"The world is unpredictable!" Meng Xiang was obviously not very satisfied with launching an attack on Japan in advance. But things can't just go exactly the way he envisioned them.

One is that he overestimates how much Americans value Asia.

In Asia in this era, apart from resources and population, there is not much to pay attention to by Americans.

But the United States' rich territory and proximity to its dominating Latin American backyard make it less desperate for resources in Asia. Even for oil, the largest oil production at this time is in the Americas, not in the Middle East.

Even though Asia has more than half of the world's population, the consumer market of capital at this time is not only measured by population, just as wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, and the majority of people in Asia, Africa and Latin America at this time cannot afford to enjoy the market popularization of industrial civilization. In Europe, the consumption of a household can be as high as that of a village in many parts of Asia.

The current United States has not yet transitioned to the point where the capital-financial oligarchy is piled up, and the world's factories, which account for half of the world's industrial output, need more real markets to vent the huge pressure of relative excess, not just resources.

This is also an important reason why the Americans did not have a global military expansion of their colonies, completely different from the Germans and Japanese, who were desperate for resources and space.

Compared with Meng Xiang's hope that through the United States to make China's industrial system more complete and thicker, and unwilling to turn his face with the Americans, the Americans also obtained a huge wealth opportunity to expand the degree of industrialization of a large country through trade with China.

In order to allow industrial machinery to continue to accumulate in the land of China, the wealth invested by Meng Xiang in recent years is an astronomical amount.

This is the biggest cake that has created a Germany with a super strong military value, and it has also created a group of pro-China billionaires in the United States.

For a country as large as China, its road to industrialization is only the beginning. This means more opportunities.

American capitalists today believe more in the wealth their factories create than in the resources they have ventured into the war.

Throughout the history of development, the Americans have always had a surplus of resources. With the Americas that God has given them, they have won enough industrial cornerstones.

Now they still have a stable resource market, and the resources they get from starting a war are just a few reductions in the cost of the resource. A resource market that fluctuates too far is not conducive to the steady development of industrial capital. And the consumption of a war is too great, and even very risky.

So when Europe and Asia were in crisis at the same time, the Americans first chose to rescue Europe, their consumer markets, and the centers of civilization of this era.

Compared with the wild land in Southeast Asia, Americans prefer to make a fortune in Europe, which is a gathering place of wealth and the frontier of technology.

If you raid here, you will get even more benefits.

Considering the huge profits of Europe and the relationship with the Chinese, as well as the risk of fighting the Japanese, the Americans dragged the Chinese in first, risking that the Chinese might pick the fruit and not leave.

At this time, the ambitions of the Americans had not yet expanded to the point of annexing the whole of Asia, and the full-power acceleration of the industrial machine had not yet reached its peak.

Their army was still in a soft-footed state, and it was simply not able to take care of the battle on land. So they threw out the Indochina Peninsula and let China and Japan fight to the death again. In the end, whoever emerges victorious may not be able to prevent the Americans, who have grown stronger from the war, from recovering the Philippines and possibly even Indonesia and other places.

It's not just Meng Xiang who thinks of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight.

The Army, which was targeted by the Americans, was now incapable of stopping the Japanese from plundering Indochina, but the Vanguard Army had the ability to solve the problem once and for all.

After two years of planning, the army of 2 million adapted to the south was enough to fight. It is also a huge burden to allow so many troops to merely train and maintain law and order.

Military expenditures are huge, not only limited to the consumption of materials on the battlefield, but even the cost of personnel is an earth-shattering figure.

The number of the Chinese National Defense Force has exceeded 10 million, which is equivalent to 10 million establishments that feed the country's iron rice bowl. This is already more than the number of civil servants of the new coalition government in China at this time.

No country has ever raised so many troops, and it is only in times of war, when there is a crisis of survival, that the expansion of the army will exceed 10 million at any cost. This is also a scale that was only reached during World War II, when there were no more than 10 million troops.

With such a huge number of people, many people have become cannon fodder in the blink of an eye, so as to avoid huge pressure expenses.

But now the army of 10 million looks mighty, but the huge cost weighs like a mountain on the head of the new coalition government.

The salary of 10 million personnel is much higher than the cost of subsistence allowance, not to mention that the salary of the national defense force is not low, comparable to that of civil servants.

The worst thing is the daily training cost.

