When the three cruisers arrived in Manila, the Nanyang Fleet from Fujian had also arrived here and jointly blockaded the port of Manila, and then the whole world understood that the original Chinese were still Chinese and were not weakened by facing the United States. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The world situation instantly became tense, much more tense than last time, the last time the Chinese created a crisis in Nanyang, no matter how much trouble will not happen, because at most China has seized the Dutch colony, and the Netherlands, as a weak country, losing a colony has no impact on the world.

But this time, China is facing the Americans, who are now the world's first industrial power, the biggest beneficiary of the European war, and the big creditor of the whole world, while China itself is the second most powerful industrial country, a thriving emerging empire, and a great power country that has determined the hegemony of Asia.

So in an instant, the whole world reacted to the Manila crisis, first of all, the stock markets of various countries fell sharply, the US stock market fell the most, falling by 17 percent in a row, the London stock market also fell by 10 percentage points, the European stock market was around 10 percentage points, and even the stock market in Shanghai fell by 8 percentage points.

However, just as Yang Chao expected, seeing that China intended to play seriously, the British Empire's diplomatic tone suddenly became cautious, changing the bottom line of not allowing changes in Pacific territory to be insisted on in the past, and began to become ambiguous, only repeatedly expressing the hope that China and the United States would sit down and solve the problem peacefully through negotiations.

At this time, the Americans began to become uneasy, American diplomats repeatedly asked to meet with British dignitaries, and the US government even made great concessions, began to loosen its insistence on the issue of British war debts, and tried to obtain the support of the British Empire by reducing part of the British Empire's debts.

However, the British are not in a hurry, in recent years, the Americans have taken advantage of the debt problem to toss Britain over and over again, and the British know very well that the Americans are not at ease at all, and on the surface they have vigorously expressed their stance of supporting the revival of Europe, but they have strictly ordered the US financial market not to lend money to Britain, France, and other industrial powers.

Britain and France and other victorious countries are all industrial countries, and all they lack is capital, but who has the money? Only Americans and Chinese have money in their hands. During the war, Britain and France both over-issued paper money, and without the guarantee of gold, their own financing capacity was actually at the limit, and the gold provided by China only stabilized their currency, but it was impossible for them to make too much money.

This was the limitation of the gold standard, which is why Britain and France convened a ****** conference and abandoned the classic gold standard in favor of the bullion standard, so as to save gold and create more stable money with less gold. But the Americans refused to participate in this meeting on the pretext that it had political significance, not because they did not want to see European financial independence, and did not want to see Europe successfully rebuild and become a competitor to the American economy again.

The United Kingdom, as the world hegemon, is the focus of the United States' attack, the Americans can reduce part of the war debts of Italy, Belgium and even France, but they do not pull out a dime of British debts, and they do not agree to reduce a dime to death, and now the Americans are finally willing to reduce British debts, but the British themselves are not enthusiastic.

The British obviously had a good calculation, and the reason why they owed the United States a huge debt was not because of the damn war, the Americans made a windfall on their own, and if it were not for the war, the Americans would still have a debt of $4 billion to the United Kingdom. As long as the United States fights a war with China, with the war potential of these two countries, it is entirely possible to fight a war like the European War, and then the debt problem of the British will not be a problem, and it will be time for the United States to borrow money from Britain to fight the war.

At that time, the abundant resources of the British colonies will be demanded by the Americans, and the purchases will be made at high prices, instead of forcing Britain to repay its debts on the one hand, and building high tariff barriers on the other hand, as is the case now, and will never ask for British goods, where will Britain have the slightest chance to repay its debts.

It is precisely because the British are absolutely happy to see the two industrial powers in the world, the first and second largest in the world, fight, that Yang Chao has the confidence to decide to encourage the Japanese to provoke the United States, and then China will intervene and pull the whole of East Asia against the United States, because since the British want the two countries to go to war, then they will inevitably watch from the sidelines.

The Chinese and American navies are on par with each other, the tonnage of China's aircraft carriers is still twice that of the United States, and if the British Navy does not intervene, the United States is less likely to win, and the army, if it is not armed to the teeth, the American army soldiers, in this era, are really second-rate in the world, but the military industry, which was once the foundation of the Krupp, Mauser and Spring Arsenal, will really not lose to the Americans.

The army's weapons manufacturing technology is quite comparable, and Yang Chao's advanced vision has equipped the army with 4,000 tanks of various types, as well as a huge scale of aircraft and airships, so there is no reason why it cannot win. Yang Chao is not as optimistic as Wu Peifu, and does not believe that the United States can be destroyed in three months, but Yang Chao believes that as long as the navy can land in the United States, he is full of confidence in forcing the United States to sign the alliance under the city.

