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Part One Russo-Japanese War Chapter 344 Just One Reason

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    In the past thirty-five years, the empire has developed fastest not in the economy and military, but in education and scientific research. In terms of the overall level of education alone, the empire is indeed in an absolutely leading position in the world because the empire has a large population.  , and they are getting younger. The total number of college students and colleges trained by colleges and universities across the country every year is equivalent to the scale of Britain and France in ten years.

    The empire currently has 197 comprehensive universities, 358 professional colleges and 1,190 colleges and universities, ranking first in the world. The total number of college students trained each year exceeds 1.2 million, and the total number of college graduates exceeds 3.5 million, accounting for 10% of the population of the same age.  Of 61, in the past ten years, the empire's average annual birth population was 7.7 million, and the 12-year national education rate was 94.

    The average annual high school entrance examination admission rate in the empire is about 50, which means that 1/2 of the students can receive higher education. The approximately 850,000 additional college students and college students each year are generally due to the large-scale return of overseas Chinese students.  , as well as international students from ASEAN countries. In the past five years, the number of overseas Chinese students and foreign students has increased significantly every year.

    In fact, Chinese people overseas do not lack educational resources. Take the United States as an example. Almost all institutions of higher learning in the United States currently recruit Chinese students, such as Yale University, Columbia University, Vanderbilt University, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, University of San Francisco, etc.  With a dedicated Chinese School, the Chinese University of California is also the most unique American university that specializes in Chinese teaching.

    The total Chinese population in the United States only accounts for about 9%, but in American universities, Chinese students can account for 17%. On average, there is one Chinese in every 6 college students. The United States once made a statistics, and at this stage in the United States, 20% of Chinese students are Chinese.  Among young people aged to 28 years old, the proportion of Chinese people who have received and received university education is 2.1 times to 7.3 times that of other ethnic groups.

    In Southeast Asia, where overseas Chinese are most concentrated, almost 70% of colleges and universities teach in Chinese, and these colleges and universities are basically private schools funded by Chinese businessmen and Chinese communities. In fact, they basically only recruit Chinese.

    Take Thailand as an example. There are currently 15 million Chinese in Thailand. If we count the mixed-race Chinese in general, the total number is as high as 18.5 million, accounting for 66% of the total population of Thailand. There are currently 152 higher education institutions in Thailand, and there are 152 schools that use Chinese teaching.  There are 147 schools, 113 of which only adopt Chinese teaching, and the proportion of Chinese college students in the total number of Thai college students is close to 90.

    The entire Chinese world attaches great importance to education.

    In the mainland, overseas Chinese students account for 12% of the total number of college students, but in the postgraduate and doctoral education stages, the total proportion of overseas Chinese students among college students increases to 21%.

    It has become a very common situation now that Chinese people live overseas, receive basic education, and return to their hometown to receive higher education, especially education at the graduate level and above. Every year, a large number of college students go overseas to look for opportunities after graduation. Likewise,  There are also a large number of Chinese college students who have returned from overseas and stay in China to work.

    In the Chinese world, this is a very special situation that is completely different from that of Britain, the United States, France and other countries.

    There is another very special feature of imperial higher education, which is the nationalization of higher vocational education. The empire is actually pursuing the goal of universal university education. The ultimate direction is that all farmers and workers of the younger generation must receive higher education.  In terms of professional education, the entire country is developing in the direction of higher education and high technology. In terms of undergraduate education in the Empire, applied undergraduate education basically only accounts for half. Therefore, the scale of postgraduate education in the Empire is unprecedentedly large, with 1/3 of college students graduating with a bachelor's degree.  Further graduate studies amidst the pressure and demands of the social environment.

    In 1940, 3.423 million college students graduated from various colleges and universities in the empire, including 1.224 million bachelor's degree graduates, 355,000 master's degree graduates, and 73,000 doctoral students. Compared with the United States, this figure is almost seven times that of the United States during the same period, which is equivalent to  The accumulation of American higher education in seven years.

