When the news of General Seishiro Itagaki was captured was sent back to the empire, Emperor Song Biao was on vacation in Lushan. The Congress was still responsible for presiding over the Lushan meeting. At this time, the new president of the State was Wang Zhaoming.

There are always many interesting things in history.

Wang Zhaoming was actually the Speaker of the Empire and the Chairman of the Restoration Party, which is really a bit dramatic.

Wang Zhaoming, who has not become a traitor, is almost perfect in his life resume. Although this is not something Emperor Song Biao thinks is gratifying, but in terms of actual national interests, Wang Zhaoming's role as the Speaker of the State is also what everyone wants, and Gu Weijun

He is confident of winning the election of his third prime minister.

During these days in the summer palace in Lushan, Emperor Song Biao personally participated in many seminars, covering education, social institutions, business, science and technology, politics, international relations, religion and other issues that made him concerned about.

What he paid the most attention to was education and technology, which was the foundation for the continued development and prosperity of the empire.

The 20th Lushan Conference in 1940 is of great significance to China's long-term development. Perhaps many years later, people recall this conference and will still remember the launch of China's space and space system research project, and the "Next Twenty"

"Year-Year Outlook on World Science and Technology" recalls the "popularization of higher education" proposed by Mei Yiqi, but in fact, the 20th Lushan Conference in 1940 represents more Chinese people's confidence and good expectations for the future, and

Decision to make every effort to do this.

The night is getting deeper.

A wonderful and quiet sandalwood burned in the quiet study.

Emperor Song Biao carefully studied the "World Science and Technology Outlook for the Next Twenty Years" jointly compiled by more than 40 academicians of the Central Academy of Sciences in his imperial study. This outlook report covers aerospace, metallurgy, electromechanical automation, computers and electronic communications, and ships.

More than 20 fields such as electrical engineering, agriculture, food, transportation, medicine and medicine have made relatively comprehensive predictions in the development and various possibilities in the next twenty years.

Before the Chinese Academy of Sciences tried to prepare this report, President Wu Xunzhi had asked Emperor Song Biao about his suggestions, and the emperor also gave his own opinions. In Emperor Song Biao's estimate, he believed that it had the greatest impact on China in the next twenty years.

The technological advancement should be in the fields of jet passenger aircraft, semiconductors and microprocessors, microcomputers and programs, program control and wireless communications, CNC and heavy machine tools, nuclear power systems, high-speed railways, aerospace engineering and satellites. The Chinese Academy of Sciences is precisely this and

The Ministry of Science and Technology Industry and Military Affairs Department conducts a comprehensive assessment and prediction of future scientific and technological development based on the requirements of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

After reading this report, Emperor Song Biao felt that most of the predictions were very good, while a few predictions seemed a little strange. After considering it, he picked up the phone and dialed the switchboard, preparing to answer the phone in Wu Xunzhi's room.

Let Wu Xunzhi come over and talk to him.

At this moment, the first eunuch Jiang Shoulin hurriedly walked in, bowed and saluted, and submitted a telegram from the Central Military Department, reporting: "Your Majesty, the Central Military Information Department is urgently telegram."

Emperor Song Biao didn't care much. It was probably because the Military Intelligence Department had collected new information in Japan. Then he opened it and took a look, but it surprised him.

It turned out that this telegram had nothing to do with Japan, but the Central Military Intelligence Department sent a letter to Britain that had new military operations on the southwestern border of the empire, which might threaten the empire's security in the southwest.

This is a very surprising thing, and of course there is a reason for it.

The empire has always had differences with Britain on the southwestern border on the issue of southern Tibet. Of course, the British Empire would not easily make concessions because of China's strength. As Churchill said, without war, you should not get anything from the British Empire.

The empire still had very weak control over this area, but the British Empire was not much stronger.

The Empire has always been ruthless. After taking over the Wild Man Mountain in northern Myanmar with both soft and hard work, it has invested a lot of money and manpower to build the railway from Xikang Province to the Wild Mountain area. In this way, the Empire has two railways that can enter Myanmar.

In the barren and primitive forests of Yeshan, the Empire arranged the patrol troops to enter the name of the Yeshan Construction Corps and continued to forcibly build railways into the Assam area.

The Assam region is mainly Shan people, that is, the branch ethnic group of the Dai people. The empire took this as a rocker to infiltrate the Assam state of India and sent Dai officers to organize local ** troops.

The ultimate goal of the empire is of course to plan the state of Assam, or incorporate it into the empire's territory, and the Central Military Intelligence Department is the implementer of this plan. In the past decade, the empire has supported nearly every year in the Assam region.

