As he spoke, Roosevelt took out a document and handed it to Hull and said, "Speaking of which, I am very interested in the Chinese Red Party in Yan'an, northern China, and their leader Mao has made a comment on us, which is very interesting. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Hull slowly read the information from China, and said to Roosevelt in surprise: "Mr. President, this Mao's world strategic vision is very unique, I seem to have seen another Mr. President, in addition, I found that the description of this Chinese Red Party in the intelligence is very praised, but there is a lot of criticism about the Chongqing government, will there be any problems?" ”

In Hull's heart, he did not believe that China's remote northwest would have such strong industrial and military power, let alone that the Chongqing government, which insisted on fighting against Japan, would be as bad as the document said.

Roosevelt said without doubt: "I specially asked Hoover to investigate, do you know that from 1937 to the present, there are Americans who have gone to China and have not returned?" More than 10,000 people have been surveyed so far! Of course, there are also a lot of overseas Chinese who went to participate in the war, but more of them are workers in heavy industry, and there are many scientists, but we have not seen any traces of these workers in Chongqing, so I think that these people should have gone to Yan'an, and these information are very consistent, I believe that when the Chongqing government in China continued to ask the Soviet Union and Germany for help in military equipment, the Chinese Red Party in Yan'an has established its own industrial base, and Shanxi is China's industrial province, with the power of intelligence. It's not hard to understand. ”

Hull listened to Roosevelt's statement, looked at the document and said, "So, Mr. President, what do you think should be done about China?" ”

Roosevelt let out a breath and said with a smile: "We are even willing to win over the Soviet Union, so why should we care about a Chinese Red Party?" For us, the more friends the better, just like that Mao said, only in this way can we end these problems as soon as possible. China has proved its courage and determination with several years of war against Japan, and the Chinese Red Party is an important force in it. I think China should be a force for world peace. More importantly, if we show goodwill to Yan'an, then the Soviet Union will definitely get a signal from us that we will not care about the differences in ideology and system between the Red Party and us in dealing with the fascist state. ”

Hull asked, "And what about the Congress?" ”

Roosevelt said hehe, "I didn't say that we are going to enter the war now, the United States cannot take the initiative to join the war, to be precise, the later the United States joins the war, the more beneficial it is for the United States, we need to curb the spread of fascist forces, just like our next door is on fire, we need to curb the fire of this fire, but it does not mean that we have to take a bucket to put out the fire now, we only need to give our neighbors enough water." ”

As he spoke, Roosevelt said to Hull, "Germany, Italy, and Japan are going to form an alliance, and I think we should also start forming a worldwide anti-fascist alliance, and the first step is to coordinate China in the east and Britain in the west, and send people to contact Britain to see if they are willing to cooperate with China in the event of a Japanese army moving south." ”

Roosevelt gained confidence in the world situation, and he immediately summoned Soong Ziwen again.

Song Ziwen looked at Roosevelt, raised his glasses, and said straight to the point: "Dear President Roosevelt, I wonder if your country has made progress in aiding our country?" ”

Roosevelt nodded and said, "We have analyzed the world situation and believe that Japan's aggression against China has threatened the security of the Pacific, and we may pass a bill in the near future to solve the problem of how to assist those peace-loving countries." ”

Song Ziwen's eyes lit up and said, "This is really good news." ”

Roosevelt shook his hand and said, "In addition, we hope that all the materials we provide will be used in the war against Japan, and will not be used in the civil war, so the materials we aid need to be filed with us in terms of management and use, and finally, we are very interested in the anti-Japanese armed forces of the Chinese Red Party in northern China, and we want to build contact points in Chongqing, Chengdu, Guilin, Xi'an, Yan'an, and Taiyuan, and at the same time, we hope that the materials we provide can be distributed to all the armies who are willing to fight against Japan according to the amount of their contributions. And partisanship should not be the cause of partisan strife to reduce the use of materials to empty talk. ”

Song Ziwen's brows tightened suddenly, why did the US government suddenly become interested in people like the Red Party? Moreover, they want to build liaison stations in places like Taiyuan and Yan'an, so wouldn't they really want to give some US aid to the Red Party? That's not going to work!

