When the revelations in the Far East were breaking out, the United States, which was far away on the other side of the ocean, began to faintly fall into a depressed atmosphere. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the White House, the new President William Brown, who has been in office for just one year. Howard. Taft was sitting behind his desk, frowning as a sign of his concern.

The situation on the Chinese side has now been truthfully reported to him, and just a day earlier, the first batch of 200,000 rifles had been loaded and set off, and they would arrive in Japan about ten days later, and they would also become weapons for the Japanese army to resist the Chinese.

But now, William has a faint feeling of regret, anyway, he always feels that something is not quite right, and he doesn't say anything about it, and he always feels that his choice is wrong this time.

"How did the Chinese emperor react?" William asked.

"At present, there is no official response or statement from the Chinese government, but among the people, there has basically been an anti-American wave, and many of our industries in China have been spontaneously boycotted by the Chinese, and Ford's factories in China have gone on strike on the grounds that the wages are too low, and they are required to raise the salaries of Chinese workers to the same as those of workers in the United States, otherwise they refuse to work." William's confidant, Robert Bacon, the secretary of state for foreign affairs, also responded worriedly.

Although Sino-US relations have not undergone major changes, the attitude of the people is unusually fierce.

In addition, the Chinese government has not taken any position on this matter, but in this kind of matter, the lack of a position often represents a firm position, which may be seen as a silent protest, and the Chinese government may hope that this kind of protest from the people will gradually escalate into a confrontation between countries.

Although this is very inconsistent with the Chinese style of acting, the Chinese emperor has always been thunderstormy, and it is difficult for outsiders to grasp his specific style of behavior, and it is difficult for people to grasp his temper. Obviously, this time the Americans are also gambling, betting that the United States can bet on the temper of the Chinese emperor, but it is clear that, judging by the current situation, they seem to have made a mistake.

"The salaries of the Ford factories in China are already higher than those of the Chinese factories, and there is no reason for them not to be satisfied with the status quo, I think, this must be their protest, but the Chinese are really stupid, even if they are protesting, why should they take their own salaries? Don't they need to provide for their families? William nodded secretly and said.

The strike of workers at the Ford plant in China will not be because of wages, but it must have a certain political significance, perhaps they are trying to put pressure on the US government in this way.

If it was Ford in the previous life, the U.S. government naturally didn't need to worry too much, but in this life, because Ford participated in the development of China's boar tank, the United States also commissioned Ford to develop a new tank for the U.S. Army that surpasses the boar tank.

And this tank has now basically completed the tests, the production line will be assembled immediately, and it will not be long before the Americans will be able to develop a new tank that will be sufficient to deal with the Boar tank, and by that time, the armor superiority of the Germans in Europe will also be burned.

Because the German tank is actually a weakened version of the Boar tank, although the Germans have also modified the Boar tank to a certain extent, but under this large framework, the Americans have specially developed a restrained tank for the Boar tank, and there is no problem in dealing with the Germans' self-upgraded version of the Boar tank.

Therefore, at this time, Ford still has a very important voice among the top management in the United States.

The other is that because the labor cost in China is too low, and the workers are never lazy and easy to manage, this is different from the American colonies, where the people are eager to sleep 24 hours a day, or rest, and there is no Chinese hard work at all.

In addition, because Ford has to undertake 50 percent of the production of American tanks, Ford has to urgently modify the existing production line and ship all the dismantled production lines to China to expand the output of Chinese factories, and also squeeze out space and workers for the production of tanks.

The all-out strike of workers in China also means that Ford's main business, the automobile manufacturing industry, will suffer a serious blow, and perhaps in a month or two, Ford will face an embarrassing situation of having no cars to sell.

Although the U.S. government intervened to ask Ford not to move all of its production to China, the plan ultimately failed.

Ford only came up with one figure, which left William and others speechless, and after moving the factory to China, the sales price of every Ford car sold in the American market will be reduced by at least 50 US dollars.

