When the five-year period passed in a hurry under the unprecedented enthusiasm of the Chinese people for construction, the land of China finally ushered in the great results of the successful construction of the five-year economic plan.

No one ever believed that as if overnight, there had been a shocking upheaval in China, especially in places other than the southwest and east coasts.

Those cities that were still ruined yesterday are now lined with streets and shops, and the newly built big cities may not be large, perhaps only a million people, but every city is full of warehouses and pedestrians. Everywhere you can see rows of buildings, uniformly planned and built.

Five years later, those Chinese who were still eating chaff and drinking thin food have basically solved the problem of eating, and the policy of the political axe is to ensure basic food and clothing and ensure that no one will starve to death in the event of a natural disaster.

Those Chinese who wore burlap clothes five years ago have begun to buy high-quality and cheap synthetic fabrics, and only need to sell a medium-sized pig, or go to the city or work on the construction site for a week, and can barely exchange the most basic clothing for a family for one year.

The landlords who were desperately squeezing the peasants five years ago, either the recalcitrant ones were confiscated according to the law, or the conservatives sat on the empty side, or the enlightened people, under the guidance of the political axe, moved into new industries, abided by the new rules of industry survival, and made a lot of money or went bankrupt.

Those Chinese who could only rely on two legs or an ox cart or ride a horse to go out yesterday finally saw the power of industrialization, and in the sound of rumbling trains, they could run thousands of miles away in one night. In the city, there are no longer rickshaws running around, tricycle drivers shouting everywhere, there is a bus stop on every street, where the buses that stop there run faster than the tram and charge cheaper than the tram, these municipal traffic projects invested and built by the political axe, not for profit, you can buy a transferable ticket for a penny, which can get you to any street in the city.

The most convincing thing is that after five years of huge economic construction, coupled with the strong industrial foundation of the original southwest, China's industrial output value has been on a par with the old weakened empires such as Britain and France, and has risen strongly, becoming a new rising country after the United States, Germany, and the Soviet Union.

As the wheels of time finally rolled over in 1938, the world situation was very different from five years earlier, and a cloud of war began to loom over the world.

In Asia, the Burmese People's Army, which was seeking to read power, took a method that shocked the world by hiring soldiers to fight, and he himself began to participate in the war. Perhaps in the beginning, it was just a war involving tens of thousands of people. Perhaps from the very beginning, he was rewarded with Burmese mercenaries and German foreign aid, and then bought large quantities of goods in China and shipped them back to China.

But as time entered 1938, he began to gradually participate in the war in Burma, and found that the combat effectiveness of the British, at least the combat effectiveness of the British army in the Far East and even the French army, was so low that people could not believe that this was the colonial army of the old empire. With their help, the entire Burmese People's Army system was logistically supported by the Chinese, and the Yue army paid the price of only more than 2,000 casualties, and Tuong Chung led the '100,000 army' to break through to Mandela.

The victory at his fingertips, the boundless vast land, the abundant grain, fruits, rubber, oil and gas, precious stones, jade, gold, etc., made Yue himself see a great temptation.

I have never been so surprised to discover that there is still a place in the world in Asia that can allow the emperor [***] team to gallop freely without paying huge sacrifices. At one time, they thought that the empire's farm was China, but now, they have discovered that the future of the empire can be not only in the Far East, but also in Southeast Asia.

Moreover, because of the strong support of the Germans for the Zoben, even after the entry of the Zoben as a mercenary, the British and French maintained appropriate protests, only occasionally inspecting the ships passing through the Strait of Malacca, but never taking actual action. This made him realize that as long as he did not fight a desperate war with China, a future world-class power that was close at hand, he would be able to mobilize millions or even tens of millions of troops to occupy the Far East of Soviet Russia and the Southeast Asian colonies of Britain and France.

After many years of recuperation after the defeat, coupled with the recent situation, and the above reasons, the attitude of the political axe is slowly changing dramatically, and the political axe of 1938, the Spring Festival of the Chinese, sent a secret military and political representative group to Hanjing, China, to meet with the senior officials of the Chinese political axe, hoping to seek further 'range of activities' in Southeast Asia. Paid logistical supply'.

