Full text without ads Chapter 211: Reversal! Churchill's Tears (22)

The dull-faced Minister of National Defense Hu Ke, the shiny haired Quartermaster and Chairman of the Wartime Economic Commission Ma Feng, and the slender Chief of the General Staff and Minister of the Army of the National Defense Headquarters Gu Yingyang, three old men who looked like they were not in touch at first glance, but at this time, the empress Liu Qianhua, who was wearing a pure black uniform over her spinning silk pajamas, approached and stood in a row with a noncomprehensible momentum. (Full text e-book free download)

"Look."

Liu Qianhua waved her hand and ordered the female officer, decisively ending this slightly embarrassing state.

"The two of you met late at night, I don't know what's the matter?"

is also an audience minister, Gu Yingyang is obviously a bit overstepping his authority when he speaks like this.

"I don't know what is important to Chief of General Staff Gu?"

Hook was expressionless, but his words were tingling.

Gu Yingyang glanced at him from the corner of his eye: "Of course, it's a major event of the military aircraft." ”

"What we want to report is not only a major event of military aircraft."

Seeing Hook's serious expression, Liu Qianhua glanced at Gu Yingyang and motioned for him to control his mouth.

"Sit down and talk."

The three of them sat down as ordered, and Hook pressed his hands on his knees, and immediately got straight to the point: "I think it is necessary to immediately suspend the plan of the Europa expeditionary force. ”

Liu Qianhua seemed to let out an "oh" without any meaning, but the shadow in her heart had already vaguely laughed evilly - the deal finally came to the door.

"And then?"

Hook froze, and continued at a mechanical pace: "At the same time, we will turn the offensive into the defensive in general, and use the saved resources to cultivate national strength, strengthen the navy, and build an absolute defense circle, so as to ensure that in the worst situation, the empire can be invincible indefinitely." ”

"Is this your own meaning, or is it ......"

Liu Qianhua remained silent.

"This is the consensus between me and Chairman Ma, and I believe that Premier Yang and Chairman Zhang will not have any special objections after fully understanding the situation."

Hook was full of confidence.

"Why?" Liu Qianhua asked knowingly.

"The reason, presumably the emperor knows better than us. Full text without ads" Hook took advantage of the situation and played Tai Chi.

Gu Yingyang refused to buy it: "It's too inappropriate to play this kind of trick in front of the emperor, right?" I would also like to ask His Excellency the Minister of National Defense to make this clear. ”

"Chief of General Staff Gu must have read those internal references, right?" Hook squinted.

"What can a few unknown juniors say?" Gu Yingyang pretended to be disdainful.

"It doesn't matter who wrote it, what matters is that the first-hand information in the internal reference has been confirmed according to our own channels."

Ma Feng separated the two with a kind face, nodded slightly to Liu Qianhua, and then said to himself: "The crux of the matter is that some of us always mistake the current empire for another amplified version of World War II Japan, but in fact, the most similar to the current empire should be one of our current opponents - Tsarist Russia." ”

Gu Yingyang sneered: "What are you kidding, what do you compare with us with that old bear who is about to die?" ”

Ma Feng was unmoved, and his tone was calm and composed: "Both countries are dualistic and obviously separated societies. ”

"What do you say?" Liu Qianhua is looking forward to his speech.

Ma Feng cleared his throat and gushed like water.

"In terms of industrial and commercial civil society, both countries have a high degree of monopoly of bureaucratic capital and political, business and chaebol privileges, and private small and medium-sized capital outside the privileged system is strictly controlled and suppressed. Correspondingly, the degree of industrial intensification in both countries is very high, the main industrial forces are concentrated in large and medium-sized factories in a few central cities, the workers are highly organized, and both have already embodied a certain degree of political consciousness and fighting spirit. ”

"In terms of agrarian societies, the agricultural population of both countries accounts for more than eighty percent of the total population. Among them, the traditional smallholder economy, which is fragile and has limited benefits, is still the foundation of agriculture, providing the lowest level of survival guarantee for small and medium-sized farmers who constitute the majority of the population; However, although a small number of capital-intensive modern farms and cooperatives have produced major economic benefits, together with the privileged monopoly of urban industry and commerce, they continue to impact, disintegrate and deprive the traditional small-scale peasant economy and society, and at the same time cannot provide sufficient living space and development opportunities for peasants who have left the land. ”

"The decay of the traditional small-scale peasant economy, the development of the new workers' movement, the high degree of control of socio-economic resources by privileged monopoly capital, and the general stifling of the upward opportunities of all classes outside the privileged system are bound to be a source of domestic unrest. However, if the war is on the verge of defeat or a prolonged stalemate, it will inevitably accelerate the bankruptcy of the small peasants and the petty bourgeoisie, worsen the living conditions of all strata outside the privileged system, and at the same time intensify the merger and expansion of privileged monopoly capital. ”

"So in 1917, after suffering great losses and suffering, the peasants of Russia fled from the army and returned to their hometowns to fight the local tyrants and divide the land, the workers occupied factories and railways to fight for the improvement of life and political rights, and a large part of the petty bourgeoisie also abandoned the bureaucratic plutocracy that supported monopoly capital and rushed to the revolution to fight for new upward space - but in this case, the peasants, who formed the main body of the army, were the key factor."

