Beiyang reactionaries

Roosevelt could not accept such a result, and the United States could not bear such consequences.

Therefore, Roosevelt said: "General Marshall, Hawaii must be defended. There is nothing to say about this. I don't care what the military does. The Hawaiian Islands must be under our control. If the Pacific battlefield is in danger, it will be considered as a temporary cessation of the British war. With the support of the Soviet Union, we must also do our best to ensure the safety of the Hawaiian Islands."

After the "Lend-Lease Act", the United States has supported the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union with more than 200 billion U.S. dollars in arms and material support.And now the United States continues to support Britain and the Soviet Union.But once there is danger in the Pacific battlefield, Roosevelt can't care about Britain and the Soviet Union.Protect your own interests before you can support others.

"Yes."

Seeing Roosevelt's solemn speech, Marshall nodded.

no excuse.

Roosevelt's meaning is very simple, no matter how difficult it is, no matter what price the military pays, the Hawaiian Islands must be defended.Marshall is a soldier and understands the importance of the Hawaiian Islands better than anyone else, so although he knew it would be difficult, he did not retreat.

"Also, there is a big construction going on in the Hawaiian Islands. On all the islands that can be developed, build military bases for me. Let us deploy more fighters in the Hawaiian Islands. I will allocate funds for how much money is needed, and let Hawaii The islands became our military stronghold."

Roosevelt was really ruthless.

Japan is aggressive now, and Roosevelt must deal with it toughly.At present, not all the islands in the Hawaiian Islands have military bases, only a few important islands are military bases.

However, Japan successively occupied Midway Island and Johnston Island, the naval bases guarding Pearl Harbor. As a result, there were some lonely ones on Pearl Harbor.Now in order to fight against Japan, Roosevelt is preparing to carry out large-scale construction on the important islands of the Hawaiian Islands, and even build military bases as long as the islands with suitable conditions are suitable.Deploy a large number of aircraft to counter the Japanese navy.

Anyway, the most important thing in the United States is money.Even if the Hawaiian Islands are all military bases, with the transportation capacity of the United States, they can easily feed them and solve their logistical problems easily.

Roosevelt had never thought that Japan would be so aggressive and bold.But now Roosevelt has understood that if Japan is not defeated, the Pacific Ocean will really fall into the hands of the Japanese.

"Yes. I will make a report on how to build a military base as soon as I get back."

"be quick."

After talking with Marshall, Roosevelt turned his head and said to Cordell Hull: "Not for half a year, it's too long, and the Pacific battlefield can't wait that long. Cordell, you can give whatever you want from the Panama Canal. If you want someone, give it to him." If you want machines for machines, and you need funds for funds, you must open the air as soon as possible.”

"I'll try my best."

Cordell Hull nodded.

In fact, after such a canal is damaged, it is not so easy to repair it.But the biggest advantage of the United States is that they are the number one industrial country in the world.There are any machines you want, and you have money in your hands.

"Kordell, please sort out the cooperation between China and Japan over the years, as well as some issues of dispute between the two countries, and hand them over to me."

"it is good."

Cordell Hull nodded.

Japan was aggressive, and Roosevelt thought of China again.

722

"China has such a strong shipbuilding capability?"

Although the United States has adopted a policy of "first Asia and then Europe", its support for Europe has not been interrupted.It can even be said that the support for Europe is very powerful. In 1941, the United States supported more than 2 aircraft for the United Kingdom and the United States.I don't know how many other vehicles, tanks and the like.But now Japan is too aggressive, and the United States is losing ground in the Pacific battlefield, so the United States can only continue to invest its power in the Pacific.

Roosevelt's first thought was China.

In addition to strengthening his power in the Pacific, Roosevelt was looking for an ally in Asia.In Asia, China is the only country that can become an ally of the United States and can also attack Japan.Originally, there were not many independent countries in Asia, but now the so-called independent countries are supported by China and Japan.

"It may be relatively backward in shipbuilding technology, but in terms of shipbuilding scale, it is indeed very powerful. In terms of shipbuilding scale, China is almost equivalent to the UK at present."

Cowell Hull nodded.

Continued: "According to the information we have, after the war broke out, China's shipyards swelled like blowing balloons, and nearly a thousand new shipyards were added. The main reason is that after the war began, China's foreign trade volume increased rapidly. Coupled with the rapid development of their domestic economy, the demand for shipping has greatly increased. Therefore, China's shipbuilding industry has developed rapidly. At present, the tonnage of transport ships built in China has reached nearly 200 million tons per year, and this number is still increasing. China's transport ships Not only sold to the Japanese, but also to countries such as Germany, Italy, and Spain in Europe."

Kewell Hull produced a data report to Roosevelt.

Roosevelt needed to know the real relationship between China and Japan to make a judgment for his next decision.Roosevelt needs to know the cooperation between the two countries and the contradictions between the two countries. Only in this way can more effective differentiation be carried out.

