William Franklin Knox was the U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and he was very busy at the moment, because the whole world was cloudy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The United States has been seeking its own absolute suppression of Japan in the Pacific. With the Philippines and Pearl Harbor as the two cores of repression, Japan has created a shackle that is difficult to break free.

But the Germans have been in Europe lately, keeping the U.S. maritime manufacturing busy for the British, leaving a few people staring at the seemingly calm Pacific.

Everyone knows that the Pacific Ocean, which is so peaceful, is brewing waves that are even more turbulent than the Atlantic, and the calm in front of them is only a brief peace before the storm.

The Japanese Navy is not a world navy, and from its construction to its final death, it has only fought in the Pacific Ocean and has not undertaken the task of global deployment.

It is for this reason that the Japanese Navy was built with a reinforced design for the Pacific region - it was not designed to fully adapt to the oceans like the British Navy, but only to target the enemy who had hit the Pacific Gate.

Although on the surface, the Japanese Navy has various shortcomings, and there is a gap between it and the world's first-class naval power.

But William Franklin Knox knew that the Japanese fleet on the other side, which had been raised by the United States to be a fierce wolf, intentionally or unintentionally, was very powerful in his bones.

Despite the lack of funds, the training of the Japanese Navy was very hard and professional. As the support of Japan's rise as a country and the last pillar, the Japanese Navy is trustworthy.

Similarly, the Japanese Navy now has 10 battleships, and is building two newer battleships, the size of 12 battleships, which has put a lot of pressure on the US Pacific Fleet.

What makes the US top brass even more depressed is that the Japanese Navy is still actively using aircraft carriers, a newly born type of ship, to develop new lethal tactics.

Although the United States is also actively preparing for war in the Pacific, in the face of the aggressiveness of the Japanese Navy, it really does not dare to say that it will win for a while.

Judging from what really happened later, the Americans still overestimated themselves -- what does it mean to "dare not say that they are sure to win"...... It's like being beaten all over the ground by the Japanese.

It was not until '44 that the United States regained its enormous superiority in the Pacific, suppressing the fierce and well-trained Japanese navy.

No amount of disparagement or contempt will affect the many wonderful performances of the Japanese Navy in World War II, relying on a few fist weapons, the war once brought Japan very close to victory.

At present, the United States and Japan are engaged in negotiations, hoping that Germany's war in Europe will not spread to the Pacific.

The Japanese had been using the situation to their advantage, and the negotiations were not going well, which is why William Franklin Knox seemed worried.

Because he could see that Japan believed in its own battleships and did not believe in the conditions offered by the Americans.

"Ringing ringing!" William Franklin Knox, who was a little distracted by the mass of things in front of him, broke free from his thoughts and looked at the phone on his desk.

He grabbed the phone, lazy. At his level, apart from the phone call from the President of the United States, there are few calls worth his mental repertoire.

"Hello? I'm Knox. He squinted, his gaze away from the phone and onto the sunlight shining out the window on the desktop.

It was really a sunny day, he commented in his head, but what the person on the phone said immediately caught his attention, and he no longer had the ability to calmly evaluate the sunshine in front of him.

"You mean? The Germans got the design drawings of the Japanese Nagato-class battleships? Are you kidding? He grabbed the phone receiver, not sure whether to believe it or question the news.

Although the Nagato-class battleships have been in service for some time, the Japanese Navy's secrecy about its own battleships has reached the point of being airtight.

As a simple example, although the construction of the Japanese battleship Yamato began in 37, the Americans barely guessed the existence of this battleship in 38.

It was not until 42 that the real photographs of the battleship Yamato were taken - this is no joke, and it shows how carefully Japan kept its weapons secret.

"What? You mean, a German rear admiral is preparing to sell us this set of drawings? William Franklin Knox clearly felt that his brain was running out of his head.

The first one was that Knox thought that the intelligence department was crazy for wanting to make meritorious contributions, but he soon realized that the other party would not joke about such a bad thing.

Is this German stupid? So the drawings of the most elite battleships of the Japanese Navy were sold to the United States, a potential enemy?

Although he doubted, as the secretary of the U.S. Navy, Knox still felt that he should pay attention to this matter and strive to get the greatest strategic advantage for the U.S. Navy before the war came.

