China is said to be two very strange countries.

From culture to political system, the two countries have striking similarities, and the degree of military and technological secrecy is also roughly the same, so much so that at the same time as the outbreak of the Third Sino-Chinese War, China successfully detonated the world's first hydrogen bomb in the northwest, and there was no news at all.

If Ben knew about this kind of thing, what should they think, it is really a difficult thing to say!

To this day, from top to bottom, China still feels that China has developed really fast in the past 30 years, but it can barely be about the same as Yueben in terms of science and technology.

Most of the people themselves, including high-level military and political leaders like Lieutenant General Minoru Higashikunomiya Minoruhiko, still firmly believe that China's scientific and technological strength is still inferior to the previous one, so one of the direct reactions of Lieutenant General Minoru Higashikurenomiya Minoruhiko and other generals to the dozens of MBT33 tanks that suddenly appeared on the battlefield was that China secretly purchased new combat vehicles from Germany.

Oh, my God.

How stupid and rigid it would take for a brain to make such a judgment, and it's almost like a century later, Taiwanese media people openly laughed at the fact that mainlanders are so poor that they can't even afford instant noodles on TV shows.

Anyway, it's an amazing thing.

You must know that the scientific research personnel and the annual investment in scientific research funds cannot even reach a fraction of China's, and if Lieutenant General Minoru Wang of the Higashikure Palace, the high-ranking officials of the military and political circles, really go to China and see clearly what the real China was like in 1939, they will definitely feel that they are the stupidest idiots in the world like the mentally ill people with dementia.

At the same time, despite the outbreak of the Sino-Chinese War, the original industrial plan continued without any changes, and the plan to transform the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway into an electrified railway continued as usual.

China occupies three of the only six companies in the world that can produce large aircraft, and the total size and level of China's machine tool industry have maintained the world's first place in the past decade...... In this way, it was ruthlessly and numbly ignored.

From the aggressiveness of the Meiji Restoration to the rigidity of the lockdown during the Showa period, Yumoto really changed so quickly that even Chinese thought how could Yumoto be so stupid.

Of course, if Ben had to close his ears and cover his eyes, believing that the Yamato people under the glory of the emperor were the noblest race in Asia, and that the Shina race was one of the lowest, then he could not see anything, and he could not hear anything.

In short, summing up the reasons for the outbreak of the Third War, the rigidity of the media and the stubborn right-wing insulting reports on China should take the first credit, but this should also be blamed on the fascism of the whole country.

From top to bottom, from the emperor to the ordinary citizens of the country, all of them believed that all the blame for the outbreak of this war lay with China, and all of them were the Chinese empire that they said was "so arrogant that they didn't know that they were just an inferior nation", and it was precisely because of the long-term enmity of the Chinese people that there were contradictions in the middle of the war, and it was precisely because the Chinese wanted to use North Korea's illegal political axe to occupy the entire Korean Peninsula that the Imperial Navy sent a fleet to the high seas to demonstrate, and the sneak attack of the Chinese Navy completely caused the war to break out.

This is the whole view of the book.

After the outbreak of the war, the whole country was full of unprecedented [***] and anti-Chinese sentiments, which supported the military with great enthusiasm and unconditionality, vowing to defeat the Chinese Empire, which was "so arrogant that it did not know that it was only an inferior nation".

In China, the Chinese are also extremely angry and eager to defeat Yueben once and for all.

On the one hand, the Battle of Sanduao made the Chinese people indignant, awakened the hatred of the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, and on the other hand, it made the Chinese people excited.

The people of the country were completely outraged.

The whole country is burning with the flame of revenge, vowing to turn the book into a sea of fire, and the mobilization of war has become a bit redundant, and the young people who have signed up to join the army have almost crowded all the recruiting stations, and the recruitment offices in every city and town are full of long queues, and the sale of the national war bonds has been sold out in half a month without any pressure.

