the world is at stake

The main force of the United Fleet has to return to Hong Kong for maintenance from time to time, because the naval base in Singapore is not big enough to meet the logistical support of the fleet.

In addition, it only takes more than 6000 kilometers to travel from Hawaii to Japan.If the fleet is moved forward, there are still Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam and other places that can be used.

Guam is only more than 2000 kilometers away from Yokosuka, and it is outside the attack range of land-based aviation. It is a very safe starting point for attacks.The Philippines is also in the hands of the US military and can provide shelter and barriers for the fleet.

But the only disadvantage is that the main force of the Sino-Japanese joint fleet is not in Yokosuka, but in Singapore to carry out the combat mission of attacking Southeast Asia, its whereabouts are erratic, and it is protected by land-based aviation.

In the era without nuclear weapons, it was very difficult to destroy a military base by air strikes.At best, the U.S. fleet paralyzed Yokosuka, but it could be repaired in half a year.

In addition, the U.S. military staff had another idea—throwing incendiary bombs on Tokyo, using the characteristics of most of the low wooden buildings in the city to destroy this most important industrial city in Japan.

The staff officer who proposed this idea was scolded by Hart.

It's not that the lieutenant general doesn't want to hurt civilians, but what if he burns the city?The key to this battle is how to find and destroy the Sino-Japanese joint fleet.

President Marco Shi in Washington also knew that it would be difficult for the U.S. military to capture the Sino-Japanese joint fleet. He proposed a new idea-dividing the Pacific Fleet into two parts.

Some of the ships disguised as the main force arrived in Guam, harassing the coast of China and attracting the combined fleet to attack.The real main force stayed on Wake Island in the rear, waiting to launch.

But there is a premise that the United Fleet will really come out.

However, according to the attitude of the Chinese government, it may only intervene in the war until the British attack the Great Lakes, and wait for the US military to return to the mainland to easily seize the islands in the Western Pacific.

The U.S. military is not willing to fall into the bad situation of being attacked by the enemy.

So the idea of ​​"burning Tokyo" has returned to the upper-level vision of the US military-two-thirds of the combined fleet is the Japanese navy, and the Japanese capital has been burned. The Japanese can't sit idly by.

This will inevitably force the United Fleet to attack Guam and even Wake Island. At that time, it will be the opponent for the transoceanic expedition. After this idea was conceived, it was unanimously approved by the US military and political circles.

As for how to trigger such an unjust war, it is not a problem for the Americans at all.

Just 20 years ago, in order to snatch the American and Asian colonies from Spain, the Yankees set fire to the USS Maine, bombed and sunk their warships and planted it on their opponents.

With the idea of ​​creating troubles to attract the Sino-Japanese joint fleet to attack, then a series of actions such as how to feint, how to pick things up, how to make false information, and how to deceive the opponent into chaos.

Thomas Hart arrived in Hawaii as the Minister of Operations to personally command the front line, just to arrange this war related to the fate of the United States without any mistakes.

At the moment, in the officer's canteen in Pearl Harbor, several local cooks are busy using dough mixers and ovens to make bread.

The U.S. military has tens of thousands of officers and soldiers at Pearl Harbor, and the food and drink of so many people must rely on local procurement of some fresh food.Every day, logistics staff buy what they need at the farms on the island.

When several trucks brought in the vegetables of the day, more than a dozen porters carried the baskets into the back kitchen of the cafeteria, and deliberately kicked one of the baskets several times.

A cook is in charge of the counting.After the porter left, she opened the basket and found a small oilcloth bag among the piles of potatoes, kale, and cabbages.

The package was opened, and inside was a small camera.

The other cooks quickly divided up the work.Someone went to the back door to look out, someone pushed open the kitchen window.Someone pulled out a trailer and moved the tin buckets of kitchen waste onto it.

Outside the window of the officer's canteen is the port pier, where hundreds of warships of the size of the US Pacific Fleet are docked at the berths.One of the aircraft carriers and two battleships are receiving fuel and ammunition supplies, while several other capital ships are not in the port.

