"The Indian Revolution is coming!"

A garden house in a wealthy area of Kolkata is packed with political activists from all over India. After both Nehru and Jinnah agreed to abandon the nonviolent course and use an armed uprising against British colonial rule, these people gathered here to discuss how to implement it.

Belzin and Sorge, advisers to GC International, were also in this room, and the dark-looking and short-looking Ruy sat among the two tall white men, and took on the style of the great leader of the Indian revolution and delivered an impassioned revolutionary speech: "Comrades, good news for everyone! The first batch of weapons and ammunition sent to us by GC International Aid has arrived in Kolkata in secret! A full 3,000 tons of weapons, enough to arm several divisions of the rebels, and another 17,000 tons of weapons are in the sea in the Bay of Bengal, which will be delivered to us as soon as the Calcutta uprising succeeds. Now is the perfect time to launch an uprising, overthrow British colonial rule, and establish an independent, free and prosperous Republic of India! ”

Probably hearing that 3,000 tons of munitions had arrived, the Indian revolutionaries in the room applauded enthusiastically, but Nehru, who was sitting next to him, frowned secretly. Because he felt that GC International's assistance came too quickly! Today is May 7th, only 6 days before Gandhi's assassination, even if the arms aided by GC International were shipped from Japan on the day of Gandhi's assassination, how could it be possible to reach Kolkata in 6 days? Is there such a fast ship in the world? Could it be that GC International's arms aid was shipped from Japan before Gandhi's assassination? At the thought of this, Nehru's heart tightened. Looking at the two tall and powerful white men beside Lu Yi, I feel that they are not easy to deal with!

Although it already felt that something was wrong, Nehru had no way to put the brakes on this revolution! The Congress Party and the Muslim League have secretly recruited thousands of fighters for the rebels in Kolkata in the past few days! The Indian GCD also took out the weapons it had stockpiled and armed some of them. It's too late to stop it. After all, he didn't have the prestige of Gandhi! If he had been a traitor to the British colonists, he would definitely be regarded as a traitor by most Indians, and his political life would be over.

Just when Nehru sensed that something was wrong, but he was helpless. As the general adviser of the Calcutta uprising, the representative of GC International, Berzin, had already begun to discuss with everyone the specific plan of the rebellion.

Although the Anglo-Indian army had removed all Hindu and Muslim officers and soldiers, there were still about 4,000 officers and 1,500 policemen in the city of Calcutta, and gunboats from the British Indian fleet patrolling the Hooghly River. So our strength is still a little insufficient. "According to our observations, in order to successfully control Calcutta, we need to first attack Fort William on the east bank of the Hooghley River, which is octagonal in shape. Three sides face the Hooghly River. A regiment of Anglo-Indian troops was stationed in the castle, and an artillery battalion with 18 4.5-inch howitzers was also deployed! If we attack, we will not have enough strength at hand. ”

All Indians here know about the famous Fort William. It is a castle built in 1766. It was once the residence of the Viceroy of British India. Although he is now more than 150 years old, he is still as strong as ever, and it is by no means a tofu scum project! Without large-caliber heavy artillery to destroy the walls of Fort Wilhelm, it would have been difficult to fill such a fortress with human life.

Belzin's words continued: "The way we came up with was a sneak attack, and the supply of food for the garrison at Fort William had always been the responsibility of the Kolkata city government. During this time, the British army in Fort William procured enough flour, cured meats, and canned fruit to be eaten for several months through the city government of Calcutta, which required hundreds of workers to carry it, and the mayor and chief executive of the city government of Kolkata were on our side. So we can take advantage of this opportunity and dress up our people as porters. Raid and capture a city gate, and then attack the ...... with a large group of men who are lying in ambush outside Fort William."

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Later, the great uprising in Calcutta, India, which shocked the world, was in full swing. Chang Ruiqing was holding a copy of Malthus's "Principles of Demography" and reading it carefully, page by page. The book was sent by Chen Duxiu, president of the General Association of Fisheries and Farmers, and together with this book, there was also a forecast table of Chinese population growth and grain production growth made by the General Association of Fisheries and Farmers.

According to the predictions of experts from the General Association of Fisheries and Peasants, if China maintains its current annual population growth rate of more than 2.0 percent, the population will exceed 600 million in eight years at most, and the population will reach 750 million in 15 years, an increase of 50 percent over the current 500 million. And it is impossible for China's grain production to increase by 50% in 15 years! Moreover, the pressure of population growth is not only reflected in the food supply, because as the education process of Chinese improves, their requirements for life are also increasing, and it is not enough to have food to eat.

If the population is to increase rapidly while simultaneously improving the people's living standards, the challenges facing the government in the future will be enormous.

And after the population exceeds 750 million, it will increase further! If the Chinese government does not have an effective way to control population growth, it is very likely that the Chinese population will exceed the billion mark in the next 30 years, and it is possible to reach 12.3 billion! It is absolutely impossible for China to feed so many mouths with its limited arable land, and it is likely that Chinese society will fall into extreme chaos due to the lack of adequate food supplies......

