Chapter 296: Harry Truman
If you want to talk about this, you can't blame Palawson entirely!
Washington has tightly blocked the news that President Roosevelt died of a sudden cerebral congestion while recuperating in a Georgia Hot Springs. The British agent has also just received the gossip and is still verifying.
Of course, Palauson also wanted to report such important news to the Prime Minister as soon as possible. But today, the Prime Minister was summoned by the British King at Buckingham Palace, and then went to the Ministry of Defense, and Palawn chased around, but he didn't catch the Prime Minister's shadow at all.
After calming down, everyone in the Prime Minister's office fell silent!
Churchill sat down in his armchair with a dejected face, as if considering what kind of changes this sudden turn of events would bring to the Entente. But in fact, only he knows that his brain is now blank.
Spain was likely to enter the war; Roosevelt died suddenly.
This Nima is a typical house leak that happened to rain overnight!
Chang'an, Weiyang Palace, Weiqing Pavilion.
On the desk of the Supreme Commander's Office, there is also a piece of information about the great changes in the United States. Mu Yu sat opposite His Majesty, looked at the smile that gradually rose on His Majesty's face, and said lightly: "We believe that his death is real, because Congress has begun to start the process of Vice President Truman taking over as president." But...... His death has nothing to do with us. ”
"Huh?"
The smile on His Majesty's face, which had not yet fully emerged, froze suddenly. Is this a Shenma situation? The assassination of Roosevelt had been planned for a long time, and His Majesty had recruited 100 terrorists from the base to be placed under the command of MI5. Now that the news of Cripple Luo's death has come out, you tell me that his death has nothing to do with us? "Uh, to clear the relationship? It's okay to keep a low profile! ”
......, the corners of Director Mu's mouth grinned, and there was a rare smile on the dead man's face.
"Your Majesty, it's not low-key, it's really nothing to do with us! Our intelligence indicates that he died of cerebral congestion! At that time, only his lover Lucy and the painter Madame Shumatov, who was preparing to paint his portrait, were in the room. ”
"Damn!" His Majesty scolded in a low voice and rolled his eyes, "Can you not be so bloody?" In the White House? ”
"No, it's the 'Little White House'......" Afraid that His Majesty wouldn't understand, Mu Yu explained: "It's his favorite Worm Springs Retreat in Georgia!" ”
"Peat, that's cheating? Hehe......" His Majesty suddenly laughed a few times, so frightened that Mu Yu hurriedly straightened his sitting posture, "I remember that Luo Cripple should be sixty years old, right?" Do you think he can do it? Bullshit cerebral congestion, it can't be a 'wind right away', right? ”
"I ......" Rao has been mixing with His Majesty a lot recently, and Director Mu can't keep up with His Majesty's thinking. Let's study national affairs, right? Not a gossip tabloid reader.
There was a soft knock at the door, it was the female secretary Vivian. Look at the indigenous girl in a thin military uniform of a female clerk, put a document on the bookcase, and turn away. Mu Yu suddenly gave His Majesty a flying eye!
…… Of course, Zhong Yi understood what Mu Yu meant, "Peat, that Lucy is the former secretary of Eleanor, the lame woman, not the president's secretary!" ”
"Uh, yes, yes, Your Majesty, how can that Lucy compare to Major Vivien!"
"Lean ......"
This is not like a conversation between monarchs and ministers, but in Weiqing Pavilion and by the side of Emperor Han, everyone is accustomed to it. It seems that everyone around His Majesty is very good at changing roles at any time.
People like Director Mu and Governor Qian are even more eager!
Your Majesty is not a lonely emperor of the ancient Han Dynasty, he needs brothers and friends all the same! However, His Majesty is even more intolerant of the incompetence of his subordinates than the ancient emperor, and the so-called close ministers of His Majesty all have their own strengths. Those who don't have real skills can't get along with His Majesty, and those who have the ability and compare their temper with His Majesty are occasionally presumptuous, maybe they are more pleasing to Your Majesty.
The main thing is that they know when to play and when to be serious.
The document sent by Vivian, His Majesty only glanced at it, and handed it to Mu Yu. "It's true. Radio stations in the United States have announced the death. ”
"Your Majesty, do we need to adjust anything?"
"Adjust what? If you die a lame man, you can fight the battle as you want! ”
"Uh......" Director Mu was speechless again, and there was one sentence he didn't dare to ask, "A lame man, then why arrange so many professional terrorists to go to great lengths to assassinate people?" ”
It's just that Director Mu doesn't know that Zhong Yi is also deeply regretful in his heart now. In his previous life, Roosevelt also died in that retreat in Georgia, and the cause of death announced by the Americans was the same, the same cerebral congestion, but it was three years later, on the eve of Germany's imminent surrender.
This life...... Well, history may also record that Britain surrendered shortly after the death of Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, due to illness. It's just that no matter how many lovers Roosevelt had, whether it was "right away" or not, the cause of death that was announced was "cerebral congestion", not "assassination" as His Majesty wanted!
