readx; Admiral Guan Shijie's proposal for the construction of a 45,000-ton armored aircraft carrier is as high as 200 million yuan, and this money is enough for the navy to build two 27,000-ton aircraft carriers proposed by Chen Shaokuan, and the two 27,000-ton aircraft carriers have 200 carrier-carrying aircraft, which is an absolute advantage over the 120 carrier-based aircraft on a large armored aircraft carrier of more than 40,000 tons. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Therefore, although Guan Shijie's plan is very tempting, the navy still gave up this plan out of various considerations, and chose the 27,000-ton plan proposed by Chen Shaokuan, but when the plan was sent to Chen Jingyun, it was vetoed by Chen Jingyun and returned to the navy for them to discuss again.

Under such circumstances, the eighth phase of the Navy's development plan was once again adjusted, and the number of ships built was still two, but one was a 27,000-ton aircraft carrier, and the other was a large armored aircraft carrier advocated by Guan Shijie.

Now China is not in a period of war, and it is unlikely that a war will break out in two or three years, so the military spending that can be used is relatively limited, otherwise according to the surname of the navy, there will be two ships.

After the construction plan was finalized, the detailed design was quickly determined, and the two aircraft carriers were also scheduled to start construction in 1937, the 27,000-ton aircraft carrier was named the Aoyama, and the estimated 45,000-ton armored aircraft carrier was named the Tianshan.

In order to carry out such a large-scale shipbuilding program, the Navy received a budget of as much as 1.2 billion yuan in the military budget for 1937 alone, and more military budgets will be obtained next year and the year after. The total military expenditure of the three armed services has reached 3.8 billion, which is equivalent to 1.9 billion US dollars, ranking third in the world after Soviet Russia and Germany.

In the same year, not only did China increase its military spending, but all countries in the world increased its military spending one after another, reaching $600 million in the capital, Britain and Italy both reached $1.2 billion in military spending, and the US military budget also exceeded $1 billion.

In 1937, basically all countries in the world carried out large-scale naval armament development, and the Americans began to build two new high-speed battleships, saying, "At the same time as the two high-speed battleships, the two fleet aircraft carriers were also started, while the Chinese side started the construction of three light battleships in one go, and then there were two large aircraft carriers, and as for the auxiliary ships of the navies of various countries, they started construction even more." For example, China's Zi'an-class destroyers placed an order for 12 destroyers in the first batch, and then in July 1937, an additional order for a second batch of 12 destroyers was placed.

In the past year, various countries have not only carried out the development of naval armaments, but also the land forces have also developed rapidly, the most obvious being Germany and Soviet Russia, because of their weak navy, a large amount of military expenditure has basically been spent on the army, and their strength is basically a step every day.

In order to face the expansion of the Soviet Russian Army and in order to face the upcoming world war, the scale of development of the Chinese Army is also not small, and the army reorganization plan in the past few years has been completed one after another, so that China's armored forces have been further improved, and the Chinese Army is not satisfied with this.

In 1937, the Army put forward a plan to further expand the armored forces, proposing to continue to expand the establishment of the Reading Armored Regiment, upgrading three of the existing ten Reading Armored Regiments to the size of armored brigades, and the seven under it were expanded to the size of mechanized infantry divisions.

That is to say, in the future, there will be no establishment of the Reading Armored Regiment, and Chen Jingyun directly approved this plan, anyway, the troops will be expanded in the past few years, and the sooner the plan is implemented, the sooner it will be prepared.

In fact, relative to the development of the navy and army, in fact, the development speed of the Chinese Air Force is the fastest, in the past two years, a variety of new generation fighters have been in service, including the Air Force fighter F4, the Air Force strategic bomber B11, a new generation of twin-engine tactical bomber B12, these aircraft are in service between 1936 and 1937, and these aircraft are still ahead of the world's active aircraft, so that the Chinese Air Force continues to maintain a leading position in technology.

The rapid development of the Chinese Air Force, so that the naval aviation is also a lot, the Air Force side of the F4 fighter has not been in service for a long time, its carrier-based F4B is into the navy service, in addition to the Navy reading power funded research and development of the B9 torpedo bomber, B10 dive bomber is also successively replaced by the Chinese Navy in the old B5 torpedo bomber and B6 dive bomber.

The development of the army, navy, and air force in the past few years has enabled China's military strength to develop by leaps and bounds, and this development is based on the premise that China's industrial economy developed at a high speed during the thirties.

In the nearly 20 years of development, China's economic growth mainly comes from industrial development, and the contribution of industrial development to the fiscal is very large, after entering the thirties, China's central fiscal revenue is almost a step a year, much faster than the growth rate of the gross national income, the increase is also much larger, with the comparison between 1934 and 1933 can be seen, in 1933 the central fiscal revenue was only more than 5 billion, but in 1934 it soared to nearly 7 billion. Today, in 1937, China's central fiscal revenue had reached 11 billion yuan, and this year's total national income reached 83 billion yuan, equivalent to 41.5 billion US dollars, half of that of the United States during the same period, and about the same as Germany.

