It is Kokang and Changchun

　Eve once discussed this issue: "In cases like this, we can only inject them with a more stable transformation potion to cover up the effects of the original potion. This way, we can ensure that they can retain their original consciousness during the transformation process."

　In fact, most victims of deep-sea vaccines can accept this reality. After all, compared to becoming a murderer who has lost his original consciousness, being able to retain self-awareness and self-control is already very good.

　At that time, Ibaraki Hanafugi hesitated for a long time, thinking for days and nights. Fortunately, this thing was not contagious, so he agreed to Eve's plan and classified it as top secret. He then arranged for people to cooperate with Miss Eve.

　Now there is no need to worry about whether these people will mutate and go crazy. What Ibaraki Huashan is worried about now is how these people will integrate into society in the future?

　Their return to society is likely to cause concern among the public, not to mention whether they will be hated and abused; it is also a question whether their original families can accept them in their current state.

　Finally, the Japanese Communist Party Central Committee decided to explain to these people their current and future situations, and then let them decide for themselves whether they wanted to go home. If they wanted to, they would not be stopped; if they did not, they could stay and wait for arrangements.

　After some operations, most of these deep-sea creatures that were originally humans chose to go home.

　Those who did not return home either did so because their homes were in enemy-occupied areas, or because they were afraid of being hated and discriminated against, or because they wanted to stay and do something for the Japanese Communist Party to thank them for allowing them to retain their original self-awareness.

　Later, when the Japanese Communist Party took advantage of the situation and asked the remaining people whether they were willing to join the revolution to eliminate the Liberal Democratic Party government that deceived you and made you become like this, they all became emotional and asked to enlist in the army every minute.

　In this way, in the words of Iron Man 4, the Japanese Communist Party's human resource pool has added more than 100,000 special human resource units, and unlocked a series of special new organizations related to them.

　For example, various support battalions and combat battalions. These support battalions and combat battalions are obviously much more powerful than battalions of the same type, and their training time is also half that of ordinary troops, because they do not need three months of physical training and can directly start tactical training.

　……

　Ibaraki Hanafu thought about this and counted on his fingers, "Speaking of which, the first brigade has been training for two and a half months. I wonder how the training is going now. I'll go check it out in a few days."

　These newly trained troops will become elite main forces in the future, and they will be even more powerful when combined with the ship girls. Ibaraki Hanafugi can already imagine the demeanor of the Self-Defense Forces being completely defeated.

　Of course, it is impossible that all of these hundreds of thousands of soldiers are front-line troops. Although the Soviet Union's aid to the Japanese Communist Party is very large, even greater than NATO's aid to Ukraine in the current dimension, it is still not enough to arm hundreds of thousands more people in a short period of time.

　Therefore, only two-thirds of the people were recruited and trained according to the standards of front-line troops. The remaining one-third was to be used to organize the Production and Construction Corps for reconstruction of war damage or construction in remote and backward areas.

　As for those deep-sea vaccine recipients who return home, the base government will pay extra attention to the dynamics of these people and strengthen publicity; emphasizing that these people have only undergone fundamental biological changes, and at the social and consciousness levels, they are still the same people.

　Public opinion is mixed. Young and middle-aged people are more or less willing to accept these individuals reintegrating into society, as long as their consciousness remains the same. However, many older people, however, are less enthusiastic about these deep-sea vaccine recipients.

　It seems that there is still a long way to go in the process of adjustment.

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　Colorado Springs, United States of America

　On October 17, 2023 local time, US President Kamala announced the update of export control regulations and launched a new round of sanctions on Chinese graphics cards.

　The United States not only continues to impose export bans on accelerated computing cards such as Nvidia A100 and H100, but also imposes export bans on consumer-grade graphics cards - Nvidia's RTX4090.

　Everyone is familiar with the RTX 4090, the king of consumer graphics cards. Each generation of the 90 graphics cards has been revered as a benchmark by gamers. But what are the A100 and H100?

　The A100 and H100 are not just your average home graphics card; they're professional graphics cards designed not only for high-performance computing but also for a wide range of applications in artificial intelligence.

　The four most important factors determining AI capabilities are the underlying chips, learning frameworks, large models, and applications. Due to US export restrictions on advanced process manufacturing and advanced AI chips, the manufacturing and import of core chips such as CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs required for large computing clusters has become a bottleneck.

　This US move is a bit like a sophon blockade of basic human science. The upper limit of AI performance is determined by hardware. If your hardware doesn't meet the standards, no matter how well-optimized your software is, it's all in vain.

