That area is indeed very controversial, otherwise Yang Chao would not have let Yangzi Petroleum Company drill for oil here. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, the basic condition is that there are indeed resources here, although not oil, only natural gas, which is not very important in this era, but it is enough to give the Americans an excuse.

Rockefeller not only encouraged the media to publicize that the resources here are assets of the United States, but also constantly exaggerated the huge natural gas reserves here and the public opinion on the importance of making natural gas, and found many scientists to come forward to explain the prospects of natural gas, and in a short period of time, natural gas has become the most important energy source in the future, which has extremely high strategic value.

In Congress, he also mobilized his own manipulative members to challenge the Roosevelt administration, demanding that the government intervene to stop the Mexicans from stealing American resources.

After more than a month of gestation, Rockefeller finally let the politicians he controlled publicly express his tough attitude towards Mexico, openly asking the US government to send warships to blockade the Mexican coast and demand that the Mexican government stop this theft of American wealth.

The U.S. government is also under pressure to consult with the Mexican government in the hope that the two countries will jointly explore and at the same time make a clear demarcation of territorial waters.

The so-called territorial waters are not so valued in this era, and the Easterners have not even had this concept for a long time, and the Westerners' concept is that the range of the cannon is the territorial waters.

In the 18th century, the distance that coastal cannons could reach was only five or six kilometers, so the territorial waters accepted by maritime powers were five or six kilometers along the coastline.

However, the range of artillery is increasing, and the concept of territorial waters is constantly increasing, from seven kilometers, 11 kilometers, to the current 22 kilometers, that is, about 11 nautical miles.

It was not until the 70s, due to the fishery disputes of South American countries, that the territorial sea was required to be expanded to more than 300 kilometers, and the Third United Nations Ocean Conference was convened for this purpose.

At this time, there was obviously no such public international law, and the gas field developed by Yangzi Oil Company in the Gulf of Mexico was about 15 nautical miles from the coastline, which exceeded the scope of the territorial sea of this era of 12 nautical miles, so Mexico directly rejected it on this ground, arguing that it was neither Mexican nor U.S. territorial waters, and even if it was closer to American cities, the United States had no right to interfere with Petroleos Mexicanos' development here.

Well, the Mexican government decided that it was the high seas.

Apparently they don't want to give up those gas resources.

But Mexico's attitude, or rather the propaganda of American newspapers, provoked the indignation of Americans.

The Roosevelt administration also has a big head, let's go to court, there are no corresponding regulations, since it is the high seas, that is, who exploits it, but the Chinese took the lead in developing the technology of offshore drilling, and the American oil companies can only drill within a few kilometers of the coast, and the water depth is more than 30 meters, and the Chinese have developed the operation technology of 80 meters in order to build the Bohai Tunnel.

Today's natural gas controversy in the Gulf of Mexico doesn't matter, but what if the Chinese help Petroleos Mexicanos drill oil in the sea?

Americans can fight with the British Empire for oil, and they can't be afraid of Mexico.

Roosevelt didn't want to get into trouble, so he tried his best to rebuild America's national image in the Americas under the banner of good-neighborliness and friendship, so he accepted Mexico's recovery of oil assets, but once Mexico continued to expand in the Gulf of Mexico, sooner or later it would lead to a bigger conflict.

Roosevelt then again sent a negotiating request to the Mexican government to divide the two countries' maritime powers in the Gulf of Mexico.

But once again, President Cárdenas refused, and Mexicans were full of distrust of the United States, fearing that the United States was trying to infringe on Petroleos Mexicanos' interests under the pretext of this reason.

In fact, Roosevelt was sincere, but who let the successive US administrations do things too desperately, too domineering in the Americas, they have no credibility in the Americas, and the warlord dictatorship of every country is inseparable from the support of the United States, which claims to be the freest country in the world, Guatemala and Venezuela are examples, and Panama is a country occupied by the United States militarily.

Once again Mexico's refusal made Roosevelt begin to worry, once all the American countries establish their own nation-states, and after the national elites in their countries are in power, they often begin to become unfriendly to the United States, and they are trying to break free from the control of the United States, and regard the United States as the first major trouble.

But these are not what he is most worried about, what he is most worried about is the intervention of external forces, the first thing that the Monroe Declaration wants to promote is that European forces should withdraw from the Americas and not open up colonies in the Americas, and the second is the ultimate goal, so that the United States can dominate here.

However, for so many years, the United States has simply not been able to complete the Monroe Declaration, and there are still a large number of British and French colonies and even military bases in the Americas, which cannot be completed by a single declaration, and it can only be an illusion to drive these colonists out of their homes without paying the price of blood and fire.

Now that the British have not driven away, the Chinese have actively drilled in, in fact, the biggest headache for Roosevelt is precisely the aggressiveness shown by Yangzi Oil Company in Mexico.

