After the Special Affairs Bureau was busy with its own work, the national government gradually moved.

Although the ban on the export of smelting equipment to other countries has been stinky, the ban against China has not been accepted. But this does not mean that he will not be able to pass guò in the future, so no matter what kind of position he takes, Yan Shao must give some reminders to the domestic private capital.

Soon, a large number of local governments began to find private capitalists who planned to invest in the 'steel industry', told them about some recent events, and reminded them that if they planned to set up a steel plant, it was best to solve the equipment problem within six months...

This is also something that cannot be helped, although the Special Affairs Bureau has already solved this problem once, but the US government is not really stupid as a pig, he will not think that this kind of thing can succeed again―――――― at least it will definitely not succeed lightly.

So the best way is to take advantage of the fact that the bill has just been rejected to solve the problem of equipment first. In this way, the next time a legislator proposes such a bill, I believe that the peak period of running an iron factory has passed, and the remaining little soup and water can be solved by relying on the country's own industrial capacity.

Those 'private entrepreneurs' who were raising funds to set up iron factories obviously did not expect such a thing to happen on the other side of the ocean. Of course, they don't know that the US bill will be yellow because of the credit of the Special Affairs Bureau, after all, it is better to keep such a matter secret, even if anyone with a discerning eye knows that this matter must be handled by the Special Affairs Bureau.

And after learning about this, the local gentry who raised funds and planned to set up an industry were also shocked.

Because of this thing. There were even quite a few gentry who retreated.

At the beginning, the 300 million yuan loan issued by Yushi Group has basically been almost, and at this time, they will choose to raise funds to set up an industry, usually planning to take advantage of the European war to make a profit. So it's all self-funded. In other words, they need to think about the safety of their investment.

If the United States suddenly announces a ban when they put their money into it, and they lose all their money, then they will even have the mind to hang themselves.

Therefore, after the notice of the local government, many local gentry chose to withdraw, which made the local government and Yan Shao, who knew about it afterwards, feel a little helpless.

However, there are many who are willing to continue to persevere. This made Yan Shao very pleased.

As for the matter of the guò, the local gentry who intended to set up an industry were also noted in the agreement signed with the American foreign firm. The delivery must be made by June 1915, otherwise ―――――― the gang will set a high penalty for liquidated damages.

In this regard, the people in the major foreign banks in the United States are a little helpless, but there is no way, who calls the money in the hands of others. Before the money arrives. These yellow-skinned Chinese in front of them are their gods.

Again. In fact, they also have some complaints about domestic policies, after all, they are engaged in trade. If the U.S. bans the export of goods, they will make less money, so these Americans are very enthusiastic about this...

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Standing in front of the Empire State Building, looking at the building that could not be stopped even though the temperature had reached more than ten degrees below zero, Iwami couldn't help but sigh.

It has now been more than two months since the US 'ban', in other words. It's 1915 now.

A lot has happened in the last two months.

Let's say the ban. After the ban was rejected, many of the Chinese gentry ordered smelting equipment from various American foreign firms in China. Now that some of the smelting equipment originally ordered has arrived, and some is floating in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. government is annoyed but has nothing to do.

Because in the past two months, the BOI has not been able to catch the handle of the Special Affairs Bureau.

Parker, the director of the Bureau of Investigation, is a very ambitious man, and he has always been somewhat dissatisfied with the current work of the Bureau. In his opinion, the Investigation Bureau should do more challenging work, rather than only doing some work that detective agencies can only do in China, so he plans to seize this opportunity to prove the ability of the Investigation Bureau.

In fact, the Bureau of Investigation should not do some detective agency-like work, which was later demonstrated by Hoover very clearly―――――― since the beginning of the position, Hoover has been in the position of FBI director for 48 years, and some people even think that Hoover is secretly controlling the entire United States behind his back.

However, it can be seen that although Parker is very ambitious, he does not have the ability of Hoover.

In order to prove himself and the ability of the Bureau of Investigation, Hoover was a little too eager and acted a little hastily...

In any case, the Secret Service is a specialized intelligence agency. Although the Investigation Bureau is also an official intelligence agency, it has always done similar work to the detective agency in the past. It is especially important to note that the United States has experienced very few wars over the past many years, and that such intelligence agencies have largely not been tested.

In fact, in this era, the time when intelligence agencies were born was comparatively ...

Let's put it this way, the famous MI6 was only established in 1909. There is a Germany to deal with in the UK, so the work of the intelligence organization is relatively busy, but who is the United States going to deal with? Spain? The Spanish-American War ended ten years earlier, and the rest of the conflicts, if any, could only be regarded as petty fights.

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Unlike the Bureau of Investigation, is the experience of the Secret Service Bureau...

Although it is not very rich, it is much stronger than the Investigation Bureau.

