Just before Foreign Minister Fang Ze Kenji arrived in China, under the persuasion of the central political axe, the kings of the three small kingdoms of Luang Prabang, Champasak and Vientiane in Laos successively announced their abdication, and were canonized as dukes by the imperial family and moved to live in Yanjing, and the three small kingdoms were also merged into the empire and merged into Lancang Autonomous Province.

This process lasted for ten years, and the governance of the three Laos was also under the direct control of the central government for a long time, so that the empire completely annexed the three regions without any news or feedback from the whole world.

Song Biao can't help but feel a little regret about the visit of Foreign Minister Fang Ze Qianji, which can only be regarded as a small episode between China and China, and finally did not make any progress, but it was also expected, and there was not too much disappointment.

The first Chinese National Games held in Shanghai was particularly successful, and then in the 5th China Jiu-Jitsu Invitational Tournament, China said that the championship was equally divided, for China, if it is true that the problem of Jiu-Jitsu dispute cannot be solved, the end of the Chinese Jiu-Jitsu Invitational Tournament is also the best opportunity.

After the Jiu-Jitsu Invitational Tournament, Song Biao continued to move his family to the Lushan Summer Palace and held the Lushan Summer Palace Conference in 1931, after all, it was at the time of the economic crisis, and the theme of this year, "water conservancy projects, power grids, transportation and national infrastructure" was still related to the economy, and the proposal to build the Three Gorges Project was also formally put forward at the Lushan Summer Palace Conference this year.

China's continued economic prosperity during the Great Depression and the Soviet Union's national economic model actually opened the door to a shortcut to ending the crisis of the Great Depression for Britain, the United States, and Germany -- to actively expand the political budget and expenditure, strengthen the supervision, regulation, and intervention of financial and industrial and agricultural production, increase employment, and stimulate economic recovery.

China's national infrastructure projects have just begun, larger projects and more projects are still being promoted, external demand is sluggish, and the domestic economy must rely on investment and credit economy to survive the current difficulties, and China is also expanding its foreign capital exports, increasing investment in the Sino-French colonies, and striving to expand the foreign demand market.

Considering the special relationship between Chen Jin and Princess Yuanyuan, at this summer palace meeting, the inner court invited Chen Jin to participate in the meeting in the name of the representative of young economists.

Because he was going to participate in the closing ceremony of the first National Games, Song Biao came to the summer palace half a month later than in previous years, and Queen Shu and Princess Yuanyuan had already arrived a lot, and Chen Jin naturally came together.

Song Biao was a little worried about this young man, worried that his daughter's life would be delayed, and after arriving at the summer palace, he asked the inner court to sort out Chen Jin's recent information and intelligence, and was ready to talk to Chen Jin again in the evening.

After having dinner with his family, Song Biao ignored the fatigue of the six-hour flight, and went to his study in the evening to read the information provided by the Central Intelligence Administration, and carefully studied the two academic papers published by Chen Jin in the past six months.

It should have had a very good effect on Song Biao's warning, Chen Jin has kept a certain distance from all the party and government youth groups on the campus of the Central Imperial University in the past six months, and the only political activity was to participate in the legal popularization propaganda campaign organized by the Youth Liberation Association.

Song Biao finished reading these materials, stood up and stared at the lights in the distance in front of the study window, picked out a Yuxi cigar in his hand, smelled it, and then lit it, silently thinking about some questions.

The right-wing militarism of the present and the left-leaning democracy movement in China are two problems that are difficult to solve.

The absorption of a large number of talents from Soviet Russia contributed to the development of the empire, but the large number of Mensheviks fled into China and also made China's dialectical materialist thought extremely active, and the dialectical materialist thought is obviously very convincing, if not the truth, it is also the closest thinking logic to the truth, and the key is that dialectical materialism and Marxism-Leninism are tied together, as if to recognize the former, the latter must be recognized, which is a very annoying thing.

In addition, in the process of development, the empire did place more emphasis on the adoption of some left-wing policies and methods, especially in the country's macroeconomic regulation and control and the handling of the national income of workers and peasants.

This series of factors has led to the proliferation of left-leaning people's movementism in the empire, and many things are not Chen Jin's problem alone.

