Chapter 277: Set Sail
Of course, his nonsense could not shake Roosevelt's determination to go to war against Japan, but to put it bluntly, he was a professional manager, and the big bosses did not agree that he wanted to go to war, and the members of the Diet were so pampered that they were not 100% sure that they would not intervene in a large-scale war, even if the war would drag the economy out of the quagmire.
Of course, this is also understandable, and the war may also directly lead the United States into the abyss when it is dragged out of the quagmire, and it is also possible to make a fortune by honestly selling oil, steel, and arms to Japan, China, and Britain.
Yang Feng's strange behavior also puzzled his cronies, especially those overseas Chinese in the United States, and Situ Meitang directly expressed his dissatisfaction to him.
"The old order must be broken, but this head can't be out of our way, the end of the-stirring stick will be very miserable, look at Germany in World War I, you know, and Asia is now lacking a-stirring stick, we have to let the Japanese play this role, I do have the ability to defeat Japan now, no more, throw tens of thousands of mines outside all the ports along the coast of Japan, and the country will be completely abandoned.
But if you do this, who will fight Southeast Asia, us? An aggressive expander will be the target of everyone's vigilance, and then Britain, the United States, and even the Soviet Union will re-prop up Japan, and even come out to besiege us themselves, and we cannot be the target of public criticism.
But if Japan conquers these places, and then we take them back under the banner of liberating them, and then we prop up a puppet of ours and station our troops there, these places will be ours, and then we can even get a good reputation as a liberator.
Therefore, we must raise Japan, let them do this-stirring stick well, and let them fight Southeast Asia. Let them fight India, or even let them fight the Soviet Union, and we will accumulate our strength and recuperate, and when they are exhausted, we will become liberators and regain the territory lost by the Manchus. Vladivostok, Bore, North Korea and even Lake Baikal, Annam, Burma, Laos, Siam and even Malay, including the Himalayas, these are our targets. Boss Yang said somewhat proudly.
Situ Meitang stammered. Obviously, he didn't expect this product to have such lofty ideals, but thinking about the future depicted by Yang Feng is indeed very exciting.
"Old sir, as far as I know, there are quite a few Hongmen disciples, and you have suffered some injuries in Southeast Asia over the years, and even suffered from those monkeys' tusha, are you interested in building an army, and when the time comes, under the banner of liberating them. And then there is revenge in the past, and there is revenge for injustice?
I can promise you here. With your help to me over the years, it is still possible to draw a country for you Hongmen, not to mention anything else. Yang Feng said.
"Really?" Situ Meitang's eyes lit up immediately, although Hongmen is not small now, and he often helps all kinds of powerful forces, but they are basically abandoned when they are used up, and it is false to say that he doesn't want to build his own territory. But this can only be a fantasy, if it is really like what Yang Feng said, then this fantasy really has the possibility of becoming a reality, and he still believes in Yang Feng's character very much. Although he is a profiteer, he is a profiteer who values commitment the most.
Yang Feng nodded affirmatively, this is nothing to him, it is just a generous gesture to others.
"There is no problem with people, but we have no place to conduct military training, unless we go to Beiping." Situ Meitang said.
"Whatever you want, if you want to go to Peking, I am very welcome, if you want to go somewhere else, I also bought a piece of land in Australia, which is a diamond mine, and you can also go there as a worker, and the Ambrera company has more than 300 mercenaries there, who can provide you with military training, and Brazil, where there are also hundreds of mercenaries, and I have a good relationship with the natives, as a person from the Amazon mining industry, you can do whatever you want there.
In my opinion, I hope that you will go to Brazil, where the environment is not much different from there, and where you will train and it will be convenient for you to fight in the future. Yang Feng said, anyway, it would not be good if that place in Southeast Asia was directly occupied in the future, so it would be better to give it to Hongmen and let them build a country there, and besides, it was originally their base, and the Chinese living there were more or less colluded with Hongmen.
Situ Meitang nodded excitedly.
"Okay, just according to what you said, I will summon people, not to mention one or two thousand people, it is still very easy, and we are not short of money, and we will listen to your command after the training is out." He went on to say.
"Okay, if you're worried about any inconvenience, hang all of your people under the Ambrera Corporation." Yang Feng said very casually, he didn't know what kind of freak he made after his pure unintentional move, and this freak made the entire Western World Realm deeply hateful, but he was helpless, almost monopolizing the entire Underground Kingdom of the Western Realm, a criminal country similar to the European Knights Order, a criminal country where HEI gangs, mercenaries, and consortia were mixed together.
