Chapter 733 Who are you looking down on?
There have been too many empires that have perished in recent years. Compared with the four great empires that have perished one after another, the Qing Empire died quietly and without any ripples.
After the end of the world war, the demand for military industry in various countries dropped sharply. As the only growing military industry market in the world, Dongda has attracted the attention of military industry companies from all over the world.
The Kanto region still has an industrial foundation. It needs people and mines. The transportation is relatively developed, and there is even no shortage of technical personnel.
Zhang Yuting was very ambitious. He hired Chinese graduates from Amur to work in the Kanto region, and purchased weapons and equipment from Amur to form a modern army equipped with armored fighting vehicles.
This is also the reason why Mario does not want the Kanto region to develop industry independently.
Kanto is too close to Amur, and a powerful regional force may affect Amur's interests.
George called Mario back, don't focus on the small profit in front of you.
How much money can be made from just selling weapons and ammunition, petroleum vehicles and even various industrial products needed for daily use are the big ones.
As for the arms embargo proposed by the Japanese, Russia did not need to intervene. Britain, France and the United States rejected it directly.
Not only Russia, but everyone is eyeing the fat piece of Dongda.
After the end of the world war, the warehouses of various countries were filled with various weapons and equipment. It was impossible to pass the arms embargo until all these weapons and equipment were sold out.
George can see through the little tricks of the Japanese, and others are not stupid. The United States called for an open door in the last century, with the purpose of ensuring that no one country can monopolize the Eastern market.
It is indeed a humiliation for Dongda to become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.
But compared with the brutally dismembered Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and even Germany, Dongda was not the worst.
At the same time as the London Conference, Harding proposed a military conference in Washington to discuss the intensifying arms race.
At the beginning of this year, affected by the economic crisis, Britain, France, the United States, and Italy successively announced new shipbuilding plans in an attempt to stimulate economic recovery.
Russia’s shipbuilding plan has long been announced, and four 10,000-ton warships have been launched this year.
Unlike the plan announced in advance, Russia is not building a battleship, but an auxiliary ship.
George wanted little Nicholas to go to the United States.
Little Nikolai is addicted to talking about sex and can't help himself. He doesn't want to go to the United States at all.
Witt is indispensable if he is to preside over domestic work.
Others also perform their duties.
Looking around, George seemed to be the only one left alone.
On November 2, George, along with Peter, Kolchak, and Vasily, took the royal yacht "Polaris", the battleship "Queen Maria", and the "Tsar Alexander III" Arriving in New York under the escort of the battleship USS.
This is George's first time in the United States.
The New York State Government held a grand welcome ceremony for George at the New York Pier. About 6,000 people, including Russians who immigrated to the United States, attended.
Three days later, George, accompanied by Joseph and Little John, took the train to Washington.
During the London meeting, the content of the cooperation agreement between Russia and Germany was exposed by the media, triggering a strong response.
The British and French were very angry and called the economic agreement between Russia and Germany a backstab from within the Allies, which directly led to the breakdown of the ongoing negotiations between Russia, Britain and France.
The alliance between Russia, Britain and France has expired in 1919 and 1920, and the three parties are negotiating on whether to continue to maintain the alliance.
The negotiations between Britain, France and Russia were strongly opposed by other countries led by the United States.
The alliance between Britain, France and Russia was to fight against the Allies. Now that the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire have all been destroyed, the Entente has lost the necessity to exist.
George himself hopes to continue to form an alliance with Britain and France, so that they can unite Britain and France to fight against the United States' economic invasion of Europe.
Britain and France also tend to continue signing the contract, but they have huge differences on the content of the contract.
Based on the fact that the world war was over, George hoped to shift the alliance from a military perspective to economic construction and use the alliance to open up British and French overseas markets.
Both Britain and France regarded the overseas colonial market as a taboo and vowed to refuse to follow it.
The three parties were at a stalemate, and as the media exposed the economic agreement between Russia and Germany, the negotiations collapsed completely.
Little John boarded George's special train because he wanted to hitch a ride with Russia.
The United States faces the same dilemma as Russia.
As the U.S. economy begins to recover and industrial output grows rapidly, the United States also hopes to break the international trade pattern dominated by Britain and France and allow American products to sell well around the world under the guidance of "free trade."
From this perspective alone, the United States, Russia, and Germany have the same interests and demands.
During the Paris Peace Conference, Wilson was crazily squeezed out by Lloyd George and Clemenceau, and was completely marginalized. He gained almost nothing at the Paris Peace Conference.
Little John used this as a reason to question the fairness of the Paris Peace Conference.