The United States is a country of heavy profits, and if the government intervenes in the relocation of the Ford plant and the result is that the price of Ford cars on the market cannot be reduced, then there is no guarantee that hundreds of thousands of American citizens will definitely take to the streets the next day to protest the government's actions.

However, for the government, their losses are actually not much, although they can't get the production tax, but the sales tax is the main thing, the U.S. government still takes the lion's share, the only regret is that only because of the relocation of factories, thousands of people in the United States will not be able to find jobs.

Of course, this is not really important, because Ford is only a factory relocation, and the existing workers will continue to produce tanks after they have been trained, so the mood of the employees inside the Ford factory is not fluctuating.

Americans are calculating the Chinese, and the Chinese are also calculating the Americans, but what the Americans cannot know is that Ford, which is regarded as a purely American enterprise by the U.S. government, is actually a Chinese-controlled company.

In the past, Henry Ford didn't have the energy and strength to care too much, so he could only go according to the agreement they agreed on at the beginning, and now the scale of the Ford factory has also ranked among the top 50 in the world, and it is still in the forefront.

Henry Ford also has enough confidence to argue with anyone, including the president of the United States.

But for the real shareholders behind Ford, Henry Ford did not dare to have any dissatisfaction, no matter how awesome the President of the United States is, he will be restricted by Congress, which annoyed Henry Ford, and directly ordered the closure of the factory, or directly told the workers, saying that the factory could not be opened due to the suppression from above, and then the rest did not have to worry about Ford himself, and the workers would naturally help him solve the problem.

But the Emperor of China was a hereditary fellow, and he was also young and terrifying, and his methods were even more lustful, and Henry Ford even dared to guarantee that if he dared to violate the original agreement, the Chinese Emperor would immediately send someone to kill his entire family. He had no doubt that the Chinese emperor would actually do that.

Of course, although Ford has some grievances in his heart, in fact, Henry Ford is living a very good life now, 20% of the shares, has made Henry Ford a billionaire, and he has long been a star in the United States.

Henry Ford had already formed his influence, which in some respects even surpassed William's, so William did not dare to be careless at all.

"You make an appointment with Henry, tell him about our current situation, and tell him that this is a matter of principle in the United States, and it is better for him to be honest, otherwise, some factories are willing to accept those employees of the Ford plant." After thinking about it again, William finally decided to use coercion and inducement to solve Ford's trouble.

After finishing speaking, William couldn't help but scold in his heart, damn Ford, originally had three factories in Europe, Asia and the United States, but now because of the war in Europe, the factory has been requisitioned by the Germans, and it is impossible to get it back, and the United States has moved the production line to China because it wants to produce tanks, and now even China has problems.

"It may not be difficult to convince Henry, but what are you going to do about it?" Bacon asked.

"Let's take it one step at a time, if Chinese really wants to join Germany, then we ......" At this point, Wilhelm was stunned.

If the Chinese do join Germany, what should the United States do? Continuing to hold your current position? And then let a large number of American soldiers go to fight the Chinese, to fight the Germans?

The frenzier war vigor of the Chinese and German soldiers was not what William wanted to see, nor was it what any American soldier wanted to see. Moreover, because of the system problems, the United States only has a pitiful 200,000 troops in the country so far, and even if the United States declares its entry into the war, it will take at least a year when they are really capable of sending troops to fight, will the enemy give them such a long time?

If China and Germany join forces, will Britain and France still hold on? What if within a year the Chinese and Germans hit the American mainland, and the American recruits have not yet been trained?

What if the Chinese treated this matter coldly, and then accelerated the elimination of Japan, and after choosing to join the Allies, they did not go to Europe to fight Britain and France, but chose to directly cross the Pacific Ocean and attack the American mainland? Can the United States resist with only 200,000 troops?

William couldn't imagine such an outcome, and if China did join the Allies, then it seemed that the United States would also be a good choice to join the Allies.

In order to ensure the interests of the Americans, their position is that whoever has the advantage will join them, and if they want to take the lives of American GIs to join the weaker side, even Congress will not approve it.