Chapter 537 Conditions for Entering the War
The trend of division in the United States made Emperor Yang have a feeling of being smashed on the head by a golden cake, but it is not surprising if you think about it carefully, this country is nothing more than a collection of interests, without any national, historical, traditional ties, as for the spirit of freedom and democracy, it is just shit, when the contradictions between the interests of the states are irreconcilable, the division of the lie has become inevitable, which is no different from the Civil War, At that time, they were nothing more than irreconcilable contradictions between the farmers and the industrial capitalists, and today they are nothing more than a copy.
Since they have such an idea, they naturally want to fully support it, and all the media in the United States that are controlled by the Yang consortium, whether they are openly accused or covertly controlled, have all joined the ranks of propaganda, selling the benefits of dividing up to the Americans, so that they can understand that continuing to be tied together can only drag each other down in the end, in fact, there is no need to sell at all, the successive establishment of the Confederacy and Alabama has already made the word United States lose its luster, and now it is just piercing the last layer of window paper.
At the same time, those Chinese American leaders who were the direct agents of Emperor Yang also began to convey Emperor Yang's promise to the two political factions in the United States in various ways, so that they all understood that a unified United States would become a potential threat to China, so Emperor Yang had only dealt with the United States in various ways over the years, but a divided United States would no longer pose a threat to China, not only would it no longer be an enemy, but on the contrary, it would become a friend of China, because the stability of North America was related to China's food security.
Even the Americans themselves understand this that China's great industrial development is at the expense of agriculture, and that China at present simply cannot afford to rely on domestic production to maintain grain consumption, and must buy a large amount of grain from abroad, mainly the United States, every year. But the consequences of this are also obvious, once this amount exceeds a certain threshold, it means that the United States can control China with food, which is of course impossible for Emperor Yang to accept, so he needs the United States to weaken to the point where he has the ability to control it. Until this is achieved, the United States is his main enemy.
In other words, he will never stop harming the United States until he has the ability to control the United States, and the Americans will never have peace, and if they want to live a peaceful and peaceful life without the ability to solve this evil dragon hovering over the Americas by force, the Americans can only give in, and dividing their own situation is the best way to give in.
The peasants will be relieved to continue to live a leisurely pastoral life under his wings, as for the America of the capitalists, because there is the America of the farmers in the middle as a segregation. There is no need to face China directly, how they want to develop and how they play has nothing to do with Emperor Yang, which can be said to be a kind of happy split.
The Chinese ambassador to Britain clearly conveyed to the British government the wish of His Majesty the Emperor, that the division of the United States is a matter of benefit to both China and Britain, and that the United States can be half of the family after the division, and China only needs the farms and plantations in the Midwest and the South of the United States. As for the factories, mines and the like in other states, there is no interest.
In fact, the British also welcomed the division of the United States, not only because they could immediately get a new force to join the battlefield, but more importantly, from the perspective of the previous development of the United States. It would not be a good thing for Britain if the country was not weakened.
In addition, Yang Feng also released a puzzle that made the British heart beat faster.
"Your Excellency, you should know that we Chinese have a relatively calm personality, and we do not like to take risks, even the smallest dangers." Inside a manor outside Beijing. While listening to the sound of the concubine's piano, Yuan said to the British ambassador to China, Zhu Erdian, who was sitting next to him.
Zhu Erdian smiled and did not speak to wait for his next words, the ambassador to China, who had just been in office for less than a year, knew very well that His Excellency the Chief of Chambers of Staff had invited him over not only to enjoy the music.
"So we don't like war. Unless there is no suspense in the war. Yuan Shikai continued.
"Your Excellency, isn't the shape of Europe clear enough? What's more, even if the Allied bloc still has a little ability to resist, as long as your country joins the battlefield, their little strength is a joke. Zhu Erdian said, knowing that today was the final showdown, and Emperor Yang would officially clarify under what circumstances he would join the war.
"They still have a combined army of close to 10 million, I don't think this strength is only a little, if Germany and Austria surrender immediately after China sends troops, then naturally don't say anything, but what if they still resist resolutely after sending troops? At that time, even if it could win the war, I am afraid that China would have to lose dozens or even millions of soldiers, which would certainly not work. You must understand that the Chinese people still have a deep affection for Deao, and helping you has already made His Majesty feel uneasy, and if countless Chinese families lose their relatives because of this, it will make him very sad and blame. Yuan Shikai said.
