What's the last thing people want to happen when they're eating?

The answer is that when you are eating a piece of food that you like very much, a news suddenly comes out on the radio or TV on the side, telling you that the piece of food you are eating has a strict food safety problem.

On December 1, 1941, when US President Wilch was having breakfast in the White House, this happened to him.

In 1940, before the invention of television, he did not listen to the radio at that time, but habitually read the newspaper while eating luncheon meat and egg buns with knives and forks, but the news headline on the front page of the Washington Post he read was: German scientists have found that the nitrite coloring agent added to Spam luncheon meat is a toxic carcinogen, and the German government has ordered all Spam luncheon meat on the market to be removed from the shelves.

President Wilkie was eating fried spaco luncheon meat, one of his favorite foods. Seeing the title of this message, it immediately made him lose his appetite. In the news content, the so-called "German scientists" explained in detail the dangers of nitrite, claiming that its consumption of 0.3 grams can cause poisoning, and 3 grams can cause death. After seeing this report, how could President Wilkie eat it.

After pushing the plate to the side of the table, President Wilkie picked up a napkin to wipe his mouth and angrily scolded:

"Damn the Germans, and the damn British, they must be happy now, and there's one more excuse to ban American products!"

Since the armistice in Europe, Wilkie, the head of the Republican Party, who has been president of the United States for a year, has been having a very unhappy life.

When he first ascended to the presidency, Wilkie was full of confidence. At that time, both the left and the right in the United States were touted unsatisfactorily.

The left's claim that his victory preserved America's "liberal traditions." Crushed the ambitions of three presidents of "dictatorial warmonger Ghana".

The right praised Wilkie, claiming that his presidency would lead the United States of America to unprecedented glory – even though CIA intelligence showed that the disgusting touting articles were "overwhelmingly probable" written by gunmen paid by Germans in the United States. But in the face of the Germans' praise and praise at the lower limit, how could Wilkie be embarrassed to oppose and order to deal with it.

Just came to power. After months of enjoying the buzz of newspaper public opinion, President Wilkie soon tasted the pain of hitting a wall at every turn.

The first thing that went wrong was Europe. The Soviet Union and Germany merged and forcibly "reddened" most of Europe, and now there are only a few insignificant "small countries" and half of France left, and the "mentally retarded" spaghetti can still maintain the existence of "liberal capitalism", and almost all the most elite regions of Europe have planted red flags.

These regions, which were controlled by the Soviet Union and Germany, had their own economies and strongly rejected the inflow of American luxury goods. Now the Americans can sell to Europe under German control. There are only raw material resources and primary industrial products, as well as a small amount of machinery and equipment that Germany cannot produce itself. Europe is a big market that has almost closed its doors to the United States of America. In order to reopen the European market, the United States had to open trade negotiations with the German government. The Germans argued that the closing of the trade market was now a last resort due to the great losses and consumption in the previous European war, otherwise it would not be able to repay the arrears owed to the United States.

According to the Germans, they want the U.S. government to "forgive" their former arrears. Only then "there is something to say and to discuss". This kind of owe money is the uncle's style, which not only makes President Wilkee just want to open his mouth and scold "shameless". It also made the Jewish bankers in the United States almost go berserk.

"If only Europe were still at war!"

"Armed debt collection" is an excellent excuse in itself. President Wilkie now regrets that if Europe were still at war, the United States could now use Britain as a springboard to declare war on Germany, but the current situation is facing a situation in Europe that is out of control. Even the United States, which is already the world's largest industrial power, can only shrink to the American continent as a spectator and cannot do anything.

Speaking of the UK, Wilkie was even angrier. In his opinion, this is a country as shameless and untrustworthy as Germany. From the second half of this year. As the British Navy regained some of its strength, the British gradually made more small moves to undermine "free trade".

According to the "Anglo-American Washington Agreement" signed last year, the British were to fully open their domestic and colonial trade markets to the United States.

As a result, since June this year, various "quality" accidents have occurred in the course of selling American goods in Britain, and a large number of negative news about American goods have flooded the British newspaper media for a long time, and the British government has also taken the opportunity to play on the topic and make a big fuss and hype it up.

Now the British do not dare to tear their faces and unilaterally abolish the "Anglo-American Washington Agreement", but in private this kind of dirty little actions are continuous. After the Germans reported the nitrite problem of Spam luncheon meat today, President Wilkie believed that in just two days at most, the British would take the opportunity to ban all Spam luncheon meat from the market in the home and colonial areas, and possibly even all American canned food.

