Yang Rui really didn't want to go to the Beijing Inspectorate very much, and it was one of them not to see the ugly faces of some party representatives; The other is that he wants to see the quality of the people in the provinces of Guannai. War is not only the business of one party of the Rejuvenation Association, nor is it just the matter of being honored and honored outside the Guan, and it is not just the business of him alone, and war should be the business of all 60,000 Chinese people. If the people's hearts are not available, what if he stabilizes the people's hearts? He will one day perish with the earth.

However, as far as he is concerned, war is what he is looking forward to, not because of the outside, but because of the internal - since ancient times, war has been the best touchstone, under the fire of war, between life and death, loyalty, treachery, good and evil, wisdom and foolishness, no one hides; And if China wants to stand tall in the East, it must pass the divine judgment of war: if it wins, Asia will become China's territory, and the world will be divided into four parts; If it is defeated, then it will accept the life of the third-class people, and after the partition, it will become a slave labor country of the US imperialists, and live by exploiting the remaining blood and sweat.

With such a thought, he arrived in Beiting on December 20, and he did not think about going to Beijing, but stayed in Xingongyue City (formerly known as Almaty, named by Zhu Kuansu in the tenth year of Shenwu), preparing to celebrate the New Year here.

"Your Excellency really isn't going to Beijing?" Yang Zeng, the old governor of the northwest, is over 70 years old this year, and his beard is gray, but he has a good health and spirit. Since Yang Rui arrived here, there were countless telegrams from Beijing urging the trip, so he had to ask.

"Just ask yourself whether to fight or not, why bother me to say more." Yang Rui drank all the grape wine in the cup in one go, and praised: "Good wine!" This wine is by no means inferior to France! He picked up the wine bottle again, turned around and saw the word 'Changyu', and immediately stroked his palm and smiled. Isn't this Zhang Bishi's company? He used to grow grapes in Yantai, why did he come here? ”

"The Western Regions have long hours of sunshine. Melons, fruits and grapes are sweeter than those in the Guannei, and the Zhang family came when the railway was still being built. Yang Zengxin chattered. If the canal is in the ...... of a pass, yes, there is still what seawater desalination, there is nothing lacking in the northwest, only lack of water, it will be more prosperous. Speaking of water shortage, Yang Zengxin thought of cotton with higher and higher yields. He smiled: "Adults are really not afraid of being big?" ”

Although Yang Zengxin kept Xinjiang in later generations, Xinjiang disasters also arose because of him - under his rule, he reversed the pattern of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to rule Mongolia and changed to control Mongolia, but this also has an objective background, that is, the independence of Outer Mongolia, the Mongolian army attacked Xinjiang, and at this time it is necessary to return to Mongolia again, and it is estimated that the entire Xinjiang will become the territory of Outer Mongolia. Yang Zengxin's change of national strategy was a last resort. In the future, the external pattern of Xinjiang Province remained unchanged, and the conservative and several changes of power eventually led to Xinjiang disasters.

However, the current pattern is completely different, and China still follows the policy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to rule the Mongols. There is even some strengthening, and as such, the use of penicillin in the north and south of the Western Regions is very different. At the same time, the crops are not the same, with more cotton in the south and more water and soil in the north. As a result, the Hui region of southern Xinjiang (although the government has been luring the aborigines to move to Beiting or the Two Khanates, there are still people who would rather die than move) fight every year for water. As a result, the fertility rate in northern Xinjiang has doubled and the fertility rate in southern Xinjiang has plummeted. Because of this, Yang Zengxin began to worry about disaster again.

"What about making them bigger?" Yang Rui said with a smile. "Russia to the north, Hui to the west and south, what do you think will happen to them without our support? If he dares to be independent, he is nothing more than an Armenian. And what about Armenia? After they lost the protection of the tsar, the Ottomans killed more than a million of them in a war, based on this number, you say that if the Mongols lose our protection, will they be exterminated within 50 years? ”

Yang Zengxin looked at the entire Northwest Governorate, while Yang Rui looked at the whole of Asia. It's not that Yang Zengxin can't see Asia, it's that he can't see the future situation clearly.

