Chapter 294 Crazy China

Regarding the issue of the German navy, the commander-in-chief of the German navy, Erich Riedel, is in Yanjing and is secretly negotiating with the General Staff of the Chinese Navy. Germany hopes to build a 35,000-ton battleship. At the same time, it is best for China to support 10 heroic battleships and 4 Congo-class cruisers of the German navy free of charge. The ship.

This is the lion's mouth open.

Sa Zhenbing, the Chief of Naval General Staff, did not dare to make this decision, so he had to ask Erich Riddle to find Hu Chuyuan by himself.

It is only 47 days before Hu Chuyuan leaves the presidency.

In this calm afternoon, Hu Chuyuan invited Erich Radel, who rarely came to China, to have a cup of warm afternoon black tea to see the snow scenery of the Capital Garden.

He sat in the corridor with mild sunshine, surrounded by glass screens to block the cold wind outside. Hu Weitang, as a German translator, sat next to him, with slightly erratic eyes.

Erich Riedel sat silently in the chair next to him, with his legs upturned, wearing a black tweed coat and a cigarette in his hand. Before that, Hu Chuyuan did not know that he smoked.

Erich Riddle is 57 years old this year, but he looks younger. He seems to be only 50 years old. Since he arrived here, he has been very silent and hasn't said a few words.

In silence, Hu Chuyuan was also thinking about Erich Riddle's thoughts.

If you want to sell 10 heroic battleships in Germany, it's nothing. Even if you continue to be in debt, it's a little too much to support without compensation.

Hu Chuyuan thought to himself that Erich Riddle was still testing the determination and will of China and the Anglo-American-French Atlantic Alliance to go to war.

Thinking of this, he suddenly asked Erich Radel, "How do you feel about China?"

After Hu Weitang's interpretation into German, Erich Radel thought for a moment and said, "Now, we can generally confirm one thing... That is, in the last war, Germany's biggest failure was not to do its best to form an alliance with China, or avoid war with China, which is the most strategic mistake. The place."

Th!

Hu Chuyuan sighed in his heart.

A soldier is a soldier and won't talk nonsense to you.

Hu Chuyuan said, "If possible, we don't want to face the threat of the second world war. In fact, for us, the market is enough for the long-term development of China and Germany... However, the reason why the war is difficult to avoid is that we may not really intend to avoid it."

Erich Riedel was speechless for a moment.

He thought for a moment and asked, "Why?"

Hu Chuyuan replied simply: "If we learn to be satisfied, we will lose motivation, lose motivation, and we will gradually learn to be weak and give up, and give up those future interests."

"Maybe yes!"

Erich-Riddle's answer is simpler.

"So?" He asked Hu Chuyuan again, "What do you think about the proposal of the German navy?"

Hu Chuyuan said, "That doesn't matter. The sudden addition of so many warships in Germany will only make the situation more complicated. War is always the last resort. However, we must always be ready for war, and the first thing to prepare for war is to always win the war."

After a pause, Hu Chuyuan said again, "If you are not sure, then don't start a war."

Erich Riedel was silent for a long time. Finally, he said, "Maybe we should start with small warships. Four cruisers and about 10 destroyers will be more suitable for the current German navy, but I am more interested in submarines. In our new submarine development plan, there has always been a long-term technical reserve research, but due to military expenses, these technical reserves are also insufficient.

Hu Chuyuan said, "This is a very good and more realistic idea. You can continue to negotiate with Chief of General Staff of Sa Zhenbing about this matter. I support it. However, I want to remind you that our navy has an idea that the era of battleships may be over, and we have done a lot of secret experiments for this. The fact is... Even if the era of battleships is not over, it is not too far away. The new era may belong to aircraft carriers. If Germany is interested, we can transfer some technology, and Germany can build its own one for testing.

"This is also very good!"

Erich Reeder did not ask more questions about whether it was a battleship or an aircraft carrier, and he believed in his own judgment.

Hu Chuyuan did not explain too much. Even if the technology was transferred, he did not intend to transfer the technology of the most advanced Yabinsk-class aircraft carrier, at least not now.

