Chapter 485 Six Million Tons of Fear

The information of the gathering of the three gods was predicted by the intelligence received by the United States from various quarters as early as half a month before the incident, and what happened on 28 March was only the final confirmation of the prediction of the intelligence analysts with facts.

"Raised by a female cousin, British, German, damn it!"

When we think of a future war in the Pacific, the US Navy is very likely to encounter two major variables in the Pacific, the German Navy and the British Navy, and President Dewey's head will become two big ones.

As the president of the United States of America, Dewey did not fail to understand the principle of "vertical and horizontal alliances," and in the past few years he has also worked hard to break the strategic situation of the United States of America being isolated and helpless in the international community, but the results have not been satisfactory.

Needless to say, Britain and Germany, two potential rivals, were also qualified to change the pattern of the Pacific, China and the Soviet Union, and neither of them had the desired effect.

On the Chinese side, although Dewey wrote a bunch of empty checks when he visited China as vice president, even without the influence of Lin Han, a traverser, the leaders of New China knew very well that a "fatter foot basin chicken" squatting at the door was much easier to deal with than a terrifying bald eagle lying on his stomach at the door. No matter how tempting and empty promises President Dewey made at that time and afterwards, they could not be impressed, and they have been working non-stop with Japan's oil and mining industries for the past three years.

In the Soviet Union, another country, Stalin was also a master who did not see the rabbit and did not scatter the eagle, and only took advantage of the advantages and did not suffer losses. In the past three years, there has also been no movement in the Far East. With Stalin's temper, he may send a million Soviet Red Army to attack Japan, but only if the Japanese and American blood in the Pacific are exhausted before he will go down the mountain to pick peaches. If he was asked to charge and gnaw hard walnuts "for the sake of the United States", Stalin could not have said anything in the absence of a powerful Germany to the west.

After the "Gathering of the Three Gods". The Americans used every means to send various political and diplomatic probes to Germany and Britain, asking them about their positions and attitudes toward the US-Japan war.

Both Britain and Germany replied in one tone: "I hope that your country and Japan will use the current area under their actual control as a reference to reach a peace agreement with Japan." ”

As for the most sensitive issue of "Hawaii," the opinion of Britain and Germany is actually "permanent neutrality and international condominance."

How is this possible?

For this war, which the Japanese inflicted on the United States "on their own initiative", the United States of America lost millions of tons of warships. Nearly 100,000 lives were sacrificed and countless dollars were burned to build more than 4 million tons of naval warships (including escort aircraft carriers and auxiliary warships), is it just for a worthless "armistice agreement". Peace talks? How could such a ridiculous request be granted? No American president would agree to such a "truce demand."

However, as Britain and Germany have become more and more inclined to Japan's attitude, the US Government cannot but ignore their stance. The Americans who are preparing to "slaughter the gods and preach" are most afraid that Britain and Germany will also come to the aid of Japan, and such signs are becoming more and more obvious.

In order to prevent Britain and Germany from getting more involved in the US-Japan war, the US Government, which had already seen the signs of danger last year, sent special envoys to conduct diplomatic mediation between Britain and Germany on many occasions. There are a lot of promises and benefits, but what are the effects?

"We paid such a big price, but we got such a reply from the gathering of the three gods?"

In the White House, President Dewey roared and slammed the table.

The staff members around the president also advised the president:

"Mr. President, we have built too many warships for this war, if we can't achieve the final victory of the war. The collapse of the Congress of the United States of America. ”

They don't need to say much, President Dewey knows it. United States of America, there is no way back and no choice!

In Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom, another voice is also vibrating.

"Gentlemen, give up all illusions, the current British Empire, there is no room for retreat and choice!"

The person who made this voice was Artoria.

"A navy of more than four million tons of tonnage! Gentlemen. Do you understand what this concept is? And there is no need to wait until the end of the year, when this figure rises to five million tons, and by this time next year, it may even become six million tons! And the navy of our British Empire will reach a million tons by the end of this year! ”

Audience below. It was all high-level people in Britain who had the power to decide the future fate of the British Empire. Many of them are pessimistic and hopeless about the future confrontation with the US Navy in the Pacific, and they want to accept the "advantages" offered by the Americans while maintaining the so-called "goodwill neutrality."

The reason for Artoria's speech here was that the U.S. government had once again rejected the British and German demands for "mediation" in the war between the United States and Japan.

And the real purpose of this meeting will be to have a final vote on Britain's position and attitude in the Pacific War.

"I know what you're afraid of, what you're afraid of. But before you are afraid and scruples, you must first understand one thing, the United States has no way out! Do you know what that means? ”

Dressed in the uniform of the Royal Navy, as they stood on the stage to speak, the audience was watching the report that had been put before their desks: an economic analysis of the current state of the United States.

