Chapter 357 North Australia

Xinhua.

Located in the former Fengtai Camp in the western suburbs of Yanjing, the five-story new Ministry of Defense building is being closed. Most of the construction workers have left, and only a few people are undergoing the final interior decoration.

Due to Li Mo's attention, the Ministry of Construction specially hired some ancient architects to set up a Ministry of Cultural Heritage to protect all kinds of ancient buildings and cultural relics on the land of China. The old Yanjing City, including the Forbidden City, is listed as a first-class protection facility, so it is similar to the Ministry of National Defense and other large-scale buildings and pollution. Serious-contaminated factories can only be built outside the old Yanjing.

In front of the construction site, Chen Ping and Li Enfu put aside the supervisors introduced and jointly inspected the new Ministry of Defense Building, which has a strange shape and looks like a five-pointed star from the sky, covering an area of nearly 1,000 mu.

"Ptagons!"

Chen Ping had a smile on the corners of his mouth. He had nothing to say about the strange architecture designed by Li Mo himself. Perhaps only God could understand how many strange ideas were hidden in the emperor's mind.

As the core brain of the future three armies, the Ministry of National Defense Building can be said to be solid, beautiful and practical. In the arched dome in the center of the five-pointed star, there is the core communication center of the whole building. When it is completed, it can receive wireless information from any island or even a military station.

According to Chang Lin's news, the new generation of wireless wires has been tested. For the first time, an encryption technology called frequency hopping has been adopted, which can make communication more secure and difficult to decipher. Tesla has also achieved short-range voice transmission in the test for the first time, that is to say, in the next few years, the army may have a kind of It has the ability to carry out voice communication without a telephone line.

All of this is due to Li Mo's crazy investment in the electronics industry, especially in the miniaturization technology of electronic tubes. The electrical laboratory has made continuous breakthroughs. Recently, I heard that there is also a thing called a transistor.

Of course, Chen Ping doesn't know much about this kind of technical thing. He only knows that in the next few years, the army will be equipped with a new generation of radio communication equipment one after another, and the radio network throughout the territory is also stepping up the construction. When all the construction is completed in the future, then a kind of communication ability will be stronger, which can make the whole Xinhua The connected radio network will achieve full territory coverage for the first time.

As one of the killers of the Xinhua Army, the contribution of radio is uncomparable to any technology. Without it, the ambush of the Russian Far East Fleet cannot be completed. Without it, it was not mentioned that it was the first to discover the Japanese fleet, implemented long-distance remote monitoring, and finally ambushed successfully. Without it, it is even more impossible for the Air Force to accurately locate Yokosuka, and this problem will be solved at least a few years later.

These all benefit from the emergence of radios, so far, the wire-free force is still a core secret. Although it is assigned to the company-level force, each radio has its own number and needs to send two special signals to the superior radio station every day, so that the superior radio station is convinced that the terminal is still under the control of the army. .

At the same time, the radio sender has also adopted some anti-disassembly technology for the first time in its design. The damaged radio can only be repaired by the technical department. If it is dismantled without authorization, it will detonate the hidden explosives inside.

The most important thing is that so far, the radio force is still reading power. The status of each communication officer in the army is super-reading power. They accompany the troops to ensure smooth communication, but they are not under the command of the officers of the army. Even for the sake of confidentiality, they have determined for the first time that they are encounter. After major ambushes and casualties, the communication forces can withdraw on their own without having to bear the investigation of military law.

It is this series of means to ensure that radio is still an exclusive technology. Although some countries in Europe and the United States are also studying it, it will take some time to break through, and even if it is a breakthrough, they are only equipped with the first generation of simple systems, and they have to install the third generation.

It is the application of radio that allows you to receive good news from various terminals in Yan Kyoto. There are good news and bad news. They gather together, wait for the evaluation and reply of the general reference, and then send it back to each terminal for execution.

The latest news is that it was secretly sent from Europe, forwarded by the long-wave radio station on the Tingfeng reconnaissance ship patrolling in the Arabian Sea, intercepted by the newly established Borneo radio monitoring and forwarding station, and then transferred by Luzon Ryukyu and finally arrived at the monitoring station of Shandong and Lushun offshore islands almost at the same time, and After forwarding it again, I returned to Yanjing.

It seems that the telegram has taken a long road and circled tens of thousands of kilometers, but in fact, it is only two hours from sending to receiving. This is because there is a time gap between forwarding and receiving, and the extended wave signal is not ideal, which leads to such a long time.

According to Chang Lin, when the new generation of frequency-hopping radios are installed, the transmission and processing speed of telegrams will be faster, and the secret surname will be stronger.

Whether Chen Ping and Li Enfu can greatly reduce the time is not very urgent. They are most anxious to listen to the message forwarded by Fenghao at this moment.

Nicholas II has exploded beans!

Yes, it's really fried beans!

200,000 troops were stationed in Central Asia and Western Asia and Eastern Siberia, and began to recruit 50,000 Cossack cavalry. In addition, he also had to recruit 200,000 infantry in the two places again, which was 450,000 people alone. In addition to the original garrison in the Far East, the total strength was as high as 600,000!