　Although China also has its own local graphics chip manufacturers, such as Moore Thread,

　BiRen Technology and others also have their own self-developed products, but their performance is still not comparable to that of NVIDIA and AMD.

　Take the Moore's Law MTT S80 graphics card as an example; although the theoretical performance of the MTT S80 graphics card is comparable to the RTX3060 according to the paper data of the hardware evaluation, there is still a big gap in the driver, and the performance shown by the actual game frame rate is only at the level of GTX1660.

　Therefore, the US graphics card ban is likely to force China to embark on a new long march in the field of electronics. However, we must firmly believe that "there will be a time to ride on the wind and waves and set sail to cross the vast ocean."

　As with everything, there are always some who are happy and some who are sad. The United States' ban on graphics cards has made China very unhappy, but it has made the United States very happy.

　Admiralty Code in the White House laughed heartily: "That's great! We won't have to worry about selling our graphics cards and graphics chips anymore! It's really like searching for something in vain, but now it's easy to find. China is a huge market! Hahahahaha..."

　In the eyes of the deep sea, China is the number one enemy on the future land battlefield. If it can make a lot of money from RMB and foreign exchange, that would be great. Who would refuse to make a lot of money from the enemy?

　So she first ordered NAI (a semiconductor company founded by Shenhai) to quickly open a new production line to produce more graphics cards and graphics chips, preparing to use them to fill the international market gap that would be created by the US graphics card ban.

　Then, they extended an olive branch to China, expressing their willingness to sell high-end graphics chips and finished graphics cards to China at reasonable prices. After much internal discussion, China accepted Deep Ocean's proposal to export graphics cards to China and planned to import a small batch of Deep Ocean graphics cards.

　However, due to concerns about the deep sea, China has internally formulated a regulation that office computers in party and government agencies at all levels, enterprises, institutions, designated private enterprises, and the personal computers of relevant management personnel of these units are not allowed to use imported graphics cards. Imported graphics cards can only be circulated among the public.

　Although this regulation does not mention any specific entity, any discerning person can see that China is clearly wary of deep-sea graphics cards.

　If China's shortcomings in the graphics card field were not so obvious, if it could be as good as mobile phone chips and almost as good as the world's advanced level, China might not necessarily accept Deep Sea's proposal.

　Chapter 352: The New Journey of the Japanese Communist Army

　Since Maizuru, Xiang has been doing political work in the army. In order to implement the spirit of the Japanese Communist Party Central Committee's "strengthening the party's leadership over the army", she has done a lot of work in the unit she originally led.

　In addition to the reorganization after the Wuhe Uprising, she also selected a group of officers and soldiers who were willing to serve the people and had high moral standards as students, and trained a large number of military and political talents for the revolutionary navy in just a few months.

　Since Xiang is not only responsible for the military and political work of human combat power, but also has to pay attention to various dynamics of the ship girls, this determines that Xiang is not only under a tight schedule, but also has a heavy workload. It is common for him to not sleep for ten or eight consecutive days.

　She does human political work during the day and shipgirl political work at night, so how can she have much time to rest? Fortunately, Xiang is a shipgirl, so she doesn't have to worry about her health. If she were an ordinary human, her body would have collapsed long ago.

　As for Chunyue, when there was a shortage of manpower at the beginning, she did similar work to Xiang. Later, when the number of manpower increased, she was transferred to another county to work on folk customs and religion.

　The first batch of political workers trained by Xiang were incorporated into the 7th Brigade, the first unit of the Japanese Communist Party trained from scratch, and made a significant contribution to further implementing the guiding spirit of "strengthening the party's leadership over the army."

　In order to better enable Xiang to contribute to the political work of the army, and because of the belief that hard work deserves to be rewarded, the JCP Central Committee decided in September to transfer Xiang to the Political Work Department of the JCP Central Military Commission as Deputy Director. She became the first Japanese shipgirl to enter the central leadership.

　In addition to Hibiki, Noshiro also works hard in his position. Like Hibiki, Noshiro is also a ship girl who plays a leading role when the spark is just beginning to ignite, and she has made great achievements in political work.

　The difference is that Noshiro is a light cruiser, and its combat capability is stronger than that of a destroyer like Hibiki, which is more in line with the needs of the front line. Therefore, it usually goes to the battlefield more often than Hibiki.