"In order to pile up this super-navy, which is now four million tons, may reach five million tons by the end of the year, and next year it will be six million tons, the Americans have already spent more than half of their domestic gold reserves, and this is just a small matter. What is truly terrible is the over-inflated American factories for the sake of building this navy! ”

"In 1933, the President of Ghana implemented the New Deal for Ghana, which relied on the printing of money to invest in infrastructure to restore the economy. However, after 1938, as the economy improved, the U.S. government began to increase taxes and began to cut fiscal spending significantly, when the president of Ghana believed that the U.S. economy had reached the bottom and the government could exit the market. Then, tax increases forced many companies to reduce their staff and increase efficiency, and the reduction in public spending smashed many people's jobs. By the time of the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, the unemployment rate in the United States had once again exceeded 17 percent. The economy, which had just picked up, was once again pushed back to the bottom. At the time, many people referred to this situation as the "Ghana crisis". ”

This plane was replaced by the president of the United States in 1933 with Cactus Ghana instead of Roosevelt, but there was a "Roosevelt crisis" in history. It's still as scheduled.

Artoria continued:

"It wasn't the New Deal in Ghana that saved America from the Great Depression. It was the war in Europe, with huge orders from us and the French, that saved the United States and pulled out the United States, which was about to fall into the mud again. ”

After a thirty-second silence, she continued: "What did the Empire lose in the United States in that year's war. All of you here are well aware. The United States encouraged us to shop with the Germans in Europe and forced us to open the colonial market by taking advantage of the danger of others. With this, the Americans had another period of good life. Then, as we negotiated peace with Germany in a timely manner, we cut orders, and then gradually abolished the evil Anglo-American Washington Accord. We could not continue to transfuse blood in our colonial market, and before the outbreak of the Pacific War, the domestic economy of the United States showed signs of instability. ”

Artoria's words, the British high-ranking officials present couldn't stop nodding their heads when they heard it.

"Theoretically. The current industrial production capacity of the United States is basically enough to supply most of the global industrial product market demand! I don't think any of you here will doubt that. ”

"The main problem of the United States is, after all, the contradiction between its excessively strong production capacity, export-oriented economic model, and relatively insufficient market consumption capacity. But the consumption power of the market in this world is so great, we can't give up our colonial market to feed this giant beast. ”

"Everyone, imagine that. If there had not been a war between the United States and Japan at that time, what would have happened to the American economy? Since we and the Germans had an armistice. The war in Europe did not go on endlessly, as it did in 1914. In that year, the Americans kept expanding the factories they built, and in the end they all became excessive investments, and then. What were they up against? ”

"The so-called New Deal of the President of Ghana a few years ago was not really a cure, he just drank to quench his thirst. For the first time, production was restored and expanded under these new policies! The reason for the war in one year has expanded again, and it is the second time! Both times stimulated a blind expansion of production in the United States. After 1942, the Pacific War broke out. In order to win this war, our American friends, for the third time, have expanded the scale of production in their domestic factories again! With the shipbuilding industry as the center, they are constantly expanding their domestic industrial production capacity, and 5 million and 6 million ton warships can be exploded within a few years. And then what? What did they do with these brand-new, seriously surplus warships after the war? And what to do with the surplus factories built for the construction of these warships? Will all the brand-new warships be scrapped and all the newly expanded factories will be shut down? Will tens of billions of dollars of investment go directly to shipbreaking yards? In that case, the financial industry in the United States will go bankrupt and the country will be completely finished! ”

If the United States really chooses this path, what will be the outcome of the United States, which ends the war as a victor? Are Americans willing to accept this kind of ending that life is worse than death, and it seems to be victory or defeat? The U.S. government will not agree to such an outcome! It is impossible for the domestic consumer market in the United States to be able to absorb the products produced by the assembly line of industrial machinery, which has been continuously invested and reinvested since the Ghana New Deal in 1933. Their only way out is to find a new consumer market! Who will they look for, who will they choose, and who will they ask for the market? ”

Speaking of this, Artoria swept over the crowd with a tigerish gaze, and continued:

"If we don't intervene in the war with the United States and Japan, after 1946, Japan will be defeated. At that time, this war beast that has been over-inflated and developed because of the war will hold more than six million tons of warships and navy in their hands! Gentlemen, guess what, will this giant beast wield this sharp sword at this time and threaten us to completely open the colonial market, and how should we face this threat of "six million tons"? ”

Every time Artoria said six million tons, the bodies of the many parliamentarians, ministers, and even the prime minister around her couldn't help but tremble. The strength of today's US Navy has swelled to the point that others dare not "fantasize" about being able to "get along" with it.

