"No, no, no, the United States of America is not going to declare war on the Soviet Union, at least for the time being, there is no possibility in sight." Hopkins replied shaking his head.

There will be no declaration of war on the USSR, that is to say it is possible to declare war on Japan! Chang Ruiqing's heart chuckled, and the scene in history when the United States was pressing on Japan step by step because of the "China issue" suddenly appeared in his mind. At that time, the United States was at the height of isolationism, and the US government only dared to secretly help Britain, which was in danger, but did not dare to openly demand that Germany withdraw from the territories of France, Poland, and the Soviet Union, otherwise Roosevelt's presidency would certainly not be secure.

However, the United States dared to openly provoke Japan, demanding that Japan withdraw from China and French Indochina with an embargo, while the United States had no objection to this foreign policy, which was bound to invite war.

In other words, isolationism in the United States is based on people's cooking. Historically, in 1941, Germany was in full swing, and no matter how you look at it, it was not a bully, and the American people naturally chose isolationism on European issues. Japan, on the other hand, seems to be much more useless, and they have not been able to defeat a China with internal and external troubles for four years, and they have been beaten to the ground against the Soviet Union, a European power, and they do not look like a military power no matter how they look at it, so the American people basically have no objection to Roosevelt provoking little Japan.

And the current GC doctrine Japan is even weaker, the army can't even beat North Korea, and the navy is a little more powerful. However, it is not much stronger, and there are only three capital ships that can be fought together, and it doesn't seem to be as powerful as imagined. All of them were badly damaged in the Battle of Okinawa and were not repaired for several months. Such a soft persimmon actually dared to cut off the Pacific route, which caused the United States to lose billions of dollars in Chinese orders. The American people have probably long been unbearable for aunts and uncles. Maybe Roosevelt could really channel the American people's dissatisfaction with the economic recession to Japan and create the conditions for a war against Japan!

Seeing Chang Ruiqing frowning and not speaking, Hopkins felt proud for a while, who will be the boss in Eurasia The United States doesn't care, but the hegemon of the Pacific Ocean can only be the United States! Because the U.S. Navy has the most powerful main fleet in the world, the three capital ships of Japan can barely bully the fleets of China and Britain, but if they meet the huge main fleet of the United States. There is no chance of winning! So the best way for the United States to get out of the Great Depression is to pick up a soft persimmon and fight a war. However, the persimmons of the Soviet Union, China, Germany, and Britain all look hard, and only Japan is the softest, and they dare to block the Pacific shipping lanes without their own strength. Isn't this clearly looking for a fight?

Chang Ruiqing picked up the coffee cup and took a shallow sip, his eyebrows gradually tightened, and of course he cursed the evil American imperialism for a while. But for a while, I couldn't think of any tricks to defuse Roosevelt's conspiracy, although Lao Mei didn't have any good intentions. But after all, they're here to help fight Japan, right? What can I do? You can't resolutely oppose it, can you? And the British must have raised their hands in welcome. They are now bent on dragging the United States into the war, even if not to fight the Soviet Union, it would be good to help deal with Japan. As for how to divide Japan after the war, the British Empire has no opinion, and they wish that China and the United States would turn their faces because of the competition for Japan!

Wang Jingwei and Chen Cheng, who accompanied Chang Ruiqing to meet with Hopkins, saw the reaction of the prime minister and knew that he did not want the United States to get involved and get a piece of the pie, but they could not find any reason to refuse the United States. So Wang Jingwei opened his mouth and said tentatively: "Mr. Hopkins, as far as I know. The U.S. Army is very small, with just over a few hundred thousand men. The Japanese Army, on the other hand, is huge, with a total strength of around 3 million troops, and is allied with a powerful country like the Soviet Union, and now the United States is ready to use force to overthrow the current ruling Japanese GCD...... Do you want to expand your army on a large scale first? ”

This sentence made Chang Ruiqing's eyebrows stretch a lot, the Japanese navy definitely can't beat the US Navy now, but the millions of Red Army troops in the Japanese GCD are not a joke. Otherwise, China would have landed on the Japanese mainland long ago, and it would be your turn to intervene in the United States? But Japan's millions of troops, do you the United States have a way to deal with them? Would the American people agree with Roosevelt to expand the army to a few million men and send it to war on the Japanese mainland?

