Because after the end of the European War, Austria-Hungary sold the four unfinished French "Cardinal" class battleships to China half-selling-half-free. Immediately after withdrawing from the treaty, the Japanese Navy began a program of construction of new first-class battleships with a view to completely suppressing the Chinese Navy.

As early as 1932, after Yoshiichi Tanaka came to power, Japan formulated a new naval development plan with the German-Austrian navy as an imaginary enemy, and in order to ensure the policy of aggression against China, the Japanese navy clearly put forward the strategy of winning a decisive victory with the German-Austrian warship formation in the Far East. Since Japan was simply unable to compete with the German-Austrian Navy in terms of the number of naval capital ships, the Japanese Navy proposed to build super battleships to offset the numerical superiority of the German-Austrian fleet with the power of a single ship. The task of designing the new battleship began in 1933, and then in 1935 the "Fleet 01 Supplementary Construction Plan" was drawn up, which determined the construction of four Yamato-class battleships with a standard displacement of 60,000 tons.

In May 1936, the construction of the Yamato, the lead ship of Japan's "01 Fleet Supplementary Construction Program", began at the Kure Navy Shipyard in Hiroshima.

However, shortly after the start of construction of the "Yamato", a report appeared in the Vienna newspaper Observer about the Japanese construction of two Yamato-class battleships of 60,000 tons and armed with 460-mm guns. As the situation is reported in more and more detail. Newspapers in Europe and the United States also continued to reprint it, and the eyes of the whole world attracted attention to Japan.

The matter immediately attracted the attention of Britain, the United States, and Germany, and a note was immediately sent to Japan. Japan was required to disclose the number of new battleships under construction, and to allow Britain, the United States, and Germany to send personnel to conduct inspections. On the one hand, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly denied the number of new battleships. He claimed that the displacement of the new battleships of the Japanese Navy did not exceed the 35,000 tons stipulated in the "Washington Naval Treaty," and on the other hand, Europe and the United States were not allowed to send military personnel to conduct inspections on the grounds that they had withdrawn from the naval treaty and were guarding military secrets.

On the other hand, there was an urgent "elimination of spies" in Japan, and those involved who could not prove their innocence were sent to prison or executed. In this round of "purges", a total of 53 people were implicated in the Wu Navy Shipyard, and 8 of them were secretly executed as "traitors".

Since Japan has refused to allow countries to send personnel to conduct verification, countries have basically begun to determine the authenticity of this information. Not to be outdone, Austria-Hungary first expressed its serious concern about the matter, and then announced plans to start construction of six super-battleships with a full load displacement of 60,000 tons and 10 410-mm guns in 1937-1939.

Naturally, the Germans were not far behind, and then announced that in 1937-1938 they would start construction of six super-battleships with a displacement of 65,000 tons and equipped with the same 10-door 410-mm super-battleships as Austria-Hungary.

This was followed by a chain reaction.

The Washington-London Treaty naval system, which the British had painstakingly built, was broken, and the United States announced plans to build six super-battleships after Germany announced that it was ready to begin construction of super-battleships. The British had no choice, and in order to maintain naval power, gritted their teeth and announced that they would also start construction of five newest super-battleships.

Subsequently. France and Italy also announced their own plans to build new battleships, the balance was upset, and the whole world was once again engaged in a new round of naval arms race.

The world is not very peaceful.

After Mussolini ascended the throne of Prime Minister of Italy. It turned to Germany and Austria in an all-round way, and then joined the German-Austrian alliance. With the connivance of Deau, Mussolini's ambitions gradually swelled. But the entire eastern Mediterranean had almost become the inner lake of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Mussolini did not dare to provoke Austria-Hungary, so he turned his attention to Africa, and the only surviving African country, Abinesia, became the target of his hunt.

