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Chapter 1319 Interests come first

Three o'clock in the morning US time, the White House. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

President Roosevelt was replaced by his secretary Louis Roosevelt. Howe woke up, kissed his wife Eleanor on the forehead apologetically, and immediately asked Miss Lehand, the life secretary, and the White House staff to dress him, and then helped him into a wheelchair, and then Miss Leehand pushed him all the way to the oval boardroom.

At this moment in the conference room, Vice President Ghana, Secretary of State Kodel. Hull, Secretary of the Army, Stimson, FBI Director Jo. Edgar. Hoover was already there.

"Cordell, it's so late, what's the matter?" Roosevelt asked with a smile, not in the slightest unpleasant at the interruption of his sleep.

Cordel. Hull nodded: "There have just been two very serious incidents in the Far East, which may affect the formulation of our national policy, and at the same time, Mr. Jensen, the ambassador to China, has called and asked us to further clarify our relations with China, so I will propose to hold this meeting immediately." ”

"Oh? What is so important? Roosevelt habitually picked up his pipe full of tobacco, lit it, took a deep breath, and looked at Secretary Hull with interest.

Hull said solemnly: "Just four hours ago, Admiral An Yi, a cabinet member of the Chinese government in Nanjing and an important leader of the army, was ambushed by Japanese carrier-based fighters in the Yellow River region of China. Later, the search team sent by the Chinese Air Force found traces of the Japanese Second Fleet in the waters south of Qingdao, China, and launched a surprise attack with a sense of revenge, sinking one aircraft carrier, two cruisers, and nine destroyers in one fell swoop, while the losses of the Chinese Air Force were only two bombers and one reconnaissance aircraft.

"Not only our diplomats could not believe in such a disparity in results, but also the officials of the War and Navy were unacceptable, and the specific situation of the battle is still being further verified. Since these two incidents are likely to cause an uproar around the world, and then lead to changes in the policies of European countries toward China, our government must unify its thinking and understanding and find a balance between China and China, otherwise I am worried that something will go wrong. ”

Roosevelt was very surprised: "What? Groups of warplanes turned out to sink aircraft carriers and cruisers? Is this April Fool's Day news? Kodel, do you know how many fighters the Chinese Air Force has sent to the war to achieve such great results? ”

Hull looked at the document in his hand: "It is an initiative completed by a brigade of the Air Force, a total of six squadrons. Before that, I never thought that such brilliant results would be achieved by using fighter planes against warships, and it is estimated that after the results of this naval and air battle are known, all countries will set off a frenzy of air force construction. At the same time, it is also imperative for the naval powers to upgrade their warships; if they go to sea without sufficient anti-aircraft firepower, their fleets will become mobile targets for bombers, and warships will also pay more attention to the thickness of their armor, and future naval battles will also evolve into all-round operations of air fighters, sea surface ships, and submarines below sea level. ”

Roosevelt nodded approvingly. Both Roosevelt administrations chose the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, Claude Brown. Swanson's appointment as Secretary of the Navy was due to President Roosevelt's fact that Swanson was old and ill and could not handle naval affairs normally, so President Roosevelt, who had served as assistant secretary of the Navy for a long time, became the de facto Secretary of the Navy and no one could restrain him.

Roosevelt had been fascinated by boats and the sea since he was a child hiding in the attic and looking through the whaling ship logs with blue cloth covers left behind by his ancestors. As a teenager, he managed to collect ship models and pictures, as well as odometries and marine albums on old ships. He voraciously read the history of the U.S. Navy and the writings of Admiral Mahan, who had spent countless summers along the coast of Campobello on his father and his own sailboat. By the time he left Harvard, he had collected more than 10,000 books, pamphlets, essays, manuscripts, and original documents on the Navy and ships. He is a well-known insider with extensive knowledge of ships and naval operations.

Roosevelt personally planned and implemented the U.S. Navy's development strategy, and in his first year as president, he made a three-year plan to spend $238 million to build two aircraft carriers, four cruisers, 20 destroyers, and auxiliary ships. In 1934, Congress passed the larger "Vincennes-Trammell Act," authorizing the Navy to build 102 warships by 1942, bringing the number of new warships to 134, ensuring the United States' status as the world's second naval power. It can be said that Roosevelt was the first wise man of this era to realize that aircraft carriers have a decisive role in determining the victory of the sea, and he was a US president who really understood what ships the Navy needed.

"Let's discuss the matter of the navy later, and now we will study whether it is necessary to change the established policy toward China and Japan, and force *** to withdraw from the war with dignity and return to the track of peace."