When he was in China, the Secret Service Bureau first worked in Anhui and the Black Dragon Society and the Alliance, and then fought with Lu Jianzhang's Gyeonggi Military and Political Law Enforcement Office in the Beijing-Tianjin area. Among them, the Alliance is not counted, but the Black Dragon Society is a powerful civil spy newspaper organization, and Lu Jianzhang's Gyeonggi Military and Political Law Enforcement Office is also an official intelligence agency.

As for the Bureau of Investigation, before it has evolved into the FBI, I am afraid that even the Black Dragon Society cannot compare. In addition, Parker is in a hurry to show his ability. And the members of the Investigation Bureau did not attach much importance to the Special Service Bureau because of the superiority of the white people, and as a result, they quickly suffered a big loss.

A yellow espionage agency. What's the most troublesome thing about being in a white country? It's the color of your skin.

Especially in this era, although the number of Chinese in the United States is some, it is not particularly large, and it is basically concentrated in a few cities such as San Francisco on the West Coast, and cities such as New York or Washington on the East Coast. There are not even as many white-sided dolphins in the Yangtze River―――――― probably not even one-tenth of them.

Because of this, Parker and his bureau of investigation set their sights on Chinese families in Washington or New York.

The problem is that he can take it into account. How could the people in the U.S. branch of the Secret Service not think about it? Even if he can't think about it, he can always see the eyes of the Americans around him when he walks down the street, right?

Therefore, although the members of the American branch of the Secret Service are mainly Chinese, many of the people who are really in charge of the operation are white or even black...

Naturally, these people are basically hired by the Secret Service. It's about the same as the staff. And most of them are one-line contacts, that is, only the people at the top contact their share, and not their share with the upper level.

At the same time, the locations of the Secret Service in New York and Washington, D.C., are also located in some hidden areas, not in the Chinese community or in the legation or consulate...

As a result, Parker made several shots, but basically in vain. On the contrary, it was several counterattacks from the Secret Service Bureau, which made Parker and his Investigation Bureau very headache and even humiliated.

Especially one of them. Several Bureau of Investigators were even stripped naked and tied to a street lamp in one of Washington's busiest street markets after being knocked unconscious. The incident was hyped up in the newspapers of the East Coast city for more than a week, so that Parker did not even dare to meet Wilson.

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In fact, Caterina didn't think about killing her, the mission area of the Special Affairs Bureau, even if it was domestic, the most important areas abroad were Japan, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Among them, Japan, the United States, and Russia are the top priority projects...

In order to ensure that the Secret Service acted smoothly in the United States, Caterina was basically transferred to the United States by some elite soldiers in the Secret Service, who had participated in the purge of the Black Dragon Society and the Kuomintang (Sun Line) many times in Anhui and later during the period of the Kuomintang.

However, China and the United States have not fallen out yet, and the current situation is that China has more places to ask the United States. This makes it necessary for the Secret Service to be milder in the United States, and its counterattack against the Bureau of Investigation is limited to those that make them lose face. Except for a few times that I was entangled, I basically didn't kill anyone. But even so, the people in the Investigation Bureau, including Parker, were very annoyed, but at the same time they were annoyed, but at the same time they had a chilling feeling.

Because in the process of confrontation with the Special Forces, they have never had the upper hand.

On several occasions, in order to find out the New York stronghold of the Special Services Bureau, they excessively harassed New York's Chinatown, and that night the members of the Investigation Bureau in charge of the matter were somehow pulled out of their homes and hung naked from street lamps, and they themselves did not even know what was going on.

Even Parker, the director of the Investigation Bureau, actually received a letter of admonition from the Special Affairs Bureau, believing that the conflict between the two organizations should not involve ordinary Chinese.

The letter of admonition appeared twice in a row, each time next to Parker's pillow.

When he woke up, a letter written by his enemy appeared next to his pillow, and Parker felt like he was falling into an ice cave, and his whole body was cold.

The first time he was defenseless, this is easy to say, but the second time he transferred seven or eight agents from the Investigation Bureau to guard by the side, but the gang actually lay on the ground in a daze at dawn the next day, and it didn't work at all.

As for the third...

The third time, Parker got more than 30 agents, guarding inside and outside the room, and the damn letter finally didn't appear next to his pillow―――――― and the third time, the secret service really sent someone over, but seeing that there were so many people guarding Parker's house, those people simply gave up. Not surprising either. Solving seven or eight people at a time is already the limit of the Special Affairs Bureau, if more than thirty people can solve it without any movement............... It's better to turn this novel into science fiction or urban abilities and fairytales...

But even if he didn't show up for the third time, Parker still felt a little chilly.

Although some time ago, the counterattack of the Special Affairs Bureau was mainly to disgrace the Investigation Bureau. But Parker didn't think the Secret Service wouldn't dare to kill. If you really don't dare, there won't be a few agents who tracked down the traces of the Special Services Bureau some time ago and were beaten into a hornet's nest, obviously finding out something and being disposed of.

