughts about this, and he gave another example: "For example, the issue of whether the airborne troops belong to the Air Force or the Army, which is being discussed recently, can compete with the Army, and if the Air Force wants to become a large Air Force, this is a way that must go out, and the Continental Army wants to truly dominate the Continental Army, which is also a place to fight." In the past, our patrol force was always regarded as an armed police, and the same is true for its positioning, but the patrol force can be expanded, and the cavalry force should be transferred to the patrol force on a larger scale, and the patrol force can even set up an air force patrol force, and the coast guard force can also have seaplanes and more maritime patrol planes, so as to strengthen the crackdown on smuggling and piracy, and go to the front line to contend with the small navy of the enemy country. Today, when the division of responsibilities is becoming clearer, the competition among the various branches of the armed forces has not ended there, but has just begun. ”

The applause rang out again, and it was clear that the officers were willing to participate in this fierce competition, especially for the patrol and coast guard, which had always been in a weak position.

After talking about these two temporary new topics, Song Biao officially returned to the theme and put forward some more comprehensive views on the building and long-term development of China's armed forces, and asked these middle-aged and young middle- and lower-ranking officers present here to actively lead the development of the country's military armed forces, bravely put forward their own suggestions, dare to challenge all unhealthy tendencies in the army, have the courage to break through the shackles of theory and tactics, actively innovate, and actively devote themselves to the reform of new military theories. things to make a greater contribution.

Song Biao's speech this time was relatively long, and the results were also good, and it was only in the end that he talked about the issue of raising the salaries of the national defense troops, and his decision was to increase the military expenses by an additional 20 percent this year to solve this matter, and the salaries of officers were also slightly raised, and this had a bearing on the vital interests of every officer present.

At the end of Song Biao's opening speech, all the officers in the audience once again stood up and applauded, just like the momentum of the Golden Prince of the Northern Dynasty, which made people sigh, although Song Biao was unwilling to be a **, but in essence, it was really similar.

The applause lasted for a few minutes, and Shu Fangde took the stage to make some arrangements for this year's Lushan Summer Palace meeting, according to this arrangement, this year's meeting will discuss ten major topics, including military education reform, military discipline and military style rectification, recruit and militia reserve training, combat training and exercise reform, military system modernization reform, tactical theory reform, military industry support and equipment modernization reform, political and ideological education reform, logistics modernization reform, and military treatment and subsidies, each topic will last for a week. This also means that the entire duration of the session will continue to be maintained at around two and a half months.

At noon today, the summer palace will arrange for all the officers to attend a banquet hosted by the royal family, and the first topic will be discussed in the afternoon.

This year's Lushan meeting must be very important, and Song Biao also personally attended and presided over the group discussion of the Zhili Military Region, and Jiang Fangzhen and several other leaders of the Central Military Department also arrived one after another as required a week later to participate in the group discussions of other military regions and services.

The development of any organization to a certain extent will produce a strong inert surname within it, and the same is true within the Central Defense Force and the Chinese Patrol Force; to break this kind of inert surname, we can rely not only on the self-breakthrough of the commander-in-chief and middle- and upper-level generals, but also on the courageous progress of middle- and lower-level young officers.

The whole meeting lasted unanimously until the end of August 1928, and finally Song Biao personally awarded Shu Fangde the rank of general of the Air Force, and awarded the rank of major general to 17 new colonels such as Wei Lihuang, Xue Yue, and Ye Kuiying. Wei Lihuang and other officers of the new department joined forces to force the Central Military Department to continue to carry out reforms.

(To be continued)