the world is at stake

"Your Excellency, Secretary, is related to the well-being of the whole of Japan. We must use our lives to defend him." The Japanese guard gave a serious look. After confirming the identity of the visitor, he had to call the Internal Security Section to confirm before allowing him to pass.

Kompany was stunned for a while, and laughed at himself after a while.He went through three hills in a row before meeting the key figures of the trip in the temporary office building.

They were all 'old friends', and after a simple handshake, Zhou Qingfeng invited Kompany to sit down.Katya waved off the secretary and made coffee herself as a treat.

"Mr. Zhou, congratulations to you, and to China. Taking Japan is tantamount to releasing the shackles that bind China. With the current situation, your Excellency is destined to be recorded in the annals of history."

Although it was a compliment, Kompany was convinced.It has been eight years since time and space restarted, but his home country Belgium has become a battlefield between France and Germany, with heavy casualties and the destruction of his homeland.

The European powers have not yet decided the winner, but the confrontation has intensified.China has already established the victory.Even if the current situation is a truce, the pattern of East Asia has changed, and the 'Holy Light' has made a lot of money.

Zhou Qingfeng smiled, and asked back: "What is the matter that Mr. came to see me?"

Kompany scratched his head. Last year, he was severely punished by "Holy Light" and almost all the money he earned as a financial broker for China was spit out on agency Japanese debt.

It didn't take long to sell Japanese debt at a discount, and China and Japan reconciled.Bonds worth £47bn immediately soared in value, leaving China with a fortune for nothing.

Not long ago, the Chinese government officially announced that it would reduce most of the debts and postpone the interest payment date of the remaining debts, so as to reduce the pressure on the Japanese people to repay.It can be said that Japan is grateful and praises.

Kompany's sales of Japanese debt is to attract a large number of rentiers in Europe to buy.Encountering a 'big hooligan' who ends up making money, and with the coming of a big war, he can only admit that he is unlucky and leave the game.

As a result, a large number of European financial institutions and the middle class went bankrupt and lost everything.And because of the coming of the war, Brussels fell into the flames of war, and no one could come to pay for it.Because many creditors lost their lives.

Kompany collected surplus money and fled to the United States early.He originally wanted to make a fortune in the financial market of the United States, but he secretly discovered that China is gradually selling off its assets in the United States.

Five years ago, 'Holy Light' borrowed American manpower and material resources to incubate its own enterprises and cultivate talents, and the effect was extremely remarkable.In the past five years, more than [-] large and small enterprises have been successfully incubated, and the asset scale has exceeded one million US dollars.

But these profitable companies are being sold one after another.For example, Standard Oil of California, which was originally purchased with a loan from the Rockefeller family, has changed hands.

Not only did the Chinese government not lose money, but because of the rapid growth of the U.S. economy in recent years, and the fact that Europe is currently in a mess, the prices of military products have soared, and they have made billions of dollars in the process of selling them.

Many of these assets were taken over by high-level officials because of the huge amount of hot money that fled from Europe to the United States. The 'old European' nobles were skinned twice.

The money China will receive will either be exchanged for gold or to buy goods on the market.Some factories are too important to be sold, so they are simply disassembled together with technicians and shipped back to China.

From this, Kompany concluded that China and the United States are by no means of one mind, and the situation has further changes.Just as he made his judgment, the British diplomats stationed in the United States approached him, hoping to use his neutral status to go to China and convey some information to His Excellency Zhou Qingfeng.

"Charles I of the United Kingdom asked me to deliver a letter on his behalf, and asked me to be an invisible bridge between China and Britain." Kompany took out the letter from his arms.

After Zhou Qingfeng received the letter, he opened it, and when Kajia handed over the coffee, he turned his head and glanced.The letter is full of polite words, at most saying that Britain has no intention of containing China and is willing to maintain contact.

"I am no longer the leader of the 'Holy Light', so I should not be the one to receive this letter." Zhou Qingfeng forwarded the letter to Kajia, "Send it to the State Council of the Imperial Capital through diplomatic channels, and let Qin Qing receive it."

Kompany didn't take it seriously, "You are the founder of 'Holy Light', and some things can only be said to you. Charles I said, can China and Britain stop the war immediately?"

Zhou Qingfeng laughed and asked, "A truce? China and Britain are currently only fighting in Southeast Asia, and the opponent is mainly the Anzac Army. There are only 500 million white people in Australia, but it has mobilized 50 troops to join the Southeast Asian battlefield.

First of all, 500 million whites occupy the entire continent of nearly 769 million square kilometers, which is too wasteful.