"And what if they vote for the Russians?" Yang Zengxin asked again. "They had such thoughts before Xinhai."

"Why, those princes still have dreams of independence?" Yang Rui's voice suddenly rose up, and he was very surprised.

"Nope!" Yang Zengxin shook his head resolutely, "Back then, they wanted to take refuge in Russia because the Qing court implemented a new policy, removed the flag and set up counties, and changed the pasture land to arable land, so they wanted to rely on Russia to help them become independent." This dynasty not only did not remove the flag to set up a county and change the pasture into farming, but instead restored the flag and the land that was withdrawn earlier, which has won the heart of the prince and herdsman. The increase in renewal is to see the population of the Mongolian people increase dramatically, for fear that it will ...... in the future."

Yang Zengxin was very far away, but Yang Rui smiled and said: "If Russia collapses one day, then who do you say the Mongols will take refuge into?" ”

"Downfall?" This time it was Yang Zengxin's turn to be stunned, "What kind of collapse method?" ”

"It's just that the country can't sustain itself, and the country becomes fragmented after bankruptcy, Ukraine, Belarus, Siberia, and the Caucasus, anyway." Yang Rui smiled and toasted happily.

"This ......" Yang Zengxin also knew that the domestic policies of New Russia were extremely evil, and those Russians who secretly escaped would rather die than return to China, but he didn't want Yang Rui to be so sure that the country would be torn apart in the future. Adult, is this possible? ”

"It could have been," Yang Rui said with a smile, "When the time comes, we will help him, and when he can't do it, we will help him maintain it for another thirty or fifty years, completely deplete his vitality, and let his population decrease sharply, then it will definitely be done." It is better to set a timetable now, when Soviet Russia is going to go bankrupt and fall in 50 years, we will find a way to help him and let him maintain his rule for another 30 to 50 years, and in 100 years, Russia is estimated to be rotten and only the European part will be left. ”

"But the Tsar's vein is still there?" After thinking about it, Yang Zengxin roughly agreed with Yang Rui's judgment, but he was worried about the restoration of the Tsar's descendants.

"At that time, if there is no emperor in Europe, everyone talks about democracy, and the tsar is afraid that it will be difficult to restore." Yang Rui regretted while talking, feeling that it was indeed a failure to rescue the Tsar's family back then, which was equivalent to giving Russia a center of consciousness after the disintegration, and making it an additional variable after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the matter has come to this point, regret is useless, and he turned to ask: "What is the military strength of the northwest, and what is the people's heart?" ”

"The northwest is tax-free, and every household lives and works in peace and contentment; There is no ban on guns, everyone can fight, and the people's will is completely available. As for military strength, based on last year's statistics. There were 7,397,000 Han people and 3,780,000 Japanese people in the North Court of the Western Regions. The number of conscripts is estimated at 1.4 million ......," Yang said.

"So much?" The conscription ratio was 12 percent of the population, and Yang Rui was taken aback. He thought it would be seven or eight hundred thousand.

"Immigrants spend money, but having children saves money." Yang Zengxin said with a smile. "Most of the immigrants' families are teenagers. I don't think there will be a fight in the south in two or three years, and even if there is, the Russians will have to wait and see for at least two or three years, which is enough for them to grow old enough to hold guns. However, the north court is mostly flat land, and it takes armored divisions to defeat the enemy, and if Russia invades, it must take chariots first, so I don't know the ...... of the pass."

The army has been using the old Wolf tank of the First World War for more than ten years, and although there have been improvements during this period, the performance is not much higher no matter how much it is changed. Yang Zengxin has been researching new cars after knowing the total. He also saw the sample car when he came to Beiting for testing, although he didn't see its armament, but just looking at the appearance was much more like a wolf.

"It's finalized." Yang Rui also paid a lot of attention to the new combat vehicles, but the engine had both horsepower and life and low transverse (for example, the engine overhaul time required 500 hours instead of 250 hours), which really cost the power design team, and in the end the rest of the entire project was completed. The power was still delayed for a long time, and finally had to lower the index, the first overhaul time was changed to 450 hours, and the engine height was relaxed to 92 centimeters, thanks to Tongchai's strong accumulation in diesel engine technology and the use of various new materials. The motivation finally passed.

