Charlotte took a deep breath, although she had already made countless speeches on Capitol Hill, and she had long passed the time when she would be nervous because of the speech, but at this moment she still felt her heart beating very fast, and her calves and stomach were trembling slightly.

In such a situation, it is impossible for anyone to maintain a calm mind.

Charlotte uses a small magic device in her wheelchair to get the wheelchair to fall off the podium.

"Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of the Senate and House of Representatives,

"Yesterday, the land of the United States of America, since 1812, was once again attacked by a foreign enemy. Our enemy stole a civilian airliner and turned it, along with its passengers, into a superbomb. I was very sad to learn that in addition to the women, there were three children under the age of 10 on board.

"More than 20,000 people were trapped in the fire in the building that was hit, and the floors were so high that we couldn't rescue the building at all, so we had to wait for the fire to burn everything that could be burned. Countless people jumped from the stairs in despair, and the entire Fifth Avenue was full of corpses that had fallen from the sky beyond recognition! This tragic scene made everyone cry.

"Today, the bells of the whole United States are mourning for the dead, and today, the whole United States is weeping.

"The Chinese, in this way, express their dissatisfaction with the United States, we help them to encircle and suppress the rebels, but they take revenge and sow fire and blood on the land of America.

"Gentlemen, this is no time to sit at your desk and leisurely calculate gains and losses. Justice in the United States of America must be carried out.

"The people of the United States have formed their own opinions, and they know very well that this is at stake for the security and survival of our country. As Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and Army, I have ordered a necessary action to be taken for the sake of our defense.

"However, in order to win the war, we must go all out. No matter how much time, how much supplies and how many precious, soldiers' lives are expended, the forces of justice in the capital of the United States of America must win a decisive victory! Only then can we ensure that this form of slaughter will never again threaten us!

"As early as President Wilson's time, we knew that when the British Empire was weakening, Asia would be a battlefield for us to compete with the Ming Empire, and we have been preparing for this.

"I am not a **** theorist, I will not consciously guard against a certain ethnic group because of their skin color, but the behavior of the Chinese over the years has made me feel deep fear.

"Look at Australia, once a white paradise, the Chinese only took eight years to occupy a large area of land in Australia, originally everyone thought that this was just a harmless labor trade, thinking that this was no different from buying labor from China a few years ago to build the railway, we thought that this was just another cruel use of their own compatriots by the oppressors of that nation." But we were wrong, they are really taking advantage of their fellow citizens, but in ways we never expected!

"They transported their compatriots to Australia like slave traders, shipwows by boat, and at their peak they even transported 200,000 people a month! They claim that no one died during the transport, but this conclusion has not been verified by any authoritative observer! Journalists and priests who wanted to approach the transportees were either turned away or disappeared inexplicably after obtaining some materials!

"And then they did the same with the Middle East. Originally, the Persian Gulf was a difficult place for us to do, and Rockefeller wanted to send people to the Persian Gulf in search of oil, but was overwhelmed by the intricacies of tribal relations there, and finally gave up. When the Chinese found oil there, we thought that the Arabs would teach these arrogant Chinese a profound lesson, but now, the Arabs have been driven far away to the barren other side of the Arabian Peninsula, and the two river basins, which once gave birth to brilliant civilizations, have become Chinese settlements! With the planned transportation, coupled with the spontaneous Chinese who went there, there were already 2.75 million Chinese in the two river basins! And two and a half million of them are well-armed armies and paramilitary troops!

"This is China! During the time of President Wilson, no, when my uncle Theodore Roosevelt was still under secretary of the Admiralty, he knew that in the future China would be the strongest adversary of the United States of America in East Asia. Therefore, my uncle actively participated in the Yingzhou independence planned by the British, and actively provided assistance to the Yingzhou people! Now that we have occupied Yingzhou and cut off part of the Chinese Shenji, we think that we can finally be freed from the fear of the ancient civilization that is close at hand, has far more than our Shenji, and whose industry is not lost to us!

"But, as it turned out, we were naïve.

"Gentlemen, I know that you are all people of indifference, which is not a derogatory term, but in fact indifference is necessary when deciding on matters concerning the nation and the nation. I know that you will not change your beliefs because of a fire in a building and the lives of tens of thousands of people, but I firmly believe that you are all qualified citizens of the United States of America, and you will abandon your preconceptions for the benefit of the United States.

"Think about it, gentlemen, what will happen if we lose the war in China? Yes, we have naval superiority, and Japan is not going to lose it, but then what? Russia is already mired in a war with Germany, they can no longer draw more gods to defend the Far East, the northeast and even Vladivostok may be recaptured by the Chinese, and Korea will become a vassal state of the Xinming Empire again.

"Then the Chinese can deploy their gods in Mongolia and even in Ili, Xinjiang, and one of our important passages for sending supplies to Russia: the Trans-Siberian Railway will be cut off!" Of course, we can also use the Guò Arctic route to send supplies to Russia, but the Chinese will go out to the vast space south of the Ural Mountains and east of the Caspian Sea, China and Germany have an absolute advantage of gods, and the Russians will not have enough strength to defend here! And here, it is an important grain producing area in Russia!