In return, the Chinese people will fully support all of China's actions in Myanmar, and guarantee the absolute safety of the Chinese in Southeast Asia like the Chinese diaspora, and even hint that it will not rule out massacres and other measures to protect the Chinese nationals. In addition, he promised that once the war expanded and it was difficult for the sea transportation to ensure large-scale combat needs, as long as the Chinese were willing to provide logistical support nearby, most of the logistics procurement of the army fighting in Southeast Asia, even firearms and ammunition, could be carried out in China, in the form of resource trading or gold trading.

The Chinese political axe did not rush to answer himself, after all, this barbaric country has begun to show its huge adventurist fangs again, and only believes that the Burmese problem has not been properly resolved, and it is not suitable to talk about other issues for the time being.

However, the political axe was full of confidence, because according to the return of the 'Burmese mercenaries', at the invitation of Tuozhong, the railway construction of the Chinese political axe was actually fully accelerated, and before the British had time to object, on the day before the New Year of 1938, the first cross-border railway track was officially placed on the Burmese side of the Sino-Burmese border, which also meant that a real China-Burma artery began to be built in the direction of Burma.

He personally knows that China's courage to start building the China-Myanmar railway when it only received an invitation from the 'Provisional People's Political Axe of Myanmar' reveals its great strength. The Chinese do not seem to participate in the war, and no matter how fierce the fighting is, I know that as long as this "so-called justifiable railway, which was built after the official invitation of the so-called Burmese leader", is obstructed by the British, the Chinese will inevitably raise a million elite soldiers and go all the way to India.

And China's inevitable railway line has become the biggest help for his actions, after all, he is not fighting alone, and there is a vague border between China and Southeast Asia behind him.

Therefore, I think that in the future of Southeast Asia, there will already be women who have stripped naked.

On the European side, just after the Lunar New Year in China, something happened that shocked the world.

After the formation of the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis, Austria, which was directly sandwiched in the middle, finally did not escape the fate of being annexed.

On March 11, 1938, at 8 p.m. on the 11th, the Nazi Seth Inquart was inaugurated as Austrian Chancellor with the support of Germany, and due to the intensification of the contradictions between the former Chancellor Schuschnigg and the Nazi Party and other domestic nationalist classes, Seth Inquart asked Hitler for help. In fact, Hitler, who could not wait, even gave the order to march into Austria in advance and completely annex Austria, so as to obtain greater bargaining chips with Britain and France and other countries in the future hegemony, and the annexation of Austria means more resources, population, factories, strategic depth, etc., and open up direct contact with Italy.

Although the situation in Austria had been foreseen by Britain and France, they ordered an increase in the military budget and the expansion of the existing army, while allowing the Germans to act.

A few days later, the Germans happily shared with the Italians the fruits of Austria's victory, which had long been on the plate, and Hitler and Mussolini, encouraged by this, ordered to speed up preparations for war, train more 'reserve troops', build more weapons, and reserve more resources.

What is not known to outsiders, however, is that the secret representatives of the Chinese political axe met with Hitler in secret on several occasions to exchange views between China and Germany on the current situation.

During this period, Zhang Shusheng once wrote a letter to Hitler, in which while recognizing the urgency of Germany to start the war, he fully reminded Hitler that when the war went on indefinitely, Germany might face more and stronger enemies, and how to strengthen Germany's war preparations while arranging some more strategically arranged plans was in line with the European strategy of the Third Reich.

At the same time, Zhang Shusheng once again reminded that if Germany will regard Soviet Russia as an opponent in the war, it must fully consider the vast territory of Red Soviet Russia, and even if the offensive is successful, it will be difficult to solve the battle in the short term, and the cold winter of the Soviet Union will be a problem that Germany has to pay attention to. Otherwise, Germany will most likely repeat the mistakes of the French.

The solution is very simple, that is, to strengthen the fascist control over the Soviets themselves, and urge them to pay more attention to the Far East of the Soviets.

