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October 22, 1922, after 11 days of negotiations, the five countries participating in the Washington City Conference finally signed their names on the Washington City Arms Control Treaty!
The content of the Washington City Treaty is very long, with dozens of detailed rules, including stipulating the upper tonnage limit of each country's navy, and limiting the upper limit of tonnage of warships being built by each country!
The treaty stipulates that the displacement of naval battleships of various countries cannot exceed 35,000 tons, and the caliber of main guns cannot exceed 406 mm.
This restriction has greatly affected the warships that Yingjiang, Sun Never Sets, and Footpot Man are building or have launched.
Take Yingjiang as an example. Among the orders for 16 battleships that have been placed, most of the battleship construction plans have to be cancelled. Except for some of the battleships that have been completed, the rest will be dismantled.
According to this provision, the battleships USS North Dakota and USS Delaware, which are currently under construction, need to be scrapped in accordance with the provisions of this treaty.
Of course, Eagle Sauce was not the only one to suffer losses. The Thor, King George V, Ajax, Centurion and other cutting-edge battleships that were being built at the shipyard also needed to be scrapped in accordance with the provisions of the treaty.
The losses suffered by the Footpot Man were not small. In addition to the already completed battleship Mutsu, two of the four battleships including Kaga, Akagi, Amagi, and Tosa were directly demolished, and both Kaga and Akagi were transformed into aircraft carrier.
Of course, the Eagles' Saratoga and Lexington were also transformed into aircraft carriers. These two battleships were originally intended to be battlecruisers, but due to treaty restrictions, they could not be built. Either completely dismantle it or transform it into an aircraft carrier.
The treaty stipulates that each country can own some aircraft carriers, but the tonnage of the aircraft carrier must be limited to 27,000 tons, and the total tonnage of the aircraft carrier is also distributed according to 5:5:3:1.:1.7.
Both the Yingjiang people and the Sun Buluo people have received a 135,000-ton aircraft carrier quota. According to this standard, if they build a 27,000-ton aircraft carrier, both countries can build five. This is also the maximum number of aircraft carriers held by the two countries.
Generally speaking, except for the Gauls with an explosive mentality, other countries are quite satisfied with this agreement.
Especially the Sun Never Sets people, although they allowed the Yingjiang People to obtain a naval tonnage that is exactly the same as their own, breaking the two-power standard that the Sun Never Sets has maintained, that is, the total tonnage of the Royal Navy must exceed the second and third place. The total of them, so that they can suppress two challenging opponents at the same time!
However, the Sun Never Sets people also understand that times have changed. At this time, the Sun Never Sets Empire no longer has the strong strength it once had, and its world hegemony is also in danger.
As rising star challengers, they not only have strong industrial strength, but also economic strength cannot be underestimated, especially Eagle Sauce in North America!
If they don't pass this naval treaty, the Sun Never Sets people can be sure that they will be defeated in the arms race with Eagle Sauce!
Rather than being defeated and losing face and dignity, it is better to negotiate with the enemy, make some compromises and save the face of the empire on which the sun never sets.
This practical approach is very suitable for people who never set as the sun never sets. They are essentially a group of businessmen!
Moreover, most of the ones that have been demolished before the sun sets are still on the blueprints, and very few of them have actually placed orders and are being built.
The same goes for the eagle sauce and the foot basin, especially the eagle sauce, because With his wealth and the fact that he made a lot of war fortune during the war, Yingjiang was not short of money at all, so their order had already been placed, and the construction of the warship had already begun on the slipway of the shipyard!
With the agreement signed at this time, Yingjiang's warships cannot be completed at all, and most of them can only be demolished!
The Sun Never Sets people completely destroyed more than a dozen of Yingjiang's advanced battleships with just a piece of paper. This kind of deal is really worth it!
As for the footbath people, the footbath people are actually very satisfied with this agreement.
The national strength of the foot basin is too much than that of Yingjiang. Although they were right to bet on the national fortune and made several war fortunes, at this time they were more of just a nouveau riche. They did not accumulate a lot of wealth like the sun never sets and Yingjiang. traditional powerful country.
And if Footbath continues to engage in an arms race with other countries, their financial system will definitely collapse.
Even at this time, the emperor is frugal, hoping to save some money from his teeth and donate it to the navy. With such a foundation, how can he compete with the traditional Western powers?
Therefore, stopping the arms race and preventing one's own finances and economy from being completely brought down is a good result for the footbath.
Moreover, among the four warships restricted by the treaty, except for the Tosa which could not be transformed because it was too much completed and which had to be demolished because it exceeded the tonnage limit of the aircraft carrier, the remaining Akagi Kaga and Amagi can be transformed into aircraft carriers. , in general, they didn't lose much. Compared with what they got, Footbath obviously made a profit!
The Tiaoba people were making crazy calculations in their minds. They felt that although the total tonnage comparison between themselves and Yingjiang was limited to 5:3, Yingjiang would have to put at least half of its warships in the Atlantic Ocean and the number of warships that could be put into the Pacific Ocean. There will definitely not be many, so when facing Yingjiang, I actually have an advantage!
As for the navies of other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, they don't take it seriously at all. China's desperate situation will probably last for decades!
The core of the Mao Xiong is in Europe. The Far East is too far away, coupled with the harsh environment and such a small population, it is impossible for them to maintain too many troops in the Far East!
As for Sun Never Sets, Sun Never Sets and Foot Basin are still very good allies at this time. The relationship between the two parties is very good, plus���The unyielding core is in Europe, and there is no threat to the footbath in the Far East!
After thinking about it this way, the footbath representative was immediately satisfied and signed the agreement without hesitation!
However, what the representatives of Foot Basin didn't know was that after Foot Basin was assigned the 300,000-ton battleship quota, Sun Never Sets' attitude towards them changed!
The Yingjiang people have always been wary of the footpot people, so they took advantage of the change in attitude of the sun never sets to quietly lobby the sun never sets and the Gauls, and persuaded them to sign a four-nation treaty targeting the Asia-Pacific region, using this treaty to restrict the footpot people. people!
Although Sun Never Sets didn't agree to Ying Jiang's proposal immediately, he couldn't help but feel moved in his heart.
After all, with the fall of Hans and Mao Xiong in the Far East, the only enemy left that never sets is Foot Basin. At this time, it is naturally necessary to change the policy towards Foot Basin!
After representatives of the five countries signed the Washington City Agreement, driven by representatives from the Sun Never Sets, they continued to hold meetings on the aid program for spinach and how to deal with the threat of woolly bears.
"Yingjiang and Footbath, the Far East is your sphere of influence, and Mao Xiong has no troops in the Far East. Why is there no progress in your military operations in the Far East?"
As soon as the Sun Never Sets people came up, they began to accuse Footbath and Eagle Sauce of paddling and not doing anything in the intervention war against the fur bears.
The two countries had already suffered a lot in the harsh weather of the ice and snow in the Far East, and at this time they were actually The sun never sets on the accusations, and representatives of the two countries immediately expressed their dissatisfaction!
"The Far East is vast and sparsely populated, and the weather is cold and freezing.
The infrastructure of the Mao Bear people is poor.
Except for the Siberian Railway, there are no other roads at all.
Our army cannot be deployed here, and the enemy retreats.
After arriving in the Chita area, it is more than 500 kilometers away from our forward troops, spanning 500 kilometers of no-man's land, and it is still a no-man's land without railways and roads.
We cannot do this kind of thing.
If you think If you can do it yourself, you can come over and try it!
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Representative Yingjiang spread his hands and looked like I'm trying my best!