All the military industrial enterprises in the country have started at full speed, stopped the frantic operation of all holidays, recruited new workers, and produced new weapons and equipment to the troops on a large scale, and the World Federation of Chinese Entrepreneurs has launched a large donation campaign around the world to buy equipment and donate aircraft for the army.

Whether it was World War I, the Sino-Soviet War, or the East African War, the Chinese people had never been so fanatical, probably because the hatred accumulated between China and the two countries over the past half century was too deep to the point that the two peoples could not coexist.

Especially in this era of nationalism.

It's just that under such a big wave, Emperor Song is still very calm and sober, and seems to be unmoved.

A few days ago, he and Jiang Fangzhen and others had a final round of discussions on the overall strategy of the war, finally determined the strategy, and formulated a comprehensive operational plan.

Emperor Song's idea was very simple, not to rush to decide the victory or defeat on the Korean Peninsula, but through the military oppression in the stalemate stage, the Yue army was forced to constantly transfer the main force to the Korean battlefield, and when most of the main forces of the Yue army were concentrated on the Korean Peninsula, he would launch a full-scale offensive campaign, and strive to solve the war more on the Korean Peninsula, rather than going to the main force to fight the decisive battle on the mainland.

This guiding ideology and general strategy of his have won the unanimous approval of all members of the Central Military Commission, because if they want to fight on the mainland, it will still be relatively stressful, and it is obviously the best choice to attract the main force of the Syrian army to the Korean Peninsula as much as possible and encircle and annihilate the main force of the Syrian army on the peninsula.

On the morning of that day, Emperor Song signed an order approving a joint application by the Central Bureau of Secrets and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Industry of the Cabinet to allow the special industrialization of semiconductor technology, which had previously fallen under the scope of super-secret technology, after the war.

This means that within a year after the end of the war, if no new war breaks out, most of the technology in the imperial semiconductor industry will be able to be applied to the commercial field, and radios, home appliances, computers, and communication equipment will all gain a great improvement effect.

Prior to this, the semiconductor industry could only be used in the field of military industry, and the scale of the three companies in the empire, Northeast Semiconductor, Yanjing Semiconductor, and Jiangnan Semiconductor, had grown to a high level.

Because the purification process of raw materials is very complex and difficult, requiring great process research and experimentation, as well as a high level of production technology, the empire is not worried that other countries can quickly realize the industrial production of semiconductors in the short term, and it is expected that in the next ten years, the empire will monopolize the world's semiconductor industry.

Ten years is a long time, and it can be short.

Song Biao was not absolutely sure that the empire would be able to occupy a leading position in the semiconductor industry for a long time, so while signing the application order approving the Ministry of Science and Technology Industry, he also called Prime Minister Gu Weijun and asked Gu Weijun to personally report to the General Office of the Central Palace.

Gu Weijun also made mistakes, thinking that the emperor mainly had to listen to the cabinet's report on the mobilization of the Sino-Chinese war, the transfer of materials, and the overall planning, etc., and he had been preparing for a long time, so he arrived at the palace with a thick stack of summary reports of the "Wartime Industrial Control Planning Case".

As the prime minister of the empire, the prime minister has privileges in the central palace, if it is not a special case, the prime minister can directly get a seat, report to the work in front of the emperor, the prime minister's seat is also very special more luxurious and noble, symbolizing the prime minister's special status in the empire is second only to the emperor.

Gu Weijun hurriedly arrived at the palace, and after meeting the emperor in the office, when the emperor motioned for him to sit down in front of the palace, he couldn't wait to sit down and took out the thick stack of "Wartime Industrial Control Planning Case".

Song Biao glanced at it and roughly knew that Gu Weijun had mistaken the point of the matter, but he didn't dissuade him.

Song Biaosuo's surname was just to let himself rest, so he lit a cigar and smoked silently without saying anything.

