readx; Although there are many powerful people in China, there are actually only a few people who can decide the direction of the national strategy, such as Ma Yinchu, president of the State Council, and several other powerful ministers, such as Yan Aoyun, minister of finance, Liu Dajun of the Department of Economic Development, and Gu Weijun of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, all of whom can only be the executors of the national strategy, not the deciders. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Although there are many bigwigs in the military, there are not many people who can really represent the military, Shen Gang of the Army, Wu Shizhong of the Air Force, and Guan Shijie of the Navy are just these three, and the others are only the executors of the national strategy.

Because of the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the Russian Republic left China alone to attack Soviet Russia, which brought great uncertainty to the direction of China's future strategic choice, and each step of the choice may cause numerous changes, and these changes are good and bad, and what Chen Jingyun needs to do is to choose a path that benefits the most and risks the least for China among the many choices.

Strictly speaking, Chen Jingyun is not a radical adventurer, he will not risk war with the whole world like Hitler to expand the living space of the nation, and Chen Jingyun can even be said to be conservative and stubborn on major issues of right and wrong.

He always believed that in the process of foreign expansion, the benefits were secondary, the important risks should be small, and if we could recover huge profits without fighting, we would not fight, and if we must fight, it would be best to control the scale.

To put it bluntly, you want to get benefits and don't want to pay anything at the same time!

If a person's surname is to describe it, then it is lazy to eat!

He values the control of risks, not the size of the returns, but he doesn't value the importance of others, saying that he has pressed the fortunes of the country on foreign wars several times, and Hitler is also gambling again, betting that the Germanic nation in his mouth can fight against the whole world.

Chen Jingyun's conservative attitude does not mean that he will not be able to reap the benefits, saying, "I took the risk of war with Britain and the United States to seize Indonesia, while China controlled the six Southeast Asian countries through national reading and diplomatic means, and now Chen Jingyun is thinking of using the same means to replicate it in Burma."

However, the development of the world situation will not always be Chen Jingyun's ideal state, at least the Russian Republic sent troops to Soviet Russia, which was out of Chen Jingyun's control.

In the previous Northern Strategy formulated by Chen Jingyun, it has always been based on the supreme criterion of splitting Russia, supporting the Russian Republic and intervening in the Russian civil war.

However, he still underestimated the determination of the Russians to unify Russia, not only did the Russians never give up on the idea of unifying Russia, but even the Russian Republic never gave up such an idea, and this idea did not stay in fantasy, they were actually doing it, and the Russian Republic's current attack on Soviet Russia fully reflected this situation.

Since it is impossible to split Russia to ensure the security of China's long northern border, he is ready to change the way to ensure the security of China's long northern border: directly annex Russia's Far East and Siberia, and continue to maintain the security line in Central Asia and Siberia.

He would rather have millions of troops in Siberia and Central Asia than millions on the tens of thousands of miles of northern borders on his homeland, and he would have to worry at any time that the Russians from the north would march south to attack China's northeastern and northern regions.

However, it is very difficult to directly annex Russia's Far East and Siberia, and in recent years, except for Germany, other countries have rarely directly annexed such a large area of territory, because it is too ugly to arouse the disgust of all countries in the world, and if one does not do it well, it will become a public enemy of the world.

He wants to annex the territory of the Russian Republic, militarily it is not a problem, now the Russian Defense Forces are advancing in depth towards Soviet Russia, and the Russian Republic has only hundreds of thousands of troops left in the country, as long as Chen Jingyun is willing, he will be able to completely occupy the Russian Republic in a few months, but the focus of the problem is not military, but diplomatic and political.

China wants to annex the Republic of Russia, what will other countries think? Will Soviet Russia be willing to admit it? Whether Britain and the United States will sit idly by and watch China annex such a large area of territory, as well as the attitude of the United States, are all questions that China needs to consider.

War is only a political continuation, and if the political solution is not properly resolved, and military force is arbitrarily adopted, then it is very likely to bring great danger to China, and if it is not done well, it will become a public enemy of the world.

And the attitude of these countries requires a clever diplomatic offensive by China.

On 15 July, Chinese Foreign Minister Gu Weijun once again went on a global visit, first arriving at the United States to meet with the Prime Minister and having an in-depth conversation on the Asian situation and Sino-Japanese cooperation, and then crossed the Pacific Ocean to the United States, where he met with Roosevelt of the United States and had an in-depth and friendly conversation on the current world situation, and handed over a letter written by Chen Jingyun to Roosevelt, in which Chen Jingyun said that China and the United States are the two most powerful countries in the world. It has an unshirkable responsibility for global peace and development, and reaffirms the friendship between China and the United States since ancient times.

