"Mr. McCormick, you can think of us as the loyal policeman in the slave era. What we do is to stop slave owners and slaves who violate the law, not to overthrow the entire slave system. This is the real reason why we do not care whether there is slave trading in the Anisippiah Kingdom now. Note: Abolishing the existing slave trading and abolishing the current colonial system are not what needs to be discussed now." In the Jingshan Jiyi Academy in the capital, after the press official read out that the Jiyi Academy had passed the proposal to send troops, Associated Press reporter McCormick did not ask the Diplomatic Secretary Wang Zhengting, but Yang Du.

"So, those who are worried about our foothold in the throat of the Suez Canal in East Africa can rest assured, and those who hope that we can liberate the colonies can also be relieved. For the former, please remember that Greater China was the signatory of the Treaty of Versailles 16 years ago, the signatory of the Treaty of Washington, one of the founders of the League of Nations, and a member of the international system. Any actions of China and the Japanese Empire and the Kingdom of Korea will follow international rules and not be crossed, and not only will not be crossed, we will also actively maintain the normal operation of the entire international system until all countries agree that the treaty should be amended or abolished. For our three countries, maintaining the treaty itself is to safeguard our legitimate rights without damage.

I hope that all members of the League of Nations can participate in this peacekeeping operation to stop the Kingdom of Italy with this idea. Perhaps today, the 500,000 troops of the Kingdom of Italy are not invading your country, but once the treaty system is destroyed and the League of Nations is in name only, I believe that in the future, the next one to invade will be your country.

The League of International passed an urgent resolution to punish Italy yesterday afternoon: If the Italian side does not cease fire within forty-eight hours and starts withdrawing within seventy-two hours, the League of International will send peacekeeping forces to help the Kingdom of Anisipia expel any Italian troops that have entered its territory. At the same time, it demands that Italy compensate Anisipia for the actual losses. I hereby call on all members of the League of International to send troops to participate in this peacekeeping operation, because the defense of the League of International is to protect yourself!"

Under the flash of Chinese and foreign journalists, Yang Du did not panic and advertised everywhere. After leaving enough time to take photos of the reporter, he said again: "I can only express regret for those who hope that we can liberate the colonies. Greater China, the Japanese Empire, and the Kingdom of Yue did not send troops because of mercy or sympathy. As the Three Kingdoms with similar experiences, we understand that the development of the country requires the efforts of our own people, not just the help of other countries. The idea of ​​expecting noble people to come to relieve their uproaring suffering is simply unrealistic. Although the situation of each country and each nation is different, there are always various reasons for the reason why they have fallen to the present, so those who ask for help will help themselves!"

Years of career in the League of Nations have given Yang Du a sharp style different from diplomats. After all, the League of Nations is a place to solve practical problems, not a place to shirk responsibility. He defined the purpose of sending troops to Abyssinia in this way, which immediately disappointed some yellow people and happy white people except Italy. After the applause of not being dense but very warmly, the next reporter asked again: "May I ask Lord Yang. When will your country send troops? Now the Italian army is attacking Abyssinia from three directions, and Mussolini declares that he will occupy Agying and Addis Ababa within thirty days. If your country sends troops too late, it is very likely that Ajing will be occupied by the Italian army."

"The time for sending troops was finally decided after our Taiwei Mansion and friendly forces discussed, and the estimated time was two months later." Yang Du, who had received the news, said affirmatively. "At that time, no matter whether the Italian army occupied Addis Ababa, they must withdraw their troops in accordance with the resolution of the League of Nations. From this point of view, the faster they attacked at this time, the greater the losses at that time.

In addition, I also heard that in order to raise the military expenses of this military dispatch, the Italian government has called on all citizens to hand over gold jewelry, and even let go of wedding rings. It has also specially made iron rings to replace them. This makes people think deeply. What is the purpose of Italian countries being so powerful and powerful? As we all know, Abyssinia does not have rich and valuable minerals, and its economic benefits are also small. It is not difficult to judge here that the real reason for Italian countries to send troops is that the domestic economy cannot escape the economic crisis and has to rely on exporting wars to alleviate internal crises to maintain the position of those in power. At the same time, given the existing military power of Italian countries, he can only use force against a barren African country.

