Even in the Great Depression of the World, the Empire did not reduce the research expenditure on military equipment, such as submarines, carrier-based aircraft, transport aircraft, bombers, tanks, self-propelled artillery, machine guns, and chemical weapons. The scale of investment in research on military equipment is as always, and now it is obviously China.

The best time to widen the military and technological gap with other countries in the world.

After the Spring Festival holiday, Song Biao, accompanied by Lady Qiao, went to Taiyuan to inspect the development of the new tank.

Judging from the geographical characteristics, the Northeast is obviously not suitable as China's only military industrial production base, and it cannot even be the only heavy industry and high-tech industrial base. As a large province with rich resources, Shanxi is the first to bear the brunt of technology and industrial transfer in technology and industry.

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China now has five large industrial areas, namely Northeast, Jiangnan, North China, Huguang, and Luyu. The industrial economic zones in North China include Shanxi Province. In the past decade, the scale of heavy industry in North China has gradually increased.

It is the same as the Northeast, and Shanxi is also the center of China's industrial production, second only to the Northeast. China's missile engineering and military materials research centers are also in Shanxi.

Although the possibility of Northeast China being captured is very low, in the long run, the empire has two to three large-scale military industrial production bases, which is also an indispensable layout.

In April 1931, Song Biao arrived at Taiyuan Airport by plane and immediately went to the China Armor Engineering Research Institute in the suburbs.

The Empire currently has five major scientific research institutions, namely the Central Academy of Sciences, the Central Academy of Engineering, the Central Academy of Defense Industry, the Far East Science and the Far East Industrial Research Institute. The first three institutions are national institutions, and the Far East Science Institute is a social research sponsored by the Far East Consortium.

The Far East Industrial Research Institute is the Industrial Science and Technology Research Department under the Far East Consortium. The five major institutions are Zhendan University, Central Imperial University, Northeastern University, Jiangnan University, and Central University of Technology.

Among the five major scientific research institutions, the Central Defense Industry Research Institute is the only institution directly responsible for national defense and military science and technology research. Most of the researchers come from other four institutes, submarines, carrier-based aircraft, transport aircraft, bombers, tanks, self-propelled artillery and other research projects.

All of them are summarized by this institution, and other research institutions, universities and enterprises share the research work of sub-projects, including the research of turbojet engines and the pre-research of turbofan engines.

The only exception is that nuclear weapons and nuclear industry research are separately included in the Central Nuclear Physics Research Institute, which is secretly set up in Hanzhong and is directly under the responsibility of the Central Secret Service, which is directly under the inner court. Its institutions use the names of other institutes separately to the outside world.

Funding expenses are also directly allocated from the Central Bureau of Secretariat.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union's scientific and economic foundation was much worse than that of the United States. It relied on this large scientific research system to maintain competition with the United States. In the Soviet Union's view, this was their institutional advantage. The United States also adopted it when studying the atomic bomb.

This way.

The Empire also used such a large scientific research system to promote key breakthroughs in national science and technology. Although its foundation was not as good as that of Europe and the United States, it could surpass other countries with this system expertise. In 1931, the Empire had already begun to carry out scientific research.

The development of the first generation of turbojet fighter was in Taiyuan and Yinchuan. Taking advantage of the empty and uninhabited conditions of the Tengger Desert, large-scale test flight experiments were carried out here. As a supporting project, both Taiyuan and Yinchuan were built.

There are large-scale hollow bases, while the largest hollow bases in the empire are located in Changping County, Shenyang and Nanchang, Beijing respectively.

Turbine jet fighter is the focus of development, and conventional propeller fighter jets are also to be studied. The focus of both aircraft is on engines. The development of reciprocating internal combustion engines is still very important. Aeronautical reciprocating engines are largely the same as automobiles.

The engines of the tank are consistent, but the latter can design more cylinders, while the former can be roughly limited to four cylinders.

