At 8:30 am on October 10, 1936, the first atomic bomb of the empire, "Pangu", was tested.

Song Biao almost didn't sleep last night. After a simple meal in the morning, he kept waiting for news in the study. It was not until 8:42 that Minister of Defense Chen Qicai personally walked into the imperial study with a top-secret telegram and submitted the report to Song Biao, reporting.

: "Your Majesty, the test was successful."

Hearing this, Song Biao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

To be honest, the empire's investment in nuclear weapons is definitely not as expensive as the United States' original expenses. After all, there are successful models for reference, and it takes longer and the preparation cycle is longer.

Since the establishment of the Department of Nuclear Physics at Zhendan University, the empire has been preparing for this for twenty-five years.

Chen Qicai continued: "Some slightly specific data reports may take two hours to be sent. It will take around the end of the month before the CNR will provide a more comprehensive estimate and research report."

Song Biao nodded with satisfaction and said, "It is already very good to succeed. Every researcher who participates in the project will be rewarded. However, for the sake of confidentiality, these matters must be handled secretly. Submit the preliminary evaluation report as soon as possible.

Come up, and in addition, you go to inform the cabinet to let Premier Gu come and meet him."

Chen Qicai nodded silently and then left the imperial study room.

After he left, Song Biao asked Chen Jiayou to sort out all the brief introduction information of the 201S02 project, and made a preliminary briefing, stamping it with a top-secret seal.

In less than two hours, the Central Bureau of Secretariat submitted the latest emergency statistics test data. At this moment, Gu Weijun temporarily turned down two itineraries and meetings and hurried to the Xuanzheng Park of the Central Palace for an interview.

After summoning him into the imperial study room, Song Biao did not rush to tell him the news, because the cabinet still did not know much about the many things in it.

After someone gave Gu Weijun a seat, Song Biao said to him: "It is actually a very important thing to come to you today, and it is also a good thing and a good thing."

Gu Weijun smiled and said, "There is a continuous and good news in the empire, and it is not until every day, but the truth is that His Majesty calls it a good thing. I really can't imagine that it must be a real good thing. It's a grand event in the whole country. It's a gratifying thing.

, the ministers should congratulate the emperor first."

Song Biao said: "Whether it is you or the former Prime Minister Ouyang Geng, including the first Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi, you all know that the Empire 201 project has a special top-secret branch project directly under the jurisdiction of the Secret Service, and these projects are generally the same

Military-related matters, for the sake of confidentiality, the cabinet usually does not need to inform you, and the cabinet only needs to allocate funds to the Confidentiality Bureau according to the budget. In this series of special projects numbered with S, the 201S02 project and the other three projects that are accompanied by it.

The span lasts for fifteen years and has been around since the 201 project. Now this project has been initially successful. In these fifteen years, the cabinet has paid a total of more than 700 million yuan in expenditures, and the military and the inner court allocated it.

The total funding is more than 1 billion yuan, and such a huge expenditure is enough for us to build more than a dozen emperor-class high-speed battleships. In fact, these are only part of it. Many government infrastructure investments in the past decade have also been operating around this project.

, For example, Liujiaxia Hydropower Station, Longyangxia Hydropower Station, Shenmu County Thermal Power Station, etc. If these projects are added, our total expenditure for this is estimated to exceed 5 billion. It is really terrible to think about it, but in this world

That’s the truth: only by giving can you get rewards. Now this plan has finally achieved the first step of success. Since it is successful in your post, you will definitely leave your name in history.”

Gu Weijun was both surprised and puzzled. He couldn't think of any project that required such huge expenses, so he continued to ask: "I don't know what kind of project the 201S02 project is the one mentioned by the emperor?"

Song Biao said: "To put it simply, it is a bomb, but it is powerful. If we use the TNT** commonly used by the army as the calculation unit, such a bomb is about 600 kilograms, and its actual power is equivalent to 20,000 tons.

TNT. This means that a very conventional bomber can carry it to the sky above the enemy and destroy hundreds of thousands of troops at once."

Gu Weijun was shocked and was so surprised that he could hardly speak. Of course, he couldn't believe what the emperor said, but he couldn't figure it out no matter what.

Song Biao knew that he couldn't figure it out, so he handed him a briefing compiled by Chen Jiayou and said, "You will understand after reading it. This information can only be read here. After reading it, it will continue to be handed over to the Secret Service for custody.

, no word is allowed to be leaked."

Gu Weijun naturally understood the importance of this information, and cautiously said that he carefully read the report on the introduction of nuclear weapons, and then he roughly understood what the secret weapon the emperor said was.

After he finished reading it, he couldn't help but shout, "Master, since this thing is here, why worry about the whole country being an enemy?"