The 40 million yuan military expenditure not only organizes Shan ethnic armed forces, but also sends troops to establish military reclamation bureaus on the Assam border through disputed areas.

The so-called territorial dispute is when you want to occupy other people's land.

As long as you want to cause controversy, it is always easy to use railways to penetrate southern Tibet by a railway, but it is too low to make a railway and build a railway to the Assam area by detour.

Much easier.

Therefore, after the Empire built all the railways and highways to the Assam area, it took advantage of the favorable conditions that the British Empire had very few local troops to advance layer by layer through the name of the Fourth Bureau of the Southwest Military Reclamation Bureau and the Yeshan Construction Corps.

Every year, we will advance more than ten kilometers and control the land in the military system through land reclamation.

The British Empire's attitude towards this was very tough, constantly asking the empire to restrain a little, but was unwilling to send more troops to confront each other. The British always believed that the empire would gradually stabilize, or just be the risky policy of the lower-level army, with the Southwest

The land occupied by the Third Bureau of the Military Reclamation Bureau expanded to Dinsujiya, and it was only after the UK believed that the border between the two sides was nearly 110 kilometers, and the UK finally couldn't bear it.

Seeing that the main military forces of the Chinese Empire were transferred to the northwest and northeast regions, and the main forces were more than a few thousand kilometers away from the southwest, the British Empire couldn't wait to send two armored brigades into the Assam region.

The Central Military Intelligence Department responded very quickly. The two British armored brigades confirmed this information as soon as they arrived in Chittagong and immediately sent a power to the emperor. In Beijing, Chief of General Staff Jiang Fangzhen was also communicating with Prime Minister Gu Weijun.

The empire was indeed provoked by the first, but the empire did not intend to give in at all. Even though the previous negotiations with the Soviet Union had been substantially broken, the war with Japan continued, and there were new disputes with the United States' sovereignty over Guam.

They will not give up their expansion policies in the Southwest.

If the war is not started, the empire can occupy as much as it can in the southwest. Once the war begins, the empire will definitely not penetrate and expand forward a few kilometers a year.

The information obtained by the Ministry of Military Intelligence is still very limited, and it is not yet certain what the UK’s real plan is. No one can tell whether the UK will take the opportunity to regain control of Assam, or only make some alert military deployments to limit China.

Continue to penetrate and expand.

It is precisely for this reason that Emperor Song Biao was unwilling to make a decision rashly.

After receiving this urgent telegram from the Military Intelligence Department, he made a little weighing and gave a reply to the Military Intelligence Department and the General Staff Department at the same time, allowing the Military Intelligence Department to continue to strengthen intelligence work, confirm the British side's true intentions as soon as possible, and at the same time, let the General Staff Department go from the Kunming Military Region.

Send troops to increase their defenses in the wild mountains, and make complete preparations to strengthen the reserves of war materials. In the event of a small-scale military conflict, the Imperial Defense Forces must make quick decisions and eliminate the British army with one thunder.

The Empire had many difficulties in going to war with the British army in the southwest, but in this way, it launched a war from Afghanistan to attack India, but the Empire could sweep away thousands of troops and directly take down India.

If Britain hadn't been afraid of this, it would have long since given a military counterattack to the empire.

If we really want to fight a large-scale army decisive battle, the four Britains are not the opponent of one China.

After asking Jiang Shoulin to reply to the military and military intelligence department, Song Biao kept thinking about this matter in the imperial study. The fact is obvious. In the long run, the competitors that pose the greatest threat to the empire are the United States, the Soviet Union, and Germany.

But at this stage, the most serious conflicts of interest with the empire are Britain and Japan.

Once Britain provoked military forces, if it could effectively take advantage of the gap between the Soviet-German war and take the opportunity to hit Britain with a painful blow, the situation might be more beneficial to the empire.

Song Biao originally intended to attend the 20th Lushan Conference in Lushan. The military emergency in the southwest forced him to take a special plane back to Beijing the next day.

After returning to Beijing, Song Biao did not return to the Central Palace, but took a car directly to the Central Military Department.

The full name of the Central Military Department is "General Staff of the Central Defense Forces of the Imperial China", which has the General Staff Department. At the level of military institutions, the General Staff Department, the General Political Department, the General Logistics Department, the General Equipment Department, and the Central Military Intelligence Department are

At the same level, but in actual operation and work, the General Staff Department is responsible for assisting the Central Defense and Military Commission in leading the other three headquarters and the Central Military Intelligence Department. The General Staff is the vice chairman of the Military Commission, second only to the Supreme Military Commander Emperor, and is essentially

The emperor was also the first deputy commander of the Emperor's armed forces, and his status was higher than that of the Minister of National Defense, because the Minister of National Defense was usually only a member of the National Defense, not a chairman and vice chairman.

