"If you want to do it, you have to have a reason." Little Morgan stood up and walked over to Charlotte, "If your trip to Europe can get to Germany or Russia, then the reason is not so important, but now we have to be famous." ”

Charlotte made a circle around Europe, passing through Germany and stopping in Russia. Unlike when she visited Germany, Charlotte basically did not sign any contracts in Russia, nor did she finalize any large-scale cooperation, and she just went to instigate Russia and the United States to pit Japan together.

However, Russia's reply was not negotiable: Japan was a small and emerging country, and Russia could be free to show its strength in Europe and Central Asia without worrying too much about chrysanthemums being stabbed. But if Japan is knocked out and replaced by the United States, the Russian chrysanthemum will be in danger.

This reason was so irrefutable that Charlotte did not argue with it, and stayed in Russia for a short time before returning home.

Now the United States can only do it alone, but fortunately, Britain, France and other countries have just recovered their vitality and are overwhelmed by the economic crisis.

After two years, the trade volume between the United States and Germany has grown steadily, and Charlotte has followed Germany's economic reform on a large scale after taking office, and now the money bag is very thick.

So Charlotte was confident enough to go to war against a small country without allies.

If it weren't for Charlotte's uncle Theodore? Before his death, Roosevelt told his niece never to underestimate Britain and talk about war with Britain, and Charlotte probably did not even intend to seek international allies. Theodore? Roosevelt believed that Britain was still a very threatening existence until 1950, but that the decline of the British Empire would become more pronounced after 1950.

All of Charlotte's knowledge and skills were taught by Roosevelt Sr., who trusted Roosevelt Sr. in his judgment. In fact, the British Empire did still have considerable power, and Lin Youde used a Chinese proverb when talking to Charlotte about Britain: a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

The current Britain theoretically has the best magic armor technology in the world, and at the same time, it also occupies a cutting-edge position in conventional industrial technology.

The British Empire was able to produce many industrial products that the United States could not produce at this time, such as high-horsepower liquid-cooled aero engines, and the United States' liquid-cooled engine technology has not been able to break through the bottleneck, so most of the military fighters in the United States use air-cooled engines, compared with the slender fuselage of aircraft with liquid-cooled engines in Britain and France, it looks thick and clumsy.

In terms of magic technology, although the United States has taken the lead in the theory of magic technology, the accumulation of production technology still can't catch up with the United Kingdom.

Because of this, the Ming Empire, which has thousands of years of inheritance from the Mo family, was able to stabilize its position after the defeat and obtain information from the Western magic armor captured on the battlefield to improve its equipment, and finally made the Western powers give up their plans to use modern magic techniques to push flat at one time as they did against the Aztecs, and instead pursued a policy of gradual encroachment.

Although the United States has achieved a leading position in theory and has completed the practical application of these theories, there is still a gap between the United States and the traditional powers in the manufacturing process of armor, which makes the performance of the new magic armor of the United States not comprehensive, and it is a "partial student".

This partial student is proud of the one subject he is good at, but he is still partial to the subject after all.

Once the Great Powers catch up in this regard, the newcomer to the Great Powers' family, the United States, will have to revert to the old ways of countering the accumulated superiority of the Great Powers in magic techniques with industry and economics.

Over the years, the United States has been on this road with great conviction that every pure American knows it.

Charlotte knew she had to seize the opportunity.

Just like when his uncle Roosevelt Sr. seized the opportunity to defeat Spain and officially join the imperialist club.

Japan has an ancient magic guide craftsman inheritance, which will produce a god Ji, and in the hundreds of years of occupation by China across the sea, he has learned a lot of Mohist tricks from China, and for the United States, that small island simply exists to compensate for the shortcomings of the United States. When the United States occupies the island, the emerging nation will gain the strength and confidence to challenge any empire.

**

Charlotte ignored little Morgan's own thoughts, and little Morgan was looking around the office. Although he is the son of the Morgan consortium and has now basically taken over the day-to-day business of the consortium, it was not until Charlotte was elected that he was in and out of the room regularly.

In fact, Morgan Jr. prefers his office at the top of the 55-story headquarters building to this small white building, although it is not as good as the Empire State Building in New York, but the Morgan Building is also the best building in the local area, and in Morgan's office, you can enjoy the pleasure of "overlooking the mortal world" as if you were on the top floor of the Empire State Building.

