The sun never sets

It is too early to say these things now. The most important thing to do externally is to liberate Hawaii. The East Asian Alliance's long-range deployment capability is very weak. It is impossible to deploy hundreds of thousands of troops to North America. It is still possible to send thousands or tens of thousands of troops to Hawaii. However, the United States has already transported more than 20,000 troops to Hawaii. In order to quickly deal with the US troops on the island, Lin Yongchang dispatched the [Guards].

Lin Yongchang likes the name Hawaii very much. China is of course Huaxia, and colonists such as Americans and British are naturally Yi people. Historically, Britain and France have successively claimed sovereignty over Hawaii, but in the end it was the Americans who first overthrew the Hawaiian government, established a republic on those islands, and then annexed the Republic of Hawaii. The United States annexed Hawaii in 1898, less than ten years ago.

After the East Asian Alliance sent volunteers to the Philippines, the United States transported a lot of army troops to Hawaii. The original purpose of those army troops was not to defend Hawaii, but to be deployed to the Philippine Islands. Two months ago, no one thought that the Admiral Dewey-class Navy would not be able to defeat the yellow monkeys in the Far East. When George Dewey was defeated and died, the US military hurriedly built fortifications in Hawaii.

The intelligence obtained by East Asia is that the Americans have deployed more than 20,000 troops in Hawaii, but that was two months ago. After the disastrous defeat at Leyte Gulf, the US government continued to train the army, and state governments around the country were training more troops. It was said that the number of troops being trained on the North American continent had reached 500,000, and there were plans to arm more troops.

The reason for this situation is, on the one hand, the concern that the East Asian Alliance will attack the US mainland from the Pacific, and on the other hand, it is out of concern for Britain and other countries.

Chapter 472: The Kingdom on the Mountain

The result of the Battle of Leyte Gulf was that the U.S. Navy lost all its battleships. When the news was transmitted back to Washington via radio waves, the arrogant Theodore Roosevelt could not believe it at first. After repeatedly confirming the news, his face turned very pale, he staggered and fell into a chair, and said in a trembling voice: "I will be the first president in American history to be remembered for losing a war!"

The Secretary of State and other senior officials were also shocked by the bad news and were almost speechless. How could they not be defeated with twice as many battleships as Japan? Even if they could not be defeated, they would not be defeated so miserably, right?

The news came from several sources, including radio stations on the remaining warships, as well as news from Britain and Germany. The British claimed that both the East Asian Alliance and the American fleets had suffered heavy losses, with battleships on both sides sinking one after another, and the tragedy was beyond words. British newspapers were full of gloating tones, and even some second-rate newspapers believed that it was time to retake the thirteen North American states.

“No, you don’t

The first one. ”

"......We have to do something!"

Theodore Roosevelt drank two glasses of brandy to calm himself. "We must do something!" he repeated. "The country is at a critical moment of life and death! We need more troops and more dreadnoughts! The American spirit cannot succumb to the force of barbarians!"

With the strength of the United States, once it switches to a wartime system, it will be able to burst out unparalleled military industrial productivity. President Roosevelt firmly believed in this!

The Secretary of State coughed and said, "Yes, we need more battleships, but..."

"but what?"

“I’m just afraid that the public won’t understand.”

Theodore Roosevelt fell silent. All the battleships were destroyed, and the people must have fallen into anger and panic. Without the navy, the army in the Philippine Islands would not be able to hold out for long... The anger of the people is not a problem, there are ways to reverse it, the problem is whether the Senate and the House of Representatives will give him a chance.

Mr. President does not think that the United States has lost. Those old battleships sank, and with the industrial strength of the United States, it is enough to build a dozen dreadnoughts. In just four or five years, the United States can have a strong naval fleet again. But if the Senate and the House of Representatives impeach him...

"We must do something!" Theodore Roosevelt said again: "We can't let the war spread to the mainland!"

Roosevelt wanted to do something, but it was too late. The news of the loss of the main force of the navy was like a thunderclap. The angry people spontaneously held a massive parade. The Capitol was surrounded by crowds of people. The excited crowd shouted slogans for Roosevelt to apologize. The will of the people could not be ignored. What was even more terrifying was that both the House of Representatives and the Senate had confirmed that more than two-thirds of the majority would pass the impeachment. Once the impeachment passed, Theodore Roosevelt would become the first president to be imprisoned while in office.