"Although Russia is large, there are only five grain-producing regions: the black soil plains of Ukraine, the steppes of the Don River basin and the coast of the Sea of Azov in South Russia, the banks of the Volga River, the vast steppe pastures south of the Ural Mountains on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, and a small agricultural area on the Pacific coast east of Siberia. Now that the black soil of Ukraine has been lost, it seems that it is only a matter of time before the Germans occupy the South Russian steppe, after which the German army will definitely advance to the vast land west of the Volga, and the German fighters will attack the banks of the Volga with all their might, destroying agricultural production. If the steppes south of the Ural Mountains were invaded by the Chinese army, the Russians would fall into famine, and then the population of 1.8 billion would no longer be a resource, but a burden!

"Think about it, after the defeat of Russia, the Sinicized Germany and the New Ming Empire were connected! A new empire across Eurasia was born! By that time, it would be too late! Gentlemen! The United States needs this victory! In order to achieve this victory, we must go all out to get our factory up and running! Produce weapons, ammunition, and everything else you need! We must issue war bonds and collect all the wealth in society to carry out this war! We must look for a possible way to defeat the enemy!

"Gentlemen! This is no longer a local war to help suppress bandits, this is an all-out war between the United States of America and the government of the Republic of China!

"Not only do we have to defeat the rebels of the Ming Empire! We also have to defeat the masterminds behind the scenes in Germany and defeat the source of Yiqiē!

"Relying on the unwavering determination of our people, our armed forces will surely achieve a decisive victory!

"God-Bless-America!

"I ask Congress to declare a state of war between the United States of America and the Republic of China, and its ally, the Republic of Germany, beginning November 1, 1940!"

The next moment, applause resounded throughout Capitol Hill.

After the applause fell, the speaker struck the hammer: "Vote now begins, and those who agree to declare war please raise your hand." ”

All the senators and representatives raised their right hands.

"The required number of votes has been exceeded, and now I declare that the resolution is passed!"

The small wooden hammer slammed against the table with a crisp sound.

The terrible catastrophe known as the Second World War has finally been fully unveiled, revealing its hideous face.

**

After the meeting ended, a Republican congressman stopped Charlotte, who was leaving: "Your Excellency, what are we going to do with Vale?" ”

Charlotte gritted her teeth.

"If it has no intention of establishing a state or submitting to the Republic of China, and it continues to pay full taxes to the Federal Inland Revenue Service, it is an American business, and we will maintain surveillance and control of it in accordance with the judicial process in the United States." However, the Federal Tax Agent examines them for tax evasion, and at the same time, as a responsible American company, I believe that it should buy war bonds commensurate with its financial resources, while abiding by the U.S. government's ban on exporting anything to America's enemies. As soon as we find out that it has any irregularities......"

At this time, the Republican whip, who did not know when he appeared next to Charlotte, said: "Wise decision, Your Excellency. ”

"Mr. Councillor, you'd better tell your friends in Vale to be honest and don't let me find even the slightest sign of irregularity, or I swear you'll all be done."

"Rest assured, as a company with 70 percent regular employees from the United States of America, I think it will comply with the regulations of the U.S. government."

"No company that complies with government regulations will have a military force in millions."

"Those are just wage laborers, not even regular employees. When we hired Chinese workers to build railways, we also issued weapons to Chinese workers in order to fight the Indians along the way. ”

Charlotte gritted her teeth.

"You guys, be careful that Lin Youde eats all the scum left."

"And you, Your Excellency the President, be careful that you will never get out of that quagmire in China."

Charlotte didn't answer, just turned her wheelchair and left.

After getting into the car, Marshall asked, "Why don't we do it to Vale?" ”

"Are you asking me to send an army to attack Australia? By declaring Vale illegal, we are asking Australia to cooperate with us in banning this company, and we have no reason to drive out the Chinese who have taken root there, and because of the stupidity of Australian officials, those people are now legal immigrants. "As for Vale's land in the Persian Gulf, there is no way for us to cross nearly 8,000 kilometers to fight a military entity with an air force, shore defense batteries, and a small fleet at the same time as a war with China." ”

With that, Charlotte gritted her teeth.

"When Lin Youde was 'settled' in Australia, I was busy campaigning, and I didn't have time to pay attention to his small actions, otherwise I wouldn't have had so much trouble now. These big trusts are disgusting, and when the war is won, I must enforce antitrust laws. ”

Marshall was silent.

In addition to their own factors, Charlotte's rise to power also contributed to the great help of the major trusts, and the biggest reason they helped Charlotte was that Charlotte did not support the antitrust law, and helped them stop the antitrust bill in several major states and the federal parliament many times.

Charlotte was planning to wait for the victory of the war to consolidate his position, and then go back and clean up these monopoly trusts that had been her strong backing...... Marshall shook his head and didn't say anything more.