That morning, President Wilkie met with the Food Safety Administration and asked about Spam's luncheon meat, which was no longer the Spam family's problem, but the entire U.S. food industry. -- In the 40s, nitrite was used for a long time as a food coloring agent due to cognitive problems, and it could be used to make food look more colorful. Therefore, it is common to add nitrite to food, especially canned food, in the early days.

What happened in the next few days, just as President Wilkie had foreseen, was that the British took the opportunity to use nitrite as an opportunity to ban all American canned food from entering the British and British colonial markets. In the days that followed, President Wilkie investigated and found that as early as half a year ago, nitrite had been quietly removed from the additives of canned food produced in the United Kingdom.

President Wilkie learned from someone at the Food Administration that Germany had not imported not even a single can of Spam luncheon meat from the United States that year. The Spam lunch in their hands was captured during the battle at sea last year, and after a year's attrition, it had long been used up. This was clearly deliberate on the part of the Germans. And also in collusion with the British.

Judging from the fact that the British changed the additive composition of canned food in advance, the British have long known the danger of nitrite, but they deliberately concealed it. They quietly ordered domestic food manufacturers to revise their recipes, and waited for half a year for the market to digest the old goods before they followed the Germans in this matter.

After the Spam nitrite incident, the whole of Europe. A "vigorous" campaign to boycott the influx of "toxic American food," including in the United Kingdom, has been launched. In the Spam luncheon meat incident, President Wilch clearly saw the signs that Britain and Germany, two sworn enemies a year ago, had joined forces to trap the United States in this matter.

And in the last month of 1941, whether it was Red Europe under the control of the Germans, or "Free Europe" under the control of Britain or South France or Italy, they all began to hype up the same topic: "American food safety problems".

During this journey, the people who jumped up and down the table the most were the British. In an effort to strike at the reputation of American food, they even turned up thirty years ago, by the American writer Upton. Sinclair's famous novel "Picking Up Dung" and the shady story of American food production revealed in the novel "The Slaughterhouse" are hyped up again.

(Note: The book "Slaughterhouse" is known as the pioneer work of dung picking literature, and it reflects the safety of food production in the United States around 1910, such as this episode in it:

Food warehouses are littered with garbage and sewage. The spoiled pork is rubbed with baking soda to remove the sour smell, and the poisoned rats are shoveled into a sausage blender. Even, some of the meat was littered on the floor. Mixed with garbage and sawdust, a lifetime of workers trampled and spit on it. Hundreds of millions of tuberculosis bacteria are left behind. The factory chops up the moldy ham and stuffs it with sausages; Workers walked around and spit on the flesh; Poisoned rats are adulterated into a meat grinder; The water that has been washed is prepared into a seasoning...... And many sausages that people eat are not only rich in "raw materials", but also "delicious poisoned mice"!

When you see the above paragraph, will you feel that it is very similar to a certain country now? In the capitalist era, in fact, the conscience of black-hearted capitalists is the same in all countries. ）

Britain used this as an excuse. First, the food industry closed the door to trade with the United States.

But the Spam luncheon meat nitrite incident is just one of the many "unpleasant" incidents that President Wilkie has encountered in his first year in office.

After Wilkie became the president of the United States, with Lin Han's planning, one by one. The articles "touting" the United States were constantly published in the newspapers, which soon aroused the arrogant and arrogant nature of the Americans.

One of the things that President Wilkie planned after taking office in 1941 was to establish a trading system based on the dollar.

After the signing of the Amsterdam Concord in October 1940, the Soviets and Germans almost divided the European continent. Another problem faced by the British, who had suffered heavy losses in the war, was that the British trade system, which was dominated by the British pound, was also facing a complete collapse after the total destruction of the Royal Navy.

The new socialist countries, including Germany, which is a "moral repairer", now no longer use pounds sterling as a measure for international trade settlements between them, but "discuss" with each other to trade in the form of accounting. Although it is a bit troublesome, none of these countries want to hold too much pound sterling in their hands.

The reason for this is that Britain has fallen from the throne of world hegemony, and the international credibility of the pound has plummeted. During the year-long European War, in order to pay for the war war, the British government opened the money printing press and printed a lot of pounds, which led to the great depreciation of the pound after the war. Not to mention that during the war, Hannah's printing house built in Germany made a lot of "fake pounds", and the total amount of "German-made" pounds in circulation even exceeded 100 million.