Because of this, although Morgan and Charlotte's predecessors and ex-exes had a good relationship, he rarely visited the "short" White House in person.

The reason why he is running diligently now is because his grandfather, who is about to die, very much hopes that his family will have a goddess mistress.

Little Morgan Pickles, like the rest of the boys, is invincible, and recently he also bought Playboy, and his lordic models can be formed into two infantry regiments. But in front of Charlotte, everything that little Morgan used to rely on in love places didn't work. Little Morgan could only clumsily begin to write sonnets—just like the poor devils did when they were courting the girl they wanted. As a result, his masterpiece of killing countless brain cells was directly evaluated as "garbage" by Charlotte.

This only aroused the fighting spirit of one of the richest people in the United States, and among the heads of various conglomerates in Roosevelt's camp, he was the most diligent in the White House, providing countless material for the gossip tabloids, speculating when Morgan Jr. would capture Charlotte's heart and when Charlotte would be killed by the slap of the hand to become a big gamble in which all Americans participated.

Little Morgan enjoyed it, but his grandfather scolded him over and over again.

But these scoldings were not taken seriously by Morgan Jr., who has long been accustomed to scolding since he replaced his incompetent father at the helm of the consortium, and the gap between him and his grandfather in terms of business philosophy has become wider.

If there is anything that makes little Morgan unhappy in this matter, it is that the gossip tabloids always like to compare him to the Chinese on the other side of the ocean.

The Chinese was thirteen years younger than Morgan Jr., but he had already won the hearts of two gods, for which some free commentators who usually looked at Morgan Jr. were unhappy to write a lot of bitter jokes to mock the tycoon.

As soon as little Morgan thought of Lin Youde, his eyes fell on the newly added photo frame on the summer vacation.

The photo inside was apparently taken during Charlotte's visit, and Lin Youde was shaking hands with Charlotte, and the two were smiling at the camera together.

"God, that's a stupid laugh." Little Morgan muttered quietly.

Then his gaze turned to the object in a nearby compartment.

It was the only one of the things that little Morgan had given Charlotte that was lucky enough to be left in her office.

A model of a difference machine.

Shinhime's preferences are really unique.

Little Morgan picked up the uniquely shaped model and fiddled with the moving parts on it.

At this time, Charlotte's voice reached his ear: "For America, that thing is simply the heavenly fire stolen by Prometheus." ”

"Uh, yes." Little Morgan hurriedly put down the model and turned to look at Charlotte, who was driven up to him in a wheelchair and took the model from the bookshelf.

"If it weren't for the steam differential machine drawings sent by Dr. Babbage, we wouldn't have been able to catch up with the Great Powers so quickly. Until now, the powerful computing power of the differential machine is still supporting the development of science and technology in China. Charlotte put the differential machine model back on the shelf, "Britain and France don't pay attention to the difference machine, they think that this thing has a single function, and they don't know how important the computing power it provides is in the development of science and technology." But Lin Youde is different, I tested it while chatting with him, and I bet that his research institute must be developing a mechanical computer. We must accelerate the development of the next generation of computing devices. ”

As she spoke, Charlotte's gaze turned to little Morgan.

Morgan immediately understood: "'Ellie' at the University of Pennsylvania is already under construction, and the computing power is fifty times that of our largest differential machine, the Jayka, but it is only one-third of the volume. ”

"I know all the data, Mr. Morgan." Charlotte smiled at Morgan, "The technique of building Ellie must be kept strictly secret, and in addition, the miniaturization must be stepped up, and I am very optimistic about your general company, Mr. Morgan." ”

The high-speed differential machine has not been widely used because it is too large and consumes too much energy, and so far, only the United States has equipped the coastal defense fort outside Manila Bay with a medium-volume differential machine to calculate the firing elements of the fortress guns.

If high-performance computers can be miniaturized, the combat effectiveness of the US military will certainly be enhanced by leaps and bounds.

Little Morgan knew this, and so did Charlotte.

The two are equally well aware that there is still a long way to go in the miniaturization of computing devices, and the United States cannot wait until that time to act.

So the United States needs that island.

The island that can produce a god and a complete system of magician craftsmen.

The United States in the previous time and space had enough room to wait for the Japanese to find their own death, but the United States in this time and space had to take the initiative.