Correspondingly, in the first decade of the 20th century, Japan had become a quasi-urbanized society with peasants accounting for 60 percent of the total population, while France had a predominance of 40 percent of the population with peasants, and Germany had a predominantly 30 percent of the population, Britain and the United States. By the 1930s, Japan's urban population surpassed that of the rural areas for the first time, reaching the level of the 40s and 50s of the 19th century in France and the 60s and 70s of the 19th century in Germany. ”

"The overall level of urbanization of the empire is far from being comparable to that of Japan in World War II, and even worse than that of Japan before the Russo-Japanese War, and it was in the process of moving towards a fifty-percent peasant society that Japan destroyed the feudal patriarchate since the Meiji Restoration, stifled the short-lived Taisho democracy, and finally fell into the abyss of the military fascism. Even so, the unification of the citizens of the society ensured that Japan, with its overall mobilization ability not inferior to the average level of Europe and the United States, combined with the capital accumulated by long-term foreign plunder, once dominated East Asia and even the Pacific Ocean, and was never in danger of being destroyed by its own revolution until it was finally besieged by the whole world. ”

When Ma Feng said this, he finally took a breath, and Gu Yingyang rushed up to kick the hall again: "You mean, we are actually an enlarged version of World War I Russia, but because the population is several times larger, our strength has increased proportionally several times?" ”

Ma Feng raised his fingers one, two, three, four, five: "The enlarged version plus the gold finger version, there are black technology bonuses, as well as education and organizational rules bonuses, and the proportional advantage of the main ethnic group, etc., etc., at least five times better, right?" ”

Gu Ying raised his nose and snorted: "Don't be kidding, Russia in another time and space is a well-known steam roller, not to mention the number of land forces in the world, not to mention the number of naval ships, and the scale of naval shipbuilding before the war is second only to Britain and Germany." Germany's pre-war industrial production was only two and a half times stronger than that of Russia, and if it were five times better, it would be almost two Germanys, and in fact our pre-war industrial production was slightly weaker than that of a single Germany. ”

Ma Feng patiently explained: "A large part of our advantage bonus is not necessarily directly reflected in the pre-war industrial production, but more likely in the durability and health of the entire socio-economic system during the war. In order to alleviate the economic and political pressures that accumulate in the prolongation of war, it is necessary to devote more resources to building national strength and maintaining people's hearts, rather than spending them on expeditionary plans that are risky and of limited significance. Besides, we do not have the wealth accumulated by the centuries of foreign plundering of Tsarist Russia, and we are still very young and hungry compared to the old imperialist bandits. ”

Liu Qianhua saw that Gu Yingyang was still eager to try, and said decisively: "Stop, the more you talk about it, the more off-topic, Ma Feng, you just say it, what did you think of after reading those internal references?" ”

Ma Feng nodded with a little gratitude: "The dual system of the empire is a civilized industrial and commercial civil society with a population of 50 million to 100 million, and a semi-civilized small peasant society with a population of 400 million to 450 million. ”

"The former mainly includes all kinds of government-run and private modern industrial and mining enterprises, intensive farms, various urban service industries, government agencies, etc., and the latter mainly includes a large number of yeoman farmers, rural cooperatives, township handicrafts, etc."

"The real strength of the empire lies in the former, and although the latter can theoretically provide a huge amount of human and material support for the war, the economic foundation is very fragile, and long-term large-scale expropriation will inevitably lead to a decline in production—and under the current imperfect rural grassroots system, it is even easy to endanger the basic livelihood of the peasants."

Liu Qianhua smiled faintly: "What you said has to do with the Europa Expeditionary Force, turning from attack to defense or something?" ”

Hook, who was already eager to try, took the opportunity to continue: "The stakes are huge! Since the emperor had foreseen that Germany would one day betray the Empire, we should not spend more precious resources on the mainland, let alone allow the system of free levies, which is full of ills and difficult to rectify in the short term, to continue to harass the countryside. ”

"The empire should make full use of its scientific and technological superiority and the well-organized industrial system of the eastern seaboard, and focus on the development of the navy, especially naval aviation, while the planning of the Europa expeditionary force and other expeditionary operations with huge costs will inevitably occupy a lot of resources, which may not only greatly lag behind its opponents in naval construction, but also seriously hinder the cultivation of national strength."

Hook paused for a moment, and quickly raised his voice: "You must know that if Germany really joins forces with Britain and the United States in turn, the overall industrial strength ratio will immediately change from one to two to one to five!" Germany's betrayal may not be imminent, but it is not imminent, and we must prepare early to free up more resources for building national strength......"

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