Hanjing Mountain South Garden, the residence of Zhang Shusheng, chairman of the Supreme Affairs Committee of the Chinese People.

As the highest power center in the country, Hanjingshan is the seat of the highest power in New China, very close to Renmin Street, where other central departments work, and the top leaders of the revival party and state that are about to be established live in Hanjingshan.

The South Garden is the residence of Zhang Shusheng, the West Garden is the residence of other major party, government and military leaders, and the North Garden is the residence of some of the highest-level state receptions. In addition to the head of state's office center, which is known as the head of state's capital, there are also departments such as the Ministry of Special Intelligence, the General Office of the Central Committee, the Central Committee of the Baamort, and the State Council, all of which all work in Dongyuan. The rest of the central offices are farther away on the edge of Hanjing Mountain, in the Renmin Street office area.

Nanyuan is Zhang Shusheng's personal residence and office center.

This is the world's safest, the most advanced science and technology of the top leader's office, residence center, in terms of security, in addition to the security forces of Hanjing Mountain, departments, Nanyuan also has Zhang Shusheng's personal guard. These guards are unusually well equipped and unusually strong in combat unless they are threatened by all-out war.

Although as the chairman of the Supreme People's Committee, Zhang Shusheng no longer has holidays and weekends, but he still has corresponding rest time. Today happens to be his rest, early in the morning, get up to accompany the two ladies to drink morning tea in the water pavilion in Nanyuan, and after eating breakfast with Chinese characteristics, Lu Yunyan went to work in the General Office of the Central Committee, and He Ning accompanied Zhang Shusheng at home.

9 o'clock in the morning, Nanyuan.

"Chairman of the National Committee, Comrade Cai Yi, Minister of National Defense, and Comrade Zhou Guolai, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, have arrived."

After receiving the report from the staff, Zhang Shusheng came to the West Garden of Nanyuan to meet with two high-level New China executives. Although Zhang Shusheng is the supreme leader, due to the extremely pragmatic attitude of the political axe, the ministerial-level and the deputy minister level of the key surname department can apply to meet Zhang Shusheng during non-office hours. Especially in times of special events, this kind of promotion procedure is simple. Of course, if Zhang Shusheng himself was working in the chairman's office, it would have been easier for these high-level officials of New China to meet him.

"Hello Mrs. Chairman!"

"Minister Cai, Vice Minister Zhou, hello, the chairman is waiting for you inside." He Ning saw that Zhang Shusheng had national affairs to discuss, so he took the initiative to withdraw from the West Garden, and happened to meet the two of them when he came out. The two of them only greeted each other politely, and there were not too many restraints.

"Chairman! We ask for your understanding that this time of rest will also disturb you. Cai Ye and Zhou Guolai entered the West Garden, and under the guidance of the staff, they came to the small courtyard where Zhang Shusheng was, a pavilion near the water, and Zhang Shusheng was already sitting on a rattan chair waiting for them.

"When you come to see me, I am also resting, talking about things while drinking tea, it is work, and it is also rest." Zhang Shusheng slightly motioned for the two to sit down, tea had already been placed on the table, and the three of them laughed and talked about sketches.

Zhang Shusheng also knew that if it weren't for the imminent negotiation between the two of them, the two would not have come to see him during the break. Although the political system of New China is very clean, pragmatic and efficient, the authority of the top leader still weighs on everyone. He doesn't care, human beings are a big race, there will always be some people who will stand at the top of the pyramid, as long as they can put a position that belongs to the supreme leader in their hearts, this kind of personality cult is not a big deal.

As for other high-ranking political officials in Xinzhong, they are also the owners of power, which Zhang Shusheng does not deny, after all, in all dynasties, the ruling class will have some privileges, of course, as the supreme leader, Zhang Shusheng can rely on the supreme system, laws and personal prestige to effectively maintain this privilege. It not only conforms to the identity of these high-ranking republican officials, but also does not spread to the point of abusing power for personal gain, preying on the people, embezzling and accepting bribes, and misleading the country and the people.

For example, the welfare system for military and political dignitaries is very perfect, and it is no longer the case when a senior officer earned only a few hundred yuan a year when he was born. Nowadays, in addition to salary, the benefits that a certain level of military and political dignitaries can enjoy are definitely enough to meet the needs of his class. The others, in the final analysis, are one thing, in the case of high welfare and high treatment, whoever commits a crime and who makes a mistake must be punished by law.

The status, honor, and treatment of those who enjoy privileges in power. Legally, too, they enjoy the harsh legal constraints of those who specifically restrict privileges.

