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Chapter 467: The Dormant Pain

Noticing the shock on the faces of the two and a look of disbelief, Huo Shan smiled and nodded, "You heard it right, this time I really plan to make peace with the Americans!"

"Young master, why is this, we can continue to fight this war, we have made the Americans pay a heavy price of 1.5 million casualties, we can win this war......" Saying this, Huo Hu's eyes widened suddenly, his expression was stunned, and he opened his mouth and didn't say any more. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Remembered?"

Hearing Huo Shan's words, Huo Feng's face next to him also showed a wry smile.

"Yes, young master, I understand...... Defeat is not allowed to win!" Huo Hu's face was full of unwillingness, especially when he talked about the back, his tone was even heavier.

At the beginning, the key to the strategy of the Americas was to 'defeat but not victory', and now the main US President Chester Allen Arthur has been killed, and the main peace William Wyler will become the new US president, as long as he takes office, then the Americans will definitely use the British as a third party to negotiate peace with Huo Jiajun.

And that means that the Huo family army has won this war! This is obviously inconsistent with the American strategy formulated by Huo Shan at the beginning!

Looking at the reluctant look on Huo Hu's face, Huo Shan also sighed secretly in his heart.

stood up and patted Huo Hu on the shoulder, and said with a slight sigh in his tone: "I don't want to do this either, but who told us that we are inferior to others now? In order to keep the land of the Mississippi River." We must make such sacrifices. Otherwise, the British, who are trying to balance the strength of both sides, will not let us swallow these lands. ”

For this sentence of Huo Shan. Huo Feng understood it most profoundly.

As the Minister of the Navy, he knew that although the territory of the Huo Jiajun was not small, Shizai was scattered and too open. There are not only tens of thousands of islands large and small in the South and Pacific Oceans, but also the control zone of the American continent, Alaska, Miquelon, Greenland and the Caribbean Special Administrative Region, as well as Liberia in Africa and the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean.

In just over six years, through foreign wars, cash purchases and other means, the current Huo Jiajun territory has spread across the four continents and four oceans except Europe. Although the territory is unprecedentedly large, the security problems it brings are also greatly improved.

Especially when the naval strength of the Huo family army was still weak, once it offended the British, the world's naval hegemon. Then their huge fleet can easily separate the territories of the Huo family army, and then gather superior forces to eliminate the local Huo family army garrison. And then one by one. Take away the overseas territories that the Huo family army has worked so hard to occupy.

Therefore, until Huo Jiajun's navy really grows up, any military conflict with the British is unwise.

This is also the reason why Huo Shan has always suppressed the scale of the war in the Americas, even if the Americans have been defeated at the beginning of the war, Huo Shan has no intention of seizing an inch of land east of the Mississippi River.

For this, he even gave up the Great Lakes region, the richest region in the entire Americas.

"Damn the British, damn the 'Continental Balance Policy'!" Suddenly he scolded with a look on his face.

Huo Shan didn't stop Huo Hu from venting, because he also felt aggrieved in his heart. However, as the controller of the Huo family, for the sake of the overall situation, he must let Zi stay as calm as possible, and he can't let any emotions influence Zi's decision.

It wasn't until Huo Hu calmed down that Huo Shan said again: "You discuss with Huo Long, and Huo Shi, see which of you goes to the Americas, and appease the emotions of the soldiers! I don't want any unnecessary damage to Chuxian after the war is over!"

"I see, young master...... Soldiers make it their duty to obey orders, and I'm sure they'll understand!"

Although he said this, Huo Hu had no bottom in his heart, because the Huo family's army's efforts in this war were too great, and although more than half of the more than 300,000 casualties were poorly equipped and poorly trained black servants, the real regular troops of the Huo's army also had nearly 100,000 casualties.

And after paying such heavy casualties and winning the war, the result is to return the land they fought so bloodily to the Americans under their feet, I am afraid that any soldier will not be able to figure it out and will be emotional.

After all, they are all soldiers and officers at the lowest level, and they don't know what the international trend is and what the American strategy is.

They only know that the ground under the feet of the zi, which they took from the Americans by sweating blood and sweat on the battlefield, pinning the naodai to the belt of their trousers. It's their spoils. No one can take it away easily.

Therefore, this seemingly simple task of placating soldiers is not so easy to accomplish. One is not handled well, and it is easy to blow up the camp.

So after receiving this order, Huo Hu also realized the difficulty of this matter.

After patting him on the shoulder and giving Huo Hu an encouraging look, Huo Shan took out the pocket watch he had just bought not long ago and looked at the time on it, then stood up and said, "Okay, the time is almost up, let's go, let's go too!

