【Broadcast】Pay attention to "Reading at the starting point", get the first-hand news of 515 red envelopes, and students who have not grabbed red envelopes after the Chinese New Year can show their skills this time.

Outside Cam Ranh Bay, the expeditionary fleet entered the port one after another, and the safe and sound return did not mean that it was completely safe, and the main force of the Chinese navy was not damaged, and it still had the ability to continue the attack. The expeditionary fleet could not withstand further losses, and from July 17, when it entered the port, it remained in the port for three months without leaving the port, until the anti-China alliance announced its dissolution and China returned to its homeland after the signing of a peace treaty with the allied countries. The submarine brigade waiting outside the harbor did not reap more results, and the stubborn sea wolves took turns guarding outside the harbor, trying to tear a piece of fat from the expeditionary fleet again, but without success.

In London, looking out from the window on the second floor of the Prime Minister's Office, a surging crowd gathered in the streets, and the voices of protest came and went, with the cries calling for Prime Minister Henry and the Cabinet to step down. The defeat in the South China Sea naval battle caused an uproar among the people, and the proud British did not want to believe in this outcome or admit this defeat. From the moment the news came, crowds from all directions gathered in London, and various demonstrations continued one after another. The normal office order of 10 Downing Street and Whitehall was seriously disrupted, and the Navy headquarters was even shocked by the crowd.

The army had to mobilize two infantry divisions into London to maintain order, and the shameful high-ups did not give the order for violent suppression, which made the soldiers who maintained order the target of anger, and the soldiers with blue noses and swollen faces became the norm.

"I will resign and submit a detailed report of the naval battle to Parliament, with the impeachment of the Conservatives on my own to ensure that the Liberals remain in power. Other than that. Before I resign, I will submit one last proposal to Parliament, which is to expand the allocation of naval funds to design and build twenty dreadnoughts. I believe that my resignation and this plan will be able to quell the anger of the people, as for Huaguo, although I don't want to admit it, but the truth is. They have completely stood up and become the new hegemon of the Far East, and now no one is able to contain the country. ”

Prime Minister Henry lowered the curtains and explained to the cabinet members in the room, his tone full of helplessness and sadness. The first appearance of the British in the era of giant ships and cannons ended in tragedy, which was a heavy blow to the global hegemony of the British, and its subsequent effects will last for years or even more than a decade.

Prime Minister Henry resigned ten days later, but the day before Parliament had passed the Five-Year Naval Expansion Plan, which would increase funding for research into naval equipment. Increase investment in shipbuilding, expand the size of the British Far East Fleet, and strengthen the construction of the Singapore Fortress. The goal was to have twenty dreadnought battleships within five years, five of which were new battleships with a displacement of more than 25,000 tons, and although naval equipment experts questioned this, political demands forced them to do so.

In addition to dealing with surging opposition and Conservative attacks, the British government also had to pacify the three countries, as they all know. At the final stage of the naval battle, the British abandoned the 4th Battleship Detachment. As a result, the battleships of the three countries of France, Spain and Italy were sunk and became the spoils of war of the Chinese.

The three countries demanded that the British give an explanation, compensate the losses of the three countries, and severely punish those responsible. Admiral Natal, who was most directly responsible, had committed suicide, and the British put all the blame on this dead man, but despite this, this general was still a British general, and the British government could not shirk it.

Reparation is impossible. But it had to take care of the faces of the three countries, and the situation in Europe made it impossible for Britain to give up France as an ally, and it could not offend Spain and Italy too much. If the two countries were pushed over to the side of the Germans because of this incident, then the situation of the British in the Mediterranean was critical.

In the end, the four countries reached an agreement, and it is not known what price the British paid to quell the anger of the three countries. But looking at the indignant expressions of Spain and Italy, and the relatively satisfied faces of the French, it is clear that the British still focused on pacifying France.

The United States, which had thought that it would gain tremendous benefits in the war against China, contacted Mr. George of the San Francisco consortium the day after the end of the naval war, hoping that George would contact the upper echelons of China and convey the goodwill of the United States.

After the failure of the seizure by force, the Americans began to miss the tremendous benefits brought by China in peacetime, and now that the Chinese navy completely controlled the sea in the Far East, its colony of the Philippines and the islands in the Pacific Ocean were immediately threatened by China. With a very weak military force, Roosevelt could only pinch his nose and swallow the bitter fruit, and prescribe a series of conditions for George to hand over to Lu Liang in the upper echelons of China, hoping to restore the normalization of relations between the two countries.

The contradictions between the main and secondary Lu Liang are very clear, and he has no ambition to beat the whole world, and the contradictions with Britain in the process of rising are irreconcilable, and Britain can easily pull up a large group of thugs, which makes the outside world look like China is against the entire West. However, the Western world is not monolithic, the Germans are a separate country for Britain, and the United States is also increasing its military power, and using its strong economy is also a challenge to Britain's hegemony.