Song Biao felt more and more that it was necessary to conduct a big debate at the source, and the truth always became clearer and clearer, and that it was necessary to use a nationwide debate to thoroughly determine the long-term development path and mainstream ideas of the empire, and not to be bound by left-leaning democracy movement.

The Lushan Summer Palace stretches in the Meilu Valley, and in this silent night, hundreds of buildings are brightly lit, illuminating the dark mountain night, and the cool mountain breeze blows through the valley and forests, which is quiet and pleasant.

It's a wonderful place to stay.

Every summer, Song Biao held a meaningful invitation here, which played a very key role in promoting the development of the empire.

At this time, Chen Jiayou walked in and said, "Your Majesty, Chen Jin has arrived. ”

Song Biao sighed and said, "Let him come in!" ”

After saying this, Song Biao also closed the window and returned to the desk to put away all the intelligence materials.

After waiting for a while, Chen Jin, who was in the prime of his youth, walked in, wearing a brand-new black Chinese suit, probably made improvised before coming to the Lushan Conference, but still wearing a pair of cheap black cloth shoes, which looked a little abrupt.

Song Biao glanced at him, motioned for him to sit at the desk, and he seemed to be very relaxed and half-leaned on the thick armrest, and asked Chen Jin, "What have you been studying for the past half a year?" ”

Chen Jin said: "The main thing is to study "Political Economy". ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, and it can be roughly seen from Chen Jin's last two papers that he has indeed worked very hard to study "Political Economics" during this time.

Chen Jiayou personally came over with a tea tray and gave Chen Jin a cup of Qimen black tea, Chen Jin thanked him repeatedly, Chen Jiayou signaled with his eyes that he wanted to thank the emperor for everything here, and Chen Jin hurriedly thanked the emperor again.

A student is a student, and there's a lot to do.

Others say thank you as "thank the emperor for his grace" and "thank you for your majesty's gift", but Chen Jin is very common to say "thank you, emperor".

Rules and etiquette always have to be learned slowly.

Song Biao didn't care, and thought for a moment before saying: "I heard that you have kept a long distance from politics during this time, this is good, politics is an ideal, governing the country and the world is always a big thing that everyone wants to do, and the purpose of the Central Empire is also to cultivate first-rate politicians for the empire, but if you choose an inappropriate path, it may hurt both the people and the people around you, so it is also a good thing to keep a certain distance cautiously before lacking political judgment." ”

Chen Jin nodded cautiously and said, "What the emperor said is true, in fact, I have been preparing for the public examination recently, and I want to be admitted to the errand of the Policy Research Bureau of the Central Ministry of Finance. ”

Song Biao is not surprised, it is common sense that college students like to take public examinations, not only for life welfare, but also for the spirit of governing the country and leveling the world emphasized in traditional education.

This is normal, not to mention that Chen Jin is indeed a capable young man, and he has always had ambitions in this regard.

Song Biao thought for a moment, and suggested to Chen Jin: "I heard that after Song Jiaoren became the Minister of Industry, he has been looking for a few secretaries who understand economics recently, if you are interested, I can recommend you to go." Song Jiaoren is a very honest and honest politician, and you can learn a lot by his side. ”

Chen Jin seemed very happy when he heard this, he also had a lot of admiration for Song Jiaoren, and immediately nodded and said, "Okay, thank you, Your Majesty." ”

If there are too many words, Song Biao doesn't want to say too much.

If Chen Jin does not join the Bushviks, even if he really works for the Socialist Party, he is actually a very good son-in-law, at least his character and talent are still guaranteed.

Song Biao didn't have the idea of continuing to talk, some things were better to say less, young people change quickly, one day his daughter has no confidence in Chen Jin, and he can't have any more contacts.

After saying this, Song Biao and Chen Jin instructed: "Then you go back and prepare more, Song Jiaoren will also attend this year's Lushan Conference, and when he arrives in a few days, I will arrange for you to meet him." ”

Chen Jin thanked him again, and continued to leave the emperor's study accompanied by Chen Jiayou's chamberlain.