Hearing this, Huo Hu and Huo Feng also put aside their worries for the time being, and they both stood up.

Then, after the two glanced at each other, Huo Feng opened his mouth and asked, "Young Master, when are you going to return to Tai-Wan?" Old lady, they miss you very much, and the people of the Li family and the He family have been waiting at home for a long time. In the middle, because of the disappearance of the young master, we also pushed the marriage date for you twice. If you don't go back, I'm afraid they'll be really angry!"

After listening to their words, Huo Shan couldn't help frowning, "I have to stay here for another two months, Helen has just become pregnant, and the first trimester is the most dangerous, and it is easy to cause a miscarriage if you are not careful." Therefore, I couldn't stand the bumps and humid environment at sea, so I could only wait for her three months of pregnancy to pass before going back together. ”

After finishing speaking, Huo Shan glanced at the two of them and said with a smile: "Don't worry, there is a radio base station on this island, and it is convenient to contact." Just let me know if there's anything happening!"

Hearing this, Huo Hu and Huo Feng, who knew something about Huo Shan's character, also knew that Zi couldn't change the young master's mind now, so they could only do this for the time being.

However, they knew that the guards here had to be strengthened, and after experiencing Huo Shan's disappearance for three months, the two of them attached more importance to the safety of their young master.

With the transmission of the radio, the news that Huo Shan was found quickly spread to all the high-level members of the Huo family, and the Government Affairs Yuan, which had already begun to become agitated, quickly became stable again after getting the news.

Huo Shan is like the Dinghai Divine Needle within the Huo Family Army, which reunited the two terms of the Huo Family's military and political affairs, which were originally a little loose at the beginning, into a whole.

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"Hehe, it's finally a false alarm, Xiaoshan is fine!"

After Huang Sheng read the telegram in his hand, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and his face, which had been gloomy for three months, also changed to a smile again.

After listening to his words, Rong Hong, who was sitting opposite, also nodded, but compared to Huang Sheng's happiness, the expression on Rong Hong's face was much calmer at this moment.

"Da Meng, why don't you seem to be happy?"

Looking at the puzzled swallow on his old friend's face, Rong Hong shook his head with a slight melancholy on his face, "It's not that I'm unhappy, it's just that my heart is a little complicated!"

Speaking of this, Rong Hong looked at Huang Sheng, whose face had changed, and said, "Old friend, we have known each other for many years, you know what my ideal is!"

"The fundamental reason for the decline of modern China is the decaying and backward feudal system, and the root of this feudal system is the monarchy. How can a person decide a country's military and political affairs without making mistakes. And a small mistake is likely to lead to the decline or even demise of a country! Therefore, the great powers of the world in modern times are developing in the direction of a republic and a constitutional monarchy. ”

"However, now our Chinese People's Army is developing in the direction of the monarchy, so I am really worried about whether the Chinese People's Army, which is now vibrant, will become decadent and backward after decades of establishment like the Qing Dynasty!"

Hearing this, Huang Sheng's face changed, he knew that Zi, an old friend, had lived in the United States for many years, and after comparing the backwardness of the Qing Dynasty and the prosperity of the United States, he hated the monarchy and respected the republic very much.

"Da Meng, you are too extreme, aren't Russia and Germany, as well as Austria-Hungary, all monarchical world powers?" Huang Sheng said with a frown.

After listening to his words, Rong Hong slowly shook his head, "Russia and Austria-Hungary have decayed, they just have a large land area and strong military strength, and the real comprehensive national strength, especially the industrial strength, they are not comparable to Britain, France, the United States and Germany at all." ”

After a pause, "As for Germany, they are indeed very strong, and in many respects, even the British, who are the number one power in the world, are not comparable to them. But when the talented Founding Fathers of the present day pass away, they will inevitably decline, perhaps in the second generation, perhaps in the third generation. All in all, not too far!"

Hearing this, Huang Sheng did not speak, he is also a scholar in the United Kingdom, a knowledgeable person, in the history of the world, especially in Chinese history, there are too many examples of the death of the second generation, and even the decline of the dynasty after the third generation!

After Rong Hong finished speaking, there was a long silence in the office, they all knew that the current form of the People's Army, the members of the Huo family controlled most of the rights and shares of the military, political and economic parties within the People's Army, the power was too strong, as long as Huo Shan was willing, then the former Chinese People's Army would become history, and a huge dynasty would be over the Pacific Ocean. (To be continued......) o

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