At this point, Roosevelt turned to the head of the FBI's intelligence force. Edgar. Hoover: "Edgar, can you introduce the current trend in China, what kind of mentality do we American people have towards China, China, and war?" If our government were a little tougher on ***, would it cause a backlash from the Senate and the House of Representatives? ”

About. Edgar. Hoover coughed slightly: "Because of the Hollywood Lightning Film Company, one or two movies will be released every year that reflect the history of the rise of *** and expose the ugly faces of the government and the people. However, the threat of war is what people fear most than their personal likes and dislikes, and isolationism is still the main theme of the moment, a reality that the president clearly recognized before his election last year. Therefore, if the president shows a certain warlike tendency, it will definitely attract criticism from *** and parliamentarians, and the gains outweigh the losses!

"In fact, as far as I am concerned, not getting involved in the Sino-Japanese war is the best policy, on the one hand, it can greatly deplete the national strength of China and China through continuous wars, and on the other hand, it can also deter the extremely inflated national self-esteem and pride of the Chinese in the United States. As we all know, the number of Chinese Americans has grown from less than 100,000 in 29 years to 3 million now. Of course, we all know how all this was caused, before the 29 years of the Great Depression, the Chinese brought a large amount of money into our country, before and after the economic crisis, in the stock market and futures market, a lot of gains, plus the factories and enterprises they invested in were mostly sold to China and Southeast Asia, earning a large amount of foreign exchange, although temporarily alleviating our currency crisis, but also contributed to the completion of a large amount of capital accumulation. All of this was a government-encouraged business practice at the time that could boost and stimulate our economy, but today it doesn't smell like it's taking advantage of the fire. Subsequently, the Chinese consortium used its wealth to organize Chinese immigrants on a large scale to obtain legal status for the immigrants.

"In the minds of most of us Americans, although the Chinese American consortium provides a large number of employment opportunities, the continuous influx of Chinese people into our country is also a growing threat to the rights and interests of the American people, and even in the eyes of some ultra-nationalists, the Chinese are an equally hateful ethnic group like Jews. With the recovery of the economy after the New Deal, the government vigorously immigrated to the country in order to ensure the jobs of the people, and the people rejoiced, and also changed the government's slogan of 'Americans are Americans' to 'Work is American'. Therefore, in fact, in the minds of the people, China and *** are not their favorite countries, and the people have no psychological expectations for intervening in the war between these two countries, and our government is better to be cautious. ”

Roosevelt nodded, although the first pot of gold he ran for president came from Zhang Xi's donation, but at this time, Roosevelt had been re-elected as the second president of the United States, and he was more thinking about how to safeguard the interests of the United States.

In the first four years of Roosevelt's administration, the Chinese consortium contributed a lot to solving the unemployment rate in the United States, stabilizing the market economy, and stimulating the overall economic recovery, but Roosevelt felt that he gave more preferential treatment to the Chinese consortium, especially during the economic crisis, which was a mistake on the part of former President Hoover and himself. Today, the total population of the United States is about 160 million, and although the Chinese have become a huge ethnic group accounting for one-fiftieth of the total population, their impact on the United States is still very weak, and the number of members of the states and the Senate and House of Representatives is only a few. In the current situation of isolationism, how to cater to the needs of the majority of the people and consolidate their rule is the most important thing.

Vice President Ghana added: "We must also see the positive effect that trade can bring to our economic growth, and since last year, our economic recovery momentum has begun to slow down, and in some places there have been factory shutdowns and workers have lost their jobs, and although all have been properly arranged with the efforts of our government, this reality tells us that the United States is in great need of a market for dumped products."

"China is not an industrial country in the true sense, every year they also buy a large number of high-tech products such as engines, precision machining machine tools, automobile production lines and electronic and electrical production lines produced by our American enterprises, but the share of trade is still far behind, and since the start of the war between China and Japan, the navy has begun to tighten China's coastal waters to prevent the flow of materials into China, although our products can still enter the Chinese market through French Annan, but the scale is further reduced. Under such circumstances, Mr. President, how do you think the major chaebols will handle Sino-Japanese relations? ”

"Well, I see what you mean!"

Roosevelt finally made up his mind: "The United States must stay away from war, but war can greatly promote the demand for steel, oil, grain, rubber, chemical products, and other raw materials and strategic materials between China and Japan, expand the sales share of American products in the above two countries, and promote the comprehensive recovery of China's economy." Therefore, there is no need for us to get involved in the Sino-Japanese dispute at all, we just need to wait and see what happens. It is expected that in the future, the war between China and Japan will be larger in scale and wider in scope, and the war will never stop unless one side submits......"

