Zhennan Province, Nanhua City, Royal Manor.

In the study, Cheng Gong was alone, sitting comfortably on the high-backed chair of the Huanghuali Wood Taishi with his hands and elbows, his feet resting lightly on the desk, looking at the holographic silent satellite image displayed by the watch communication instrument, and seeing the P-51D Mustang fighter piloted by Marseilleu firing resolutely and decisively at the Australian warship, he couldn't help muttering and laughing: "This German young man deserves to be the super ace of the Luftwaffe in World War II!" Hehe, fighter jets hit warships, it's kind of interesting. ”

As he spoke, Cheng Gong switched the picture to another image: On the blue sea, two Keeling-class destroyers flying the Donghui national flag and the navy flag were advancing in battle formation at a high speed of 35 knots towards the target sea area. Looking at the constantly beating countdown number in the upper right corner of the screen, in ten minutes, the two destroyers of the Donghui Navy will be able to arrive at the scene of the incident.

As the current main ship of the Second Fleet of the Pacific Fleet of the Donghui Navy, this improved Keeling-class destroyer is just a transitional ship used by Cheng Gong to cover people's ears, and its main role is to strengthen the strength of the German Navy and the Japanese Navy, so as not to waste Hitler and Hirohito's already limited resources on the research and development of new destroyers, accumulate strength, and compete with the British Navy and the US Navy in the future.

After truly integrating himself into this era, the more Cheng Gong learned about the world, and sometimes he really had to admire the courage of Hitler and Hirohito, two "second goods", who dared to gamble with their respective national fortunes.

Modern warfare is a struggle for comprehensive national strength and war potential. With the resources that Germany and Japan currently have, neither human resources, nor mineral resources, industrial capacity, and people's livelihood and economy, can be compared with the allies led by the United States and Britain.

Cheng Gong was well aware that even as he continued to strengthen the preparations for war in Germany and Japan, the Axis powers could only win many battles in the early and middle wars, but they could not win the entire war. The national conditions and national strength doomed Germany and Japan to play a tragic role in World War II. Therefore, no matter how good the personal relationship with Hitler and Hirohito was, Cheng Gong could not make Donghui a member of the Axis powers.

If Donghui wants to become an emerging power, it must step on the bones of other powerful countries to ascend to the throne. If Cheng Gong hadn't called on the pulse of the U.S. imperialism to break the pattern of the existing world colonial system, he would definitely not have let Donghui get left and right among the major powers.

With Donghui's existing forces, there is more than enough self-preservation, and the attack is insufficient. Therefore, it was necessary to take advantage of the expansionist ambitions of Germany and Japan to reach out to the British and French colonies to grab resources, thus completely muddying the waters.

National strategy is a philosophy built on the tip of a knife.

Donghui's next survival and development will inevitably compete and collide with the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and other major powers. At the same time, Cheng Gong must also seriously consider the boundary issue of OUC's development capabilities: that is, where is the bottom line and limit of Donghui's external expansion.

The strategic bottom line is a matter of life and death for the country, and it is relatively easy for citizens to form a consensus on this.

The strategic limit, which is related to national development, is often exaggerated and exaggerated, resulting in the rise and fall of many countries.

Most of the great empires in history rose to defend the bottom line of national strategy, but they were defeated in unrestrained breakthroughs of their strategic limits.

Mao Taizu warned the Chinese people not to be a superpower and not to dominate the world, so there was a sustainable and high-speed development of New China; Emperor Meiji told the Japanese people to conquer all of Asia and dominate the world, and as a result, Japan was not only the only country in the world to experience a nuclear attack, but also the entire modern era that wiped out its entire modern achievements in World War II.

The principle of expanding national strength is that national strength cannot be "broken", which is the limit; The principle of shrinking national strength is that it must not shrink to the point of being seriously invaded, and this is the bottom line.

Only by pondering and understanding these two points can we have a clear understanding of the judgment of the country's foreign policy.

Therefore, when Cheng Gong thinks about Donghui's strategic bottom line and limits, he focuses on the exploration of Donghui's strategic limits. For this reason, Cheng Gong will turn a blind eye to the small actions made by Britain, France, the United States and other countries in Australia, and will continue to throw out all kinds of high-end military and civilian science and technology to test the bottom line of the world's major powers.

International politics also follows the geometric principle of "the sum of the two sides is greater than the third". To paraphrase the technical terminology of international politics, one country cannot be in conflict with two major powers at the same time. Therefore, Cheng Gong can only seek to seize the colonies of Britain and France by co-opting Germany and Japan.

As the Cold War between the two camps of the Allies and the Axis Powers was approaching the tipping point of the outbreak of war, the emergence of the Donghui Kingdom eased this tipping point to a certain extent. Donghui is open to doing business with the world, and it can also achieve a balance of interests, which is obvious to all to the recovery and promotion of the world economy. In this case, whether it is the Allied camp or the Axis camp, no one wants to be the vanguard who exposes his ugly face and takes the lead in dealing with Donghui.

Sooner or later, Donghui and Australia will fight a national war between the two countries, which was already doomed as early as the moment Cheng Gong included the former Dutch New Guinea. Because this is the inevitable product of geography, geography, politics and governance!

The governments of Britain, France, and the United States have all seen it, so they will arm Australia behind their backs to act as thugs in order to achieve the purpose of testing the potential of Donghui's combat power.

Germany and Japan also saw it so well that they decided to use the island of New Guinea as a training ground.

Hitler's blatant tearing up the Treaty of Versailles determined that the contradictions between Germany and Britain and France must be irreconcilable. As long as Hitler felt that it was profitable, Cheng Gong did not have to worry that Germany would wear the same underwear as the two sworn enemies of Britain and France.

With Germany maintaining friendly and cooperative relations with Donghui, Japan and Italy must consider Germany's attitude if they want to play tricks in secret.

As the only country in the world today that has deeply experienced the invincible combat power of the Donghui Navy and Air Force, Japan will not dare to stand up and start a war against the Donghui until it is absolutely sure that it will completely destroy the Donghui.

Everyone is in the circle of the international community, and the face that should be maintained must be maintained. If there is no justified reason for other countries to join forces to divide up just to grab the wealth of one country, then the credibility of the world's national political system will certainly be minimized, and the process of world civilization will inevitably be reversed.

Since he already planned to use Australia as the foundation of the Donghui Empire, Cheng Gong certainly would not miss this piece of fat to his mouth.

At this time, the hologram screen showed that in the face of the interference and interception of two fighters in the air, as well as the two Donghui Navy Keeling-class destroyers that were approaching on the sea, the old V-class destroyer of the Australian Navy was very unwilling to hang the white flag.

Cheng Gong was not interested in seeing how the navy cleaned up the Royal Australian Navy's pawns, but switched the screen to satellite map mode.

A hundred nautical miles from the sea area where the incident occurred, a prestige-class battlecruiser flying the Australian flag and the naval battle flag approached at a high speed of thirty knots. Obviously, this is to pick up reinforcements to rescue that old V-class destroyer of the Australian Navy!