"Mr. Ambassador, I don't think such conditions are too much!" Xia Jun said.

"Of course, such conditions are indeed not excessive, not only is this conducive to reducing the innocent casualties caused by the war, but also since the political axe is waging war on Chinese soil, it must be held responsible for the war." Zhu Erdian naturally agreed, after all, it is much better than making the book fail compared to compensating for the loss.

Ben is now the disadvantaged side, and if they want to get a chance to breathe, they must also pay a price.

Zhu Erdian paused and continued: "In addition, the issue of cooperation with Guan Yu is very welcome to our British Empire, and there is no problem in expanding the order. ”

Xia Jun smiled slightly and continued: "In addition, we only give Yue Ben three days, if Yue Ben does not accept the compensation conditions within three days, then we will launch an attack as scheduled. ”

"This one is a bit harsh." Zhu Erdian shook his head.

"There's no room for that." Xia Jun expressed a tough stance.

"Alright! We'll talk to him. Zhu Erdian shrugged his shoulders and said to Xia Jun: "Let's talk about cooperation!" Hope we can have a good time working together. ”

"That's what I thought too." Xia Jun smiled and looked at his watch, it was already noon, he got up and said to Zhu Erdian: "Doesn't the ambassador actually feel hungry?" Why don't we go and have lunch together? ”

“ok。” Zhu Erdian nodded, got up and walked out of his office with Xia Jun.

Then, Xia Jun and Zhu Erdian talked about cooperation in the canteen, the canteen in the administrative building was very rich, Zhu Erdian had a great appetite, and he was very happy to see that he could basically reach mediation.

When talking about the issue of orders, Zhu Erdian was very generous, after all, Britain is now short of arms and ships, and whoever buys it is the same, if the East China Autonomous Political Axe can produce orders faster than the United States, and hand over things to Britain faster, it is also possible for Britain to give orders to the East China Autonomous Political Axe first.

Moreover, the relationship between Britain and the East China Autonomous Government is relatively stiff, and if the relationship between the two sides continues to deteriorate, Zhu Erdian is very worried about whether Hong Kong and other colonies will be taken back by the East China Autonomous Political Axe.

After all, now that the East China Autonomous Government has taken control of Guangdong, it can send troops to Hong Kong at any time, and with the small number of troops that Britain has deployed in Hong Kong, it will not be able to resist China's attack at all.

If the relationship between the two sides can be warmed up with orders, it will undoubtedly be worth it.

Of course, Zhu Erdian did not give up agitating for China to join the Entente, compared to those small countries, Britain was intimidating and luring, but only agitation and inducement could be used against China.

At this time, the East China Autonomous Axe won successive victories in the war against the Chinese Dynasty, so that Britain had to pay attention to the East China Autonomous Axe, if the East China Autonomous Axe was intimidated, the effect might be very bad, and even force the East China Autonomous Axe to the Allies, Zhu Erdian did not doubt the impulsive surname of the young Führer in front of him at all.

Just like this declaration of war on Yuben, this was originally done by China's central political axe, but he declared war on Yuben as a local political axe.

In the eyes of Zhu Erdian, the young Führer was clearly not a qualified politician, and he often did not play according to the model of a politician. Some are impulsive, and even more impulsive, so they have to be treated with caution.

Naturally, there is nothing to say about the bomber order, Britain has a lot of money, and in one go bought 300 Hammer 2 and 100 Eagle 1 reconnaissance aircraft.

And in terms of shipbuilding orders, Britain is not very embarrassed at the moment.

Because this was the first year of the war, Britain had a lot of resources, but German submarines had recently caused heavy losses to Britain.

Therefore, Britain was producing ships at full capacity at this time, but the production speed was still not comparable to the manufacturing speed, and Britain also intended to build more ships at this time for commercial activities.

The demand for ships is still very huge, and although the East China Shipbuilding Company has received some orders, it is not as much as that obtained by the United States.

Xia Jun vaguely said that the East China Autonomous Political Axe can quickly produce a large number of ships, as long as there are orders. Zhu Erdian said that as long as the East China Autonomous Political Axe can be produced, Britain will buy it, and the price is more favorable.

This reply made Xia Jun very satisfied, but the order was also indispensable.

Orders and door-to-door sales are two concepts, and it is naturally better for the two aspects to complement each other, but the order is more stable because the price is set first.

In the case of door-to-door sales, the profit may be higher, but the price is unstable. At Xia Jun's insistence, Zhu Erdian expressed his willingness to fight for the autonomous political axe of East China.

Of course, the benefit fee is also indispensable.

When lunch was over, Xia Jun stuffed Zhu Erdian with a check with $200,000 on it, and now the money should be spent where it should be spent, this can't be stingy!

If Zhu Erdian is really willing to fight for orders for the East China Autonomous Political Axe, then the rate of return will be super high, and if you want the horse to run, you naturally have to give the horse grass.

