Chapter 217: The Demeanor of a Strong Country
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After a short but smooth meeting, in the scorched earth town of Cullumbridge, Lieutenant General of the English Army Dimi Keys and Lieutenant General Simon Bradley of the New United Kingdom Air Force represented the coalition side, and Major General of the Scottish Army Berne Gordon signed their respective names on behalf of the Scottish Provisional Government.
Under the mediation of Germany and the new United Kingdom's proposal, the terms of the armistice offered to Scotland by the Coalition were very simple: they only needed to pay England the pensions of 9,633 fallen soldiers and the allowances of 31,547 wounded officers and soldiers, and continue to fulfill the agreement to lease Salom Bay to the new United Kingdom, so as to end the war with no chance of winning at all. So, when the exploits of the arrest of dictator Barriol returned to Edinburgh with the armistice, hundreds of thousands of Scottish people greeted him......
However, this war, which lasted only seven days, not only caused casualties among 200,000 Scottish soldiers and tens of thousands of innocent civilians, but also dealt a devastating blow to Scotland's economy and military, and the military and industrial facilities in Ireland, Glasgow, Aberdeen and other ports were heavily bombed.
With the collapse of the old economic order, the new Scottish government had to carry out drastic reforms at home. Since the Government's normal financial resources could not afford an army of several hundred thousand in size, the new Scottish Government reduced three-quarters of its troops in batches, and retained less than 100,000 active troops, after receiving special disarmament funds from the League of Nations. At this point, Scotland, which had frightened the English at every turn, no longer existed.
War can lead a country to decay, it can make a country usher in change, and it can also make a country increase its motivation and move forward. After two wars in Italy and Scotland within a year, the new United Kingdom was both the most costly and the most rewarding of the participating countries. On the European trade map, they defeated Italy, which had the highest degree of industrial proximity and fierce competition, robbed the Italians of their share of international trade in shipbuilding, aviation, chemicals, textiles and other industrial manufacturing fields, and obtained huge war reparations from the Italians - a considerable part of which was eventually paid in kind. Although Italy's industrial standards differed from those of the new United Kingdom, the Irish collected a large amount of machinery and equipment from the Apennine Peninsula and transported them to the north of Ireland, relying on the power of the nuclear reactors put into operation, and built a new industrial circle centered on Belfast.
In the former most prosperous port city of the island of Ireland, Belfast, the shipbuilding manufacturing industry based on oil carriers, scientific research ships, fishing ships and offshore drilling platforms has re-made the port terminal vibrant, and around the city, food processing and textile manufacturing enterprises have sprung up like mushrooms, high-quality Italian food processing equipment and textile machine tools, so that Belfast beef and canned herring have become best-selling products in Europe and the United States, the shortage of labor and the increase in remuneration have attracted a large number of immigrants from Western and Northern European countries, The region's GDP is also rocketing.
More than 100 kilometres northwest of Belfast, the harbour city of Colrain, which had been dormant for many years, is gradually returning to its former glory. On the coastline, a modern blast furnace has risen from the ground, a brand new plant has been completed, the latest and best pharmaceutical and pesticide R & D and production facilities of the Italians have landed here, the state has injected capital, colleges and universities have joined, and private management, this super large pharmaceutical and pesticide chemical enterprise called "Beltha" has incorporated most of Correine into its factory, and this northern seaport has quickly become another bright pearl on the Irish coastline!
The growing maturity of Limerick's large industrial circle and the rapid development of Belfast's new industrial circle made the new United Kingdom, which won two wars in succession, usher in the midpoint of the century in a thriving atmosphere, 1950.
At the beginning of the new year, the new United Kingdom's first major international move was to extend a helping hand to the Jewish state, which had been fighting the Arab countries alone for half a year. With the signing of the Agreement on Mutual Military Assistance, which enabled the Jews to procure military materiel from the New United Kingdom on loans, the largest arms purchase deal between the two sides was born, and in less than a week the New United Kingdom raised 100,000 semi-automatic rifles, 5,000 machine guns, 600 combat vehicles, 2,000 artillery pieces, 400 aircraft, 300 million rounds of ammunition, 2.6 million artillery shells, 100,000 tons of fuel, and the convoy formed by the New United Kingdom Navy set sail from Limerick Harbour. The speed and efficiency of transporting more than 500,000 tons of arms to Tel Aviv completely exceeded the expectations of the Arab countries. By the time the Arab armies returned, the Jewish armed forces had already been deployed, and their pockets were ready for their opponents. As a result, in the Battle of Holon, 40,000 Jewish forces defeated 100,000 Arab elites and captured more than 20,000 enemies, using this as a weight to force the Arabs to recognize the established fact that the Jewish state occupied Palestine.
