President Cleveland's pretense also brought about another problem, that is, the strong dissatisfaction of the American people, although the arguments advocating peaceful development during this period were still very popular in the United States, and there were even many people who opposed the direct annexation of Hawaii, but the country that controlled Hawaii was not a European power, but China on the other side of the ocean, and the nature was immediately different. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Due to the butterfly effect caused by Li Hui's crossing, the anti-China sentiment in the United States is now far higher than in history, and tens of thousands of American gold diggers have died tragically in Alaska, where they have placed their "American dream", and all the people in the United States, including gangsters, private armed forces, and even state militias, have suffered a miserable defeat on that piece of land that is obviously the United States itself, so that the Federal Army does not dare to go directly to the conquest and suppression, and has to expand its armaments first, which makes everyone in the United States feel angry (except for the generals of the Federal Army).

If in the past, Americans excluded China mainly because of jealousy and disgust, now Americans are more anti-China out of hatred, and violent crimes against overseas Chinese in the United States have emerged one after another, but the self-proclaimed impartial legal system of the United States has turned a blind eye to this and forced overseas Chinese in the United States to leave the United States. Then, some of these unwilling Chinese youths did not choose to return to China, but went north to join their compatriots in Alaska, which made the rebels there stronger and stronger, and the hatred in their hearts also made the rebels' treatment of Americans more and more cruel, which in turn further stimulated the hatred of the American people against the Chinese and China.

Not long ago, after China acquired Western Canada through the "Treaty of Calcutta," it directly threatened the security of the United States and caused the anti-China sentiment of the American people to become more and more intense.

Such an "extremely anti-American, evil country" has seized the Hawaiian Islands, the maritime barrier in the western part of the United States, almost like pointing a gun at himself, and President Cleveland can still endure and advocate peace, even if his uncle can bear it, his aunt can't bear it! As a result, American newspapers and people have disparagingly called him "the softest president in the history of the United States", and many people even gathered outside the White House to demonstrate......

Cleveland's approval rating has been declining rapidly due to the economic depression in the United States since he took office (Note 1), and this is even worse......

But in any case, Cleveland's re-election for a third term is no longer possible, not only him, but also the Democratic Party, which has been regaining strength after the American Civil War, has also suffered another heavy blow, and I don't know how long it will take for him to become the ruling party again. The Republican Party has celebrated it, although there are those who understand that Cleveland's approach is not wrong......

"I have always disliked this Mr. President, but he did nothing wrong this time, and the current United States really does not have the ability to start a war against China immediately, so it can only temporarily forbear and buy time." Theodore Roosevelt, who had just become the chief of police in New York City the year before, expressed sympathy for President Cleveland, but his tone sounded schadenfreude, "If you insist on finding out his mistakes, but you don't annex Hawaii as soon as possible, and if Hawaii is already the territory of the United States, the Chinese may not dare to take action." ”

However, Alfred Thayer Mahan, a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt and a world-renowned naval military theorist with his book "On Sea Power" (also translated as "On the Control of Sea Power"), euphemistically expressed a different view: "Yes, it may not be daring, but there is also the possibility of making a move, isn't it?" The Chinese even dared to fight the British Empire, and they won the war, what do you think they absolutely did not dare to do? What's more, even if Hawaii is officially incorporated into the territory, it needs to be recognized by the European powers to make sense, and it is too late in time. Even if you want to blame, you can't blame the current Mr. President. ”

"That's right, I can only blame him for his bad luck, or lack of vision, to run for president at that point in time." Roosevelt bowed his head slightly in agreement, but his contempt for the incumbent president was still overflowing.

Although he was still very young at this time, Roosevelt's deep background allowed him to grasp a lot of hidden information that even senior government officials did not know, and the last election coincided with a rebound during the economic crisis, many people naively thought that this was the recovery after the crisis ended, but did not expect that this was the prelude to the real crisis, and at this time, Cleveland, who successfully ran for the presidency, was in a sense just a black cauldron, how could the "own family" of the financial capital group like Theodore Roosevelt look down on him?

"How many people can see as accurately as you do!" , Mahan looked at this old friend with some speechlessness, his evaluation of Cleveland was not so mean, but in his tenure, the US Navy finally began to accelerate the construction of ships.

Roosevelt did not think that it was Cleveland's credit, "National security has been threatened so much, if you don't know how to expand your armaments, then this president might as well sit on a dog!" ”

"But he did something after all." Mahan didn't want to argue with his friends, so he changed the topic here, "But the construction period of capital ships is very long, and we have too few large dockyards now, and it will take a long time to build new ones, and it is far from enough for Cleveland to expand the navy, at least the next two terms will have to maintain such a policy." ”

Roosevelt shook his head and added, "It is not enough to increase investment, the person in charge of the Admiralty has to be an expert, our newly designed Indiana-class battleships are simply rags, if they run into China's sea and sky, they can't be beaten, they can't escape, and even the seaworthiness and passing ability are far inferior, rather than letting such waste occupy the slipway, it is better to build more auxiliary ships to work!" ”

Note 1: That is, the world economic crisis of 1890, which lasted for a particularly long time in the United States, and the process was also full of twists and turns, and in 1893 the economic crisis broke out again, and the degree was extremely serious, the output of major industrial products generally fell by 20%, the prices of industrial stocks were basically cut in half, and the unemployment rate rose sharply. Although the economy had begun to recover in 1895, there was a lag in the improvement of people's living conditions, so that Cleveland did not improve until his second presidency ended in 1897. (To be continued.) )