Lan Fang's military exercises are still going on, and the effects of Nikola Tesla's "defection" have begun to appear. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

For this reason, US President Harding urgently summoned Benjamin Russell, Lanfang's special representative to the United States, lodged a serious protest against the Lanfang government's behavior, and demanded that the Lanfang government immediately repatriate Nikola Tesla.

It is really a "special representative", because of the existence of the "Chinese Exclusion Act", Lanfang and the United States have not established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level, and the US ambassador to Lanfang, Greenton Augustine, is strictly speaking only the special representative of the US government in Lanfang.

Benjamin Russell used to be French, and during the Foreign Legion, Benjamin Russell joined the Foreign Legion as a translator, and later came to Lanfang with the Foreign Legion, and naturally joined Lanfang nationality.

There are many such cases in Lanfang, such as Lanfang's ambassador to France, Ford Gauld, its ambassador to the United Kingdom, Randall Becky, and its ambassador to Germany, Bert Elsie.

Benjamin Russell's duty is naturally to speak from Lan Fang's standpoint, in the face of President Harding's criticism, Benjamin Russell did not back down, and the "exodus" of Nikola Tesla has nothing to do with Lan Fang, and at the same time told Harding that the unpleasant incident that happened in New York is very regrettable, and I hope Harding can order a thorough investigation.

Benjamin Russell is complaining about the sacrificed Lanfang agents, of course, this "grievance" cannot be said publicly, because the sacrificed agents are all American citizens, and Benjamin Russell has no position to seek justice for a few Americans.

Such a meeting naturally ended unhappily, and then both Lanfang and the United States began a series of retaliatory acts.

The day after Qin Zhiyuan issued a war threat to the United States, the U.S. government immediately announced that it would impose a 50 percent tariff on Lan Fang's exports to the United States, most notably automobiles.

Although the total amount of Lanfang cars has not caught up with Ford cars, the profits of a single car have far exceeded that of Ford cars, which forced Ford to invest heavily in the development of new products to add richer colors to meet the challenges of Lanfang cars.

R&D is both good and bad.

Not to mention whether the new products developed will sell well, in the short term, this has affected the cost of Ford vehicles, so that Ford has to increase the price of products, which in turn affects the market share of Ford vehicles.

The capitalist market is also regulated, and the US government will certainly not sit idly by and watch Lanfang cars crowd out the market of Ford cars, and the tax increase can be regarded as the US government's punishment for Lanfang's "dumping" behavior.

In the face of the "anti-dumping behavior" of the Americans, Lanfang is not without countermeasures.

As the Americans announced the tax hike, Lanfang also announced a 50 percent increase in tariffs on U.S. wheat and soybeans exported to Lanfang.

You read that right, the most U.S. exports to Lanfang right now are wheat and soybeans.

Limited by the geographical environment, Lanfang's wheat yield is not high, and it is not even enough for the Chinese in Lanfang, so Lanfang can only import wheat from the United States to supplement the lack of Lanfang's market. As for soybeans, well, only Chinese people in the world are used to eating soybean products, so Lanfang ordered a large amount of soybeans from the United States through the American Agricultural Association to supply Lanfang to produce various soy products.

By the way, in Lanfang, there is also a sweet and salty dispute about tofu brain, but the "salty party" clearly has the advantage.

In this round of secret warfare, the Americans did not take advantage of anything.

Lanfang Automobile Group is a state-owned enterprise, and it can even be said that it is the private property of Qin Zhiyuan himself, the United States has raised tariffs on Lanfang Automobiles, and it does not affect the sales of Lanfang Automobiles, because the extra taxes will still be paid by the wayward American people, Lanfang Automobiles has formed a synonym of "excellent fashion and perfect performance" in the hearts of the American people, even if the price is raised, Lanfang Automobiles can still be sold, and the same as before in short supply.

Lan Fang's countermeasures are more powerful.

American farmers are a very special group, democratic countries, farmers' rights must also be fully protected, Lanfang levies on wheat and soybeans, directly affects the amount of agricultural products Lanfang imports from the United States, which directly affects the income of American farmers.

Farmers don't know who Nikola Tesla is, most of the things that Nikola Tesla studied farmers don't use, so American farmers don't have much sense of hatred and hatred, after Lan Fang announced the tax increase, Lan Fang's orders to the United States Department of Agriculture immediately shrank by half, which led to the American farmers immediately surging emotions, American farmers don't care why Lan Fang reduced orders, they only know that their income has decreased, and they have to settle accounts with the US government.

Just kidding, because of the hard work of Lanfang's Department of Agriculture, many American farmers grow soybeans in their fields, and if Lanfang doesn't want these soybeans, then who do you ask American farmers to sell soybeans to?

