Diplomacy is inherently a matter full of twists and turns, brain teasers, pitfalls, and troubles, and when one country drives a warship to visit another country of the same size, especially if the relationship between the two countries is not very good, then there are even more troubles in it!

Although there are special diplomats to deal with diplomatic matters, but the performance of His Royal Highness the Prince a while ago was too eye-catching! The first shot of the European Navy since the end of the Battle of Lissa was fired! And as soon as it was shot, it was extraordinary, directly smashing two British-produced dome cruisers to pieces! While embarrassing the British and scared the Japanese, it also made the Americans on the other side of the ocean feel a little worried!

The U.S. Navy is on the eve of a riot, the darkest hour before dawn! While the German Navy had acquired seven armored cruisers in one go, the US Navy's four 10,000-ton coastal defense battleships were still under construction in the shipyard. Among the cruisers, only the New York can be taken out to show off, and it belongs to the kind that can only show off, and immediately show off the stuffing as soon as they fight!

On the second day after Ruprecht had beaten the Japanese fleet, Commodore Dewey, commander of the Far East Fleet, sent a telegram on the situation of the battle, and on the fourth day, the US Navy Department held a special discussion on what to do in the Far East in the future. And if Ruprecht knew the outcome of the discussion, it would have surprised Ruprecht! Because the United States decided to restrain Germany in the Pacific! In other words, conditional confession!

What did the U.S. Navy do in history? Ruprecht knew very well that if the British Navy was a tiger in the mountains, then the US Navy was a monkey in the mountains (a monkey without a tiger in the mountains is called a king. The industrially powerful Americans didn't just beat up the weak Spain in 100 days in 1898. At the same time, it also scared off Germany, which was also salivating over the Philippines. After the Battle of Tsushima, he organized a large white fleet to travel around the world, scaring Japan enough.

Although the quality of the US Navy before the 1st World War could only be considered a second-rate level. And in the Spanish-American War, the fundamental reason why the Americans were able to win was that the Spaniards were too bad! But all this does not prevent the US Navy from using the world as a stage for more than ten years!

But the current situation does not seem to allow the Americans to do this, first of all, the strong combat power of the Germans made the US Navy jealous, and in the telegram Dewey made it clear that no two American cruisers would perform better than the Japanese fleet in the face of an armored cruiser USS Munich!

Isn't this 1898, when the Americans had only a few cruisers in the country? The majestic Brooklyn and the Olympic Games are still on the slipway! Dewey almost didn't say a word: "If there is another confrontation between the United States and Germany in Samoa, then the US government will wait to collect the corpses of the US military!" ”

The German Navy now has 7 7500-ton cruisers that can be deployed around the world, how many does the US Navy have? Even if three Indiana and one battleship Iowa were in service, this 10,000-ton offshore defense battleship would not be suitable for ocean-going deployment! The range is too short, the freeboard is too low, the sea trials are poor, and the speed is slow. This makes it okay for these warships to die near the sea, but it is better to wash and sleep in ocean-going operations. And at this time, the biggest dispute between the United States and Germany is that is, isn't the use of battleships to escalate the conflict?

And at the same time that the British are worried about the further approach of Germany and Russia, the Americans are also worried about the impact of the further approach of Germany and Russia on the Far East, the British are indeed strong and are not afraid to face any country in the Far East, but once two or even three powers join forces, the situation will be different! When the three countries intervened and returned Liao, the British didn't even do mediation, and they were completely in the posture that you were busy with you, and I would take a look. The British are all cowardly, how can you still expect the Americans to be strong in the Far East? When it comes to the foundations of the great powers in the Far East, Britain and Russia are almost evenly divided, France is the next grade, and virtue is the third.

Of course, there is another reason why the United States and Germany will not be on the same page now, and that is that the US Navy, or a small group of people in the Admiralty, are planning to do something against Spain, and Cuba and the Philippines are the first and second goals of the Americans! In this case, the Americans do not want to make a fuss. This comes from Ruprecht's speculation, after all, the tension between the United States and Spain did not begin in 1898 in history! And to say, the United States had no idea about the Spanish colonies before, anyway, Ruprecht didn't believe it!

In short, based on the above reasons, the US government decided to take this opportunity to ease the contradiction between the United States and Germany! There is a kind of friendship relationship in the world that is formed in this way, the conflict between the two sides is not very big, and they can't help each other for the time being, so why don't they go over and ask, friends, do business? After all, there is no one in this world who can't get along with money!

So in the end, the strategy set by the Americans is neither humble nor arrogant, and watch the dishes on the plate! Originally, the German fleet was 4 armored cruisers, and the Americans thought about it and could not be weak in momentum! Quality is not enough to make up for quantity! Arrange 6 various warships to meet you directly! But then I heard that only one Munich-class armored cruiser was visiting the United States, and the Americans were relaxed, and the New York was arranged to meet them. Just prepare a warship to accompany you!

"What? Theodore. Deputy Secretary Roosevelt is also coming? This one didn't show up on our plans! "Because the real commander of the German fleet was a rear admiral, it was enough for Vice Admiral Simpson to be in charge of the reception, and Deputy Secretary Roosevelt really had no plans to come to San Francisco at first.

"It's not clear, but Deputy Secretary Roosevelt will visit the German fleet in a private capacity, and it is not up to us to interfere with his purpose, we are just soldiers, and Deputy Secretary Roosevelt is a politician." Dewey was very open-minded, and it didn't matter much to who he met with someone like him!

"Mr. Deputy Minister, is it really necessary for you to do this? In the government's planning, this diplomatic action is just a routine activity. And hinting that it is better to only engage with the military. And the Minister of the Admiralty communicates with a future king, which is a bit beyond the scope of the original. One of the attendants said.

"This is just a private meeting, and the other party, as a future heir to the kingdom, deserves a higher level of hospitality. And I have a reason to see it! This is very important for the future layout of the United States in the Far East! "Theodore. Roosevelt is also a historical celebrity, who can lead the Spanish-American War, and the fierce man who fell down in Spain in 100 days naturally has something extraordinary! His eyes were not limited to this diplomatic move! There are a lot of things he needs to find out beforehand!

The second is more ~~~, and I ask for a collection again~~~.