A few days ago, Tomosaburo Kato faced more than 2,000 newspapers, the pressure on the entire US delegation was now falling on the entire US delegation. Under the pressure of public opinion, some people believe that the purpose of limiting arms has been achieved. This view is represented by Republican veteran Elihu Rut; another view is represented by Theodore Roosevelt, the assistant to the Admiralty Department. He believes that there will be no final victory without breaking up the Sino-Japanese alliance. Once a war broke out between the United States and Japan, China's oil, steel and various raw materials will be continuously imported into Japan, causing its war potential to double. Now, if they do not break up with a decisive determination, China and Japan will definitely dominate East Asia in twenty years and become a fatal threat to the United States on the West Pacific coast.

At the internal meeting on the second day, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. not only reiterated the consistent determination of the Sino-Japanese Alliance to rule the entire Asia and would trigger a war with the United States, but also re-designed the "yellow peril" inherited from the Mahan era, believing that the Sino-Japanese Alliance will "unify the yellow race" and then "sweep the world". This "wave of color" will sweep the entire Pacific Ocean eastward, endangering the status of whites and the security of the United States itself.

Mr. Roosevelt's description of Yellow Peril was too exaggerated and specific. Not only did it not achieve the expected effect, it also made other representatives, including Secretary of State Hughes, feel disgusted. For the United States, to be precise, for the Republican Party, who is now ruling on the stage, the end of the world war has caused a sharp recession in the US economy, but the wealthy are paying a maximum of 63% personal income tax, and the maximum corporate income tax is as high as 73%. At this time, the Army has removed, and a large part of these taxes are consumed on the navy's expanding fleet. Therefore, tax reductions by limiting arms and revitalizing the economy are the top priority of this administration.

It obtained the same tonnage as the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, and at the same time, the Chinese and Japanese navies on the west coast of the Pacific cannot effectively threaten the US Navy. The purpose of the disarmament conference can be said to have been fully achieved. As for the threat from China and Japan to the United States in ten years and twenty years later, it is a matter of the Democratic Party and has nothing to do with this Republican government.

After the speech of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. finished, Secretary of State Hughes coughed a few times. He looked at the Secretary of the Navy Daniels and asked, "Josephs, are there any threats to us now by the Chinese and Japanese?"

Daniels didn't expect the Secretary of State to ask himself this question. He answered some questions: "Sir. In the past year, Japan has been making arduous preparations for the war, and its spearhead is obviously aimed at the United States..."

"Shet!" The Secretary of State interrupted him impatiently, "I don't want to know what the Japanese were doing before. I just want to know, based on the current tonnage ratio of the main battleship, can the Japanese attack Hawaii or San Francisco?"

"Sir..." The Secretary of the Navy is not used to this government, and he doesn't know much about Secretary of State Hughes. He was a little at a loss after being interrupted by him. Major General Robert E. Kuenz, the Minister of Naval Operations, said. "Sir, if it is just a battleship, then China and Japan do not have any threat to us, but what we are worried about is the aircraft carrier. Although China has given up the tonnage of the battleship, they still have six aircraft carriers in total, and according to the previous draft, we only have 130,000 tons of aircraft carriers and 80,000 tons of Japan. In other words, the ratio of our aircraft carriers to China and Japan is 54%..."

"What can an aircraft carrier do? Can it sink a battleship?" Hughes once again interrupted the numbers that the navy valued. At this time, he was under pressure from public opinion and wanted to know the result. He didn't want to listen to those extremely irritable numbers.

"Sir..." Major General Kuenz was stunned by the Secretary of State, and then said with difficulty: "It cannot sink the battleship for the time being, but if the aircraft develops, it will eventually replace the battleship and become a terrible maritime overlord..."

"General, please tell me how long does it take for him to replace the battleship?" Seeing the Navy talking about the aircraft carrier, Elihu Rut, the old Republican party club, interjected. He did not want Hughes to be influenced by the naval generals. These people were exaggerating the enemy at all times so that Congress would agree to pay more funds for the Navy.

