Chapter 59: The New World Pattern (1)

The Chinese army's successive victory in the Southeast Asian battlefield was reflected in politics at the negotiating table. Faced with the aggressive attitude of the Chinese government, the British government showed abnormal weakness and repeatedly demanded that the Chinese government stop military operations, and everything was easy to discuss. Even the United States, Russia, and France suggested that the war be stopped immediately and that China and Britain should negotiate.

The Chinese government has not made a clear statement about the various suggestions of Western countries, and its attitude has always been vague. This attitude is combined with the Chinese army's actions to occupy Singapore and the Malay Peninsula. In the eyes of Western countries, it means that the Chinese still want to continue fighting and gain greater benefits through war.

Faced with the military pressure of the Chinese government, the British government has demanded negotiations internationally, while it has begun to prepare for a big war. The entire UK and all colonies have entered a comprehensive preparation for war. Although the current domestic state and economic form of Britain do not allow the British to fight, how could the old-fashioned power of Britain keep putting China on its head and not fighting back?

In Beijing, a special meeting was underway, and almost all the top figures in the military and political circles attended the meeting.

The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Zhang Jian. After a brief summary of the meeting, Minister of Defense Liu Mingchuan took the lead in speaking.

"According to statistics, our troops do not have enough supplies to carry out the next major battle. The entire Navy's special mixed fleet only has a base shell, and more than half of our ace submarines have only carried two torpedoes. In this case, I would like to ask the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Industry, how are you doing? To put it bluntly, now the British will organize a large fleet to fight, and our navy will be completely destroyed."

Minister of Industry Fang Ming immediately stood up and defended: "His Excellency President, Prime Minister, and colleagues, everyone should know clearly that although our country's industry has developed greatly in the past decade, we have also seen that the fastest development of our country's industry is the civil industry. We have not made great progress in the development of military industry and large-scale production. Yes, we have produced many advanced and excellent weapons, but the low output of these weapons is determined by the current military industry capabilities.

Take submarines as an example. We built the first submarine three years ago, but until now, we only own thirty submarines in total. Many of the submarine's techniques are currently insurmountable for most shipyards.

The production speed of new rifles and machine guns, as well as new howitzers and cannons is not fast. In ten years, we have only equipped three divisions in total. It’s not that we can’t build them, but that new rifles and machine guns are too expensive. The existing military enterprises cannot afford such consumption at all." Fang Ming said and sat back on his seat in a quiet voice.

It was the Ministry of Transportation’s turn to speak. Tang Tingshu, the shy boy in Japan, was now a senior government official. He stood up calmly, smiled at Yang Yi and Zhang Jian, and nodded to everyone, and then spoke slowly.

"This battle against Southeast Asia can be said to be a major test for our transportation department. When the President issued an emergency combat order, we assembled 1,000 civilian ships at the first time, with a total tonnage of more than 1.85 million and 300 tons. But I tell you that the total tonnage of these ships is three quarters of the total of all ships in our country. You should understand. That's it, our transportation power cannot allow our soldiers in front of us to get enough supplies and ammunition, and our opponent, the United Kingdom, once the country enters the national mobilization, the tonnage of the ships they can concentrate will be three times or even more than ours. What I want to say is that the battlefield is now in Asia and in our South China Sea. If we attack the Indian Ocean, what will the result be? Everyone should be clear."

The speeches of the three ministers calmed everyone down. The war not only fought against weapons and equipment, but also comprehensive national strength. China started late. In terms of comprehensive national strength, we are far from comparable to European powers. This is a must-have understanding.

Yang Yi knew about the above situation a few days ago. This is also the reason why the Chinese army did not immediately launch an attack on the Malay Peninsula after occupying the Philippines. Although the Chinese army has an advantage in weapons, the role of this advantage is not very continuation. The supply and supply of the Chinese army is far from enough to support a huge war machine.

After everyone was quiet for a long time, Yang Yi finally spoke: "Everyone must have read the newspapers for the past few days. The remarks in the newspapers require our army to continue fighting and fight the British out of Asia. I have a responsibility for this. What I want to tell you is that the current war is just an exercise for China, an exercise of the comprehensive capabilities of the national military power after the national general mobilization. Through this battle, many problems have been exposed, such as we are in Singapore. It is entirely possible that we can avoid the solid fortifications of Singapore fortresses, but we cannot do so. Why?

The first is that our commanders are blindly optimistic, and the second is that our intelligence department is not doing its work carefully enough. Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win a hundred battles, and this must be improved in the future. I dare say that in twenty years, at most twenty years, a large-scale war will break out in this world, and we must make all preparations to welcome the arrival of this war.

Several wars have told us that only by walking ahead of the world can we avoid being passively beaten. This time we win, and the next time I hope to win is still us.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, draft a negotiation condition as soon as possible, and it is time for us to grind the nagging with the British."

Yang Yi's speech ended the brief and efficient meeting.

The Chinese finally agreed to the negotiations, and the entire Europe and the entire country that entered the capitalist stage breathed a sigh of relief. The British were glad that they had a chance to breathe, and the Americans were glad that they had a chance to catch up with China quickly.

After the news of the armistice negotiations came, the Taigo Post published a commentary on the war. The article pointed out that the whole of Europe and the world must clearly see a fact that a powerful China has appeared in the eyes of the world. If it is a coincidence and the luck of the Chinese people after two coalition forces were defeated by the Chinese army more than ten years ago, then this time we have to admit that China has used the fact that it completely wiped out the East Indian Ocean and Eastern Pacific fleets of the British Empire to tell us that China has now become a powerful country in the world, and in military terms, the Chinese are at the forefront of the world.