With a snap, Chang Ruiqing closed the book in his hand, squinted his eyes and thought about it. It's 1924, and 30 years later it's 1954. If the population really exceeds 1 billion, with the agricultural technology of the 50s of the 20th century, will China be able to feed so many people? It seems a bit difficult, although China now has two large granaries in the Far East and the Ili River basin in the outer frontier, but after all, it is a high-latitude region, and it is unlikely that China's grain production in 1954 will be twice as high as in history.

What makes Chang Ruiqing even more troublesome is that the population of 1.23 billion is probably not the peak of the Chinese population in this time and space! If family planning is not practised, the population will be allowed to grow naturally. The peak of the Chinese population may reach 17.8 billion, or even 2 billion, right?

At the thought of being the great leader of the two billion people, Chang Ruiqing's face couldn't help but become gloomy. Chen Duxiu, who was sitting across from him, saw his expression. Hurriedly took the opportunity to mention yì and said: "Chairman of the committee, China's population must be controlled, and if you don't control it, there will be big problems in the future!" It is already a very difficult thing to let 500 million people live a rich and civilized life, and if 1 billion or 1.5 billion people want to live a good life, it is really unimaginable! I'm afraid I won't even be able to eat my belly......"

Chang Ruiqing sighed in embarrassment, looked at Chen Duxiu and said, "Mr. Zhongfu, control the population...... How to control zhì law? ”

"There's a way to do this. There is a way. Chen Duxiu said as he took out a white rubber sleeve from his pocket and put it in front of Chang Ruiqing's desk, and pointed to it seriously: "This thing is called a condom, and it is made of rubber." That one...... Just put it on top of that thing when you do that......"

"Yes, yes, I know what it is!" Chang Ruiqing hurriedly waved his hand and interrupted: "I know there is a way to prevent pregnancy. But how do you get the people to accept the idea of having fewer children? Chinese have always talked about having many sons and more blessings. We can't force it, and the constitutionalism will begin the year after tomorrow, and there is no way to enforce it. ”

Chang Ruiqing knows how difficult it is to start implementing the family planning policy in another time and space! Moreover, the implementation of the family planning policy has also caused a series of problems, such as the gradual weakening of the main ethnic group, the early arrival of China's aging population, and the imbalance in the ratio of men and women.

Chen Duxiu let out a long sigh, showed a painful expression, and muttered, "I also know that this matter is very difficult, but I can't do it...... How strict is the population problem. As the president of the General Association of Fisheries and Peasants, I know all too well that I have been inspecting rural areas in various places in the past two years. The most common thing I see is children, every rural primary school is overcrowded, and many poor rural households have a litter of children! The benefits brought to the peasants by the perpetual tenant system simply cannot fill the mouths of a few children! And what will these children do when they grow up? Is there so much land for them to plant? If the Soviet Union instigates and supports it, it will be in chaos in less than 20 years! ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded, looking approving. Later generations of experts who studied Chinese history found that the biggest reason for the "periodic destruction" in Chinese history was actually that the expansion of population exceeded the carrying capacity of the land.

While this view is not necessarily accurate, overpopulation will certainly lead to a decline in the standard of living of everyone. Even if he can get through the world war and expand China's chat to 20 million or even 30 million square kilometers, if the Chinese population really swells to 2 billion, then the people must not have a good life!

"The population issue needs our attention!" Chang Ruiqing frowned and pondered: "But you can't take coercive methods to control the population, at least now there is no need for this." Let's use the method of propaganda first, uh, this condom factory should also open a few more, and promote the knowledge of contraception and condom use, and other contraceptive methods should also be studied, and those that can be promoted will be promoted, so that couples who are willing to use contraception have contraceptive methods......"

Can propaganda achieve the goal of population control? Chen Duxiu frowned secretly, and was pondering how to persuade Chang Ruiqing to take a more favorable method to control the population, when Zhang Guotao and Zeng Qi, the director of Chang Ruiqing's chamberlain, walked in. Seeing the two, Chang Ruiqing asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?" ”

Under the supervision of Zhang Guotao and Leshinskaya, the efficiency of the work of the National Intelligence Agency has been significantly improved. Zhang Guotao, the director of the bureau, is even more busy, and the number of times he comes to Chang Ruiqing's place has been greatly reduced, but seeing that he came to the Military Commission with a solemn face today, it seems that there must be something great about to happen in this world.

