Invincible urban management

usa, washington, white house

Although it was late at night, Secretary of State Cordell Hull came outside the door of the Oval Office with a folder.

Looking at the orange light coming from the crack of the door, he coughed lightly, and then knocked on the door.

"...Come in. Cordell!" The friendly voice of the "giant in the wheelchair" came from the door.

Cordell Hull, Secretary of State Anderson, pushed open the door, walked in, closed the door, and then stood in front of President Roosevelt's desk in silence for a long time, as if organizing his words, or as if some people wanted to talk What he saw was beyond his ability to think.

"...Why don't you speak? Is there something embarrassing? Cordell."

Franklin Roosevelt, the leader of the United States and the master of the hope of contemporary human beings, although he is lame but physically disabled, wears gold-rimmed glasses on his nose. He raised his head from the cumbersome official documents and said with a smile, "...say , Cordell, what news did you bring me this time?"

"...Mr. President," Hull tried his best to use his words carefully, "... Regarding the unidentified and severe plague that broke out in the Asian expedition fleet, according to the research of the medical expert team we sent to Guam, there is now a preliminary conclusion. Some eyebrows..."

"...the Asian Expeditionary Fleet in Guam?" President Roosevelt was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and then he took off his glasses from his nose and said with a serious expression: "...can you explain to me what's going on? I hope it's a good one. information."

——Since the tragic situation of the officers and soldiers of the US Asian Expedition Fleet in Guam was disclosed by the news media, rumors of "the outbreak of the Black Death in Nagasaki, Japan" spread everywhere.The number of U.S. merchant ships still daring to run the Pacific route has decreased sharply, making the U.S.-Japan trade almost cut off in the past two months.And because of the activity of those Chinese Bolsheviks, they occupied Shanghai, China's largest foreign trade port.This year's Sino-US trade is basically over...

Although in terms of the current overall economic size of the United States, this transaction volume is just a drop in the bucket.However, for the American society, which has not yet completely shaken off the impact of the Great Depression, the rapid shrinkage of the import and export markets in the Far East is still a major blow to national confidence.

What's more terrible is that it was only 1935 at this time, and most Americans still have fresh memories of the "Spanish flu" that claimed millions of lives in the United States in 1918.They even changed their faces when they heard about the terrible "epidemic" in Guam, and before the federal government took countermeasures, the states on the west coast spontaneously organized quarantine agencies at the ports.Passengers coming from Asia are held in isolation, and anyone with a headache is thrown into a concentration camp in the desert!

——No matter how you look at it, such an approach is really too simple and rude.So much so that there was an uproar in the public opinion circle for a while.In addition, the situation on the Chinese battlefield has repeatedly failed.Let Britain, France, the United States and Japan quarrel together... so many messy and bad things are piled up together, making President Roosevelt's life very difficult these days, and he is almost on the verge of burning out.

Therefore, if this weird and terrible "unknown plague" can be solved, the pressure on President Roosevelt's shoulders can be relieved a lot.

——After all, China's Red Revolution is far away in the sky, winning or losing can't hurt your muscles, but the haze of the new plague... the American people who were just tortured by the Great Depression a few years ago, Now it really can't stand too heavy a blow.

"...I'm sorry. I'm afraid I have bad news, Mr. President."

Secretary Hull shrugged.Trying to suppress his emotions, he said as calmly as possible: "...the team of medical experts sent to Guam by seaplane has not found a suitable treatment plan so far, but they have finally figured out the cause of the disease, Mr. President—unfortunately Fortunately, it should not be an infectious disease, but more similar to some kind of mass poisoning. The reason is that in addition to the fleet officers and soldiers who came back from Japan, whether it is the members of the Apra Naval Station in Guam or the original people on Guam None of the residents had the same symptoms as the fleet officers and soldiers.

Fortunately, unfortunately, there is no specific cure for this disease so far. Even the best medical team in the United States can only watch the officers and soldiers of the expeditionary army gradually have skin ulceration, internal organs decay, and finally putrefaction and pus all over their bodies. Water, dying terribly.The same terrible epidemic also occurred in the British and French expeditionary fleets. As for the mainland of the Japanese Empire, it was even more appalling-it is said that millions of people have died in the Kyushu Island and Tokyo area, and the final death toll may be Will rise to over 500 million..."

