When Emperor Song visited the three countries in Southeast Asia, he was not idle, and he really thought that he was the first power in Asia on an equal footing with the Chinese Empire, and as soon as Emperor Song and Empress Shu returned to Guangzhou, Deputy Minister Sen Ke, who was a hardliner on China in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also came to the Kingdom of Brunei uninvited, and although he failed to meet with Sultan Ahmad Zutin in accordance with the goal of his surprise visit plan, he still expressed to the Sultan through special channels the friendship of the Great Empire and was willing to support the restoration of freedom of reading and all sovereignty of the Kingdom of Brunei.

When Emperor Song arrived in Lushan by train for a vacation, Vice Minister Mori Ke visited Thailand again like Prime Minister Abe, took a detour and continued to Cambodia, and continued to support Cambodia's freedom of reading.

The capabilities and business scope of the imperial intelligence agencies are far beyond the estimates of the Imperial Empire, and the every move of this Deputy Chief Sen Ke is clearly seen in the eyes of Emperor Song, in this regard, thinking of the three-inch figure of Deputy Chief Sen Ke, Emperor Song can't help but use a very marketable language to describe this - the two-inch long bar also wants to find a rich woman to support, and he doesn't look at the level of his own guy.

China has given up its plan to coordinate negotiations on a naval competition with it, but he still thinks that China is still begging for negotiations, and deliberately appoints some low-level diplomats to arrive in China, putting on a posture of asking me to beg for me.

Neuropathy.

Unlike the United States and the United Kingdom, China is the quintessence of China, and the Central Cabinet continues to be in charge of contacts with the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Vice Minister of the Admiralty, and has actively declared at the level of the open international community that it will take the initiative to coordinate negotiations and even take the initiative to reduce the Navy's military spending, while the Admiralty's shipbuilding program has been repeatedly expanded.

In the final analysis, the problem is that even those who want to be the world's number one power are crazy, just like North Korea later, and they are already sick.

…… The trend of the international financial crisis has become somewhat obvious in this year, in order to curb the rapid decline of gold reserves, Britain adopted three interest rate hikes in the first half of 1928.

A total of 1,440 young officers were invited, with the lowest rank of captain and the highest rank being major general, who were basically born in the European and Soviet wars.

Most of these young officers were around 30 years old, and all of them had participated in World War I and the Sino-Soviet War as middle- and lower-ranking officers, and had successively entered the Central Military Academy, the Far East Army Academy, the Northeast Naval Academy, the Xi'an Air Force Academy, and other military colleges and universities, claiming to be the new generation of imperial officers.

There are many people who are famous generals of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party who are well known to Song Biao, such as Zhang Zizhong, Fu Zuoyi, Wei Lihuang, Huang Baitao, Bai Chongxi, Xue Yue, Liu Zhaoming, Liu Jinggui, Xu Xiangqian...... Even Mr. Su and Mr. Lin, whom Song Biao admires the most, are also in the ranks of the Central Defense Force, but they have just graduated from Lu Shi and have been studying in the military academy for the past two years.

The times create heroes, and Mr. Lin and Mr. Su basically don't have much opportunity to shine in this era.

Emperor Song did not deliberately recruit these people, but each non-commissioned officer school had to report a batch of graduates with the best grades every year, and the scale of 400 people over the years was arranged by the inner court to train in the Central Military Department, and after three months, the final evaluation was conducted, and 100 people were further studied in the three command majors of the navy, land and air at the Central Military Academy, and the rest were assigned back to the military academies.

This group of people, Song Biao will definitely meet collectively, and he will award medals and sabers according to his achievements.

This is basically the martial champion exam in the imperial era, and there are surprises every year, there are always a few people who will surprise Song Biao, and think "It's him".

Last year, Song Biao met Mr. Su, and the year before last, he saw Mr. Lin, it felt really special, for these two, Song Biao must have special arrangements, but in this era of heroes, no matter how fast they arrived in World War II, they could only be at the level of army commanders, after all, there are indeed more people above, and there is a probability of being promoted to general after World War II, the key depends on whether Song Biao gives him some special opportunities.

These two of them are not the best among the 400 trainee lieutenants last year, and it can only be said that their theoretical scores are indeed at the top level, and their results in war history are also very good, they must have potential, and geniuses are always geniuses, but it is difficult to say what the final result will be, after all, it is difficult to have a real war between now and World War II.

