On the outskirts of Shanghai, Chang Ruiqing rode in a Chinese Dragon bulletproof sedan between barren fields...... Well, that's right, now the fertile land on the outskirts of Shanghai Free City is being abandoned on a large scale! This is certainly not due to the war, although the Wehrmacht has conscripted more than 10 million young people into the army, but for the Federation of Great China, with a population of 600 million, this is only a drop in the barrel. High-quality updates are not caused by economic depression or low prices of agricultural products, in fact, the war is the best and largest customer, stimulated by huge orders from the army, now the economy of the Great China Federation can only be described as prosperous to deformity, all the factories are desperately expanding production capacity, most of the arable land in the federation is also planted with a variety of crops, only Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Beijing, Tianjin, Nanjing, Wuhan, There is a large amount of abandoned land on the outskirts of the eight major cities such as Kanto Prefecture, and in fact, this land has been requisitioned by the federal government at a high price in the name of "national security and development reserve land"!

Of course, the so-called high prices are based on the double blow of the economic crisis and the world war on land prices. This land purchase program began in early 1933, and over the past two years, tens of billions of Chinese yuan of public bonds have been used to purchase more than 30 million mu of land from agricultural landowners around the seven major cities. The average bid per mu of land has reached 300 yuan, which is a sky-high price according to the standards of agricultural land. Therefore, the Kuomintang members in the two houses of the Legislative Council have been boycotting the federal government's "land purchase budget" for a long time, and Jiang Jshi also claimed that this is the "land speculation bill" of the Central G, and must be resolutely resisted, and the Kuomintang even used the method of "occupying" the parliamentary rostrum to protest. In the end, Mao ZD and Song Qingling used the "police power" to bring in the parliament's security personnel to maintain order, so that the land purchase bill costing tens of billions of yuan was passed in the parliament.

However, Lao Jiang really misunderstood Chang Ruiqing this time. Although President Chang is well aware of the wonderful use of land finance, in the Great Chinese Federation, which practices private ownership of land, the government has no way to make money by speculating on land. And this land purchase case that cost tens of billions of yuan is actually really to promote the unity and development of the federation, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it has become a national security. Chang Ruiqing, who has seen the emergence of high land prices and megacities in the economic development of Asian countries in later generations, believes that since these two phenomena will appear in the course of the development of the vast majority of Asian countries, they will inevitably conform to the laws governing the economic and cultural development of Asian countries. Therefore, in the future, the urbanization route of the Greater China Federation should be a megalopolis, rather than a large number of small and medium-sized towns.

Moreover, Chang Ruiqing also believes that the existence of these megacities is conducive to the unification of the federation. Because the megalopolitan will inevitably concentrate most of the elite of the entire federation. It will also become the wealth, education, innovation and cultural center of the Federation. It is also a place where generations of young people of the Federation of Greater China will realize their dreams and values in the future. High-quality updates are just to imagine, if the dreams of the young people of the entire Greater China Federation are in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Beijing, Tianjin, Nanjing, Wuhan, Kwantung Prefecture and other eight metropolises, how can the Federation be divided one day? Ever. Where is there a precedent for relying on a group of aunts and uncles to achieve national liberation or national independence?

In Chang Ruiqing's vision, the population living in the eight metropolitan agglomerations with the eight metropolises as the core should account for more than 50% of the total population of the Federation of Greater China in the future! Considering that the Federation of Greater China does not have a family planning policy, it is very likely that there will be 1.5 billion or even 2 billion Chinese in the future! Half of that is 750 million to 1 billion, a simple conversion. In the future, the eight major metropolitan agglomerations will have more than 100 million residents! Oh. Another point that needs to be emphasized is that the current Federation of Great China does not have such a thing as a hukou, and the freedom of movement of its citizens is by no means written on paper......

However, it is not easy to build a mega metropolis with 100 million inhabitants, and in Chang Ruiqing's memories of his previous life, it seems that there is no such urban agglomeration as zài in the whole world. But in the memory of the previous life, isn't there no superpower like the Federation of Great China? If the entire Greater East Asia region can become a country, why can't there be eight metropolises with a population of more than 100 million?

So in the case of China gradually gaining the advantage of a world war. The federal government led by Chang Ruiqing has made the construction plan of the eight megacities/metropolitan agglomerations a top priority. And the first condition for building a megacity. Of course, there should be enough land. There is definitely no shortage of land in the Great China Federation! By the time this world war is over, the territory of the Federation will be at least 25 million square kilometers, and there will be more, and the eight metropolises will be tens of thousands of square kilometers at most. But there is no such thing as forced eviction in the Great China Federation, and even Chang Ruiqing does not dare to pass such a bill in the two houses of politics and legislation! Moreover, the eight metropolises in the plan are all on the core territory of the Great China Federation, where the land belonging to the federal government is very limited, and it is impossible to support the development of the eight metropolises. Therefore, we can only take precautions and buy land in advance while the world war is not over.