I can say with certainty that this is by no means an isolated phenomenon. Since Italian countries can rely on foreign military use to divert domestic conflicts, other countries can also choose this path. Therefore, if we tolerate Italian countries this time, then other countries will emerge as usual next time. In this regard, for countries that expect peace, defending Abyssinia is protecting ourselves, and giving up Abyssinia is giving up self-salvation."

Obviously, Yang Du's words mean something. The French reporter who understood his true meaning suddenly shouted regardless of the rules: "Master Yang, does the 'other countries' you are talking about referring to Germany?"

Although the French journalist did not abide by the rules, he was fluent in Chinese. After he said this, the entire press conference hall was in an uproar. The French, who were afraid of the last European war, would never want another European war, so he hoped to get a reliable security commitment, especially for Germany. Yang Du's speech aroused the French.

As soon as the French spoke, German reporters shouted for protest, but more eyes were looking at Yang Du, including the diplomatic minister Wang Zhengting around him. He was happy that Yang Du would answer this question, which was not a complete official position after all.

"Including Germany, and any country that wants to transfer domestic contradictions to the outside world to maintain the rule of the current government!" Yang Du nodded and replied, saying a little obscure, but his next sentence revealed his nature. He said: "China and Germany have a very deep friendship and are very sympathetic to what Germany has encountered. We also support the current German government to improve its situation through legal means such as negotiations. However, if the current German government wants to learn from Italy to get rid of the Treaty of Versailles, our government will be completely opposed. The reason for opposition is that this move will destroy the existing international treaty and trigger a large-scale war. A deeper reason is that this will bring deeper disaster to the German people!

As the victorious country of the last war, Italy invaded Abyssinia, had asked the people to donate their gold wedding rings. What did Germany have to donate when it launched a war? What else would Germany, as the last defeated country? Since Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Bulgarian Kingdom worked together to win the war. Why do you think that you can win the next world war? Germany is really not in good condition now, but the war will only make the German people worse. Just like this Italian invasion of Afghanistan, it will eventually suffer its own suffering."

Unlike the previous answer, Yang Du won applause from everyone present, including the German reporter who protested loudly the day before. The next day, his answer to reporters' questions was not only published on the front pages of major domestic newspapers, but also published in newspapers and magazines around the world except Germany. Time magazine in the United States also used his portrait as the cover, and added a line of words on the photo: Guardian of Peace!

More than 20 days later, Yang Rui laughed when he saw the detailed article of Time magazine. China's ultimate goal of safeguarding peace and treaties is to protect its own interests. There is no such lofty ideal at all, but Yang Du's statement and position are completely in line with the tastes of the world's mainstream media and those who "pray for peace" people, and are sought after.

Looking at Yang Rui, Bei Shoutong, who visited in his private capacity, also smiled slightly. He said: "Sir, there are many people, especially many foreigners, who hope that Mr. Xizi will participate in the next Prime Minister's election..."

"Is that true?" Yang Rui put down the magazine and answered casually, "I don't think Xizi would agree. His stage is the whole world, and the country is too small for him. Let's not talk about this. How are you preparing for the military service?"

"Yes." After the chat, Bei Shoutong immediately became serious. He said: "Sir, the specific plan of sending troops has been communicated with Japan. After the Japanese parliament barely passed the bill, the biggest problem has been solved. It's just that Xingchu's misleading strategy is too bold, and the navy opposes strongly. Especially the captain of the Changning, Major General Tan Gen, vowed to sink with the ship..."