"This..." Major General Kuenz was just a trend, but only a very small number of people supported this statement within the navy, even if the previous bombing test aircraft had sunk a German battleship. But that kind of bombing that was still and without resistance could not convince anyone, let alone the men in Congress.

"Everyone, based on what I have learned, aircraft can hardly do anything at sea except reconnaissance." Rutt said with great certainty with a copy of information obtained from somewhere, "For battleships covered with thick armor, the aircraft's 7.62mm machine gun is useless. Bombs and torpedoes may be of some use, but General, can you tell everyone if you want to drop a torpedo, what altitude and speed the plane will drop to?"

After saying that, Rut glared at Major General Kuenz, hoping that he would answer the questions on the spot. Everyone at the meeting was a very powerful bureaucrat and general. Major General Kuenz had to say: "Senator, as far as I know, the torpedo bomber must be five meters away from the sea and cannot exceed fifty-five knots before it can be deployed..."

"Aha. That's right." Rut had already known this technical detail of the Navy. He smiled: "Gentlemen, the plane must fly at a speed of sixty miles, and then throw torpedoes at an altitude of about five yards from the sea. Such speed and altitude can only become a living target for air defense weapons; as for bombs, I heard that the Navy's previous tests showed that even for static battleships without air defense weapons, bombs dropped from the plane may not be able to effectively destroy it..."

Speaking of this, a man next to Mr. Rut whispered a few words in his ear, and the Senator emphasized again: "In addition, the warship has not yet prevented damage in time. Gentlemen, it is crucial to extinguish fires and loopholes caused by bombs in a timely manner. As far as I know, in the bombing test conducted by the Navy, in order to sank a stationary, without any resistance or damage, the German-made cruiser Frankfurt took a total of six days, spending 107 bombs of 300 to 600 pounds..."

"Haha..." The senator's narrative was very humorous. Except for the navy generals who were sitting there, they couldn't help laughing. It would take six days to face a 5,000-ton cruiser without resistance. It was unimaginable to blow up and sink the battleship that someone operated 20,000 to 30,000 tons. The aircraft carrier could indeed only undertake reconnaissance missions.

"Sir, although the current test shows that the aircraft does not pose a threat to battleships, with the development of technology, one day the aircraft will carry larger bombs..." Major General Kuhnz argued.

"General, how long will this 'one day' be? Ten years? Twenty years? Thirty years? You should know that the duration of the entire treaty is only fifteen years. In fifteen years, we can re-discuss the threat of aircraft to battleships. If it is really only ten years, what will the navy need so many battleships to do? Why don't we dismantle all the aircraft carriers?" Rut asked back and left Major General Kuenz and other naval generals speechless because no one dared to give up the battleships and focus on aircraft carriers.

Seeing the navy’s defeat, Rut continued: “Gentlemen, the US economy is in recession. The only thing that can save him is the Eastern market, that is, the Chinese market. Now China is carrying out large-scale construction. The more than 5 billion US dollars of foreign exchange she owns is said to want to spend it within ten years. If we do not accept the olive branch from the Chinese, then the Germans, French, and British will replace us and benefit from it.

China is not Japan. Even if the Chinese navy is eliminated, we cannot surrender. Its huge territory and population require 10 million troops to completely conquer. Why give up the business we urgently need for enemies with such a country?" Rutt mentioned China's territory and population. When Theodore Roosevelt was about to emphasize the Yellow Peril again, Rutt stopped him with his hands in advance and said, "I know some people are worried about what they want to break up the Sino-Japanese alliance. But don't forget that using our current method can only make things worse. China and Japan did not have the intention to fully alliance before, but it is precisely because of our pressure. They are getting closer and closer and are increasingly disgusted with us.

