Although the great powers of Britain, France and the United States jointly put pressure on the Tang Empire, forcing the Tang Empire to give up the plan to continue air strikes on Japan's mainland, the vested interests obtained by the Tang Empire cannot be changed. In the subsequent negotiations, the Tang negotiation team headed by Tang Shaoyi will get back more benefits from the negotiating table.

Under the joint mediation between Britain, France and the United States, the delegations of the Tang and Japan held armistice negotiations in Washington.

After a few hours of secret talk with Zhang Meng, Tang Shaoyi had a bottom line in his heart. According to Zhang Meng's request, if Japan wants to make a standstill, it needs to recognize that the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Carolina Islands and the southern islands, including the Ogasawara Islands, belong to the Tang Empire, and compensate the Tang Dynasty for US$2.05 billion in military expenditure.

If Japan wants to negotiate peace and Tang and Japan sign peace clauses, Japan needs to implement the armistice agreement, ceding the Taiwan archipelago and the Ryukyu archipelago to the Tang Empire, banning all anti-Tang remarks and marchs in Japan. The Yokosuka Naval Base and its surrounding areas are lent to the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire for 99 years, abolishing the puppet Manchukuo, returning the three northeastern provinces to China, compensate China for economic losses and casualties of a total of US$4.08 billion, abolishing all Japan's privileges and all unequal treaties in China, etc.

This treaty was very harsh. According to Zhang Meng's wishes, he agreed to mediate the three countries. This was called giving face to the three countries and easing the conflict between the Tang Dynasty and the three countries of Britain, France and the United States. But he had to ask for a huge price. If Japan agreed, it would be equivalent to the Tang Dynasty taking a huge advantage and gaining huge benefits that were difficult to obtain on the battlefield. If it did not agree, then the Tang Dynasty could launch a military operation again with justification.

Faced with the conditions for ceasefire and peace negotiations issued by the Tang Empire, the Japanese foreign minister Jigero was extremely sad. This was not a ceasefire and peace negotiations, but it was clearly a robbery.

"This condition is too harsh. We can't accept it!"

"That's nothing to talk about, let's see the truth on the battlefield!"

Less than a minute after the first round of talks between the two sides, Liu Kaiwei, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Dynasty, got up and left, leaving behind the coin, Higero, sitting there in a daze.

This is a negotiation technique. The Tang Empire took the initiative, so Liu Kaiwei naturally had to make good use of it.

Kittohara sighed and looked at the mediation representative of Britain, France and the United States, who looked very innocent.

The representatives of Britain, France and the United States all felt the strength of the Tang Empire. Although they gave face to the Three Kingdoms to agree to the negotiations, it was obvious that they did not want to continue the negotiations with such harsh conditions.

The representatives of the Three Kingdoms gathered together to talk for a while, and then asked Ji Chongro to stay calm. They went to meet Liu Kaiwei alone to mediate.

Under the guidance of Tang Shaoyi, Liu Kaiwei's diplomatic skills have improved greatly. He did not hold talks with the representatives of the Three Kingdoms at the same time, but talked with them separately for Japan's interests. Liu Kaiwei followed Zhang Meng's order and took the opportunity to separate and disintegrate the alliance between Britain, France and the United States. As long as they could not join forces, the Tang Empire would ignore their attitude and continue to launch a military strike against Japan.

Although Japan is the poorest among the great powers, Britain, France and the United States have gained benefits in Japan. This is because Japan is a country with serious lack of resources and imports almost everything for industrial construction. Especially minerals, oil and other industrial products are needed, especially the world economic crisis. The dumping of cheap food from European and American countries into Japan has risen to huge profits.

Liu Kaiwei took advantage of the different interests of the great powers in Japan to negotiate with them separately, and divided their alliance camps.

Among Britain, France and the United States, both military and national strength are the most powerful, and the United States is also Japan's largest oil exporter and two exporters. At this time, the isolationism of the United States is rising, and the Americans are unwilling to intervene in international affairs, and even the League of Nations does not join. It can be seen that its isolationist idea is unprecedentedly strong, and even the US government dare not easily touch public opinion. Therefore, in this context, the United States' attitude is the most unstable. Liu Kaiwei immediately promised the Tang army to ensure the interests of the US government in Japan, and the Tang army will not block the oil and food exports from the United States to Japan. At the same time, it was stated that if the United States supports the Tang Dynasty on the issue of Japan, then in return, the Tang Dynasty will prevent other countries from exporting oil and food to Japan, and the interests will be exclusively occupied by the United States.

Of course, there is also a necessary method of both soft and hard work. Liu Kaiwei also revealed to the US that if he insists on opposing the Tang Dynasty, the Tang army would transfer these interests to Britain and France.

The Tang Navy naturally had the strength that could severely damage the strength of the Japanese joint fleet. For the US Navy, their naval power in the Pacific was obviously far inferior to that of the Japanese Navy, and naturally could not withstand the tossing of the Tang army.

After reporting to President Hoover, the US mediation representative Stevenson received approval from Hoover, and eventually the United States withdrew from the British, French and American alliance and stayed out of the matter.

Of course, Hoover's choice to win-win with the Tang Empire was not agreed by Liu Kaiwei's words and promised interests in Japan. The biggest reason was that Zhang Meng sent a confidant envoy to the White House in Washington, met with President Hoover, and conveyed Zhang Meng's greetings and requests to visit the United States to him.