Song Ziwen immediately said: "Dear Mr. President, we are glad that your country is willing to help our country in such a critical time, but the armed forces of the Chinese Red Party are not the same as the armed forces of the Chongqing government, and their armed forces do not obey the military orders of the Chongqing government, and there have even been cases of mutiny of the New Fourth Army. Finally, Yan'an and Taiyuan are now in the hands of the Chinese Red Party forces, and it is difficult for us to convince them to support your country's diplomatic activities. ”

Roosevelt shook his head and said, "But as far as I know, the Chinese Red Party armed forces have liberated a large area of occupied territory and people, including two provinces, and at the same time resisted more than half of the Japanese army in China. ”

Song Ziwen immediately retorted and said: "Mr. President, I think we should not only look at the present, but also look at the future, if the Japanese army is defeated by us, and the Chinese Red Party has a large number of military forces and advanced weapons and equipment in its hands, plus the possible help of the Soviet Union, then China's redness will be inevitable, and we think that this is not conducive to the future world peace and the interests of the United States." ”

Roosevelt asked incredulously, "We don't want to divide the aid between Chongqing and Yan'an in half, but only give a part of Yan'an to show our country's recognition of its anti-Japanese war behavior, of course, the specific distribution will be decided by your country, but I am curious, I seem to hear from your words that your country's confidence in facing the Red Party after the war is not enough." ”

Hearing Roosevelt say that China is still responsible for the distribution of materials, Song Ziwen suddenly relieved his heart, rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, we will distribute materials to the various armies in China according to the proportion of our establishment." ”

What Roosevelt didn't know was that the establishment of the Chinese Red Party at this time was only the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, even if the establishment of the Jin Sui Army was added, it was pitiful, and even if it was really divided according to this proportion, it would not be able to divide much, not to mention that Jiang Intermediary would not really do things according to the agreement.

On October 17, 1941, the United States passed the Lend-Lease Act, and Roosevelt officially announced that the United States could lend arms, and the loaned materials were allowed to be returned with interest after the war.

-- Tokyo

"Smack!" Hirohito looked at the newspaper, and Yu Ruyi lightly hit the table.

"The Americans are coming for us." Hirohito said slowly, putting down the newspaper.

The guard knelt beside him and nodded and said, "Your Majesty is wise, if the United States just wants to provide supplies to Britain to fight against Germany, then there is no need to add the latter sentence at all, the British ships are enough to transport, and the only one that has no transportation capacity is China, combined with the intelligence we got last time, the strategic thinking of the United States has been extremely clear, the Americans dare not participate in the war, so they want to use the United States to contribute money and arms, and China and Britain to contribute troops to confront Germany, Italy and Japan." ”

Hirohito looked at Konoe and asked, "What do the military departments and cabinet think?" ”

Konoe's brows furrowed, first of all, the military department, it seems that His Majesty the Emperor already has a heart for war against the United States.

Konoe bowed his head and said, "The military department believes that no matter how the world situation changes, the empire should move forward with the goal of building a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and no matter who is in the way in front of it, it will not hesitate to fight!" ”

Hirohito snorted.

Konoe continued, "The Cabinet's view is to continue negotiations with the United States, and if Japan does import a large amount of its resources, the domestic economy, which is already in danger, will be even worse. ”

Hirohito picked up Ruyi and nodded, and Konoe sighed and stood up and left.

-- Chongqing

"Great, great! Ziwen has made a great contribution to the country! Jiang said excitedly.

Song Meiling was also very proud that her family was praised by Jiang Agent, and said, "He just did what he had to do, and you are excited to see it." ”

Jiang Zheng shook his head and said, "It's not simple, it's not simple, as soon as this Lend-Lease bill comes out, we will be much easier, and the equipment of the Americans is no worse than that of the Soviets." And you see what Ziwen said, there are planes, tanks, artillery, rifles, machine guns, ammunition, etc., which is really good! ”

Song Meiling said with a smile, "Don't be happy too early, this is just a promise, the materials haven't arrived in our hands yet, and depending on the meaning of Ziwen's words, the Americans want us to share some of the materials among the various forces, especially the Red Party, the Americans seem to attach great importance to it." ”

Speaking of this, Jiang Zhong picked up the scepter beside him and said, "This matter is a bit strange, the Americans seem to know the situation in Yan'an very well, and I suspect that the Americans have secretly visited Yan'an." ”

Song Meiling asked, "In that case, does the United States really have a good impression of Yan'an?" ”

Jiang said with a smile: "Don't worry, the Red Party has indeed become strong by taking advantage of Japan's east wind, but whether it is in terms of territory, military strength or other aspects, we still have the advantage, the Americans do not understand our Chinese affairs, and the Red Party must deliberately curry favor, it is not a big deal." ”

Saying that, Jiang Zhong looked at the south and said, "I'm worried about the south now, the United States has almost stood on the opposite side of the fascist forces this time, the first country he allows to lend arms is Britain, this batch has a billion dollars in supplies, followed by the Free France and other European countries that have been invaded, although our batch is not much, but there are also 100 million US dollars, Japan will definitely be disgusted with the United States, and even go south regardless of the opinions of the United States." Fortunately, our expeditionary force has taken shape, and now all we have to do is wait and persevere! ”

-- Yan'an

"One, two, three, ignition !!"

