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    Chapter 485 Six million tons of fear

    The intelligence on the gathering of three gods was predicted by the United States from various sources as early as half a month before it happened. What happened on March 28 was just the final use of facts to confirm the predictions of intelligence analysts.

    "Raised by my female cousin, British guy, German guy, damn it"

    When thinking about the future Pacific War, the U.S. Navy is very likely to encounter two major variables, the German Navy and the British Navy, in the Pacific. President Dewey¡¯s head suddenly became two big ones.

    As the President of the United States of America, Dewey did not understand the principle of "vertical and horizontal alliances." In recent years, he had also worked hard to break the strategic situation in which the United States of America was isolated and helpless in the international arena, but the results were not ideal.

    Needless to say, there is no need to say more about the two potential rivals, Britain and Germany. In addition, there are two other countries that are qualified to change the pattern of the Pacific, China and the Soviet Union. His olive branches to these two countries have not had the expected effect.

    In China, although Dewey issued a lot of bad checks when he visited China as Vice President, even without the influence of Lin Han, a time traveler, the leaders of New China also knew very well that there was a "fat person" squatting at the door.  It¡¯s much easier to deal with the chicken in a chicken pot than having a scary bald eagle lying in front of your house.  No matter how exciting the empty promises President Dewey issued at the time and afterwards, they could not be tempted. In the past three years, they have been doing non-stop oil and mineral business with Japan.

    In another country, the Soviet Union, Stalin was also a master who never saw rabbits and never let go of hawks, and only took advantage without suffering any losses.  There has also been little action in the Far East in the past three years.  With Stalin's temper, he might send millions of Soviet Red Army troops to attack Japan, but only after Japan bleeds out its bloody battle with the United States in the Pacific before he goes down to the mountains to pick peaches.  He was asked to "move forward for the United States" to charge into battle and chew hard walnuts. With a powerful Germany still squatting in the west, Stalin said that it was impossible to do such a thing.

    After the "Three Gods Gathering".  The Americans tried their best to send various political and diplomatic testers to Germany and Britain, asking them about their stance on the U.S-Japanese war.

    Both Britain and Germany responded in the same tone: "I hope your country and Japan will use the current actual control area as a reference to reach a peace agreement with Japan."

    Regarding the most sensitive "Hawaii" issue, the opinions of Britain and Germany are actually "permanent neutrality and international co-management."

    How is this possible?

    Because of this war that the Japanese "actively" imposed on the United States, the United States of America lost millions of tons of warships.  Nearly 100,000 lives were sacrificed, and countless money was burned to build more than 4 million tons of naval warships, including escort aircraft carriers and auxiliary warships. Is it just for a worthless "truce agreement"?  How could such a ridiculous request for peace talks be agreed to? No American president would agree to such an "armistice request."

    However, as Britain and Germany became increasingly biased toward Japan, the U.S. government had to ignore their positions.  The Americans who are preparing to "slay the gods and prove their truth" are most afraid that Britain and Germany will also come to help Japan, and such signs are becoming more and more obvious.

    In order to prevent Britain and Germany from getting deeper involved in the U.S-Japanese war, the U.S. government, which had seen signs of this danger last year, has sent special envoys many times to conduct diplomatic mediation between Britain and Germany.  There are a lot of promises and benefits, but what about the results?

    "We paid such a high price, but what we got was a reply like the Three Gods Gathering"

    In the White House, President Dewey roared and banged the table.

    The aides around the president also gave the president this advice:

    "Mr. President, we have built too many warships for this war. If we cannot achieve the final victory of the war, the United States of America will collapse."

    They didn¡¯t need to say much, President Dewey knew it.  The United States of America has no retreat or choice.

    In Buckingham Palace, England, another voice is also vibrating.

    "Gentlemen, give up all illusions. The British Empire now has no retreat and no room for choice."

    The person who made this sound is Arturia.

    "Gentlemen of the Navy, more than four million tons. Do you understand what this is? And you don't need to wait until the end of this year. This number will rise to five million tons, and by this time next year, it may even become six hundred."  Ten thousand tons and our British Empire¡¯s navy will only reach one million tons by the end of this year.¡±

    The audience below.  They are all high-level people in the UK who have the power to decide the future destiny of the British Empire.  Many of them feel pessimistic and desperate about future confrontation with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific and want to accept the "benefits" offered by the Americans and maintain so-called "benevolent neutrality."

    Arturia is hereThe cause of Er's speech was that the U.S. government once again rejected the joint request of Britain and Germany for "mediation" in the U.S-Japanese war.

    The real purpose of this meeting is to make a final vote on Britain's position and attitude in the Pacific War.

    "I know what you are afraid of and what you are worried about. But before you are afraid and scrupulous, you must first understand one thing. The United States has no way out. Do you know what this means?"

    Wearing the uniform of the Royal Navy, when he stood on the stage and gave a speech, the audience in the audience were looking at the report that was placed on their desks beforehand: an economic analysis report on the current situation of the United States.