Zhang Shusheng didn't know how much this would do, after all, although later generations believed that the Germans had hastily launched a major war without adequate preparation. However, who knows, a country, a head of state, a war, unless a person like Zhang Shusheng can roughly foresee the trend, who can see the future?

The best strategists cannot accurately foresee what may happen tomorrow, let alone the country's high-level political and military strategy.

There is another reason why the Germans are desperate to start the war, that is, this tank cannot stop, if it does not find a wall to crash into it, it is likely to overturn because of the speed, and only by defeating the opponent one by one can we ensure that the German tank can advance according to Hitler's will to the greatest extent.

However, Zhang Shusheng did not say a word about the various contradictions that Germany is facing today, and he only hoped that Germany would be stronger in the war, not that Hitler would become a better politician. However, in the letter, Zhang Shusheng reiterated certain issues concerning the Jews, boldly predicting that in the coming period, the two countries would achieve deeper cooperation with the Jews.

Hitler personally wrote a letter to Zhang Shusheng, in which the Führer of the Third Reich praised China's tremendous achievements in economic construction in five years and was "extremely happy" at the launch of China's second large aircraft carrier, and he believed that China had the full strength, obligation, and right to play a more important role on the Asian and even the world stage, and thus once again unofficially invited China to join the Axis bloc.

As for the few suggestions mentioned by Zhang Shusheng, Hitler avoided the important and only mentioned that he would seriously consider them, after all, the person who wrote to him was not a staff officer of his Führer's base camp, but a potential Asian ally. However, Hitler showed great interest in urging himself to take measures, believing that 'at least he should be allowed to cause some very embarrassing problems for the Soviets.'

Obviously, Hitler had not foreseen how powerful the beast of the whole nation would explode after the mad man himself gave up the goal of China.

As for the "damn filthy nation that wastes German resources, leads to high unemployment in Germany, undermines Germany's economic security, and endangers Germany's national security," Hitler, who only wants to divert national contradictions and takes national contradictions as the basis for his superiority, naturally wants to exterminate the Jews.

Finally, Hitler also expressed the hope that more in-depth cooperation with China in the economic, military, political, and diplomatic fields will be achieved, and at the same time, he hopes that Zhang Shusheng will be able to visit Germany at an appropriate time, and he will personally accompany him.

Leaving aside the ever-changing world situation, let's just say that in China, the achievements of economic construction have not only triggered tremendous changes in society, but also caused changes in thinking. And when the entire human civilization is brewing a world war of unprecedented scale, Zhang Shusheng is also actively preparing through alternative forms.

Southwest, Yibin.

This is the Bell and Drum Tower Street of New Yibin City, backed by the verdant mountain 'Cuiping Mountain', which seems to have a feeling of a leisurely mountain city. Most of the buildings on both sides of the street are six or seven storey buildings with a unified plan, and there are no high-rise buildings, but with the spacious streets with complete facilities, they give people the feeling of a modern city.

Although Yibin is not a provincial capital, it is located in the southwest transportation artery, and has the lofty status of the 'birthplace of the chairman' propagated by the propaganda organs of the Baath Party, as the first city of the Yangtze River, its development is not lagging behind many provincial capitals, and it is faintly known as 'Little Chengdu', and is the second largest comprehensive city in Sichuan and the first largest high-tech city. Zongchang Airport is one of the two national airports in Sichuan, the other is Shuangliu Airport. It has convenient transportation, water, land and air links, and has a direct highway and a new railway that has been renovated between Chengdu and Chengdu. Moreover, it also has the same density of universities and more scientific research units as Chengdu.

It can be said that along the entire Minjiang River, there are various universities and scientific research institutes, and high-precision manufacturing plants.

"Brother, change the channel, please, change the channel, today is my life, I want to watch the drama broadcast on national television."

1225 Zhonggulou Street, Room 305.

In the living room, an eleven or twelve-year-old cute girl with braided braids wearing a Yibin No. 1 Primary School uniform was shaking the old brother sitting on the bamboo chair next to him with both hands, urging him to change the channel.

