Chapter 214: The Clouds of San Francisco

"Yellow pigs! Sure enough, it is a group of inferior people with no quality, and I don't know why they are favored by God and have so many advanced technologies and equipment! Wilhelm II muttered in his room after sending a telegram agreeing to the deal.

Of all the Germans, Wilhelm II was the one who was the most reluctant to cooperate with China, and the one who wanted to cooperate with China the most. Willingness is from the perspective of the country, no matter where China gets those things, as long as Germany gets them, it is the best outcome, no matter what the price is, the conditions proposed by China are actually within the range of Wilhelm II.

If you don't want to, it's based on personal feelings. The last emperor of Germany, the king of Prussia, the head of the Hohenzollern family, Friedrich Wilhelm Victor von Hohenzollern, a mentally handicapped person with atrophy of his left arm, and the German emperor who hated Britain extremely much, was actually an outright anti-Chinese element!

After the First Sino-Japanese War, the biggest nightmare of the Western imperialists was that the huge Chinese dragon was about to rise under the leadership of Westernized Japan, represented by Wilhelm II, the West set off the first wave of "****" theory, from 1895, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II on the so-called "****" issue of continuous correspondence. Wilhelm II also asked someone to draw a "**** picture", gave it to Nicholas II, and ordered it to be engraved and printed and widely distributed.

In 1900, after receiving the murder of the German minister Klinder by the Boxers, he decided to take revenge on China and sent an expeditionary force of more than 20,000 people to China.

The fear that the Mongols brought to Europe lasted for more than a thousand years, and it was an irreconcilable contradiction between human races. Since the Zhenguo Party defeated the Japanese in Guangdong, the **** theory has been very loud. Rumors of the rise of the Chinese dragon are very popular among the upper echelons of Europe. After the British intervention fleet was repulsed by the Chinese coastal defense artillery in Guangzhou, the European powers even strongly demanded the organization of troops to teach the Chinese a lesson again, but for various reasons they did not make the trip.

Later, in the Russo-Japanese War, Japan was about to defeat Russia, but it was inserted by China. Fighting in the Tsushima Strait and the island of Kyushu, the great strength it showed shocked Europe! The Great Powers found that the country was ahead of Europe in navy, army, and air, albeit only in some equipment. Such a situation is enough for Europeans to think that **** is formed. It is a pity that Britain is mired in Burma and cannot extricate itself, and the other powers do not have the ability to intervene. Tsarist Nicholas II of Russia, the emperor who strongly supported the **** theory, because Russia suppressed Japan, it was too late to be happy, how could he send troops to intervene? Germany was also attracted by China's advanced equipment and hoped to cooperate out of national interests. It can be said that the European powers can only watch the rise of China little by little, and they are helpless.

November 30th. Far away in San Francisco, on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean, a meeting that will attract the attention of the world is about to begin. On the surface, this is a mediation meeting that emphasizes the cessation of the tripartite war between China and Japan, but privately the great powers call it a negotiation to contain the rise of the Chinese dragon, and as for the contradictions between Japan and Russia, it is temporarily placed in the second place.

In winter, San Francisco is covered with clouds, and the Mediterranean climate makes it less cold, just a little more gloomy. The British observer mission walked out of the train station, led by the current Foreign Secretary Rorsmore. Greeted by U.S. government organizers and local British embassy staff, drive to the British Consulate.

Sit in a relatively safe car. Rolmo still seemed to feel his body shaking. From London, across the Atlantic, and then on the Union Pacific Railroad for more than three thousand kilometers. Rolmo felt that it would not be long before he could travel the world.

Sitting on transport for long periods of time made Rolmo feel terrible, but even worse was his current mood, a few months ago at 10 Downing Street in London, which had been desperately trying to secure the status of a mediation observer in San Francisco, and Prime Minister Balfour was frustrated by the challenge of the Liberal Party at home. You can only send yourself.

As for the situation in the Far East, Rolmo, as a foreign minister of the empire on which the sun never sets, and a good player at playing balance, is a little incomprehensible. The Russo-Japanese War arose because the two sides fought for control of Northeast China and Korea, and supported Japan and Russia separately due to the different interests of the great powers. Japan, supported by the British, fell short and almost collapsed under the blows of China, and was in an absolutely disadvantageous situation; Russia picked up a victory in vain; As for Huaguo, this is where I can't understand it.

