Chapter 257 The Advantage of Centralization
Just before Japanese Foreign Minister Kenji Yoshizawa arrived in China, under the persuasion of the central government, the kings of the three small kingdoms of Luang Prabang, Chambasse and Vientiane in Laos successively announced their abdication, and were canonized by the imperial royal family as dukes, moved to Beijing to live. The three small kingdoms were also merged into the empire and merged into the Lancang Autonomous Province.
This process lasted for ten years, and the governance of the three countries of Laos was directly under the central government for a long time, so that there was no news or feedback around the world, so the empire completely annexed the three regions.
The visit of Japanese Foreign Minister Kenyoshi Yoshizawa can only be regarded as a small episode between China and Japan, and no progress was made in the end. Song Biao couldn't help but feel a little regretful about this, but it was expected and there was no disappointment.
The first Chinese National Games held in Shanghai was particularly successful. Then, in the 5th China-Japan Jiu-Japan Invitational Tournament, China and Japan also divided the championship evenly. For China, if the problem of the jiu-Japan Jiu-Japan Invitational Tournament cannot be solved, it is also the best time to end the China-Japan Jiu-Japan Invitational Tournament.
After the Sino-Japanese Jiu-Jitsu Invitational Competition, Song Biao continued to move his family to the Lushan Summer Palace and held the Lushan Summer Palace Conference in 1931. After all, it was during the economic crisis. The theme of this year's "water conservancy engineering, power grid, transportation and national infrastructure" was still related to the economy. At the Lushan Summer Palace Conference this year, the initiative to build the Three Gorges Project was formally proposed.
The continued prosperity of China's economy during the Great Depression and the Soviet Union's national economic model actually opened a shortcut to end the Great Depression crisis for Britain, the United States, Germany and other countries - actively expanding government budgets and expenditures, strengthening supervision, regulation, intervention, increasing employment, and stimulating economic recovery.
China's national infrastructure projects are just beginning, and larger projects and more projects are still being promoted. Foreign demand is sluggish, so the country must rely on investment and credit economy to overcome the current difficulties. China is also expanding its export of foreign capital, increasing investment in Sino-French colonies, and striving to expand the foreign demand market.
Considering the special relationship between Chen Jin and Princess Yuanyuan, at this summer palace meeting, the inner court invited Chen Jin to attend the meeting in the name of a representative of young economists.
Because she was going to participate in the closing ceremony of the first National Games, Song Biao came to the Summer Palace half a month later than in previous years. Empress Shu and Princess Yuanyuan had already arrived for a lot of days, so Chen Jin naturally came together.
Song Biao was a little worried about this young man, worried that it would delay his daughter's life. After arriving in the summer palace, he asked the inner court to sort out Chen Jin's recent information and information and prepare to talk to Chen Jin again in the evening.
After having dinner with his family, Song Biao went to the study to read the information provided by the General Administration of Intelligence at night, and carefully studied the two academic papers published by Chen Jin in the past six months.
It should be that Song Biao's warning has had a very good effect. Chen Jin has maintained a certain distance from all the party and government youth groups in the Central Imperial College in the past six months. The only political activity was to participate in the legal publicity campaign organized by the Youth Restoration Association.
After reading these materials, Song Biao stood up and stared at the lights in the distance in front of the study window. He picked out a Yuxi cigar in his hand, smelled it, and then lit it, silently thinking about some questions.
Japan's right-wing militarism and China's left-leaning democracy movement are two difficult problems.
A large amount of talent absorption from the Soviet Union helped the development of the empire, but the large-scale escape of the Mensheviks also made China's dialectical materialist idea extremely active. Dialectical materialist idea is obviously very convincing. Even if it is not the truth, it is the thinking logic closest to the truth. The key is that dialectical materialism and Marxism-Leninism are bound together, as if to recognize the former, it must recognize the latter. This is a very annoying thing.
In addition, during the development process, the empire did emphasize the adoption of some left-wing policies and methods, especially the national macro-control and the handling of workers, peasants and national income, which should be said to be very left-wing.
This series of factors led to the proliferation of the left-leaning people's movement trends in the imperial world, and many things were not Chen Jin's own problems.
Song Biao felt more and more that to hold a big debate to clarify the truth, the more the truth is, the more it is debated, and it is necessary to use a nationwide debate to completely determine the long-term development path and mainstream ideas of the empire, and not be bound by left-leaning democracy.
