Warren Harding, another time and space, was sworn in on March 4, 1921, and then formed a notorious "poker cabinet".

The reason why it is called the "poker cabinet" is because Harding has to hold poker tournaments with cabinet members twice a week, and it is difficult to say whether there are bets or not, but this behavior is incompatible with the slogan of Warren Harding's campaign.

Harding's most famous slogan during his campaign was "return to normalcy," in other words, "Make America glorious again."

As president, Harding did not deliver on his promises, campaigning on raising tariffs, increasing boat allowances, restricting immigration, improving basic transportation, creating a public welfare department, and establishing agricultural cooperatives.

At that time, the White House was so smoky that Alice Roosevelt, the daughter of former US President Theodore Roosevelt, was surprised to see several decks of cards scattered on the White House president's desk, tall glasses filled with whiskey (during the prohibition period), the strong smell of cigar smoke, and the "Ohio gang" unbuttoning their vests and sitting around with their feet on the table.

In 1923, Harding embarked on a "journey of understanding" around the country, during which Harding died of illness and his doctors concluded that he had suffered a stroke.

Before that, Woodrow Wilson was unable to handle political affairs because of a stroke, and Harding died of a stroke, so there was a request for Harding's body to be dissected.

Harding's wife, Florence, declined the request.

Then there were rumors that Harding had been poisoned by Florence, who hated Harding's endless scandals.

Although Harding is not yet the president of the United States, but as a federal senator and one of the Republican presidential candidates, Harding's death still attracts widespread attention, and doctors also try to dissect Harding's body to determine the true cause of Harding's death, but this request was also rejected by Florence, who buried Harding's body as quickly as possible, and the cause of Harding's death became a mystery.

"That's it?" Roque was already in Washington when he learned of Harding's death.

Roque really couldn't understand the sloppiness of the American judiciary.

No matter what, Harding is also a federal senator, and the political environment in the United States is too bad.

In this way, no one wants to know the real cause of Harding's death, and the living Harding is a senator and maybe will become the president of the United States; The dead Harding has no value, and if Harding's body is dissected and it is found that Harding was poisoned, then it is another huge scandal, and it is better to let the truth be buried in the grave with Harding. Owen is not surprised, can this kind of thing be missing, it is said that Napoleon was also poisoned, and the French did not say that they would open the coffin for an autopsy.

Let's go into the earth for peace, the dead are great-

"Herbert picked up a big bargain, Harding died unexpectedly, and Herbert became the only Republican candidate, which is a good thing for us." Xiao Si is blindly optimistic, even if Hoover and Roque have a good relationship, but in Anglo-American relations, Hoover will not favor Britain.

"It's hard to say right now, I hope so." Roque is calm, good personal relationships are also maintained by interests, for a slave trader, don't expect him to have a high moral bottom line.

In an interview with New York Radio, Hoover declared that what America needs now is not heroic acts, but healing wounds; Not a panacea, but normalization; Not a revolution, but a restoration; Not exciting, but calm; Not experimentation, but balance: not to be encumbered by international affairs, but to succeed at home -

These words sound very inflammatory, but in fact, the careful tasting does not say anything, the standard is false, and there is no truth.

However, these vague remarks have indeed received good results, and they can be understood however they want, just like those commonly used clichés in fortune telling.

"The U.S. Navy Department has put forward a shipbuilding plan, preparing to build twelve new aircraft carriers within ten years, with a maximum tonnage of 55,000 tons, especially the Americans are simply crazy-" Owen is envious, jealous and hateful, and now there is still a gap between southern Africa and the United States.

"Don't take it too seriously, maybe it's a smoke bomb from the Americans." Roque understands the Americans, this is mostly the United States is building momentum for the naval conference, 12 aircraft carriers of 55,000 tons, with a total tonnage of 660,000 tons, it is impossible to think about it.

The United States has now begun to attach importance to aircraft carriers, and while ordering aircraft carriers from southern Africa, domestic research has also begun on aircraft carriers.

In April this year, the United States refitted the USS Langley, which was decommissioned in March, in an attempt to convert the USS Langley into an aircraft carrier, and the project is expected to take two years.

This fully proves that the United States is eager for the new weapon of aircraft carriers.

The aircraft carriers ordered by the United States from southern Africa will not be delivered until next year, but the United States cannot wait even a year, and now it is a refit, so the next step is to build it directly, and the United States has this strength.

"We can also announce a plan to build ships, and if the Americans build 12 ships in ten years, we will build 24 ships, which is always twice as many as the Americans." Xiao Si made a big fuss, the United States shouted that it would build 12 ships, and it could really be done by tightening its belt, and if Britain shouted that it would build 24 ships, it would really become a joke.