He saluted Chang Ruiqing and Chen Duxiu on the side, and then handed over a copy of a handwritten telegram: "India is very likely to break out in an armed uprising in the near future, and we have received a secret report from the Japanese side, in early April, the Japanese loaded about 20,000 tons of arms onto several ships flying the American flag, and these ships belonged to a steamship company opened by an overseas Chinese named Wang Dalong...... And this steamship company is specialized in the South Sea and South Asia routes. We suspect that this batch of arms was destined for India! Considering the timing of the shipment of this batch of arms, it seems that it was GC International who killed Gandhi! ”

Zeng Qi then took out the report just sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "Sir Oliver, the British Minister of Care, hopes to visit our country in the near future. Interview with the Chairman of the Committee on Britain's entry into the Quad Alliance. Sir Oliver, in his meeting with our Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Mr. Chu Siu-sing, suggested that Britain could consider returning Hong Kong to China. ”

It is not surprising that Britain wants to join the Quad Alliance, and the British Empire is now a little bit of internal and external troubles, and it has entered the Quad Alliance to be the leader of the alliance. Relying on the strength of this five-nation alliance to suppress the United States and the Soviet Union is probably the only way to maintain world hegemony. Zeng Qi also knew this, and continued: "Chairman of the Committee, now it is Britain begging us, it is too stingy to take only one Hong Kong, and my subordinates think that we can ask for more benefits!" ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded.

Hong Kong is really nothing, but it is the size of a free city. The prosperity is much worse than the current Shanghai and Guangzhou. Moreover, this territory originally belonged to China, and with China's current strength, it can be completely recovered! It is too stingy to try to use Hong Kong to win over China. I don't know what benefits the British gave to Germany and Italy? Chang Ruiqing turned his head and asked Zhang Guotao: "How many benefits are the British prepared to give to Hindenburg and Mussolini?" ”

Zhang Guotao said: "British Prime Minister Macdonald is visiting Germany in the past two days, and has held several rounds of secret negotiations with German President Hindenburg and the new German Chancellor Hitler, and our agents have not yet heard the content of the negotiations. Only some wind was heard. It seems to have something to do with the German-Austrian merger.

Considering that Hitler's Nazi Party had always declared that all Germanic people should live in a German state. The subordinates believed that it was highly likely that Britain would support Germany's annexation of Austria in exchange for joining the League. ”

Chang Ruiqing touched his chin and said with a sneer: "Being generous to others is indeed the consistent style of the British Empire!" If the Germans can get to Austria, who do we want? I don't know if I can go to Siam? It's a famous grain-producing area! Well, let's invite Sir Oliver to come to China, I don't know if he came to China first, or if the Indian Revolution broke out first? ”

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"Hurry, hurry! Hurry up, you pigs. Haven't you had enough to eat......"

The sound of swearing rang out in Fort William, Calcutta, where about 300 Indian coolies were being urged by a dozen Sikh soldiers with turbans. Bags of flour were removed from the ox carts and carried to a grain warehouse in Fort William.

The Sikh population is only a few million, accounting for a few percent of the total population of British India, and it is considered a minority in British India. But for the British colonial rulers, the role of the Sikhs was very important! The policy adopted by the British in India was to divide and conquer, suppressing the two main groups of Indian society, the Hindus and the Muslims, the important Sikhs and Gurkhas, who were small in number but willing to give their lives to the British. Right now, the British and Indian troops and the Indian police are full of these Sikh military police with big turbans!

Colonel Liszt of the 31st Infantry Regiment of the Anglo-Indian Army stationed at Fort William stood on the wall of Fort William and looked at the Sikh soldiers who were bullying the Indian coolies with their teeth and claws. "Mr. Colonel, are you still worried about an Indian uprising?" Seeing that he frowned, a somewhat stocky British major came over and asked what was going on.

This major was a battalion commander of the 31st Infantry Regiment, an old subordinate of Colonel Liszt in World War I, and the two men squatted together in the smoke of the trenches for four years, and established a deep friendship. After the war, Liszthorn Guò got a regimental commander in the Anglo-Indian army, and also brought this old comrade-in-arms to be a battalion commander. Being an officer in the colonial army was not very profitable, but it was a leisurely and well-paid job. Moreover, the prices in India are extremely cheap, and they only need to spend a fraction of that good salary to maintain a decent life that is unimaginable in Britain.

Just when the two of them thought that such a good life could last until retirement, suddenly a British lieutenant who had taken the wrong medicine shot and killed the Indian Mahatma Gandhi!

Virtually every Englishman in India hated the murderer of Gandhi! Colonel Liszt was no exception, and he sighed: "How can you not be worried? Our lives have been ruined by that madman, but he still thinks he is patriotic! ”

Major Humpty Dumpty smiled and comforted, "Mr. Colonel, I think the Indians will give us some trouble, but it is just some trouble, and it should be regarded as a kind of spice for the comfortable colonial life. After all, they are not Germans, and there is such a thing as a war......"

As soon as he said this, a few crisp sounds suddenly came from under the city walls.

Someone is shooting! Before the two of them could react, there was another crackling gunfire from under the city wall! When the two men looked at the place where the guns rang out, they saw that the Indian coolies carrying large bags had taken out their pistols from somewhere (flour bags) and had already killed all the Sikh soldiers who were supervising their work! (To be continued.) )