On July 1, 1937, the scorching sun of midsummer shone on the earth, Zhao Jian wore short clothes and short sleeves, sat in his yard and comfortably nibbled on watermelon, humming some "childhood tunes" that belonged to his previous life.

"1937! The devil entered the Central Plains, first opened the Lugou Bridge, and then opened the Shanhaiguan...... Alas! It looks like it's almost seventy-seven, and I don't know if those guys will come to die? ”

A week ago, Zhao Jian successfully completed the "8-year compulsory education" and received his own graduation certificate from the school that had never found a chance for him to repeat the grade. Then, with excellent scores and the identity of "orphans of military families", he was easily admitted to Dalian Naval Academy, and his major subjects were logistics support and ...... "gunfighting" skills!

The reason why Zhao Jian chose to study at the Naval Academy was not only out of a spirit of "inheritance from father to son", but also for the needs of work. After all, even if he does not serve in the Navy after graduation in the future, he will not worry about not having a warship commander in his hands.

What made Zhao Jian feel a little sad was that after graduating from middle school, he and Sanjiyou parted ways because of their respective futures. Xu Zhimo went to art school to further his studies as a director in the future, and Lu Xun applied for the police academy after graduating from middle school and secondary school.

The only acquaintance of the graduates who entered the same school as him was Masako Yamamoto, a Japanese student.

As the daughter of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Masako's ambition is to become an honorable naval captain. Although Japan's modern navy is under the command of the British, the Tang Dynasty is also a naval power, and it is so close to Japan. Therefore, whether it is out of longing or worry, the Japanese Navy has every reason to know about the Datang Navy.

It is not difficult to see from this that Yamamoto Fifty-six sent Masako to study, not just to escape marriage.

In the first half of 37 years, Zhao Jian basically had nothing serious to do. Several of his factories and institutes have been successfully relocated to Jupiter and resumed production. The Spanish war, on the other hand, turned into a brutal and boring land war after the defeat of both fleets, with both armies consuming an average of 1,500 lives per day.

Many officers no longer collect the names of the fallen soldiers after the battle, as they did at the beginning, but stand in the midst of the sea of corpses and blood with a numb expression, and ask their subordinates for a casualty figure in an emotionless tone and then stop talking. After witnessing all this, Zhao Jian submitted an observation report to Dai Li, saying that there was no longer any value in continuing to observe.

In the past six months, a total of two major international events have occurred that deserve Zhao Jian's attention.

The first is the "Great Wave of Immigration". The real reason for this, Zhao Jian has learned the truth from Chi You. Human beings "take risks" because of the cheapness of the earth, which may lead to the possibility of "overloading". Zhao Jian felt that before the human race came up with a way to extinguish the sun, it would be absolutely impossible for the human race to have a feat of "death" exceeding this!

Before the wave of immigration began, the Tang Dynasty had only 250 million people in Jupiter, and in the first half of '37 alone, the government used various means to transfer a full 100 million people, equivalent to the total number of immigrants in the past 200 years. At this rate, Datang is capable of sending the entire population of the mainland to Jupiter within 2 years.

In order to cope with the possibility of famine, the colonies are now mobilizing all the resources at their disposal to open up the land for farming. Even more than 70 percent of the army, regardless of the peasants, laid down their arms and picked up hoes to go to the fields to farm. The sight of armored planes pulling plows and fighter jets spraying pesticides can be seen everywhere on Jupiter.

The other was the expiration of the Washington Naval Treaty, which had constrained the United States, Britain, France, Italy, and Japan for 15 years, and officially expired on December 31, 1936. For the navies of various countries, it also announced the arrival of the "post-treaty era"!

After holding back their resources for 15 years, Othi and Yati were liberated. All of them couldn't wait to start their own "big construction plans", and some even completed the design work ahead of schedule and secretly started work before the end of the treaty.

Judging from the current intelligence alone, the British officially began construction of the George V-class battleship in January, but this type of battleship is not only small in tonnage. Even the main gun was reduced to 14 inches, which was ridiculed by other countries as "a symbol of the decline of the British Empire".

Several other naval powers, the United States is preparing to begin construction of the North Carolina class. The design work has been completed and construction is expected to begin in the second half of the year. France, on the other hand, started the Richelia class in 35 years to cope with Italy's Veneto class and Germany's Bismarck class. Although Japan in the Far East has not made any moves on the surface, Zhao Jian, who is a traverser, knows that they should be ready to build the largest "naval monster" in history!

In addition to these warships, which are not unfamiliar to the Zhao ship, Maozi's Soviet class is also much smoother than in another time and space, and as the strongest Tang Dynasty in the navy in this time and space, the Hebei class, which is stronger than the Heilongjiang class, also started construction as early as 2 years ago. Like other warships that have already started construction, in order to fly before the end of the earth, they are all working overtime in the shipyard.

It is worth mentioning that after the Ethiopian prince Asfa, who is currently living in the Tang Dynasty, learned that his enemy Italy was building a new battleship, this young master also wanted to build a large battleship on a whim. This made Zhao Jian can't help but complain in his heart, Dajian is a game of local tyrants, which one of you is so lively?

In this regard, Zhao Jian did not laugh at him for not being able to do anything, but seriously calculated the cost of the 35,000-ton battleship and the cost of maintaining these behemoths. After some careful consideration, the other party revised his large-scale construction plan, reducing the number of orders from 10 battleships to 5 second-class destroyers and 5 patrol boats.

After nibbling on the last piece of watermelon, Zhao Jian threw the finished materials on the table. At this time, a political news item suddenly appeared on the radio, saying that Emperor Hirohito of Japan would visit Chang'an in six days for a state visit, hoping to have active consultations with the Tang Emperor on the "future of the two countries".

That is to say, on July 7, 1937, the land of China did not usher in the Japanese army that burned and plundered, but ushered in the Japanese emperor. As for the "future of the two countries" mentioned by the other side, Zhao Jian believes that they will definitely not get what they want. (To be continued......)

PS: The big build is unstoppable!