The day after the U.S. declared war, the fox entered Lin Youde's office and placed a stack of papers on the table.

"If we look closely into the information we have gathered in the past, there are still a lot of clues." The fox said and sat directly on the edge of the desk, looked at Lin Youde and asked with a smile, "It's no problem to make all of this public now, we have transferred all the people who may be exposed because of this information." ”

"There's no point in that." Lin Youde shook his head, "If you detect their actions in advance, we can still plan them, and it won't help to announce them now." Nationalist sentiments had already been stirred up, and by this time the people of the US imperialism could no longer listen to any different opinions. Reason is not the main theme of public opinion, and the only thing that can spread as quickly as anger is fear. In the eyes of the now angry American people, any opinion that does not agree with everyone else is heresy and must be exterminated. ”

"Yes," the fox said, putting away the Wen Jiàn that Lin Youde hadn't touched, "I almost guessed that you would say that." Indeed, throwing it out now will only allow the angry Americans to tear down the newspapers that are close to us. However, when the war is over, it would be a good idea to throw this thing out and give Charlotte some eye drops. ”

Lin Youde laughed.

The two laughed like this for a while, and then the fox suddenly said, "What about Vale?" If you really side with the U.S. government, you will be seen as a betrayal. ”

"In order to protect the vested interests we have achieved, this is a necessary action, even if it is not understood by the Chinese people. We need Australia's iron ore, we need uranium, of course, as long as the oil is preserved, it doesn't matter if Australia's interests are thrown away, but if it can be protected, why not? ”

"But didn't you say that there was a wave of nationalization after World War II in another time and space?" The fox asked curiously, "What's the point of preserving these private assets now?" ”

In another time and space, Keynesianism prevailed in the economic sphere of the Western world after World War II.

In this context, people advocate a strong government and believe that large-scale nationalization can effectively solve the problems of the capitalist economy, taking Britain as an example, in the first two decades after World War II, Britain completed the nationalization of most of the key enterprises, and initially established a "welfare state" system based on the power of the government. In the post-World War II United States, government power has also been unprecedentedly inflated, the power of secret services is huge and unsupervised, and the state apparatus is unprecedentedly powerful. US President Johnson also put forward a program of "great society", drawing a huge "utopian pie" for people.

This is a very interesting phenomenon, during the same period, the countries of the red camp were busy copying the Soviet model, building a highly centralized economic system, and formulating five-year plans, while the wave of nationalization in the West and the approach of the red camp were actually the same, but the process was different. In the same vein, there is a belief that strong centralized government control over production and the distribution of products can lead to great innovations.

None of this is on the table for the time being.

"The wave of nationalization is not all over the world," Lin said, looking at the fox, "or rather, not all countries have the capacity for full nationalization, and Australia is one of them." The country had been nationalised after the war, only to be defeated by the Liberal Party, which was backed by the big bourgeoisie, and the nationalization of the country has been in constant flux ever since. ”

"In other words, nationalization is something that only countries with strong governments and state apparatus can afford, right?"

"Isn't that a matter of course, how can a big capitalist let you nationalize his private assets without a strong state apparatus? In another time and space, the United States passed one of the three major antitrust laws, the Sherman Act, the full name of which is the Sherman Antitrust Act, in 1890, and then they passed the other two antitrust laws, the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Clayton Act, in 1914, the trust was dismembered with the support of farmers and the middle class before the trust was grasped.

"And this time and space is different, the United States only passed the equivalent of the "Federal Trade Commission Act", the "Sherman Act" for the purpose of dismembering the trust was just proposed because of the activity of Miss Shenji, who was important in the United States at that time, was blocked, and then encountered the sniping of powerful people in a row, and in the last ten years, it was our lovely Miss Charlotte who was trying to provide an umbrella for the trust. Therefore, the United States of America on this plane is different from the United States of my original plane, and I realized this before I made a plan to establish Vale. ”

Lin Youde looked at the fox and seemed to be waiting for the fox to give him a word that would act as a springboard for excess, but the fox itself seemed to be thinking about Lin Youde's statement and didn't care about Lin Youde's side at all.

Lin Youde could only continue: "The difference between a trust and a nation-state is that the nation-state will naturally be sacred, and the sanctification of heroes is only a manifestation of the sanctification of the state. In the past, Western empires always liked to call themselves the sacred XX Empire, but now Western countries have removed the word sacred, but the sacredness of the nation-state is actually far more powerful than the feudal empire of the past. When the conditions are right, the sanctified nation-state will fall into a frenzy, and the phrase 'FOR-MATHER-LAND' can make countless people forget about their lives.

"The nation-state will inevitably have some irrational elements, but trusts are rational and can exchange interests at any time, so in the trust-oriented United States, a large Chinese company can survive the Sino-US contradictions that will inevitably come later."

Lin Youde sighed softly.