Generals. Have you really considered what consequences your actions will cause? Do you know that we are facing two major powers? Do you know that in this meeting, we are on the offensive side. Do China and Japan are in the defensive role? Of course, Japan needs to prepare for war, and of course it will target the United States, because our naval base is only a few hundred kilometers away from them. Put away your Japanese threat theory. If we step up the pressure, the war will begin tomorrow."

Elihu Rutt is worthy of being a veteran of the Republican Party. Any naval general who looked at him would stare at him. For the United States, the army is just a servant who helps Wall Street wipe its butt. Even though he knows that the choice is wrong, the bankers on Wall Street will choose strategies that are beneficial to themselves and unfavorable to the United States. After the war, the United States had a serious overcapacity. If it weren't for the sharp drop in agricultural products prices last year, workers who suffered from inflation and unemployment would have gone on strike on a large scale like Russia. Signing a treaty not only guarantees normal trade with China, but also get a piece of the pie from China's huge wave of construction. Without that American, no American believes that Chinese goods will eliminate American goods. Everyone knows that the best tractors made by China were actually designed by Germans. Without Germans, they could not do anything.

The momentum of compromise with China and Japan was the upper hand within the US delegation. When the results of the internal meeting reached the White House, the situation became more optimistic because there was no naval general present. The cabinet members of the capitalist cabinet, with assets of more than $600 million, fully agreed with Rutt's view that the US Navy should not force China and Japan, but should not sign a treaty in accordance with public opinion.

On July 13, the 11th year of Shenwu, countries reached an agreement on restricting naval military equipment, that is, the ratio of the total tonnage of the main battleships of the six countries in Britain, the United States, Japan, France, Italy and China is the aircraft carrier tonnage. The number of countries is 135.000 tons: 135,000 tons: 81,000 tons: 60,000 tons: 60,000 tons: 162,000 tons. Because there are serious differences between submarine tonnage between Britain and France, the tonnage of the cruiser involving submarines cannot be determined. However, because the treaty stipulates that each signatory country shall not manufacture combat ships with a standard displacement of more than 10,000 tons and a main gun caliber exceeding 203mm, cruisers and destroyers are still subject to certain restrictions.

Originally, the Chinese representatives tried their best to rebuild these six aircraft carriers within fifteen years, but in the end, due to pressure from Britain and the United States, they had to agree to comply with the unified provisions of the treaty, and the replacement of the USS Yongning aircraft carrier was subject to twenty years of service as the condition for replacement. That is, in the 23rd year of Shenwu (1934), the replacement of the USS Yongning aircraft carrier will lay the keel bones. In the 26th year of Shenwu (1937), the new ship was completed, and the Changning and Yongning disintegrated; in the 26th year of Shenwu (1937), the replacement of the USS Anlan aircraft carrier was subject to the keel bones. In the 29th year of Shenwu (1940), the new ship was completed. In the 27th year of Shenwu (1938), the replacement of the USS Anzhen and Ansheng aircraft carrier was subject to the keel bones. In the 30th year of Shenwu (1941), the new ship was completed, and the Anzhen and Ansheng disintegrated.

The world's first aircraft carrier, the Shenwu, was strongly recommended by the British Chief Representative Lord Belford, who escaped the fate of being demolished on the grounds of historical relics. It will be a collection of the Naval Museum after the main gun and half of the boiler is removed and become a part of the history of the world's naval history. The purpose of Belford's move is entirely to please China, and to pay a huge price to reach the return and respect of this agreement. Whether the peace treaty is signed is crucial to Great Britain.

The six-state treaty that restricts naval armament reached an agreement. The five-state treaty that concerns island territories and island territorial powers in the Pacific region were also barely agreed the day after the six-state treaty reached a consensus. Among them, the United States promised not to expand military bases west of Hawaii, China and Japan promised not to expand military bases in the Taiwan Islands, Amami Oshima, and Britain and France promised not to expand military bases east of Singapore. In addition to restricting military bases, disputes between any two of the five contracted countries on any issue in the Pacific region will be resolved by all signing countries by holding a joint meeting and consultation.

