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The imperial meeting ended. Zhang Yunfei finally approved the proposal to restore the finances to the Navy directly.

In this way, the Imperial Qin Royal Navy ended the thirteen-year Naval Funding Freeze Act and formulated the "Old Year Naval Act" based on the Naval Law.

According to the new Navy Act, the number of capital ships of the Imperial Qin Royal Navy should remain the same as the number of capital ships of the US Navy, so as to ensure that China's maritime interests are not threatened.

According to the current construction process of the US main battleship, when the US New Mexico-class battleship is completed, the number of US battleships will reach. After the Imperial Qin Royal Navy to the Hawaii-class battleships is completed, there are only battleships. Among them, five Pangu-class battleships are unable to adapt to future naval battles because they are formerly fearless battleships. Therefore, the Imperial Qin Royal Navy has only ten fearless battleships.

The U.S. Navy does not have battlecruisers, but the Imperial Qin Navy has ten battleship cruisers. However, because the Imperial Qin Navy defines battleships as class cruisers that do not engage in battleships, they are not considered as the main ships.

In this way, according to the new Navy Act, the Emperor Qin Navy needed to build another ugly battleship in order to maintain the number of US Navy battleships.

However, if it is built like this, it would be crazy! Because Britain has so far only owned the Hong Kong Fearless Battleship and the necessary former Fearless Battleship, and has been towed to bankruptcy. If the Chinese Navy built so many battleships, it would no longer be challenging the United States, but to destroy the United States. At the same time, the battleships built now are all class battleships, and the unit price of Haviori-class battleships is as high as Flying Ten Thousand Dragon Coins. If so many battleships are built, even if China has money, it will be dragged down.

However, this is the policy of the Imperial and Qin government instigating the United States, which can be seen as a continuation of the European naval arms race. The Imperial and Qin government would not be stupid enough to build so many battleships, but to instigate the United States and force it to carry out large-scale naval expansion plans, like dragging down Britain and Germany, and the United States.

China has issued a new naval bill with a high profile and directly mentioned the United States, saying that the United States' huge navy threatened China's security, and thus put forward the US threat theory and signal of military expansion and preparation for war.

The US government was extremely nervous. Several congressional meetings were held in succession, and the US President and Admiralty officials made several reports to analyze the impact of China's actions on the United States.

Because China's refusal to renew the Hawaii Navy Arms Treaty, the Chinese and American navies lost the constraints of international treaties, and the temporary intermediate dividing line between Hawaii and the White-collar Strait lost its legal effect, which could easily lead to confrontation and conflict between the naval patrol personnel of the two countries.

Moreover, as the Chinese Navy's Atlantic Fleet entered the Caribbean Sea, the US Atlantic Fleet had to distribute a considerable number of naval forces to move south to Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba to counter the threat of the Chinese Navy in the Caribbean Sea.

At the same time, the Nicaragua Grand Canal excavated by China is about to be completed, not only robbing the Panama Canal business of the United States, but because the natural river channel of the Nicaragua Grand Canal is deeper than the Panama Canal, so after completion, it can pass through large warships like Hawaiian-class battleships. On the contrary, large warships of the United States are not easy to pass through the Panama Canal. Therefore, once completed, large warships of China do not need to circle South American states and can directly enter and exit the Atlantic Ocean, which poses a great threat to the United States.

At several consecutive congressional hearings, representatives of the US side called on the US Congress to approve a larger-scale naval shipbuilding plan to respond to the Chinese Navy's naval provocation.

The White House, the Presidential Office. President Woodrow-Wilson and Vice President Thomas, Marshall Van-Yichan Snake, and Wise, the first adviser to the president's think tank, are discussing behind closed doors.

Wilson was the first US president. As a member of the Democratic Party, he finally defeated Republican candidate William Tafto and won the election. However, his victory was full of bizarre and coincidence. Due to the Republican Party's successive failures in European affairs and China's affairs, China's drastic approach and provocation in Central and South America made the United States unsatisfactory in foreign affairs.

There are many Chinese factors among them, because the top Chinese government has always had close ties with the Republican Party of the United States. Because of this relationship, the trade between China and the United States has been unprecedented. Therefore, the American people support the Basketball and the Party government, which has led to the Republican Party controlling the government for nearly 20 years.

However, success and failure are both Xiao He! As China becomes stronger, the Republican Party is increasingly suffering from cooperation with the Emperor and Qin government. The trade disputes between China and the United States are one after another, and the trade deficit with China continues to widen. The continuous collision of national interests has led to the Republican Party's image among the American people becoming increasingly incompetent. At the same time, the US banking crisis since the beginning of the year of the year has greatly shocked American society. People's anger at trust and investment companies, panic about bank bankruptcy, and fear of Wall Street financial oligarchs. A powerful public opinion trend that opposes all financial monopoly sweeps the whole country. It eventually leads to the Republican Party's long-term foundation of the US government, and then the election failed, and the Democratic Party came to power.