The cook who grabbed the camera snapped a few photos of the berth, and tore off a page from the notepad in the kitchen, roughly recording the changes of ships entering and leaving the port.

In addition, there are always all sorts of half-clawed words in the officer's canteen, and these will be recorded by the attentive waiters.After finishing the daily work of photographing and intelligence gathering, the camera and paper pages were stuffed back into the oilcloth bag and thrown into the dirty kitchen waste.

After a while, the garbage workers walked into the back kitchen and pulled away the tin buckets and trailers.It will be sent to a nearby farm to be fed to pigs.

The people who do this work are native Hawaiians on the island.Recently, the U.S. military intelligence agency has deliberately screened their identities, and those who have only been on the island in the past ten years or are too young will not be accepted.

Only local residents of Hawaii who are judged to be honest, hard-working, and from a better family are eligible to enter the port military base and contribute to serving American soldiers.

But it was this group that was supposed to rely on the Americans that was turned against them under the banner of national liberation and national independence.

The tin bucket containing kitchen waste swill was transported away by a dirty truck.The U.S. military police guarding the base turned a blind eye to the car, and had no intention of inspecting it despite the stench.

The car drove all the way to the island farm, and the oilcloth bag in the barrel was found again.The negatives and paper strips are sent to the darkroom, and after the photos are developed, professionals will interpret them.

Obtaining information is easy, but how to disseminate information is difficult.

Relying on radio is definitely not enough. It is impossible for the latent organizations on the island to be equipped with high-power radio stations that can transmit thousands of kilometers, and even if they are, they cannot be used.

The usual method is to use fishing boats to send the information away, which is not very time-sensitive, but it is relatively safe.But recently, the U.S. military blocked the entire island of Oahu, prohibiting the island residents from leaving, and also prohibiting the sending of civilian telegrams.

So there is only one way to borrow the US military's own communication system.

This again requires the use of moles embedded in the US military—thanks to Mark, if it weren't for his coup, dictatorship, and large-scale military expansion, it would be really difficult to find a "friend" in the US military.

But now, the United States, an immigrant country, naturally has many 'rebels'.Some were even inserted by British, French and German intelligence agencies ten years ago, and they were deeply hidden.

Now the four countries have joined forces to "demolish the home" of the United States, sharing intelligence and helping each other.The information obtained by Chinese intelligence agents is often transmitted through channels inside the UK.

After more than [-] hours of tossing and turning, the intelligence of the US Pacific Fleet was finally sent to the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Imperial Defense Ministry.About the movement in Pearl Harbor is sent to a few domestic military and political high-level officials every day.

Zhou Qingfeng didn't care about major issues, but Qin Qing, as the Premier of the State Council, definitely had the right to know.He has toured the country for the past year, and when he finally came home, he found his wife staring at Hawaii on the map in a daze.

"The navy wants to attack Hawaii?" Zhou Qingfeng smiled and put his arms around his wife's waist, and asked, "What a surprise, the United Fleet will set off again to stab Lao Mei's heart."

Qin Qing smiled, she was born in Guoan, she never talked about government affairs at home, let alone mention top secrets, even with her husband.She turned her head and asked, "What have you gained outside recently?"

"Inspect the work of 'combining villages and towns' in various places, and supervise the construction of large collective farms." Zhou Qingfeng curled his lips, "It's all trivial grassroots matters, very annoying."

At the beginning of the [-]th century, the Chinese countryside was extremely backward. Many villages had only a hundred households, and there were even ten or seven or eight households in remote mountainous areas.Its ability to resist natural disasters is extremely poor, and it lacks education and health resources, making it difficult to develop.

The Ministry of Rural Affairs and Agriculture under the State Council will promote the 'combination of villages and towns' to build large villages and towns with at least a thousand households.With more people, it is easier to do things, you can run primary schools and hospitals, you can build roads and open canals, and you can raise funds and work together.

