Chapter 400 Extortion, extortion, interests first(1/2)
Emperor Song Biao was obviously unwilling to meet with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, but in this world, there are many things that he could not choose. When he flew back to Beijing, Prime Minister Churchill had already been with Prime Minister Gu Weijun and Chief of General Staff of Jiang Fangzhen
Meetings have been held one after another.
The bargaining part is the work between the three of them. Emperor Song Biao's final power was just to decide the negotiation result of the three of them.
So on the night back to the Central Palace, Emperor Song Biao had dinner with his family, and took time to talk to his eldest son, Crown Prince Yuhua, about the current situation between China and Britain, and immediately made Gu Weijun and Jiang Fang shake.
I personally went to his imperial study to meet and listened to the report of the Prime Minister and the Chief of General Staff.
Gu Weijun and Jiang Fangzhen were well prepared, and they soon arrived at the Central Palace one after another to meet the emperor in the imperial study.
Emperor Song Biao was very special this time. He left the crown prince with him by his side to participate in the discussion of this matter. In Gu Weijun's memory, this should be the first time, but he didn't think there was anything surprising, after all
As the emperor grew old and weakened, the experience accumulated by the Crown Prince Yuhua in the long-term work of the Central Cabinet, Military Department, and Congress became increasingly rich. This is a time that will come sooner or later.
Maybe he would not meet him during his tenure as Gu Weijun, but one day, the emperor will retreat behind the scenes and let the crown prince Yuhua be more of the heir to the emperor as the father to take the hearing. One day, the emperor will even become the real supreme emperor.
Gu Weijun and Jiang Fangzhen were actually very happy to see the arrival of this day. After the Crown Prince Yuhua graduated from the Master of Political Science and Law Department of the Central Emperor University and entered the central organization for fifteen years of study, they all served as a tutor.
Seeing the increasingly mature and stable Crown Prince Yuhua and the recognized evaluation of "benefiting virtue and carrying things", Gu and Jiang were indeed happy for the smooth and gradual succession of the imperial throne.
This is a real good thing.
These two important officials who have been with the emperor for more than 30 years and have developed a deep understanding for many years. At this time, they looked at each other and felt that our brothers were going to have a drink to celebrate tonight.
Emperor Song Biao felt very ordinary about this matter and did not agree with it. Because he had always handled the matter step by step, others dared not speak, and could only look at his arrangements at each step.
The Crown Prince Yuhua was not very excited, but was actually very nervous. He was also very cautious and stood aside and kept his head silent. The competition he faced was not as fierce as that between the Qing princes of the previous dynasty. Since he was born, he was
The identity of the crown prince has been settled for half. The reason why he is nervous is that the father next to him is indeed a very terrible person.
Looking at the three thousand years of imperial traditions in China, there are only a handful of emperors like his father. Except for Qin Emperor Wu and Tang Emperor Taizong, it is really hard to compare. For example, Ming Emperor Taizu was not able to open up the territory and open up the territory.
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The emperor of the empire and the emperor of China, the evaluation depends on the achievements of opening up the territory, no matter how you do in other aspects. As long as you lose your territory, you can only be considered a second-rate or even a third-rate.
When Emperor Gaozu of Han founded his country, he was certainly controlled by the Huns, but he endured humiliation and could allow his great-grandson to find an opportunity to defeat the Huns and recover lost territory. That was also a visionary emperor. A few Taizu really couldn't do it.
The feeling of the Crown Prince Yuhua standing by such a father can be described as walking on thin ice.
Each of the four people in the imperial study had a different mood. Emperor Song Biao was most concerned about the results of the negotiation between Churchill and Gu Weijun, because he had to meet Prime Minister Churchill tomorrow and give the other party a clear reply.
Of course, Emperor Song Biao had already known the requirements of the UK before returning to Beijing. The British request was also very simple, which was to require China to participate in the exhibition immediately because the UK could no longer hold on.
As for whether Britain is really at the end of its reach, it is not just Prime Minister Churchill's words that China will believe that it still needs China's own intelligence agencies to speculate.
After Gu Weijun and Jiang Fangzhen sat down, Emperor Song Biao asked Gu Weijun: "How credible do you think Churchill's words are?"
Gu Weijun thought for a moment and replied: "Report to Your Majesty, I think his words are not very credible, but Britain really can't hold on for too long. He has one thing that is correct, that is, Britain is not with Germany for the sake of Britain itself.
The British war is for all other countries. If China and the United States do not participate in the war, they cannot provide more free aid. Britain would rather lose dignity and negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Germany. As he said, the British Empire is no longer what it used to be.
The empire is not set, and Britain cannot withstand a German that has occupied the Soviet Union and France and the entire Eastern Europe."
