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On June 3, at the White House, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt convened a cabinet meeting attended by Secretary of State John Hay, Secretary of War William Howard Taft, Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Metcalfe, Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock, Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar Strauss, U.S. Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, Secretary of the Treasury L. M. Shaw, and others.

Roosevelt spoke first: "We sent special envoys to the Lanfang Kingdom to persuade them to take out loans and then buy our American products, but the Lanfang Kingdom was very unfriendly to us, and vigorously rejected our Chinese Exclusion Act, and even sent ambassadors to the United States after the establishment of diplomatic relations. It's been a few days since I received the telegram, and I haven't thought of a reasonable solution, so let's look at the telegram and discuss how we should respond? “

After speaking, President Roosevelt handed the telegram to the Secretary of State.

The Secretary of State spoke first: "Your Excellency, the Japanese are also very hostile to us now, and we cannot have a conflict with two Asian countries at the same time, my opinion is that we should ease the relationship with the Lanfang Kingdom, and actively intensify the contradictions between the Lanfang Kingdom and Japan, let them fight among themselves, and we can reap the benefits." ”

The Minister of Finance said: "Yes, after easing relations with the Lanfang Kingdom, we can still get a large number of orders to ease the domestic pressure." “

The Minister of Agriculture said: "We should not only see the interests of capital, but also pay attention to the interests of agriculture. “

The Minister of Commerce and Labor said: "It is better to find a way to ease relations with the Lanfang Kingdom and then discuss other matters, the Chinese Exclusion Act has just been set as a permanent bill, and it is difficult to change it in a short period of time, if the Chinese Exclusion Act is not abolished, the Lanfang Kingdom will definitely not be willing to ease relations." “

The secretary of state thought to himself, those people in the Lanfang Kingdom must be difficult to deal with, even the governor of the Philippine Islands has no choice, and the peaceful way will not work at all, unless the United States makes big concessions, if the concessions are too much, the domestic capitalists will definitely be unwilling, it is really a contradiction.

Roosevelt felt that without a strong army, it would be difficult to suppress other countries to completely obey the wishes of the United States, and the navy and army must be strengthened, otherwise the "stick doctrine" is an empty word, thinking of this, he asked the secretary of the navy: "When will our navy be able to compete with the navy of the Lanfang Kingdom?" “

"Your Excellency President, the battleships New Jersey and Rhode Island that we are currently in service are not opponents of the Lanfang Kingdom Navy at all, and neither of the two battleships can defeat a battleship of the Lanfang Kingdom; After the completion of our latest battleships Michigan and South Carolina, we may be able to conduct one-on-one naval battles with the naval battleships of the Lanfang Kingdom, but the number is still not as large as the battleships of the Lanfang Kingdom, and we have no way to deal with the battlecruisers of the other side at present, so it is difficult to compete with the Lanfang Kingdom Navy in a short time. “

Roosevelt continued: "The gap between our navy and the navy of the Lanfang Kingdom is too great, and this is the honor guard of the Lanfang Kingdom, so it dares to threaten our United States of America with an anti-American bill; It is not appropriate for us to clash with them for the time being, and on the premise of not repealing the Chinese Exclusion Act, how can we ease the relationship with the Lanfang Kingdom? ”

Everyone knows that the main body of the Lanfang Kingdom is the Chinese, and the United States will definitely be very angry when it treats the Chinese like this, and if other countries treat the Americans like this, the United States will also fight with them to the end, and it is very difficult to ease relations with the Lanfang Kingdom in this case.

