Since Lin Daxin's mining company discovered huge gold deposits and oil fields in Alaska, Russia sold Alaska to the Americans, making it the most costly deal.

Tsar Alexander II of Russia wanted to sell Alaska, which he considered barren, but he did not get rid of it for several years, and it was not until the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States in 1861 that the deal took a turn for the better.

Seeing that the war broke out in the United States, and the British and French powers in Europe took the opportunity to dismember the United States, the then President of the United States, Lincoln, thought that the United States alone could not support itself, so he turned to Tsarist Russia, which had just fought a war with Britain and France, for help.

Tsar Alexander II also wanted to avenge the Crimean War, so he sent a Russian fleet into New York Harbor at a costly time, causing the other powers to hesitate and buy time for the American Northern Army to win the war. However, although the economically backward Russia did not fire a single shot in the war, it had to pay a huge amount of money just to make the fleet circle halfway around the world, which made the already tight Russian finances even tighter.

At this time, William, then the US Secretary of State? Henry? Seward generously said to the Russians, we have just finished the war, and we are in ruins, but your country has come thousands of miles to help us, and this sentiment is really higher than the sky and deeper than the sea. Others don't want us to ask for the United States, brother, you are so good to us, we must not treat you badly, don't mind us, don't sell cheaply, we can give as much as we can.

William at the end? Henry? Seward offered a price that was very satisfying to Tsar Alexander II. Alaska was purchased for $7.2 million, and in 1867 the American Stars and Stripes were raised on Alaskan territory for the first time.

$7.2 million was not a small amount at that time. Tsar Alexander II of Russia happily sold Alaska to the United States, and was pleased to consider himself a very wise decision to send a fleet to the United States. Not only did the conspiracy of Britain and France fail and added blockage to Britain and France, but now it has made such a good deal.

And the other way around, William? Henry? Siward was scolded in the United States because of such a deal, and the Americans also made up two proprietary words, one called Siward's stupid thing and the other called Siward's refrigerator, which together have the same meaning. Look at what a stupid thing our Secretary of State did, he actually spent $7.2 million for the United States to buy a super-large refrigerator for the United States!

And yet William? Henry? Seward said unusually calmly, "It may be of little use for me to buy it now, but many young people will benefit from it because of the purchase of this land."

The reason why a person buys something is nothing more than three considerations, the first is that I can use it, and the second is that I can afford it. The third is that the cost performance is appropriate, on the other hand, Alaska trading, at that time, it seemed that the United States did not need such a large area of frozen soil. And it's really not affordable to pay for it when the Civil War is just out, but it's a very good deal, $7.2 million to buy Alaska. That's 2 cents per acre of land, maybe William? Henry? Seward thought at the time that 2 cents would buy an acre of land. It's still very cheap.

The purchase of such cheap land was still strongly opposed in the US Congress. Many congressmen believed that the civil war had just ended, that everything was in ruins, that the finances were extremely difficult, and that they should not spend money on a piece of desolate land, and that it was extremely stupid to buy this piece of land in the ice and snow, but after fierce debate, the US Senate approved by a narrow majority that Alaska, which has 1.6 million square kilometers of land, the size of three France or seven United Kingdom, belonged to the United States.

On the whole, the Russians thought that the sale was a gain, and the Americans thought it was a loss, but today, the Russians are now repentant, and the huge reserves of gold and oil found in Alaska should have belonged to the Russian Empire.

Such a treasure land, according to Lin Daxin's character, there is no hesitation at all, and troops should be directly sent to occupy it, but the reason why Lin Daxin is a little hesitant now is because Lin Daxin has many industries in the United States, and it can be said that at least eighty percent of Lin Daxin's overseas industries are concentrated in the United States.

The Americans were also very aware of current affairs before, although they had many conflicts with Lin Daxin, but they had not moved on Lin Daxin's industry in the United States, and if they did it against Alaska this time, then the industry in the United States would definitely be wiped out.

Seeing that Lin Daxin was a little hesitant, Defense Minister Wu Peifu continued: "Your Majesty, this time the Americans will not declare war on us like the war between the Eight-Nation Alliance and us a few years ago, and only send a small number of warships and land forces to participate in the war. Let go of the emperor's industry in the United States, and the minister will see that the emperor should make arrangements for the American industry as soon as possible, and Alaska has a large amount of gold and oil, which are needed by our Chinese empire, and at the same time capture Alaska, it can also keep the emperor's gold mines and oil fields in Alaska. ”

Lin Daxin sighed and said: "I will arrange it, so let's do it, the Ministry of Defense has made a battle plan to attack Alaska, if the Americans do something to my industry in the United States, then we don't have to be polite, if the Americans don't want to completely tear their faces, let's ignore the United States first, the army now needs to deal with several battlefields, the strength is already very tight, first win these battlefields." ”

Wu Peifu thought about it, the army now not only needs to deal with the Russian battlefield, but also has army units fighting in Australia and New Zealand, and at the same time, the army is also mobilizing troops to prepare to attack India again, and now it needs to mobilize a large army to guard against the Japanese, the strength is indeed very tight, otherwise the emperor will not let the army expand 2 guards and 5 field armies again, so he nodded and said: "Yes, emperor." When I got back, I asked people to make a plan for attacking Alaska. ”

Lin Daxin asked Prime Minister Wang Yan again: "Cousin, now the United States and Japan are also going to get involved. The pressure we are facing has suddenly increased a lot, and domestic factories must ensure the production of all kinds of combat materials for the front-line troops. And this time the weapons and equipment of the 2 Guards Army and the 5 Field Army have been expanded, and they need to be in place as soon as possible, and I need these 7 main forces to be formed as soon as possible to guard against the US and Japanese armies, and now the land forces of their 2 countries have exceeded 5 million, God knows how many troops will come out after the two countries officially declare war, everyone knows the madness of Japan, and the United States is also a big country with a population of 100 million. I wouldn't be surprised if they even got another 5 million army troops. ”

Don't look at Lin Daxin's current performance in the face of several important ministers of the Chinese Empire, but he actually feels very stressed in his heart, and he doesn't know how many times he has scolded his mother.

