Chapter 482: The World Situation in 1929 (Part II)

PS: It's a big aunt again, and it's two days late. ╮(╯▽╰)╭

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Since the beginning of this year, there have been a lot of big news in the international community, and the complete ceasefire of the all-out war in South America is actually not the biggest.

Because everyone can also see that a war of this magnitude, with the strength of these third-rate countries, it is impossible for them to fight for four or five years like those top powers did during World War I, and it is already very surprising that they can fight for two years.

While the tea guests at the "Zixiao Tower" were discussing current affairs, the same thing was going on in teahouses across the country. For example, in Dongmafang Town, Yingcheng County, Suizhou City, Hubei Province, where Efei is located, the "Big Teahouse" here is also hotly discussing the things that happened this year.

The "Zixiao Tower" is relatively high, it is a high-end teahouse, and most of the tea customers there are nouveau riche local tyrants in the capital who have made a fortune by relying on New China, and the minimum price for a cup of tea is one yuan. The "Big Tea House" is much more popular, and most of the tea customers here are employees of Efei.

This teahouse was run by the families of several Efei employees at the beginning, and at first it was just a large pergola built with bamboo poles and canvas, a stove converted from oil drums, a kettle knocked on tinplate, and more than a dozen homemade tables and stools, not even painted. But now, it is a five-story building, covering an area of several thousand square meters, and can accommodate 3,000 people.

The layout of the "Big Tea House" is similar to that of its peers, consisting of several halls and several private rooms. But its most distinctive feature is on the ground floor, which is decorated as an aviation museum with high-level replicas of various flying machines. From the most ancient legendary Luban wooden kite, Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter, the Wright brothers' airplane, to most of the current active flying machines in countries around the world, as well as some conceptual aircraft that appeared in scientific magazines and are still in the schematic stage.

And in addition to these models, there are two real aircraft. A J-1 "Big" fighter and a J-1 "Bailing" attack aircraft. These two aircraft are the representative works of Efei, among which the "Big" fighter is the first product of Efei and the first professional fighter in the world, which is also the source of the name "Big Teahouse". Originally, when it was a pergola, it had no name, it was called "teahouse".

The aviation technology of the original plane is far faster than that of the original time and space, and these two fighters that came out more than ten years ago have been completely retired, but they still have strong commemorative and collectible value. At that time, the price of airplanes was not expensive, so after many pilots retired, they would try their best to buy one back, or play it for themselves, or use it as a collection. Several owners of the "Big Teahouse" also had this plan, buying two retired planes from the Air Force, refurbishing and painting them, and placing them as display items in the teahouse.

The compulsion of this thing is very high, and when everyone comes here for the first time, they will be shocked by the tiger body of these two real planes. Of course, both planes have their weapons removed, and the machine guns and bombs on them are simulated models.

"When we made engines for big, 200 kilowatts of engines were the first in the world, and now 2000 kilowatts is not too high. Wang Qinian looked at the J-1 fighter numbered 00789 in front of him and said with great emotion. "However, when the traditional piston engine reaches this level, it has come to an end. In the future, it will be the world of turbine engines......"

Lu Yuan smiled beside him: "Hehe, yes." Whether we are making piston machines or turbines, we need your support, and without your engines, our planes cannot fly. Director Wang, please ...... here."

"Director Lu, your teahouse is really innovative, the first floor is either a real airplane or a model airplane, why can't our teahouse over there think of this trick. ......”

"Haha, how many engines do you want to put in place?"

The two talked and laughed and walked up to the hall on the second floor. Wang Qinian and Lu Yuan are now middle-level cadres of their respective enterprises, Wang Qinian is the director of the production department of the steam turbine company of Tuojiang Power Group, and Lu Yuan is the director of the equipment department of the 14th branch of the Efei Group. The aviation engine used by Efei is indeed provided by Tuodong Group, but this has nothing to do with Wang Qinian, his unit is a large steam turbine. He came to Efei on a business trip this time, not for Hangfa, but for the power engine of the 14th branch of Efei.

Because several jet engines in China are now about to be finalized and mass-produced, and the 14th branch factory has now built a new production line, the original power engine of the piston machine era is outdated, and now it is necessary to add a new power machine. As an important customer, Tuodong asked Wang Qinian to lead a team to Efei this time to guide the installation and conduct personnel training. As the landlord, of course, Efei also had to treat them well, and Lu Yuan came to accompany Wang Qinian.