The Minister of Commerce and Labor thought of the description of the members of the purchasing group of the Lanfang Kingdom by the German businessmen, who had a very special hairstyle and short hair, which was diametrically opposed to the current habit of the Qing people to wear long braids, and the clothes were very Westernized, shirts, trousers, and black leather shoes. Thinking of this, Strauss said: "Your Excellency, we can completely treat the Lanfang Kingdom and the Qing Dynasty differently, the Qing Dynasty has a large population, and the number of Chinese in the Lanfang Kingdom is very small, and the status is very high, there is no restriction on the people of the Lanfang Kingdom to come to the United States, and they will not come to the United States to work as laborers; Besides, the Lanfang Kingdom is a country dominated by Chinese, and the Qing Dynasty is a country controlled by the Manchus, there will definitely be contradictions between them, and their appearance is not the same, the Qing people have long braids, while the Lanfang people have short hair, it is easy to distinguish, we can allow people who hold passports of the Lanfang Kingdom to not be within the scope of the Chinese Exclusion Act. ”

"Does this legally work?"

The Minister of Justice thought for a while and said: "It's completely okay, they can be treated differently from the Chinese in the Qing Dynasty, and this can also intensify the contradiction between the Lanfang Kingdom and the Qing Dynasty, killing two birds with one stone, not bad!" ”

"It's not just killing two birds with one stone, if the contradictions between them are intensified, the Lanfang Kingdom will not have the time and energy to think about our Philippines, it is a multiple, this matter is so decided, after the meeting, the Secretary of State informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Lanfang Kingdom that the Chinese who hold the passports of the Lanfang Kingdom are not within the restrictions of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Now let's discuss how to make the Japanese and the Lanfang people have a conflict and let the two families fight each other? ”

The Minister of Finance spoke at this time: "Your Excellency the President, the Japanese hate the United States more than the Kingdom of Lanfang, they are exhausted in the Russo-Japanese War, and originally hoped to get compensation from Tsarist Russia, but the Portsmouth Peace Treaty did not allow Japan to obtain war reparations, and the Japanese blame the United States for the reason, and now the Japanese are living in hardship, all caused by the United States, and their naval strength should be stronger than ours, therefore, we must face Japan squarely, and we must prepare in advance to prevent the Japanese from attacking the Philippines." ”

"That's why I want to make concessions to the Lanfang Kingdom, ease the contradictions, and let them fight with the Japanese, what good way do you have?"

The Secretary of War said: "We can report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Lanfang Kingdom that many Japanese in the Philippines attacked the Americans under the banner of the Lanfang Kingdom in order to provoke a war between the Lanfang Kingdom and the United States; In addition, it created contradictions and conflicts between the Chinese and the Japanese in San Francisco; There are many ways to send people to infiltrate the Lanfang Kingdom and create a case of Japanese assassination of the citizens of the Lanfang Kingdom, you can think slowly. ”

"Haha, okay, good, this matter will be in charge of the War Department, and in a moment you will contact Luke Wright, the Governor of the Philippine Islands, and tell him what to do, and in addition, set up a special operations force in the War Department to do similar things in the future."

"Yes, Your Excellency, I promise to do it perfectly, so that the two of them will fight."

After receiving the telegram from the Secretary of State, Luke Wright consulted Johnson and sent Johnson as an envoy to the Kingdom of Lanfang.

At the same time, Luke Wright began to arrange for people to find suitable Chinese, so that he could take out several Americans who were living in the Philippines and had no background, and put the responsibility on the Chinese.

He also began to arrest Japanese spies hiding in the Philippines, and shifted the responsibility to the Japanese, saying that all the attacks on the Americans were planned and carried out by the Japanese.

And inform the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lanfang in a timely manner.

The Chinese and Japanese in San Francisco themselves were not having a good time because of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Japanese Exclusion Act, and now, under the planning of some people, gang fights have begun to occur. The United States announced to the outside world that they were living in difficulty, fighting each other for resources, and in order to keep San Francisco safe, all Chinese and Japanese who were unemployed in San Francisco were repatriated.

After receiving the news, Zhang Wei ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send an ambassador to the United States, set up an embassy in Washington, and set up a consulate in San Francisco, and as long as the Chinese in the United States wished, they could change their passports to the Lanfang Kingdom after getting a haircut, and join the nationality of the Lanfang Kingdom, and they would be protected by the Lanfang Kingdom in the future.