The sun never sets.

So Lin Yongchang took some time out to meet with the young people from India.

Young people are like the sun at seven or eight o'clock in the morning. "The world is yours, and it is ours, but in the final analysis, it is yours. You young people are full of vigor and vitality and are in your prime. Our hopes rest on you."

Lin Yongchang said to Chandra Bose and others: "Young people should have two qualities: one, vigor and vitality; two, modesty and prudence."

Chandra Bose and others were surprised at Chairman Lin's youth, but also inspired. Chandra Bose said excitedly: "With the help of the big brother of the alliance, we will definitely be able to drive the British away!"

"Britain's power is declining. It is only a matter of time before India gains independence. The question is not how to drive out the British, but how to build India."

"After driving out the British colonists, India will send people to the alliance to learn how to govern the country. However," Chandra Bose said somewhat unconfidently, "the British government must withdraw from India first."

He and others did not believe that the Indians could defeat the British army by themselves, which had been proven with blood in the past few hundred years. The bitter failures time and time again made Chandra Bose realize that external help was necessary to help India achieve its goal of independence.

Lin Yongchang said that India would gain independence sooner or later, but Chandra Bose did not have this confidence. If the League was unwilling to lend a helping hand, this Indian uprising would most likely be suppressed.

Lin Yongchang smiled and asked Chandra Bose some questions, mainly about his understanding of Lin Yongchang's Thought. The Indian boy answered well, but there were a lot of rote memorization. Considering that he was only in his early twenties, this was pretty good.

Chandra Bose became more and more embarrassed after answering a few questions. He knew his true level and was worried that Chairman Lin would refuse to help the BJP.

"Don't be nervous, you've done a good job. Just memorizing the book is not enough. You still have to combine it with the actual situation to gain a deep understanding. Practice is the only criterion for testing truth."

Lin Yongchang noticed the embarrassment of the young people and said with a smile: "I know you can't listen to these words now. When you think about the suffering of our Indian compatriots, you feel uneasy, right?"

Chandra Bose and others blushed and nodded repeatedly.

"Well, I'll give you two choices. The first is to gather more comrades and stay in the Alliance to learn theory. At the same time, you can master more knowledge through practice. When the next opportunity comes, you can return to India with trained troops to do what you want."

"This..." Chandra Bose and his companions looked embarrassed. "We don't want to wait that long. Chairman Lin, what is the other option?"

"The other option is to go back to India now and study while carrying out armed struggle, but this path is much more difficult."

Chandra Bose and the others looked at each other and said together, "Let's take the second path!"

"I knew you would choose this."

Lin Yongchang looked at the young men and said, "The Alliance will provide you with some weapons and funds, but not much at the beginning. If you have established a base and survived the British army's encirclement and suppression, the Alliance will provide you with more assistance."

Providing weapons and equipment to India was already a matter of course, and providing a batch of compulsory ammunition and some funds was just a matter of convenience. Chandra Bose and his men were considered to be idle pieces of the alliance in India. Perhaps they would be of great use in the future, or perhaps they would be eliminated by the British and Indian army in a brutal war. Lin Yongchang did not have much hope for them for the time being.

The most important thing for the alliance now was the "Second Five-Year Plan". Lin Yongchang quickly put Chandra Bose and others aside and continued to be busy with domestic construction. But not long after, he put down his work and stood up to preside over the funeral of Comrade Wu Tingfang.

Comrade Wu Tingfang was born in 1842, one year younger than Ito Hirobumi, and died at the age of over , which was also a happy funeral. Wu Tingfang was obsessed with various "spiritual practices" in his middle age, and after retirement, he regarded ghosts, magic, and cultivation as the most important things in his life.

He often told people that he had attained the Tao and could live to 200 years old. But it was obvious that Comrade Wu Tingfang's "Tao" could not really allow him to live to 200 years old. Well, perhaps his messy cultivation had some effect, but being over years old and still drinking all night was not the way to maintain health.

In the end, Wu Tingfang died in his sleep after drinking too much. In view of Wu Tingfang's contribution to the People's Party, Lin Yongchang personally presided over the memorial service and gave him

The enlightened old gentleman draped the national flag, said goodbye, bowed, and read a eulogy, giving a final evaluation of Comrade Wu Tingfang's life.

As time goes by, many of those who participated in the founding of the People's Party and the new China have left this world or are about to leave this world.

