[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 852: American's Request (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

This is the second time that Special Envoy Currie has been ordered to go to China, having recently held talks with the Nationalist Government in Chongqing, and has succeeded in removing the shadow of the Nationalist Government's talks with the United States and Japan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Therefore, the Nationalist Government even held a high-level welcome reception for Special Envoy Currie to China, inviting senior military and political officials of the Nationalist Government to attend.

The purpose of Special Envoy Curry's visit to Chongqing this time is very simple: Since the US Government has decided to freeze all Japanese assets in the United States, it means that the US Government has decided to break with the Japanese Government.

That being the case, the United States will not forget about China as a pawn against the Japanese. Although it is said that Japan's war of aggression against China broke out with the deliberate connivance and covert support of the Americans, the Americans at this time obviously would not admit that they needed China, China's huge backing forces and war potential, and they needed it to contain the Japanese.

Therefore, the envoy Currie came, and he wanted to make a guarantee to the Chinese government that he would never make peace with the Japanese privately, and to assist the United States, Britain and other countries in strengthening the defense of the Japanese in the next time.

In this regard, the Nationalist Government readily agreed. After the Soviet aid was cut off, the Americans and American aid became the only straw for the Nationalist government.

At this time, the Americans also panicked, and the Japanese were like stones in a pit, on the one hand, they kept saying that they wanted to improve relations with the United States, but on the other hand, they were constantly creating trouble in Southeast Asia, and now they have extended their tentacles to the south of French Indochina, which is only one step away from the Philippines of the United States and Malaysia of Britain.

Japan's powerful combined fleet cruises day and night in various seas in Southeast Asia, and although the Japanese army has not yet launched an offensive posture, as a big country, the Americans' sense of distress is undoubtedly relatively high, especially with China as a living example to learn from, so the Americans will absolutely not indulge the Japanese anymore.

Just as the "Outline of Policies for the South" decided by the Army and Navy Headquarters of the Japanese army and navy clearly stipulated, the base camp was determined to be forced to expand into the Dutch East Indies by force when it was completely embargoed by Western countries led by the United States. Japan judged that the United States would understand very well that the imposition of a comprehensive embargo against Japan would inevitably lead to the cause and effect of Japan's armed southward movement, so the day the United States resolutely implemented this measure was the time when it made up its mind to go to war against Japan.

What the Japanese can see, the Americans can certainly see. Therefore, when all Japanese assets in the United States were completely frozen, the Americans thought of China. And the Nationalist Government also needed the assistance of the United States, so the two sides hit it off.

Soon the Nationalist Government and the United States reached an agreement that the United States would provide the Chinese Government with an interest-free loan of about $200 million, but the $200 million must be the payment for the Nationalist Government's purchase of arms, oil, and other war materials from the United States, and could not be used for other purposes. The U.S. government, on the other hand, would use its navy to deliver weapons, equipment, and other materials needed by the Nationalist government to China through the navy to Burma, where the British were stationed, to support China's war of resistance.

At the same time, in order to prevent the Japanese army from expanding in the direction of the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines with all its might, the United States hoped that the Nationalist Government could launch an attack on the Japanese army invading China on the battlefield in China. In order to contain the Japanese troops in South China, it was they who could not go south with all their might.

Out of gratitude to the United States for its assistance to China, the Nationalist Government agreed to the United States' request, but did not guarantee when the battle would begin or that it would be won.

And the person sent by the United States to meet with Li Lanqing was a woman named Larich. The 33-year-old assistant secretary of state at the time obviously knew the details of Huaxia Company and the relationship between Li Lanqing and Ma Zheng, so he went straight to the point and made a request to Li Lanqingxi for the US government shortly after the talks.

In view of Huaxia's strong production capacity and large inventory of arms, the US Government hopes that Huaxia Arms Company can become a supplier of US government arms and become one of the companies that provide arms assistance to countries such as Britain and France.

At the same time, the U.S. government also hopes that Ma Zheng can reduce the price of penicillin drugs. It is even possible to make penicillin, an anti-infective drug technology, public, at least authorizing the US government to produce it for use in wars against Germany, Italy, Japan and other countries.

The U.S. government also hopes to carry out all-round cooperation with Ma Zheng, the U.S. government escorts the development of Huaxia Company, and at the same time provides a large number of advanced warships for Ma Zheng's navy, and Ma Zheng's department provides firepower cover for the U.S. government when necessary.

