Hu? If it doesnt have any impact then why would it affect China more than anyone else?elbasto said:
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What next? Sit on your hands and wait for the resource development events to fire I guess.
Good AAR btw.
Good AAR btw.
Maj. von Mauser said:Jia, what did you say in Chinese?
Anyways, I think that you should stay with the Germans and prepare for war against the Colonials, but remember Russia.
Really good job though, don't forget Tibet.
Well I'm not aloud to speak it anymore
But I said "Without any harm, good luck"
Because it has a decent resource productions, differently from other countries such as, let's say, Latin American Nationsgermanpeon said:
Because it has an awful infrastructure, differently from other countries that have a decent or above resource production, such as the US, Germany or the UK
Because it has a clear need for those additional resources, differently from countries that have resources but a louse infrastructures, such as the USSR.
理想的中国 - Really? There's maybe thirty people on these boards and, of those, only about 10 are native speakers. It's not like there's a Chinese language forum you can post on. Also, are you under house arrest? You've had more posts in two weeks than I've had in two years. Impressive, but also a little worrying.
thatguy - Thanks, but world conquests get boring quickly. But Afghanistan is a possibility...
Murmurandus - Glad to have you!
Tiresias - Welcome! I read through your AAR. The two garrison with AA coastal defense is tempting, but I don't like a beach defense that melts away when beaten. Also, two 1918 garrisons with early AA consume 1.2 supplies increasing as AA and garrisons upgrade, while two 1936 militia with one infantry consume 1.4 supplies and that doesn't increase until 1943. The 2 MIL + 1 INF corps will keep off most things and, more critically, survive if they lose to help with the counterattack. Also, it's a great place to stick inherited outdated divisions while they upgrade. As for the navy, I recall that subs don't really work that well in Armageddon for naval supremacy, but I could be wrong.
Wolf of Norway - There's some nice CCIP events involving southeast Asia coming up. Welcome BTW
Colonel Bran - Chiang Kai Shek was actually more of a fan of Picard due to the resemblance.
M79 - That's a perfectly viable strategy and the one I consider the standard. The one I eventually take will be similar but with some marked differences.
ColossusCrusher - Strangely enough, the ultimatum event kicks China out of the Axis, via it's “Leave alliance“ command so I had to rejoin right afterwards, but the Sino Axis alliance is definitely not as important as it once was.
Germanpeon - They come this update
Panzer6 - Right you are sir!
Romanu - Puyi and the Qing dynasty in general were hated by the average Chinese people. The Qing were foreign (even though most ethnic Manchus had become Sinicised, the ruling class had not), and they were seen as responsible for the decline in China's fortunes starting in the mid 19th century. Remember the largest war in human history until WWII was the Taiping Rebellion from 1850 -1871, killing some 30 million people. Also, I'd have to add him in manually as a minister and the communists are already plenty pissed off.
Talquin - This is more my style, Welcome.
Maj. von Mauser - I'm not forgetting Tibet. It'll reunify by event in November 38, so I'd rather not waste the dissent to declare war. (I also decided it would be gamey to move it up)
elbasto - It's true. China should be in a position to benefit the most from infrastructure improvements as their's is so poor, but all it does is increase movement. Yippee...
discovery1 - China could use some downtime.
Enjoy it.
thatguy - Thanks, but world conquests get boring quickly. But Afghanistan is a possibility...
Murmurandus - Glad to have you!
Tiresias - Welcome! I read through your AAR. The two garrison with AA coastal defense is tempting, but I don't like a beach defense that melts away when beaten. Also, two 1918 garrisons with early AA consume 1.2 supplies increasing as AA and garrisons upgrade, while two 1936 militia with one infantry consume 1.4 supplies and that doesn't increase until 1943. The 2 MIL + 1 INF corps will keep off most things and, more critically, survive if they lose to help with the counterattack. Also, it's a great place to stick inherited outdated divisions while they upgrade. As for the navy, I recall that subs don't really work that well in Armageddon for naval supremacy, but I could be wrong.
Wolf of Norway - There's some nice CCIP events involving southeast Asia coming up. Welcome BTW
Colonel Bran - Chiang Kai Shek was actually more of a fan of Picard due to the resemblance.
M79 - That's a perfectly viable strategy and the one I consider the standard. The one I eventually take will be similar but with some marked differences.
ColossusCrusher - Strangely enough, the ultimatum event kicks China out of the Axis, via it's “Leave alliance“ command so I had to rejoin right afterwards, but the Sino Axis alliance is definitely not as important as it once was.
Germanpeon - They come this update
Panzer6 - Right you are sir!
Romanu - Puyi and the Qing dynasty in general were hated by the average Chinese people. The Qing were foreign (even though most ethnic Manchus had become Sinicised, the ruling class had not), and they were seen as responsible for the decline in China's fortunes starting in the mid 19th century. Remember the largest war in human history until WWII was the Taiping Rebellion from 1850 -1871, killing some 30 million people. Also, I'd have to add him in manually as a minister and the communists are already plenty pissed off.
Talquin - This is more my style, Welcome.
Maj. von Mauser - I'm not forgetting Tibet. It'll reunify by event in November 38, so I'd rather not waste the dissent to declare war. (I also decided it would be gamey to move it up)
elbasto - It's true. China should be in a position to benefit the most from infrastructure improvements as their's is so poor, but all it does is increase movement. Yippee...
discovery1 - China could use some downtime.
Enjoy it.
26年 12月 2日
The country was finally at peace after almost two years of constant warfare. Chiang Kai Shek asked the People's Political Council for help in fixing the country now that government work could be implemented on a large scale. One of the first pieces of legislation to go through was a law authorizing the right of return to all overseas Chinese. This wasn't merely a passive proclamation, however. As an incentive to encourage foreign trained engineers, doctors, and other technical professionals to return, the "ZhongShan" (逸仙) memorial fund was set up. Named for doctor Sun Yat Sen, the fund had a budget in excess of two hundred million U.S. dollars. It's purpose was to provide full scholarships to qualified Chinese students to study abroad, as well as financial incentives for foreign professionals to come teach in Chinese universities. In addition, it effectively quintupled the budget of most Chinese universities, and a Chinese professor's pay was now comparable to their colleagues in the west but, if adjusted for the reduced cost of living, Chinese professors were now the highest paid in the world. The government also offered matching funds for industrialists wanting to purchase heavy equipment from abroad. Peace naturally increased the amount of human capital and talent that the government had access to, but the Zhongshan fund turned a steady stream into a flood. University enrollment more than doubled. People now believed in a Chinese future and universities closed by war and lack of funds were able to reopen.
26年 12月 12日
The Party and the government sought to break with the past decade of civil strife and regionalism. To that end they moved the capital from Nanjing back to Beijing, providing a clear separation between the "Nanjing Decade" and the new China.
26年 12月 14日
Peace would also cause a fundamental shift in the Guomindang. When the war was going on, people had rallied behind Chiang Kai Shek in the name of national unity. But with peace came new challenges. The PPC demanded to become more than just an "advisory body." The Guomindang wanted Chiang to limit his activities back to those he had on paper as head of the army and butt out of civilian life. None of these challenges were particularly daunting and few had any hope of success, but that all changed with the arrival of a dispatch from the Soviet Union.