The Lushan Summer Palace stretches into pieces in the Meilu Valley. In this quiet late night, hundreds of buildings are brightly lit, illuminating the dark mountain night. The cool mountain breeze blows across the valley and forests, quiet and pleasant.
This is a wonderful place.
Every summer, Song Biao holds a meaningful invitation meeting here, which plays a very critical role in promoting the development of the empire.
At this time, Chen Jiayou walked in and reported: "Your Majesty, Chen Jin has arrived."
Song Biao said Oh, "Let him come in!"
After saying this, Song Biao also closed the window and returned to his desk to put away all the information.
After waiting for a while, Chen Jin, who was in his youth, walked in and wore a brand new black mid-suit. He probably made a temporary customization before coming to the Lushan Conference, but he was still wearing a pair of very cheap black cloth shoes, which looked a little abrupt.
Song Biao glanced at him, signaled him to sit at the desk, and he looked relaxed and half leaned against the wide handrail, and asked Chen Jin: "What have you been learning in the past six months?"
Chen Jin said: "The main thing is to study "Political Economics."
Song Biao nodded slightly. From Chen Jin's recent two papers, it can be roughly seen that he has been studying "Political and Economics" very hard during this period.
Chen Jiayou came over with a tea tray and gave Chen Jin a cup of Qimen black tea. Chen Jin thanked him repeatedly, and Chen Jiayou used his eyes to signal that he would thank the emperor for everything here, and Chen Jin hurriedly thanked the emperor again.
Students are students, and there are many fun places.
Others say thank you for your gratitude, thank you for your kindness, and the like, "thank you for your gift", and Chen Jin said in a very ordinary way, "Thank you, the emperor."
Rules and etiquette are always learned slowly.
Song Biao didn't care, and thought for a moment before saying, "I heard that you have maintained a long distance from politics during this period. This is good. Politics is an ideal. Governing the country and pacifying the world is always a great thing that everyone wants to do. The purpose of the Central Emperor is to cultivate first-class politicians for the empire. However, if you choose an inappropriate path, it may harm both the people and the people around you. Therefore, it is a good thing to keep a certain distance carefully before lacking political judgment."
Chen Jin nodded cautiously and said, "What the emperor said is that I am actually preparing for the public examination recently and want to take the errands of the Policy Research Bureau of the Ministry of Finance of the Central Committee."
Song Biao was not surprised. It is common sense for college students to like to take civil examinations, both for the sake of life welfare and for the spirit of governing the country and pacifying the world emphasized in traditional education.
This is normal, not to mention that Chen Jin is indeed a capable young man and has always had ambitions in this regard.
Song Biao thought about it for a while and suggested to Chen Jin: "I heard that after Song Jiaoren became the Minister of Industry, he has been looking for some secretary who understands economics recently. If you are interested, I can recommend you. Song Jiaoren is a very honest and ambitious politician. You can learn a lot by his side."
Chen Jin seemed very happy when he heard this. He also had a lot of respect for Song Jiaoren, and immediately nodded and said, "Okay, thank you, the emperor."
If there are too many, Song Biao doesn't want to say too much.
If Chen Jin does not join the Busheviks, even if he is a real Social Democratic Party, he will actually be a very good son-in-law, at least his character, sentiment and talent are guaranteed.
Song Biao did not have the idea of continuing to talk, so it would be better to say less of some things. Young people changed quickly. One day his daughter had no confidence in Chen Jin, he would not have to have any contact with him.
After talking about this, Song Biao and Chen Jin ordered: "Then you go back and prepare more. Song Jiaoren will also attend this year's Lushan Conference. When he arrives in a few days, I will ask someone to arrange for you to see him."
Chen Jin thanked again, and then continued to leave the emperor's study accompanied by Chen Jiayou's eunuch.
Song Biao continued to be left in the room. He sat silently at the table and picked up Chen Jin's two academic papers to watch. It was rare and rare, but the road was too extreme.
In such a dark night, Song Biao had many thoughts and thought of too many things.
1931 was a very important year for China. In 1928, in order to deal with various complex situations that may come, the Empire allowed the Imperial Prime Minister to be re-elected for up to three terms through a second constitutional amendment, which allowed Ouyang Geng to be re-elected in the crisis of the World Depression. In this cabinet government, there were few changes in ministers, maintaining the stability of the entire government.