Lin Daxin never imagined that the United States and Japan would be ready to declare war on their Chinese empire because of the braggadocio of the Entente and the Allied Powers. If the Chinese Empire is now either at war with the Entente and the Central Powers, or the United States and Japan come up together, the Chinese Empire will not be afraid, but the problem is that the pressure on the Chinese Empire from the Entente and the Central Powers is not small. At this time, these two guys came out again, and the pressure on the Chinese Empire increased exponentially.

After all, counting the United States and Japan, the Chinese Empire is now at war with almost all the more powerful countries in the world at the same time. Almost single-handedly against the whole world, the pressure is very great. The Chinese Empire is very strong, and even its military strength can be said to be the first in the world. But if it goes to war with all the powerful countries in the world at the same time, the Chinese Empire suddenly becomes the weak side, and if Lin Daxin's efforts over the years are in vain, if the Chinese Empire is defeated in this war, the fate of the Chinese Empire must be very, very miserable, at least the huge territory of the Chinese Empire will definitely be divided by these countries.

Wang Yan said: "The emperor can rest assured that most of the current factories of our Chinese Empire have been converted into a wartime system, such as iron and steel factories, arsenals, aircraft factories, shipyards and many other factories that produce weapons and equipment, have already implemented a 24-hour shift system, and the weapons and equipment of the two guards and five field armies are almost the same with the current number of arsenals in various places, and the formation of these seven main forces will definitely not be delayed." ”

After Lin Daxin asked Wang Yan about the situation of the railway between the city of Novosibirsk and the Ural Mountains, Wang Yan, Wu Peifu and Jiang Hui left the Qianqing Palace, and Lin Daxin said to Li Kun, director of the Military Intelligence Bureau: "Your Military Intelligence Bureau must pay close attention to all the movements of the United States and Japan, and in addition, the intelligence of the Entente and the Allies should not be ignored. ”

Later, Li Kun also left the Qianqing Palace, but Lin Daxin asked Li Kun to find Feng Ru, the director of the Imperial Chinese Aviation Design Institute, and Feng Ru soon came to the Qianqing Palace.

Originally, the aviation design institute was in Shenyang, but later Lin Daxin ascended the throne and became the emperor, and the capital was Beijing, so he moved the aviation design institute to Beijing, which he attached great importance to, and officially named the Royal Aviation Design Institute of the Chinese Empire, and Feng Ru was still the president of the design institute.

When Lin Daxin saw Feng Ru, he said, "Dean Feng, how did I do what I told you before?" ”

Feng Ru said with a smile on his face: "Our design institute has already had a plan in this regard, and after Your Majesty told the minister, our design institute worked overtime and finally designed a new type of aircraft carrier dive bomber and an aircraft carrier torpedo bomber. ”

It turned out that after the just-concluded naval battle between the main fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire and the joint expeditionary fleet of the Allied and Allied countries, Lin Daxin found that although the Sea Hawk bomber group of four mythical aircraft carriers gave the Combined Expeditionary Fleet of the Entente and the Central Powers a very heavy blow, sinking and damaging many battleships of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, the Sea Hawk bomber group itself also suffered great losses, and 156 Sea Hawk bombers were destroyed in the battle.

After the feedback from the battlefield, it was found that the Sea Hawk bomber had a very fatal weakness in the battle, that is, when diving, because of the huge body, it was easy to be hit by the enemy's anti-aircraft weapons of the warship, and after the bomb was dropped, during the upward climb, because of the slow climbing speed, the probability of being hit increased, and most of the Sea Hawk bombers lost in the naval battle were destroyed in the process of diving and dropping bombs.

So Lin Daxin asked the Royal Chinese Aviation Design Institute to design an aircraft carrier bomber that was specially conducive to dive bombing, and the Seahawk bomber would perform horizontal bombing missions in the future, and Lin Daxin asked the Royal Chinese Aviation Design Institute to design an aircraft carrier bomber that could carry torpedoes.

Feng Ru continued to introduce Lin Daxin: "The new aircraft carrier dive bomber is a monoplane. The wingspan is 13.2 meters, the length is 10.5 meters, the height is 3.6 meters, the use of 2 700 horsepower engines, the maximum flight speed is 370 kilometers per hour, the ascent limit is 8500 meters, the maximum range is 1400 kilometers, the armament is equipped with 2 automatic machine guns of 7.9 mm caliber, 1 500 kg aerial bomb can be hung under the center line of the fuselage, and 2 100 kg aerial bombs can be hung under the wings on both sides. ”

Lin Daxin nodded and asked, "The performance is very good, what about the other aircraft carrier torpedo machine?" ”

Feng Ru said: "Aircraft carrier torpedo bombers, the same monoplanes, The wingspan is 12.3 meters, the length is 9.5 meters, the height is 3.2 meters, the use of 2 700 horsepower engines, the maximum flight speed of 390 kilometers per hour, the ascent limit of 8500 meters, the maximum range of 1400 kilometers, the armament is equipped with 2 automatic machine guns of caliber 7.9 mm, you can hang a torpedo weighing 850 kg 533 mm under the center line of the fuselage, the arsenal has also developed a new torpedo equipped with this aircraft carrier torpedo bomber, which can allow the aircraft carrier torpedo bomber to drop torpedoes at a distance of 2000 meters from the enemy warship, and this aircraft carrier torpedo bomber only needs 1 pilot. (To be continued.) )