The Dutch government-in-exile is located in Stratton Flat, opposite Piccadilly Green Park in London. When Liang Xuzhao and Zhang Deheng personally went to the reception officer to tell the reception officer that Commander Li of the Chinese Volunteer Navy wanted to see the Queen, something strange happened: the reception officer welcomed him very cordially, and said that the queen's attendant had instructed that once the Chinese Volunteer Navy's General Li came to ask for a meeting, they would arrange a suitable time for the meeting.

The meeting took place at 3 p.m. that day at the Stratton apartment. Although he was in exile, the royal chamberlain still took Li Kongrong and others through several floors of the gate before he met Wilhelmina himself in a luxurious parlor. The queen is an obese or sturdy elderly woman in her fifties, she has a graceful and elegant demeanor, and she put down the white porcelain teacup and looked at it with a smile when Li Kongrong and others walked into the living room. "Young man, did you come to take something from me?"

It seems that many people still remember the theft of German submarines and the capture of German cruise ships last year. Li Kongrong saluted and said: "Your Majesty, you are not a Nazi, I will not take it, I will only protect it." ”

"Protection?" Wilhelmina's eyes flashed a few times, the Netherlands had surrendered, and now the only hope was that the Allies in Belgium could counterattack, but some of the news she heard was diametrically opposite: France was also lost. "Sit down, young man."

"Yes, protection, or rather protection." Li Kongrong sat down carefully, and then took out a copy from Liang Xuzhao's hand, and the top chapter was a marked map of the South Seas. "Your Majesty, I am here on behalf of the more than 3 million Chinese under the rule of your colony, although they have suffered some injustices for some reasons, but looking back on these hundreds of years, without the protection of Your Majesty's colonial government, the Chinese are likely to have been caught in cannibalism to curry favor with the local princes......"

Li Kongrong's expression was solemn, although the 'unfair treatment' made Wilhelmina raise her eyebrows, but the latter words were what she liked to hear. After this half-truth, Lee Kong-rong changed his words, "Today, however, the time of protection is likely to disappear, and the Japanese are eyeing the entire South Seas, especially the Palembang oil fields in the Dutch East Indies, and once the ambitions they show are wary of the US government and ban oil sales against them, the war will begin." ”

"Will they be able to take Singapore?" Wilhelmina wasn't too worried about the Japanese, not to mention that there was Singapore in front of her.

"Your Majesty, Singapore is a ship without a bottom." Lee Kongrong said of Churchill's previous description, "All the artillery there is aimed at the sea, not at the Malay Peninsula." After the surrender of France, the Japanese will be stationed in French Annam, Siam will only give in to them, and their soldiers will land on the Malay Peninsula from Siam, attacking from the north of Singapore, in this direction, precisely where there are no batteries. Please don't doubt it, I don't think we're going to lose the war, even if the Nazis occupy the entire continent. But as in the last war, we won the war only if the United States helped and entered the war, and Your Majesty must remember Wilson's Fourteen Points of Peace, right? ”

"Of course." Wilhelmina nodded, "Go on, is there anything wrong with it?" ”

"Since the Great Depression, the United States has always complained about the pound zone, because cheap American goods cannot smoothly enter the world market because of the obstruction of the pound zone and the franc zone, and there is no smooth access to raw materials from the colonies around the world. For example, the pricing of tin and rubber in the Dutch East Indies and the Straits Settlements was negotiated specifically with the British government. The United States would defeat the Nazis by entering the war, but the United States would also shatter the entire colonial system, which meant that the colonies would become independent one after another after the war. ”

"......" Wilhelmina was finally a little moved, although there were many things that Li Kongrong did not understand in his words, such as the surrender of France, but it was obvious that the impatience of the Americans with the colonial system was a well-known fact. The Netherlands had always been an ally of Britain, and if Britain's colonial system were not to collapse, the colonies to which the Netherlands belonged would not survive.

Wilhelmina's idea is like this, but in Li Kongrong's view, it is precisely because the Netherlands does not belong to Britain and does not have to bear so much pressure like Britain, as long as it is properly handled after the war (in fact, it is to kill all the Turkish elites on the charge of Tongri, so that they are leaderless, and the defense is gradually suppressed in an all-round way, and the grass is cleaned up every thirty years, so that the Tu people will always be in a state of scattered sand. After three cuts, the situation is difficult to reverse, and in the end, it comes with a family plan with a big killer - only one child in a family, the government is responsible for providing for the elderly, and they will soon become a minority), and the Dutch East Indies can survive.