In addition to restricting naval armament and reconciling conflicts between countries with islands in the Pacific, the Washington Conference in history also had an extremely important nine-nation convention. Its core is to ensure that the United States has implemented the principle of "open door and equal opportunity" in China. At that time, China was in a state of warlord separatism, and the customs was mainly controlled by Britain, so it was extremely necessary to sign the nine-nation convention. Now, China is an independent and stable country. Customs was taken back from the British several years ago. The amendment of the Sino-US contract was negotiated and signed during the Paris Peace Conference. Although the United States wanted to reaffirm the principle of "open door and equal opportunity" in China. However, this principle was immediately overturned by Yang Du with "equal tariffs and freedom of trade."

At this time, the recession of the US economy after the war forced the government to raise tariffs to protect the domestic market. This move made Britain, France, Japan and other countries very dissatisfied. After Yang Du proposed "tax reciprocity, trade freedom", he immediately won warm responses from other participating countries. The nine-nation convention could not be signed at all. Finally, on July 15, the 11th year of Shenwu, the six-nation treaty on restricting naval armaments and the five-nation treaty on the handling of Pacific islands, territories and their disputes were signed at the Washington Independence Memorial Hall. The division of power and rules of the game in the Pacific were determined.

On the day of the signing of the treaty, Japanese Navy Lieutenant General Kato Hiroji cried bitterly. Before, China had 40% of the tonnage of the main ships against the United States, plus Japan's 9 to 10 ratio, he had full confidence in destroying rice and animal life. But now, in order to form an alliance with Japan, China had to give up 40% of the tonnage of the main ships, which made Japan face the US Navy with 60% of the tonnage of the main ships, which completely deviated from the previous principle of the navy's decisive battle against the United States. At the same time, the promise of Japan's Chinese islands in the Pacific made him heartbroken. The Americans could build naval bases in Hawaii, two thousand nautical miles away from the mainland, while China and Japan, even Amami Oshima and Taiwan, which are close to the mainland, cannot add defense lines. This is really a bully.

Therefore, after Kato Hiroji's meeting, he cried and shouted, "The war against the United States began today, and Japan must retaliate against it!" After Kato Tomosaburo severely scolded him, he left the Shorem Hotel angrily and went to the Chinese delegation's headquarters to find Yang Du, Liu Guanxiong and others to drink and complain.

Compared with the Japanese's pain, the naval officers in the Chinese delegation finally accepted the reality after several days of melancholy. The reason is not so much that Yang Rui has always emphasized the trend and importance of aircraft carrier combat, but it is better to say that although the Chinese Navy has given up the tonnage of the main battleship, it does not remove personnel for this purpose. The planned 18 10,000-ton cruisers, 48 ​​2,000-ton destroyers, 54 large submarines, and eight 15,000-ton supply ships require more sailors and officers than active personnel. Most of the officers and soldiers who demolished submarines can be transferred to destroyers or new submarines. A destroyer requires two hundred people, and a new submarine requires sixty people.

Although destroyers and new submarines cannot be built in a short time, these personnel will not be unemployed through rotation. They will spend a few years and a half to work and half off and then receive new warships. But the Japanese Navy is in trouble. According to the tonnage of the main ship stipulated in the treaty, she needs to remove more than 1,700 high- and intermediate naval officers, 5,800 non-commissioned officers and tens of thousands of sailors. In addition, 80% of the naval generals need to be retired, the most serious is the naval school. It is expected that this year's enrollment will be less than one-fifth of last year's, and even a large number of students in the school will be removed from school.

The U.S. and British naval may be just a profession, but in Japan, the navy is an honor that is more important than a profession. The people who were originally brainwashed by the emperor suddenly lost this honor, which is simply uncomfortable than the Dead Sea. It is not by chance that the four naval officers in the 5th and 15th Five-Year assassination in Japanese history were born at this time.

