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    "I suggest that Myitkyina be independent from Yunnan and form a new province with the three states and Sikkim." After cabinet ministers and military officials rushed to the presidential palace, Murong Han proposed the idea of ??dividing the province.

    The division of provinces and cities in the Republic of China was different from that of later generations. For example, the three northeastern provinces of the Republic are now nine provinces. Inner Mongolia also has Chahar and Suiyuan. Outer Mongolia is divided into three provinces: east, middle and west. Xinjiang is also divided into three provinces. Sichuan and Tibet are also divided into Xikang Province.  The area is also much smaller than the parallel world.  As early as the "Shanghai Communique" recognized that Myitki belonged to China, this primitive area with high mountains and dense forests was included in Yunnan Province, bordering the three northeastern states of India.  But if we continue to merge the three states into Yunnan now, the area will be too big for management, so Murong Han proposed to merge them into Myitkyina Province.  At the same time, he also proposed to separate Hainan from Guangdong and establish Hainan Province separately, change the merged Anambas Islands and Natuna into Natuna City, and merge the South China Sea Islands (Xisha, Nansha, Zhongsha, etc.) into  Nanhai City is administratively governed by Hainan Province.  The Batan Islands and Babuyan Islands, which were recently seized from Japan, will be incorporated into Taiwan Province. The Babuyan Islands and Bashi Islands, the Yaeyama Islands and Miyako Islands in Ryukyu will all be incorporated into Taiwan Province.  This will ensure that even if there are changes in the Philippines and Ryukyu in the future, they can still control the two sections of Taiwan's seaports.  The Northern Mariana must not be given up, and the islands mentioned by Bingwen must also be incorporated into unorganized territories. As for the other islands in the archipelago, even if they are incited to become independent by Britain and the United States, it has nothing to do with the overall situation.

    "I agree with the Department of the Navy that the United States will return to the Pacific sooner or later. Therefore, the first island chain from the Marshall Islands to Micronesia and the second island chain from the Chiba Islands to the South China Sea are the top priority of maritime defense and must be  Do it immediately." Murong Han continued: "We can't be afraid of trouble and miss this opportunity to open up India's seaport. Since Myitkyina can build military narrow gauges, it can also build standard gauges. When the Muslim League in Bangladesh becomes independent in the future, we can build it.  The railway has been laid all the way to Dhaka Port. And everyone knows the situation in India. Taking Sikkim and the Northeast is equivalent to surrounding Bhutan. Even if the British come back, they will have to sell our face. Not to mention the oil and gas in Digboy, India  Coal and iron are most urgently needed for the construction of the Southwest. Even without these, resources from the Persian Gulf and Africa can be transported back through the China-India Railway in the future. This saves money and trouble and can also boost the economies of Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou.  cut."

    Murong Han and Gu Weijun are completely opposite people. As mentioned earlier, during his fifteen years as Minister of Justice, he was very strict in combating crime.  In one fell swoop, he reversed social problems such as corruption, gangs, and crime caused by Xinhai and Li Yuanhong's early adoption of self-cultivation and tolerance, and established the independence and authority of the law. He was known as the "Iron-faced Tiger" and won the support of the people.  .  Gu Weijun is the kind of Westernized but moderate politician who is flexible and better at handling complex interpersonal relationships.  You know, although Yang Qiu has been streamlining government personnel and reforming administrative agencies, he has also legislated in Congress to limit the proportion of civil servants.  However, the thousands of years of official-oriented thinking cannot be changed, so there are currently 1.5 million government civil servants in the country, which does not include teachers and scientific research institutions who are supported by the government.  With a large number of people, there will naturally be uneven distribution of good and bad, and cases of corruption and corruption also occur from time to time.  If Gu Weijun hadn't sorted it out properly, Yang Qiu thought he might not have been able to manage it well.

    Another reason for Gu Weijun to form the cabinet is that he has a long career in Europe and the United States and is familiar with British and American thinking and methods of doing things.  more suitable for the current international environment.

    Therefore, Murong Han¡¯s suggestion was supported by the military and many people, including Jiang Baili and Yue Peng.  It can be seen that after decades of influence and practical operation.  The idea that peace is the most important thing among great powers has faded away in the minds of many people. Especially events such as the Asian League, the Siberian Referendum and the Pacific Island Chain have allowed the people to see the benefits of war, and the government has seen a conflict with the old colonial  Times are completely different from the expansion model of new great powers.