The size of the six-million-ton navy, although it contains a lot of water (including the escort carriers), is more powerful than all the navies of other countries in the world combined, even if it is cut in half.

After the Holy Shock, President Dewey ensured that the United States of America would be able to "slaughter the gods." Crazy expansion of the navy, delusional desire to drown the opponent with a navy "ten times larger". From the point of view of war, this is indeed an irreproachable "royal road" in the art of war.

But he ignored the fact that the excessively inflated US Navy had caused serious unease throughout the world.

Artoria exclaimed loudly:

"The whole world market, digesting the products of old Europe. It's already very reluctant! Add one more United States of America, which is stronger than old Europe, and the world will explode! Before 1914, we were forced to fight a world war to absorb the "negative reaction" of the arms race because we had a million-ton naval arms race with Kaiser Wilhelm. And now, our "American friends" across the Atlantic, who are working on naval armaments in the six million ton class! The United States, this overdeveloped gluttonous snake, he has no way out! ”

"Gentlemen, gentlemen. Give up all illusions that you might "make peace" with the Americans after the war! After the war, if the United States does not want to die of starvation due to the lack of a commodity consumer market due to the deformed industrial structure in the country, it can only look for the next target that can fill their stomachs after swallowing Japan, a little worm that does not have much oil and water! That's us! ”

"Our only chance is to take advantage of our former enemies, the Germans, who are also afraid of the Americans, and are willing to join forces with us. Strangle this wild snake that is growing wildly and has gotten out of control! This is our last chance! ”

Speaking of which. Artoria paused, her hands propped up on the table, her turquoise eyes looking around, sweeping the faces of the councillors to finish her speech.

Regarding the declaration of war on the United States, the British, in addition to being afraid of the huge American navy. It is even more fearful that the United States will take the opportunity to annex Canada.

But Artoria didn't care about being in Canada, she retorted at the time.

"When it comes to Canada, stop dreaming. No matter what our attitude is towards the United States, in the current situation. After fighting Japan, the Americans, who have lost too much, will definitely send troops to Canada! Do not forget about the education that Americans received from childhood, believing in God and hating the British! Now that their faith in God has fallen into disarray, the only thing that can keep them going is to hate us British people, except to win the war against the Japanese! In this case, you would be naïve to think that the Americans will be bound by a contract! If we do nothing, we will definitely lose Canada! But if we do something to stab the United States at this critical moment in the fate of this decision, and make the United States withdraw from the war as the vanquished, then after the war, the United States is likely to fall apart. At that time, Great Britain will have a chance to keep Canada. ”

Two days later, after secret discussions, the British finally decided to accept Artoria's proposal to join the Pacific War and declare war on the United States "at the right time" to join Germany.

This meeting was nothing but the final word on Britain's attitude toward the United States. As early as 1944, when watching the United States frantically rain down warships like dumplings, the frightened British also secretly accelerated the construction of warships on the slipway in China, and demanded that the major shipyards abolish the rest system and change to a two-shift production day. It is already very abnormal to produce warships so quickly in peacetime. Not only that, but the British also acquiesced in the increase in the production of warships by the old rival German Navy, all because the current American threat was far greater than that of the German Navy, and even to the point that the British and German navies were forced to huddle together for warmth.

In the process, Artoria's other allies were the big capitalists in Britain, especially the military wage earners. For example, the aviation industry, shipbuilding, and the steel industry, all of which are supporters of Artoria's policies. And the other dragas-capitalist producers of civilian goods, out of their own interests and the elimination of the United States, "the greatest competitor of the capitalist counterpart", are also not opposed to the idea of Artoria stabbing the United States.

After May 1945, the British began to move more warships to the Pacific, and in parallel with this move by the British, the German Navy also moved more warships to Asia. Britain and Germany are both naval powers, and the large-scale mobilization of warships cannot be concealed at all. And when the German warships openly entered the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal, the Americans, who got the news, began to exclaim: the most terrible situation, the situation of the Anglo-German-Japanese alliance, has appeared.

What the Americans don't know is that after nearly two years of repeated secret negotiations between Britain and Germany after the Holy Impact, and after being forced to huddle together to keep warm under the pressure of the United States, a terrifying enemy, the two sides have reached more compromises on the issue of overseas colonies and the issue of the navy.

The British agreed that after the end of the Pacific War and the defeat of the United States, Liberia, which Germany annexed in Africa, would become a German colony - although Hannah also knew that the colonial era was over, she still wanted to intervene here, drive the American power away, and then use the banner of "liberation" to support her own agents for "economic colonization".

And the concession from the German side was that after the war the German Navy would compress itself to fifty percent of the tonnage of the British Navy! This was another concession made by the German Navy on the issue of gross tonnage after the Dutch negotiations last year. (To be continued......)