Xu Jingxi had a kind of Qin general Bai Qi's iron blood, which was cruel to the enemy and was not a problem to his own people. Although misleading strategies were desirable, the cost was not too high. The Changning was the design plan of Wang Pingxuan's group A backbone. It was a single-layer hangar and an armored flight deck. In 20 years, the side support pillars supporting the 5,000 tons of armor on the flight deck had some deformation and bends. If the ship wanted to continue to use it, it would have to level the waterline and rebuild it. It would be better to rebuild an aircraft carrier. The reason is this, but this matter is related to the honor of the navy, and it is almost impossible to implement it.

"Haha, after so many years, this kid Tan Gen still has the same temper." Yang Rui smiled, then lit a cigarette.

"Yes, sir." Bei Shou came here for help, "Now it was mainly because he disagreed, and Tiansen had already reluctantly agreed. Xingchu and I both thought that this matter was extremely necessary and the safety of the personnel was also guaranteed - the plan was to engage in artillery battles with Italian ships, and then undone and sank after evacuating the battlefield, but Captain Tan was just disagreeing."

"Yeah." Yang Rui thought about Tan Gen's appearance in his mind. He could imagine his feelings for Changning. He thought for a while and said, "It seems useless to have been internship in the Navy since last year."

Yang Wuyong and Yang Wuhen were twenty years old. Under Wuming's influence, one entered the navy and the other went to the air force. Hearing Yang Rui said Wuyong, there were some differences between Bei Shoutong, "Sir, do you want..."

"Just transfer to Tan Gen's adjutant and let him stay in line. Aren't he going to sink with the ship? You can't pull my son to sink together," said Yang Rui. While he decided to let his son take the risk, he suddenly remembered Xianfeng, but he was sure that his son would be fine.

"Sir, is this... this suitable? What if Tan Madman..." Bei Shoutong didn't expect that Yang Rui's solution was this. He was immediately surprised, and then he was very worried about Yang Wuyou's safety.

"Since you are in the army, you must have the awareness of dying on the battlefield. Isn't the reason why we nobles are worshipped by the people because we are going to fight?" Yang Rui said in a deep voice, "Since I have retreated, it is better not to interfere in the affairs of the army. Now this is the right and responsibility of the General Office, and it has nothing to do with me. You can do it, as for the useless side... Since he is a soldier, he should take obeying military orders as his duty and have no worries."

"But..." Yang Rui's attitude Bei Shoutong had known for a long time that in addition to influence the research and development through Wang Jitong and providing some suggestions for innovating tactics, the military affairs are indeed no longer in charge, and transferring Yang Wuyong to become Tan Gen's adjutant. The method is really good, but if... who will take this responsibility!

"Don't be fine, it's up to you." Yang Rui snatched the cigarette and asked, "How effective can a misleading strategy be in your assessment?"

"Effect..." Bei Shoutong was a little slow, and he took a sip of cigarettes and said slowly: "American shipyards built many during the last war, but after the war, most shipyards went bankrupt. Now there are only fifteen shipyards in the country, seven of which are private shipyards. The remaining eight are either owned by the navy or the navy's key assistance targets.

These eight companies are specifically Portsmouth, Boston, Brooklyn, Felettefia, Norfolk, Chelicton, Maiya Island, Brimadunn, and Grushi City Electric Shipping Company in Connecticut, which is also affiliated to the U.S. Admiralty Department. These shipyards have 37 docks and more than 85,000 skilled technicians..."

Although industrial strength is important, docks are the key bottleneck in shipbuilding. I heard that there are only 37 naval shipbuilding docks in the United States. Yang Rui wanted to ask how many of them are docks over 250 meters. Beishoutong also said: "These shipyards are basically led by Hengboli Shipbuilding Company, Newpote Ship and Dock Manufacturing Company, and New York Shipbuilding Company. They basically monopolized the existing orders of the Navy. Most of the warships over 2,000 tons are built by these three shipyards. According to information, these shipyard companies are preparing to expand the docks and recruit personnel. We do not know the scale of their expansion at the moment, but from the settings and area of ​​their shipyards, if funds allow, docks greater than 200 meters will not be less than 30, and at most will not be more than fifty."

