Just said that the Americans were exerting great pressure, and the second London Naval Disarmament Treaty was not so easy to sign, and he shot down a US Navy seaplane here, Admiral Zhu Tiansen's face immediately turned black, but because of the presence of the Japanese guests, he was not angry, but he laughed angrily: "Some of this war of words has been fought!" ”

Admiral Zhu Tiansen was like this, and Suzuki Kantaro and Yamamoto Fifty-six were also stunned, but Suzuki was a veteran after all, and he said in a deep voice: "Your military plane must have warned the Mi people, but the Mi people turned a deaf ear, and it was natural to be shot down." This is already the center of the fleet, and the planes of the United States are really rude. ”

Suzuki is old-fashioned, Yamamoto Fifty-six smiled softly, and he continued: "Let's see if the pilot survives, if you can save people, the matter should not be difficult to solve." ”

Yamamoto said that he should save the American pilot, but Zhu Tiansen looked up at the 'bat' that was spinning like a windmill on the bridge, and he shook his head and said: "This kind of seagull water reconnaissance plane is mainly used to take pictures, so we should collect the corpse." ”

The body of the pilot of the Seagull maritime reconnaissance plane was quickly recovered by the destroyer USS Qiuguo, and at this time, the Houston cruiser, which was trailing the aircraft carrier formation at a speed of 25 knots, did not find that its reconnaissance plane had been shot down. Looking at the signal from the destroyer, Admiral Zhu Tiansen was very hesitant to return the body now. In the face of the American cruiser Houston, the destroyer Yu Guo did not even have the ability to protect itself, and might be detained by the other party; It is also not appropriate to radio inform the other party, and the drill requires radio silence.

"Let the Yu Guo sort out the pilot's body first." Zhu Tiansen ordered, and then he asked, "Who did it?" ”

"It's the Anji!" Rear Admiral Tan Gen, the captain of the Changning, who came to report, replied, "He said that the pilot originally wanted to warn, but he didn't want to ....... I wonder why the planes of the Americans do not have self-closing fuel tanks......"

The Anji is Yang Xianyi's ship, because this person is from Honolulu. can actually be related to the prime minister. The Anji is like this, and the captains of Changning and Yongning are Tan Gen and Situ Biru, the famous Kaiping Gang in the navy; An Lan and An Zhen are the Fuzhou Gang, the former is captained by Shen Dexie, and the latter is Chen Shaokuan; As for Zhu Binhou, the captain of the last Ansheng, he is Zhu Zhiyao, a well-known shipbuilding king in Shanghai and the general office of Qiuxin Shipyard. The six captains except Chen Shaokuan. The others are all from the air force, and three are from overseas Chinese. These people are all bullish outside, but they are still soft in front of Zhu Tiansen, after all, he is the first captain of the aircraft carrier fleet.

"It's strange what people do with gas tanks, it's troublesome enough." Zhu Tiansen's face was still unhappy, "Doesn't Yang Xuehua usually boast that he is the first in the air force, but the American seaplane can't stop it?" It seems that the costume change was changed in vain! ”

Since the development of the Kunlun VII double-row 14-cylinder 1,200-horsepower engine, the military aircraft has been facing a comprehensive upgrading, with the technology accumulation of several major domestic aircraft design companies. The new aircraft has long been designed, just waiting for tenders. But in the economic crisis, funds were cut everywhere, but fortunately, this exercise was planned a few years ago, and the Inspectorate reluctantly gave 100 million (Shenwu 22 years, the third prime minister Mu Xiangyue, who had just taken over the second prime minister who was assassinated, Song Jiaoren, in response to the depreciation of the dollar and the gold bill, accepted the advice of the National Bank, announced a 40% reduction in the gold content of the Chinese dollar, and banned the export of gold. Hua Yuan temporarily withdrew from the gold standard), and repeatedly advised: Even the exercises and replacement planes are all in it. Don't come again.

"Sir, if it's an old-fashioned biplane, it must have stopped, but ...... Lose his mother! Tan Gen only scratched his head resentfully, this monoplane is fast, but after all, the altitude lift is not as good as that of a biplane. The Americans threw off their fighter jets after a few short pauses, and besides, the new plane they only got last year, who subconsciously was willing to use the new plane to collide.