    Comparing Britain and France, this multiple is even more astonishing.

    Even when comparing high school students and technical secondary school students, the total number of graduates who complete 12-year education in the Empire every year is five times that of the United States. It is this high-quality overall education level that drives the Empire's rapid development.

    In the past five years, the economic and technological gap between China and the United States has not been narrowing, but has been gradually widening. Taking the home appliance industry, which is the most competitive at this stage between China and the United States, as an example, China¡¯s home appliance industry inventions and technologies last year  There were as many as 40,000 patents, while the United States only had 9,752 patents during the same period.

    This is actually a very alarming gap.

    Education is the foundation of a country and a nation. If the competition in modern countries is the competition of scientific research strength, then education is the basic condition for scientific research.

    Under the Shanghai Free Trade Treaty, the economic dispute between China and the United States had basically reached its final outcome in 1941. In 1933, when the two countries signed the World Free Trade Treaty,The U.S. trade deficit with China was still only 230 million U.S. dollars. By 1941, the U.S. trade deficit with China had expanded to 1.7 billion U.S. dollars. What is even worse is that the Sino-U.S. trade structure has undergone tremendous changes. U.S. exports to China have gone from  In the past, the four pillars of machinery, electrical appliances, resources, and agricultural products have become only resources. In other words, the United States, the second largest economy in the world, is becoming China's raw material supplier.

    In the past seven years, the aviation, machinery, electrical, home appliances, electronics, shipbuilding, automobile, chemical, textile, and food industries of the United States have all suffered a severe winter-like impact. Even during this special period of war and prosperity, the United States  The share that ** industry can capture from the international market is not large.

    For the United States, its most difficult problem is that its gold reserves are gradually being eroded by international free trade.

    With the destruction of the European economy, the United States suffered a very serious impact during the same period. The United States, which had just climbed out of the Great Depression, was faced with another severe impact. At this time, the United States had decided to significantly depreciate the dollar within the year.  To alleviate the national economic difficulties and the huge trade deficit between China and the United States.

    After the collapse of the British pound, the U.S. dollar is the only currency in the world that can still compete with the Chinese yuan for the status of world currency. The Chinese yuan and the U.S. dollar are also the main foreign exchange reserves of various countries at this stage, especially the U.S. dollar foreign exchange reserves held by the Central Bank of China.  The total amount is also staggering.

    Without the consent of the Central Bank of China, it would be difficult for the United States to directly devalue the U.S. dollar. If the Central Bank of China is angered and the U.S. dollar depreciates completely out of control, the entire national economy will be completely destroyed by China like the United Kingdom.

    Therefore, the United States can only negotiate with China in a very painful way now, seeking to depreciate the dollar with China¡¯s support to rescue the increasingly difficult U.S. real economy.

    As long as there is strong education, the strong will become stronger is the eternal law of this world.

    China's population is three times that of the United States. In the competition between China and the United States, once China overtakes it, it will be very difficult for the United States to catch up. Moreover, in this kind of global competition, as long as the United States slips one step, it will be difficult to contain it in the future.  Long term decline.

    This principle is the same as the competition between China and the United States in the 21st century. Once China surpasses the United States in the scale of education, economy, and scientific research, it will be difficult for the United States to maintain the U.S. dollar exchange rate and reverse the situation of the national economy. The entire U.S. economy will fall into a huge quagmire and will be difficult to achieve.  Extricate yourself.

    The Empire is so powerful. How many things in this world do His Majesty Hua need to worry about? Even in the face of the madness of Nazi Germany, the Empire and His Majesty Hua don¡¯t have too much to worry about.

    For traditional powers such as Britain and the United States, once China surpasses them and becomes the world's hegemon, the situation will be completely out of control.

    This is the situation now.

    Imperial Finance Minister Chen Jin has gone to Hawaii to hold a new round of talks with the US Treasury Secretary. Either the Chinese yuan will appreciate by 20 yuan, or the US dollar will depreciate by 20 yuan. There is no other way.