Thinking of the combat vehicle, Yang Rui came to the heart, because the strongest tank in World War II was no longer the Soviet T34. He smiled and took out his pen, found a piece of paper to draw the appearance of the new chariot, and then handed it to Yang Zengxin. "This is the new chariot - the 'Meow' type. ”

"Meow... Style?! Haha......" Yang Zengxin laughed heartily, "as before." Isn't that supposed to be called a tiger and a leopard? ”

"Oh, that's not right. Jackals all belong to the canine family. The tiger and leopard belong to the feline family, and there is nothing wrong with meowing if it is a cat; Besides, the war is hard, so it is inevitable that the soldiers will have fun. The name was set by Yang Rui, and the design team laughed when they heard it, and then whoever listened to it laughed, and the reason why he wanted to set this name was just that he didn't want to be similar to the German tiger and leopard.

"Okay Dingchen, it's better to call it a meow, or to call it a tiger, anyway, the new chariot is the first chariot in the world today, and the power of 500 horsepower can make this 31-ton big guy run faster and farther than the Shifeng tricycle, and the caliber of 85 mm is also the largest in the world, and the cannonball is also very special. Coupled with some new technologies, Beiting put five armored divisions to ensure that the Russians did not dare to act rashly. Yang Rui said.

With the black muzzle, five pairs of load-bearing wheels, domineering appearance, and a large round turret, Yang Zengxin couldn't find a trace of a cat on the sketch, he didn't directly agree to Yang Rui, but said, "This chariot has thirty-one tons, so it's naturally wider than the wolf?" ”

"Six meters long, three meters wide, and about the same height as the wolf, but fifteen millimeters more, the whole car is two and a half meters high." Yang Rui knew the data of the new tank well, and then he sighed: "It's a pity, although this tank is the first in the world, but what we have to fight is a naval battle, and we can't use it at all." ”

The chariot is the center of gravity of the army, and it is also the center of gravity of the defense of the North Garden. Yang Zengxin didn't know what the numbers were, but Yang Rui said that this chariot was the first in the world, and he naturally believed that it was the world's first-class, but Yang Rui said that this chariot was not usable, but he shook his head and said: "My lord, Beiting not only has to guard against the Russians, but also against the British.......

"Aren't the British afraid that we will use Afghanistan and Persia to push India and Arabia directly, all the way to Ceylon and Egypt? The British Empire spanned hundreds of years, and this insight is still there. Yang Rui said, with some drunkenness.

"My lord, England has always been deceitful, so I have to guard against it. More and more of our goods are going to sea from the Persian Gulf, or transshipment from Baghdad, so that British goods cannot be sold at all. Besides, if it hadn't been for the fact that Officer Ma Biao had killed Pahlavi five years ago, this Persia would have changed color. Although Yang Zengxin was the governor of the northwest, he had always been concerned about the political situation in Afghanistan and Persia. Because of his beliefs and ******, Ma Jiajun was favored by the monarchs of the two countries, and many high-ranking officers were hired by the two countries as military advisers or instructors, and all the former Swedish officers were unemployed. The economic crisis swept the world, and Afghanistan was fine in the interior, but Persia was not lightly affected, and Pahlavi, an officer of the Janissaries who had long been revolutionary, immediately launched a rebellion, but the next day he and his comrades died in the streets.

"Has Persia been unstable lately?" Yang Rui asked. After the civil strife in Tehran, China and Britain urgently negotiated and signed the Tehran Agreement behind Persia's back. This allowed Persia to eventually avoid a change of dynasty as in Ottoman Turkey.

"Recently, the economy has been good, and the domestic government is also in order. The people's hearts are stable at all times, but Britain and the United States have always been one, and if we really want to go to war with the United States, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the Persian side to be stable. "Yang Zengxin said." Relying on Persia, India and the Middle East are full of our and Japanese goods, and some people even bought our decommissioned submarines to smuggle ......"

