Chapter 93 Shocking Ambition (Part 2)
Seeing Ye Hui, Wang Xuanzhang and the others were laughing in a bad mood. Huang Sande thought they were joking. He felt relieved and pretended to be angry: "You two brats are happy with me! My brother is old and can't help but be scared. If you two brats are scared to you, how can you compensate me?"
Hearing this, Ye Hui and Wang Xuanzhang laughed louder and happier. They ignored Huang Sande's eyebrows and furiously, and laughed for 5 or 6 minutes. It took them a long time to stop and return to peace.
However, instead of answering Huang Sande's question directly, they took out a document and handed it to Huang Sande seriously. Seeing their serious expressions, Huang Sande did not dare to neglect them, so he took it over and looked carefully.
In the 1860s, after the Civil War in the United States, policies to reduce arms and fully develop the industrial economy began to be implemented.
Due to the influence of Monroeism, many in the US government believe that the United States does not need to continue to maintain a strong army and navy. Because since the United States has no intention of competing with European powers, the country does not need to maintain a strong army and navy to challenge them.
Under this circumstance, the U.S. government implemented large-scale layoffs on both the army and the navy. By 1876, the maximum number of the U.S. Army was 27,442, and this scale was not expanded until the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898.
During this period, the main task given to the army was to help the country develop the west and fight against the Indians. In addition, the army was also stationed in coastal defense. In 1899, the US Congress passed a bill stipulating that the army's regular army had 65,000 and the volunteer soldiers had 35,000. In February 1901, Congress approved the increase of the total strength of the army's regular army to 88,619.
The US Navy was also greatly reduced after the Civil War. In five years, it reduced from the original 700 warships to only 52 ships. Moreover, according to the standards of Europe, Britain and other countries during this period, the 52 ships retained were outdated because they were all wooden sailboats with bore guns installed on the bows.
However, because the Americans' overseas trade interests were already quite large during this period, they objectively needed protection from the US Navy. Therefore, the Navy Department restored the pre-war ocean patrol system and turned its focus to Latin America and Asia, and began a diplomacy of giant ships and cannons widely in these areas.
After the 1880s, with the rapid development of the economy, the United States' ambitions also expanded and began to move from isolationism to imperialism. The United States bought Alaska from the Russians, and gained the power to establish naval bases in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Pagopago in the Samoan Islands.
Americans who were eager to become a world power naturally developed a modern navy. By 1890, the total displacement of the new US Navy had reached 122,000 tons.
After entering the 1890s, the US Navy had 10 battleships, 15 cruisers, 13 gunboats, 12 destroyers, 15 torpedo boats and 2 submersible torpedo boats launched. By 1899, the US New Navy had 98 ships totaling 324,000 tons.
In this way, with its strong industrial economic strength, the United States not only developed rapidly in quantity, but also had excellent quality. In just a short period of time, its modern navy had already become quite large, achieving the goal of overtaking Germany and Japan at the end of the 19th century and lagging behind the navies of Britain, France and Russia.
After reading this detailed information, Huang Sande frowned and said, "The United States has not many or strong army, which is well known in Western countries. However, their industrial economy is extremely developed and their weapons are also very advanced. As long as someone joins the army, they can form a fully armed million-strong army in an instant. How can we resist at that time?"
"This is not a problem." Wang Xuanzhang replied sternly: "The biggest advantage of us Chinese is that our population is large. On the west coast of the United States, there are about two million Chinese, and most of them are young and middle-aged people who come to the United States to work. These Chinese workers have exchanged their hard work and sweat for great development in the Midwest of the United States, but have been excluded and suppressed by the United States federal, local governments and American people.
Therefore, these Chinese are very angry and hated the United States. Chinese have always been on their own terms and are not very united. The reason why my brother's Zhigong Pavilion has developed so rapidly that it can unite tens of thousands of Chinese to unite and confront them secretly is because of the discrimination and abuse of them by the US government and the people.
As long as we organize them all and choose patriotic and passionate people for strict training, at that time, as long as we prepare well and arrange them properly, we can also instantly pull up a fully armed army of hundreds of thousands."
"Not bad!" Ye Hui continued: "At that time, both sides will be recruits who have not experienced actual combat, and they will fight on the spot by courage and commanders. In terms of courage, the main guard of the Chinese army we organized with deep hatred will be the main battle against the enemy. Everyone will inevitably strive for the first place and move forward to the death. In terms of command and combat, the commander-in-chief will naturally send generals with countless practical experience to command."
"Not only that!" Wang Xuanzhang said with a quick look: "The commander-in-chief has always been in a state of vague work. I believe that when the time comes, he will definitely send tens of thousands of PLA soldiers who have experienced many battles. These elite PLA soldiers who have seen blood are not something that the weak American troops can resist!"
"What a wonderful thing! Xuanzhang's judgment is very much my wish!" Ye Hui suddenly became excited and said in a singular voice: "And, in other cities in the United States, the total number of Chinese people is no less than one million. As we know, Brother Situ Meitang, the subordinate of my brother, established Anliang Hall in New York, the eastern United States, and its development is also extremely rapid. Now tens of thousands of Chinese have joined.
As long as the brother convinced Situ Meitang, we can quickly develop our strength and power in the eastern United States. When the commander-in-chief said it was right, the west and the east were launched at the same time, and the army that kept the US government was overwhelmed and defeated!"
The two of you said one by one, and one by one, it was like a splendid and bright future. They even regarded the powerful American imperialism as nothing, and were vulnerable. Huang Sande was stunned and speechless when he heard it.
Chapter completed!