1157 Terminator
35 minus 30 is enough to build one more powerful super dreadnought, and if you squeeze two of them, you may be able to build them, and the French Normandy-class battleship is only 25,000 tons, such a simple arithmetic problem, even if the math is taught by a physical education teacher.
Unlike France, France is bluffing for more capital ship tonnage, while Japan is really ambitious in terms of navy.
"If the United States wants to provoke an arms race with the Great Japanese Empire, then the Great Japanese Empire is also fearless, and would rather break the jade than be destroyed." Yuzaburo Kato gritted his teeth, and a slight concession at this time would have a huge impact on future sea power.
As soon as these words came out, Xiao Si and Owen's expressions were a little strange, if Japan and the United States engaged in an arms race, it would seem to be very beneficial to Britain.
However, it can't be simply said that Japan and the United States are engaged in an arms race, so the British Empire will probably have to keep up.
"Then what if you add the British Empire-" Roque will not stay out of the matter, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the rotten ship has three catties of nails, don't look at the fact that Britain is now full of holes, it is really a matter of life and death, it can still explode.
"Sir, can you take a step to speak-" Yuzaburo Kato looked at Xiao Si and Owen with deep jealousy in his eyes.
"Ha, you talk slowly, Locke, let's go back first." Xiao Si is interested and wants to give Roque and Kato Yuzaburo enough private space.
Owen watched Roque stop talking, and finally didn't say anything, believing that there would be no PY deal between Roque and Yuzaburo Kato.
"No-" Roque doesn't want to artificially create a barrier, and there are no secrets between him and Yuzaburo Kato, Yuzaburo Kato can talk for a while if he wants to, and if he doesn't want to talk, get out, Roque is not a curious baby.
Yuzaburo Kato's face was ugly, and Roque was unmoved: "What do you want to say?" ”
"Lord, white people have dominated the world for hundreds of years, and as a yellow man—as an Asian, doesn't Lord want to do something for Asia?" Yuzaburo Kato has ideals, and as soon as he opens his mouth, he raises the issue to the level of race.
Oops, this height is too high, Roque instantly felt that he couldn't catch it, let's not be white and yellow at every turn, Japan is not capable of representing Asia, have you asked the opinion of the Indians?
As the largest loyal dog in the United Kingdom, in the hearts of Indians, I am afraid that India is the most qualified to represent Asia.
Japan is only an ally of Britain, and it is impossible to be closer than a "pro-son".
Of course, this "pro-son" is also imagined by the Indians themselves, and the British pro-son is the United States, or southern Africa, and India is at most a domestic slave.
"What do you want to say?" Roque doesn't pick up the stubble, don't listen to Yuzaburo Kato's foolishness, the ***** circle is really not "common prosperity", the true meaning is that Japan leads East Asia to prosper, or that Japan sucks blood from East Asia to ensure its own prosperity.
"The Japanese and the Chinese are connected by blood-" Yuzaburo Kato opened his eyes and said nonsense, God is especially connected with water and blood, Lushun Jinzhou is still in front of him, Gengzi's indemnity has not been paid yet, and you now tell me that a cloth with water and blood are connected?
I'm even your sister, and being a neighbor with you is a bad blood mold for eight lifetimes.
After the end of the world war, the ROC demanded that the Eight-Nation Coalition cancel the Gengzi indemnity on the grounds of the victorious country.
Other countries have responded, either reducing or refunding, but Japan is the only country that refuses to give up, and its attitude is extremely resolute, not a cent is missing, and the interest must be paid.
"Your Excellency, limiting the arms race is also for the sake of regional peace." Roque never believed in those who didn't, the jungle society is the strength of the king, if you have the strength to be a father with a hard fist, you don't have the strength to fantasize all day long that you deserve to be pressed to the ground and rubbed hard.
"Sir, both the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy are 500,000-ton capital ships, and if Japan only has 300,000 tons, it will not be able to maintain regional peace at all." Yuzaburo Kato followed Roque's meaning and said that strength is the guarantee of peace, which is true.
"So 350,000 tons is enough?" Roque didn't believe that the Japanese were so kind.
To put it bluntly, building and maintaining a huge fleet requires a huge amount of money, and Japan's strength is simply not enough to support it, and it is not like it has to squeeze its neighbors to survive.
Without the Treaty of Shimonoseki, there would be no modernization of Japan, and without the Gengzi indemnity, Japan would not be able to build the 88th Fleet, and the rise of Japan would be a history of blood and tears of the Chinese.
Ambition is constantly expanding, it needs to be supported by huge resources, Japan has no domestic resources, and can only rely on foreign plundering to maintain a larger and larger naval fleet, and there is only one country around Japan that can be plundered by Japan.