However, Hopkins's answer made Chang Ruiqing's brows wrinkle again. "Mr. Prime Minister, I don't think the U.S. needs to commit much ground force to attack Japan, because the Japanese nation is a very intelligent nation, and their support for the Japanese GCD is not unconditional," he said. Once the Japanese GCD loses the ability to lead Japan to power, then they will soon be abandoned by the Japanese people. Therefore, we only need to wipe out the Japanese navy, blockade the coast of Japan, occupy Sakhalin Island, their coal and oil extraction base, and wait for the news of the fall of the Japanese GCD.

Mr. Prime Minister, I think you're going to welcome this plan, aren't you? If Japan is subdued by the United States, China, and the United Kingdom, you will be able to concentrate your forces against the Soviet Union. ”

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The garden of the official residence of the prime minister of Tangshan was first built by Pan Xiaoqian, the second wife of Chang Ruiqing, with private money, and it has been expanded over the years, and it has been quite large-scale, planting not exotic flowers and plants, piling up some unique Taihu Lake stones, and also building some antique pavilions. However, Chang Ruiqing has no interest in these things, just as a place for his own leisure walk, and sometimes he will discuss things with his staff here in a hurry. After his meeting with Hopkins, he walked in the garden, followed by his former secretary-general, now Commerce Secretary Zeng Qi and Foreign Minister Wang Jingwei, dutifully analyzing the pros and cons of America's entry into the war. Chang Ruiqing listened quietly, and there seemed to be no expression on his face. When Zeng Qi's analysis was over, he asked with a smile: "Roosevelt is a formidable opponent, and he has not yet officially taken office, so he has given us such a problem...... I thought about it for a long time, and I only thought of a way to crack it, that is, the Japanese Navy stopped blocking the Pacific shipping lanes and did not give the Americans an excuse to go to war. Mu Han, Zhao Ming, do you think it is possible? ”

Wang Jingwei and Zeng Qi looked at each other, and they didn't understand what Chang Ruiqing was thinking about? If you really want to annex Japan. Then we should not repeatedly reject the proposal of a joint attack on Japan proposed by the British...... The British may have made it clear that they recognize the Japan-China Treaty. If it does not intend to swallow Japan, then the United States will have nothing to intervene in now, but will allow China to concentrate its forces against the Soviet Union. At present, the military situation in the northwest is extremely tight, Almaty has been surrounded by more than 100,000 Soviet troops, and there are another 100,000 Soviet cavalry in the grasslands of northern Xinjiang.

Chang Ruiqing seemed to see the thoughts of the two of them, and explained with a smile: "The situation of the Sino-Soviet war seems unfavorable, but it is actually very advantageous. The Soviet Union deployed about 800,000 troops in the Far East, and had to bear the supply and ammunition consumption of 7 or 800,000 Japanese troops. In the Baikal region, their strength has increased to 600,000. In Central Asia. The total strength of the Soviet army has exceeded 1.8 million. That is to say, Trotsky committed 3,200,000 troops to fight us in three theaters, and in October he lost at least 500,000 men on the Eastern Front. There were also losses of at least 200,000 people in November. Moreover, the reinforcements we sent to the northwest have basically arrived, and the railway from Dihua to Yining has been opened at the beginning of this month, although some sections of the road have been damaged by the Soviet army, but they will definitely be repaired before next spring. To next spring. The situation in the northwest will look much better.

