Chapter 217 The style of a strong country
After a brief and smooth meeting, in the scorched earth town of Karenbridge, Lieutenant General Dimmy Case and Lieutenant General Simon Bradley of the New United Kingdom Air Force represented the coalition, and Major General Bourne Gordon of the Scottish Army signed their respective names on the Armistice Treaty on behalf of the Scottish Provisional Government.
Under the mediation of Germany and the New United Kingdom, the conditions for the armistice to Scotland were very simple. They only needed to repay England with the pensions of 9,633 dead soldiers and subsidies of 31,547 wounded officers and soldiers, and to continue to fulfill the agreement and lease the Salom Bay to the New United Kingdom, and to end this war with no chance of victory. Therefore, when the meritorious service of the dictator Barriole returned to Edinburgh with the Armistice Treaty, hundreds of thousands of Scottish people welcomed...
However, this war, which lasted only seven days, not only caused 200,000 Scottish soldiers and tens of thousands of innocent civilians to suffer a devastating blow to Scotland's economy and military. Military and industrial facilities in many ports such as Ireland, Glasgow, Aberdeen, etc. were bombed violently, so that the Scottish media could not help lamenting: The quasi-powered country with the highest development speed in Europe in the past ten years has almost returned to the age of agriculture and pastoralism overnight!
With the collapse of the old economic order, the new Scottish government had to carry out drastic reforms at home. Since the government's normal financial resources were simply unable to afford a military of hundreds of thousands, after receiving disarmament funds specially supported by the League of Nations, the new Scottish government laid off three-quarters of its troops in batches and retained less than 100,000 active troops. At this point, the Scotland, which once had often caused panic to the English, no longer existed.
War can bring the country to decline, to usher in changes, and to increase the motivation and move forward steadily. Within a year, the New United Kingdom was the most expensive and the most rewarding among the participating countries. In the trade territory of Europe, they defeated Italy, which had the highest industrial similarity and the most competitive, seized the Italians' international trade share in the industrial manufacturing fields such as ships, aviation, chemicals, and textiles, and obtained huge war reparations from the Italians - a considerable portion of the reparations were finally compensated in kind. Although Italy's industrial standards were different from the New United Kingdom, the Irish still collected a large number of machinery and equipment from the Apennine Peninsula and transported them to northern Ireland. Relying on the nuclear reactors invested in practical operation to provide electricity, a new industrial circle centered on Belfast was built.
In Belfast, the most prosperous port city in Ireland, the shipbuilding manufacturing industry, mainly oil tankers, scientific research ships, fishing boats and offshore drilling platforms, has once again brought the port terminals to life. Around the city, food processing and textile manufacturing companies have emerged like mushrooms after a rain. High-quality Italian food processing equipment and textile machine tools have made beef and herring produced in Belfast a best-selling product in Europe and the United States. The shortage of labor and the increase in rewards have attracted a large number of immigrants from Western and Nordic countries, and the GDP of the entire region has also risen rapidly like a rocket.
Located more than 100 kilometers northwest of Belfast, the harbor city of Coleran, which has been silent for many years, has gradually regained its former glory. On the coastline, modern blast furnaces have risen from the ground, and brand new factories have been completed one after another. The Italians' latest and best pharmaceutical and pesticide research and development facilities have been implemented here. The state injects funds, college franchises, and private management. This super-large pharmaceutical pesticide chemical enterprise called "Belsa" has included most of Coleran into its factory area, making this northern harbor quickly become another dazzling pearl on the Irish coastline!
The increasing maturity of the Limerick industrial circle and the rapid development of the new industrial circle in Belfast have enabled the new United Kingdom, which has won two consecutive victories in wars, to usher in the midpoint of the century in a prosperous atmosphere, 1950.
At the beginning of the new year, the first major international move by the New United Kingdom was to extend a helping hand to the Jewish state that had been fighting against the Arab countries for half a year. With the signing of the military mutual assistance agreement between the two sides, the Jews were able to purchase military supplies from the New United Kingdom through loans. The largest military purchase transaction between the two sides was born. In less than a week, the New United Kingdom raised 100,000 semi-automatic rifles, 5,000 machine guns, 600 tanks, 2,000 artillery, 400 aircraft and 300 million bullets, 260
Ten thousand shells and 100,000 tons of fuel, an escort fleet formed by the New United Kingdom Navy set off from the port of Limerick and transported more than 500,000 tons of arms to Tel Aviv. The speed and efficiency were so fast that it was completely beyond the expectations of the Arab countries. When the Arab army made a comeback, the Jewish armed forces had already been deployed and had set up pockets to wait for the opponent. As a result, in the battle of Holon, forty thousand Jewish armed forces defeated 100,000 elite Arabs and captured more than 20,000 enemies. Using this as a bargaining force the Arabs to recognize the established fact that the Jewish state occupied Palestine.