The London Morning Post published an commentary: "Why did we fail? Why did the British Royal Navy, which was invincible for three hundred years, fail? Are they not brave? Is it the years of victory that eroded their fighting spirit? No, our Royal Navy soldiers were loyal and brave enough. When they fought to the last moment, they fired the last bullet, but we still failed. Why? The only explanation is that we were behind and we were left behind by the Chinese."

All kinds of self-reflective and critical articles filled the speech of the whole of Britain. A few days later, the Taigoshi Post published another article that shocked Europe, "What have the Chinese done in these thirty years?" The article started in 1840. After the Chinese were forced to open the country, after ten years of painful reflection, some knowledgeable people clearly saw the gap between China and the world's advanced countries, especially the President of China, His Excellency Yang Yi, who raised funds in these 20 years and sent a large number of overseas studies to Europe.

Students, in the past twenty years, Chinese people are trying hard to study on any famous European and American university campus. According to incomplete statistics, in the past twenty years, China has poached nearly one million talents from Europe and the United States with high salaries. Among them are scientists, inventors, school teachers, and skilled technicians in my factory. What does this mean? It shows that our government departments ignore the loss of talents, which is a dereliction of duty, a serious dereliction of duty, and a serious crime.

This article is like a bombshell, which makes European and American countries faint. In twenty years, the Chinese have taken away so many people. What does these talents mean? Therefore, European countries all understand very well.

All European countries and the United States responded quickly. For all those who applied to go to China, no matter what they did, they must first check the 18th generation of ancestors, so as not to not come back if they went there.

Europe and the United States also clearly saw the power of submarines after this war. Without advanced anti-submarine forces, a powerful naval formation was forced to hide in the military port, which was simply a humiliation. All countries have also begun to increase the production and development of submarines and increase the development of anti-submarine weapons.

After the first defeat of China, Western countries discovered the power of the Chinese heavy machine guns. In the past decade, they tried every means to produce machine guns and mortars. In this war, they saw the Chinese army's leading individual weapons. The huge advantages shown by the new automatic rifles and semi-automatic rifles are difficult for British soldiers holding single-shot rifles to resist.

The whole West is reflecting on itself. With Europe's strong industrial production capacity, it is not difficult to catch up with China in a short period of time. Although the Chinese government is not willing to see all this, some things cannot be changed at all. The Chinese government has to do a lot, vigorously develop the domestic economy, develop civil industry, military industry, develop navies, and develop more advanced land warfare weapons.

The negotiations with Britain were soon in progress, and the British were forced to give up all the colonies east of Malacca and compensate the Chinese government for the war losses of 20 million pounds. This result was indecent for Britain, but in fact, Britain was still acceptable. Britain and the entire world needed time to recover and restore the wounds brought by this economic crisis, because the next economic crisis triggered another war, which would not be the size of the present.

The Chinese government proved its strength with a war with the world's most powerful countries. At the same time, it also brought China into the ranks of world-class powers. The end of the war brought a brief peace, and European and American powers began to concentrate on dealing with the economic crisis. All countries were silently licking the wounds brought by the economic crisis in the dark like wounded hungry wolves.

The Germans soon entered militarism, a new capitalist power, unwilling to be uneven in the distribution of interests in the world, and began to have crazy armaments. Faced with the threat of their neighbors, Britain and France quickly responded, and the parliament quickly passed a resolution to increase military input. All phenomena show that peace is only temporary, and greater wars are threatening various countries. (After the Franco-Prussian War, France ended the imperial system and entered a democratic model.)

After this victory, the people's trust in the government reached another level, and the People's Party's prestige in the country reached an unprecedented position, but the problem was quickly exposed. In a report by the China Times, the China Times exposed some illegal businessmen who colluded with government officials. In the war between China and Britain, they used your inferior cotton to produce medicinal cotton and used dead pigs and old sow meat to produce canned food to supply it to the troops, causing a large number of wounded people to worsen and die. After some troops ate canned food, the entire line of troops was poisoned and completely lost their combat effectiveness.

The Navy Commander-in-Chief Liu Yuan slapped the table for all these things, and the Anti-Corruption Bureau also responded quickly. The relevant personnel were quickly arrested by the judicial department and awaiting trial. After hearing the news, Yang Yi said furiously: "These borers, the soldiers in front are bleeding and fighting hard, and they are making a fortune in the rear. These people have nothing to say, one word (kill), no matter what origin and origin he is, kill them. All property will be confiscated."

With the in-depth investigation of these issues, more and more people were involved, and later a huge corruption group was dug up, which was not discovered in the anti-corruption purge before the economic crisis.

The results of the investigation show that more than 30 relatives of government officials were involved, and seven of Yang Yi's wife were involved. The problem was so big that no one expected that the personnel of the Anti-Corruption Bureau were in a dilemma.

Yang Yi's attitude came out soon. All the people involved in the case were punished according to the actual situation and according to the law, and no one could escape the legal sanctions.

After this case, four of Yang Yi's relatives were shot in one breath, but Yang Yi personally decided. The entire Yang family was also in a bleak state. The most favored concubine Xie family was executed, three tribe brothers were executed, one of the Shen family was killed, two were sentenced to lifelessness, six were sentenced to ten or twenty years, and one of Erya's cousin was also sentenced to lifelessness. There was no problem with the three sisters of Qi Hengbo, Xiaoyue, and Zhou Xiuying's family.
Chapter completed!