Almost at the same time, President Franklin Roosevelt obtained a statistical table from the Treasury Department about the total assets of Chinese companies in the United States. This concession for statistics by the Senate will ultimately determine whether the United States passes the "U.S. Enterprise Protection Act"

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Franklin Roosevelt was not willing to do this. He had some special relationships with the Chinese royal family. When he was young, his cousin Theodore Roosevelt, who served as president, suggested that he and his wife travel to China because of his

The wife was the niece of President Roosevelt, whom the imperial family received them in the palace in particular, and the inner court arranged for them to visit China.

Before this, he worked as a lawyer in the Chinese community for four years. Many of his early connections were provided by the Vanderbilt family and the Chinese community, even though he joined the Democratic Party, which the Vanderbilt family and the Chinese community did not like.

, When he ran for New York City Senate, the Vanderbilt family still made a generous political donation.

Now he can only ride in a wheelchair and sit at his desk to read the reports submitted by the Ministry of Finance, but he can still remember the surprise when he first met Emperor Hua when he traveled to China.

He never thought that Emperor Hua was so young. Although Emperor Hua was arrogant and had not had too many conversations with him, the beautiful Empress Shu still deeply admired him for her understanding of American literature and history.

Beautiful things seem to be kept in memory forever. Faced with the angry people in China and the questioning that the people generally believe that China has seized employment opportunities in the United States, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt also feels deeply

In dilemma.

When he met Emperor Hua for the second time and was in the capacity of the US president, he had a very confident promise that he would not pass the US Enterprise Protection Act. Now it seems that he also feels that his promise at that time was simple and

Irrational.

The statement counted by the Ministry of Finance has changed significantly from last year. Affected by the possible passage of the "US Enterprise Protection Act", some Chinese capital has begun to withdraw from the US market. Even so, the proportion of Chinese capital in the United States is still

It is highly regarded. There are basically Chinese shares among large listed companies in the United States, while the number of branches of Chinese-funded enterprises in the United States remains at a very high proportion.

Among the largest giant in the United States, General Motors, the overall shareholding ratio of Chinese capital reaches 1/3, and among the top five banking companies in the United States, the average shareholding ratio of Chinese capital exceeds 1/3.

There are many voices in American society, but President Franklin Roosevelt saw more of the chaos before progress. People are always criticizing American universities as being occupied by Chinese. One quarter of the college students in the United States are Chinese.

International students, and those with the best grades, are usually Chinese.

In President Franklin Roosevelt's view, if it were not for the influence of the Chinese Exclusion Act, even if only one-third of these international students stayed in the United States to work, they would be the United States' valuable asset.

Franklin Roosevelt also knew that the reason why people were angry was because of jealousy and the fear of yellow people by the Anglo-Saxon race. People discriminated against Chinese people has become a habit, so they cannot understand why Chinese people can become world powers, or even surpass them.

U.S.

During the US presidential election, Franklin Roosevelt defended the impact of the Chinese anti-Chinese bill many times during his tenure as legal counsel for Chinese societies, and therefore criticized the Democratic opponents, saying that

He controls the puppet for the Chinese devil.

It is precisely because of this that Franklin Roosevelt knew that he would better pass the American Enterprise Protection Act, but he had to minimize the negative impact of the bill. It was necessary to limit and promote American manufacturing, but this restriction was more.

It should be used to protect American technology and technology, rather than to exclude investment.

International investment is a good thing. Without investment from Britain and France, there would be no prosperity in the United States today. The reason why Chinese capital appeared to be serious during the Great Depression in the past is that the decline of US capital was too strong, and on the other hand, the speed of China's industrial rise was too fast.

Fast, which seriously restricted American industry. On the last part, it was because during the entire Great Depression, Chinese capital increased instead of decreasing after 1931, and began to buy more in the United States.

After reading the fact that many Americans felt more terrifying, Franklin Roosevelt felt the need to declare war on this distorted scapegoat theory, and he decided to start his sixth furnace during the presidency

At the meeting, we will tell the American people in our own way that no matter which country's investment is, as long as it comes from a country that comes from freedom, democracy and peace-loving countries, the United States should welcome investment from such an international community.

At this time, Franklin Roosevelt suddenly felt very sorry. As a national leader, he felt that his experience was still insufficient. When the Emperor of China visited the United States in person, he should take advantage of this rare opportunity to continue to promote China and the United States with the Emperor of China.

Develop in a better direction, rather than sticking to the public opinion atmosphere at that time, rather than sticking to the level of the country's total economic output.

The United States is destined to be a great country, and this will not change because the United States becomes the second largest country in the world again, because the rival of the United States is a population of 475 million and has hundreds of universities like the United States.

