"Your Majesty, you want to visit the United States?" Martial was surprised and said, "Is it not appropriate for you to choose the nouveau riche on the other side of the ocean for your first trip to the throne?" ”

"What's out of place, Adolf?" Jochen smiled and looked at the surprised face of his prime minister: "Is my idea so surprising to you?"

Adolf, don't underestimate the nouveau riche, in any case, the United States has the most powerful industrial capacity in the world, one of Carnegie's steel companies has more production capacity than the whole of Britain, and Morgan can compete with the Canard company with the support of the British government in the cruise race after buying the White Star. And if you look closely at the development of the US Navy over the past decade, you will see that they don't just want to be an upstart. ”

"Your Majesty, maybe the United States does have a lot of industrial capacity and enough ambitions, but now they are still just an upstart. For the first time since you took the throne, you visited a country close to Japan, such as Russia or Italy, rather than the United States, which has no say in Europe. Machar frowned, and then thought he understood Jochen's thoughts, and said: "The Americans are not trustworthy, and if they want to intervene in the war situation in the Far East, I think the Americans will refuse." ”

"I know, Adolf, that the Americans will not be on our side, or rather on the side of the Russians, Nick's appetite is too great and his food is not good, and the ambitions of the Russians for the territories and interests of the Far East are very unpalatable to the Americans.

Moreover, the Russians did not actually support the Americans' policy of 'opening the door and equalizing interests', and if the Americans had not played a small trick and misinterpreted Count Werther's reply, otherwise the Americans would have lost face and would have affected the Americans' international prestige. So I understand that it is impossible to co-opt the United States to put pressure on Japan, and, Adolf, you should know that I don't want the war to end so soon. Jochen explained to his prime minister.

"What do you mean?" Machar was even more bizarre.

"The Americans are not going to be on the side of the Russians, but we want to make sure that they are not on the side of the Japanese, and the Americans are not as uninterested in the war in the Far East as they claim. They were just waiting for a good moment to step in.

Once the U.S. feels the time is ripe, whose side will they be on when they intervene? Japanese Foreign Minister Komura Shotaro and former Justice Minister Kentaro Kaneko and the current President of the United States are all classmates at Harvard University and have good personal relationships.

The British are eager for the Japanese and the Russians to fight to the end, and the Japanese will not trust our country or France, so if there is any country that can reassure the Japanese to intervene in the war situation in the Far East, only the United States, which has a relatively thin sense of existence in the Far East and has a relatively reliable personal relationship, and we must avoid this situation. Jochen said.

Historically, the Katsura-Taft agreement between Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Taro and U.S. Secretary of the Army Howard Taft was a dirty deal on the division of spheres of influence in the Far Eastern colonies, and it was not signed without any formalities. There was only one meeting summary, and therefore remained a secret for a long time, until it was discovered in 1924 in Theodore Roosevelt's diplomatic archives.

Although the Americans did not get the Philippines now, they still had a huge and strong interest in intervening in the affairs of the Far East, and Jochen could not guarantee that Japan and the United States would not agree on other issues and then come to the Russians.

Relations between the United States and Japan deteriorated after only a year when the Japanese saw the Americans as reliable intermediaries, and the Americans were willing to help Japan in exchange for their own interests in the Western Pacific. The Americans had to come on a round-the-world voyage of the Great White Fleet to deter the Japanese in order to show their sense of existence in the Pacific. This has to be said to be really ironic.

"The French didn't want the Russians to expend much in the Far East, so they had been trying to mediate from it, but now the yellow-skinned monkeys, who had made great progress both at sea and on land, could not agree to an armistice now.

Because the Second Pacific Fleet was still a great threat, and the Russian army had not yet suffered heavy losses, these threats to Japan would become a bargaining chip for the Russians at the negotiating table. So that they can't get what they want to get.

