Three years ago, in 1908, Roosevelt refused to run for re-election. He supported Taft in his campaign for president. With Roosevelt's support, Taft won the Republican presidential nomination and defeated Brian, the then-** party candidate, and became the president of the United States.1(1)

Since Taft was not very willing to be president, he did not have a very pleasant life in the White House for four years, and lacked political sensitivity than Roosevelt, and did not have a thorough understanding of the situation in Europe and the Far East.

This is why Tang Jian chose to lead the Pacific Fleet into the Pacific Ocean at this time and prepare to seize Hawaii by force. Tang Jian has always regarded him as one of the two people who posed the greatest threat to him by Roosevelt, and the other was Churchill, the secretary of the British Navy at this time.

During Roosevelt's tenure, Roosevelt felt sensitively that China's power was too strong, especially after seeing the result of the China-Japanese War, Roosevelt was very uneasy about the powerful strength shown by China. This is why he unilaterally terminated his cooperation with China half a year after signing a military alliance treaty with Tang Jian. Roosevelt did not want China to be too strong. He wanted European countries to kill China, which gradually became stronger, in the cradle.

As the saying goes, it is to use a knife to kill people!

However, his plan failed because the development of the European situation was beyond his expectations. As the contradictions between European countries in the colonies became increasingly common, European countries could not look east and could only allow China to rise rapidly in a peaceful and stable environment.

Roosevelt's strategy is not unpopular, but God seems to have been on the other side of China. Since the end of the war against Japan, China's national strength has improved rapidly. Until Roosevelt stepped down, the United States still could not stop China's rise.

After Roosevelt stepped down, he still wanted to find someone who could stick to his political propositions to run for president. At this time, Roosevelt pushed Taft to the throne of the president of the United States.

Although Roosevelt said that Taft was "the most suitable person to be president in the country", Taft was conservative, not good at rhetoric, did not have the ability to control the Republican Party, and could not smoothly reconcile the hostile factions within the party; he lacked political skills and would not cleverly cover up the close relationship with monopoly capitalists, but instead implemented a series of extremely extreme and conservative policies; he did not have the ideological and political line of thought and political line, and although he was completely obeyed the former president's old conspiracy, he lacked the ability of old Roosevelt.

Therefore, almost every major decision made by the Taft government inevitably caused fierce quarrels, which was very unfavorable to his rule.

In terms of foreign policy, like Roosevelt, Taft had the ambition and planned to expand the U.S. influence abroad. With the help of Secretary of State Frande C Knox, he replaced the "gold dollar" with "gold dollar". This is "gold dollar diplomacy". But sometimes it was also gold dollar, and gun bullets were used alternately. Taft encouraged American bankers and entrepreneurs to invest abroad, and the government provided loans to entrepreneurs who built railways and started businesses abroad. All of this opened up markets for American commodity exports.

All this is what Tang Jian wants to see. Overall, Taft is a president with mediocre qualifications. Tang Jian thinks that if Roosevelt was in office, he would still solemnly consider the plan to seize Hawaii. Now that Roosevelt is gone, he is led by such an incompetent president, Tang Jian is sure to take Hawaii in one fell swoop.

Washington, the White House.

Reminiscing the changes in the international situation in the United States, Taft specially invited former President Theodore Roosevelt to the White House to discuss state affairs.

At this time, Taft frowned. He was waiting for Roosevelt's arrival. However, before a while, Taft began to doze. Taft weighed 150 kilograms, so he was very sleepy.

After a while, Taft's presidential secretary knocked on the door of his office. After knocking for a while, Taft woke up from his nap.

As soon as Roosevelt entered the office, he saw the sleepy Taft, and a hint of displeasure suddenly arose in his heart. In fact, although Roosevelt pushed Taft to the president's throne, Taft's performance was really unsatisfactory, so some cracks appeared between the two.

Taft stepped forward and hugged Roosevelt kindly, and asked Roosevelt to sit down. Taft smiled and said, "Roosevelt, you seem to be much haggard recently."

Roosevelt nodded slightly. Roosevelt was not idle for this period of time. He had been busy with the Cuban rebels. The abnormal actions of the Cuban rebels in recent days have always been a headache for Roosevelt.

Just a few days ago, the Cuban rebels broke the norm and no longer hid, but took the initiative to attack. Now the US military in Cuba has been in a tense state and is ready to deal with the attacks of the Cuban rebels at any time.

Roosevelt said straight to the point: "Taft, the United States should immediately increase its troops to Cuba and wipe out all the annoying rebels!"