As for the situation in the Middle East and India, the caliph's army of more than 100,000 has retreated to the port of Jeddah, some have withdrawn to Port Sudan, and the Soviets banned Yerslam in the Middle East, destroyed the Mosque of Mecca and the tomb of Muhammad, and the feud with Muslim was settled. The situation is even better in India, where the M-Sling Union and the Anglo-Indian authorities bought more than 20 million tons of grain in the Punjab and burned 80 percent of it in one fell swoop. The rest is also destined for Kashmir and Afghanistan...... Didn't Trotsky want to use Indian artillery fire against us? Then let's find a way to feed those Indian Ahsan! I heard that due to the war, the harvest in western India has been somewhat poor this year. ”

Speaking of the war against the USSR. Chang Ruiqing's face was suddenly full of confidence, during this time, he was no longer in the Ministry of Defense, and he was obviously in his chest. He waved his hand and turned the topic back: "The current situation, the United States has probably seen it clearly, so it wants to take the opportunity to compete for hegemony in the Pacific Ocean." The Soviet Union's predicament could not be solved for the time being, and it was impossible to provoke the United States for the sake of Japan...... And once the Soviet Union abandons Japan, coupled with the defeat of the Japanese Navy, the Japanese GCD is very likely to collapse, and then the United States can win the hegemony of the Pacific Ocean at a very low price, which is extremely unfavorable to us! ”

Wang Jingwei nodded, thinking about it: "Prime Minister, if the Japanese GCD knows about this situation, I think they will definitely give up the policy of blocking the shipping lanes, in fact, due to the effective escort of the navy, the Japanese have nothing to gain in breaking the war in the Pacific." However, if we want to tell them about the intentions of the Americans through special channels, will they ask us to abandon the policy of blockading Japan? ”

Chang Ruiqing was a little puzzled: "Why did they make such a request?" The Americans are not going to declare war on us because of our blockade of Japan. Wang Jingwei shook his head with a wry smile and said with a smile: "Prime Minister, you still don't know enough about the Japanese nation, they just have a strange idea of ending up together, if they let them touch the hole card that we don't want the United States to intervene in the war, I'm afraid they will also use this card to blackmail us." ”

Chang Ruiqing continued to walk forward with his hands behind his back, and said after a while: "It doesn't hurt to follow their wishes for the time being, anyway, if we don't blockade Japan, Britain will continue to implement the blockade policy, and besides, Roosevelt is already determined to start a war against Japan, and I believe that the United States will not sell any more advanced weapons and technology to Japan...... It's just that even if Japan no longer blocks the Pacific shipping lanes, it is only a matter of time before the United States and Japan go to war. In terms of national strength, the United States is the absolute number one in the world, and without decades of development, we will not be able to catch up with the United States......

His voice seemed a little sad, and Wang Jingwei and Zeng Qi understood a little, and some didn't understand, they only knew that the current China is already a first-class power, and this is only the result of more than ten years of rapid development, if you can win this world war, seize the territory of the Soviet Union in Central Asia and Eastern Siberia, and then have more than ten or twenty years of development, the world's first place is not within reach? Thinking that this country would rise in the hands of their own generation, and thinking that the broad and mighty figure in front of them was the leader of the country's rejuvenation, they couldn't help but look at Chang Ruiqing's back with reverence.

Chang Ruiqing continued his own train of thought: "This time the Americans are just testing the waters and want to see how we react. It is estimated that Hopkins' next battle will be London, and he may also go to Berlin. MacDonald would have welcomed the United States into the war, Hitler...... His eyes were now only on the fertile lands of Eastern Europe. As long as the Americans are willing to support him on the issue of Germany's eastward expansion, he will certainly welcome the United States to join. Therefore, relying on our country cannot stop the United States from joining, and the purpose of the United States joining the war is not only to oppose the Soviet Union's involvement in Japan, but also to disintegrate the British Empire and curb the expansion of our country! The USSR was bound to lose. The British Empire is also in decline, and Germany, although strong, is far away from us after all. The only one that has the ability to contain our expansion after the war is the United States. That's why I never wanted the United States to join the war, and how nice it would be for the United States to be a big guy with so much money that he has nowhere to spend it! ”

