Chapter 375: Visiting the United States

The military strength maintained by the Imperial Army at this time was only about three million, while the remaining three million were production corps, which were used for training and reserve services, and would not be put into the battlefield until a certain extent.

However, the United States was scared to death. After all, it had a force of six million, and the Chinese Empire had always been a country that took the elite military route. [bsp;    Generally speaking, maintaining such a large number of troops would inevitably cost a lot of money, so it would inevitably be for the purpose of war to expand the enrollment.

But what the United States doesn't know is that the Chinese Empire expanded its enrollment this time was a production corps. This is a model of self-sufficiency in raising troops to a certain extent, but it still needs to invest a certain amount of financial resources to form them.

The service period of the production corps is about three to four years, mainly because many soldiers are illiterate and have not received much military training before, so they need to serve longer. However, general conscripts, serving for two years, are selected as professional soldiers if they perform well.

The Imperial Army of China maintains a force of about 3 million, which is a relatively constant number in the future. In the construction of production corps and other troops, it will continue to rise, but the cost will not be too high.

In the air force, the number of pilots trained by the Chinese Empire had increased to 120,000 at this time, and with other logistics personnel, the number of air force service reached 600,000 per year.

As for the Navy, it also expanded to 300,000 people at this time.

The total strength of the three armed forces in the army, navy and air force is close to 4 million.

For such a large country and a country with a population of so many, there are indeed not many regular troops of 4 million, but what China wants at present is development, and it is meaningless to maintain too large-scale troops.

As for the United States' judgment, there is some truth. After all, the Soviet Union was already half-destroyed at this time, and the domestic economic order was extremely chaotic, the social order was not very normal, and the strategic buffering was not large. The Chinese Empire was fully capable of destroying the Soviet Union at a price not too high.

The Soviet Union was very important to the United States. After all, the United States is strictly speaking not a country with land rights. The United States is actually very bad in land rights.

The United States has poor willpower in war and relies heavily on firepower to bombard the United States, which is one of the main reasons why the United States cannot become a land-powered country.

Another reason is that American soldiers are afraid of death.

The United States is a capital country, and its nationalism is basically equal to none. Although there is disguised white nationalism, it is unclear and the government has not advocated it. Moreover, many of the American soldiers are black.

In the United States, fighting is the same as hiring employees for companies. There are various regulations on how much salary, how much pension, how to get pensions, etc.

In the Chinese Empire, soldiers died unexpectedly in battle on the battlefield, and they still received pensions and treated them as martyrs. This is not the case in the United States. If a soldier was not injured or injured in battle, he would not receive pensions. This is like the boss is petty about employees.

Of course, this is also necessary. If this is not stipulated, it may cause some harm to the American soldiers themselves. I can go home without fighting, and get some money. This may exist completely, and it may exist on a large scale.

This is not the case in the Imperial Chinese Defense Forces. This phenomenon can only be said to be extremely rare, because the Imperial Chinese is a single-nation country with its own nationalist ideas and is therefore spiritually powerful.

American soldiers seem to have strong material materials and advanced equipment, but they are actually very bad in spirit. This leads to greed for life and fear of death on the battlefield and abuse of small Middle East countries. It is not enough to travel to East Asia. As a traditional radiation area of ​​China, East Asia is generally precocious and has strong willpower.

Therefore, the United States needs a land-powered country, and the Soviet Union is the best goal of unity and is also the only land-powered country on the Eurasian continent that can balance China. The strength of Germany and France has not yet been restored, and these two countries hate each other, which is very unreliable, and only the Soviet Union is more reliable.

As the Chinese Empire captured the Kiev region of Ukraine, the Soviet Union's grain-producing areas had been destroyed, and the Soviets are now even having a problem with eating.

If the Chinese Empire launches a large-scale attack on the Soviet Union at this time, the possibility that the Soviet Union can withstand the sharp edge of the Chinese and Russian coalition forces will basically be zero.

At this time, Ukraine was captured by the Sino-Russian coalition forces at this time, while the west was under Poland's control.

Poland took the opportunity to capture half of Ukraine during the Soviet Civil War in 2019. This country is also communist, but not under the Soviet system, but an independent Soviet regime.