The Empire's turbojet engine was started in 1925. There have been experimental models in the past two years, but these models are still unstable. Two centrifugal types, one axial flow type, and the axial flow type is still stopped.

In the laboratory stage, the research report of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was difficult to succeed within ten years. The required materials had too high requirements for temperature resistance. There were basically no one now, so we could only temporarily open new projects to comprehensively conquer them.

Theoretically speaking, the axial flow type is definitely good. The empire is different from the UK. The empire adopted the axial flow type design from the beginning, but it turned out that it could not be made and chose the same centrifugal style as the British.

In this year, China was slightly ahead of the UK because China was directly established by the central government, with sufficient funds and samples had been successful, while the UK was a corporate nature and was still in the theoretical stage.

The person in charge of the National Defense Industry Research Institute is General Chen Qicai. In the past two years, he has also been flying around and often to Shanxi. He knows the situation here best. Song Biao is also responsible for accompanying him during his inspection trip to Shanxi.

There are only fifteen generals in the empire so far, all of which are related to the Restoration of the Sino-Japanese War, the First World War, and the Sino-Soviet War. Chen Qicai's most outstanding performance during World War I and his performance during his tenure as Chief of Staff of the Expeditionary Force in Europe.

It can also be called the most popular one.

After Song Biao arrived in Taiyuan, he gave priority to inspecting the MBT30 tanks of the Central Armor Engineering Research Institute. The headquarters of the Central Armor Engineering Research Institute is in Beijing. Beijing is indeed the main location of Chinese scientific research institutions. The Central Armor Engineering Research Institute has four branches, located in each of them.

Shenyang, Taiyuan, Wuhan and Nanjing cooperate and compete, mainly with local military industry, metallurgy and other companies.

Overall, the Central Military Department focuses on Taiyuan, and the Taiyuan Branch has developed the fastest, while the MBT series tanks have been developed in Taiyuan.

This branch in Taiyuan is not Taiyuan city, but in Jin County, which was the former Yuci County, because Jin County is the center of Taiyuan heavy industry, and the reserves of coal, aluminum, chromite and ilmenite are very high.

Taiyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Factory is also located here.

Song Biao did not even go to Taiyuan Prefecture, but took a plane to Jinxian Military Airport and then to Taiyuan Armored Engineering Research Institute. The empire's aviation industry was developing very quickly, and the number of passenger planes nationwide had exceeded 1,000, which was mainly based on the air force.

and the strong support of the Cabinet Ministry of Transport.

Especially in the past two years, Song Biao has been mainly on a plane when inspecting other places. He is used to taking a seat, and Concubine Qiao is another matter. She still has a pale face when she gets off the plane. It just so happens that these military units are special confidential institutions.

She couldn't let her go, so Song Biao arranged for Concubine Qiao to go to Wandefeng Hotel in Jinxian County to rest first.

Song Biao himself, accompanied by Chen Qicai and others, took a bus to the Taiyuan Armor Engineering Research Institute outside Jin County. Because it was necessary to requisition a large area of ​​land that was cheap and complex for tank tests around the surrounding area. This institute's

The location is quite remote. Locals call this place Baicaopo, and it is surrounded by hilly land.

As the car passed by, Song Biao saw hilly and low mountains around him because he was about to come to inspect. Several soldiers stood guard and patroled at a distance of 500 meters on both sides of the road, and there were planes in the air patrol at low altitudes.

The cavalry units with patrol troops on both sides maintain a large scale of security.

After so many years, Song Biao rarely encountered assassination during his tenure as the emperor. The most successful assassination was hundreds of meters away. Compared with President Lincoln, the guards and security work around him were still very strict. The national military armed forces were

His absolute loyalty is a very important reason.

After the convoy entered the institute, Song Biao first met with the main engineers, scientific consultants and representatives of Taiyuan Machinery Vehicle Factory. Then, under the arrangement of the institute, he visited the main achievements of the institute in the past fifteen years, including

Currently, the Jin II chassis is mainly used in China. This chassis is basically the same as the American Christie chassis. The biggest difference is that the former adopts a six-round weight-bearing design.