    Compared to the option of devaluing the U.S. dollar, the empire would rather let the Chinese yuan appreciate, but the appreciation rate cannot reach 20. The upper limit of the central government is "the Chinese yuan increases by 7.5, and the U.S. dollar depreciates by 5." The two sides reached a new agreement to end the current dispute.  , to temporarily stabilize Sino-US international trade.

    The United States is China¡¯s largest export market, and it is obviously not in China¡¯s interest to sit back and watch the U.S. economy collapse.

    If the United States collapses, the World Free Trade Association in Shanghai will inevitably collapse, which is not in line with China's national interests. Of course, if China is required to make appropriate concessions and support to save the U.S. economy, the United States will also inevitably have to  The U.S. government made major concessions to China. The U.S. government's bargaining chip was to withdraw from the Philippines and recognize the Philippine independence. This is actually what the empire wanted. In theory, the two sides did not have much dispute.

    Facts have proved that once the ancient empire of the Chinese Empire regains its youth, the progress of this empire will no longer be stopped.

    This is a youthful and energetic new empire. Its mainstream class is a group of new young people aged 20 to 40 who have grown up with the empire. In almost all fields, they are the most mainstream force, driving the empire to continue to develop rapidly.  , and in the past thirty years, the empire's rapid development speed and scale are also the rarest great revival movements in the entire world history.

    Even though it is already the most powerful empire in the world, with its total economic output accounting for more than 1/3 of the world's GDP, the empire still has greater room for development.

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    Emperor Song Biao really wanted to go to Japan in person to see what the devastated Japan looked like, but he ultimately failed to go. After his visit to North Korea ended, he flew back to Northeast China to inspect the development of new jetliners.

    Because the fuel consumption rate of the turbojet engine is too high, the Shenyang aircraftThe new Northeast Aviation Industry Holding Group, which was formed based on the company, did not choose the turbojet airliner solution. From the beginning, they linked the jet airliner with the turbofan engine, and based on the military turbofan 2 engine  The WS202 high-bypass-ratio commercial passenger aircraft engine was developed, while the WS205 engine, also a high-bypass-ratio engine, is used in new military transport aircraft.

    At this time, the empire has gradually formed an aviation industry layout of three majors and seven small ones. Northeastern and Jiangnan are the two major aviation bases of the empire. Northeastern Airlines¡¯ center is in Shenyang, while Jiangnan Airlines¡¯ industry is scattered in Nanjing, Shanghai, Ningbo, and Nanchang.  , Hefei and other places, and gradually moved to Ningbo to build a new Jiangnan Aviation Technology Group. The third largest aviation industry base is located in Fuzhou, but there is still a big gap in overall strength compared to the two strong ones in Northeast China and Jiangnan. Others are in  Xi'an, Tianjin, Chengdu, Wuhan, Taiyuan, and Beijing also have aviation industries and enterprises of a certain scale.

    Because the main strength is concentrated in Northeast Aviation Industry and Jiangnan Aviation Industry, the development contracts for the next-generation aircraft of the Imperial Central Military Department are basically occupied by the two major aircraft manufacturers. The next-generation heavy-duty twin-engine fighter aircraft, large military transport aircraft, large-tonnage aircraft, etc.  The contract for helicopters is in Northeast China, while the contract for the development of next-generation medium-sized single-engine fighters, medium-sized tactical military transport aircraft, medium-sized helicopters, and armed helicopters is in Jiangnan, and the contract for the Navy's twin-engine medium-sized carrier-based aircraft is with Fuzhou Aircraft Industry Company. This is not the case with the Central Military Commission.  It is a simple allocation of departments, but the result of three large aerospace companies competing in their respective plans.

    Of course, the three major aircraft groups are backed by powerful consortiums. Even without a contract from the Central Military Department, the three companies can join forces with other small companies to fund the research and development of new military aircraft to seek overseas markets, especially in the competition for military transport aircraft and helicopters.  Fuzhou Heavy Industry, which failed at Zhongda, launched two non-military scientific research projects at the same time with the support of its parent company Nanyang Consortium, and tried to occupy more shares in the market of small and medium-sized jet airliners.

