Chapter 648: The Soviet Union's Out of Line
The outbreak of the Liberian War immediately attracted the attention of the whole world.
China and Germany fought fiercely there, and the fierce battle was so fierce that it was so exciting that it made the powers of Europe and the United States frightened.
At the Presidential Palace in Washington, Cleveland called Jace, the chief adviser of the advisory group, to seek explanations on issues such as the Liberian War.
Jace of the advisory group first said: "From the current situation, Germany has compromised with the Chinese Empire in the Constantinople Treaty. Since it has given up the Liberian colony to the Chinese Empire, it means that at this stage, Germany cannot compete with the Chinese Empire, and at least it is unwilling to go to war with the Chinese Empire immediately."
Cleveland nodded and said, "We have to find a way to force the German Empire to go to war with the Chinese Empire in full swing, otherwise we will never be able to get rid of the Chinese Empire's control."
So far, America is still under the control of the Chinese Empire, but this is not the result Cleveland wants. Even most Americans hope to get rid of the control of the Chinese Empire, because in their eyes, America at this time is not a sovereign state, but a semi-colonial country. More than 80% of the wealth created by the American people are handed over to the Chinese Empire every year. This not only angered the ordinary American people, but also complained about the entire American capitalists. However, the military strength of the Chinese Empire is too strong, and the current America cannot compete with its own strength.
However, if the Chinese Empire and the German Empire go to war in full swing, the war will inevitably last for a long time. At that time, the Chinese Empire will inevitably relax its control over the United States due to the war issues and even require the US military to assist in the war. In that case, the Cleveland government will have an excuse to arm the US military on a large scale. When the time comes, it will turn against us and gain true independence from the United States.
Jace understood Cleveland's mood and said, "Mr. President, you are right to consider getting America out of the colonization of the Chinese Empire, but I don't think it's time to force the German Empire to go to war with the Chinese Empire at this stage."
Cleveland frowned and asked, "Why?"
Jace explained: "Just because I don't think the current German Empire has the ability to block the military strike of the Chinese Empire! You should think clearly that if the German Empire breaks out in a full-scale war, the German Empire will face complete defeat, and then there will be no national military force in the world that can compete with the Chinese Empire. Then the result will inevitably be that the Chinese Empire will unify the whole world and the entire Europe and the United States will be enslaved by the Easterners."
Cleveland disbelief and said, "The German Empire should have the power to compete with the Chinese Empire. Even if it cannot defeat the Chinese Empire, at least it should be fine to protect itself. Otherwise, the Chinese Empire would have used force against the German Empire long ago, and the ultimatum issued was cancelled and the Constantinople Treaty was signed, which was enough to show that the Chinese Empire could not yet take over the German Empire."
Jace snorted coldly and said, "That's just a superficial phenomenon! According to my understanding of the national strength of the Chinese Empire, the current GDP of the Chinese Empire may have exceeded 80 billion yuan, while the German Empire overestimated it was only 10 billion yuan at most, which was a full gap of eight times. In terms of military expenditure, the German Empire's military expenditure last year reached 5 billion yuan, accounting for half of the GDP. In comparison, although the Chinese Empire's military expenditure last year was only 10 billion yuan, which was twice the German Empire's ** expenses, it only accounted for 12.5% of the GDP."
Cleveland suddenly remembered the CIA report some time ago. At that time, he was also shocked by the madness of the German Empire. Military expenditure, which accounted for as much as 50% of the national economy, would seriously drag down the development of the national economy. Even such a high proportion of military expenditure was only 5 billion yuan. Look at the Chinese Empire's military expenditure only accounts for 12.5% of the total national value, but it is as high as 10 billion yuan, which is twice the expenses of the German Empire.
This gap shocked Cleveland at that time and felt a huge gap.
But just now, Cleveland forgot these things and did not remember them until now after being reminded by Jace.
"What you mean is that the military expenditure of the Chinese Empire was twice the expenses of the German Emperor, so the German Empire could not win! But sometimes wars may not be directly linked to the amount of military expenditures. Even the Chinese Empire has had many times in history. For example, the military expenditure of the Song Dynasty was a hundred times that of the Mongolian army, but it was still destroyed by the Mongolian army. The Ming Dynasty's two million troops could not defeat the 100,000 Qing army, but was eventually destroyed by the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, when fighting against the Chinese, we must never judge with common sense."