"Mr. President!" Vice President Marshall said: "China's pressing step by step has already scared American citizens! You must convince Congress to pass the new Navy bill and fiscal budget so that the Xi and Navy will protect their motherland more confidently." Wilson said: "I know too! But there is still a large number of people in the House of Congress standing on the side of Senator Aldridge, and I have no choice!"

Aldridge, an authoritative figure in the US Senate, is a man who ruled the US President of the United States for years. Although he has never run for president, he is powerful. Not only is he a large number of people in the United States, but he is also very powerful behind it. His son-in-law is Rockefeller Jr., the president of the American-level oil trust, and he controls American congressmen in money.

Wise said: "Yes, Aldridge is on the Republican side. We can win this time because of his misjudgment and overconfidence. If he goes all out, we have no hope of winning at all."

Marshall sighed: "The United States is facing a huge threat from China and Europe. The Republican Party has always had close ties with China. The Rockefeller Consortium has a huge interest relationship with China Petroleum Group and airlines. Therefore, the Republican Party has been giving in to China for so many years and maintaining an ambiguous relationship. If we want to gain a foothold, we must cut off the relationship between the Republican Party and China.

And before that, the first thing we have to do is to defeat the Rockefeller Consortium and to oust Senator Aldridge first!”

"Mr. President!" Wise said: "Mr. Marshall is right! We can take it step by step, defeat Senator Aldridge first and get full support from Congress before we can balance China."

Wilson nodded and said, "But, how should we deal with him?"

Wise thought for a while and said, "Mr. President, we can start with the Rockefeller Consortium. If we can attack the Rockefeller Consortium and force them to give up their financial support for Aldridge, it is equivalent to cutting off one of Aldridge's hands. Then we can replace him and control other members of the parliament, and completely undermine Senator Aldridge and take back Congress!"

Wilson asked: "How to suppress the Rockefeller Consortium?"

Wise and Marshall looked at each other, and then said to Wilson: "Use the Antitrust Act to sanction the Rockefeller Consortium!"

"What?" Wilson said in surprise: "Aren't you kidding? Are you going to repeat the same mistake?"

Repeat the same mistake? Why did Zhou Erson panic when he heard the antitrust bill?

So that's what it is.

At the end of the four generations of the old century, trust organizations appeared in oil, coal mining, oil pressing, tobacco, sugar production and other departments. The formation of trusts brought profits to monopoly capitalists on the one hand, but on the other hand, it destroyed the economic structure of free capitalism, leading to the bankruptcy of small and medium-sized business owners and farmers and the deterioration of the lives of the working people, thus arousing the rise of mass antitrust movements. In order to ease social conflicts, the US government adopted legal means to conduct state intervention.

On 2nd year, the US Federal Congress passed the "Protecting Trade and Commerce to Avoid Illegal Restrictions and Barriers", referred to as the "Sherman Antitrust Act". This law mainly prohibits the practice of nanny-based trade and monopolistic trade.

Since then, the United States has begun antitrust sanctions for a century. In the sanctions, the Democratic Party is the most talked about and constantly sanctions various trust groups. On the contrary, the Republican Party is very moderate in this regard and has almost never sanctioned the trust groups. Therefore, as soon as the antitrust bill was introduced, the Democratic Party was only in power and was replaced by the Republican Party. In previous elections, the Trust Group did not support the Democratic Party, resulting in the Republican Party being dominant for twenty.

This time, when the Democratic Party came to power, he even got a bargain. Because the banking crisis broke out in the United States, many big bankers lost confidence in the Republican Party; at this time, the Democratic Party took advantage of the opportunity to barely defeat the Republican Party and seized the government's power.

After President Wilson came to power, he considered easing his relationship with the Trust Group, and the province was kicked off again.

Wise knew that Wilson would ask this, so he smiled and said, "Mr. President, our Democratic Party failed repeatedly before, and it was indeed because of the support of the Trustee Group. However, the anti-trust bill promulgated by the United States did not prevent the development of Trusts at all, but instead became more and more intense. From the beginning of the banking crisis, it was actually caused by the monopoly of the Trust Group. The Republican Party has support for Trusts, and now we also have support from bankers, and the two parties are in opposition. If we don't want to return to the era of the past without any support from major forces, we must hold the bankers' thighs and break completely with the Trust Group."

Marshall nodded and said, "Mr. Wise is right! Our previous suppression of Trusts was still too ineffective, so that the Trust Group could continue to develop. However, even if we do not answer to suppress the Trust Group, will the Trust Group give up supporting the Republican Party and support our Democratic Party? That is more difficult than getting the Bull pregnant!"

President Wilson nodded and said, "That's true! What is your specific plan in Wise?"

Wise showed a winning smile, took out a plan and handed it to Wilson. Marshall looked at it and was shocked, saying, "So you are ready!"

Wise smiled and said, "As the adviser to the President's think tank, I must prepare everything for Mr. President!"

Wilson was very happy when Wise's words, and nodded and said, "Thank you! If possible, it's better to help our family's "Harry.!"

