The diplomatic activities of the Haitang mission in Cairo were said to be successful. However, none of the achievements of the Haitang Kingdom, which is directly related to the interests, have been achieved. Whether it's loans or arms supplies, technology is shared.

Although the mission staff was active, it was difficult to satisfy Premier Yuan when they saw the achievements. Just at the end of the meeting, an unexpected change emerged.

There are benefits to making friends.

The Haitang Army once provided MacArthur with two elite pilots to help the U.S. Army Air Force improve its ability to fight Japanese Zeros. Lieutenant General Arnold, commander of the US Army Air Corps, was very grateful for this, and Li Guang also had some small friendships with Arnold.

The Cairo Conference was a very formal diplomatic event for the United States, Britain, China, and the Soviet Union. Not only the heads of state came, but also representatives of the navy, land and air forces, and even the supreme commander. The United States does not have an Air Force Commander, and for the sake of so-called reciprocity in diplomatic activities, Lieutenant General Arnold represents an independent Air Force that does not actually exist in the United States.

It is of great significance to be able to be a representative of the U.S. Air Force on a formal occasion. Lieutenant General Arnold has ambitions, and he is naturally proud.

MacArthur was going to fight the Philippines, that was top secret, and Arnold didn't know it yet. But he knew that the Haitang Army was going to cooperate with Marshal Mai, and the Haitang Army had already sent a hundred pilots and a hundred staff officers, and he knew it very well. Arnold still knows a little about the quality of the pilots of the Haitang Army.

The Don Army helped MacArthur, in a sense, to help him Arnold's air force. As long as he is a general with a normal mentality, there is no one who does not care for the lives of his soldiers, in order to better cooperate with the Haitang Army. Arnold inevitably had a private exchange with the Haitang delegation, and Premier Yuan and Foreign Minister Yan were looking for a breakthrough everywhere, so the exchanges between the two sides were quite harmonious.

Arnold, though, was a military man. And not MacArthur's kind of military man who likes to meddle in politics. Therefore, Premier Yuan did not have much hope for General Arnold.

During the chat, Premier Yuan mentioned that the next stop of the Haitang delegation was to Tehran, the capital of Iran.

Li Guang's poor historical study did not know that after the Cairo Conference, there was also a Tehran Conference. And Premier Yuan is naturally not a god, the United States and Britain are strict in secrecy, Chairman Chiang does not know, and he does not know that Roosevelt's next stop is Tehran.

At this time, General Arnold played an unexpected role. When Roosevelt got on the plane. Arnold casually mentioned that the diplomatic mission of the Haitang State was also going to Tehran. Roosevelt was suddenly interested, and Premier Yuan was able to set foot on the US presidential plane.

Roosevelt's unsolicited dislike for the Tang Kingdom did not disappear, but he had something that interested him, or rather something that the United States was interested in—Ceylon.

Ceylon is strategically and geographically important. If it is measured from the military point of view of the Second World War. Ceylon is much more important than the location of Datang Island.

Previously, it was the territory of the British. It is difficult for Americans to intervene. But. Now that the opportunity has arisen, Ceylon is asking for independence, and the Haitang Kingdom is supporting it with high spirits, how can Roosevelt not see that the United States has a chance to intervene.

The attitude of the British towards Ceylon was that I could not get it, and no one else could have it. Of course, this person he called was Hai Tang Kingdom. If the United States intervenes. The tricks that the British can play are extremely good.

Roosevelt was interested, and Premier Yuan was interested. So the two foreign high-ranking officials decided Ceylon's interests. And it was done quite naturally, without the slightest consideration that the Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Ceylon was on another plane.

This time. Roosevelt was happy.

In Roosevelt's mind, America was the savior. Next, he believes that Haitangguo's request is nothing more than a question about aid loans. This is because Premier Yuan has long said that Haitang's military spending will be supported by the current financial situation until the middle of four or four years at most.

However, to Roosevelt's surprise, the Haitang Kingdom officially proposed a post-war disposition plan for Japan.

Premier Yuan generously stated that Japan has caused great harm to China and posed a threat to world peace. In order to ensure that Japan will never again endanger the world.

After the war, the Haitang Kingdom demanded a share of Japan's northern territories, namely the four northern islands and a number of annexed islands.

China occupies the Ryukyu Islands south of the Japanese mainland.

In this way, a kind of north-south flanking attack has been formed, and the north and south have joined forces to imprison Japan, so that Japan can no longer do evil.

Modern people, almost all of them take it for granted that an extra piece of territory is always a good thing. But in fact, the four northern islands proposed by Haitang are chicken ribs in the eyes of everyone (except the Soviet Union), including the United States.

For the Haitang Kingdom, owning such a territory is an eternal burden and trouble. Both now and in the future.

Perhaps, after the victory over Japan, it will be easier to imprison Japan. But the four northern islands besieged exactly the Soviet Union's access to the sea in the Far East. Conflict is inevitable.