The previous batch of people like Fu Zuoyi were all fought in the First World War and the Soviet War, and it was really difficult to surpass them, Zhang Zizhong's luck was really good, he happened to catch up with the Xinhai War, and now he is the first major general in this group of generals of the new generation.

The world is wonderful.

In the next few years, the Lushan Conference will certainly be carried out around economic work, and in the past few years, religion, scientific research, economy, education, culture, and agriculture have also taken turns.

Therefore, Song Biao summoned this group of very outstanding young generals and lieutenants from all over the country to Lushan for vacation, and also to have a comprehensive understanding of everyone, and wanted to see which young officers should be trained in the next 15 years to take over the leadership.

This year's Lushan Conference is quite special, when Song Biao arrived at the Lushan Summer Palace, no one else had come, and the organization of things on the army's side was relatively fast and neat, and basically in the next week, the best young officers of the country's navy, army, and air forces would arrive one after another.

Song Biao can also be said to be full of expectations for them, and after arriving at the Lushan Summer Palace, he instructed the first-class chamberlains Zhang Futian and Fu Zuoyi to personally take charge of this work.

Time passed, Zhang Futian was still the life of the chief of the internal chamberlain, and he was unwilling to be transferred to other units, even if he was to be the commander of the military region below, Jiang Zuobin and Han Chunlin had already left. With the increase of garrisons in Tibetan Province, the empire at this time had decided to change the status of Tibet Province from the status of an autonomous province to an autonomous province, formally implement the separation of politics and religion and the reform of serfs, formally establish a provincial governor, and transfer a general like Jiang Zuobin from the army to a local governor, which was also conducive to the mobilization of the Tibetan Provincial Patrol Army and the coordination of the 18th Army stationed in Xikang Province.

Han Chunlin was transferred to West Asia and served as chief of staff of the West Asian Military Region.

The newly transferred to replace the two were Colonel Chen Jiayou, who had been serving in the Central Military Intelligence Department, and Brigadier General Fang Dingying of the General Staff of the Central Military Department.

In Song Biao's plan, Fu Zuoyi's appointment as an internal attendant was only a temporary arrangement, staying by his side for two years of observation, and then continuing to be sent back to the Zhili Military Region to serve, and then exercising below for a few years.

Two days after Song Biao arrived at the Lushan Summer Palace, the first batch of officers arrived one after another, most of them came from the Zhili Military Region and the Northeast Military Region, and they are also the two most common military regions in China to carry out the promotion and experiment of the mechanized corps, including Lieutenant Colonel Wei Lihuang, who Song Biao focused on cultivating.

Hearing that Wei Lihuang had arrived, Song Biao, who was climbing the heights in the pavilion of the summer palace that afternoon, returned to the White Crane Pavilion and asked Fu Zuoyi to call these officer representatives of the first and fourth divisions of the Zhili Military Region.

After a while, the more than 20 young officers of the 1st and 4th Divisions ran over at a brisk pace, and ran outside the White Crane Pavilion in a hurry, where they happened to meet Fu Zuoyi, who was waiting for them at the door, and Colonel Chen Jiayou, who had come to report on their work.

Fu Zuoyi graduated from the Far East Army from the beginning, was directly assigned to the Fourth Division, participated in the Sino-Chinese Xinhai War and the First World War Expeditionary Force, and continued to fight the Sino-Soviet War after returning to China, fighting all the way from platoon commander to regiment commander, and served as the commander of the 1042nd Regiment of the Fourth Division before being transferred to the Central Military Department General Staff.

Seeing the front, Wei Lihuang and these young officers were all startled, and hurriedly stood up and saluted.

The first-class chamberlain beside the emperor had the privilege of saluting the junior officers without saluting, and there was no need to salute the superiors except for the generals.

Fu Zuoyi didn't return the salute at all, looked at everyone coldly, and said sarcastically: "Do you want to see the emperor if you run this virtue?" Do you want to lose the face of our first and fourth divisions? ”

Everyone braked urgently, and they were all running like wild horses, and at this time, they were crowded into a mess and saluted, which really made Fu Zuoyi feel embarrassed.

Wei Lihuang is the regimental commander of the 1013 Regiment, and among these young officers, he has the highest rank, and everyone pushes him to the front.

Wei Lihuang muttered, he is not familiar with Fu Zuoyi, and he has rarely dealt with him before, he graduated from Xuzhou Lushi, and his family is very poor, except for being a soldier and can't find a way out, it just so happens that Xuzhou Lushi recruits, and the military school has always been free, so he ran barefoot to take the military academy.

