In a short period of time, Zhu Erdian figured everything out, and after briefly recounting the requirements of the Japanese, he began to lead the whole meeting, saying: "What do you think! ”

When Zhu Erdian's narration was tantamount to putting everything in front of the two diplomats completely, Feige and the American Han Cimin were silent, especially Feige's heart turned countless thoughts, this matter is too big, France now, even Paris is likely to fall, all the forces of France are tilting towards Paris, colonies, all kinds of wealth, all kinds of weapons, in addition to buying in the United States, can not be produced in the United States, but also put the order in Japan, and even take into account the northwest, France thinks, In China, there has to be some kind of balance, and it is better to be still than to be still.

When the French Minister Fig made this view clear, Zhu Erdian sighed, didn't say anything, and turned to look at Han Cimin, the United States thinks differently from France, perhaps the northwest intervened in Taiwan's affairs very early, giving way to the United States, which is in the Philippines, felt a pain in the skin, Taiwan is too close to the Philippines, once the northwest transfers shipbuilding capacity to shipbuilding, then the Philippines will really have a nightmare, and even Hawaii will have problems.

It's just that the Philippines is okay to say that it was taken from Spain, and the United States does not have much interest in the Philippines, and those indigenous monkeys are all lazy and can't even do the most basic work, but Hawaii is different, not to mention the special sugar, let's just say that his important position has entered the sequence of the United States of America, which is enough to make the United States unacceptable.

It is no wonder that the United States is worried that relations between Germany and the Northwest are too close. The level of shipbuilding in the Northwest is also very strong, the speed and quality of civil shipbuilding. Both are higher than the United States, and Germany is second only to Britain in shipbuilding. As long as Germany transfers a small part of its shipbuilding capacity to China, with the dock level of the Jiangnan shipyard, it will be able to have a powerful fleet in almost a year or two, and this is what the United States attaches the most importance to. Millions, even tens of millions, of troops, could not go ashore.

I have to say that the United States is a blind cat touching a dead mouse, and it is really right, but the time is slightly worse, and the estimate of the northwest is also a little worse, and Germany transferred its shipbuilding capacity to the northwest almost two years ago. Under the premise of absorbing the German shipbuilding level, the northwest has reasonably improved its power, artillery, and armor. The perfect Fantasy-class battleship at the pinnacle of battleships was made, not to strengthen Germany, but to directly threaten Southeast Asia. At least either England, France. Neither the Southeast Asian fleet of the United States nor the United States is a small detachment with a core of fantasy class.

The direct consent of the American ambassador. And will support 80 million US dollars of arms for this war, and even in some cases, there is a possibility of addition, such a simple attitude affected Feige, Feig had to ask for instructions at home under the pretext, but in his terms of reference, the equivalent of 10 million US dollars of materials was transferred to support this war.

The two add up to 90 million, plus the possible numbers of the United Kingdom, which makes Zhu Erdian hesitate a little, Japan and Russia join forces, coupled with the direct support of Britain, France and the United States, it should be possible to completely wipe out the northwest, Zhu Erdian's understanding of some things in the northwest, but not all, only from the strength shown, the current strength of the northwest has surpassed Japan, and even Russia, but it does not have the strength to independently resist the two powers, even if he has an army of 4 million, Once Japan and Russia burst out with all their strength, the northwest will definitely not be able to withstand it, not only will the periphery be unbearable, but even the core area will be attacked.

Britain wants to eliminate the Northwest in order to accept the maximum benefits, and the same is true for supporting Beiyang, if Japan and Russia join forces, when the time comes, the wealth of the entire Northwest, the huge industrial and industrial workers, will almost be cheaper to Japan and Russia, these two second-rate countries, will be full immediately, not to mention the reparations later, let's talk about the looting ability of the two rogue countries, the Northwest is afraid that even the last bit of things will be looted. Russia, in particular, may use the industrial base of the northwest to establish a complete system, which Britain does not want to see, a huge country with a population of 170 million and a land area of more than 20 million square kilometers, once it completes industrialization, its potential is even higher than that of China, and most importantly, closer to Europe.

Britain is to hinder the emergence of a country that may be the next United States, not to promote, if it were not for Japan not having this power, he would directly support Japan, Japan is small and weak, even if it is full, it is to make wedding dresses for Britain, but Russia is different, almost ten years ago the Russo-Japanese War was a move to weaken Russia under the leadership of Britain.

