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"I suggest that Mi** be taken out of Yunnan and form a new province with Sambang and Sikkim." After cabinet ministers and military dignitaries rushed to the presidential palace, Murong Han put forward the idea of dividing provinces.

**The division of provinces and cities is different from that of later generations, for example, the three northeastern provinces of the Republic are now nine provinces, Inner Mongolia also has Chahar and Suiyuan, Outer Mongolia is divided into three provinces in the east, middle and west, Xinjiang Province is also divided into three provinces, Sichuan and ** also because the area of Xikang Province is also much smaller than that of the parallel world. As early as after the Shanghai Communiqué recognized Michi as belonging to China, this primitive area with high mountains and dense forests was incorporated into Yunnan Province, bordering the three northeastern states of India. But if the three states continue to be incorporated into Yunnan now, the area is too large to be managed, so Murong Han proposed to merge into Mi** Province. At the same time, he also proposed to separate Hainan from Guangdong and build Hainan Province separately, change the merged Anambas Islands and Natuna into Natuna City, and merge Nanhai Zhudao (Xisha, Nansha and Zhongsha) into Nanhai City, which will be administratively under the jurisdiction of Hainan Province. The Batan and Babuyan Islands, which were recently seized from the hands of Tsumoto, were incorporated into Taiwan Province, and the Babuyan Islands and the Bashi Islands, as well as the Yaeyama Islands and Miyako Islands in the Ryukyus, were all incorporated into Taiwan Province. This will ensure that even if there are changes in the Philippines and the Ryukyus in the future, the two sections of Taiwan's access to the sea can be controlled. The Northern Marianas must not be abandoned, and the islands mentioned by Bingwen must also be incorporated into the unincorporated territory, and the other islands in the archipelago to which they belong are irrelevant, even if they are instigated by Britain and the United States.

"I agree with the Admiralty that sooner or later the United States will return to the Pacific. Therefore, the first island chain from the Marshall to Micronesia and the second island chain from the Chiba Islands to the South China Sea are the top priorities of maritime defense, and they must be done immediately. Murong Han continued: "We can't be afraid of trouble and miss this opportunity to open up India's access to the sea, since we can build military narrow gauges, we can also build standard gauges, and when Bangladesh's Muslim League reads in the future, we can pave the railway all the way to Dhaka Port." Moreover, everyone knows the situation in India, holding Sikkim and the northeast is equivalent to encircling Bhutan, and even if Britain comes back, we must sell our face. What's more, Digboy's oil and gas, India's coal and iron are the most urgently needed for the construction of the southwest, even if there is no these, in the future, the resources of the Persian Gulf and Africa can be transported back through the Sino-Indian railway, saving money and trouble, and can also bring the economy of Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou up a large section. ”

Murong Han and Gu Weijun are diametrically opposed people, as mentioned above, in the fifteen years when he served as Minister of Justice, he cracked down on crime very severely, and in one fell swoop reversed the social problems caused by Xinhai and Li Yuanhong's early adoption of cultivation and generosity, gangsters and crimes, and established the surname of reading power and authority of the law, known as the "Iron Tiger", which won the support of the people. And Gu Weijun is the kind of politician who is Westernized but not lacking in moderation, with flexible skills, and is better at handling complex interpersonal relationships. You must know that although Yang Qiu has been streamlining political axe personnel, reforming administrative agencies, and legislating to limit the proportion of civil servants in the National Assembly, he still can't change the official-oriented thinking that has existed for thousands of years, so there are currently 1.5 million political axe civil servants in the country, not including teachers and scientific research institutions that eat political axe. There are naturally good and bad when there are many people, and cases of corruption and fraud also occur from time to time, if it weren't for Gu Weijun's proper combing, Yang Qiu thought that he might not be able to manage it well.

There is another reason for Gu Weijun to form a cabinet, that is, his long-term career in Europe and the United States, he is familiar with British and American thinking and ways of doing things, which is more suitable for the current international environment.