Song Biao continued to be left alone in the room, he sat silently at the table, and picked up Chen Jin's two academic papers again to watch them.

In such a dark night, Song Biao had a lot on his mind and thought of too many things.

1931 was a very important year for China, and in 1928, in order to cope with various complications that might come, the empire passed the second constitutional amendment, allowing the imperial prime minister to be re-elected for a maximum of three terms, which made Ouyang Geng successfully re-elected in the crisis of the world depression, and the ministers in this cabinet of ministers also changed relatively little, maintaining the stability of the entire political axe.

This year's Lushan Summer Palace meeting with the theme of "water conservancy projects, power grids, transportation and national infrastructure" is very important, and Premier Ouyang Geng also attended the meeting, and the person responsible for presiding over the meeting was not Song Biao, but Tang Shaoyi, the former prime minister of the empire, Song Jiaoren, the minister of industry, Chen Qimei, the minister of agriculture, and Yang Zhaolin, the minister of transportation, also arrived one after another, which can be called a national economic and political consultative conference, and all the heavyweight business, science and technology, engineering people and the former and current major cabinet ministers of the entire empire were present.

At this juncture, no matter which faction or party it belongs to, the whole country must unite as a force.

This year's Lushan Conference also held a bit of a long time, for the previous Fifth Five-Year Plan to be greatly revised, a new national infrastructure project 135 plans, to build 135 extra-large engineering water conservancy, transportation, and electric power projects in the country in phases of 10 years, the country's fifth five-year industrial and agricultural plan and the new 10-year 201 project plan must also be adjusted.

Song Biao did not wait for the end of the meeting, and on the premise that Tang Shaoyi was personally responsible for presiding over the meeting, he still returned to Yanjing in September at the normal time to convene this year's Central Military Plenary Conference at the Central Military Headquarters.

After the military Lushan Conference in 1928, a wave of great changes began to be set off within the imperial armed forces, the Central Defense Force was reduced to 2.3 million people, the Ministry of the Army, the Ministry of the Navy, and the Ministry of the Air Force were merged into the new Central Ministry of Defense, and the total number of Chinese patrol forces increased by 1.57 million, and the General Administration of the Coast Guard was abolished and reorganized into the new Central Patrol General Administration. Tasks such as maritime security and border customs law enforcement.

By 1931, the Central National Defense Force and the Central Patrol Force had all completed the replacement of semi-automatic Hanyang rifles, and the whole country was unified at this point, while the militia, student military training and public security police continued to use Shenyang manual rifles.

The T14 and T15 tanks and LT12 series light tanks and armored vehicles gradually began to replace the T4 series medium tanks that had been in service for 10 years, and the Imperial Army began to fully start the process of mechanization.

From 1920 to 1931, the artillery of the Imperial Army was completely replaced with 75mm, 88mm, 105mm, 130mm, and 155mm howitzers, as well as 130mm and 155mm howitzers, and all of them were improved to mechanically towed guns, and the first generation of 105mm self-propelled guns was developed on the basis of the LT12 chassis.

In the field of anti-aircraft artillery, the empire adopted three series of calibers of 25mm, 37mm and 47mm, which were connected with high-speed machine guns, especially 25mm anti-aircraft guns and high-speed machine guns as the main force, and a large number of them were loaded on light off-road vehicles for mobile combat.

Compared with the large number of land forces, the Imperial Central Navy and the Central Air Force had a faster rate of equipment replacement because of their high per capita military expenditure, and both the navy and air force completed their equipment replacement plans before 1930 ahead of schedule.

From 1931 to 1940, the Imperial Central Defense Forces still maintained the pace of further improvement and upgrading, ensuring the overall superiority of the Central Defense Forces in the three major fields of equipment, training, and ideology.

The interesting thing is that on the one hand, the work in the field of cavalry is still regarded as a very important task, and it still maintains stable and long-term investment, and the country continues to maintain the six major military horse breeding bases in Liaoxi, Hulunbuir, Kulun, Yili, Xilin Gol, and Qinghai, and maintains the stable demand for cavalry in the country.