Seeing Tan Gen scratching his head, Zhu Tiansen finally made a decision, and he said: "Then order the Dingyuan ship belonging to the Anji and the Qiuguo to hand over the pilot's body to the United States." But for the sake of fleet secrecy. The handover is scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow morning and will be communicated to the country. ”

"Got it!" Tan Gen nodded, but the chief of staff on the side, Xi Dingmo, said, "Is it enough to leave a cruiser in Dingyuan?" There can be another cruiser in the Asian fleet, in case the Americans ......"

"The people are dead, so let's just say that the plane was accidentally injured by us in the process of rushing into the sky over the fleet. Besides, there are only two cruisers for each aircraft carrier according to the allocation, and who wants to stay here for this thing and not be able to exercise? Zhu Tiansen unabashedly asked his subordinates to tell the truth of the incident, and was very dissatisfied with the decision to keep Dingyuan here.

"Okay, deal with it early and finish it early." Xi Dingmo thought that it was really not good for the two cruisers belonging to the Anji not to participate in the exercise, so he had to agree. He said and smiled bitterly, "Those masters in Beijing who oppose the money drill are going to make a fuss again." ”

Xi Dingmo said so, and Zhu Tiansen looked at him and shook his head. Since the reform of the military system, his greatest impression is that the enemy of the navy is not in the Pacific Ocean, but the enemy of the navy is actually in the Institute of Suspicion. Those drunken bullshit representatives of the sunken warships, I am afraid that it will take hundreds of years for the US Navy to catch up. But what can be done about it?

*

Just as Lieutenant General Xi Dingmo predicted, when the news of the sinking of the US Navy reconnaissance plane reached the Prime Minister's Office and was then reported to the Inspectorate, those old men who had previously opposed the appropriation of funds for the Navy to change planes for exercises jumped to their feet, and Zhang Junli, the No. 2 figure of the National Socialist Party (formerly known as the Democratic Socialist Party, which was changed to the National Socialist Party because the word 'democracy' was unpopular because the word 'democracy' was unpopular) split from the Kuomintang after Soong Jiaoren's death, immediately loudly accused some of the navy's generals of being arrogant and willful. His behavior has added fuel to the fire of Sino-US relations, which are already not harmonious. Zhang Junli made this statement, which made Vice Admiral Shen Honglie of the General Staff Naval Office extremely embarrassed, although he was not notified and questioned by the Inspectorate, but as soon as he received a call from the Prime Minister's Office, he still came quickly.

"I really said that Cao Cao Cao will arrive." As soon as Shen Honglie entered the door, he heard the laughter of Prime Minister Mu Xiangyue, and then saw Wang Zhengting, a diplomatic scholar, sitting on one side, and another was Yang Du, a famous international scholar.

Although Shen Honglie, who "has seen the prime minister...... is only a lieutenant general, Yang Rui has always placed him in the position of the navy office, and his responsibilities are equivalent to those of Japan's naval minister. Yang Rui is indeed not wrong, in the process of building an ocean-going navy with aviation as the main force, he has made great contributions.

"Okay, you're welcome. I'm looking for you. Mu Xiangyue, who was standing in the hall, walked back to his bookcase with his hand. Shen Honglie looked at his short and bloated back, and suddenly felt that there was indeed some truth in the rumors outside: it was said that Premier Yang was nine feet tall and not angry but powerful, but he was a god who came to the world, so he killed the Tartars and killed the foreigners; Premier Song has a narrow forehead and a short jaw, and his body is single and thin, which is a broken household reincarnation, so his family fell into ruins within two years of coming to power. poverty in every household; Today, Prime Minister Mu is very blessed, with a round head and a square brain, a wide face and a fat body, so as soon as he took office, the economy improved greatly......

I didn't expect my brain to be interrupted, Shen Honglie was blaming, Mu Xiangyue said: "The matter of the American plane, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is already dealing with it." According to public international law, the US plane was armed, and it was reasonable for it to force its way over the Chinese fleet and shoot it down despite the warning of the interception. Besides, it was an accident. The wreckage of the plane that was scooped up, and the record of the bombs used by the carrier plane that shot him down, all show this. But if President Roosevelt really wants to be bewitched by some people with ulterior motives, then there is no way. ”

Mu Xiangyue's official words had the tone of Shanghainese, and his face was like a smile even if he didn't smile, so Shen Honglie was completely relieved after saying this. When he was about to mention what to do with the National Socialist Party, Mu Xiangyue said again: "This time I asked you to come to say another matter, Italy is afraid that it will invade Abyssinia in a few months, and all the League of Nations can do is embargo arms, and Mr. Huizi believes that this matter is related to the reputation of the League of Nations." If diplomatic representations fail, the Navy is likely to send troops......"