The country of education, because the opponent that the United States wants to compete is a modern country that is also awakened by nationalism, and is also known for its freedom and tolerance, because the opponent that the United States wants to compete is a nation with a history of civilization of four thousand years, they are

In the long history, it was ahead of the world for most of the time.

It is not difficult to understand this principle, but the obstacles to consciousness by ethnology and religion.

Franklin Roosevelt also had another regret, that is, when the Emperor of China arrived in the United States to meet with him, he asked more about his experience in governing the country. Looking back now, this is inevitably a very special regret.

But Franklin Roosevelt still remembers a question. He and Emperor Hua asked why the salary of Chinese people is so low. Emperor Hua's answer is a historical question, and it is at least higher than that of the Japanese. Because it is developing too fast, if it must be dozens of people, it must be in dozens of people.

In the year, the salary of Chinese people will be increased to the United States. With such a large population, the financial expansion will be too strong, and the monetary reserve ratio will be seriously insufficient. In short, China's relatively tendency to govern the country

Be conservative and stable to avoid unexpected problems, and at the same time, when encountering danger, we dare to rely on the power of the government to forcibly expand central investment and macro-control.

The Emperor of China personally promised him that if it were not affected by the Great Depression, the minimum wage of Chinese people should have gradually increased by about 50 in the past five years. Now, we have to wait for the world economy to recover again before we can continue to increase slowly. If the United States does not pass the

The Protection Act, which is a bad act that harms others and does not benefit oneself, will prevent the world economy from re-exploding a significant impact. China will gradually increase its salary and expenditure on the premise of ensuring the stability of the exchange rate, and take about ten years to make China and the United States work in labor costs.

The gap gradually narrows.

Overall, the possibility of the growth of the China-Round exchange rate will not be too high, but the growth of labor-management costs will be maintained at around 7 per year. In ten years, the gap between labor-management costs between China and the United States will narrow to 30, and the actual impact will be

Get smaller.

Franklin Roosevelt just didn't know whether he could wait ten years, and it was difficult for him to make an accurate estimate of how widened the gap between the total economic volume of China and the United States would be.

For the United States, the only way is to continue to maintain its current tariff level, sign a new trade treaty with China, and continue to encourage the influx of foreign capital, and use the power of the US market itself to leverage the development of the US economy.

certainly.

The "American Enterprise Protection Act" can still be dealt with. Franklin Roosevelt knows his authority as the president of the United States. He can veto the passage of the bill and order Congress to readjust the rules and words of the bill to make it more in line with the United States.

For the long-term interests, the biggest challenge for the United States and the US president at present is how to restore the United States' influence and leadership over American countries as soon as possible.

China is taking advantage of the US recession to significantly occupy the American market, by spending a lot of government and bank credit to countries like Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina to support these countries to survive the Great Depression crisis while expanding their investment and influence in these countries.

By signing bilateral reciprocity trade agreements, China's goods and capital exports to these regions will be expanded.

Franklin Roosevelt knew very well that he could restrict the influx of Chinese goods into the US market through tariff adjustments, but he could not restrict the influx of Chinese goods to other countries in the world. Even if Britain and France were helpless, there was a kind of thing between Britain and France and China's economies.

A very important complementarity is international investment.

It was the larger-scale influx of international capital to China, and even the US capital poured into China in large quantities during the Great Depression and brought more technology and talents, which enabled China to grow outstandingly during the Great Depression.

After careful consideration, Franklin Roosevelt felt that it was necessary to write a letter to Emperor Hua himself, and pass it on to the emperor by telegram, asking him some questions that were not convenient for public consultation during face-to-face meetings.

What would he do if the other party was the president of the United States?

It was with such questions that Franklin Roosevelt wrote a letter to the Beau Vladimir Song Emperor in his personal capacity, asking for some very special questions, with earnest words.

After so many years, His Majesty's English and Russian names are still the same as "Baio Vladimir Song" as before, and there is indeed no need to make any changes or corrections.

Because it was through telegram, when Emperor Song received this special private letter, he happened to be in the Far East Hotel in Zhendan Prefecture. After inspecting the Jinzhou Shipyard, he went to the Far East Ship Industry Design Institute.

There we visited the design work of new battleships and cruisers.

The manufacturing industry of the Imperial Ship is a rising star among the great powers, but it is quite distinctive around the world. In terms of overall style, the manufacturing of the Imperial Ship is more like Germany, which is also a technological exchange and learning between China and Germany in the past few decades.

It has important relationships, but the combat environment faced by the German Navy is completely different from that of the Empire. Compared with the German ships, the Empire focuses more on mobility and airworthiness. On the two basic principles of focusing on defense and airworthiness, the Empire

*Ship must be conservative in firepower.