Of course, this does not mean that this matter is over, while avoiding direct conflict, Parker has never stopped investigating the Secret Service, and he has the full support of Wilson in this matter―――――― for Wilson. The subordinate intelligence organization was actually wantonly played by a foreign intelligence organization on his own soil, and if he could tolerate this kind of thing, then he would not have to be the president.

Especially when the Bureau of Investigation was disgraced some time ago. His approval rating as the president of the United States has also dropped a lot, which also makes his attitude towards Yan Shao change from friendly to indifferent.

At this time, a long time has passed since the matter of the 'bill', and although there is some fighting between the two organizations, it is no longer as fierce as it used to be. The Bureau of Investigation no longer harasses the Chinese in Chinatown as they used to. After all, both the Special Affairs Bureau and the Investigation Bureau have scruples.

However, in the view of Wilson and Parker, this scruple is only temporary, and when they do not need scruples, they can take action against the Chinese at will.

It's just that neither Wilson nor Parker probably thought that in the long years to come, the Secret Service and later the FBI and the CIA would have fought countless battles, but in most cases, it was always the Secret Service that had the upper hand...

They had the desire to do whatever they wanted to do to the Chinese. It never materialized.

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In addition to the affairs of the United States, the Kuomintang government and the Japanese government have been engaged in a war of words in the past two months or so.

After the Japanese government conceded defeat. All of Japan's concessions in various parts of China were abolished at the same time, and the garrisons in Beijing and Tianjin, as well as in the northeast, left China by boat.

As for the 200 million yuan indemnity, the Japanese government has also promised to compensate 20 million yuan a year, and the entire indemnity will be completed in 10 years―――――― considering that the Japanese government's current finances are indeed unable to come up with 200 million yuan, Yan Shao and they reluctantly agreed to this matter.

Anyway, even if they force the Japanese with a knife, they can't take out the 200 million in one go, and since this is the case, it is better to be more generous, and the newly appointed Katsura Taro cabinet is very grateful for this.

After the defeat in the Battle of Shandong, the new Japanese prime minister was Katsura Taro. This person is a rare figure in modern Japanese history, and he is a veteran minister of the Meiji and Taisho dynasties. Born in the Choshu Domain, he was a disciple of the head of Yama Prefecture Aritomo, the first elder of the army, and became his spokesman after the retirement of Yamaguchi Aritomo, and came forward to form a cabinet three times (1901-1906, 1908-1911, 1912-1913) to conclude the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, conduct the Russo-Japanese War, and plot the annexation of Korea. Japan's longest-serving prime minister, like Aritomo Yamagu, opposed the political party and advocated feudal rule, but later formed his own party. This period is known as the 'Katsura Period' because Katsura Taro and Saionji Gongwang took turns to form a cabinet.

It should be explained that Katsura Taro was ousted by the Japanese people, because at that time, the Saionji Gongwang was ousted by Aritomo Yamaguchi by despicable means, and the angry people in Japan drove Katsura Taro down.

However, it is a little strange that Katsura Taro died in October 1913, but Katsura Taro is still alive and well until now. Maybe it's because of the changes brought about by Yan Shao's crossing, but Katsura Taro is indeed a very powerful guy.

And this person's thoughts seem to be similar to Yan Shao's, they all want to take advantage of the east wind of the European war to make Japan's strength to a higher level. Therefore, after the end of the Shandong War, Katsura Taro on the one hand tried to recover the lost military strength, on the other hand, he continued to expand the trade volume with Europe, and even sent people to Europe to seek the support of Britain and France―――――― and other countries.

After the defeat of the Shandong War, Japan suffered great losses, the navy lost almost three-quarters of its capital ships, and the army also had 70,000 or 80,000 people killed on the battlefield or buried at the bottom of the sea, and there were still a large number of wounded soldiers...

In addition, a large number of weapons and equipment were captured by the Chinese army, as well as the ships of the navy that sank in Longkou Bay or were captured directly in Longkou Bay. Relying solely on Japan's own strength, Katsura Taro does not believe that Japan has any hope of surpassing China, or even of equality.

In this case, support from Europe is even more important...

At least when Katsura Taro went to see Yama Prefecture Aritomo, this old man who should have died a long time ago in history said it very clearly. "After the defeat of the war, the empire no longer had the strength to compete with China, and the only way to maintain its current position was to enlist the support of the British and French powers..."

In this regard, there are friends in Shan County who also think so.

Naturally, when trying to win support, Katsura Taro did not forget to ask for back the weapons and equipment captured by the Wehrmacht, especially the ships in Longkou Bay, which was also a reason for the war of words between China and Japan. (To be continued......)