"This number is achievable. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info" said Rutt, is $100 million a lot? Historically, 30% of Americans' exports went to the UK, 12% went to Canada, and 14% went to Germany, but at this level, the total exports of the United States and the Commonwealth accounted for less than 2% of the United States' exports, but the exports to Germany accounted for 30% of the total exports! Although Germany imports a lot more from the United States, another very important reason is that the deterioration of the overall external environment of the United States has led to a sharp decline in ...... of imports and exports in the United States.

It is impossible for the Americans to lend money to Germany for free, and they must ask Germany to purchase things from the United States, so this is tantamount to stimulating exports in disguise. Although 40 million pounds may seem like a lot, in fact the Americans don't pay much! On the contrary, there are some benefits.

And in terms of total volume, in 1900, the Americans exported $1.394 billion and imported $850 million, and a loan of $100 million was not a problem for the U.S. government, and even those Wall Street financiers may feel that it is not enough, after all, in the case of a small number of exports, many people cannot invest in real industries, so there is more money to play finance.......

"But what do you mean by a mortgage?" Secretary of State Root suddenly realized that he seemed to be overlooking an important issue.

"It's very simple, the Germans have to pay some price, we can't give the Germans a low-interest loan for free, we lose interest, then we have to make up for it in other ways! Take the colony, for example! Roosevelt smiled and said with some smugness.

"You don't mean the idea of attacking Germany's colonies in the Far East, do you?" Benson thought for a moment and said, but with this amount of money, it may be more difficult to get the Germans to sell their colonies, and this is not the time when we bought Alaska from the Russians.

"But they want to fight, they need money, and once a war breaks out in the Far East, these colonies will soon be occupied by the Japanese, and even if after the war, Germany wins, it will be difficult for them to get it back, right? The German Navy was not a global fleet. The geography limits them, so why don't they exchange the islands for some loans? Roosevelt asked rhetorically.

"Because they are Germans, not Americans, you are thinking about this from the point of view of Americans." Benson said calmly. "But to be honest, I'm quite in favor of this proposal, our fleet can't be deployed anywhere other than North America and Hawaii, and if we want to maintain our influence in the Far East, we must maintain a fleet in the Far East.

As an admiral, Benson naturally wanted to get this base. In fact, the Americans have had this idea for a long time, they first wanted to anchor, and then they wanted to lease a piece of land to build a military port, but because of Germany's opposition, the Americans' plan still stayed at the first .......

But the Americans' desire to expand in the Far East has never been extinguished. Some people ask why the United States is so obsessed with expanding in Asia, first, because Asian raw materials are really important to the current American industry. The United States imports about 20% of its raw materials from Asia. Another problem is that Americans can't enter the European and African markets, South America has already entered, and now the only thing that can be expanded is in the Asian direction, which is also a helpless thing.

And economic interests are guaranteed by the barrel of a gun, so with the increase of economic interests, the need for a military presence in the Far East by the Americans has become more urgent, in fact, they support Russia in order to be able to stretch their hands in the Far East, but unfortunately, this operation is obviously going to fail. That's why Roosevelt and his staff came up with such a question. In Roosevelt's plan, if the conditions are "right", the United States can take over Germany's sphere of influence in the Far East, and the strategic significance here is much stronger than that of Samoa, which was fought over by the United States and Germany for a long time!

"This question can actually be touched, and as the war situation becomes clearer, I think the Germans will take our opinion into account." Roosevelt said.

"Okay, you're the boss, you have the final say, but I hope that if we really want to talk about this matter in the future, it's better not to be a Bavarian ****." Benson said.

"He, he's the one we've met!" Roosevelt shuddered at what Benson said, the exchange between him and the prince was not very pleasant, and the frustration after many encounters made him a little frightened.

"If it's really this prince, I'm afraid Secretary of State Rout will have some minor trouble." Pershing on the side said jokingly.

"Hehe, it's the parliament and the president who make the final decision, and it's their business to get into trouble." Rutte said disapprovingly. But in fact, I have kept this name in my heart, although Ruprecht **** has done a lot of things, but most of them are carried out behind the scenes, and there will be more people in the circle, but for the vast majority of people, this name is just a symbol, telling them that there is such a number one person in the aristocratic circle in Germany, which is very powerful, well.

"So should we invite him to the United States to talk, or should we go to Germany to talk?" Root asked, this matter is not easy to decide, first of all, how to get this resolution to pass Congress is a troublesome matter, although on the whole, the relationship between the United States and Britain is quite bad, but because of the problem of economic interests, there are always some American capitalists who want to get closer to the British, and this proposal, which is obviously inclined to Germany, will obviously be resisted by these people. And if you go to Germany to talk, it will be the opponent's home turf. It seems that the Americans are a little cheap.

"It's better to come to the United States, and if we want to promote this to happen, then we should create a more intimate atmosphere, and it's true that German dignitaries rarely come to the United States, which is not normal. Preparations can be done as soon as possible, and if I can, I hope it will be tomorrow. Roosevelt said.

"Okay, by the way, during the recent exchange between the two navies, we suddenly found a very abnormal signal, the Germans have completed a new batch of warships and are about to be launched, as a quasi-ally, they have provided us with some information on new warships, I once thought that the Germans were exaggerating, or that their information was wrong." Benson said as he handed Roosevelt a copy of the document.

"It's made our years of catching up come to naught, and a new competition is about to begin. But it's good that this competition is good for the United States. Roosevelt looked at the contents of the document before he could say this.

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