Therefore, Murong Han's suggestion was supported by the military and many people, and even Jiang Baili and Yue Peng nodded again and again. It can be seen that after decades of influence and practical work, the idea that peace is valued by a great power has faded in the hearts of many people, especially the Asian League, the Siberian referendum, and the Pacific island chain, which have made the people see the benefits of war, and the political axe has seen a new model of expansion of a great power that is completely different from the old colonial era.

The crowd worked together and soon came up with a plan called "Pacific Haven". According to the plan, Zhengax will allocate 500 million yuan as soon as possible to provide assistance to the overseas trust areas currently under its control, help restore local production and life, and build airports, navigation control, gas stations, seaports and terminals and other facilities on more than 40 selected islands as safe harbors and transit points for future aviation and navigation. At the same time, on the grounds of military necessity, the Kwajalein Atoll, Tarawa Atoll, Wake Island, Truk Atoll (not yet occupied), Santa Cruz Islands, Minamitori Island, Ogasawara Islands, Volcanic Islands, Great Eastern Islands, Batan Islands, Babuyan Islands, Cocos Islands, Bismarck Islands (not yet occupied), Andaman Nicobar Islands and other islands, all the indigenous people on them will be relocated, permanent military facilities will be built, and finally in the name of hired laborers will be migrated to all the trusteeship islands.

The establishment of Mi ** Province and Hainan Province was also quickly decided, with the former provincial capital being placed in Mi ** City and Hainan Province being placed in Haikou, and the draft was submitted to the National Assembly for examination and approval by Gu Weijun after it was drafted. If approved, the government will allocate a total of 1.5 billion yuan to the two provinces over the next three years. This money is only used to convert the current military narrow gauge into a standard double line, build commercial airports and permanent military bases in Sikkim, Djalpaiguri and Digboy, strengthen the local economy, promote Chinese language education, and so on, and strive to fully integrate it into the national management system within five years.

Yang Qiu also stressed the need for Gu Weijun to speed up the demarcation of borders and the signing of territorial agreements with neighboring countries, and demanded that natural mountains and rivers be used as boundaries as much as possible, adopt the method of grasping the big ones and letting go of the small ones, give some compensation to the neighboring countries as much as possible, calm down the negative impact of the Siberian referendum, and strive to complete all the territorial demarcation work in the four directions of southeast, southwest, Central Asia, and northeast Asia by the end of 1945. He also called for the immediate launch of the "Ural Plan" and the "Nanyang Plan," the former of which was to provide funds and assistance to Tatars and other ethnic minorities in the former Soviet Union, to establish ethnic reserves west of the Yenisei River to the Urals, and to prepare for the establishment of a state in the future. The latter is to facilitate the reading of Singapore, Borneo and Sumatra as soon as possible, and to preemptively sign indefinite troop agreements with them to ensure China's national interests in Malacca and the South China Sea.

Militarily, Yang Qiu also once again vetoed the plan to land in the DPRK, but agreed that the General Staff Department and the Air Force would expand the scale of the bombing and include some symbolic buildings and markers including the Yasukuni Shrine in the scope of the bombing, and at the same time transfer the main tasks of the Korean battlefield to the DPRK army, and the National Defense Forces would shift from the main attack to providing air and armored assault and other auxiliary operations, and the 800,000 main forces, including Zhuo Fan, would be withdrawn one after another in the next two months to rest and recuperate. He also asked the General Staff to complete the clearance of the coastal areas of Okhotsk as soon as possible, seize the Chiba Islands, and make preparations for the construction of military facilities in Kamchatka and other northeastern territories.

He also proposed to set up a special Marine Corps Command and let Song Ziqing draft new military regulations and prepare to revise the Constitution. To learn from the United States, making the Marine Corps a future that can mobilize troops at any time without congressional authorization is also one of the symbols of interventionism. He demanded that the General Staff Headquarters, the Ministry of National Defense, and the three armed forces must end the campaigns in Singapore, the Malay Peninsula, and Tehran by April, and strive to defeat the Japanese in early or 43 years and completely settle the major wars in East Asia. And be ready to send army forces to the Middle East and Egypt to the war to prevent the Suez Canal and Baghdad from being occupied by the Soviet Union.