He grabbed the phone and asked, "It can't be our intelligence officers who have been deceived by the Germans, right?" ”

"It's not that simple, I think that even if the Germans found out about our spy line, they would use more than deceive." On the other end of the phone, the American intelligence officer opened his mouth to analyze.

Of course, he considered the possibility of the German intelligence services selling false information, but the other party asked him to check the drawings, and the scammer would give such a suggestion?

From another point of view, the United States and Germany have not yet declared war, and at such a sensitive time, it seems that it is more in the interests of the Germans to win over the United States to reap the benefits.

Under this premise, it is more beneficial to sell the drawings of Japanese battleships to get the resources that Germany lacks the most, than to build the same type of battleship by yourself with these drawings.

In Knox's view, Germany was clearly a participant in the Battle of Jutland, and had always had actual combat experience in battleship design, and the war proved its uniqueness.

In addition, there is no doubt that the German industrial system is strong, and referring to the design drawings of the Japanese Navy is just a matter of looking at it and borrowing from it, and as for picking it up and copying it, this is not a slap in the face of the Germans.

After borrowing the rest, of course, it is better value to ask the United States for a large amount of supplies.

"They promised to trade in batches, 10,000 tons of qualified high-quality steel, in exchange for one-tenth of the drawings." The other side of the phone explained a sentence, and then talked about the essence of the transaction.

When Knox heard about the transaction, he felt that the possibility of the other party being deceived was really not high.

And the drawings sold this time were also very particular - if the Germans had brought out the drawings of the old Fuso-class battleships, he would not have been very interested.

Even if it is the King Kong class, because it does not exceed the suppression ability of the US Navy, Knox will not be in such a hurry to buy it.

The only thing is the Nagato-class, as the flagship of the Combined Fleet, with a hint of mystery, and it can be regarded as one of the Japanese battleships that the United States fears.

Remembering the word most fearful, William Franklin Knox suddenly felt that perhaps a breakthrough could be opened from the Germans.

So he grabbed the phone and said to his colleagues in the intelligence department: "If it is possible, can you get information on the latest Japanese battleships from the Germans?" ”

There was silence on the other side of the "......" phone, apparently the intelligence services were feeling the pressure on this new mission.

In fact, it wasn't just the pressure, the intelligence director on the other end of the phone was now swearing at the earpiece with a silent mouth.

Let the intelligence services risk their lives to engage in intelligence on the Japanese Navy in distant Europe? Why don't you call the Japanese emperor and ask the Japanese if they will ask the British to buy intelligence on the US Navy?

Is this information a rotten street jeans? Do you have it in the super department store downstairs? This is core confidential information! My human head is tied to the waistband of my trousers, and I just made a good thing!

With such sophisticated information, you are still not satisfied? And face picking? Is there anything else? Why don't you ask the Japanese if there are any limited commemorative editions of your battleships?

However, the official rank and rank were there, and after scolding in his heart, the head of the intelligence department still opened his mouth and promised: "No problem, our side will definitely do our best." ”

Hanging up the phone, William Franklin Knox didn't understand why the Germans would so simply sell the information of their quasi-allies to quasi-hostile countries.

And he thought of another layer, that is, what kind of huge price would it take to exchange for the drawings of the Japanese Navy's active equipment?

Could it be that Germany gave Japan a lot of advanced weapons and equipment drawings? Doesn't this mean that Japan is stronger than previously expected?

As a Minister of the Navy, he was well aware of the great determination of Japan, which came up with these drawings, and that the determination at the national level often represented the interests of the same price.

It is a pity that no one, except for the top leaders of Japan and Germany, knows what has been exchanged for this contact between Germany and Japan......

The exchange of design drawings for Japanese aircraft carriers, as well as weapons such as the really important diesel engine and the 97 carrier-based attack aircraft, have been classified as the most core secret by Germany.

The price paid by the German side is not actually Germany's own weapons design drawings and technology. What they took out was information from the Americans......

Well, in fact, it can't be said that you got it, but to be a little more reserved, it was the great Crossing Yuan who first recalled......

Of course, he did not know, these drawings were copied from battleships of World War II, and as for how accurate they were, only God knows.