Chapter 69 Franco-Japanese alliance
Luo Shanshan became the Japanese ambassador to Tang, something that Zhang Meng had not expected.
Zhang Meng knew very well that it was definitely not easy for Japan to let Luo Shanshan serve as the ambassador to Tang. What kind of crisis is hidden in it is really a headache.
Of course, foreign institutions of all countries will basically engage in overseas espionage to more or less. This is a fact that governments all agree that as long as they are not caught, all countries will turn a blind eye.
"No matter whether Luo Shanshan has anything to do with Kenji Doihara's special high school class, she has to be very energetic and keep her in a close eye. After all, she is the first person to investigate our robbery of Siling Bank's vault."
Tan Jincheng said: "Whether Luo Shanshan is one of the Angry Birds or not, I think the security work of the Empire's Treasury and the Datang Bank's Treasury must be strengthened."
Zhang Meng nodded and expressed his agreement. Tan Jincheng went down to deploy the arrangements.
Three days later, Zhang Meng indeed received a report from the Shangshu Province, a notice of resignation submitted by the former Japanese ambassador to Tang. Then Luo Shanshan went to the Daming Palace to meet with the Japanese ambassador to Tang.
When she saw Luo Shanshan again, she was still as sexy and beautiful as ever, but there was a hint of cunning in her eyes. Zhang Meng immediately became a scheming in his heart, afraid that Luo Shanshan had completely become a traitor.
A hint of ruthlessness flashed in Zhang Meng's eyes, and he didn't say much. After saying a symbolic set of official words, he stamped the jade seal of the Emperor of the Tang Empire on the appointment letter of the Japanese envoy to Tang submitted by Luo Shanshan, and completed the last procedure.
Luo Shanshan is protected by international conventions, and Zhang Meng cannot easily attack her. He can only wait for the opportunity.
The Tang Dynasty's Land and Land Security Bureau naturally monitored the embassies and consulates in various countries in Tang, and even monitored the Japanese consulates in Tang 24 hours a day. The radio positioning vehicles and radio interceptor vehicles were sprayed on patrol and police cars. The focus was on patrol and surveillance around the streets around the Japanese embassy and consulates, and even secretly monitored their telephone communications to ensure that Luo Shanshan and the people in the Japanese embassy and consulates were under absolute surveillance.
Wars without gunpowder are spread all over the world. Open and secret struggles seem to have humanity that never ended that day, and the same is true for governments of all countries. On the surface, they are all intrigues in secret. There are secret wars between countries everywhere.
The Pacific Ocean has always been a traditional hegemony between Britain, France, the United States and Japan, but with the strong rise of the Tang Empire, Japan completely withdrew from the hegemony in this area. Although Britain and the United States have preserved a certain amount of strength, they also transferred most of the islands in the Pacific to the Tang Empire, and their own strength has been greatly reduced, and the United States retreated to the Philippine Islands. Britain retreated to Oceania. Only France refused to transfer the French Pacific series of islands to the Tang Dynasty.
As a result, the conflict between the Tang Empire and France rose sharply. Although both sides maintained restraint, the Tang Empire's ownership of the French Pacific series of islands was determined to win, because Zhang Meng wanted to divide an absolute defense circle in the area and broaden the strategic depth of the Tang Empire.
Before, Zhang Meng was not in a hurry to annex these French islands, but after a secret report was submitted, Zhang Meng had to pay attention.
Information shows that Japan has been fully equipped with military forces since the failure of the Tang and Japan Pacific War and vigorously developed its naval and air force. However, Japan's military strength and technical reserves are far inferior to those of the West. The performance of the trial-made aircraft has been out of reach. After comparing with the foreign trade fighter jets exported to European and American countries by the Tang Empire, its performance was almost completely backward. This is undoubtedly a wake-up call for the Japanese Empire, which is preparing to avenge the Tang Empire. Therefore, the Japanese military was forced to turn limited funds to Europe and the United States. The huge demand for Japanese arms stimulated all the desire merchants in Europe and the United States, but the Tang Empire could not sit idly by and interfere with and obstruct Japan from obtaining military technology and equipment from Europe and the United States through various means.
Due to the forced abandonment of the financial systems of the Tang, the United States and Britain, the military cooperation between Germany and the Tang Dynasty was also true to Japan. Italy's military technology was half a dozen and Japan was not interested in it. Only France became the country that Japan focused on researching key issues.
Previously, France had been annoyed that Zhang Meng was making a large-scale money-making operation in France. In addition to the recent silver currency war, France suffered a lot. The Tang, United States and Britain only kept France out of the country. This series of events made France increasingly dissatisfied with the Tang Empire. When French intelligence agencies learned that the Tang Empire was working with the German side to provide loans to Germany and help it avoid the restrictions on the Versailles contract to produce and develop weapons and equipment on a large scale abroad, this immediately touched France's reverse scale and made the French government very angry.
So, when Japan proposed all-round cooperation to France, the French government immediately agreed.
In this way, France's advanced military technology and loans flocked to Japan. At the same time, France also learned about Japan's intention to avenge the Tang Empire sooner or later, and handed over the French Pacific Islands to the Japanese to develop, and the Japanese built airports on several French islands in the name of commercial use.
Since those French islands lived in the South Pacific and belonged to the strategic rear of the Tang Empire, the Japanese built airports there suddenly became nervous.
The French government is very cunning. They did not transfer these islands to Japan, but allowed the Japanese to invest on the island. In this way, if the Tang Empire directly took military action, it would be intent to start a war with France. This would inevitably affect the view of the entire Western world on the Tang Empire and would change the situation that was already subtle with European and American countries due to economic interests. This is exactly the result that the Japanese want to see. France and Japan will form an alliance to fight against the Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Meng tried to put pressure on France to stop France and Japan's cooperation, but unfortunately France did not respond. Zhang Meng knew that France must not know the true strength of the Tang Empire, and thought that if he fully supported Japan, he could balance the Tang Dynasty.
After several repeated warnings to France, Zhang Meng had to take action.
Without any last resort, Zhang Meng would not go to war with France easily, and he also knew that France did not want to break out with the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, in response to the Japanese merchants' construction of airports on French Pacific islands, Zhang Meng once again sent several special forces under the Blue Fox Special Forces to secretly infiltrate in those airports, and carry out terrorist attacks on those airports and assassination operations on Japanese developers. For a time, people on the French Pacific islands were panic.
Although they knew that the Tang Empire was secretly tampering, the French and Japanese governments could not get evidence and could only stare at them. However, Zhang Meng's actions actually made France and Japan go on the road to confront the Tang Dynasty together.
Finally, on June 3, 1935, representatives of France and Japan signed the ** International Military Alliance Treaty in Paris, which was valid for three years. On the surface, this was aimed at the Communist International, but in fact, politicians with a little wise mind understood that this was probably aimed at the Tang Empire.
The formation of a military alliance against the Tang Empire suddenly made the Pacific Ocean covered with dark clouds.
Chapter completed!