Gu Weijun's visit to the United States can basically be regarded as China's first positive statement on the current world situation, that is, China does not have the intention of forming an alliance with Germany for large-scale expansion. Through these statements, it also shows China's serious dissatisfaction with the Russian Republic and Germany's dispatch of troops to Soviet Russia. Gu Weijun's visit abroad was neither early nor later, just after the Russian Republic attacked Soviet Russia.

Roosevelt then formally extended an invitation to Chen Jingyun to attend the trilateral talks between China, the United States, and Britain, and Roosevelt of the United States and Churchill of Britain would attend in person.

For the invitation of the United States, Chen Jingyun politely declined, not that Chen Jingyun did not dare to go, but Chen Jingyun really couldn't leave, since Chen Jingyun made up his mind to annex the Russian Republic in order to completely solve the strategic security of the north, China has already begun a comprehensive war mobilization with a surname, Chen Jingyun does not want to fight an unprepared war, he hopes to make the country fully prepared in advance before launching a war, for this reason the government has begun to gradually enter the wartime economic state in accordance with Chen Jingyun's instructions.

For a country, especially a huge country like China, to transition to a wartime economic state is a very troublesome matter, and there is a lot of work to be done, so Chen Jingyun set up a special economic committee, whose members are not only high-level officials in the field of government affairs, but also representatives from the navy, army, and air force, and this economic committee will plan all the strategic resources and industrial production in the country, in order to maximize China's potential for industrial warfare.

And the person in charge of this special economic committee is not Ma Yinchu, the leader of the political axe, but Yan Aoyun, the chief minister of finance. Chen Jingyun brought Yan Aoyun up because of his excellent wartime economic planning ability.

With China's industrial scale, once fully mobilized and used in the war, then his productivity will be very terrifying, taking tanks as an example, at present and before the production of Chinese tanks is limited to Wuhu Special Machinery Company, and once transferred to the wartime economy, other domestic factories capable of producing tanks will also join this range, Fuhang Automobile, Fule Electric, Wuhan Heavy Industry, etc. will join this range, when the annual output of T15 tanks is not more than 1,000 units, but tens of thousands.

On July 18, 1941, under the influence of the Soviet-German and Russian attacks on Soviet Russia, Chen Jingyun once again allocated a high amount of temporary military expenditure, and raised up to 20 billion Chinese dollars in military spending through the issuance of a large number of special treasury bonds.

The temporary military expenditure of 20 billion yuan is almost equivalent to the total military expenditure in 1941, that is to say, Chen Jingyun directly doubled the military expenditure in 1941. This temporary increase in military spending was invested in the navy, army, and air force, while the proportion of military spending received by the army was greatly increased.

The sum of the two military appropriations has brought China's total military expenditure in 1941 to a huge 40 billion Chinese dollars, and what is the concept of 40 billion yuan, which is equivalent to about 20 billion US dollars, while the US military budget in 1941 was nearly 14 billion US dollars. Even Germany, which has already broken out a full-scale war, is only $30 billion, and the Soviet Union and Russia are also more than $300, while China and the United States have not yet entered the war, and the military expenditures now are used to expand the army, while the vast majority of the military expenditures of the three countries of the Soviet Union, Germany and Britain are maintenance war expenses, and the two are completely different concepts.

And this calculation is the surface of the currency, but in fact, due to the war, the exchange ratio of the currency of each country is not as fixed as before, and the purchasing power in their respective countries is also different, the labor cost of each country is not the same, the most obvious is that the United States an Essex-class aircraft carrier in the 1940s cost about 73 million US dollars, and in China, the same tonnage of Qingshan-class aircraft carrier in 1941 cost 120 million Chinese dollars, equivalent to about 60 million US dollars, That is, it is 13 million dollars cheaper than the United States. This difference is also reflected in other military products, such as aircraft, tanks, rifles and even bullets and artillery shells, which are much cheaper than those of the Americans.

Therefore, it is inaccurate to compare the war investment of various countries and simply compare the military expenditure. However, even if it is inaccurate, it can reflect the war expenses of various countries to a certain extent.

Chen Jingyun directly increased military spending by 20 billion yuan, bringing China's total military expenditure in 1941 to 40 billion Chinese dollars, accounting for 25 percent of the gross national product of that year.

From this moment on, although China has not officially entered the war, it has fully transitioned to a wartime state.