Don't look at the fact that Taiwan is occupied by the Japanese, Britain, France and the United States don't have much reaction, they think that Taiwan is not important, Taiwan is very important, not only in the future, when aircraft become the main force in naval warfare, even in this era, restricting the Taiwan Strait, around the important nodes of China's island chain, from Japan and southeast China, the road to Malacca, once locked, at least East Asia and Southeast Asia will become independent parts, which has a huge threat to the global strategy of the great powers, especially the East Asian strategy, whether it is Britain, France and the United States, They won't watch it fall into the hands of the enemy.

If Taiwan is in the hands of the Japanese, it is nothing, and even if this island is very important, it is impossible for Japan to use it against Britain and France. It can be said unceremoniously that before World War I, the great powers headed by Britain and France had absolute control over Japan, and Japan's government bonds accumulated over the years amounted to a huge amount, and as long as these things were in hand, the Japanese who were not afraid of disobedience would be thrown out of these bonds at the first time, and the situation in Japan would be turbulent, and there was even the possibility of returning to the pre-liberation period overnight.

That is, it was played out during the First World War, it seems that the Central Powers were defeated, Germany was defeated and surrendered, Austria-Hungary was divided, and the Balkans completely entered the intentions of the Entente, as for Turkey, there was only a small amount of land, and the former Ottoman Turkish Empire no longer existed. From this result, the Entente was tantamount to a complete victory, but in fact the First World War weakened not only the Allies, but also Britain and France, the two great powers in the world, declined after the First World War, and the emergence of the Treaty on the Limitation of Naval Armaments was not so much a conference for Britain to divide the interests of the world, but Britain and France. After the enormous attrition of the First World War, it is impossible to continue, and there must be time to lick the wounds, otherwise, there will be another arms race, and the appearance of Britain and France being strong will be immediately broken. Expose the middle stem inside.

It was the United States and Japan that really developed in the First World War, these two were less involved in the European battlefield, and in the four years of the First World War, they were more engaged in business and making money, and the United States entered the war in the later stage of the First World War, which was also to capture more fruits of victory. As for Japan, it did not intervene in the war during the entire war, and at most carved up Germany's colonies in Asia and seized the fruits of victory, and it was the First World War that created the rise of the United States and the take-off of Japan.

In one fell swoop, Japan went from a debtor country to a creditor country, taking advantage of the Great War. The huge amount of money earned paid off the arrears of Britain and France. On the contrary, some were released, and at a certain cost, they got out of the hands of Britain and France, which gave them their status, and when they began to limit naval armaments, they truly became one of the world's great powers. Even above Italy, this is the thing that led to the World War II, when Japan joined the Axis powers against the United States and the whole world, otherwise. If he is still a debtor country, when Britain and France have a huge influence on him, he will not have the glory of Japan at all.

Now, World War I has just begun, Britain and France have almost a huge amount of Japanese government bonds in their hands, and Japan is just an obedient dog in their eyes, although sometimes it is not very comfortable and disobedient, but if they choose one of the two sides, they will only support Japan.

The Northwest is the enemy, this point, for Britain, France and the United States, there is no doubt, not to mention the Northwest sparing no effort to support the Allies, just look at the changes that took place in the early stage of the European battlefield, which one has nothing to do with the Northwest, without the Northwest, Germany could not be so strong, and even the current war situation will not undergo such a big change.

The world is so big, there are no obvious secrets, and there are no impermeable walls, maybe in the era of peace, you can use such and such performances to cover up something, but now it is a war between two major groups, and after so many years of hostility, everything on the surface knows that Germany will be so violent, absolutely beyond the expectations of the Entente, which is also the fundamental reason why the Entente suffered a big loss in the early stage.

In international affairs, there are some things, there is no need to have obvious evidence, as long as there is suspicion, Britain, France and the United States have been determined, and even the United States, on some secret occasions, verbally promised to enter the Entente, and the country has also begun to mobilize on the battlefield, they do not touch the northwest does not mean that the northwest is regarded as an ally, from the beginning of the war, among the crazy rising orders, the United States and Japan have divided 8 percent, and the remaining 8 percent is in the case that the United States and Japan cannot fulfill, and they have to buy it. before it flows into the pockets of the northwest.