　Time is fair to everyone. When you invest more time in one aspect, it will naturally decrease in the other aspect. Therefore, the effectiveness of Nodai's political work is slightly lower than that of Hibiki.

　Noshiro originally thought that she would continue to serve as the political commissar in the Revolutionary Navy. After all, she was not the kind of person who pursued fame and fortune. She not only did not feel any jealousy towards Xiang's promotion, but she was also happy that Xiang could reach a higher platform to benefit the army and the people.

　In this way, switching between the battlefield and the office is still Noshiro's daily routine.

　In late October, the entire Shikoku Island was liberated. After Noshiro returned from Shikoku Island, she was exhausted. Because the No. 10 main turret of the main gun was damaged, she went to the dock in Osaka for repairs, while she returned to the unit to continue working.

　When she returned to her temporary office, she found an appointment letter on her desk. Noshiro picked it up curiously and took a look at it.

　In addition to the written etiquette format, there was a short line of content written on it: "According to the opinions of the Central Political Bureau, the Central Military Commission has decided to appoint Comrade Noshiro as Deputy Director of the Political Department of the Central Military Commission..."

　Noshiro was flattered when she saw this and pondered, "Isn't Xiang already the deputy director? Now they want me to be the deputy director too? Or do they want two deputy directors in the political department?"

　Not only was the appointment letter in front of her, but it also had the official seal of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party on it. Noshiro did not dare to neglect this matter. She immediately asked someone to prepare a car and went to Kyoto with the appointment letter to receive the order.

　What exactly is going on? We will know when we go to Kyoto. It can't be a disaster. If it is a disaster, what he will have in his hand is not a letter of appointment but a letter of demotion.

　After Noshiro arrived in Kyoto to receive the order, Ibaraki Hanaou summoned Noshiro and invited her to her office to discuss work matters. (PS: Ibaraki Hanaou is currently a two-person team, so she is actually Noshiro's superior.)

　When Noshiro arrived at the door of Ibaraki's office, she looked at Ibaraki Hanafugi and saluted with a calm and resolute demeanor, "Report to the Chairman! Agano-class second ship - Noshiro, I am here!"

　"Comrade Noshiro, come and sit down. Just be normal. We are old acquaintances, there is no need for so many rules." When Ibaraki Hanasu saw Noshiro coming to the door, he immediately welcomed her in with a smile and asked her to sit down.

　Noshiro first met Ibaraki Hanasugi in February 2022 at a cocktail party hosted by a group of ship girls who were good at drinking to celebrate the death of the US Seventh Fleet (see Chapter 127 for details).

　Ibaraki Hanafu looked expectantly at the new shipgirl who had just arrived at the center. She looked her up and down and asked with concern, "How are your injuries? Are you hurt anywhere else besides the turret?"

　"Thank you for your concern, Chairman. Only the No. 1 turret is damaged. There is no serious damage to the hull. They are all minor injuries and can be fixed with minor repairs." Noshiro replied.

　When Ibaraki Hanafu's eyes swept over the two horns on either side of Noshiro's forehead, he paused for a second and smiled, "White with red tips, quite nice. By the way, did you also show these horns when you were in your previous unit?"

　"I used to keep my horns tucked away in public..." Noshiro replied softly, "but a lot of comrades said I didn't look as good with them tucked away, so I stopped keeping them closed, except when I was wearing a hat or helmet."

　Upon hearing this, Ibaraki Hanafuji joked, "Luckily, this is modern times. If it were ancient times, the common people would either be so frightened they would flee, or come at you with swords, guns, clubs, or talismans."

　Noshiro took the joke and replied humorously, "I don't think they can do anything about it. Shipgirls are made of steel. Even if I stood there and let Watanabe Tsuna and Minamoto no Raikou chop them off, it would be like an egg hitting a rock. We shipgirls are not so easily chopped off."

　"Cough... cough..." Hua Shan coughed twice, feeling a little embarrassed. He stood up and went to the cupboard to get two glasses. Then he took out a bottle of wine from another cupboard and said:

　"Alright, alright... time to get down to business. I'll get you some tea. I bought two bottles of wine yesterday to celebrate the liberation of Shikoku Island, and I still have one left. Here, I'll fill it up for you."

　Then Ibaraki Hanasu opened the bottle of wine, poured Noshiro's cup into 80% full, placed it on the table in front of Noshiro, and then poured her own cup into 80% full.