If as a company, it doesn't make sense at all if it is purely based on interests, because oil interests are not simple economic interests, but have military value and strategic significance, and why the Queen of England knighted Pearson is not because he made a lot of money extracting oil in Mexico, but because he made outstanding contributions to the oil security of the British Empire.

If the expansion of Yangzi Oil Company in Mexico had not been supported by the Chinese government, Roosevelt would have been killed, and anyway, Rockefeller's expansion around the world was supported by the US government.

This means that the Chinese government is involved.

"Looks like we can talk to the Japanese!"

Roosevelt secretly said in his heart that he could not let the Chinese stick a nail in the door of the United States, and he also had to retaliate with a tooth for a tooth, teach the Chinese a lesson, and cultivate a vicious dog at the door of China.

It's just that the most urgent thing right now is to solve the problems of the Mexicans.

Since Mexico is so uncooperative, it has forgotten that the United States has not only carrots in its hands, but also a big stick in its other hand.

Roosevelt ordered the U.S. Navy to enter Mexico's offshore natural gas fields, deport the Chinese and Mexicans who worked there, and warn them to stop stealing American wealth.

The U.S. military intervention instantly pushed the Gulf of Mexico conflict to a peak and attracted the attention of the whole world.

Britain and France at this time completely set their sights on the increasingly ambitious Germans, and everyone saw that their next target was Poland.

Britain and France consulted closely with Poland to draw up plans for various joint operations.

At the same time, Britain and France also negotiated with Soviet Russia, and Soviet Russia was also worried about the invasion of the Nazis, after all, the Nazis had always claimed that they were the enemies of GCISM and wanted to eradicate international GCISM.

Soviet Russia demanded the conclusion of a treaty of mutual assistance against aggression between Britain, France and the Soviet Union, which lasted for a period of 5 to 10 years, including military assistance. The three countries guarantee the security of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Conclude specific agreements on mutual assistance among the three countries.

However, Britain and France were not sincere, and Soviet Russia said that once the Nazis attacked Britain, Soviet Russia was willing to send 3 million troops to attack the Nazis, but Britain could only guarantee that once the Nazis attacked Soviet Russia, Britain could only use 100,000 ground troops.

After the negotiations broke down, the Nazis were much more generous than Britain and France, and after he found that Britain and France were in contact with Soviet Russia, he immediately changed his attitude and began to get close to Soviet Russia, withdrawing the German volunteers in Spain to show goodwill to Soviet Russia, and at the same time sending people to Soviet Russia for secret negotiations.

The open negotiations between Britain and France in Moscow were inconclusive, and the secret negotiations of Germany in Moscow resulted in an agreement.

In August, the Soviet Union and Germany signed a non-aggression pact, and Adolf fulfilled all the demands of Soviet Russia for the territory of Eastern Europe, including the partition of Poland, the annexation of Estonia, Lithuania and other territories that originally belonged to the Tsarist Empire.

After the signing of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact, the situation in Europe suddenly became tense, and European countries were simply unable to deal with the skirmishes in the Gulf of Mexico.

Britain only expressed the hope that the United States and Mexico would sit down and negotiate, while France simply ignored it, having seen the looming crisis of war.

After Germany solved the danger of Soviet Russia, it was clear that it was ready to move on Poland, and once the Nazis invaded Poland, France was going to enter the war according to the treaty, and this time the French were ready to intervene, but they were still psychologically panicked.

In order to have no worries about the upcoming conflict with the Nazis, France urgently consulted with Britain to discuss a plan to jointly send troops to Spain to suppress the Spanish rebels.

The French had to root out the fascist forces behind the Nazis before they went to war with them.

After careful consideration, the British hoped that France would be restrained, and they were still worried about the Spanish Popular Front government, and once the Popular Front government had extinguished the fascist forces, who knew what measures they would take, whether to reconcile with Britain and France or to surrender directly to Soviet Russia.

For the British, the Nazis were a threat, and GCISM was a threat, and both threats were of the same level.

Without the endorsement of the British, the French did not dare to act alone, so they could only support the Spanish government materially, after all, they did not worry about the Spanish Popular Front government, because France was also the leader of the Popular Front.

The dispute on the Mexican side was gradually forgotten by the Europeans, until August, the engineering team of Yangzi Petroleum Company finally passed the port of Acapulco in the oil and gas pipeline, and the five 50,000-ton oil tankers of Yangzi Petroleum Company, which had been waiting here, were filled with oil through the pipeline and transported 1.8 million barrels of crude oil at one time, which made European newspapers pay a little attention, and Rockefeller continued to hype up the Mexican crisis.

The U.S. government is closely monitoring the situation in Europe, and if another war breaks out in Europe, it will be in the best interest of the United States, not the Mexicans. (To be continued.) )