"It seems that we must review it!"

Roosevelt's hot temper was well known to everyone. He thought he would get angry for half an hour, but he didn't expect that just a few minutes later, he unexpectedly returned to his calmness and said something that surprised everyone.

Seeing that the eyes of his eyes were full of questions, Roosevelt said calmly: "What? I feel a little incredible? Gentlemen, only by constantly adjusting their strategies in time according to actual conditions can people go longer. I am also good at this aspect! Put away your expressions, cheer up, and do something meaningful!"

"Oh well!"

"I understand! Mr. President!"

The staff and assistants of the office came to their senses, agreed, and then focused on listening to Roosevelt's arrangements.

With great effort to adjust the angle of the legs, Roosevelt knocked the armrest of the wheelchair with his finger joints, and said hoarsely: "Today, we must admit one fact, that is, there were many shortcomings in the judgment of the Chinese people's strength. Even if we obtained the intelligence information provided by the Japanese, we really believed in it, which led to a shameful failure now! In this regard, the Navy must bear the due responsibilities, and we must also actively reflect and find out the problem. Now, please tell us about your views, what are the real gaps between us and the Chinese."

Acknowledging the shortcomings? Finding the gap? It doesn’t sound like a happy thing! The American important members looked at each other and looked at each other, not knowing how to grasp this degree. It’s a waste of their lips and tongues. If they say it’s serious, God knows whether they will put a hat that disrupts the morale of the army!

Roosevelt seemed to have seen through their psychology. Two sharp eyes glanced coldly through the glasses and said lightly: "Don't you want to say it? Well, I'll just talk!"

Regardless of the seemingly ashamed expressions of everyone, the President spoke out loudly: "First of all, the intelligence department is too self-righteous about the Chinese's firm attitude and preparation for the war. The support of the people and the potential of war resources by Zhu Bin are beyond estimates. Even in the face of a full-scale siege, there was no large-scale division within them. No one with strength actively sought compromise and support with us. This made the initial plan to defeat them from the inside in vain! From now on, we must assume that the other party is a group with great centripetal force and a spirit of unity, a powerful opponent! True equal treatment! What are your objections to this?"

"No! Mr. President can see it very clearly!"

The assistants and assistants shook their heads together, and Mr. Hopkins made a footnote to this: "From the current performance, the Chinese are qualified to receive our attention! Judging from their war mobilization, weapons manufacturing and material supply alone, it is by no means the embarrassment as expected. We must be re-evaluated and prepared for a long-term confrontation with them and a full-scale war."

Secretary of State Hull sighed: "Yes! Who would have thought that in less than ten years, the Chinese people quickly completed the comprehensive upgrade of industrialization and produced so many military equipment! Previously, the British promised that once the supply of resources to China was stopped, their industry would collapse quickly. As it turned out, it was too optimistic! I have a data source that had not been confirmed before, from their Minister Kong Xiangxi. Now, it must be assumed that it is true and credible."

He is indeed a qualified politician. In the entrainment of Mr. Secretary of State, all kinds of information that suits the situation should be truly rich and diverse. He immediately took it out of his briefcase and circulated it to the officials listed as important officials.

That is an important document originally planned to be used at the Central Plenary Session of the National Government this year. Among them, a series of detailed and relatively accurate statistics on the research and statistics of the Resources Committee as of this spring, China's national mineral resources, industrial construction, infrastructure construction and production capacity, etc. were a thick stack.

What Hull took out was just a statistical table of the most important indicator parameters and other explanatory documents. They only read them for several days and nights, so it requires a large number of professionals to carefully review them.

Originally, such top-secret information was not allowed to be leaked. Before Chiang Kai-shek fell, he had already made sufficient preparations. Kong Xiangxi simply made a backup and successfully entered the hands of the Americans. However, the numbers inside were too scary, and the Americans felt that the exaggeration was too serious and did not take it seriously.

Now, Hull took it out with a clue, and it was just right.

Roosevelt finished reading it first, and exaggeratedly "Oh" and bounced with his fingers: "What an amazing data! Gentlemen, take a look. This is the decaying enemies you thought you could easily block and drag down. Their strength is far beyond our imagination!"

Is there such a thing? The staff and consultants are all generalists, and they are familiar with the intelligence information of major countries in the world. They don’t believe that there is anything they don’t know. They take it over and look at it one by one, but they all are surprised to hear it!

The table shows several indicators that directly represent the strength of the country, which is too amazing!

The steel item is written with as many as five large iron ores with proven reserves of one billion tons! There are several other over 100 million tons, and the annual mining volume can reach 40 to 50 million tons. The ore abundance of several large iron ores exceeds 50%. Among them, Anshan, Benxi, Shilu, Panzhihua, Qian'an, Baiyun Obo, etc. are relatively easy to mine, and the increase is extremely easy under war conditions.

This alone completely denies the British's claim that Chinese steel mills all need the iron ore they provide, and now that they will have no food and food to stop supplying.