　Noshiro thanked Huashan for pouring the wine, and the two sides got down to business. Huashan opened his mask first and asked, "Comrade Noshiro, as the incoming Deputy Director of the Political Department of the Central Military Commission, do you understand what this means?"

　Noshiro nodded slightly and said, "First, I thank the Party Central Committee for its trust and appreciation for my political work within the military. Secondly, my new position carries even greater responsibilities. I will work even harder to implement the spirit of 'strengthening the Party's leadership over the military' throughout the army."

　"Very good. The entire party, the army, and even the people of this country are waiting for your results." Ibaraki Hanafugi smiled with satisfaction. "Do you have anything else to say?"

　Noshiro thought about it for a moment, unsure whether to ask or not, but ultimately decided to ask: "As for a question... I have one. The Party Central Committee has already appointed Comrade Xiang as deputy director, so why do we need another deputy director?"

　"The position is high and the responsibilities are heavy. If there was only one deputy position, Xiang would be too busy to handle it all. This additional deputy position was requested by Comrade Xiang from the Central Military Commission." Ibaraki Huashan took a sip of wine and continued:

　"Besides, there's an old Chinese saying, 'If you have one of the two, Crouching Dragon and Phoenix, you can bring peace to the world.' If both Crouching Dragon and Phoenix were in the hands of the Party and the country, wouldn't that be even greater peace? You can never have too many pillars of talent."

　"I see, I understand. Once again, I would like to thank the Party Central Committee for its trust in me and Comrade Xiang." After hearing what Hua Shan said, Noshiro secretly encouraged himself in his heart, and was also thinking about how he would spend the next month or so when he came to visit Xiang to comfort him.

　Ibaraki Hanasu put down his wine glass and spoke earnestly to Noshiro, "Comrade Noshiro, political work will always be the lifeline of the people's army and the revolutionary army. It is the greatest difference between the People's Revolutionary Army and the armies of all other exploiting classes, and it is also an important guarantee for the socialist nature and proletarian stance of our army.

　Therefore, I hope that the political workers of the People's Revolutionary Army are comrades who are truly loyal to the Party and have lofty ideals and convictions, rather than rookies, enemy spies and political opportunists.

　The political work of the entire army has just started not long ago, so the theoretical level requirements for political cadres can be lower, but the three requirements of ideals and beliefs, personal character and morality, and loyalty to the party must be strictly controlled.

　Japan has long been a developed bourgeois democratic country. The ideological struggle we face is very sharp and

　This has led to widespread influence of bourgeois ideology among the military and civilians.

　The most typical manifestation of this ideology in the military is the specious but erroneous concepts of "depoliticizing the military" and "nationalizing the military." These concepts easily deceive ordinary people, and soldiers who have come from capitalist society are also easily convinced by them.

　The military's problems may seem minor now, but that's simply due to a common enemy, the LDP government, and a false impression created by numerous battlefield victories. If military reforms aren't further deepened, problems will quickly become apparent, and perhaps even intensify, once national power is seized.

　Modern warfare tactics are easy to learn, and military combat quality can be improved through day and night training. However, scientific and revolutionary political ideas are the most difficult to absorb. We can refer to the US military in this regard... Oh, I almost forgot, except for American ship girls and a very small number of US military officers and soldiers.

　In general, our fundamental task is to thoroughly eliminate all the old habits of the bourgeois armies and build a people's revolutionary army that obeys the Party's command, is capable of winning battles, has a good style of work, and is truly worthy of the name.

　Strike while the iron is hot. Now, with our victories and the high prestige of the Central Military Commission, it is the best time for reform. Wait until the steel cools down, and then the hammer will be hard to strike.

　Ibaraki Hanafugi finished her words and took another sip from her glass. She didn't continue speaking afterward, perhaps preparing her words or waiting for Noshiro's reaction.

　Noshiro immediately stood up, saluted Ibaraki Hanafu, and made a solemn pledge: "Report to Comrade Chairman, I am fully aware of the historical mission here. A people's revolutionary army with progressive ideas and loyalty to the Party is related to the ultimate success or failure of the revolution.

　I, as your representative, will work together with Comrade Xiang, all the political commissars, other political cadres, and advanced soldiers of the entire army to give the Party and the country a satisfactory explanation."

　Chapter 353: Red Flag's New Look, Etajima

　After leaving the Central Committee Chairman's office, Noshiro immediately rushed to the Political Department of the Central Military Commission to take up her post. After settling in, she went to meet with Hibiki, her good comrade who had led the uprising together.