Upon receiving it, Chiang Kai Shek flew into a rage, his spartan office was torn to shreds in minutes and he demanded to see his foreign minister. Zhang Zun had known the contents of the letter and instructed that all the phone lines leading to Chiang be disabled. It turns out that this action might have saved the nascent Chinese republic, as it kept Chiang from contacting the Revolutionary Army. Stalin had played a card he'd had in his hand since 1925. At the time, Chiang Ching Kuo, Chiang's first born and only biological son, went to Moscow to study communism. After the initial massacres of the communists in 1927, Stalin had made it clear that Chiang would not get his son back unless he softened his line towards Mao and the CCP. Ching Kuo had in fact been imprisoned and awaiting execution since march of 1936 as result of the the battle of Xianyang. He had only survived because Stalin still needed Chiang to fight Japan and as much as they'd like to punish the Generalissimo, they also didn't want him to lose focus. The alliance with Germany had further complicated matters and Ching Kuo's treatment by the NKVD got correspondingly more "complicated." With Japan out of the picture as continental power, Stalin had been at an impasse. He still wanted to punish Chiang, but didn't want to antagonize China. The decision was made for him, however as Ching kuo would die of diphtheria while in prison. Historians debate to this day whether his death was genuinely the result of disease or whether he was poisoned. Even if disease was the real cause, it undoubtedly was made fatal by the combination of malnutrition and mistreatment at the hands of the Soviets.
Chiang Kai Shek demanded that the Revolutionary Army march on Russia immediately, despite the fact that it was the middle of winter and the army was desperately out of position with almost no forces left in the entirety of Western China. Zhang Zun pleaded with Chiang to wait until the spring but the general would have none of it. Alternating between sobbing and screaming rage he ordered his foreign minister to leave his office and " find someone to fix the damn phones!" Zhang Zun and several other senior officials had known of Ching Kuo's predicament and had formulated a plan to temporarily remove Chiang Kai Shek to prevent a war with the Soviet Union. Operation Xiujia was about to begin.
The plan was simple. Dai Li, the head of the secret police and one Chiang's most loyal followers, would warn Chiang of an assassination plot by the Soviet Union, and move the Generallisimo to a remote location for "his own safety." His contacts would be limited due to "security concerns" until he showed a more level head. Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi would jointly head the military council in Chiang's absence, but would be under heavy surveillance from Tai Li's blue shirts. The world would be told that Chiang was on a restorative retreat for health reasons. None of the conspirators were actually opposed to a war with the Soviet Union in principle, in fact some even supported it, but they also knew that such a war, to have any chance of success, would have to begin when China was ready. It was hoped that Chiang would see reason and postpone war at least until the spring.
The opening phases of the plan went off like clockwork. Chiang boarded a plane to Sichuan that afternoon. Upon arrival, he was to drive to the mountains to be sequestered in the Buddhist monastery on Mt. Emei. Unfortunately, Chen Guofu's C.C.* faction was not privy to the precarious state of Chiang's mental health, nor the planning of Operation Xiujia and misconstrued it as a genuine attempt to remove Chiang from power and supplant the party. They had operatives in Chengdu waiting for Chiang and hoped to rescue him from the plot. The security and deception surrounding the journey was there to fool Chiang into believing it was genuine, but it unwittingly fooled his would be rescuers as well. Two hours into the mountain journey, C.C. operatives set off a landslide that took out the front three trucks of the motorcade. Holding the high ground, they easily forced the rest of the guards to surrender and warily approached the general's car.
They didn't realize their egregious error until after they reached the flag encrusted black Mercedes. Inside they found Dai Li, not Chiang. When asked at gunpoint where the Generalissimo was, Dai Li answered that Chiang himself had been dressed in similar clothes to his minders and guards as part of the assassination attempt cover story. The cover story was false but Chiang had to believe it was real, and that meant all the security measures that a real assassination plot would entail. As part of that, Chiang had ridden in an unmarked truck, not his official vehicle. That unmarked truck had been second from the front and had been taken out when the C.C. dropped half a mountain on it. Chiang's unnecessary rescuers had become his his unwitting assassins.
In the interests of national unity, Chiang's death was officially ruled an act of nature and the C.C. would not be officially implicated. Chiang's adopted son Wei Kuo asked for and received an honorable discharge from the Wehrmacht to go speak at the joint funeral of his father and brother. Dai Li would take over as minister of security. Lin Sen, Chiang's puppet president would resign. This was no great hardship, as he had only filled the position on paper with Chiang holding all the real power. In his place, T.H. Yeh, a right wing, if unimaginative, gentlemen would take the post. Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren would jointly command the army.
His death also caused a power vacuum to form. Chiang had officially only been the Premiere of the Executive Yuan and the head of the Military Affairs Commission but his powers extended to all facets of the government. Within the party, he was supreme as the director general of the Guomindang. No single contender had both the party contacts and the military prestige to hold that position. The PPC would pull a master stroke and call for a constitutional convention to decide the succession. Chiang had previously failed to successfully draft a new constitution as most of the powers that be feared that he would use it to make his de facto rulership de jure. That was no longer an issue. Only time would tell what the final form of the government would look like.
26年 12月 15日
Korea continued to be good neighbor and handed over the plans to a proposed, but as yet unbuilt Japanese light cruiser class called the 'Anago' class.
26年 12月 19日
Industrial expansion was completed. China was able to produce domestically almost all of the heavy machinery needed for modern industry.
The newly formed National Aviation Corporation would start working on reproducing Germany's success with solid and liquid fueled rockets. The plan was only about half military with the rest being about national prestige. China had invented rocketry and it was a matter of national pride to reclaim leadership in that field.
26年 12月 21日
The nation now turned it's attention to the domestic front. All of this new industry needed new raw materials. The army would be tasked with finding new sources of iron, tungsten, nickel, oil, and coal as well as building the infrastructure to reach it. Inspired by the New Deal in America, public works projects were announced in the form of dams and canals. While huge public works projects had been in vogue within China for over two thousand years, this was different in that people would actually be paid to work on them. The government announced that the previous practice of drafting peasants for corvee labor would have to be abandoned if China were to take it's rightful place in the community of nations.
27年 1月 1日
The issue of succession had been fixed with remarkable speed and amicability on all sides. T.H. Yeh would retain his position as president, but in a more active role then previously enjoyed by Lin Sen. The Premiereship would go to Kong Xiangxi who was serving in the dual roles of Finance Minister and Vice Premiere. He was widely acknowledged as one of the most competent officials within the Guomindang. He had successfully nationalized the banking system and was currently the governor general of the central bank of China. He also was married to Song Ailing who the sister of Chiang's widow, making him Chiang's brother in law. In a surprising bit of coincidence, that made Ailing the last of the Song sisters to be married to the Premiere of the Republic of China. (She was the eldest. Her middle sister, Chingling, had been married to Sun Yat Sen, while the youngest sister, Meiling, was now Chiang's widow)**
Bai Chongxi would take over the leadership of the Military Affairs Commission for the time being, but Li Zongren would be sent back to the military as it was ruled too dangerous to have the two former Guangxi warlords in high positions at the same time.
27年 1月 2日
The resource expansion was starting to pay dividends as mines closed by war and lack of capital quickly came back online.
