Washington, as the political center of the United States, is busy every day, when the warship carrying the British Foreign Secretary finally arrived, the US Foreign Minister personally greeted, a simple welcome ceremony held in the port, a simple greeting, there was no too much delay, this is a moment of war, every minute needs to be cherished, especially the British, every minute is extremely important at this moment.

Britain has clearly felt that this war is beyond their control, first of all, they believe that they can solve the Allies, redistribute world power, and stand at the top of the world in three months to six months. But in fact, not only did not achieve this goal, but Germany could solve the battle in a short time, and Britain and France could only hold on, which was the fundamental reason why Britain decided to give up some of its inherent face and come to persuade Britain.

The United States had a clear idea of the British intentions, and it had also made some preparations in advance, ready to adapt to the situation, and to refuse the British's demands depending on the situation; Britain's purpose of attracting the United States to join the Entente camp was almost obvious, but for the United States, it was inconvenient to join the Entente camp before it had obtained the greatest benefits.

As a diplomat, he is very familiar with these diplomatic rhetoric and ways of speaking, and he is not willing to go on like this, so after a little hesitation, he took out a lot of information.

Americans were slightly surprised, what is this? Almost subconsciously, they took the materials, but after reading the information, they found out. The British put most of the information on the European war, the most basic of all the previous battles. The current strategic posture of the Allies and the Entente, and even the intelligence of Asia, are all revealed. Including the war with Japan in the northwest, Britain also told the Americans without reservation.

The Americans were stunned, and from this information, the United States could already be sure that France would be weakened, and that Germany would not be as originally expected, as long as it withstood their three-plank axe, Germany could be gradually weakened, and then the two sides would be deadlocked. The United States has the greatest benefits.

Britain's home fleet, the most powerful fleet in the world, suppressed the German high seas fleet to the death, Germany's imports have basically been contained, and the sea passage has been completely cut off. But there is another way in Germany, in Basra in the Middle East, where the Chinese have built a huge port, through the 3B railway. A steady stream of supplies to Germany was being delivered, just like the United States had done, giving Germany tremendous support, and it was this strong support. Germany has undergone a radical change, suppressing Britain and France at both ends.

The Americans are skeptical that the Northwest has such a strong production capacity. The huge promotion effect on Germany is not an excuse given by Britain. However, Japan's war against Northeast China spread almost all over the world. Although there is no first-hand information, the current situation of the war is that the Japanese offensive has been thwarted, and even the Combined Fleet has been lost.

At that time, the United States was still strange that the Japanese Combined Fleet, which made the United States quite vigilant, was actually sent into the sea by China at one time, which was also too incredible, and only after reading the British intelligence did it know that the northwest was a sneak attack, with the help of shore-based artillery fire, most of the capital ships were eliminated, and then through submarine and naval pursuit, plus a little luck, the Japanese Combined Fleet was eliminated.

If the northwest only defeated Japan in this way, this would not attract the attention of the United States, and the key lies below, the British actually got a detailed battle report from the Japanese side, including the combat effectiveness of the army, compared with the sneak attack of the navy, the army is a real frontal confrontation, and even won more with less, and the first battle between Japan and the northwest, the combat effectiveness of the northwest army, made the United States quite vigilant. The most critical thing is that in the intelligence of the British, there are also some about Indonesia, on the largest island Alamantan, there are millions of Chinese immigrants, which surprised the United States, you know, Indonesia, and the Philippines controlled by the Americans is too close, if the Chinese's purpose is Southeast Asia, then the Philippines is also quite dangerous.

This is one of the few overseas colonies of the United States, and the Philippines is not only an important location, but also has a lot of resources, and it is also a tentacle for the United States to extend its hand to Asia.

However, compared to Asia, what the United States values more is still in Europe, with the intelligence of the British, the Americans plus their own, they can see more clearly, as a bystander, they see the most clearly, the northwest has the ability to strengthen Germany, if France is defeated, there is only one Britain left, and it will not be able to stop the footsteps of Germany at all, Germany will unify the entire European continent, when he integrates his forces, and then attacks England, a strong and unified Europe will appear, it will be a nightmare-like existence, Not to mention the $30 billion invested in Britain and the nearly $3 billion in national bonds purchased by Britain and France, let's talk about the United States itself, the name of the first industrial country, I am afraid that it will be removed after Germany reunifies Europe, and the huge Europe, population and industrial base are far from being comparable to the United States.