　"Wow! Finally, help is here, comrade Noshiro, welcome, welcome!" When Xiang saw Noshiro coming, she was overjoyed and hurried forward to hold the other's hands.

　Facing Xiang, who was as straightforward as ever with his close comrades, Noshiro smiled and said hello: "Comrade Xiang, you have worked hard these days. Thank you for all the work you have done for the army. Please give me your guidance in your future work."

　"My health is fine, but I'm really too busy." Xiang said, "Comrade Noda, due to time constraints, let's not exchange so many pleasantries. I'll come and familiarize you with the work."

　Xiang continued, "I'm sure Comrade Chairman has already shared with you the Military Commission's recent directives on the army's political work. I've also been thinking about the specific approach to this issue for a long time. I believe that at this stage, we should focus on the key minority within the army. Only by grasping this can we spread correct thinking throughout the army."

　What are the critical few? They are the people who manage, lead, and spearhead an organization. As the saying goes, if the top beam is crooked, the lower beams will be crooked. Similarly, if the top beam is straight, the lower beams will follow suit.

　So how can we ensure that the key minority in the military maintains good conduct, firm convictions, and loyalty to the Party? I personally believe we should establish a dedicated academy to train military political cadres. Upon graduation, these graduates would become political commissars or instructors, assigned to companies as needed, starting as instructors. I wonder what Comrade Noshiro thinks of this?

　Hibiki's thoughts and questions sparked Noshiro's reflection. After a few seconds, Noshiro asked, "Can political cadres only be appointed by the organization? I think political cadres recommended from soldiers and mid-level NCOs in grassroots units might be more convincing."

　"Of course it can be done from the bottom up, but not right now," Xiang said. "In the initial stages, political cadres must be appointed from the top down. Even then, the company must hold a democratic election to confirm the candidate as the official instructor. Otherwise, the candidate must be replaced and another election will be held."

　Seeing the military democracy, Noshiro felt half relieved, but still had a lingering worry: "But won't this lead to a lot of arguments? Soldiers will just stick together and keep disagreeing, and it'll just keep going on and on."

　Xiang shook his head calmly and said, "Comrade Noshiro, theoretical extremes can't be discussed as universal realities. For that to happen, there must be a majority of vetoes. What good is it to go to such lengths to canvass for votes for a candidate you don't even know?"

　Even if someone has such strong organizational skills, the patience of the election soldiers will eventually be exhausted, and at the last moment they will be eager to end the election early and vote in favor.

　In the case of being impatient about the election, abstaining from voting is impossible, because abstaining at this time is essentially helping to veto the vote and let the election drag on; the soldiers cannot fail to realize this, so they will definitely vote in favor.

　In this way, some people's attempt to deliberately disagree with the party organization through this procedure will fail on its own and they will only end up suffering the consequences.

　"I see," Noshiro said, suddenly realizing. "It seems I was worrying too much. So, does Comrade Xiang have any clues about the Military Political Cadre College?"

　Xiang replied: "There is already

　"Do you remember the former Maritime Self-Defense Force First Technical School? After we liberated that area, the school was temporarily closed. Now we plan to start a new one here and establish a Military and Political Cadre College."

　"The First Technical School of the Maritime Self-Defense Force?" Noshiro was a little slow to react.

　"It's actually the Etajima Naval Academy from the old imperial era," Xiang reminded.

　"Oh~ It's Etajima. I didn't react at first. If you had said it was Etajima Naval Academy, I would have known it immediately..." Noshiro finally reacted after being reminded by him.

　For Japanese ship girls, if they don't pay special attention, they may not be able to react immediately if you mention the First Technical School of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, but if you mention the Etajima Naval Academy, everyone will know what it is and where it is in an instant.

　Noshiro offered this opinion: "I personally believe that the new academy should be located elsewhere. During the old imperial era, the Etajima Naval Academy was a hotbed of militarism. Choosing a new location would demonstrate a complete break with the evil ideas and history of the past."

　"What you said actually makes sense, but my idea is to humiliate the former militarists and the current extreme right-wingers." Xiang talked about the reason why he did this:

　"Just think about it: this former hotbed of militarism will become a red education school for the People's Army. If those former militarists knew about this, wouldn't they be furious? It's like we're defecating on their graves. Isn't this a huge humiliation?"

　Secondly, since there is already existing infrastructure, there is no need to choose a new location and build another one. It would be time-consuming, labor-intensive, costly, and take up space. It is simply unnecessary.”