27年 1月 5日
The army would also be formally reorganized. Not counting the coastal defense divisions, China had almost a million men under arms. Unfortunately, the army had been cobbled together from different warlord troops and different commands during wartime and there had been very little time to create a comprehensible overall structure for the army. Now that it was peace time, this could be remedied.
The first change was that it was to renamed the Republic of China Army, as the revolution had been largely achieved. The biggest unit of organization was the Bingtuan （兵团). Roughly translating to 'army group,' each was composed of nine or twelve divisions. Chiang's army that he led to such success would get the honor of being the first, while Falkenhausen was given command of the second. The final count would see six Bingtuans formed. Two were stationed in Manchuria, one next to Mongolia, and the last three on the western border with the Soviet Union. The second largest unit was the Juntuan (军团). Each was to be made of three divisions and led by the most promising and experienced commanders from the last war. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough troops to give enough troops to every general who deserved them, so only a few were formed initially but new divisions were being raised to fill the gaps. Many experienced troops had been serving on the coast and they would sent back to the active army with their postions being filled by new divisions. Along with these troops, a dedicated corp of reservist and national guard troops were being raised to act as garrisons for beaches and other newly acquired territory.***
27年 1月 11日
A new priority of the government was a dedicated regional navy. The Chinese knew that surpassing the British, American, or Japanese navies was a pipe dream, so they would focus on building a powerful regional navy based on a mix of heavy and light cruisers.
27年 1月 17日
The exact circumstances of Chiang Ching Kuo's death remained a closely guarded state secret. Most of the military and government never knew about his imprisonment and those that did know wanted to give Stalin the impression that they didn't care. To that end, all the ships of China's pre war navy were traded to the soviet union for military supplies.
27年 1月 21日
The traumatic events of the past month had led to a lot of unrest as people disagreed with the specifics of the new government, suspicion of foul play regarding Chiang's death and other assorted problems. The new government would turn to Nationalism to unite the country.
Kong Xiangxi spoke at Chiang's memorial. "I stand here as the heir to a grand legacy. Sun Yat Sen had a dream that a demoralized and defeated nation could rise above its petty divisions and imperial past and become the nation that the people of China deserved. Chiang Kai Shek would live to see that dream advanced but not fulfilled. It falls to us, their successors, to fulfill that dream. It falls to us to reclaim China's place on the world stage. Many treaties were imposed on a weak and crumbling dynasty by the avaricious imperialist powers. Today, I am officially tearing up those treaties and call on all nations, who would consider themselves friends of China, to do the same."
The first embassy to be contacted was England. The speech was fairly combative, but the proposed settlement was remarkably friendly. British enclaves outside of Hong Kong would gradually lose their extraterritorial status over two years, with British subjects given the right to return to England courtesy of the Republic of China, or remain to become naturalized citizens. Foreign banking establishments would not be nationalized and would be allowed to operate as before. Whitehall agreed in principle to ceding their extra territorial rights along most of the coast, but was bitterly opposed to losing Hong Kong. Winston Churchill would voice the British Empire's opposition.
"While the British people were the first to congratulate China for their victory over Japan and with all due respect the sensibilities of the Chinese people, we cannot simply hand over Hong Kong. It's one thing to relinquish fifty acres in Shanghai or Tianjin, but Hong Kong and its evirons are 426 square miles of crown territory. The Chinese are to be congratulated for defeating Japan on the land, but the Japanese Navy remains unhumbled. We are already courting disaster in the Atlantic by ceding our treaty ports in Ireland, let us not make the same mistake twice."
The Japanese embassy was not so tactful in their refusal, but that had been expected.
Stalin had been puzzled by the lack of an official Chinese response to the death of Chiang Ching Kuo. He no longer was, as the Republic of China had just laid claim to almost two million square miles of Soviet and Mongolian territory. While the other claims had some possibility of peaceful resolution, this claim was almost a declaration of war.
27年 1月 25日
The naval ministry was proud to announce that development of China's first modern warships was almost complete. If things went as planned, production was scheduled to begin within months. The new computing machine would figure greatly into the designs for the new ship, as Chinese sailors were going to need a technical edge to make up for their lack of of a modern naval tradition.
27年 3月 22日
Production within China was mostly focused on domestic industry with several factories and arsenals under construction across the nation. The merchant marine also was being expanded slowly but continuously along with the escorts for them. The Republic of China Army would expand slowly， with the focus being placed on the newly created Pabing （爬兵) divisions. These divisions were being trained for harsh winters, dry climates, and and high altitudes, conditions which dominated Western China and, coincidentally enough, Mongolia and outer Manchuria.
27年 3月 23日
The German allies had been dismayed by the slide away from fascism and were thus charging exorbitant amounts for military aid. China was willing to pay however. As they were quite familiar with the theory of mobile warfare. It had historically been horses but trucks would work just as well to create a large, fast army that could win in central Asia.
27年 3月 24日
The immediately put the research to work, but building an automotive industry from scratch would take a while.
27年 3月 27日
Construction was also begun on a massive new rocketry center in the remote mountains of Southern Sichuan. Located in the prefecture capital of Xichang, it's location was chosen based on it's distance from both the Soviet Union and Japan.
27年 3月 29日
Germany also completed it's own reunification. It seemed that Asia was settling down just as Europe was heating up.
Sorry about the wait, stay tuned.
*C.C. No one actually knows what the two 'c's stand for. All that's known is that a particular faction within the Guomindang who called themselves the C.C. rose to some prominence during the thirties. (literally, they said "C C" in Chinese，when referring to themselves)
**I had to do some minister messing around right here as it was way implausible that Li Zongren would be allowed to hold Chiang's position. Initially, I thought I was being a little abusive by moving in Kong Xiangxi (silent workhorse +5% IC), but a quick wikipedia search showed that he actually did become the premiere of China on January 1st 1938.
***Basically, all my skill 2 traited generals or field marshals received a Bingtuan. This left me with a bunch of skill 3 or 4 Mj. Generals who I didn't want to promote manually. Instead I just waited for each one to autopromote and filled in the two spots with new divisions. I also started producing militia so that I'd have alot of my 2 MIL + 1 INF coastal garrisons already on hand when the next war started.
The country was finally at peace after almost two years of constant warfare. Chiang Kai Shek asked the People's Political Council for help in fixing the country now that government work could be implemented on a large scale. One of the first pieces of legislation to go through was a law authorizing the right of return to all overseas Chinese. This wasn't merely a passive proclamation, however. As an incentive to encourage foreign trained engineers, doctors, and other technical professionals to return, the "ZhongShan" (逸仙) memorial fund was set up. Named for doctor Sun Yat Sen, the fund had a budget in excess of two hundred million U.S. dollars. It's purpose was to provide full scholarships to qualified Chinese students to study abroad, as well as financial incentives for foreign professionals to come teach in Chinese universities. In addition, it effectively quintupled the budget of most Chinese universities, and a Chinese professor's pay was now comparable to their colleagues in the west but, if adjusted for the reduced cost of living, Chinese professors were now the highest paid in the world. The government also offered matching funds for industrialists wanting to purchase heavy equipment from abroad. Peace naturally increased the amount of human capital and talent that the government had access to, but the Zhongshan fund turned a steady stream into a flood. University enrollment more than doubled. People now believed in a Chinese future and universities closed by war and lack of funds were able to reopen.
