Chapter 488: People want to be quiet, but their hearts can't be still

The afterglow of the setting sun has quietly disappeared at the intersection of sea and sky, leaving only the last pale yellow sprinkled on the rippling blue of the blue waves. The white sand www.biquge.info pen & fun & pavilion is gilded with gold.

Walking barefoot on the sea-soaked beach, Cheng Gong took two footprints that the sea had not yet had time to submerge, and slowly stepped onto this strange rocky reef.

The reef is not high, no more than 20 meters at most. At the top of the building is a cliff that protrudes visibly out of the sea, and there is a deep water area below, which is a popular spot for cliff diving.

Coming to the beach at dusk to climb high and watch the sunset is one of the things that Cheng Gong has to do every day during this time.

The view at dusk before sunset is beautiful, but this beauty is quickly enveloped by darkness.

This kind of natural rule of sunset and night seems to remind Cheng Gong not to be confused by the beauty in front of him at any time.

The current situation of the Great Donghua Empire is indeed a very good situation, and if this momentum continues, it will not be too far away to realize the prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties when all countries come to the dynasty.

However, this does not mean that the Donghua Empire has no enemies, no threats, and no hidden dangers.

Black always comes quietly when people don't even notice it.

Crises will always be hidden behind some undealt details, and if such details accumulate into a lot, and the embankment of a thousand miles collapses in an anthill, there is some truth.

As the emperor of the Donghua Empire, no matter how much Cheng Gong wanted to give himself a long vacation to relax and rest, it was impossible for his brain not to think about the current situation and future development strategy of the Donghua Empire.

A hero, three gangs, a fence and three stakes.

Cheng Gong could use the alliance of the Eastern, German, and Soviet Union to end and rewrite the final outcome of World War II, but Cheng Gong could not guarantee that Germany and the Soviet Union would continue to maintain an alliance of interests with the Donghua Empire after the war.

Because Cheng Gong was calculating the Soviet Union and calculating Germany from the very beginning. Hitler and Stalin were not big fools, and when they discovered that the Donghua Empire was the biggest winner of World War II, the post-war world pattern would inevitably become a situation in which the East, Germany, and the Soviet Union competed for hegemony.

With the existing human resources of the East China Empire, it would be quite good to be able to stabilize and absorb the benefits brought by the AU and the Mediterranean region in the next ten years. And this has basically reached the strategic limit of the Donghua Empire. If you want to expand and extend, if you don't get the entire national strategy right, there will be a danger of collapse across the board.

The layout in the Mediterranean Sea in advance, to put it bluntly, was Cheng Gong's attempt to prevent Germany and the Soviet Union from reaching out to Africa after the war.

In Cheng Gong's plan, the integration of the AU's population resources is not to use the AFC against Germany and the Soviet Union. The main role of this military force is to use Cheng Gong to deal with small Japan.

If you don't fight a few tough battles with the little devils in the Pacific theater, it will not be easy for Hirohito to obediently hand over Japan's occupied areas in Southeast Asia.

In order to enable officers and men at all levels to give full play to the military qualities and ethics of modern professional soldiers, Cheng Gong would not have been able to count on Cheng Gong without three and five years of high-intensity scientific training.

To be honest, in the African Union, in Crete, Sevus, Malta and other places, there are a lot of things that need to be solved by Cheng Gong at will.

The problem is that Cheng Gong is also a human being, not a god. If he had to do everything himself, even if he had a doppelganger supernatural power, he would be so tired that he vomited blood and died.

The affairs of the African Union need to be solved by the Africans, and in the same way, the affairs of Crete depend on the Cretans to govern the Cretans.

The years leading up to the end of World War II were the best time for the Donghua Empire to cultivate and support proxies in its colonies and spheres of influence.

Otherwise, once all countries come to their senses after the war, it is guaranteed that all bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods will come out to cause chaos for you.

