On the one hand, France's interests in the Far East, like Britain, were damaged, France suffered heavy losses in China, and the loans of its banking syndicates were likely to be unrecoverable due to the impact of the stock turmoil in the north; The French Indochina colony was threatened by China, and there were even Chinese naval warships in the South China Sea. From these two points, France and China are not in the same place, which is why Ruvière is standing here.

On the other hand, the French banking syndicates borrowed more from Tsarist Russia, and they did not want Russia's defeat to make it impossible to repay the loans. Moreover, the rise of China has become a fact, and it is difficult to rely on the means of war or regional balancing to be effective, and in such a situation, offending a new country in the Far East will make the French colony in Indochina unsafe.

Therefore, Ruvier's attitude is more subtle, and he has not spoken when Rolmo and Xiyuan Temple Gongwang are arranging Huaguo in a big way.

At this time, the host Hurut came over with a wine glass, and the two of them stopped talking tacitly, and the Xionji Gongwang first bowed standardly: "Thank you to the great United States and His Excellency Hurut for providing us with such a wonderful drinking venue, and on behalf of the Japanese Empire, I wish His Excellency Hurut good health, and wish the relations between Japan and the United States to flourish!" ”

Hurut: "Thank you very much! Then he nodded slightly, turned his head to Rolmore, and said, "Your Excellency Rolmore, Your Excellency Ruvière, are you satisfied with tonight's drinking party?" ”

Ruvier almost laughed out loud, the dignified Japanese prime minister, on this occasion is also not taken seriously, Hurut clearly ignored his love. It is no wonder that Japan was previously supported by the British, had a strong navy, and had been fighting the Russian army in the northeast for two years, and had already been initially recognized by the great powers. Unexpectedly, the representative of national strength, the United Fleet, was destroyed in one fell swoop. The country was still occupied by the Chinese and had lost its qualifications as a great power, so Hurut's attitude was understandable.

Xiyuan Temple Gongwang is very good at the kung fu of "forbearance", watching Hurut and the others talking and laughing, still smiling sincerely, with a sense of longing and inferiority on his face.

"Your Excellency Hurut. I hope that your country will maintain a fair and impartial attitude in presiding over this mediation conference, which is what the British Empire would like to see. ”

After listening to Rolmo's words, Hunut almost crushed the cup in his hand, there is no way, the current Britain is so domineering and unreasonable in diplomatic occasions, the United States does not have a large number of battleships, does not have a fleet across the oceans, so it can only endure the rudeness of Britain, even if the United States is now the world's first industrial country!

Fortunately, President Theodore Roosevelt was a staunch expansionist who valued the Navy more than any previous U.S. president. The United States supported Russia in order to resist Japan's aggressive expansion in the Far East. Now that Japan has been suppressed, the United States will turn its attention to China. In the 1905 naval construction plan, it was expected that by 1907 the United States would soon have 20 battleships, second only to Britain and Germany, and the United States would have much more confidence by then.

But now, Hulut still has to match the rhythm of Rolmo, because it is also the desire of the United States to contain the expansion of China. At present, most of the main forces of the US Navy are concentrated in the Atlantic, and the naval strength deployed in the Far East and the Pacific is very weak. There is no way to compete with Huaguo, a bold and flamboyant Roosevelt believed. After this war, a confrontation between China and the United States in the Pacific region will take shape.

"The United States will guarantee the impartiality of this mediation, and our country is a country of businessmen and the most credible country in the world, so you can rest assured." Hurut Road.

"The iron hooves of medieval Mongolia seriously threatened Western civilization, and now China is no less damaging to the world order than it was then, and a yellow scourge is about to appear. As the leaders of Western civilization, it is necessary for us to contain and destroy this threat! Rolmo was blunt with Hurut.

Hurut did not respond, he thought so in his heart, the United States, like all Western countries, has a deep-rooted racist mentality. But. The United States is also contradictory, he hopes to suppress China, but also does not want to excessively intensify the contradictions with China, because now China's trade with the United States is extremely frequent, since the San Francisco consortium ceded part of its interests, many large conglomerates have participated in trade with China, and have obtained great benefits from it. The Chinese market is something that the United States cannot give up, and this is where the top leaders of the United States, including Roosevelt, are unanimously contradictory. Therefore, Hurut cannot brazenly express the anti-China attitude of the United States.