With the mediation of the League of Nations, the Jewish state finally concluded a ceasefire agreement with the League of Arab States, and the development of the Middle East has since entered a new era. The reason why Palestine is called "land with milk and honey" is because its north and west have a Mediterranean climate, abundant sunshine and suitable for planting. Under the diligent reclamation and scientific management of the Jews, the cotton, fruits and vegetables produced here quickly exceeded the historical highest level. Cotton was sold to the Irish at preferential prices, and fruits and vegetables were sold to Eastern and Southern Europe, continuously in exchange for foreign exchange to repay military purchase loans and purchase new weapons and equipment.
International investment in the New United Kingdom has received generous returns in the Jews, and in the distant Pan Pacific region, whether in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and Guinea, "New United Kingdom Manufacturing" has long been everywhere. Especially the output of nuclear reactor technology in the fields of scientific research and civil use has basically become a monopoly project of the New United Kingdom, and can bring hundreds of millions of marks of profit and tax revenue to governments and enterprises every year.
The huge new United Kingdom merchant fleet controls nearly one-quarter of the trade volume on the Pacific route and gradually expands the trade routes to South and East Asia. Since the early 1950s, the new United Kingdom has gradually become Japan's direct competitor in the field of international trade. Steel, alloys, power, fuel, ships... The industrial products produced by these two countries have equal quality of technical quality. However, the new United Kingdom ignores the Japanese's principle of fair competition and peaceful coexistence, and has joined hands with Western alliance countries to launch a trade war - they have exported a large number of industrial products to Asia for a long time at a price lower than the cost, or even half-buy and half-get, and established a complete and high-quality after-sales technical service system.
In order to win this trade war, the taxes of related companies reduced by the new United Kingdom government reached tens of millions of yuan each year, and the government subsidies provided to shipping companies were enough to build several super tankers. This investment at all costs achieved very significant results in the international trade war. Before 1951, about 70% of the hundreds of thousands of tons of gasoline and kerosene imported by Asian countries came from Japan, and by 1951, this proportion dropped to 40%. Just two years later, most of the fuel produced by Japan could only be sold in its own country, and the same was true for the aircraft, machine tools, vehicles, medicines and new materials produced by Japan. Only in the fields of railway locomotives and civilian ships, Japanese manufacturing still barely maintained a certain degree of competitiveness.
In the mid-1950s, the economic development speed of countries around the world slowed down significantly, and some countries began to show economic decline. In Europe, Italy's economic situation was the most difficult, the government's industrial reform failed again, the national unemployment rate was close to 20%, and the people's dissatisfaction provided an ideal breeding ground for the spread of revolutionary thoughts. This country once again fell into turmoil. In Asia, due to its severe shortage of resources and a long-term sluggish foreign trade, Japan Become the first country to enter the recession channel. Although the military has always been unwilling to remain silent and tried to force the senior management to change its strategies by military admonishment, unite with the Soviet Union and Russia to fight against Europe and the United States, the military admonishment operation leaked the news before it was launched. Emperor Xuanren ordered the arrest of middle and senior officers participating in military admonishment, and ordered the military headquarters to follow Germany to carry out the so-called "modernization reform" of the existing military system, and continue the Bushido spirit that has lasted for thousands of years. It has been hit by a subversive impact again since the Meiji Restoration...
Japan, which suffered "double castration" in the military and economic fields, naturally withdrew from the battle for hegemony in the second half of the 20th century. Only the United States and the Soviet Union were left. The former relied on rich natural resources, deep industrial foundation, strong scientific and technological power and unruly national spirit, and soon emerged from the shadow of the defeat of the war. The absolute value of industry, trade and national defense construction hit a record high, and there was a faint capital to compete with the Western allies, but because With the lessons of the past, they are committed to developing defensive military technology and maintaining active and friendly contacts with European countries. The latter has achieved a surprising wave of development results with the help of the advantages of the authoritarian system and planned economy in specific periods and conditions. The rapid rise of its industry and military, coupled with the resurgence of revolutionary thought in some European countries, forced Western allies to re-examine whether their Eastern European defense lines are as strong as imagined, and carefully explored feasible solutions for the use of nuclear weapons to implement strategic defense...
In the summer of 1958, a red revolution that swept across the country broke out in Italy. In just over two weeks, the Italian government was overthrown and the Italian royal family was forced to go into exile. In order to avoid such an important European country falling into the hands of the red regime, the Western allies led by Germany quickly sent tens of thousands of well-equipped troops to Italy in the name of the League of Nations peacekeeping forces, in the form of sea, land and air advancement in the third line of sea, land and air, and quickly occupied important cities and ports such as Milan, Turin, Palermo, and Taranto. But in the process of occupying the Italian capital Rome, the United Nations peacekeeping forces were stubbornly resisted by revolutionary armed forces, which paid a heavy price of thousands of casualties. After the battle, the peacekeeping forces identified several Russians among the prisoners, thus obtaining direct evidence that the Soviet Union supported the Italian revolutionary forces behind the scenes. The German government immediately sent a note to the Soviet ambassador to Germany, urging them to immediately stop supporting the "Italian insurgents", but was rejected by the Soviet Union.
Chapter completed!