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Part One Russo-Japanese War Chapter 311 Ten Thousand Years Long

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    Although the imperial prime minister Gu Weijun also came to greet the emperor, the Emperor Song did not have much conversation with the prime minister on the way back to the Central Palace.

    As the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Empire is approaching, Gu Weijun will easily complete his re-election campaign for the third term as Prime Minister by virtue of the Restoration Party's leading support rate and personal reputation.

    This gave Gu Weijun plenty of time and energy to do more work on formulating the Empire's Seventh Five-Year Plan. In the first half of the year, he had held dozens of seminars for this purpose and roughly formulated the overall Seventh Five-Year Plan.  planning.

    According to Prime Minister Weijun's vision, the new Seventh Five-Year Plan will continue to focus on education and science and technology. Based on the Sixth Five-Year Plan, it may be necessary to appropriately reduce the construction of infrastructure and also reduce the proportion of state-owned assets because military expenditures  It is inevitable that it will continue to increase and be maintained. The central government's expenditures have been in deficit for two consecutive years. In order to ensure the continued promotion of education and scientific research in the empire, fixed public infrastructure has been reduced and part of the government assets have been sold to maintain the government.  Fiscal balance is the only option.

    After the emperor returned to the Central Palace, Prime Minister Gu Weijun had half an hour to explain to the emperor his decision and the future Seventh Five-Year Plan and policies.

    Back in the office of the Central Palace, Emperor Song got the draft of the Seventh Five-Year Plan from Prime Minister Gu Weijun after he sat down. He spent ten minutes looking through it without having too many questions.

    Song Biao generally recognized and supported Prime Minister Gu Weijun¡¯s efforts to maintain a balanced fiscal expenditure of the central government. After all, in the next few years, the empire may continue to go to war with Germany, which will involve even larger military expenditures.

    ¡°If the central government¡¯s financial situation is unsustainable at this stage, it will only become more difficult later.

    After reading through the draft of the Seventh Five-Year Plan, Song Biao put the draft together, lit a cigar for himself, smoked lightly and calmly for a moment, thinking about some more important details in his mind.

    Gu Weijun's Seventh Five-Year Plan is very clear and simple as a whole, and it is also consistent. That is to continue to emphasize the importance of higher education and popular education, emphasize the importance of scientific research, and integrate metallurgy, machinery, electrical, electronics, automobiles,  The nine industries of aviation, shipbuilding, chemical industry, and military industry are maintained and developed as the long-term pillars of the empire's economy.

    The difference between the Sixth Five-Year Plan and the Sixth Five-Year Plan is that the country¡¯s investment in basic projects has been reduced, and the importance of the electronics industry has been raised before the aviation and shipbuilding industries, and the importance of the automobile industry has also been raised.

    The empire is the largest metallurgical, mechanical, and electrical power in the world. There is no doubt about this, and it is also a long-term national policy. This determines the foundation of the empire, and the newly added electronics are also one of the foundations for the empire to continue to maintain its strong development.

    After Song Biao thought briefly for a while, he used a red pen to make some adjustments to the order of the nine industries. He moved chemicals to electronics, and cars to ships.

    Regarding the order of policies proposed by Gu Weijun to "continue to strengthen the imperial secondary and higher vocational education, strengthen the imperial university education and popular education", Song Biao, after a brief weighing, still adjusted the popular education to "middle school" according to the order during the Fifth Five-Year Plan period.  "College Vocational Education" and the name was changed to "National Basic Education".

    In this kind of national-level planning, the order of each word is a true reflection of the overall policy.

    For a world power like the Empire that emphasizes its status as an industrial power, secondary and higher vocational education is the core pillar of imperial education. However, basic national education is the foundation of the entire country and nation, and the foundation of imperial education. This has been the case in the past.  There were disputes over the Sixth Five-Year Plan.

    This is wrong.

    Song Biao felt that it was necessary to readjust the mistake of over-emphasis on vocational education in the Sixth Five-Year Plan. He rejected the draft of a few pages that he had corrected first, asked Gu Weijun to read his opinions again, and continued to use red pen on the subsequent plans.  Some new revisions have been made in the manuscript.

    "If Gu Weijun insists, he can ignore the emperor's opinion, because this is his job and his right as the imperial prime minister, but he cannot be so stupid.

    Gu Weijun carefully thought about the emperor's adjustment opinions. He did not want to make any refutation, but he was still a lot surprised about the adjustment of the status of the automobile industry.