The MBT10\20\30 of the MBT series tanks are lined up and are parked in front of Song Biao, including self-propelled artillery modified based on the MBT10\20. Since the end of the Sino-Soviet War, the Central Military Department of the Imperial Empire has realized that it is lighter than China.

The division of the three-type tanks lacks practical value. What really determines the outcome in war will be a more balanced tank, and as long as there are enough numbers, it can overwhelm everything and win.

This tactical idea led to the birth of the MBT series tank. Its prototype was a medium-sized tank T4 that shone during the Sino-Soviet War. However, the MBT10\20 tank and its modified self-propelled gun were not in service on a large scale.

To this day, he still serves in the Imperial Army, as well as the subsequent model T14.

The T-series tank is one model and one number. The highest number is now T15. In fact, only the T14 that was truly put into service on a large scale was finalized and put into production in 1928. The MBT series 10\20 is a major change in the front and rear of a model, and the MBT30 is the official 1928.

The new tank that has begun to be developed has absorbed many new achievements in the T14 project, and currently only has one prototype car.

At first glance, the prototype of the MBT30 tank looks very similar to the Soviet T-34 tank in World War II. However, the newly adopted Jin-III chassis adopts a torsion bar-type suspension system. This new suspension system is not very good.

Stability is also the reason why MBT30 did not conduct large-scale tests immediately.

Because the empire used the T series numbers very early, in order to distinguish them, the Soviet Union used the PT series numbers, which means Soviet tanks. One of the important reasons here is that almost all the earliest tanks in the Soviet Union came from

In China, in 1925, the Soviet Union also bought the design and production drawings of the T-4 series tanks from China. To this day, thousands of T-4 tanks are still in service in the Soviet Union.

China's T-4 tanks were PT-4 when they arrived in the Soviet Union. The two tanks subsequently developed by the Soviet Union continued to use the PT series numbers.

China is now walking on two legs, and the main combat tanks of the MBT series are also used, and the conventional light, medium and heavy series T tanks are also used. Light, medium and heavy series are used for T series numbers, while infantry fighting vehicles are used for BM series numbers.

An important difference between MBT and T series is that the former is more expensive. If you want to use the maneuverability of medium-sized tanks to achieve the defense and firepower of heavy tanks, then you can obviously only be more expensive. Use the best engine and the best one.

Defensive armor, the best artillery, the best metal materials and homogeneous armor.

The MBT30 tank is still under development and is said to be able to serve, but it is probably still a long way from true maturity.

Song Biao felt pretty good after seeing it, but he didn't say that he could serve first to see the effect. Instead, he urged Chen Qicai to continue to increase his work in this area, especially the development of the 88mm cannon should also be accelerated.

By this period, Song Biao's many influences on military industry can be seen, for example, the design team that the empire has established to conduct theoretical research on composite armor to deal with the threat of armor-piercing bombs.

Of course, one of the most important leading advantages of Di** Industry over the United States and the Soviet Union at this stage is engine technology. The Empire has tested new diesel engines in the MBT series tanks, and the rated power of this 12-cylinder diesel engine reaches 550 horsepower.

In order to further expand the tonnage of the MBT series tanks, the Empire is now investing in all manpower and material resources to strengthen the engine, with the goal of directly targeting the 750 horsepower engine. At this stage, a more reasonable possibility is to continue to increase the exhaust volume and cylinders, or adopt

Mechanical addition technology can theoretically adopt the turbocharger proposed by the French, but like axial flow turbojet, both require special alloy materials that are resistant to high temperature and high pressure, and this series of materials currently do not have any international standards.

Research topic.

No matter which method is adopted, new metallurgical materials must make breakthroughs, otherwise mechanical addition technology can only be used.

