After the Soviet aid was cut off, the Americans and American aid became the only straw for the Nationalist government. At this time, the Americans also panicked, and the Japanese were like stones in a pit, on the one hand, they kept saying that they wanted to improve relations with the United States, but on the other hand, they were constantly creating trouble in Southeast Asia, and now they have extended their tentacles to the south of French Indochina, which is only one step away from the Philippines of the United States and Malaysia of Britain.

Japan's powerful combined fleet cruises day and night in various seas in Southeast Asia, and although the Japanese army has not yet launched an offensive posture, as a big country, the Americans' sense of distress is undoubtedly relatively high, especially with China as a living example to learn from, so the Americans will absolutely not indulge the Japanese anymore.

Just as the "Outline of Policies for the South" decided by the Army and Navy Headquarters of the Japanese army and navy clearly stipulated, the base camp was determined to be forced to expand into the Dutch East Indies by force when it was completely embargoed by Western countries led by the United States. Japan judged that the United States would understand very well that the imposition of a comprehensive embargo against Japan would inevitably lead to the cause and effect of Japan's armed southward movement, so the day the United States resolutely implemented this measure was the time when it made up its mind to go to war against Japan.

What the Japanese can see, the Americans can certainly see. Therefore, when all Japanese assets in the United States were completely frozen, the Americans thought of China. And the Nationalist Government also needed the assistance of the United States, so the two sides hit it off.

Soon the Nationalist Government and the United States reached an agreement that the United States would provide the Chinese Government with an interest-free loan of about $500 million, but the $500 million must be the payment for the Nationalist Government's purchase of arms, oil, and other war materials from the United States. It cannot be used for any other purpose. The U.S. government, on the other hand, would use its navy to deliver weapons, equipment, and other materials needed by the Nationalist government to China through the navy to Burma, where the British were stationed, to support China's war of resistance.

At the same time, in order to prevent the Japanese army from expanding in the direction of the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines with all its might, the United States hoped that the Nationalist Government could launch an offensive against the invading Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield in order to contain the Japanese army in South China.

Out of gratitude to the United States for its assistance to China, the Nationalist Government agreed to the United States' request, but did not guarantee when the battle would begin or that it would be won.

The U.S. sent to meet with Yan Changxi was a woman named Christina, then assistant secretary of state. The 33-year-old assistant secretary of state obviously knows the details of Huaxia Company very well, and knows the relationship between Yan Changxi and Chen Feng even better. Therefore, shortly after the talks, Yan Changxi made a request to the US government.

The U.S. government hopes to buy patents for the Type 75 anti-aircraft machine gun, the Type 79 sniper rifle, the T34 tank, and the new fighter from Huaxia Arms. In view of the Huaxia Arms Company's strong production capacity and the large amount of arms in stock, the US Government hopes that the Huaxia Arms Company can become a supplier of arms to the US Government and become one of the companies that provide arms assistance to countries such as Britain and France.

At the same time, the U.S. government also hopes that Chen Feng can reduce the price of penicillin drugs, and even make penicillin, an anti-infective drug, public. At the very least, the U.S. government can be authorized to produce it. It was used in wars against Germany, Italy, Japan and other countries.

The U.S. government also hopes to cooperate with Chen Feng in an all-round way. The U.S. government escorted the development of Huaxia Company and Nanyang Ling, and at the same time provided a large number of advanced warships for Chen Feng's navy, and Chen Feng's headquarters provided fire cover for the U.S. government when necessary.

For requests made by the United States. Yan Changxi herself did not dare to agree, so she explained to the US side that she needed to ask Chen Feng before she could give the US a clear answer.

After all, the United States was the main force in the fight against fascist Japan and Germany in World War II, and cooperation with the United States was profitable for Chen Feng both during and after the war.

But cooperation is cooperation, some things can be cooperated, and some things can't. Therefore, Chen Feng also put forward his own conditions, and cooperation is possible, but the US government must agree to Chen Feng's several conditions, first of all, Chen Feng demanded that the United States not intervene in China's internal affairs at any time or in any way, which is the premise. Second, the United States must come out to the British government and the French government of Charles de Gaulle to assure China that after the end of the war, regardless of which side wins, the two countries must declare the abrogation of all unequal treaties signed with China, the return to China of Hong Kong, southern Tibet, and other territories that have seized China, and the abolition of concessions.

At the same time, the US Government must guarantee the principle of fairness, justice, and openness when settling accounts with Japan after the war, and must never make peace with the Japanese top brass alone, and all war criminals who planned and participated in the Sino-Japanese War must be severely punished, and all Chinese property, cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings plundered by Japan, as well as Chinese territory, including Taiwan, the Penghu Islands, the Diaoyu Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands, must be returned to China.

In return, Chen Feng will license the patents of the Type 75 anti-aircraft machine gun, the Type 79 sniper rifle, and the T34 tank, and Huaxia Company can also become a supplier of arms to the US government, produce weapons and equipment for the US army, and can also provide a large number of weapons and equipment for Britain, France and other countries in distress in a short period of time.

However, Chen Feng can reduce the price of penicillin drugs to 60% of the original price, and there is no limit to the supply, as long as the United States can afford to pay for it, he can provide goods for the US government.