His grades were not good, he was not admitted in the first year, so he had to go to the preparatory department again, and as a result, he studied in the preparatory department for two years and got the first grade, so he was sent to Xuzhou Lushi.

Xuzhou Lushi, why don't you go to the Far East Lushi, there are high-achieving students over there, students from all over the country are eager to apply for the Far East Lushi, one can be admitted in a hundred miles, what is Xuzhou Lushi?

Fu Zuoyi later participated in all the battles, and then graduated first during his further studies at the Central Military Academy, Wei Lihuang has a little bit to compare, he is also the first graduate of the Army Command Department of the Central Military Academy, and everyone has the Benxi gilt saber given by the emperor.

This thing is the hard currency of the navy, land and air force, as long as you wear it by your side, even Admiral Cai Ye will nod and say hello when he sees you.

It is said that the young talents in the empire are outstanding, Cai Yi, Zhao Tingzhu, Jiang Yanxing, and Zhang Xiaohuai are all already generals, and Wei Lihuang, who is only fifteen years younger, is still just a small lieutenant colonel.

Anyway, for the sake of Wei Lihuang's first-class honorary graduation medal and the imperial saber, Fu Zuoyi did not criticize this junior who took the lead in running around, but his eyes were still bad.

Fu Zuoyi glanced at it coldly and ordered, "All stand upright." ”

Swish.

Everyone stood still like an electric shock.

"Tidy up the army, you can't make a mistake when you see the emperor, whoever is a little sloppy, go back and clean you up!"

Fu Zuoyi gritted his teeth fiercely, he hated the posture of iron and steel, he has always been a person who is not so strict, but today's peace really can't tolerate sloppiness, and he will meet the emperor in a while, whoever makes a mistake, Commander Zhao will be furious, and whip the horse one after another.

At this juncture, Colonel Chen Jiayou also walked over quickly, looked at them very strangely, and asked Fu Zuoyi, "What's the matter with them?" ”

Fu Zuoyi looked back at Chen Jiayou, and said with a pout: "The emperor wants to summon them!" ”

"Oh!"

Colonel Chen Jiayou didn't think it was strange, he just pointed to the official document in his hand and said, "The cabinet and the Ministry of Finance urgently telegraphed, let them wait." ”

Fu Zuoyi turned his head and looked at Wei Lihuang and the others again, and shouted, "Did you hear that?" ”

"I heard you!"

Everyone threw their heads up and shouted.

"What are you shouting about, is this the place for shouting?"

Fu Zuoyi was shocked, and angrily pointed to his head and reprimanded: "Do you have paste in your head?" Is this the military department? This is the summer palace, the inner court of the palace, and I would fucking want to sweep you with a machine gun! ”

Everyone bowed their heads, and morale plummeted to its lowest point.

Chen Jiayou smiled and reminded these young officers who had just arrived: "Inner Court, speak quietly, they are all company commanders and battalion commanders, why don't you have any virtue!" ”

After saying this, he himself tidied up his military appearance, and walked solemnly into the White Crane Pavilion with the emergency telegram of the cabinet.

Wei Lihuang also scolded in his heart, not only the battalion commander, but also a regimental commander, master, you can't be polite to us, and you are all seniors of the Central Military Academy.

What he said was wrong, Chen Jiayou is not from the Central Military Academy, this person is a graduate of the Far Eastern Army Academy, because the most powerful majors of the Far Eastern Army Academy are the Artillery Department and the Intelligence Section, and he studied the Intelligence Department at the beginning, and since graduating from the Far Eastern Army Academy, he has been working in the Central Military Intelligence Department, proficient in four foreign languages, English, German, and Russian, and has always been known for his outrageous intelligence and unforgettable.

Chen Jiayou took the official document of the cabinet and entered the White Crane Pavilion.

Song Biao, the emperor, has always had a kind of caste, and the handling of affairs is carried out according to stages, one stage concentrates on handling the military department, and the other stage concentrates on handling government affairs; during this time, a military meeting will be held to meet with the best young officers of the three armed forces in the country, and he has also read military papers during his summer vacation in the past two days.

When Chen Jiayou came in, Song Biao was reading Marshal Xia Fei's "War Preparation and Campaign Implementation", and he had been reading it for two days, and on the whole he still had some inspiration and a sense of the same as that of the hero, he felt that he and Marshal Xia Fei's style was similar, they were not fighting uncertain battles, and they were incomparably emphasizing the preparation period of the entire war and the preparation period of the campaign.