26年 12月 12日
The Party and the government sought to break with the past decade of civil strife and regionalism. To that end they moved the capital from Nanjing back to Beijing, providing a clear separation between the "Nanjing Decade" and the new China.
26年 12月 14日
Peace would also cause a fundamental shift in the Guomindang. When the war was going on, people had rallied behind Chiang Kai Shek in the name of national unity. But with peace came new challenges. The PPC demanded to become more than just an "advisory body." The Guomindang wanted Chiang to limit his activities back to those he had on paper as head of the army and butt out of civilian life. None of these challenges were particularly daunting and few had any hope of success, but that all changed with the arrival of a dispatch from the Soviet Union.
Upon receiving it, Chiang Kai Shek flew into a rage, his spartan office was torn to shreds in minutes and he demanded to see his foreign minister. Zhang Zun had known the contents of the letter and instructed that all the phone lines leading to Chiang be disabled. It turns out that this action might have saved the nascent Chinese republic, as it kept Chiang from contacting the Revolutionary Army. Stalin had played a card he'd had in his hand since 1925. At the time, Chiang Ching Kuo, Chiang's first born and only biological son, went to Moscow to study communism. After the initial massacres of the communists in 1927, Stalin had made it clear that Chiang would not get his son back unless he softened his line towards Mao and the CCP. Ching Kuo had in fact been imprisoned and awaiting execution since march of 1936 as result of the the battle of Xianyang. He had only survived because Stalin still needed Chiang to fight Japan and as much as they'd like to punish the Generalissimo, they also didn't want him to lose focus. The alliance with Germany had further complicated matters and Ching Kuo's treatment by the NKVD got correspondingly more "complicated." With Japan out of the picture as continental power, Stalin had been at an impasse. He still wanted to punish Chiang, but didn't want to antagonize China. The decision was made for him, however as Ching kuo would die of diphtheria while in prison. Historians debate to this day whether his death was genuinely the result of disease or whether he was poisoned. Even if disease was the real cause, it undoubtedly was made fatal by the combination of malnutrition and mistreatment at the hands of the Soviets.
Chiang Kai Shek demanded that the Revolutionary Army march on Russia immediately, despite the fact that it was the middle of winter and the army was desperately out of position with almost no forces left in the entirety of Western China. Zhang Zun pleaded with Chiang to wait until the spring but the general would have none of it. Alternating between sobbing and screaming rage he ordered his foreign minister to leave his office and " find someone to fix the damn phones!" Zhang Zun and several other senior officials had known of Ching Kuo's predicament and had formulated a plan to temporarily remove Chiang Kai Shek to prevent a war with the Soviet Union. Operation Xiujia was about to begin.
The plan was simple. Dai Li, the head of the secret police and one Chiang's most loyal followers, would warn Chiang of an assassination plot by the Soviet Union, and move the Generallisimo to a remote location for "his own safety." His contacts would be limited due to "security concerns" until he showed a more level head. Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi would jointly head the military council in Chiang's absence, but would be under heavy surveillance from Tai Li's blue shirts. The world would be told that Chiang was on a restorative retreat for health reasons. None of the conspirators were actually opposed to a war with the Soviet Union in principle, in fact some even supported it, but they also knew that such a war, to have any chance of success, would have to begin when China was ready. It was hoped that Chiang would see reason and postpone war at least until the spring.
The opening phases of the plan went off like clockwork. Chiang boarded a plane to Sichuan that afternoon. Upon arrival, he was to drive to the mountains to be sequestered in the Buddhist monastery on Mt. Emei. Unfortunately, Chen Guofu's C.C.* faction was not privy to the precarious state of Chiang's mental health, nor the planning of Operation Xiujia and misconstrued it as a genuine attempt to remove Chiang from power and supplant the party. They had operatives in Chengdu waiting for Chiang and hoped to rescue him from the plot. The security and deception surrounding the journey was there to fool Chiang into believing it was genuine, but it unwittingly fooled his would be rescuers as well. Two hours into the mountain journey, C.C. operatives set off a landslide that took out the front three trucks of the motorcade. Holding the high ground, they easily forced the rest of the guards to surrender and warily approached the general's car.
They didn't realize their egregious error until after they reached the flag encrusted black Mercedes. Inside they found Dai Li, not Chiang. When asked at gunpoint where the Generalissimo was, Dai Li answered that Chiang himself had been dressed in similar clothes to his minders and guards as part of the assassination attempt cover story. The cover story was false but Chiang had to believe it was real, and that meant all the security measures that a real assassination plot would entail. As part of that, Chiang had ridden in an unmarked truck, not his official vehicle. That unmarked truck had been second from the front and had been taken out when the C.C. dropped half a mountain on it. Chiang's unnecessary rescuers had become his his unwitting assassins.
In the interests of national unity, Chiang's death was officially ruled an act of nature and the C.C. would not be officially implicated. Chiang's adopted son Wei Kuo asked for and received an honorable discharge from the Wehrmacht to go speak at the joint funeral of his father and brother. Dai Li would take over as minister of security. Lin Sen, Chiang's puppet president would resign. This was no great hardship, as he had only filled the position on paper with Chiang holding all the real power. In his place, T.H. Yeh, a right wing, if unimaginative, gentlemen would take the post. Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren would jointly command the army.
His death also caused a power vacuum to form. Chiang had officially only been the Premiere of the Executive Yuan and the head of the Military Affairs Commission but his powers extended to all facets of the government. Within the party, he was supreme as the director general of the Guomindang. No single contender had both the party contacts and the military prestige to hold that position. The PPC would pull a master stroke and call for a constitutional convention to decide the succession. Chiang had previously failed to successfully draft a new constitution as most of the powers that be feared that he would use it to make his de facto rulership de jure. That was no longer an issue. Only time would tell what the final form of the government would look like.
26年 12月 15日
Korea continued to be good neighbor and handed over the plans to a proposed, but as yet unbuilt Japanese light cruiser class called the 'Anago' class.
26年 12月 19日
Industrial expansion was completed. China was able to produce domestically almost all of the heavy machinery needed for modern industry.
The newly formed National Aviation Corporation would start working on reproducing Germany's success with solid and liquid fueled rockets. The plan was only about half military with the rest being about national prestige. China had invented rocketry and it was a matter of national pride to reclaim leadership in that field.
26年 12月 21日
The nation now turned it's attention to the domestic front. All of this new industry needed new raw materials. The army would be tasked with finding new sources of iron, tungsten, nickel, oil, and coal as well as building the infrastructure to reach it. Inspired by the New Deal in America, public works projects were announced in the form of dams and canals. While huge public works projects had been in vogue within China for over two thousand years, this was different in that people would actually be paid to work on them. The government announced that the previous practice of drafting peasants for corvee labor would have to be abandoned if China were to take it's rightful place in the community of nations.