"What?!" Hear the word 'send troops'. Shen Honglie's ears were pricked up, and people subconsciously stood up, did he hear it wrong?

"Chengzhang, don't get excited, sit down and talk." Seeing Shen Honglie like this, Mu Xiangyue, Wang Zhengting, and Yang Du all laughed.

"Will the Inspectorate agree?" Shen Honglie himself smiled. Since the end of the war in Europe, the navy has not moved for 16 years. I didn't think that the actual combat exercises here were over, and the African side was going to send troops again. "It's going to cost a lot of money! There are also Japanese naval ......, as well as Britain, France, the United States and other countries......"

"The United States is not a member of the League of Nations, and not to mention that East Africa is not its sphere of influence, even our actions are in line with the mainstream public opinion in its country. And this time the troops were sent in accordance with the statutes of the League of Nations. Abyssinia is a member of the League of Nations, and we and Japan are permanent members, and the purpose of sending troops is above board, the purpose of which is to prevent Italy from bullying the weak, not to turn Abyssinian into a protectorate or a colony.

On the British and French side, as long as we have this purpose, they will have no problem sending troops. At present, fascism is extremely rampant in Europe and even in the whole world, and the reason why Britain and France dare not act is that they are worried that sending troops will anger Europe and their own fascists, second, they are worried that it will affect the balance of Europe, and third, there is really no benefit in that place, so we send troops to help them. ”

Abyssinia is far away in the sky, although it is East Africa, it is already the sphere of influence of the European powers, in addition to the geography and climate, the first thing to consider when sending troops to the navy is the international situation, so Mu Xiangyue explained the current situation to Shen Honglie.

Seeing Shen Honglie nodded, Mu Xiangyue said again, "If nothing else, the navies of China, Japan and North Korea will send troops in the name of the League of Nations, according to the schedule of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is probably in June, so the time is very tight, you only have two months to make a plan, during which the Abyssinian ambassador and the emperor of the country will do their best to help."

You don't have to worry about the expenses, the battle with the Italian army is mainly a naval battle, and the navy's planes have all been replaced, and the cost of sending troops is only fuel and ammunition salaries. Speaking of the navy's new aircraft, Mu Xiangyue couldn't help but laugh again, it was really a double win, saving 100 million Chinese yuan, and the representative of the Inspectorate who picked the door could finally be comforted.

"Prime Minister, can this battle be fought?" After the excitement, Shen Honglie calmed down, he glanced at Yang Du, and then asked tentatively: "The capital ship of the Italian Navy is only 180,000 tons, and the aircraft carrier has only one seaplane carrier, while the Japanese capital warship has 300,000 tons, and the combined Chinese and Japanese aircraft carriers are more than 200,000 tons......

"It's impossible for the navy to go out of the nest, so you have to keep some guards." Mu Xiangyue said. After he finished speaking, he looked at Yang Du again, only to hear Yang Du cough and said: "Italy has been fascist for more than ten years, and the domestic people have gone crazy to rebuild the Roman Empire. The annexation of Abyssinia was by no means a temporary idea, which Italy had prepared for ten years ago, and was now stimulated by German Chancellor Goering. This matter is already on the verge and has to be issued. If he wins, Mussolini will remain in power, and if he loses, he will be hanged by the next dictator......"

In Europe for more than ten years, Yang Du is not only an international expert, but also known as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of East Asia; And a high-spirited position, a superior and comfortable life, and a later age that does not smoke opium. to make him live longer than history. He saw Mussolini's fascist regime very thoroughly - the ostentatious Italians did not want to accept the losses after the European war, nor did they recognize the fact that Italy was weakened, and they had to pretend to be a decent person and a world power, which made the domestic population fanatical, economically chaotic, and politically corrupt. I think that the Qing Dynasty could say 'no' to Italy, and then Greater China would be more able to unite its allies, maintain the prestige of the League of Nations, and defend world peace."