Chen Jiayou entered the hall, bowed to Song Biao, and then handed over the cabinet official document, saying, "Your Majesty, the Minister of Finance is in a hurry." ”

Song Biao sighed, took the telegram and looked at it, it was roughly correct with his guess, Ouyang Xi still opposed Zhang Kangren's concept of a mixed-standard system, thinking that it was too difficult to implement and meaningless.

Since Zhang Kangren put forward his new proposal of mixed standard system in front of the emperor, these two former and current chancellors of the exchequer have been debating endlessly, although Zhang Kangren is an old minister, with a high prestige, and has won the trust of the emperor, but Ouyang Xi is not an ordinary person, let alone in the position of minister of finance.

Song Biao knew that this field was definitely not what he was good at, not to mention that as a constitutional monarch, the monarch was not suitable to oppose the decisions of his subordinates, unless it was really wrong, and there was no distinction between right and wrong, then the decision of the current cabinet ministers must also be respected.

In this regard, Song Biao's attitude was silent and did not evaluate, which was equivalent to acquiescing to Ouyang Xi's opinion, after all, the power was still in Ouyang Xi's hands.

Ouyang Xi opposes the mixed standard, and at the same time believes that the price of silver may continue to fall, and this is not the time to increase silver reserves.

Although this person is not a banker like Zhang Kangren, after all, he also has real talents, what he is doing, and what he has to do, as long as the general direction is to avoid risks and sell overseas securities assets, Song Biao does not plan to ask too much.

After reading Ouyang Xi's telegram, he replied to the seven words "choice and responsibility are together", and asked Chen Jiayou to reply to the telegram from the Ministry of Finance.

Chen Jiayou made another move, and said: "Your Majesty, those young officers of the Zhili Military Region are waiting outside, probably too excited, running all the way shouting, and being caught and scolded by General Fu outside the door. ”

Song Biao snorted, and replied dissatisfiedly: "It's all a group of battalion commanders, shouting outside like children playing at home, they really want to criticize, let them wait for half an hour before coming in, calm down first, let people send them chairs, sit in the corridor and wait." ”

Chen Jiayou secretly laughed in his heart, and he promised to go out.

This thing is done quickly, as soon as he goes out, he asks the people below to sit collectively, and they all sit in the corridor outside and wait for half an hour, knowing that he is suing behind his back, Fu Zuoyi has no choice but to pinch the watch himself.

As soon as Chen Jiayou left, Fu Zuoyi hatefully taught Wei Lihuang and the others: "Look, let the people from the Intelligence Department complain, if there is such an opportunity in the future, give me all the stability." ”

"Damn, grandson!"

Everyone was also on fire in their hearts, and looking at Chen Jiayou's back, they couldn't wait to rush up collectively to beat him.

Finally, after waiting for half an hour, this group of young officers entered the White Crane Pavilion under the leadership of Fu Zuoyi to meet the emperor.

Song Biao took advantage of this moment to finish reading the book "War Preparation and Campaign Implementation" in his hand, and when the young officers came in to salute, he put the book aside and asked Fu Zuoyi to give them another seat, only this time to sit around him, no longer waiting outside.

He had already seen these young officers in front of Song Biao before, some of them had only been seen two years ago, but most of them had only met once or twice, and a few had seen them twice.

After a general glance, he saw Huang Botao, who had been cultivated a lot in the past few years, and Song Biao's mood was much better, because these young middle- and lower-level officers in front of him represented the future of Emperor Lu Liang.

Thinking of this, Song Biao talked to these young officers present about the original story of the Lushan Conference, and said: "Everything starts from the cornerstone, the strength of a country's military strength depends not only on the national strength, but also on you middle and lower-level officers, the Lushan Conference has been held many times, mostly related to politics, economy, religion and science and technology, this year we decided to hold such a military symposium, the purpose is obviously not to let those generals, lieutenant generals come over for vacation and enjoy life, but to invite you young officers in the middle and lower ranks, Speak freely and look from you for the direction of the country's military reform and improvement, because only you know the problem best, and only you can decide whether the country's military strength is stronger or weaker. Therefore, after the convening of this meeting, you should know everything and say everything, and you must point out everything that you feel is wrong in your hearts, so that only in this way can China's military revolution continue to develop. ”

Song Biao said like this, although all the young officers present had some feelings, but they all understood that it was not the time to scratch in front of the emperor, everyone nodded silently, and no one dared to say a word.