Large villages and towns can also greatly strengthen the government's management capabilities and combat local clan forces.But for the Chinese society that is "relocating the land and relocating", this is no less than a big change of customs and traditions, and there is great resistance.

Qin Qing smiled, she knew that there were some things that could not be pushed by others, and could only be settled with Zhou Qingfeng's savage character.Whenever the husband says 'very annoying', bad luck to the group behind the policy's implementation.

"When will the Pacific War start?" Zhou Qingfeng looked at the map hanging on the wall of his home, and also stared at Hawaii, and said, "The Yankees seem to have the momentum to use us to practice their hands. Does the Ministry of National Defense have a response plan?"

"Yes." Qin Qing didn't hide the truth from her husband, but said in a low voice: "It's just that we are considering whether to take targeted strikes, or to learn from Little Roosevelt, and wait for the opponent to ignite the flames of war."

"Uh... what do you mean?" Zhou Qingfeng didn't participate in the Standing Committee recently, so he didn't know what was going on inside the 'Holy Light'.

Qin Qing shook his head, "You'd better do your 'combination of villages and towns'. This matter is more important than war, and it is related to the country's century-old plan. When you do it well, the battle situation will be clear."

Thinking about the bad things he encountered in the rural reform, Zhou Qingfeng yelled with a headache: "Grassroots work is more difficult than sitting in an office. If I had known this, I would not have gone out."

Chapter 80 Public Opinion

Although the world war is about to reach its climax, the most important thing in China at the moment is not war, but the 'merging of villages and towns' that Zhou Qingfeng complained about vigorously.

The restart of time and space will soon be ten years old. At the beginning of the advent of the 'Holy Light', social reforms were carried out, but it was not until ten years later that they really had the strength to reshape the administrative structure of the entire country.

Now it is necessary to reduce the number of administrative villages below the county level and improve production and management efficiency.

According to the experience of "later generations" - if you want to get rich, build roads first.Only when transportation is good can raw materials and products be circulated at low cost, thereby stimulating economic development.

Also in order to spread the cost, road construction has to be built in places with a lot of people and resources.

'One hundred years later' China can spend huge sums of money to build roads and electrify single-family households in remote mountainous areas, but today's China absolutely does not have such capabilities.Precious reinforced concrete cannot be wasted casually.

In 1910, China's railway mileage was close to 4 kilometers, but the road network was scattered and managed differently.Ten years later, the mileage of standard gauge railways in China has now reached more than [-] kilometers, basically connecting the first- and second-tier provincial capital cities.

But the traffic in third- and fourth-tier cities cannot be ignored.

As a result, cheap and low-tech narrow-gauge railways have been launched one after another-the Ministry of Communications has considered overhauling roads across the country, but the annual production of cars is less than 20, and the priority supply to the army is not enough.

Moreover, the current domestic oil production is not high, and diesel and gasoline are restricted purchase materials.Coal-burning steam locomotives are more convenient and cheap to operate, and more practical.

Zhou Qingfeng is a person who cannot sit still.

After returning to the emperor for three days, he fed his wife and two concubines to their fullest, and then left the ministries compound with the guards and secretaries, ran to the Chaoyangmen train station, and casually boarded an intercity train. Take a good stroll around the imperial capital.

Narrow-gauge railways are meter-gauge, with smaller carriages, but a lot of passengers.Zhou Qingfeng got into the car and asked an old man sitting across from him with a smile, "Mr., where are you from?"

The old man's face was full of wrinkles, he was not young, and his expression was very gloomy.His clothes are made of cotton and linen blended materials, which are cheap and high-grade, showing his status.

The narrow-gauge train has started, the wheels are rattling.Listening to someone chatting and asking questions, the old man sighed: "I am from Henan, but I went to Beijing to file a complaint but failed. The officials didn't care about the matter, but instead sent me home."

