"It's so simple, so easy?" Meng Xiang muttered to himself. He still felt a little uncomfortable at this time, and in just ten days, several provinces fell into the hands of the vanguard army, but Lao Jiang and the central army did not react much, which surprised him very much.

Master Tang next to him said with a smile, "The general trend has been achieved, does it have to be gunsmoke and fire, and have the wisdom to fight bravely?" ”

"Those who are good at fighting have no outstanding feats," Fan Chong also nodded.

Meng Xiangxin also sighed, he had been planning for a year, and naturally knew more about the huge strength of the vanguard army at this time. Just like the United States in later generations, it seems that there are no bloody battles like heroes, but they are victorious one after another, purely by force. War is a game of overall strength, and when the gap in strength is too large, the outcome is decided from the beginning.

When the British capital of Jīng had taken refuge in the vanguard army, the central army was almost an empty shelf. Lao Chiang's descendants did not exceed 100,000 at this time, and most of their defenses were in the Sichuan area to prevent the vanguard army occupying Yichang and Han from breaking into Sichuan. Some of them are still guarding Changsha and other places. Most of the remaining people are the strong men of Xinla and the warlords of all stripes.

"They are all Chinese, and there is no resentment. What's the fuss? Shen Baiyang looked up at a pioneer army plane flying in the sky, and couldn't help sighing. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the fireworks at the head of Changsha City are still blooming.

After a long time, he retracted his gaze and ordered: "Order to go down, no conflict with the vanguard army"

"Then, regiment commander, this order from above ,......" Staff Officer Li next to him hesitated. Lao Chiang was not without movement, and when he reacted, he immediately ordered some troops to carry out uncooperative actions. But it seems that his orders are somewhat late, and they are somewhat ineffective.

"Don't you often say that you want to join the vanguard army to fight devils?" Shen Baiyang said suddenly.

"But Principal Jiang ......," Staff Officer Li was stunned for a moment.

"The interests of the country are paramount, and the soldiers take the order to defend the country as their duty to defend the country and resist foreign enemies, rather than fighting their own people." Shen Baiyang glanced at him, reciting the words that the pioneer broadcast had mentioned, "We are not a one-person, one-party army, as long as we don't violate the Constitution, as long as they are for the country and the people, why not join them?" ”

How many miscellaneous cards can be counted on, Lao Jiang Xin also counts. **Nuoshu Network provides this book for free TXT e-book download**He only hopes to bring some trouble to the vanguard army, and does not expect them to bring miracles.

"It's a pity that the Japanese have not heard from them for a long time." Lao Jiang sighed that after his negotiations with the Japanese went on for a while, the Japanese suddenly stopped. Of course, this was the vanguard army's invasion of the puppet Manchurians and the Liaohe River, which made it impossible to talk about some of the previous conditions. However, the Japanese were still very enthusiastic about Lao Chiang, but they no longer talked about armistice cooperation.

"Could it be that the Japanese and Meng Ribai have been hooked?" Lao Jiang kept suspicious, "No, Meng Ribai is still admirable at this point, but what's going on with this Japanese?" ”

Lao Chiang always wanted to make the Japanese withdraw their troops through peace talks, so as to rebuild their prestige and redeem their disadvantages. As long as the national artifact is in hand, at least the layout behind you is no problem. But now even the Japanese have not moved, so some of Lao Jiang's plans have been frustrated.

"What do Americans say?" When he saw Song Zi come in, he was extremely enthusiastic.

Song Zi loosened the tie around his neck and said excitedly: "The Americans promised to give us a loan of 100 million US dollars. ”

"$100 million?" Lao Jiang breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he had money, he could wave the banknote to stabilize his position.

"The Americans still stretched out their hands" In the sieve-like intelligence system of the central government, Meng Xiang, who quickly got the news, couldn't help frowning after hearing this, and then chuckled.

"There is still some goodwill among the Americans." Zhou Bai hesitated, at this time, not only Zhou Bai, I am afraid that many societies have a good feeling about the United States, they don't want Huaxia's concessions, they don't want Huaxia's indemnity, they don't have a direct war with Huaxia, in short, they are a model of Western Ming, "Their abundant resources make them not ask for much from the outside world, they need a market more, a stable market that can digest their products." I think the Americans can still fight for it. ”

The American's chā hand was expected, and it didn't make Meng Xiang care too much. But he didn't agree with what Zhou Bai said.