Under the mediation of the League of Nations, the Jewish state finally signed an armistice agreement with the League of Arab States, and the development of the Middle East entered a new era. Palestine is known as the "land of milk and honey" because of its Mediterranean climate in the north and west, abundant sunshine and soil conditions suitable for cultivation, and under the diligent cultivation and scientific management of the Jews, the cotton, fruits and vegetables produced here soon exceeded the highest level in history, the cotton was sold to the Irish at a preferential price, and the fruits and vegetables were sold to Eastern and Southern Europe, where they were constantly exchanged for foreign exchange to repay loans for military purchases and to purchase new weapons and equipment.
The new United Kingdom's international investment has paid off handsomely on the Jews, while in the distant Pacific region, whether in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Guinea, "Made in the New United Kingdom" has long been everywhere, especially the export of nuclear reactor technology in the scientific and civilian fields, which has basically become a monopoly project of the new United Kingdom, which can bring hundreds of millions of marks in profits and taxes to governments and enterprises every year.
The new United Kingdom's large merchant fleet, which controlled nearly a quarter of the trade on the Pacific routes, gradually expanded its trade routes into South and East Asia. From the early 50s, the new United Kingdom gradually became a direct competitor to Japan in the field of international trade. Steel, alloys, power, fuels, ships...... The industrial products produced by these two countries are of equal technical quality, and the new United Kingdom ignored the principles of fair competition and peaceful coexistence put forward by the Japanese, and joined hands with the Western allies to launch a trade war - they have exported a large number of industrial products to Asia for a long time at prices below cost, or even in the form of half-buy and half-give, and have established a complete and high-quality after-sales technical service system.
In order to win the trade war, the new United Kingdom government has reduced tens of millions of corporate taxes every year, and the government subsidies provided to shipping companies are enough to build a few supertankers. This kind of investment at any cost has achieved very remarkable results in the international trade war. Before 1951, about seventy percent of the hundreds of thousands of tons of gasoline and kerosene imported by Asian countries came from Japan, but in 1951, this proportion dropped to forty percent, and only two years later, most of the fuel produced in Japan could only be sold in its own country, and the planes, machine tools, vehicles, medicines, and new materials produced in Japan were roughly the same, and only in the field of railway locomotives and civil ships, Japanese manufacturing still barely maintained a certain degree of competitiveness.
In the mid-50s, the economic development rate of various countries in the world slowed down significantly, and some countries began to show signs of economic weakness. In Europe, Italy's economic situation is the most difficult, the government's industrial reform has failed again, the national unemployment rate is close to 20%, and the discontent of the people has provided an ideal breeding ground for the spread of revolutionary ideas, and the country has once again fallen into turmoil, while in Asia, due to the serious shortage of its own resources and the long-term downturn in foreign trade, Japan has become the first country to enter the recession channel, although the military has always been unwilling to remain silent, trying to force the top to change their strategy in the form of military advice, unite Soviet Russia, and confront Europe and the United States, Emperor Nobuhito ordered the arrest of mid- and high-ranking officers involved in the war, and ordered the military to follow Germany's example and carry out so-called "modernization" of the existing military system......
Japan, which had suffered a "double castration" in the military and economic fields, naturally withdrew from the struggle for hegemony among the great powers in the second half of the 20 th century, and only the United States and Soviet Russia were left to challenge Germany's unipolar hegemony. Relying on abundant natural resources, a deep industrial base, strong scientific and technological strength, and an unruly national spirit, the former quickly came out of the shadow of defeat in the Great War, and the absolute value of industry, trade, and national defense construction all hit a record high, and they faintly had the capital to compete with the Western allies. The rapid rise of its industry and military, coupled with the resurgence of revolutionary ideas in some European countries, forced the Western allies to re-examine whether their Eastern European defense lines were as strong as they imagined, and to carefully explore the feasible plan of using nuclear weapons for strategic defense......
In the summer of 1958, the Red Revolution broke out across Italy, and in just over two weeks, the Italian government was overthrown and the Italian royal family was forced into exile. In order to prevent such an important European country from falling into the hands of the red regime, the Western allies led by Germany quickly dispatched tens of thousands of well-equipped troops to Italy in the name of the League of Nations peacekeeping forces, and quickly occupied important cities and ports such as Milan, Turin, Palermo, and Taranto. After the battle, the peacekeepers screened out a number of Russians among the prisoners, which provided direct evidence of Soviet Russia's behind-the-scenes support for the Italian revolutionary forces, and the German government immediately sent a note to the Russian ambassador to Germany, urging them to immediately stop supporting the "Italian rebels", but the Russian side refused.
Since the end of the Polish crisis, the camp of the Western Allies and Soviet Russia have once again fallen into a dangerous state of saber-rattling.