Twenty-seventh stable development

  In 1973, Taiwan began its all-out economic construction after receiving $200 million in compensation from the Japanese government. Especially after last year's large-scale infrastructure construction, Taiwan's economy has reached a state of thick accumulation and thin emission. This year, Taiwan's key projects will focus on petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals.

  At the same time, a large-scale replacement of the Taiwanese military had begun. By the second half of 1973, the ROC Army's I Corps was formally established, with two heavy mechanized infantry divisions under its jurisdiction.

  Each heavy mechanized infantry division consists of two armored brigades and directly affiliated units. Each armored brigade is divided into: Directly affiliated units (1000 people) include: digital workstations, field hospitals, communication and network information troops, engineer and chemical defense troops, logistics and security troops; Combat assault forces (2500 people) include: 1 reconnaissance battalion, 1 mechanized infantry battalion, 1 helicopter battalion, 2 tank battalions; Fire support units (1500 people) include: 1 howitzer battalion, 1 rocket artillery battalion, 1 missile air defense battalion.

  The total number of troops directly under the group army should be nearly 30,000. The First Army is good at attacking fortifications and will be the main force for implementing strategic strike missions in the future. Lin Feng hopes to build them into the first mechanized corps, but this goal is still far away.

  Apart from the modernization of the Army's First Corps, the Navy has recently taken delivery of an anti-submarine destroyer after commissioning an air defense destroyer. The ship is another "Tsoying"-class destroyer, the "Taichung". The difference between the "Taichung" and the "Taipei" lies in their armament. In addition to being equipped with "Yan Wang" cruise missiles and a small number of air defense missiles, it is mainly equipped with "Hsiung Feng" anti-ship missiles and "Mark 46" anti-submarine torpedoes, and can also carry two anti-submarine helicopters.

  The navy now has two modern warships and a place for training and learning.

  The most troublesome is the air force. Lin Feng from the future is very clear that with the development of information and space technology, the integration of air and space is an inevitable trend. In the future, it will be composed of various communication and reconnaissance satellites as the core, supplemented by flying early warning aircraft in the sky, to form a system for reconnaissance, surveillance, early warning, communication and other functions.

  Of course, with the current strength of Taiwan, it is not yet capable of completing these tasks. Lin Feng only planned that by 1980, the air force must have stronger reconnaissance, surveillance, early warning and real-time transmission of intelligence information capabilities and rapid response capabilities to ensure air superiority and long-range precision strike capabilities.

  So the Taiwanese Air Force will rely on early warning aircraft as its core before the establishment of the "Beidou" satellite navigation system, directing fighter jets to fight. After military reform, the Taiwanese Air Force will take the Air Force Command Headquarters as its highest leadership organization, and its main tasks are: based on the army's building guidelines, principles and military strategy, formulate air force construction plans and organize implementation; develop air defense combat plans, command air force troops' combat actions; organize various technical and logistical support; formulate training outlines, and organize troop training.

  The Air Force Headquarters exercises organizational command and management over the troops through the Combat Command, Logistics Command, Air Defense Missile Command, Radar Early Warning Command and other commands.

  The aviation flying troops are the main body of the air force, with a total of 8 wings, including 7 fighter wings and 1 transport wing. In order to ensure that the future 7 fighter wings have strong combat effectiveness, Lin Feng's China Defense Company plans to directly equip Taiwan with fourth-generation aircraft.

  The development of military aircraft has now revealed the third generation, with the US F-15, F-16, FA-18 and the Soviet MiG-29, Su-27 soon to be equipped. By then, the world's skies at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century will belong to the third-generation aircraft. Lin Feng will directly arm the fourth-generation aircraft across the country, leading other countries' first-generation aircraft by one generation, which is beneficial for Lin Feng to maintain strategic advantages over Japan and other regions.

  Fourth-generation fighter aircraft have:

  1. High agility

  2. High stealthiness

  3. Short takeoff and vertical landing capability

  4. Supersonic cruise capability

  5. Multi-target attack capability

  6. Internal weapon bays.

  If the pilot's fatigue index is excluded, plus the nuclear-powered engine, it can even stay in the air for a long time like a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. This aircraft, named "Hai Dong Qing", is a multi-purpose fighter that can be used for both aerial combat and tactical bombing of target areas.

  It can be mounted in different combinations as needed when performing tasks, and it can carry 8 "Lightning" ultra-long-range air-to-air missiles with a range of up to 600 kilometers, or guided bombs, nuclear bombs and conventional bombs.

  This fighter can also serve as a carrier-based aircraft on an aircraft carrier. In the future, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers will be able to carry at least 80 "Sea East Green".

  In addition, the air force's transport fleet will be equipped with "Kunpeng" medium-sized transport aircraft and "Snail" transport helicopters.

  Air defense missile troops will be equipped with 200 "Punisher" air defense missile launchers, which will be distributed among 20 missile launch battalions, capable of launching 400 missiles per minute to counter more than 300 high-, medium- and low-altitude targets.

  Radar warning troops, in addition to fixed radar stations, are also equipped with advanced early warning aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft, drones, electronic jamming aircraft and so on. However, these are currently only planned, Lin Feng believes that as Taiwan's economy continues to develop, it is not difficult to complete these plans.