    Everyone worked together and soon came up with a plan called "Pacific Haven".  According to the plan, the government will allocate 500 million yuan as soon as possible to provide assistance to the currently controlled overseas trusteeship areas, help restore local production and life, and build airports, navigation control, gas stations and more on more than 40 selected islands.  Seaport terminals and other facilities will serve as a haven and transfer station for future aviation and navigation.  At the same time, Kwajalein Atoll, Tarawa Atoll, Wake Island, Truk Atoll (not yet occupied), Santa Cruz Islands, Minamitori Island, Ogasawara Islands, Volcanic Islands, Ogasawara Islands, etc. were closed for the sole purpose of military needs.  Eastern Islands, Batan Islands, Babuyan Islands, Cocos Islands, Bismarck Islands (not yet occupied), Andaman and Nicobar Islands and other islands, all the indigenous people on them will be moved away, permanent military facilities will be built, and finally  They will also immigrate to all managed islands in the name of hired workers.

    The establishment of Myitkyina Province and Hainan Province was also quickly decided. The provincial capital of the former was placed in Myitkyina City, and Hainan Province was placed in Haikou. After the draft was drafted, Gu Weijun submitted it to Congress for review.  If approved, the government will allocate a total of 1.5 billion yuan to the two provinces in the next three years.  This money can only be used to convert the current military narrow gauge in Myitkyina into a standard double track.Erpaiguri and Digboy will build commercial airports and permanent military bases, strengthen local economic construction, promote Chinese education, etc., and strive to fully integrate them into the national management system within five years.

    Yang Qiu also emphatically requested Gu Weijun to speed up the demarcation of borders and the signing of territorial agreements with neighboring countries. He requested that natural mountains and rivers be used as boundaries as much as possible, and the approach of focusing on the big and letting go of the small should be adopted to provide some compensation to neighboring countries as much as possible, so as to calm down the consequences of the Siberian referendum.  It strives to end all territorial demarcation work in the four directions of southeast, southwest, central Asia and northeast Asia before the end of 1945.  He also called for the immediate launch of the "Ural Plan" and the "Nanyang Plan". The former is to provide funds and assistance to Tatars and other former Soviet ethnic minorities, to establish ethnic reserves from the west of the Yenisei River to the Ural region, and to prepare for the establishment of an independent country in the future.  The latter is to promote the independence of Singapore, Borneo and Sumatra as soon as possible, and to sign indefinite troop stationing agreements with them first to ensure China's national interests in Malacca and the South China Sea.

    Militaryly, Yang Qiu once again vetoed the plan to land in Japan, but agreed with the General Staff and the Air Force to expand the scale of bombing to include some Japanese symbolic buildings and landmarks, including the Yasukuni Shrine, and at the same time transfer the main tasks of the Korean battlefield to the North Korean army.  The National Defense Force has shifted from the main offensive to providing auxiliary operations such as air and armored assaults. The 800,000 main troops, including Zhuo Fan, will gradually withdraw for rest and recuperation in the next two months.  He also asked the General Staff to complete the clearing of the Okhotsk coast as soon as possible, seize the Chiba Islands, and prepare to build military facilities in Kamchatka and other northeastern territories.  Finally, plans were approved for the establishment of the first three Far North residential areas next summer.

    He also proposed to separate the Marine Corps and establish a special Marine Corps headquarters, allowing Song Ziqing to draft new military regulations and prepare to amend the constitution.  In order to learn from the United States, the Marine Corps will be able to mobilize troops at any time without congressional authorization in the future, which is also one of the symbols of interventionism.  He demanded that the General Staff, the Ministry of National Defense and the three armed forces must end the Singapore, Malay Peninsula and Tehran campaigns before April, strive to defeat Japan in early 2009 or mid-2019, and completely resolve the major wars in East Asia.  And be prepared to send armies to the Middle East and Egypt to prevent the Suez Canal and Baghdad from being occupied by the Soviets.