Abyssinia is located in the northeast of Africa, with an area of about 1.22 million square kilometers, of which the plateau area accounts for 2/3 of the total area of the country, and is known as the "roof of Africa". The terrain in the west gradually declines, slanting towards the Sudanese plain. Abyssinia is an ancient Jewish country with a history of 3,000 years. Due to its tropical location. Cash crops are relatively developed, rich in coffee, cotton and tobacco. Abyssinia is one of the world's leading coffee producers and exporters. Animal husbandry is relatively developed, and the main livestock are cattle, sheep, horses, camels, etc. Leather is another important export material of Abyssinia, and it is also rich in mineral resources, such as platinum, gold, manganese, copper, oil, etc. However, due to the backward economy and the inability to exploit the land, the people live in extreme poverty.

Abyssinia, which borders Italy on the Red Sea coast, and most of its exports pass through Italian Eritrean ports, and in 1890 Italy declared Abyssinia a "protectorate". In 1895-1896, Italy invaded Abyssinia, but the Italian invasion army suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Adua.

This was the first time that the Western powers suffered a crushing defeat in a war of aggression, and the Italians had to sign a peace treaty with Menelik III, and its invasion became a joke.

When Mussolini came to power, he was determined to bring about the "disgrace of Adua", and in 1935, Italy invaded Abyssinia, and with the support of planes, artillery, tanks and even poison gas bombs, the Italians finally conquered all of Abyssinia.

Now Germany, Austria and Italy have extended their black hands to Spain and decided to carry out armed intervention in the Spanish Civil War.

As early as the beginning of 1930, a bourgeois revolution broke out in Spain, King Alfonso was overthrown and a republic was established. At that time, the Austro-Constitutional Empire, the hegemon of the Mediterranean, had no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of Spain, and King Alfonso, although he had Habsburg in his surname, was a descendant of the French Bourbons, so the Habsburgs had no intention of standing up for the Bourbons.

But post-republican Spain was in turmoil, much like after the French Revolution. In China, there was actually such a chaotic situation, but later Yuan Shikai gradually stabilized the situation, but in Spain, there was no such figure.

Not all countries are suitable for the American system, and in the traditional era, the emperor or king had the supreme authority of the state, and although most of their power had been transferred to parliament and government in the constitutional era, it still played an important role in maintaining the stability of the country.

The so-called "democratic" state actually reduces the role of the government in economic development to a very low level, and allows the market to automatically regulate and respond to crises, which may be useful for a country like the United States that is blessed with unique natural resources and an unthreatened security environment, but when the country is threatened by war, its response and response are much slower than that of a centralized state. In fact, for most of the time, the United States has kept its military spending very low.

But when the neighborhood is threatened, no other country can do that.

Even if Napoleon III is thrown to the United States, he may become a great emperor and dominate the Americas.

Not many people are aware of the special geographical position of the United States, and they just blindly want to learn from the "advanced system" of the United States, which has caused the chaos in Spain today. In fact, in China, if it were not for Helton's intervention, they would have been mired in civil strife very early, and now they have basically passed the dangerous period, and the regime has entered a relatively stable stage.

China's economy has actually maintained a relatively fast pace of development, but the problem is that their military industry and related heavy industry development is relatively slow, and now China has become the world's largest producer of textile and light industry, but compared with it, the national defense industry with large investment is relatively backward, which is the characteristic of the market economy, and only when the accumulation of capital reaches a certain stage, heavy industry and related metallurgy, machinery, chemical industry, automobile, shipbuilding and other industries will enter the stage of rapid development.

In later generations, it took China 30 years to finally become the world's second largest economy, but now, after 15 years of development, the Beiyang government has to face threats from both Japan and Russia.

Whenever China is in a critical period of development, the Japanese are always eager to jump out, which is also the result of this kind of competition between countries, and two geopolitical countries in the development stage will inevitably go to war over the market and sphere of influence, unless one of them gives up the struggle for regional leadership.

In fact, a war between China and Japan cannot be avoided sooner or later, unless one of them completely conquers the opponent. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow the ~ point / Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter qdread can be), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the qdread WeChat public account! (To be continued) R466