The United States, which could have easily put aside the topic, could not continue, the war of France has become a key battle in the European war, and once France is completely occupied by Germany, it will be too late. This is completely different from the previous plan, the United States has not yet gained enough benefits, but if it does not join, it seems that it will no longer work, and the loss of not joining is even greater.

The British are obviously playing out, can the United States directly join, the United States is really in a dilemma, the current United States, is not a century later, the world policeman who dominates the whole world, is just a rising first industrial country, not even comparable to the status of the industrial countries, all along, he has been in the pursuit of status, from the unilateral idea, isolationism, interest equalization, most-favored-nation treatment, these gradually penetrated into the whole world, the United States also began to gradually establish its own influence. The United States is located in the Americas, without any enemies, the unique geographical environment, so that the United States mainland armament is extremely poor, so far it is only a standing army of more than 100,000, or negligent training, even if you want to join, from arms preparation, military recruitment, to Congress to build momentum, a series of things need to be carefully studied, if fast, it will take a year, if slow, maybe it will be two years, can the Entente support that time?

In order to ensure the operation of merchant ships, Britain decided to import a number of destroyers from the United States, preferably the existing ships of the American military, and even for these warships, they offered a fairly high price to pay the bills with islands, such as some islands in the Americas and the Pacific Ocean

These islands have always been expected by the Americans, several times they wanted Britain to propose to buy, were rejected, with these islands, the United States for the Americas, for the Pacific Ocean, will increase a level, although Britain was affected by German submarines, but it is far from to the extent of bad, Germany's submarine action is not as crazy as later generations, this is just an interface, between countries, friendship is absolutely unreliable, the only reliable is interests, eternal interests.

The numerous concessions that allowed the United States to get the many islands it coveted, and the foreign secretary further increased the order, which was a huge order in the unit of 100 million dollars, and in this era of 20 dollars equal to an ounce of gold, the heavy bargaining chips finally changed the situation of the talks. In the end, the British Foreign Secretary, although he did not receive an affirmative reply, received a guarantee, that is, the US government would urge Congress to form a resolution, starting today, the whole country will mobilize, reorganize the army, switch to military industry, and even enter a state of war at the right time, which may be six months, a year, or even a year and a half, and then decide whether the United States will join the sphere of influence when the time comes.

The Americans' promises are very vague, and they don't even say the time, Prime Minister Henry, who received the report in Britain, is already quite happy, and the foreign secretary goes to the United States, more to make the United States feel this sense of urgency, although France has been defeated, but among the colonies, there are still hundreds of millions of people, even if a fraction is mobilized, this population can be armed with millions of troops, as for Britain, not to mention, the strength was already stronger by France, and the losses were less than those of France, and there was a steady stream of sea transportation, Replenishing Britain, allowing Britain to recover faster, and even the total number of troops now has exceeded that of before the war.

The purpose of sending the foreign secretary was only to remind the Americans that the state of war should be transferred from a civilian state to a military state at an early date, and as for the ambiguous promises made by the Americans, how could the United States and Great Britain join the camp of the Central Powers when the two sides were in a state of confrontation.

Let's not say that there is no such tradition between the United States and Germany, and that the United States has interests between Britain and France, and it is impossible for the United States to join the German camp, unless Britain and France are completely defeated during this period and completely lose the territory of France, and even the European continent, otherwise, the United States can only have one choice.

The Foreign Secretary is still on the ship returning home, he has completed the task, and the next thing is how to suppress the Italian navy in the Mediterranean, and open up the next battle in France, as long as these two objectives are achieved, this battle can be stalemate for at least half a year, or even longer, when the time comes, Germany will be greatly consumed, and the United States will complete its preparations, just in the state of a new force to join the battle, victory belongs to England, this point, Henry is extremely convinced. (To be continued......)