Although the United States had both sides in the early stages of the World War, its 4 million U.S. troops played a key role in defeating the Allies in the later period.
Little John does not think that the United States is wrong in its duality, because the world war itself is not just. "The international order should be maintained by the most powerful countries. This is the basis of the current international order; in this case, it is time for us to formulate international rules."
Little John Ambitious, hoping to reach an agreement with George.
Strength is king in jungle society. When Britain and France are arrogant, other countries can only accept the mercy of Britain and France and are unable to resist.
Now that Russia and the United States are the most powerful countries, why do they still accept the instructions of the United Kingdom and France?
Russia's shipbuilding program is a smokescreen.
The United States' shipbuilding plan really wants to drag Britain and France back into the quagmire of the arms race.
This is also the reason why Harding held the Washington Conference.
The United States is trying to compete with Europe for the right to speak.
What Little John means is to break down trade barriers and conduct full market competition through free trade. Those who have the ability can eat meat, and those who have no ability can eat food.
To be honest, George didn't like Little John's taking it for granted.
According to Little John’s opinion, Russia should also open the Balkans and the Russian market to the United States.
George couldn’t help but ask, “Why?”
Let’s not talk about Russia first.
The Balkans were wrested from the Ottomans by Russia over hundreds of years and at the expense of millions of Russian lives.
While Russia was fighting a bloody war with the Ottoman Empire, Americans were busy killing Indians, busy making money from Europe through the stock market, and busy fighting against the world in the name of "open door."
Why does the United States call "Open Door"?
Because the United States was weak at the time and was unable to take advantage of the traditional European powers, it had to open its doors.
If the United States at that time had the strength it has now, the United States would have been strong since ancient times.
If you think of Europe as the stock market, the United Kingdom and France are the national teams, and other countries, including Russia, are retail investors.
Now Russia has gathered retail investors through the free trade organization to form a new national team. At this time, the Americans jumped in and said that we have disbanded the national team and everyone depends on their own abilities-
Why!
Not only is your name beautiful, but your thoughts are also beautiful.
Speaking of names, the Qing Empire originally called the United States "Militian", which later gradually evolved into "Militian". In 1844, the Qing Empire was forced to sign the "Treaty of Wangxia" with the United States, and the United States Requests to use the title "United States of America", abbreviated as "United States".
Referring to the habits of the Qing Empire, the United States should be the country of the United States, the United Kingdom should be the country of the United States, and France should be the country of the West——
Everything is sparse.
Although he doesn't like Little John, George still wants to encourage Little John's courage.
Little John is not a person, he represents American capital, the real controller of this land.
As for the President of the United States, he is just a mascot elected by capital, a human-shaped seal.
The human-shaped seal did not know it, so it would be fine if he did not go to New York to greet George. When George arrived in Washington, the person who greeted him at the train station was Vice President John Calvin Coolidge.
When Harding was running for president, Joseph donated $500,000 to Harding's team and became a major funder of Harding's team.
At the beginning of this year, the United States formulated a series of preferential policies for the automobile industry, and Joseph's investment was returned hundreds of times.
Coolidge also has ideas about the German economy and hopes to join forces with Russia to help the German economy recover quickly.
Of course, Coolidge’s reason was not for reparations, but for peace and stability in Europe.
Look at this situation, compare it with Little John, and judge.
George did not want to talk about Germany with Coolidge. He came to Washington to attend a naval conference. If he wanted to talk about Germany, he should go to London.
The Washington Conference opened on November 12. Harding gave an opening speech, demonstrating his excellent speaking skills.
But apart from his oratory ability, Harding lacked the ability to convince others.
After the opening ceremony, Harding never appeared at the meeting again. Representatives of the United States were Coolidge and Secretary of State Hughes.
On the first day of the conference, the ambitions of the Americans were exposed.
Coolidge asked all countries to stop building capital ships, demolish some old warships, and calculate each country's naval strength based on the gross tonnage of capital ships.
Coolidge's plan was to limit the total tonnage of U.S. and British battleships to 500,000 tons, launching a strong challenge to Britain's maritime supremacy.
This plan was strongly opposed by British representative Balfour.
This Balfour is the Balfour of the "Balfour Declaration". His current identity is the President of the Imperial Privy Council.
Coolidge's plan was also strongly opposed by Peter, because Coolidge only gave Russia 300,000 tons.
This standard is directly determined based on the size of Russia's existing battleships.
Peter demanded a capital ship tonnage of the same size as the United States and Britain, not even one ton less.
The French and Italians were also dissatisfied because Coolidge's plan did not mention France and Italy. This was simply a humiliation to France and Italy.
Who are you looking down on!
(End of this chapter)