Hua Guo saw the opportunity to defeat the Japanese Combined Fleet in one fell swoop, and then landed on Kyushu Island, cut off Japan's supply lines with Korea and Northeast China, and put Japan into a state of almost isolation. The country demonstrated unparalleled military prowess in the war, with super-battleships, giant airships, fighter jets, armored fighting vehicles, and so on, not only creating new terms, but also eclipsing the fantastical abilities of science fiction writers such as Jules Verne.

Huaguo is like a dragon that suddenly soars, roaring, fangs and claws, from obscurity to blockbuster, extremely high-profile and flamboyant use war to promote the rise of the Chinese, how can this not make Rolmo and all Europeans recall the Mongolian nightmare with horseshoe?

At present, the situation in the Far East is beyond the control of Britain, Japan has little say as the vanquished, Russia is destined to gain a lot of interests in the northeast, and China firmly controls the south of the Yangtze River and eyes the north of the Yangtze River. The North became the only place in the Far East that was open to the Great Powers, and while the Great Powers were trying their best to extract benefits from it, a stock storm caused the North to lose most of its wealth and become a chicken-ribbed place. Even Prime Minister Balfour said that Britain was exhausted in the Far East, but there was nothing they could do to prevent it from happening, and they could only watch the empire lose its rights there.

The changes in the Far East were also the main reason why Balfour's Conservative Party was violently attacked by the Liberals, and it is for this reason that Rolmo's trip to San Francisco was again pinned on high hopes.

Rolmore already has a detailed plan, which is the shared responsibility of free and civilized Westerners, in which Britain should be the organizer and leader, but other Western countries such as France should also be involved to contain the rise of the Chinese dragon. As for Germany and Russia, they were automatically excluded from the camp of liberal Westerners by Rolmo.

Rolmo arrived in San Francisco on Nov. 25 and was the latest to arrive at the negotiating venue. On the evening of the 26th, the host, the current US Secretary of State, Eli Hulute, invited the negotiators of various countries to the famous Red Fei Manor in San Francisco to taste wine.

British Foreign Secretary Rolmore, Russian Foreign Secretary Ramsdorf, U.S. Secretary of State Hurut, Chinese Foreign Minister Zhang Taiyan, Japanese Foreign Minister Takaaki Kato, and the leader of the team, Nozomi Saionji, French Foreign Minister Renaud-Rupier, as well as escorts and interpreters from various countries' missions, crowded the reception hall of Hongfei Manor.

The owner of Hongfei Manor talked with the foreign ministers of China and Russia seemingly politely, the foreign ministers of Britain, France, and Japan gathered together, and US Secretary of State Hurut maneuvered between the two circles. A simple cocktail party can make it clear about the international situation.

"Look at those people, it looks so glaring and awkward in this beautiful manor, just like the feeling that they exist in this world." As the center of the small circle, Rolmo tapped Zhang Taiyan and the other Chinese with his fingers, and whispered to the two people beside him.

"Yes, they are the representatives of barbarism and backwardness, one of the lowest races in the world, and they should not exist in this world! Their existence can only become an obstacle to civilization! Xiyuan Temple Gongwang immediately answered, in the past, it was difficult to see such a high-level as the foreign minister of the Great Sun Never Setting Empire, so Xiyuan Temple Gongwang must behave well.

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister said it very well!" Rolmo bowed his head and praised the other party, which made the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang overjoyed. In this political circle, Saionji Gongwang, as the prime minister of a country and one of the big names in Japanese politics, has been well-known to the outside world. But there is no equality in diplomacy, everything is backed by national strength.

Rolmo: "The Japanese are the representatives of Western civilization in the East, and you have the mission of spreading Western civilization, which is God's will, and whoever stands in the way will be punished by God." Neither the so-called Chinese pagans nor the Orthodox leaders can stop God's will! ”

These words showed that Britain would not let Japan be bullied, and the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang immediately climbed up the pole: "Your Excellency Holmes, Your Excellency Ruvier, Japan is now in a difficult situation, and there is an extreme shortage of supplies at home because of the blockade of the Chinese and Russian navies. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in the northeast have a problem to eat, and the guerrillas and civilians on Kyushu Island who persist in the war of resistance are slaughtered by the Chinese army every day, and the war must be stopped immediately, and the two executioners of the war in China and Tsarist Russia must be punished! (To be continued.) )