Originally, as for the issue of the northwest, it was necessary to wait until the situation in Europe stabilized, the United States entered the war, and Germany was completely suppressed, but now, it is obvious that the northwest is restless, and even crosses north China and the southern part of the Yangtze River, and directly connects to Taiwan, which is thousands of miles away, even if it is only a rudimentary form, and with the importance of Taiwan, they cannot afford not to pay attention to it.

As diplomatic officials, the three ambassadors are very clear about the importance of Taiwan, the Japanese foreign minister looked at the expressions of several people, but his heart was extremely excited, this plan was formulated by him against public opinion, refused to directly increase the army and navy, the Japanese have no sensitivity, but the foreign minister still sees the importance of Taiwan, sure enough, Britain, France, and the United States attach great importance to Taiwan, which is simply great news for Japan.

Since the Russo-Japanese War in 1906, the Japanese won the war and had the status of a strong country, but there were no benefits.

But then, the cotton war, the rise of the northwest, one after another big sticks smashed on Japan's head, dizzy, even now, with the strength of the country, in Shandong against the northwest, but most of it is supported and instigated by Britain and France, without a national debt of 22 million pounds, Japan can't even send troops to the sea.

In the eyes of the Japanese foreign minister, compared with Japan, the three countries are more vigilant about the northwest, and the layout of Taiwan in the northwest is easy to be seen by the three countries as China's footsteps towards the sea.

Therefore, after careful consideration, the Japanese Foreign Ministry has provided a general strategy, rejecting the news of increasing domestic troops to Taiwan, and will leave it as it is for the time being, and see how Britain, France, and the United States react.

After reading the specimens from Taiwan, the Japanese Foreign Minister took out another report and said: "This is what our intelligence department has spent a great deal of effort to obtain. ”

The three ambassadors looked at the report given by the Japanese Foreign Minister with solemn faces, in addition to a brief introduction to some of the northwest, as well as some of the situation in Taiwan, Taiwan's current situation is exaggerated a lot, Wufeng, Nantou was given up by the Taiwan army on its own initiative, and there are no more people, it is said that the Northwest Army is occupied, the Wufeng army is tens of thousands, well-equipped, and more than 100 mm artillery, as long as Nantou and Wufeng are digested, Taichung is in danger.

Seeing this, the British ambassador took the initiative to raise objections, and the news they had received before was that a small part of the Northwest Army had gone up to Taiwan and had an impact on Taiwan, which was not at all the way now?

However, the Japanese ambassador was clever in his words and laid out Japan's losses, more than 20,000 Japanese troops were completely annihilated, including four field wings, and the ambassador to Japan was very aware of Japan's military system, and also knew what was going on with the Japanese full formation wing, although he was a little incredulous, and he could not personally investigate, but one thing was certain, Japan must have suffered a big loss, otherwise it would not have been at such a stage, perhaps it would not have been able to deal with it, so it found them.

What the three ambassadors didn't know was that the fact in Taiwan at present was that the two sides were separated by Nantou and Wufeng, one side was in Taichung and Taipei, and the other side was simply in the Central Mountain Range, and there was not even contact, and the Japanese troops in Taichung were almost basking in the sun, and even the special forces did not have much activity.

The most important thing is that the ambassadors of Britain, France and the United States, even though they knew that the Japanese were playing scoundrels, could not ignore them, they looked at each other, did not say anything, and continued to watch.

In the report, in addition to some news about Taiwan, all the news about China that the Japanese were able to get their hands on came out in one go, some true and some alarmist, in short, to create an atmosphere that the whole of China may be reunified by the northwest, and Taiwan is the breakthrough point for the northwest to move towards the sea, and in the future, when the German warships supporting China arrive, the situation in the entire East Asia will collapse.

Next, the three copies of the report, the ambassadors of the three countries took it, and used their own channels to transmit it back to China, the current situation in the whole of Europe is the focus, related to the results of the battle between the two major groups, but the victory over the other side is also to compete for world hegemony, otherwise it is easy to win, and another powerful country rises, challenging their position, which is also somewhat unacceptable.

In just a few years, China and the northwest have undergone earth-shaking changes, and the production capacity of heavy industry and military industry have risen one after another, some of which they investigated, and some of them simply knew when they placed orders, Britain ordered 200,000 rifles and supporting ammunition from China after the beginning of the war, and as for France, under the urgency of illness, in just two months, a total of 15 divisions were ordered to the northwest, including long and short guns, bullets, artillery, machine guns, etc., the Northwest took this order without appealing to the outside world, which means that these weapons can be produced in the Northwest. (To be continued......)