27年 1月 1日
The issue of succession had been fixed with remarkable speed and amicability on all sides. T.H. Yeh would retain his position as president, but in a more active role then previously enjoyed by Lin Sen. The Premiereship would go to Kong Xiangxi who was serving in the dual roles of Finance Minister and Vice Premiere. He was widely acknowledged as one of the most competent officials within the Guomindang. He had successfully nationalized the banking system and was currently the governor general of the central bank of China. He also was married to Song Ailing who the sister of Chiang's widow, making him Chiang's brother in law. In a surprising bit of coincidence, that made Ailing the last of the Song sisters to be married to the Premiere of the Republic of China. (She was the eldest. Her middle sister, Chingling, had been married to Sun Yat Sen, while the youngest sister, Meiling, was now Chiang's widow)**
Bai Chongxi would take over the leadership of the Military Affairs Commission for the time being, but Li Zongren would be sent back to the military as it was ruled too dangerous to have the two former Guangxi warlords in high positions at the same time.
27年 1月 2日
The resource expansion was starting to pay dividends as mines closed by war and lack of capital quickly came back online.
27年 1月 5日
The army would also be formally reorganized. Not counting the coastal defense divisions, China had almost a million men under arms. Unfortunately, the army had been cobbled together from different warlord troops and different commands during wartime and there had been very little time to create a comprehensible overall structure for the army. Now that it was peace time, this could be remedied.
The first change was that it was to renamed the Republic of China Army, as the revolution had been largely achieved. The biggest unit of organization was the Bingtuan （兵团). Roughly translating to 'army group,' each was composed of nine or twelve divisions. Chiang's army that he led to such success would get the honor of being the first, while Falkenhausen was given command of the second. The final count would see six Bingtuans formed. Two were stationed in Manchuria, one next to Mongolia, and the last three on the western border with the Soviet Union. The second largest unit was the Juntuan (军团). Each was to be made of three divisions and led by the most promising and experienced commanders from the last war. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough troops to give enough troops to every general who deserved them, so only a few were formed initially but new divisions were being raised to fill the gaps. Many experienced troops had been serving on the coast and they would sent back to the active army with their postions being filled by new divisions. Along with these troops, a dedicated corp of reservist and national guard troops were being raised to act as garrisons for beaches and other newly acquired territory.***
27年 1月 11日
A new priority of the government was a dedicated regional navy. The Chinese knew that surpassing the British, American, or Japanese navies was a pipe dream, so they would focus on building a powerful regional navy based on a mix of heavy and light cruisers.
27年 1月 17日
The exact circumstances of Chiang Ching Kuo's death remained a closely guarded state secret. Most of the military and government never knew about his imprisonment and those that did know wanted to give Stalin the impression that they didn't care. To that end, all the ships of China's pre war navy were traded to the soviet union for military supplies.
27年 1月 21日
The traumatic events of the past month had led to a lot of unrest as people disagreed with the specifics of the new government, suspicion of foul play regarding Chiang's death and other assorted problems. The new government would turn to Nationalism to unite the country.
Kong Xiangxi spoke at Chiang's memorial. "I stand here as the heir to a grand legacy. Sun Yat Sen had a dream that a demoralized and defeated nation could rise above its petty divisions and imperial past and become the nation that the people of China deserved. Chiang Kai Shek would live to see that dream advanced but not fulfilled. It falls to us, their successors, to fulfill that dream. It falls to us to reclaim China's place on the world stage. Many treaties were imposed on a weak and crumbling dynasty by the avaricious imperialist powers. Today, I am officially tearing up those treaties and call on all nations, who would consider themselves friends of China, to do the same."
The first embassy to be contacted was England. The speech was fairly combative, but the proposed settlement was remarkably friendly. British enclaves outside of Hong Kong would gradually lose their extraterritorial status over two years, with British subjects given the right to return to England courtesy of the Republic of China, or remain to become naturalized citizens. Foreign banking establishments would not be nationalized and would be allowed to operate as before. Whitehall agreed in principle to ceding their extra territorial rights along most of the coast, but was bitterly opposed to losing Hong Kong. Winston Churchill would voice the British Empire's opposition.
"While the British people were the first to congratulate China for their victory over Japan and with all due respect the sensibilities of the Chinese people, we cannot simply hand over Hong Kong. It's one thing to relinquish fifty acres in Shanghai or Tianjin, but Hong Kong and its evirons are 426 square miles of crown territory. The Chinese are to be congratulated for defeating Japan on the land, but the Japanese Navy remains unhumbled. We are already courting disaster in the Atlantic by ceding our treaty ports in Ireland, let us not make the same mistake twice."
The Japanese embassy was not so tactful in their refusal, but that had been expected.
Stalin had been puzzled by the lack of an official Chinese response to the death of Chiang Ching Kuo. He no longer was, as the Republic of China had just laid claim to almost two million square miles of Soviet and Mongolian territory. While the other claims had some possibility of peaceful resolution, this claim was almost a declaration of war.
27年 1月 25日
The naval ministry was proud to announce that development of China's first modern warships was almost complete. If things went as planned, production was scheduled to begin within months. The new computing machine would figure greatly into the designs for the new ship, as Chinese sailors were going to need a technical edge to make up for their lack of of a modern naval tradition.
27年 3月 22日
Production within China was mostly focused on domestic industry with several factories and arsenals under construction across the nation. The merchant marine also was being expanded slowly but continuously along with the escorts for them. The Republic of China Army would expand slowly， with the focus being placed on the newly created Pabing （爬兵) divisions. These divisions were being trained for harsh winters, dry climates, and and high altitudes, conditions which dominated Western China and, coincidentally enough, Mongolia and outer Manchuria.
27年 3月 23日
The German allies had been dismayed by the slide away from fascism and were thus charging exorbitant amounts for military aid. China was willing to pay however. As they were quite familiar with the theory of mobile warfare. It had historically been horses but trucks would work just as well to create a large, fast army that could win in central Asia.
27年 3月 24日
The immediately put the research to work, but building an automotive industry from scratch would take a while.
27年 3月 27日
Construction was also begun on a massive new rocketry center in the remote mountains of Southern Sichuan. Located in the prefecture capital of Xichang, it's location was chosen based on it's distance from both the Soviet Union and Japan.
27年 3月 29日
Germany also completed it's own reunification. It seemed that Asia was settling down just as Europe was heating up.
Sorry about the wait, stay tuned.
*C.C. No one actually knows what the two 'c's stand for. All that's known is that a particular faction within the Guomindang who called themselves the C.C. rose to some prominence during the thirties. (literally, they said "C C" in Chinese，when referring to themselves)
**I had to do some minister messing around right here as it was way implausible that Li Zongren would be allowed to hold Chiang's position. Initially, I thought I was being a little abusive by moving in Kong Xiangxi (silent workhorse +5% IC), but a quick wikipedia search showed that he actually did become the premiere of China on January 1st 1938.
***Basically, all my skill 2 traited generals or field marshals received a Bingtuan. This left me with a bunch of skill 3 or 4 Mj. Generals who I didn't want to promote manually. Instead I just waited for each one to autopromote and filled in the two spots with new divisions. I also started producing militia so that I'd have alot of my 2 MIL + 1 INF coastal garrisons already on hand when the next war started.
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Great update! Really, it was excellent. One question: why are you not allied to Korea?
germanpeon said:
He is allied with Korea. The Axis is made up of Germany, China, and Korea.