The new generation that has grown up has taken over the work of their predecessors and begun to exert more influence on the country. The construction of the alliance continues, and the wheel of history is constantly moving towards the unknown.

Yang Du was very sad about Wu Tingfang's death. After Wu Tingfang's body was placed in the national cemetery in Qinling Mountains, he went there specially to pay his respects.

"Hey, Mr. Wu, Mr. Wu, I told you a long time ago that when you get old, you have to accept your age instead of just your muscles and bones!"

Yang Du burned some paper money for Wu Tingfang and said in a rambling voice: "Now that you are gone, just think of it as a scout. When we meet you in a few decades, I will tell you about the changes in the country."

Wu Tingfang had a high status during his lifetime. As one of the founders of New China and the People's Revolutionary League, he enjoyed the treatment of a national leader even after retirement. After his death, he was covered with the national flag, Chairman Lin personally presided over the memorial service, was published in the People's Daily, and was buried in the Qinling National Cemetery. This was a great honor.

Yang Du thought this was pretty good, but he was still very sad.

Chapter 733: Exit

On October 1922, 10, Mussolini's "Stormtroopers" arrived in Rome. King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy rejected the advice of his advisers to arrest Mussolini and instead appointed Mussolini prime minister to form a cabinet.

From then on, Mussolini transformed himself from an editor-in-chief to the Prime Minister of Italy and the leader of the Fascist movement. This is the charm of politics, as long as you seize power, honor and praise will follow, making people feel ecstatic.

Many times, leaders don’t even need to know too much theoretical knowledge. As long as they have power, great scholars will naturally come to debate for them.

Because of his close attention to the fascist movement in Italy, Lin Yongchang learned about Mussolini's coming to power on November 11. Mussolini won the favor of the bourgeoisie by suppressing the workers' movement, thus gaining the opportunity to "march on Rome". The Alliance certainly could not get involved with such fascism.

The People's Revolutionary League has been paying attention to what is happening in Italy, but has not actively established diplomatic relations. Previously, the relationship between Italy and the League was quite good. After the "Haiyuan Earthquake", the Italian government and the public donated a lot of disaster relief funds, and the relationship between the two sides from the government to the public was very harmonious.

However, since Mussolini came to power, relations at the government level have taken a sharp turn for the worse. The Italian government, under the pretext of protecting its own companies, has raised the tax rates on hundreds of alliance products and has contacted Britain, the United States and Germany to put pressure on the alliance to dissolve the "Shanghai Coordinating Committee".

The "Shanghai Integration Committee", referred to as "Shanghai Integration Committee", is an organization of the alliance to contain the export of strategic materials and high technology to other countries. As the alliance develops faster and faster, many military and civilian technologies have been at the forefront of the world. In order to prevent the outflow of these advanced technologies, the predecessor of the alliance, the Chinese People's Government, established the "Shanghai Integration Committee".

The "Shanghai Coordination Committee" did not conform to the Alliance's philosophy of "exchange and development", but the organization continued to exist. Except for a very small number of stupid or bad people, no one was willing to hand over the Alliance's most advanced technology to other countries.

Mussolini clamored to integrate the civilized world to fight against the flood and monster from the East, and Britain, the United States and Germany all followed Italy and cheered.

Britain is working with the Alliance to research anti-submarine technology, but the British may not really want to cooperate with the Alliance. It is very likely that they just want to take the opportunity to understand the Alliance's shipbuilding technology capabilities and spy on other intelligence.

Germany and the Alliance have a lot of trade exchanges. The economic development of the German Empire requires minerals and other raw materials from the Alliance. The Alliance's ongoing "Second Five-Year Plan" also requires a lot of machinery from Germany. The trade between the two sides is beneficial to both countries.

Benefits aside, Germany has always been wary of the Human Revolutionary Alliance. There is no other way. The Human Revolutionary Alliance is too strong and has already extended its hand to Hungary. This cannot but make the German Empire feel vigilant and fearful. If there is an opportunity to weaken the alliance, Germany will not let it go.

As for the United States, although it had the idea of joining forces with the Alliance to dismember the British colonial system, this did not prevent the United States from tripping up the Alliance.

The alliance between Britain, the United States, Germany and Italy was basically a great alliance of capitalist powers, and their total strength had surpassed that of the League. Italian Prime Minister Mussolini was very proud of this, thinking that he had become the leader of the free world, and his attitude towards the League became increasingly aggressive.

