On the surface, the Navy's resistance forces already have 30 to 40 million dollars in supplies. However, this is only enough for the naval resistance army's arms expansion plan this year and next year's military spending.

In fact, Li Guang did not have much cash on hand. Not only that, but in order to trade with the Germans next year, a large part of these 30 or 40 million materials will be used as hoarding funds.

No matter how you calculate it, the funding gap for the Naval Resistance Force is at least around $10 million. And if you think about it more long-term, the funding gap is even bigger. Li Guangming knew that the United States would also directly enter the world war by the end of next year. Otherwise, as soon as the war begins, the price of strategic materials will not only increase sharply, but it is very likely that there will be a situation in which there is no market for the price, and this is what Li Guang tried his best to avoid.

Moreover, in this long period of more than a year, the Naval Resistance Army still has several operational plans, so the consumption will be even more amazing. Li Guang wrote and drew on the paper, threw down the pen, and sighed: "Thirty million dollars." ”

At least another $30 million must be raised before the Pearl Harbor attack broke out in order to lay a solid foundation for the development of the Naval Resistance Force.

Li Guang, who was dizzy by money, muttered, no one has a windfall and is not rich, and horses have no night grass, no fat, no fat. Racking your brains to figure out a good way to make money.

If you want to make a small profit, you must have a long-term business vision, and if you want to make a lot of money, you must grasp the world situation. Li Guang has decades of world-class vision, but if he wants to solve the problem concretely, he has to rely on Yuan Ye. Professor Yuan has a long-term vision, and Li Guang only takes advantage of the historical vision, and the real national strategy is difficult for Li Guang to achieve.

One day, Li Guang and Professor Yuan Ye had an exchange on the charming beach of Stone Statue Island. With Li Guang's forward-looking vision and Professor Yuan's historical vision, what the two of them set was not a big plan to make money, but the national policy of the Naval Resistance Army, or the Haitang Kingdom.

During this exchange, Li Guang talked to Professor Yuan about his expectations. The Germans would attack the USSR, and the Japanese would attack the United States on their own initiative.

It's easy to understand that the Germans attacked the Soviet Union, but Japan would be crazy to provoke the huge United States, Professor Yuan couldn't believe it, from his thinking, such a move was too crazy.

Li Guang had a complete logic for the reason why Japan took the initiative to attack the United States, and Professor Yuan could not believe it a little.

The logic is this, if Japan wants to occupy China, it needs huge resources. The most important of these resources are steel, oil, rubber, and grain. Japan is not self-sufficient.

The first two resources are currently available to Japan mainly through the United States.

Because Japan's aggression against China has fundamentally affected the interests of the United States, the Americans absolutely will not allow Japan to monopolize China's interests, and once the United States can no longer bear it, it will inevitably restrict the export of these materials to Japan. Naturally, Japan has to find other channels of material supply, and it has to conflict with the interests of the United States. It is inevitable that the two sides will fight.

What Li Guang said has a realistic basis.

U.S. sanctions against Japan have ranged from 37 years of free trade to 39 years of moral embargo.

In Southeast Asia in the '40s, there were several major events that the Americans reacted to.

In May, Germany invaded the Netherlands. Japan seized the opportunity to exert pressure on the Dutch government to allow Japan to establish a special relationship with its isolated colony of the East Indies, and demanded that the Dutch East Indies guarantee the minimum supply of 16 kinds of raw materials, including oil.

The Dutch East Indies has always been a supplier of rubber, tin and other raw materials to the United States, and after the outbreak of World War II, the trade volume between the two sides increased by leaps and bounds. 1/3 of U.S. rubber imports and 1/8 of tin imports come from this region. In addition, the East Indies were also a huge market for the United States, and naturally, the United States would not allow Japan to include the East Indies in its sphere of influence. As a result, after the Japanese government made a request to the Dutch government, the United States reacted strongly.

In June 1940, Japan formally included Southeast Asia within the scope of the new East Asian order it wanted to establish, and put forward the concept of the so-called "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere". This paid off, and the Americans reacted even more violently.

At this time, there were still some forces in the United States that advocated restraint against Japan, and they advocated resolving differences through negotiations. Roosevelt himself advocated being tough on Japan. Moreover, the British Empire's tackling of key problems was quite effective, and the exchange of 50 destroyers for several island ports should actually be regarded as a public relations activity of the United Kingdom, and this transaction made the Americans gain both face and lining, and also made Roosevelt establish the strategic idea of putting Europe first, and ran for president for the third time, so he tried his best to avoid war with Japan, so he himself hesitated on the issue of economic embargo.

But the Americans, albeit not resolute, went into action. On July 26, 1940, the U.S. government promulgated the regulations signed by Roosevelt, announcing the control of aviation gasoline, lubricants, and high-melt scrap steel. (This policy is comprehensive and has some implications for the Navy.) ）

In a far-reaching move on 23 September, the Japanese marched into northern French Indochina. Japan's coveting of Southeast Asia as a whole is clear. The United States reacted quickly to Japan's move, announcing on September 26 that it would end exports of various types of scrap steel to Japan.

On September 27, 1940, the fascist countries signed the Treaty of the Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan, forming an aggressive military alliance, and Japan signed the Triple Alliance Treaty with Germany and Italy, openly challenging the original entire world order. In this way, Japan was linked to the war in Europe and the fate of Germany.

This move of the Japanese devils is far more closely related to the Americans than the fate of China, and in fact the Japanese are already in a position of opposition to the United States.

These are already facts. And Li Guang's speculation is:

In order to obtain resources, Japan will inevitably wield a butcher's knife against the whole of Southeast Asia, where it has all the materials that Japan can only dream of.

Then a war between Japan and the United States is inevitable.