The Dutch East Indies is a country of a thousand islands, and the natural defense will make the Chinese better occupy these islands, but the premise is that the Chinese and the Dutch government must reach some key agreements, the Chinese can dry and wet goods, and the Dutch government is a good person, but there must be a tacit understanding between the two sides, at least the Dutch government can not play any balance between the Chinese and the natives. Like the British Dominion, the Netherlands is the nominal suzerain, gaining both fame and fortune; The Chinese are the de facto rulers, the Indians are the commoners, and the natives are the butts.

After taking a shallow sip of tea, Wilhelmina didn't know what Li Kongrong was thinking, so she suppressed her worry and asked, "General, don't you want to be independent?" After independence, there is no colonial government, and you may be better off. ”

"Nope." Li Kongrong shook his head sadly, but unfortunately he couldn't squeeze out tears. He exclaimed: "They will be slaughtered!" Your Majesty, they ......, they are just expatriates, they will do business, they will be the envy of the Turks like the Jews, and if they lose the protection of His Majesty's government, they will be sent to concentration camps by the local Hitler. I can't...... Can't ......"

Li Kongrong, who was brought into the Indonesian massacre, looked extremely excited, he stood up and bowed to Wilhelmina, "Please Your Majesty do not give up the Dutch East Indies no matter what." Once abandoned, at least half of the millions of Chinese will be killed. If Your Majesty does not believe it, when the Japanese occupy it, you can see how miserable the Chinese have become. ”

Li Kongrong kept bowing, and the queen had to have someone help him back to his seat. "General, don't worry, the Dutch government has never intended to abandon the East Indies, and if the Japanese attack, my soldiers will defend it with all their might. If...... Under other pressures, my government will do everything in its power to preserve it. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Kongrong got up again and thanked him. "While not every Chinese is wisely aware of the terrible situation they will find without the protection of His Majesty's government, many of them are watching the war in Europe and are anxious for your peace. I received a telegram yesterday from Batavia that they were conducting a massive fund-raising campaign to help those in need; And my fleet, Your Majesty, will fight to the last moment for the protection of the East Indies, with your permission......"

With Li Kongrong's allegiance expression, William Minna Lang laughed - when she was lost and exiled to London, a bowl of chicken soup for the soul was served at the right time, and Meimei drank it and she suddenly felt a little brighter in front of her: the world is free and true, and the world is full of love.

After pouring the chicken soup for the soul, Li Kongrong offered another carefully prepared gift, and he first mentioned that it was because of the queen's generosity and kindness that he began to scold the Germans for being despicable, shameless and ungrateful after accepting the political asylum of Kaiser Wilhelm II. After scolding, he said: "Your Majesty, this is the Nazi flag I captured on the U-38 submarine last year, and there is a dart board painted with Hitler, you can throw darts at your leisure, and finally a pair of vases from an ancient shipwreck of the Tang Dynasty in China." ”

Zhang Deheng had been standing with these things in his hands for a long time, and as soon as Li Kongrong said it, he respectfully sent them up. The German Navy is arrogant, there is no Nazi flag on the submarine, only the German flag, but Li Kongrong said that there is; The dartboard with Hitler's face was deliberately made, and the clown-faced Hitler made Wilhelmina smile, and she was smacking Hitler; She was amazed by the last pair of vases, and asked about some details of the ancient shipwreck that was found at that time.

"I like your gift very much, General." Wilhelmina smiled more and more, and Li Kongrong became more and more pleasing to the eye. After instructing the chamberlain, she also gave Li Kongrong a gift in return: an eighteenth-century royal sword.

Looking at the jewels set on it, Li Kongrong refused to accept it. He said, "Your Majesty, I can't accept it, at least not now. Please give it to me again in due course. After that, he got up again and said goodbye: "It's been too long to disturb Your Majesty, please allow me to take my leave." ”

Li Kongrong, who said goodbye to the Queen of the Netherlands in a slight surprise, walked out of the building and felt sick in his stomach, but under the different eyes of Liang Xuzhao and Zhang Deheng, he had to puff up his chest and get into the car.