Song Biao nodded slightly and sighed in agreement: "Yes, I have always been responsible for this matter. As the Prime Minister, you don't know about it. Now that you succeed, you will naturally inform you and give you a confidence in your heart.

, don’t worry too much about the war threats from the Soviet Union and Japan, and of course it is not suitable for being too urgent and tough. You can naturally grasp the scale of this, as a foreign minister, as you are from the foreign minister. According to the current total expenditure scale of the central government and the military department,

Such nuclear bombs can produce about six to ten a year. If necessary, spending will be increased across the board during the war, which is expected to reach about twenty a year."

Only then did Gu Weijun realize that although the nuclear bomb is good, it is very expensive.

He thought about it for a while and asked Song Biao: "Master, can you urgently increase your expenditure budget and increase the scale of the nuclear bomb to about a hundred first?"

Song Biao waved his hand and said, "This thing has its own objective rules. We currently have a reactor for power generation. As long as there are industrial raw materials, it can basically produce bomb-grade special materials, and it costs about six per year.

Not high, the main expense is to continue to be used for new research and daily maintenance. The daily maintenance expenses of nuclear bombs are very high, so it is not a good thing to increase too much, so it will accumulate slowly at the current speed, which will accumulate approximately.

At about thirty pieces, it is basically enough to eliminate the combat will of any opponent."

Gu Weijun thinks it is better not to ask about this, because the cabinet is not aware of the specific situation of the 201S series project. The annual fixed funding is 300 million yuan, and this funding is usually made by four major government trusts.

The reciprocal payment of the company and foreign bond investment income has little impact on the central government's finances. With military expenditure, the total expenditure of the 201S project is only 400 million yuan per year, which the imperial cabinet can still bear.

Since it can be withstood, the cabinet naturally cannot contradict the emperor because of this. After all, these are all things that the emperor personally takes charge of, and they will definitely not be their turn to take care of.

Gu Weijun nodded silently and said, "All these matters are personally slaughtered by the emperor. For whatever needs are, the ministers should be loyal and do not dare to neglect any negligence."

Song Biao didn't care much and said, "It's a happy thing anyway. Just keep it confidential. The country's weapon should not be shown to the outside world. If Su Ri knew that our country had developed such a weapon, we would also step up the project.

We may be the one who succeeds in three or four years, so you don’t need to tell others.”

Gu Weijun nodded again and said yes.

At this time, Gu Weijun's cabinet was already very stable. Song Biao also personally persuaded Chen Qicai, Yang Zhaolin and others who had competed for Prime Minister with Gu Weijun, and persuaded them to continue to serve in the cabinet as domestic and Restoration Party political elites, while Song Jiaoren continued to do so.

His journey of forming a party attempted to further integrate small and local parties and truly form an opposition party that could compete with the Restoration Party.

Compared with the economic conflict and instability in 1935, starting from the second half of last year, the impact of the short-term conflict of the exchange rate on the economy has gradually weakened, while the Shanghai Convention on International Trade signed by more than 60 countries and regions in China, the United States, Britain and France has a role.

It began to appear that after six years, China's exports to Britain, the United States and other countries began to grow significantly again, and the empire's huge international trade surplus is still a situation that Europe and the United States will be unable to reverse in the short term.

Regarding some of the corruption problems caused by Ouyang Geng's cabinet in the later period due to the large increase in central investment projects, Gu Weijun also promised to promote the amendment of the National Integrity Act, continue to strengthen anti-corruption treatment, and adopt the principle of two-way punishment, not only to embezzle officials,

Public officials will be punished more than ten times the penalty, and bribers will be punished more than twenty times, and a higher criminal trial will be initiated for losses of state and national interests.

This is an era of ideology.

Germany has national socialism, the Soviet Union has **, France has left-wingism, the United States has conservatism and liberal capitalism, and China has liberal nationalism.

The orientation of the Restoration Party is liberal nationalism, but it absorbs the ideas and policies of the left and right wings. It belongs to the liberal nationalism of the middle political parties, while the national policy belongs to typical utilitarianism. Some policies are conservative, some policies are free, and everything is utilitarian.

Argument.

Before Gu Weijun came to power, in order to win the vote support of 24.77 million voters across the country, he made many promises, including further increasing the welfare system. Before the demand for the growth of per capita income and minimum income was not high, Gu Weijun absorbed leftist ideas,

It is proposed to establish a national social pension insurance for workers and peasants during their term of office, and the next term will establish a national public medical institution and national medical insurance.

Song Biao is still very satisfied with his policy orientation. As China develops to this day, it is indeed necessary to establish a preliminary social security system like Britain, the United States, Germany and France. After all, the central government is rich, and China's labor force population is also younger.

The education level of young people is gradually improving, and it can fully support such a long-term burden.