But how can you easily let go of this ********? Roosevelt had to pay a price for the rudder when he saw the wind, and Lu Liang's condition was that the United States would transfer the Philippines to China, for which China would pay the United States 50 million pounds; The United States stopped providing logistical supplies to the Japanese-Russian coalition, withdrew from the anti-China alliance, and exported 5 million tons of steel to China every year.

Lu Liang opened his mouth widely, and the Americans bargained, and before the normalization of relations between the two countries and the dissolution of the anti-China alliance, the negotiations between the two countries still need to be carried out in secret. So George, or Lu Er, acted as an intermediary in the negotiations between the two countries, of course, Roosevelt's bottom line of negotiations would be revealed to George to some extent, and Lu Liang would get the news from Lu Er as soon as possible.

The biggest dispute between the two sides is the transfer of the Philippine region, which is of greatest significance to the United States because of its agriculture, especially the sugar industry. The Philippines' superior agricultural products and tropical agricultural products, especially the sugar industry and rubber industry, have always occupied a very important position in the US market, with the sugar industry completely occupying the US market and the rubber industry accounting for 30 percent of the US market. These imply enormous benefits that the American capitalists cannot abandon.

In addition, the Philippines is one of the only overseas colonies of the United States, representing the ambition of the United States to expand outward. Of course, we must also see the disadvantages of offending China because of the Philippines, and if US-China relations cannot be normalized, the economic losses caused by the Americans every year because of China far exceed the benefits they gain in the Philippines. Americans, who call themselves businessmen, will not fail to settle the score.

Moreover, China, with its strong military strength, can directly attack and occupy the Philippines regardless of the resistance of the Americans, so that the Americans will join the anti-China alliance, and the bamboo basket will be empty, and they will have to pay the Philippines, which is not worth it.

On 20 July, the US Congress held a secret hearing to discuss the Philippine issue, and the debate between the congressmen represented the contradiction between the two major capital groups in the United States, one is the US Sugar Group and the Rubber Group, which have huge interests in the Philippines, and the other is the Iron and Steel Group and the San Francisco Consortium, which have huge interests in China. In the end, the Sugar Group and the Rubber Group made a compromise and agreed to transfer the Philippines, but at the same time demanded that China not interfere in the commercial activities of US citizens in the Philippines and not confiscate the property of American businessmen in the Philippines.

This is to continue to do business under the protection of China, Lu Liang no longer cares about that little business, but he can't be used to being blind to children, so he asked for the purchase price of the Philippines to be reduced to 30 million pounds in the conditions, and claimed that this is the price of the Americans to continue to control the sugar and rubber business in the Philippines, the American tycoon said that it was understandable.

As a result, in the blink of an eye, the Americans and China turned enemies into friends, the United States announced its withdrawal from the anti-China alliance, China announced the purchase of the Philippine Islands by the Americans, and the two countries resumed the normalization of relations. The Han Feizi Peace Foundation in Shanghai, China, presented the Han Feizi World ****** to President Roosevelt of the United States in recognition of his great role in resolving the conflict between East and West. Of course, those dirty political deals will never be made public.

The Philippines has made a big step forward for China's power in Southeast Asia, but now is not the time to make great efforts to run the Philippines, and there are still more than 600,000 allied troops in the north waiting for the Chinese army to sweep up.

Since the beginning of the naval battle on July 15, the Northern Allies have never received logistical supplies from the United States, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that the 600,000 army is definitely no match for the Chinese army without logistical support, and the day after the naval battle ended, Lieutenant General Pajerov, commander of the Russian Far East Army, received an order from St. Petersburg Nicholas II to demand that the Far Eastern Army on the Far Eastern front retreat in the direction of Manchuria.

Field Marshal Gentaro Kodama, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese North China Army and Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Army, also received an order from Tokyo for the immediate withdrawal of Japanese troops to Manchuria. Poor Kodama Gentaro had not yet had enough of the addiction of the Allied commander-in-chief, and had just arrived at the port of Tianjin when he received the news of the defeat in the naval battle.

However, now that the Japanese and Russian armies are in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the sea route has been cut off, the British and American transport ships have disappeared without a trace, and they can only retreat to Manchuria from Shanhaiguan on foot, which will be a long journey at one end, and for the Japanese and Russian troops who have just arrived at their destination, the protest of the soles of their feet makes them unable to continue to advance.

Ps. chasing more children's shoes, are there any free appreciation tickets and starting coins~ The countdown to the 515 red envelope list is over, I'll pull a ticket, ask for an increase and appreciation vote, and finally rush a handful! (To be continued.) )