Faced with the pressure of the Sino-Russian coalition forces, the Polish government was also frightened, but the Sino-Russian coalition forces obviously had no plans to attack Poland for the time being, but actively engaged in contact with Poland.

Poland is a country that has just been restored. In order to prevent the union of the Soviet Union, Nicholas II had no choice but to accept the advice of Chinese political advisers and made a promise to the Polish government that as long as the Polish government reforms and abandons the communist system, Russia recognizes the legal status of Poland's restoration, and can even form a military alliance with the Polish government to achieve offensive and defensive coordination.

Poland was previously under the rule of Russia, and Nicholas II spoke very effectively, which was also a good reassurance for the Poles.

Of course, whether the Polish government can carry out reforms depends on the internal political structure, but the possibility is very high.

After all, the Soviet Union was retreating at this time. If the Polish government still adhered to the communist system, then it would be a choice of the Soviet government. Although they did not choose the Soviet government, there were two ways out for China and Russia to give the Polish government.

One is to carry out reforms, join the Sino-Russian coalition, a military alliance, and jointly deal with the Soviet Union. Then Russia recognizes the legitimate status of the Polish government and China provides various assistance to Poland so that the Polish government can develop.

If the Polish government does not accept the route proposed by China and Russia, it will be equivalent to offending China and Russia, and the Polish government will have to join if it does not join the Soviet Union.

China and Russia are equivalent to pushing Poland to an intersection, and they must choose one way to go to the dark, and it is impossible to please both sides.

This is the sorrow of a small country. A big country can rub it round and flat it at will.

Although the Polish government was established with the support of the Soviet Union, the problem is that the Soviet Union is now no longer able to do so. It has lost all the way from the Ural region to the west bank of the Volga River, and has lost half of Ukraine. Now the Sino-Russian coalition forces are bordering Poland.

If you offend China and Russia, the Chinese and Russian coalition forces may invade Western Ukraine at any time and then attack Poland.

At this time, the Sino-Russian coalition's military front could be extremely strong. How can Poland, a small country that has just recovered, compete with China and Russia?

The Sino-Russian coalition forces conquered Eastern Ukraine, which was equivalent to capturing the Soviet Union's iron ore production area.

Ukraine has very rich iron ore resources, and basically the richest iron ore resources in Europe are in Ukraine.

The iron ore resources in Ukraine are very concentrated and are easy to exploit, accounting for a considerable proportion of the world's iron ore.

The Soviet Union was completely disabled at this time.

Most of its huge resources have been recovered by New Russia. Although the remaining European regions are suitable for living, they are not rich in resources.

China and Russia occupied a large amount of resources with continuous counterattacks.

If the Soviet Union wants to develop in the future, there will be many obstacles, and the shortage of some resources will make the development of the Soviet Union fall into a bottleneck.

The Soviet Union was another communist country. Its exports were not strong and foreign exchange was not much. In addition, there was no gold reserves, so there was no money to import any resources. So I could only ask the American father for help. The American father had never done a loss-making business. Maybe he could make up his mind to give some assistance to the Soviet Union, but after all, there was a limit, and he could not get there if he reached a certain level.

In the original history, the Soviet Union would develop into the world's second largest industrial country, but it was only huge in quantity, but its quality was the usual silly and rough style of the Soviet Union, which was also developed based on huge resources.

Today, before the Soviet Union has developed, it has been disabled by China.

It is already difficult for the disabled Soviet Union to develop now.

First of all, there is no gold, and the gold reserves are seized by China. Moreover, there is no resources, and most of the resources are also seized by China.

There is not that huge strategic buffer, nor so much population, and food.

The Soviet Union's war potential was reduced and then reduced. At this time, it had been reduced to a certain level by the Chinese Empire. To this extent, Xia Jun felt that it was almost done.

Because the Soviet Union was basically abolished at this time, but it was not something that New Russia could deal with alone.

If the New Russia dealt with the Soviet Union alone, there would definitely be no possibility of victory, because the New Russia did not develop much at this time and its foundation was very weak.

In the past, Russia's industry was mainly concentrated in Europe, which is now the territory of the Soviet Union.

As long as the Chinese Empire does not cooperate, the new Russia will never imagine destroying the Soviet Union alone.

