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    Song Ziwen can understand why the United States has such a good attitude.  .Politics are all connected. The Americans want to hold China back and do not want to immediately respond to China's various demands. They also do not want to break up with China. They just want to see the outcome of the war between MacArthur and the Japanese in the Philippines.  If the war is not going well, then we should reach a real cooperative relationship with China and give whatever is due.  And considering the losses suffered by the United States and the damage to transportation between the east and west of the American continent, we have no choice but to lower our posture and admit China's dominant position in the Southeast Asian war. If the war goes well, MacArthur can save the Philippines.  Then we still need to reach a cooperative relationship with China, but if China wants to make various demands like before, forget it. It can only be a junior brother in this war, even if the United States only has tens of thousands of troops in the Philippines.  Unfortunately, as Lu Xiaojia said, the United States has not fought a war for decades. Even though many of their generals have participated in World War I, everyone knows that in World War I, Americans  It's a real **.  The "reason" they entered the war was because Germany had to engage in "unrestricted submarine warfare" and began to attack ships of countries not participating in the war.  When they actually entered the war, the forces of the two major military groups, the Allies and the Entente, were already extremely exhausted and their strengths were comparable. The Red Army's compromise eliminated the Allies' disadvantages, but the reserve forces of both sides were exhausted.  This can be determined from the fact that both the victor and the loser took loans from the United States for reconstruction after the war.  Under the premise of positional warfare, it is impossible for either side to completely defeat the other side. Under this situation, the United States, as a new force, becomes the little mouse pulling out carrots. Without it, Germany cannot be defeated.  Defeat the Allies, but it alone is not enough, so it can only be said to a certain extent that the United States played an important role in World War I, but the real decisive role was France, which was known as the number one military force in Europe at the time.  The two countries that made the United States famous in World War I should also include Germany. It was the personnel attrition of Germany and France that allowed the four American divisions to spread across Europe. In other words, if the United States intervened from the beginning of the war, the most it could do was  It played the role of a slave state, but it finally chose the right time.  At this time, if it had supported the Central Powers, the Entente would likely have failed.  However, this only proves that it cannot be a decisive force or a sufficient force, but a necessary force that plays an indispensable role at the appropriate time.  In other words, Americans¡¯ war experience is far from sufficient.  ¡°At least in the eyes of Song Ziwen, a military layman, the United States could not even hope to fight against Juichi Terauchi¡¯s 200,000 Japanese troops without 300,000 defenders in the Philippines.  Moreover, these 300,000 people must have sufficient logistics, and they must all be American soldiers But it is a pity that only a little over 30,000 of the 120,000 defenders are Americans, and the other nearly 90,000 are Filipinos  Aboriginal.  Song Ziwen also knew a lot about things in Nanyang. The combat effectiveness of the Filipino natives was probably equivalent to that of the bandits in China, and they were just ordinary bandits with poor equipment.   "It can be regarded as a front-line promotion. Not long ago, the U.S. Congress commended MacArthur for his spirit of steadfastly protecting his 'protected country' and awarded him the rank of general." Yan Huiqing did not have a good impression of Song Ziwen, the uncle of the country.  They are too arrogant and always feel that this country can let them do whatever they want, and anyone who opposes their ideas will be ostracized.  If it weren't for Wang Chonghui and Qin Wei's support behind him, he would probably have lost the qualification to sit at this negotiating table.  If that's the case, it's hard to say whether the country's uncle's "affectionateness" towards Americans can still earn maximum benefits for China. It's hard to say that a lot will be lost.  However, despite his dissatisfaction, Yan Huiqing still answered Song Ziwen's question.  They can't let foreigners see their jokes.  "My teacher has never looked down upon anyone. His speculations on the war situation have not made a mistake so far." Lu Xiaojia did not notice the conversation between Yan Huiqing and Song Ziwen. She was immersed in "confronting" the US Secretary of State.  **, and "admiration" for her teacher She had never felt it in China before, but after following Yan Huiqing to the United States and seeing a lot of information, she realized that although they had always relied on her as a supporter, they had always  How powerful is Professor Qin, who is looked down upon by some.  Not to mention the successive victories, even the American political ax has repeatedly suffered defeat at the hands of Professor Qin, who is thousands of miles away.  Who else in the country has such ability?  "Just because mistakes haven't happened before doesn't mean they won't happen in the future." Henry Stimson seemed to enjoy arguing with Lu Xiaojia, the little girl in their eyes. "You know, America is a magical land, and miracles always happen here.  "Mr. Minister," Lu Xiaojia smiled, "You said a miracle? Can I understand it this way: It is a great thing to be able to make my teacher guess wrong?"   "I didn't say that." Stimson shook his head quickly.  