Gu Weijun sorted out his thoughts for a while, and then reported to Emperor Song: "Your Majesty, the cabinet has now passed the "Wartime Industrial Control Plan", and is accelerating the deployment of military production and military supplies, and the pressure on military bond sales is very light, and it is expected that in the next two years, the cabinet can pay 7 billion military expenditures to the military department every year, and if necessary, the cabinet can also pay an additional 5.5 billion military expenditures in three years by transferring financial surpluses. ”

Song Biao thought for a moment and asked Gu Weijun, "How long do you think this war will last?" ”

Gu Weijun thought for a while and replied: "Your Majesty thinks that this probably depends on the emperor's intentions, if you just want to end the war, you can do it within this year, if the emperor decides to use this war to erase Yueben from the seat of the great powers, making it difficult for Yueben to threaten our country for decades in the long run, it may take two or three years, or even longer." From the perspective of the domestic economy, if one-third of the central government of the empire is spent on military spending, it will not make the economy difficult for about two years, but if this situation continues for too long, more than three or four years, the impact on the empire's economy will expand. ”

Song Biao reminded: "The situation around the world is becoming more and more complicated, the risk of a full-scale war between the Soviet Union and Germany is increasing, if Germany wins, Germany is very likely to continue to oppose Western Europe after obtaining sufficient resources, if the Soviet Union wins, the Soviet Union is likely to promote ultra-left political axeism to the whole of Eastern Europe and Germany, further threatening the world." Therefore, regardless of the outcome of the Soviet-German war, the risk of a larger war breaking out in the world will further increase, and China must not be immune to such an environment. The Cabinet should be fully prepared, not blindly optimistic, and it is by no means a bad thing to sell off part of its overseas assets in advance to ensure the reserve ratio of the central government. ”

Gu Weijun thought silently, and did not rush to answer.

China said that war can be described as a war between the richest and poorest countries among the world's great powers, and the financial and taxation systems of the two countries are two completely different situations.

In times of war, such a fiscal policy is more conducive to maintaining the needs of the war, so that the central government can raise enough military expenditures to be equal to the other side by virtue of the poor economic base in a war between the weak and the strong.

China implements a tax-sharing system, and the ratio of the central government to the local provinces is roughly 6.5:3.5 in the total tax revenue of the whole country, with a relatively high proportion of central taxes in the industrial provinces and a relatively low proportion of the central taxes in the agricultural provinces.

This kind of tax policy is conducive to the implementation of a certain degree of autonomy by the local government, and guarantees the basic expenditure of the province on education, welfare, medical care, industry and agriculture, and even in the war environment, the local government's financial expenditure is enough to maintain the stability of the country as a whole.

Another point that is different from the current political axe is that the state tax revenue accounts for three-quarters of the total fiscal revenue of China's central political axe, and the remaining one-quarter comes from overseas investment in central assets, foreign creditor's rights, state trust investment, and the appreciation of national strategic reserves, and so on, and this part of the income is basically equal to twice the total state fiscal revenue for the whole year.

Of course, he didn't care about such a gap, and when they defeated the Manchus and Tsarist Russia, they basically faced such a huge difference, so that he never felt that the state's financial expenditure was the key to determining military victory.

In 1938, China's GDP accounted for more than 38% of the world's total, with a total of more than 251 billion yuan, a total of 44.37 billion yuan, 67.43% of the central tax revenue including tariffs, 137 billion yuan of the central government's overseas claims and domestic and foreign trust assets, and 9.14 billion yuan of overseas claims and trust investment appreciation income that year.

China can have today, to a large extent, thanks to the First World War and the Great Depression of 1929, it is in these two crises of the huge trade surplus and venture capital, so that the scale of central trust assets in 20 years increased by 70 times, the total overseas assets of less than 2 billion yuan in the world are far lower than Britain, the United States, France and Germany, after the First World War and the Sino-Soviet War, by confiscating the assets of Germany and Tsarist Russia in overseas colonies, it became the world's fourth largest overseas investor after Britain, the United States and France. In 1929, during the Great Depression, the empire surpassed the United States, Britain and France to become the world's largest exporter and creditor of capital.