24 aircraft carriers of 55,000 tons, with a total tonnage of 1.32 million tons, the Royal Navy cannot afford to build them without underwear.

Sure enough, as soon as Xiao Si's words fell, Owen and Sidney Milner looked at Xiao Si with idiotic eyes.

It's a dog, the military common sense of a certain fish is enough idiots, and there are even more idiots.

"It's unrealistic to build an aircraft carrier, it's still okay to build a super battleship, Japan has Nagato, the United States has Maryland, and we should also have our own super battleships." Roque proceeded from reality, the super battleship is the post-Jutland-type battleship, and the United States and Japan have similar shipbuilding plans, but Britain has not.

Since the birth of the battleship "Dreadnought", battleships have developed to the present, and since the Battle of Jutland, they have been divided into the former Jutland and the latter Jutland.

After the Battle of Jutland, according to the lessons of this naval battle, the major naval powers improved the design of dreadnoughts: increasing the caliber of the main guns, improving the protection of turrets, powder magazines and other parts; Adopt key protective measures to thicken the armor of important parts and reduce or eliminate the armor of non-important parts; Emphasis was placed on horizontal protection, as well as protection against torpedoes below the waterline.

This dreadnought-type battleship is often referred to as a "post-Jutland-type battleship"

One of the representatives of this was the later "BIG 7".

The so-called "BIG 7" is the seven most powerful battleships in the world after the Washington Naval Conference, including the three Colorado-class battleships of the United States, "Colorado", "Maryland", and "West Virginia"; Japan's two Nagato-class battleships "Nagato" and "Mutsu"; and two British Nelson-class battleships, the "Nelson" and "Rodney".

After the Washington Naval Conference, according to the provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty, these seven battleships in the world were the only ones in the world to be armed with guns of more than 16 inches (406 mm), so they were called "BIG 7".

In the "BIG 7", Japan deliberately concealed the caliber of the main gun, claiming that although it was 406, the actual caliber of the main gun was 410 mm.

Here you can see who really can't hold up at the Washington Naval Conference, and who is fishing in troubled waters.

Yes, it's France and Italy, don't look at the ambitions shown by France and Italy in the Washington naval conference, when it comes to practice, France and Italy are both within their means, otherwise they wouldn't be able to build a post-Jutland.

"We have a plan, but we haven't implemented it yet." Owen can't help it, the Royal Navy has no money, and British diplomats are now also lacking in confidence.

"Then announce the plan first, don't care whether you build it or not, blow the bull out first, Japan wants to build the 88th Fleet, the United States wants to build 10 super battleships, and we will build 20 ships." Roque is not afraid of blowing through the sky, even Italy is shouting to start work, and Britain has nothing to fear.

Just two days ago, Carlo Yamaza, a senator of the Kingdom sent by Italy to the Naval Conference, claimed that the Kingdom of Italy wanted to build two new super dreadnoughts with 406 mm main guns, and I don't know where the Italians got their confidence, they can't even build 406 mm guns.

Although Roque is bragging to build 20 ships, Britain really has the technical ability to build post-Jutland-type dreadnoughts, and it really has a plan.

The Italians simply just kept their mouths, the British battlecruiser "Hood" still had 41,200 tons, and the largest battleship in Italy, the "Andrea Doria", had a displacement of only 22,700 tons.

The Houjtland-type battleship did not have a displacement of forty or fifty thousand tons, and it was embarrassing to say hello to people when they went out.

On August 20, the Washington Naval Conference was officially convened.

As Roque imagined, as soon as the naval conference began, the representatives of various countries began to argue with each other, for the sake of their own interests.

The United States, as the host, threw out a so-called plan on the first day of the opening of the conference:

1. Stop the construction of capital ships.

2. Demolition of some old warships.

3. The total tonnage of capital ships shall be used as the criterion to calculate the naval strength and determine the ratio of each country, with the capital ships of the United States and Britain each being 500,000 tons, and Japan's 300,000 tons, that is, 5:5:3, and auxiliary ships referring to the prescribed ratio of capital ships.

This plan was immediately unanimously opposed by Britain, France, Italy, and Japan.

Balfour felt that Britain had received too little tonnage, half a million tons was simply not enough, and a million tons was about the same.

Japan also felt that it was not enough, and Japan believed that if the capital ships of the United States and Britain were 500,000 tons, then Japan's capital ships should be at least 350,000 tons, that is, 10:10:7, which was in line with Japan's strength.

France and Italy reacted even more strongly, the United States and Britain each have 500,000, even Japan has 300,000, what about France and Italy?

Lao Tzu didn't come to Washington to accompany the prince to study.