It took more than ten minutes, and Shen Hongliexing, who understood the essence of sending troops, rushed out of Wenyuan Pavilion, and as soon as he left, Wang Zhengting, a diplomatic scholar, smiled and said: "Prime Minister, so that our diplomatic relations with Italy and Germany ......."

"That can't be helped." Mu Xiangyue seems to want to be serious, but he just can't be serious. "Confucianism, prevent the slightest! If the League of Nations is bankrupt this time, what will happen in the future? ”

As soon as he said it, Wang Zhengting also became serious. None of the elders of Greater China are taboo, but they are most wary of the United States. In the name of the League of Nations, helping member Abyssinia to uphold justice, not to mention winning a good reputation in the world, but also alleviating the **** theory that is popular in the world, especially in the United States—look! Even if China and Japan are strong, all they do is abide by justice and maintain peace. It's not a scourge as the white legend goes, it's a national advertisement.

*

"It did. It's really just for... Advertise once? When Wang Zhengting was thinking about advertising, Zhang Taiyan, who was lying on the hospital bed, also said. At this time, his face was covered with a piece of white gauze, his eyes were abruptly bulging, and his voice was not only weak but also urn--unlike other people who had prolonged his life due to penicillin, his sinus cancer was discovered too late, and all he could do now was to do his best.

"Hmm." Yang Rui and Wang Ji stood on the same side. Solemn and mournful. Starting from Hanzhang, familiar people went one after another, and the only people who revolutionized together were themselves, Xian Hu, and Yu Zixun.

"Italy wants to annex Abyssinian in Africa, Britain and France have too many constraints to stop, and we are permanent members of the League of Nations. It is under the covenant that it is obligated to intervene to put an end to its misdeeds. This is done to protect the reputation of the League of Nations, to advertise itself, to ......, and to plan for the long term, if something happens in the Pacific, the League of Nations can give the United States a reputation for injustice, if not to stop it. The U.S. is now ......"

It's been decades, Yang Rui still can't change his unflattering and one-eyed style, Zhang Taiyan is not sick and talks about this, now at this point, he honestly said that he didn't feel at ease when he left, it was Wang Jitong next to him who secretly pulled him, and his words stopped.

"Hmm......" After a long time, Zhang Taiyan's voice seemed to come from another world, "Okay, it's done, the farthest you think... Most proper, I don't have anything to worry about......"

"Lord Guogong, Lord Taiyan, it's better not to think about things." When Zhang Taiyan was talking in a daze, the imperial doctor on the side saw that his condition was obviously not good, so he came up to advise.

"Got it." Yang Rui pinched himself fiercely, his face full of helplessness. He looked at the dreamy Zhang Taiyan and asked, "What's the matter, Uncle Mei is ......" He suddenly shook his head and asked the doctor directly: "How long can the patient live?" ”

"My lord: The weather is changeable at the turn of spring and summer, and if you can survive these two months, then this hurdle will pass." The Imperial Doctor lowered his head and didn't dare to tell the truth directly, so he had to take things back.

"Yes, let's go out and talk about it. Let Uncle Mei rest for a while. Seeing that Zhang Taiyan's voice was getting weaker and weaker, and finally there was no at all, Wang Jitong suggested at the moment. Although he is six years younger than Zhang Taiyan, he is sixty years old, and he is considered to have seen a lot of birth, old age, sickness and death.

Wang Jitong said it, Yang Rui walked out of the room, outside Zhang Taiyan's wife, daughter, son-in-law, and his students all gathered together, and many people avoided it after seeing the two of them come out and bow. However, Yang Rui didn't want to stay in the house, and after a few words of comfort to Tang Guoli, he walked to the garden with Wang Jitong.

Compared to the depressing atmosphere of the house, the garden full of flowers and greenery only makes people feel good. Seeing that Yang Rui actually stretched his waist, Wang Jitong looked at him and shook his head and said, "Why aren't you old?" ”

"Ageless?" didn't expect Wang Jitong to say this, Yang Rui smiled: "How can you call it not old." Besides, how can I get old? ”

The sentence 'the matter is not over' made Wang Jitong shake his head again. Although Yang Rui is no longer the prime minister, he does not care about political affairs. But he was preparing for a war against the United States from beginning to end, and he believed that the Americans would definitely fight it, and he believed that the Sino-Japanese-Korean coalition would definitely win the war under his command, so there was no way to get old. is so obsessed with the war against the United States, if he didn't know him, Wang Jitong would really think that he was crazy.