Faced with the alliance of Britain, the United States, Germany and Italy, the People's Revolutionary League had to pay attention. The Union Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent elite troops to participate in the negotiations. However, there are many things in the world that don't make sense.

Even if the alliance is willing to make concessions and express its willingness to relax controls on some civilian technologies, Mussolini will still not be satisfied.

As a result, the alliance announced a temporary suspension of negotiations and withdrew its diplomats from the Washington conference. This made the US government very dissatisfied, believing that it should be treated as a matter of fact and that it could not be said that Britain, the United States and Germany intended to "coordinate the Shanghai

Committee” and withdrew from the Washington Conference.

The Washington Conference was a meeting led by the United States to limit the naval armaments of various countries. The Alliance had no objection to participating in this conference. Treaties are useful when they are useful, but useless when they are not. The naval development strategy of the [People's Revolutionary League] was to take small steps and run fast, so it participated in the Washington Conference with the mentality of just joining in.

Now that the free world has united, the Alliance will not play along. The French Commune did not participate in the Washington Conference from the beginning, and now the Alliance has also announced its withdrawal. That means two major powers did not participate, and one of them is the world's largest country, the world's most populous country, and the world's largest industrial country. In this case, is it necessary to hold the Washington Conference?

If the Alliance built new battleships, could Germany turn a blind eye to the threat in the Baltic Sea? If the German Navy did not stop expanding the size of its battleships, would the Royal Navy dare to stop?

You know, in the Battle of Jutland, the High Seas Fleet's hit rate exceeded that of the British Royal Navy. Faced with Germany's aggressive expansion of its navy, the British government could not sit idly by.

So, with the League's withdrawal from the Washington Conference, this conference aimed at limiting the naval armaments of the major powers was immediately over.

The U.S. Department of State urgently met with the Alliance's ambassador to the United States and pleaded with the Alliance not to act rashly, "...limiting naval armaments is beneficial to all countries and should not be done because of temporary likes and dislikes..."

The Alliance's ambassador to the United States was polite and gave a proper answer. "The Alliance has no intention of seeking hegemony. The purpose of developing the navy is to protect the interests of the people of the Alliance and the national security of the Alliance. As we all know, China has been repeatedly invaded from the sea since 1840. In order to prevent the same thing from happening again, the Alliance must have a naval force that can protect itself."

These words are very appropriate and correct, but they sound very harsh to the US government and media. The United States did not participate in the two Opium Wars, but they did participate in the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Besides, is the alliance's navy going for self-protection? In the Baltic Sea and the Caspian Sea, the alliance's naval power is very weak, but in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, the alliance's navy is an important maritime force.

The Alliance only builds one battleship every year, but they are all super dreadnought battleships. Not only are their tonnage getting bigger and bigger, but their main guns have also been replaced with 15-inch cannons. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like they are built for self-protection.

Chapter 734: Steady

In addition to developing super-dreadnought battleships, the Allied Navy also paid great attention to battlecruisers, cruisers, destroyers and submarines. German submarines sank more than 600,000 tons of ships every month during the World War, starving the British Isles. No one could ignore such a brilliant record.

Therefore, all countries have vigorously developed submarines and anti-submarine equipment. At the current stage, the main force used to deal with submarines is still destroyers, and destroyers equipped with sonar can be called the nemesis of submarines.

In addition to destroyers, seaplanes and carrier-based aircraft can also pose a great threat to submarines, but in many cases aircraft cannot be deployed. It is better in the Pacific Ocean, but in the Atlantic Ocean with strong winds and high waves, a large number of destroyers are the main force in anti-submarine warfare.

As a man who knows the direction of history and has turned on cheats, Lin Yongchang knows that aircraft carriers will be the main force in naval battles in the future. Therefore, the alliance has also tried to build large aircraft carriers. However, the performance of aircraft at that time was still relatively backward. They could not carry heavy bombs and could not cause real damage to the tough battleships.

Torpedo bombers could cause fatal damage to battleships, but they were too slow. Once they entered the attack route, their flight trajectory was easily determined, and they were easily bombed by anti-aircraft guns and fighters. In addition, there were a lot of problems with the depth setting and fuses of air-dropped torpedoes. For a long time, torpedo bombers could not play a role in actual combat.

Although there are still many problems to be overcome, both the United Kingdom and the United States have experimented with new combat methods that combine aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft. The British Navy and the US Navy are not sure that aircraft carriers will become the main force in future naval battles, but they are both happy to use new technologies in the navy.