"Is there really no other way? Britain and Germany are willing to mediate. I can finish this first."

Theodore Roosevelt was a ruthless man and was not willing to give in. But the Secretary of State's words shattered his fantasy, "The only way left is to resign, otherwise..."

This is the common idea of the congressmen. Roosevelt is the president of the United States, so he should be respectable. But if Theodore Roosevelt does not want respectability, then someone will help him to be respectable.

"It's all the fault of those people in Congress! If the Navy Expansion Act had been passed earlier, if we had three or more dreadnoughts, Dewey would never have lost the battle!"

Theodore Roosevelt roared and threw the blame away, which he later described in detail in his memoirs. But no matter how he threw the blame away, he had to resign. Resigning could save his face and retain the treatment of a resigning president. In regret and anger, Roosevelt made a public speech, announcing that he had to resign as president due to health reasons, and that Vice President Charles would handle government affairs on his behalf.

After Roosevelt left and Charles came in, things didn't change much, but the public's anger did subside. This is the advantage of a democratic government. When something goes wrong, the president bows down and someone else takes over. The president has been driven out, what else do you want? A march or a strike?

If they instigate a march and strike today, will they destroy government offices, block traffic, beat up legislators, stop cars, attack passers-by and public officials, and arrest and torture people without permission tomorrow? Will this not shock our friends? If this continues, the country will cease to be a country!

The gentlemen in Congress will never allow this to happen!

The US propaganda machine was put into action, successfully changing the topic from "What's wrong with the US?" and "I fell into deep thought, there must be something wrong with the country's system" to concerns about the invasion of the East Asian Alliance. Britain expressed its willingness to mediate, but the US, which was caught in fear and panic, still launched wave after wave of mobilization. Major military academies enrolled students in advance, and the number of students increased by 500%. The barracks were filled with young men who came to report, and the National Guard and militia of each state began to expand on a large scale.

The newspapers carried out various analyses, such as where the enemy might land, which shipyards they would bombard, etc., which deepened the fear and anxiety of the people. The Americans killed the Indians almost to extinction, and there was no need for propaganda to make people think that the enemy would do the same to them. People spontaneously bought weapons, especially the rednecks. It was not enough for each person to have one gun, and they all kept several at home.

During this "darkest hour", arms dealers and related military-industrial enterprises ushered in a good era. Guns and ammunition were sold out. Factories worked overtime to produce weapons, and the military placed many orders with major companies. People were panic buying food and other daily necessities everywhere, stimulating further expansion of production. After losing the war, the United States unexpectedly ushered in an economic boom.

After Charles swore an oath on the Bible, he became the President of the United States and immediately issued a series of decrees, including a new naval bill and a bill to expand the army. The Chinese have four million soldiers. If the United States doesn't have four million, it must have two million, right? The Japanese have ten battleships. The United States needs twenty. No, twenty is far from enough. It needs at least forty!

Congressmen, in a rare move, increased military spending for the army and navy.

In the past, Americans relied on the Pacific and Atlantic oceans as barriers, thinking that the wars in Europe and other places would not spread to the North American continent, so they felt very safe and had the illusion of being a "country on the top of a mountain." Now that the illusion has been broken, Americans are like being whipped and are spinning rapidly.

Chapter 473 Mediation

The United States has unparalleled industrial strength, but its military strength was not strong before. It is impossible to arm a million-man army in a short period of time. It takes time to transform civilian industries into military factories. Unless the wartime system is entered and the government makes unified plans, the United States' strong industrial strength cannot be transformed into military strength.

The whole of North America was in a state of panic, and many places were expanding arms production on their own initiative or under the leadership of local governments, but many people believed that a general mobilization was unnecessary and should not be carried out. By forming so many armies and producing so much arms, were they planning to fight across the Pacific?

Goods have to go through that "thrilling jump" to be valuable. If there is no war, the production of so many arms will not only depreciate every year, but also require extra money to store. Some economic experts believe that the current irrational behavior will have a catastrophic impact on the US economy. Then, these economists were scolded by the military-industrial complex as "American traitors", saying that they took money from the Chinese to prevent the American people from arming themselves.