"... your news is outdated, Cordell." President Roosevelt said, "... just about twelve hours ago, in Japan's financial and trade center and second largest city, Osaka, the outbreak since April this year The third cataclysm of destruction - like God's fire that destroyed Gomorrah and Sodom. After three cataclysms combined, the Japanese death toll must have exceeded 500 million. The Japanese government called it the 'third shock' ', while the Chinese Bolsheviks continued to insist on boasting that this was their 'secret weapon of great power'...”

"...this... is hard to believe, but the Chinese Bolsheviks may have been telling the truth—experts measured strong emissions from radioactive materials on board battleships in Guam, which were located in both Nagasaki and Guam It should not exist," Secretary Hull said.

"...Radioactive substances? Radiation? Please be more specific." President Roosevelt folded his hands and rested his elbows on the table.

"...It's like this, Mr. President. After the medical expert team sent by the Navy Department arrived in Guam, although they found organic lesions in the internal organs of the patients and the deceased, they still couldn't find the bacteria as the pathogen, nor did they find any Signs of the spread of disease infection—even if the epidemic prevention conditions in the Apra Naval Station are very bad—if it is cancer, there is no reason for so many healthy boys to get sick at the same time..."

In this regard, President Roosevelt did not speak rashly, but made a gesture to continue.

"...Then, the expert team boarded the 'dead ships' that were feared by the locals, carefully inspected every corner, and finally found an abnormal phenomenon by accident using the measuring instrument attached to the X-ray machine— — the level of radioactivity in certain parts of the ship was so high that it was like being in there taking X-rays all day long...it reminded them of Marie Curie's laboratory!” Hull continued.

"...Radioactivity exceeds the standard...Madame Curie's laboratory...is it uranium ore and radium?" President Roosevelt asked after he lowered his head and thought for a while, "...I remember that a few years ago, there seemed to be a person in our country who was drinking radium soda. And drank to death?"

"...That's right, the medical experts sent to Guam also thought so, so they reported this speculation." Hull replied, "...The Ministry of Health immediately collected domestic and European cases for research, but such Cases are too rare, so we had to conduct human experiments..."

"... Conducting human experiments in the United States? Is this like something done by a devil?" The president's eyes took on a trace of reproach.

"... Rest assured, Mr. President, we all use illegal immigrants scheduled for deportation and will not be recorded on any file..."

Hull immediately explained, "...the final result is jaw-dropping—the long-term high-intensity radioactive radiation of uranium ore has caused damage to human organs, which is almost exactly the same as the 'plague' disease that broke out in the Asian Expeditionary Fleet of the United States. unanimously..."

"...that is, you believe that the Chinese, by some means unknown to us, have caused this strange 'plague' in Guam by dropping a large amount of radioactive material that can cause disease over the heads of our fleet .Like those Germans used to gas the trenches in France... but the question is... how is this even possible?! Besides, what about the explosion that flattened the entire port city What? The big eruption that happened on Mt. Fuji more than a month later, and the 'third shock' that just happened in Osaka... damn the Reds!"

President Roosevelt suddenly covered his face with his hands, his voice was a little dull, "...if all this is true, what exactly do they want to do?"

"...Sorry, the information I have collected so far is insufficient, and I cannot give a more accurate answer." Hull replied.

"...Is that so..." President Roosevelt leaned back in his chair, fell silent, and spoke again after a while, "...I am going to hold an enlarged cabinet meeting at [-] o'clock tomorrow morning to discuss this sci-fi-sounding Possibility, let people from the navy and army also participate."

"...Okay, Mr. President." Hull bowed and was about to leave when he saw the door of the Oval Office being slammed open—President Roosevelt's most trusted aide, Hopkins, was holding Something stumbled in and rushed in, "...Mr. President! Terrible! Explosive news! Uranium bombs! The Chinese Bolsheviks used uranium bombs to destroy Japan's naval ports and our fleet..."

"... Cordell just reported this speculation to me." Roosevelt replied with a frown, "... remember to knock on the door before you come in..."

"...It's not just speculation, but it may have become a cruel reality, Mr. President." Hopkins said with a wry smile, and at the same time reached out and twisted the gramophone in his arms—after a burst of noise, a period of The English broadcast that had just been recorded suddenly poured out from the speakers:

"...This is the English channel of Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station. Now, Comrade Jin Qina, the vice chairman, will explain to you the "secret weapon of great power" that our army bombed Japan three times recently, that is, the basic knowledge of nuclear fission weapons and nuclear fusion weapons. ..." (to be continued...)