"It is estimated that the standard of 500,000 tons cannot be achieved. Neither the British Navy nor the Eagle Sauce people will agree to it!"
Mainz put away his smile and said to Dönitz seriously
"Understand, the British Empire will definitely maintain its maritime superiority over us. If it doesn't even have this advantage, then the British Empire will not be the British Empire!"
Dönitz nodded. As the commander of the navy, he was relatively clear about the situation of his enemies.
The bottom line of the British Empire is to maintain their maritime hegemony in Europe. They can make the Eagle Sauce equal to them, because the Eagle Sauce is far away from Europe, so it is difficult to threaten them, but the British Empire will not allow a country with naval strength approaching theirs or surpassing theirs to exist in Europe!
"General, if we can't get 500,000 tons, at least give us 300,000 tons. Our navy will be satisfied with the quota of the foot basin man!"
Dönitz knew that asking for a quota of 500,000 tons was unrealistic, so he settled for the next best thing and at least asked for the same treatment as the foot basin man.
"You can't put us on the same level as Italy and Gaul, right? This is too much of a disdain for us!"
Hearing what Dönitz said, Mainz couldn't help but laugh. From what this guy said, it seemed that the great powers like Gaul and Italy were nothing but chickens and dogs in his eyes, and he didn't take them seriously at all!
"The core of the Gauls and Italians are in the Mediterranean, and their colonies are in Africa, especially North Africa, so the Mediterranean is their arena. Their navy cannot threaten us. We have only one enemy, and that is the British Empire!"
Mainz was very clear about the identification of the enemies at sea. The Gauls bordered Hans directly, so if you want to defeat Gaul, you only need to cross the border from land and enter the Iron Tower City, and then you can make the Gauls perform the unique skill of raising the white flag.
But it is not so easy to make the British Empire surrender. Their homeland is on the other side of the strait. If you want to attack their homeland, you must use the navy, and you must defeat the British Empire's navy in advance. If you don't defeat the British Empire's navy, the German army will never be able to set foot on the British Empire in their lifetime!
So, with the bottom line of at least striving to get the same quota as the Foot Basin People, Mainz sent a telegram back to the Allied Powers.
The content of the telegram shows Hans's position:
Hans is a peace-loving country. It does not… Willing to engage in a meaningless arms race, so in order to maintain world peace, Hans is willing to join the Washington City Arms Control Agreement.
However, because Hans faces the threat of an evil country that poses a huge threat to the whole of Europe and Hans, Hans must develop the navy and have sufficient naval strength so that it can protect itself and avoid being attacked by this evil country. Therefore, Mainz requires that the German navy's tonnage must at least reach the level of the British Empire and the British Empire, so as to ensure the safety of their sea borders!
This reply to the call was also directly announced to the public by Mainz as before, so that reporters from all over the world can see and report it.
Mainz is very good at using the news media to help him create public opinion, thereby creating pressure on the Allied Powers. force, and then force the other party to agree to his own conditions.
Just like this time, although Mainz did not name the name of the evil country in the telegram, anyone who is not a fool can know who the evil country Mainz is talking about! Is there any need to ask? It must be the British Empire!
The British Empire has dominated the world for hundreds of years and has offended many countries. There are few countries in Europe that do not hate the British Empire.
Moreover, except for Central Europe, other European countries generally have their own coastlines. All countries with coastlines have been threatened by the British Empire, which makes the image of the British Empire in Europe very bad. Mainz demanded to build its own powerful navy on the grounds of protecting itself from invasion by the British Empire, which was recognized by all European countries!
If not for If their own national strength and economic strength are not strong, which European country does not want to build a strong navy to protect themselves from the threat of the sun never sets?
Everyone wants to do this, but they don't have the strength or courage to do so. After all, the Royal Navy of the sun never sets is still too terrible. They are not like the Hans who have the confidence and courage to challenge the maritime hegemony of the sun never sets!