Emperor Song Biao also admitted, saying: "The colonial crisis and the pound crisis have caused great damage to Britain in the past two years. If Britain wants to continue fighting, it can still obtain a lot of support from Canada and Australia, and China and the United States will continue to do so.
The key to giving more support is that it will give up this battle itself. If Britain and Germany reach an agreement and the two sides temporarily cease to fight, Germany will not continue to attack the British and British colonies, especially those that Britain still retains in Africa.
After the New Year, Germany officially digested the French and French colonies. With the original Soviet-occupied areas and Eastern Europe's resources and industrial systems, Germany will continue to launch a larger war against Britain until the entire British African colonies are controlled.
Under Germany, I think Prime Minister Churchill understands this truth very well, so the possibility of a unilateral war with Germany is extremely low. In today's world, there are three most powerful countries, namely China, the United States and Britain.
, In these three countries, Germany and the United States have the lowest conflict. Fighting a naval war with the United States is by no means what Germany is good at. If Germany wants to go to war with China, occupy the entire Central and Western Asia, and take away China's Soviet occupation.
It will take many years to prepare for the region and the northern region. Therefore, for German expansionism, its best pioneering aspect is that it was once brilliant, but its overall strength is no longer as good as before, and it is also the weakest among the world's top three.
The British Empire. With Germany's current industrial resources, as long as it produces aircraft carriers and other ships in all shipyards, it will have the strength to fight the United Kingdom in a decisive battle in the ocean in three years, and five years will be enough to make it easy.
Have the strength to destroy the British Navy.”
Speaking of this, Emperor Song Biao paused for a while and finally concluded: "So, Britain will definitely fight to the end. Britain still understands such a simple truth, and Prime Minister Churchill is a very good person. Close the door and talk about it.
.We must join the war because the United States will settle the account. Now Germany's biggest threat is Britain, followed by China. Finally, it is the United States. We have a saying that the emperor is not in a hurry, and the eunuch is in a hurry.
?The United States does not need to participate in the war. China will face it even if the sky falls."
Jiang Fangzhen nodded in agreement. This was also the consensus among the top leaders of their Central Defense Committee. The Sino-Germany battle will be fought sooner or later. The only question now is when the war will start and which appropriate reason will the war begin.
He said to Emperor Song Biao: "I thought this battle was better than fighting early than fighting late. Although the war was finally ended with special means, before that, we could take the opportunity to expand in Africa through appropriate means of war.
and Eastern Europe’s control.”
Emperor Song Biao nodded silently, and asked with Gu Weijun, Jiang Fangzhen: "What is your current attitude?"
Gu Weijun remained silent.
Jiang Fangzhen said: "To thoroughly solve the Papua and Myanmar problems, as well as some islands in the Indian Ocean are sold to our country, especially the Myanmar problem. Without Myanmar, our navy would have to go a long way to obtain sufficient supplies. Once the Myanmar problem is solved, we
Establishing a naval base in Myanmar can directly carry out large-scale naval supply from the Kunming-Myanmar Railway."
Song Biao asked, "Have you talked about it?"
Jiang Fangzhen said: "There is no talk yet. Our current public attitude is still quarantined to join the war and maintain the original agreed conditions. Unless Germany attacks Spain and Sweden and seriously threatens our country's right to pass the ocean, our country will not consider declaring war on Germany.
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Song Biao nodded and recognized this negotiation principle, but he still wanted to raise the price and force the UK to accept higher conditions. He would rather appear short-sighted and stupid in international politics than actually get more benefits.
After careful consideration, Emperor Song Biao said to Jiang Fangzhen: "I will continue to express my determination to safeguard the interests of the world with caution, but I will not easily agree to Britain to declare war. If Britain withdraws from the war,
We still have a way to solve the problem, which means we have enough negotiating capital. Of course, if we do not eventually reach a new agreement that is satisfactory with the UK, we should still give the UK more practical resources, and Congress can promote the new
The Lease Act allows us to rent the remaining military supplies to the UK to support British operations.”
Jiang Fangzhen and Gu Weijun agreed.
The three people have basically the same views. It is a matter of time before they can participate in the war. The key is to maximize interests. From a financial perspective, Gu Weijun is relatively hoped to declare war late, while Jiang Fangzhen is worried that Germany's nuclear weapons plan will be successful and hopes to join the war early and resolve the problem sooner.
Jiang Fangzhen considered more factors, because Germany and the United States were carrying out nuclear weapons development work, Germany was advancing faster and it also brought out more national resources. Germany now has such a huge support from the Soviet-occupied area, and France
European occupying countries such as Czech Republic, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands may have been in such a two or three years since they were going to produce nuclear weapons.