"All to all"

The extremely noisy sound of the motor in Jiang Cheng's ears was like fairy music in the eyes of the chairman, Mr. Zhu and others, watching an armored car in front of them slowly move, and everyone applauded excitedly.

After two months of working overtime day and night, the first self-produced armored car in Yan'an, China, was finally on the road, although many parts of this armored car were handmade, and the motor was scrapped I don't know how many, but after all, there was a problem.

The chairman's hands were red, and he said to Jiang Cheng, "Great! That's great!! We can finally produce our tank armored vehicles on our own! ”

Jiang Cheng introduced to the chairman and said, "Chairman, this armored car is a copy of the German Sdkfz.221, he is not heavy, only 4 tons, and the weapon is a machine gun, which was also used by General Li in the Battle of Lunan in that year. ”

I only saw that this armored car began to demonstrate, turning and stopping sharply, shooting off-road, and it looked so imposing.

Mr. Zhu smiled and said, "This is our light cavalry, when we produce it in large quantities, we can also fight a real blitzkrieg!" ”

Before he could finish speaking, the armored car clicked a few times and suddenly stopped.

"What's going on?" Liu Ding hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

Several maintenance soldiers checked, saluted Liu Ding, looked at the chairman's side, and said embarrassedly, "The car broke down..."

The chairman was a little disappointed, but still encouraged and said, "Don't be nervous, this failure is the mother of success, today we have five or six minutes, tomorrow we will try to let him open for twenty minutes, I think in a month, you can also go to the battlefield." ”

Mr. Zhu said to Liu Ding, "Immediately organize people to repair, find out the reason, report to the factory, and strengthen the technical research in this regard!" ”

"Yes!" Liu Ding saluted and said.

The chairman beckoned and said, "We won't waste time, let's see this armored car here first, Minister Liu, you prepare, let's go to the factory to see our other production situation." ”

As he spoke, Mr. Zhu turned back to Jiang Cheng and said, "In the past two months, our weapon production has been completely replanned, and the newly produced weapons are being issued, that is, we have too many troops, and we want to change all of them, which is relatively rare." ”

As she was talking, Li Qian ran over, and after greeting the chairman and the others, she took the information and said to Jiang Cheng, "Boss, an urgent telegram sent by Chen Nan in Berlin. ”

Jiang Cheng opened it and looked at it, then handed it to the chairman and Mr. Zhu and said, "The representatives of Germany, Italy and Japan suddenly gathered in Berlin, and I think they are about to sign an alliance agreement." ”

The chairman looked at it, nodded, and said: "Now that the United States has introduced the Lend-Lease Act, Germany, Italy, and Japan can't do it, they want to threaten the United States not to meddle in the affairs of Asia and Europe." ”

Mr. Zhu said with a smile: "I have seen through this Roosevelt, and his strategic vision is extremely vicious, and I don't think he is simply asking Britain and China to help him block Germany, Italy and Japan." ”

The chairman agreed, "The boss is right! The United States threw out this method at this point in time, in addition to giving us blood transfusions, I think his Triple Alliance is also one of his purposes, the fascist forces are formally formed, China and Britain want to fight alone is not suitable, it is imperative to form a new allied army, especially Britain, the pressure is the greatest, I am afraid that in order to win over the United States into the alliance, Britain will pay a lot of price. ”

In fact, in the Lend-Lease Act, the United States gave Britain a billion dollars of materials, and Britain paid a lot of overseas military bases, and this time, Roosevelt's eyes were on the whole world, and what he wanted was to break the colonies and national protection, so that foreign trade opportunities were equal.

The chairman glanced at Jiang Cheng and said, "After the Triple Alliance, Japan's southward move will definitely be accelerated, and our counteroffensive will also be accelerated. ”

Jiang Cheng patted his chest and said, "The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, nothing." ”

The chairman pointed at Jiang Cheng and smiled, "Look, this kid is still a little proud." ”