As soon as it is said that the submarine smuggling Yang Rui is full of black lines, after China signed the London Treaty, more than 70 submarines have been decommissioned one after another, and the master of the Inspectorate does not want to dismantle it directly like last time, so he dismantles the fish **** and artillery and sells them at the price of scrap iron. It is said that the Navy is against this. But the thought of buying a submarine and driving a submarine invisibly means that the navy has dozens of more submarine crews, and they happily expressed their willingness to provide pilot training for Ah Fei, who drove a submarine, so the rest of the matter is ugly, half the world uses this thing to smuggle contraband and smuggle, and even the smuggling of American gold is also pushed to China's retired submarines, but fortunately no evidence has been caught.

Not wanting to think too much about embarrassing things, Yang Rui said, "The British will blockade the port of Khoram Shahr at most." Then he instigated the southern tribes to make trouble, shut down the railroad or something, if he wanted Persia to change the dynasty and set up a pro-British government. I'm afraid I can't. ”

"My lord, I'm always worried about the unity of Britain and the United States!" Yang Zengxin finally expressed the worry in his heart, but this kind of thing at the level of national grand strategy. He is not in his position and does not seek political affairs, and he only dares to say it after the conversation enters Hong Kong.

"If Britain and the United States are really one, then there is nothing to fear. Come. Drink! Yang Rui raised his head again and drank the wine in the glass. Britain's declaration of war on China was something he had never expected, and if it really started a war, the entire battle plan would have to be revised. Modifications are not difficult. But the first one: once Britain also declares war, the three aircraft carriers of more than 30 knots of rage, bravery, and glory will strengthen the strength of the US Navy, and the gap between the strength of China and Japan and the United States is already huge, so that the ratio of strength is basically 1:2, not including the aircraft carriers under construction in Britain.

In addition, once Britain declares war, China will definitely occupy Burma, the forward position of bombing, and the army will have to be dispatched, and it will not be difficult to dispatch, and the war will definitely be won, but the cost will increase, and the pressure on military spending will be heavy, and the army will be even heavier to capture Burma.

However, compared with the third change, the first two are not important - Britain has always been a shipbuilding power, and if Britain declares war on China, then the huge amount of military spending of the United States is likely to be turned into aircraft carriers through British shipyards. Although the signing of the Washington Treaty weakened the British shipbuilding industry, and during the economic crisis, it was 'swept away' by the Chinese shipbuilding industry like the European shipyards, when many heavy cranes and heavy equipment were bought, but the shipyard and workers were there, as long as there was enough money, its shipbuilding industry could still be resurrected, which is very likely to make the hopes of China and Japan to win with the speed of building ships come to naught.

With this concern, Yang Rui was a little uneasy throughout the Spring Festival, in addition to suggesting that the Intelligence Bureau pay close attention to the political situation in Britain, he discussed with Yang Du more times whether Britain would declare war on China with the United States, but the overall result made people optimistic, especially the news that the British Baldwin was about to step down during the Lantern Festival and that his successor would be Chamberlain made him a little less worried. Isn't Chamberlain the one who looks like a poodle and is bent on appeasement?

"My lord, we have solved the problem of fluorine, that is, there are a lot of niobium and rare earths in this iron ore, and it is really tyrannical if it cannot be comprehensively smelted. If you can have five years......" Under the blast furnace of Baotou Iron and Steel Company, Xu Shangwu, the local general manager who accompanied Yang Rui on the inspection, shook his head with a piece of steel slag and said. Baiyun Obo is a comprehensive mineral, and the iron ore sands are mixed with niobium ore and rare earth ores, but now because of technical limitations, it only smelts steel, which makes him feel sorry.

"Five years?" Yang Rui, who was in charge, looked back at him and smiled, "There is no time for a year, and Baotou Steel must be rapidly expanded to reach the design capacity!" ”

Thanks to infrastructure and tricycles, trucks, tractor exports, China's steel output has already passed the threshold of 10 million tons, with the economic recovery in recent years, steel output has been close to 15 million tons, the design capacity of Baotou Steel is 3 million tons, the completion will be the world's largest steel, but because of the complexity of the ore, scientific researchers are always reluctant to steel slag in the treasure.

"My lord, is the situation really so bad?" Xu Shangwu said suspiciously. The newspapers carried daily reports on the situation in the Pacific, Sino-US relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and so on, and of course he knew about the possibility of war. And as the nephew of the late Ministry of Industry Shangshu and a member of the Xungui Group, he naturally knows what Baotou Steel does - this is the country's last military industrial base.