"At the recruitment ceremony for the new year held yesterday, Comrade Xu Zhengqian, deputy chief of staff of the Southwest Garrison Command, came to the recruitment site in Yibin to apply for the examination......"

On the table in front of the two of them was a rainbow brand black-and-white television, and the black-and-white screen was playing a news report on Southwest TV about this year's recruitment scene.

Although television is now only accessible to wealthier households, television programs are becoming more abundant day by day, and as one of the important propaganda tools in the future, news and propaganda television programs will always be more important.

"Wang Mingjuan, if you quarrel again, I'll go back to school."

The young man next to him is in his early twenties, Wang Mingjuan's brother, Wang Mingjun, who is in the third year of Xuzhou University, and has always been interested in learning to serve the country.

Like other young people, he cares about current affairs and likes to watch the news, rather than like these little girls, who like dramas or classical programs, and a few TV series.

"Let's go, I'll accompany you to buy a birthday gift, and then I'll send you to grandma's house, grandpa is going to the street to exert his residual heat, you go to grandma's house to spend this life." There's no one at home anyway, so I'd better go back to school early. "These days coincide with the school's Qingming Festival holiday, and Wang Mingjun's parents are all on holiday, one is a soldier and the other is a scientific researcher. Even Wang Mingjuan said that the two of them couldn't come back, one child in the family went to college, and the other child went to the fifth grade of primary school, and the old man in the family was responsible for picking him up. Although the family was a little tired, life was indeed good.

"Brother, that's how you treat your most beloved sister." Wang Mingjuan pouted and didn't follow the way.

"What do you know, if it weren't for the promise to come back and give you a birthday, I would have signed up a long time ago." Wang Mingjun said depressedly. My sister is small, and it's too late for him to hurt, if it wasn't really urgent, he would definitely accompany her to the end of her life. At lunchtime, Wang Mingjun and his grandfather gave his sister a simple birthday, a few dishes she loved to eat, and her favorite raw cake.

"Sign up? My birth is not as important as your registration? Wang Mingjuan was about to cry.

"Okay, okay, it's not a general registration, but a new recruit for the Xuzhou Colleges and Universities Flying Club, when it was just held two years ago, the number of places was limited, and this year I have to grab a place anyway. I missed this afternoon's pre-registration and I'm going to have to wait until next year. ”

Wang Mingjun said enviously that this college flying club is one of the two flying clubs in the Yibin area. One is a public flying club that is conditionally open to the whole society and can only be entered after assessment, and the other is a college flying club that is open to students from colleges and universities.

This is a major policy pursued by the political axe in recent years.

In each municipal administrative unit, there is a public flying club, a university flying club, in addition to the regular training, there is also a holiday training. Each club's aircraft are configured to a uniform specification of cheap, low-speed, safe wooden biplanes, and the number depends on the situation. For those who excel in the club, they can enter the elite class for more in-depth instruction and fly more advanced aircraft.

As a result, the Ministry of Defense has opened numerous flying clubs throughout the country at a very low cost.

The only problem is how to assign a qualified pilot instructor to each flying club and ensure that these students are able to learn the bare minimum of aviation knowledge. But the results were apparently good, and many students went home with a brick-thick aviation textbook, and after learning it in their spare time, they went back to the club to ask the instructors for clarification.

From among the more than 5,000 active pilots and reserve pilots of the Air Force's flight squadrons (the number of pilots does not represent the number of aircraft), outstanding fighter pilots, transport pilots, and bomber pilots were sent to those clubs in turn, and together with those outstanding graduates of aerospace disciplines who served as theoretical instructors, they took turns to teach from literature to martial arts, and implemented militarized management in the clubs. Starting from the basic aviation theoretical knowledge, the pilot instructor selects particularly good students from among the students to take them on the flight, and then after a period of time, these students who have been flying for several months will take other students to fly.

Of course, those who fail to pass the assessment during the period will still be eliminated like those applicants who can't even pass the rotary machine assessment.

