Chapter 498: The Foundations of War in South America
In fact, those desperate American industrial capitalists are not only moving to South America, including Canada and Australia are important targets for them, after all, the current situation in the United States, they have no hope of turning over. They had the money, the technology, and even the former customers, and it was not the same to open factories where to go, and a large number of American capitalists sold their machines and equipment cheaply to Chinese businessmen, and then left the once great United States of America with the money, and embarked on strange foreign countries to start their lives anew.
Of course, this is only those small and medium-sized business owners, such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, these must not go, their roots are already rooted in the United States, it is impossible to carry the oil fields and iron ore migration, which is the main reason why Emperor Yang does not care much about this matter, and they are just a few small shrimps.
But now it seems that although it's not a big deal, it can't continue to be laissez-faire, the number of small shrimps is also very troublesome, and it can't leave any way for these Yankees to live, Canada doesn't care, and once he enters the war, it's a big deal to let the fleet fight over, and even send the American Army to land directly with his servants, a small country with a total population of only six million, stretched out his fingers and pressed him to death.
The same is true for Australia, anyway, as members of the British Commonwealth, they have already participated in the war, and it is completely justified to beat them when the time comes, not to mention that now Western Australia is actually surnamed Yang, where there are more than 200,000 Chinese immigrants alone, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of whites are also holding the jobs of the Yang consortium.
But South America is a safe haven that must be demolished immediately, Brazil has a population of nearly 20 million, plus Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia and other countries together more than 50 million. Moreover, there is no shortage of resources, and once combined with the capital, technology, and management experience of the American capitalists, it is equivalent to the emergence of a new America.
What's more, that place in South America is extremely unfamiliar to the Chinese, the environment is also bad, and the planned Yang Emperor is not ready to annex directly, economic plunder and population erosion are king, but if these American capitalists who are full of hatred for China run away. It would be troublesome to build an anti-China stronghold.
"We have to find a way to get South America to fight, there is no way to create a way, and we have to drag them into the war." Thinking of this, Emperor Yang immediately said.
First of all, Britain and Argentina still have a territorial dispute, the Argentines believe that including the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, these neighboring islands should belong to Argentina, but the British consider this to be their colony, and the two sides have always had a zài dispute. Of course, a little ant like Argentina would definitely not dare to act on a Tyrannosaurus rex level like the British Empire. At most, it's just a mouthpiece, a little action or something. If these islands were lured, Argentina might be able to jump out if it was certain that Britain would be defeated. In addition, the Germans were also very strong there, and although the number of Italian immigrants was also large, on the whole they were not without the possibility of turning to Germany.
There is also a dispute between Chile and Argentina over the Beagle Strait and the Picton Islands. The UK had been invited to arbitrate, but it did not yield any results in the end, and Chile's minerals were largely under the control of British capital. If Argentina joins the Allies, then Chile may join the Entente as long as it is not a sure loss for the Entente. But if Chile joins the Entente, Peru and Bolivia, which were defeated by them, will not miss the opportunity to regain the lost territory in the saltpeter war, after all, they have lost too much in that war.
As for Brazil, Brazilians have recently been grappled by the sinking of a Brazilian merchant ship by a German submarine, the fact that the Germans have been withholding millions of pounds of coffee money they have deposited in the German bank, and the border dispute between Brazil and Argentina. Zhang Quan said.
In other words, the key is Argentina, as long as there is this challenge, there will be a chain reaction in the whole of South America, and Colombia will not give up retaking the land that was robbed by the Russians, as for the German colonies in them, William will definitely not mind returning them. Venezuela will definitely help Colombia, the Russians are also what they fear, they will not miss this opportunity to expel the new colonizers, the vast majority of the countries of South America are in the war, and it is impossible for Brazil to stay out of it. Yang Feng is very satisfied with the results of this analysis, so it is not that there is no basis for a big war between South American countries.
Of course, this matter is specifically operated, and you still need to use your brains again, no one is a fool these days, these countries in South America have contradictions and contradictions, for a few islands, a strait, a waterfall and the like to fight is a bit of a fuss, unless the kind of business that seems to be profitable and does not lose money, generally sensible people will not play war lightly. I'm afraid it's no fun to continue playing the last set, with the unlucky precedent of Italy, no matter who hears Emperor Yang shouting to join this side and join there, they must be cautious, don't be the second to be pitted.
