The plan to equip Navy ships with anti-aircraft weapons is progressing gradually, and warships are being refurbished at shipyards one after another, while some old ships will also be phased out.

After nearly four or five months of repairs and refits, the captured Japanese ships have joined the naval fleet sequence, and with the addition of this group of new forces, the scale of the Chinese navy has suddenly jumped directly from being unknown to the fourth largest in the world, taking the place of Japan, which is larger than the naval fleets of Tsarist Russia, France, and Italy, and is ahead of Britain, Germany, and the United States.

On December 10th, Xiao Zhenlei went to Tesla's research institute for a visit, Tesla did not have any feelings about Xiao Zhenlei's arrival, he still took a large number of his students to engage in research work, and did not care about Xiao Zhenlei who was visiting the research institute.

However, before leaving, Xiao Zhenlei asked him if he could further reduce the size of the wireless communication device, Tesla glanced at him, took out a document from his office safe and threw it to him, and continued his research. Xiao Zhenlei flipped through this information, he couldn't understand it, but someone could understand it, he handed the information to Xiao Gao who was with him, and told Xiao Gao to contact the people in the equipment department to conduct research according to this research technical data, and strive to further get a smaller wireless communicator out as soon as possible.

In fact, now wireless communicators have been fully equipped on naval ships, and the communication between ships and ships no longer needs to rely on flag language or telegraphy communication, but although each ship has a wireless communication device, but still has not canceled the flag and telegraph, the wireless communication device is greatly affected by power and weather reasons. And the distance should not be too far, so the naval side still retains the way of communication with the flag and the telegraph. In the case of bad weather conditions that affect wireless calls. It is best to contact with flags, and telegraph for long-distance contact.

In addition, in the Air Force, every fighter is being refitted, mainly by installing a wireless intercom on the fighter plane, and it will be much more convenient for the fighter plane with a wireless intercom to get in touch; in the past, the fighter plane that did not have a wireless intercom could not contact the base at all in the air, and only the reconnaissance plane could be contacted, and there were two people on the reconnaissance plane, one pilot. The other receives and receives telegrams, and the fighter can only use gestures to communicate even if it is a wingman who is close at hand, but after the installation of a wireless intercom, the fighter and the fighter can freely communicate with each other in real time, and because the fighter fuselage is in the sky, the radio signal will not be blocked by ground buildings and terrain, and the distance to contact the ground base and air friendly forces can be longer.

In mid-December, there were some changes in the situation of the war in Europe, and the Allies secretly organized 200,000 troops in Italy to break through the Italian-French border and enter France, taking the Germans by surprise. In this battle, the British army acted as the main force of the operation.

Although the British had already invented the Mark I tank at this time, they did not use it on the battlefield, firstly because it was too heavy. It is very inconvenient to transport it from England to Italy, and secondly, because it has only developed a few vehicles, and the number is not enough. Moreover, these are still in the performance test, and these Mark I tanks were made by Churchill with special funds from the Navy. The British military is not optimistic about its future.

After the 200,000 Allied troops entered France from the Italian-French border, the Germans were initially beaten and caught off guard. But the German army quickly adjusted, mobilized troops for a counterattack, in the face of Germany's strong army, the British Allied army was quickly defeated and abandoned, not only lost a small piece of French territory that was previously snatched back, but also let the German army from the Italian-French border into Italy, as a result, the Italians began to panic, in the face of the German attack, the Italian rich began to prepare to flee, and the prices in Italy began to rise wildly.

The German offensive was so fast that the Entente army was crushed by the Germans before the defense could be organized, and a large number of Allied troops moved to southern Italy, and the Allied high-level had to organize naval fleets and a large number of transport ships to meet the Mediterranean coast.

The Allied leadership knew that the war had reached a point where the Allies had to abandon Italy and withdraw their troops to North Africa to preserve their viability, so more ships were sent to the southern coast of Italy to meet the fleeing stragglers.

At the regular meeting of the president's office on December 15, Cai Yi, Yang Du, Yang Shiqi and others expressed concern about this, they believed that Xiao Zhenlei had secretly helped Germany too much, which was likely to cause the situation to be unable to control in the future, after all, Germany is not a small country, and China can control it casually, and many things can be carried out according to their own ideas without taking it for granted.

Xiao Zhenlei, who was sitting on the main seat, expressed his understanding of their worries, and after thinking for a few minutes, he said: "Your worries are not unreasonable, judging from the current situation on the surface, the Allies undoubtedly have the absolute upper hand, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of people who withdrew to London at the beginning, there are only tens of thousands of people in North Africa, its power is too small, if the French government-in-exile cannot return to France and cannot return to power, its role can only be to wave the flag and shout."

