Hoover's re-election as president is a foregone conclusion, and he is naturally very grateful for Zhang Meng's help.

Considering that Zhang Meng's impression in the eyes of Americans was not very good, Hoover used the government to control a number of media and newspapers, so that public opinion was not allowed to mention the old story of Zhang Meng's collection of money in the United States and the violent demolition of American factories and facilities, and instead led public opinion to point the finger at the major gangs and associations in the United States.

As a result, a storm of anti-crime was suddenly set off on American soil, which caused a large number of American associations and gangs to disband, greatly reduced social crimes, and virtually raised Hoover's image.

On the issue of Japan, the United States still had reservations before, but with Hoover's re-election as president a foregone conclusion, Hoover's policy could be continued, so the United States played a great role in the negotiation of the Tang-Japanese stage, and the results of the negotiations developed in a direction favorable to the Tang Empire.

Although the Hoover administration transferred Guam, American Samoa, Wake Island, and other islands in the Pacific Ocean to the Tang Empire for "escrow," this matter did not cause much repercussions in the United States, and the Americans did not care about the broken islands, but for the US military, a group of military officers headed by MacArthur expressed concern.

Although these U.S. military officers had limited influence on the U.S. military, and were unlikely to influence the decision-making of the Hoover administration, they still attracted Zhang Meng's attention.

Do you want to kill MacArthur as well?

When Zhang Meng received the news of the Cobra Commando's successful assassination of Roosevelt, he couldn't help but have the idea of killing MacArthur, a future American general, as well.

But Zhang Meng weighed the pros and cons and finally gave up the idea. He didn't want to provoke the U.S. military. The current situation in the Pacific is delicate, and the United States is a country with strong war potential, and any action against the United States will take great risks. Zhang Meng would not be so stupid as to provoke the Americans by launching the Pearl Harbor incident like the Japanese army, at least until Japan was completely defeated, it would be unwise to provoke the United States.

However, the Americans were still wary of the Tang Empire, after all, the Tang Army was an existence that tyrannized the Japanese Combined Fleet, and it was a powerful force, and the Americans had to guard against it.

In order to completely dispel Americans' wariness of Datang. Zhang Meng once again played political tricks, and now he has the "most iron" relationship with President Hoover, and even helped Hoover completely kill Roosevelt to get rid of future troubles. That Roosevelt's assassination did not attract much attention from the Americans. But Hoover knew very well that this must have been done by Zhang Meng, and he did not doubt Zhang Meng's true intentions, he just thought that Zhang Meng was too interesting. I thought I was just helping him.

Zhang Meng met with Hoover. The two sides unanimously agreed to establish military mutual trust between Tang and the United States, signed the Tang-US non-aggression pact, and reached an alliance on the issue of common relations with Japan.

At the same time, the Tang-Japan negotiations also ended. As the withdrawal of the United States in turn supported the Tang Dynasty, the Liliang of the Anglo-French alliance was greatly weakened, and it was unable to exert great pressure on the Tang Dynasty during the negotiations, so that the Japanese Saito Minoru cabinet was finally forced to accept the armistice agreement.

For Japan. Being able to sign an armistice is already a good result, if the war continues. The losses will be even greater.

For the Tang Empire, although continuing the war can weaken Japan even more, it is very small in terms of the benefits that the Tang Empire itself can get, but it will be forced to jump over the wall because of Japan, and finally it would rather fight to the death with the Tang Dynasty for the sake of broken jade than for the whole tile, then the Tang Army's own losses will be greater, and the most important thing is that it will not get any compensation.

Just as when killing a chicken, the arteries and blood vessels of the chicken should be cut first, and the blood should be drained before letting it die. After weighing the pros and cons, Zhang Meng believed that squeezing out Japan's wealth and impoverishing it forever was a clever strategy to eliminate future troubles, so he agreed to negotiate peace.

The terms of the Tang-Japan armistice agreement were extremely harsh, and Japan transferred the trusteeship of the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Caroline Islands to the Tang Dynasty, and ceded the Southern Islands to the Tang Dynasty. Because Japan refused to hand over Taiwan to the Tang Empire and also refused to withdraw its troops from the three northeastern provinces, the amount of compensation to the Tang Empire increased to 12.05 billion US dollars, exceeding the total amount of 8.5 billion gold marks in Germany's compensation to France after World War I, and becoming the largest war reparation in Shijie after World War I.

This huge amount of money is actually a mountain on the head of Japan, a huge shackle, will take away the social wealth created by the Japanese every year, the blow to Japan is huge, more harmful than the First Sino-Japanese indemnity to the Qing Empire, and even the Germans seem to see that the sanctions imposed on Japan by the Tang Dynasty are far more cruel than the sanctions imposed on Germany by the Entente countries. You must know that Japan's national income in 1932 was only 12.288 billion US dollars, and the United States was only 200 billion US dollars.

Obviously, Japan will not be able to pay this reparations in full and immediately.

However, the Tang Empire did not intend to let Japan repay it in a lump sum, because it had to let the interests of other powers be evenly distributed, so the agreement stipulates that the 12.05 billion US dollars will be paid to the Tang Empire within three months from the date of entry into force of the agreement, and the remaining 10 billion US dollars will be repaid in 50 years, guaranteed by Japanese customs duties, and supervised by the Tang, Britain, France, the United States, and Italy.

This additional provision was actually Zhang Meng's concern that the Japanese were deliberately delaying the time under the pretext of the contract and not paying the debts after the Japanese Combined Fleet was rebuilt. Therefore, Zhang Meng was worried that he would not be able to recover his money, and considered letting Britain, France and the United States get a piece of the pie, so as to ease their hostile attitude towards Datang.

Of course, if the Japanese really pay their debts in a few years, then it must be Britain, France, and the United States who are crying. However, that is all for the future, in terms of immediate interests, Britain, France and the United States are very happy that Datang can let them get a piece of the pie, after all, the most profitable thing is usury.

The Americans are still the richest, not to mention the most serious economic crisis they have suffered, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the major banks in the United States have closed their doors at home, but they have provided $6 billion in loans to Japan, and the other $6.05 billion has been borne by the British and French banking groups.

In short, Britain, France, and the United States are willing to lend money to Japan, and Zhou Yu beats Huang Gai one is willing to fight and one is willing to suffer, that is a matter between them. Zhang Meng was happy to see Britain, France, and the United States end up empty, and he believed that the Japanese who were driven crazy would also follow the path of the Germans who were also driven crazy, and they would cry when the time came. (To be continued......)