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First, it is managed by the Australian government, and it is very lax, so the Americans can easily buy a shipyard and add equipment to make retrofits to produce large warships.

Second, the Japanese power in Hawaii is very strong, and once it is exposed, it can all be pushed to the Japanese, so the factories selected by Roosevelt were invested in the name of the American Japanese, and let the fascist chaebols in Japan manage them, and the United States only provided some technical advisers in key positions.

The Americans have picked themselves cleanly, they only provide the design technology for the production of warships, and the Japanese actually do not lack such talents, nor do they lack such talents who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the country, but they have not produced warships for a long time, so they need the support of American technicians.

Another reason is the need for political protection from the United States, although the Japanese in Hawaii control all aspects of the economic field, but after all, this is the trusteeship of Australia, is the sphere of influence of the British Empire, without the permission of the British Empire, no one can allow to build warships here, this is where Japan needs the United States, otherwise they don't have to ask the Americans, they directly start building in Hawaii, let the Japanese in Hawaii build factories, reasonable and legal.

The United States succeeded in persuading the British Empire to allow the Japanese to secretly build warships here, because the British Empire was also very dissatisfied with the Korean fleet forcibly invading Mexico, which was tantamount to ignoring the dignity of the British Empire in the Pacific region, and the North Koreans dared to do this, needless to ask, it must be because there was a China standing behind him, and China dared to let North Korea come out and bite people, and it would not be because they had no opponents.

The British Empire also felt that China needed an opponent, an opponent at its doorstep to contain it, and Japan was undoubtedly the best choice.

It is very easy to build warships, and it is not a difficult thing for the Americans, and it is not too difficult for the Japanese, but how to blatantly hand over the built warships to Japan is a big problem.

Because it is impossible for the Japanese Navy to have the strength to challenge the Chinese Navy all at once, they do not dare to hand over this fleet to Japan under China's nose, otherwise if the Chinese Navy makes any moves, the Japanese Navy, which has not yet formed combat effectiveness, will not be able to resist it.

The most important thing is that Britain and the United States are unwilling to assume this responsibility, and if it was before the outbreak of war, they would be willing to join forces, carry some pressure on Japan, and integrate powerful aircraft carriers and battleships into the Japanese navy to persuade or force China to accept the fait accompli.

But the war broke out in Europe, not to mention the British, and the Americans did not want to take this responsibility.

In case the Chinese refused to compromise and chose force, the Americans were not willing to go head-to-head with the Chinese Navy without the support of the British Empire.

Therefore, now all the pressure must be borne by the Japanese themselves.

It is for this reason that the United States helped Japan build two aircraft carriers and eight super battleships, and the Japanese even secretly trained their merchant ships as naval soldiers, but they could not drive their warships away from Hawaii at all.

The two aircraft carriers that the United States helped Japan build are the Yamato and the Musashi, with a standard displacement of up to 50,000 tons, which are obviously aimed at the Koreans' Goryeo, and it is obvious that the Americans also intend to accumulate some construction experience by building this kind of super-large aircraft carrier. The eight battleships are all 45,000-ton superbeasts, built on the Iowa-class battleships approved by the United States in 38 but have not yet begun construction.

What the Americans lacked morality was that the Iowa-class battleships were designed to be only 33 meters wide because they needed to pass through Panama's narrow canals, and the length-to-width ratio reached 8 to 1, which was too slender and long, which seriously affected stability, but Japan did not have the need to pass through the Panama Canal, and they also gave the Japanese this kind of design, and the intention of using the Japanese funds to improve their technology was not too obvious.

The completion of two super-large aircraft carriers and eight super-giant ships not only brought the total tonnage of the Japanese Navy to the level of nearly 800,000 tons, but most importantly, they immediately owned 10 main warships, and the entire Japanese Navy's combined fleet was upgraded to a higher level.

The Japanese planned to divide these 10 warships into the Pacific Fleet and the Sea of Japan Fleet, so that the two fleets would form a comprehensive large fleet with one aircraft carrier and four battleships as the core, supplemented by cruisers and destroyers, and turn them into a combined fleet to fight in wartime.

As for how to make China accept, the Japanese have their own plans, they plan to find a suitable opportunity, do not give the Chinese any time to react, complete the marshalling of warships, create a fait accompli, and then negotiate with China, make some superficial concessions, and satisfy the face of the Chinese.

This suitable opportunity has long been chosen by Japan, as a fine nation, out of the habit of saving resources, they often make the most detailed plans, and the day they choose is during the general election, according to international practice, it is impossible for the main country to introduce any major policies during the general election, then that time is the moment when China is least likely to take extreme action against Japan.