The two have communicated a lot in their work for more than a month, and they have become familiar with each other and become friends. It just so happened that both of them were regular visitors to the teahouse, and it became a place for them to relax in their spare time.

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At this time, the hall on the second floor was already full, and the news commentators had not yet arrived, and everyone was divided into small circles to brag and fart with their acquaintances.

"Director Wang, I haven't started the news commentary yet, do you want to go up to the Internet?" I have a membership card here...... Lu Yuan pointed upstairs and asked Wang Qinian.

"Hey, there's less than half an hour, so I don't need it today, just chat here for a while......" Wang Qinian looked at his watch and said.

That's right, since the year before last, the Internet in China has begun to gradually become popular, earlier than the popularization of personal computers, which is not the same as the process of the original time and space. The first place where the people enjoyed the Internet was the computer service center in each big city, but at that time there were still relatively few people who had the opportunity to access the Internet, after all, only each big city had a computer service center, and the price of Internet access was not low. However, this phenomenon has changed since the beginning of this year, with the rainbow type one "netbook", wrong, it is the rainbow type one "network learning machine" after the public sale, the network began to really enter the people.

Of course, the Rainbow One is not a real personal computer with a cassette solidification program, but it can also surf the Internet anyway, and it is still no problem to use it to browse the web or play those original online games, and it can also play games, so it was very popular with the public as soon as it came out. Of course, its price is not cheap, the body itself plus the basic function of the card box will cost 400 yuan, plus network laying fees, installation fees and other miscellaneous expenses, calculated to be almost 500 yuan, which is equivalent to the income of a skilled worker for more than half a year, except for those who are not bad for money, that is, each unit is willing to buy.

In addition to various government offices, the military, and schools, various teahouses became the first users. It's not surprising, given the strong club nature of the Chinese Teahouse on the plane, it's not surprising that the owners would make this choice. Therefore, the teahouse has become the first batch of Internet cafes in the real sense of the word in China.

Although China's network terminal is very primitive compared with later generations, the network quality is not bad, this is because of the use of "cloud computing" technology, most of the data calculation is completed by the large-scale computer with each network service center as a server, and the terminal used by the user is only responsible for the input and output of data, and runs some basic programs, so the computer performance requirements for the user side are very low. This is also to speed up the popularization of the Internet in the country.

And in order to promote the network faster, Wen Desi ordered to reduce the domestic network fee by half, 2 jiao per hour, and also launched a monthly and annual project, with a monthly fee of 25 yuan and an annual fee of 240 yuan. Of course, foreign prices have not moved. Of course, at present, those who can connect to the Internet and enjoy Internet surfing are only the younger brothers of the People's Revolutionary Federation and vassals such as Belarus, but the construction of foreign networks is relatively slow. For example, Japan, they can only play the Japanese local area network now, which is also a helpless thing, who let them be an island country, to connect to the Internet on the mainland, you have to wait until the new network dedicated submarine cable is laid.

Wang Qinian and the others had just sat down when they heard the people at the next table talking.

"Oh, what's wrong with England? Tsk, didn't you say that India is the jewel in their crown? Why do you tear down your own pearl now......" A young man in a gray trench coat spoke, his tone full of schadenfreude.

"Ahem, isn't there nothing you can do about the opium cow?" said a thin middle-aged man next to him: "If this India is unstable for a day, they will not have a good day." ”

"Why break India up into big pieces. ”

"It's normal, if India is not broken up into several pieces, they will be under too much pressure, what if India makes trouble again?" replied the thin middle-aged man.

"But they have carried out land reform in India, and it is much more stable than before. A person next to him asked puzzled.

Wang Qinian listened to it next to him, and couldn't help but interject: "Hehe, that's just that some places are stable, and there are still many unstable places." Britain was crippled in World War I, and it is no longer the empire on which the sun never sets, but the empire that sets sunset, and they now have no strength to continue tossing in India. If the Indian side is settled as soon as possible, then we can go to other places, who will make their territory not peaceful now. Now they have split India into several autonomous states, also in order to get out as soon as possible. ”

"And they also have a plan, which is to keep these autonomous states of India in check, so that they can manage each other. Lu Yuan added next to him.