Roosevelt listened to Cordell Hull's report, his face was very solemn.The time of the Revolution of 30 was more than [-] years ago.Even when Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui were in power later, the Chinese government acted entirely on the face of the big powers.Not to mention the face of the governments of the great powers, even many businessmen of the great powers doing business in China have the power to influence some policies of the Chinese government.Not to mention China's weak national strength at that time, the lack of money in the central government alone made them bow their heads.

But how many years have passed, and it is only more than 20 years.

The tonnage of transport ships built by China in one year can reach 200 million tons.Although it is not as strong as the United States in building 1000 million tons a year, it is already the world's top shipbuilding country.

"In addition to these shipyards that build transport ships, those large shipyards in China mainly build warships for the navy, and the scale is also very alarming. China's Dalian, Qingdao, Shanghai, Fujian Mawei, Guangzhou, Wuchang, Anqing, Wuhu, etc. There are large warship shipyards, many of which are affiliated to the Chinese army and are responsible for building warships. This is the warship trade data between China and Japan in recent years according to our statistics. There may be some errors, but generally there will be no major problems .”

Cordell Hull kept pointing on the map of China and told Roosevelt how many large shipyards there were in China.Then handed Roosevelt a data file.

It is the trade data of warships and transport ships between China and Japan in recent years.Roosevelt took it over, looked at it carefully, and said, "The Japanese navy is so strong in the Pacific Ocean. It seems that China's contribution is really great."

The numbers inside stung Roosevelt's eyes.

Large aircraft carriers, light aircraft carriers, escort aircraft carriers, destroyers, escort destroyers, the number of warships China has sold to Japan is too large.Then there are hundreds of transport ships behind.

"Although Japan's shipbuilding industry is developed, their scale is limited. Since the outbreak of the Pacific War more than two years ago, although Japan has worked hard to develop the size of their navy, in the past two years, the total tonnage of warships they have built is still less than to 60 tons. Compared with the total tonnage of the British warships in service in the past three years, it is nearly 200 million tons."

In fact, Japan has worked very hard.

Being able to serve 50 tons of warships is already Japan's maximum development of their potential.But Japan's industrial scale is like this.If it were not for China's support, Japan would not be able to produce so many warships.Historically, within four years after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the total tonnage of warships built was only about 85 tons.

Compared with the old British imperialism, it is really powerful.After the war, the British produced an astonishing number of warships.Up to now, 200 million tons of warships have been built within three years.

"We have analyzed the cooperation between China and Japan. The Japanese shipbuilding industry is limited in scale, so when Yoshiichi Tanaka was the Prime Minister of Japan, there was a cooperation agreement with China in this area. That is some small and medium-sized warships. There are also transport ships handed over to Chinese shipyards. Japanese shipyards mainly build those large warships. Therefore, the escort aircraft carriers, destroyers, and escort destroyers currently owned by Japan are basically built for Japan by Chinese shipyards, as well as most of the transport ships of the Japanese Navy. They are all products of Chinese shipyards. Later, after Japan went to war with us, their losses also increased. The number of large aircraft carriers, battleships, and cruisers was sunk by us. Japan’s own shipyards had no time to replenish, so they directly Spend money to buy from China."

"China has grown to such an extent."

"Yes. According to our analysis, the current number of machine tools in China is around 90, maybe there are about 100 million. They produce about [-] machine tools each year and import [-] to [-] from my country and Germany. Machine tools. Germany imports so many materials from China, and a large part of the money is offset by their machine tools."

"Damn."

Roosevelt frowned.

No wonder the Japanese navy lost so much, but it still maintained such a large scale on the Pacific battlefield.In addition to Japan's non-stop production of those warships, there is also China's support behind it.

"Franklin, the cooperation between China and Japan is not just cooperation in this area. Although Japan has occupied many parts of Southeast Asia, most of the materials Japan needs, including daily necessities, are imported from China. Most of the shipyards produce large warships, and most of the factories in Japan turn to the production of military products, and the light industrial products needed are all imported from China.”

"That is to say, Japan can fight now, and the support behind it is China."

"you can say it this way."

Roosevelt looked at the trade data between China and Japan, and his face really became more and more ugly.Although Roosevelt thought that China and Japan had cooperated a lot, but after summarizing these data, it was so ugly.

"The cooperation between China and Japan is not just that. China and Japan have cooperated since the early years, especially they cooperated to establish the Asian Joint Organization, and an Asian Joint Conference will be held every year. In Asia, this is a very important In the newly independent countries in Asia, many national liberation organizations in Asia have participated in this organization. In addition to the cooperation between these governments, non-governmental trade and non-governmental exchanges between China and Japan, including exchanges in education, are very frequent. It can be It is said that China and Japan have a very deep cooperative relationship in the military, politics and economy.”

Both China and Japan, and China and Germany are allies without covenants.

It's just that everyone has not signed a military covenant, so it is not considered a military group.In addition to this, China has a lot of cooperation with Germany and Japan.This is especially true between China and Japan.

Because they are very close, there are a lot of non-governmental cooperation.

Japan is the place with the largest number of Chinese students studying abroad, and China is also the place with the largest number of Japanese students studying abroad.