For example, strict supervision of officials' property and the strict supervision of officials' descendants and relatives are all major tasks of the Republic's supervisory departments and the two most important departments of the Central Committee: the Republic's Department of Special Investigation and the Republic's Ministry of Supervision. A nationwide supervision department has been set up to supervise the party, government, military, and business, and officials are not included in the promotion of the political axe department at the same level. The Department of Special Investigations of the Republic, on the other hand, conducts special investigations into major cases. In the future, the Central Committee of the Republic will also enforce some policies aimed at the clean and honest work style of officials.

"Chairman of the National Committee, the fact that we could have accepted defeat as a prerequisite for negotiations is actually beyond the expectations of our Ministry of Foreign Affairs." As vice foreign minister, Zhou Guolai is in charge of the affairs of the Asian Department and the Chinese Affairs Department, and he will be the head of the Chinese delegation for the talks. "In the diplomatic plan we have prepared, the chips of the United States and Germany, as well as the chips of small and medium-sized countries, have not been used."

Zhang Shusheng smiled, for the nation of Yueben, perhaps only himself, a descendant, can see it most clearly, after all, he has taken advantage of history.

"This country is very aggressive, and it is very persistent in its yearning for the mainland. In East Asia, China and North Korea are bordered by Russia, and in the past 100 years, he finally snatched Korea from the Qing Dynasty and defeated the Russian navy and army on land and sea. And we, China, have fallen behind in several confrontations with Yue himself.

With such a brilliant record, it seems that I should be full of confidence, or I can step on the body of China, Russia and North Korea to reach the top of the world's powers. However, this is not the case.

said that he seems to be loyal and patriotic, and the whole people are of the same heart. In fact, they have a kind of lack of self-confidence in their bones. Especially in several wars with China, there are many examples of gambling with the fortunes of the whole country by taking advantage of the small and the big. It's like a gambler, although he doesn't gamble much compared to the Russians, but he dares to bet them all on every time and have a full showdown with his opponent. This is also the fundamental reason why they have won all the wars between China and China, North Korea, and China and Russia. They gambled every time, and luckily, they won all of them, except for the latest Sino-Chinese war. Every time they win a bet, they gain a lot, and every time they win, they make their country a big step up. From a weak Asian country that was bombarded by Westerners with artillery, to a regional power, step by step, this is the result of his own ability to grasp opportunities and lead the national strategy with an adventurous spirit.

However, after all, the level of strength of this book did not match his ambitions. As an island nation, although the whole country has built a navy, the barren mainland cannot provide them with the capital to rise. Compared with Western countries, the backward industrial system, the country's finances on the verge of bankruptcy, the fiscal deficit that is so huge that it can reduce the entire country to the destitute class, and social contradictions are all embarrassing realities. For example, in terms of industrial output value, according to the latest statistical results of the Bureau of Statistics, the industrial output value of this country has been surpassed by Yunnan.

Let me ask, a nation that is heavily indebted and the whole country is tightening its belts to participate in the war, in the face of China, where industry is taking off in an all-round way, what will they use to win against us? Moreover, compared to the Russians, our forces can be concentrated in the northeast, and we do not have to send troops and warships from thousands of miles away to fight against the Russians. Compared with the Koreans, we have a vast land, simple and unyielding people, and the industrial revolution that has basically been completed.

If they want to continue the war, even if it is any counteroffensive, they will sacrifice a lot, because they are facing a new China that has integrated their fists and can use the strength of the whole country to engage in a racial decisive battle with them. This can be seen clearly by some of the old ministers, some chaebols, and some of the real ruling classes, including the emperor. ”

Cai Yi nodded and said: "Judging from the military's analysis, Yue Ben can completely refuse to admit defeat, after all, the only measure we can take to counter Yue Ben is aerial bombardment, and this kind of bombing will be much weaker under the premise that Yue Ben is on guard. It will also be resisted by the local air force and air defense. Moreover, the remaining naval strength of Benben is not small, and once a decisive battle is fought to the death, our aircraft carrier task force will also suffer a lot of losses.

Therefore, the main thing is to redeem the nearly 400,000 elite troops from China. At the same time, they need to protect their own maritime lifelines, and in our secret communication with Yueben, we explicitly warned that China will do everything it can to cut off Yueben's maritime lifelines if the war continues. ”

Zhang Shusheng nodded, in fact, he was very clear about the reason why he was really willing to admit the defeat.

