Roosevelt weighed it several times, believing that the main threat now was Nazi Germany, and that Japan was only suffering from scabies, and that if it could be appeased and wait until the European battlefield was decided, Japan would not be a problem, and it would not be able to threaten the United States at all, and what could an island country that was not as large as California do?

However, for Japan's provocation, the United States must also respond violently, hurt Japan, and make them remember it for a long time, so Roosevelt is ready to use the trick of economic sanctions, although Japan has now annexed the Dutch East Indies and obtained a considerable amount of resources, but the gap between oil and steel is still very large, both of which are necessary materials for war.

In addition, Japan still lacks non-ferrous metals, and of course some cutting-edge machine tools and equipment also need to be imported, which are Japan's soft underbelly, and the United States wants to punish Japan, so it must start from these aspects.

However, if the sanctions are to succeed in sanctioning Japan, China must be pulled over, because the United States does not export, and China can still take the place of the United States.

Therefore, Roosevelt sent a proposal to China, and the United States also knew that China could not be used in vain, so Roosevelt offered very generous conditions, such as the United States increased the quantity of raw silk purchased from China and sold a number of important machinery to China, and now the United States has not recovered from the Great Depression, and there are still a large number of factory machines in a state of stagnation, and there is no difficulty in selling them to China.

In addition, Roosevelt also hoped to reach an agreement of understanding with China on the grounds that Siam and the Philippines were threatened at the same time, but in fact, the meaning behind this agreement was very simple, that is, the United States recognized Siam as a colony exclusively occupied by China, and demanded that China recognize the Philippines as a colony of the United States.

The U.S. proposal was soon sent to Beijing, and Qiao Yu is now in a very good mood, the contradictions between the United States and Japan have become more and more intensified as China hopes, and China's pressure is getting smaller and smaller, and China has become a relatively comfortable party in the entire international situation.

Qiao Yu was reading Roosevelt's proposal, and there were documents sent by the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and the Japanese government in his hand. Japan has also frequently made overtures to China.

In fact, Japan is also reeling from the assassination in the Philippines. The United States has decided that Japan did it, and the Japanese are at a loss for words, but Japan itself knows that it was not they who did the assassination, so who was behind it?

Some Japanese officials have also placed their suspicions on China, but unfortunately it is only a suspicion, but no firm evidence can be found.

Japan is a country sandwiched between several large countries. This is a fate that they can never get rid of, and Japan is constantly weighing how to deal with the two big powers, China and the United States.

According to the geographical environment, Japan's main enemy is China, and this is something that both sides know very well, and there will inevitably be another war between China and Japan. Decide who is the true master of East Asia.

Japan has locked the primary enemy in China, in fact, there is still the problem of historical baggage, they have been prostrate on China for the past two thousand years, after the Meiji Restoration, Japan shouted to break away from Asia and join Europe, but where is this so easy thing, some things have been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, there is no way to eliminate.

The only way is to defeat, to conquer. Destroy the country of China. In this way, Japan has become the natural successor of East Asian civilization, and it has sufficient cultural self-confidence. It can become a world power with its head held high.

This is an important consensus of the Japanese military and political circles, but there is a great deal of disagreement on how to achieve this goal, and one faction of Japanese believes that we should first concentrate on defeating China, the most important thing is to destroy the Chinese navy, retake the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan, and then attack Chinese mainland from the Korean Peninsula.

The other faction is resolutely opposed to this plan, believing that there is a huge gap in the war potential between China and Japan, and that the Chinese government is now tough on the outside world and the morale of the people is unprecedentedly high, and even if Japan can achieve its goal of eliminating the Chinese navy, the next land war will face many difficulties, and the huge China can completely drag Japan to death.

They believe that Germany should follow the practice of gradual expansion, Germany is currently to pacify the main enemy, the Soviet Union, and then attack Northern Europe, and then point the sword at Britain and France, and Japan should do the same, pacify China, the most important enemy, and then quickly defeat the United States and Britain and other countries, so that Japan has enough strategic rear and sufficient resources, and can have a life-and-death duel with China.

Emperor Hirohito is said to have admired their strategy, but the admiral of the Navy, Isoroku Yamamoto, the most famous American expert in Japan, who had really seen the industrial capabilities of the United States, repeatedly warned the Japanese government not to try to provoke the United States, which would only wake up a giant.