What Germany has to do now is to concentrate all possible forces to develop the air force and army, as long as the navy maintains its defense.

China is different.

The opponents that China really wants to defeat are the United Kingdom and the United States. From then on, it has completely established the status of the world's largest power and dominated the world's interests by itself.

Actually, Hu Chuyuan has another idea.

He believes that Britain, France and the United States may not really want to launch a war, and no one wants to launch a war that may not have a chance of winning.

It should have been an exception.

If Russia participates in the war, it is purely gambling, betting on whether it can stick to the U.S. military to participate in the war.

However, after all, the United States is a cooked country.

It is difficult for the United States to really participate in the war unless it has to.

Britain may not want to fight.

The problem is that China actually wants to fight. China wants to be the world's first real hegemon, while Britain, France, the United States and Russia just don't want China to become the world's hegemon.

The great thing about Erich Riddle is that he saw through this. When he arrived in China, he knew it.

In China now, almost everyone is talking about a possible war.

Because China has not been defeated for so many years, the biggest victorious country after every war is China, and China has brought more huge benefits to the country every time.

Sometimes, especially these days, Erich Radel even feels that the Chinese are crazy, but... they have the capital to go crazy. This country is too big to defeat Britain and the United States at the same time.

What Germany has to do is to deal with France and Russia.

Hu Chuyuan and Erich Riedel didn't talk much about, but in the eyes of others, it was amazing. He seemed to easily let the arrogant Erich Riedel bow his head and was willing to buy four Congo-class cruisers and four Chaoyu-class destroyers from China in a "buy" way, and looked for some new technologies.

They thought it was amazing, but they didn't understand the truth!

Hu Chuyuan is like counting down, counting one day after every day.

45 days before he left office, finally came a piece of news - Japan and Russia officially confirmed to join the Atlantic Alliance. In return, the Atlantic Alliance will give Japan and the Russian Community market position, especially Japan more loans and technical assistance.

There is no doubt that this is a very troublesome thing.

Japan and Russia are very annoying.

Japan's industrial and technological strength is actually stronger than that of Persia and Poland. Its biggest problem is the lack of resources and markets, and the Atlantic Alliance has solved these problems at one time.

Population is the basis of war.

Based on the current population base, it is possible to desperately launch 7 million troops. Of course, the actual combat strength is definitely far less than that of another World War II. Anyway, the real war still depends on elite troops. The second-line troops will always be the second-tier troops.

That's why the country has been maintaining the establishment of 84 army divisions while also being equipped with 52 divisions of the National Guard. These are the second-line divisions used for preparation.

For Hu Chuyuan, the time to leave his term of office is getting closer and closer.

In the last time, he spent most of his time discussing the issue of preparing for war. Perhaps in the view of Britain, the United States, France and Russia, the greater their power, the lower the possibility of the outbreak of war. However, the fact is exactly the opposite. Without Russia, there may not be a war. With Russia, this war will definitely be fought, unless the United States The Chinese people made all the atomic bombs, and they made them earlier than China.

Is it possible?

...As Hu Chuyuan speculated, the Atlantic Alliance had no idea of fighting World War II at all. They just wanted to avoid the outbreak of war by inflating their strength.

However, there are some things that are destined to happen.

There is a certain inevitable surname in history, which Hu Chuyuan may not have thought about.

Just like Erich Riedel's judgment, China is a crazy country that believes in the power of war more crazily than the Germans.

Regarding this issue, this is by no means what Hu Chuyuan hoped for, but it is exactly like this.

Learn Germany from China in an all-round way, imitating Germany. While introducing technology from Germany, it also brings a special idea into China - militarism. The army is the pillar of the country, the soul of the country, and the cornerstone of the country.

In today's China, there is no ideal that shines more than becoming a great professional officer.

Almost all the most talented young people want to be professional officers.

In China, professional officers not only have a generous treatment, but also have a higher social status than other classes. They are enthusiastically respected by people and praised and sung like countless Greek heroes.