There are many people in the carriage, crowded, the air is turbid, and the sound is noisy.The conductor pushed the small truck and squeezed over like a salesman, selling melon seeds and dried fruits.

Zhou Qingfeng opened the window to ventilate the train, then waved to the conductor, bought some snacks to distribute to his fellow passengers, and asked the old man with a smile, "Complaint? I like to hear about this. What's the complaint?"

The passengers in the carriage come from all over the world, and getting together is considered fate.Everyone kowtowed sunflower seeds and stared intently at the frowning old man.Even the children in the car ate the delicious lotus leaf roast chicken and stopped crying.

The old man cursed bitterly, "I don't know that bastard who suffered from the plague in the past year went into hysteria, slapped his head and sent out some documents, insisting on demolishing our village.

This not only demolished the village, but also demolished the cemetery and the ancestral hall.The villagers disagreed, and it dragged on for half a year.As a result, a group of soldiers from the armed forces department in the county came and forced us to demolish them.

Our village was able to produce Juren back then, and there is a century-old archway at the entrance of the village.No matter who comes, don't boast about "outstanding talents, heirs of poems and books", but it turns out that it is useless, and the officials must be demolished. "

"Violent demolition." Zhou Qingfeng said "oh".

Before I could ask for more details, a young man eating melon seeds next to me suddenly sneered and asked: "Mr., you look like you have studied, do you still live in the village?"

The old man was taken aback, and replied: "I teach in the county, but I still have to go back to the village to worship my ancestors during festivals."

The young man smiled again, "Are you happy to let you go back to the village for a long time?"

This remark made the old man unhappy, and he said angrily: "You are young, and your tone is the same as those who are officials. I am a teacher, how can I live in the village? Besides, the farmers in the village are hard to leave their homeland. Could it be that they are digging people?" Is the ancestral grave also reasonable?"

For more than a year, the work of "merging villages and towns" has indeed caused a lot of noise all over the country. There are those who don't understand, those who complain, and those who openly resist.

The old man opened his mouth, and there was a lot of discussion in the carriage.

But the young man laughed even more, "Did the ancestors want to see future generations suffer and suffer from poverty? Old man, you are from the private school in the past, right? What is your family status? I bet you are not a poor peasant."

With this sentence, the discussion in the carriage quickly suppressed.Originally, everyone sympathized with the sad-faced old man, but when they asked about family status, a class gap appeared.

Those who can be teachers must not be poor peasants.

The old man probably suffered a lot on similar issues, he hummed twice in disbelief, and shut up immediately.The young man was no match for him, and said sarcastically: "What age is this, can you get rich by guarding the graves of your ancestors?

Let's say we take this narrow-gauge railroad, which the papers say is cheap to build and quick to fix.In the past few years, [-] kilometers have been repaired in various provinces.

Regardless of how slow it runs, the speed is only thirty kilometers per hour.But as long as a city passes it, life will definitely be easier.

Old sir, I am not going to scold you.You yourself don't want to be poor and go to the county, so why do you want others to stay in the countryside for you?Is it to guard the grave? "

"That's right!" A middle-aged man next to him interjected, and said in a firm tone: "I heard that a city with a population of 30 can be promoted to a county-level city, and you can use your own funds to connect to the railway.

I am from Hebei, and several counties in our area are trying to find ways to concentrate the population in the county town so that it is convenient to apply for setting up a railway platform in the county.

As long as there is a railway platform, the agricultural products in the county can be easily sold at a good price, and it is also convenient to set up a factory and open a mine, and the money comes quickly.It is easier even for poor people to go out and find odd jobs.

In the past, people in our village could not collect much food even if they were exhausted to death in a year, and they couldn't even earn a firewood or a rice.In winter, they can only stay at home and survive by drinking porridge.

