After Chile signed peace treaties with Argentina and Brazil respectively, the South American war officially came to an end, and peace returned to this land. However, this peace was obviously just a fragile peace. There will definitely be repayments between Chile and Brazil.
There was a war. However, the war between the two countries would not have much impact on the situation of the entire world in terms of scale and significance.
Although Chile won the war, they also owed huge debts. From the military expansion and war preparations a few years ago to the huge military expenditures consumed during the war, all of this came from borrowings from China.
After the war, this amount has increased to 500 million yuan. Although China provided Chile with low-interest loans and allowed Chile to repay it with ores and agricultural products, at least in the next five years, the Chilean government needs to tighten its belt.
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However, even so, Chile still gained a lot from this war. The territory acquired from Argentina and Brazil more than quadrupled Chile's land area. At the same time, various resources became more abundant, especially agricultural products.
, will no longer become a constraint on Chile's development. The only thing lacking is probably that Chile's population is relatively small. After the war, the Chilean government promulgated a series of measures to promote population growth. However, even so, it will have to wait until
It will be decades before Chile becomes a country with a large population!
After the restoration of peace in South America, the entire world seemed to have returned to peace again. However, in this peace, the shadow of war has enveloped the whole world. Europe, the center of the entire world, is led by Britain and Germany.
The confrontation between the large military groups is getting more and more serious. People from all over Europe are very frightened, fearing that when they wake up the next morning, a war will have broken out. All countries are doing their best to prepare for war, and a large number of weapons and ammunition have been
After production, they are sent to strategic reserve warehouses. The slipways of major shipyards are also full of battleships, battlecruisers, heavy cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers under construction. The construction of merchant ships has dropped to the lowest point. Most of the countries
All the resources have been used to prepare for war, which has caused the economies of various countries to decline to varying degrees. It is foreseeable that when countries are no longer able to support this crazy arms expansion and preparations for war, war will break out.
The east of the world is under the rule of the ancient and huge China. On the contrary, the people here have not been greatly affected. The people still live according to normal rules. Although many knowledgeable people see
When a large-scale war is about to break out, one after another
The empire was required to speed up preparations for war. However, the imperial government did not invest all its national power in preparations for war like the European and American countries. Compared with the European and American powers, although the empire was powerful, its foundation was not as good as that of the European and American countries.
In European and American countries, at the expense of the economy
When developing to expand its armaments and prepare for war, it was a great opportunity for the formal empire to accelerate economic development and industrialization. In order to obtain enough resources to develop armaments, Germany transferred many precious technologies to China. You must know that if these technologies were used in peacetime,
It is impossible for China to obtain it no matter how high the cost. It is not that China has not made military preparations, but its intensity is not as great as that of the European and American powers. China's current position determines that China does not need to prepare for the war at the beginning.
All national strength is invested in it.
After the war broke out, China mainly faced enemies from two directions, one was the United States in the east, and the other was Russia in the west. Facing the United States, the powerful Chinese navy can protect China's security. Before defeating the Chinese navy, the United States
It is impossible to threaten China's mainland. And does the U.S. Navy have the strength to defeat the Chinese Navy? From the current point of view, this possibility is basically impossible.
Yes. Although the United States is building battleships aggressively, the use of designs and technologies from the United Kingdom makes their battleships far from comparable to China in performance. Even if they have a numerical advantage, it is difficult for them to be converted into battlefields.
The naval battle in the Mediterranean has proved that when the performance gap between the two sides' warships is too large, numerical superiority does not have much effect.
Not to mention, the aircraft carrier that China is still secretly building is a trump card. Once the aircraft carrier is dispatched, it can easily send all the battleships that the United States has exhausted its national resources to build into the bottom of the sea. As for Russia, it is not a concern at all. The war ten years ago
, causing Russia heavy losses. Although Russia has slowly recovered after ten years of recuperation. But it is not ordinary to defeat China.
What's more, once the war starts, Britain and France will face strong pressure from Germany and will definitely ask Russia to focus its main attack on the west. By then, China will only need to retain a small number of troops on the western front.
It is enough to defend against the pressure from Russia. After China defeats the United States with all its strength, it will then march westward. It is simply impossible for Russia to resist China's attack.
1908 passed without any danger, and people prayed that there would still be no war next year. However, in 190R, the world situation once again became a lot more tense. The crisis of war mainly came from China.
A fierce confrontation with the United States!
