Not only was Roosevelt dissatisfied with the current division of the world pattern, but Lechelton also felt a little dissatisfied. ⊥ the top novel, Heldon's plan is to use China to control the western Pacific and East and Southeast Asia, and then form a large economic community with Germany and Austria, which is the basis for long-term economic development and prosperity. But the reality is that the relatively backward empire controlled the world's largest colonial market and raw material supply, with 46 million British owning nearly 4,000 square kilometers of land, while the resources controlled by Germany and Austria were somewhat different from those of the British, although the Entente bloc controlled the market with a larger population. But in the long run, the British can reap much more benefits than Germany and Austria by virtue of their abundant resources.

When the economic development of Germany and Austria had to rely on the resources of the British colonies, the British would squeeze most of the industrial and commercial profits of the two countries at the source.

Lee Hayton also wanted to redraw the world pattern, especially for the British colonies, which were full of grabbing**.

So he wanted to drag the British into a new round of war, which coincided with Roosevelt's idea.

Heldon's approach was to trigger a new round of naval arms race in Britain, the United States, Germany, and other countries, and at the same time to use military aid to China to expand the military production of Germany and Austria. Driven by the expansion of exports, in 1937, Austria-Hungary's steel production reached 15.6 million tons of steel, 110 million tons of coal, 98,000 tons of copper, 160,000 tons of aluminum and 5.26 million tons of oil.

After two decades of development after the war, the Austro-Hungarian industry continued to develop rapidly, with an annual shipbuilding production capacity of 8 million tons and 160,000 machine tools. 1.68 million cars, 170,000 tractors and agricultural machinery, basically realized the mechanization of agricultural production, the domestic machine tool equipment is 760,000 units, and the annual aircraft output is 5,600 units, due to the abundant water resources. The per capita electricity generation is higher than that of Germany, ranking second in the world.

Due to the butterfly effect, the construction of two Yamato-class battleships began in November 1935 after withdrawing from the Washington Treaty on the Limitation of Naval Armaments. Under pressure from the United States and Britain, the Japanese had to announce to the United States and Britain the main numbers of the new type of battleships. Indeed, as the Viennese newspaper speculated, the "Yamato" had a standard displacement of 60000 tons and was armed with nine 18-inch guns. Although the number was concealed, it still caused an uproar around the world.

The Austro-Hungarian Navy announced the start of construction of four new battleships before the Japanese announced the number of the "Yamato", thus once again triggering a wave of naval arms race throughout the world.

Germany also followed suit by announcing the start of construction of four new battleships. The United States, Britain, France, and Italy were forced to follow suit, and soon began a new round of battleship construction.

In fact, the Austro-Hungarian Navy only issued a letter of assignment to the Royal Shipyard in Trieste and the Israia Shipyard to build a new battleship, and the rest of the construction budget was transferred to the cost of building aircraft carriers to be started in the following year. At the end of 1937, the Austro-Hungarian Navy's simultaneous construction of new ships at the Black Sea shipyards in Trieste, Pola, Fum, Constanta and Sevastopol was actually six new heavy aircraft carriers with a displacement of 41,000 tons, completing an "amazing deception".

Of course, at the same time that the keels of these aircraft carriers were quietly being laid, the Austro-Hungarian Navy held a grand launching ceremony in Trieste for the two "Combined Forces" class battleships that had been under construction in 1936. Emperor Friedrich and Crown Prince Karl of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who had been in appearance for a long time, attended the "United Forces" and "Jopiv. The launching ceremony of the "Emperor Franz". Kaiser Wilhelm II and other foreign dignitaries were also on the list of invited guests.

Under the special arrangement, the Navy propaganda department sent a professional shooting team. The launching ceremony of the new battleship and the subsequent naval parade to commemorate the emperor's enthronement were made into a news documentary, which was broadcast to the general public in Japan to expand publicity.

More than 100,000 people flocked to the two major shipyards to watch the launching ceremony of the new battleship, and Emperor Friedrich, who was nearly 70 years old, was naturally the focus of the whole launching ceremony. He inspected the Navy's guard of honor with great interest, then walked onto the makeshift viewing platform covered with a red carpet and waved frequently to the crowd who had come to watch the launching ceremony of the "United Forces." People are also stepping down to the leader of the empire. The emperors and heads of state, who regained their dominance over Europe, were loved and embraced by the people cheered.

The youngest princess of the royal family, Princess Sophia, was guided by the master of ceremonies to throw the bottle full of champagne to the bow of the ship, and the flowers bloomed as the champagne splashed. Princess Sophia raises her silver axe. Symbolically, a cable was cut and the locks opened, filling the dock with water. The super-battleship, with a standard displacement of 45,000 tons, slowly floated up in the dock, and then, towed by tugboats and tractors, slowly sailed to the nearest outfitting dock.

Subsequently, the emperor watched the navy's parade on the battleship "Austria", which had been modernized, and although some of the capital ships of the Far Eastern Fleet were missing, it still declared to the whole world the strength of the Austro-Hungarian navy.

Just a few days after the parade, the propaganda department of the Imperial Navy completed the post-editing of the documentary film with astonishing efficiency, accompanied by some world-famous Austro-Hungarian war songs such as "March of the Two Eagles" and "March of Radetzky". With the release of the film, the Austro-Hungarian Navy's newest new battleship "United Forces" with ten 410mm guns has become a household name, and of course, it will soon spread all over the world.

Wilhelm II did the same, and in January 1938 he took part in the launching of the lead ship of Germany's newest Scharnhorst-class battleship. The displacement of the four ships of the "Scharnhorst" class is even more than that of the "Combined Forces" class of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, reaching 48,600 tons, with a full load displacement of more than 60,000 tons, and at the same time they are armed with 10 410-mm guns. Under the fanfare of the German Navy, the Americans found that the displacement and main gun caliber of the "Iowa" class they had just started construction were smaller than that of the German "Scharnhorst" class, so the US Navy Department proposed a new naval construction plan, preparing to start the construction of six "Montana" class battleships in 38-39, with the aim of completely overwhelming the German-Austrian fleet.

The balance of naval power that had been maintained for nearly 15 years was broken, and Japan announced the construction budget for two additional "Yamato" class battleships, and the British had no choice but to follow suit, announcing the construction of five "Avant-garde" class battleships, the French also announced the start of construction of two "Richelieu" class battleships, and the Italian side announced the construction of four "Veneto" class battleships.

The "double reed" that the Germans unintentionally performed intensified the naval arms race in the whole world, and their unintentional move made the "propaganda effect" deliberately put by Hirton Lee more effective, which was indeed unexpected.

The whole world was caught in a battleship construction boom, and Helton Lee was very happy to see the results of his "creation", at least he used $100 million in "waste" to cause the Americans to waste nearly a billion dollars in battleship construction.

The huge cost of battleships caused the navies to focus on the battleship construction race before the outbreak of war, thus missing the best opportunity to discover an aircraft carrier. Except, of course, from the originators of this armament. (To be continued......) R527