And yet... in the first screenie of the update I can see that some Korean provinces are covered by fog of war (or peaceKang Seung Jae said:
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germanpeon said:And yet... in the first screenie of the update I can see that some Korean provinces are covered by fog of war (or peace
The warlord ultimatum event automatically kicks NatChina out of the alliance with Xibei San Ma which happens to be the axis, also containing Korea. I left, Korea left too. This meant that neither of us was allied to anyone, I just didn't notice it for a couple days. I rejoined once I noticed a week later.
I recommend building some NAVs to give you additional striking power and to keep the coast clear of enemy fleets.
I'm slightly confused, where any of you're territories returned to you or not. Also amazing work.
Tough luck Chiang!
Can we see a map with all your territorial demands?
Those tech teams are still well below even South American standards!
Can we see a map with all your territorial demands?
Those tech teams are still well below even South American standards!
elbasto said:
Yet still: if you keep your research focussed it doesnt matter much - you can get loads of the same. For instance, one lousy airforce techteam and one lousy naval techteam combined from start to 1940 can net you the tech of advanced destroyers and carriers - combined with IC 200+, that means one or two modern carrier fleets, if you want.
Looks like a showdown of CHI + GER, vs the russians...Should be an interesting war, unless you are thinking of leaving before Poland, or attacking russia first...Anyway I'll just wait and see.
Kang Seung Jae - I try. It's amazing what one can find if they just look for it.
trekaddict - I would be selling every one of my readAARs short if I didn't build a surface navy.
Lord Strange - Game wise nothing has changed beyond my having claims on all this territory. I wrote the story to reflect one of Chiang's most important but least well known accomplishments, namely getting Britain and America to give up all their extraterritorial rights in everywhere but Hong Kong. So story wise this is accomplished by his successor.
Wolf of Norway - Then I won't make you. Here you go!
elbasto - I know, it's just that paradox believes that technological supremacy is based on the degrees of separation from being European. A liberated Israel gets 6's and 7's while United china gets 3's and 4's.
Here's the map. (earlier than the current update)
Tiresias - I used to do Carrier fleets for just that reason. This time I'm experimenting with cruizergs because I've never used them. Though somehow a gunfire oriented fleet based on mid size warships seems very fitting for China. It also suits the tech teams better than anything else does.
intruder alert - It's not an interesting war. It's just the Soviets getting slaughtered. I'm thinking of a slight variation to make it more interesting. Welcome, BTW.
trekaddict - I would be selling every one of my readAARs short if I didn't build a surface navy.
Lord Strange - Game wise nothing has changed beyond my having claims on all this territory. I wrote the story to reflect one of Chiang's most important but least well known accomplishments, namely getting Britain and America to give up all their extraterritorial rights in everywhere but Hong Kong. So story wise this is accomplished by his successor.
Wolf of Norway - Then I won't make you. Here you go!
elbasto - I know, it's just that paradox believes that technological supremacy is based on the degrees of separation from being European. A liberated Israel gets 6's and 7's while United china gets 3's and 4's.
Here's the map. (earlier than the current update)
Tiresias - I used to do Carrier fleets for just that reason. This time I'm experimenting with cruizergs because I've never used them. Though somehow a gunfire oriented fleet based on mid size warships seems very fitting for China. It also suits the tech teams better than anything else does.
intruder alert - It's not an interesting war. It's just the Soviets getting slaughtered. I'm thinking of a slight variation to make it more interesting. Welcome, BTW.
27年 4月 26日
Development continued apace across all fronts. The last month had seen China's new bomber factories completed. Within China, the Curtiss model 75 had been produced under license by the Guomindang. However, the inability of the ROCAF to find and engage Japanese fighter successfully necessitated a change.
Curtiss was contacted to redesign the fighter to make a faster, heavier interceptor. The basic structure would see very little change from the earlier Curtiss 75, as the Chinese government was adamant that it should be able to be built in existing factories. The changes came by replacing the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 (Twin Wasp) 14-cylinder air-cooled radial engine with the new liquid-cooled, supercharged Allison V-1710 V-12 engine. Durability was paramount as China did not have many fighters or pilots to spare. The design was semi modular to reduce the cost and ease repairs in the field.
On the naval front, research was continuing apace and a study was being conducted on the utility of submarines in the western pacific.
27年 5月 14日
The first of several new factories was completed in Datong. China was desperate to expand it's own heavy industrial base.
27年 5月 17日
A momentous day arrived as the first keel of China's first domestically produced warship in over 30 years was laid. The new ships would be called the 整合 (Zheng He) class after the famed 15th century admiral. Though outwardly similar to the Anago class that they were based on, their capabilities were vastly greater. The armament was similar with main damage inflicted by three turrets mounting two 6.1 inch guns supported by 4 smaller 76 millimeter guns as well as torpedo tubes, and depth charges. The ship had added ten more AA emplacements over the original design as Japanese carriers were rightly feared.
That was a relatively easy modification, but what really made the ship different and much more costly than its Japanese cousin was the introduction of a massively complex new fire control system. 25% of the cost of the ship was based on the need to equip each one with three separate fire control computers. This was only one less than the most modern U.S. battleships. This increased the effective firing range of each ship by almost 4 kilometers a fact which was a heavily guarded state secret.
Research was redirected into producing a larger, more heavily armed cruiser variant. Unfortunately, China had less experience building ships of this size and it probably would not be as advanced as its smaller cousin.
27年 5月 25日
Chen Lifu was the last member of the CC to remain in high position within the Guomindang hierarchy. The details of Chiang's death had remained, by necessity, secret, so an immediate removal of all C.C. clique members could not be justified. Months had passed and he would be quietly replaced by Chu Chia-Hua, who had taken over as general secretary of the Guomindang. He had studied in Germany and was much more interested in acquiring foreign knowledge, feeling that intrigue was far too messy and cost ineffective.
27年 6月 23日
Within the PPC, the Guomindang was caught off guard when the Communists proposed outlawing the Blue Shirts, a military based faction within the Guomindang that had been fiercely loyal to Chiang and enamored with European fascism. What was surprising was that a little over half of the delegates in the PPC supported it. It needed a two thirds majority to pass, however, and the Guomindang, holding 80 of the 200 seats, was able to block it. It was a surprising sign that German style authoritarianism was not very popular within China. Several of the smaller parties that disagreed with the Blue Shirts in principle, would also vote with the Guomindang as they had the most to lose from a slide away from pluralism.
27年 6月 30日
Chu Chia Hua and Dai Li would work in concert to break up a Soviet spy ring in Harbin along with a Japanese one in Shanghai.
27年 7月 2日
China had finished it's research into creating truly vehicle mounted divisions. New research had begun on the next reorganization of the army based on some innovative ides developed by the Koreans. Artillery production would also continue.
27年 7月 15日
The new P-40 prototype had flown with remarkable success and full scale production was ordered. The plane was however not very capable at high altitude nor did it have the range of the newer Chinese bombers. China would contract with the Germans to produce a domestic version of the Bf 110 for use as a bomber escort.
27年 7月 22日
Resource expansion was in full swing. The Wall Street Journal published angry editorials fearing the decline of America's rust belt due to cheap Chinese steel.
27年 8月 3日
Military production was slow, but steady. New motorized divisions would be raised with the first to go to existing calvary formations and the later ones to form their own corps. In addition production was ordered on China's first capital ship, the newly minted “Shi Lang (施琅)" class named after the 17th century Qing admiral who had first conquered Taiwan for China. Despite being bigger than the Zheng He, its fire control systems were not nearly as advanced. This reduced the cost of the new ship but also meant that its gunnery was actually slightly less effective than it's smaller counterpart.