    There is a surge of demand for the development of the automobile industry in China. An important factor is the Chinese people's general expectation to become the world's largest automobile industry, as well as the huge economy that this industry can drive. People are enthusiastic about it.  are discussing all this, and are particularly looking forward to it becoming the pillar of the empire's industry and a symbol of the empire's status as the world's largest industrial power.

      The fact that Gu Weijun raised the status of the automobile industry so highly in the Seventh Five-Year Plan is largely a reflection of domestic public sentiment.

    Song Biao did not think about the problem in this way. In his opinion, the empire has a large population. If it wants to develop into an automobile kingdom like the United States, the consumption of fuel and the occupation of road resources will be very terrible, which will mean that the empire  Cities with more than 70% of the population must be demolished and rebuilt.

    He didn¡¯t want to see such a scene.

    Gu Weijun did not rush to raise objections, but quietly waited for the emperor to read the remaining parts.

    Song Biao also patiently read through the Seventh Five-Year Plan carefully and made a lot of modifications and annotations in dozens of places, especially for a special bill considered by the current cabinet - the "Population Balance Act".  I made more than a hundred words of comments.

    The empire introduced the population balance theory from the Fourth Five-Year Plan and made inferences based on the current country's overall territorial resources. It believed that the appropriate total population of the empire should be around 500 million, and the maximum should not exceed 800 million. Through public opinion propaganda, it is hoped that the citizens will ensure normalcy.  Each family¡¯s birth plan for a pair of children.

    During the Fifth Five-Year Plan period, the Imperial Central Cabinet had officially launched a series of population balancing plans, which set limits on national compulsory education and social medical indicators, imposed certain restrictions on families with more than one pair of children, and imposed restrictions on women who underwent birth control surgery.  Special medical subsidies provide more medical and educational support to families with only one child.

    During the Sixth Five-Year Plan, with the further development of birth control technology and new investment in research in related medical fields, the imperial central cabinet began to control population births more strictly. In the Seventh Five-Year Plan, Gu Weijun planned to promote the new "Population Balance Act"  ¡·, levy additional public taxes on families with more than 2 children, and exempt families with only one child from part of the tax. The guiding principle is that families with more children must bear more for national compulsory education and public health care.  Responsibility.

    This bill has been severely criticized by the opposition parties during its preparation. It is generally believed that families with more children tend to be poorer, and most families with many children are concentrated in rural areas. Song Jiaoren¡¯s Democratic Party believes in strengthening rural education.  It is the main way to reduce the overpopulation in rural areas, and imposing more taxes on these families who have already fallen into poverty is an inhumane and anti-social choice.

    In this regard, Song Biao chose to continue to support the ruling party¡¯s plan.

    Song Biao has always maintained a relatively tough attitude towards the population issue of the empire. However, the royal family itself seriously violated public opinion. The large number of children in the royal family was a typical over-balanced situation within the empire.

    Even so, Song Biao still supported the new policy.

    In some respects, the increase in royal children was basically before the April 5th Five-Year Plan. It can be understood that the royal family and the emperor had not considered this before, but now they realize this. This is the result of the General Administration of Internal Affairs and the pro-emperor media.  explanation of.

    Due to the special status of the emperor and the royal family within the empire, currently no political force dares to use the royal family as a negative example to criticize the ruling party's population policy. However, when it is basically impossible to refute the ruling party's economic and war policies, the population issue is indeed  It was the focus of opposition parties' attacks and refutations against the Restoration Party.

    Song Biao has not yet seen the draft of the "Population Balancing Act" that will be submitted by the cabinet, but he still supports several principles advocated by Gu Weijun's cabinet. Regardless of whether the national family is poor or not, more children will inevitably increase the government's financial burden and rob the rich.  Poverty relief is not the government's job. If you cause an increase in the national financial burden, you should bear more responsibilities.

    If we do not adhere to this seemingly inhumane principle of fairness, the empire's population problem cannot be truly and effectively restricted. For a democratic country, it is impossible to implement mandatory population planning and family planning work like TG, and compulsory taxation policies.  It is the only means for a democratic country.

    It is undeniable that with the improvement of national education level and economic development, the empire's birth rate will gradually and naturally decline, but that will be at least twenty years later. For now, most citizens still have not received a complete education.  , among the citizens of the empire under the age of 40, currently only 42% have received the nine-year compulsory national education, and among the citizens of the empire under the age of 25, 87% have received the 12-year compulsory national education.

    From the analysis of data, it will take at least fifteen years for the empire's population fertility to reach a natural equilibrium state. However, considering the influence of the concept of many children and good fortune in traditional Chinese culture, this process is actually very slow.  Definitely more than twenty years.