"That's all?" Yang Rui was not surprised at all. Instead, he felt that there were fewer. The American aircraft carrier in his concept was overwhelming.

"Yes, sir. The dock is not a factory. It is always restricted by the terrain factory area, unless Americans reclaim the sea and build ships, but this is too late in terms of time." Mr. Bei Shou.

"I always feel too little!" Yang Rui said, and he asked again: "How many docks are there more than two hundred and fifty meters?"

"According to the above estimates, there will be no more than twenty docks over 250 meters." "Baishou, "The General Staff's judgment is that the construction period of large aircraft carriers is too long. With the existing technology, the preliminary construction period will be at least twenty months. So if a war really occurs, the US Navy is most likely to do to build some medium-sized aircraft carriers of more than 10,000 tons. The construction period of such aircraft carriers is generally around twelve months. In this way, it can be roughly confirmed that the US Navy can obtain about twenty medium-sized aircraft carriers and eight hundred carrier-based aircraft in the second year of the war; in the third year of the war, it can obtain more than forty large and medium-sized aircraft carriers and two thousand five hundred carrier-based aircraft aircraft, but this is an extreme situation.

But if there are 36-month battleships in those twenty docks, each additional battleship can reduce 40 carrier-based aircraft on average every year. The General Staff analyzed that if the naval battle with Italy can make countries realize that aircraft carriers are useless, and at the same time, we and Japan advocate and build battleships, the United States will not build less than 12 battleships. Although the Americans are likely to abandon or rebuild them after the war, it will also achieve the effect of reducing five large aircraft carriers and four hundred carrier-based aircraft. It is obviously worth it to exchange Changning for five."

"Dock, construction period, Changning..." Yang Rui muttered a few words. In the past, when there was no data, he always thought the US imperialists were terrible, but after actual analysis, especially compared with the shipbuilding plan now planned by the Ministry of Works, China and Japan may not be much inferior to the United States in wartime shipbuilding capabilities. The number of docks above 250 meters will not exceed twenty, which is a clear proof - terrain, factory layout, shipbuilders, matching infrastructure facilities, and accessories manufacturing factories, all of which make the dock not just built.

And these fifty docks may not be used to build aircraft carriers. Even if the US Navy understands that aircraft carriers are the future development direction of the navy, there must be many heavy cruisers in its aircraft carrier formations for escorts and air defense. The best aircraft carrier formations under the experiments by the Chinese Navy are: an armored aircraft carrier, a heavy patrol, a light patrol, a three-destroyer, an oil tanker, and a zero-point three-supply ship, with a tonnage ratio of 27:1:05:075(025x3):2:05;

If it is a non-armored aircraft carrier, it is an air defense strategy, either light patrols will be replaced with heavy patrols, or there must be two light patrols, otherwise the air defense firepower will be too urgent. Even if the aircraft carrier is only equipped with one heavy patrol, it will occupy about 15 docks of about 200 meters, which means that the United States launches the waters every year to alternate between thirty and fifteen aircraft carriers.

"The Intelligence Bureau interfered with the submerged arc welding?" Yang Rui asked after thinking, which was part of the new stumbling block plan after confirming the advantages of welding to shipbuilding.

"The Intelligence Bureau has bought the patent," said Mr. Bei Shou. "and asked the other party not to speak out. But arc welding is now common in the shipbuilding industry, and it is difficult to estimate how much effect this can take."

"Technological progress can only be interfered with and cannot be stopped. We can do our best to do our jobs, and there is no need to be too demanding." Yang Rui said helplessly. The atomic bomb theory, the key part of the stumbling block plan, has been broken through to radioactive elements by physicists from various countries. In a few years, someone will definitely discover atomic fission. By then, as long as you are willing to spend money, an atomic bomb will be created within a few years.

Unlike Yang Rui's indifference, Bei Shoutong said, "Sir. Even if there are only fifty docks, it is a terrible force. Together with Japan and North Korea, even if it is expanded, there will be no more than thirty docks over two hundred meters."