Yang Qiu also added the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Labor according to the suggestions of Gu Weijun, Pei Zuyi, and Liao Zhongkai, and nominated Murong Han and Wang Zhaoming as ministers. Although the Soviet Union was heading for defeat, its influence was irreplaceable in the hearts of the world proletariat, and post-war capitalist reform was imperative. At the beginning, Yang Qiu followed the Northern European reform route in later generations, but because of the constraints, it could only be regarded as a scratch surface, and the establishment of the Ministry of Labor was the precursor to continuing to deepen the route. Allowing the opposition to take control of this department is also a separation of the trade unions and peasant associations that are the leaders of the National Society, and hopes to form a mechanism for mutual supervision in the future.

In the end, it was also decided to take advantage of the fact that most of the manufacturing industry in the United States is serving the military, and to strengthen exports in areas of superiority, such as light industry. Reducing or halting some naval projects, increasing exports of large-scale manufacturing industries such as petrochemical aircraft and merchant ships, and establishing regular "Asia-South America" maritime flights to expand the number of exporting countries. In the end, the entire cabinet agreed with Yang Qiu's proposal to use U.S. aid as an opportunity to restore some factories to civilian functions, and to use some U.S. loans and recent "war compensation" from Central Asia, India, and other places for domestic education and technology research and development.

While Yang Qiu was busy digesting the new opportunities presented by the Cape Town Conference, the war in Europe also entered a new phase.

After a year of mobilization, the U.S. industrial system finally exploded, with a steady stream of products being made, from the smallest razor blades to the largest warships. In October alone, 2 Borg-class escort aircraft carriers, 3 cruisers, 37 destroyers, and 400,000 tons of merchant ships were launched, and 6,331 aircraft, including 1,100 **17/**24 bombers, more than 3,000 tanks and armored vehicles of various types, and more than 20,000 artillery pieces of various types were also delivered to the army.

Roosevelt, who had been exchanging time for space, was relieved by the machine at full capacity, and began to project forces to Spain and the Middle East at an average rate of 2 divisions and 300,000 tons of supplies per day. I don't know if he listened to Yang Qiu's advice or couldn't hold on, but on October 29, he broke the tacit understanding with Vichy France and asked Eisenhower to send five divisions to forcibly take over Morocco and Western Sahara.

These news made Hitra furious, and in the face of the hordes of British and American ships on the Atlantic waterway, he could no longer sit still, and strictly ordered the Spanish commander-in-chief Borg to speed up the attack, and also called Raeder, asking the navy to immediately come up with a plan to destroy the British and American fleet.

On November 5, Borg, who had been preparing for a long time, launched a winter offensive, first dispatching 770,000 German troops to attack Galicia. The 520,000 Anglo-American, Franco-Spanish troops stationed in the area put up a desperate resistance, but lost all of Galicia before Christmas. At the cost of 270,000 casualties, the European Allies finally relied on the best efforts of the navy to withdraw the remaining troops to Morocco. However, the Germans were no better, with complex mountainous terrain and British and American navies attacking from the Bay of Biscay neutralizing the German army's combat capability, and more than 250,000 casualties were lost.

At the same time as the Battle of Galicia was underway, the main force of the 2.5 million German army and the 270,000 Spanish and Italian troops in the Castile region also crossed the Guadiana River and attacked southward. By December 10, Britain and the United States, with 2.3 million troops, had lost Extremadura, Puertoriano and Murcia in succession, losing more than 300,000 troops! It also allowed the German striker Guderian to advance to the middle of the Guadalquivir River, which was already less than 280 kilometers from Gibraltar.

When Spain was in the dark, Hitler transferred 5 SS divisions, 5 infantry divisions and 400 tanks from China to the commander of the North African Army, Kleist, and asked him and Rommel to seize Egypt as soon as possible, and then turn around and kill Algiers as soon as possible, and cooperate with the German army in Spain to drive Britain and the United States into the sea. In the end, he quietly withdrew Guderian, who was not suitable for mountain warfare, to France and began to prepare for an attack on Turkey.

Roosevelt and Churchill were overwhelmed by successive defeats in Spain and North Africa, and at a time when the German navy, which had been dormant for two years, was quietly preparing to challenge sea power in the North Atlantic again...... (To be continued.) )