Sometimes, Cheng Gong really wants to nest on Paradise Island to accompany his wife and children to live a peaceful life. The problem is that Cheng Gong has already raised the tiger of New Japan, and if he does not suppress and tame this evil tiger, the biggest victim in the future will definitely be Huaxia.

In order to arm little Japan to deal with the United States, Cheng Gong can be said to have tried his best.

The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which originally belonged to the Chinese people, has now evolved into the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression of the American people.

After acquiring the industrial resources of Canada and the western United States, the war potential of the new Japan increased at least three times at once.

This variable was something Cheng Gong hadn't thought of before.

In Cheng Gong's mind, with the almost zero industrial base of the Republic of China, it was able to persist in the War of Resistance for eight years. Canada and the United States, whose industrial capacity is many times stronger than that of the Republic of China, can turn the North American battlefield into a super swamp of little devils.

However, in fact, the will of the Canadian people and the American people to resist is much worse than that of the Chinese people.

The Japanese Expeditionary Force occupied the central and western provinces of Canada with much ease as the Kwantung Army that occupied the three eastern provinces.

The United States, which was not yet ready to mobilize and prepare for war, was at a loss for what to do when it saw the Japanese army crossing the Canadian border and invading the western part of the United States, including the White House.

It can be said that neither the Canadians nor the Americans ever imagined that war would one day take place on the North American continent.

Before the outbreak of the 77 Incident, although the civil war in China for more than 30 years had exhausted China's vitality, it also made the vast majority of Chinese people no longer afraid of war. Because they have long been accustomed to the smoke and smoke of wars large and small in the country.

But Canadians and Americans are not the same. The North American continent has not been at war since the end of the American Civil War. Hedonism and isolationism are the dominant ideas in North America.

On the one hand, Canada and the United States, which have no ideological or material preparations, and on the other hand, militarist Japan, which is bent on dominating the world.

The collapse of Canada and the defeat of the United States were expected by Cheng Gong, but what Cheng Gong did not expect was that Japan would be so smooth, pay such a small price, and get such a rich war dividend.

Cheng Gong once asked the base wisdom brain to conduct a comprehensive calculation and analysis of the national strength and war potential of the new Japan, and finally came to a conclusion that the comprehensive national strength of the current new Japan is close to the level of the United States in the mid-50s of the previous century.

Knowing this result, Cheng Gong was really scared into a cold sweat at that time.

Cheng Gong originally planned to let Japan and the United States fight to lose both. Who knows that the Yankees are so uncompromising, the United States has been weakened, but the new Japan, which has devoured the nutrients of the United States, has become stronger.

If it weren't for the fact that the military strength of the new Japan exceeded Cheng Gong's expectations, Cheng Gong would certainly not have improvised the idea of persuading Hitler and Stalin to secretly form a national interest group headed by Donghua, Germany, and the Soviet Union.

If he didn't start anew, Cheng Gong could only choose to join the Axis powers. However, in this way, the new Japan, which has become the victorious power, will be even more difficult to deal with in the future.

If the allies were chosen to help the United States and Britain achieve victory, it would also not be the result that Cheng Gong wanted to see. And this victory will make the Donghua Empire pay a huge war price. Cheng Gong doesn't think it's cost-effective.

After thinking about it, Cheng Gong found that only by simply breaking the division between the two camps of the Axis and the Allies and forming another national interest group could it be possible for the Donghua Empire to maximize its interests.

You must know that the war has been fought so far, and the German-Italian-Japanese axis alliance is actually not worthy of its name.

Germany fought in Europe, and Japan did not help in the slightest;

Japan fought in North America, and Germany also played no role.

Italy, as one of the three major axis powers, was beaten by the Donghua Empire, but Germany and Japan did not share the slightest worry about Italy.

It was precisely because Hitler and Stalin understood this situation that they agreed to accept Cheng Gong's proposal and sold Japan, Italy, the United States, and Britain quite simply. (To be continued.) )