    Competition is a good thing.

    Under the pressure of Jiangnan Heavy Industry, Northeastern Aviation Group also relied on the support of the entire Northeastern Heavy Industry consortium and fully invested in the development of three major military aircraft projects and large jetliners. This of course also ensured Northeastern's leadership in the entire Chinese aviation industry.  Status is related to the collective fate of the entire consortium and more than 400 related companies.

    In this imperial era, the strength of the Northeast is due to many inevitable factors, such as the first-mover advantage and the rich mineral resources in the Northeast and surrounding areas. In order to compete with the Northeast Consortium, the Jiangnan and Nanyang Consortium have inherent deficiencies in resource reserves in the region.  , coupled with the local rise of the Northwest, Southwest, Huguang, and Shanxi consortiums, they can only adopt a large-scale overseas expansion strategy. The Nanyang Consortium mainly concentrates its resource production areas in Southeast Asia, while the Jiangnan Consortium locates its main resource suppliers in the Central and South American markets.

    It is precisely for this reason that the empire must surpass other countries in the scale and plan of naval construction for a long time. Northeast Heavy Industries has signed a contract with the Central Military Department to begin pre-research work on large-scale ship nuclear power systems. It is expected that around 1950,  This plan will be officially launched.

    Prior to this, the empire's first-generation nuclear power plant had been determined to be located on Sakhalin Island in the Far East, and construction would officially start in 1945. It is expected that it will not be built in other coastal areas until around 1950, and the second-generation nuclear power plant will be built at the same time.  The development work of nuclear power plant projects.

    Due to the needs of the empire¡¯s nuclear weapons development, the first and second generation nuclear power projects have dedicated heavy water reactors. From a main point of view, the empire will still consider more light water reactors in the long term.

    Song Biao took the opportunity to return to the Northeast for inspection this time, just to see with his own eyes the progress of these new scientific research projects that are crucial to the future development of the empire. He visited more than 60 scientific research institutions and factories along the way, and also went to Aurora.  The universities and Northeastern University are basically very good. If they continue to develop at this rate, it is expected that by the 1950s, the technological gap between the Empire and Europe and the United States will further widen.

    This is very important.

    The empire is very powerful, and is destined to become even more powerful. After Japan and immigration policies are about to have new results, the only problem now is to deal with the problem of Nazi Germany as soon as possible.

    After returning to Beijing, Emperor Song Biao reviewed the progress information provided by the Central Military Intelligence Department on the nuclear weapons programs of Germany, Britain and the United States. The empire had completed the development of miniaturized hydrogen bombs with an yield of 500,000 tons and a yield of 1 million tons.  The latter began to be officially installed and produced as the main nuclear warhead in 1940, and the highest yield of airborne hydrogen bombs carried by large bombers can reach 5 million tons.

    The empire currently has 145 nuclear warheads and 33 airborne nuclear bombs. It is expected that in October next year, the number of nuclear warheads will be expanded to 220 and the number of airborne nuclear bombs will increase to 50. Among the nuclear warheads in active service, the most advanced one million  The total number of CNW5-40-100D thermonuclear warheads with a ton yield is 93.

    This level of quantity is enough for China??Germany and the United States were razed at the same time. Among the nuclear weapons programs of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Germany, which has been preparing for the longest, is making the fastest progress, followed by the United Kingdom. The United States is relatively still in the early preparation stage, and even Germany is still about 30 years away from the actual usable stage.  At the 3-5 year stage, there is a gap of about 10-15 years compared to the Empire.

    After reviewing the latest intelligence, Emperor Song Biao made a phone call to Chief of General Staff Jiang Fangzhen. The two talked about this issue for more than ten minutes. They basically had the same idea about this, which was to strive to attack Germany before October next year.  Declaring war, no later than October 1943, they hoped to end the war.

    October 1943.

