Washington, White House. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the past few days, Lincoln's mood is very happy, now the Empress Dowager of the Qing court has arrived on the west coast of the United States, and now the Qing court mission is divided into two, part of which is led by Shen Baozhen, the governor of Fujian, from San Francisco to the east of San Francisco, across the whole of North America, into Washington, all the way to inspect American industry, agriculture and people's livelihood; On the other hand, He Tengjiao and Li Junfeng protected the Empress Dowager to go south to the Isthmus of Central America, by land, into the Caribbean Sea, transferred to a US warship, went to New York, and finally arrived in Washington.

is finally about to usher in an important figure in the Qing court, of course, as Lincoln, of course, it is not Cixi, the empress dowager, who he values Guo Ye, who has a potential abyss behind him, who will come out of the abyss at any time like a dragon and roar for nine days.

An alliance is also Lincoln's dream, China and the United States have too many similarities, and there are too many places to rely on each other, once the two countries join forces, even the British Empire will have to give three points. As soon as the Queen Mother arrives, then immediately promote the alliance between the two countries, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

"Mr. President, this is a diplomatic note from the British Empire, the French Empire, and the Kingdom of Spain to us in the United States at the same time!"

Secretary of State Seward's face was a little ugly, and he handed the three-point note to Lincoln, Lincoln glanced at Seward in surprise, Seward was calm and capable, the city was very deep, and he was one of his most relied on assistants, what happened today, his face was so ugly?

Lincoln took the note and began to look at it.

"Mr. President, Britain, France, and Spain are too domineering, and it is too much to interfere in our internal and foreign affairs so arrogantly!"

Seward said angrily.

After reading the three-point diplomatic note, Lincoln's face also became gloomy, deceiving people too much, deceiving people too much! Spain can be thrown aside, but England and France are too much, since the founding of the United States, they have not stopped, almost constantly looking for American troubles, or proof, or secretly stumbling blocks, in the war of unification, Britain and France even directly assisted the Confederate army with a large number of weapons and ammunition, and even military advisers sent thousands of people!

What now?

Seeing that the United States has successfully reunified and made good friends with China, they are interfering wantonly, which is really unreasonable!

"Bang!"

Lincoln slammed his fist on the desk and roared, "Bastard! Bastard! It's too much of a deception! ”

Lincoln walked around the office in a huff, paused, and shouted, "Immediately ask Johnson and Grant to come over and discuss countermeasures!" ”

Not long after, Vice President Johnson and Union Commander-in-Chief Grant arrived in the office.

"Mr. President, what's wrong?"

Grant asked.

"Then let's go check it out!"

Lincoln threw three telegrams in front of the two men, "These are three diplomatic notes from the British Empire, the French Empire, and the Kingdom of Spain. ”

Grant and Johnson were secretly shocked, Lincoln and Seward's faces were too ugly, what happened?

"I'm X!"

After reading the diplomatic note, Grant directly burst into a foul mouth, "Bastard!" Damn the British, damn it! Damn French! These bastards! ”

"Alright, General Grant, don't scold anymore, it's already like this!"

Lincoln was impatient.

"Mr. Lincoln, we must not agree to the conditions of their three countries, absolutely not, this is our best chance for the accelerated rise of the United States! You must know that China has the largest population in the world, their market is incomparable, Guo Ye and Chen Hai are unparalleled famous generals, we join forces, we can completely compete with the British Empire and the French Empire, once we agree to Britain, France and Spain, cancel the alliance with China, then we want to win the trust of Guo Ye in the future, it will be difficult! All the years of hard work we had done were in vain! ”

Grant growled.

"I know!"

Lincoln shouted, "Don't say this, Chen Hai still has a life-saving grace for me, but the national interests are above all else, if Britain, France and Spain really go to war against us, we will definitely not be able to resist it, and they still have a large number of our national loans, once the debt is collected, our country will face bankruptcy!" This is definitely not something we can afford now! ”

"But!"

Grant was very unconvinced, and was about to argue, Johnson on the side waved his hand and replied: "General Grant, President Lincoln, don't argue, this matter, we need to negotiate well, disputes can't solve the problem." ”

"So what do you say?"

Lincoln asked.

Johnson said in a deep voice: "There is no way, Britain, France and Spain just let us not form an alliance with the Qing court, but this cannot limit our personal alliance with Guo Ye, according to my observation, now Guo Ye's personal strength is not weaker than that of the Qing court, and in the next fifty years, the whole of China will be in the hands of Guo Ye, not the hands of the Qing court......"

Lincoln was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Grant with a slight understanding.

Johnson continued: "As long as we can maintain a close enough relationship with Guo Ye, the rest is fine, this is only the first; Second, Britain, France, and Spain only pressured us not to form an alliance with the Qing court, but this diplomatic note cannot restrict us from assisting China through other channels in the war. At that time, only three or five thousand troops and a few warships were needed to subdue the whole of China, but now, thirty or fifty thousand people, more than a dozen warships, can never subdue one Guo Ye, they can't help but underestimate Guo Ye's hidden strength, just the tens of thousands of Lu troops under Guo Ye are definitely not able to deal with the three or fifty thousand Western troops, not to mention, the Qing court still has hundreds of thousands of elite forces! ”

Seward on the side laughed and exclaimed, "Johnson, you're so smart! Too smart, maybe this crisis is still an opportunity for us in the United States! ”

Lincoln's face also showed a faint smile, and then his face became solemn again, and replied: "Okay, don't spread this matter first, let's wait and see what happens, as for the alliance with the Queen Mother, you can take off for a while, and immediately send a telegram to Guo Ye to explain the matter to him, presumably he can also understand our difficulties, it's a big deal that we support in private, that's it." ”

Grande nodded and replied, "Okay, I'll send a telegram to Guo Ye later!" ”

(To be continued.) )