"Now the Entente is mainly confronting Germany with Britain and Tsarist Russia, in terms of land forces, Tsarist Russia has almost contained most of Germany's forces, and if the British do not rely on an English Channel and the Royal Navy fleet, I am afraid that they would have been destroyed by the Germans long ago!"

"But don't ignore the war potential of Britain, Britain has colonial armies all over the world, and it has colonies all over the world, in addition to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, in Africa, Britain has a large number of colonies. Even if the Germans had the upper hand in the air force, the British would not have been defeated in a moment and a half! ”

"I deeply understand your concerns, you are worried that Germany is so powerful that we can lose control of the situation, which is understandable, then from now on, we will no longer secretly help the Germans, let the Entente and the Central Powers fight on their own, as for what they can fight, we don't care for the time being, on the one hand, we will develop the economy, develop scientific research and technology, and strive to improve productivity, on the one hand, we will take back the Bay Island, the Ryukyus, Korea and other places, and when the time is ripe, we will send troops to Europe."

Yang Shiqi asked, "President, when do you mean when the time is ripe?" ”

"Tsarist Russia!" Xiao Zhenlei said: "We must wait until there is a problem on the Tsarist side, only if there is a problem on the Tsarist side, we can take action, otherwise we will not be able to highlight the importance of our country, because once there is a problem in Tsarist Russia, the strength of the Entente will lose half, and at that time the British must come to us!" ”

At this time, Yang Du said: "President, you have proposed to reinstate the tributary system, and to revise the tributary system, no longer to make the tributary system a loose system, but to let our country have certain constraints on the member countries in the tributary system, we deeply agree with this, but from the current situation, we only have North Korea as a vassal state of our country, counting Japan, there are only two, the former Ryukyu royal family seems to have no descendants left, and I am afraid that it will not work to re-establish a Ryukyu country. If there are only two vassal states, this tributary system is not very meaningful! ”

Xiao Zhenlei nodded when he heard this: "I have also considered this issue that Huizi said, if there are only two vassal states of Japan and Korea, it will definitely not work, those islands in the German Pacific Ocean that we occupied before are now managed by us, and if they ask for autonomy in the future, and our country is forced to make certain compromises and concessions due to the international situation, we will agree to let them be autonomous, but they must become our vassal states."

"In addition to that, I think we can also look at ways in Southeast Asia, like French Indochina, British Burma, British Malaysia, the Dutch East Indies, and the American Philippines, can't we think of ways in these places?"

Gu Hongming, a madman in the staff group, immediately applauded and agreed: "The president's words are very good, I think it is feasible, we can first send excellent agents of the intelligence department to carry out activities in the past, to investigate the local resistance strength, if you think that there is a possibility of support, and you can control it, you can support them, support them in developing armed forces against Britain, France, the United States, and other countries, and at the same time, our military can also send instructors to support them in training their troops, and disseminate the ideas and concepts of our Heavenly Empire to their troops, and wait until the time is ripe. We can support them in overthrowing the rule of Britain, France, the United States, and other countries, and then let them join our tributary system."

Gu Hongming was a conservative figure of imperial power, he advocated imperial power all his life, so he was very much in favor of Xiao Zhenlei's proposal to restore the tributary system and improve the tributary system, and he believed that the improved tributary system could allow Hua to control the members of the tributary system more deeply, so that Hua could form an oriental cultural circle in Asia based on Confucian culture, Taoism and Buddhism.

This year, he published a book called "Spring and Autumn Righteousness" in Beijing, which was mainly promoting the traditional culture of China to the West, and the book was published and was quickly translated into German by German scholars, causing a huge sensation.

Xiao Zhenlei said his purpose: "We restore the tributary system, and find a way to let the surrounding countries join this system, not for expansion, the first purpose is to set up a protective circle for our country in the periphery, if there is a war with other major powers in our country, these peripheral forces can resist the invasion for us for a period of time, so that we have time to arrange countermeasures, the second purpose, to expand our international influence, but also to strengthen our strength, it has always been impossible to fight alone, In the international political arena, we must form gangs to support each other, if we can restore the tributary system to the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, then our country's international status will once again become the center of the world, if you have no other views and opinions, then this matter is so decided, this matter is handed over to Huizi to be responsible, I will let Wang Yaqiao transfer some agents from the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau to you to command, and do your best to put this work on the agenda! ”

Yang Shiqi arched his hand and said: "I will definitely not disappoint the president!" (To be continued......)