"I learned that the Spaniards had issued a batch of government bonds in Europe, and I made a mess of it, and it didn't sell very well." Morgan said to Scrooge, "So, I don't think they can send many new people." ”

"Isn't that just right? In this way, the Spaniards would not be able to completely conquer the local natives, and they would have reached a temporary compromise. And they all know that this compromise is only temporary, so there is room for us to operate. Scrooge said.

"Well, we're going to find an opportunity to create a humiliating incident before we can push for the ship. Well, Scrooge, you have a lot of friends in the military, and I don't know if there are any good candidates in the navy. ”

"It's not bad to have one." "I've talked to him a few times, and he's a good guy. Thinking is very lively, and what is more important is that you can see the root of the problem when you look at the problem. ”

"What's your name?" Morgan asked.

"Alfred, 61, Thayer, 61 Mahan." Scrooge replied, "A gunboat captain in the Navy." The level is not high, but the people are good. I've always been very accurate in my opinion. I think this person is worth cultivating, especially in theory. ”

It's not hard to find an opportunity to humiliate the American people. The Spaniards are carrying out a blockade mission in the waters off Cuba, and it would be too easy to stir up a little trouble here if they wished. A few days later, news came from Florida that a fishing boat had been sunk due to a clash with the Spanish fleet, and only two of the five crew members survived. In this regard, the American news quoted the survivors as saying, which is reported as follows:

"This morning, we were fishing about ten to fifteen nautical miles from the coastline, which is our usual area of activity. By the time it was almost noon, the Spanish warships appeared. They quickly approached us and asked us to stop the boat for inspection. We've heard stories of the Spaniards buying and selling at sea, when we had just caught a good tuna. This fish is not cheap, enough for us to fear that once the Spaniards get on our boat, our fish will be forcibly bought by them as trash fish. At the same time, considering that our location was very close to our shore, we did not stop the boat, but put away the fishing line and headed towards our coastline. The Spaniards pursued us from behind and opened fire on us. We were even more frightened, and we didn't dare to stop, and then a shell really hit our boat, which was a small fishing boat, and it was immediately sunk to pieces. I fell into the sea, but I was not hurt, and the Spaniards shot at us with their rifles. I dodged into the water. Later, the Spanish warship saw that a patrol boat of our anti-smuggling flotilla was approaching and left. Shaq and I managed to come back with a life......"

Such reports certainly stirred up the emotions in the United States, and many even demanded that the U.S. government immediately declare war on Spain. Of course, the Spanish side has a completely different version of the matter. At first, they flatly denied that such a thing had happened, and the newspapers were all lies made up by people with ulterior motives. Later, in the face of more and more evidence, the Spaniards changed their story, admitting that their navy had sunk a boat, but that it was not a fishing boat, but a smuggling ship that was smuggling arms to Cuba. They added that this was evident from the fact that the two alleged survivors were Cuban immigrants.

Of course, such a statement made people more and more angry, and the US government also expressed a strong protest to Spain, and immediately put the US Navy on alert, quite a feeling that a major war was imminent. However, at this tense moment, the police in the Atlantic, the British, suddenly jumped out and demanded restraint from the United States and Spain.

If the British just talk, then no one will care too much. But the British didn't just talk about it, they also sent a detachment to Bermuda. In this way, no one can help but listen to the voice of the United Kingdom.

In the eyes of the British, the United States now has a very bad tendency to shout such ambitious nonsense as the Americas of the Americans, and their series of actions do pose a threat to the British-led international order. Therefore, the British felt that it was appropriate to knock the United States at the right time, lest they do something as stupid as invading Canada.

Americans don't have the kind of well frogs on a small island in later generations who were eavesdropped by American fathers, and they feel very honored (you see how powerful we are, even American fathers have to come and eavesdrop on us, cleaners, let me tell you, these high-tech in the world, without our 4V people, he can't get it, so even American fathers have to come and tap our phones.) Do you know that the caresses of the United States are copycats of our IDF). After being deterred by the British with warships, he was naturally extremely uncomfortable, (well, this feeling can refer to the incident in which the United States drove the aircraft carrier to the vicinity of Taiwan in 96) So under the guidance of people with a heart, the newspapers began to discuss how to build a strong navy.

The New York Daily Times even opened a column on the navy, specifically inviting some experts to express their opinions on the building of the US Navy. Alfred61 Sayer61 Mahan also spent this time, and in this column he recounted why the United States had to have a strong enough navy, and he told the people that the main shipping lanes of the seas brought a great deal of commercial benefit, and therefore had to have a strong fleet to ensure sea supremacy, and enough merchant ships and ports to take advantage of this benefit. At the same time, he also summarized the various adverse effects of the United States in the war of independence and even the Second American-British War because the United States did not have a strong navy. He pointed out that if there was a strong enough navy, it would be possible to deter possible invasion attempts and keep the enemy out of the country, avoiding the destruction of the homeland by war.

In these essays, he pointed out that given Britain's unique geopolitical situation, Britain must always leave a considerable force to ensure the balance of military power on the European continent, and at the same time it must maintain a military presence in its colonies all over the world. So the naval power that it can really use in the Americas is quite limited. "Our navy doesn't need to be as strong as the British, it just needs to be able to make the British navy pay a big enough price in a battle with the British fleet. The price must have been so great that the British would not be able to continue to suppress the navies of Europe after the war. As long as this can be done, the British will never risk losing Europe to ...... with us"

Under such circumstances, Congress has begun to review the US fiscal spending plan, and a new shipbuilding plan is about to be announced.