    "In order to build up this super navy, which is currently 4 million tons, may reach 5 million tons by the end of the year, and will be 6 million tons next year, the Americans have spent more than half of their domestic gold reserves, and this is just  Little things. What¡¯s really scary is the over-expansion of American factories to build this Navy.¡±

    ¡°In 1933, the President of Ghana implemented the Ghana New Deal, which relied on large-scale money printing to invest in infrastructure construction to restore the economy. However, after 1938, as the economy improved, the U.S. government began to increase taxes and began to massively cut fiscal expenditures.  At that time, the President of Ghana believed that the U.S. economy had bottomed out and the government could withdraw from the market. Then, tax increases forced many companies to reduce staff and increase efficiency, and the reduction in public expenditures destroyed many people's jobs. By 1939, we had a war in Europe.  Before the outbreak, the unemployment rate in the United States once again exceeded 17. The economy that had just recovered was once again pushed back to the bottom. At that time, many people called this situation the "Ghana crisis."

    In this dimension, the President of the United States in 1933 was replaced by Cactus Garner instead of Roosevelt, but the "Roosevelt Crisis" occurred in history.  Still arrived as scheduled.

    Arturia continued:

    "It was not the Ghana New Deal that saved the United States from the Great Depression. It was the war in Europe and the huge orders from us and the French that saved the United States and pulled the United States out of the mud pit that was about to fall into the pit again."

    After a 30-second silence, she continued: "During that year's war, the empire lost something from the United States. Everyone here knows very well. The United States encouraged us to fight with the Germans in Europe and take advantage of the dangers of others.  As we opened up the colonial market, the Americans lived a good life for a while. Then, as we negotiated peace with Germany, we cut our orders, and then gradually abolished the evil Anglo-American Washington Agreement.  Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, the U.S. domestic economy showed signs of instability. "

    All the senior British officials present could not help but nod their heads when Arturia said this.

    "Theoretically, the current industrial production capacity of the United States is basically sufficient to supply most of the world's industrial product market demand. I don't think anyone here will doubt this."

    Arturia said fiercely: "The main problem of the United States is, after all, the contradiction between their overly strong production capacity, export-oriented economic model, and relatively insufficient market consumption capacity. But the market consumption capacity in this world is only so big  , we cannot give up our colonial market to feed this beast.¡±

    "Everyone, imagine this. If there had not been a war between the United States and Japan, what would have happened to the U.S. economy because we had an armistice with the Germans. The war in Europe did not go on endlessly like in 1914. That year  Over time, the factories that the Americans kept expanding and building eventually became excessive investments, and then what did they have to face at that time?"

    "The so-called New Deal introduced by the President of Ghana a few years ago was not a real cure. He was just drinking poison to quench his thirst. The restoration and expansion of production under these New Deals were the first one-year war that was amplified, and the second two times.  This stimulated the United States to blindly expand production. After 1942, the Pacific War broke out. In order to win this war, our American friends once again increased the production scale of their domestic factories crazily.  After expansion, they have continued to expand domestic industrial production capacity with the shipbuilding industry as the center. Five-million-ton and six-million-ton warships can be produced within a few years. Then, after the war, how will they deal with these brand-new and severely surplus warships.  How to deal with the excess factories built to build these warships? Scrap all the new warships and shut down all the newly expanded factories? Just send tens of billions of dollars of investment directly to the ship-breaking yards? In that case, the U.S. financial industry will go bankrupt.  , this country will be completely finished.¡±

    "If the United States really chooses this path, what will happen to the United States that ends the war as a victor? Are Americans willing to accept this kind of ending where life is worse than death, and seems to be victory but defeat? The U.S. government will not agree to this.  As a result, the domestic consumer market in the United States is simply not capable of digesting this continuous investment, investment, reinvestment, and expansion since the Ghana New Deal in 1933.I don¡¯t know how many times more products are produced by industrial machine assembly lines.  Their only way out is to look for new consumer markets externally. Who will they look for, who will they choose, and who will they ask for the market from?"

    Speaking of this, Arturia glanced at everyone present and continued:

    "If we do not intervene in the war between the United States and Japan, Japan will be defeated after 1946. By then, this war beast, which has been over-expanded and developed due to the war, is waiting to be fed. They will hold more than six million people in their hands.  Tons of warships Gentlemen of the Navy, guess what, this giant beast will wave this sword at this time and threaten us to completely open the colonial market. How should we face this "six million tons"  What's the threat?"

    Every time Arturia said six million tons, the bodies of many members of parliament, ministers, and even the Prime Minister around her could not help but tremble.  Today's U.S. Navy's strength has expanded to the point where others simply dare not "imagine" that they can "get along well" with it.

    The size of the six-million-ton navy, although it includes a lot of water including escort aircraft carriers, is still stronger than all the navies of other countries in the world combined, even if it is cut in half.

