The United States is a standard capitalist government, and the government's policy orientation is driven by profit. In layman's terms, as long as there is money to be made, the capitalists can openly adjust state policy.

Today's China, which has started post-war construction, is the best place for America's excess capital. As a result, the presidents and other senior management of American companies in China went to Beijing one after another, and the major capitalists in the United States either personally went out or sent heavyweight representatives to China across the ocean. They hope to get a piece of the pie in China's construction tide, and they believe that as long as they are willing and can come up with favorable conditions far beyond Britain, France, Germany and other countries, they will definitely be able to win the most orders.

However, it backfired. The reason why the American capitalists have repeatedly lowered their quotations and still cannot get orders is because there is no government support. If we talk about the non-governmental technical cooperation between Britain, France, Germany and other countries and China, the major entrepreneurs in the United States can also do it. Britain, France, Germany, and other countries have provided loans and economic guarantees to China, and this is not something that any capitalist in the United States or a small group of capitalists can do, and this kind of thing must require the government to come forward.

In addition to bringing in foreign capital to rapidly develop national infrastructure, the purpose of China's opening up of the market is also the time to introduce foreign infrastructure technology. For example, if you want to sign the right to build a road, then you must bring machinery and equipment from your home country to open mountains and roll roads, and at the same time train corresponding use and maintenance technicians for China. After the construction is completed, all of this equipment must remain in China. For this reason, China would rather sign contracts with merchants from other countries than 30 percent higher than the quotations offered by American businessmen, rather than sign contracts with American businessmen.

The vastness of China's territory in Siberia is obvious to all, and transportation is essential to form effective rule over the outlying regions in the shortest possible time. Railways are laid in major cities, strategic points, and high-standard roads are available in other areas, so that the main forces can reach these areas in the shortest possible time. It is only within the reach of military power that the rule of the government can be truly consolidated.

In the previous decade, in order to stabilize China's external situation, the Chinese army fought in the east and west, and fought in the south and the north. Although some benefits were obtained through the war, the consumption of the army was still far greater than the gains, especially this war against Russia, which almost exhausted the materials that China had reserved for ten years. Significant military expenditures have taken up the cost of infrastructure development. Therefore, in the first ten years, China only built the Far Eastern Railway from Harbin to Guangzhou, Guangzhou to Nanning, Beijing to Shanghai, Shanghai to Changsha, Jiaozhou to Xi'an, Mukden to Lushun, Beijing to Ulan-Ude, and the Far East Railway that was stolen from Russia.

Now, the post-war military downsizing has saved military spending, and with the massive loans it has received from various countries, the Chinese government has developed ambitious transportation plans. The Chinese government hopes to build Changsha to Kunming, Kunming to Nanning, Kunming to Xi'an, Lanzhou to Xining, and Xi'an to Urumqi within five years. This means that all the provincial capitals in China, with the exception of Lhasa in Tibet, must be connected to the train. In addition, the design of railways in the major vassal states in the far Western Regions was also on the agenda of the imperial court. The capitals of vassal states such as Urumqi to Astana, Omsk to Dushanbe, and Dushanbe to Ashgabat must also be connected by train. And that's not just the rail plans, but the road plans around the railways are too numerous to mention. In addition, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Pearl River, the Haihe River, the Heilongjiang River and other major river basins power generation, livestock water, irrigation and other water conservancy construction; telephone and telegraph lines from economically developed areas to large villages and towns, and from economically underdeveloped areas to the provincial level; standard school buildings for a fully rolled out EFA programme; There are also abundant minerals in China......

China's huge construction wave has excluded the United States, which the American capitalists cannot tolerate. However, even if they cut the price, they will not be able to get orders from China, for the simple reason that Britain, France, Germany and other countries have provided loans or economic guarantees to China, which means that China is using foreign loans or guarantees to build national infrastructure, and the Chinese government has hardly to pay anything except for the cost of collecting land from farmers. This is tantamount to demanding that the American capitalists need to invest in it, and the Chinese government will not only pay a penny, but also have a stake in the Chinese government!!

