"The British Empire and Japan are both maritime nations, and for maritime countries, the most important cornerstone of national security is the fleet! Can the British Empire tolerate the loss of hundreds of thousands of its army, but can it afford the defeat of the Grand Fleet? No! Britain can't, and neither can we. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And your country has asked us to help us in the war, and this time, we are not dealing with the rotten Qing Dynasty, Russia, or the Americans, who don't understand anything! Rather, to fight with the German Navy! ”

"To be honest, I was shocked when our Satsuma-class battleship was sunk in the Gulf of Aden, which reminded me of the fact that during the Sino-Japanese War, the Germans took out one of our fleets with an armored cruiser, and the nightmare that the armored cruiser Munich brought to the Reich in the Battle of Dadonggou and a series of subsequent battles! It's just horrible. Can you understand the feeling that a warship can make a country quite helpless? I think it may be difficult for you to understand, but General Thomas and General Betty of your country should feel the same way. ”

Speaking of this, Katsura Taro had a scared look on his face. "From that time on, we began to pay attention to the German Navy, a country that had not jumped out of the sea until then, and only then did we buy Asama-class armored cruisers by various means."

"Starting with the Asama and later on the Rurik Type 2 battleship, we felt the strength of the German fleet from actual combat again and again. Coupled with Germany's strong industrial and national strength, although the entire Eurasian continent is separated from each other, the empire is absolutely unwilling to have a head-on conflict with Germany. ”

"Especially after the failure of General Thomas's encirclement and suppression, and in the North Sea, your navy was severely damaged, now some influential figures in the country have begun to question the value of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, we cannot benefit from this alliance, and when we have a dispute with our opponents, our allies do not help us, but ask us to face a powerful enemy."

"Maybe the High Seas Fleet is still far inferior to the Grand Fleet, but if it really meets at sea, the other party's inadvertent blow may cause irreparable losses to the Empire, see the Kongo battlecruiser from your country's Amster Shipyard in the distance?" Katsura Taro said, pointing to the last large warship ordered from the United Kingdom.

"If it weren't for the bad relations between Germany and Japan, if it weren't for the fact that the United States and Germany were allies, we wouldn't even order battleships from your country! In terms of performance, we recognize German products more! And just like such a battleship, the Germans killed 3 in a naval battle! Three of them! In less than an hour, thousands of lives of officers and soldiers, the cost of more than 7 million pounds, and tens of thousands of tons of steel disappeared from the sea. ”

"In the face of such a risk, your country is so stingy that I would like to say that your country's opinion is simply unacceptable." Katsura Taro finally said.

"So what kind of conditions are you going to receive? IMHO, every inch of land in the British Empire and the French Republic is inalienable! That's the bottom line, and if you want that, then we don't have to talk about it! "Lloyd's. George also knew that it was time for the final turning of the hole cards in the negotiations, so when answering Katsura Taro, the British Empire envoy was also very solemn.

"Your Excellency the Special Envoy, please move to the captain's room." Katsura Taro didn't talk nonsense either, and after finishing speaking, he led the British directly to the bridge. At this moment, he could feel his nervousness very clearly, a trace of cold sweat came out of the palm of his hand, the final resolution of the Japanese cabinet had been proposed three days ago, whether the empire can get what it wants in this war depends entirely on this fight! The Japanese don't really want to talk about collapse, because if they talk about collapse, it's a zero-sum game, and Japan needs to rely on the big tree of the Entente to fight the United States.

In the captain's quarters, half of the walls are obscured by a large curtain, and on the table in the center is a huge sand table from the Far East. Coming to the sand table, Katsura Taro looked at Lloyd, who was also a little nervous. George said, "If your Excellency has any other requests, please mention it now." ”

"The map of East Asia should not change, and the colonies of Britain and France should not be invaded." Lloyd's. George thought for a while and said, the territory of East Asia cannot be changed, and the implication is already very clear. Then there is nothing in the Far East as a whole, except for the Anglo-French colonies, right? The British envoy thought to himself.

"Okay, no problem, we can accept this request." Katsura Taro nodded. Said with great certainty.

"It seems that our differences are smaller than we thought." Lloyd's. George smiled slightly, satisfied with the other party's answer. But when he noticed that Katsura Taro's eyes gradually wandered to the endless islands of southern Southeast Asia, Lloyd. George's face turned white as soon as he brushed it!

"This is what we want!" Without waiting for the British to react, Katsura Taro walked in a few steps to the huge curtain and tore the huge curtain with a brush! Then a huge map is presented in Lloyd's. In front of George, the red zone representing Japan stretched from the southern part of Sakhalin to the south, first to the Japanese mainland, then to the Philippines, and then to the successive islands that Japan had already snatched from Germany. And the bottom, and at the same time, the largest piece is the entire Dutch East Indies!

By now, the British have finally understood what the Japanese wanted! They didn't plan to do anything to East Asia, because it was too difficult, but they directly chose another country in Europe that had already declined! They did the same thing as the United States back then! Netherlands! The Japanese are going to drive the Netherlands out of the Far East completely!

Lloyd's. George felt a cool air rush from the tail vertebrae directly to the top of his head! "It's just terrible! The Netherlands is a neutral country, and we can't do anything to it. "Lloyd's. George subconsciously said loudly.

"And what about neutrals? Isn't your country also restricting maritime transport in the Netherlands? As far as I know, the Netherlands, as a transit point, supplied Germany with a large amount of raw materials and supplies, this is already an act of the enemy, and even if we move with the Netherlands, what can it do? A country that has completely decayed into a fourth-rate country no longer deserves such a huge colony and resources in the Far East. These things should be supplied to a nascent empire! At this moment, Katsura Taro did not have the slightest hypocrisy and grievance, but said in a rather tough attitude!

"This is the condition we mentioned, we don't even need your country to send troops, we can handle it ourselves, as long as you don't interfere, and you can finally admit it." Katsura Taro said.

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