27年 8月 19日
China's army was second only to the Russians in terms of division strength. It's only weakness was a marked lack of armor as the Chinese army was somewhat unconvinced of their effectiveness and would use lighter, cheaper vehicles for their mobile component.
27年 8月 24日
The Republic China army had settled on a new form for their army. Each division would be increased from 10,000 to 12,000. The units would also be gifted with much more support equipment in the form of new trucks, light vehicles, and more mobile artillery. The Chinese government also acquired the license for the German Mp 38. The Chinese army had used submachine guns if it could get them but this was the first time that they had been centrally issued.
27年 9月 26日
Intelligence operations had been meeting more and more success as spy networks became well established and operatives received more experience.
27年 9月 30日
The first two ships of the new Zheng He class rolled off the slipways to massive fanfare. China had a navy again. Given time, this small flotilla would grow into a huge fleet.
27年 10月 18日
Aviation research was completed with new bombing doctrines and the opening of a new Bf 110 factory in Guangzhou.
Because the scout planes on both of the new ships in the Chinese navy had been removed when converted from Japanese plans to allow more space for guns, the navy became interested in creating a new scout carrier based on the Zheng He hull. This way all fleet scouting aviation could be coordinated from a single ship without the need to stop the fleet to pick up individual seaplanes.
27年 10月 21日
German diplomacy had successfully reclaimed the Sudetenland. Chinese diplomats sent their congratulations to Hitler and hoped that the remaining German city of Danzig could be recovered peacefully.
27年 11月 2日
The initial resource expansion was completed. All of the planned factories and mines were either finished or nearing completion. The government would withdraw trusting the market to fuel further expansion.
27年 12月 11日
Chinese diplomats had been negotiating with the Dalai Lama for over a year about the future of Tibet. The final agreement stipulated the existence of a state within a state. The final agreement would have 17 points and awaited the signature of the young Dalai Lama.
1. The Local Government of Tibet shall actively assist the Republic of China Army to enter Tibet and consolidate the national defenses.
2. The Tibetan people have the right of exercising national regional autonomy, including the right to review and amend decisions by the central government.
3. Tibet shall retain the right to run it's own customs, legal system, monetary system and immigration policy.
4. The Central Authorities will not alter the existing political system in Tibet. The Central Authorities also will not alter the established status, functions and powers of the Dalai Lama. Officials of various ranks shall hold office as usual.
5. The established status, functions, and powers of the Panchen Lama shall be maintained.
6. By the established status, functions and powers of the Dalai Lama and of the Panchen Lama is meant the status, functions and powers of the 13th Dalai Lama and of the 9th Panchen Lama when they were in friendly and amicable relations with each other.
7. The policy of freedom of religious belief laid down in the Common Programme of the People's Political Council will be protected. The Central Authorities will not effect any change in the income of the monasteries.
8. The Tibetan troops will be reorganized step by step into the Republic of China Army, and become a part of the national defense forces of the Central Government.
9. The spoken and written language and school education eithin Tibet shall not be changed and Zhongshan fund shall be extended to Tibetan citizens.
10. Tibetan agriculture, livestock raising, industry and commerce will remain unchanged. All Chinese firms seeking to operate within Tibet shall require the permission of the Tibetan government.
11. In matters related to various reforms in Tibet, there will be no compulsion on the part of the Central Authorities. The Local Government of Tibet should carry out reforms of its own accord, and when the people raise demands for reform, they must be settled through consultation with the leading personnel of Tibet.
12. The Central government shall authorize a 30 million yuan reconstruction fund to be completely administered by the Local Government to help with reforms.
13. The Republic of China Army entering Tibet will abide by the above-mentioned policies and will also be fair in all buying and selling and will not arbitrarily requisition supplies from the people.
14. The Central Government will handle all external affairs of the area of Tibet; and there will be peaceful co-existence with neighboring countries and the establishment and development of fair commercial and trading relations with them on the basis of equality, mutual benefit and mutual respect for territory and sovereignty.
15. In order to ensure the implementation of this agreement, the Central Government will set up a military and administrative committee and a military area headquarters in Tibet, and apart from the personnel sent there by the Central Government it will invite as many local Tibetan personnel as possible to take part in the work. Local Tibetan personnel taking part in the military and administrative committee may include patriotic elements from the Local Government of Tibet.
16. Funds needed by the military and administrative committee, the military area headquarters and the Republic of China Army entering Tibet will be provided by the Central Government. The Local Government of Tibet is asked to assist in the purchase and transportation of food, fodder, and other daily necessities.
17. This agreement shall come into force immediately after signatures and seals are affixed to it.
The agreement was presented under threat of arms, and it was hoped that the Dalai Lama would see that China was going to absorb Tibet one way or the other and this was the most painless way to do it.
The Dalai Lama reluctantly signed and Chinese forces entered. The Tibetan government had been reluctant to approve, but ROC forces were as good as their word and were scrupulously respectful. In addition, the PPC was expanded by 10 seats which were reserved for Tibetan representatives.
The war will kick off again soon! Keep your eyes on this space.
Development continued apace across all fronts. The last month had seen China's new bomber factories completed. Within China, the Curtiss model 75 had been produced under license by the Guomindang. However, the inability of the ROCAF to find and engage Japanese fighter successfully necessitated a change.
Curtiss was contacted to redesign the fighter to make a faster, heavier interceptor. The basic structure would see very little change from the earlier Curtiss 75, as the Chinese government was adamant that it should be able to be built in existing factories. The changes came by replacing the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 (Twin Wasp) 14-cylinder air-cooled radial engine with the new liquid-cooled, supercharged Allison V-1710 V-12 engine. Durability was paramount as China did not have many fighters or pilots to spare. The design was semi modular to reduce the cost and ease repairs in the field.
On the naval front, research was continuing apace and a study was being conducted on the utility of submarines in the western pacific.
27年 5月 14日
The first of several new factories was completed in Datong. China was desperate to expand it's own heavy industrial base.
27年 5月 17日
A momentous day arrived as the first keel of China's first domestically produced warship in over 30 years was laid. The new ships would be called the 整合 (Zheng He) class after the famed 15th century admiral. Though outwardly similar to the Anago class that they were based on, their capabilities were vastly greater. The armament was similar with main damage inflicted by three turrets mounting two 6.1 inch guns supported by 4 smaller 76 millimeter guns as well as torpedo tubes, and depth charges. The ship had added ten more AA emplacements over the original design as Japanese carriers were rightly feared.
That was a relatively easy modification, but what really made the ship different and much more costly than its Japanese cousin was the introduction of a massively complex new fire control system. 25% of the cost of the ship was based on the need to equip each one with three separate fire control computers. This was only one less than the most modern U.S. battleships. This increased the effective firing range of each ship by almost 4 kilometers a fact which was a heavily guarded state secret.
Research was redirected into producing a larger, more heavily armed cruiser variant. Unfortunately, China had less experience building ships of this size and it probably would not be as advanced as its smaller cousin.