This year, the Lushan Summer Palace Conference with the theme of "water conservancy engineering, power grid, transportation and national infrastructure" is very important. Prime Minister Ouyang Geng of the Cabinet also attended the meeting. The person in charge of the meeting was not Song Biao, but Tang Shaoyi, former Prime Minister of the Empire, Song Jiaoren, Minister of Industry, Chen Qimei, Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of Transportation, Yang Zhaolin, also arrived one after another. It can be called a national economic and political consultation conference. All the heavyweight business, science and technology, engineering, and current major cabinet ministers in the entire empire were present.
At a critical moment, no matter which faction or party it belongs to, the whole country must gather a force.
The Lushan Conference this year was also a bit long. There will be major revisions to the 55th Five-Year Plan previously formulated. 135 new national infrastructure projects will be added. 135 super-large engineering projects will be built nationwide in ten years. The national water conservancy, transportation, and electricity projects will also be adjusted accordingly.
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Japan began to develop a 480mm caliber main gun in 1920, and China carried out it almost at the same time. As a result, the empire has been created now, but Japan has been unable to succeed for a long time. Even the 460mm main gun needs to be reduced in drug firing.
Song Biao also plans to build a 65,000-ton super battleship, using 8 480mm main guns, claiming to build four, but in fact only one is built to scare the opponent. No matter whether this opponent is Japan or any other country, it is to force the opponent to transfer resources to the manufacturing of the battleship.
It doesn't matter to China. The 19.58 million square kilometers of territory is rich in resources, so it is still OK to build a ship to scare people. Even after the war, China can continue to retain battleships as a symbol of national majesty to sail around the world.
Whether one can exert his true strength is one thing, and the symbolicity of a country's strength is still very important.
Objectively speaking, in such a great era, having enough strength, ability, and financial resources has not built Yamato. Super battleships like Iowa-class are also a huge regret in themselves, and there is never a chance to make up for it. Even if such a super battleship does not perform its role in the end, it will still be the main theme in people's memory and represent the ultimate symbol of this era.
After the plenary meeting of the Central Military Department, the work Song Biao needed to do as the emperor and the emperor to serve as the supreme commander came to an end, but the project volume across the country was extremely large, with Xinjiang oil, Sichuan natural gas, water conservancy resource development projects in the upper reaches of the Yellow River and Qinghai-Tibet Highways being the top priority.
In the past two years, there are as many as 24,000 small and medium-sized reservoirs that have begun to be invested in construction. On average, each prefecture has 1.7 medium-sized reservoirs, and on average, each county has 3.3 small reservoirs. The main canal length of the national modern water canal plan will exceed 550,000 kilometers. These are the state and provinces, and the government is responsible for investment. The sub-channel and branch canal plans will be raised by each county to build funds.
According to China's current plan, by 1933, China's total installed power capacity will exceed 1.5 times the United States, making it the new overlord of the world's power industry. The comprehensive development of thermal power, hydropower, wind power, and geothermal heat, and accumulated strength. Cross-provincial high-voltage transmission lines have become the mainstream, and a large number of achievements that have continued to this day in the 201 project have also exploded.
In the heavy industry field, the 1931-1935 plan of the Empire 201 Project has been determined to start the development of a 25,000-ton hydraulic press and a 35,000-ton vertical cold rolling mill. Once these two levels are upgraded, even if the Empire wants to build a super high-speed battleship of 65,000-ton. Of course, the 15,000-ton hydraulic press imported from Germany is enough, and the 12,500-ton hydraulic press developed by China is also enough, but the defense effect of the armor must be slightly reduced.
The empire only requires higher requirements. It must firmly consolidate its position as an industrial hegemon, catch up with Europe and the United States, and become the world's largest technological power. Isn't this the whole story of the 201 project?
In the field of electronics industry, Empire has made greater breakthroughs in research in semiconductors and is focusing on research on the purification technology of germanium refining and industrialization. As long as this field breaks through the past, Empire will completely occupy a leading position in the electronics industry.
Ships, aircraft, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, electrical, automobiles, mechanical machine tools, nuclear physics, electronic semiconductors... The advantage of the empire is not about talents, nor entirely about funds, but in this centralized system regulated by the state.
The system has its advantages, which can allow the weak to exert stronger strength.
The empire has such a vast territory, its economy is becoming more prosperous, its technology is becoming more prosperous, and its education is becoming more popular. What kind of enemies are there to fear for such an empire?
Now it should be that foreign countries fear the empire, but there is a threat like the Soviet Union. In addition, Eastern Europe is indeed constantly Sovietizing and encountering such a great depression in the world economy. Where can Britain and the United States have the energy to join forces to curb the development of the Chinese Empire?
Chapter completed!