However, some people in the Japanese government still do not think so, they believe that the United States is a democratic country, very fragile, and unlike an imperial state like Japan, as long as it suffers a major defeat, it will sign an alliance under the castle, and will definitely not fight to the end with Japan.

China was not aware of the Japanese government's arguments, but the secret letter sent by Japan promised China that Japan would open its markets to Indonesia and South Korea as long as China could side with Asia.

"Brother Baili, Japan has always been insatiable, as long as they eat something in their mouths, they will not let go easily, how can they be so happy this time, can you see through what they think?"

Jiang Baili is actually constantly thinking about Japan's plans, and he can't find out Japan's thoughts, "President, these so-called promises to open the market will not be immediate, and there will always be some negotiations, which is probably Japan's delaying tactic, in order to appease China, as for their real calculations, I still don't know very well!" ”

"In that case, we might as well delay it for a while, and we will temporarily perfunctory the US request, and wait until the situation is clearer before taking action!"

"It is true that we also have the capital to delay at present, but Japan has always liked to declare war without declaring war, and cannot but take precautions, I propose to adjust the existing six aircraft carriers, and put the four aircraft carriers Zhenyuan, Dingyuan, Zhiyuan, and Laiyuan in the Ryukyus to deter Japan, and the two cutting-edge aircraft carriers Ningyuan and Jingyuan are responsible for the South China Sea region, keeping an eye on the direction of Indonesia!"

"Well, this method is feasible, but six aircraft carriers are still a bit insufficient, we have to step up the manufacture of aircraft carriers, according to the mature experience of Ningyuan and Jingyuan, we will build two more, and they will be named Jingyuan and Fuyuan!"

The United States built more than 100 aircraft carriers during World War II, but only about 20 Essex-class large aircraft carriers, the rest are light aircraft carriers, escort aircraft carriers, and the actual combat capability is very limited.

These ten aircraft carriers are all long-range ships, and the last two are still on the drawing paper, and they are named Anyuan and Pingyuan, which will also become the core force of China's future maritime hegemony.

The Asia-Pacific region is still holding a fragile peace, with restraint among nations, and Europe has reached the point where the bayonets are red, and Hitler has turned his attention to Denmark and Norway in northern Europe and France in western Europe.

The Jutland Peninsula, where Denmark is located, is the key to Germany's access to the sea, while Norway holds the northern shipping lane, has a large amount of iron ore on its own, and a large number of non-ferrous metals, such as nickel ore, etc., in addition, the capture of Norway can force Sweden and Finland to fall to Germany, and Northern Europe will fall under Hitler's control.

This was very important for Germany, and in order to be able to quickly capture these two countries, Hitler mobilized a large number of forces, attacking Norway with a total of seven divisions, and attacking Denmark with a total of two divisions and a brigade.

From the perspective of the army, this scale is not large, but Germany's naval and air forces are poured out, the only three aircraft carriers of the Nazis were all taken out, Bismarck and Tirpitz as the main force, and the Munich aircraft carrier converted from the starting point also joined it, three aircraft carriers, the number of carrier-based aircraft exceeded 250, constituting an unprecedentedly powerful air strike force.

In the face of the all-round three-dimensional attack of Germany, Denmark lasted only two hours, and in fact, the overwhelming number of carrier-based aircraft made Denmark completely give up resistance, and the attack completely turned into an armed parade.

On the Norwegian side, Germany also made rapid progress, and in the original history, the paratroopers were the protagonists of the attack on Norway, and this time the main corner of the attack was on the aircraft carrier.

Three aircraft carriers dispatched powerful air forces to bombard ports, railways, roads, fortifications, and government agencies, and the Norwegian capital Oslo was soon in a sea of fire.

After Hitler, who was in the wolf's den, got the report from the front, he was extremely excited, the aircraft carrier is a great weapon, flexible in combat, and hugely powerful, absolutely the killer weapon that dominates the war.

His eyes were no longer on Norway, and all he was thinking about was how to cross the English Channel with an aircraft carrier and plant Nazi flags on the streets of London.

The Norwegian campaign was another miracle, Germany captured two-thirds of Norway in less than half a month, when Hitler's army was ready to attack France, and now it looked like it could destroy Norway before the official end of the campaign on the Western Front.

At this time, Britain and France had already sent reinforcements to Norway, but their actions were slow, and their reinforcements did not arrive until most of Norway fell, and in the face of Germany's overwhelming sea and air superiority, the British could only fight to the death, and the first large-scale collision between aircraft carriers on the European battlefield was about to be staged! (To be continued.) )