The development of the industrial economy has been provided with sufficient guarantees from the central finance, and the increase in the central financial revenue has also ensured the source of a large amount of military spending, and only with military expenditure can the armament be expanded.

However, since 1936, China's explosive increase in military spending has also worried a large group of officials in the Government Council, who believe that now is a good time to develop the economy, as long as this momentum of development is maintained, it will not even take the twenties to become the world's top power, and indeed China's economic development is now growing at an almost astonishing rate, with an annual growth rate of more than 15% is almost a miracle.

But this miracle is built on many aspects, with the impetus of war, with the impetus of national economic regulation, and the impact of these factors is destined to be impossible to last, within a few years without the influence of external factors, the growth rate will be reduced almost certainly, but many people are unwilling to admit it.

In the Nanjing Presidential Palace, Ma Yinchu looked worried: "President, the current proportion of military spending is already a very dangerous situation, this year's military expenditure accounts for 34.5% of our central fiscal revenue, if we want to continue to maintain this proportion next year or even higher, these proportion data have been in the previous years of war, but now in peacetime to reach such a high, it will have a significant impact on the development of the domestic economy!" ”

Hearing Ma Yinchu say this, Chen Jingyun didn't know how to explain to him, did he directly tell him that the addition of so many military uniforms was to deal with the world war, no one would believe it, after all, although the relationship between countries is tense now, but there are no obvious signs of war, unlike the years before World War I, basically everyone can see that the war is coming.

Taking China as an example, in 1936 it signed a non-aggression pact with China, established the Asian Economic Association, and cooperated closely with China, Thailand, Korea, and Russia economically, which greatly promoted peace in the Asian region.

And there was no sign of war in Europe during the war, and the Spanish Civil War was just a small fight, and the countries did not care much. After all, Britain and France did not yet know that Hitler was preparing to annex Austria and attack Poland.

So from now on, there is no sign of war breaking out in various countries, and in this case, many people cannot understand China's sudden and substantial increase in the proportion of military spending.

Chen Jingyun didn't intend to explain anything to Ma Yinchu, and he couldn't explain it clearly, but instead said: "The fiscal revenue has increased a lot in the past two years, and now it is only the extra part that is put into the army, and it will not affect the various economic development plans originally planned by the political axe!" ”

Hearing Chen Jingyun's rogue explanation, Ma Yinchu knew that he could not persuade Chen Jingyun to increase investment in military spending in the 1938 budget.

"According to the plan I said, we must ensure the distribution of at least more than 5 billion yuan in military spending next year, otherwise we will not be able to meet the development needs of our army!" Chen Jingyun said.

Ma Yinchu sighed, although he knew that he could not persuade Chen Jingyun, he still had the responsibility to explain the danger of doing so to Chen Jingyun: "According to our fiscal revenue budget, it is expected that there will be 13 billion yuan in revenue next year, and if the military expenditure is to reach 5 billion, then the proportion will reach 38 percent, which will be the highest since 1923!" Moreover, if there is too much military spending, it will affect the development of the national economy to a certain extent, and we estimate that the total value of the national income in 1938 next year will only be 100 billion yuan, and if the military expenditure is 5 billion, the proportion of military expenditure in the national income will reach 5 percent, and this is an extremely dangerous critical point! ”

Ma Yinchu's opening mouth to play the economy is a lot of economic data, Chen Jingyun naturally knows these data, but he has made up his mind, in order to prepare for the war, no matter how much money has to be spent, it is still quite small, and once the war breaks out and the country is transferred to the wartime economy, there will be consideration of what will affect the economic development, and when the time comes, the strength of the entire country will be gathered for war.

Chen Jingyun has such a great determination, and the effect is also very huge, although all countries have increased their military spending in recent years, but the growth rate is still the fastest in China.

With industrial technology, with industrial scale, there is also a large amount of military investment, in this case a large number of advanced military equipment began to enter service with the troops, in October 1937, the first Zi'an-class destroyer was completed, in December 1937, the number of B11 heavy bombers of the Air Force reached 300, to 1938, the Chinese Air Force F4 fighter has fully replaced the F3 fighter in the first-line army service, and the F3 fighter is retired from retirement, transferred to the second line to the second line, Retrofitting of retrofits.

At the beginning of 1938, Germany put forward an ultimatum to Austria for integration, followed by an invasion of Austria, and Austria accepted the annexation.

After the Spanish Civil War and the German-Austrian merger, the shadow of the world war has officially hung over the European countries!