The three of them discussed this issue for nearly two hours, and analyzed all possible problems. Finally, they felt that the best period of declaration of war should be before September next year. If it was late, the size of the German army and
The overall strength will reach a very terrifying level through the integration of the entire Europe.
In general, the sooner you declare war, the better.
This is the truth, but tomorrow's negotiations with Prime Minister Churchill are another matter.
After the secret talk that night, Gu Weijun returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion late at night and made some new arrangements for the emperor's reception of Prime Minister Churchill tomorrow afternoon.
The next afternoon, Emperor Song Biao met Prime Minister Churchill at the State Guest Room in the Central Palace. In order not to make Germany suspicious, the meeting was not very grand in terms of etiquette, and it was basically the same as the normal Prime Minister's visit, and even the talks were held.
The time was only arranged for one hour, and in principle, the two parties would not issue any joint statement or announcement.
Just like Prime Minister Gu Weijun's visit to the British King, it seems to be just a matter of etiquette.
This is actually the first time Emperor Song Biao met with Prime Minister Churchill. Emperor Song Biao also conducted a small experiment with Prime Minister Churchill, introducing Prince Yuhua to Prime Minister Churchill together, and began to gradually push his heirs to world politics
stage.
In front of the Crown Prince Yuhua, Emperor Song Biao fully demonstrated his sympathy for the British Empire and his short-sightedness towards international politics, which was completely opposite to the secret talks she had last night.
Emperor Song used his own personal example to tell the crown prince Yuhua that the most basic truth is the most important thing. Many times, short-sightedness can make more interests for the empire only by being trivial. The so-called country
Friendship is purely a gift for empty talk.
Prime Minister Churchill will visit China for seven days this time, but in fact he wants to negotiate with China well. He also understands that China will definitely send troops. The key is that Britain must come up with a very high price to allow China to participate in the war.
This is a ridiculous thing for Britain, because even if China participates in the war, it is still fighting for itself, but reality is always so disgusting.
In the next four days, Churchill was the same as Prime Minister Gu Weijun, and Chief of Staff Jiang Fangzhen held two more talks to negotiate the issue of the empire's strategic support to Britain. Britain did not continue to offer higher prices, and the empire did not agree.
Declare war on Germany.
It is impossible for the Empire to expose its true plans and ideas during this period, because it is likely to be unilaterally exploited by Britain, such as deliberately leaking intelligence and negotiation results to Germany.
The real negotiations have not yet begun, and now they can only be said to maintain the status quo. The Empire contributes money and efforts to support Britain in a period of time to see the results. At the same time, the Empire will continue to speed up the preparations for war and make a good decision with Nazi Germany.
The final battle of victory or defeat.
After reaching an agreement with Britain, the empire began to consider strengthening military deployment in three directions in Germany. In addition to strengthening military assistance to Britain and the scale of garrison in Spain, the eastern bank of the Volga River also strengthened the military scale without expanding its military scale.
Deployment of military training and comprehensive combat, as well as the increase in reserves of strategic materials.
In order to avoid Germany taking the initiative to intensify the contradictions, the empire also adopted a clearer policy at the diplomatic level but not angering Germany. It sent Foreign Minister Guo Taiqi to visit the United States, and through joint reputation, demanding that European countries stop war as soon as possible to avoid further damage to the world
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The mediation conditions proposed by China and the United States are that Germany withdrew from France, resumed peace talks, and resolved the problem through negotiations, Germany further withdrew from Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway. The United Kingdom can accept this condition, but Germany is absolutely impossible. In fact, China and the United States
There was no real consideration to give Germany an acceptable terms of peace talks. The so-called mediation was nothing more than a symbolic meaning that China and the United States were unlikely to directly intervene in the war.
It is an indisputable fact that Britain's overall strength has been severely damaged in the collision with China, but across the English Channel, with the superior strength of the Air Force and Navy, Britain can still fight against Germany's invasion plan.
China and the United States also played an important role in this process, passing the Leasing Act one after another, renting naval ships and aircraft from the UK, selling more destroyers and combat aircraft to the UK, and helping Britain resist Germany's military offensive.
Given that the UK is far behind Germany in the development of ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, the Empire also sold early models of short-range missiles to the UK on a large scale to assist the UK in countering the German missile offensive.
Shortly after Prime Minister Winston Churchill left the UK, the Singapore Straits colony held a referendum and passed the resolution to incorporate the Chinese Empire with a high vote of nearly 90%. Before the referendum, the Crown Prince Yuhua personally arrived in Singapore to promote the vote and promised to give
The status of Singapore Zhili Prefecture.
To be continued...