Li Guang's thesis can be described as far-sighted, and it is more clever than the theory of national defense of Mr. Jiang Baili, a famous military strategist of the Chinese army, and compared with Mao Taizu's theory of protracted war. Of course, whether it is clever or not, the reader knows.

In this era, Li Guangwei has lamented the poverty and weakness of the country more than once. To put it to the dismay of the reader, even a genius like Jiang Baili and a man as eloquent as Mao Taizu proposed a protracted war, but no one thought that China could defeat Japan with its own strength. In the assertions of the two geniuses and great men, they invariably mentioned that only when the international situation changes can China have any hope of victory.

Professor Yuan has read these two books and strongly agrees with the judgment of the two geniuses. However, any Chinese in this era, who is absolutely weak, is confused about the fate and future of the country.

Li Guang's inference predicted that in Professor Yuan's view, the Japanese should still have a way to go - to take the initiative to shrink, if the Japanese are wise.

Li Guangdao: "The Japanese can't be wise, the Japanese are gamblers from top to bottom, do gamblers know how to retreat?" ”

Li Guang's assertion is quite a bit of Brother Xinchun's immortality. Professor Yuan, who is familiar with history, also knows that Japan's several foreign wars were actually gambling, and they won the first Sino-Japanese War. The Second Russo-Japanese War was again a bet to win. Although the current aggression against China has not been victorious, it is still in an advantageous position. What is there to bet on such a small Japan? A war with the Americans, in terms of the madness of the Japanese, is entirely possible. Professor Yuan half-believed Li Guang's prophecy.

Reaching a consensus with Professor Yuan, all the core goals of the Haitang Kingdom and the Maritime Resistance Army will have a foundation. This was also a huge step forward for Li Guang, who was too weak to carry out strategic planning. Even Li Guang was worried about what kind of changes his butterfly would cause in China.

As long as it is confirmed that Germany will definitely go to war against the Soviet Union and Japan will go to war with the United States, the naval resistance forces will soon have a clear direction.

At this stage, the main combat mission of the Naval Resistance Force is to attack the overseas supply routes of the Japanese army from two directions. One is in the direction of the Americas and the other is in the direction of Southeast Asia. Among them, the Southeast Asian and Pacific areas are the main attack directions.

Professor Yuan believes that the harder the blow of the Naval Resistance Army, the Japanese will not be able to obtain external resources, and the sooner they will wield their swords in Southeast Asia, and the little devils will have no other way out. In other words, even if the little devils don't want to go to war with the United States, the blow of the Naval Resistance Force in Southeast Asia will force the little devils to go to war, and the stronger the blow, the sooner the war will begin.

Regarding the situation in South America, he believes that the participation of the Naval Resistance Forces in the war against Chile and the overall situation of China's war of resistance are not good. Although Chile had acted at war against the Naval Resistance Army, the Naval Resistance Force was not eager to fight against Chile. In addition, it should be pointed out that in the 40s, the Japanese not only intervened in Chile, but also made frequent small moves in Latin America, and the Americans, who regard Latin America as their own backyard, are naturally very dissatisfied.

As for funding, Professor Yuan believes that in the short term, the private economy of Uruguay and the Statue Island will not be enough to support the Maritime Resistance Army. But the Chinese in Uruguay and the Statue Island, both men and women, young and old, almost all worked twelve hours a day, receiving a negligible salary, and what they were for, it was to resist Japan.

Although various industries are still in the investment period, they will be able to support the military spending of the Naval Resistance Army in the future.

Moreover, Professor Yuan was ready to leave for Ceylon immediately, and if the port of Hambantota was successfully brought under the command of the Maritime Resistance Army, he would be more confident that he would be able to build an economic system that would be even more profitable than Uruguay.

Professor Yuan is really busy with things. He has already arranged for a few students in Uruguay to manage government affairs, but now the work in Uruguay is more complicated than that of a multinational company, let alone those students, even if Li Guang takes over, it is quite difficult.

In addition to official duties, Professor Yuan's household chores are not smooth. This housework is not a problem for Li Guang and Yuan Ran, but for his eldest son Yuan Zi in England.

The Norwegian campaign between Germany and Anglo-French, the German navy suffered heavy losses, but towards the end of the campaign. On 8 June, the German Navy once again shined. A German battleship sank a British aircraft carrier with naval guns in a matter of minutes. Two records were set in this naval battle: first, German naval guns fired at a distance of twenty-four kilometers, which is by far the farthest artillery range (referring to hits) in the history of naval warfare. Second, for the first time in World War II, a battleship sank the aircraft carrier (USS Glorious).

This was a wake-up call to the top and bottom of the Naval Resistance Army, as well as to Li Guang, that it would be unsafe if there were no battleships or heavy cruisers in the aircraft carrier formation. After all, the weather on the sea is capricious, and it is impossible for fighters to ensure a reconnaissance state all the time. And when approached by enemy warships, aircraft carriers are lambs to the slaughter. This is undoubtedly something that aircraft carriers try to avoid in battle, but who can guarantee that it can be avoided completely?

This is a very classic naval battle, which is a very meaningful reference for the naval resistance army. But for Professor Yuan, it is not a reference, it is simply a pain in the bones. His eldest son, Yuan Zi, served on the Glory and did not receive news until July 18 that Yuan Zi had fallen overboard and escaped death during the battle. However, one arm was hit by shrapnel and soaked for several hours in the icy water, forcing it to have its leg amputated.

There are many contradictions between Yuan Zi and Lao Yuan, but the father and son are connected, and Professor Yuan is difficult to convince his son for a while, and the relationship is still quite stiff. Pity the hearts of parents all over the world, Yuan Ye's days in London, while busy with official business, also have to take care of his son in the hospital.

From Professor Yuan's gray hair, it can be seen that Professor Yuan has worked hard in recent times.

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