Roosevelt was a controversial figure, some say he saved America, praised him as the greatest president in American history, uh...... Although the history of the United States is not a few years, this praise is not recognized by everyone, and the Americans who want to kill him are no less than those who praise him. Moreover, most of his praisers were civilians below the middle class, and several policies implemented by Roosevelt after the Great Depression seriously hurt the interests of some other people.
If the cause of Roosevelt's death was not that bullshit "brain congestion", but that he died on the streets like Lincoln, Zhong Yi would have a great deal of confidence in provoking the "Civil War" again.
After all, there are not many social contradictions in the United States, and it is not impossible to create a Commonwealth of America again.
It's just that, with Roosevelt's "brain congestion", all plans had to be restarted. Now the Empire's greatest rival has become Harry S. Truman.
In his previous life, the 33rd president of the United States, who ascended to the presidency without being elected, was fortunate to be clothed with the glory that should have belonged to Roosevelt, winning the European War, nuclear bombing Japan, and establishing the United Nations, which put the United States on the road to world hegemony, but then it confronted communism, opened the curtain of the Cold War, and fell a big heel in the Korean War. In the end, he was defeated by Eisenhower in re-election, ending two decades of Democratic rule.
(In real history, Truman had just served as vice president for 82 days when Roosevelt died in 1945.) T_T, in 1942, Truman was only a relatively active senator. This story is pure fiction, please don't investigate it! )
Since it is not possible to "peacefully evolve" the United States, then it can only be solved by relying on military action! The United States must be separated, and the North American continent cannot be dominated by the United States alone. For this point, in Zhong Yi's "World War II" strategy, there is no doubt and no change!
At the moment when he heard that Roosevelt had died, His Majesty even thought of the "little naughts" who were kept in high secrecy, and the American "Manhattan" project should have begun, but it was not until March 1944 that the first enriched uranium was produced.
However, Zhong Yi didn't dare to guarantee that after the world has been changed by himself, the birth date of "Little American Boy" will not be advanced! At least Roosevelt died three years earlier than his predecessor; At least the Allies have already begun to land in Spain!
The Spanish Führer, Francisco Franco, won the civil war with the support of Germany and Italy. However, after seizing power, Spain, one of the main fascist powers in Europe, refused to join the Iron Alliance under the leadership of Franco and exercised neutrality.
The same Imperial Eagle Banner, the same iron-fisted blood, the difference is that Franco's ambitions are much smaller and more cautious than those of the German Führer.
After the outbreak of the war, Franco told German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop: If Germany can come up with a proof that Germany and Italy will win, Spain will immediately join the German-Italian bloc. In reality, however, Spain was separated from the warring parties, sometimes close to Germany and Italy, and sometimes applauded by Britain and France.
In Zhong Yi's view, this is another Turkish Inone. The two of them bought it, and the two of them were not offended, to put it bluntly, it was a wall-riding faction, shaking heads. His Majesty has never given him a good face for this. Germany talked and discussed with it, Britain and its inducements were co-opted, and when they arrived at the Han Empire, they just said, "After taking Gibraltar through the march, the sovereignty will be recovered by Spain!" Without borrowing, Gibraltar will become an imperial territory permanently after the end of the war. ”
In the case of Spain, Foreign Secretary Wilson used the words to be more polite and in line with diplomatic conventions. In fact, when negotiating with Turkey, His Majesty asked Chief Jiang Yunzhi to say a sentence on his behalf: In the eyes of the empire, there are only brothers and enemies, and if you fight, you will fight!
However, Franco, who prides himself on being clever and accustomed to playing between European countries, is far from being known to Turkish Prime Minister Inonu, and when hundreds of thousands of Allied troops are approaching the Turkish border, Inonu announced within 24 hours that he would join the Iron Alliance, and the Turkish army also joined the Allied forces.
This is the practice of smart people, since it is impossible to maintain neutrality, since it has been decided to go to the side of the allies, it is better to send troops as soon as possible than to twist and twist, and it is better to occupy a better position when the interests are divided after the war.
The Spaniards, unlike the Turks, were visibly undecided, as the Allies marched into the Middle East and largely drove the British out of the Eastern Mediterranean. On the Balkan Peninsula west of the Istanbul Strait, the German army swept through the Balkans more than a year ago, and Turkey was basically under the control of the Allied forces, and there would be no worries about participating in the war, at most it was the Caucasus region bordering the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Red Army was still guarding the Turkish army from going north, so how could it still have the heart to attack Turkey.
But Spain is different, sandwiched between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean by splinting, it is really not dared to provoke both sides!
Although Spain has gained a lot of benefits in the swing between Germany and Britain, if one is not good, Spain will have to become a battlefield. Especially after the Allies took full control of the sea in the Mediterranean, the few hairs on Franco's head fell out faster.
"Emperor Han is a bandit! What a shame for our fascists! How can you ignore the slightest affection, and come up to rent land and borrow the road! Is that attitude to borrow? ”