Yes, Britain made several big moves this year, starting with the earth-shattering news in January, when they announced that they would grant colonial autonomy to the Indian provinces, and they divided India into 12 autonomous states: Burma, Assam, Bengal, Orissa, Karnati, Tamil, Sri Lanka, Marat, Mysore, Marat, Pakistan, and Judeo-Gujarat. Then Yemen and Oman were released and the Yemeni Autonomous State was formed.

In addition, their Prime Minister MacDonald visited China in February to discuss cooperation between the UPP and the British Empire with President Boundeh, including the territorial dispute between the two. Through cordial and friendly talks, the two sides enhanced mutual understanding, and the two sides reached a consensus on the current territorial dispute. At the end of the talks, both sides described the talks as "useful and constructive".

In the days that followed, the British Empire signed agreements with Persia, Afghanistan, and Siam to return to them the territories it had previously seized from them. Britain returned the three provinces on India's northwestern frontier to Afghanistan and Balochistan in two, returning it to Persia and Afghanistan. In addition, they returned to Siam several places on the Malay Peninsula that they had snatched from Siam.

However, they rejected the territorial claims of Nepal and the Arab States, because the Arab Republic wanted Yemen and Oman, while Nepal wanted the Gangetic Plain, which were areas that Niu Niu was unwilling to give up, and of course they would not do it.

Of course, China and the UK signed the Agreement on the Transfer of Suzerainty and Autonomy in Myanmar and the Assam Region, referred to as the China-UK-Myanmar-Afghanistan Agreement. Britain recognized China's suzerainty over Burma and Assam, recognized them as China's spheres of influence, and promised to completely withdraw British official power from the two places. China also agreed to the two places as free trade zones and neutral zones, and guaranteed British public and private property in both places. China has pledged to guarantee that the identities of the two autonomous states will not change for 10 years, and that after 10 years, the people of the two countries will hold a referendum to decide whether to join China or become independent states.

In addition, the two countries had a secret agreement that China would no longer support the anti-British forces in India to continue to oppose the British, but would agree to the British's plan of self-government. Ostensibly, China recognized British suzerainty over the rest of India and praised the British idea of self-government as a remarkable step forward that would serve as an exemplary solution to the colonial problem.

At the press conference after the signing of the China-UK-Myanmar-Afghanistan Agreement, Mr. Wen made it clear that he supported the UK's ownership of India. He said that Britain plays an irreplaceable role in peace and development in India, and that the plan for the autonomous states is pragmatic and progressive. He also called on all parties to cease fire and expressed their willingness to intervene in mediation.

In the afternoon of the same day, the three independent armed forces in India, which were the most powerful, the most combative, and the most cheerful, expressed their willingness to accept the mediation of General Wen, temporarily ceasefire, and discuss the specific division of power with the British.

As soon as this incident came out, world public opinion was in an uproar. The great powers have said that they are in a groove, Britain actually hooked up with China, and it must be that I got up in the wrong posture today.

When Comrade Trotsky, who was living in Hungary, learned about it, he immediately published a signed article in a number of media outlets, violently criticizing the Sino-British agreement. It is claimed that this is a conspiracy of old and new imperialism, and that the future and destiny of the Indian people have thus fallen victim to the bargain of two great imperialisms...... Yunyun.

However, Comrade Stalin in the Soviet Union did not care about this, and his attitude towards Lao Tor was diametrically opposed, at least on the surface. He told the media that Britain's current plan for a self-governing state is a compromise with the Indian people and a major victory in the Indian people's struggle for independence! Moreover, he also highly praised the land reform policy carried out by the British Labour Party cabinet in India, saying that it is a great progress.

Stalin's reaction is not surprising, given that the Soviets began their first five-year plan in 1927, and China is now their largest supplier of equipment. In addition, the Soviet Union now has to import large quantities of grain from China, and China is also their largest exporter, and most of the rare metal concentrates of the Soviet Union are exported to China. At this time, of course, he will not be at odds with China. Starshu is a very, very practical person, he is not the kind of brain-dead left-man who only lives in his own spiritual world.

As for what he would think in private, that's another story.

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