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Baoding, Qingyuan Airport.

Nearly an hour has passed since the search operation in charge of the Fifth Army Gendarmerie Corps and the Corps Intelligence Department, and Zhou Zhirou, the commander of the Air Force who did not know the truth at the beginning, still stood up and shouted loudly, but under the guidance of Colonel Xiao Ruofei, the head of the Gendarmerie Corps, he immediately ordered all the places to be released and let the officers and soldiers of Anjia inspect them.

All the officers and men of the Central Air Force sensed the seriousness of the matter from the murderous red eyes of the officers and men of An Jia, and did not resist without any resistance, and fully cooperated.

"Report to the regiment commander, I took the first battalion and the second battalion to search all the pilots' quarters, hangars, maintenance factories and other places, but I found nothing." The deputy head of the regiment, Major Yan Jiesheng, ran to Xiao Ruofei's side and reported immediately.

"According to the report, the mechanics, navigators, plotters and other staff of our Southwest Air Force stationed at Baoding Airport have all been visited in place, and no abnormalities have been found in the consultation with ground crews." Major Zhang Mingchi, the commander of the third battalion, looked helpless after the report.

Xiao Ruofei's heart sank: "What's the matter, could it be that I made a mistake in judgment?" No, how did the Japanese fighters determine the take-off time of the commander's plane? ”

At this time, Colonel Li Du, deputy director of the Intelligence Division, came to Xiao Ruofei's side: "Commander Xiao, I want to ask you a question: According to Zhou Song, the commander of the third battalion of the *** division teaching regiment stationed at the airport, before the commander arrived at the airport in the morning, there was a 'big leopard' carrying three officers and soldiers of the military police regiment to the airport to stand for the brigade. Originally, I thought it was nothing, but Battalion Commander Zhou said that before the commander's plane took off, this 'big leopard' left first, they were a little strange, it stands to reason that after sending the commander away, they should return to the camp with you, so Battalion Commander Zhou specially asked. The lieutenant colonel sitting in the co-pilot seat said that he was ordered to go back to the camp to get something, and the commander was anxious to ask for it, but Battalion Commander Zhou felt that there was no problem and let him go. Not long after, the commander's special plane took off, but the lieutenant colonel of the military police regiment who went back to get things did not come back, and Battalion Commander Zhou kept this matter in mind. ”

This Li Du was the deputy chief of the Political Training Section of the former Gongyu Fan Division who was captured by the Red Army in a plane crash and took the initiative to cover up his identity for An Yi, after being rescued by Ding Zhicheng, he went to the Central Military Academy for half a year under An Yi's arrangement, and was assigned to the 17th Division after completing the training.

"No, the gendarmerie didn't send someone to the front station!"

Xiao Ruofei categorically vetoed: "Everything is arranged, how can you still send someone to fight the front station?" There's definitely a problem with that! Since they felt suspicious, why didn't the people from the *** division teaching group stop them? ”

Li Du didn't answer Xiao Ruofei's question, pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "This matter is getting more and more complicated, the 'Big Leopard' off-road vehicle is only equipped with our Anjia Army, so far, among the other friendly forces in North China, only the Theater Command has sent ten, which is mainly for the sake of the face of the commanders in the theater, and six of them were also used by Commander Liu Zhi of the Second Group Army." In addition, the commander gave five vehicles to General Wan Fulin of the 53rd Army and five vehicles to General Pang Bingxun of the 40th Army. In addition to our own people, only these 20 'big leopards' can be stolen and pretended to be our own. ”

"It shouldn't be possible for General Wan Lao and General Pang Lao, if it really wants to be unfavorable to the commander, wouldn't there be more and better opportunities on the battlefield in Tianjin a few days ago?"

Speaking of this, Xiao Ruofei was extremely shocked: "Speaking of which, the Theater Command and the Second Army are seriously suspicious......

Li Du also felt that the matter was tricky: "This matter is out of our control, we have to report the situation to the corps headquarters as soon as possible, and the commander and chief of staff will investigate." As long as it is confirmed who is in the hands of the 'big leopard' given to the theater command and the Second Army, and whose car is no longer there, you can roughly know who the suspect is! ”

Xiao Ruofei thought so, glanced at Li Dui, and quickly ran towards the airport telecommunications room.