Zhang Meng continued to stay at the National Academy of Sciences to inspect the progress of various scientific research projects. After seven years of development and growth, the Tang Empire had collected more than 10,000 scientists, scholars and technical engineers from all over the world. They became the backbone of the National Academy of Sciences. More than 600 scientific research projects arranged by Zhang Meng are in progress step by step. Assistants to assist these scientists, scholars and technical engineers, the apprentices have grown to a scale of 100,000. Almost every foreign scientist has an average of ten Tang people assistants and apprentices. The main purpose of these assistants and apprentices is to assist foreign scientists in completing the engineering projects explained by Zhang Meng, and at the same time cultivate a team of local scientific talents in the future. This is also one of Zhang Meng's long-term plans.

The orbital kinetic cannon has completed all tests in the laboratory stage. Although the maximum range is only seventy or eighty kilometers, it exceeds the general range of 20 to 30 kilometers of traditional gunpowder-boosted cannons. For the naval battleship, the current international mainstream is still the battleship, and the main gun range of the US Iowa-class battleship with the largest caliber is only more than 30 kilometers.

However, if the Tang Empire Navy wants to rebuild the battleship project, it will definitely choose to install orbital kinetic cannons as an attack weapon. However, it is not realistic at present. A set of devices cost over 100 million yuan and is very large and bloated. Although they can attack targets 70 kilometers away, they do not have much practical cost-effectiveness before the missile comes out.

In addition to the orbital kinetic gun project, nuclear engineering, radio transmission, meteorological control, biochemical weapons, computers, electromagnetic technology, jet turbine technology, deep-sea diving, space rockets, laser weapons and other hundreds of major projects have made progress, and the expenditure is huge. But Zhang Meng believes it is worth it and is willing to spend money.

After inspecting the National Academy of Sciences, Zhang Meng learned that the three women were fighting very hard in the Ming Palace. However, what surprised Zhang Meng was that Han Qingxuan actually withstood the joint attack of Wang Keer and Mira. She is worthy of being a ** warrior. She is indeed powerful enough. If it were other women, she would have been scared away long ago.

However, Zhang Meng believed that it was not the time to go back, so he had to wander outside for a few days to see the situation before talking about it. So he visited various bases of the army, navy and air force to boost morale for the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

As the Tang and China jointly fought against Japan, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty would also send a force into mainland China to cooperate with the Chinese team to fight against Japan. Many fugitive soldiers in the Tang army from the three northeastern provinces had been waiting for this day for a long time, and Zhang Meng had to spend some time on them, otherwise the Tang Dynasty would have worked hard to train them. As a result, they defected to the Kuomintang, either ** or bedding or ran away as soon as they returned to China. Of course, this was just Zhang Meng's personal guess. But they had to guard against it, because the Kuomintang would always dig out the corners of the Tang Dynasty, and the Bureau of Homeland Security had long reported this to Zhang Meng.

On that day, Zhang Meng received two news at the same time, one good and the other bad. The good news was that the Japanese army in Taiwan lost the battle of Taichung due to the long supply interruption, and more than 30,000 Japanese soldiers were killed or injured, and Taichung lost. Three Tang army divisions met successfully in Taichung and advanced towards Taipei. The remaining Japanese troops were more than 20,000 people preparing to evacuate Taiwan.

The Japanese base camp voluntarily gave up Taiwan. This was good news for the Tang Dynasty. However, the reason was that the Tang and Zhongzhong fought against Japan. In order to ensure the absolute security of the three northeastern provinces and transfer the main army to North China to fight with the Zhongzhan team. There was also bad news, but the Onodera Wudi Fleet eventually gave up reinforcements to Taiwan, because the Japanese Navy believed that the battle against Tang should be mainly based on defense, and focused on defeating the Chinese National Government troops first, and then fighting with the Tang army to the death, otherwise the two fronts would defeat both sides.

Onoji Wudian Fleet preserved its strength and played hide-and-seek and hide-and-seek with the Tang army again, which to a certain extent constituted a deterrent force on the Tang Dynasty's navy, making the Tang Dynasty's navy dare not take the risk of transporting troops to mainland China easily, which is bad news for the Tang Dynasty.

In the next few days, Zhang Meng inspected various industrial groups in the Tang Dynasty and focused on inspecting the Fiji Islands, because it was the largest island of the Tang Empire, and 90% of the country's territory was on the Fiji Islands, which also became the top priority of the Tang Empire.

At this time, the Fiji Islands had completed various infrastructure construction. Like the Chang'an, Yanjing and other islands of the Tang Dynasty, the entire archipelago was divided by horizontal and vertical highways and street networks. It looked very neat and beautiful from the air. Since the August 15th Incident, three million fellow villagers in Northeast China have no longer been refugees. At this time, they were all living and working in the Fiji Islands. The Tang government provided them with residence, job opportunities, educational opportunities, social welfare guarantees, medical insurance, etc. They earned money through hard work to repay the money lent to them, and distributed the rest themselves and could buy whatever they wanted. The Tang Empire's materials and commodities were extremely rich, and they were all available.

At this time, the population of the Tang Empire had stabilized, and 15 million people became the basic population, meeting the needs of various national industrial construction of the Tang Dynasty and meeting the needs of the Tang Dynasty's national defense. The Tang Dynasty's Menxia Province has raised the immigration threshold. In the past, people with high school and above education and technology could enjoy the preferential immigration policies of the Tang Dynasty. Now it has been upgraded to Western-standard high school graduation or university degree.