Li Lanqing herself did not dare to agree to the request made by the United States, so she explained to the United States that she needed to consult Ma Zheng before she could give the United States a clear answer.

After receiving the telegram from Li Lan Qingxi, Ma Zheng thought about it again and again, and was very entangled.

For the United States, Ma Zheng does not have a good impression, and even has a faint disgust. Although the United States now adopts a policy of military aid to China, this policy as a "fulcrum" basically ran through the last four years of the War of Resistance Against Japan. However, Ma Zheng knows that the United States' assistance to China is not only based on humanitarian considerations, but also because of its own national interests.

From the September 18 incident in 1931 to the outbreak of the Pacific War, for ten years, the United States has been acquiescing, instigating, and aiding Japan's aggression against China! Japan occupies Tohoku, US President Herbert Hoover claimed to understand. When Japan occupied Shanghai and other large areas of China's territory, the United States still acquiesced, and its purpose was to instigate Japan to attack the Soviet Union.

And Japan really coveted the rich Siberia of the Soviet Union, and formulated a detailed plan to attack the Soviet Union to "advance north." However, in 1939, the Japanese army attacking the Soviet Union was beaten all over the ground by the Soviet mechanized troops led by Zhukov in Nomenhan, Outer Mongolia, and Japan was forced to abandon the "northward advance" and turn "southward".

From then on, Japan set its sights on Southeast Asia, which was occupied by the United States, Britain, France, and the Netherlands, and waved its troops southward. Not long ago, Japan occupied Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, intending to invade and occupy Dutch Indonesia, and its troops were directed at the Philippines, a US colony.

It was only at this time that the United States began to change its mind and began to impose an embargo on Japan.

Not long ago, the U.S. government finally imposed a life-and-death oil embargo on Japan. Oil is Japan's lifeline, and only the oil embargo is the killer weapon for Japan, which eventually led to Japan's desperate attack on Pearl Harbor, but before that, the United States was the nurse for Japan. In other words, before that, the United States had been exporting strategic materials such as aviation gasoline, scrap steel, and precision machine tools to Japan. Even the formulation of ammonia explosives was provided, which in fact aided the Japanese invasion of China.

Despite the abrogation of the U.S.-Japan Treaty in 1939 and the "moral embargo" on Japan, the Chinese pro-American elite exaggerated its significance, but the United States still exported steel and oil to Japan. Even in the first half of the Pacific War, the United States exported more than twice as much aviation gasoline to Japan as it did in the same period in 1940.

In many cases, more than half of the strategic materials shipped to Japan were exported by the United States to Japan, and US Congressman Nick once said: "Please remember that when Japan killed one million people in China, 544,000 were killed by American accomplices!" ”

When Japanese planes bombed Nanjing indiscriminately, they used gasoline provided by the United States; When the Japanese attacked the Chinese troops defending Nanjing, their tank cannons were made of steel supplied by the United States; When Japanese shells bombarded Chinese soldiers and civilians, the explosives inside were a recipe provided by the United States......

Due to the huge interests between Japan and the United States, at the beginning of China's all-out war of resistance against Japanese aggression, the United States only adopted a "neutral" attitude and "turned a blind eye" to the request for assistance put forward by the Chinese Nationalist Government.

However, with the change of Japan's aggressive policy, it shifted from "northward advance" to "southward advance," and pointed the spearhead directly at the South Pacific and Southeast Asian regions, where the interests of the United States (Britain) are located. This forced the United States to change its foreign policy -- from conniving at Japan's aggression to providing limited aid to China, hoping that this move would curb the momentum of Japan's aggression.

During this period, the contradictions and conflicts between the United States and Japan played a major role in the process of US aid to China, while the change of the Soviet Union's China policy and the contradictions between the United States and the Soviet Union played a secondary role.

Therefore, when the Nationalist Government was grateful for the assistance of the United States, Ma Zheng disdained it, saying that the United States did not want to help the Chinese resist Japan, but wanted the Chinese to help them resist Japan. Moreover, Ma Zheng also knew that the United States and its allies had determined the "Europe first, then Asia" strategy in World War II, focusing on Europe, followed by Asia. (To be continued.) )