Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a seaside city in the Netherlands facing the North Sea, and for the third time in four years, it has been in the spotlight of the world.

There are many reasons why conferences are always held in the Netherlands.

One is that the Netherlands is sandwiched between Britain and Germany, not far from the Soviet Union, and the geographical location is very "suitable". In today's Europe, most countries are either hugging the thighs of the Soviet Union, Germany, or Britain. Only a few countries, such as the Netherlands and Switzerland, still maintain the status of a transcendent neutral country.

The second is that the Netherlands is close to the sea, and it is very convenient for the British and German envoys to come over to pretend to be (crabs) to force the great gods, compared to Switzerland, another neutral country, which is not very suitable.

The third is the "compensation" given by the British to the Dutch. In 1942, the British, together with Japan and an uninvited China, carved up Dutch Indonesia. After losing the last colony, the days of the Dutch were Wang Xiaoer's New Year, and every year was not as good as the year.

The British set the venue for the conference in the Netherlands, and they also had the intention of compensating the Dutch for "making some extra money". Every time an international conference is held in the Netherlands, journalists and foreign guests from all over the world flock to the venue, and these packed outsiders can also bring some economic income to the Netherlands.

Lin Han's family changed history indiscriminately, so that some "old" rogue countries in Europe, such as the Netherlands and Spain, were reduced to the miserable point of being someone else's "meeting place" to earn a living in advance.

However, in the "Big Five" in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, no one cares about the thoughts of the declining sea coachman in the Netherlands. They gathered here to discuss topics related to "peace" on the World Island, especially in the North Pacific.

There are three topics to be discussed.

1. How to intervene in the US-Japan war, which is about to enter a "climactic period", is a topic that none of the five countries can escape. Even China, which has the weakest maritime capabilities among the five countries, has a direct territorial border with China because of the fact that Korea under Japanese control has a direct border, and Japan occupies China's Taiwan bend. If you don't talk about the bend of the platform. It is very likely that the Chinese side will side with the United States because of this issue -- in order to win over China, the United States has set a bunch of extremely attractive conditions for the new China on the Taiwan issue.

2. The topic of how to expel American power back to the Americas after the war.

3. The topic of the establishment of a new international order after the war.

Since each topic is important, the meeting was attended by the top leaders of the four countries. Fearing sabotage by outsiders, Amsterdam, where the leaders of the four countries were staying, each of the four countries sent special security personnel to make arrangements in advance. Resulting costs. It also made the host Dutch a small fortune.

Among the three topics, the first and second issues are closely linked, and as long as the US Navy is defeated, the United States will naturally have to retreat back to the Americas. The third issue of the new Eurasian order is not urgent, and it can be discussed slowly.

The focus of the discussions was on the topic of the Pacific War, but of the two protagonists of this war, the Americans and the Japanese, only the Japanese sent the prime minister to participate. As for the Americans, the US side also wants to send people to participate. However, it was politely rejected by the four countries that convened the meeting, and the reason was that the name of this meeting was the Eurasian Talks, and the United States was an American country.

When the official newspapers in Europe reported on this incident, the front-page headlines had already carried the slogan of the talks: Eurasia is the Eurasia of the Eurasians.

The five families who did not have a good heart turned away the Americans from the beginning. And President Dewey after seeing this report. Suddenly there were a thousand grass and mud horses running in my heart.

The five were convicted in Amsterdam, and most of the contents were deliberately not kept secret. Publicly, the five also want to use this to join forces to put pressure on the United States and force the tentacles of the United States out of Eurasia.

The reason why the Germans were enthusiastic about this was that they wanted to settle their debts once and for all, and at the same time eliminate the great threat of the United States once and for all.

In Hannah's view, the First and Second World Wars in history. Germany almost touched the skirt of the goddess of victory twice, but both times it failed because of the intervention of the United States. Eurasia is the Eurasia of Eurasia, and this slogan is to completely eliminate the possibility of Americans interfering in the Eurasian political situation.

