Section 754 Wedge nails
Roosevelt and Churchill had planned to return home after the premiere, but they suddenly changed their itinerary and paid a friendly visit to Japan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Roosevelt visited the American auto factories in Japan, where Ford, General Motors and Chrysler were already sizable, producing 500,000 cars a year, most of which were exported to China.
Originally, these three major automobile manufacturers also almost occupied a monopoly position in Japan, but after World War II, the United States ordered the three major automobile manufacturers to withdraw from Japan out of consideration of supporting Japan, giving the Japanese automobile industry a huge space, and finally giving birth to automobile giants such as Toyota and Honda, and posing a huge threat to the United States.
Now the three major automobile companies in Japan investment is more huge, not only make Japan's automobile production become the third in the world, second only to the United States, China more than the United Kingdom's 450,000, France's 430,000, Germany's 370,000, and promote Japan's complete set of machinery manufacturing level to improve, although in the most high-end machine tool manufacturing industry, Japan is still behind China, the United States, Germany and other major machine tool production countries, but in the precision of machining, has made great progress, they can produce including car engines, The vast majority of mechanical products.
In addition to the fascist movement in recent years, although the income level of the Japanese is still very low, but the development of the heavy chemical industry is very fast, in this era, Japan's economic strength and industrial strength are stronger than in history, has surpassed France, second only to China, the United States, Soviet Russia, Germany and the United Kingdom, ranking sixth in the world, and the urbanization rate ranks first in Asia, reaching 40%, which is higher than the 38% that China has worked hard for so many years.
In every respect, Japan is a world industrial power that cannot be ignored.
After Roosevelt and Churchill's visit, it was publicly stated that Churchill had an exchange of views with the Japanese government on the Ryukyu government-in-exile, that Japan had pledged not to support the Ryukyu people, and that Britain had placed a large number of military orders and transportation contracts with Japan. The United States, for its part, has pledged to provide the United States with a concessional loan to improve Japan's infrastructure and power supply.
As for what promises they made to Japan in private, it is not known.
Yang Chao saw the two old goods of Britain and the United States, but he couldn't help but lament, these two countries have to kill Japan, the Japanese fascists have not only developed their army to the level of 1 million through various means, but also the air force is quite strong, there are excellent aircraft such as Zero fighters, and the navy has brought in 300,000 tons of capital ships through small actions, not to mention that it is second only to China in Asia, second only to Britain, the United States and China in the world, and is stronger than the navies of France and Italy.
Now that these two goods are instigating Japan, it is estimated that the ambitions of the Japanese should be inflated again.
However, Yang Chao does not find it strange, it is just a wedge nail, China does not do the same, Mexico and Brazil are nails.
It's just that Yang Chao has to think about it, Britain and the United States are wedged in Japan, Yang Chao is naturally very unhappy, so can the United States be happy to stir up the national sentiment in Mexico?
In particular, Mexico is constantly building a fleet to strengthen its military strength, and the Americans can no longer bear it.
Roosevelt is not a good stubble, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a fox, but he has wolf ambitions, not only him, they Roosevelt family is actually very tough, the US Navy has become a world-class navy, and the Roosevelt family is inseparable, it is during his uncle's time as Secretary of the Navy that the United States built the Great White Fleet to shock the world, and made the American threat theory popular in Europe for a while, and the Spanish-American War was also fought under the encouragement and encouragement of the old Roosevelt.
Before World War I, Franklin D. Roosevelt relied on his uncle's great prestige in the Navy to become Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson administration, where he was known for his toughness.
In 1914, Mexico was ruled by the hard-line warlord Huerta, and the Americans expressed their displeasure about this, and Wilson wanted "an orderly, just government of the people in Mexico." Refusing to recognize the Huerta government, which "cannot talk".
Roosevelt's Navy was a pawn, when a squadron of the U.S. Navy set up a position off the coast of Mexico, and several sailors forced their way to Tampico and were captured by the Mexicans, but Mexico soon released the Americans, as a result of which the Navy's Rear Admiral Mayo demanded a public apology from Mexico and salute the American flag flying on the U.S. fleet hovering off the coast of Mexico with a 21-gun salute.
Mexico rejected the request, saying it would not do so unless the United States saluted the Mexican flag at the same time. Then Wilson suddenly said that he had received a message that a German freighter transporting arms had arrived in Mexico, which was very puzzling, the coast of Mexico was blocked by the U.S. Navy, how did the German freighter pass?
Anyway, the German ship passed in the mouth of the American president, so it was necessary for the United States to send someone to seize the ship, so that Mexico would not get these arms and pose a huge threat to the United States.