In addition, the Australian army mobilized one-tenth of the country's population, almost sending more than half of the country's young and strong into the army.If I don't take the opportunity to kill all these vital forces, when will I wait? "

Currently, the Anzacs are stationed in Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, and they are the main force of the Commonwealth fighting against the southward movement of the Chinese National Defense Forces.

The two sides fought for more than half a year, with more than [-] casualties.

The Australian army is fierce and tenacious in battle, and its performance is very outstanding. It has defeated the Southeast Asian slave army trained by China many times, and dared to challenge the main force of the National Defense Forces, and its arrogance was extremely arrogant.

Commander of the Anzac Army, Lieutenant General Birdwood of the British Army, said that if it weren't for the tropical rain forest to restrict its performance, the Army would go to Kunming, China at this moment for Christmas.

Zhou Qingfeng's words undoubtedly indicated that China did not intend to end the war easily, and the target of 'Sacred Light' was not only in Southeast Asia.

Kompany was not surprised, just nodded, and said: "I also think the British are too naive, but Charles I seems to really want to stop the war. He has a whimsical idea..."

"Britain wants to isolate the United States." Katya interrupted suddenly, she sat by Zhou Qingfeng's hand, leaned on the man's shoulder, and said with a sneer: "It is impossible for Charles I not to see the threat that the United States poses to Great Britain.

In other words, the British power has expanded to the limit.No matter what happens in Europe, Great Britain will go downhill.King Charles I refused to accept reality.

The British want to draw a red line to stop China from expanding, and even hope to stir up conflicts between China and the United States to ease their own pressure.It's a good idea, but it's not realistic. "

Kompany nodded again, "You guessed it right. Charles I is whimsical. But he is very sincere, and I hope the Chinese side can make a price."

Having said all this, the financial broker has not given up, and even wants the Chinese side to make a price.Zhou Qingfeng frowned immediately, "What the hell is the British thinking?"

"Naturally, I don't want the empire to collapse, and I don't want Great Britain to become a second-rate country. After all, Great Britain is still strong and is still the strongest country on earth. If you don't make changes now, you won't be able to change them in ten years. "

While Kompany was talking, Zhou Qingfeng frowned, and suddenly said, "Major changes are being made while taking advantage of our strength? Does the British guy want to move?"

The conversation ended suddenly. Kompany shrugged and said with a wry smile, "Sorry, I don't know the specific thoughts of the King of England. The order I received was to meet the leader of the 'Holy Light' and ask about the possibility of a Sino-British truce."

Kajia quickly took the globe from Zhou Qingfeng's desk, twirled it with her fingers, and whispered in surprise: "Canada? If I remember correctly, the British used the safety of the royal family as an excuse to send a group of bureaucrats to the globe half a year ago. and the Crown Prince to Canada."

The current population of Canada is only 900 million, but it has a vast territory and rich resources.The people's loyalty to the British royal family is high, otherwise they would not have paid 10,000+ casualties for Great Britain in the war.

Zhou Qingfeng shook his head, "Charles I was crazy to choose Canada. In any case, the United States will not allow Britain to be its neighbor. This will definitely lead to a fight, and it will lose its strategic initiative."

Katya turned the globe again, and continued: "Or to seize Brazil. With the military strength of Great Britain, it is not impossible to make a transoceanic expedition. And the US's response will not be too drastic.

Or go to South Africa, or at least India.In short, the British Isles are too small, which really restrains the power of Great Britain. If you want to make a breakthrough, you have to move.

But this is destined not to have an idea, and it cannot be completed in ten or eight years. It must take more than half a century to complete. "

Zhou Qingfeng stared at Kompany again.

The latter shrugged and said with a wry smile: "Charles I really didn't tell me the specifics. But according to your guess, it may not be impossible.

If I were the King of England, I would have figured out how to move five years ago.After all, it has been half a century since the United States became hegemony, and now it has a strong industry but not a strong military.It is not too late to rebuild the foundations of the British Empire. "

The British candidates are afraid that they will really put all their eggs in one basket, taking advantage of the fact that Britain's strength is still in the game.As long as it shrinks strategically and turns to attack a little bit, no one can stand it.

In the sea battle between Britain, France and Germany, most of the British losses were battleships, and only two aircraft carriers were sunk, one of which was a light training aircraft carrier.

Britain's current shipbuilding capabilities are even more unique in the world, and the lost warships can be replenished in at most two years, or even stronger.As for infantry, India has abundant human resources, and as long as they are well trained, there will be endless cannon fodder.

