The panic and tension on the British side gradually calmed down due to the progress of the coalition forces on the Indian side, and Prime Minister Churchill, who was on the verge of death, appointed Army General Hagrid to achieve such an achievement, which was supported by the British people, and the cabinet gradually stabilized.

Churchill, however, was not happy, for he was well aware that, despite the reconquest of India, the strength of the Chinese army was hardly damaged. If given a choice, he would rather choose a decisive battle with the South Asian Front of the Chinese Defense Forces in central India, because the Chinese have long supply lines. However, with this retreat of the Chinese, the pressure on supply has been sharply reduced, and the combat effectiveness they can exert will be greatly enhanced.

Not only can the Chinese side exert its combat effectiveness stronger as it retreats, but what is even worse is that there is a famine on the Indian side, and countless refugees have been displaced in all directions, and there is a tendency to spread to the whole of India. The huge number of refugees provided countless sources of troops for India's anti-colonial forces. According to the investigation, the Indian anti-colonial armed forces and the Chinese colluded to loot all the wealthy families and capitalists in India, and India, which was also an agricultural country during this period, the land was almost concentrated in the hands of these people, and the grain was almost concentrated in the hands of these people, and part of the grain was distributed to the poor in India by the Chinese and the anti-colonial forces, but most of them were taken away by the Chinese and the anti-colonial forces, of course, most of them were in the hands of the anti-colonial forces, and these rebels played the slogan "Participate in the revolution and have food" when there was a famine, Countless refugees have joined it.

"According to MI6, the Indian rebels have grown to more than three million in size, and they have more than a million guns, half of which are imperial and French standard equipment. Some of the major rebels had a large corps of Chinese officers who assisted them in training troops and directing operations. has gradually formed combat effectiveness"

Churchill looked at Baldwin, gritted his teeth and said, "Where did they get so many guns?" ”

Baldwin put down the document and sighed: "Sold by the Chinese." China's active-duty troops are armed with more than five million troops, and three million recruits are trained in the country. The weapons of the whole of East Asia basically fall into the hands of the Chinese, and with the military production capacity of the Chinese, they have the ability to arm six or seven million troops, which is still basically deducted from the old weapons. The Chinese do not need many weapons to train the troops, a few hundred thousand guns are enough, and other weapons can certainly cause trouble for the Indian rebels and us. ”

Churchill sneered and said, "There is indeed a little trouble. But I think it's a bit of a hassle, as it stands. It's not all bad. ”

Baldwin was surprised: "Churchill, no, Your Excellency Prime Minister, why do you think so?" ”

"Can I not think so?" Churchill said with some exasperation and indignation, "Ordinary people do not know the real situation. Don't you know? What's going on with the so-called Great Victory in India? Regain half of India. The casualties of the Chinese army were less than 50,000. But the casualties of our troops were 780,000, and the Chinese were not defeated, they were a planned retreat. The Chinese retreated because they had achieved their strategic objectives. They have plundered most of India's wealth, and now China has incomparably abundant financial resources, not only is there no problem with military spending, but even China's domestic infrastructure construction is in full swing. Did you know? At present, the Chinese have at least 1,000 buildings with about 20 floors under construction in China, all of which are new-style buildings, and are said to have underground parking lots. Do you know what that means? ”

Baldwin said bitterly: "You mean that even with such a huge scale of war, China still did not affect construction, and they have infinite human resources. In terms of the proportion of war losses in World War I, the Chinese can continue the war of this magnitude almost indefinitely. ”

Churchill said with some dejection: "You are right, the size of China's current army seems to be huge, and it can be calculated proportionally, almost sixty to one. They have plundered a large number of Southeast Asian and Indian talents, and China's industrial capacity will not only be fully restored, but will become stronger. Do you think it's normal for the Chinese to become stronger, but their front-line troops are fleeing when they hear the news? It's so abnormal, it's so weird. ”

Baldwin said, "But we can't retreat. ”

Churchill said bitterly: "Yes, we cannot retreat, otherwise the entire Western coalition will lose confidence in defeating the Chinese." We know it's not normal, but we can only move forward. However, India is a colony of the Empire, and we are most familiar with it, where there are many rebels, so naturally we can only send the Empire's troops to be responsible for encirclement and suppression. Do you understand? ”

Baldwin looked at Churchill in disbelief, as if he didn't know him anymore. Of course, he understood what Churchill meant, even if the Chinese really had a conspiracy, it was not the main force of the British army that was lost. You must know that with the recovery of India, under a lot of propaganda in the Western world, some small Western countries have also vowed to send troops to India on a large scale, and now India's Western troops are almost more than 3 million, and the front-line troops alone are more than 2.5 million.

