On May 24, early in the morning, a Chinese arrived at the door of the British Foreign Office in London. In his capacity as the prime minister and foreign minister of the Haitang Kingdom, Yuan Ye demanded that the British Foreign Office recognize the political status of the Haitang Kingdom and establish diplomatic relations.

In the past two or three months, Professor Yuan Ye has been non-stop, first negotiating with the Uruguayan political axe, and then with Chile. I just dealt with the civil affairs in Uruguay, drew up a plan for the construction of the Donnas, and then went to England again.

In this negotiation, Yuan Ye was single-handed, and he didn't even bring Yuan Ran. After a turmoil in Uruguay, the affairs were complicated, and it was difficult for Yuan Ran to get out of the Oolong shipyard.

In London, England, Professor Yuan originally had a family, and his eldest son, Yuan Zi's family, lived here. However, the relationship between Yuan Ye and his eldest son is somewhat complicated, his eldest son was born to his Goryeo wife who married when he followed Yuan Shikai in North Korea, and later divorced and married the current Mrs. Yuan for various reasons.

As a result, Yuan Zi took his mother to England to study when he was a teenager, married an English woman here, and settled down. Now in service with the HMS Glory aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy.

There is a big age difference between Yuan Zi and Yuan Ran and other brothers, and Yuan Zi, who is now forty years old, already has the rank of colonel in the British Navy. Due to the discord between father and son, Li Guang wanted to ask Yuan Zi to join the Naval Resistance Army several times, but he never received a reply. When Professor Yuan Ye arrived in London, he could only walk around in front of his son's house, look at his grandchildren from a distance, and live in a hotel gloomily.

For the British Foreign Office, this is simply an act of self-indulgence. It is like a joke that a small power with only two small islands should want to read and be recognized by the British.

Officials of the British Imperial Foreign Office even thought that this was simply a swagger of liars. But according to the documents of the British minister to Uruguay, Raeder, the gentlemanly demeanor of the British did not act rudely without being able to confirm whether the other party was a liar or not. After all, the defeat of the Chilean Navy by the Naval Resistance Force was quite a sensation in the world.

Diplomatic officials are naturally masters of prevarication, but Professor Yuan Ye's words made the British begin to pay attention.

"The Germans will stop attacking the Anglo-French forces near Dunkirk today."

And Professor Yuan Ye's second sentence is: "China has a fleet near Dunkirk. ”

Another skill of the Foreign Ministry official was best displayed at this moment, for a second.

Yuan Ye was no longer faced with cynicism, but a smiling face like a flower.

For the 24th that the Germans stopped attacking, not to mention the British, even Yuan Ye actually didn't understand the reason at all. This was purely Li Guang's "prediction", but in view of Li Guang's consistent and correct prediction of the European war situation, Professor Yuan Ye still threw this point as a bargaining chip for negotiations.

The unfavorable news of the war situation was only known to the upper echelons, and all the long stories on the radio were about the British victory, the big victory, and the victory again. Ordinary people are not able to know the situation of the war at all, in fact, even these lower-level officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs do not know the situation of the war. It's just that as a diplomat, he is naturally sensitive to intelligence. Although these lower-level officials did not know what was happening on the battlefield, they knew that the recent foreign secretary had been busy all day, and the civilian staff had also been busy working out a plan for negotiations with Germany.

Under these circumstances, Yuan Ye's news that the Germans would stop their offensive in the near future was really shocking, even if the British had many spies, it was impossible to get such important information. British diplomats immediately judged that Yuan Ye was sure, otherwise he would not have thrown out such an easily verifiable message.

It was the morning of the 24th, and by noon it was easy to know whether the Germans were still on the offensive or not.

Hitler's Germany took the initiative to stop the offensive when the situation was very good, giving the British and French troops forty-eight hours to spare. This was even more incredible for Britain than the defeat of the Anglo-French army by Germany in two weeks. Even in later generations, the reason for which Hitler personally ordered the cessation of the offensive remained a mystery.

Later generations interpreted this mystery in three main ways, the first of which was the military factor. After the start of the operation on the Western Front, the German offensive was so fast that it disrupted not only the timetable of the Anglo-French operational command, but also the timetable of the Germans themselves. The Germans themselves did not expect to attack so quickly and so easily. The Germans, fearing losses, adjusted the pace of the battle.

The second factor comes from Goering. Hermann Goering, the commander of the air force of Nazi Germany, was so arrogant that he demanded that the Luftwaffe under his command solve the Anglo-French forces in the Dunkirk encirclement. Hitler was willing to let Goering reveal his position as deputy leader of the Nazi Party, so he ordered the army to halt its advance and ordered Goering's air force to carry out a powerful aviation fire raid on the British and French forces in the encirclement.

The third factor comes from the political aspect. Hitler had always wanted to lure Britain down. In the Nazi racial theory, the British were a superior race, not the object of Hitler's conquest.

But even if you go deep into this era, it's hard to judge what the Germans, or Hitler, thought. However, according to Li Guang's view, the third factor that later generations considered to be the most unreliable was probably the reason why Hitler issued such an order.

During his current trip to Europe, Li Guang profoundly felt the differences in the perception of other ethnic groups among the Germans. In simple terms, the policy of the Germans towards the Poles was significantly more brutal than against the Danes. Perhaps in their minds, the Danes are not a very inferior people.

In his dealings with the Germans, Li Guang felt that it was obvious that the Germans of this era not only did not hate the British, but even admired the British. Claude, for example, prefers the old and problematic British sedan to the reliable German sedan. The reason is special - Claude thinks that the British sedan has an elegant appearance.

Perhaps this was the basis of Hitler's deep-seated ethnography. In Nazi ethnography, the British, like the Nordic and Aryan races, were superior races.

The British diplomat immediately turned from cynicism to a smile, and tried to find out something, but Yuan Ye, this old gentleman who studied history, taught history, and had all kinds of experience, the art of conversation can be described as perfect.

Well, it's hard to get useful information if we continue to talk about it. The British diplomat found an excuse to retire, and very earnestly asked Premier Yuan, Foreign Minister Yuan, and Professor Yuan to sit down for a while.

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