"What, my God, we have to increase our troops again. We have invested 50,000 troops in Cuba. Isn't that enough?" Taft said in surprise. His most concerned about the Cuban issue now is not the issue of Cuba, but the situation in Europe.

At this time, the European war was about to break out. What he thought about was how the United States would survive and do its best to develop its domestic economy after the outbreak of the European war.

Roosevelt frowned, raised his tone and said, "Taft, don't you feel that the Cuban rebels are getting stronger and stronger now, and the Cuban US military has no ability to wipe out the Cuban rebels completely. We should increase our troops immediately."

"But you also see that the European war is about to break out, and we should place all our troops on the east coast to prevent the European war from spreading to the United States." Taft shook his head firmly.

Roosevelt sighed and said, "Taft, it is right to prevent the spread of war in Europe, but we cannot relax our control over Cuba. After all, Cuba is located at the gate of the United States. Such an important strategic location must not be lost! However, all the troops should not be placed on the east coast, and pay more attention to the west coast!"

"West Coast? Are there our enemies on the Pacific Ocean? My God, the world's eyes are now concentrated on the Western European continent!" Taft said in confusion.

"No! Yes, it's still a potentially powerful enemy!" said Roosevelt.

"That country?" Taft asked.

"Huaxia! Don't forget that China's navy is not inferior to the United States today. On the west coast, we have only placed four battleships. While suppressing the Cuban rebels, I think we should deploy more troops on the west coast of the Pacific. To be more direct, we are sending the US Pacific Fleet to station in Hawaii. In Hawaii, we only have a small force of two thousand people. We should regard Hawaii as the most important strategic location above the Pacific. We must not make any mistakes, otherwise we will lose our advantages over the Pacific!" Roosevelt said earnestly.

Taft hesitated for a while, and he always felt that China was not worth worrying. After all, it was an Eastern country that had just been founded, and they did not have the courage to provoke the United States' authority in the Pacific.

Unless they are crazy!

Moreover, Taft only wants to spend his presidency smoothly. He does not want the United States to fall into war during his term. It is best to avoid war. His focus is on economic development, and his presidency is only one year left.

At this time, Taft also had a little dissatisfaction with Roosevelt. Roosevelt always emphasized the need to use "absolute force" to make other countries surrender, which is the difference between this and the militants.

Tasf shook his head and said, "From the situation in the Far East in recent years, China has been mainly developing domestic economically and has not shown too strong expansion. So I think Hawaii is still safe now. If we send troops to Hawaii, it may cause suspicion from China. At that time, the two countries have frictions when Europe is about to break out, which is extremely unfavorable for the United States."

Roosevelt stood up angrily and said, "In this era, force is everything. If we do not take action, the United States' colonies in the Far East will fall into the hands of China. Our biggest enemy is China. Does it understand? The European war is still far away from us! And you don't think it is strange that the Cuban uprising army suddenly took the initiative on a large scale at this time?"

Although Taft was promoted to the position of president by Roosevelt, he is still the president now, and Roosevelt is not! Obviously, Roosevelt did not realize this from his tone at this time.

Seeing that Taft had no interest in talking to Roosevelt without speculation, he lost his interest in talking. Roosevelt could naturally see this, so he stood up and left!

Taft looked at Roosevelt's back as he walked away and sneered: "War, how can there be so many damn wars! Not everyone is a militant!"

After Roosevelt walked out of the White House, he clenched his fists tightly. He was so disappointed with Taft's performance. He decided to break with Taft officially, prepare to compete for the Republican candidate, and participate in the 1912 presidential election!

Just as the senior Americans were constantly ignoring Hawaii over Cuba and European war issues, Tang Jian's Pacific Fleet had already sailed twenty nautical miles from the western waters of the Great Island of Hawaii.

"President, we are about to arrive in Hawaii!" Ye Zugui walked to Tang Jian's side. At this time, the sky was blue. The huge Pacific Fleet after Tang Jian's expiration seemed to be in a blue curtain. On the vast Pacific Ocean, the Pacific Fleet with hundreds of various warships seemed extremely small.

Tang Jian stood on the deck of the Dongfang, bathed in the salty sea breeze coming towards him. Seeing Ye Zugui approaching, Tang Jian smiled and said, "It's finally here!"

"Immediately order the fleet to advance at full speed, surround Pearl Harbor, and siege the American Hawaiian fleet in Pearl Harbor!" Tang Jian ordered.

"But, we may encounter American maritime patrol ships in a while, and they will inform you!" Ye Zugui reminded.

"Then send a high-speed destroyer to intercept all these American patrol ships, saying that we are practicing and we have requisitioned the waters here!" Tang Jian showed a pair of big white teeth and said righteously.
Chapter completed!