Fighting, there is more than 60% chance of victory, even if it does not go well, the probability of defeat is almost none, the risk is low, the return is high, even a businessman knows that this business is worth doing.

It's just that the Americans don't necessarily want to fight, after they failed to turn to Britain, they found for a while that they really couldn't find allies, the French couldn't, the French had long lost their ambition to be a world empire, obviously defeated Germany, they were the victorious country, but they planned to build the Maginot Line, obviously they just wanted to hold their own one-third of an acre, and their eyes were always fixed on their sworn enemy Germany, and it was impossible to provoke other countries.

France can't do it, it's really difficult to find a suitable country on the European continent to help them, and at this time the Americans found out that they were alone overseas, and they did occupy the right time and place, and avoided the impact of many major wars in Europe, but they really had no friends.

The British, the only ones who can help them, are also at odds with the United States on the debt issue, and they wish someone would stand up and weaken the United States.

So you can only rely on yourself to fight, and the Americans have no friends.

But if you want to fight, as a non-national state, cohesion is really a problem. They themselves are not internally aligned, they are distinguished by economic forces, the industrial groups want to fight, the agricultural forces do not want to fight, and the financial forces do not want to fight at this time.

Industrial groups have always been militants, this is a bumpy truth, as soon as there is a war, the market for all kinds of industrial products will be opened, even the textile industry can provide a large number of military materials to the army, military uniforms, tents, this is a huge market, and it is a very fast consumption market, other metallurgy, machinery manufacturing sectors, not to mention, the war is their products.

The agricultural forces are naturally to be affected, and as soon as the war is fought, the agricultural products in the United States are already in surplus and will not be sold, but the agricultural forces at this time are not the agricultural groups of later generations, because they are scattered into millions of large, medium, and small farmers, rather than monopoly agricultural companies, so it is difficult to gather forces, and they are completely disadvantaged groups, and their voices are not listened to at all.

But the voice of the financial forces cannot but be heard, the Morgan consortium as the representative of the United States financial forces, but more powerful than the industrial group, and even to a certain extent, the industrial group is controlled by them, the peak of the old Morgan era, but controlled 50% of the industrial capacity of the United States.

In recent years, the financial forces have made a windfall in the European war, and in recent years they have set their sights on the developed European continent, and they can vigorously suppress the financial forces in London, taking the German reparations and the debt problems of various countries as a stage to play, using their strong capital strength to call for wind and rain in Europe, and on the German issue, they have completely overwhelmed Britain. Billions of dollars in loans to industrial giants such as Krupp are the business of financiers like Morgan.

The Europeans themselves have made a pot of porridge, giving the American financiers a great opportunity to swallow Europe, and now they are looking to swallow the fattest and cheapest piece of the cake in Europe, and with a pitiful amount of money, to control Germany, the most developed industrial country in Europe, in their hands, and before they have time to digest it, how can they allow the United States to go to war with China?

In addition to economic power, there are also immigration forces in various countries with strong national sentiments, the United States is a country of immigrants in the final analysis, although the U.S. government has been singing high-profile that the United States was established by the American nation, and all Americans are an American nation, but this is just the government's nonsense, just like the egg of the Chinese nation in later generations, just singing a high profile, and there is basically no real recognition, and some ethnic groups in the frontier will think that they are the Chinese nation?

It is the United States, after the United States entered the European War, the immigrant forces of British and American background immediately launched an internal liquidation against German descendants, the United States carried out de-Germanization through laws, all the towns established by Germans in the past canceled German names and changed to English names, and the streets named in German were changed to streets named in English, and even many people of German descent did not dare to use German names, and Germans in the United States are not a simple minority, but a major ethnic group with a population of about 20%.

Even German-American English-language immigrants cannot accept that they are an American nation and that they are of the same mind, and I am afraid that the Americans themselves do not believe it. In any case, there is a great deal of division between the forces of different ethnic backgrounds in Congress, and Latin members of the Italian and Spanish and even French ethnic backgrounds are very dissupportive of the war, believing that the conflict is ultimately caused by the immigration issue, and they want to use this opportunity to change the immigration laws of the United States.

Therefore, it is very difficult for the Americans themselves to agree on their attitude towards the war, and they have become a pot of porridge in Congress, and unless China does not give them the option of directly attacking them, it is really not easy to make the Americans firm up their attitude towards the war. (To be continued.) )