The British were enthusiastic about this because Britain understood the coveting and ambition of the United States for the British colonies, and they preferred the slogan "Eurasia is the Eurasia of Eurasia" more than the Germans, if possible. The British even wanted to change the word Eurasia to "Old Continent" and become "The Old Continent is the Old Continent of the Old Continenters".

China is enthusiastic about this matter, first, because Japan is about to become a plaything in China's hands, and on the other hand, he also knows from Lin Han how much threat the Americans' hand will bring to China in the future after it reaches into Europe and Asia. In any case, Japan must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the United States, and under no circumstances should the Americans be allowed to have the opportunity to extend their hands to the western Pacific.

Only the Soviet Union was ambiguous in this matter.

Hannah, Artoria and Lin Han, the thing they are most afraid of seeing is the "US-Soviet" alliance. It was precisely because of this that Lin Han persuaded Katyusha to let her return to China. Otherwise, after the start of the sacred onslaught, Stalin, who belongs to the "divine envoy" of his country, will not be able to do unpredictable things at the instigation of the United States.

In the last two months of 1945, the Soviet Union, which had a very good international strategic situation, also had headaches for them.

The Soviet Union, in the year of war, "ate up".

They defeated Turkey and seized land within fifty hectares of the eastern shore of the Dardania Strait, ensuring smooth access to the Mediterranean. In addition, Afghanistan, Pakistan were obtained.

But the situation for the Soviets in Afghanistan and Pakistan was not smooth.

Both countries are economically average, especially Afghanistan, which is almost barren, a mountainous area, although there are some mineral resources, but the transportation is extremely poor, for the Soviet Union, the input-output ratio here is completely negative. What's worse is that the people here are fierce. The Soviets wanted to carry out what they considered to be the "right" land reform here, but they met with strong resistance from the locals. After the Holy Impact began, this rebellion was added to the religious connotation. The situation in Pakistan is slightly better than in Afghanistan, but not much better. All kinds of scattered resistance never stopped. Before abandoning Afghanistan, the British deliberately opened up their arsenals to local tribal leaders to take as many arms as they pleased. After the war, he also smuggled arms into the local area by various means.

The Soviet Red Army nominally opened access to the Indian Ocean, but in practice the price paid to maintain the absolute security of the passage was enormous. After the end of the war in 1941, the Soviets were increasingly involved in security, transportation, and administration. It really made them feel like they were eating a piece of stinky beef.

The Soviet Union used "Sta-style" brutality, relying on the bloody methods of the Cheka, to forcefully suppress the local resistance, and the effect seems to be quite good, but the headache is far more than that. The main problem was still in transportation, from the Indian Ocean to the Soviet mainland. It is thousands of kilometers long, and there are still some railways left by the British in Pakistan, but Afghanistan is completely mountainous, and the problem of rebuilding roads alone is enough to make the Soviets vomit blood.

Another question is how the Soviets would send their warships into the Indian Ocean, even if the window to the Indian Ocean was opened.

At the Amsterdam Conference, the British promised Stalin that if Stalin entered the war against the United States, Britain would agree to open the Suez Canal. for the passage of the Soviet Red Navy.

At this point, the British are actually not at ease. The problem of the Soviet Navy is the same as that of the historical Tsarist Russian Navy, its navy is divided into parts that are tens of thousands of kilometers apart and difficult to support each other - think about it, the Arctic Ocean, the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the Pacific Ocean, plus a new Indian Ocean, are separated by thousands of miles from each other, and the navy must be placed everywhere, what will the Soviet Red Navy have to be dismantled?

If the Soviet Navy really entered the Indian Ocean, it would pose a certain threat to Britain. But at the same time, it will also spread their power even more. In the event of misdeeds by the Soviet Union, the fate of these scattered fleets is similar to that of the Russo-Japanese War in history. When the 1st and 2nd Pacific Fleets were destroyed, they would only be broken by people.