Now everyone has learned to be smart. After the autumn harvest, they will try to go out to do odd jobs. Even if they don’t make much money, they can at least fill their stomachs.Cornmeal buns are definitely enough, and you can still eat meat for a tooth festival in a month or so. "

The middle-aged man said happily.Another burly man continued, "How can you not make money? It must be. We built a narrow-gauge railway two years ago. It was originally used for mining, and later it was connected to the city's standard gauge.

The construction of the railway really opened the eyes of the common people.

Now the girls and boys in the village dislike the exhaustion of farming, and would rather work as workers in factories and mines.We have a lime mine there, and there are glass factories and ironworks in the county, and every time we recruit workers, they are full of people. "

As soon as he said this, several passengers immediately asked where the strong man was from?Is the factory still recruiting staff?Everyone's tone was eager, obviously they were very concerned about the job recruitment.

But the strong man waved his hands and smiled, "Now the state-owned factories and enterprises in various places only recruit veterans. Private enterprises also like to use veterans."

This is another topic.The voices of the crowd were even louder, one was the number of conscription places in various places, and the other was the ongoing war.

The outside world only knows that China has expanded its military by 500 million in response to the war, and also increased its military expenditure by five times in one breath, but they don't know that there is a lot of water in it.

But for ordinary people, they know that joining the army is one of the few channels to change their destiny.

More than half of the 500 million troops are land reclamation divisions and engineers.From enlistment to discharge, many soldiers have never even touched a gun a few times, and they are trained to study and repair the earth all day long.

This is to provide a way out for young people aged 15 and above, who are no longer suitable for learning cultural knowledge from primary school, before basic education is universalized.Keep them from being stuck forever.

There are hundreds of millions of people in this group, and the number is huge. It is a waste of human resources to let it go.However, they came out of the agricultural society and were not suitable for industrial production at all, so they had to join the army and undergo discipline reform.

For factories, veterans who are punctual and disciplined are obviously more suitable workers than rural youths who lack the sense of time.This in turn forced all regions to compete for conscription places.

Every year during the conscription season in the spring and autumn, the military departments of various places have to fight like a war. They not only need to apply for more quotas from their superiors, but also ensure that the best soldiers are sent to the troops.

So China's 500 million troops seem huge and bloated, but they are actually a super-sized military training camp.Although the cost of raising troops is high, the benefits are also extremely high.

After completing two or three years of military service, a large number of soldiers seem to be tempered in a furnace, their abilities doubled, and returning to the local area is also the backbone of the construction.

The State Council is planning to continue to expand the size of the army to 1000 million in order to allow more young people of school age to receive training.In particular, increase the number of female soldiers and improve women's rights.

In the eyes of other great powers, the Chinese army is a mysterious existence.The people are very enthusiastic about joining the army, and the soldiers also have a strong enthusiasm for training and fighting in order to be promoted.

The millions of full-time troops not only did not drag China down, but made it stronger and stronger.In contrast, the benefits of joining the army in Europe and the United States are few, and the people are unwilling to join the army, so they have to implement compulsory military service.

In the past, Russia had a standing army of more than 100 million, which frightened Western European countries enough.Now China has almost no possibility of land aggression, but the standing army will be stable at around tens of millions for a long time, which is too scary.

The young man at the beginning took up the topic and said: "The newspaper said that the rural population will only decrease in the future. If everyone wants to live a better life, they will try their best to move to the city.

Instead of waiting for the natural demise of the countryside in the future, it is better to transform the countryside now to make it more adaptable to the future.I just came out of the village, but I don't want to go back no matter what. "

Zhou Qingfeng asked the young man, "Where are you going to stay?"

"I want to stay in the imperial capital, after all, it's easy to find a job." The young man laughed at himself, "But I'm average, so I'm afraid I won't be able to stay. It doesn't matter, the surrounding cities are also fine.

I listened to the news on the radio, saying that the drought in North China meant that the emperor was not suitable for carrying too many urban populations, and that colleges, enterprises and even government agencies were going to be moved out.Industries can be concentrated, but the population cannot be overly concentrated.