Fortunately, the aircraft of this era have a relatively simple structure, a small number of equipment and instruments, and a slow flight speed, and the requirements for pilots are much lower. Just like the United States on the other side of the ocean, a farmer who may still fly an airplane to spray pesticides over his farm may be a U.S. Air Force pilot in a military uniform in a few years, because he is not only a farmer, but also a literate club pilot.

Others may not know, but Zhang Shusheng knows very well that the future of China, the number of pilots needed is huge, and it is by no means possible through military training in a step-by-step manner, just as in the original history of World War II, an American super ace pilot gained flight experience from the original private jet.

It's just that Zhang Shusheng went a little further than the Americans, and through the act of political axes, he laid out a few years in advance and began to train 'reserve pilots' on a large scale, and once needed in wartime, they would quickly make up for the serious shortage of pilots. You must know that the Soviet Russians alone reached tens of thousands of planes in the late stage of the war, and the pilots were tens of thousands, not to mention the more perverted American GIs, and the pilots alone could arm half of the army.

Zhang Shusheng knows very well that when World War II is really hot, the troops on all sides will be at the level of locusts alone, not counting others. Of course, every country encountered a serious shortage of pilots in the later stages of the war, because, in the original history, the Americans alone produced nearly 300,000 planes in World War II, and in the end, it was not the pilots who were shot down, but as long as the planes could be moved, they could follow the Americans' aerial locust legions forward.

Therefore, Zhang Shusheng believes that China must have an air force that is strong enough to compete with the Americans. The number of planes, the two sides start the production line, build more factories, can produce thousands or even tens of thousands of planes a month, but pilots, if they don't work hard a few years in advance, they can't always catch infantry and put them on planes to fight.

The whole plan was so simple: by the end of 1939, the military would have more than 10,000 pilots on active duty and in reserve, and an even greater number of pilots who were registered by the civilian population and could be equipped with combat training in a short period of time. In this way, when World War II entered the first place, China could come up with a huge air locust swarm composed of an elite air force of the ace level and an excellent locust air corps.

In this way, from the beginning of the difficulties, to the establishment of more and more flying clubs, until the time entered 1938, all the more important cities in the country, set up two types of flying clubs, open to those young people who are interested in galloping in the sky.

In this gradually maturing club model, there have been four groups of very good club cadets who have passed the strict assessment of the Air Force and have been officially recruited to join the active service, while more have passed the assessment and become reserve pilots and entered the club as full-time and part-time instructors.

Others, on the other hand, see hope and move towards their dreams of riding the skies or joining the Air Force.

When Wang Mingjun came to the school's registration point, he unexpectedly found that the registration point was changed to a big field. A cordon was set up on the field, and an empty road 200 meters long and more than 20 meters wide was cleared.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

"Look, it's said to be the plane piloted by the club's instructor."

The crowd finally boiled, and it turned out that a small monoplane flew into the sky in the distance.

From time to time, after flying at a low altitude through the field, the plane quickly raised its nose to an altitude of 1,000 meters, and then saw the plane roll down skillfully under the pilot's blow, and the plane suddenly lowered its altitude, and at an altitude of several hundred meters, it was aimed at this narrow runway again.

"Boom ......"

Amid the roar of the engines, the landing wheel of the small monoplane finally touched the ground and finally came to a stop after taxiing from fast to slow for more than a hundred meters.

"Hooray!! Banzai!! ”

Thousands of students from Xuzhou University and the two universities next to it were already watching near the field, and they all cheered and applauded after seeing the pilot miraculously descend from the sky to the field.

The pilot on the "cough cough ......" plane was wearing a KPA air force second lieutenant uniform, and I saw him open the cockpit door, pull up the megaphone microphone in the cab, and say loudly through an additional megaphone installed on the plane, "Today, I bring you good news, after two years of exploration, the national headquarters of the college flying club has officially decided to increase enrollment efforts nationwide.

As an instructor of the Yibin branch of the University Pilot Club, I welcome you on behalf of our club.

The club welcomes you, the Air Force welcomes you, and the blue sky welcomes you!! ”

(To be continued)