Chapter 80: The United States Led by Roosevelt

After the rise of the wave of nationalism, the people's war was what the imperialists and colonialists feared the most .... One. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info During the North American Revolutionary War, during the Napoleonic Wars, during the Boer War, during the ..... On countless battlefields, nationalism has proven its formidable power.

The spiritual atomic bomb is not a panacea, but with the blessing of the spirit, the army and the people can bear higher casualties. Like the KMT in the Tsarist Empire and a certain world, do you say it is corrupt or not? It must be corrupt, and the upper echelons of both forces are about to rot.

It is such a corrupt force, after receiving the blessing of nationalism, can still run amok. Of course, it is not enough to have spirit, both materials and spirit, both hands must be hard, and both hands must be grasped.

The wave of boycott of the Americans, which had been blowing from the north, swept all of China and dealt a heavy blow to American businessmen in China. The south was the sphere of influence of Britain and France, especially the Yangtze River valley, which was regarded as a forbidden territory by the British. With great difficulty, the Americans relied on things such as "open doors" and "unanimity of the great powers" to open a crack and penetrate their tentacles, and now they have been beaten back to their original shape all of a sudden.

The Jiangsu and Zhejiang factions headed by Yang Hongsen seized this good opportunity and completely squeezed out the Americans' forces at once. Other consortia and forces have also fallen behind the Jiangsu and Zhejiang departments, and in this year, nothing is as convincing as making money.

The hand that reached out to the south was cut off, and the northern market that had been opened was also lost, and there was an immediate uproar in the United States. Before World War II, the United States was not very centralized, and each state and region had its own army and laws, and they didn't care what the government said, but they only knew that their wallets had suffered because of some actions of the government.

Those who did not know the truth and had nothing to do for a while, at the instigation of people with ulterior motives, began to walk in many places. They are still not afraid of the US government, and it is their forte to suppress the people, but the people behind these workers and farmers are very deadly.

If you don't deal with it well, the Democrats are going to have to do something. At this time, Theodore Roosevelt was only halfway through his first term, and he was still thinking about being re-elected, but he didn't want to be abandoned by the big business because of improper disposal.

At the end of the day, the Chinese Exclusion Act was aimed at the Chinese at the bottom, and only the bitter Irish immigrants and the poor jingle cowboys would cheer for it. The rich people in the upper class are just pushing the boat with the current.

Theodore Roosevelt was a very knowledgeable and courageous figure, having assumed the presidency as vice president after the assassination of former President William McKinley by anarchists. He was just 42 years old at the time, making him the youngest sitting president in U.S. history.

In the history of another world, Theodore Roosevelt's main contribution to the country during his presidency was to establish a resource conservation policy to protect forests, minerals, oil and other resources; Establish a fair trade bill to promote reconciliation between workers and capitalists. Externally, it pursued the Monroe Doctrine, pursued a policy of expansion, built a strong army, and interfered in the affairs of the Americas. Roosevelt was the first American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his successful mediation in the Russo-Japanese War.

Of course, we all know what the Nobel Peace Prize is all about. What President Roosevelt did in office that had the greatest impact on China was the return of the remaining Gengzi indemnity to China to support Chinese students studying in the United States.

It was probably from that time that the cents were cultivated, and until then, the influence of the United States in China was far from being comparable to that of the European powers such as Britain, Germany, and France, and even that of Japan.

As a left-leaning president, Theodore Roosevelt wanted to take action against the big trusts in China for a long time, but he couldn't find any good opportunities, and he could only take the big conglomerates to court through the Antitrust Act. Now that something like this happened all of a sudden, Roosevelt felt that his opportunity had come.

With the changes in the domestic political scene in the United States, the situation in the world has slowly begun to take shape. As if someone had whipped the "Manifest Destiny," the Americans began to embark on the road of expanding their armaments and expanding outward. Although they have already shown their muscles here in the Philippines before.

At the end of the 19th century, the United States had already become a member of the second echelon together with Germany, France, Russia and other powers for the sake of being a major force in the world, and it was only below Britain. The monopoly capital consortium urgently needs to open up new markets, investment venues, and raw material production areas, so all kinds of propaganda machines are building public opinion for foreign expansion. But just as the United States was preparing to expand overseas, the whole world had been carved up by the old colonial powers.

The Americans searched the whole world carefully, and Spain now occupies a large part of the anointed land and is low in strength. Just as the Philippines broke out again, the Americans took this opportunity to turn the Philippines into their colony.

But the wave of nationalism was not so easy to suppress, and by 1903, the Philippines was still regularly breaking out of all kinds of strange things, which involved a lot of energy from the Americans.

However, these things have not had much to do with China for the time being, and without a strong fleet across the entire Pacific Ocean, at most they can only make some economic fuss. This is also one of the reasons why Chen Cheng didn't care about the reaction of the Americans, and kicked the Americans out with the "Chinese Exclusion Act".

If it were the British, he would have thought about it more. If nothing else, the British Asian Squadron alone would be enough to crush the small gunboats under the command of the Northwest Town Guard, and then they would be able to smash the shipyard they had established in Qingdao to pieces.

In this time and space, without Gengzi indemnity and without the fund for studying in the United States, Americans can only think of other ways if they want to expand their influence in China. Before the Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed, they didn't have to think about China's market.

For such a result, everyone except the Americans was satisfied. Even Japan, even though it received a large loan from the United States, only said a few painlessly words in the newspapers, "We must deal with things rationally," and then happily participated in the carve-up of the market share left by the Americans. (To be continued.) )