Baldwin nodded silently, "So what are we going to do next?" You can't just be passive like this, can you? ”

Churchill sneered: "Of course we can't go on like this, we also have to create a little trouble for China." ”――

Churchill's so-called minor trouble was to expose the peripheral personnel of intelligence in China, and use tabloids and other channels to publicize China's "great defeat and retreat" in India, so as to undermine the morale of the Chinese.

When the people's hearts are unstable and the people's hearts are panicked, it is easy to buy more people to serve them.

Under the intervention of the Chinese government, the media did not report the successive large-scale retreats of the Chinese defense forces, and in Churchill's view, the Chinese blocked the news because they were worried about affecting the morale of the military and the people. Since the Chinese do not want to touch it, then they must do it, even if it is disgusting to the Chinese.

However, even Churchill could never have expected that these tabloids would cause an uproar in China. For a time, the government was attacked by the literati, almost by thousands of people, countless literati denounced Li Bufan for not knowing the height of the sky, the "Gengzi Incident" of that year has already learned from the past, but Li Bufan this time is even more excessive, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was only vaguely at war with 14 countries, and Li Bufan almost made it clear that the carriage and horses challenged the entire Western world.

Isn't it crazy to stand up to the entire Western world on your own? Is this a human thing?

At a time when Li Bufan's army was heading south, of course, these literati who admired foreigners had no excuse to complain, but they still thought that they could not win in the end, and they were all waiting for the opportunity, and now the Chinese army's South Asian Front Army has retreated one or two thousand kilometers in a row, which they said was a "great rout."

Why is this so? In fact, in the final analysis, it was Li Bufan who offended the literati. Li Bufan's large-scale construction of schools requires countless educational talents, but if according to the salaries of professors in this era, the government's finances cannot afford it, but the national model of education cannot be reduced, then what should we do?

There is only one way, to reduce the salary. During this period, the salary of a professor at Peking University was more than 300 oceans, while ordinary workers only had five oceans a month, what is the concept? Sixty times the wage gap. The literati were the highest income group in this era, several times higher than ordinary government civil servants, because even the salary of civil servants was only ten or twenty yuan a month, which was still for the sake of high salaries. Therefore, Li Bufan referred to the salary level of Wu Di, a professor and literati in later generations, and directly pressed the professor's salary to 50 yuan, and the salary of ordinary teachers and civil servants was one level, which seriously dealt a blow to the interest group of literati. At this level of wages, courtyards, villas, and apartments are no longer able to live in, the standard of living has declined, and there is no way to pay for the newspaper page to arrest and scold anyone as before, how can the old literati group endure this breath? This is simply insulting to them.

However, Li Bufan rarely let them grasp the handle and scold, and what is worse is that most of the newspapers were controlled by the government, even the so-called "rampant" declaration, and they were forcibly shut down and seized by the government.

But now something big has happened, and China has finally been "defeated" on the front line, which is completely to blame Li Bufan for sabotaging the excellent situation of China's rise and arbitrarily forcing war with the great powers.

For a time, the Nanjing government's Golden Palace gathered a large number of literati to scold and accuse, and even raised the banner of wanting Li Bufan to step down.

Li Bufan, who was in the Ministry of National Defense, was almost so angry by this situation that his face turned pale, he looked at the innocent Wu enemy, and said viciously: "I finally understand why Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit Confucianism, and why there will be any 'Cultural Revolution' in later generations." Confucianism messes with the law, and the ancients don't deceive me. ”

Wu Di said helplessly: "I said earlier, literati are the most difficult to deal with." Even the later generations of Jiang Weiren did not dare to offend the literati, and Taizu has always offered them. If you do this, aren't you looking for your own death? ”

Li Bufan said with a pale face: "Check it out for me, anyone who goes abroad to study will be expelled from the school, and neither the school nor the government will be allowed to hire them, and those who have correspondence will all be called Western spies." Since he dared to show his sword to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu asked him to see if Lao Tzu's bayonet was sharp! ”

Wu Di was almost frightened, and shouted on the spot: "Brother, no, I called you master, is it done?" If you do this, isn't that a copy of the Cultural Revolution? This kind of thing will become more and more serious, and once it gets out of control, our entire education circle and even the elite of the whole society will lose everything. Besides, didn't you study abroad too? ”

Li Bufan glared at Wu Di fiercely and shouted, "Then what should you tell me?" ”

Wu Di thought for a while and said, "Heavy ears are born outside. Why don't you go out and avoid it? ”

Li Bufan stared at Wu's enemy for a while, now that he is fighting, where can he go if he is not in the Ministry of Defense? There is only one place to go, and that is to go to the front line to personally supervise the division. If he hadn't avoided this whirlpool for the time being, maybe he would have really driven out of a similar incident of "book burning and Confucianism".

"Hey, it's time to go to the front line." (To be continued......)