    Yang Qiu also established the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Labor based on the suggestions of Gu Weijun, Bei Zuyi and Liao Zhongkai.  Nominate Murong Han and Wang Zhaoming as ministers.  Although the Soviet Union is heading for failure, its influence is irreplaceable in the hearts of the world's proletariat, and post-war capitalist reforms are imperative.  Yang Qiu initially followed the Nordic reform route of later generations, but due to limited conditions it was only superficial. The establishment of the Ministry of Labor was a precursor to continuing to deepen the route.  Letting the opposition party take control of this department is also a divestment from the labor unions and farmers' associations that only follow the leadership of the state and society. It is hoped that a mutual supervision mechanism will be formed in the future.

    In the end, everyone also decided to take advantage of the fact that most of the U.S. manufacturing industry is serving the military to strengthen exports in advantageous areas such as light industry.  Reducing or discontinuing some Navy programs.  Strengthen the export of large-scale manufacturing industries such as petrochemical aircraft and merchant ships, and establish regular "Asia-South America" ??maritime flights to expand the number of exporting countries.  In the end, the entire cabinet agreed with Yang Qiu's proposal to use U.S. aid as an opportunity to restore the civilian functions of some factories and use part of the U.S. loans and recent "war compensation" obtained from Central Asia, India and other places for domestic education and technological research and development.

    Yang Qiu was busy digesting the new opportunities brought by the Cape Town conference.  The European war also entered a new stage.

    After a year of mobilization, the American industrial system finally exploded, and everything from the smallest razor blades to the largest warships were continuously manufactured.  Only in October.  Two Borg-class escort aircraft carriers, three cruisers, 37 destroyers and 400,000-ton merchant ships were launched. It also delivered 6,331 bombers including 1,100 B17/B24s to the Army, and more than 3,000 tanks and armored vehicles of various types.  .  There are also more than 20,000 artillery pieces of various types.

    With the machine running at full power, Roosevelt, who had been trading time for space, breathed a sigh of relief and began to project power to Spain and the Middle East at an average rate of 2 divisions and 300,000 tons of supplies per day.  I don¡¯t know whether he listened to Yang Qiu¡¯s advice or simply couldn¡¯t hold on. On October 29, he broke the tacit agreement with Vichy France and asked Eisenhower to dispatch five divisions to forcibly take over Morocco and Western Sahara.

    These news made Hitler furious. Faced with the hordes of British and American fleets on the Atlantic waterway, he could no longer sit still. He ordered the Spanish Commander-in-Chief Borg to speed up the attack. He also called Redl and asked the navy to take it immediately.  Plans were made to eliminate the British and American fleets.

    On November 5, Borg, who had been preparing for a long time, launched a winter offensive, first dispatching 770,000 German troops to attack Galicia.  Although the 520,000 British, American, French and Spanish troops stationed in the area resisted vigorously, they still lost the entire Galicia area before Christmas.  In this battle, the European Allies paid a price of 270,000 casualties. In the end, they relied entirely on the navy to use all their strength to withdraw the remaining troops to Morocco.  However, the German army was not much better. The complex mountainous terrain and the British and American navies attacking from the Bay of Biscay offset theThe German army's combat capabilities also resulted in more than 250,000 casualties.

    While the Battle of Galicia was ongoing, the 2.5 million main German troops in Castile and the 270,000 Spanish-Italian allied troops also crossed the Guadiana River and attacked southward.  By December 10, Britain and the United States, which had 2.3 million troops, had lost Extremadura, Puertollano and Murcia in succession, with the loss of more than 300,000 troops!  The German forward Guderian was also allowed to advance to the middle of the Guadalquivir River, less than 280 kilometers away from Gibraltar.

    When Spain was in despair, Hitler transferred 5 SS divisions, 5 infantry divisions and 400 tanks from the country, and handed them to the commander of the North African Army Kleist, asking him and Rommel to seize Egypt as soon as possible, and then turn around and kill them as soon as possible.  Return to Algiers and cooperate with the Spanish German army to drive Britain and the United States into the sea.  In the end, he quietly withdrawn Guderian, who was not suitable for mountain warfare, back to France and began to prepare for the attack on Tš¹rkiye.

    The consecutive defeats in Spain and North Africa made Roosevelt and Churchill very anxious. At this time, the German navy, which had been dormant for two years, was quietly preparing to challenge the sea power of the North Atlantic again

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