In later generations, many Americans have been established as spreading democracy and freedom, but they can't hide the rusty smell of profiteering in their bones. At the beginning, Meng Xiang also thought that the Americans would be more willing to have a unified China, a unified market, and he could use the interests of the huge market in China to tie the Americans up.

But with the increase of some information, Meng Xiang realized that the Americans were obviously not as friendly as he imagined. If the United States had been in the era of free markets at this time, those businessmen would have taken risks and made it easy to do business with demons. The fact that the United States and Soviet Russia have never broken off is a good example. But apparently the era of free capital is over, now is the era of monopoly oligopolies, and the Americans have a strong president.

After the Civil War, the concept of American nation became more and more profound, and it was no longer a new continent for cowboys to venture on. The number of stars on the flag of the United States is increasing, and the glory of the world's first industrial power is greatly increasing the cohesion of the people. The antagonism between countries, in the struggle for market and resource interests, has begun to brew around the time of the world war.

"Americans have abundant resources, but they are not so rich that they are all produced for their own use." Meng Xiang suddenly thought of oil, capital is chasing the lowest cost, as long as there is still profit margin, it will be squeezed out. "Even if they control the whole of the Americas, some resources need to be imported. And as long as the cost is cheap, they will chase it halfway around the world at all costs. ”

"Americans have good intentions? If you had seen the methods of the Americans of later generations, I am afraid you would not think so. Their methods are just more subtle. Meng Xiang said in his heart, the later generations had a great impact on him, and invisibly placed the United States on the final clearance boss.

"If you were an American administrator, what would you think when you saw our imports and exports?" Meng Xiang suddenly asked Zhou Baidao again.

Zhou Bai was silent for a while, he was very familiar with the industry and commerce in the joint theater, and with the expansion of the joint theater, the business opportunities also increased infinitely. But at this time, the slogan put forward by Meng Xiang is to develop independent industries and advocate the use of domestic products. In this way, although there are a lot of machines and technologies bought from abroad, there are fewer and fewer finished products imported.

Especially with the rise of various factories in the vanguard army, some industries involving people's livelihood have developed rapidly. Those things with foreign brands have gradually disappeared from the market. Tariffs and luxury taxes have become the two gates to protect the national industry, and they have also blocked the prying eyes of hungry wolves outside.

At this time, because of the outbreak of the European war, the Europeans only cared about themselves, which reduced the external pressure on the vanguard army a lot. At this time, the biggest involvement has become the United States. As for the Japanese who directly ignore it, few Chinese people will buy Japanese products.

American goods have been unable to open the market in China for a long time, but some Chinese products have been sold directly to the United States, and even grabbed orders from Europe with the Americans. Although the goods sold by Huaxia abroad are far less than the majority of the shares earned by the Americans, they still make the Americans very unhappy and wary of it.

"We've not opened the market to Americans all along." Meng Xiang said again, "Our national industry cannot withstand the impact of the powerful industry of the United States, so we have to adopt restrictive measures, but the Americans do not think so. ”

At this time, the joint theater of operations, in which tariffs and other policies had become independent, was surpassing the United States, and the Americans saw that the Germans' machines were constantly being shipped to China, and the shares of steel and petrochemical industries they obtained could not fill the gap in the excess share of China. This was not obvious at the beginning of the European war, but as the Americans' steel and petrochemical industries began to tilt towards Europe, the vanguard army also reduced its share of these, and the immediate trade deficit widened all of a sudden.

Zhou Bai had already held several talks with the special envoy of the US president, and of course he knew what the Americans meant, was to eliminate some political subsidies, reduce tariffs and luxury taxes, and open up the market. Of course, the result was a discord.

"They must have listed us as one of the threatening targets in Asia, so how can they rely only on us to consciously open up the market?" Meng Xiang affirmed that the policy formulated by a government must be comprehensive and long-term, and although the threat of the vanguard army is ant-like, they have already made the Americans unhappy. The Americans must have arranged a backhand to deal with it, and Lao Chiang is undoubtedly a good pawn.

That $100 million loan was just one move. At a time when Americans' attention is focused on Europe, they just don't want Huaxia to get out of control.

"The Americans' economic center of gravity at this time is still in Europe, and the European war has given them a great opportunity to dump their products, and they don't really care about us. It also gives us a great opportunity to catch up. Meng Xiangyao looked at the world map on the wall and snorted coldly: "The Americans miscalculated this time and underestimated us. Will surprise them in the future"

He turned around and said, "The Americans are not a threat to us for the time being. First of all, we have to clean up the Japanese. ”