To put it bluntly, I want to completely get something for nothing, send the army to Europe to go through the motions and then divide the world with the brand of the victorious country, and the bloody sacrifice is resolutely not done, Zhu Erdian really despises this shameless behavior, but this can indeed explain why China has not participated in the war until now, it is nothing more than that it is not enough insurance, afraid that once Germany and Austria do not surrender after entering the war, then the Chinese will have to face a real battle.
"Your Excellency Marquis, what do you think is the right thing to do?" Zhu Erdian didn't want to entangle with him uselessly, so he simply went straight to the topic, since you want to be nine out of ten, then you have to give a standard, right?
"Quite simply, when the soldiers of the Entente set foot on German soil." Yuan Shikai said with a smile.
Zhu Erdian frowned, this condition is not low, he knows very well the current war situation in Europe, there is almost no such possibility on the Western Front, the only one who can break through is the Eastern Front, but with the current situation of the Russian army, it is estimated that this year is absolutely no play, after all, they have not even entered Poland now, and with the gradual lack of material supplies and the increasingly turbulent situation in Russia, whether the Russians still have the ability to continue to attack, even if Britain and France have no bottom in their hearts, especially after the Paris Commune, They are well aware of the destructive power of the Russian guys.
"Then we'll have to wait until the United States enters the war." Zhu Erdian said very honestly, so don't expect China to enter the war this year, the United States has not yet solved the question of whether to participate in the war, and even if the United States participates in the war, it is difficult to say whether it can solve the problem of the Western Front, after all, the US military has not won a single battle from the last century to the present, except for defeat or defeat, it is naturally difficult to place too much hope on such an army.
Moreover, the U.S. Army now has only 800,000, and if it is not divided, it will definitely not participate in the war, and if it is divided, only half of the United States will participate in the war, and before that, it is necessary to solve the problem of dividing this army first, and it needs to be reorganized after the division is completed, and this series of work will take a lot of time.
"Your Excellency, why do you think simple questions are so complicated? There is no need to wait for the Americans, the most that garbage has gone is just a flag-waving and shouting, why don't you withdraw the three Italian armies? Do you have to continue to work as a nanny for Italians? Can't they stop a million of them? Besides, even if you can't stop it, what can you do? It's nothing more than letting Germany and Austria grab some more land, they even have the king captured, and it won't be a big deal if they fail a few more times, and if the United States enters the war, they can also let them go to Italy to help! Yuan Shikai said.
To put it bluntly, the advice that Yuan gave to the British was to sacrifice Italy, anyway, if they couldn't stop one million people, they would sacrifice it, and if the United States could participate in the war as much as possible, then they could send the American army to the Italian battlefield to make these two piles of garbage worse than rotten, but they could draw out the precious British army and join other battlefields in order to achieve a breakthrough. It should be said that this is a good construction, very constructive, but Juerdian knows that this is not operable, because the Italians will not agree, no one is a fool these days, and it is definitely not a matter of being victimized by others, and if the British have to do this, there is no guarantee that the Italians will not react irrationally.
The Italians have been vacillating all these years, and in fact the Queen of Italy has been writing to her father constantly, and with Italy's expression in the war, they themselves know very well that Britain and France will never fulfill their promises after the war. This issue has long been studied by the British and French newspapers, and in the eyes of the British and French media, it is very worthy of helping the Italians regain their homeland, and even some time ago the media of the two sides had a war of scolding, and even Italian Prime Minister Littini personally protested to the British and French governments.
But the problem is that if this pile of garbage is placed on the side of the Entente, it is indeed a pile of garbage, but if it is placed on the side of the Allies, it will become a treasure again.
Because as soon as the Italians fall to the Central Powers and press the south of France, which can be said to have no soldiers, together with the Allied armies of Venezia, then the victor of this war will be replaced, and the Savoy family has not done so in its history, and as for China, ha, the Marquis in front of him, who invited himself to enjoy the flowers and wine, will invite the German ambassador to come and enjoy the flowers and wine with the same enthusiasm, there is no doubt about this. (To be continued......)