After the Russo-Japanese War, the United States and Japan began to gradually regard each other as their number one imaginary enemy. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In 1906, the United States criticized Japan for violating the principle of "open doors."

In response to Japan's rapidly growing immigration problem, the California State Legislature passed a bill restricting Japanese immigration. The bill has aroused great dissatisfaction with the Japanese government and has also aroused strong anti-American sentiment in Japan.

At this time, the rise of the Lanfang Kingdom allowed the Americans to find the strength to contain the Japanese.

Now that the Japanese occupy the island of Taiwan in the Great Qing Dynasty and have turned the Korean Peninsula and the Ryukyu Islands into their own colonies, as a country dominated by Chinese, the Lanfang Kingdom must have hatred for the Japanese, and if this hatred is intensified, it will be time for the United States to profit from it.

U.S. Secretary of the Army Taft, who served as governor of the Philippine Islands for four years, was very aware of the strategic position of the Philippines and had a very good understanding of the situation in Asia, so he wrote to President Roosevelt that he must befriend the Lanfang Kingdom, let the Lanfang Kingdom resist the military pressure of the Japanese for the Americans, destroy the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and at the same time prevent the Japanese from getting too close to Tsarist Russia, so that the United States can share certain interests in the northeast region of the Qing Dynasty, and absolutely cannot let Tsarist Russia and Japan monopolize all the interests of the northeast region of the Qing Dynasty. This is inconsistent with the principles of the U.S. open-door policy.

President Roosevelt did not have any good impression of the Chinese, and if the Chinese and the Japanese held each other in check, it would be a good thing for the United States, and it would be better for them to lose both.

Now Germany and France have successively provided long-term low-interest commercial loans to the Kingdom of Lanfang, which has successfully opened the door to the market of the Kingdom of Lanfang and made the Americans look blushing. In line with the principle of equal interests, the US government must act to get a share of the market in the Lanfang Kingdom, otherwise the capitalists in the country will have an opinion on the government.

On May 15, US President Roosevelt summarized information from all sides, and finally made a decision, telegraphing Luke Wright, the governor of the Philippine Islands, to send someone to negotiate with the Lanfang Kingdom, so that the Lanfang Kingdom would borrow at least $100 million from the United States, and this loan must be used entirely to purchase American products, and to provoke contradictions between the Lanfang Kingdom and Japan, and it was best to let them go to war in order to reduce the pressure on the US Pacific Military Region.

Governor Luke Wright sent his assistant Johnson to Beijing to negotiate with the Kingdom of Lanfang.

After Johnson met Hua Guoqiang, the foreign minister of the Lanfang Kingdom, he first explained his intentions, conveyed the friendship of the United States to the Lanfang Kingdom, introduced the requirements of the Americans, and hoped that the Lanfang Kingdom could take out a loan from the United States.

After hearing this, Hua Guoqiang resolutely disagreed with the loan from the United States, which is a typical American open-door mind, demanding equal interests, if he agreed, it would be an insult to the Lanfang Kingdom, the Lanfang Kingdom is not the Qing Dynasty, let the powers be at the mercy of will. Besides, the currency value of the United States is very stable, even after World War I, so that the pressure of repayment in the future after the loan will be very great, and there will be no profit to be made in the kingdom at all, unless it is a very large loan, and there is no need to repay it after killing the United States in the future, otherwise there is no need to carry a black pot.

So Hua Guoqiang said: "The Chinese Exclusion Act implemented by the United States has led to the fact that none of the ambassadors we have appointed to the United States have yet to take up their posts. We can't go to the United States. “

"Your Excellency the Foreign Secretary, I think you have misunderstood, we do not restrict the entry and exit of government diplomats."

"However, after we take out the loan, we are all at the bottom of the grassroots to carry out the procurement, and we cannot send diplomats to be responsible for the procurement, and the diplomats are not familiar with the technical level, performance, and price of the materials to be purchased. Moreover, we are in the process of formulating the "American Exclusion Act", and our government, non-governmental organizations, and individuals will not have dealings with the United States, nor do we want American enterprises and individuals with American nationality to set up factories and do business in Lanfang Kingdom. We do not restrict your government diplomats from sending to our Lanfang Kingdom, which is why we have established diplomatic relations with you, but we do not send an ambassador to the United States to take up a post. You, the United States of America, claim to be an equal and free country, but we don't see equality and freedom at all, and you are trampling on democracy, and you are insulting beautiful words such as equality and freedom. “

Hua Guoqiang's words undoubtedly gave Johnson a hammer, even the small Lanfang Kingdom dared to introduce the "Anti-American Act", does the Lanfang Kingdom want to confront the United States of America? It's just deadly.

Zhang Wei laughed happily after listening to Hua Guoqiang's report, and said to Hua Guoqiang: "You can't be polite to the Americans, the economy of this country has been controlled by the Jews, all politicians are elected representatives of the Jews, and the policies introduced are also for the Jews, and the Jews are a wandering people, they don't know what the concept of the state is, they are purely a group of selfish parasites; The xenophobic bill in the United States is that the Jews are making trouble behind their backs, controlling public opinion, smearing the Chinese, and leading the white Americans to hate the Chinese, so the Jewish nation is an unforgivable nation, and the poor must have something to hate. “

"Your Majesty, will this not cause a war with the United States?"

"No, if they dare to start a war, we can fight the United States 200 years back, whether it is the navy or the army, they are not our opponents; In addition, capital is profit-seeking, and if they fight with us, they will not get any benefits, or they will make money by doing business, and the Americans will definitely come. “

"Will the United States abandon the Chinese Exclusion Act?"

"It's impossible to give up, the price code is not enough."

"Anyway, sooner or later we will have a war with the United States, why don't we take the opportunity to borrow from the United States, and we won't have to repay it in the future, so why bother to have a conflict with the United States now?"

"We have enough funds, and we can't digest any more for the time being, even if we import some equipment from the United States, it is also a duplicate construction, which is a pure waste of time and energy; Besides, in the future, we will be responsible for formulating the rules of the world game, and there is no need to break the rules because of such a small amount of money, this chip is not big enough. “

When President Roosevelt received a telegram from the governor of the Philippine Islands, he was very angry that the Chinese whom he despised dared not to give face to the United States of America, and that he had to give them some color.

So he called the Minister of Defense, the Minister of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of State and others to discuss a lesson for the Lanfang Kingdom.

The Minister of the Navy said: "Your Excellency, our navy has no chance of winning against the navy of the Upper Lanfang Kingdom, and the British Far East Fleet is a lesson from the past. “

War Secretary Taft said: "Your Excellency, our army has suffered heavy losses against the indigenous Filipinos, and if we fight with the army of the Lanfang Kingdom, it will be purely for the other side's war exploits." “

President Roosevelt said, "If you can't win, do you want to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act?" It can't be so cheap Chinese. I can't swallow this breath. “

The Secretary of State said: "Your Excellency, we still try to provoke a war between the Lanfang Kingdom and Japan, so that we can sit back and reap the benefits, isn't it better than us ending up in person?" Besides, these two countries will be our opponents in the future, and they themselves have hatred, and it is not difficult to provoke their wars as long as they are done properly. As long as they eat dogs, there will be no pressure on our Pacific Military District. “

Roosevelt thought about it for a moment and said, "Yes, I almost forgot about this matter, we don't need to go to war ourselves, just let them fight each other, but this matter will be handled by the Government Council." “