    After the Holy Impact, President Dewey ensured that the United States of America could "slay the gods and preach the truth."  Crazy expansion of the navy, the delusion of "ten times" the opponent's navy to overwhelm the opponent.  From the perspective of war, this is indeed the irreproachable "kingly way" in the art of war.

    But what he ignored was that the overexpansion of the U.S. Navy had caused serious uneasiness around the world.

    Arturia shouted loudly:

    "The market around the world digests the products of old Europe. It is already very difficult to add a United States of America that is more powerful than old Europe. The world will explode. Before 1914, we had a million-ton war with Emperor William.  level of naval arms competition, they were eventually forced to fight a world war to absorb the "negative reactions" produced by this arms competition. But now, our "American friends" on the other side of the Atlantic are engaged in a six-million-ton level.  The naval armament of the United States, this over-developed greedy snake, has no way out."

    "Gentlemen, gentlemen. Give up all illusions about "peaceful coexistence" with the Americans after the war. If the United States does not want to starve to death due to the abnormal domestic industrial structure and the lack of a consumer market for goods after the war, it can only swallow  After getting rid of Japan, a small insect with little oil and water, we are looking for the next target to fill their bellies."

    "Our only chance is to take advantage of the fact that our former enemy, the Germans, are also afraid of the Americans and are willing to join forces with us. Britain, Germany and Japan join forces to strangle this greedy snake that is growing crazily and out of control.  This is our last chance.¡±

    Speaking of which.  Arturia stopped. She put her hands on the table and looked around with her green eyes, scanning the faces of the congressmen before finishing all her speeches.

    Regarding declaring war on the United States, the British are not only afraid of the huge U.S. navy.  They are even more cautious, fearing that the United States will take the opportunity to annex Canada.

    ¡°But Arturia didn¡¯t care at all about being in Canada, she refuted this view at the time.

    "Regarding the Canadian issue, stop dreaming. No matter what our attitude towards the United States is, under the current situation. After fighting Japan, the Americans, who have suffered too much losses, will definitely send troops to Canada. Don't forget the education Americans have received since childhood, believing in God.  And hate the British. Now that their belief in God has fallen into chaos, the only thing that can keep them going, besides winning the war against the Japanese, is hating us British. In this case, if you think the Americans will  It would be too naive to be bound by a contract. If we do nothing, we will definitely lose Canada. But if we do something, we will stab the United States hard at this critical moment of fate and let the United States be defeated.  If the United States withdraws from the war as a fighter, the United States will most likely be torn apart after the war, and Great Britain will have a chance to keep Canada."

    Two days later, after secret discussions, the British finally decided to accept Artoria's proposal, unite with Germany, join the Pacific War at an appropriate time, and declare war on the United States.

    This meeting is just the final word on Britain¡¯s attitude towards the United States.  As early as 1944, when the United States was watching the frantic underground water warships like dumplings, the frightened British also secretly accelerated the construction of warships on domestic berths and asked major shipyards to abolish the rest system and switch to two-shift production a day.  It is abnormal to produce warships so quickly in peacetime.  Not only that, the British also have a tacit attitude towards the increase in the production of warships by their old rival the German Navy. The reason is that the current threat from the United States is far greater than the German Navy, and it is even so great that the British and German navies are forced to stick together for warmth.  to the point.

    HereIn the process, another ally that Artoria gained was the big capitalists in the UK, especially the military capitalists.  For example, in the aviation industry, shipbuilding industry, and steel industry, the military capitalists in these industries are all supporters of Artoria's policy in this matter.  Other drag capitalists who produce civilian goods, out of their own interests and the elimination of the United States, the "biggest competitor of the capitalist peers," are also not opposed to Artoria's idea of ??stabbing the United States.

    After May 1945, the British began to transfer more warships to the Pacific. Corresponding to the British move, the German Navy also simultaneously transferred more warships to Asia.  Britain and Germany are both powerful naval powers, and large-scale mobilization of warships cannot be deceived at all.  When the German ship openly entered the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal, Americans who got the news began to exclaim: The most terrifying situation, the Anglo-German-Japanese alliance, has emerged.

    What the Americans don¡¯t know is that since the Holy Impact, after nearly two years of repeated secret negotiations, Britain and Germany were forced to stick together for warmth under the pressure of the terrifying enemy the United States. The two sides have had conflicts over overseas colonial issues and naval issues.  More compromises were reached.

    The British agreed that after the Pacific War ended and the United States was defeated, Germany was allowed to annex Liberia in Africa and become a German colony. Although Hannah also knew that the colonial era was over, she still wanted to intervene here, drive away American forces, and then use the "  "Liberation" banner, supporting its own agents to carry out "economic colonization".

    ??The German concession is that after the war, the German Navy will compress itself to 50% of the British Navy's tonnage. This is another concession made by the German Navy on the issue of total tonnage after the Dutch negotiations last year.  To be continued.  
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