If we weaken the Soviet Union again, the result is that the new Russia itself may destroy the Soviet Union. With the temperament of this barbarian bear, it will definitely have greater ambitions at that time, and the movements are clumsy and the political performance is rough.

Political performance is actually an art to politicians. Americans are good at performing various political performances, and they are very realistic.

The Soviet Union or later Russia was very clumsy. Basically, others could tell at a glance what the barbarian bear was doing for the benefit.

Therefore, the Sino-Russian alliance in later generations is unreliable. As long as Russia has sufficient interests, it will be both ends of snakes and rats.

In the future situation, China and Russia do have to jointly compete with the United States, but Russia is engaged in natural gas development in the South China Sea and Vietnam, and nakedly seizing the interests of other countries.

As a time traveler, Xia Jun naturally knew what the nature of this barbarian bear in Russia was. Therefore, even if he was a relative with Nicholas II at this time, Xia Jun was not relieved of his father-in-law. It was actually a good state to make New Russia half-hungry and half-full. If he was letting him eat too much and grow too strong, he would eat people.

Therefore, at this time the Chinese Empire was strengthening its control over Russia. First of all, in terms of industry, Russia's national industry must not allow it to develop.

Of course, the main thing is that Russia cannot develop military industry.

It is OK for Russia to develop some industries. For the time being, it allows their national industry to develop, but it will be concluded to reach a certain level.

At that time, use the US bubble economy method to overturn these companies and then buy them at a low price.

Under this method of making a fortune, Russia's national industry will never develop.

At the same time, the existence of the Soviet Union can lead the main direction of contradictions to the Soviet-Russian civil war, thus making Russian society ignore the existence of Chinese capital.

Ignoring does not mean invisible, it is just selective ignorance.

After all, the Soviet Union was still there at this time, and Russia did not dare to do anything to Chinese capital, and it could not restrict the circulation of Chinese capital.

With the current increasingly intensified economic kidnapping, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Russia to get rid of China's control.

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In the autumn of 1921, the United States sent an invitation to visit the Chinese Empire for the first time, with an attitude of improving relations between the two sides.

Faced with the invitation from the United States, the Chinese Empire decided to send Yan Xishan and Zhu Xiaocheng to the United States after discussion. Faced with the invitation from the United States, the Chinese Empire was also very accurate.

Xia Jun appointed Yan Xishan's diplomatic power, and Yan Xishan could make his own decisions on general issues.

In October, Yan Xishan and Zhu Xiaocheng flew to Washington, USA. The two visited the United States, which immediately attracted the attention of international media.

China and the United States have become the two major countries that have risen after the war, but there are many disputes between the two countries.

This time the United States invited China to visit, and China also sent a secondary cabinet assistant and foreign minister. It can be seen that China is also very concerned about this visit. This visit is very likely to change the world situation. This is a more formal official exchange between the two major powers after the war.

After Yan Xishan and Zhu Xiaocheng arrived in Washington, US Secretary of State Lansing Robert immediately received the reception.

In front of the media, both sides smiled and shook hands in a harmonious manner, looking harmonious and doing their best on the surface.

It seems that the world is peaceful at this time!

This is the first time that Yan Xishan has visited other countries as a senior province, and is a major power like the United States, which is the main potential threat to the future empire.

However, he could see the world situation clearly, so he was appointed to visit the United States.

After passing the motions, the US government held a banquet to receive two Chinese imperial officials, and Wilson also attended the banquet. Both sides chatted relaxedly at the banquet, without any tension.

"As the two major industrial countries in the world, I think we should strengthen cooperation, rather than as we do now, there are too many disputes between the two sides, maybe we should discuss it well." Robert and Zhu Xiaocheng met a small glass of wine, and then said to Zhu Xiaocheng.

The two of them had some contact before and could communicate better.

"Of course we will not reject your country's kindness, but I think most of the previous disputes were caused by your country's hostility towards our Chinese Empire. Our Chinese Empire never thought of provoking any dispute." Zhu Xiaocheng said: "Our actions are something that any rising power must experience. It is already unrealistic for your country to try to rebalance Asian power."

If it were the past, Robert would definitely feel that this was too arrogant.

However, now it is different. The facts prove that the United States is indeed unable to influence the situation in Asia, even when it has its support for Japan and the Soviet Union.
To be continued...