All of this has affected the international credibility of the pound. As an international trade currency, the pound is now much less influential than it once was.

1941 was indeed a delicate moment, Britain fell from the throne, the international credibility of the British pound plummeted, who will take over the British class, this is a very delicate topic, and it is also a big hole that Lin Han took the opportunity to dig for the Americans.

The old king has fallen, but the new king has not yet been established. At present, the most promising alternative to the pound is naturally the dollar issued by the Americans, who reaped the greatest and most benefits from the war this year.

The articles that Lin Han sent to hype up the United States in the United States were themselves "following the trend" of "conforming to current affairs", so once they were published, they resonated with countless Americans, and then they became more and more hyped.

It is not that the United States is unaware of the shadow of the Germans acting as the driving force behind it, but the dollar has become the main body of international trade. How can the financial capitalists in the United States fail to see the tremendous benefits brought about by this, and how can they resist them?

This is the "impotence" of the Germans, but it is also an irresistible temptation.

Historically, the Americans were able to "peacefully" take over the class of the British. Becoming the hegemon of the world and establishing a trade system with the dollar as the main body is based on the premise that the United States is the only power, and in addition to him, several powerful countries in the world are all bloodied and powerless to resist in World War II.

But now, the British have not shed their blood, they have just lost a bunch of old ships built twenty years ago. A large number of new ships are about to be launched, and there is a glimmer of hope.

Germany is in its best year, and the Soviet Union is also in good shape, with both intact companies.

Although the current United States has the world's largest national strength and productive forces, it wants to be the leader of the dragon and command the kings. How can the "old king" of Britain be willing?

"Let the Americans, summer eat the fruits of autumn!"

Lin Han made people hype up this in the United States. It is around this line of thought. He has made great efforts to hype up this matter in the media, and has catalyzed the Americans in advance to delusionally want to establish an international trading system with the dollar as the main body, precisely in order to continue to drive a wedge between the United States and Britain.

At the beginning, the top level of the United States was still a little sober and wanted to wait and see. However, the situation in Europe has changed, and the pound has become less and less trusted in international trade. The whole world saw it. How many of the American capitalists who control the Federal Reserve can resist the temptation of replacing the pound and snatching the world's "right to print money"? You must know that the Federal Reserve is not completely controlled by the U.S. government, and the influence of U.S. financial capital is extremely huge. The U.S. government is more like working for it.

Over the past year, the Fed has used its influence in Congress to lobby the U.S. government to stand up at this "turning point in history" and "demonstrate the influence that a responsible major country should have in international trade." At this time, there is no need for the German side to stuff money and ask reporters to hype up this topic, and these American financial capital guys are manipulating the voice of the United States themselves for the right to print money for the international market.

The consequence of the Americans' premature "seizure of power" over the British was the sharp deterioration of relations between Britain and the United States during the year. The British, whose national strength has suffered a great loss, do not dare to openly confront the Americans on the surface, but they have been secretly making small moves, whether it is supporting Japan or hyping up the US food safety issue, and reaching a "tacit understanding" on many things with the feuding Germans, it is all a product of this international background.

In the last month of 1941, while the U.S. government was preoccupied with food safety issues, a storm was brewing in Dutch Indonesia, Southeast Asia.

Indonesia is made up of more than 3,000 large and small islands, and the socio-economic development of each region is very uneven. After the fall of Napoleon's empire, the Netherlands regained its independence. Under the Anglo-Dutch treaty of 1814, Indonesia returned to Dutch rule.

The early Dutch rule was based on a system of commercial plunder, but this method was strongly resisted by the local population - such as the Javanese Uprising of 1926.

With the evolution of the times, the Dutch, who had suffered a lot of lessons and hardships, also "improved" their colonial methods.

In response to the upsurge of the national movement, the Dutch government used a combination of bribery and suppression. On the one hand, the National Senate was used to pull dragons and buy off the intellectuals in the middle, and on the other hand, radical nationalists were ruthlessly suppressed.

Since the founding of the Ming and Qing dynasties during the late Qing Dynasty government, in order to prevent pirates and pirates, the "sea ban" policy has been implemented, restricting Chinese people from going abroad to make a living. The government has long been indifferent and even hostile to its subjects abroad. It was not until 1860 that the Qing government signed the "Treaty of Beijing" with Britain and France, and was forced to allow Chinese workers to work abroad, that the ban was broken.