Not to mention 600,000 people, I'm afraid that even 600,000 pigs will be killed in front of them. In order to strengthen the control of the Far East, the former army minister Kuropatkin was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Far East Military Region. It can be seen that Nicholas II is determined to fight this battle.

Although according to the efficiency of the Russians, it will take at least a year for these troops to arrive one after another, and the temporarily recruited and formed troops are not much threatened, the problem is that the northwest army on their side is also in battle. How long it will it take for Sun Jiugong to calm down Xinjiang Province, and it becomes the key to come out.

Originally, as the war in Borneo drew to an end, a large number of native hard laborers were driven out of the dense forest. After becoming the hard laborers to build Borneo and various places, 100,000 Southwest troops and five marine regiments could also pull out their hands, and at least half of them could be reinstated, but the sudden problem in Australia made the general staff decide whether to transfer them back. There are differences on the coming issues.

Walking into the Ministry of National Defense building, Chen Ping was very satisfied with the wide corridor paved with marble, a huge war analysis room, and a reading conference room. Even Li Enfu was a little envious. You know, the total area of the newly built Prime Minister's Office is not half of here. Although it is slightly larger, the decoration is not bad. It's simple, but it also costs a lot of military expenses, but after all, this is the brain of the three armies and designed by the emperor himself. After it is built, it will be used for many years, so it is not a big problem to advance.

Along the way, Chen Ping soon found the office of the Chief of General Staff on the inside of the building. There was no decoration in the spacious office, but a ceiling fan above his head had been installed. Several young people in the equipment department wanted to get rid of the noisy drum fan. The old almanac was made in my spare time, and I heard that it is still selling very well now.

Li Enfu looked at the ceiling fan and thought that this was probably the electrification advocated by Li Mo, that is, to use electricity as much as possible in the future and develop more electrical products that can use electricity.

Li Enfu turned on the ceiling fan. After trying it out, he turned off the switch and turned his head and asked, "Wonshou, has your general manager made a decision to send troops into Australia?"

Chen Ping's eyebrows tightened. Whether to send troops to Australia was an extremely cautious event. He was not worried about Australia's poor armed forces, nor about the delivery of troops. It was still a political factor to contain the delay in making a decision.

Although Australia is reading, it is still a British colony at this moment, and according to the latest information, Australia envisions a federal system similar to that of Canada. After reading, it still belongs to the scope of the Commonwealth, and the nominal supreme leader is still the British royal family!

In this way, if you intervene in Australia from the outside, I'm afraid you will immediately go to the opposite side of Britain. Even if you start from the inside, I'm afraid you will expose your layout over there, so it's such a headache.

Seeing that Chen Ping didn't speak for a long time, Li Enfu also knew what he was worried about and asked, "Won Shou, what's Duan Fei's plan?"

Duan Fei prepared to use the old method to incite opposition and use the population to coerce Western Australia not to join the Federation for the time being, but I'm afraid this trick won't work, because it will expose our arrangement in Western Australia.

Li Enfu nodded. Western Australia is currently the three most important sources of overseas materials in Xinhua. The iron, aluminum, oil and other heavy materials sent there account for a large part of Xinhua's imports. If the two major iron mines in Maoshan and Hainan had not been put into production one after another, I'm afraid the status would have been more important.

Therefore, it is extremely important to maintain the status quo of Western Australia and even merge Western Australia into Xinhua Land. The resources there are too rich. I'm afraid everyone who knows detailed data will be red-eyed. If it weren't for Thomas Mining and other companies registered abroad at this moment, and Thomas is smart, he will play more Australian capital. The local cards, plus the British don't know the details, I'm afraid they have been expelled for a long time.

But with the strengthening of the antagonism between Xinhua and the United Kingdom, no one knows whether the delicate balance deliberately maintained by the two sides will be broken. After all, Britain's influence on Australia is unmatched. If the six Australian states finally form a federation, no one can guarantee whether it will fall to the United Kingdom.

Therefore, it is necessary to maintain the military strength in Borneo and Daxia, but military means can only be the last choice, and the side effects of military means are also very obvious, which is likely to make Xinhua the public enemy of the whole Europe!

In the final analysis, Xinhua lacks a strong ally that can contain Britain in Europe, so it is crucial that the emperor can reach a comprehensive agreement with Germany on this visit.

The Australian problem is urgent. It is extremely important to come up with a proper solution. Thinking of this, Li Enfu immediately said, "Shou, can you think you can use the method of grafting flowers and trees?"

Moving flowers and grafting?

Chen Ping was surprised and said, "Mr. Li, what do you mean?"

Li Enfu immediately explained: "Western Australia can't move! This is the principle. Once Western Australia takes action, we will be exposed without knowing where we are. In that case, unless we use military means, we will definitely not end up well. So I think we can lead this disaster to other states in Australia and draw the other side's attention in Western Australia.

"Do it in other states?!"

Chen Ping took a breath. In addition to Western Australia, there are indeed some hidden investments in other parts of Australia, and they do not use Chinese employees. If these people move, then the Australian political axe will definitely stabilize internal stability first, but the question is where to do it?

"North Australia!"

Li Enfu narrowed his eyes and slowly spit out these two words!

(to be continued)