Lu Guangquan, Li Kaiye, Duan Qirui, Yang Zongli, Zhang Shiying, Feng Guozhang, Ye Fu, Lin Yongsheng, Deng Shichang, Sa Zhenbing... These marshals of the navy and army are being beautified and worshipped by the Chinese as gods, and influence more and more young elites to join the army.

When a nation is not afraid of war, it can not only become extremely powerful, but also become extremely terrible. Although many people of insight are worried about the hidden dangers of the Germanization of the Chinese nation and the overly blind worship of war and military power.

However, no one can stop it.

Because Hu Chuyuan himself did not realize this, he has lived in the Capital Garden for too long and has lost the basis for a neutral judgment of the whole society, just like another person in another era.

He is far away from society, but he controls the machine of the whole country.

Maybe, even if he is really defeated, Hu Chuyuan can't understand what's wrong.

Maybe he can make up for this fatal flaw, because he is so rich that he has accumulated too much wealth for this country.

How much money does he have?

In fact, it is difficult to count. Almost every day, his wealth is still rising.

The same is true of the wealth of China's central government.

China is being guided by a dream of common prosperity, tormenting, in order to pursue the "great world" for quick success and quick profit. In order to make all Chinese people extremely rich and the Chinese nation extremely prosperous, it is not the Dagong Party, but the whole social class is actively seeking war.

Unfortunately, Hu Chuyuan is so far away from this country that he can't see it.

The Prime Minister's cabinet of the New Deal Axe is almost the essence of the country. They may see it, but they also stubbornly believe that there is no war in the world that the Chinese people can't win.

Since Britain and the United States do not want China to become the hegemon of the world, they can only go to war.

We can only start a war. Use war to tell Britain, the United States, France and Russia that there is only one hegemon in the world, that is, China. Only the alliances supported by China are qualified to dominate Europe, and only the alliances supported by China are qualified to dominate the Americas.

For this dream, the whole Chinese society is running like a machine, using the country's most elite power to the military.

If Hu Chuyuan can still understand what this means in the end, he will definitely feel pain and disgust from the bottom of his heart, and he will hate himself endlessly.

He didn't realize it.

He only knew that the war was not easy to win. However, at the most critical moment, he made a very important decision, a decision that was enough to affect the fate of the whole era - less than a month before he left his job and the new president was about to be born in the country, he made an extremely special one with Li Kaiye. The decision.

They decided to nominate Cai E as the vice chairman of the National Military Commission in Congress.

China is a militaristic country, which is an indisputable fact - the most critical proof is the existence of the State Military Commission, which controls all the military forces of the country alone and reads the existence of the Chinese Prime Minister's Cabinet.

The Chinese president has the state's military command and jurisdiction, and the core organ of the president's exercise of this power is the National Military Commission.

Although the State Military Commission is a collective leadership system, the president is also the chairman of the State Military Commission, and a vice-chairman and five permanent members are set up, with a total of seven people voting together.

Among the five permanent members, the Prime Minister occupies one seat, the Chief of General Staff of the three armed forces occupies one seat, and the Minister of National Defense occupies one seat.

At present, the chairman of the National Military Commission is Hu Chuyuan, and the vice chairman is Duan Qirui. The remaining five permanent members are Premier Yang Shiqi, Chief of the Army General Staff Li Kaiye, Chief of the Navy General Staff Sa Zhenbing, Chief of the Air Force Chief of General Staff Wang Huaiqing, and Minister of Defense Zhang Shiying.

Among these seven people, Duan Qirui and Wang Huaiqing are both Tide, that is, the main supporters of Hu Weizhong. Li Kaiye and Zhang Shiying are a force. Yang Shiqi and Sa Zhenbing are neutral outside the bureau, let Cai E serve as the vice chairman and remove Duan Qirui's seat. In fact, it is to cut The power of weak Hu Wei.

For Hu Chuyuan, it is extremely difficult to make this decision.

He knows that Hu Weizhong is a very good leader with a warm love for the country and integrity... However, Hu Weizhong is not strong enough to be a prime minister than a president, at least not now.

Hu Chuyuan and Li Kaiye are more optimistic about Cai E for those who can really be president.

(to be continued)