Chapter 69: The Franco-Japanese Alliance

Luo Shanshan became the Japanese minister to Tang, which was something Zhang Meng did not expect.

Zhang Meng knows very well that it is definitely not easy for Japan to let Luo Shanshan serve as the minister in Tang, and what crisis is hidden in it is really a headache.

Of course, the foreign offices of various countries will basically engage in foreign espionage activities to a greater or lesser extent, and this is a tacit fact that all governments have acquiesced, and as long as they are not caught, all governments will turn a blind eye.

"Regardless of whether Luo Shanshan has anything to do with Kenji Dohihara's special high school or not, we have to cheer her up and keep an eye on her, after all, she was the first person to investigate our robbery of the Bank of Yotsubishi's vault."

Tan Jincheng said: "Regardless of whether Luo Shanshan is a member of the Angry Birds or not, I think we must strengthen the security of the Imperial Treasury and the Datang Bank Treasury. ”

Zhang Meng nodded and agreed, and Tan Jincheng went down to deploy the arrangements.

Three days later, Zhang Meng really received a report from Shangshu Province and a notice of resignation submitted by the former Japanese minister to Tang, and then Luo Shanshan went to Daming Palace with a letter of appointment from the Japanese minister to Tang.

Seeing Luo Shanshan again, she was still as sexy and beautiful as ever, but there was a hint of cunning in her eyes. Zhang Meng suddenly had a plan in his heart, afraid that this Luo Shanshan had completely become a traitor.

Zhang Meng's eyes also flashed a trace of ruthlessness, and he didn't say much, and after symbolically saying a set of official words, he stamped the jade seal of the emperor of the Tang Empire on the appointment letter of the Japanese minister to Tang submitted by Luo Shanshan, completing a procedure for zuihou.

This Luo Shanshan is protected by international conventions, and Zhang Meng can't easily attack her. We can only wait for the time.

The Datang Homeland Security Bureau naturally monitored the embassies and consulates of various countries in Tang, and the Japanese consulate in Tang was monitored 24 hours a day. The focus is on patrolling the streets around the Japanese embassy and consulates, and even secretly monitoring their telephone communications, ensuring that Luo Shanshan and the people in the Japanese embassy and consulates are under absolute surveillance.

Wars without gunpowder are all over the world, and it seems that the open and secret battles have never stopped since the day when human beings existed, and the governments of all countries are the same, on the surface and amiably, but secretly they are intriguing. Everywhere there is a secret war between countries.

The Pacific Ocean has always been a traditional hegemony region for Britain, France, the United States and Japan, but with the strong rise of the Tang Empire, Japan completely withdrew from the hegemony in this region. Although Britain and the United States kept a certain amount of liliang, because they transferred most of the islands in the Pacific Ocean to the Tang Empire, their own liliang shrank significantly, and the United States retreated to the Philippine Islands. Britain retreated to Oceania. Only France refused to transfer the French Pacific series of islands to the Tang Dynasty.

In this way, the contradictions between the Tang Empire and France skyrocketed, although both sides maintained restraint, but the Tang Empire's ownership of the French Pacific series of islands was determined to win, because Zhang Meng wanted to divide an absolute defense circle in the region and broaden the strategic depth of the Tang Empire.

In the past, Zhang Meng was not in a hurry to annex these French islands, but after a secret report was submitted, Zhang Meng had to pay attention to it.

Intelligence shows. Since the defeat of the Tang-Japanese Pacific War, Japan has reorganized its armament. Vigorously develop the navy and air force, but Japan's military strength and Jishu reserves are far inferior to the West, and the performance of the trial aircraft has not been up to par, and after comparing with the foreign trade fighters exported by the Tang Empire to European and American countries, the performance is almost completely backward. This is undoubtedly a slap in the face for the Japanese Empire, which is ready to take revenge on the Tang Empire, so the Japanese military was forced to turn its limited funds to Europe and the United States, and the huge Japanese demand for arms stimulated arms dealers in Europe and the United States, but the Tang Empire could not sit idly by and obstruct Japan from obtaining military jishu and equipment from Europe and the United States through various means.

Britain and the United States were forced to give up the financial system of Tang, the United States and Britain, and the military cooperation between Germany and the Tang Dynasty was also true to Japan.

Previously, France has been annoyed that Zhang Meng's large-scale money collection action in France, coupled with the recent silver currency war, France suffered deeply, and the financial groups of Tang, the United States and Britain only kept France out, this series of events made France more and more dissatisfied with the Tang Empire, and when the French intelligence agencies learned that the Tang Empire was cooperating with the German military, providing loans to Germany and helping it avoid the restrictions of the Versailles Treaty on large-scale production and research and development of weapons and equipment abroad, this immediately touched the French counter-scales, which made the French government quite annoyed.

As a result, when Japan proposed all-round cooperation to France, the French government immediately agreed.

As a result, the advanced military jishu and loans owned by France poured into Japan, and at the same time, France also had insight into Japan's intention to take revenge on the Tang Empire sooner or later, and handed over the French Pacific Islands to the Japanese for development, and the Japanese built airfields on several French islands in the name of commerce.

Since those French islands were located in the South Pacific region and belonged to the strategic rear of the Tang Empire, the construction of an airport there by the Japanese immediately made the Tang Empire nervous.

The French government is very cunning, they did not transfer these islands to Japan, but allowed the Japanese to invest on the islands, so that if the Tang Empire directly took military action, it was not intended to be equivalent to a war against France, and this would inevitably affect the entire Western Shijie's view of the Tang Empire, and it would change the situation of the delicate relationship between European and American countries due to economic interests, and this is exactly what the Japanese want to see, France and Japan will form an alliance against the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Meng tried to put pressure on France to prevent cooperation between France and Japan, but unfortunately the French side did not respond, Zhang Meng knew that France must not know the true strength of the Tang Empire, thinking that full support for Japan could balance the Tang Dynasty.

After several warnings to France to no avail, Zhang Meng had no choice but to take action.

As a last resort, Zhang Meng would not easily start a war with France, and he also knew that France did not want to start a war with Datang. Therefore, in response to the fact that Japanese businessmen were building airports on the French Pacific islands, Zhang Meng once again sent several special forces under the Blue Fox Special Service to secretly infiltrate them, carry out terrorist attacks on those airports, and carry out assassination operations against Japanese developers.

knew that it was the Tang Empire that was secretly doing it, but the French government and the Japanese government could not get evidence, so they could only stare dryly. However, Zhang Meng's actions only made France and Japan move towards the road of confronting the Tang Dynasty together.

Finally, on June 3, 1935, the representatives of France and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Treaty of Military Alliance in Paris, which was valid for three years. On the surface, this was aimed at the Comintern, but in fact, politicians with a little bit of brains understood that it was probably aimed at the Tang Empire.

The formation of a military alliance against the Tang Empire suddenly filled the Pacific Ocean with dark clouds.

The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings. (To be continued......)