Then there is the steel output. Preliminary statistics show that China's steel output exceeds 30 million tons, far exceeding the total amount of 5-8 million tons estimated by various countries, which is significantly higher than the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and even Germany, ranking second in the world!

The reason why this data is so big is that the great powers can contact is only a few steel mills along Shanghai, and the rest are not well understood, such as the tens of million-ton steel mill in the City of Light, the hidden cave production base, etc., and even the real output of Chongqing Heavy Industry Base and the Yangtze River Steel Corridor are not very clear.

Of course, there is also one aspect, because the great powers really couldn't imagine how the Chinese could produce so much steel and what they could do - they never imagined that the converter in a few large steel mills that could not penetrate completely, was actually seven or eight times larger than theirs!

The second is oil production. There are several abstract numbers that are very slap in the face. The table shows that China does not have oil fields, but many! The already developed Jianghan Plain Oilfield and the Central Plains Oilfield at the junction of Shandong and Henan have explored reserves exceeding 100 million tons, while the reserves of oil and gas fields, including the surrounding areas of Chongqing, northern Shaanxi, etc., have exceeded one trillion cubic meters! Not to mention, in the Bohai Sea continental shelf, the South China Sea, which is more than 100 kilometers at the estuary of the Pearl River, and even the East China Sea, huge submarine oil and gas fields have been found, with amazing reserves!

Just these, China's total oil and natural gas oil conversion in a year exceeds 20 million tons! Whether it is oil refining, petrochemical, downstream chemical industry, and even explosives and fertilizers production, it is more than enough.

This data made the faces of Secretary of Finance Henry Morgenthau and others feel hot!

They had previously proudly claimed that the Chinese cars, planes and tanks could run. Thanks to the American oil, without the continuous support of the United States, all the Chinese petrochemical industries would be limited to pauses.

Moreover, they all believe that the Chinese petrochemical bases are Shanghai and Chongqing. Unexpectedly, there are at least three or four along the Yangtze River, and at least three on the Shandong Peninsula. There are large and small related industrial bases distributed in Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and even in the northwest!

Compared to the United States, 20 million tons is nothing. But don’t forget that nine years ago, China had nothing, but now this number may exceed most powerful powers, or it may not be as good as the Soviet Union, and it is also in the top three. Don’t forget that China also has a natural gas industry with unique technology! No one knows how big the output and potential that thing has!

The officials who had completely changed their mindset to look at the form began to sweat on their foreheads and felt more and more wrong.

Looking further down, China can actually reach more than 150 million tons of coal production! And its reserves are at the 1 trillion tons of tons... It looks dizzy! It is equivalent to half of China sitting on the sea of ​​coal!

With this thing, you can make a lot of coking and support steelmaking. China also has a powerful coal chemical industry introduced and developed by itself from Germany. The scale of coal-to-oil and deep-processing of coal is at least several million tons!

Another power generation figure representing the national benchmark of industrial industries almost blinded everyone’s eyes! They wiped their eyes repeatedly in disbelief, and finally found that it was right! The table was written brightly, which was 210 billion kilowatt-hours!

What does this mean?! It is equivalent to more than six times that of the UK and Japan. It is almost the same as that of the US!

The United States is the pioneer of the power era, the best, the brightest place on the earth, the largest industrial country, a huge territory, a large population and industrial system, which consumes so much electricity. How can the Chinese people... come up with it, and where did they go?

Well, if they knew that there were actually huge tidal power generation, wind power generation, geothermal power generation and spacecraft fusion reactors along the coast of Shandong Peninsula, I wonder if Americans would go crazy.

Then there is the output of various explosives and gunpowder, which the Chinese have exceeded one million tons! This can explain why Zhu Bin played intensive shell bombing from the beginning. Even when dealing with the No. 10 Japanese army, he used thousands of shells to wash the floor and blew countless places in the Northeast so that there was no grass growing. The entire mountain was covered with layers of scorched earth, and it was impossible to use it at all!

Later, the key grain, meat and other basic daily necessities, the yield per mu of Chinese people, is actually three times that of the United States! The total grain output of the country is more than five times that of nine years ago! Not only does it meet the needs of nearly 500 million people in the country, it is even exported to the Soviet Union and Russia Far East! So for several consecutive years, the country's basic prices have not increased at all and have fallen!

Food is the most critical social stability condition for a country! In the past, China was a grain importer, and it has been importing in large quantities in recent years. Now that we know, the girls used imported grain to make feed, raise pigs, chickens and livestock, which caused the supply of meat and eggs to soar by 10 or 20 times compared with previous years. Even primary and secondary school students across the country did all the work of free eggs and a bowl of milk every morning!

Seeing this, the White House officials couldn't help but wonder, are you the United States or we are the United States! Why do you feel like you are missing?

