The situation in Shijie changed abruptly in just one year, Britain and France fell one after another, Europe was controlled by the Nazis in Germany and Italy, and the people's lives were miserable, and there was a danger of being slaughtered by the Nazis every day.

The fall of Britain had a great impact on the United States, after all, the relationship between Britain and the United States was complicated, and it had been an ally since World War I, which made many Americans doubt whether the isolationist policy was right, and the voice of opposition to the United States to enter the war has weakened somewhat, mainly because of the economic giants of the United States, who had previously agitated the public to oppose the United States' entry into the war, because they were worried that once the United States entered the war, it would restrict the export of many materials to the outside world and affect their financial income.

However, with the fall of Britain and France, American materials could no longer be exported to Britain and France to earn foreign exchange, and the Soviet Union also ceded the Far East to the Tang Empire, resulting in the United States exporting materials to the Soviet Union was intercepted by the Tang Army, and the Soviet Union turned to import materials from the Tang Empire, so that American materials could not be sold to the Soviet Union.

Before the war, Germany and Italy were still more dependent on the United States for steel and oil supplies, but as they formed alliances with the Tang Empire, strategic materials such as steel and oil were transferred to the Tang Empire, and the Americans could not make war money.

Originally, the American economic giants also planned to make war money like World War I to solve the impact of the economic crisis, but with the outbreak of World War II, most of the hundreds of billions of dollars of war money were earned by the Tang Empire, and the American economic giants could only get a piece of the pie.

As a result, the unprofitable American economic giants gradually stopped supporting isolationism at home, and the American arms giants finally waited for their chance. They want the U.S. war machine to kick in so that the arms giants can get massive government arms orders and make a fortune.

With the support of the American arms giants. He demanded that the US government stop the fascists' attempt to invade the whole country, eliminate the German Nazis, and rescue the innocent people in Europe, Asia and Africa.

At first, Americans were very opposed to intervening in the war, but with the massive construction of concentration camps in Europe by the German army, the news of the massacre of millions of Jews was brought home by American journalists, causing indignation among Americans. They demanded that the Hoover administration intervene in this inhumane act of killing.

The Hoover administration thought for a long time that it would be unwise for the United States to face Tang, China, Germany, and Italy at the same time, and to start a war with the four countries at the same time. In particular, the economic and military strength of the Tang Empire skyrocketed. The Chinese population is huge, and the complementary advantages of Tang and China will be a nightmare for the United States.

Hoover then came up with a slogan to punish the fascist executioners, because the Tang Empire, despite occupying all of Oceania, treated the local population well. And most importantly, the inhabitants of Oceania were not too disgusted by the occupation of the Don army. Because they were financially dependent on the Tang Dynasty, there was not even a guerrilla revolt. The Far East was ceded to the Tang Empire by the Soviet Union on its own initiative, and the Tang Army also did not encounter any resistance or opposition there.

Therefore, Hoover treated the Tang Empire and Germany and Italy differently, he dominated domestic public opinion, criticized Germany and Italy as Nazi fascists, and said that Japan was the aggressor, they annoyed the Tang Empire, and France mistakenly sided with Japan. Therefore, the Tang Empire does not belong to the fascists and should be treated differently.

Meantime. Hoover called on the Tang Empire to end its alliance with Germany and Italy, and affirmed the Tang Empire's efforts to strongly stop the outbreak of the Chinese civil war, and as the Chinese Kuomintang and the Communist Party reached a consensus on the issue of mixed ownership economy, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party made great progress in negotiations, and there was hope for the establishment of a democratic coalition government, and Hoover praised the efforts of the Tang Empire for the safety of hundreds of millions of Chinese.

Hoover created public opinion and made the Americans treat the Tang Empire differently from Germany and Italy, and the real purpose was to hope that once the United States declared war on Germany and Italy, the Tang Empire would not intervene.

For this reason, Hoover immediately arranged a schedule to personally visit Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Empire, and held secret negotiations with Zhang Meng between the United States and the Tang Dynasty.

Hoover's careful thinking naturally could not escape Zhang Meng's eyes, so Zhang Meng directly demanded that the United States recognize the legitimate occupation of the areas under the existing actual control of the Tang Empire, and in return, the Tang Empire would adopt neutrality, and if the United States was willing to transfer the Hawaiian Islands to the Tang Empire, then the Tang Empire would even be willing to form a military alliance with the United States and fight side by side with the United States.

Zhang Meng's proposal was very tempting, after all, Hoover was not sure that he would be able to defeat Germany and Italy, but once the United States recognized the territory that the Tang Empire now actually controlled, it would be equivalent to giving the Tang Empire the umbrella of legitimate aggressors.

Hoover hesitated, failed to make a decision on the spot, hurriedly returned to the United States, and convened the government-in-exile of Britain, France and other European countries to discuss countermeasures.

The British protested the most fiercely, because the Tang Empire occupied hundreds of colonial strongholds that originally belonged to the British, especially the Tang Empire occupied the entire island of Ireland, but Northern Ireland was a territory belonging to the British, which was another matter from overseas colonies. Moreover, the entire main fleet of the British Royal Navy is in the Tang Empire, which makes the British feel humiliated and entangled.

The French also protested, but France was just occupied by some Central Pacific islands by the Tang Army, and there was no big problem. As for the fact that the main French fleet was in the hands of the Tang Army, the French could only complain that their skills were inferior.