"Remember what I said on the day I first met you, once Yingzhou becomes independent, it will inevitably perish. But after I took my seat and began to look at the world situation anew, I found that after the elimination of the independent Yingzhou, the Ming Empire would become a stumbling block in the way of American expansion. Actually, this is not a difficult thing to think of, in my time and space, the contradiction between the United States and China has become the main contradiction in the Pacific.

"If you think about it a little, you will know that the two powers of the Pacific Rim will always clash hard, but in my time and space, the three major powers in the world have the ability to destroy the earth alone, and a hot war cannot happen directly between the three countries, so it has become a situation of international games, and now, a war between the Ming Empire and the United States, which is in the way of the United States in advance, is almost inevitable. Just like in another time and space, war between the Japanese Empire and the United States was inevitable. ”

"It's true that the Americans have been preparing for the so-called 'yellow plan,'" the fox finally spoke, "and this plan has the highest priority in the 'rainbow series' of the United States." We didn't find the latest version of the solution, but we just summarized some bits and pieces of information from the old version, roughly restoring the appearance of the old version. It looks as if it was a plan to defend Hawaii and other places first, wait for the Atlantic Fleet to converge from the Panama Canal to Guò, and then go all out to annihilate the Ming Navy and launch a counterattack. The plan speculates that the decisive battle at sea will be at ......"

"Between Mariana and Marshall." Lin Youde said softly, "These plans of my time and space have long been declassified and become research materials for military history researchers. ”

"Yes, that's it, it's amazing, the staff officers of the two planes actually made the same judgment. So is this really the place where the final battle will be? ”

"Yes, Mariana Islands. However, the planners did not expect that the war would end in 1942, and in 43 years, the number of warships of the US Navy would directly expand to ten times that of the Japanese Navy, and the military technology also had a generational advantage. The battle of the Mariana was nothing more than an actual conversion of this numerical and generational advantage into a military victory. Putting these aside for the time being, in short, both planes have yellow schemes, and both planes have an imaginary enemy in the Pacific Ocean. ”

Lin Youde looked at the map of Asia that he had improvised on the wall.

"When I first crossed over, I thought that the Ming Empire was still as weak as my time and space, wasn't it in the Yingzhou War of Independence at that time, and this impression was even more profound, and the classmates around me were talking about saving the country and changing the way Europeans thought of us. This inherent impression was so deep that in the process of helping Viola reach the top of Germany, I always regarded the Ming Empire as a weak chicken, and when the Ming Empire came to buy arms, I seriously considered what to use as collateral.

"Later, I found out that the Ming Empire did lose a lot of power after the initial war that I don't know whether it should be a crushing victory or a loss, but then with the gradual recovery of the power of the gods, the industrialization process of the Ming Empire was more successful than the Westernization movement of my time and space, although because the incompetent friends and eunuchs listened to the slander and mistakenly adopted the strategy of Jingluo Yingzhou as the Great Wall on the sea, but after entering the twentieth century, the Ming Empire is actually recovering."

In this time and space, the Western army was actually almost fought by Ming's Shenji, and there was only one breath left, but the incompetent eunuchs and friends were frightened by the Westerners' magic armor, and they didn't consider that the Western army was already at the end of the crossbow, so they signed an unfair trade agreement.

Then, because of this time and space, the Ming Empire's own capital sprouted and grew slowly for two hundred years, and the Ming Empire's own commodity economy was stronger than that of the Qing Dynasty in another time and space, but it was hit more violently after the Westerners gained the monopoly of trade. Western goods became mainstream for a while, and dumping continued, allowing large quantities of silver to flow out.

But then, under the leadership of a group of courtiers who Lin Youde was also familiar with, the Ming Empire gradually learned from the West and gradually snatched back the markets occupied by the Europeans little by little, a process that lasted for almost fifty years. By the twentieth century, the Ming Empire had begun to gradually reclaim the privileges granted to foreigners, albeit slowly, due to the existence of eunuchs and cronies.

"In other words, I suddenly found that the Ming Empire was in the way of America, just like Japan did back then."

Lin Youde looked at the fox.

"I started to worry that I didn't know if we could beat the all-out America. In another time and space, we fought to a draw with the United States, but that was when the United States was unwilling to fully mobilize at home just after the end of the war, and there was a Soviet Union behind us that was selling weapons to us. I don't know if China in this time and space can stop the perverted country that can build 2,751 10,000-ton free ships in four years to ensure the supply of the army. ”

"That's why you founded Vale."

"That's right, a company of Chinese who can survive this inevitable Sino-US conflict, this is my insurance, even if we are defeated on the battlefield, we have a chance to turn the tables." Therefore, Vale must be patient, it must be a traitor now, we win, it will become a springboard for us to obtain greater benefits, if we lose, it will become the capital to turn the tables in a few decades. Lin Youde knocked on the table, "This is the meaning of Vale's existence." Even if we lose the war, there will still be Vale left. ”

The fox was silent for a while, and then whispered, "Does Lin Guokai know this?" ”

"He knows. I told him all this before I sent him to Australia. ”

"He agrees to be a traitor who will always be infamous?"

"Ah, he agreed."