Chapter 920: The American Version of Raising Kou Self-Respect (II)
"Okay, since Roosevelt wants to raise his own respect, then let's cooperate with them. Although we are enemies with the Americans, we do not prevent us from cooperating at some low levels. Although we are strategically enemies, it is better to have a certain degree of internal cooperation for the sake of our own interests, so that we can cooperate with each other, so that we might as well help this Roosevelt, so as to help them expand their military strength, and then drag down the economic development of the Americans and create contradictions between the corporate capitalists and the government within them. Wang Guorui said.
Wang Guorui didn't mind helping Roosevelt at this time, especially helping Roosevelt force those U.S. Congresses to agree to expand the army and expand the strength of the army, and increase military spending. You must know that military spending not only does not have any return, but is like a gold-swallowing beast. If these military expenditures are invested in people's livelihood or infrastructure construction, they will receive more and greater returns in the future, and the benefits of the impact will be incomparable. However, if it is invested in military spending, it is basically a waste, and only a small part can really pay off.
So if every dollar that the Americans invest in military spending now means that future losses will reach more than tens of dollars. And Wang Guorui also supported the Americans in expanding their army, because it was impossible for the Americans to fight in China, and it was impossible for them to have the ability to go on an expedition to China. China also has no ability to expedition against them, so both sides can't help each other, so naturally they are not afraid of any accidents. Therefore, even if the Americans' military strength expands again, they will not have to worry about the Americans coming over, and they will not have to worry about the outbreak of a direct large-scale conflict for at least the next 100 years.
And once the Americans' military power expands, their government will have more capital to bargain with the big capital conglomerates, so that they can really gain power. Therefore, once the strength of the military is expanded, the American bureaucracy will definitely have a direct conflict with the American consortium, so that the American bureaucracy will have bargaining capital. In this way, it is certainly imperative that there will be a conflict and struggle within the United States. So now Wang Guorui of course has to support it, only in this way can they compete with each other when they are in internal chaos, so that they can weaken the United States through internal friction.
"Immediately order the agents, continue to commit crimes, and then we are now in a declaration of war anyway. So it's normal for us to behave a bit! Wang Guorui said.
In the United States, Roosevelt also waited here, apparently waiting to hear the news of the continuation of the crime.
"Are the Chinese ready?" Roosevelt asked.
"President Roosevelt, we have shrunk back the military and police outside, but the Chinese did not come out to commit crimes immediately!"
Roosevelt thought about it, and he thought that the Chinese should be able to know this tacit understanding. As long as those agents continue to come out to commit crimes, then Roosevelt can take the opportunity to ask the parliament and the business bosses behind them for greater power to develop and expand the military, so as to ensure that the government has greater power and will not be constrained by those conglomerates. So this opportunity is very rare. If the Chinese can take the initiative to cooperate, this will certainly be better for him. So now Roosevelt also hopes that Wang Guorui can cooperate well, and then go to the pit of those consortia together.
Roosevelt's ideas were also relatively simple, although the strategy was that the two countries were enemies, but it was better to have a certain degree of cooperation between the two governments. Not letting these governments get smaller and smaller certainly made the bureaucrats like Roosevelt very unwilling. Therefore, they naturally hope to have a good grasp of some armies, and only when they have a strong enough army can they raise the power of their government, otherwise they will definitely face the result of becoming a rubber stamp for those conglomerates.
Now that we have this opportunity. Roosevelt hoped to be able to bargain with the consortia. That's why he had this plan to raise his own respect, which is actually the general's deliberate attempt not to annihilate those enemies. And then show your own importance. This was a means used by the ancient generals against the central monarch, and now Roosevelt also used it. On weekdays, those conglomerates deliberately don't take the government seriously, because they seem to be very safe, they don't seem to need the government, because there are no strong enemies around, and those various Americans are very stable. The land resources are still very vast. Moreover, the entire western region has not been effectively developed, so they are not afraid of any war.
