Rabindranath Tagore did not hesitate to praise China, and even believed that China would become the new leader of the Far East, especially for India's social stubbornness, which still had a huge impact on Indian society, and the vast majority of India's upper elite were cultivated by the British and had been completely controlled by Western values.

These people still have a lot of gratitude for the British colonial power, before the British invasion, India has been divided for hundreds of years, India has been reduced from an ancient civilization to a geographical name, in fact, India is indeed tragic enough, modern history is completely written by the British, and the part of ancient history has to find information from China, and its own historical heritage has been completely cut off.

Historical inheritance is very important for a civilization, it can be said that there is no civilization in the world except China, which has a voluminous, complete and clear historical data, Westerners because they do not have enough historical heritage, Homer's epic, the Bible and other things as historical facts.

According to this standard, China's Classic of Mountains and Seas can also be used as a history book, but shameless Westerners question the authenticity of historical records when they cannot compare with China, and interpret double standards to the extreme.

Historical inheritance not only tells the world the evolution trajectory of a civilization, but also the best teaching material for the country's sense of national identity.

The fully Westernized Indian elite read something different from Tagore's writings, and that was the admiration for a Chinese-style violent revolution that seemed unacceptable to these people, and that revolution would not only destroy the colonial order, but also shake India's caste system, literally killing the elites.

Therefore, a large number of Indian elites stood up and criticized China vigorously, and for a time Indian society was turbulent, and how to choose the future path has become a hot topic in Indian society.

For China. India is just a corner of South Asia. China's First Five-Year Plan was officially implemented in 1924, and by 1927 it had reached its fourth year, and it was about to reach its final year.

The core of the entire First Five-Year Plan is to radiate the southwest industrial zone with Sichuan as the core to the whole country, focusing on the development of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Northeast China, Guangdong and other areas with the best economic development conditions, so as to complete the industrial layout of the whole country. Lay a solid foundation for future development.

Although the implementation of the First Five-Year Plan was affected by the Sino-Japanese War, due to the short duration of the war, all the major wars were fought outside China, except for Shanghai, which did not affect the overall situation of China's economic development.

On the contrary, due to the tremendous pressure of the war, the development of China's heavy industry and military industry has been tilted with a large amount of funds. The momentum of development is very rapid, and it is expected that China's steel output will exceed 4.7 million tons in 1927, and the plan to exceed the 5 million tons by 28 has become a foregone conclusion.

Coal production this year has already exceeded the projected 40 million tons, reaching 41.2 million tons, oil and power generation are not far from the target, in terms of the output of major industrial products, China has almost exceeded the plan, even Premier Wang Yongjiang thought that the target was set a little low.

"Great President. We had hoped that peace would be maintained during the First Five-Year Plan period. Avoid war as much as possible, if it goes well. We can easily surpass Japan, but now it seems that we broke out a war with Japan in advance, which did not affect the overall situation, on the contrary, it also greatly promoted the rapid development of industry, and China's potential should not be underestimated! ”

Seeing the successful completion of the First Five-Year Plan, Wang Yongjiang, the helmsman, became famous all over the world, and before that, the industrialization of all the European and American powers was led by the capitalists spontaneously, and a step-by-step model was adopted, starting with light industry, then turning to heavy industry, first imitation, and then embarking on independent innovation, the whole process was far more common than in China.

China's state-led, rapid industrial development has shocked the world to a great extent, and in addition to China, the Soviet Union has also adopted a more stringent five-year plan, and the results are also very amazing, so that many Western economists are dumbfounded.

Qiao Yu himself is very clear about the power of the five-year plan, which is definitely the only way for the later countries to establish their own industrial system, but when it is really implemented, he has seen the power of this method, and the overall arrangement at the national level can give full play to the limited resources, which has a huge role in the early stage of industrialization.

In particular, it is of great help to a poor and weak country like China, where private capital is weak, but of course there are serious problems with this kind of plan.

"Prime Minister, we are only the quantity has reached the target, and the quality problem is far from being solved, we have produced nearly five million tons of steel, but the main special steel still has to be imported from Germany, and in the use of steel we have put too much steel into the construction industry, turned into a building road, but in the production of machinery still seems a little backward, these problems should not be underestimated!"

Steel is the backbone of industry, the reason why it has such an important role is because all kinds of machines needed by industry are made of steel, the more machines a country hoards, the stronger the production capacity, but China has put too much steel into the construction industry, not into machines, which is also a very serious problem.