  As Lin Feng's own troops - special forces, in addition to the previous Special Warfare Brigade, two naval infantry brigades will be established on its basis in the future, a biological and chemical special warfare brigade and an airborne brigade.

  These are the guarantees that Lin Feng can command the wind and clouds in the future, of course, with Taiwan's current economic strength, it is not possible to support such a large military arsenal, so after several years of basic development, Lin Feng wants to find several driving forces for Taiwan's economy.

  Only by maintaining Taiwan's local strong economic strength can a strong military be armed, and Lin Feng can continue to be his warlord.

  To be honest, being a modern warlord isn't that easy, first of all the army is not that easy to control, nowadays armies emphasize serving the masses and the country, it's hard to really get them to support a certain individual.

  Secondly, the mainstream in China today is peace and development. Reality does not allow Lin Feng to use force to create chaos. In fact, Lin Feng did not plan to take the road of armed confrontation with the central government, which can be seen from his several initiatives to cooperate with the central government.

  However, you let Lin Feng completely obey one side, which is also unrealistic. Because this completely restricts Lin Feng's ability to play freely, it will definitely not allow Lin Feng's role to be fully utilized. Moreover, the more people who know about Lin Feng's affairs, the greater the danger of being discovered by others. With many factors combined, Lin Feng has not proposed a complete merger between the two sides of the strait until now.

  There are too many interests involved here. Lin Feng plans to make Taiwan a highly autonomous local government of China in the future, which will enable Lin Feng to plan more benefits for the Chinese nation in the future.

  In August 1973, near Diaoyu Island, a group of workers were anxiously staring at the display screen in front of them. A young man quietly asked a middle-aged man wearing glasses beside him: "Engineer Wang, do you think we can strike oil this time? We've been busy for almost half a year now, and if we add up the preparatory work beforehand, we'll have spent nearly two years in this sea area. Are we sure?"

  The one called Wang Gong, with a calm expression, said: "Don't worry, we've simulated this many times before and succeeded every time. The robot has already started working underwater, and we have no other choice. If we succeed, we'll be able to completely get rid of our dependence on imported oil, and the local economy will take off."

  Just then, a cheer came from around "Oil is out, it's really out, we succeeded, quickly send electricity to the company headquarters......" Outside was a chaotic noise, at this time Wang Gong and others were also excited when they heard that the oil field had produced oil.

  But Lin Feng, who was far away in Taiwan, smiled when he heard that the Diaoyu Islands oil field had struck oil, because he knew very well that in a few more months, the Arab world and the Jewish world would collide violently again.

  The war between the two sides this time will lead to a global oil crisis, causing the price of crude oil to rise from $3.011 per barrel to $10.651 per barrel, triggering the most severe global economic crisis since World War II. The three-year oil crisis had a serious impact on the economy of developed countries.

  In this crisis, the industrial production of the United States fell by 14%, Japan's industrial production fell by more than 20%, and the economic growth of all industrialized countries slowed down significantly. But isn't this crisis also an opportunity?

  China missed the big show in its previous life, but Lin Feng will not let go of this opportunity now. Firstly, the Diaoyu Island oil field can take advantage of the current oil price hike to make a small profit. Later, this oil-producing area, which is comparable to the entire Iraq, can produce 3 million barrels of oil per day, although the total amount is still less than that of the major Middle Eastern oil-producing countries. This output can basically meet the oil consumption of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in China.

  In addition, Lin Feng's petrochemical company is officially operational and can expand its territory in the second half of the year, taking advantage of the economic crisis. Apart from this, Taiwan will launch a charge in various industries such as steel, petrochemicals, biotechnology, aerospace, information, and materials, thoroughly controlling all aspects of Taiwan while other countries are trapped in the economic crisis.

  However, this does not include the agricultural sector. Currently, Taiwan's food supply mainly relies on imports from mainland China. With the thawing of cross-strait relations and rapid development of economic exchanges between the two sides, mainland China can import advanced industrial equipment from Taiwan, while Taiwan imports agricultural products and industrial raw materials from mainland China. At that time, Taiwanese people had not yet been influenced by the DPP's rule, so there was no discrimination against mainlanders or verbal abuse of Taiwanese by mainlanders. On the contrary, everyone felt that this kind of contact between the two sides helped to eliminate mutual misunderstandings, after all, for so many years, people could only learn about each other through newspaper reports and had no opportunity to meet and chat in person.

  Now, with the increasingly close economic ties between the two sides of the strait, exchanges between people are becoming more and more frequent. Moreover, Lin Feng frequently uses his control over public opinion to create momentum, which has made the civilian exchanges between the two sides even hotter.

  This is exactly what Lin Feng hopes to see, that in the future, most people in Taiwan do not recognize the mainland and turn to support Taiwanese separatists. He thinks that a large part of the reason is that before the 1980s, the long-term confrontation between the two sides led to almost no communication between the two peoples, and later some people with ulterior motives stirred up trouble, making the people on both sides even more opposed to each other, so that later Taiwanese people almost do not recognize themselves as Chinese.