There is nothing wrong with other countries, mainly the attitude of the British government-in-exile.

Hoover said that if the Tang Empire could not be satisfied, then once the Tang Empire was unhappy and gave up its neutral attitude to participate in the war, then the US military was not sure to defeat the Tang, Germany and Italy Triple Alliance, and even the United States itself was in danger, after all, the US military was not afraid of Germany, because the German Navy could not drive the United States, but it was afraid of the Tang Empire, because the Tang Empire Navy was now powerful, the number of warships was three times that of the US Navy, and the total tonnage was more than four times that of the US military, and the warships of the Tang Army could directly sail to the US coastline. The U.S. military is not yet sure that it will be able to defeat the Don Army.

Due to the opposition of the British government-in-exile, the United States and Tang were unable to reach an agreement for the time being.

However, Zhang Meng was not worried, he immediately ordered someone to inform Hitler, exposing to him Jihua, who was trying to win over the Tang Empire and preparing to send troops to Europe.

Hitler was immediately anxious and hurriedly sent a special envoy to visit the Tang Dynasty to consolidate the military alliance between Tang and Germany. On the other hand, Hitler was annoyed with Hoover, and Heinrich ordered German submarines to attack American merchant ships to teach the United States a lesson and threaten the United States not to meddle in its business.

The sinking of an American merchant ship and the death of more than 100 Americans can be regarded as a lesson for the United States.

The Hoover government did not dare to act rashly because it did not receive a reply from the Tang Empire, and chose to remain silent. Internally, it actively publicized the German army's attack on American civilian merchant ships, which killed more than 100 people, and stimulated the Americans' determination to participate in the war.

In the winter of 1940, the Battle of Moscow on the Soviet-German battlefield finally ended with the victory of the Soviet army, although the German army attacked Moscow three months earlier than in history, but it was still delayed by the Soviet army until the winter, so that the German army could not bear the cold of Moscow, tanks, combat vehicles, cars, motorcycles were frozen, unable to function, and finally ended with the loss of 500,000 people and a large number of weapons and equipment.

The Soviet Union won the Battle of Moscow, and the Soviet army began a counteroffensive, forcing the German army back more than 300 kilometers, which caused a sensation throughout the country, and the Hoover administration thought that the opportunity had come.

He demanded that Britain accept the conditions of the Tang Empire and recognize that the island of Ireland was under the actual control of the Tang Empire, which was tantamount to giving up Northern Ireland, and at the same time, the British overseas territories actually occupied by the Tang Army would also give up their sovereignty.

Churchill, the prime minister of the British government-in-exile, was helpless, now he has no right to speak, and was forced to accept the conditions under the compulsion of Hoover, and the French side does not care, the dozens of small islands in the Pacific Ocean are nothing to the Tang Empire, De Gaulle sighed just why he had to stare at those dozens of small islands in the first place, if he sold the islands to the Tang Empire like the United States at that time, there would be no passive situation like now, but there is no regret medicine, he has to accept the reality.

The other government-in-exile had no objection, so Hoover spoke to Zhang Meng on the phone again, expressing his willingness to accept the neutrality conditions proposed by the Tang Empire.

In February 1941, under the mediation of the United States, the Tang Empire secretly signed the "Chang'an Treaty" with Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway and other countries, according to the provisions of the contract, the Tang Empire and the Entente group ended the state of war and stopped supporting the German and Italian fascist bloc, the Entente countries recognized the sovereignty of the Tang Empire in the actual control area before the contract came into effect, and Britain and France and other countries gave up their claim to sovereignty over the area controlled by the Tang Army, but they had to charge part of the fee, which was regarded as a peaceful transaction of sale. In return, the Tang Empire would resume the supply of strategic materials to the Entente powers, including the provision of weapons and equipment, and part of the cost of supplies to offset the ransom costs of the colonies occupied by LinkedIn.

Due to the fact that the contract needs to be signed by the leaders of various countries and go through legal procedures, the final actual entry into force date has been delayed until 1 March.

On February 28, a German submarine sank an American merchant ship again, killing more than 300 Americans. The German army did this because Hitler was worried that the defeat in the Battle of Moscow would make the Americans arrogant, and he wanted to suppress the Americans, so that they would not dare to act rashly, and he did not want to be self-defeating, and the original order to capture the American merchant ship finally turned into sinking.

When the news reached the United States, the Americans were furious, and the Hoover administration immediately declared war on Germany under the slogan of rescuing their European comrades.

The next day, Italy declared war on Germany, and the United States declared war on Italy.

Hitler was waiting for the Tang Empire to declare war on the United States, but the Tang Empire said that the United States and the Tang Dynasty had always had a non-aggression pact, and the treaty had not yet expired, and the Tang Empire was a country that kept its promises and remained neutral without declaring war for the time being.

Hitler was so angry that he almost vomited blood, speculating that he was betrayed by the Tang Empire, because he also had intelligence sources and knew more or less that the United States and Tang had secretly signed some kind of treaty.

The Hoover administration breathed a sigh of relief, and the Tang Empire kept its promises, which immediately reassured all countries.

The United States entered the war, and the situation in Shijie was unpredictable again. Zhang Meng is the only one gloating, experiencing the thrill of manipulating the shijie pattern. (To be continued......)