Zhang Meng wanted to visit the United States. This was the first time that Zhang Meng had made a formal state visit abroad since the founding of the Tang Empire. The first stop was the United States, and the hidden relationship was extremely complicated.

For Hoover, he experienced the most serious US economic crisis during his tenure, and was criticized by the people for his unfavorable response to the economic crisis. It was under great pressure. However, Zhang Meng's money-making on Wall Street has become an open secret in the world. In addition, all the hardware facilities of Zhang Meng's Tang Empire came from the United States. They were violently demolished and were filled with the blood, sweat and tears of Americans. Therefore, Americans have no good feelings for Zhang Meng and the Tang Empire, and many people even clamored to sanction the Tang Empire, or even assassinate Zhang Meng.

In this case, Zhang Meng's special envoy met Hoover, which was a big global explosion news. At the beginning, Hoover obviously did not want to see Zhang Meng's special envoy, let alone invited Zhang Meng to conduct a state visit to the United States. In his eyes, Zhang Meng was a plague god, and he couldn't even hide, so he obviously didn't want to meet with Zhang Meng.

However, Zhang Meng's special envoy brought good news to Hoover, which eventually led to Hoover's pressure to agree to formally send an invitation letter to the Tang Empire, inviting Zhang Meng to pay a five-day state visit to the United States.

At the same time, Hoover ordered Stevenson to withdraw from the alliance between Britain, France and the United States and the United States in the joint interference of the Tang-Japanese War, which surprised and incredible European powers such as Britain, France and others.

"What the hell is that changing Hoover's mind?"

The representatives of Britain and France were puzzled.

You should know that in order to divert domestic conflicts and pressure, Hoover was the first to join forces with Britain and France to interfere in the Tang and Japan war. Hoover even once hinted that the leaders of Britain and France would never allow the rise of the Tang Empire. In order to divert domestic conflicts, the three countries even planned to jointly destroy the Tang Empire.

The United States' withdrawal in the middle of the way undoubtedly means selling Britain and France. With the strength of Britain and France in the Far East, it is impossible to do anything to the Tang Empire. Unless Britain and France spend all their efforts to expedition to the Pacific, it will be difficult to threaten the Tang Empire. But it is obvious that neither Britain and France will give up traditional Europe and go to the Pacific to fight an unsure war.

Britain and France were originally following the United States to fight Qiufeng. They participated in this matter in fact, in order to instigate the conflict between the United States and the Tang Dynasty, and wanted to use the United States to eliminate or drag down the Tang Dynasty. Now that the Americans have withdrawn, Britain and France suddenly became embarrassed and their attitude towards the Tang Dynasty is no longer so tough.

"It must be Zhang Meng's promise to Hoover what benefits must be?"

The leaders of Britain and France gathered together and all guessed the key to the problem. However, what skills Zhang Meng has to do to change Hoover's attitude are unknown. They can only be revealed after Zhang Meng and Hoover meet.

The mediation attitude of Britain, France and the United States became softer, which made the Saito Mi cabinet feel pressure. During the subsequent bargaining period between Kitsawa Toyhara and Liu Kaiwei, it also saw that the attitude of Britain, France and the United States was no longer so tough.

Faced with Liu Kaiwei becoming stronger and stronger and even tending to increase his investment, Kishiro Toyhara immediately sent a telegram to Saito Mi and asked for instructions to make a decision immediately.

Saito Mi was a soldier. He knew very well that if bombers from the Tang Empire came to visit Japan every day, the losses would be astronomical, far exceeding the price paid for signing peace treaties. Especially if the Japanese Navy wanted to rebuild the joint fleet against the Tang Dynasty, it would have to keep the safety of the shipyard and related factories. The Tang army kept bombing, and the Japanese Navy could only rebuild the joint fleet in the year of the monkey and horses.

Saito Mi asked the Japanese military whether it could complete the construction of Japan's local air defense system in a short time. The results showed that Japan's fighter jets and small-caliber air defense artillery could not do anything to the Tang army's bombers. It would take at least two or three years to develop and produce Japanese fighter jets that can compete with Tang army aircraft. The number of large-caliber air defense artillery was insufficient, and the air defense effect was not good. In a short period of time, Japan's production capacity could not achieve comprehensive air defense capabilities in the country.

For several months, the Tang army's submarines began to show their power. They attacked Japanese merchant ships and cut off Japanese energy supplies, which was a fatal blow to the Japanese economy. The money they lost increased exponentially, and Japan could not afford it and would be poor and left in less than three months.

Saito Mi wanted to cry but she could only cut off her arm and agree to the harsh conditions of the Tang Empire.

However, the Japanese military resolutely refused to give up Taiwan, Ryukyu and the northeastern provinces, so Saito Mi asked Britain, France and the United States to help convince the Tang Empire and allow Japan to compensate with money.

Liu Kaiwei informed Zhang Meng of the proposal of the Three Kingdoms and the request of the Japanese side. After Zhang Meng discussed with Tang Shaoyi, he weighed the pros and cons and believed that he would give face to Britain, France and the United States. The benefits he obtained at present were far beyond the goals that could be achieved by the war. After all, the Tang Empire had limited military resources, and it would be unrealistic to attack Taiwan, Ryukyu, Northeast China and other places.

"Since you have achieved the maximum benefits, you will stop when you are better."

Zhang Meng ordered someone to send this sentence to Liu Kaiwei and let him handle it with all his powers, while Zhang Meng was ready to go to the United States and he wanted to have a good chat with Hoover.
Chapter completed!