But Stalin was not stupid, he easily saw the trap in the conditions of the British. At the time of the Amsterdam Conference, the Soviet Union was also engaged in secret negotiations with the United States. The Soviet Union's demand was to participate in the disposition of Japan after the war, and in addition to the four northern islands, it also demanded the right to occupy most of Japan. And what the USSR paid in this war. Disproportionately to what they received - only an agreement to lease a few northern islands to the United States for use in the war against Japan. As for the dispatch of the Soviet Red Army for a landing operation against Japan, Stalin expressed no interest.

As for Stalin's speculative psychology of taking advantage of the danger of others, where could President Dewey agree? At present, although the US Navy has an absolute numerical superiority over the Japanese Navy, the main Japanese forces are almost intact. The war that followed. The Americans themselves estimated that the final defeat of Japan would require at least two million casualties.

With two million dead and wounded barely defeating Japan, President Dewey could not have agreed to give most of this spoils to the Soviet Union, which had barely contributed to it.

The Soviets couldn't get what they wanted from the Americans, and Stalin, who bet on both sides, saw the signs of China, Germany, Britain and Japan gradually joining forces, and after weighing the pros and cons, he felt that he had a better chance of winning on the side of China, Germany, Britain and Japan in this matter.

Stalin finally decided to choose the Eurasian side rather than join forces with the United States, the most important reason was that he found that the Soviet Union was on the map precisely under the encirclement of these four countries. If it joins forces with the United States, the Soviet Union, which is surrounded by the four countries, is bound to be besieged by the four countries at the first time. The U.S. Navy is strong, but it is impossible for them to sail ashore. Germany to the west was an adversary that Stalin feared. Facing the southeast of China's younger brother, New China, which is in the midst of the second five-year plan, is already capable of producing tanks and automobiles. In the past few years, in order to gain China's support and increase pressure on the Soviet Union in the Far East, Germany has spared no effort to help China industrialize, selling everything.

The latest information that Stalin received was that the Germans had even transferred to China the Leopard tanks, which had just been equipped with the army, and the latest jet fighter technology. And the latter is a high-tech that the Soviet Union itself has not yet mastered. Thinking of the "close friendship" between the Chinese "heroic spirits" and the German "heroic spirits" and the huge influence of Lin Han on China's political situation, Stalin could not ignore the scene of the Soviet Union facing the siege of China and Germany after he "sided on the wrong side."

Today's Soviet-German relations are actually a two-headed fear of a wolf with a hemp stick. Germany was afraid that the "T34 Sea", which had appeared in history, would frantically move westward and drown Germany. And Stalin was not afraid of the scene when China and Germany joined forces and met Moscow. Today's China is a large country with a population of more than 500 million, with an endless supply of troops, and it has been pinched into a rope by the CCP. To go to war with such a country, Stalin had a headache when he thought about it.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1937, the People's Republic of China has been established for nearly nine years. In the past nine years, except for the impact of the one-year war, the pace of industrialization in New China has never stopped in the rest of the year. In this year, the Chinese side announced steel production. It has surpassed Japan and Italy, and this year, China's steel output has surpassed that of the south and north France after the split, becoming the world's fifth largest steel country after the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany and the United Kingdom.

The Soviet Union also had close ties with New China, and in order to win over China, the Soviet Union also sent some Soviet experts to help with industrialization in China - of course, Stalin was more out of desperation and the need to gather Chinese intelligence. From these intelligence lines. Stalin was well aware of the current state of industrial development in China.

Now China has grown to the point where Stalin is very taboo.

Negotiations that began on November 20, 1945, for most of the time, ended with Britain and Germany fighting for the Soviet Union. In this process, China's opinion is also on the side of Britain and Germany. The Chinese side said that the western Pacific is the western Pacific that belongs to the western Pacific countries, and it is too dangerous for the United States, a giant beast with a navy of more than 5 million tons, to put its claws on Japan.

Although China does not have a decent navy, the whole world knows about it. During the One Year War, the Chinese "god" Lin Han also secretly joined the German Navy. Directly participated in the great battle that knocked the British Navy off the altar. The navy with the "god" bonus is two completely different fleets compared to the navy without the blessing of the gods. To wage war against the United States in the North Pacific, China cannot be bypassed.