The northwest's sphere of influence is too inland, and even Britain can't find a suitable land springboard even if it sits on the title of empire on which the sun never sets, and can only rely on Russia and Japan at present, which is the most depressing.

Jurdian's heart is very contradictory, Britain is like this, for a long time the idea is to gradually weaken the other side, in the past 300 years, throughout the European continent, he has done this, from uniting Prussia, fighting Napoleon's France, to dealing with Austria-Hungary, and then to dealing with unified Germany, maintaining a certain balance and stabilizing Britain's position.

This is not the pursuit of its own strength, but only the pursuit of a certain balance between the pursuers, which is not what a confident power would have, and colleagues who are working with allies have the idea of attacking allies and weakening allies, which is probably one of the reasons for Britain's decline. The development of industry, the strength of a country, is getting stronger and stronger, the strength between countries is shrinking, to maintain a certain balance, for Britain, it is too difficult, after the First World War was weakened, Britain quickly fell behind, not only was successively surpassed by the United States and the Soviet Union, completely lost the pinnacle position, even the First World War was weakened more powerful Germany, but also in World War II, but crossed it, almost pressed it to fight.

One thing, it is impossible to pass in a short time, this is just the meaning of the notice, and then, each reported to their respective superiors, and soon, Figg took the French approach, France has nothing else, the most funds, and suddenly added 30 million in cash, arms can be bought by themselves, as long as they do not occupy the orders of the French, the United States is more generous, including warships, a total of 170 million US dollars, including warships, materials, logistics items and weapons, almost a package, all are related to the war.

At this time, Britain had no choice, took out 9 million pounds, by the way, to put pressure on Russia, it could do it in the Far East, the number of troops could not exceed 3 million, and the strength of troops in eastern Europe could not be less than 4 million, and if it was lacking, it would be good to recruit troops, as much as possible at the beginning of 1914, open up a second battlefield on the Eastern Front to contain the troops of the Central Powers, so as to help the Battle of Paris that may start at the beginning of the year.

On the one hand, it is guaranteed to weaken the northwest, at least so that he has no time to take care of Europe, when the war starts, Japan can strike at the northwest route, so that down, no matter how many ships, without escort, what is the use, as long as the overseas channels of the Germans are cut off, Britain and France can at least be in the stage of stalemate, when the United States enters the war, it will play a decisive role.

As early as the beginning of the European theater, Britain suggested that Japan's combined fleet go to Europe to participate in the war, but unfortunately it was rejected by Japan, which made Britain feel Japan's unruliness, Japan's combined fleet is not very strong, but it can enter the Mediterranean, suppress the combined forces of Italy and Turkey, free up British warships, and continue to compress and noose Germany,

Japan not only refused, but also consumed the combined fleet in China, and now the complete annihilation of the whole army is a kind of deserved, but because of the form, the United States and Britain need to support Japan, but this time, did not choose the form of national bonds, but commercial loans, the fundamental reason for the extra hand is that the interest rate is higher, more flexible, business dominates, and when you ask for money in the future, there is an extra layer of fig leaf.

In a day or two, Britain, France and Russia reached a relatively unified intention, developed telegraph communications, so that they can smoothly contact the country, a total of more than 200 million US dollars, is enough to support Japan, through the current crisis, of course, 200 million is not all given to Japan, part of which is to Russia.

Like Japan, the recent Russia is also very sad, Japan's proposal, it can be said that it is in the middle of the middle, the defeat of Mongolia in the first war, has always been remembered in the heart of the tsar, because of the protests of Britain, France and the United States, failed to start a war in 1912, and China fought with real swords and guns, but this time, Britain agreed, although the total strength can not exceed 3 million, but in the eyes of the tsar, what is behind China, Mongolia is not prepared for the war, on the other side's land, in the face of the opponent's superior forces, If you are prepared, 2 million is enough to sweep.

As soon as the funds of Britain, France and the United States were in place, Russia began to prepare, money for Russia, it represents strength, even if there are still some orders for firearms that are not in place, but the golden dollar and pound pound make up for these, Russia began to recruit more deeply, Russia in the cold of winter, first catch the peasants in the barracks, conduct indoor training, and wait until the weapons and other equipment are ready, the war will break out, it is expected to be either April, or May, Russian soldiers, It will use blood and fire to re-prove the status of Great Russia as a great power. (To be continued......)