Americans don't have the habit of drinking tofu brain.

The democratic government is indeed good, as soon as the American farmers made trouble, the US government immediately died down, so that the bill to continue to raise taxes on Lanfang's canned food was stillborn.

As mentioned earlier, Lanfang has a very rich aquatic products and agricultural products, coupled with the cooking methods of the Chinese, these aquatic products and fruits, vegetables and everything can be canned and sold all over the world, and the sales are still very good, there are several canned foods that have made Americans want to stop.

Even if the U.S. government increases taxes on canned food, Lan Fang also has countermeasures, Lan Fang can raise taxes on U.S. beef, which will make the U.S. government even more unbearable.

Or is it a reason to import wheat and soybeans, because of the traditional agricultural project, Lanfang's animal husbandry is not very developed, Lanfang has to import a large amount of beef, mutton, and even pork from the United States every year, if Lanfang also raises taxes on these meat products, then well, when the time comes, it will not be American farmers who drive tractors to protest in front of the White House, but cowboys with revolvers on their waists.

In addition to the economic level, the US government is also making frequent moves at the military level.

The United States has two relatively important military bases in the Pacific region, one is Hawaii and the other is Guam.

The US Navy has built a naval base and an airfield on Guam, but only a few destroyers have docked, and there are not a few planes, so at the time of the last "threat of war," Guam did not have the slightest ability to fight back against the Lan Fang Vladivostok fleet under the arrival of troops, which led to the US Government's complete passivity and had to temporarily compromise.

At the same time as the Lanfang military exercise was underway, the United States greatly strengthened Guam's military strength, and transferred the battleship "Maryland" and the battleship "Tennessee" to Guam, both of which were battleships that had just started construction at the end of the World War, and the "Maryland" battleship was the second of the Colorado-class battleships, with a displacement of 33,000 tons, eight 406-mm guns, a maximum speed of 21 knots, and a crew of 1,500, making it one of the most powerful battleships in the US Navy now.

As for the battleship "Tennessee", this is the first of the Tennessee-class battleships, which also has a displacement of 33,000 tons, and the caliber of the main gun is 356 mm, but there are as many as 12 guns, which is also the main warship of the US Navy now.

In terms of data, whether it is the "Maryland" battleship or the "Tennessee" battleship, there is a gap with Lanfang's "Vladivostok" and "Lanfang", and even the "Legion-class" that is about to enter service cannot be compared, but the combat effectiveness of the Navy is not proved by paper data, and having a powerful warship does not necessarily have strong combat effectiveness, and the actual combat effectiveness of the Lanfang Navy still needs to be tested in combat.

In addition to the navy, the strength of the air force has also been greatly strengthened, and at the same time that the "Maryland" and "Tennessee" were stationed on Guam, the fifth and sixth wings of the US Air Force were stationed on Guam, bringing the number of fighters on Guam to 150.

Relatively speaking, these planes are not a big threat to Lanfang, the US military is still equipped with old-fashioned triplanes, and the monoplanes installed by Lanfang are far from the performance of the monoplanes, not to mention the quality of the pilots, Lanfang's pilots grew up in the world war, in the world war, the Lanfang pilots have proven their worth, and the fledgling US Air Force is simply incomparable.

Relatively speaking, Hawaii has always been the main base of the US Navy in the Pacific, Hawaii is also the location of the US Pacific Fleet Command, the strength of the Pacific Fleet is already very strong, and now it has been strengthened again, plus the "Maryland" and "Tennessee" in Guam, the battleships in the Pacific Fleet have reached an unprecedented nine, which is already half of the strength of the US Navy, and most of them are cutting-edge warships.

The frequent movements of the U.S. Navy immediately made Lan Fang feel the pressure.

Before the military exercise ended, the Admiralty of Lanfang had already held several meetings to discuss how to deal with the threat of the Americans, and the Admiralty proposed to break through the restrictions of the Coconut City Navy Conference and build more battleships to deal with the threat of the Americans.

It's okay to build battleships, but continuing to build battleships is definitely not in line with Qin Zhiyuan's strategic concept, what Qin Zhiyuan wants is an aircraft carrier, and only an aircraft carrier is in line with the future development trend of the navy.

The Coconut City Naval Conference also has restrictions on aircraft carriers, Qin Zhiyuan can't blatantly tear up the treaty now, that will immediately cause a new round of arms race, dragging down Lan Fang's ongoing second five-year plan, so aircraft carriers can't be built randomly, as long as the current four "Surabaya class" are in service, they can form a great advantage over the Americans, and at the same time, they have reached the limit that Lan Fang can build aircraft carriers, so aircraft carriers can't be built indiscriminately.

Then the only thing that can be built is submarines.