69novels Chapter 1066
Chapter 1066
The people of the Kingdom of Sun Never Sets had a hard time, and when the people of the Kingdom of Foot Basin in the east learned about it, they immediately came up with some evil ideas!
“Gentlemen, the British Empire only discovered Australia a few decades earlier than us, and they regarded it as their colony. This land is 108,000 miles away from them. They don’t deserve to own it at all. It should belong to the Great Foot Basin Empire!”
In a pub in Dongjing, the capital of Foot Basin, a group of naval officers were drinking and chatting.
When a well-informed person released the news that the British Empire’s recent days were getting worse and worse, these”martial virtues” of the Foot Basin Navy officers suddenly couldn’t sit still. The
South Asian region where the British Empire was entrenched was a bit far away from them, so they couldn’t reach it in a short time, and it seemed that there was nothing valuable in South Asia except that there were more people.
And in places with dense populations and vast lands, there is one at the doorstep of the Foot Basin people, that is the Celestial Empire, and they have already erupted in war with the Celestial Empire. The war in the Celestial Empire is now in a stalemate and has not been taken down. In this case, even if the Foot Basin people are ambitious, they have no appetite to rob the British Empire. South Asia.
Instead of sending troops on a long expedition and consuming a lot of manpower and material resources to compete with the British Empire for the worthless South Asia, it is better to concentrate troops to first annex the Celestial Empire, which has a larger land, richer products, and cultural customs that are very similar to their own country!
However, just because they are not interested in South Asia, where the British Empire is entrenched, does not mean that the Foot Basin people are not interested in other places.
For example, the Australian colony in the central Pacific Ocean, not far from the Solomon Islands controlled by the Foot Basin people, is a place they are salivating over!
Australia has an area of millions of square kilometers, but its population is sparse, with less than 10 million people. There is still a lot of land on this continent that has not been developed and utilized. As long as they can get here, they can immigrate here on a large scale and make full use of this fertile land!
Australia Fertile pastures, vast lands, and rich mineral resources are all what the people of Foot Basin dream of!
Moreover, the British troops here are relatively small, so it is much easier to attack. Moreover, there is no key pass like the Strait of Malacca between Australia and Foot Basin, so they can go directly from their homeland to Australia unimpeded.
This is extremely convenient for them to send troops!
Long before the outbreak of the Battle of Bermuda, the people of Foot Basin had been thinking about the iron ore in Australia.
In order to persuade them to join the war, the British also promised to open the iron ore in western Australia to them for mining.
After the outbreak of the Battle of Bermuda, the Combined Fleet of Foot Basin was almost destroyed. Several damaged aircraft carriers were caught up and sunk by German planes on their way back before they crossed the Panama Canal. In the end, only a few auxiliary ships managed to escape back. , there was only one destroyer, the Snow Wind.
Thinking of the once prosperous Combined Fleet, which has become such a monster today, the people of Jiaoben were suddenly as sad as if they had lost their parents!
Jiaoben is an island country. They can do without the army, but they can never do without the navy. Therefore, after the Battle of Bermuda, the call for rebuilding the navy became louder and louder.
The construction of naval warships not only requires a large number of workers and money, but also consumes a lot of steel.
Jiaoben’s local steel reserves are extremely low, and they don’t have any large iron mines in their own country, so almost all the iron ore needed for steelmaking must be imported!
And rebuilding an entire Combined Fleet would consume a lot of steel!
Therefore, Jiaoben proposed to increase the scale of imports and let the British relax export permits so that they can import more high-quality iron ore from Australia.
This is a good way to make money. The British can obtain funds by selling iron ore to Jiaoben to help themselves build in South Asia.
However, the people of the British Empire were particularly worried. When the United Fleet was there, they were threatened by the United Fleet and had to grant the iron ore mining rights in Australia to the people of the Foot Basin.
As a result, the people of the Foot Basin sent a large number of workers to settle in the west, which caused huge hidden dangers in the western region.
At this time, the navy of the Foot Basin was completely destroyed, and the threat they brought to the British Empire from the sea was reduced a lot.
The people of the British Empire finally had a little bit of toughness.
If the people of the Foot Basin were lucky enough to import more iron ore at this time, the reconstruction of the navy of the Foot Basin would be very fast!
The homeland of the British Empire was affected by the war, and its own industrial capacity dropped significantly.
The reconstruction of the navy was very difficult.
It might take more than ten years or even decades to restore the glory of the Royal Navy!
But the Foot Basin was different. Although the navy of the Foot Basin was lost, their homeland was destroyed, so their industrial capacity was actually still there. As long as there were enough funds and raw materials, their reconstruction was very fast.
According to the estimation of the people of the British Empire, as long as the Foot Basin was given three to five years, they could basically restore the strength of the peak period of the United Fleet.
And even if they have not recovered the combat effectiveness of the peak period of the combined fleet, even if they are only half of their former strength, it is not something that the current navy of the Sun Never Sets can deal with!
With the virtue of the Foot Basin people, once their navy dominates the Pacific Ocean, then whether Australia is still the Australia where the sun never sets will be a huge question mark!
In this case, the Sun Never Sets government not only dares not relax the export license, but also finds various excuses to reduce the export license, and does not allow the Foot Basin people to import too much iron ore back to let them speed up the reconstruction of the navy!
This move naturally caused great dissatisfaction on the Foot Basin side!
In fact, the failure of the Bermuda Battle has already made the Foot Basin people angry with the Sun Never Sets!
If the Sun Never Sets had not been matchmaking, how could their Foot Basin run all the way to the Atlantic Ocean and then send a group to be wiped out?
Rebuilding the Combined Fleet requires a lot of time and money, and it also requires a large number of officers and soldiers.
Almost all of the soldiers before the Combined Fleet were lost in the naval battle. This loss, to some extent, is even more unacceptable than the loss of warships!
Therefore, the people of Jiaoben hated the British Empire to the extreme. If it weren’t for them, the joint fleet of Jiaoben would not have been destroyed!