"President, I don't think so, China is a big country, with a large population, many big cities, there is nothing wrong with focusing on the development of the construction industry, capital is like a stream of water, with a plane tree, naturally there is no worry about the phoenix, we will build the city beautiful, it is necessary!"

Wang Yongjiang's focus as prime minister and Qiao Yu's focus is obviously different, Qiao Yu is more concerned about production capacity, is focused on the future of the war, but this insight into the future can not be shared with others, Wang Yongjiang values the overall development of society, to arrange more jobs, to let more people improve their living standards, the government also wants to get more taxes through real estate!

Qiao Yu also understood Wang Yongjiang's views, so he said: "Prime Minister, you know better than me about economic development, but I only have one requirement, that is, to base ourselves on fighting a war, and it is a big war. These are all priority investment directions! ”

"Great President. At present, the countries of the world are basically peaceful, and the momentum of economic development is also good, so a big war may not be able to be fought! Wang Yongjiang admired Qiao Yu's vision and insight, but Qiao Yu's emphasis on military affairs caused the army to seize a lot of resources, and he was not very satisfied.

Of course, this time China's big victory over Japan proved that the previous military investment was worth it. But now that Japan, the most vicious enemy, has been crippled, who else will be fought in order to prepare for war!

"The world is definitely not peaceful, and the economic situation is relatively good now, but Wei Ruolan and they have already warned that problems will inevitably arise within two years. When the economy collapses, all the contradictions will emerge at once, a new and larger-scale world war is inevitable, China must not have any luck mentality, we have a weak foundation, weak industrial strength, we have to prepare in advance, war may break out in ten years or even later. But are you sure that China will catch up with the United States within 10 years? ”

Qiao Yu said very sincerely. He must make his prime minister aware of the future crisis, Wang Yongjiang pondered. Shook his head: "President, it will take at least half a century to surpass the United States in an all-round way, I'm afraid our generation may not be able to see it, the gap in our resources is not too big, the main problem is in manpower, take the mechanics as an example, the core strength of all factories is four or five level technicians, Germany is the strongest in this regard, the number is more than 400,000, the United States will not be too bad, the rest of the British and French powers are also in the number of 100,000, and China currently has only more than 10,000 people, many of which are imported from foreign countries, The number we have cultivated ourselves may be less than 10,000! ”

Industrial development is not a thing that can be opportunistic, the biggest reason lies in the problem of skilled workers, many things can be tricked, only skilled workers can only accumulate through a little operation, not a little fake, and a skilled fourth or fifth level technician needs at least ten years of training time.

In industrial production, more people see large machines, assembly lines, but to know that talent is the core of everything, many factories will appear after an old worker retires, suddenly the defective rate will be greatly increased the problem, in fact, this can often be solved by a pull, the old workers may master such a simple skill, but it has a huge impact on the quality.

In later generations, China was able to become the world's factory, and the training of skilled workers who spared no effort after the founding of the People's Republic of China played a very huge role, but this is a long-term project, and when it shows its power, it is already twenty or thirty years later, and the original founder has also been ignored, and everyone only sees an industrial miracle!

"Prime Minister, worker training is the top priority, the government must come up with incentives to encourage old workers to bring more apprentices, a worker can bring three or four apprentices, for technical schools The government must provide compensation, within ten years, I want to expand China's skilled team tenfold!"

"Don't worry, the president, I will implement it as soon as possible, but I still have one more thing to ask the president, this time the Chinese navy visited Siam, most of it has another deep meaning!"

At present, Siam is the only independent country in Indochina, and it exists as a buffer zone between the British and French colonies.

For Wang Yongjiang, Qiao Yu also had nothing to hide, and said with a smile: "China's goal is actually very simple, that is, the Kra Isthmus, where I plan to build a canal to connect the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean!" ”

People who know a little bit about the Kra Isthmus will not know this, the Kra Isthmus is located in the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula, east of the Gulf of Siam, west of the Andaman Sea, is the shortest passage between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, as early as the 17th century, the king of Siam tried to build a canal, but due to the huge investment, there was no construction at all, China this time with the victory of the Japanese tiger into Southeast Asia.

proposed to help Siam build the canal, and the spearhead was very clear, that is, the Strait of Malacca, which was controlled by the British! It was also a prelude to China's attempt to break the British colonial order. (To be continued.) )