It is fierce, with both sides fighting on a large scale in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States on the basis of sticking to their own domestic markets.

When Japan imports most of its production raw materials from China, Japan is destined to be at a disadvantage in this war. Moreover, Japan adopts a high tax policy to maintain military spending, while China adopts a light tax policy because of its financial abundance, causing both sides to

The gap further widens.

China's industrial planning and support policies, as well as a more relaxed talent introduction plan, have also enabled China's industry to improve rapidly in technology. Since World War I, there have been planned continuous improvements and expansions. At this watershed in 1921, in addition to the shipbuilding industry,

The gap between the two sides has been further widened to the point where it is difficult for Japan to catch up.

Even in the shipbuilding industry, apart from its disadvantages in battleships of over 30,000 tons, China has surpassed Japan in the fields of merchant ships, engines, boilers and marine steel. When Japan also needs to import gun steel and special ship steel from the UK,

When it came to main guns, the Chinese Empire had basically achieved self-production and export.

Japan now only has the most protective military industry left as the backbone of the empire, but China already has the strength to compete with Germany in the fields of oleochemicals, industrial ceramics, coal chemicals, dyes, fertilizers, electrical appliances, internal combustion engines, etc.

The textile and food industries are also increasingly approaching Britain and France. They are impacting the United States in the fields of automobiles, petrochemicals, machine tools, metallurgy, and communications. In emerging fields such as aircraft, electrified railways, and special machine tools, they are already capable of competing with Germany, the United States, Britain, and France.

After importing two 10,000-ton hydraulic presses from the United Machine Tool Company for use in the manufacturing of automobiles, aircraft, steam turbines, bearings and ships, China is also challenging the Far East Machine Tool Corporation to build a 12,500-ton hydraulic press and more super-heavy boring machines.

Milling machine.

The gap between Japan and China is getting wider and wider, but Japan has never really realized this. They still look at China from the perspective of ten years ago, or even before the Sino-Japanese War of 1884-1894.

This may be understandable. Before 1911, there were more than 400,000 people traveling between China and Japan each year. After 1913, the number of people traveling between China and Japan each year had dropped to less than 20,000. Most of them were from the military, political and educational circles.

of dealings.

This is a terrible thing.

Perhaps it was Song Biao who caused it.

Song Biao also realized this after reading Akiyama Masayuki's "Who have we offended?" with a fair attitude. Perhaps he wants to account for the various current problems between China and Japan.

Half of the responsibility is that he ruthlessly and indifferently kicked Japan out of China, and also closed the future of Japan's China-savvy and pro-China factions, causing them to decline day by day and no longer be able to have a positive impact on Japan.

Song Biao inevitably sighed sadly, and asked Wang Zhaoming, who had been waiting with him to read the entire article: "How long did it take you to translate this article?"

Wang Zhaoming replied respectfully: "Replying to the Emperor, it only took me one day to complete the translation. Because I think it is best to have the original text of such an article, so I waited until the embassy in Japan sent the original text of the urgent message today before submitting it to the Emperor.

.However, according to the latest intelligence, Major General Shinyuki Akiyama seems to have offended senior Japanese military and cabinet leaders because of this article, and has been ordered to resign from the cabinet. It is said that even the Navy does not intend to keep him in service."

Song Biao was surprised and asked: "So miserable?"

Wang Zhaoming replied: "Yes, it is indeed very bad. I think that apart from using contemptuous names, his article may be quite fair and objective, and it may also have some inspiration for us. No matter how bad Japan is, there is no need for us to force it.

So urgent.”

Song Biao thought for a while and said: "What we did was indeed wrong, but we have no other choice. 'Every country has the right to make the country prosperous and strong and the nation happy. This is the right of every country.' We are just driving

It’s just our own rights, do we still have the obligation to give Japan the same rights to share the prosperity and strength of our country? Akiyama’s reflection is not thorough enough. If Japan positions itself in countries like the Netherlands and Belgium, it adopts light taxes and limited low-income countries.

Military spending policy, they can develop better. Development is the right of every country, but no country has the right to deprive other countries of the same rights. They cannot satisfy themselves by exporting goods and occupying colonies and other countries' markets. This is also what we

The reason for implementing the national policy of respecting the law and loving the people and promoting the general prosperity of the people is that as long as the people are prosperous, the domestic market can be expanded, enterprises can be expanded, and the country can become more prosperous and stronger."

Regarding Song Biao's last words, when Prime Minister Ouyang Geng strongly implemented the "Land Restriction Act" and the "Labor Protection Act", there was already a comprehensive debate in the country. Now almost everyone knows this truth

.

If the country wants to be strong, the people must get rich first.

Japan just reversed this principle.

Wang Zhaoming paused and said: "Your Majesty, your Majesty."

Song Biao thought for a while and then said: "Actually, the truth lies in this sentence in "Encouragement to Learning". Longli respected the virtuous and became king, valued the law and loved the people and hegemony. It's just a question of how to interpret this sentence from the perspective of a modern world view.

.Akiyama Shinyuki’s intelligence and his realm are largely derived from Fukuzawa Yukichi, so we say that thinkers are the most important, and thoughts can guide actions, but where are our modern thinkers?”

Wang Zhaoming immediately replied: "I believe that the emperor is the thinker of today's empire. It is because of the emperor that the empire is prosperous and strong today. The emperor's every word and deed guides the development of the empire."

Song Biao snorted slightly, but said: "I'm afraid it's not true. The current empire is developing very well, but it is far from good enough, because we still lack thinkers like Fukuzawa Yukichi. We always say

We want to honor the virtuous, but we still have not been able to wait for the real new Chinese thinkers. This takes time, because what we need are great thinkers who can truly interpret the West and are proficient in Chinese studies. Only such great thinkers can answer the questions about China.

Various questions

The root of the problem. We always talk about modernization. In fact, it is because we are too timid to admit that modernization is Westernization. All we have done is to use the slogan of "recovering China" to significantly Westernize. On this basis, we have only guaranteed the Chinese culture.

We have some foundations, but this is not enough. Our degree of Westernization is far from enough, and the degree of our revival of Chinese studies is also far from enough. Longli respects the virtuous, values ​​the law and loves the people. It is easy to say it, but it is really difficult to do it.

Disaster."

After hearing these words, Wang Zhaoming did not dare to flatter the emperor anymore, but he had always felt that although the emperor's ideas were not worthy of the status of Confucius, Mencius and Xun, they were practical enough to lead the empire to become rich and powerful, and to lead the empire to realize the great rejuvenation of China.
Chapter completed!