Although the three powers of Britain, France, and the United States jointly put pressure on the Tang Empire to force the Tang Empire to give up the Jihua that continued to attack the Japanese mainland, the vested interests obtained by the Tang Empire cannot be changed, and in the subsequent negotiations, the Tang Negotiating Group headed by Tang Shaoyi will take back more benefits from the negotiating table.

Under the joint mediation of Britain, France, and the United States, the delegations of Tang and Japan held armistice talks in Washington.

After Tang Shaoyi talked with Zhang Meng for several hours, he already had a bottom line in his heart. According to Zhang Meng's request, if Japan wants to cease the war, it needs to recognize the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, and the southern islands, including the Ogasawara Islands, as belonging to the Tang Empire, and compensate the Tang Dynasty for military spending of 2.05 billion US dollars.

If Japan wants to negotiate peace and Tang and Japan sign peace terms, Japan needs to cede the Taiwan archipelago and the Ryukyu Islands to the Tang Empire in addition to fulfilling the armistice agreement, prohibit all anti-Tang speech and demonstrations in Japan, hand over the Yokosuka Naval Base and its surrounding area to the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire for 99 years, abolish the puppet state of Manchukuo, return the three northeastern provinces to China, compensate China's economic losses and casualties totaling 4.08 billion US dollars, and abolish all Japan's privileges and all unequal treaties in China.

This treaty was very harsh, and according to Zhang Meng's intentions, he agreed to mediate between Britain, France and the United States, which was called giving face to the three countries and easing the contradictions between the Tang Dynasty and Britain, France and the United States. But it will ask for a sky-high price, and if Japan agrees, it will be equivalent to Datang taking a huge advantage and getting huge benefits that are difficult to obtain on the battlefield. If it doesn't agree, then Datang can justifiably launch a military operation again.

In the face of the armistice conditions and peace conditions issued by the Tang Empire. Japanese Foreign Minister Kishigero Bihara was suddenly extremely sad, where is this armistice negotiation, it is clearly a naked robbery.

"This condition is too harsh. We can't accept it! ”

"That's not to talk about, let's see the real chapter on the battlefield!"

Less than a minute after the first round of talks between the two sides, Liu Kaiwei, the foreign minister of the Tang Dynasty, got up and left, leaving Kishigero Bihara to sit there in a daze.

This is a negotiation skill, and the Tang Empire occupies the initiative, so Liu Kaiwei naturally has to make good use of it.

Kishigero Bihara sighed and looked at the British, French, and American mediation representatives with a very innocent look.

The representatives of Britain, France and the United States all felt the strength of the Tang Empire. Although they gave the three countries face to agree to negotiate, it was obvious that they did not want to negotiate by putting forward such harsh conditions.

The representatives of the three countries got together and talked for a while, and then asked Kishigero Bihara to calm down. They went to meet with Liu Kaiwei alone to mediate.

Under the guidance of Tang Shaoyi, Liu Kaiwei's diplomatic skills have greatly improved. He did not meet with the representatives of the three countries at the same time, but separately with them separately on the interests of Japan. Liu Kaiwei obeyed Zhang Meng's orders. To take the opportunity to divide and disintegrate the British, French and American Triple Alliance, as long as they cannot hold together, then the Tang Empire will not have to pay attention to their attitude and can continue to carry out military strikes against Japan.

Although Japan was the poorest of the great powers, Britain, France, and the United States all had interests in Japan, because Japan was a country that was severely short of resources and imported almost everything for industrial construction. In particular, industrial necessities such as minerals and petroleum are needed, especially the Shijie economic crisis. Cheap grain from Europe and the United States was dumped on Japan, and huge profits rose.

Liu Kaiwei took advantage of the different interests of the great powers in Japan and negotiated with them separately. Divide and disintegrate their allies.

Among the three countries, Britain, France, and the United States, in terms of military strength and national strength, are the most powerful, and the United States is also Japan's largest oil exporter and two exporters. At this time, isolationism was on the rise in the United States, and Americans were unwilling to intervene in international affairs, and even the League of Nations did not join, which shows that its isolationist ideology is unprecedentedly strong, and even the US government does not dare to easily touch public opinion. Therefore, against this background, the attitude of the United States was the most unfirm, and Liu Kaiwei immediately promised that the Tang Army would ensure the interests of the US Government in Japan and that the Tang Army would not blockade US exports of oil and grain materials to Japan. At the same time, he said that if the United States supports Datang on the issue of Japan, then in return, Datang will prevent other countries from exporting oil and grain to Japan, and the interests will be monopolized by the United States.

Of course, there is also the need for both hard and soft. Liu Kaiwei also revealed to the United States that if it insists on opposing the Tang Dynasty, then the Tang Army will transfer these benefits to Britain and France.

The Datang Navy naturally has that kind of strength, which can inflict a heavy blow on the strength of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and for the US Navy, their navy in the Pacific Ocean is obviously far inferior to that of the Japanese Navy, and naturally it cannot withstand the toss of the Tang Army.

After reporting to President Hofowell, Stevenson, the U.S. mediator representative, obtained Hoover's approval, and finally the United States withdrew from the Triple Alliance between Britain, France, and the United States.

Of course, Hoover's choice of a win-win path with the Tang Empire was not agreed to solely by Liu Kaiwei's words and promised interests in Japan, the biggest reason for this was that Zhang Meng sent a close envoy to the White House in Washington, where he met with President Hoover and conveyed to him Zhang Meng's greetings and request for a visit to the United States.