And after buying the land, of course, it is reasonable planning. A metropolis (cluster) with tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of inhabitants cannot be built casually, still less can it be rebuilt and demolished...... Because the Great China Federation is following the path of administration according to the Constitution, it will certainly not have an infinite budget to squander, and can only save a little money. In addition, land is always a scarce resource for a country with a population of 1.5 billion or even 2 billion in the future, even if the country covers an area of 25 million square kilometers or more. Therefore, the layout of these megacities must be cautious, both forward-looking, and enough to save land, in short, it is very difficult. The good thing about high-quality updates is that the war is not over yet, and there is still time to think about it slowly. The main purpose of Chang Ruiqing's visit to Shanghai this time, in addition to inspecting the progress of the "land purchase case," was to listen to the Shanghai Municipal Government's preliminary plan for the construction and expansion of the city after the war.

Of course, the construction of the eight metropolises could only be carried out after the war, and now there are not enough labor and raw materials to carry out large-scale construction. Moreover, a series of construction projects, including the eight major metropolises, can promote the unity and development of the federation. It was also the main method used to deal with the post-war economic recession -- a large number of federal economic experts, including Zhang Junmao, Zeng Qi, Zhou Elai, Song Ziwen, Kong Xiangxi, Yan Xishan, and so on, came to the conclusion three to five years after the war after referring to the surplus, unemployment, discharge, and national economic recession that had occurred in European and American countries after the end of World War I. It will be a very difficult time financially, so it will be necessary to prepare a series of heavy construction projects to deal with it.

In a meeting in the Shanghai Municipal Government Building in Yangshupu, Chang Ruiqing saw a model of the Greater Shanghai Free City master plan, led by Liang Sicheng, director of the architecture department at the Central University in Nanjing. The future Shanghai Free City will be a super metropolis covering an area of up to 5,000 square kilometers, which is larger than the big Shanghai where Chang Ruiqing lived in his previous life (not the city area, but the urban area), including Kunshan City and Taicang City, which belong to Jiangsu Province and Taicang City, Jiashan City and Pinghu City in Zhejiang Province, have become part of the planned Shanghai Free City, and they will be urban areas full of factories and high-rise buildings! As for the concept of "basic farmland protection". There is no shortage of land for farming in the Federation of Greater China, which has a land area of more than 25 million square kilometers, and there is no need to reserve agricultural land in the most expensive cities. They will not go to remote areas where no one wants to live at all, and build small towns that are not small at all, even if the local government wants to build them, most of them have no money to burn.

The planned Greater Shanghai Free City is divided into five major areas, one is the old city - which is now the center of Shanghai, where the land price has always been the most expensive in China, so it is not within the scope of the federal government's land purchase plan. However, its central location determines that it will become the commercial and consumer center of Shanghai in the future; The second is the industrial park located in the outermost part of the Greater Shanghai Free City. This concept was first born in Germany, that is, the core factories and supporting factories of some important industries are put into an "industrial park" to minimize logistics costs, and the planned Greater Shanghai Free City will have more than a dozen large-scale industrial parks such as automobiles, shipbuilding, electronic communications, textiles and garments, machinery, food processing, chemical and pharmaceutical, energy, culture and art, etc., and the federal government will give certain preferential tax policies to large enterprises settled in these industrial parks (not too much, after all, the federal government's financial resources are limited); The third block is the office and university district, which will be located on the outskirts of the old town, where a large number of banks, corporate headquarters and university towns and large hospitals will be located in the future; The fourth largest block is the living area of Shanghai. Located outside the office and university areas, within the industrial park; The fifth largest block is Shanghai's port area. The plan is to build a large deep-water port in Shanghai's Gaoqiao area and a coal terminal in Baoshan, where several large thermal power plants will be built to supply the city's electricity needs.

After visiting the overall planning and design model of the Greater Shanghai Free City, Chang Ruiqing delivered a long speech at the Shanghai Municipal Political Participation Conference, urging the Shanghai Municipal Councilors to vote on the overall design plan as soon as possible -- since the funds for the construction of the Greater Shanghai Free City come from the federal and Shanghai finances, the overall design plan must be approved by the federal central and Shanghai local councils, and the future use of construction funds must also be supervised by the federal central and Shanghai local councils.