The ruling class in the United States has always been preventing centralization of power. If the power of the central government is too great, the threat to large companies and financial groups will be greatly enhanced. Theodore Roosevelt started with the "anti-trust" bill. Now that Roosevelt has been removed, the government should return to the previous "small government" state. However, if the Continental Army is developed, the authority of the central government will definitely continue to increase, which is something that many liberals cannot tolerate. Both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party attach great importance to "freedom". "Freedom" is the foundation of the prosperity of the American economy and the core of the "American Dream"!

But the economists' advice is no longer effective. In a panic, the US government and local governments are desperately strengthening their military forces. Who cares about prosperity or freedom when the enemy is coming to kill them? Besides, the market is clearly thriving. What's wrong with that?

Without the protection of its large fleet, the United States is now like a naked country, exposed to the great powers. The British Empire is already testing it. If the United States does not protect its military strength, its powerful industrial power will attract more covetousness.

Britain proposed to mediate the war between the East Asian Alliance and the United States, and Germany also wanted to intervene. The naval arms race between the British Empire and Germany was in full swing. Britain, France and Russia were in a group, Germany, Austria and Italy had a Triple Alliance, and the Allies and the Central Powers were about to appear in this world. The two sides seemed to be evenly matched, and there was not a big gap between the army and the navy. In this case, if one more great power could be won over, the advantage would be one point more.

The United States expanded its military and prepared for war while developing an active foreign policy. The United States did not want to continue the war, but the British asked for too much. They came to mediate, but they asked for hundreds of millions of dollars in "mediation fees" and wanted to turn the United States into a British protectorate. Germany's asking price was more honest, just asking the United States to open its market, but this was also unacceptable.

While Lushun and Qingdao were working overtime to repair the warships, Britain, Germany, the United States and the East Asian Alliance launched frequent diplomacy, with no less than 20 public or secret negotiations. However, the negotiations did not produce any useful results. The interests of the various parties were different and it was almost impossible to reach a consensus. The United States, which claimed to be the world's number one power, was unwilling to make substantial concessions, and would not agree to cede territory or pay compensation.

The Pacific Ocean is there, and no matter how good the Chinese are at fighting, they can't transport all their main forces to North America. Britain did its best to encourage the East Asian Alliance to land in North America. Many people in Japan also shouted the slogan of liberating North America and striving for the independence of the Indians. Some experts and scholars have verified that the Indians are descendants of the Chinese. They say that when the Shang Dynasty fell, some of the Yin people went to America across the Bering Strait, and the Indians are all descendants of the Yin Shang.

This is outrageous. The entire research process is just like the archaeological research conducted by European historians based on Homer's epic, full of absurdities. However, this theory has caused quite a stir among the people in East Asia. Strange stories are always more attractive than serious popular science, and many people really believe it.

Lin Yongchang thinks that the Shang Dynasty merchants fleeing to North America is somewhat unreliable, but there is evidence that a long time ago, the Bering Strait could be connected to America by road and bridge. Thousands of years ago, the temperature was warmer than it is now. Elephants could run in Henan. The 400mm precipitation line was further north. Outer Northeast and Alaska would not be as cold as it is now. Maybe there really were humans, or prehistoric humans, who traveled between the two continents via road and bridge?

There is no evidence to suggest that there is, nor is there any evidence to suggest that there is not.

However, he did not attach much importance to these so-called legal principles. It was still an era when imperialism was rampant, and the truth was only within the range of cannons. If it could liberate the entire Americas, he could say anything. If it could not defeat the United States, he could say nothing. Right and wrong were only

If you care about strength, it's like the Eight-Nation Alliance committed a massacre in Beijing. What can the Chinese do? Reasoning is useless. Only by pressing those foreign devils to the ground and rubbing them hard can they understand the truth of human beings.

Another historical point, why is the "War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea" called the founding war? It was because we fought head-on with the foreign devils and made the enemy recognize China's strength, which made the other side sit down and talk reason.

The same is true now. The liberation of Hawaii relies not on legal principles but on cannons.

In order to liberate Hawaii, the Combined Fleet mobilized all the warships that could be deployed. For this purpose, China and Japan issued new bonds. War bonds sold very well in Europe, and Britain, France, Germany and other powers bought a lot. The fact is that the American battleships are all gone, and it will take at least five years to rebuild a strong naval fleet. During this period, as long as the Combined Fleet captured Hawaii, it could use Hawaii as a base to bombard any city on the west coast of the United States, and send troops to occupy the Panama Canal under construction.