    If more stringent national policies are not introduced during the Seventh Five-Year Plan period, the empire's new population may reach as many as 400 million in the past two decades, and will exceed 900 million in 1970. The empire's long-term goal is to hope  Reaching the upper limit of 800 million people in 1970?And continued to stabilize at this scale in the following 30 years.

    With the empire¡¯s current territory of close to 20 million square kilometers, if the total population can be maintained at 800 million for a long time, it will be long-term good news for the central government.

    After reviewing the 75 plan submitted by Gu Weijun's cabinet, Song Biao was most concerned about population policy. He returned the reviewed draft to Gu Weijun and emphasized: "As for the debate on population policy, the cabinet should not have any  Hesitant, or even want to complete this plan at all costs. Instead of conflicting with public opinion and having a big war of words with the opposition parties on this issue, it is better to establish a special population policy committee, actively hold press conferences on a regular basis, and actively communicate with the media.  , guiding the support of the media and public opinion, the empire¡¯s population should not expand without limit. Just like the balance theory we emphasize, the government¡¯s responsibility is very simple. When the country¡¯s birth rate is too high, it must curb the growth of births.  When the birth rate is too low, it is necessary to stimulate the growth of births. Only in this way can the long-term stability of the country be ensured."

    Gu Weijun silently nodded in agreement and said in agreement: "Your Majesty is wise."

    Song Biao thought for a moment, put the half-smoked cigar aside, and asked Gu Weijun, "Do you have any other questions?"

    Gu Weijun thought for a while and asked: "Regarding the development order of the automobile industry, does your Majesty have any other considerations?"

    Song Biao hummed and replied: "Of course the automobile industry is a very important pillar of the national economy, but for the empire, we have a large population. If everyone has a car, the empire's national infrastructure will almost have to be rebuilt.  Necessity, in the long run, our demand for oil will also become a factor in national security risks. The empire has a vast territory and a large population, which determines that the empire should focus more on the development of railways, shipping, aviation, and electrified public transportation systems, rather than  For the development of the automobile industry, of course, we still need to invest a lot of support in the automobile industry, but in terms of importance, we should focus more on the development of railways, as well as the subway and urban rail railways of the railway system. Objectively speaking, we  We should encourage citizens to take more railways. The state should provide more subsidies to railway companies, reduce the cost of citizens taking railways, provide more favorable conditions for railway construction, and support the development of urban rail and intercity rail transportation. Metallurgy, machinery, electrical  , electronics, and chemicals are basic industries. They determine the overall level of the empire's industry. As for the automobile industry, while we support it, we must also impose certain restrictions. We can consider imposing a fuel tax and use this part of the tax to maintain the construction of the empire's highway system.  "

    Gu Weijun thought for a moment and felt that he might encounter greater national pressure on this issue, because the citizens aspire to become the most powerful automobile country in the world. In fact, he also has such enthusiasm.

    Of course, no matter how high his political prestige in the empire was, he did not have the strength to challenge the emperor's authority.

    Gu Weijun knew very well that he had no need to argue with the emperor on this issue, and he had no such basis. He could only acquiesce in the emperor's approval and replied: "The emperor is a sage, and his thinking is extremely far-reaching, which is beyond the reach of ministers."

    Song Biao didn't care about Gu Weijun's attitude. He continued to think for a moment and continued to propose with Gu Weijun: "I think it is appropriate for the government to reduce investment in infrastructure construction, but this does not mean that the country should reduce investment in this area.  For investment, a certain degree of policy preference can be adopted to encourage commercial institutions to invest in roads, electricity, and water conservancy systems. Some domestic assets of the central government can be continuously sold at appropriate prices to ensure the stability of government finances and avoid government fiscal expenditures.  There are still new expansion possibilities in the future, but anyway, the current international environment is still very complex."

    Gu Weijun understands this reminder, which means that not only will the Sino-Japanese war continue, but the empire may also go to war with the Soviet Union. Judging from the current situation, Gu Weijun does support the empire in taking advantage of the fire and taking the opportunity to occupy the Kazakh region.

    As the Prime Minister of the Empire and the Vice Chairman of the Central Defense Commission, Gu Weijun actually failed to penetrate into the core area of ????the imperial affairs field. He did not know that the real target of the Empire's troops to attack was Nazi Germany, even though he was very aware of it.  It is clear that the countries that pose the greatest threat to the empire in the long term are the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

    After thinking about it for a short period of time, Gu Weijun suddenly mentioned a proposal that was not included in the Seventh Five-Year Plan and asked the Emperor of the Song Dynasty: "Your Majesty, what do you think about the issue of the characterization of female prostitutes?"

    "Oh, what's the problem?"

    Song Biao was a little surprised. He had not seriously considered this issue.