In short, it is the same set of bourgeois liberalization, which is inefficient and has many loopholes, which is very inconsistent with the national conditions of the Great China Federation. Therefore, in the later implementation process, several corruption incidents broke out, and the amount involved in the largest corruption incident was as high as 3 million Chinese yuan! Throughout the construction of the Greater Shanghai Free City, dozens of senior federal and Shanghai local government officials, as well as heads of large companies (bribery is a crime in the Federation of China) were arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption for corruption, and even triggered a no-confidence vote against Chang Ruiqing's cabinet......

However, Chang Ruiqing would not have imagined that his government would almost fall for the sake of the Greater Shanghai Free City in the future, and after delivering a speech at the parliament building in Shanghai, his mind immediately shifted to the battlefield of World War II. As soon as he stepped off the podium amid the sparse applause, he saw Adjutant General Chen Xinrui and Chief of Naval Intelligence Bai Siwen standing at the entrance of the conference hall.

"Sir, our observer in San Diego sent a secret telegram last night that the main force of the US Pacific Fleet has left port!" Chen Xinrui whispered in Chang Ruiqing's ear.

Chang Ruiqing nodded and didn't speak, just beckoned to Bai Siwen, and then walked into an office of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of China G in the Shanghai Municipal Assembly Building. Then he asked Bai Siwen: "What does the Naval Operations Department think?" Did the Americans go to reinforce Hawaii? ”

"Probably to reinforce Hawaii! Judging from the scale of their sorties, the Americans were ruthless, and 18 capital ships, 10 escort carriers, and 16 heavy cruisers were all dispatched, and it seemed that Oahu was already in crisis. Bai Swin paused, considered his words for a moment, and said: "However, there is another opinion in the Naval Operations Department, the real target of the US Pacific Fleet may not be the Hawaiian Islands, because they are not the opponent of the 10 Soryu-class and thousands of fighters (including shore-based aircraft) that the Japanese have placed there. If you go, you can't save Oahu, so you might as well send the fleet to Port Moresby. ”

Chen Xinrui spread out a map of the Pacific Ocean on his desk, Chang Ruiqing glanced at it, and wrinkled his eyebrows: "What are you doing in Port Moresby?" ”

"Even if nothing is done, it will become a big problem for the Japanese, because Japan's sea power in the Nanyang Islands is very empty, there are not many aircraft, and once the huge fleet of Americans appears in Port Moresby, Japan will have to deploy heavy troops in the Nanyang Islands." Bai Siwen explained: "This is the storage of the zài fleet, and the storage of the zài is the threat, and the opponent must respond with all his might." ”

Chang Ruiqing continued to ask, "What about Hawaii?" Will the Americans ignore Hawaii? ”

Bai Sven replied: "If they want to manage it, they will only bury the fleet in vain, so the department tends to target the main target of the US Pacific Fleet, Port Moresby." Moreover, the significance of placing a fleet in Port Moresby was not only to contain the Japanese naval forces, but also to block the choke point of Japan's southward march to Australia! If you count the strength of the British and Australian Grand Fleet, there are about twenty capital ships in the South Pacific, and the Japanese will not dare to land in Australia at all if they do not destroy them. But to destroy them, you have to storm Port Moresby, where the terrain is very dangerous, the British and Americans have built a lot of batteries and airfields around Port Moresby, deployed a large number of ground troops and aircraft, plus the large fleet in the port, it is really enough for the Japanese to drink a pot! If you don't know, the Japanese will shake their determination to go south to Australia......"

After listening to Bai Siwen's analysis, Chang Ruiqing's thick eyebrows tightened: "What do you mean...... The Japanese might therefore go north and unite with India and the Soviet Union against us? ”

"Prime Minister, this possibility must not be ruled out!" Bai Siwen reminded: "The Japanese have repeatedly wavered between going south and going north before, and if they feel that there is no hope of going south, they are very likely to take risks and choose to go north!" ”

Chang Ruiqing felt a little headache, the Japanese are now lying beside him like a tiger who doesn't know when it will go crazy! In the past, there was a high-level spy who had infiltrated them and could ventilate the news, but now this super spy has become a member of the Combined Fleet's political committee, and he is either staying on the Akagi, the flagship of the Combined Fleet, or staying in some important military port, and it is rare to return home. Even if you get the information that Japan is going to attack Zhanjiang Port, you can't send it, so you can't use the radio on the Akagi to contact Zhang Guotao, right?

Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Bai Siwen: "What is the opinion of the Naval Operations Department?" ”

Bai Siwen lowered his voice and said: "The navy is an extremely offensive branch of the army, and the current popular naval aviation surprise operation is a very sudden tactic, so it must be better to strike first than to strike later!" ”

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