The conflict between Brian and the capitalists is very simple. Those capitalists want a war. No matter they win or lose, they want a war. Without a war, they will not be able to survive. Although after the outbreak of the European War, the erosion pressure of industrial products in Europe has been great.
However, China's industrial products continued to surge in, and the momentum was far more fierce than that of Europeans with unequal tariffs, because these industrial products had no tariffs at all.
It's very simple, smuggling, Chinese industrial products landed from California or China's Golden State Province as it is now called, with the joint efforts of Chinese and American criminals, crossed the Rocky Mountains and entered the United States. These have no tariffs and the quality is far better than domestic products.
Industrial products with much lower prices are very popular among American farmers, and because of the strong Hua Yuan, many American farmers now prefer Hua Yuan in agricultural products trade. They can directly use the Hua Yuan in their hands to purchase these industrial products, which makes the United States
When industrial capitalists were unable to explore foreign markets, even their own markets began to be eroded.
And it’s not just the Chinese who are doing this. Businessmen from the Confederacy and Mexico are also smuggling industrial products to the United States. The Confederacy in particular is unable to stop it at all. In fact, Yang Feng is replicating the Japanese Jidong smuggling attack on China’s national industry before the Anti-Japanese War.
With one move, these smugglers can even receive additional subsidies, and some even have armed mercenaries. The thousands of kilometers of border are not easily infiltrated.
It can be said that the current American industrial capitalists have no other choice but war, but the farmers represented by Bryan absolutely cannot agree to the war, because their agricultural products are in short supply, and they also enjoy better and cheaper industrial products.
There is no need for a war. The vast majority of those who die in a war are farmers.
This is an irreconcilable contradiction.
"The result of being unable to compromise can only be intensified. Originally, they could have had a way to alleviate it, which was to join the ranks of making war profits, but unfortunately we used the fleet to block their only spillway." Yang Feng said proudly,
He has tormented the United States for so many years. Now it can be said that the decisive game has been reached.
"What if they want to fight?" Zhang Zhidong asked.
"Then let's fight. We will fight for hundreds of thousands of casualties and knock them down, and then cut off the entire west of the Rocky Mountains. The war in Europe will not be inconclusive for two years. We have enough time, first
Let’s get rid of this serious problem once and for all, so as not to leave any trouble for our descendants.” Yang Feng said with a grim smile.
Two days later, off the coast of Charleston Harbor in the southern United States, the German protected cruiser Kaiser Augustus was cruising slowly. This is the flagship of the German Navy's Caribbean Fleet. This fleet now has only three protected cruisers in total. These old-fashioned burning ships
The coal steam engine battleships brought to Europe are just cannon fodder. They simply stay here to show their presence. Moreover, the German Navy also knows very well that they cannot return to the homeland in any case. As long as they leave the alliance's protection area, the captains of the British Navy will never
Missed the opportunity to add a sinking record to yourself.
Even if it is a blockade against the United States, they cannot go to the northern coast to show off their power like those new warships. They can only stay around the Charleston Port where there is basically nothing to do. This is an agricultural export port. Since the Snow Leopard
After the incident, all American merchant ships leaving the port, regardless of whether they were suspected or not, were first inspected at the port in Spanish-owned Florida. The two other protected cruisers that had just accompanied it had already left with two merchant ships under escort.
The captain, Lieutenant Colonel Hahn, looked idly at the sea under the moonlight. The war in Europe affected the hearts of him and his soldiers. However, they could only accept the asylum of the Caribbean Alliance here.
"Captain, U.S. destroyer." The first mate suddenly reminded him that in the distance in the direction of the port, the outline of a warship could be vaguely seen, coming towards us. This was the U.S. destroyer USS Evans stationed in Charleston, also using
To show their presence, both parties are old acquaintances.
"Keep an eye on it. If it sails out of the territorial waters, send a light signal to warn." Lieutenant Colonel Hahn is an officer who performs his mission meticulously. Since the order from the Alliance General Headquarters is to prohibit any US warship from sailing out of their territorial waters,
Naturally, this order must be strictly enforced.
At this time, they did not notice that three kilometers ahead, a black cylindrical object was rising from the water.
The destroyer Evans kept moving forward slowly under the watchful eye of Lieutenant Colonel Hahn. It was not until the distance was less than five kilometers that it turned north. It seemed that there was no evil intention, but that it was preparing to return north to Norfolk.
That's all.
Lieutenant Colonel Hahn was leisurely holding a cigar in his mouth as he watched this destroyer with a displacement of more than a thousand tons. Under the surveillance of four Caribbean Alliance battleships, two battlecruisers, and more than a dozen heavy cruisers, it was once the largest destroyer in America.