"In terms of American technology, the dock is a bottleneck, but for us, the bottleneck is not the dock, but the funds." Yang Rui shook his head. His hands were filled with smoke. "No matter how you calculate it, during the war, the annual investment in shipbuilding will not exceed 4 billion, just this is 4 billion. You need to build merchant ships, oil tankers, frigates, and escort aircraft carriers. Otherwise, trade and logistics will not be guaranteed. Here you will have to reduce 700 million to 800 million. The remaining one will have to reduce the funds for submarines, otherwise it will not be possible to threaten the enemy's trade and logistics. The last thing left is the funds for surface ships. In addition to aircraft carriers, you also have to build destroyers, cruisers, fast tankers and fast supply ships. In this way, the money that can be used to build aircraft carriers is no more than 1.4 billion.

How many aircraft carriers can be built with 1.4 billion? It is only 15,500 carrier-based aircraft to build durable armored aircraft carriers. Although it saves money on building ordinary aircraft, it only costs about 70 million yuan. However, with more aircraft carriers, the number of aircraft carriers will increase, and the number of aircraft carriers will increase. In total, it is only two more aircraft carriers than before. There are only 1,700 carrier-based aircraft carriers. Compared with the more than 2,000 you just mentioned, it is still a big witch. Besides, the war really has to be dragged for four or five years. If we don’t say we can’t afford it, even if the Americans want to reclaim the sea, they have already added it."

Yang Rui calculated the shipbuilding ability from the perspective of military expenditure, while Bei Shoutong paid more attention to wartime production capacity. Building warships, especially large warships, is a complete technical job, and it is by no means just coming. The situation in the United States is limited by docks and has nowhere to spend money, but is China's docks enough? Even if there are fifteen aircraft carriers every year, there will be twenty-three large docks or ship platforms. Now, China, Japan and North Korea have all combined, and there are only twelve docks that can build 27,000-ton aircraft carriers.

Thinking of this, Bei Shoutong suggested: "Sir, no matter what the Americans do, we should expand some large docks."

"No need. Xiao Xu has a complete wartime shipbuilding plan. At that time, there will be no money to start construction, and there will be no shortage of docks and workers." Yang Rui said, "The current situation is the problem of whether Japanese shipyards cooperate or not. If they do not cooperate and are not included in the wartime industrial system, then Dalian will expand the docks and train workers."

"Is it feasible, sir?" Dalian Shipyard can only build six docks at most, plus Nanjing has expanded to four, two in Jiangnan, and these twelve ships can build so many ships? Thinking of this, Bei Shoutong had to ask.

"Of course!" Yang Rui was sure, "If everything goes well, our dock utilization efficiency is at least five times that of Americans. What we really lack is money. With such efficiency, we could have eaten slow fish before the United States was fully launched during the war, but fast fish was like eating slow fish. Even if we had mastered the Pacific sea control power in the first one or two years, we could not do anything. The United States could not build ships, but because there were so many car factories, the number would definitely be twice that of us.

I'd better not talk about this. Just make the misleading strategy like this. In addition, the navy can mislead, and the army cannot leave. I heard that although the army does not go, the Marine Corps will still go. Just add two kicks in the weapon."

The common name of the single anti-tank weapon in the army, Yang Rui called it the bazooka, is actually a large two-foot kick, similar to the iron fist of World War II. The official name of the army is "Ah Fight". Veterans teach new recruits to remind them to remember to shout "Ah Fight" when fighting, otherwise it will not work.

"But this was used confidentially before." Bei Shoutong asked in confusion.

"The uselessness of aircraft carriers is not enough, we also need to create the uselessness of tanks." Yang Rui smiled. "Besides, the problems of double bases and medicine columns have been solved. The new RPG is being tested, and the range must be more than 300 meters. This time, let's release the two kicks in stock, so that those who are promoting the invincible tanks in various countries will shock the people who are promoting the theory of invincible tanks." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!