Artoria paused, let the people around her digest her words first, and then continued: "Military spending is just one thing, how much does it cost to maintain such a large fleet after the war? The more important question is, what will the Americans get after this war is over? Just by defeating Japan and taking revenge, they will be satisfied? ”

"Japan is a country that knows very well how many families there are. Even if they boil the whole country, the Americans will not be able to squeeze much good. And in order to build such a huge revenge fleet, the Americans have overdrawn too hard in recent years, and they will inevitably face an unprecedented economic crisis after the war."

When it came to the economic crisis, the faces of the high-ranking British officials present were not very good-looking, and Artoria had not yet said the rest of the words, but they had already guessed eight or nine points in their hearts.

"War, a war that does not have enough benefits, what is the point of winning such a war? After the war, with such a huge fleet in hand, who will the United States at this time move against and seize it? ”

Artoria heard the sound of heavy breathing, she knew what she meant, and the elites of the Great British Empire around her had already understood.

"After Japan falls, we will be next."

In the end, she is still the people around her, exposing this cruel reality. And after the Battle of Guam, there has been a voice in the United States: during the Battle of Guam, the British Navy played a special role.

Although Britain was hacked by Japan in that war, and there was a lot of dirt on its body, and the Americans did not pursue the matter out of the mentality of not wanting to be enemies on both sides, the anti-British sentiment in the United States also flourished. No one can guarantee it. After the war, the United States will not settle accounts after the fall.

"The United States has no choice!"

Artoria finally concluded that this was not only Lin Han's opinion, but also her own opinion.

Because in this historical plane, even if the Americans won the war against Japan, they would not get much war dividends, which was completely different from the original historical development.

On the original historical plane. After Japan's surrender on August 15, 1945, the United States was the biggest beneficiary.

With the help of the war, the United States drained the gold reserves of Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, and even Japan. (Yes, it's Japan, before the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan's war of aggression against China lasted for several years, and it used up its domestic gold reserves.) And most of this gold and silver went to the United States)

During the war, the B17 Sea of the United States frantically bombed everywhere in Europe, razing all industrial equipment to the ground, and almost all of Europe was scorched earth.

Europe, which has been reduced to a scorched earth, is powerless to compete with the United States in industrial goods.

Rebuilt Europe, in order to restore production and the economy, accepted the Marshall Plan proposed by the Americans. In the process of economic and production recovery. It is also equivalent to the recovery and the more than ten years after the recovery, Europe has been working for the United States to pay off its debts. Moreover, not to mention the post-war USSR hand. Dismemberment of the British colonies.

If it weren't for the stupid opening of the United States in Korea and Vietnam after the war, which consumed a lot of national strength, the momentum of strong growth after the war could have been maintained even after the 70s.

But now, this plane of the United States, because of the peace in Europe. These war dividends are not enjoyed at all. On the contrary, because of the war with Japan, we had to go crazy to storm warships, and now the United States, shipbuilding and building warships is cool, but this crazy armament law. The aftermath of the war was that it would inevitably face a serious economic crisis and financial difficulties after the war.

Although the United States ranks first in the world in terms of industrial strength, this kind of violent and violent warship and sea of warships has also done tremendous damage to its national strength. What would the Americans, who have the world's largest navy with a navy stronger than all the navies of all countries in the world combined, but whose pockets have been emptied by the war, do?

Lin Han "did not hesitate to get pregnant" to give birth to Artoria, waiting for the current situation to appear. Americans' ambitions for the British colonies have long been well known. Artoria's role was to remind the British at this critical juncture, and then guide them to make the right choice.

Historically, the "British traitor" Churchill insisted on the Anglo-German confrontation, which was completely to lead Britain into the pit. And in this plane, after peace in Europe, the country that Europe most wants to maintain peace or even friendship with Britain is Germany.

Prime Minister Attlee asked: "Any good advice?" ”

Artoria replied: "Contact the Germans and ask them to cooperate with us in this matter." ”

"Is he likely to agree?"

"Führer Hitler, there is no choice!"

Artoria said coldly.