Liang Xuzhao said: "Sir, His Majesty Selassie hopes to meet with you, and he said that he can do it at any time. ”

"Get out of the way!" Li Kongrong didn't want to see any emperor or queen again, at least not now.

"But we ......" Selassie sent three observers, who would join the fleet in the Atlantic Ocean on a seaplane chartered with Li Kongrong. For this reason, I heard that Selassie in London had been asking for a meeting.

"This meeting was brokered by Sir Aiden." Li Kongrong turned to another matter. "Looks like I have to see him."

"Sir, Sir Aiden's is on Downing Street, and we ......" Zhang Deheng began to fully understand Aiden's information after being embarrassed last time, and now is the time for him to perform.

I don't want Li Kongrong to say: "How can you go to Downing Street with a swagger, call ...... first to make an appointment" He suddenly thought of MI5, maybe the phone was monitored by MI5, and the meeting was reported to Chamberlain, so he changed his mind and said: "It's better to send someone to contact him in person, just say that I want to meet him, and then ask him the time and place." ”

"Yes, sir." Zhang Deheng knows what it means to be 'in person', and it's not difficult. Aiden is often walking alone.

If Colonel Russell had told Aiden everything, then as long as the generator plan was not successful, Chamberlain's downfall was a certainty. Even if the dynamo plan succeeds, as Russell said, neither the Liberal nor the Labour Party will join the current government, and it is reasonable to fall into the cabinet. Aiden's decision to facilitate this meeting shows that he hopes to force the Chamberlain government to downfall through mishandling of intelligence. He can do this without Aiden's involvement, it is nothing more than Russell losing his public office.

Since it is imperative to topple the cabinet, Aiden must see it. Perhaps, as Churchill did, Chamberlain would probably have persuaded Eden to agree to the formation of a cabinet by Lord Halifax, the foreign secretary. If Aiden, like Churchill, could completely reject this proposal and successfully form a cabinet, then it would be unlikely that the British government would make peace with Hitler, unless Aiden also died, before the formation of a cabinet.

It is impossible to assassinate Aiden, and it is impossible to stop Aiden, and the only people who can stop him are the old men in the House of Commons, but the House of Commons expressed its support for Churchill by a vote of 380 to 0, which is also impossible. The only effective strategy is to discourage Aiden and others in the main battle, which is not difficult, and there are many topics in the future. If that doesn't work, let's let history go back to where it was.

The meeting between the two took place the following evening, at the home of Sir Ronald Terry, Member of Commons. This is probably the place where the Aiden Group often meets, when Li Kongrong enters, in the reception room full of cigars, wine, and coffee, decent gentlemen sit or stand, looking very leisurely, they look at Li Kongrong curiously, and a few people are talking about something.

"Gentlemen: I was told that if the Cabinet had followed the advice of the 007 intelligence officer, then war would never have happened!" Aiden pulled Li Kongrong to the middle of the reception room, and this old man in a gray suit with a lot of taste introduced it to everyone. "And this is the No. 007 intelligence officer of the Intelligence Bureau, and the commander of the Chinese Volunteer Navy, the hero that Hitler, Raeder and others want to get rid of, General Li Hansheng."

Warm applause rang out, and Li Kongrong was shocked that Aiden revealed his identity, but Aiden patted him on the arm and said: "Li, please rest assured, these people are staunch anti-Nazis, most of them are members of the House of Commons, and a few are cabinet ministers, they will keep this secret." ”

"Lee, it's a pleasure to meet you. The Prime Minister has mentioned your code name many times, especially these days. A chubby gentleman with black-rimmed glasses spoke to Lee Kong-wing, and he introduced himself: "I am Sir Howard Kingsley Wood, the Keeper of the Seals, and before that the Secretary of State for Aviation. I remember vividly the prophecy you made more than a year ago about the defeat of France in a month after the start of the war. This is exactly what is happening now, France has been defeated, and Prime Minister Reynaud came running to say that Marshal Pétain was already preparing peace talks - if most of France was occupied by the enemy, Pétain would come out and advocate an armistice. ”