Hearing Cleveland's statement, even Dr. Jace, who claimed to be eloquent, was speechless.
But soon Jace reacted and persuaded: "Mr. President, I cannot deny your point of view. Indeed, the economy and military spending cannot determine the final victory or defeat of the war, but for now, your point of view only applies to the last courts in Chinese history. On the other hand, none of the founding emperors in Chinese history are fuel-efficient, just like the current Emperor Guanghua of the Chinese Empire, Li Weiguo, and the Shen Ce Army in his hands."
Cleveland was immediately embarrassed. He knew that this was Jace's tactful expression of his opinion and gave him face.
"What do you think? We can't always be enslaved by the Chinese Empire!"
Jace thought for a while and said, "The attitudes of European and American countries are actually very clear at present. They do not want the Chinese Empire and the German Empire to go to war in full swing, and hope to maintain this balance. Because whether the Chinese Empire wins or the German Empire wins, the rest of the country will unify the whole world."
Cleveland frowned and said, "The German Empire should not have the ability to unify the whole world, we should have room for operation."
Jace shook his head and said, "Mr. President may not understand that with the emergence of fast means of transportation, the unification of the world will no longer be possible. In ancient times, the reason why no powerful country could realize the dream of unifying the whole world was because of the backwardness of transportation. A soldier could not walk into the world even if he died. But now with planes, warships and trains and other means of transportation, the army can travel around the world. Therefore, as long as it is a military power, there is a possibility of unifying the world."
After a pause, Jace continued: "At present, I think the United States should still be patient. After all, the German Empire is also using colonies to exchange for a short breathing time. This shows that when the overseas colonies of the German Empire were completely eroded by the Chinese Empire, it was time for the Chinese Empire to attack the German Empire's mainland. That was the final decisive battle and the only opportunity for us to get rid of the control of the Chinese Empire. Before this, we must not let the Chinese Empire have any doubts."
Cleveland understood what Jace meant, and he couldn't help but sigh. Being an American president was his dream, but there was a Supreme Emperor on his head, which made him very unhappy. He didn't want to miss any chance of resistance.
"Okay, then let it bear. Since the German Empire is our last hope, we should support them strongly."
When Jace heard Cleveland say this, he smiled bitterly, but he did not persuade him again. If he persuaded him again, he would make Cleveland crazy.
Next, Cleveland talked with Jace for a while, focusing on how to secretly help the German Empire. It can be seen that although Cleveland resisted not going to war with the Chinese Empire, he was unwilling to be honest and wanted to secretly cause trouble for the Chinese Empire, otherwise he would be angry to death just by being angry every day.
The United States has a large amount of resources needed by the Chinese Empire, including oil, mineral resources, agricultural products, wood, etc. These materials were sold to the Chinese Empire at low prices, and were exchanged for various industrial products produced by the Chinese Empire.
In order to suppress America, the Chinese Empire did not allow America to develop high-tech industries. Therefore, today, America has become a country dominated by export resources. The second most powerful American industry in the world before the World War has been completely strangled.
Of course, in law, the Chinese Empire still allowed the United States to develop national industry, but the problem is that the national industry's competitiveness in the United States is too weak. Taking steel as an example, the cost of local steel produced in the United States is higher than that of importing steel from the Chinese Empire. In addition, the Chinese Empire forced the United States to pay protection fees, which caused local steel companies in the United States to bear huge taxes. However, the Chinese Empire also signed a large number of unequal treaties with the United States, which made no tariffs on the export of steel from the Chinese Empire to the United States. This eventually led to the bankruptcy of a large number of American local steel companies. Even if a few survived in the end, the shareholders became Chinese Empire merchants, and the money they earned was given to Chinese Empire merchants, and Americans could only get low wages.
The situation in the United States today is like the late Qing Dynasty in history.
The only difference is that the Qing Dynasty was bullied by the powerful people all over the world and divided up by the powerful people all over the world, while the United States was only bullied by the Chinese Empire and was only exclusively colonized by the Chinese Empire.