"To the east of Germany, the Soviet Red Army is rising strongly, with more than 10,000 Soviet tanks, Hitler's biggest headache now, and he needs allies to relieve him of the pressure. With the rise of the Soviet Union, Europe has now returned to a balance of power, and Germany is no longer a monopoly. If Britain could become an ally of Germany, he would be able to concentrate all his energies on dealing with the Soviet crisis in the east. And if Germany can become an ally of Britain, we can concentrate our efforts on protecting our colonial interests. Britain and Germany have begun to need each other. ”

As for the Anglo-German alliance, after the birth of Artoria, Hannah took the initiative to raise it with her. In the past year, the German side has also repeatedly sent probing to Britain, but the British government has been ambiguous and has not replied for a long time.

After several days of detailed discussions and internal discussions, in May of that year, the British government sent a request to Germany for negotiations and began to discuss the question of an alliance in secret.

The place of negotiation was Amsterdam, a neutral state of the Netherlands, and the pretext for the negotiations was to discuss the ratio of tonnage of naval development between Britain and Germany.

When the Americans announced that they would expand their navy at the size of two fleets per year, the navies of other countries around the world felt tremendous pressure. The first to feel the pressure was on the two naval powers in the Atlantic, Britain and Germany.

In contrast, in Britain today, there is a 60,000-ton Brittany-class battleship in the dockyard, plus four Dreadnought-class aircraft carriers under construction, and by April 1944, the Royal Navy had received six new aircraft carriers, which had formed a six-to-four advantage over the German Navy's aircraft carriers in terms of numbers.

After the Anglo-German peace talks, one of the olive branches that Germany offered to Britain was that Germany offered to reduce the size of its navy to less than 80% of Britain's size and said that it would not build new battleships.

The Germans have faithfully honoured this agreement, even when the British Navy has received a large amount of civilian donations after the Holy Shock, and is able to build more warships and expand the size of the Royal Navy. In the past year, the biggest move of the German Navy has been to announce the construction of a 60,000-ton large aircraft carrier, and there has been no major action other than that.

Although the German side obtained eighty percent of the tonnage ratio through negotiations, their "low" investment in the navy after the war was so small that even the British were a little "embarrassed", and recently Hitler publicly declared that in order to avoid repeating the war tragedy caused by the excessive armament of the navy before World War I, the German navy will not overexpand and add new warships in the next few years.

The Germans' "passive" development of the navy would have been great news for the British, but looking at the tyrant methods of the United States on the other side of the Atlantic with two fleets a year, and the industrial capacity to build fifty escort aircraft carriers out of thin air in a year, the British could not be happy.

The British could not sleep well at the thought of the terrible future in which the menacing Americans would become a hungry beast after the war because of the excessive armament of the navy. In such a situation, the feud of a few years ago, the former enemy of Germany, now does not seem so hateful.

The U.S. government's blatant flex of its shipbuilding capabilities to the world strengthened the confidence of the people in winning the war. But at the same time, it has also gained more vigilant eyes, and the possibility of an "Anglo-German alliance" has been greatly enhanced.

Britain and Germany agreed to start negotiations in the Netherlands on May 10 of that year.

Both the British patron saint Artoria and the German patron saint Hannah will be present at the talks.

Of course, in order to maintain enough mystery, neither will appear in public. But when the two messengers came to Amsterdam together, the whole world was boiling.

Now the Netherlands is a neutral country in Europe, and this country is rather devastation.

Before the Pacific War, China, Britain, and Japan joined forces to prey on the Dutch, who had nothing to do but be angry with their mouths. After the onslaught began, the Netherlands was also facing a great crisis of faith collapse.

Neither the Saphiroslav religion, which had already infiltrated the Netherlands, nor the Anglican religion that had risen rapidly in the west, was beyond the reach of the Dutch today. Fortunately, in the eyes of the British and German families, the current Netherlands is already a poor dick (crab) silk, and the British and German families have no idea of beating him, and they choose to negotiate here purely because of his neutral country and just the right geographical location.

Before the start of the talks, Hannah and Artoria had already secretly colluded, both of them wanted to form an alliance to pit the Americans, and they both knew each other's bottom line and hole cards.

Through Artoria, Hannah learned what the British wanted and what they were willing to give.

Through Hannah, Artoria also knew what the Germans wanted and to what extent they were willing to do it.

Therefore, this meeting, which was declared to be a naval negotiation, was actually a meeting to discuss the Anglo-German alliance, and it went smoothly, and it took only seven days to complete the entire process of negotiations.

At the end of the talks, the Germans announced that in order to maintain peace in Europe, Germany was willing to further reduce the tonnage of its navy to 70 percent of the total tonnage of the British navy. (To be continued......)