Isn't it fun to play against such a big empire?

At the very least, although Roosevelt had a deep dislike for the Soviet system, he did not dare to rashly lead the United States directly against the Soviet Union.

If we look at the international situation after World War II, we can see that the United States and the Soviet Union are fighting happily, but there are very few opportunities to face them militarily.

Roosevelt believed that the Haitang Kingdom was blinded by hatred. For example, the Cairo Conference decided to deprive Japan of the overseas territories it had occupied since World War I, such as the Caroline Islands, after the end of the war.

If Haitang proposes to ask for benefits there, the United States will agree. Isn't war all about sharing the spoils? As long as the United States has the lion's share, it doesn't really care about a few small islands in the Pacific.

This move is definitely a stupid move.

Roosevelt thought so. That's why I want to say yes right away. However, in his think tank, he is also known as the most prominent and outstanding secretary of state in the history of the United States. Hull, after some whispering, the condition became: before the end of the war, the Haitang Kingdom can conquer the four northern islands, and this agreement counts.

is very cunning, and it is obvious that he wants Haitang to exert more strength on the battlefield and help the US military share the pressure.

Premier Yuan was "obsessed" and even repeatedly demanded that the meeting on the plane form a written word.

The Cairo Conference has historically had declarations and consultations. However, there is no specific text of the secret text. The document obtained by Haitang was not a very formal document, but was actually the only contractual document of the Cairo Conference. Since only the United States and the Haitang Kingdom signed, there were countless disputes in later generations. However, no matter how the dispute is, the land is in hand, and the right to interpret depends on the strength.

At the end of the conversation, Roosevelt asked with interest what Haitang thought of Iran.

Premier Yuan replied: "We believe that Iran has made great sacrifices to resist the Axis powers and deserves sovereign independence. Moreover, given the backwardness of the Iranian economy. I propose to lead with the United States. We are willing to assist Iran in establishing its oil industry so that the Iranian people can become rich as soon as possible. ”

You know, the situation in Iran is very bad right now. Since the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Soviet army has not announced anything at all. Directly occupied the northern part of Iran. And the south of Iran, it was controlled by the British.

Iran has nothing else. But the oil is woe-wow. In the era of World War II. The British exploited at least six million tons of oil in Iran every year. Of course, this number is nothing in the 21st century, but in this year, it is quite a staggering number.

Even more eye-catching is the expected reserves of its oil.

Premier Yuan's trip is actually for Iran's oil. It's just that the strength of the Haitang Kingdom is weak. He could only take a sidestep and prepare to sign a maritime exploration right with the Iranian king Badawi on the coast of the Persian Gulf.

For easy-to-exploit onshore oil fields, Premier Yuan is certainly interested. More importantly, the Americans were interested, and Roosevelt was interested.

Haitang is a free ride with the United States. And the United States also needs a minion to wave the flag and shout. Anyway, it was taken from the British, and Roosevelt was not overbearing. Immediately said: "The United States supports Haitang's view on this issue." ”

Historically, in four or four years, Roosevelt and Churchill had a spoil-sharing negotiation on the Iranian issue -- Iranian oil should be divided equally between the United States and Britain.

And what about allies? The United States and Britain also have conflicting interests. Haitang was worried that he couldn't find a plug-in phone opportunity, and Roosevelt actually delivered it to the door, which was really an unexpected gift.

Since '44, the United States and Haitang have cooperated with each other, supported each other diplomatically, helped each other in personnel, steadily established roots in Iran, and dug up a large exploration area.

The dry stare of the British people, but they could not stop it. Compared to money, it is not comparable to the United States. It's faster and more convenient, and it's not as fast as Haitang.

At the subsequent Tehran meeting, Premier Yuan was not deeply involved. One is that he is not qualified enough, and the other is that Li Guang, a guy who returns knowledge to his teacher, does not know about the Tehran Conference, and he does not know that the Tehran Conference actually has something about China.

At least two things are related to China:

First, Stalin agreed to declare war on Japan after defeating Germany. But the asking price was that Soviet troops could enter the Chinese ice-free port of Dalian, and Dalian could become a free port under international supervision. Li Guang knew about this. However, Li Guang misremembered such an important matter, and he thought that it was this request made by the Soviet Union at the Yalta Conference at the end of the war.

Bad history is really the greatest sorrow of people who have traveled through time.

Moreover, with the current Soviet-German battlefield situation, the Soviet Union did not reverse the battlefield situation, and at most it was a stalemate stage. Unexpectedly, under such a disadvantage, the Soviet Union still had the appetite to think about Dalian Port.

