The Soviet Union's political and economic system, territory, climate and resources determine that it is the most capable country in the world that withstood the test of war, no doubt.

During the Sino-Soviet War, the Soviet Red Army suffered a heavy blow, with more than half of its main force losing. It was then passive throughout 1920. It was attacked by Poland, White Army and Allied Alliance, and was almost captured by Moscow.

Under such circumstances, the Soviet Union still survived and launched a fierce counterattack in November 1920, defeating the White Army and the Allied Alliance.

Seeing such news, not only Song Biao began to doubt whether it was a huge mistake to fail to eliminate the Soviet Union in one go. He even suspected that one day, this decision that seemed extremely correct at that time would make him regret it one day.

It's beyond reach.

The central cabinet government of the empire has begun to enter a term change. Cheng Biguang will step down from the position of Navy Minister and return to Fuzhou to serve as the president of China University of Shipbuilding Technology, which was an expanded university based on the Fuzhou Naval Academy, just like the Virginia Military

Just like the University of Virginia, China University of Shipbuilding Technology itself also has the Fuzhou Naval Academy. This is because both universities originate from Fuzhou Naval Academy, just one is for the public and the other is a military academy.

And it is a complementary relationship.

Before officially resigning, Cheng Biguang took his final decision to visit the imperial court Central Palace to meet His Majesty the Emperor. This may also be his last time to meet the Emperor, because once he leaves office, it will be difficult for an ordinary person to see the Emperor again.

Even he continues to serve as the president of China University of Shipbuilding Technology.

Working as the Imperial Navy Minister for ten years. Cheng Biguang had unbearable pain, sometimes criticized by the people, and sometimes scolded by the cabinet. Of course, he also enjoyed success and joy. At this time, he recalled the past ten years

He also felt that the journey was full of joy, anger, sorrow and happiness.

He is still very proud. During the decade he presided over the navy, the Imperial Navy expanded from a total tonnage of tens of thousands of tons to 380,000 tons. The Empire has also become a five fearless battleship, 21 armored cruisers, and 13 light cruisers.

, a medium-sized naval power with 47 destroyers and 32 frigates.

That afternoon, just at the agreed time, Cheng Biguang, accompanied by Song Wenxuan, who was about to succeed him as the Minister of Navy, went to the General Office of the Central Palace to meet His Majesty the Emperor. In addition to the two, Han Chunlin was accompanied by Han Chunlin.

When they entered the General Office, Song Biao was browsing a summary of intelligence related to the Soviet Union.

It was a great regret for not eliminating the Soviet Union at the beginning, but it was also beneficial. In the face of such chaos within the Soviet Union, because only China and the Soviet Union formally established diplomatic relations, a large number of Russian intellectuals were thinking about it.

The embassy and consulate general of the embassy in Russia have issued 420,000 emergency visas in the past six months, and the imperial government and various units have also invited Russian experts to work in China in large quantities.

Of course, the Empire favored German talents more, starting from June 1919. The Empire established the General Office of Foreign Experts in Germany, the Imperial Government, social institutions and thousands of enterprises in Germany.

Thousands of foreign institutions, each of which is actively recruiting talents, from scientists and famous government officials to high-level engineers and technical workers.

The German language departments of Zhendan University, Central Imperial University, Central University of Science and Technology, Shandong University, etc. have almost all expanded several times in the past two years. Among them, the number of German professors and lecturers in Zhendan University has increased rapidly from 127 to 483.

.Through the two-layer channel between the government and enterprises, the empire purchased a large number of technical patents from Germany, and cheaply merged enterprises with excellent technology and lack of funds, and drew all the nutrients needed from Germany.

When Cheng Biguang and Song Wenxuan walked into the office accompanied by Han Chunlin's eunuch, they stood in the middle of the room with a magnificent round dome, and they didn't know what they felt. The emperor was a strong supporter of the national industry.

The Central Palace of the Imperial Court is so luxurious and erotic, but even every screw is made of domestic products. This is well known to the people in China. On the top of Cheng and Song are crystal chandeliers produced in the East China Sea, and the ground is a crystal chandeliers.

The Tangnu Ulianghai weaving flower dragon brocade pattern carpet produced by Zile. The golden patterned glass is inlaid with magnificent landscape pictures with broken stained glass. The green mountains and clear waters and forsythia are complemented by each other. The mahogany and sandalwood used here are

They are both top-notch materials selected in China, because both sandalwood and golden nanmu are almost extinct. The Central Palace would rather use a large amount of chicken wenge and jujube than import them from South China, except for the Central Guinea.

Outside.

Shu brocade, Su embroidery, Zhuang brocade and Mengbian are the most widely used in the Central Palace, making this imperial court that combines the East and the West surpass the palaces of the previous dynasties. It has the symbolic nature of the entire empire, and is

A model work of traditional luxury craftsmanship in the empire.