    Due to the influence of traditional Chinese culture, the empire has never legally confirmed whether sexual services are legal. It has neither issued a law to confirm that sexual services are illegal, nor has it made it clear that sexual services are illegal.There is a big debate in the ministry about this. Generally speaking, all political parties are relatively conservative. They hope that a law will be introduced to confirm that it is illegal, but the possibility of a complete ban is also very low.

    This problem is the same as gambling.

    The empire did not clarify this point in the constitution, but delegated this power of legal interpretation to the provincial councils. One of the empire¡¯s guidelines is that large-scale gambling and illegal gambling in non-public industries are illegal. Shanghai, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hong Kong all have legislation  Gambling is recognized as a specially licensed industry, allowing commercial institutions to operate openly, but in the vast majority of mainland provinces, gambling is illegal.

    In the inland provinces, only Shaanxi and Yunnan currently recognize gambling as legal. In fact, this layout is also the result of internal coordination within the empire, which means that some areas are allowed to maintain the casino industry, while public gambling is prohibited in most areas, and illegal gambling is severely punished.  .

    After all, the Liberation Party is different from the G Party.

    "When you say prostitution is illegal, it seems inappropriate both emotionally and rationally. If you say it's legal, it's even more inappropriate.

    Song Biao really had not considered this issue. After careful consideration, he said to Gu Weijun: "If there is no clear provision in the constitution, then just like the gambling industry, let it continue to be delegated to the provinces, but we still have to discuss it with the provincial councils.  Maintain communication, try to coordinate as much as possible, and be as restrictive as possible. It is okay to keep some areas open and legally managed. The layout must be reasonablebut different policies can also be adopted. Under what circumstances is it legal and under what circumstances is it illegal?  How to manage it and how to punish illegal activities can be the responsibility of the provincial council."

    Gu Weijun asked: "If it is delegated to local provinces for self-determination, I wonder how the Beijing government will deal with it?"

    Song Biao thought for a while and said: "Tianjin is legal, Beijing is illegal, and Hebei will not vote in the referendum for the time being."

    Gu Weijun nodded and acquiesced to this decision. This was basically the same as the gambling legislation. The two governments directly under the central government, Beijing and Tianjin, coordinated with each other. Tianjin allowed the gambling industry to be legal within a limited range, while Beijing and Hebei did not. This time, it was Hebei.  The province is in an intermediate position and is in no rush to confirm whether prostitution is legal.

    The prostitution industry is different from the gambling industry.

    For things like gambling, small gambling is a national condition and will not be arrested. Big gambling can be done openly in legal areas. This is a regular demand and can be planned. However, most things like gambling are emergencies and it is impossible to say to Beijing customers.  If you want to have sex temporarily, you have to take a bus to Tianjin to pay for it.

    The law is like this.

    Whether a law can be effectively implemented depends largely on whether it is close to life and in line with people's sentiments.

    On the whole, the student movement is relatively indifferent to the gambling industry, but the sex industry is very repulsive and opposed. It is likely to set off very large demonstrations in various places, but what will happen?

    The Emperor of Song Dynasty obviously did not care about such problems, and there would always be a suitable solution by then.

    It seems that the characteristics of the empire can be seen from this very small detail, just like discovering the characteristics of the entire body from the pores of a person. The empire is like this. It is already a completely different empire, with good sides and bad sides.  The most important thing is that the Empire is more powerful than anyone in the world expected.

    It is worth mentioning that a few days ago, the empire had just completed a miniaturized hydrogen bomb test in the northwest, which meant that the empire¡¯s D-10 ballistic missiles could be equipped with nuclear warheads. Two years later, the empire¡¯s secret military base in Kurmanistan  will have the ability to launch a nuclear missile attack on Berlin.

    When that day comes, the empire will have the power to grant nuclear protection to all Asian Alliance member states and spread its nuclear base throughout Asia. The empire will also have the ability to destroy any country in the world.  strength.

    The empire cannot prevent the United States from having the same power in the next twenty years, so developing nuclear containment against the United States will become a new national strategic task.

    For such a task, the Song Emperor was more willing to maintain a pan-Pacific alliance with the United States and contain the United States through financial and economic control, so that the United States could only be a long-term partner of the Chinese Empire and be in a long-term position of being dominated by China.  in a restrained state.

    ¡°He does not want the United States to enter the war, at least for the next five years.

    Because China can and has the strength to end this war, eliminate the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in the haze at the same time, and retain several socialist countries and keep them in a closed state.

    Even retaining the Soviet Union is not a terrible thing, but if the Soviet Union is committed to developing nuclear weapons after the war, it will be really bad for China. This is why Song Biao is determined to eliminate the Soviet Union.