At this time, Lieutenant General Chen Jiayou, the first-class eunuch in the inner court, stepped into the imperial study again and reported to Song Biao: "Emperor, Zhang Jun has flew back to the Central Airport in advance. Because there is an urgent matter, he hopes to meet the emperor in advance."

"oh?"

Song Biao was quite strange. Originally, Zhang Jun reported that it would take two days to return to China. He looked through the desk record on his desk and confirmed that there was nothing special about today. He ordered Chen Jiayou: "That's it."

Please meet him in the morning. You can also notify Jiang Yanxing and let him come here in the afternoon."

Chen Jiayou nodded and said yes.

After Chen Jiayou left the imperial study room, Song Biao continued to ask Gu Weijun: "Do you have any urgent itinerary today?"

Gu Weijun replied: "In the afternoon, the central bank and the Central Research Bureau will hold a demonstration meeting on whether the recent rise in real estate prices is too fast. The ministers can get the demonstration report directly in the evening, and they do not have to participate."

Song Biao nodded, but said, "Does this kind of thing still need to be discussed? It is obviously because it has risen too fast, and it has nearly doubled last year. Even I know this kind of thing very well. The inner court also has some products in Shanghai, and the average price has increased.

Nearly double, it has increased so much in a year. It is obviously very abnormal. How do you let the people live and work in peace? China is not Europe and the United States. We may not be able to allow things that can be allowed by foreign countries. Thousands of years of inheritance, moral governance and benevolence.

How can the country sit back and see that the people are homeless? The price increase in houses can be regulated and the supply of residents can be increased. At least ordinary people have houses to live in. Is this the truth?"

Gu Weijun answered cautiously: "What the emperor said is very much."

There is nothing else happening to be. Since Gu Weijun doesn't have much to do today, Song Biao asked him to accompany him to Cizheng Garden on the west side of the imperial study room, take a walk, and take a walk.

Xuanzheng Garden is the main palace of the Central Palace, located on the west side of the Huangji Hall of the main palace, and it is also the Japanese side where the emperor works and lives on a daily basis. Xuanzheng Garden continues to go west to Cizheng Garden, which is a traditional Jiangnan garden, artificially built and large in scale.

A winding mountain stream in the rockery, also known as the creek garden.

If Song Biao is tired of reading or working on weekdays, he will walk around Cizheng Garden, and sometimes he will hold a meeting here if he is not very formal.

After walking by the stream for a while, Song Biao sorted out his thoughts in his heart, and then he reminded Gu Weijun around him: "China is different from other countries in the world. We cannot simply develop capitalism or develop society simply.

This means that we must take a middle route, so we now advocate the liberal nationalist route. We need freedom and nation. China's national spirit and political tradition are consistent, which is the idea of ​​benevolent politics. We must give

The more prosperous life of the people makes the people richer, everyone can live and work in peace and contentment. Although rising housing prices are certainly conducive to economic growth and employment solutions, if the people have no place to live and have no tiles in their homes, that is

What is wrong. The essence of Chinese culture lies in the doctrine of mean and benevolent government. The doctrine of the middle is not biased, the mediocre is not easy, the right is not biased, and the right is inconvenient. Adhere to a fair and peaceful policy without deviation, change, and perseverance, this is the doctrine of the mean. Those who benevolent government can help the world.

Both the central government and local governments must implement this idea, provide support to the people, take care of the poor, support the rich, adhere to the principle of justice, treat all countries well, and be free of the weak, poor, rich and strong. Regarding housing prices, I think it must be given as soon as possible.

Balance and regulation will allow housing prices to return to healthy growth, but relying on the government to introduce policies to curb housing prices can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. What the government should do is to provide more public housing and rent it to the people at a low price so that people can live in a better environment

In the countryside, in the city, the government should spend some money. But we should also limit the government's rights and responsibilities. If the government is too big, it is difficult to manage, and corruption and fraud will occur one after another. Therefore, in the matter of public housing,

The government should be responsible for the government's donation to the social institutions, rather than directly the government, and we should also call on all sectors of society to jointly build office houses."

Gu Weijun has been thinking carefully. After Song Biao finished saying this, he replied: "What the emperor said is very important. After the ministers go back, they must speed up their arguments. After the cabinet is determined and the parliament is approved, the government must do its best.

Supervise this matter and take benevolent government as the center of the government to govern and love the people."

Song Biao nodded and did not continue to discuss the issue of public housing and housing prices.

Real estate investment is always a major channel for market investment, which is normal.

There are a group of special people who get rich in each era. The wealthy people in this era of empire originated from the soybean era. That was before the World War. There were countless people who got rich through Kanto and soybeans. In the past, the Northeast relied on reselling.

More people get rich by soybeans, coal, iron ore, and tussah silk.
To be continued...