Harry is a shepherd dog in Wilson's family. He is in love with the disposal of Wise and smiled!" "I am very happy to give you some effort! Vice President Jing Nong's family, I wonder if I have any ideas for getting married?"

Marshall rolled his eyes and said, "I'm sorry, it already has a boyfriend."

Wise was a little disappointed and continued to smile and said, "Then I have to think of other ways."

When Marshall was joking with Wise, Wilson had already read Wise's plan quickly.

Since the promulgation of the Sherman Law, although many individuals and companies were punished for illegal acts, the results were minimal. The Supreme Court of the Federal Government used the vague wording of the law to explain the trusts in favor of the trusts. In addition, in order to evade legal prosecution, capitalists changed their appearance and organized trusts in the form of holding companies. Therefore, after the promulgation of the Sherman Law, the monopoly organizations continued to develop. By the time of the year, three old industrial trusts had been established in the United States. Except for the Feijia, the rest were composed of the promulgation of the Sherman Law. At the end of the old century, the trusts had been spread all over the industry and mines.

In all areas of railways and urban utilities, a few fiscal oligarchs increasingly control the country's economic lifeline. At the same time, the courts used the Sherman law to suppress the workers' movement on behalf of the interests of employers. They successively destroyed the strike movements of Pullman Railway workers, dock porters and miners' Federation workers through verdicts. This further aroused the criticism of workers and progressive public opinion. Under the pressure of social public opinion...Wilson and William both proposed in the old presidential election that they must take preventive measures to strengthen the policy program of antitrust legislation to win votes.

After Marshall finished reading it, Wilson said: "Your plan seems to have suppressed the Trust Group very much on the surface, but in fact it has not hurt them?"

Wise said: "We need more trust help now to achieve the US Navy's struggle with the Chinese Navy to overthrow the Caribbean and the Pacific. We need money! So we need them. However, since the banking crisis, the American people have opposed the trust organization. Didn't you also say you want to attack the trust group when you were running? In this way, it would be difficult for us to do it! Therefore, this plan is just a means to appease the people and restore the credibility of bankers. At the same time, it cannot harm the trust group and reduce resistance to us in the future.

Marshall said: "But didn't you say you wanted to support Rockefeller Trust?"

"Of course!" said Wise: "We appease all trusts just to make it happen when we sanction Rockefeller. They won't interfere too much! As long as we modify the antitrust bill, it's only targeting the Standard Oil Company of the Rockefeller consortium!"

Wilson suddenly said happily: "I understand!"

Marshall nodded and exclaimed: "It's worthy of being a think tank."

Old year, month-on-year. The Wilson government enacted the Federal Trade Commission Act, which decided to form the Federal Trade Commission as an agency that "supervises and regulates the trust in interstate trade... It replaces the Antitrust Bureau, responsible for investigating illegal acts of private or corporations in trade competition, issuing termination orders or dissolution orders to stop unfair business practices. Article 1 of the Act stipulates that unfair competition methods and unfair or deceptive behaviors or practices in business, including various forms of deceptive advertising or behaviors that undermine business ethics are illegal.

On February 1999, the federal Congress passed the Wise Antitrust Act, which is mainly to prohibit certain practices that would weaken competition in practice.

It also declared that no provision of this law prohibits the establishment of workers' organizations and farmers' organizations. The Clayton Act was praised by Perth as the "Character of Workers." But in essence it is a means of deceiving workers and does not harm the monopoly organizations at all. Although the law stipulates that the court shall not issue orders against trade union activities and against strikes, it must be in the event that "the property rights of capitalists are not damaged." Otherwise, the union must compensate the employer for losses.

While all the trust groups were relieved, the Rockefeller consortium was subjected to the most severe sanctions from the Wilson administration.

In , the federal court sentenced Standard Oil Company to disband. State, July 2019. Standard Oil Company was split into separate companies. However, they were just disbanded, but the actual funds were still sent back to the Rockefeller Consortium, so the Rockefeller Consortium actually still controls these oil companies. It is just a trust under another form of trust.

After the Wilson administration made a lawsuit against the Rockefeller consortium for deceiving the government after revising the provisions of the Antitrust Act, the Wilson administration took control of the bosses of several of the oil companies and made them appear in court to correct Rockefeller Jr., which forced the Rockefeller consortium to cut off all the hidden lines controlling other oil companies in order to avoid greater losses. The Trust Group was truly disintegrated.

However, the real purpose of the Wilson administration defeating Rockefeller Jr. was to attack Senator Aldridge. Under the frame-up of the Wilson administration, Aldridge was unable to escape the assistance of Rockefeller Jr. because he was Rockefeller Jr., and he eventually had to withdraw from Congress and revoke his status as a member of parliament.

Aldridge lost the ability to control Congress, allowing the Wilson administration's series of strategic measures to target the situation in Europe and China to step by step provoke the United States.

At this point, after China instigated the European arms race and before the war began in Europe, a large-scale naval arms race between China and the United States began in full swing. If you want to know what happens next, please climb 6 Mountain. There are more chapters, support the author and support the genuine reading.
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