"Lord, don't forget that you're also Asian—" Yuzaburo Kato finally made sure that Roque was determined not to budge on the issue.
"I'm a Southern African now." Roque has a clear position, and Japan has been desperately "leaving Asia and joining Europe" over the years, and it is not much proud of its Asian identity.
Yuzaburo Kato left angrily, this is already the first time that Roque has directly rejected Yuzaburo Kato's overtures, Yuzaburo Kato is also indomitable, and may continue to look for Roque in the future.
"This guy is so arrogant, are all Japanese arrogant?" Xiao Si looked at Yuzaburo Kato's back with disdain.
After the World War, Japan, as the victorious power, thought that it was capable of participating in international competition.
In fact, that's what happened, Britain and the United States are smiling on the surface, but they are MMPs on the inside, and Japan really doesn't take it seriously.
"Japan still has some strength, and if it doesn't work, it will be the next Germany." Owen attaches great importance to Japan, which is the case in imperial countries, which are much more capable of mobilizing than democracies.
"It's actually easy to suppress Japan, just support ROC-" Roque quietly entrained, it's really not that Roque doesn't care about the Chinese in the Far East, but in Roque's position, there are too many people staring at Roque, once Roque shows too obvious tendencies, then it will also have a serious impact on Roque.
To put it bluntly, Britain and the United States attach much more importance to the Chinese than to the Japanese.
Don't look at the ROC is still a mess, in fact, if a strong leader emerges, it is really difficult to say who has the final say in the Far East.
After all, the Chinese have a population of 400 million and a glorious history of thousands of years, and Roque often talks about "up and down for 5,000 years" at every turn, and really doesn't know about white people?
I know, I just don't want to admit it, I can't admit it.
Napoleon said a hundred years ago: today, when a lion is asleep, even a fly dares to fall on its face and scream a few times.
With Napoleon's influence in Europe, would Europeans think that Napoleon was talking in his dreams?
Don't be arrogant, don't be inferior.
"Locke, don't-" Xiao Si directly reminded that it is enough for a "Locke" in southern Africa, and if Locke in southern Africa has too much contact with the ROC, Britain and the United States can accept a strong Japan, but they cannot accept a strong ROC.
Japan is strong, but it still needs British and American funds and resources.
If the ROC is strong, at least in East Asia, there will be nothing to do with Britain and the United States.
At the naval meeting the next day, the representatives of various countries were still noisy.
Roque was already impatient.
"The ratio of capital ships of each country can be implemented according to 5:5:3:1.75:1.75, and if Japan believes that security is not guaranteed, then our British Empire can suspend the construction of naval bases in the western Pacific region." Roque threw out a plan to fully consider the interests of all parties.
In fact, the main disagreement is Japan, and if Britain temporarily halts the construction of naval bases in the western Pacific region, then the potential threat of Japan can be reduced to a certain extent.
"No, 175,000 tons is not enough, we want 300,000 tons—" Albert Sarau insisted on asking for the same tonnage as Japan.
"We need 350,000 tons in Italy!" Carlo Yamazawa jumped higher, 175,000 - who is knocking.
"If France and Italy insist on building more battleships, then Southern Africa will also consider stationing more troops in Cyprus." Roque brazenly spoke, the tiger doesn't speak, you and I am a sick cat.
The combat effectiveness of the Southern African Army, which had already been proven during the world war, would certainly affect France and Italy as soon as Southern Africa increased its presence in Cyprus.
What's more, France and Italy want more tonnage for the so-called "national dignity", and Roque's threats are real.
"It is absolutely impossible that if Southern Africa increases the presence of troops in Cyprus, then France will increase the size of the army to more than a million." Albert Salau is inward-looking.
After the World War, France also carried out a major disarmament, but in order to maintain the threat to Germany, the size of the French army is now about 700,000 men.
"You can try, if France expands its army, then Southern Africa will also maintain more than 500,000 standing troops." Roque is full of voices, who does a million troops scare, during the world war, the French army had 4 million troops, and the combat effectiveness was just like that.
"If Canada gets together, the 200,000 Army can still be taken out." Bowden usually doesn't speak, and he is very powerful when it matters.
"300,000 Anzac!" Viscount Gladstone is even more powerful, hundreds of thousands of people, drizzle.
"India's strength is insufficient, just make one or two million meanings-" Although the personal relationship between Sustry and Roque is not good, at a critical moment, the Commonwealth still has to be unanimous with the outside world.
Britain's advantage lies in its colonies all over the world.
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India alone are not a big threat.
However, once mobilized, the explosive power of the Commonwealth is still considerable.
In the past, Britain's traditional advantage was the navy, but now with the addition of the army in southern Africa, Britain has made up for the last shortcomings, which really provoked Britain, and everyone broke up in two, turned back and continued the arms race, and saw who Britain was afraid of.