The first group of 800 U.S. Marines landed, and the next day another 3,000 landed, quickly taking control of the oil powerhouse of Veracruz, in which the Americans suffered 19 casualties and Mexico lost 126.
At that time, Roosevelt's attitude was: "Since the United States has taken military action, it should fight to the end without compromise." ”
Obviously, such a domineering guy, no matter how much he hides, will not be able to become a pacifist.
With the help of the American economic crisis, the Mexicans, with the help of China, have built up a military industry on a considerable scale. A number of Mexican national companies led by Petroleos Mexicano were established, such as Mexican Steel, Mexican Railways, Mexican Electricity and other large state-owned companies.
In recent years, it can be said that with the investment of petrodollars and huge Chinese foreign debts, Mexico's industrial strength has risen to a new level, and in the military field, it can ensure the supply of equipment for 1 million people, but the shipbuilding industry has not yet developed, and it does not have the ability to build large warships on its own.
So they commissioned the North Koreans to build them warships, and the North Koreans themselves built 10 cruisers for Mexico, and commissioned the Ryukyu Shipyard to help Mexico build two battleships and a heavy aircraft carrier.
These messages were carried out in a state of secrecy, but it was impossible for the Americans not to know that their infiltration of the Mexican government made it impossible for Mexico to have secrets.
But the Americans have been keeping it secret, apparently intending to wait for the matter to be cleared up before dealing with it.
However, the threat of the Americans to the offshore oil wells off the coast of Mexico completely aroused the national sentiment in Mexico, and Mexican President Cárdenas openly announced the order of 10 large battleships and 10 aircraft carriers to the Ryukyus for the sake of the anger of the people.
This move has already caused a solemn warning from the United States, first warning Mexico, sending troops to completely shut down Mexico's offshore oil fields, and then warning the Ryukyus, after no result, announcing sanctions against the Ryukyus, refusing to allow the Ryukyu fleet to dock on the coast of the United States, and not allowing the American fleet to dock at the Ryukyus.
Since then, Mexico has been forced by economic pressure to demarcate the maritime border with the United States and reopen offshore oil wells, but the order for those warships has not been canceled, and it is obvious that the Mexicans have seen clearly that Mexico will always be bullied without its own military strength to protect itself.
The Mexican people, in the face of the humiliation of having their gas wells snatched by the United States and offshore oil wells being forced to shut down for more than a month, can also accept President Cárdenas' policy of using all oil revenues for military expansion.
At this point, Yang Chao's nail in Mexico can be regarded as formed. It's just that it is obviously impossible for their navy to return to the Mexican coast safely, just as the Japanese have to sneak around and make some farce of the Ryukyus in order to build a capital ship, so how can the Mexican fleet return to Mexico completely?
There is no need to worry about this problem for the time being, because in addition to the 10 cruisers, the two battleships and one large aircraft carrier in the first batch of warships they built are still in North Korea, and with the help of North Korean officers, Mexican naval soldiers are actively training, and they may get next year to form combat effectiveness, and at the same time, next year they will also get a huge main fleet of 10 battleships and 10 aircraft carriers, becoming a major naval power in the world.
But the Americans could not allow a military power near the United States, and the time these warships joined the Mexican Navy was when the United States acted against Mexico.
After returning home, President Roosevelt immediately began a new round of activities, Roosevelt said that according to his activities in China, the Chinese have no intention of joining the war, the United States must learn to protect itself, while also playing up the threat of the Mexican Navy, and finally after being killed at the beginning of the year, this time passed the "Two Oceans Navy" bill. Secretary of the Navy Stark asked for a $4 billion appropriation in Congress, but after more than an hour of debate, Congress decided that $4 billion was not enough, and they decided to allocate $8.5 billion, equivalent to 9,000 tons of gold.
Through this bill, the United States intends to build 10,000 aircraft for the Navy, add 48 hard airships, and 257 warships, including 27 Essex-class aircraft carriers, 11 Iowa-class battleships, and five Montana-class 50,000-ton heavy battleships.
A military service law was also passed, and mass conscription for the formation of the army began.
It is required to expand the U.S. aviation industry to produce 50,000 aircraft per year.
It also reached an agreement with Britain to transfer 50 old destroyers to Britain in exchange for British military bases from the Americas all the way to Iceland.
In this series of military actions of the United States, China did not express its position, Zhang Jian put all his mind on the country, but some members of the Congress noticed that they were very dissatisfied with the United States personally breaking the Washington Naval Treaty, but the Rich and Strong Party did not care, China is unlikely to have-for-tat actions, and the purpose of the Rich and Strong Party is now all focused on the election.
Because the 40-year congressional election is about to begin.
Newspapers controlled by the Rich and Strong Party are already calling on supporters to vote. (To be continued.) )