Since the emperor moved the Central Palace, this is the first time Cheng Biguang and Song Wenhui entered the Central Palace. Along the way, both of them were very moved. It was in such a way that they matched the Tsar Yekaterin Palace, Xia

Only in the palace-like luxury and magnificent imperial palace can you feel the end of the Tsarist era and the birth of the Empire era. A powerful Eastern empire is standing on the eastern end of the Eurasian continent and on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, as high as the Himalayas.

The tower light illuminates the whole world.

I don't know why, maybe it was impossible to see the emperor again in the future. Cheng Biguang felt sore in his heart. He really wanted to kneel on the ground and cry with the emperor. He lamented that the emperor could not come to the empire early, so that the imperial navy would suffer such a thing.

Although he is now leaving the navy, his heart is full of real hope and the most beautiful and confident longing.

He just felt sorry for himself that he would never see the emperor again. This feeling cut open his heart like a knife, making him feel sad and want to cry loudly.

Old, old.

The older he was, the more he felt that he was loyal to the emperor too late, and regretted that he was old and weak, and could no longer serve the emperor.

The entire country turned to the Emperor Song Biao, who irreversibly worshipped blindly with such a crazy attitude. He regarded him as a god and a sage as an ancient emperor, Cheng Biguang was just one of the people. When the entire country was

Society worships the emperor, and everyone believes it, and individuals will never avoid it. They become an irresistible trend. If you cannot worship the emperor wholeheartedly. And others are like this, you will generally feel that

There is something wrong with my head.

This kind of herd mentality and irrational blind worship is very terrible, just as the Japanese worshipped the Emperor before World War II. The Germans worshiped Hitler, the Soviets worshiped Stalin, and the Thais worshiped the Emperor. It is terrible, but to Song Biao

It is very beneficial for itself, and it is also very valuable for condensing the collective will of the country and the nation.

Song Biao was actually able to understand the feelings of the people and understand the strong loyalty of the cabinet ministers such as Cheng Biguang, because they had no other choice except for this loyalty to the emperor who could contribute their lives and everything to the emperor.

Repay the lives and value the emperor gave them.

The reason why Song Biao supported Orthodoxism was precisely because Orthodoxism recognized the supreme rule of the monarchy, which is the so-called special nature of the king and pope. Christians like Tang Shaoyi and Queen also had to set an example in their transition to Orthodoxism.

Every place that can be done to consolidate the imperial power, even if Tang Shaoyi strongly opposes such things deep down.

There are many Christians in Tang Shaoyi's cabinet, which is related to the empire's comprehensive learning of the West's wave of pursuit of modernization, but most cabinet ministers were already religious during the Qing Dynasty, such as Tang Shaoyi, Zhang Kangren, Ouyang Geng, Ouyang Xi, and Cheng Biguang

, Song Wenhui, Cai Shaoji...even the queen is like this. This proportion is definitely hundreds of times higher than the total proportion of the domestic believers in the population.

The queen is a believer, which is normal. Her father and uncle both graduated from American seminary, and the Shu family is full of them.

Because of this special religious connection, Tang Shaoyi formed a special faction in the cabinet. As the imperial power status in the empire grew, Tang Shaoyi also had achievements that were sufficient to "shock the master with great achievements", Tang Shaoyi's line was somewhat vague.

Their principles are correct in trying to counter this crazy upward trend of imperial power and blind loyalty to the monarchy. Their principles are to maintain the progressive spirit of the constitutional monarchy and the highest status of the cabinet government, and avoid the regression of the times, but they are still subject to

It's a ruthless struggle.

Song Biao knew they were right, but he still had to counter the situation before the incident of the queen forcing Tang Shaoyi to transfer to Orthodox Church, suppressing the universal democratic principles of the spirit of constitutional monarchy from the source.

The current empire is very similar to Japan's period of militarism after World War I. In the great wave of loyalty to the monarchism swept across the country, it was difficult for the cabinet to survive, and the military was the strongest supporter of loyalty to the monarchism.

When Biao was commanding troops abroad, the civil war between the loyal monarchists and the Western sects in the cabinet was always led by Cheng Biguang and Shu Fangde to fight against Tang Shaoyi and Cai Shaoji.

It was under such circumstances and pride that Cheng Biguang walked into the office of the Central Palace of the Imperial Court with a strong sense of loyalty to the emperor, and bowed deeply to the emperor with Song Wenhui, saying: "Ministry and the subordinates pay homage to the emperor."

Song Biao looked up at them, signaled a closer position, and ordered Han Chunlin: "Give it a seat!"

"yes!"

Han Chunlin paused his head and responded, and led the eunuch to bring up two standard narrow armrest seats of the cabinet minister. According to the position indicated by the emperor's eyes, Cheng Biguang and Song Wenyi sat closer, almost opposite the emperor's desk.

Cheng Biguang first submitted the third phase planning book of the Imperial Navy in his hand to Han Chunlin, and then handed it over to the emperor by a close servant like Han Chunlin.