After getting rid of the internal dissatisfaction, Boss Yang began to inspect his various industries, which are a huge corporate empire with a total value of more than five billion dollars, such as Lockheed, Cherokee, HY Pharmaceutical, Panda Airlines, Fox Films, People's Media, JY Company, Quantum Fund... Either of them is already a formidable horror monster in the United States.
One of these companies, Lockheed, sold 200 Hercules passenger planes last year, and the price of this thing is now $300,000, and this alone will earn $60 million.
And this is just one of Lockheed's products, the twin demons, who performed well in the Sino-Japanese War, exported a hundred each to Britain, France and Germany, and even Joseph ordered fifty each, and he also ordered fifty Liberators, and Britain and Germany ordered twenty each.
In addition, the US military has purchased 200 Liberators and 100 Hercules transport planes, 100 twin demons, 200 Skyhawks, and 100 Thunderbolts.
Mexico ordered a hundred Thunders, which were then sold to the Spanish Republican Army, and the Bf 109s with the mustache to help Franco were inextricably killed on the battlefield, and even as far away as South America, several countries were interested in this cheap and excellent fighter.
"Last year, our total sales were $300 million." Johnson said with some pride that as a rising star in the aviation industry, he is now hot, not only swallowing Martin, but also outsourcing many parts due to lack of capacity, and even Curtis is working for Lockheed.
Boss Yang is very satisfied with this sales.
"Boss, is it time to develop a jet next?" Johnson asked, in fact, now Whittle's engines can be loaded into airplanes in twin-engine form.
"Kelly, do we have a competitor?" Yang Feng said lightly.
"No, although it is said that both Britain and Germany are developing this kind of engine, there is no practical model so far, and according to my estimate, there will be no competitors in at least two years." Johnson said.
"Then two years later!" Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Understood." Johnson laughed treacherously, at a time when the propeller aircraft business was booming, it was indeed not appropriate to launch a new concept aircraft with uncertain performance and no competitive pressure, and it would not be too late to wait until two years to hear that a competitor was emerging.
After inspecting Lockheed, Yang Feng naturally took his fiancées to Hollywood, but Xin'er was very interested in those movie stars, and Fox Company specially brought all the stars that Hollywood could find in order to please the wife of the big boss, and held a grand welcome ceremony for this rich Oriental sister who was worth enough to buy the entire Hollywood.
Just when Boss Yang was hugging left and right and talking and laughing at the star-studded dinner, a secretary who hurriedly walked in whispered a few words in his ear, and Boss Yang's brows immediately wrinkled.
Japan sent its current Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita to London for peace talks between Britain and Japan.
"Peace talks? I'm afraid it's war, right?" Yang Feng said with a sneer in the Chinese Embassy in the United States.
"You mean the Japanese are playing a delaying tactic?" Wang Zhengting said.
"It's not a delaying tactic, it's a dark Chen Cang." Yang Feng said.
"In the name of peace talks, the British let their guard down, and then take advantage of their unpreparedness to launch a surprise attack, where is the target?" Wang Zhengting stood up suddenly, stared at the map somewhat out of shape and exclaimed: "Singapore, Changi Military Port!"
Yang Feng nodded lightly.
"What are we going to do?" Wang Zhengting said.
"Look at the excitement!" Boss Yang smiled happily.
He guessed correctly, just as the plane that Hachiro Arita was flying in landed at the London airport, a huge fleet also left Kure Harbor, and the Japanese Navy came out of the nest, aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hosho, Ryusho, battleship Nagato, Okuru, Kongo, Kirishima, Hiei, Ise, Hinata, Fuso, Yamashiro, heavy cruiser Furutaka, Kako, Aoba, Kinugasa, Myoko, Nachi, Ashigara, Haguro, Atago, Maya, Chokai, Mogami, Sanya, Suzuya, Kumano, Tone, Chikuma, In addition, more than 100 light cruisers and destroyers, and various auxiliary ships, adding up to more than 300 warships, formed a huge fleet that sheltered the sea, and marched mightily towards the southeast to break the waves.
Their targets were none other than Singapore, Changi Military Port, where two battleships of the British Far East Fleet were now stationed, one battlecruiser, and two aircraft carriers, the aircraft carrier Prestige and the aircraft carrier Glory were in Colombo at this time, and only the Queen Elizabeth, the Malaya, the Counterattack, the Brave, and the Athletic were left in the harbor. (To be continued......)