At the same time, China is also the world's largest country in terms of economic aggregate, ranking first in the world in terms of both industrial output value and agricultural output value, with a total volume 1.5 times that of the United States, and the world's largest foreign trade surplus.

It is precisely because of this financial and economic foundation that the Imperial Prime Minister Gu Weijun has enough ambition and patience to deal with this war, and with the current economic strength of the Empire, it is not too serious to maintain an annual military expenditure of 7 billion yuan for three years, which accounts for only 17.5% of the total revenue of the central government.

There is an impact, but not a big impact.

Gu Weijun considered Emperor Song's reminder, and guessed that rather than the world environment becoming more and more sinister, it was better to say that the emperor was accumulating and preparing to solve the biggest threat to the Soviet Union and the two empires at the same time during this period, and it was likely that even Germany would have to clean up together, coupled with the containment policy of the British and French colonies, and the absolute confidence of possessing nuclear weapons, the emperor should have made up his mind to fight a new world war, and establish the hegemony of the empire in the world in one fell swoop by virtue of the war.

He did not support such ambitions as the emperor, but his father-in-law, Tang Shaoyi, was a lesson from the past, not to mention that the empire did have such strength.

After careful consideration, Gu Weijun simply replied to Emperor Song: "Returning to the emperor, His Majesty is expected to issue more than 40 billion yuan of war bonds in China, half of which will be purchased by the central bank and the Bank of Asia. ”

Song Biao nodded slightly, and said: "This is the best, it is always better to be prepared than not to be prepared, in fact, this time I asked you to come over not to ask about these things, the Ministry of Science and Technology Industry on the commercialization of semiconductor technology, I have already approved, since you are here, then take this batch back by the way." As a monarch, since you have decided to do this, I should not oppose you, but I need you to ensure that the empire can maintain a long-term lead, even an absolute advantage, in this field. Therefore, I have agreed to the approval of the bill, on the condition that you, the prime minister, and your cabinet must come up with a long-term plan with a cycle of at least 10 years, and maintain an absolutely leading position in the world in the fields of personnel training, industrial support, and scientific research. The important surname of the semiconductor industry, the overall importance of the country's industrial and scientific and technological progress, and the overall importance of national defense, I don't need to continue to emphasize with you here, as for how this long-term plan should be formulated, I hope you will come up with a reliable and secure plan as soon as possible! ”

Gu Weijun replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the plan in this area is being formulated, and it is currently expected to focus on promoting semiconductor and electronics disciplines in six national universities and seven private universities across the country, and set up a separate electronic application department, and a professional electronics college will be set up in the Central University of Science and Technology and Tianjin Beiyang University." In the field of materials, the empire will also unify the addition of semiconductor materials courses, and in the field of junior colleges, Zhengaxe plans to establish an electronic college in Tianjin, Shanghai and Aurora to train professionals. In terms of industrial support, the political axe considers the establishment of special support funds and policies to encourage enterprises to continue to increase research and development in this field, and the political axe will also strengthen the national basic research in this field through the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Central Computer Research Institute, and now there is also a proposal to establish the Central Semiconductor Research Institute to strengthen the promotion in this field. ”

Song Biao was basically satisfied with this plan, and proposed: "Xi'an can also be promoted as the focus of the development of the semiconductor industry, and the School of Electronics can be set up in Xi'an University in a national way." Xi'an is a big city in the west that we want to focus on, but both Xi'an and Shaanxi lack sufficient industrial resources, and the development of semiconductors and aviation industry is a good option. ”

Gu Weijun agreed: "The emperor is sage. ”

Song Biao could only sigh and said: "It is always not difficult to formulate policies, the key lies in the specific implementation, and the research and personnel training work in this field must be fully strengthened, no matter how the war is fought, the cost of scientific research in this area cannot be saved." ”

"Yes!"

Gu Weijun agreed.

For other things, Song Biao didn't have much to ask about for the time being, so he asked Gu Weijun to go back as soon as possible, and consider some new ideas and new methods in this aspect to ensure the long-term advantages of the empire in this emerging field.

(To be continued)