Coupled with France's strange recruitment system and high per capita income cost, France's military expenditure is really small. From the end of World War I to today, France has not been able to replace all new rifles in the entire army. This speed is really low-level and terrifying. Considering that the French Army chief has only 480,000, which is even more bizarre.

In the words of Jiang Fangzhen, France is an incomprehensible country.

Deserve it.

Such a country is not in World War I, and it is unreasonable to be beaten up by Germany in World War II.

Of course, it is precisely because of cooperation with such a strange country and forming alliances that China has the opportunity to gain the most benefits from it.

China's total fiscal revenue and military expenditure for the whole year are 6.5 times that of France. Borrowing more money to build fortifications for France is also a good thing for China in the long run, so as not to prevent France from even blocking the first wave of German offensives.

General Wigan remembered another incident and said to Song Biao: "By the way, before this visit to China, the Japanese military also invited me to Japan. Considering that Japan and France had had a long-term relationship, our country had agreed to Japan's invitation. I would like to inform you in advance that I will guarantee that there will be no substantial interactions with Japan unless Japan agrees to leave the British-Japanese alliance. According to our current speculation, the conflict between Japan and Britain is indeed expanding, and the British-Japanese alliance itself has reached a level that it is difficult to maintain."

Song Biao nodded silently and said, "It is a very strange thing that the relationship between the British-Japanese alliance has broken down, but it is not a sudden change that has occurred to this point."

After a little thought, he added: "Japan is a very strange country. In terms of economic and industrial strength, Japan is currently at the same level as Italy, but it has the third largest navy in the world after Britain and the United States, and is a world-class navy with excellent training and strong fighting will. Considering Japan's population of up to 70 million and its perfect industrial foundation, if you compete with the army, I actually don't think the Italian army, and even the French army may not be able to defeat the Japanese army. You may have objections to this point, but I think it's better to have other objections. Of course, Japan's fatal flaws are also very obvious. In terms of resource scale and industrial raw material supply, Japan is the most dangerous and weak among the world's industrial countries. France still lacks understanding of Japan in general. In fact, there have always been two political struggles between the cabinet and the military in Japan. Their military has always tried to ensure the development of the country through foreign military expansion and seek the colonies by occupying the colonies.

The government of the cabinet hopes to solve the development problems of the country through trade negotiations, and consciously takes advantage of the military's toughness to try to reach a trade treaty with our country and the United Kingdom and the United States that is beneficial to Japan. The result is still relatively smooth. The trade treaty between the United Kingdom and Japan is beneficial to Japan as a whole. In the trade treaty with our country, due to the large supply of raw materials, my country also supports the export of raw materials to Japan. The two sides agreed that the tariffs were low, and most of the exports were completed through North Korea. However, the Great Depression of the world economy caused countries to increase tariffs and implement trade protection, and Japan's exports to Southeast Asia, Britain and the United States have shrunk significantly. This problem cannot be solved by the cabinet. Because the Japanese government has been unable to solve these problems for a long time, the influence of the Japanese military has surpassed the government, and it can even be said to directly control the government. From this perspective, Japan is already a quasi-fascist stage in which the military government is in power."

General Wigan did not dare to refute Emperor Song's judgment on Japan and said: "The information spoken by His Majesty is very important to our country. As a solid and permanent Sino-French alliance, the first task of our country's diplomacy is to maintain the Sino-French alliance for a long time. Although there are efforts to improve relations with Japan at this stage, our country will definitely insist on safeguarding China's leadership in Asia and continue to maintain a policy of mutual support in the Eurasian continent. Of course, if Japan is willing to withdraw from the British-Japanese alliance under certain conditions, it will definitely have great benefits for us."

Song Biao replied: "You are right, but Japan is now a hornet's nest. If we pay a high price to convince them to withdraw from the British-Japanese alliance and choose to form an alliance with us, once they launch an attack on the United States, or other countries and colonies, we will be in unprecedented trouble. In fact, the reason why Britain has unintentionally continued to maintain the British-Japanese alliance is because Japan has maintained its provocative and expansionary attitude of militarism for a long time in the past, which has also caused a lot of unnecessary trouble for Britain. Whether it is the Ise incident, the Dutch Indonesia incident, or the Seoul conflict between Japan and our country, it is actually enough to prove that Japan is a trouble-maker. They are actively seeking new colonies and will not stop. Therefore, if the cost is not high, we can consider persuading Japan to withdraw from the British-Japanese alliance, but we must not consider letting Japan join us, which will only bring us endless troubles."

Admiral Wigan agreed: "Yes, I think so too, and by contrast, I think it's obviously more reliable about your proposal to absorb Brazil into our alliance."

Song Biao nodded very seriously and did not continue to say anything.

Regarding the various cooperation between China and France, these work are the affairs of the cabinet government and the Central Military Department. He doesn't need to say too much. The empire can express the dissatisfaction with France's current slackness and negligence through the Central Military Department. There is no need to even Song Biao to accuse France of lack of responsibility.

China's dissatisfaction with France has been a long resentment. The most important factor is that France failed to effectively put pressure on Britain in the naval field. It laid the foundation for close military cooperation between China and France during the Marshal Xiafei's period and the major changes in France's mechanization. After President Lebron came to power, he obviously reversed.

This also made China seriously dissatisfied.

China and France are the most important alliances in the world, and they support each other on both ends of the Eurasian continent. Once the interests of the alliance are challenged, they must send troops at the same time. Both sides are also divided in terms of interests. If France continues to be so weak, China will certainly be dissatisfied.

In any case, China and France have always been an equal alliance. Since equality is emphasized, France should do as much effort as China puts in.

This is a basic principle of equality.

Lebron, the left-wing president, really looks down on China and Asians, and has always been a little unfaithful about the Sino-French alliance. This is the main factor in the reversal of the Sino-French alliance.

Now that Germany has experienced serious fascism and secondary revivalism, France has begun to become nervous and has to come back and continue to strengthen the Sino-French alliance and strengthen military cooperation between the two countries. Not only has it agreed to the proposal of the Sino-French joint fleet, but it has also sent General Wigan to visit China.

Although it was a bit late, it was better than not.

Admiral Wigan has a lot to discuss during his visit to China. In recent years, France has owed too much military things and can only continue to introduce technology directly from the empire on a large scale. The two sides accelerate the construction of military forces through joint development or directly purchasing some technical patents from China.

What should be sold should be sold, and what should be assisted should be assisted.

Who made China become a friend like France like a second-hand man?
Chapter completed!