The contradiction between Brian and the capitalists is very simple, those capitalists want war, whether they win or lose, they want a war, and they will not be able to hold out without war, although after the outbreak of the European war, the erosion pressure of Europe's industrial products has been greatly reduced, but China's industrial products are surging again, and the momentum is far more ferocious than the Europeans with unequal tariffs, because these industrial products have no tariffs at all.

Very simply, the smuggling of Chinese industrial products that landed in California or the current name of China's Golden State Province, with the joint efforts of Chinese and American lawbreakers, wantonly crossed the Rocky Mountains into the United States, these industrial products that have no tariffs, are of much better quality than their own products, and are much lower in price are deeply liked by American farmers, and because of the strength of Huayuan, many American farmers now prefer Huayuan in agricultural trade, and they can directly use Huayuan in their hands to buy these industrial products. As a result, when the American industrial capitalists were unable to open up foreign markets, even their own markets began to be encroached upon.

And it is not only the Chinese who are doing this, but also the merchants of the Confederacy and Mexico are also smuggling industrial products to the United States on a large scale, especially the Confederacy cannot be stopped at all, in fact, Yang Feng is copying the trick of Japan's Jidong smuggling to impact China's national industry before the Anti-Japanese War, these smugglers can even get additional subsidies, and some have armed mercenaries, and the thousands of kilometers of border are not casually infiltrated.

It can be said that the current American industrial capitalists have no choice but to go to war, but the farmers represented by Brian absolutely cannot agree to war, because their agricultural products are in short supply, and at the same time they enjoy better and cheaper industrial goods, they do not need war, and the vast majority of those who die in a war are farmers.

This is a contradiction that cannot be compromised.

"The result of not being able to compromise is only intensification, and they could have had a way to alleviate it, which was to join the ranks of making war money, but unfortunately we blocked their only floodway with our fleet." Yang Feng said proudly that he had tossed the United States for so many years. Now we can talk about the tiebreaker.

"What if they're going to fight?" Zhang Zhidong asked.

"Then fight well, fight hundreds of thousands of casualties and then beat them down, and then cut off the entire west of Rocky Mountain, the war in Europe will not be fruitful in two years, we have enough time to solve this henchman once and for all, so as not to leave trouble for our descendants." Yang Feng said with a cruel smile.

Two days later, off the coast of the southern United States Port Charleston, the German protective cruiser Kaiser. The Augustus, the flagship of the Caribbean Fleet of the German Navy, is cruising slowly. This fleet now has only three protective cruisers in total, and these old-fashioned coal-fired steam engine battleships are also cannon fodder when they are pulled to Europe, so they simply stay here to show their savings, and the German Navy also knows very well that they will not be able to sail back to the mainland anyway, as long as they leave the protection of the Alliance, the captains of the British Navy will definitely not miss the opportunity to add a sinking record to themselves.

Even if the blockade of the United States is carried out, they will not be able to show off their might on the northern coast like those new warships. I had to stay around the Port of Charleston, an agricultural export port where all American merchant ships had left the port since the Snow Leopard incident. Whether there was any suspicion or not, all of them were first inspected in the port of Florida, a Spanish possession, and the other two protective cruisers that had just been with it had already gone with two merchant ships.

The captain, Lieutenant Commander Hahn, looked idly at the moonlit sea, the flames of war in Europe tugging at him and his soldiers. However, they can only accept the refuge of the Caribbean Alliance here.

"Captain, American destroyer." The first mate suddenly reminded him of the direction of the port in the distance. The silhouette of a warship could be faintly seen, and it was the USS Evans, an American destroyer stationed in Charleston, which was also used to show that both sides were old acquaintances.

"Keep an eye on the spot, and if it sails out of territorial waters, send a light signal to warn it." Lieutenant Colonel Hahn was a meticulous officer, and since the order issued by the Union General Command was to prohibit any American warship from sailing out of their territorial waters, it was only natural that this order should be strictly enforced.

At this time, they did not notice that three kilometers ahead, a black cylindrical object was rising from under the water.

Under the watchful eye of Lieutenant Commander Hahn, the destroyer Evans kept moving slowly until it was less than five kilometers away, and then turned north, seemingly with no ill intentions, but only prepared to return north to Norfolk.

Lieutenant Commander Hahn leisurely watched this destroyer with a displacement of more than a thousand tons, and under the watchful eye of four battleships, two battle cruisers, and a dozen heavy cruisers of the Caribbean Alliance, the once most powerful maritime power in the Americas can now only lie in its own nest like a pack of well-behaved rabbits, and this is the fate of the loser.