First, the 1933 version is far from the version of the period of full-scale invasion of China in his later history. Hastily provoked the Sino-Chinese war, occupied the northeast but did not have enough time to digest it, and could not provide enough blood for further aggression in the country. Before the all-round militarization, the navy, army, and air force could not confront New China even if they tried their best. Although the navy had quite a few battleships and cruisers, it was rigidly restrained by the Chinese navy, which had advanced carrier-based fighters. In the face of China, which can easily arm millions of soldiers, the army has urgently expanded its army again and again, but it is still not enough. In terms of the air force, there is even a considerable number of biplane fighters in the Yuben Army Air Force, which is no match for the new Chinese Air Force at all. In terms of weaponry, from individual weapons to artillery, rocket launchers, armored vehicles, tanks, and so on, it is said that the book is also backward in all aspects. For example, semi-automatic rifles, actual sniper rifles, Ripper heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, armored vehicles, Chinese Tiger tanks, cannons using new explosives, etc., are backward across the board.

Therefore, it would not have been possible to confront New China without the book after occupying the Northeast for several years as later generations.

Second, maritime security issues cannot afford to be cut off from maritime transportation lines, as small as ordinary daily necessities, to every barrel of oil and high-quality steel that needs to be imported. China can easily cut off shipping lines along the Taiwan Strait. Although the company can turn to the United States, the high cost and the fact that the United States will ignore the political axe, hinting that if necessary, will agree to China's political axe and adopt joint sanctions against the country, these will be huge risks that the company will face. After all, the trade volume between China and the United States is more than dozens of times that of the United States, and the United States, which has not yet fully opened up, will not abandon China and help China in order to balance China, and in turn offend China. Of course, if we had waited a few more years, we might have been able to get support from the United States if we had been able to persist in attacking China. But now, it's too early.

Third, the Chugo-Japanese War, which began with an adventure, has always worried a considerable number of political figures, and even the emperor himself feared that such an act of rashly expanding the war would lead to an unprecedented defeat. As it turned out, the book did fail. However, at this time, although it failed, it did not reach the point where the whole country was counterattacked. Surrender at this time, there will not be much to lose.

Fourth, he got a hint from New China, believing that if he could exchange these hundreds of thousands of elites through negotiations, then, after recuperating from his injuries for a year or two, they could choose the Far East of Soviet Russia and South Asia, and they would have more and better choices, without worrying that the other side had the strength to fight the whole country. In China, even if you occupy a small town of the Chinese, the other side will launch a large-scale counterattack. In the case of the Far East, Soviet Russia first needed to mobilize a large army from Europe to the Far East, and the Soviet Russian Red Army, which had traveled long distances, was faced with the fact that it was able to fight nearby and fight against each other. Are they Ben's opponents? Or like the Battle of Tsushima and the Russo-Russian War that year, he was defeated again by the men of Yueben. In the face of South Asia, even if the world situation does not meet expectations, even if the world situation does not meet expectations, it is entirely possible for the Americans to snatch the Philippines from the Spaniards, as long as they find an excuse. Once the situation is suitable, a country as greedy and exterminating as Ben will never be relentless, and the British and French colonies will not escape the poison.

The risks are very small, but the prospects are very large.

Fifth, the risk of losing North Korea is entirely foreseeable. Even, if it enters the Sino-Chinese Armageddon, China, which is becoming more and more powerful, can use North Korea as a springboard to cross the narrow Yuebenhai Sea and attack the Yueben mainland.

Therefore, Zhang Shusheng is sure that the secret letter he instructed to be transferred to the country has been approved by the high-level political figures in the country, and he chooses to fight with China regardless of the cost for the sake of face, or whether to suspend and end the war before the decisive race is carried out, which is not difficult to choose.

It is not difficult to choose only a lost war, and to retain strength, and to choose a more realistic goal and start all over again, as a politician.

If it was a full-scale war period in history, Zhang Shusheng would not hesitate to order the war to be carried out to the end, and even vow not to give up until Tokyo, but now this few years between World War I and World War II is the most golden period, and China has more things to do, and it is far from the time for a decisive battle. And he himself did not go bankrupt just to fight for face, fight for a situation where he will inevitably fail, and even North Korea will be lost together.

Both sides have more options, and the war may be able to start again in the next stage, and now is not the time.

"The military still needs to be prepared with both hands, and the navy's task force must pay attention to guarding against a sneak attack by the navy and maintain a fairly high level of maritime deterrence." Zhang Shusheng reminded emphatically.

Cai Yi nodded and said, "The plan of the Air Force Staff is to transfer our only T-32 medium-range bomber group to Shanghai. This medium-range heavy bomber, which was further modified from the C-32 mountain-moving medium-range transport plane, has been officially named T-32. According to the chairman's instructions, if we do not cooperate or renege at the negotiating table, we will adopt a further bombing plan on the mainland, this time targeting other coastal cities in Japan. ”

The C-32 mountain-moving transport plane has a range of 2,600 km, while the modified T-32 not only maintains an astonishing bomb load of 5 tons, but also has a combat radius of 1,200 km. This is a very remarkable number, and it is an excellent medium-range bomber in terms of range, flight speed, combat radius and load. And it will also be the main medium-range bomber of the Chinese Air Force for a long time. Of course, it is also currently the only medium and long-range bomber.