How can I pay for the fact that I have to share your shares, this is a stupid thing that no capitalist would do. Therefore, if American capital wants to enter China and get a piece of the pie in China's construction tide, it must need the US government to come forward. As a result, the capitalists in the United States put pressure on the U.S. government from various sources.

The U.S. government is a standard capitalist government, and everything is profit-oriented, but the government is necessarily different from the capitalists. Capitalists can have no concept of country and region, and they can even put aside all constraints such as morality and identity, and only pursue profits. But the country is different, the country has a clear geographical scope, and with this constraint, as the government first needs to ensure the security of the country. This security refers not only to military security, but also to economic security.

"Cuba is the only overseas colony of the United States of America, and Cuba is a protected State of the United States. However, in Cuba, China's entrepreneurs and rural owners have not been able to recruit enough labor, while in China, on the contrary, there has never been a shortage of labor. Have you ever wondered how much wealth that the Chinese capitalists have taken up in the American colonies?! Out of diplomatic pressure, we could not expel the Chinese in Cuba, which is already a failure of the US government. Now that the Chinese fleet is outside Cuba, if the US Government is unable to prevent the Chinese fleet from entering Cuba, it will mean that the United States will completely lose Cuba. Coupled with the expansion of Chinese in South America, it means that the United States will be completely blocked on the North American continent!! "President William? Howard? Taft almost roared to the representatives of the capitalists who met him: "If the US government cannot even protect Cuba, which is close at hand, it will not be able to guarantee the safety of your investments in China!! ”

The representatives of the capitalists had nothing to say for a while. Taft is right that if the United States cannot keep Cuba, then if the Chinese government confiscates their investments in China under the pretext of confiscation, they will have nothing to do. The delegates left the White House in silence, but Taft did not think the capitalists would stop there.

The United States has a serious overcapacity, and capital urgently needs to be circulated to the outside world. In the face of setbacks in both Cuba and South America, China is the best place for this surplus capital. If the U.S. government cannot guarantee the normal outflow of capital, then those capitalists may be motivated by profits to choose British or French citizenship, and the U.S. government will lose even more. Therefore, after consulting with his aides, Taft still telegraphed to the new US minister to China, Rou Keyi, asking him to immediately discuss matters such as the United States providing loans to China.

An hour later, Li Ming, who was complaining about the children's meals at the dinner table, received an urgent message from Yang Du, the head of the secretariat.

"The CIA has just intercepted a U.S. government message to the legation in China. The telegram asked the US Minister to China, Rou Keyi, to discuss the loan with me. Yang Du said with a smile: "Sure enough, as the emperor expected, the U.S. government can't sit still." ”

"Oh?!" Li Ming put down the dishes and chopsticks, sat on the sofa and carefully read the six-page telegram: "What is the opinion of the cabinet?" ”

"Yan Xiang and the other lords think that the patrol fleet can be dispatched."

In the waters south of the Cayman Islands in Cuba, the confrontation between the Chinese and US fleets has been half a month. For half a month, the fleets of the two sides drifted along the sea, and the only constant was that the bow of the Chinese fleet always pointed to their destination -- Guantanamo in Cuba, while the US fleet also stopped at the Chinese fleet's shipping lanes from beginning to end. In the past half a month, the US fleet has asked for dialogue countless times, but the Chinese fleet has not responded a word. But today is a little different, the flag hung by Hai Jui, the flagship of the Chinese patrol fleet, and at the same time sounded a light signal: Our fleet will run out of supplies within 36 hours, and the United States must supply our fleet within an hour.

"Are the Chinese crazy, they actually ask us for supplies?" On the bridge of the USS Missouri, a new American battleship with the name BB-11, Fleet Commander Karoff looked at the flag on the USS Hairui and was surprised and at the same time extremely angry.

