Ultimate Weapon of Magic and Science

"I do not understand."

It was Marseille that broke the silence and doubts. The excessive sense of disobedience made it difficult for him to keep silent, even his identity was forgotten.

"Although I don’t quite understand the specific process, the negotiation was originally a bargaining process. In the empire, without the emperor’s permission, even the diplomats promised nothing. Basically, the authorization is the same, and ultimately Will always ask the emperor to wait for an official response at the negotiating table after the order is issued. It’s just that, it’s still far from the final goal of Plan Z. Forgive me... how to treat the two How about connecting?"

Perhaps because of the relationship as an outsider, Marseille lacked the high degree of trust and obedience of Roland members from the "Legion". Others will have similar questions, but as intelligence officers, they have witnessed too many accurate predictions by Roland, and they have a preconceived notion that "since this is said, it must make sense", so even if there are doubts, they will not Will say it. Marseille, who is an outsider, suddenly asked questions, and was naturally surrounded by many blind eyes. The "Robin Bird" on the side twisted him hard, and Marseille, who was in pain, grinned.

Raising his hand to stop the "nightingale" who wants to get up from bed, Roland smiled and asked:

"Classmate Marseille, do you think there is something wrong in this?"

"Uh... it's not so much wrong, it's better to say that it feels like the buttons of the clothes are wrong."

——The child has a good intuition.

Nodding his head, Roland said rightly:

"You are right, it is the wrong button."

Negotiations, Plan Z, terrorist attacks-the three seem to be unrelated at first glance, but this is just an intuitive feeling, but in the hands of the emperor, the three elements that seem to be out of reach are interlocking , Interdependent. The element connecting the three is called "arms race".

Looking at three things alone, there really isn't much to do with each other. It can be easily observed that the terrorist attack is the reason or excuse for the arms race. The negotiations between the "Rhineland" incident and the procrastination later are to accelerate the fast lane to the arms race. Plan Z is the specifics of the arms race. Form and results.

Everything is to expand armaments and prepare for the next war. The reason for this complexity is to avoid detonating the war prematurely before all preparations are ready.

Some people may ask: Is this a contradiction at all? Is the emperor's brain flooding?

In fact, this is precisely the emperor's shrewdness, and even such conflicts are in his calculations, becoming a part of the guarantee plan.

"Classmate Marseille, I remember your family opened a bakery?"

"Yes."

"If you have a bunch of bread that doesn't taste so good, and you don't want to throw it away, you still have to find a way to sell it to others. What would you do?"

"Well... generally, discount promotions are launched, bundling bad bread with delicious bread. In this way, even if the customer knows that the bread does not taste good, he buys two at a relatively cheap price. Bread, one of them tastes good, they will feel that they have taken advantage of it. Not only will they not be unhappy, they will continue to patronize next time."

"Ordinary merchants do this. But if you let the emperor run your bakery, he will secretly buy a lot of flour, and at the same time spend some money on the street to hire some people to spread'for some reason, the wheat output is insufficient, The rumors of flour going up soon. When the public finds that flour is indeed starting to rise in price and is in a panic, he then takes out the bad taste bread and sells it at twice or even five times the price."

"why is it like this……"

Marseille's face was shocked, and many of the same industry's tricks of sub-charging, buying low and selling high were also seen. However, Marseille never thought that there could be such an operation. What kind of game does the heart and liver have to become black to come up with this gameplay?

In fact, his knowledge is still not enough. If he has seen the disaster in some areas, the black-hearted vendors take advantage of the shortage of materials to sell various essential materials such as water, food, fuel, etc. at a price of 50 times or even 100 times. Then he wouldn't be surprised by the emperor's marketing methods.

"Marseilles, the emperor’s most terrible place is not his force, nor his technical knowledge. He is good at clever layout, excluding other options a little, and creating the desired situation will be the most favorable conditions for him. Packed as a'condition that cannot be refused', forcing others to accept it."

If the scammers are ranked by level, those who use rhetoric to defraud money are usually the worst group. It is better to speak three-point and seven-point false, half-true and half-false is okay. The most dangerous thing is that like Li Lin, every sentence is truthful, but it deliberately conceals some key information, or The set order releases all kinds of real information, unconsciously grasps the initiative of the development of the situation, and peddles his already prepared plan to opponents who can't refuse at all.

The same thing happened this time.

