As John expected, the government of the Republic of China successfully obtained a commercial loan of 20 million yuan from the U.S. Capital Export-Import Bank. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoSong Ziwen and others were not only happy, but also unaware of John's energy in Washington's political circles.

They also thought that John had done a lot of work behind the scenes, and regarded him as a "public relations object" worthy of training. Song Ziwen also wrote a letter to express his gratitude to John for his "selfless help" to China, and hoped to further enhance the friendship between the two sides.

For the Chongqing government, which is in turmoil, this loan is undoubtedly a boost of confidence. And for other countries, this is nothing more than a trivial business practice that does not attract much attention at all. Even the Japanese government, which was supposed to protest against this, remained silent in order to avoid complications in order to avoid extraneous complications because it was in the critical period of preparing for the puppet regime in Nanjing.

In fact, in the last two weeks of March, the eyes of the world were drawn to the big news that broke out in the political arenas of various countries, and no one paid attention to this "not worth mentioning" small matter.

As recently as March 15, the Finnish parliament approved the peace agreement between Prime Minister Ryti and Molotov in Moscow by a vote of 145-3. The Soviet-Finnish "Winter War", which lasted for more than four months, ended with the final surrender of the Finns.

The Finns lost 57,000 square kilometres of territory, including Vyborg, the second largest city, and 470,000 people (1/8 of the population) were forced to leave their homes. But they have won the respect and sympathy of most countries. "The Finns couldn't have done any better." This is the general assessment of this war by the media of various countries.

On March 18, the Brenner Pass on the border between Austria and Italy. Two of Europe's most famous dictators had a historic meeting in a train car. After two hours of talks, Hitler forced his Italian "allies" to make a promise: Italy would eventually enter the war.

On March 21, French Prime Minister Daladier lost a vote of confidence in Parliament. This is the third time in seven years that the leader of the French Radical Socialist Party has been ousted from the premiership. A day ago, he was a political figure who held the positions of prime minister, defense minister, and foreign minister. Now, however, he has become the primary target of parliamentarians to vent their frustration because he "did not take any military action to aid Poland and watched its demise."

Succeeding Daladier as Prime Minister of France is Finance Minister Paul Renault. John had seen him a few times at social gatherings when he was in Paris. Because of his criticism of the French army's over-reliance on the Maginot Line and his advocacy of taking the initiative against Germany, Renault was very popular among officers of Charles de Gaulle's type.

John also admits that this small man who was a lawyer was a great orator, and even a very good economist. In peacetime, Reynaud might have been a good prime minister to be loved. But unfortunately, he is not an iron-fisted leader with strong willpower and can calmly face the changes of the times. He had been oscillating between the main war faction and the capitulation faction, and he failed to save the fate of France like Churchill.

On 29 March, Canada's attitude towards the war underwent a major change, with a crushing defeat in the general election of radical parties that had previously advocated active support for Britain's war policy. The Liberal Party, which advocates limiting the number of Canadian troops participating in the war, won 179 of the 245 seats in the federal legislature. McKenzie King was elected as the new prime minister, proposing a new strategy for creating a war industrial base for the allies on the "safe side of the Atlantic."

March 30, Nanjing, China. Wang Jingwei and others, with the support of the Japanese, set up a separate "government of the Republic of China" and "agreed" that the Japanese troops would continue to remain in China. However, this "new government" did not win the recognition of any country except Japan, Germany, and Italy, nor did it break the will of the Chinese government to resist, as the Japanese imagined.

At the same time as the world politics is changing dramatically, John's small family also ushered in a major change, and Adele became pregnant.

On April 1, the day Churchill became chairman of the Anglo-French Allied Military Coordination Committee and was "promoted from warmonger to victorious monger," Edward, the family doctor, told John the good news.

For John, this was much more shocking than all the "breaking news" that had come before. After repeatedly confirming that Dr. Edward was not playing an April Fool's joke on himself, John was ecstatic. In his previous life, he was always a single dog, and as soon as he crossed over in this life, he had Adele and Little Ella. Although he inherited all the memories of this body, John still loved his wife and daughter very much. But he has also always longed to have a child who truly belongs to him.

It's been more than three years since John crossed over, and no matter how busy he is, he hasn't given up his efforts in this area. But there was no news from Adele's stomach for a long time, and he thought that he was an only child for two lifetimes, and he was destined to have only one child in this life. In retrospect, it must have been sown on the night of New Year's Day. I thought that the Finns' knight's medal of the White Rose was a reward for their hard work last year, but I didn't expect the real gift to come.

After calming down a bit, the first thing John did was call and bring back Kent, the retired former chairman of the FedEx Supervisory Board. Nothing is as important as Adele's body right now. Adele's chairmanship of the supervisory board could be held first, but John would never let her worry about the company's affairs anymore.

Anyway, Kent is also an old man who has served the Vanderbilt family for a lifetime, and there is no problem in terms of reliability. Let him help Adele take over the work of the board of supervisors first, and wait until the child is born.

The second thing was to call Harold to report the good news. Since his father's death when he was 10 years old, John has been cared for by the Harolds. The eldest brother is like a father, and the good news that he is going to be a father again must be shared with Harold first.

On the phone, Harold was also very happy for John. As John's career grew, it was a question of who would inherit the family if there was no boy in the family. It's not that Harold discriminates against women, his own mother is a well-known feminist. It is not 20 years ago that American women's inheritance rights are still legally guaranteed. But there are very few successful examples of a woman inheriting and running a huge family business. If John could have had a boy this time, it would have been much easier.

After ending the call with Harold, the third thing John did was to invite Grandma Susan to Washington. John didn't know anything about how to take care of pregnant women and children. Such a "professional" problem must of course ask a professional person to come forward. Grandma Susan has single-handedly raised three generations of John's family, and this kind of thing can only be relieved if it is left to her.

As soon as Grandma Susan heard that Adele was pregnant, she rushed to Washington that evening with her eldest granddaughter, who had worked as a nurse at the Mission Hospital. As soon as she arrived home, she took over the "internal affairs" of the family without saying a word, and patted her chest to promise John that she would definitely serve Mrs. Adele and the "little young master" well.