Song Biao had read the draft half a month in advance for this plan, and also approved some opinions for the Navy to revise it. Although he had already read it, after the new plan was submitted, it was out of Cheng Biguang's

Song Biao still read all the respects of the loyal emperor and old ministers who are about to leave office very carefully.

It took a full ten minutes before Song Biao finished reading it all, and then praised Cheng Biguang: "No, it's much better than the original plan, and the details have been modified more perfectly. Now I think about it, I don't want to bear to be a serious official like you.

Leaving office, but as the saying goes, the iron-clad soldiers are in full swing, and the cabinet needs to be rotated to ensure that every minister is a young and strong choice. For you, I think the Shipbuilding University is also a good position.

In addition to his hometown, he can continue to contribute to China's naval cause."

Cheng Biguang was afraid that the emperor would still be dissatisfied with it, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He replied: "Emperor, the minister is old and his energy is far less than that of the previous few years. I am afraid that he can no longer share the worries and problems for the emperor. Naturally, he must be courteous and polite.

The right minister will continue to serve the emperor with all his loyalty. But the ministers think that it will be difficult to see the emperor again. Whenever they think of this, they feel reluctant to leave. They often cry at night and cannot sleep for a long time."

Song Biao laughed dryly. He didn't know whether Cheng Biguang was saying true or not, but said: "Fuzhou is a good place, and now it is not like the past. It's not like the previous dynasty. It's only a week since I'm going to visit Fuzhou.

In the past two years, if you have done your job well at Shipbuilding University, the naval bases in Luoyuanwan and Ningdewan have also been set up, and I will go and inspect it. If you have time, you can also go back to Beijing to visit your old friends.

, I will go to the palace by the way. As long as you come, can I still not see you?"

Cheng Biguang was overjoyed and felt it was a great honor. He thanked him: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The increasing imperial power and the proliferation of the trend of loyalty to the emperor. A very important example is that Song Biao rarely uses "I" as a self-proclaimer, which represents the people-friendly thoughts. Song Biao himself does not think this matter is very important, but after discussing it with Zhang Binglin and others

, I still feel that the people's will, he has been promoted to a higher position. It represents the highest authority and most important cohesion of this empire, so I still have to use the self-proclaimed "I" to improve every detail in the imperial power.

, continue to consolidate the imperial power in an etiquette manner.

Song Biao's current thinking is very simple, that is, he must maintain this supreme authority and cohesion. During World War II, this thing is worth billions of taels of gold, and it is not even a valuable asset that can be measured by matter, which is enough to offset the enemy's number.

A million lions.

What to use to fight against the Soviet Red Iron Cavalry, the German Nazi thoughts and the Japanese military and imperial power, in addition to the pride and national consciousness of the Chinese nation, the empire's loyalty to the emperor is also a very extreme and powerful weapon.

There are pros and cons, the key is how Song Biao, as the emperor, is used.

On one hand, there is loyalty to the emperor and courage, and on the other hand, there is democracy and progress. The two must have conflicts. The key is how Song Biao, as the emperor, balances the two and ensures that it is in the most favorable state for the empire. It is definitely very useful now.

His words are worth tens of millions of people, and his words are able to make the entire country rush along with him.

What Song Biao really needs to do is to prevent the people below from using him and the imperial power, and gradually weakening the imperial power at a suitable time, ensuring that the country can make greater progress, rather than becoming an obstacle and center of contradictions like the Emperor of Thailand.

As for the third Imperial Navy plan submitted by Cheng Biguang on behalf of the Navy, Song Biao was also quite satisfied, especially with the Navy's determination to learn how to build ships from Germany and purchase the design and production drawings of King-class and Bavarian-class super-dreadnoughts.

Song Biao felt that a large number of German industrial personnel were hired to work in China to assist in the production and design of new warships and submarines.

Song Wenhui had previously taken the opportunity to go to Germany to participate in peace talks to inspect the current situation of the military manufacturing industry in Germany and had close exchanges with the German side. After the Paris Peace Conference ended, Song Wenhui had reached a secret on behalf of the Central Military Department and the German General Staff.

The agreement arranged for these designers and engineers to work in the empire and collaborate on new warships, submarines and other military equipment technologies, which not only helps the development of China's affairs, but also helps Germany maintain technology updates.

Because the purchase of design and production drawings for King-class and Bavarian-class battleships is progressing smoothly, the design overview of these two models of warships has been placed in the appendix of the plan.

Song Biao read all the design drawings and detailed parameter information, and added, with Cheng Biguang and Song Wenhui, "If the Germans had not sunk the high seas fleet at the beginning, I would have really wanted to take away two king-class battleships,

It doesn't matter now. Wouldn't it be better for us to build it in China? The military expenditure problem is not very big. Originally, Tang Shaoyi's cabinet had a relatively severe restriction on military expenditure. The situation in Ouyang Geng's cabinet will improve significantly. It is expected that
To be continued...