    This is the deadline for the empire to decide to launch a nuclear attack. If Nazi Germany is not eliminated before then, they will directly use nuclear weapons on a large scale without hesitation. The first principle is to eliminate the main force of the German-Italian coalition forces, and the second principle is  Eliminate major industrial cities.

    After the war, the empire no longer needed to consider the threat from the Soviet Union. Therefore, after the war, the empire not only had no plans to assist Britain and France in large-scale reconstruction, but also deprived most of the machinery from Germany and Italy.  Equipment, as war reparations.

    The goal is simple - let Europe decline.

    After the war, the empire will continue to maintain its national policy of focusing on Asia as its main investment area to prevent other countries from around the world from challenging the empire's special hegemony around the world.

    The premise for Emperor Song Biao and Chief of General Staff Jiang Fangzhen to reach an agreement on declaring war on Germany was actually more and more intelligence proving that the Italian army was ready to attack Tunisia and Egypt. There was also intelligence proving that Germany was very concerned about this.  incident, requiring Italy to guarantee not to expand military operations in North Africa to prevent China from declaring war on this ground.

    China needs a reason to declare war and a reason to occupy Africa, and Italy is about to provide an excellent opportunity for this. In Mussolini's view, China's declaration of war is also good. He and the great Italy need a chance for revenge.  .

    With the support of the Empire, the European war is shifting to a more stable balance. Britain has withdrawn from the European continent, but Germany cannot effectively attack Britain. Through the sale and lease of military supplies, the Empire has provided Britain with 1,400 J-Fighters.  -6 fighters, 4,500 J-5 Tiger Shark fighter-bombers, 4 Northeast-class aircraft carriers, 75 destroyers and 22 submarines, as well as a large number of other military supplies, including anti-aircraft armored vehicles and short-range missiles that the UK urgently needs.

    The empire fully provided Britain with two aircraft carrier formations and a large number of anti-submarine forces, ensuring Britain's superior position against the German submarine force in the Atlantic and preventing the United Kingdom from being isolated by the German submarine force. In the air force field, the large-scale J-6 fighter  The intervention also caused heavy losses to the Luftwaffe and was unable to effectively organize the bombing of Britain.

    Germany¡¯s plan to force Britain to sign an armistice agreement has gone bankrupt, but Britain also lacks the strength to attack the European continent, and the two sides are in a stalemate in this situation.

    Nazi Germany, which owned most of Europe, relied on resources from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to supplement its resources. At this time, it had an extremely strong national war resource reserve. Germany was not in a hurry to resolve the war quickly, but Italy could not bear it. In the expansion here  , both Germany and Poland gained more benefits and occupied a large amount of land, while Italy gained nothing and even suffered multiple setbacks in its military operations to invade the Balkans.

    Under such circumstances, Italy decided to attack North Africa and occupy more interests.

    The Central Military Intelligence Department has very reliable intelligence that can confirm that Italy may launch military operations in North Africa within this month. They have concentrated more than 40 infantry divisions in Libya and deployed a large number of aircraft and armored vehicles in an attempt to replicate  Germany's lightning tactics occupied the entire North Africa in one fell swoop, dominated the entire Mediterranean, and restored the ancient Roman Empire.

    Italy is not blindly ignorant. Their idea is to use speed and blitzkrieg to quickly occupy North Africa and not give China time to intervene. However, their plan to occupy the entire Mediterranean will definitely threaten the overall interests of the Asian Alliance.

    Italy knows nothing about this. They blindly believe that the military strength of the German-Polish-Italian Steel Alliance will intimidate all opponents.

    In this era of empire, after eliminating the threats of the Soviet Union and Japan, the empire is living in the most secure and peaceful atmosphere in history, far away from war, and people are also enjoying a new life full of hope, just like World War II  It is still far away from China.

    In the dusk of the evening, citizens in large and small cities will gather in teahouses to listen to books and cross talk. The Peking Opera, Anhui Opera, Kun Opera and Pingshu Tanci in the theater are always sung over and over again.  Some old gentlemen who don't like liveliness will sit in front of their homes and listen to radios. There are old and bulky radios, as well as new and compact ones.