As soon as the U.S. government received the news, it immediately ordered the fleet to intercept it, and at the same time, in order to increase its strength, ordered the Southern Fleet docked in Key West to depart immediately. Because of the urgency of the incident, the fleet and Ben set off without sufficient supplies. Judging from the distance, the Southern Fleet could not catch up with Ben. However, in order to avoid the US fleet, which was already preparing to intercept in the waters east of Jamaica, the Chinese visiting fleet deliberately made a detour to the Cayman Islands, but unexpectedly, the Chinese fleet, which was not in a hurry, "happened" to run into the US Southern Fleet, which was rushing to arrive, and was blocked by the US Southern Fleet on the west side. As a result, the fleets of the two countries began a half-month-long confrontation in this sea area. The U.S. Southern Fleet was running out of supplies, so it needed to supply the fleet from the mainland. Since China developed a maritime resupply operation, countries around the world have begun to follow suit. However, neither the technology nor the operational capability of the United States can be compared with China's supply ships, and the supply of the whole day can only last the three days of this interception fleet. And today, it is the day when the continental United States supplies the interceptor fleet. And as is customary, the arrival of the supply fleet was exactly an hour later, at nine o'clock.

Karov cursed angrily: "Damn the Chinese, they are just looking for excuses to make trouble." ”

"Nope. It is the Chinese who are about to set sail. "George? Dewey looked at the increasingly black plume of smoke in the chimney of the Chinese warship, and said lightly: "Send a telegram to the country, asking if our army is allowed to fire first once the Chinese force the formation." ”

China's wireless telegraphy technology, the United States also bought, and it was first equipped on cutting-edge battleships. In this way, the fleet sailing on the seas can still maintain contact with the country. Karov nodded to the communications officer, and the telegraph operator immediately sent a telegram requesting instructions. Soon, US President Taft personally sent a telegram: must not be the first to fire, and must not allow Chinese to enter Cuba.

"It's an impossible task." Dewey, who received the telegram from China, was extremely angry. In the Spanish-American War, George? Dewey led a fleet to attack the Spanish mainland. Although he was defeated and captured in the end, in the hearts of the Americans, he was a hero. After the Spanish-American War, George? Dewey was released. Not only did he not face any punishment when he returned home, but the US Congress met on 16 May, made an exception and awarded him the rank of rear admiral, and in February of the following year, he was promoted to vice admiral and elected chairman of the newly established US Navy General Committee. After that, Dewey carried out drastic reforms of the U.S. Navy, organized the U.S. Pacific Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet, and then left the Navy in 1902 with the rank of admiral. Since the departure of the Chinese expeditionary ship in the middle of last year, the US government has realized that the long distance does not mean that the US West Coast is safe, so it once again invited the US Navy veteran to give him advice on the expansion of the TAI. Dewey knew very well that the enemy of the US Pacific Fleet could only be China's Pacific Fleet, and at the same time, he also believed that the US Pacific ships did not yet have the ability to engage the Chinese Pacific ships, so the US Pacific ships were still mainly defensive. This time, he went to the Southern Fleet to inspect the battleship USS Missouri, which was about to be incorporated into the Pacific Fleet, and happened to encounter an interception incident, so Dewey planned to see with his own eyes the rumored Chinese fleet, which was the second most powerful fleet in the world.

As a soldier, decisiveness is a necessary quality. "War or surrender. There is no third option. This was the reply of the Chinese emperor to the Russian ceasefire demand at the end of the Russo-Chinese War. Dewey admired this kind of remarks to the extreme. As a soldier, as an army, either die on the battlefield or retire with honor. But this order, which could not attack first, and which had to be successfully intercepted, angered Dewey. Now they are not facing the fleet of Spain or some small country, this is the Chinese fleet, and people will even hit the British warship if they say that it will collide, and they will still take the United States in their eyes?

"Are we really going to ram Chinese warships?"

In the face of Karoff, who asked him, Dewey did not have a foolproof plan: "If you want to carry out the government's orders, ramming is the only option." Fortunately, our country has more warships than Chinese warships. "Perhaps, that's the only way. That's what Dewey thought in his heart.

The fleets of China and the United States are building fires and pressurizing their own preparations. And the American supply fleet has already appeared on the surface of the sea.