The training of so many soldiers, by the standards of the vanguard army, is no worse than the consumption of fighting a low-intensity war. What's more, the most expensive ones are those mechanized equipment.

With such a huge consumption, it was mainly to go to Meng Xiang's small treasury before. However, with the development of the vanguard military junta and the transparency of government affairs, the use of small coffers has been subject to many restrictions. Meng Xiang also does not want a country's national defense to need too many external factors, and tries to start a virtuous circle. Slowly, the pressure on this mountain was transferred to the finances of the new government.

With the formation of the new coalition government, no force dared to take up this heavy burden.

The Central Party could not afford to raise even a million elite troops, let alone 10 million. Others can't even do 10 million troops in one uniform, let alone the mechanized troops before the vanguard.

The consumption of the huge army was a little unbearable, even Meng Xiang was a little unbearable.

Although the war in the north has put millions of troops to use, there are still more than three million troops in the south that have never moved.

Always sharpen the knife, but not trigger, and it is easy to have problems.

Criticism from political opponents, doubts from the people, and financial pressure made Meng Xiang show his sword in advance.

Of course, the same could not be said in the face of the Germans, who simply attributed the root of all the problems to the greed of the Japanese.

Truth be told, he underestimated the level of greed of the Japanese.

The efficiency of the Japanese in looting wealth has exceeded his estimates.

The Japanese brutally conquered the teeth of the natives and Westerners, and soon countless riches filled their warehouses.

They just waited to be transported away by boat.

However, the temptation of plundering and profiteering made them addicted, and the wealth of the Nanyang Chinese was always tempting their attention.

With the victory in the Battle of Fiji and the receding threat of the U.S. Navy, the plundering of the Chinese was not limited to the idea of a few individuals, in fact, the Japanese top brass already had a relevant harvesting plan.

Meng Xiang came up with this plan, and after making some exaggerated embellishments, he pleaded to the Germans:

"Do we need their butcher's knives to fall on the heads of more of our compatriots before we can take care of the aftermath and express a little regret? No, for these threats, we prefer to believe in solving them with fists and nipping them all in the bud! ”

Ribbentrop could only express his helplessness at the point of Meng Xiang's strong tone, which was similar to that of later Americans, who often eliminated potential threats. The incident itself was the fault of the Japanese in the first place, and the news of the Jakarta massacre has been confirmed. If the vanguard army does not have an explanation, it is not worthy of becoming the new ruler of China.

"The Japanese have already been punished, and I wonder if the war should not be expanded?" Ribbentrop said again.

The Sino-Japanese war was inevitable, but the Germans did not want it to affect future German strategic plans.

During this period of time, the Chinese army swept away the border defense line, wiped out more than 100,000 Japanese troops, and occupied a lot of territory.

Of course, the Germans also knew that these bargaining chips were not enough, and on the one hand, they put pressure on the Japanese to ensure the safety of the Chinese, and on the other hand, they also opened up more technical cooperation projects and economic cooperation to China, and more and more co-optation.

Germany's attitude towards China is no longer what it used to be.

The Germans were making good progress in Europe, especially in Soviet Russia, which made them much less concerned about China.

With the expansion of China in Central Asia and the Eurasian border of the Ural Mountains, the Germans, who also had some ideas about Central Asia and West Asia, became more wary of China.

Now that Germany has eased the tensions of the early days of the war, its dependence on copycat companies has become much weaker. The wariness of these unknown forces has led the Germans to now tend to produce their own weapons and equipment. After rational planning and integration, half of the European factories were constantly equipping the German army with new weapons.

Some of their secret technologies and new technologies are no longer generously cooperating with China, but they are exchanging more with the Japanese, who are involved in the strength of the US Navy.

Both the Americans and the Germans obviously regarded the Japanese as a pawn to restrain China in the future.

This is also a reason for Meng Xiang to send troops.

"Let's try to control it! But you also know that the war is not something that stops, we will gradually stop it! After some knocking, Meng Xiang got many opportunities for cooperation in cutting-edge science and technology including missiles, engines, and even nuclear technology from the Germans, and naturally relented.

However, it was impossible not to fight the Japanese, so Meng Xiang adopted a procrastination trick.

The future direction is no longer clear, and he needs to make a decision based on the next developments in Europe and the Pacific.

At least for this period of time, you can still earn a handful of benefits provided by Britain and the United States.