During the Jinjing Campaign, this transport aircraft was urgently modified once, and during the period from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the founding of the People's Republic of China, the First Aviation Research Institute completed further transformation tasks and changed this transport aircraft into a practical medium-range bomber. After all, the original design was designed with room for modification in mind, and like some Western multi-purpose aircraft designs, China considered it as a prototype for a multi-purpose aircraft.

However, before the advent of a larger bomber, the T-32 Thor bomber, it will take on the bombing mission of the Air Force for a considerable period of time.

The combat radius of 1,200 kilometers is more than enough compared to the distance from Shanghai to Yueben, and although it cannot attack Tokyo, it can threaten a considerable number of coastal cities in the southwest of Yueben. Moreover, once China's maritime task force is in place, it can also launch air strikes on the city further east.

The day before yesterday, I read a report by the Department of Special Intelligence that the project of a bomber named B-17 by the Americans had already been approved. It is designed with a four-engine engine, and some design data, the bomb load of the base model reached 2.3 tons and the range was more than 2,300 kilometers. With the overall technological and manufacturing strength of the Americans, it only takes a few years for them to increase this number several times. ”

Not to mention the 4 and 50 s, their super perverted B52 Super Aerial Fortress bomber, not to mention the B-29, a perverted super-large range and 9-ton load, that is, the B-17, a bomber project that was established this year, will become a small pervert with a load of 8 tons and a range of 3,000 kilometers in a few years. All of them will pose an incomparably grave threat to the future of New China.

At that time, the air transport task in the southwest was very heavy, and a medium-range and heavy-load transport aircraft was very urgently needed, which was also the reason for the birth of the C-32. As a quadruple engine designed in advance, after a modern reinforced structural design, the use of some new light alloy materials, and a strengthened fuselage structure, China can manufacture this practical medium-range transport aircraft several years ahead of the United States. Due to the excellent structural design and load-bearing design, the First Aviation Research Institute finally transformed the successful T-32 Thor medium-range bomber on the basis of the C-32 after making improvements for the surname. Judging from the bomb load, range, and speed, it is a very good medium-range heavy bomber, at least in the early stage of World War II, it is completely enough to use, and it will not be outdated.

"Country, you don't have any psychological burden, negotiation is the result of the decision of the central government, you just need to do your job well. The next few years will be the most golden period for China's rapid development, and it is appropriate to let go of the foundation that is already difficult to stir up the waves, which is conducive to the rejuvenation of the entire nation. This Sino-Chinese war must end, but it does not mean that the Sino-Chinese war is over, and when China is stronger, it will be relatively weaker. ”

Zhang Shusheng reminded Zhou Guolai that it is not that he can beat Yue himself with a single rod and have no place to turn over, if he wants to kill Yue Ben with one punch, China must prepare about 500,000 to 1 million elite troops to land on Yue Ben and carry out a local attack, so as to completely clean up Yue himself. This is something that Zhang Shusheng is absolutely unwilling.

Moreover, the invasion of the book is still there, and the strength has not been completely destroyed, once the strength is relieved, in the face of China, the book will find that even if it only crosses the border line, it will be counterattacked by the death of the Chinese heavy army. And at this time, Yuanben, who has a certain amount of strength but is unable to stir up waves in the face of a powerful China, will completely turn his target to Red Soviet Russia.

And the real powerful enemy of China will be Soviet Russia.

If the maximum benefit from Soviet Russia is obtained at the lowest cost, this is what Zhang Shusheng needs to consider. Of course, for all sorts of reasons, he absolutely did not mind using himself to drag down the considerable strength of the Soviet Russians.

Just imagine, once the war breaks out in the Far East, the long Soviet Russian territory will present a heavy military situation between the East and the West, and the empty central part will be stopped and stabbed.

As for South Asia, Zhang Shusheng also particularly liked to see the British and French pinned down earlier.

World War II will inevitably be a global decisive battle, and Zhang Shusheng will not persuade that madman Hitler to change any war plan, or provide him with too much scientific and technological help, which will not help the rise of New China in any way, but will be harmful. However, he is very happy to partially relieve the pressure on Germany, so that it will be a very happy thing to let the great nations of the West shed more blood and let New China sell more arms in exchange for some international benefits.

On December 5, 1933, he officially announced that he would send an armistice negotiation team with Matsuoka Yoyoshi as the plenipotentiary representative of the political axe to Shanghai to hold armistice negotiations with the Chinese negotiating team at the newly completed Wanguo Hotel on the Bund in Shanghai. China says that peace talks have officially begun! ――

(To be continued)