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The Germans still underestimated the madness of the American capitalists, and the United States declared war on Germany.

The casus belli was Germany's unlimited submarine warfare.

In addition, there was no Zimmerman telegram, and there was no instigation for Mexico to fight the United States.

Why did the Germans launch an unrestricted submarine war, and why did they sink all the merchant ships from the United States to the British.

Because of the change of leadership in Germany, the two major battles last year caused serious losses in German troops, and the two battles of Verdun and the Somme suffered more than one million casualties, and the chief of the General Staff, Falkenhayn, was naturally responsible.

Falkenhayn is the guy who served as the chief of staff in Qingdao, and he was promoted too sharply.

As a German aristocrat, he was born in the Berlin Military Academy, of course, and has a certain relationship with serving in China, because the battle of the Eight-Nation Alliance is almost the only military experience of the Germans in these years, so Falkenhayne's battlefield experience is still advantageous compared to other officers.

After returning from Qingdao, he entered the General Staff, and after ten years, he climbed to the position of Chief of the General Staff.

He was replaced by Moltke the Younger, because Moltke's Schlieffen plan failed and he was dismissed, also because of the failure of the Battle of Verdun.

Falkenhayn chose Verdun to go to war, not for a breakthrough, but to consume the living forces of France, he succeeded, but the loss of German living forces was too great, so he was relieved of his post and transferred to the 9th Army as commander, and then left the main battlefield in Europe, and invaded Romania with Austria-Hungary, and then transferred to Turkey to help Turkey resist the Anglo-French forces.

Speaking of which, the Germans also fought on four fronts, the Southern European Battlefield, the Turkish Battlefield, the Western European Front, and the Eastern Front, respectively fighting against the Central Powers in Southern Europe, fighting against Britain and France in Turkey, fighting against Britain and France on the Western Front, and fighting the Russians on the Eastern Front, and they did not collapse like Russia, and their organizational ability was indeed a notch stronger.

Of course, Britain and France are not bad at organization, especially in the United Kingdom, which has the highest degree of urbanization, and its social stability is the highest in Europe.

So when Ludendorff, the chief of the general staff who was tougher than Falkenhayn, came to power, he naturally would not let the British go unbridled on the European continent, and when the Germans had to gnaw on turnips, the British could still eat canned beef from the United States, so under Ludendorff's tough push, Germany restarted unlimited submarine warfare and wanted to blockade Britain with submarines.

In January 1917, in just one month, they sank 10 American oil tankers and opened fire without warning.

Because of the debt problem, the Morgan consortium has been pushing the United States to declare war on Germany, but the politician Wilson has suppressed it, but now they have even moved Rockefeller and kept sinking Rockefeller's oil tankers, which is to offend the two major ruling chaebols in the United States.

Although Wilson used the American people to dismember the Rockefeller's oil empire, the strength of the Rockefeller consortium was not damaged, they still secretly controlled the world oil market, provided most of the Allied oil supplies during the war, and also controlled the financial industry centered on Citibank at home, competing with the Morgan consortium.

Now that Germany has offended even this opponent, Morgan and Rockefeller have united, Wilson really can't suppress it, so he can only change the norm and say that the unlimited submarine warfare of the Germans is a challenge to the worldview of the civilized world and a violation of human morality, and the United States has sent an ultimatum to Germany in turn.

Germany did not reply to the American ultimatum, and no reply was a reply, so as soon as the ultimatum expired, Wilson made an impassioned speech in Congress, and then submitted a request for a declaration of war, which was almost unanimously approved.

Speaking of which, the members of Congress are either representatives of the consortium or corrupt elements who have been bribed by the consortium, and they have long wanted to push the United States into the war, and Wilson is just a formality.

It's just that Wilson has to do this procedure, and he must do it carefully, and do it as if it were true, he must let the people see that the president has an actual status, even if it is only procedural, just like Li Yuanhong played a procedure in front of Yang Chao, and he still played a trick.

"Hey, this is a capitalist, crazy for profit. Even if it is to push the country into the war, it will not hesitate! ”

Hearing the news of the United States' declaration of war, Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh.

In the final analysis, the country must be led by politicians with a position, such as the scholar class in China, the aristocracy in Europe, and the samurai class in Japan, while the United States does not have these classes with family and country feelings, only groups of profit-seeking capitalists.

Yang Chaocheng has withdrawn from the United States countless times, and the best response strategy for the United States is definitely not to directly participate in the war himself, but to encourage Europe to fight as long as possible, the more dead people the better, and the weaker the economy, the better, instead of directly participating in the war and accelerating the end of the war in Europe.

But the Morgan consortium did not dare to risk the defeat of Britain and France and then pay off the billions of dollars owed to them, Rockefeller could not accept that the Germans would sink his oil tankers, and the American industrial capitalists would never accept that the Germans would sabotage their purpose of making war money.

So it was Germany's submarine warfare, which drove the United States into war, and again a stupid diplomatic strategy.

Yang Chao also knew that after pushing the United States into the war, the Morgan Group would make a fortune, and then they would encourage the U.S. government to issue a large number of treasury bonds, and then Morgan would replace a large number of risky European bonds, such as British and French bonds, and even Russian bonds that had little value, with U.S. Treasury bonds.

Yang Chao knew that Morgan would eventually push the U.S. government to owe much more debt than Britain and France, and in the end, Morgan would proudly claim that the world's debt had increased fivefold compared with the past, reaching a terrifying level of $210 billion. At least half of these bonds were handled or participated in by Morgan, and the underwriting fees they received were the most lucrative businesses.

"Do you want to mess with these greedy guys?"

Yang Chao had such a thought in his heart.

But then he was discouraged, knowing that the United States controlled by a powerful plutocracy was far better than the United States controlled by shrewd politicians.

After the American capitalists completed industrialization, Morgan's group slowly began to be restricted by politicians, Wilson, Roosevelt, one by one, politicians and politicians skillfully used political skills to weaken the power of monopoly groups, don't think that the Americans passed the anti-monopoly law just for the fairness of the market?

No, it's a power struggle!

If you look at why there are so many Jews in the Fed chairman, it's because Morgan they're not Jewish.

Again, it's a struggle for power.

After decades of continuous weakening, when the economic crisis of 1929 came, when the conglomerates were deeply affected and their strength was the weakest, Roosevelt gave the American capitalists the final blow through the New Deal, and the control of the US government completely exceeded that of the economic bloc.

After deep thought, Yang Chao found that not only could he not restrict these conglomerates, but he wanted to strengthen them as much as possible, so that they could always control the United States.

"Invite Mr. Morgan to visit China!"

Yang Chao immediately asked Zhang Nian to send a telegram to the United States, inviting Morgan to come to the meeting in his personal name. (To be continued.) )