There has to be a convincing hype project that has to make these countries feel that China's entry into the Allies is no longer just rhetoric.
"Your Majesty, don't we have one now?" Zhang Quan said with a smile.
"You mean the oil fields of Sumatra?" Emperor Yang immediately understood what his foreign minister was talking about, this matter can indeed be used, the things that were pulled when he fooled Italy last time were all false, but if there is a super oil field in the Sino-British contradiction, it will undoubtedly have a lot of weight.
The British suddenly discovered a huge oil field on Sumatra, and then this secret quickly leaked out, causing the Chinese to covet, and then the two countries launched a secret war for this oil field on Sumatra Island, and in the case of supporting agents but never being able to seize this oil field, China joined the allies to declare war on Britain and directly started to seize the oil field, which is completely reasonable, and those countries in South America will certainly not have the slightest doubt.
At this time, Germany took the opportunity to fool the Argentines again, since China must join the Allies, then the Allies will naturally win, in this case, in order to recapture the Falklands from the British as the victorious country, the Argentines naturally entered the war without any pressure.
Then after they entered the war, China suddenly reached a compromise with Britain, whether it was cooperation between the two sides, or other forms, in short, even if the emperor was satisfied, China and Britain reconciled, and even the relationship went further, then Argentina was dumbfounded, and Chile next to him asked the British to declare war on Argentina, and then Peru and Bolivia helped Argentina declare war on Chile, and Brazil declared war on Argentina for the border issue, so that the war was completely fought.
Emperor Yang immediately smoothed out the whole step in his mind, it should be said that this is a good plan, but although the plan is good, there are many difficulties in implementation, the key is how to make Argentina join the war before China, what if they don't see the rabbit and don't scatter the eagle? The key is that Emperor Yang has a bad record in this regard, and the Italians still grit their teeth when they think about it, and it is impossible for the Argentines not to have any scruples, and this problem must be solved.
Also, what if the UK doesn't cooperate? Or what should I do if I know that Emperor Yang is also worried about the oil fields of Sumatra, and the British are withering and dare not rob them? After all, as long as they don't let the donkey kick their brains at this time, they should know very well that they must not offend China for an oil field, otherwise China will fall to the allies and they will be doomed.
"Whatever! Things work themselves out. Soon Emperor Yang put these problems aside.
At this time, the Dutch war situation has entered a stalemate, the British army plus a Portuguese army division and the German-Dutch coalition army have been fighting in Rotterdam for almost a month, and the European Shanghai is about to be in ruins, but the battle between the ruins is still continuing, anyway, if Britain does not take Rotterdam, it will definitely not be able to advance to the Netherlands, let alone attack the German hinterland. In order to achieve this goal, William had already put the hastily formed Fifteenth Army into the Dutch battlefield, and also transferred back two armies from the Eastern Front to supplement the Fifteenth Army, otherwise a group of recruits would suffer a lot from fighting with the British elite.
During the period of the German airship troops, and many times to the British army to solidify qiyou bomb the ground, but at this time the British latest fighter also began to put a small amount of combat into the battlefield, although this kind of fighter in performance, is still slightly inferior to the Germans, but the gap is very small, but effectively contain the German airship. In addition, the British airships also bombed the German army, especially the most ruthless one, even taking advantage of the night to drop more than 200 tons of ZHA bombs and white phosphorus burning shells on the German logistics base of Düsseldorf, causing nearly 1,000 German civilian casualties.
In retaliation, the German airship that took off from Belgium also dropped more than 500 tons of coagulation shells on London, but this bombing of London, the Germans suffered a lot, after all, they have bombed more than once, the British government cannot not have enough defense, they deployed hundreds of anti-aircraft guns in London, and the hundred airships dispatched finally went back less than eighty, especially now that the British have learned to make white phosphorus bullets, the lethality of this thing to hydrogen airships is very terrifying. (To be continued......)