Those American capitalists just have to do a good job of suppressing the workers and oppressing the workers, and there is no need to fight other wars. As for the repression of the workers, the capitalists can do it only by themselves, not necessarily by the government. But now it is hard to wait for a foreign "invasion". Roosevelt, of course, did not want to miss this opportunity to demand power from those capitalists, to ask for more bargaining capital. In fact, this is also a kind of self-respect, a different model of self-respect, using external threats to force more benefits.
As for this external threat, it is too appropriate, not only a threat from a strong country, but not a weak country. And this China's strength is still good, but it does not have the conditions for an expedition across the Pacific, which makes Roosevelt feel just right, and he can take the opportunity to claim power without worrying about the demise of the United States.
So Roosevelt was also quite tempted, thinking that this method was a very good way to further claim those greater benefits.
As for those American capitalists, Roosevelt borrowed the Chinese to force them. Those American capitalists will certainly have to compromise, because it is still possible to say that those American capitalists are engaged in conspiracy behind their backs, but they still cannot do anything to fight the war with real swords and guns. These capitalists are similar to those so-called great families in ancient China, although they have a very strong influence, they can even influence the situation of the government and the general trend of the world. It can even support many forces to rebel.
However, none of this can change the situation that they are really weak in terms of force, and they really have to rely on the government for force. Their relationship with the government is interdependent and mutually reinforcing, they support the government to protect their own interests, and then through the government to develop their plans so that they can get more benefits. And then on the other hand, government officials need the support of their consortia to get to power, so they are interdependent and rely on each other, and although they have conflicts, they still have to cooperate in the end.
However, the United States is unlucky in terms of the army, and the capitalists are not strong in the armed forces of the town workers, and they are certainly no opponent in the face of the regular army. And they are trying to shrink the U.S. military so that the government doesn't threaten them. So now Roosevelt wanted to increase his power, to increase the bargaining power on the government's side.
"Boom!" An explosion rang out.
"Oh no, no, no, no! The agents of the Chinese again blew up one of our factories, which suffered heavy losses! ”
When Roosevelt heard this, instead of being angry, he looked very happy.
"Immediately go and propose to the parliament, and then propose to convene a parliament to discuss the expansion of the army's strength, the increase of various military budgets, and the issue of army expansion!" Roosevelt said.
And it didn't take long for Roosevelt to get a result that he was satisfied with, and the members of the Congress, though very angry, were helpless about it. Roosevelt was obviously a threat anyway, forcing the capitalists by deliberately releasing water to the ********capitalists. If Roosevelt had deliberately continued to release water to those ********, the industrial capitalists of the United States would have suffered a great loss. Especially now that the Americans have suffered very heavy losses, and if this continues, the United States will definitely suffer huge losses. The capitalists knew that Roosevelt was deliberately blackmailing, but there was nothing they could do.
Because they knew that Roosevelt had the executive power, and they could not directly control this power, Roosevelt could let the police and the army deliberately release water, and then their industrial capitalists would suffer very heavy losses. And these executive powers cannot be directly grasped by them, and once they are directly controlled, they will become the target of the public.
Roosevelt took advantage of this, using the executive power in his hands to force the corporations to agree to expand the army.
"Expand the army immediately, our army must reach 600,000! In addition, the military budget has increased, and so has our military spending on developing new weapons. We have set up a professional military intelligence agency to be responsible for specialized intelligence work, so that we must get this done as soon as possible. Roosevelt began to shout.
Hearing the news, those US military generals also screamed one by one. This time they finally expanded their army, otherwise they Americans and the entire American army were only tens of thousands. Once these tens of thousands of people are dispersed across the country, they will be of almost no use, just meaning. Many areas of the United States are not guarded by military forces, and they rely on the local people to govern themselves. Now that the federal government has an army, it can guarantee the strength of the government and the strength of the army. This represents a huge increase in the influence of the military, and who wouldn't want that? So they immediately screamed, of course those consortia had already compromised this time, so they naturally wanted to complete this expansion plan as soon as possible. Only by creating the established facts as soon as possible can we achieve real stability and avoid those consortia from backtracking and then causing a lot of problems.
"We must complete the expansion of our 600,000 troops within four months!" Roosevelt exclaimed. (To be continued.) )