There are also many mechanical outputs and motor vehicles with a comprehensive production capacity of more than 500,000 vehicles per year. Various geep vehicles, heavy trucks, pickup trucks, and heavy construction machinery are exported in large quantities, and agricultural vehicles are calculated at 100,000. It is quickly promoted to the use of landlords and farmers across the country. Family cars and motorcycles are also increasing continuously, and military vehicles are no longer a good idea. Look at how many mechanized troops the Chinese have in the Northeast, and you will know the significance.

The more eye-catching numbers include the ability to produce 10,000 tanks and nearly the same number of armored vehicles, various military engineering vehicles, etc. Thinking about the power of China's terrible steel monsters, the generals of the army couldn't help swallowing their saliva.

The US Army has made a private comparison of the monkey-style light tanks and infantry fighting vehicles they secretly got from the Central Army. Not to mention that their m3 tanks are even m4 tanks that are still in the sample stage. They are vulnerable! When they really get to the battlefield, the opponent's thing is flooding with overwhelming force, and it's definitely crushing!

Not to mention, the "cheetah" series equipped by Zhu Jiajun is even better!

The aircraft manufacturing capabilities are blessed by several major American companies. They have quickly upgraded and now have the ability to produce 10,000 propeller fighters annually. Several bombers, some special aircraft unique to the Zhu family army are not listed at all! For example, heavy bombers, attack aircraft, air gunboats and early warning aircraft, unconventional special fighters, etc. Sorry, keep it confidential.

The ship manufacturing capacity has reached 3.5 million tons per year! No wonder the Chinese naval riots are so fast. Together with dozens of large and medium-sized shipyards across the country, all of them can make warships! Each steel plant can make steel plates for ships! One by one, and the thousands of miles of super assembly lines are built along the vast sections along the Yangtze River. Almost every day there is a terrible speed at which a ship is launched!

In other words, the accumulation of Chinese navy was too poor, with only a mere 30,000 people before, and it was still uneven! In the past eight years, Zhu Bin tried his best to open naval schools everywhere, but he was far from keeping up with the speed of warship manufacturing. The four major fleets on the surface, plus the total number of warships and naval personnel, could not catch up with the Pacific Fleet of the United States.

But what about combat effectiveness? Both Americans and Japanese have personally experienced it.

There is no need to say much about the various numbers behind it. The most critical items are already in front of you. If you see too much, it will cause internal harm.

Roosevelt took everyone's expressions and reactions. After they almost walked around, their emotions changed a little. He knocked on the smooth and smooth ground with his cane, greeted all his eyes and said with a smile: "Since you have finished reading, let's talk about their own opinions!"

Most people looked at each other and didn't know what to say for a moment.

It was also the Minister of Finance Henry Morgansso who coughed and broke the deadlock, saying: "First of all, we have to admit that the Chinese people were seriously underestimated before! They can ensure that during a full-scale war, the currency will not depreciate and there will be no inflation in the country; the gold reserves and hard currency such as silver are abundant, which means that their overall economy is healthy and has great self-satisfaction and recycling ability! For such an opponent, simply blocking and embargo is actually useless. At least in terms of war preparation, I think this must be removed."

Roosevelt clapped his face: "Well said. I would recommend that gentlemen adopt your opinion. What else?"

Navy Secretary Frank Knox said: "In the war with the Chinese, we must abandon all luck mentality. There is almost no possibility of raids. We must consider fully leveraging our numerical advantages and trying to open up their weapons and technical advantages from the front. We must seize the advantage of their small number of warships and naval personnel and launch a long-term battle on a larger battlefield. Instead of burying into their offshore home court to face the full range of siege."

Fletcher's mixed fleet was injured so hard this time, which is unforgettable. He concluded himself that this was a wrong battle between the wrong enemy at the wrong time, the wrong place.

The people who planned the combat plan must have been beaten. The losses of four new battleships were as rich as the United States. Such a tragedy would never happen again in the future!

Army Chief of Staff Marshall made a cautious statement: "We should consider opening up a second battlefield and turning the coercive feint attack in southern China into a real and powerful advance. Compared with Zhu Bin's army in the north, the complex terrain in the southwest region is much weaker than the relatively backward local warlord armed forces. Or, we can use the geographical advantage there to tear a hole, thereby dragging the entire China's war pace, and calmly prepare a larger-scale attack for us to win time."

Roosevelt expressed his support for this: "Very good! Our British friends cannot just talk and do nothing. The South Asian subcontinent is their territory. If you want to defend it, you must make enough efforts. I hope the army will come up with an ideal and sufficient plan as soon as possible. I don't want to see that the domestic calls for opposing war are amplified again!"

Marshall was secretly happy and quickly agreed. Fortunately, the army was not prepared before and did not make a move first. Otherwise, the tragedy might have happened to them first, not the navy. It would be better to start from South Asia first than to be unable to overcome the terrible power of Zhu Bin in the north.

As the ideas slowly opened up, all the senior officials and senior participants expressed their unique insights, truly attaching importance to the existence of China's power from the root, preparing for a complete revenge, and dispelling the opinions of the domestic opposition soaring as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!