The check made Zhu Erdian smile from ear to ear, he liked to be an ambassador in China, and not only Yuan Shikai bribed him, but also the East China Autonomous Axe often bribed him.

It's a job full of oil and water.

Ambassadors from other countries don't have such a huge income, and only China has it, because China has two heads of state who are willing to spend money.

One is Yuan Shikai and the other is Xia Jun.

These two people have always been very generous when bribing him, and Yuan Shikai's real surname is like this. And Xia Jun is different, he rarely uses money to open the way, and he Zhu Erdian is one of the few who can be bribed by him, which makes Zhu Erdian have a good feeling.

Zhu Erdian, who got the money, naturally spared no effort to win orders for the East China Autonomous Political Axe, so that he could have more income, and if he didn't do anything after receiving the money, he wouldn't be looking for anything in the future.

In the final analysis, China is still the world of this young man, not only rich, but also very confident in terms of force. It is more important to have a good relationship with this young man than to have a good relationship with Yuan Shikai.

After sending Zhu Erdian away, Xia Jun invited Mo Doma over again.

The atmosphere of the meeting with Modoma was much more relaxed, Xia Jun held a tea party, and he and Modoma had tea and discussed mediation.

The tone of the U.S. mediation was relatively calm, so the relationship between the two parties did not change in this mediation.

Of course, this is on the surface, and on the surface, both sides feel that there is little change, but Xia Jun has clearly realized that the attitude of the United States has changed.

This is not good news for the East China Autonomous Political Axe, but it is not bad news either.

China's rise will inevitably clash with the United States, and this is the inevitable result of its surname. The United States is taking the road of economic hegemony, and the line taken by Xia Jun is basically the same.

In the final analysis, it is the economic conflict between the two sides that is the most critical issue.

When talking about the issue of mediation, Modoma said very kindly that war is breaking out in Europe at present, and if China falls into war, it will miss a good opportunity, and mediation is the best result.

Isn't the Yankees bullying? Is it so easy to coax Lao Tzu as a three-year-old child?

The Yankees obviously wanted to fool the East China Autonomous Political Axe to stop the war first, and then give Yue Ben a chance to breathe, and then drag the Eastern China Autonomous Political Axe into the quagmire of war.

If the United States supports the war now, it will end badly.

That is, the defeat of the East China Autonomous Axe will have to compete with the East China Autonomous Political Axe, and the United States will have to compete with the East China Autonomous Political Axe.

In any case, it is in the interests of the United States to have a truce between the two sides.

Xia Jun didn't care much, anyway, no matter how many people came to reinforce him, it would be impossible to drag him into the quagmire of war.

However, with such an attitude of the United States to mediate, Xia Jun could not get any benefits from the Yankees.

In the conversation with Modoma, Xia Jun mainly agreed with Modoma on the terms of mediation, and Modoma completely agreed with Xia Junti's mediation conditions, anyway, it was a matter of the political axe, and at this time, the situation of the political axe was very embarrassing, and they were likely to agree to such conditions.

…… On 19 September, the Anglo-American mediation officially began, and the East China Autonomous Political Axe and the Eastern China Political Axe came to the negotiating table, and the representatives at the negotiating table appeared very passive.

As soon as the negotiations began, the East China Autonomous Government made conditions.

First of all, it is said that the political axe needs to unconditionally cooperate with the East China Autonomous political axe to withdraw the people from the Longkou area, and demarcate the combat zone, and the army must not cross the line.

Second, it is said that the political axe needs to compensate for the economic losses of the war on Chinese soil, and the amount of compensation is 30 million US dollars, which must be paid within seven days.

Third, with only a three-month armistice, it is necessary to pay $20 million for indirect economic losses caused by the stagnation of production in the Longkou area.

Fourth, if it is not accepted within three days, the East China Autonomous Government will withdraw from the negotiations.

Such harsh conditions will naturally not be accepted by this representative.

First of all, as to the timing of the armistice, the British immediately supported the armistice, but the United States opposed it. If you truce for a year, it won't work at all! Three months is acceptable to the United States.

In their opinion, three months is enough for Yue Ben to be ready, as long as Yue Ben does not completely fail in Shandong, as for whether they can win the war, that is not a matter of concern to the United States.

At this time, the army was hit hard, although it was not badly damaged, but there was no artillery, and there were no aircraft, and it was unrealistic to defeat the well-equipped East China Army on the Shandong battlefield.

Even if it is a year, it is relatively tense to be able to compete with the East China Army in artillery and aircraft.

"No problem, one year at a time, but we need to be compensated for our indirect economic losses of 50 million dollars." Zhu Chengjia saw that Britain and the United States were opposed to a three-month truce, and immediately raised the price. Before the talks, the chairman of the committee made it very clear that it did not matter how long the armistice was, and the more it stopped, the higher the amount of compensation.

Zhu Chengjia shook his head and said that he had no sincerity in negotiating and directly suspended the talks.

(To be continued)