In the late Qing Dynasty, a large number of Chinese were abducted and trafficked to work as coolies around the world. The inhumane treatment of these Chinese coolies, and the foreign disputes and social turmoil caused by the abduction and trafficking of people abroad damaged the face of the Qing court and its rule. In addition, the diplomats sent by the late Qing government had contact with the overseas Chinese, and they were deeply impressed by the wealth of the overseas Chinese, and believed that they could be used for China's modernization. Based on this, the Qing court gradually changed its attitude of indifference and hostility to Chinese workers. In 1893, under the impetus of Western-style officials, the "sea ban" was officially abolished, and since then, many policies related to overseas Chinese have been formulated, affirming the attitude of protecting overseas Chinese. The most important of these is the 1909 Nationality Law, which is based on the principle of "descent", which stipulates that all persons of Chinese race, whether born in China or not, belong to Chinese nationality. Indonesia's colonial government, on the other hand, determined nationality based on the principle of place of origin, which allowed many Chinese to have dual citizenship. This identity made the aborigines doubt the loyalty of the Chinese to Indonesia in the future, and planted the root cause of anti-Chinese and anti-Chinese in the future.

During this period, due to the loosening of policies, the Indonesian Chinese had a strong sense of belonging to their ancestral homeland. In addition, the Chinese in Indonesia were excluded from politics and oppressed by the colonial rulers. At this time, China was also invaded by foreign powers. All this has led the Chinese Indonesians to link themselves to the future and destiny of their ancestral country. In this context, the Indonesian Chinese actively supported the Westernization Movement, the Xinhai Revolution and other movements for the self-improvement of the Chinese nation.

They assisted foreign officials in running businesses, providing funds and technology. During the Xinhai Revolution, he actively recruited revolutionary personnel, established revolutionary organizations, propagated revolutionary ideas, donated huge sums of money to the revolutionary army, and even directly participated in the revolution.

The Dutch colonial rulers, on the other hand, pursued a "divide and rule" policy towards the Chinese and the aborigines, placing the Chinese in the second estate between the first-class Westerners and the third-class aborigines. The use of the Chinese as an instrument of colonial rule created a great divide between the Chinese and the indigenous peoples, who were seen as "agents of the colonial exploitation system". Many anti-China and anti-Chinese incidents in history were mostly led by colonizers. The status of the local Chinese is higher than that of the aborigines, and they are trying to get closer to the first-class Westerners, and are alienated from the aborigines of their own low status. The culture and customs of the Chinese people maintain Chinese traditions, and their actions show their allegiance to China, and they actively serve the domestic revolution in Indonesia, raise funds, and develop revolutionary organizations and members. Even in Thailand, which remained independent from colonial rule, there was a wave of Chinese exclusion because of the loyalty of the Chinese to their ancestral homeland.

And the status of the Chinese in Southeast Asia in this time and space has also undergone great changes after the emergence of Lin Han, the biggest variable.

In the 1932 indiscriminate fighting tournament in San Francisco, Lin Han defeated martial arts masters from all over the world, and later his terrifying record of "slaughtering bears and tigers like picking up grass and mustard", with the strength of one person, almost destroyed the "racial superiority" over the yellow race that took hundreds of years to build in the Western world.

After that, Lin Han took advantage of this record to win great prestige among overseas Chinese, and then, with the help of the CCP, began to gather the overseas Chinese forces in the world that were originally scattered in the form of sand. But one of the consequences of this is that the colonizers in Southeast Asia are more wary of the Chinese.

After that, the British and Dutch colonists began to plan an anti-Chinese campaign in Southeast Asia.

In the Chinese Liberation War from 1935 to 1936, overseas Chinese youths responded to the call of China and returned to China to participate in the war. After the war, some overseas Chinese youths stayed in China to participate in the construction of New China, while others returned to their original places of residence.

These overseas Chinese youths who returned to Southeast Asia received the baptism of the Red Revolution in China, and after returning home, they also brought back the "wave of revolution" and "nationalist ideas." Although most of these people had received education and organization from the Chinese side before going abroad, and had deliberately "kept a low profile" after returning to Southeast Asia, the return of a large number of young people who had participated in the Red Revolution to Southeast Asia made Britain and the Netherlands even more vigilant.

Before the war in Europe in 1939, Britain and the Netherlands were preparing to provoke another wave of anti-Chinese in order to clean up the unstable factors.

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