"It's right to be ready." Yang Rui walked forward with his hands, and he asked again: "There is an aluminum smelter in Baotou, but where does the bauxite come from?" It can't be shipped from Shanxi. ”

"My lord, the bauxite was transported from the mines in Gansu, and Shanxi is too far south to count on it." Xu Shangwu said.

"Hmm." Hearing that the bauxite was transported from Gansu, Yang Rui nodded, and then he said regretfully: "It's a pity that the shale oil here can't be used, otherwise the coal, iron, oil and aluminum, all the four major samples are complete." ”

Yang Rui was still not satisfied with Baotou, which made Xu Shangwu, who knew the depth of the place, not dare to answer. In fact, in his opinion, this is a god-given place comparable to Anshan, Liaoning, where coal, iron, oil and aluminum are all gathered, how can there be such a place in the world! However, Yang Rui is an adult, but also an elder, and whatever he says is what he says.

"The aircraft factory has been completed and started, right?" Yang Rui didn't care what the people behind him thought, and asked about the aircraft factory again.

"Yes, sir. Construction started last year. Xu Shangwu replied, "A total of 17 factories, including lathe factories, machinery factories, bearing factories, aluminum factories, chemical plants, oil refineries, aircraft factories, engine factories, tank factories, truck factories, ordnance factories, radio factories, ammunition factories, synthetic rubber factories, optical instrument factories, clothing and quilt factories, as well as related railways, oil depots, power plants, water stations, and supporting projects, have all been built, but all the workers have not yet arrived." Xu Shangwu said that he suddenly found that the steel plant in front of him was missing, and he added: "The steel plant is still under construction, and it will be completed by the end of the next year." ”

As long as it is military-related, Baotou has everything, and even the expensive synthetic rubber has also been built, most of these investments are from the benefits of gold smuggling in the United States, and a small part is the profit of Tianzihao itself, with a total investment of more than one billion Chinese dollars, but because it is located outside the customs, few newspapers in China report the truth about Baotou, and only think that this is an ordinary industrial city.

"I won't look at them one by one. I remember that when I was still in Tonghua, it was all thanks to the military factory managed by Brother Ling, which allowed the Northeast Base Area to finally hold on and lay down a piece of the world. Nowadays, it is unpredictable to win or lose with the Americans, and if the war situation is unfavorable, not to mention Nanjing and Wuhan, even Liaodong and Shanxi have uncertain futures, and at that time, the only thing the whole country can rely on is here. Yang Rui mentioned the deceased Xu Jiabao and spoke earnestly to Xu Shangwu.

"Yes, sir. Shang Wu understands the importance of this position, and he will not disgrace his life! Seeing that Yang Rui said seriously, Xu Shangwu immediately replied.

"That's good." Yang Rui nodded solemnly. Xu Shangwu and Xu Jiabao are both the sons of Xu Jianyin and the grandsons of Xu Shou, and this family can be regarded as the backbone of China's modern military industry. With such a heritage, Yang Rui was extremely relieved of them, and he just couldn't worry about coming here to inspect.

Yang Rui said this, it seemed that he was going to leave immediately, Xu Shangwu immediately hurriedly said: "My lord, the aircraft factory said that the bomber is in trial production, and they heard that the adult is coming, so it is like inviting the adult to ......."

Xu Shangwu is obviously not good at soliciting customers, but his eldest son, Xu Baoyu of the aluminum alloy factory, was entrusted by the aircraft factory and hoped that his father would invite Yang Rui to inspect the aircraft factory.

"Bombers?" Yang Rui remembered the four-shot bomber project that cost 300 million Chinese yuan, and he didn't want to approve it at first, because even if a heavy bomber was developed, the country did not have the ability to produce this kind of guy who was five or six times more expensive than a fighter during the war, and there was no industrial base for them to be blown up, but this project involved the delivery of atomic bombs, so it was finally approved.

"Since you're here, let's go check it out." Under Xu Shangwu's expectation, Yang Rui finally nodded. (To be continued.) )