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However, Hu Weidong insisted that he must take Taiwan back now, on the one hand, because he found that the butterfly effect caused by his crossing was becoming more and more obvious, and he was worried that there would be a major deviation in future history and China would lose the opportunity to go to war with Japan to retake Taiwan.

On the other hand, Hu Weidong took into account the fact that after the First Sino-Japanese War, the people of Taiwan were controlled by China's central power (although the Manchu government was not good in every way, it was indeed the central power recognized by the whole country at that time). If we give up on them again now, even if we can recover Taiwan's land in the future, it will take great effort and a long time to regain the hearts and minds of the people. This is not because Hu Weidong is unfounded, but a lesson in history, after the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War, France ceded Alsace and Lorraine to Germany for half a century, although it was successfully recovered after World War I, until the 21st century, the French in these two provinces are still generally pro-German, and even German-speaking people are no less than French-speaking

In addition, Hu Weidong's eagerness to recover Taiwan also has extremely realistic considerations, although Taiwan is small, but the name of "treasure island" is well deserved, and the products are quite rich, such as the production of camphor even accounts for more than half of the whole shijie. More importantly, after nearly half a century of Japanese operation, Taiwan's agriculture and even industry and mining have developed to a considerable extent, such as Taiwan's Sun Moon Lake Hydropower Station, which was the largest hydropower station in Asia when it was completed (at this time it was surpassed by the Fengman Hydropower Station in Northeast China). If these can be recovered, it will undoubtedly further strengthen China's economic strength. What Hu Weidong particularly valued was that as early as 1914, Japan popularized primary education in Taiwan, and now the results have been fully revealed, Taiwan's average literacy rate is as high as more than 90%, far from being comparable to the mainland at the same time, and at the same time there are obvious advantages in quality (that is, the proportion of middle and high education). In Hu Weidong's view, if we can get these millions of people with a high level of education, it will be of great help to China's industrialization and education. That's all. Taiwan's value even exceeds that of the mainland's major provinces with a population of more than 30 million. In addition, Taiwan is now the only region in Japan's "homeland" where food production exceeds consumption, so recovering Taiwan would further weaken Japan's war potential (but the impact on a short-term war would be relatively limited). Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that Hu Weidong regards Taiwan's return as the bottom line of negotiations

But. Japan has always attached great importance to Taiwan. Therefore, it is not just a tough stance that can be achieved to regain Taiwan, either China must have the ability to take it back by direct force, or China needs to make the Japanese authorities aware that if they refuse to return it. There will be a greater price to pay.

The former is obviously very unrealistic, and the Taiwan Strait is no more narrow than the Bohai Strait, which is divided into many waterways by many small islands, and without a strong navy or air force to escort it, it is completely impossible for the army to land across the sea. Moreover, we must realize that Fujian's Mawei shipyard and naval base have been abandoned for many years, and without a year or two of time to restore and rebuild, they cannot be used by the PLA to forcibly cross the Taiwan Strait.

As for the latter, Hu Weidong believes that it is not impossible, although the fleet of the United States has caused the People's Liberation Army to "smuggle" into the Japanese mainland without even a theoretical possibility, and the large amount of economic aid it has provided to Japan has effectively quelled the dissatisfaction of the Japanese people and minimized the possibility of revolution in Japan, but according to historical experience, Hu Weidong knows very well that the United States has never been an international philanthropist who sacrifices himself for others, and they have provided such great help to the Japanese authorities, and they will definitely ask for corresponding returns. And although Japan suffered a big defeat on land, it still has the third powerful navy, but it is not the Japan that was disarmed after the defeat of the war, and they are really willing to accept the opportunity of the United States to blackmail?

As time drags on, the United States' investment in Japan will accumulate over time, and no matter how high Roosevelt's prestige is, it will be difficult to persuade Congress to agree to the bottomless pit of endless taxpayers' money invested in Japan, especially when the next general election is approaching, and Roosevelt will not dare to ignore the will of the people. Therefore, in the near future, either the US imperialists will reduce their aid to Japan, or they will increase their blackmail efforts to give an account at home, and in either case, it will lead to a rift in the relations between the United States and Japan

In addition, the United States only sent a fleet to obstruct the PLA's crossing of the sea, but the planes of the People's Air Force could still go to the skies over Japan from time to time, but because there was still a strong air force on the Japanese mainland (and it became stronger and stronger because of its huge annual production capacity of more than 10,000 aircraft), and because the range of the old bombers of the People's Air Force was insufficient, it was difficult to have much deterrent effect on the Japanese authorities and the people.

However, the news that Sukhoi and others had improved the design of the "H-1" and began mass production made Hu Weidong feel reassured: although the engine used in this aircraft is still far behind the Merlin liquid-cooled engine used in its prototype "'Mosquito' fighter-bomber", there is still a certain gap in comprehensive performance, but due to the extremely light fuselage material (Note 1), its speed, range and load capacity are above those of the early "Mosquito". And its acceleration and climbing ability has become the undisputed Shijie first after receiving the support of Germany's jishu (the climb rate and acceleration ability of German aircraft during World War II is the most haode), even if even the Germans' own planes are not comparable, because they do not have new materials comparable to reinforced paulownia wood, and because only China has enough paulownia trees on Shijie at this time, other countries will not be able to copy even if the technology is advanced. As for the purchase, Hu Weidong has long ordered that paulownia wood be included in military supplies and banned from export, if the price is high enough, it is not impossible to sell, but in the future, maintenance or something must continue to be imported, this cost is too great, and it also affects national defense and security, so although the air force or aviation units of various countries covet it, but no one tries to use this new material in their own aircraft

Note 1: In fact, the specific strength is super-large, and the light specific density is actually larger than the balsa wood used in the "mosquito", but the strength of balsa wood is far from being compared with the paulownia wood reinforced with epoxy resin, so the size of the component is inevitably much larger and thicker, so the total weight is greater, and at the same time, because it occupies too much design space, it also has a lot of obstacles to the installation of other components such as the engine, and the upgrade potential is relatively small, so if you consider it comprehensively, the advantage of the H-1 is quite large (to be continued.) ……)