    He sat calmly in his chair and thought about all this.

    He is already a bit old.

      But who can understand all the precise calculations and deductions in his mind.

    Gu Weijun seemed to have got all the answers and knew what he should do. He wanted to get up and leave, but before leaving, he still asked the Song Emperor: "Your Majesty, is there anything else?"

    "No¡­¡­!"

    Song Biao gave a brief reply and then conceived another topic in his mind. Just before Gu Weijun was about to bow and leave, he suddenly looked at Gu Weijun and asked: "Premier Gu, in your heart, what will happen in the next twenty years?"  What should China look like?¡±

    "this?"

    Gu Weijun didn't know how to answer for a moment. This question seemed a bit too sudden and beyond his expectation.

    Song Biao also knew that this question was raised hastily, but he still asked: "Have you ever thought about this question?"

    Gu Weijun thought carefully for a moment and replied: "I think about it occasionally."

    Song Biao had no plan to hear the answer right away, at least he didn't expect to hear a complete answer at this time. He and Gu Weijun ordered: "Go back and think about this issue carefully. Maybe you can make such a report in Congress.  Then we should probably let everyone participate in this discussion, and then, we can think about it systematically based on everyone's answers, and consider what the real Seventh Five-Year Plan, Eighth Five-Year Plan, Ninth Five-Year Plan, and Tenth Five-Year Plan should be.  What it's like, you know, we should look further ahead, as far as twenty, thirty, or even fifty years."

    Gu Weijun could not go against such a proposal and replied cautiously: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, I will handle this matter immediately after I return."

    Song Biao nodded slightly.

    He was beginning to look forward to this.

    He felt that if every citizen could participate in such a big discussion, perhaps he could find the way forward for the empire in this discussion.

    While asking questions to others, he is also asking this question to himself.

    His answer may seem very simple, that is, with the promotion of the empire, the world's technology can advance about ten years, or even fifteen or twenty years, just like the empire's promotion in the fields of computers and semiconductor electronics.

    In fact, everything can develop faster, all it takes is a determined and powerful start-up. Empire's long-term efforts in this field with national will and plans are definitely not comparable to one or a dozen commercial companies.

    In the field of basic semiconductor research, Empire is now basically close to the level of the late 1960s in another era. However, a lot of work still takes time to gradually complete. In the fields of software, systems, and microprocessors, Empire is only close to the level of the early 1960s.  situation.

    Now, large and medium-sized commercial computers have begun to appear in the domestic commodity market. In the next five or ten years, microcomputers suitable for individuals and small and medium-sized enterprise users will also appear. At least in the laboratory of Dongdao Company, such products  It is being actively promoted and developed.

    In the few years since the ban was opened, and in the next ten years, computers will completely change the entire empire, in the securities industry, the financial industry, in the China United Stock Exchange, in the State Bank of China, in the Imperial Treasury, and in the National Library  , in the Central Supreme Court, in the Central Military Department, in the Emperor-class battleships, in the Far East-class aircraft carriers, in many fields, computers have begun to undertake a large amount of calculation and statistical work.

    Computers are no longer simply the secret weapons of imperial scientific research institutions and military units. They are allowed to be used within authorized areas. When this wave gradually advances to the end of the war, the empire's computers will be allowed to be sold abroad, with a large number of domestic and foreign markets  The ban will be completely opened, and in the 1950s, the empire will build a new era.

    This is a huge industry.

    In Song Biao's mind, the China he hopes to see in twenty years and fifty years from now will be completely different from the United States, which is also the world's hegemon. The Chinese Empire he hopes must be a long-term world industrial top  A powerful country, it also has real financial power that affects the world.

    He has no illusions about the collapse of other industries except finance and the military industry like the United Kingdom.

    The reason is simple: such a world hegemon is destined not to last long.

    This means that China must ensure the development and advantages of domestic industry over a long period of time and ensure all the resources and policies that China needs as a world industrial power.

    The Chinese should produce those products in a down-to-earth manner, while ensuring the stability and leadership of the financial industry, as well as the overall balanced development, so as to maintain their status as world hegemon, rather than simply relying on China's world hegemony to maintain the prosperity of the empire.  .

      If we want to achieve this, the most critical thing is to formulate an international environment and new order that is conducive to China's goal.

    In short, balanced development is a very important principle, focusing on industry, but at the same time giving wider space to the financial industry, focusing on military, and at the same time giving real power to foreign affairs and means of coordination. The empire must either not be the world hegemon, or be the world hegemon.  It's as long as ten thousand years.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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