Especially after 1928, as the Empire completely formulated the center of the navy as an aircraft carrier and paid a lot of research, tests and scientific and technological development, the Empire focused more on the use of space in the design and manufacturing of battleships, reducing the main

guns, increase the layout of anti-aircraft artillery, increase radar and electronic systems, increase the performance and cabin space of carrier-based seaplanes.

In the design of cruisers, the Empire adopted two lines. One main direction was to serve as an escort formation for aircraft carriers. In this direction, cruisers focused more on comprehensive performance and air defense, anti-submarine, especially in the field of anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns. The Empire escorts a ship

Cruisers usually have four types of anti-aircraft guns, 30, 75, 105, 125, and some may also be equipped with 88mm\120mm anti-aircraft guns jointly developed by China and Germany with special caliber. In 30mm anti-aircraft guns, the Empire has three types of single-tube, double-tube and six-tube wheeled high-speed machine guns.

Different series.

The cruiser in this direction is a special escort cruiser, while the other direction is a conventional cruiser, commonly known as an armored cruiser. Its characteristic is that the defense armor is thicker, and the speed requirement is not as high as that of an escort cruiser. The maximum speed is generally

Between 30 knots and 32 knots, the maximum speed of escort cruisers is generally higher than 32 knots.

Although there are Changchun-class cruisers with high defense effects, they are still collectively referred to as escort cruisers, rather than being included in Fushun-class and Xilingol-class armored cruisers.

Armored cruisers require higher combat capabilities in design. Compared with battleships and high-speed battleships, the tonnage is limited to 10,000 British tons and the main gun is less than 8 inches. The cost of the Sonian battleship is generally only 1/10 of that of the Sonian battleship.

It is 1/30 of the Yuzhou-class battleship, and can assume the role of a main battleship in most sea conditions and situations.

Whether it is an 8-inch main gun or a 6-inch main gun, the main gun of a cruiser usually cannot directly penetrate the armor of the opponent's ship, but mainly depends on faster fire rate to determine the battle record. Therefore, since 1928, the Imperial Armored Cruiser

It basically only adopts 6-inch main guns, but in the past two years, considering the special combat value of armored cruisers, the cruiser design standards before combat patrol were restored, and a triple or double-mounted 8-inch will be adopted on armored cruisers.

The main gun is a bow gun.

The Harbin-class cruiser is the latest escort cruiser of the Empire. Due to the excellent performance of the 88mm anti-aircraft gun, this class of cruisers used a large number of 88mm anti-aircraft guns to replace the original 75mm anti-aircraft guns jointly developed by China and France, and reduced the anti-aircraft gun system to 30mm\88mm\120mm three.

At one level, five dual-mounted 152mm main guns can be equipped with, and two water reconnaissance aircraft can be carried.

Because it is an escort cruiser in the aircraft carrier formation, the number of water reconnaissance aircraft is not required to be large, two are enough, but it requires higher anti-submarine performance and air defense performance, especially in air defense firepower. After all, Harbin-class cruisers are tens of thousands of tons.

Large ships with displacement, their air defense network consisting of 8 120mm air defense anti-aircraft guns and 14 88mm air defense guns, as well as two types of 30mm high-speed machine guns, are extremely powerful in firepower, which is equivalent to a battleship with a displacement of 30,000 British tons.

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At the cost, the number of main guns of the Harbin-class light cruiser is far less than that of the highest-level light cruiser built by Japan during the same period. Both are basically the same default ships, that is, the cruiser with a standard displacement actually exceeding the limit of 10,000 British tons.

The claimed displacement of the light cruiser is 9,700 ng tons, which is actually about 11,400 ng tons, which is almost the same as the standard displacement of the highest-level light cruiser being built by Japan.

Due to the problems of the China-Japan naval cruiser competition, the default and fraud of light and heavy cruiser displacements by China and Japan are already known to all countries. In order to avoid China and Japan withdrawing from the Washington Naval Treaty due to such competition, Britain and the United States have concerns about this.

It is not a serious violation if the limit is no more than 12,000 British tons. For this reason, military officers were sent to negotiate with China and Japan in private, while Britain, the United States, France and Italy still abide by the treaty.

In fact, China and Japan have heavy cruisers of more than 12,000 tons. On the surface, they are heavy cruisers. If the main gun is replaced, they can immediately become light-level pocket battleships.

In short, the Harbin-class cruiser under construction is a model representative of the Imperial Escort Cruiser, and also represents the special style in the manufacturing of the Imperial ** ship. Compared with the highest level, the main gun firepower is reduced, the armor defense effect is slightly better, and the power system is stronger.

, and the air defense firepower does not belong to ships of the same level.

Another class of armored cruisers that are being designed is the Luoyang class cruiser. This class of cruisers is the latest model of armored cruisers. The standard displacement is limited to 11,000 NT. It is expected to be equipped with two triple-mounted 280mm.
To be continued...