It can be said that although Japan's strategy has to take a lot of risks, it is the most feasible, even the only feasible method, if it does not take this risk, Japan is afraid that it will have to be covered under the shadow of China forever, and it will also have to bear the humiliation of neighboring North Korea, and China's suppression can still be endured, after all, where is the huge national strength, the Japanese are used to obeying the strong, but the Koreans are nothing, and they dare to run around in front of the Japanese Empire.

The world was not very peaceful, just after the end of the New Year, only in the third month of the solar calendar, the British issued a warning to the British merchant ships in the Pacific Ocean, reporting that the whereabouts of German submarines had been found in the waters near Argentina, and that they could not rule out the possibility of them entering the Pacific Ocean through Cape Cohen, and asked the British merchant ships to be more vigilant, and it was best not to act alone, and it was best to sail with the escort of warships.

On April 1, the British Empire suddenly announced that in order to strengthen its power in the Pacific region and defend the maritime lifeline of the British Empire, they would integrate the ten warships they built in Hawaii into the Hawaiian Fleet of the Australian Navy, and out of respect for the Hawaiian people, this fleet will recruit at least half of the Hawaiian soldiers.

These ten warships were not completely kept secret during the construction process, but they were all built in the name of merchant ships at the beginning, and after the outbreak of the European war, the British Empire simply announced that these merchant ships would be converted into warships.

As for recruiting a few Hawaiian seamen, it can also be explained as a last resort under the shortage of British manpower, saying that it is respecting the Hawaiian people, but it is just putting gold on their faces, which is very in line with the consistent image of the British Empire.

After that, there is the training of new warships, sailing, and so on.

The Chinese, who were busy preparing for the general election, did not care at all, they did not even care much about the war in Europe now, let alone the British.

But the unthinkable happened, just as the new fleet was sailing in the waters east of Japan, suddenly the Hawaiian soldiers revolted, took control of the ten new ships, arrested all the British officers, shut down all the communication facilities on board, and disappeared into the vast sea.

The British Empire immediately sent a notice to the Pacific Rim countries, saying that the British Empire's fleet was missing and that the current situation was unknown, and hoped that the coastal countries would cooperate and notify the British Empire immediately if they found clues about the fleet.

As for the reason for the disappearance of the fleet, the British explained that it was not possible to contact the fleet at the moment, and it was not known whether it had been shipwrecked or had encountered a sneak attack by German submarines.

The British Empire has tentatively characterized the fleet as missing, and the cause of the disappearance has yet to be ascertained.

Many countries were laughing at the rot of the British Empire's navy, and even Chinese newspapers published similar opinions, arguing that the British Empire was really in decline, and that the disappearance of the entire fleet could happen to them.

The Germans made a big noise at home, using this as evidence to prove that Britain was vulnerable and tried to challenge the German Third Reich, which was purely self-defeating, and even they vaguely said that there were indeed German submarines active in the area where the British Imperial fleet disappeared, and as for whether the German submarine force wiped out the British naval fleet, the situation has not yet been clarified, after all, submarines cannot send radios in the sea.

The propaganda of the Germans made this incident even more confusing, obviously Germany also left room for itself, once the British fleet could indeed not be found, then they could be said to have sunk it, if the British fleet finally found it, then the matter would be over, purely as if it had not happened.

It wasn't until half a month later that this fleet suddenly appeared in the Japanese seaport, the Aomori seaport in Hokkaido.

Then the Hawaiian fleet sent a telegram to the whole world, saying that they were Hawaiian soldiers, that the Hawaiian people had been harshly exploited by the British Empire, that they had been unjustly mistreated by the officers of the British Empire, and that they had revolted, and that they had now declared their secession from the British Empire and the establishment of a provisional government of the Republic of Hawaii in Japan.

At this point, the disappearance of the Hawaiian fleet was revealed.

The British Empire then firmly denied any oppression of the locals in Hawaii, did not recognize the legitimacy of the Hawaiian sailors' uprising to establish a provisional government, and demanded that the Japanese government immediately arrest these people and transfer them to the British Empire for trial.

Of course, Japan rejected the matter in rhetoric, saying that until the matter is clarified, Japan absolutely cannot allow these foreign compatriots to be harmed again, and the Japanese said that they will conduct a thorough investigation into the matter, and welcome the joint investigation by the League of Nations component investigation team.

Relations between Japan and Britain seem to have suddenly become strained, at least as the world thinks. (To be continued.) )