At this moment, a terrible battle alarm suddenly sounded on the Evans in the distance, and the lips of Lieutenant Colonel Hahn, who was caught off guard, trembled, and the cigar fell directly on the deck, and at the same time the Evans turned westward like a madman, and at the same time all the guns at the bow and tail were aimed at the sea and opened fire at the same time, as if a torpedo was approaching.

"Torpedo?" Lieutenant Colonel Hahn's heart sank.

"Quick, searchlight!" He turned around and roared, Caesar. The high-powered searchlights on the Augustus immediately pointed at the sea, but at the same time, a huge ball of fire exploded at the waterline of the bow of the Evans, and the destroyer jumped up sharply, then fell back to the surface and began to sink without hesitation.

"Look again, look for the periscope!" Hahn's eyes widened and he yelled, he had already guessed who did the job, it was too easy for a submarine to hide in the sea at night.

The searchlight column moved, but nothing could be seen on the sea, and the submarine that had fired the torpedo, of course, could not stay, and immediately put away the periscope and sank under the water and slipped away, Caesar. The Augustus also did not have any equipment to detect submarines, and in the end it had to move the searchlight in vain, and at the same time the sinking Evans on the opposite side sent back a sad and indignant question, questioning Caesar. Why did the USS Augustus attack American warships in US territorial waters for no reason.

"Report to the command immediately, we're in trouble." Lieutenant Commander Hahn said with a gloomy face, as a clear-headed old captain, he realized in an instant that this was a conspiracy.

"Conspiracy? Of course it's a conspiracy, no one in the Caribbean has submarines, and even if there is, they can only be Americans, although the Paris Peace Conference forbade them to build submarines, but it's too simple for this kind of little thing to build secretly, there are nothing more than a dozen sailors on a submarine, and it's even easier to buy it, and you don't even need a submarine from the military, those consortium bosses secretly build one in their own shipyard, and then drive over. ”

The news reached Yang Feng in less than half an hour, and Emperor Yang, who was in the Navy General Staff, immediately understood what he was playing, this trick was not small, and it could be seen that those old capitalists couldn't wait, a destroyer, more than a hundred lives, this is to checkmate Brian.

"Americans don't have to be like this if they want to go to war, right? Besides, with their strength now, they are not qualified to go to war against Germany at all, not to mention the navy, let's watch here, if they attack the German army in the Americas, it will be tantamount to a war with the Caribbean Alliance. Liu Buyun said, it was clear that he was not aware of the real goal of the conspiracy.

"It's not the Germans, it's the general." Yang Feng said lightly.

He was right, the American destroyer USS Evans, which was sailing in US territorial waters, was attacked by the German Navy Caesar. The news that the protective cruiser Augustus had sunk in a torpedo attack and that more than 50 American sailors on board had been killed quickly spread throughout the United States in a very short period of time, and Republican senators in the US Congress immediately shouted their demands for a declaration of war on Germany. At the same time, almost all the newspapers in the United States are doing their best to exaggerate the brutality of the Germans, including the old accounts of the burning of Washington.

The Caribbean Union Command immediately issued a statement after an investigation into Caesar. The Augustus did not fire any torpedoes, none of the torpedoes were missing, and the captain, Lieutenant Commander Jahn, could put his hand on the Bible and swear that he had not attacked the American warship in any way, and that he suspected that there was an unidentified submarine under the water at the time, and that it was the submarine that attacked the Evans with a torpedo.

But it's useless, the American newspapers and the pushers behind it won't give him room to justify, playing these things is their specialty, the American newspapers unceremoniously claim that the oath of a slaughtering innocent executioner has no value, and swearing with a hand on the Bible has a fart, as for the unidentified submarine this is even more incredible, where did the submarine come from? Did you drive across the Atlantic from Europe? That's the joke!

As for the Caribbean Alliance's investigation, it would be even more ridiculous, even if they found out that it was Caesar. The Augustus did it, can you still admit it yourself? Just kidding, it's all the same thing, it's all the same neo-colonizers, they will only cover up the truth for the Germans, how can they tell the truth.

The newspapers also identified the surviving crew of the Evans, making it clear that there were only the Evans and Caesar at sea at that time. The two ships of Augustus, and the latter was at the torpedo firing position at the time, can be said to be a matter of conclusive evidence that cannot be denied at all.

With the frenzied incitement of these newspapers, and because of the burning of Washington, the Americans did indeed have hatred for Germany, and for a time the whole of America was stirred up, and a large number of ordinary people who did not know the truth shouted the slogan of declaring war.

President Brian, who was just able to get off the ground in a wheelchair, was immediately pushed to the forefront. (To be continued......)