Another important issue discussed at this meeting was the issue of Taiwan bending.

Before Japan decided to go to war with the United States in 1942, Emperor Takahito visited China to seek Chinese support. At that time, one of the conditions he offered was to return Taiwan and the surrounding islands after 1945.

Now that point in time has come. In Amsterdam, the question of table bends was also put on the table.

China and Japan have been holding secret talks on this issue for the past two years. At first, Japan pushed left and right, but with the recovery of the US Navy, the Americans are putting more and more pressure on Japan in the Pacific, and the hearts of the Japanese top brass are becoming more and more panicked when they look at the Essex-class aircraft carriers that are launched at a speed of one or even two in a month.

Japan, which urgently needed to seek allies from outside, only then came to mind China.

At the "Gathering of the Three Gods," Artoria represented Britain and Hannah represented Germany, and they had already made it clear to Japan that in order to deal with the Americans, it was necessary to gather the forces of all the countries of the entire Eurasian continent, and China was an indispensable link. It would be extremely stupid to force China to the side of the United States because of the Taiwan bend issue.

On the issue of Taiwan Bend, the British, of course, wished that Taiwan would be occupied by Japan, so as to stir up eternal hostility between China and Japan. But Artoria is on China's side on this issue – the result of a private deal with her, Lin Han and the Chinese side.

In exchange for the Taiwan bend issue, China will not "export revolution" in South Asia. Artoria was well aware of the current situation in China, and understood that her "father" Lin Han was only a nationalist and not a real revolutionary. She is very aware of Lin Han's influence on the politics of New China, as long as she moves him, the rest of the things will be easy to handle.

Times are advancing, and the British colonial system in India is bound to collapse, Artoria is well aware of this. Collapse is inevitable, but what matters is how he collapses. For Britain, the system naturally collapses as late as possible.

To achieve this, the UK needs external support. Germany is often on the side of Britain on this issue, and although China is opposed to Britain's global colonial system on this issue, Artoria is well aware of her father's attitude on this matter.

Lin Han is a big variable. She only needs Lin Han to "suggest" to the Chinese side on this issue that it should be postponed for 10 or 20 years and not to "stir up trouble" in South Asia.

Artoria's plan to move was a long and huge one, taking ten to twenty years to complete. In order to accomplish this plan, the British sided with the Chinese side on the Taiwan bend issue, precisely in order to make a political deal in exchange for assurances from the Chinese side.

This behind-the-scenes deal was completed before the Amsterdam meeting.

On the Japanese side, the Japanese government, under pressure from Shikoku, finally made concessions in Amsterdam. It promised to return the islands to China by June 1945.

On the issue of Taiwan bending, Shikoku, together with Japan, finally signed an agreement in Amsterdam. The date of Taiwan's return was determined by the endorsement of the four countries.

After the agreement was signed, the Big Four plus Japanese Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonechi stood up for a photo session. The five of them faced the reporter's camera and laughed hypocritically together.

At that time, Mitsumasa Yonei thought that after winning the war with the United States, it would be a big deal to cheat again.

British Prime Minister Attlee had a similar idea: after winning the war with the Americans, Britain would change its position on this issue and favor Japan. Credit this thing? In 1939, Hitler's Führer had already reached the lower limit on the Czech question

As for the Soviet Union, which was ostensibly on China's side on this issue, Stalin's idea was: to support China in words and inaction in action, and to continue to deteriorate relations between Japan and China.

In this matter, none of these three countries really want Taiwan to return to China.

However, Chairman Lee Run-seok, the head of the Chinese state who came to Western Europe for the first time at that time, had the idea that after winning the war with the United States, a revolution would soon break out in Japan, and at that time, there would be turmoil at home and abroad. When the time comes, China will get more than just a bend.

Everyone in front of the camera is laughing.

The image of these five giants standing together and smiling hypocritically at the camera lens was captured by the camera and became the epitome of this era. (To be continued......)