Today's carrier-based aircraft cannot become the main force in naval warfare, but they are very useful for reconnaissance and calibration. However, in the past, cruisers were used to carry one or two aircraft, and the first aircraft carrier dedicated to carrying carrier-based aircraft was built by the British Royal Navy.

It has to be said that the British are very good at shipbuilding and have a lot of technical reserves. Without any reference, they were a great success in building an aircraft carrier for the first time. The island structure of "Hershes" was very successful, and it laid the foundation for the basic structure of the modern aircraft carrier, which has been used to later generations.

The military and technological level of the British Empire has always been good. Its problem is that its industrial strength cannot keep up. This is because Britain’s economic situation is very bad, and the bad economic situation is caused by political factors.

Because the League withdrew from the Washington Conference, the treaty to limit naval armaments came to nothing. Germany announced that it would start construction of a new generation of super-dreadnought battleships next year, and the British government immediately followed suit, announcing that it would build two unprecedentedly powerful battleships.

After the news came out, demonstrations broke out in Germany and the UK. The workers were almost unable to survive, and the government still

We need to build a large-scale fleet. With so much money to spend on battleships, wouldn’t it be better to use it to improve the lives of the workers?

Then, demonstrations in Britain and Germany were suppressed.

The alliance ignored the affairs of Germany and Britain, but instead carried out disaster relief once again. Shantou was hit by the largest typhoon in decades. According to data provided by relevant departments, the wind force reached 8.2. Six counties and one city in Shantou suffered a near-destructive blow.

In this typhoon, more than 7 people died and hundreds of thousands were displaced. Five-sixths of Shantou’s residents were affected, half of the houses collapsed, and more than 5 people died. 6 people died in Chenghai County, and no one survived in Waisha Village. After the disaster, houses were reduced to ruins, corpses were scattered all over the ground, rotting corpses floated on the water, clothes and shoes were hung on the trees, broken boats covered the top of the mountain, and the accumulated filth had not been cleared for more than a month.

Lin Yongchang is no longer shocked by natural disasters or man-made disasters. The alliance is so vast that there are all kinds of disasters every year. Major natural disasters like the "Haiyuan Earthquake" and the "Shantou Typhoon" may not occur once in decades, but they appear one after another.

There are some bad rumors among the people, which roughly mean that someone has done evil things and angered God, which is why there are so many disasters.

While the Alliance Central Committee was busy with disaster relief, it was also busy with clarifying the source of the problem in the ideological field. Some people in the literary and artistic circles always like to sing a different tune from the government. The "American Flu" came from America and had nothing to do with the Alliance government. When the "Haiyuan Earthquake" occurred, some people made satires openly and covertly. After the "Shantou Typhoon" occurred, such incidents became more frequent.

It is certain that those people in the literary and artistic circles are not stupid, but simply bad.

Lin Yongchang once said that the Propaganda Department is the Hades' Palace. The Propaganda Department is still considered good, while the cultural and media circles are a hodgepodge of demons.

"In my opinion, those people should be exiled to Siberia!"

“But the chairman has always disagreed with this.”

“We should let….”

Many comrades were dissatisfied with those literati and poets who liked to talk nonsense, and had the idea of cleaning up the cultural circle a long time ago. However, Lin Yongchang always disagreed with sending people to Siberia just because they had different opinions.

The truth becomes clearer the more it is argued, and we cannot stop others from speaking. This is not a time of war. But this time, some people have violated the law.

Spreading rumors is illegal.

[People's Revolutionary League] has always been discouraging and even suppressing various religions. Lin Yongchang said that "a hundred flowers should be allowed to bloom", but it is unacceptable if it has anything to do with feudal superstition.

Many cultural and media people were interviewed by the local government, and several were sentenced for spreading feudal superstition. However, they were lucky, the crackdown had ended, and their crimes were not enough to be executed or exiled, and they were not even "destroyed" since their birth. They were just sentenced to a few months to a few years in prison.

Lin Yongchang always believes that there needs to be some different voices, even if they are the Southern Group and the Beijing News, they are useful. It is easy to kill all the opposition mouthpieces, but what can be used to check and balance the ever-expanding bureaucracy?

How did the Soviet Union die? It was because those in power were corrupt. This was the main reason. If the cadres were purged every few years like Comrade Gangtie did, there would not be so many bad things.