The US government has deployed more than 40,000 troops in Hawaii, as well as some destroyers and gunboats, and purchased submarines from Germany. It looks strong, but the European powers are not optimistic about the US's ability to defend Hawaii. The US Navy used to be a bit impressive, but the Army was really a mess. Now that the US Navy is finished, can they still expect their Army to be brave?

The great powers bought war bonds issued by the East Asian Alliance, waiting for the United States to give up after Hawaii fell, so they could make a fortune. Buying now is making money. French financiers took the initiative to negotiate with China, hoping to issue more war bonds. They can help sell them and guarantee that they can all be sold out. Of course, they are not helping for free, and they need to charge a certain "handling fee".

Chapter 474 Science

Wang Changhao took out the fish meat with great pain, put it in the iron box and mixed it with the rice. He put the iron box down only when the fish meat and rice were almost indistinguishable from each other. He squatted on the ground and called softly, "Meow--"

A Chinese rural cat responded to his call, making a "meow-meow-" sound, and rushed out of the grove. This was a six-month-old orange cat, but unlike the big orange cat, this kitten was not yellow all over. Its body was orange, but its four paws were snow-white, and part of its chest was white, which looked very smart. The kitten ran to the side of the iron box in two or three steps, sniffed it with its nose, then took a bite, and shook its head.

This is how cats eat. Their heads move from side to side while they eat.

Wang Changhao reached out to touch the kitten, and the kitten immediately jumped to the side in alertness. But after a few seconds, it came over again with its tail erect. It was somewhat familiar with Wang Changhao, but not familiar enough to be petted.

This kitten appeared around the dormitory about a month ago. At first, it was very alert and afraid of people. When it saw people, it ran into the woods. Wang Changhao saved his food every day to feed it, and it gradually became familiar with it. Now he only has one or two pieces of fish or meat every day, which he feeds to the cat and has nothing to eat for himself.

Unlike the big fish and shrimp he often ate on the warship, the food now was not that good. He felt that he had lost some weight, and there was no fat on his belly. He was not as plump as before, which made Wang Changhao a little depressed. He also became white, which was even more inconsistent with the aesthetics of the working people. Big shoulders, big waist, dark skin, this is what the working people should look like.

The kitten didn't know that the boy squatting beside him was in a daze. It was busy eating. Suddenly, the kitten's ears twitched a few times, and it suddenly rushed to the grove nearby. Then, someone called Wang Changhao not far away, "Teacher Wang, Teacher Wang!"

"Ah? What's going on?"

Wang Changhao is now studying and teaching in school. Some people call him classmate Wang, some call him teacher Wang, and some call him comrade Wang.

"Mr. Planck has arrived and is touring the school's lab. The principal wants you to come over!"

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck is the most famous physicist in the world today and one of the founders of quantum mechanics. In the process of studying blackbody radiation, he discovered Planck's radiation law and proposed the concept of energy quantum and constant h (later called Planck's constant) in the process of demonstration. Planck reported this result at the German Physical Society, which became a great moment for the birth of quantum theory and the beginning of the new physics revolution.

The reason why Mr. Planck appeared in Taiyuan was because he had read the article "Wang Changhao's Cat". The cooperation between China and Germany is very extensive, not only in the military and economic exchanges, but also in the increasingly close relationship between the scientific communities of the two countries. Once Germany's scientific achievements and the latest theories are published, they will be discussed by Chinese scientists three or four months later. The same is true in reverse. China's new achievements in chemistry will soon be applied by the German industry.

Chairman Lin once said, "Scientists have their own motherland, but science belongs to all mankind." In addition to nuclear physics, China's scientific community has a lot of exchanges with the scientific community in Europe and the United States. However, China is now at war with the United States, and most of the experts, scholars and students who study and exchange in the United States have been transferred to Europe. Americans often have no bottom line in doing things. Before the war is over, the Chinese government will not send people to the United States.

