Chapter 52
Davis thought to himself, even if he sold some Japanese swords to Japan, he would have to persuade the Alliance Congress to buy some. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Song Haiping said: "Mr. President, you still remember the recent wars between China and Britain and France, as well as between China and Russia, and between China and the West. ”
Davis: "Of course you know, these countries are all big powers in the world today, and it is possible for each other to win or lose. ”
The First Opium War was actually a local conflict, and although the British army had strong naval forces, the army and the rescue marines were defeated by Sanyuanli Xiangyong with cold weapons. If it weren't for the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion that were too useless (the combat effectiveness was simply negative, there would be no pressure on the regular army of the Eight Banners Green Battalion of the Qing Dynasty when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was twilight. In the end, the result is still two.
In the Second Opium War the year before last, the British and French forces were completely annihilated, and later the American military academy also studied it as a war example. It was found that the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qing army were ten times larger than the Anglo-French coalition army, and if the Anglo-French coalition army won, it was called a miracle, and it was normal to lose -- although Europe has been belittling China for many years, how ignorant and backward China is, the Americans are not stupid, and they import a large amount of porcelain, tea, and raw silk from China every year.
The country that can produce so many commodities is also a civilized country, and I heard that the total Chinese population is as much as 40,000, which is not like the hundreds of Indian tribes in the vast land of America, these 40,000 people are a super-country, and more than 95 percent are composed of a nation. 40,000,000 people casually burst out with some energy, which is not something that tens of thousands of foreign invaders can resist.
As for the Chinese going to Europe, in fact, the happiest are the Americans, and the American holiday is: see how you Europeans die.
Song Haiping: "The guns of the Chinese army, including the ironclad ships of the navy, are all exported by our Japanese joint military industry. I can say responsibly that these weapons played a key role in warfare. ”
As he spoke, Song Haiping took out a set of English albums from his bag, which illustrated several products exported by Japan's joint military industry, and the photos in the album were all tens of millions of pixels, far from being comparable to the photos of this era. Just by selling it as a treasure, it can be sold for a good price.
The price is also marked on the atlas, and according to the international market price, it can be regarded as a good price. Davis looked at it a few times and nodded, "Not bad, not bad." It's a pity that the price of building a navy is too expensive for the current coalition government to afford, but we will buy more guns for the army, and the people in the original parliament want to buy some European goods. Our genius conductor, General Lee, will end this just war within three to six months of the start of the war. ”
At this time, neither the North nor the South thought that the war would last for a few years, but they were confident that their side would definitely be able to end the war in three or five months and win, and that it was only a limited war or a local conflict.
Song Haiping, who is familiar with the history of the Civil War, just said in his heart that Americans really have big hearts.
However, capitalist America could never be built by him. The capitalist United States was behind World War I and World War II and was the biggest winner -- without the material support of Britain and the United States, Japan in World War II would not even have the materials to start a war, let alone fight a war. If the Americans did not intervene in World War I, Britain and France would have knelt long ago, and there would have been nothing in World War II.
Later generations analyzed the strength of the United States as nothing more than a resource-rich and unique strategic location...... In fact, the United States has almost all of these, and Brazil, Argentina, and Chile also have them. At this time, North America was also the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and it had not been many years since the White House had burned the Canadian militia.
Just as later generations of Chinese people remember that British and French robbers burned the Old Summer Palace, patriotic education in the United States in this era was to hate the British.
When Song Haiping heard this, he said the second set of plans: "Actually, any of the above weapons can be obtained by the alliance for free, as long as we have the right of first refusal in the disposal of the post-war spoils, we Nippon United Trading Company must have the same right of first refusal." Arms debts were returned by the post-war booty of the Alliance. ”
Davis: "So you're not taking a big risk?" ”
Song Haiping: "There is no risk in doing business, we can also promise that after the war, the Allied Powers may disarm and sell a large number of weapons, and we at the Japan United Trading Company can buy all of them at the depreciated price." ”
After the war, it has become a habit to sell weapons cheaply or even destroy weapons in large quantities, after all, in peacetime, why do you want so many weapons, they will all be outdated in a few years, there is no need to mothball, and you have to find someone to watch, and there is a danger of explosion if some ammunition is not stored properly.
After all, the United States is a nation of immigrants, and towns may one day be attacked by Indian tribes because these American towns were founded to drive and massacre their local masters.
The fact that the artillery fell into the hands of the bandits is a disaster, which shows that the bandits are no longer satisfied with robbing in the countryside in the west, but are going to storm the city and play a big game.
Davis has never seen such a good person in this world: "On behalf of me, I only thank my Japanese friends for their support in the name of the president of the alliance, rest assured, I will work the Diet side." ”
Song Haiping: "Even, in order to protect our interests, we have trained a force of hundreds of thousands of people on a desert island in the Pacific Ocean, you can see them as mercenaries, of course, you can say that you are volunteers to Congress, our requirements are very low, as long as you have the same rights and interests as the volunteers of the alliance." ”
Davis knew that there was no love in this world for no reason, and that people had paid so much in front of them, and if the command of the Southern Army had a chance and lost the war, Japan's investment would immediately be wasted -- the international practice is that the bad debts are not repaid, and for the Yankees, these treaties you signed are all dealt with by him, and I will pay you the debts and give you a word, ahhh
If there are hundreds of thousands of well-trained troops, not to mention the Northern Army, there will be only 10,000 or 20,000 professional soldiers in the Southern Army at this time -- it is possible to eat them all on both sides, but this unit is here to protect the interests of the Japanese company (to ensure the victory of the Southern Army), and second, to protect the interests of the Japanese company (to ensure that the Southern Army will not turn back). It's really a last resort.
Davis: "Well, I agree, according to the discussion on our agenda next week, the council will make a resolution on the issue of post-war land for the volunteers, and every volunteer who goes to war in the south after the war will be given fifty acres of unclaimed land in the Midwest for cultivation purposes after paying a ten-dollar fee, and the land will be owned by an individual after five years of planting. Soldiers who have been wounded, meritorious service, or sacrificed on the battlefield will receive double the amount of unclaimed land in the Midwest, or 100 acres. For soldiers who have repeatedly performed meritorious service or been wounded, their personal access to land should not exceed 150 acres. If nothing else, it should be okay, and now the United States is expanding agricultural and animal husbandry production. ”