However, the current population composition of the Tang Empire is basically dominated by young people. In the next 50 years, the Tang Empire will usher in a peak of population aging. Therefore, the Tang Empire has prepared for the future. The Tang Empire issued an encouragement regulations to encourage married couples to have more children. A family with more than three children directly rewarded 10,000 Tang Yuan for each additional country. Not all Tang people have higher education and skills, and many Tang people who escaped can only survive by their strength. This bill is of great help to them. Ten thousand Tang Yuan is enough to help them support their families and even do some small business. It is precisely because of this bill that in the territory of the Tang Empire, all citizens of the Tang Empire can basically live a life of adequate food and clothing. This has also become the goal of more people wanting to smuggle into the Tang Dynasty, bringing a severe test to the Tang Police Department.

During the global economic crisis from 1929 to 1933, Zhang Meng made a fortune with unprecedented great courage and iron-blooded means, plundering the wealth of the world's leading financial centers such as Wall Street in New York, Downing Street in London, and Caesar Avenue in Paris. He launched a silver war to plunder the silver reserves of third world countries. He established the position of the world's financial center of the Tang Empire. The Tang Financial Consortium headed by Datang Bank replaced the Sixth Empire's Ross family to become the new generation of financial tycoons in the world and mastered the lifeline of the world's economy.

Then, Zhang Meng used finance as a means to take advantage of the large-scale demolition of advanced factory equipment and industrial technology accumulated by various countries for hundreds of years during the economic crisis of major capitalist powers, thus forming the industrial state framework of the Tang Empire. Eight years have passed, and the workers of the Tang Empire have fully understood the advanced industrial technology that the capitalist powers monopolized for hundreds of years. They not only will they be proficient in using their advanced industrial equipment, but also go further and create a series of industrial miracles, new materials smelting and manufacturing technology of steel industry with rare earths as the core, new pharmaceutical industry with spectral antibiotic drug development and production, emerging manufacturing industries with aircraft, automobiles, and ships as the main development and production of deep petrochemicals, new optoelectronic industries with televisions, radios and radio stations as the core, modern military manufacturing industries with enhanced national defense, etc., are all flourishing and becoming the pillar economic industries of the Tang Empire.

In the past few years before the founding of the Tang Empire, Datang Industry had been operating without any money. Now, as the industrial products of the Tang Empire were pushed to the international market the same way, and after defeating international peers, it turned losses into profits. Zhang Meng's huge amount of funds invested tens of billions of Tang yuan finally made a return, and the funds began to be recovered on a large scale, making huge profits.

By the end of 1937, the total GDP of the Tang Empire had reached 50 billion US dollars, slightly more than the US$48.9 billion in the Soviet Union and slightly less than the US$50.3 billion in Germany. The gap compared with the United States is still huge, because even though the United States suffered a severe blow from the economic crisis, it still had a total GDP of nearly 200 billion US dollars. This was still the case when Zhang Meng ransacked the US Wall Street financial center and the entire US industry on a large scale. It is conceivable that if Zhang Meng had not plundered it, the total GDP of the United States would have been more.

Of course, in terms of achievements, the Tang Empire reached hundreds of years of capital accumulation in just eight years of its founding, and even exceeded the total GDP of Britain. This achievement was enough to make the Tang people proud. In contrast, Japan's total GDP has dropped to less than 20 billion US dollars. These are all thanks to Zhang Meng, which directly dragged Japan down and shattered Japan's dream of surpassing the United States to become the world's number one.

However, if we look at the per capita GDP, the Tang Empire will be well deserved to be the world's number one, with per capita income and living standards exceeding the United States. Not only is the dream country for Chinese people, but also white Westerners are looking forward to being able to immigrate to the Tang Dynasty and become citizens of the Tang Dynasty to enjoy the generous social welfare benefits of the Tang Dynasty.

In terms of the government agencies of the Tang Dynasty, the three provinces and six ministries established by Zhang Meng has completely stabilized, and all officials have adapted to their roles. Eight years ago, the Prime Minister of the Tang Empire only needed a private steward to be competent, but now the position of Prime Minister of the cabinet is managed by professional national governance talents recommended by Tang Shaoyi. It can be seen that the tremendous changes in the Tang Empire in recent years can be described as a tremendous upside down.

Zhang Wei returned to the Tang Dynasty from a new era and restored her position as a foreign minister. She was still the eldest princess of the Tang Empire. This is what Zhang Meng said. Everyone below must do it. It can be seen that Zhang Meng is a man of gratitude, which makes all people who are friendly to Zhang Meng admire and be grateful. If he accidentally became Zhang Meng's enemy back then, then he would definitely end up miserably now. Zhang Meng is a person with clear grudges.

On this day, Zhang Meng was inspecting a Tang Dynasty official animal farm located in Australia, encouraging the Tang Dynasty employees there to withstand the pressure of avian influenza and create a rare virus-free animal husbandry base in the world, providing delicious and clean green meat products to the Tang Dynasty and the people of the world.

"Your Highness, the ministers of the Cabinet and the Ministry of National Defense please return to the palace quickly!" A guard officer hurriedly came to report.

"What happened so urgent?" Zhang Meng frowned immediately, feeling that something big happened.
Chapter completed!