In June 190R, the U.S. government announced that after spending a huge amount of money and six years of hard work, the Panama Canal would be officially opened to navigation. This was a year later than the United States expected, mainly because of the difficulty of the project.
However, fortunately, in order to speed up the construction of this canal, and after working day and night, the canal was finally able to be opened to navigation. The price paid was that more than 50,000 workers died on the construction site due to various reasons, which was almost 10% more than in history.
Twice as much.
Of course, these dead workers are mainly Panamanians and the population of Central American countries. Many of these dead workers in history were Chinese. But now with the rise of the empire, the Chinese are no longer what they were in history.
They were also trafficked to the Americas and Australia to do hard labor!
The Panama Canal is one of the two most strategic man-made waterways in the world, the other being the Suez Canal. Ships traveling between the east and west coasts of the United States originally had to detour through Cape Horn in South America. By using the Panama Canal, this can be shortened.
The voyage is about 5,000 kilometers (8,000 nautical miles). From North America
The canal can also save up to 6,500 kilometers (3,500 nautical miles) from one coast to the South American port on the other. Ships sailing between Europe and East Asia or Australia can also reduce their voyage by 3,700 kilometers (nautical miles) via the canal. Panama
The total length of the canal is 813 kilometers, with a water depth of 13 to 5 meters.
The river width varies from 152 meters to 304 meters. The water level of the entire canal is 26 meters higher than the two oceans, and there are 6 locks. It generally takes 9 hours for ships to pass through the canal, and it can navigate ships of tonnage. For the United States, the largest
Its role is for military purposes. It was forced by the failure of the second Sino-US Pacific naval battle.
According to the treaty signed later, the United States cannot deploy warships of more than 10,000 tons on the west coast, which puts the west coast of the United States completely under the threat of China. After the completion of the Panama Canal, the huge fleet deployed by the United States on the east coast can be deployed within half a month.
Rushing to the west coast to fight can effectively protect the national security of the United States!
The Panama Canal is located at northern latitude RT, where the North American Continental Divide drops to one of its lowest points. The canal does not cross the isthmus from east to west as most people imagine. Instead, it passes southward through Gatun at the entrance to Colon on the Atlantic side. The lock enters the widest part of Gatun Lake; then turns sharply eastward and follows a roughly southeasterly channel to the Gulf of Panama on the Pacific side. Its end point near Balboa is southeast of its starting point near Colon, about 40 meters away. kilometer.
When a ship passes through the canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, it first passes through the approximately 11-kilometer-long entrance channel in Limon Bay to reach the Gatun Locks. There are three consecutive locks in Gatun that raise the ship 26 meters to enter Gatun Lake. Gatun Lake It is formed by the Gatun Dam on the Chagres River. The water originates from Lake Alajuela. It covers an area of square kilometers and has water depths ranging from 14 to 26 meters. It is about 37 kilometers long from Gamboa. It cuts through the Continental Divide. The Gaillard Artificial Canal starts from Gamboa. This artificial canal has an average water depth of about 13 meters and extends for about 13 kilometers to the Pedro Miguel Lock. The Pedro Miguel Lock lowers ships by 9 meters. , entering Lake Miraflores, which is 16 meters above sea level. The ship passes through a waterway about 2 kilometers long, and is lowered to sea level by two levels of locks in Miraflores. The last section of the canal is excavated. The entrance channel is about 11 kilometers long, and ships enter the Pacific Ocean through it. The bottom width of the canal is at least 150 meters; in Gatun Lake, the width of the channel varies, ranging from 150 meters to 300 meters. The width of the channel in Miraflores Lake is 225 meters.
China also knows that the opening of the Panama Canal will pose a huge threat to China, and has taken many countermeasures. In the war a few years ago, after China defeated Britain and France, it obtained the Lesser Antilles from France. The Guadeloupe Island in the archipelago has allowed China to extend its influence into the Caribbean. At the same time, the Tumaco naval base leased by China in Colombia and the Santa Cruz Island naval base leased from Ecuador have given China the ability to operate in wartime. The ability to block the Panama Canal in the shortest possible time. Currently, the main force of the Chinese Navy’s Pacific Fleet has been transferred from Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands to Port Ayora on Santa Cruz Island. The main ones deployed at the Tumaco Naval Base are light cruisers. and destroyers to facilitate reconnaissance near the Panama Canal. Once a U.S. Navy battleship is discovered passing through the Panama Canal, it will immediately report to the Pacific Fleet Command!