In Japan's reports some time ago, it was a matter of hatred for the United States to suppress the empire by embargo, blockade and war as means, and it was something that everyone hated that China completely gave up the tonnage of the main ship to stabilize Sino-Japanese relations. As the first day before yesterday, Lieutenant General Kato Hiroji, who secretly transported the German submarine diesel engine back to China, began to cry and howl again after drinking several cups of Moutai. He pulled Lieutenant General Liu Guanxiong and shouted to avenge Mizu, which made Yang Du and others immediately close the windows and doors to prevent the partition walls from being heard.

"The US navy is not scary, the US's industrial strength is scary." Looking at the Japanese who was like a psychopath in front of him, Yang Du had to repeat his views while adding wine to him. "If we have strong industrial strength and can withstand a long-term war, we will not be afraid of the United States or Britain." After drinking a few sips, Yang Du's head began to hurt. The United States and the United States were mixed together and could not tell the difference.

"No. If we have 70% of the main ships of the United States, then in one decisive battle, most of the main forces of the American Navy can be eliminated, and then occupied Hawaii. Finally, we marched into California, forcing the United States to surrender and pay compensation!" Kato Hiroji looked excited as soon as he talked about the war. As he was anxious at the meeting, 'How did he do as a samurai with a sword...'

The Japanese are so stubborn. Of course, Yang Du and Liu Guanxiong would not take it seriously. Yang Du turned to Kato's adjutant Nobumasa and asked, "How do you view this treaty in your country?"

"Shame! This is the shame of the Japanese Empire!!" The kind of superiors will have the kind of adjutant. According to the original history, the chief representative of the delegation, Tomosaburo Kato, passed away the following year because of the torture of negotiations. His early death caused the Japanese Navy to split into military and political factions headed by Yamanashi Katsunori and Hori Teiki, who agreed with the treaty, and military order factions headed by Kato Hiroji and Nobumasato, who opposed the treaty. Kato Hiroji cried bitterly, and Nobumasato, who killed his flesh.

Liu Guanxiong immediately comforted: "Your Excellency, you know that Hedong and thirty years have passed, so you don't have to pay too much attention to the gains and losses for a while. If the world situation changes again in more than ten or twenty years, it is hard to say what the navy will do."

"The situation has changed again?" After hearing this information, not only Nobumasaki for the last time, but even Kato Hiroji, who was confused, was in a state of mind. Kato Hiroji asked anxiously, "How will the situation change?"

"There are too many variables." Liu Guanxiong didn't have much goods in his stomach, but it was enough to fool the Japanese. He said: "Russia, like our country, is building a large scale, and the goal is not small; Germany is also enduring humiliation and trying to completely get rid of the restrictions of the Versailles peace treaty; our navies are not advantageous, and the main ships are only 60% of that of Britain and the United States, but the relationship between the two ten-to-ten sea power hegemons is not as harmonious as we imagined. Since the British can betray us and to sign a contract to suppress and persuade the United States, it means that he is not so willing to be replaced by the United States.

There is no day, no country has no two masters, and the world overlord will eventually be one country, Britain, the United States, and us, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The key is to see who takes action first. If we and the United States take action first, it will definitely benefit Britain; if Britain and the United States take action first, we will definitely win. Being close to Britain and not making a name for itself is our best strategy now. Your country must not be used as a gun by the British."

Liu Guanxiong has been discussing the world situation with Yang Du. As for the current navy, the most worry is that under the instigation of Britain, the conflict between Japan and the United States intensifies, which in turn implicates China. So Liu Guanxiong made such a statement. But the stubborn Japanese obviously did not agree with this. Kato Hiroji said fiercely: "Is it still a pro-British? It is the corrupt country that betrayed us..."
Chapter completed!