Our goal is only to allow the Russians to consume more troops in the Far East, but we do not want to create a strong country in the Far East that could threaten the Philippines, so we want the Russians to continue the war for a longer period of time, and on the other hand, let the Japanese find that they have enough chips to continue fighting, only to find that these chips cannot be used at the negotiating table. ”

"And to do that, we need the help of the United States. Is it? 陛xià. "But I think it's very unlikely that we want to come to an agreement with the Americans, because we have a little conflict of interest with the Americans in the Far East," said Machar thoughtfully. ”

"Yes, that's right, the Americans want the Philippines, but we get the first place, and that will be an obstacle between us, but we are not the only ones who have conflicting interests with the Americans in the Western Pacific.

And Japan is not a country that will stop if it wins the war against Russia, whether it is for us or the United States, Japan will become a threat to the future, and if the Americans do not see this, I want to remind them. "Emotionally, Americans are closer to France, and without France there would be no American independence, but we also have our advantages," Jochen said. ”

The independence of the United States did not want to be achieved by the victory of the Continental Army led by Washington, as the United States later advertised, and the Continental Army was a group of guerrillas in Jochen's eyes, but in fact it was the French army that was just facing the British army, and if it were not for the French navy that inflicted heavy losses on the Royal Navy in several naval battles and created great trouble for the British sea lines of communication, the British really raised their national strength like the Boer War, and the United States would not exist as a country.

The irony is that King Louis XVI of France, who exhausted his national power for the freedom and democracy of the Americans, was guillotined as a tyrant by his own people in the name of opposing freedom and democracy.

Mashal thought for a moment and asked with some confusion: "Your Majesty, what do we mean by our advantage?" Forgiveness is too dull to grasp what you mean. ”

"German immigrants, Adolf, several waves of immigrants from Europe have brought a large number of people to the United States, and the highest of them is our Germans, and our education mechanism makes German immigrants have the highest literacy rate, and these people generally love the United States are propertied classes, and some of them have a certain identity and status.

The United States is a presidential electoral country, and I think that when these German immigrants can be gathered, they will become a huge political force, and if the president of the United States wants to win votes, then he must consider the opinions of the German immigrants.

These German immigrants lack a rallying caller to bring them together, and I thought, I should have the qualifications, right? Jochen laughed.

Before World War I, the United States had more than 6 million German immigrants and German descendants, and in World War I, the U.S. government alone confiscated $500 million in German assets against the so-called small number of German "enemies of the state", and the United States only formally joined the Entente camp in 1917, which means that the United States scavenged the equivalent of a year's defense budget in 1913 from less than one-tenth of Germans in just one year.

German immigrants with a high level of education have considerable social status and wealth among Americans, but it is clear that they lack sufficient political power to exert influence on the political situation, on the one hand, they are not strong enough, and on the other hand, they do not have a strong enough leader, and they lack the ability to confront traditional American political forces.

The so-called traditional American political power is often equated with those of Wall Street conglomerates, but now the situation is somewhat different: Jochen is now the owner of the most powerful oil extraction and processing company in the United States, the owner of the largest automobile manufacturing company in the United States, and the German company Siemens is a partner of the largest electric power company in the United States.

Taken together, Wall Street conglomerates have to seriously consider whether they want to really be their enemies while coveting this huge cake, especially since behind this qiē there is a powerful European empire.

So Jochen intends to use this trip to the United States as an opportunity to rally, German immigrants and Germans seem to have a strong sense of identity with Germany, which was difficult for Jochen to understand before, and many of the yellow people have become banana people after several generations of breeding in the United States.

However, the Germans did not seem to change much because of this, and after the outbreak of World War I, Germans in the United States were quite organized to support Germany's war activities before the United States entered the war, and even set up a foundation to donate money and goods. After the outbreak of World War II, some Germans responded to the mustache's call to return home to fight, while some joined espionage organizations in the United States.

It's still hard for Jochen to understand, but having lived as a German for so many years, it's important to understand that the rigid way of life of the Germans is deeply ingrained in the nature of the Germans.

"Okay, Your Majesty, but for what reason are you going to visit the United States, after all, this time is more sensitive, and we can't judge the attitude of the Americans." Machar frowned, and asked a little worriedly: "If we use the war in the Far East as an excuse, it is likely to be rejected by the American side." ”

"Go and tell the Americans that I have a big business that I want to do with them, so big that the U.S. government has to come forward." Jochen smiled. (To be continued......)