After arriving at the Central Military Department, Song Biao went straight to the Minister's Conference Room of the General Staff Department, and Jiang Fangzhen, who had gone to the airport to pick him up in advance, and Zhang Jun, the Minister of Military Information, also accompanied him all the way.

In the ministerial meeting room, all national defense committee members had arrived. Except for Prime Minister Gu Weijun, the rest were senior military generals, and everyone saluted the emperor together.

Secretary of Defense Chen Houfu, Chief of Navy Staff Chen Jiliang, Chief of Logistics Chen Qicai, Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Forces and Commander of the Central Military Region Cai E, Chief of Army Staff Fu Liangzuo, Chief of Air Force Staff Pan Zhaoqin, Chief of Political Affairs and Dean of the Central Military Academy Zhang Xiaohuai and others are all here, with this

In terms of level, the level of the regular meeting of the National Defense Commission is still very high.

Emperor Song Biao didn't say much. As soon as he sat down as the chairman of the general committee, he asked Jiang Fangzhen: "The director of the Southwest Military Reclamation Bureau is Zhang Zhixiu, right?"

Jiang Fang nodded.

After hearing these words, Song Biao had to be much more contented.

Zhang Zhixiu's ability is excellent. When he was transferred from the tutor of the 3rd Infantry Division of the Central Military Region to the Southwest Military Reclamation Bureau, many people thought it was a big shot. Now we can see how long it is for the Central Military Department.

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The Southwest Military Reclamation Bureau was originally located in Lijiang, but was adjusted to Diqing. Finally, in the name of the third bureau, the main force of the entire Southwest Military Reclamation Bureau was moved to Assam and the Yeshan area in northern Myanmar. After the scale of the Yeshan Construction Corps gradually increased, the Southwest

The Military Reclamation Bureau has been constantly focusing its focus on the Assam area.

Song Biao took off the gloves and put them aside, handed the saber he carried with him to Jiang Shoulin behind him for safekeeping, and continued to instruct Jiang Fangzhen: "Tell me what's going on over there?"

"yes!"

Jiang Fangzhen responded and opened the prepared information book in advance, picked out the key parts and replied: "The current jurisdiction of the Southwest Military Reclamation Bureau is about 24,000 square kilometers, and the total number of people in the jurisdiction is about 11,500 households, and 14 units are under the jurisdiction.

The patrol detachment is equivalent to a reinforcement brigade, with the main body being mountain troops. There is a patrol aviation detachment in this area, with 32 J-3 fighter jets and 4 J-502 reconnaissance aircraft. In fact, the patrol aviation detachment is

It is under the jurisdiction of the Southwest Military Region Operations General Staff.”

Song Biao thought silently for a moment and said to others: "The British increased troops in the southwest, but I think the UK will not do such a thing at this moment for no reason, more or less

There is a plan, our response must be accurate and we must have sufficient response measures, but we cannot further stimulate the deterioration of the situation. Therefore, I think sending the National Defense Force to the Yeshan Mountain for mountain combat exercises and training is a better choice, in Yeshan Mountain and

The Southwest Military Reclamation Bureau will also accelerate the reserve of war materials. Once the situation deteriorates, two divisions will be dispatched immediately."

Jiang Fangzhen and others nodded silently.

In fact, everyone thinks that this kind of thing will happen sooner or later. The British Empire is not a small country that is easy to bully. The empire has always adopted an active gradual expansion policy in northern Myanmar, southern Tibet and west of the Hengduan Mountains, and does not emphasize sovereignty debate.

, while focusing on the scope of actual control.

This active expansion policy will sooner or later oppress the bottom line of Britain. Even if there is no large-scale war between the two sides, it is very likely that a small war will be fought.

National Defense Minister Chen Houfu asked with Emperor Song Biao: "Your Majesty, should you send a National Defense Commissioner to the southwest to prevent an emergency?"

Song Biao nodded in agreement with this, and then asked Zhang Xiaohuai: "Can you go?"

Zhang Xiaohuai was a little surprised. He originally thought that the emperor would send Liu Jinggui over because Liu Jinggui had served as the commander of the Kunming Military Region and was familiar with the local situation. His focus of his work over the years has been on the Central Military Academy.

He did not refuse the emperor's proposal and replied, "How can you not leave your order?"

Song Biao pondered for a moment.

Fu Zuoyi's incident gave Emperor Song Biao a new understanding. He did not doubt the abilities of this group of new generals and lieutenant generals. It was just that the facts proved that experienced veterans were still more reliable in many cases.

Especially for war.
To be continued...