As for the firepower cover proposed by the United States, Chen Feng also agreed, anyway, as long as the target is the Japanese or not, it will be the same, anyway, he will definitely fight against the Japanese in the future, it is better to sell a favor. Chen Feng even assured the US government that he would launch a large-scale offensive against the Japanese army in the short term to contain the Japanese southward.

For the United States, Chen Feng has no good feelings, and even has a faint disgust. Although the United States now adopts a policy of military aid to China, this policy as a "fulcrum" basically ran through the last four years of the War of Resistance Against Japan. However, Chen Feng knew that the US aid to China was not only out of humanitarian considerations, but also out of consideration for its own national interests.

From the September 18 incident in 1931 to the outbreak of the Pacific War, it lasted for ten years. The United States has been acquiescing, instigating, and aiding Japan in its aggression against China! Japan occupies Tohoku, US President Herbert Hoover claimed to understand. When Japan occupied Shanghai and other large areas of China's territory, the United States still acquiesced, and its purpose was to instigate Japan to attack the Soviet Union.

It is true that Japan also covets the rich Siberia of the Soviet Union and has drawn up a detailed plan to "advance northward" to attack the Soviet Union. However, in 1939, the Japanese army attacking the Soviet Union was beaten all over the ground by the Soviet mechanized troops led by Zhukov in Nomenhan, Outer Mongolia, and Japan was forced to abandon the "northward advance" and turn "southward". From then on, Japan set its sights on Southeast Asia, which was occupied by the United States, Britain, France, and the Netherlands. Wave the army to the south. Not so long ago, Japan occupied Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. Intended to invade and occupy Dutch Indonesia, the troops were directed at the American colony of the Philippines.

It was only at this time that the United States began to change its mind and began to impose an embargo on Japan. Not long ago, an oil embargo on Japan's life-and-death oil was finally imposed. Oil is Japan's lifeline. Only the oil embargo is a killer against Japan. Eventually, Japan made a desperate attack on Pearl Harbor. In other words, before 1941, the United States had been exporting strategic materials such as aviation gasoline, scrap steel, and precision machine tools to Japan. Even the formulation of ammonia explosives was provided, which in fact aided the Japanese invasion of China. Despite the abrogation of the U.S.-Japan Treaty in 1939 and the "moral embargo" on Japan, the Chinese pro-American elite exaggerated its significance, but the United States still exported steel and oil to Japan. Even in the first half of the Pacific War, the United States exported more than twice as much aviation gasoline to Japan as it did in the same period in 1940.

In 1937, 54.4% of strategic goods shipped to Japan were exported from the United States to Japan. Mr. Scott, a U.S. congressman, said the same: "Please remember that when Japan killed a million people in China, 544,000 were killed by American accomplices!" "When Japanese planes bombed Nanjing indiscriminately, they used gasoline provided by the United States; When the Japanese attacked the Chinese troops defending Nanjing, their tank cannons were made of steel supplied by the United States; When Japanese shells bombarded Chinese soldiers and civilians, the explosives inside were a recipe provided by the United States......

The interests of the United States, Japan, and the Soviet Union in China and the Far East are closely related, so in the course of the United States adopting a series of assistance measures to China, Japan and the Soviet Union have become an unavoidable factor in US-China relations, both subjectively and objectively, and this must be considered and taken seriously. From the beginning of the "Lugou Bridge Incident" to the outbreak of the Pacific War, the US policy of aiding China has gone through a process of neutral wait-and-see to limited aid to China.

Due to the huge interests between Japan and the United States, at the beginning of China's all-out war of resistance against Japanese aggression, the United States only adopted a "neutral" attitude and "turned a blind eye" to the request for assistance put forward by the Chinese Nationalist Government. However, with the change of Japan's aggressive policy, it shifted from "northward expansion" to "southward expansion," and pointed the spearhead directly at the South Pacific and Southeast Asian regions, where the interests of the United States (Britain) are located. As a result, the United States had to change its foreign policy from conniving at Japan's invasion of China to providing limited aid to China, hoping that this move would curb the momentum of Japan's aggression. During this period, the contradictions and conflicts between the United States and Japan played a major role in the process of US aid to China, while the change of the Soviet Union's China policy and the contradictions between the United States and the Soviet Union played a secondary role.

While the Nationalist Government was grateful for the US aid, Chen Feng disdained that the United States was not trying to help the Chinese resist Japan, but wanted the Chinese to help them resist Japan. Moreover, Chen Feng also knew that the United States and its allies had determined the strategy of "Europe first and then Asia" in World War II, with the strategic focus on Europe, followed by Asia.

This objectively laid the foundation for the global military strategic layout of the United States and Britain, that is, the United States and Britain will focus most of their energy on Europe, and will inevitably be unable to spare more energy in the Asia-Pacific region, so they can only adopt a defensive position and maintain the strategic defense line in the Pacific region. China is a vital military base in this strategic defense system, so its military significance can be imagined. If the United States wants to stabilize the situation in the Pacific region, it must strengthen the importance of China's battlefield. Therefore, the United States has stepped up its military and economic assistance to China and has rapidly formed a military alliance with China. This is also the main reason why the Chinese Burma Expeditionary Force did not defend the land on Chinese soil and went to Burma, they were helping the United States and Britain to fight Japan! (To be continued......)