"Don't look at me like that." Yang Rui was a little dissatisfied with Wang Jitong's reaction. "If I'm not mistaken, Roosevelt would have taken advantage of the downing of the US plane to pass the second Carl Vinson Naval Act. According to accurate information, the Americans will build a total of 1.5 million tons of warships, including six Hornet-class aircraft carriers. As a result, the US Navy has twelve aircraft carriers, of which only the Assault is smaller, and the others are more than 20,000 tons.

What about us, except for our own six. On the Japanese side, there are only three ships available: Amagi, Akagi, and Canglong, and even if you add the uneasy Longxiang, there are only ten; Moreover, the Americans will continue to build like this until we raise our hands and surrender. Anyway, we don't have as much money as him, and the arms race can't consume him. ”

"Do you mean that there is going to be a war?" When Wang Jitong heard about the current situation, his mind also broke free from the sorrow just now. After all, people will inevitably die, and those who are alive must plan for the future.

"I smell war." Yang Rui raised his hand to pluck a peach branch full of flowers. Fingers like knives cut off the flowers on them. "After the pound crashed six years ago, the world was left without a master. Originally, the British wanted the United States to take over the world, and they acted as agents, but the Americans retreated.

In the past few years, it is not that the Americans do not want to take over, but that they dislike the cost of taking over is too high. They don't want to be supported on their own, so they will always come back, and the war is one way to come back. Look at Germany, didn't the expansion of the army begin after the civil strife? Once they expand their army, they will eventually provoke a Second World War. This time we sent troops to fight Italy. Another purpose was to strike at Germany, and if Italy fell into chaos, they would have to hesitate to go to war. ”

Although he has been wary of Germany returning to its old ways, after the assassination of Strasser, the leader of the National Socialist Party, Göring still became the chancellor of Germany, although he did not have Hitler's eloquence, but Juncker and the capitalists, who had long been frightened by the Communists, regarded him as the only savior who led Germany to escape the fate of Tsarist Russia; In addition, Britain, who did not listen to the advice, also wanted to sign a formal naval treaty with Germany, preparing to completely lift the German Versailles yoke, so that it could balance France and contain the Soviet Union at the same time.

"Can't we let Europe fight again and end up with the last one?" Wang Jitong, an international intelligence officer, also saw it, but he always felt that there was a problem with Yang Rui's thinking.

"I can't." Yang Rui is more and more convinced of his own thinking, "Once the United States comes out, whether we and her are allies or not, we will be the next to fall." The best way is to keep the United States in the Americas forever, and then use this economic crisis as an opportunity to weaken and isolate her. It is better not to go to war, because to go to war you have to convince him of defeat – not only militarily, but morally, I mean Christian morality. If the Americans felt after the war that it was an unjust war, and that it was entirely instigated by arms dealers, then their so-called manifest destiny would collapse. ”

"What about Germany? Now the Germans want to unite us against the Soviet Union, and the United States is against communism, and Britain and France privately support the restoration of the Tsar, so ...... Wang Jitong said another possibility.

"That's even more unlikely." Yang Rui said, "No matter how weak the tsar is, he is still a tsar, and he will always stand on the side of Europe and be hostile to us." In fact, Bolshevik Russia was fundamentally a country that was strong from the outside and capable at the inside. The Bolsheviks knew that they would not end well if a foreign war caused civil strife, so they often swallowed their anger when encountering problems.

In the past, they were like a bedbug, if they didn't beat him, he would cut sausages on the border every day, and if they took a little today and cut a little tomorrow, they really wanted to slap it hard, and he had no other way but to fart, so my order in Beiting and the Outer Northeast was that once the Soviet army invaded the border and provoked, it would be fought as a world war, and don't be afraid of making things bigger. If we lose, we will only step down, and if they lose, there is no place to die. Let Russia go on like this, for it is most advantageous for us to completely rot and stink the country, and even if the tsar takes over, Russia will no longer be Russia. (To be continued.) )