Therefore, the highest level of industry often depends on the most basic foundation. Fortunately, the Empire 201 project has focused on the research of metallurgy and alloy materials from the beginning. The annual investment is amazing, and the level of the Empire Metallurgical Industry is also

It can be said to be the world's leading position. If the empire cannot solve this problem, other countries will not be able to solve it either. Including the United States, under the control of the Far East Consortium, the metallurgical industry of China and the United States is basically united. China has technology, the United States may not have it, the United States has it.

China definitely has the technology.

The United States has not realized that this problem is very dangerous. When the United States realizes it, it is estimated that China does not need to continue to develop with the United States metallurgical industry. According to China's development speed in the metallurgical industry and heavy industry, we will basically wait for another five more times.

In 2019, at most ten years, China will no longer need to tie the US steel industry.

Song Biao did not stay at Taiyuan Armor Engineering Research Institute for too long. After roughly looking around, he took a bus to Taiyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Factory. There are now six turbojet fighters in China, which belong to two different models, and two are in

In Shenyang, one is in Taiyuan, and the last three are in Yinchuan.

At present, the problem of whether there is any problem is basically solved. In fact, neither model has the technical conditions for service, because from the very beginning, the Fudao Aircraft Manufacturing Company, the best technology in China, was ruled out, and Shenfei and Taifei Company were responsible for it.

It's normal to have problems.

Shenfei has a relatively conservative solution, with agility and low altitude advantages, while Taifei has high speed performance and high altitude advantages. The Air Force has not denied any solution, and the two have done it together.

These two companies are also different. Chen Fei is a subsidiary of the Far East Consortium, and Taifei is a state-owned Shanxi consortium enterprise. Many of Taifei's technology sources come from France and Germany. So far, German engineers are still Many of them are special contracts and it is basically impossible to leave China. The salary is so high that they are all in China's highest secrets, and it is impossible to let them leave China.

One of the important reasons why countries like China and the United States are prone to rise with vast populations and abundant resources is that their per capita income may not be as good as those of Britain, France and Germany, but their central finances are no worse than those of European countries, and their per capita output value. In 1931, China was still inferior to the United States, Britain, France and Germany, but in terms of total economic scale, China was already equal to the United States, which was equivalent to the sum of Britain, France and Germany.

In 1931, China's central fiscal revenue was already higher than that of the United States. There was still a certain gap between per capita income and Britain, France and the United States. The per capita annual income was only 1/4 of that of the United States. Therefore, the prices of Chinese industrial and agricultural products were subject to international factors. The impact is not particularly great, because the cost of Chinese products has always been the lowest.

According to the current plan, if China's per capita income increases by another 70 by 1937, China's total economic output will exceed that of the United States by about 75.

This is really not something the United States can interfere now.

When China's per capita income and per capita GDP remain the same as the United States, it is normal for China's total economic output to exceed three or four times the United States. The total economic output accounts for 1/2 of the world. Without World War II, this scale would have basically reached around 1950.

China will never wake up, and once it wakes up, it will alarm the whole world.

From the establishment of the empire to the present, it has been like the 20 years of reform and opening up. The 20 years of development have been earth-shaking. There is neither technical blockade nor political obstacles. From the early support of Germany and Russia to the mid-term support of France and Russia, and finally the United States France's support and the massive recruitment of talents from Germany and Russia, there was a war before, and the Great Depression later, there was a dispute between Britain and the United States in the middle, and the Soviet Union shared the political pressure of rising. The factors of the right time, place, and people all took up. I would rather not rise to the It is difficult to be the world's number one.

Even though many important scientific research projects in the empire are still underway, as the emperor, Song Biao is quite leisurely and watch the changes in the world. After two days of inspection in Taiyuan, Song Biao took a car to Qi County.

At this time, Shanxi Province had some special features in administrative divisions, with nine prefectures and one prefecture. Qi County was Zhili County outside the nine prefectures, and Pingyao County was incorporated into Qi County because of its special status. Shanxi Province has more emphasis on railway construction plans, making its status more important and merchants prosper.
To be continued...