However, even if they don't have the courage to do so, at this time, hearing the Hans' domineering propaganda, the European countries that have suffered from the sun never setting for a long time admire Hans' courage. Even if they don't support Hans, they will never oppose Hans!
The sun never sets doesn't know what other European countries think, and they don't want to care!
However, when this telegram from Mainz was delivered to them, the sun never sets exploded on the spot!
"How outrageous!"
"Who do the Hans think they are? They want to be on equal footing with us, the British Empire?"
"Why don't they take a piss and look in the mirror to see who they are? How dare they compare themselves with us? Are they worthy?"The
British Empire was furious. They had to pinch their noses and reluctantly agreed to let the Eagle Sauce be on an equal footing with them. That was because the Eagle Sauce was a powerful country and had a large number of British Empire war bonds in its hands. In addition, the Eagle Sauce was still vigorously building its navy, so they could only be forced to accept the fact that the Eagle Sauce was on an equal footing with them.
However, what virtue and ability did Hans have to dare to make such a request? Is he, Hans, a creditor of the British Empire, or is his national strength stronger than that of the Eagle Sauce, or is it that the slipway of Hans' shipyard now has more warships than the number of warships in the Eagle Sauce shipyard at the beginning?
None of them!
Since there is none, how can he, Hans, What do you mean by being on an equal footing with the British Empire and the Eagle Sauce?
After seeing this telegram, the faces of the representatives of other countries also turned ugly!
Especially Gaul and Italy, who are at the bottom of the food chain, the representatives of the two countries are almost fainting with anger!
The Hans asked for a quota of 500,000 as soon as they opened their mouths, which is three times as much as theirs. This is completely disregarding them? Why does
Hans have more than the two victorious countries, and so much more!
So both countries expressed clear opposition!
The attitudes of the Eagle Sauce and the Foot Basin are also very firm, and they also expressed opposition at the same time!
The five powers, each with their own ulterior motives, are surprisingly unanimous on this issue!
"Tell the Hans that 500,000 is impossible, let them make more practical demands!"
The British saw that the representatives of the other four countries had very consistent opinions, and they immediately relaxed a little. They arrogantly sent a telegram to Hans, clearly rejecting the Hans' demands!
"General, the Allies have rejected our request!"
The telegram was quickly delivered to Mainz, who didn't even look at it. It can be said that such a result was already within his expectations.
It was not surprising that the Allies rejected their request. It would be strange if they agreed to Hans' request!
"Just call them back and ask them how much quota they are willing to give us!"
Since the request they took the initiative to make was rejected by the other party, Mainz simply turned the tables and said,"You can make any choice now. I am only responsible for rejecting it. The decision is in my hands. I will grind you to death!"
Sure enough, when this request was sent to the representatives of the Allied Powers, they were a little confused and didn't know how to answer for a while.
"Since the Hans did not agree to the previous proposal of 150,000 tons, it is clear that they must be dissatisfied with that proposal, and we also rejected their proposal of 500,000 tons. In this case, let's make a small concession and increase their tonnage by 25,000 tons, bringing their total tonnage to 15,000 tons. What do you think?"
All countries were unwilling to make a statement, so the British had to stand up and make a statement first.
"I have no opinion!"
"I have no objection either!"
...
All countries had no opinions, no one opposed this proposal, even Italy and Gaul, they were quiet this time.
They all knew that if the Hans did not agree, then the arms race would be inevitable. If they wanted to avoid the arms race, they had to pull Hans into the Washington Treaty, so they had to make some concessions at this time to make Hans' quota equal to their own. However
, after this 175,000-ton proposal was sent to Mainz, he immediately rejected it!
"Tell the people of the Allied Powers that we do not approve of this proposal!"
PS: I have added more chapters to urge you to update. Something happened during the day today. After the first chapter was blocked, two chapters were reviewed in succession. I was a bit caught in the crossfire…_