Zhang Meng wants to visit the United States, this is the first official state visit to a foreign country since the founding of the Tang Empire, as the actual real leader, Zhang Meng has made an official state visit abroad, and the first stop is the United States, which is the hidden relationship is extremely complicated.

For Hoover, he experienced the worst economic crisis in the United States during his tenure, and he was already criticized by the people for his unfavorable response to the economic crisis, which can be described as a lot of pressure. It's just that Zhang Meng's money on Wall Street is already an open secret, and almost all the hardware facilities of Zhang Meng's Tang Empire are from the United States, which is full of American blood, sweat and tears through violent demolition, so Americans have no good impression of Zhang Meng and the Tang Empire, and even many people are clamoring to sanction the Tang Empire, or even assassinate Zhang Meng.

In this case, Zhang Meng's envoy met with Hoover, which can be described as a big shijie sexual explosion. At the beginning, Hoover obviously didn't want to meet Zhang Meng's envoy, let alone invite Zhang Meng to pay a state visit to the United States.

However, Zhang Meng's envoy brought good news to Hoover, and finally Hoover agreed to formally send an invitation to the Tang Empire to invite Zhang Meng to a five-day state visit to the United States.

At the same time, Hoover ordered Stevenson to withdraw from the alliance of Britain, France, and the United States to jointly intervene in the Tang-Japanese War, which immediately surprised and inconceived Britain, France, and other European powers.

"What was it that made Hoover change his mind?"

The British and French delegates wondered.

You must know that in order to divert domestic contradictions and pressures, Hoover was the first to stand up and unite Britain and France to intervene in the Tang-Japanese War, and even Hoover once hinted that the leaders of Britain and France would never allow the rise of the Tang Empire.

The United States withdraws halfway, which is undoubtedly tantamount to selling Britain and France, and with the strength of Britain and France in the Far East, there is no way to stop the Tang Empire, and unless Britain and France devote all their national strength to the Pacific Ocean, it will be difficult to threaten the Tang Empire. But it is clear that neither Britain nor France can abandon traditional Europe and go to the Pacific to fight an uncertain war.

Britain and France were originally following the United States to fight the autumn breeze, and their participation in this matter was actually taking the opportunity to provoke the contradictions between the United States and Datang, and to use the hands of the United States to eliminate or drag down Datang. Now that the Americans have withdrawn, Britain and France suddenly became embarrassed, and their attitude towards Datang is no longer so tough.

"It must have been Zhang Meng who promised Hoover some benefits?"

The leaders of Britain and France got together and guessed the crux of the problem, but what Zhang Meng had the ability to make Hoover change his attitude, they did not know, and it could only be revealed after Zhang Meng and Hoover met.

The mediation attitude of Britain, France and the United States softened, which put pressure on the Saito Minoru cabinet, and Kishigero Bihara also saw that the attitude of Britain, France and the United States was no longer so tough during the subsequent bargaining with Liu Kaiwei.

In the face of Liu Kaiwei's growing strength and even a tendency to increase his weight, Kishigero Bihara immediately sent a telegram back to Minoru Saito, asking for instructions to make an immediate decision.

Minoru Saito, who came by military background, knew that if the bombers of the Tang Empire visited Japan every day, the losses would be astronomical, far more than the price paid for signing the peace treaty. In particular, if the Japanese Navy wants to rebuild the Combined Fleet to fight against the Tang Dynasty, it must keep the shipyards and related factories safe.

Minoru Saito asked the Japanese military whether it would be possible to complete the construction of Japan's own air defense system in a short period of time, and the results showed that Japan's fighters and small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery could not help the bombers of the Tang Army at all, and it would take at least two or three years to develop and mass-produce Japanese fighters that could compete with the planes of the Tang Army, and the number of large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery was insufficient, the air defense effect was not good, and Japan's production capacity could not achieve the comprehensive air defense capability of the territory in a short period of time.

In the past few months, the submarines of the Tang Army have begun to exert their power, they have attacked Japanese merchant ships, cut off Japan's energy supply, and the blow to the Japanese economy has been fatal, and the loss of money has increased exponentially, and Japan cannot afford it, and it will be poor and white in less than three months.

Saito wanted to cry without tears, and at this moment he could only break his wrist and agree to the harsh conditions of the Tang Empire.

However, the Japanese military resolutely refused to give up Taiwan, Ryukyu and the three northeastern provinces, so Minoru Saito asked Britain, France, and the United States to help persuade the Tang Empire to allow Japan to compensate with money.

Liu Kaiwei informed Zhang Meng of the proposal of the three countries and the request of the Japanese side, and after Zhang Meng discussed with Tang Shaoyi, after weighing the pros and cons, he thought that he had to give face to Britain, France and the United States, and the benefits obtained at the moment were far beyond the purpose of the war, after all, the Tang Empire had limited military resources, and it would be impractical to attack Taiwan, Ryukyu and Northeast China.

"Since the benefits are maximized, then you will accept it when you see it."

Zhang Meng ordered someone to send this sentence to Liu Kaiwei and let him handle it with full authority, while Zhang Meng was ready to go to the United States, and he wanted to talk to Hoover Haode.

Thinking of Hoover and Roosevelt, Zhang Meng's face suddenly showed a mysterious smile. (To be continued......)