27年 5月 25日
Chen Lifu was the last member of the CC to remain in high position within the Guomindang hierarchy. The details of Chiang's death had remained, by necessity, secret, so an immediate removal of all C.C. clique members could not be justified. Months had passed and he would be quietly replaced by Chu Chia-Hua, who had taken over as general secretary of the Guomindang. He had studied in Germany and was much more interested in acquiring foreign knowledge, feeling that intrigue was far too messy and cost ineffective.
27年 6月 23日
Within the PPC, the Guomindang was caught off guard when the Communists proposed outlawing the Blue Shirts, a military based faction within the Guomindang that had been fiercely loyal to Chiang and enamored with European fascism. What was surprising was that a little over half of the delegates in the PPC supported it. It needed a two thirds majority to pass, however, and the Guomindang, holding 80 of the 200 seats, was able to block it. It was a surprising sign that German style authoritarianism was not very popular within China. Several of the smaller parties that disagreed with the Blue Shirts in principle, would also vote with the Guomindang as they had the most to lose from a slide away from pluralism.
27年 6月 30日
Chu Chia Hua and Dai Li would work in concert to break up a Soviet spy ring in Harbin along with a Japanese one in Shanghai.
27年 7月 2日
China had finished it's research into creating truly vehicle mounted divisions. New research had begun on the next reorganization of the army based on some innovative ides developed by the Koreans. Artillery production would also continue.
27年 7月 15日
The new P-40 prototype had flown with remarkable success and full scale production was ordered. The plane was however not very capable at high altitude nor did it have the range of the newer Chinese bombers. China would contract with the Germans to produce a domestic version of the Bf 110 for use as a bomber escort.
27年 7月 22日
Resource expansion was in full swing. The Wall Street Journal published angry editorials fearing the decline of America's rust belt due to cheap Chinese steel.
27年 8月 3日
Military production was slow, but steady. New motorized divisions would be raised with the first to go to existing calvary formations and the later ones to form their own corps. In addition production was ordered on China's first capital ship, the newly minted “Shi Lang (施琅)" class named after the 17th century Qing admiral who had first conquered Taiwan for China. Despite being bigger than the Zheng He, its fire control systems were not nearly as advanced. This reduced the cost of the new ship but also meant that its gunnery was actually slightly less effective than it's smaller counterpart.
27年 8月 19日
China's army was second only to the Russians in terms of division strength. It's only weakness was a marked lack of armor as the Chinese army was somewhat unconvinced of their effectiveness and would use lighter, cheaper vehicles for their mobile component.
27年 8月 24日
The Republic China army had settled on a new form for their army. Each division would be increased from 10,000 to 12,000. The units would also be gifted with much more support equipment in the form of new trucks, light vehicles, and more mobile artillery. The Chinese government also acquired the license for the German Mp 38. The Chinese army had used submachine guns if it could get them but this was the first time that they had been centrally issued.
27年 9月 26日
Intelligence operations had been meeting more and more success as spy networks became well established and operatives received more experience.
27年 9月 30日
The first two ships of the new Zheng He class rolled off the slipways to massive fanfare. China had a navy again. Given time, this small flotilla would grow into a huge fleet.
27年 10月 18日
Aviation research was completed with new bombing doctrines and the opening of a new Bf 110 factory in Guangzhou.
Because the scout planes on both of the new ships in the Chinese navy had been removed when converted from Japanese plans to allow more space for guns, the navy became interested in creating a new scout carrier based on the Zheng He hull. This way all fleet scouting aviation could be coordinated from a single ship without the need to stop the fleet to pick up individual seaplanes.
27年 10月 21日
German diplomacy had successfully reclaimed the Sudetenland. Chinese diplomats sent their congratulations to Hitler and hoped that the remaining German city of Danzig could be recovered peacefully.
27年 11月 2日
The initial resource expansion was completed. All of the planned factories and mines were either finished or nearing completion. The government would withdraw trusting the market to fuel further expansion.
27年 12月 11日
Chinese diplomats had been negotiating with the Dalai Lama for over a year about the future of Tibet. The final agreement stipulated the existence of a state within a state. The final agreement would have 17 points and awaited the signature of the young Dalai Lama.
1. The Local Government of Tibet shall actively assist the Republic of China Army to enter Tibet and consolidate the national defenses.
2. The Tibetan people have the right of exercising national regional autonomy, including the right to review and amend decisions by the central government.
3. Tibet shall retain the right to run it's own customs, legal system, monetary system and immigration policy.
4. The Central Authorities will not alter the existing political system in Tibet. The Central Authorities also will not alter the established status, functions and powers of the Dalai Lama. Officials of various ranks shall hold office as usual.
5. The established status, functions, and powers of the Panchen Lama shall be maintained.
6. By the established status, functions and powers of the Dalai Lama and of the Panchen Lama is meant the status, functions and powers of the 13th Dalai Lama and of the 9th Panchen Lama when they were in friendly and amicable relations with each other.
7. The policy of freedom of religious belief laid down in the Common Programme of the People's Political Council will be protected. The Central Authorities will not effect any change in the income of the monasteries.
8. The Tibetan troops will be reorganized step by step into the Republic of China Army, and become a part of the national defense forces of the Central Government.
9. The spoken and written language and school education eithin Tibet shall not be changed and Zhongshan fund shall be extended to Tibetan citizens.
10. Tibetan agriculture, livestock raising, industry and commerce will remain unchanged. All Chinese firms seeking to operate within Tibet shall require the permission of the Tibetan government.
11. In matters related to various reforms in Tibet, there will be no compulsion on the part of the Central Authorities. The Local Government of Tibet should carry out reforms of its own accord, and when the people raise demands for reform, they must be settled through consultation with the leading personnel of Tibet.
12. The Central government shall authorize a 30 million yuan reconstruction fund to be completely administered by the Local Government to help with reforms.
13. The Republic of China Army entering Tibet will abide by the above-mentioned policies and will also be fair in all buying and selling and will not arbitrarily requisition supplies from the people.
14. The Central Government will handle all external affairs of the area of Tibet; and there will be peaceful co-existence with neighboring countries and the establishment and development of fair commercial and trading relations with them on the basis of equality, mutual benefit and mutual respect for territory and sovereignty.
15. In order to ensure the implementation of this agreement, the Central Government will set up a military and administrative committee and a military area headquarters in Tibet, and apart from the personnel sent there by the Central Government it will invite as many local Tibetan personnel as possible to take part in the work. Local Tibetan personnel taking part in the military and administrative committee may include patriotic elements from the Local Government of Tibet.
16. Funds needed by the military and administrative committee, the military area headquarters and the Republic of China Army entering Tibet will be provided by the Central Government. The Local Government of Tibet is asked to assist in the purchase and transportation of food, fodder, and other daily necessities.
17. This agreement shall come into force immediately after signatures and seals are affixed to it.
The agreement was presented under threat of arms, and it was hoped that the Dalai Lama would see that China was going to absorb Tibet one way or the other and this was the most painless way to do it.
The Dalai Lama reluctantly signed and Chinese forces entered. The Tibetan government had been reluctant to approve, but ROC forces were as good as their word and were scrupulously respectful. In addition, the PPC was expanded by 10 seats which were reserved for Tibetan representatives.
The war will kick off again soon! Keep your eyes on this space.
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