Planck

Planck did not come alone. He brought several students, including the young Schrödinger, to China to have academic discussions with Mr. Wang Changhao. Although there were already telephones and telegraphs, the transmission of information was still too slow. Translating Chinese into German and German into Chinese could result in missing and incorrect information. Face-to-face communication was more convenient and direct. Planck, Schrödinger and others did not speak Chinese, but Wang Changhao knew German, and many teachers at the National University of Defense Technology also knew German.

When Wang Changhao arrived at the laboratory building, Mr. Planck was whispering something to others. "Teacher Wang, come here!" The principal pulled Wang Changhao and said with a smile, "This is Teacher Wang Changhao!"

Planck turned around with a look of obvious surprise on his face. Schrödinger was only twenty years old, which was considered very young, but Wang Changhao looked even younger. Seventeen? Or sixteen?

"Uh, I'm eighteen years old!"

“That’s very young too!” Planck said, “Most scientists achieve their results when they are young, but I didn’t expect Mr. Wang to be so young.”

The two sides exchanged a few words and soon began to discuss academic matters. The principal, Director Huang, and the translator were unable to interrupt and could only watch Planck and Wang Changhao talk while they wrote various formulas on the blackboard with chalk.

Director Huang had a headache, "Principal, this..."

The principal smiled and whispered, "Scientists are all like this. Let's not disturb them here."

Planck and his team did not notice that Director Huang and his team had quietly left. Even if they had noticed, they would not have cared. Whether in Asia or Europe, scientists have a very high status. The heated discussion lasted for more than two hours, and Planck still felt that it was not enough.

"Wang, although I summarized the blackbody radiation law, I don't like it." Planck's expression was very serious. "It is too complicated and far less concise and clear than Newton's mechanics. In science, simplicity is beauty, and only beauty can be correct."

"............", Wang Changhao scratched his hair, "Science does not need beauty.

"How can beauty not be needed? If a formula is not full of beauty, then it must be wrong!"

"............", Wang Changhao couldn't understand, is aesthetics so important? Shouldn't we insist on seeking truth from facts?

The two argued for several minutes, neither of them could convince the other, but Planck valued Wang Changhao more and more. He invited Wang Changhao, "Wang, if possible, I hope you can go to Germany and Europe with me."

"Ah? But what am I going to do in Europe?"

"We can work with Boltzmann, Rayleigh and James to solve the problems in quantum mechanics."

"But...I'm still in school."

"You don't need to study anymore, Wang. I don't think anyone else can be your teacher. Um..." Mr. Planck paused and said, "I can ask the Prussian Academy of Sciences to award you a bachelor's degree, and I can also ask the University of Berlin to give you a teaching position."

"Um, for this, I need to apply to the party organization."

"I will write to Mr. Lin. He said that science has no borders. I think he will not refuse."

Chapter 475: Average

Lin Yongchang's prestige in East Asia is so high that people dare not look directly at him. His prestige in the international community is also growing day by day. His names such as "Red Napoleon" and "Eastern Alexander" are very famous. The worship of strength and power is the same in the East and the West. The continuous victories made Marshal Lin famous throughout the world. However, his reputation does not only come from his military achievements, but also from his achievements in science, especially in chemical theory and chemical engineering.

In addition, Lin Yongchang proposed a complete set of political theories and put them into practice, which now seems to be working well. This is simply the philosopher king in "Plato" appearing in the real world.

Moreover, Lin Yongchang has a broad mind. He said, "Science has no borders." Many scientists regard him as a member of the scientific community. Many people believe that Lin Yongchang spent too much time fighting and handling government affairs, delaying scientific research. A person's energy and time are limited. If he had not been distracted by other things, Lin Yongchang, a great scientist, would definitely have achieved more in science.

Planck highly praised Lin Yongchang. Although he did not agree with some of Lin Yongchang's views, he believed that they were just philosophical differences and different perceptions of the world, which were not a big deal. As a German, a famous physicist, and even the most famous in the world, Planck also studied philosophy.

Prussia was famous for its bellicosity, but in fact the domestic political atmosphere during the Prussian Kingdom era was very relaxed. It adopted a policy of "tolerance" towards various religions rather than a one-size-fits-all "unified belief". Both philosophy and academics could be discussed freely. Coupled with the emphasis on education, Prussia and later Germany had so many famous scientists, and were able to catch up with and even surpass the British Empire in many aspects.