Cleveland was unwilling to give up. Although he was the president supported by the Chinese Empire and could even be re-elected until his death, Cleveland was not satisfied with the status quo.
With the secret support of Cleveland, some government officials and military officials began to collude with American businessmen and secretly smuggle some valuable intelligence, technology or equipment stolen from the Chinese Empire to the German Empire to help the German Empire improve its national strength, especially to help the German Empire improve its strength.
Among them, the Cleveland family consortium played a special role. They used the convenient channels opened by the Chinese Empire to inject a large amount of secret funds into the German Empire. Some weapons and equipment that the US military had just obtained from the Chinese Empire could even be secretly smuggled to the German Empire.
The United States does this, and other European and American countries are also doing similar things at the same time, but the size difference is just.
In fact, no matter how the Chinese Empire controls the United Nations, there is no need to avoid the fact that the Chinese Empire is an Eastern country, a country of yellow race, while European and American countries are Western countries and white races.
When the international landscape became the dominant Chinese Empire and the Eastern Empire rose strongly, it actually threatened the entire Western world.
Then even if countries in the Western world fight, they will all start to guard against the Chinese Empire.
The current confrontation between the Chinese Empire and the German Empire has actually gradually evolved into the final confrontation between the Eastern and Western worlds. The moment the British Empire and the United States became colonies of the Chinese Empire, it had already awakened the entire Western camp countries. Therefore, it was not by chance that Western camp countries secretly helped the German Empire to fight against the Chinese Empire.
A Liberian war caused an international undercurrent.
However, there is one country with an awkward position, which is Russia. Its territory is now all in Europe, but European countries never regard Russia as a European country.
Although there are contradictions of national interests and even hostile barriers caused by religious beliefs, the sudden outbreak of civil war in Russia has become one of the reasons why European countries further exclude Russia.
Since the revolution occurred in Russia a few years ago, Lienning and his revolutionary army forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate, Russia has begun a new chapter in history. At that time, Lienning and his revolutionary army were not strong enough, so they had to compromise with the Russian aristocratic class.
However, as Lie Ning and his revolutionary army continued to consolidate their strength, the balance of strength between the two sides gradually tilted towards the revolutionary army.
The Bourvik revolutionaries and the bourgeois revolutionaries had fundamental contradictions, which was irreconcilable. The two sides soon had fierce conflicts. The Bourvik revolutionaries continued to engage in land movements in urban and rural areas and opposed serfdom, which touched the interests of the Russian aristocratic group. After many bloody conflicts broke out, they finally entered a civil war.
It was not the October Revolution, but the December Revolution, not 1917, but 1905, which was twelve years ahead of schedule.
Lienning and his revolutionary army swept across the coalition forces of bourgeoisie and serflorids with a scale of 700,000 troops with a scale of 2.7 million troops. In less than three months, they unified the entire Russia and established the Soviet Union, referred to as the Soviet Union.
The establishment of the Soviet Union was too sudden and shocked the whole world.
At that time, when the Chinese Empire and the German Empire were at a strife, China and Germany were negotiating in Constantinople, and the Soviet Union happened to be between China and Germany. The Chinese Empire did not intend to stimulate the Soviet Union, prevent the Soviet Union from turning to the German Empire, and increase its enemies. Similarly, the German Empire did not want to stimulate the Soviet Union, and even had the secret relationship of special friendship between Hitler and Starlin, which allowed the Soviet Union to successfully escape under the tiger's mouth between China and Germany and had the opportunity to survive.
In fact, the Chinese Empire's intelligence department had long known about the special relationship between Hitler and Starling.
Logically speaking, the Chinese Empire has judged that the Soviet Union was an ally of the German Empire and should send troops to intervene in the Russian civil war at a critical moment to prevent the Soviet Union from succeeding.
However, in the end, the Chinese Empire only mobilized a large army to the Sino-Soviet border, but did not take action.
There is obviously a secret transaction among them, because on the day the Soviet Revolution was successful, Starlin secretly visited China on behalf of Lienning.
Li Weiguo met Starlin at the Wuhan Palace in Greater Kyoto, and the two even held a closed-door meeting for a while. No one knew what happened during this period, and obviously they had reached some kind of ulterior motive.
Chapter completed!