Of course, Comrade Gangtie's approach also had its drawbacks. No sooner had he fallen than Khrushchev could not wait to launch a counterattack.

The alliance's approach to the cultural and media circles was to "raise the board high, then put it down gently." It dealt with some people without causing any pain, but its main focus was still on other areas.

Disaster relief is the top priority, and the Second Five-Year Plan must also continue. Due to the rare typhoons in decades and natural disasters such as the Haiyuan earthquake, the progress of domestic construction has been affected to some extent.

However, it was not a big problem. When compiling the Second Five-Year Plan, Lin Yongchang asked the comrades of the Planning Commission to slow down and be more cautious, so the plan was not very radical. He did not expect that there would be two consecutive major natural disasters in the country, and asked the comrades to be more cautious because of other things.

It now seems that stability still has its advantages. The central government of the alliance will have enough funds and materials to carry out disaster relief after a disaster occurs.

Chapter 735 Natural Disaster

Lin Yongchang became conservative when compiling the Second Five-Year Plan because he knew that the Great Kanto Earthquake would occur in Japan in 1923. In terms of the number of deaths and earthquake severity, the Great Kanto Earthquake was not as serious as the Great Haiyuan Earthquake. However, the Great Haiyuan Earthquake occurred in Ningxia, while the Great Kanto Earthquake occurred in Tokyo and surrounding areas. The losses caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake far exceeded those of the Great Haiyuan Earthquake.

In the original world, Lin Yongchang had read a lot of miscellaneous books and knew about the losses caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, but few books introduced the Haiyuan Earthquake. Otherwise, there would not have been so many casualties in the Ningxia earthquake.

The last major earthquake was unexpected and the Alliance Central was caught off guard, but Lin Yongchang was already prepared for the Kanto earthquake.

In the blink of an eye, it was 1923, and the time for the big earthquake was getting closer and closer. Perhaps the movement of geological plates in this world would be a little different from that in another world, and there might not be an earthquake in Kanto. But it is more likely that the earthquake will still come as expected.

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Although Lin Yongchang has changed many things in the human world, compared to the entire earth, what he has done is nothing. The energy released by the Haiyuan earthquake is many times stronger than that of Big Ivan. Some people in later generations said that nuclear weapons can destroy the earth many times, but in fact, it will not. At most, it will destroy more than half of the human race, and it is impossible to destroy the earth. The energy required to destroy the earth is much greater than most people imagine.

Since 1923, at the explicit request of the League Central Committee, Japanese regional governments have held many earthquake drills in Tokyo and its surrounding areas, and have carried out large-scale rectification in cities such as Tokyo, Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Chiba and Shizuoka.

The purpose of the renovation is mainly to prevent fire and earthquake. There are a large number of wooden buildings in Japanese cities, which are crowded together. If an earthquake occurs, it is easy to cause a fire.

Japan has been a region prone to earthquakes since ancient times, and the Japanese local government can accept one or two large-scale earthquake drills. However, is large-scale urban transformation necessary?

Local governments are often responsible for their own profits and losses. It would be good to modernize cities, but the Japanese government cannot come up with so much money.

So the central government allocated a large sum of money to the Japanese regional government. It is better to prevent disasters before they happen than to remedy them after they happen. This solved many problems, but it did not solve the problem fundamentally. The Japanese government did not think it was necessary to spend 1 billion yuan to carry out urban transformation, and it had to be rushed.

The central government immediately criticized the Japanese government for taking the money but not doing anything. However, the Japanese government leaders felt very aggrieved. They did not really take the money but planned to take things slowly.

Chang'an City, for example, took seven or eight years to build to its current size, and it is still expanding. Although Tokyo is not as big as Chang'an, it has a large permanent and temporary population, so it is impossible to renovate it overnight.

Seeing that the leadership of the Japanese government did not realize the seriousness of the problem, Lin Yongchang could only reveal some information, saying that according to the prediction of the Earthquake Bureau, a major earthquake might occur in the Kanto region in the next few months, so preparations must be made now.

"A big earthquake? How big?"

The Japanese are very sensitive to earthquakes, let alone big ones. "Is it as big as the Ningxia earthquake (Haiyuan earthquake)?"

"Probably not, but according to the monitoring data, the earthquake is likely to be above magnitude 7."

According to the strict classification method, earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 or above but less than 8 are called major earthquakes. Earthquakes with a magnitude of 8 or above are called huge earthquakes.