Second, due to the differences between the three countries over the situation in Europe. The Soviet Union demanded that the United States and Britain must have a timetable for landing in Europe, landing in Europe as soon as possible, and sharing a little pressure on the Soviet Union. Roosevelt, on the other hand, was inclined to land in Europe as soon as possible, fearing that the longer Germany took to integrate European resources, the more difficult it would be to defeat. Churchill, on the other hand, was scheming, and was reluctant to land in Europe until the Soviet Union and Germany had not won or lost, or that these two countries had not exhausted their last strength, and he was only willing to attack from the edge of the battlefield - the Balkans. To put it bluntly, it's about stalling for time.

In the end, after a dog-eat-dog time, the three sides still decided on an Allied strategy for four or four years -- the Allied troops landed in Europe in the middle of the year.

As a result, Britain agreed to Chairman Chiang's Burmese counteroffensive at the Cairo Conference on the pretext of devoting its main military energy to Europe, and the time was postponed.

Historically, Chairman Chiang was depressed when he heard the news. The Yunnan-Burma Highway was opened, far away, and I was very disappointed.

However, this time, the Haitang Army guaranteed the transportation of supplies. As long as there was an import of supplies, Chairman Chiang did not want to consume the Chinese army under Stilwell's command.

This news is also good news for the Haitang Army, which has a small number of troops, and if it is used in the Burmese battlefield, it will be impossible to organize large-scale battles in other directions. Forced by the agreement with Chairman Chiang, the main force of the Haitang Army gathered in the Indian Ocean and has been preparing for war. The British postponed the Burma campaign, just in time to liberate the forces of the Haitang Army, giving Li Guang the opportunity to find new fighters.

The main goal of the diplomatic mission of the Haitang State is still Iran, and in the meeting with the Iranian king Badawi, Premier Yuan once again threw out: the oppressed and enslaved people should unite and strive for independence.

The king of Iran, Badawi, was young, and his father was imprisoned by the British and died in Africa.

For many years, no country has ever shown goodwill towards Iran, and it is difficult to say how much substantial support Haitang can provide, although Haitang is only a small country. But Badawi is extremely grateful. Thus, the signing of documents on offshore oil exploration rights in the Persian Gulf went quite smoothly.

What made Badawi even more excited was that at the end of the Tehran conference, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union all expressed their support for Iran's post-war independence. The United States wanted a piece of the pie, and the USSR was with the mud (he already occupied a lot of territory, just look at Azerbaijan on the border with Iran, Turkmenistan. And Britain reluctantly agreed. But in any case, after this meeting, Iran's independence has become inevitable.

It's actually a coincidence. However, Haitang was the first to express goodwill, so the friendship gained was even more fruitful.

Although, because of Li Guang's ignorance and lack of skills, Haitang lost an opportunity to influence China. However, Premier Yuan easily completed another task assigned by Li Guang.

Ask Stalin for talent.

Haitang is short of all talents. Even "unpopular" talents such as music, dance, and painting are lacking. In the war, these talents would have been of little use. However, in the past year, the development of the film industry in the Haitang Kingdom has really made Li Guang extremely dissatisfied.

He repeatedly explained that our purpose was to make money. It is necessary to do what it likes, take care of the thinking of Europeans and make a movie.

But the group of filmmakers from China really don't know what it is, and all the good script ideas are ruined. Li Guang really couldn't stand it. If you want to make American money, it's hard.

Of course, the filming of "First Blood" cost millions of dollars, and it was a combination of Hollywood masters, plus the use of warships and fighters, if measured by the market price, I am afraid that it will not be able to get five million dollars. And these domestic film producers only take 500,000 to 5 million Tang yuan, that is, more than 1,000 US dollars to more than 10,000 US dollars to make movies, and it is reasonable that the income is not optimistic.

As for the set and music of the movie, the domestic filmmakers are simply clumsy to the extreme. Therefore, it seems that music and painting talents who are not very useful in the war are also needed in the Haitang Kingdom.

In the list of talents of Haitang Kingdom, there is also a group of experts in biology, theoretical physics, and mathematics.

In short, these people, in the context of war, are basically useless, or of little use.

As for the talents in mechanical, electronic, chemical, metallurgical and other subjects, Hai Tangguo simply did not mention it, and it was in vain to mention it, and the Soviets were busy making weapons and ammunition.

Last time, the Soviets provided a group of prisoner technicians, but now the Soviet battlefield is tight, and those who can work are not given.

Therefore, what Haitang wanted this time was that he could not work, so Stalin agreed. A few months later, Haitang Kingdom got a batch of talents with a number of more than six hundred.

A few years later, Stalin discovered that the Soviet Union had developed a fault line in the study of nuclear bombs. There is no way, these days, there are not many people who study nuclear physics, even in a country as large as the USSR. Among the more than a dozen nuclear physicists, if Li Guang had any knowledge of the Soviet Union's verification process, he would know that these people were all well-known figures.

It's a bit difficult to wait for the Soviet Union to go back.

Li Guang was still satisfied with such diplomatic results, and he began to plan the overall strategic direction of the Haitang Army in the next step. (To be continued......)