The powerful maritime power can only lie in its nest like a group of well-behaved rabbits. This is the fate of losers.
At this moment, a shrill battle siren suddenly sounded from the Evans in the distance. Lieutenant Colonel Hahn was caught off guard and his lips trembled. His cigar fell directly to the deck. At the same time, he saw the Evans turning to the west like crazy.
, at the same time, all the artillery at the head and tail aimed at the sea and fired at the same time, as if a torpedo was approaching.
"Quick, searchlight!" He turned around and shouted, and the high-power searchlight on the Caesar Augustus immediately pointed to the sea, but at the same time, a huge fireball exploded at the waterline of the Evans' bow.
When the ship opened, the destroyer jumped up suddenly, then fell back to the sea and began to sink without hesitation.
"Look again, look for the periscope!" Hahn shouted with his eyes widened. He had already guessed who did this job. It was too easy to hide a submarine on the sea at night.
The searchlight beam moved, but nothing could be seen on the sea. Of course, it was impossible for the submarine to stay after firing the torpedo. It immediately put away the periscope and sank underwater and slipped away. The Caesar Augustus did not have any detection submarines.
equipment, and in the end could only move the searchlight in vain. At the same time, the sinking USS Evans sent back an indignant question, asking why the Caesar Augustus attacked American warships in US territorial waters for no reason.
"Report to the headquarters immediately, we are in trouble." Lieutenant Colonel Hahn said with a gloomy face. As a sober-minded old captain, he realized in an instant that this was a conspiracy.
"Conspiracy? Of course it is a conspiracy. No one has submarines in the Caribbean. Even if there are, they can only be owned by the Americans. Although the Paris Peace Conference prohibits them from building submarines, it is too easy for such a small thing to be built secretly. There is nothing more than a submarine.
It would be even easier to bribe a dozen sailors. You don't even need a military submarine. Those consortium bosses can secretly build one in their own shipyards and then drive over."
The news reached Yang Feng within half an hour. Emperor Yang, who was at the Naval General Staff Headquarters, immediately understood what he was playing at. This move was quite skillful. It was obvious that the old capitalists couldn't wait.
A destroyer, more than a hundred lives, this is going to checkmate Brian.
"The Americans want to join the war. It doesn't have to be like this, right? Besides, with their current strength, they are not qualified to go to war with Germany. Needless to say the navy, we are watching here. If they attack the German army in America, it will be equivalent to fighting with the Caribbean
The alliance goes to war." Liu Buchan said, obviously he was not aware of the real goal of this conspiracy.
"It's not the Germans, it's the general." Yang Feng said calmly.
He was right. The USS Evans, an American destroyer sailing in US territorial waters, was torpedoed and sunk by the German Navy's Kaiser Augustus protected cruiser. The news that more than 50 US sailors on board were killed was revealed in a very short time.
The news quickly spread throughout the United States, and Republican senators in the U.S. Congress immediately called for a declaration of war against Germany. At the same time, almost all newspapers in the United States were doing their best to exaggerate the brutality of the Germans, including the old accounts that burned Washington.
came out.
The Caribbean Alliance Command immediately issued a statement. After investigation, the Caesar Augustus did not launch any torpedoes, and all the torpedoes on board were missing. The captain, Lieutenant Colonel Hahn, can put his hand on the Bible and swear that he has not done anything against the United States.
* ship attack, and he suspected that there was an unidentified submarine underwater at the time, and it was this submarine that attacked the Evans with a torpedo.
But it is no longer useful. The American newspapers and the promoters behind him will not give him any room for excuse. They are good at playing with these things. The American newspapers unceremoniously claimed that an oath to kill innocent executioners has no value.
Swearing on the Bible is useless. As for the unidentified submarine, it is even more bizarre. Where did the submarine come from? Did it sail across the Atlantic from Europe? That is a joke!
As for the investigation of the Caribbean Alliance, it is even more ridiculous. Even if they find out that the Caesar Augustus did it, can they still admit it? Just kidding, they are all the same, they are all the same new colonists, they just
How can it be possible to tell the truth if it will cover up the truth for the Germans?
These newspapers also found the surviving crew members of the Evans and clearly pointed out that there were only two ships on the sea at that time, the Evans and the Caesar Augustus, and that the latter was in the torpedo launching position at the time and could
It is said that the evidence is conclusive and cannot be denied at all.
With the crazy incitement of these newspapers, and because of the burning of Washington, Americans indeed harbored hatred for Germany. For a time, the mood of the entire United States was aroused, and a large number of people who did not know the truth followed and shouted slogans declaring war.
President Bryan, who had just been able to get off the ground in a wheelchair, was immediately pushed to the forefront. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!