After receiving Mr. Planck's letter, Lin Yongchang immediately agreed

Reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, going out for a walk will definitely yield some gains. On the sixth day after the Germans arrived, Lin Yongchang took a train from Chang'an back to Taiyuan and met with Planck and others. In Europe, kings, ministers, dukes, etc. often funded scientists and adventurers, and Planck and others were no longer surprised, but this was China, and the Germans still found it very fresh.

Unlike people like Miyazaki Toranosuke and Akiyama Saneyuki who "almost couldn't breathe" when they saw Chairman Lin, scientists such as Planck and Schrödinger had completely different feelings about Lin Yongchang.

".......Lin is a very kind person, dressed very simply, and is very polite to everyone.......He speaks fluent German with a West Berlin accent. He discussed with us On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, which is Einstein's theory of relativity.......Lin praised the theory of relativity and thought it was a great discovery, but it still failed to solve the problem of force and inertial system. He took out some manuscripts and said they were an extension of the theory of relativity......"

"...It is hard to believe that a person who governs a country as large as the whole of Europe can achieve such amazing scientific achievements, but the facts are right in front of us, and we cannot help but admit it..."

".......Lin called Mr. Einstein's theory of relativity the special theory of relativity, and his own extension of relativity the general theory of relativity.......From the general theory of relativity, it can be directly deduced that some massive stars will end up as a black hole - some areas of space-time are so distorted that even light cannot escape......."

Planck highly praised Lin Yongchang - there was nothing he could do, people with cheats were just that good - and thought that he had become a school of his own, like the Copenhagen School, but he also felt sorry that Lin Yongchang could not devote all his energy to science. In the end, Planck also talked about the war between the East Asian Alliance and the United States and made some anti-war remarks.

"Mr. Planck, we did not choose the war, but the U.S. colonial rule and the bloody killing of civilians led to the war. Now it is the new century, and productivity has been greatly developed. I think mankind should get rid of the ignorant and barbaric way of survival in the past. Filipinos are also human beings, and all people are born equal, right?"

"You are right!" Planck agreed with Lin Yongchang's opposition to colonialism. Most Germans were against colonialism, especially the colonial rule of Britain and France in Africa and other parts of the world.

Perhaps, it is because Germany did not have many colonies that it had such thoughts. If Germany also had large colonies in Africa and other places, it might become "I have a cow". However, many scientists are really against war and have an internationalist spirit, so we cannot generalize.

"I read in the newspaper that the People's Army has landed in Hawaii. Mr. Lin, how far are you going to fight? Are you going to stop after occupying New York and Washington? With all due respect, that will be a very difficult task."

"No, the Chinese and Asians do not want to occupy American land. We just want to liberate Hawaii and cut off the tentacles of the United States reaching out to Asia. Hawaii and Midway Island are almost exactly in the center of the Pacific Ocean. They are the bridgeheads for American colonists to invade Asia. We don't want to fight with the Americans somewhere in Asia in a dozen years, so we must take Hawaii to avoid being invaded again."

Lin Yongchang's tone was very sincere. "The People's Army is a defensive army. We do not want to invade other countries' land, nor will we establish colonies around the world. The primary goal of the People's Government is to solve the problem of food and clothing for the Chinese people. Perhaps you have seen on the way to Taiyuan that many places in China are still in a very poor and backward state. We are still an agricultural country. Comrades of the People's Party are prepared to use ten years to ensure that everyone can have enough food. If possible, we do not want to go to war with any country."

Churchill, Morrison, Roosevelt, William II, Nicholas II and others would definitely not believe what Lin Yongchang said. An agricultural country that produces more than 3 million tons of steel per year? Such industrial strength can be considered strong even in Europe. However, Lin Yongchang likes to calculate per capita. China has so many people, and no matter how much steel and food it produces, as long as per capita is used, it is not worth mentioning. If per capita doesn't work, you can also use "historical per capita". In short, China is still very weak and has no intention of competing for hegemony.

But Planck seemed to believe it. He was very moved and said, "I wish all monarchs and rulers of all countries could think like you."

Chapter 476: Criticizing Confucius and Lin

"President, Sapporo hopes to provide more fertilizers."

Kotoku Shusui kept writing, "Oh, they agreed to establish a farmers' association?"