"I don't agree with His Excellency Rolmo's point of view, it is true that **** is a great disaster for the West, but now that the rise of China has become a trend, and there is a German royal family in Europe, rashly provoking an enemy, I am afraid it is not a rational choice, and this enemy is far from the center of world civilization, is it like the Russian Pacific Fleet expedition?" Ruvier wanted Britain to turn its attention away from China to Germany, and since the signing of the agreement between Britain and France on Morocco, Egypt and other North African regions, the colonial contradictions between the two sides have disappeared. France and Germany are sworn enemies of the European continent, and Britain is actively building a bloc against Germany because of the traditional "continental balance policy" and the ambitious ambition of Wilhelm II of Germany. There is a powerful enemy on your side, and it is really not wise to provoke a strong country in the Far East.

At least for now, it seems that China is a great power, from the navy they have super battleships and at least six 10,000-ton capital ships, from the army point of view, they have nearly half a million well-equipped and well-trained troops, and the killer weapon of armored combat vehicles is no trickier than Germany.

Rolmo rubbed his forehead, it was indeed a big trouble, and it was a very difficult one to solve. The key to untying this dead knot is in the United States, how can the British Empire give up so easily, I believe that the country has already begun to operate! Thinking of this, Rolmo was happy again. Downing Street already had a well-established plan to put China in trouble without spending too much British strength, and in his opinion, it was a perfect plan!

Now, his task is to get the least benefit from the talks and to try to exacerbate the contradictions between China and the United States.

As for France, Rolmo looked at Ruvier with an indifferent face, what they wanted to see most was revenge, the psychological shadow caused by the Franco-Prussian War was too great, as long as Germany could be defeated, it was not impossible for them to give up their colonies in the Far East!

The reception ended at about ten o'clock in the evening, and the two groups did not communicate at all, and the atmosphere was so thick that the streams in the manor could not make waves, and the conspiracy hatched in the dark night made even the purest maids feel uncomfortable.

Zhang Taiyan, who had endured the strong smell of the Slavs all night, returned to the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, and just wanted to wash the dust off his body, when there was a knock on the door.

"Vice President, you haven't slept so late?" Zhang Taiyan let Zhang Zhidong in, looking at his neatly dressed appearance, it was clear that he had not rested. Zhang Zhidong did not attend the previous drinking party due to physical reasons.

"People are old and feel less, how are they over there?" Zhang Zhidong asked.

Zhang Taiyan poured tea for him, sat down and said, "A group of mad dogs bark blindly." The Russian, Ramsdorff, had been staying with me for a while, and the terms of the talks were exchanged, and it seemed that the Russians had a big heart, and they wanted all of the Northeast, including Arthur, and demanded an indemnity of fifty million pounds from Japan. I told him that even if Russia gets the Northeast region, the secret agreement signed between China and Russia must be observed, the number of Russian troops stationed in the Northeast must be controlled, and there must be no Russians in Mongolia. ”

"Well, Lao Maozi's ambition is too great, and the situation of monopolizing the Northeast will definitely be stopped by Britain, France and the United States, and our secret agreement with him, Russia will not necessarily abide by it, but we still have to unify the country as soon as possible and recover this treasure land in the Northeast!" Zhang Zhidong said.

"Moreover, the British and Japanese have a tough attitude and extreme hatred of our country, and the French have an ambiguous attitude, presumably because of the German containment, which has caused little energy to take care of the Far East, and is also afraid of the threat to the colony of Indochina. The attitude of the Americans is worth recalling, and Secretary of State Huerut, although maneuvering between the two sides as the host, clearly leaned towards the British and Japanese sides. ”

"Hehe, so the French will not do anything, it should be said that they will remain neutral. As for the Americans, I am afraid that it is our super warships and the Pacific Fleet that make them panic in their hearts, and they are afraid that we will compete with the United States for the interests of the Pacific region. If you want me to say, the Americans are blind to the Philippines and do not see Mount Tai, they only have one colony in the Pacific region, and the other is Hawaii, which was annexed by the Americans, and most of their interests in northern China are not much sweetened because of the stock turmoil. (To be continued.) )