"Call from the Admiralty: If the U.S. warship fires first, is our fleet sure to annihilate the U.S. interceptor fleet?" Feng Qi, chief of staff of the fleet, took the telegram and handed it to Li Liang, the commander of the fleet.

"Not to mention that the number of US warships is greater than ours, and its firepower is not worse than ours. However, our army has a lot of experience in naval warfare, and this is the weakness of the Americans. So there is no problem in defeating the American army, but it is impossible to annihilate the American interceptor fleet. Li Liang gave the order with a smile: "Order all ships to load live ammunition and enter a state of combat readiness, with the Victory as the first ship, and the rest of the ships to start forming according to the combat formation." ”

While the U.S. supply fleet slowed down toward the U.S. warship, the Chinese fleet began to speed up, and at the same time the barrels of the guns began to turn, aiming the muzzles of the guns at the U.S. fleet in the distance.

"Oh - damn it, prepare for battle - " Karov immediately gave the order, and the ships under his command began to form a queue. At the same time, in order to show the power of the United States, Karov also ordered all ships to aim their naval guns at the Chinese fleet. Seeing this, the supply fleet, which was close at hand, began to speed up towards the open sea.

The U.S. Navy also has rigorous training, and soon after the Chinese fleet completed its formation, the U.S. fleet also completed the formation and drew a large circle on the sea, across the Chinese fleet channel.

"It seems that the Americans really dare to collide. In that case, then crash into it. Li Liang smiled and gave orders one by one.

Dewey and Karov nervously watched the Chinese fleet coming at high speed, and if this was off the coast of China, they both believed that the Chinese fleet had the courage to ram. But this must be the United States on the other side of the world for China, and will the Chinese fleet dare to ram it out with impunity? Dewey and Karoff glanced at each other, and they both had a hint of luck in their hearts.

Entering Cuba and entering Guantanamo is a task that the Chinese visiting fleet must perform, so there is no room for negotiation on this issue. But how to enter and how to proceed is at the discretion of the fleet commander. So in the eyes of the Americans, the Chinese fleet, which was moving in formation, was deflected, and after continuous turning, the Chinese fleet was moving parallel to the American fleet. Dewey and Karoff breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the Chinese still did not intend to collide. But at the moment the observation post shouted in horror: "The Chinese fleet is rushing over—"

Yes, the ships of the Chinese fleet turned at the same time, two battleships, five cruisers, and the only destroyer turned at the same time, all at a speed of sixteen knots, and the capital of each Chinese warship was aimed at an American warship of the same class.

"What's the point of crashing one ship after another, if you want to play, play big. Eight warships collided together, and that's what was exciting. On Hai Rui's bridge, Li Liang's unbridled laughter sounded. And this laughter was transmitted through a megaphone to the sky above the American fleet opposite.

Eight warships collided together...... The faces of all the people in the entire American fleet, including Dewey and Karoff, turned white with fright.

This is not war, so no one dares to fire first. But this is no less than war, because it is a diplomatic exchange of wills. It was precisely because it was a contest of wills that the Americans were determined to lose. In the Chinese concept, knowing that the front is death, the soldiers must also bravely step forward, because it is a great sin to coward the enemy and avoid war. But in the minds of Western countries, this is nothing, because they have never regarded retreat and surrender as a shame.

To bump or not to bump, this is just an order for the Chinese, and the order must be carried out. Because the overall strategy is above all else.

To bump or not to bump is a choice for Americans, and if it is a choice, it can be negotiated. Because individual life is above all else.

In the eyes of American officers and soldiers, if it is a war, they will naturally abide by the duties of a soldier, and even if they die in battle, they will stick to their posts. But what is it now? Shall we stop here and wait for someone else to bump into us? Looking at the imposing Chinese fleet, the American warships were in chaos.

"Order the ships, prepare for the ramming!" The pale Karov still gave the order firmly. Because if he chooses to back down, although he will not be blamed by Congress, the United States will be ridiculed by the world, just like Britain did back then. As the commander of the fleet, the United States must not be allowed to repeat the mistakes of the British.

If you want to bump, then bump. (To be continued.) )