Correspondingly, because the entire Lushan Conference lasted for two months, Song Biao was not in a hurry to discuss the future of the imperial revolution with these middle- and lower-ranking officers at this time.

As soon as he finished reading Marshal Xia Fei's "War Preparations and Campaign Implementation", Song Biao made a transition and continued: "Over the years, we have established the largest and best military academies in the world and trained a large number of young officers. Because you are young, you can continue to learn and keep up with the pace of development of the times. It has been almost two years since Marshal Xia Fei's book was published in China, and any of you have carefully studied it? ”

There was silence.

In fact, Marshal Xia Fei's book "War Preparation and Campaign Implementation" is not highly evaluated within the Imperial Central Defense Force, first, the military thinking of China and France is different, and second, China has the best field in the two fields of war preparation and campaign implementation, but in front of the emperor, no one can say it directly.

There was a silent silence for all.

At this time, Wei Lihuang and Song Biao replied: "Back to the emperor, my subordinates have carefully studied this book of Marshal Xia Fei, and it is generally as emphasized by our army, but my subordinates think that the entire war stage should be divided into the early stage of national defense, the preparation period of war, and finally the implementation period of the campaign, especially in the mobilization before the war, and the subordinates think that Marshal Xia Fei's analysis is still too simple. ”

Song Biao bowed his head slightly and said, "What you said is still very reasonable, let's continue to talk about it." ”

Wei Lihuang continued: "The period of national defense construction and the period of war preparation is the responsibility of the general, and we are all middle-level and lower-level officers, so we should pay the most attention to the implementation stage of the campaign, and the implementation of the campaign discussed by Marshal Xia Fei is not useful for our country, and the key to this depends on two points, one is the difference between China and France, and the other is the difference in the military thinking of China and France. France has long been in the Anglo-German contest and its strength is weaker than the two sides, so it focuses on defense and restriction in military thinking, rather than taking the initiative to attack, while our army, no matter whether it is weak or strong, actively emphasizes the control of the initiative in the war, emphasizes the rapid and mobile attack, and destroys the enemy army by attacking. ”

Song Biao applauded and said, "What you said is very reasonable, but there is no reason at all. National defense construction and war preparations are by no means the responsibility of a simple general, but the responsibility of the entire country, especially those of you middle and lower-ranking officers. Without your implementation, some of the military orders of the Central Military Department would be in vain, how could we build national defense and prepare for war, and if there was no feedback from you from the basics, how would things change in a better direction? Therefore, I believe that you, as middle- and lower-ranking officers, should be more responsible for national defense construction and war preparations, whether it is in the training of soldiers, regular exercises, tactical running-in and innovation, and the training and guidance of non-commissioned officers, you all bear the first important task of building the emperor's affairs, and you have an unshirkable responsibility. ”

Wei Lihuang realized that he had said something wrong, and immediately admitted his mistake and said: "The emperor's lesson is extremely good, and his subordinates are negligent. ”

Song Biao just took advantage of the topic to play, and took this opportunity to emphasize the policy of building the [***] affairs and the importance of the Lushan Conference, and he did not believe that Wei Lihuang would be a school officer who was not responsible for the work of grassroots officers, so he continued with Wei Lihuang and others: "This Lushan Conference is to deliberately carry forward your strength, usually want to say but can't say, you can say what you don't have the opportunity to say, everyone must reflect on various problems in the work, put forward ideas for improvement, and everyone can brainstorm in order to better build the imperial national defense." Actually, you can come up with some new ideas and suggestions right now. ”

As soon as Song Biao finished speaking, everyone was excited, and Huang Botao, who was only a captain at this time, couldn't wait to get up and salute, and said, "Your Majesty, my subordinates have a word, I don't know if I can say it?" ”

Song Biao still admired Huang Botao very much, and said: "Say it, there is nothing that can't be said!" ”

Huang Botao stood as straight as a telephone pole, and said loudly with a serious expression: "My subordinates only have one sentence, please increase the annual salary and vacation allowance of the national defense forces." ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, and said, "You sit down first, and explain the problem in detail, just a few words can't solve any problems!" ”

"Yes!"