This is because the demand for agricultural horses in the empire is weakened, and the strength of the replenishment of agricultural horses from the civilian population will gradually weaken during the war, and the territory of the empire is too vast, and the demand for military horses and cavalry by the patrol army will still be long-term.

It is expected that after the expiration of the Washington Treaty in 1936, the empire will immediately put into production the latest class of aircraft carriers, even if it has been determined to take aircraft carriers as the core development direction, the empire is still continuing to invest in pre-research in the field of battleships to ensure that the size of the future battleship formation is not less than the navy. At the same time, it is technologically ahead of the Navy.

In 1920, the company began to develop a 480mm caliber main gun, and China carried out it almost at the same time, but now that the empire has come out, it has not succeeded for a long time, and even the 460mm main gun needs to be fired with reduced ammunition.

Song Biao also plans to build a 65,000-ton super battleship, using 8 480mm main guns, claiming to build four, but in fact only building one to scare the opponent, no matter whether this opponent is this or any other country, in short, it is to force the opponent to frantically transfer resources to the manufacture of battleships.

China actually doesn't care, the territory of 19.58 million square kilometers is rich in resources, it is still possible to build a scare people, even after the war, China can continue to keep a battleship as a symbol of national majesty to sail around the world.

Whether or not it can exert its true strength is one thing, and the symbol of the country's strength is still very important.

Objectively speaking, in such a great era, having enough strength, ability, and financial resources but not building super battleships such as Yamato and Iowa class is also a huge regret in itself, and there will never be a chance to make up for it, even if such a super battleship does not play an effective role in the end, it will still be the main theme in people's memory and represent the ultimate symbol of this era.

After the conclusion of the plenary meeting of the Central Military Department, the work that Song Biao needed to do as the emperor and the supreme commander of the emperor's affairs was roughly over, but the amount of work in all parts of the country was extremely huge, and the oil in Xinjiang Province, natural gas in Sichuan, the water conservancy resources development project in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and the Qinghai-Tibet Highway were the top priorities.

In the past two years, there have been as many as 24,000 small and medium-sized reservoirs that have all begun to be put into construction, with an average of 1.7 medium-sized reservoirs in each prefecture and 3.3 small reservoirs in each county, and the length of the main canals of the national modern canal plan will exceed 550,000 kilometers.

According to China's current plan, by 1933, China's total installed power capacity will exceed the United States 1.5 times, can be called the new hegemon of the world's power revolution, thermal power, hydropower, wind power, geothermal comprehensive development, thick accumulation, inter-provincial high-voltage transmission lines have become the mainstream, and the 201 project continues to this day a large number of achievements have also spurted out.

In the field of heavy industry, the 1931-1935 plan of the Imperial 201 Project has been determined to start developing a 25,000-ton hydraulic press and a 35,000-ton vertical cold rolling mill, as soon as these two levels go up, the Empire will have no problem even if it wants to build a 65,000-ton super high-speed battleship, of course, the 15,000-ton hydraulic press imported from Germany is also sufficient, and the 12,500-ton hydraulic press developed by the domestic self-developed is also sufficient, but the defensive effect of the armor should be slightly discounted.

The empire is just more demanding, to firmly consolidate the position of industrial hegemon, catch up with Europe and the United States, and become the world's largest scientific and technological power, and this is not the original reason of the 201 project?

In the field of the electronics industry, the empire has made a greater breakthrough in the field of semiconductors, and is focusing on the refining of germanium and the industrialization of purification technology.

Shipbuilding, Aircraft, Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Electrical, Automobile, Machine Tools, Nuclear Physics, Electronic Semiconductors...... The strength of the empire lies not in talent, nor entirely in funding, but in this centralized system of state control.

The system has the advantage of the system, and it can allow the weak to exert their stronger strength.

With such a vast territory, a prosperous economy, a thriving technology, and an increasingly accessible education, what enemies are there to fear?

Now it should be that foreign countries are afraid of the empire, but there is a threat like the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe is indeed constantly Sovietized, and it is suffering from this level of world economic depression, where will Britain and the United States still have the energy to join hands to contain the development of the Chinese empire?

When they have the energy, who will curb whom, I'm afraid it will be a new unknown!

(To be continued)