    ?Rural farmers will also gather together in twos and threes at this time. In each village, there is a loud and loud radio, playing songs that people like to hear, land development and the improvement of the minimum standard of farmland for each farmer, small-scale mechanization  With the promotion of agriculture, the population of each village seems to be decreasing, and people live more and more scattered. Many remote villages have only a dozen households and are surrounded by endless farmland.

    ??The old white school bus is driving in the towns of Nottingham University, taking young students home.

    In the past thirty years, the country's cultivated land has more than doubled from less than 1.2 billion acres initially, while the total number of local farmers has dropped to one-third of what it was in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Even so, it still cannot withstand the outflow of the agricultural population.  .

    They were chatting in the countryside about the parents of the East and the shortcomings of the West. It was mentioned that the boy from the Ge family had sold forty acres of land at home and bought a large field in Nanyang. He could earn more than 100,000 yuan every year growing sugar cane.  Yuan, he wrote a letter and said that after working for another ten years or so, he would return to China and set up a factory, just like the plastic factory in the town.

    In the windbreaks in the countryside, harvesters and agricultural vehicles pass by, and the clicking sounds can be heard far away. Every household raises chickens, ducks, fish and sheep. Life is getting more prosperous, but there are fewer and fewer people. Jianguo  At that time, there could be more than a hundred households in a village, but now there are only more than 30 households left.

    More and more people are moving away. After many old people die, the land is left there and sold at a low price. The children never come back. Occasionally, middle-aged people who grew up in the village come back and drive into the city.  The car was swaying on the road as if looking for an acquaintance.

    It seems to be like this in the village. There are many young children, but few of them stay. After studying, they go to the city to work, and they only come back during the Chinese New Year. Some elderly people have known each other for most of their lives.  They would also go to live in the city with their children, and then die there. Some of them were not even buried back in their hometown.

    Life is always getting better year by year, but many people inevitably feel that something is missing. They just hope that their children who have left home will have a better life.

    Some people say that Chinese people will talk about politics even if they meet in a latrine.

    The same goes for country people. They smoke dry cigarettes, squat at the entrance of the village, talk nonsense, brag about their knowledge, talk about the affairs of provincial governors and prime ministers, and even gossip and gossip. They watch TV and listen to the radio.  The old men in the village seemed to have a wide range of knowledge. When it came to the county magistrate, they cursed him and did not do many good things.

    I will definitely not choose that old beast next time.

    People are so ruthless, but in fact, many people have never voted seriously. In the past few years, there were always people buying votes. 10 votes were worth two or three Chinese yuan. Now the grip is too tight, and those who buy votes will go to jail.  Ticket sellers also had to be fined, and gradually no one did this anymore.

    Countless villages are like places forgotten by the empire. Only during the election every year, all kinds of random people will drive down trucks to distribute leaflets, and the loudspeakers will blow louder than the radio.

    Some old people can¡¯t bear to see these messy things, and they will always say things like, ¡°It was better back when the emperor was in charge,¡± or complain about, ¡°Why doesn¡¯t the emperor care about things anymore?¡±

    In a quiet life, there are always armed officers from the county going to the countryside to recruit troops, calling each village, and the radio always calls for young people to serve the country over and over again. As for where to go to fight, young people are not like before.  It became clear a few years ago that during the war against Japan and the Soviet Union, everyone was really enthusiastic about joining the army.

    Changes always change gradually year after year. The elderly are buried one after another, and children are born one after another. As time goes by, those who leave this homeland quietly leave, and those who stay behind  More land is planted and more livestock are raised. Agricultural machinery and household appliances flood every place like a tide. The spread of electricity makes the village always bright at night. The fireflies that were common in childhood slowly fade away.  Disappeared.

    Life is always changing and developing.

    Just this year, a bigger change is waiting for all Chinese people.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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