"Prime Minister, subordinates think. At most, the United States went to war against Japan. War against the Soviet Union was probably not something that Roosevelt could promote. Chang Ruiqing's words fell, and Wang Jingwei reminded in a whisper. Although the Soviet Union and Japan were allies, Trotsky would never lead the country to defeat because of a treaty. ”

Chang Ruiqing smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Trotsky will not be so stupid, but Britain and Germany will do everything possible to drag the United States to the battlefield, and after pinching the soft persimmon of Japan, the American people's fear of war will be greatly reduced, and it will be much easier for Roosevelt to push for war against the Soviet Union." "Speaking of which. The corners of his lips suddenly showed a strange smile: "But I also have a trump card in my hand!" Maybe Roosevelt would have done it all for nothing...... Zhaoming, you go through the channel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get in touch with the Japanese. It is believed that their intelligence agencies have also been informed of the intentions of the United States to enter the war. Muhan, you go and talk to Hopkins about the disposition of post-war Japan, who is the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and you are exactly the same as you. ”

"Prime Minister, where is our bottom line?" Zeng Qi asked.

"The bottom line is that the Japan-China Treaty must be honored!"

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The intelligence services of the USSR were undoubtedly the most efficient secret service in the world, and there was no one. The news that US President-elect Roosevelt was planning an invasion of Japan was immediately on Trotsky's desk. This news is probably the worst and worst news that this revolutionary prophet has heard in recent times, and there is no one of them.

"Roosevelt's ultimate goal was the Soviet Union, to extinguish the raging flames of the world revolution! Seeing that the oppressed peoples of the Middle East, India, and the Balkans have been liberated, US imperialism finally can't hold back and wants to save the capitalist system, which is bound to perish! ”

Trotsky waved his hand very imposingly, first defining the intention of Roosevelt and the United States to enter the war, and then he solemnly glanced at the members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the United States in the conference room, and frowned: "Comrades, what do you think? ”

There was silence in the conference room, and it was only after a while that the chairman of GC International, Skryansky, broke the silence: "Comrade President, we may be able to mobilize the American working class to oppose the war, we can also call on the most oppressed black Americans to rise up in rebellion, and we can also support the Latin American people against American colonial oppression." ”

Trotsky nodded slightly: "These methods can be taken. His gaze turned to Yue Fei again, and the Soviet spy chief frowned, as if he had no hope for Skryansky's solution. Comrade President, the Americas have never been the focus of GC International's work, and it has not been carefully laid out in the past, and it is difficult to see miraculous results now, perhaps...... We can organize an assassination attempt to try to eliminate Roosevelt from the **! ”

The revolutionary prophet shook his head: "Roosevelt is just an agent of the American monopoly consortium, and now it is those behind Roosevelt who really want to push the United States into the war, if we kill one Roosevelt, they will push another Roosevelt out, so assassination is not the way." ”

Krestinsky, who had only recently become chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, said in a low voice: "The United States only wants to deal with Japan now, and if we do not declare war on the United States, then the United States will not declare war on us before occupying Japan......

Skryansky shook his head violently and interrupted Krestinsky: "No, no, we can't abandon Japan!" Because that would lead to the collapse of the Japanese GCD, the foundation of the Japanese G's rule in the country was already unstable, and it was all possible to maintain it with our support. Once Japan falls, the United States will win lightly, and the reactionary arrogance of US imperialism will surely rise even higher, and it will not be long before it will participate in the anti-Soviet war! ”

Trotsky turned his head again to look at Vatedis, who was now a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and Tukhachevsky, who was an alternate member of the Political Bureau. The faces of the two Red Army bigwigs were the most ugly for the leaders of the United Communist Party at the meeting, and the two of them could not have been more embarrassed by what the shape of the world revolutionary revolution looked like. At present, the three imperialist countries of Britain, Germany, and China have not done their best, and the offensive of the Soviet Red Army has a tendency to be contained, and if another US imperialist joins in, the offensive and defensive forces of the world revolution will probably change hands, unless the Japanese GCD can come to a big explosion of personal character and contain the United States for a while!