Huang Botao saluted again, then sat down and continued to propose to Song Biao: "The proportion of our army's national defense troops in the total army is close to 1/4, and there is an average of one national defense soldier in every 4 soldiers, especially in the last ten years, after the end of the Sino-Soviet War, the number of national defense troops and young military cadets retained during the campaign has increased significantly, and the number of national defense troops has increased rapidly, but the increase in military spending is limited compared with the Sino-Soviet war, especially the military expenditure of our army has only decreased but not increased, and the number of army members is large. The annual salary of the defence force is only half that of the navy and air force. In the past, the average income of the national population was low, and the income of the national defense force could still support the soldiers' family expenses, but now the per capita income has increased by a large margin, and prices have risen rapidly, and the salary of the national defense force has hardly changed from the previous decade. Correspondingly, the income of officers has also not increased, but after all, officers are still a relatively high income class, and the national defense army itself is only an ordinary wage earner, and it is also the basic force of the imperial affairs, if we cannot improve the income of the national defense troops as soon as possible, it will have a long-term impact on the construction of our country's affairs, the most obvious is that the admission rate of China's 152 youth military academies has declined significantly in the past three years. In the past, every young military academy had four choices of one, or even five of one, but now it can only be two out of one and three out of three, and this is absolutely not conducive to improving and maintaining the quality of our military at a higher level. ”

Song Biao nodded and said: "The income problem of the national defense forces must be improved, and we will focus on this point at this year's meeting, do you have any other proposals?" ”

Huang Botao hesitated for a moment and continued: "Returning to the emperor, my subordinates think that although our army has a trend of thought of continental armyism, this should not be the focus of criticism, and we should reflect on why the navy and air force do not have a trend of thought of a large navy and a large air force? Military personnel are born with a sense of competition, and our army hopes that the army will be stronger, and their navy should also hope that the navy will be stronger; this is our natural mission and responsibility, and the Central Military Department should not just criticize us again and again for the trend of thinking of the Continental Army. Although our cavalry units have made tremendous contributions to the country in the past, we cannot conceal the fact that the cavalry will be completely eliminated after World War I. I suggest that our army should have the courage to bid farewell to the past, and completely integrate all cavalry units into the patrol force with the determination of a strong man to break his wrist, and use them only for local law and order, patrolling, maintaining unity, and maintaining internal order. Third, our army will strictly investigate and withhold all the empty salaries left over from the previous dynasties, but there are many problems left over from the patrol army, and there is still a widespread phenomenon of empty salaries so far, and the military department has not strictly rectified it, and even if the patrol army is not the main force of our army, this kind of influence is still very bad, and sooner or later it will spread back to the main force of our army, and the patrol army headquarters and the relevant higher-level generals must be responsible for this. ”

As soon as he said this, the middle-aged and young officers present all looked very nervous, because the previous issue of the income of the national defense forces has been discussed for a long time, and it has been discussed for several years, and it is not a sharp issue, but the latter three proposals are too sharp.

Song Biao also thought for a moment before pointing at Huang Botao with admiration and said, "Your surname Huang is telling the truth, and you are also very bold. There are many senior commanders of the cavalry, and among the 14 generals of our army, 6 of them are from the cavalry, all of whom are meritorious men, and even in the stage of the Sino-Soviet war, the contribution and sacrifice of the cavalry are the greatest. Let's just say that you make these cavalry-born generals embarrassed? When we fought the Xinhai War, the biggest gap between the Chinese army and us was in the light machine guns, which represented the firepower enhancement of the grassroots armed forces at the squad and platoon levels, which was the basis for the theory of small-scale mobile warfare that came into being during the trench warfare period. Looking back at the period of the Sino-Soviet War, if we had not taken the opportunity to invest money and technology to catch up with the trend of mechanized warfare, we would not have easily defeated the Soviet Russian Red Army. In the same way, if we all reduce the cavalry of more than 400,000 troops to the patrol force, reduce the proportion of cavalry defense troops, and reduce the downsizing of our central army, even if we do not increase more military spending, we can effectively improve the general treatment of the defense forces. Considering the pros and cons, the reform of the cavalry is imperative, and this is not something that a few cavalry generals can stop if they want to. ”

After a slight pause, Song Biao turned to encourage all the middle-aged and lower-level officers present: "The military reform of the empire is already imperative, and this time the great reform needs to be promoted from the bottom up by your strength, so this Lushan Conference, I am a middle-level and upper-level general, so I will call you all over, and everyone will discuss the big policy together, and actively promote the second great revolution of the emperor [***] in order to seek the world's first military power!" As Huang Botao said, we must not only build a large army, but also a large air force and a large navy, and the most powerful large air force and navy in the world! ”

Emperor Song's prestige in the army and the country is very high, more than the Taizu who came later, as soon as he said this, as soon as this attitude came out, all the middle and lower-level officers present were particularly excited and enthusiastically applauded, happy.

(To be continued)