"Terrorist attacks, negotiations, plan Z, and—"

Roland wrote a word on the paper and raised it.

"The "Naval Arms Limitation Conference" is the last piece of the whole plan."

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"There is no contradiction between the arms limitation conference and the arms expansion. The focus depends on how to view the two."

After signing the name to the reply of Baron von Wright, Li Lin said in a hurry:

"If we forcibly promote the "Z Plan", the countries will certainly not accept this arms race without any hope. Anyway, the final result will be perish. It is better to start while the gap between the two sides is relatively small. It can bring maximum damage to the empire. But if you tell them'let's limit the arms race, let's set a standard to prevent things from getting out of control'. They will find it acceptable."

When it comes to curbing the naval arms race, most people think of the Washington Conference, the London Naval Conference, and the Navy Holidays—regardless of the cause and result, at least in the past two decades, there has been no danger of the crossbows on the eve of World War I. atmosphere. But Li Lin wanted more than a short-term peace guarantee. He wanted to expand his armaments step by step under the cover of this guarantee, and promote a huge shipbuilding plan under the cover of seemingly compromised concessions. That's right, what Li Lin wants is not so much a "Washington Naval Convention", "Naval Arms Treaty on Limitation and Reduction (that is, the London Naval Treaty)", not the "British-German Naval Agreement."

The historians of another world have mostly negatively evaluated the 1935 British-German Naval Agreement, arguing that this is a classic appeasement-style return to the mountains, and another unforgivable stupid act of appeasement-style apprentice Mr. Chamberlain. From a historical perspective, this explanation is indeed true. But if we look at this paper agreement from the perspective of the British, things are different.

In 1935, the United Kingdom had not recovered from the Great Depression, and it had become more and more powerless to maintain the maritime hegemony while facing the two newly emerging maritime powers of the United States and Japan. Against this background, the United Kingdom must guard against the French Navy (the French Navy is also guarding against the Royal Navy, after all, a centuries-old feud), and it must conduct a naval arms race with Germany, which is resurgent. This is really difficult for Britain. At this time, Germany took the initiative to express its willingness to limit the tonnage of ships to 35% of the Royal Navy, which is not bad news for the British. At that time, in order to maintain the global colonial system, the British Empire needed a large number of cruisers. Even at the second London Naval Conference, it actively proposed to reduce the performance of new battleships. The purpose was to build more and more economical small treaty battleships (except the British His own George V-class battleship, no one to build a 14-inch main gun battleship) and cruisers (a lot of thin-skinned treaty cruisers). If Germany insists on creating a quick-breaking fleet with submarines and assault ships as the backbone for war, the Royal Navy will have to abandon the plan for the replacement of the battleship and concentrate on building a navy with **** and antisubmarine as its main tasks. And continue to invest resources-later in history. However, since the Germans are willing to actively reduce the size of the fleet, the Germans certainly got rid of the constraints of the "Versailles Treaty" and were able to build a large-scale fleet. But this also means that the Germans need at least five to ten years and a lot of resources to build a new high seas fleet (the German shipbuilding plan was not completed until 1948), then the German fleet is certainly strong~www.wuxiaspot. com~ But the Royal Navy has also completed the replacement of the main battleship (the Germans have H-classes, the British have lion-classes, and there are no treaty restrictions, the Royal Navy may revive the improved N3 battleship equipped with 9 18-inch main guns ), regardless of quantity or quality, it can crush the Germans in all directions.

However, it is more likely that the Germans will never complete their shipbuilding plan. The 20-year gap created by the Treaty of Versailles is not only a lag in technology and design, lack of funds, rare metals, oil, ship platforms, shipbuilders, Warship-related production equipment, long-term peace, and a sustainable and stable economic cycle... The Germans are short of everything. An explosive naval expansion plan far exceeds the limit they can bear. It is destined to be an unattainable air castle.

In order to maintain the superiority of the navy, the British could be said to be exhausted, but they never expected that the moustache would be so impatient. In September 1939, Germany struck Poland and kicked off the prelude to the Second World War. All the British calculations followed In the wild adventures of the Germans, the water floated.

The topic returned to Li Lin. He wanted a "British-German Naval Agreement" not only for his empire, but also for the powers of the nations.

Since everyone doesn't like an arms race that is too intense, what about a naval arms control agreement that works for everyone and draws a clear bottom line for the arms race?