According to Lu Xiaojia, if he admits it, he also admits that Qin Wei is great.  But since he was a very great general, his speculation was naturally quite credible. In other words, he, the Secretary of War, actually had no confidence in MacArthur's ability to hold the Philippines.  As a result, they have no basis for negotiating with China: They are about to lose the war, why don't they quickly ask the Chinese to help?  "Okay, let's not dwell on the choice of words you just made, although I'm more than willing to think of it as subconscious because of your admiration for my teacher" "No, it's not subconscious. It's just an unconscious remark.  " Stimson interrupted Lu Xiaojia again, determined not to let this little girl who could be his granddaughter put the label of "Qin Wei's worshiper" on his head.  He is the Secretary of War of the United States!  He is over 70 years old, how can he afford to throw such a person away?  But Lu Xiaojia didn't understand his thoughts, and still pursued her fiercely: "Subconscious and unconscious, they seem to have the same meaning." In other words, you are still very serious about our Professor Qin.  of.  "No, no, no, that means two different things." Stimson firmly denied it.  They have already dealt with Yan Huiqing and Lu Xiaojia twice.  In their view, the old man and the young man are all typical conspirators.  Not to mention what he said before, just like this time, if he can't deny Lu Xiaojia's statement, then I'm afraid there will be reports like this in the newspapers in Washington tomorrow: The Secretary of War worships the Chinese general, is worried about the war situation in the Philippines, etc.  !  And once this happens, it will be very detrimental to him and the current government.  But there was nothing they could do.  And I don't know what's going on with the old man and the young man. It seems that they have never considered who China and the United States need more. More than once, they have caught their language problems and exposed them to the outside world, causing them a lot of trouble.  You know, this kind of thing is simply unimaginable for the previous Chinese ambassador.  But now the old man and the young man just do it, and they seem to enjoy it very much.  But the problem is that the old man and the young man did not come forward on their own, but secretly leaked the news to the reporters, so they were completely helpless, not even making a move to the Chinese government.  Of course, they can also directly raise their opinions to the Chinese government and ask for the replacement of the ambassador without any reason, but doing so will not only hurt the feelings of the Chinese government, but also make them feel out of place.  "Whether it means one thing or two things, we must admit that the current situation in your country is quite unfavorable. If you only think about defending the Philippines, then we Chinese people will feel very sad about this" Yan Huiqingcha  He started by saying, "The Chinese people have always had a very good feeling for the United States of America. Especially after the United States withstood the shameless sneak attack by the Japanese, the Chinese people donated money and materials one after another regardless of their own suffering, hoping to express  Let¡¯s express our condolences to the American people. However, now, your country has repeatedly refused to support China¡¯s war of resistance and support China against our common enemy and even refused China to send troops to support your war in the Philippines.  "Defenders! What do you think of the friendship of the Chinese people?" "Miss Lu, when have we ever donated anything to the Americans?" Song Ziwen, the chief representative, sat in the center of the Chinese delegation.  But what Yan Huiqing said made him unable to sit still, and he couldn't help asking Lu Xiaojia, who was sitting on the other side of him, a question When did the Chinese donate anything to the Americans?  And judging from Yan Huiqing's momentum, it seems that the money is quite a lot?  But now that he has seized the financial power of the Chinese government, why doesn't he know that he has such a sum of money?  "When the Americans were first attacked, within two weeks, that is, about ten days, we donated the money." Lu Xiaojia glanced at the uncle in surprise, "The first payment was  The second payment was US$380,000, and the third payment was US$190,000it was transferred directly to our embassy's account through Citibank's branch in Hong Kong, and then transferred to the White House. Everyone in the United States knew about it.  "Is this happening?" Song Ziwen was stunned, "But why don't I know anything about it?" "Maybe you are too busy." Lu Xiaojia shrugged and turned away.  "I'm too busy? I'm too busy and I can't even understand such a big thing, right?" Song Ziwen felt a little lost in a trance.  He firmly believes that the Chinese have never donated money to the United States on a large scale, not even on a small scale Everyone should just be happy, happy that the Japanese have finally dragged the United States of America into the war.  But if no one donated, where did the three donations totaling more than one million US dollars come from?  That's one million U.S. dollars, not one million French currency!  What's more, even one million French currency is probably a lot of money for ordinary Americans.of huge sums of money.  Could it be that the embassy that passed through was his brother-in-law?  But how could you not tell yourself, the fourth-level dictator, the person in charge of the country's financial power about such a big matter?  Song Ziwen turned to look at Yan Huiqing again, intending to get some information from the ambassador to the United States, but in the blink of an eye, he saw Hull again The American Secretary of State seemed to have a bad look on his face.  (To be continued.)
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