The British industrial strength is also strong enough, and the British Navy has sufficient talent reserves. As long as it has ships, it will have combat effectiveness.Unlike China, which has an aircraft carrier and no one knows how to use it, the Japanese Navy must be recruited to form a combined fleet.

It's just that if Britain really wants to transfer its ruling center, it must go and kill wherever it goes.The scale of the world war will not be controlled, and there will be mountains of corpses and seas of blood everywhere.

After a moment of silence, Katya, who was turning the globe, asked Zhou Qingfeng, "Victor, if you were Charles I, would you choose the Commonwealth to rebuild Great Britain?"

"I...?" Zhou Qingfeng's eyes suddenly became deep, and his eyes shone brightly, "If it were me, any territory of the Commonwealth of Nations would not be suitable, and the only way to seize the United States would be the most suitable."

Chapter 56 Sino-British Alliance?

United Kingdom, England, Berkshire, Windsor Castle.

The warm autumn afternoon sun slanted on the grass.The breeze blew across the pond, blowing a few fallen leaves into floating sailboats.Charles I sat by the pond and could see his own reflection in the water when he looked up.

Wrinkles, dark spots, and gray hair all indicate something...

Before time and space restarted, Charles was over 70.

Back in 1910, the medical condition was naturally far worse than that of a hundred years ago.He couldn't get Zhou Qingfeng and Martha's strengthened serum like the 'Holy Light' team, so he aged very fast.

The subjects of Great Britain love this monarch who has brought prosperity for many years, and are used to his calm smile in the newspapers, but they don't know that His Majesty is already aging.

Charles, who is in his eighties, knows that no matter how much he takes care of himself, he will not live for a few years.He had to think about the future of Great Britain urgently—what if the European battlefield was a mess, Britain couldn't go to the Europa continent.

The electors of Great Britain were desperately trying to find a way out for the country.After conducting thousands of strategic deduction, they have to admit that relying on the British Isles cannot open up the situation.

The rapid fall of Japan is a huge bonus for China, a little surprise for the European powers, and at most a little discomfort for the United States.But it sounded the alarm for Great Britain-an island country that is too small has no future.

Britain must move, it must have a wider land, a wider sea, and a bigger nation.Like Katya, the Brit first thought of Canada, but he was also the first to veto it.

Because everything cannot bypass the United States.

Even if Britain goes to Brazil in South America, or even goes to Africa to get a piece of land, it won't work.Now countries on the European continent are caught in the war and can't take care of themselves, but the United States will not stand by.

So either don't do it, or do it absolutely.

When the United States became independent, it was the French king 'Louis XVI' who offered to be Washington's free thug and killed Britain.Really relying on the strength of the slave owners in North America, they were crushed into scum by the British Red Shirt Army.

At present, the world war has already started, and the industrial strength of the United States, which is on the sidelines, is strong enough, but its military strength has not improved much, and it is even weak compared with Europe.

The U.S. standing military, in particular, is poor.The army is extremely small, and although the navy is strong, it is far inferior to Great Britain.The flames of war were raging in Europe, and the United States did not mobilize for war at all, only doing business desperately.

Moreover, the United States naturally has to guard the east and west coasts, and cannot concentrate its forces.

According to the best vision of the British elect, if anyone can make another Pearl Harbor in the Pacific Ocean, attract the US Navy to the West Coast.The British Navy directly raided the east coast of North America across the ocean, and could immediately occupy important places such as Washington.

The current United States is still a small government, and each state manages itself.Without the order of the White House, it is difficult for the states to twist together to resist.

Moreover, the west coast of the United States has not yet developed, and the economies and military strengths of California and Texas are average.The essence of America is all on the east coast and the Great Lakes, and all of them are by the seaside and lakes.

The successful raid by the British army either easily seized the industrial essence of the United States, or destroyed it altogether.

Modern warfare can no longer be won by a loose militia.Machine guns, heavy artillery, tanks, and airplanes will give the motley American Puritans a taste of the despair and pain of the Indians.

His Majesty the King was moved by this idea, and after thinking about it, this is the only way to revive Great Britain, and it has great feasibility.

The key is who will start the war?

China, only China!

Is it a good idea for China and Britain to join forces to destroy America? !

Every time he looked at the world map, Charles I hated China's cunning—the National Defense Forces went south to Southeast Asia, but they just let the Philippines controlled by the United States.

In fact, the U.S. military does not have much military power in the Philippines, and even after 30 or [-] years, it will not have a sense of presence.But China would rather fight the Anzacs in the Indochina Peninsula than provoke the weak Philippines.

"Sly, really too cunning." His Majesty the King did not believe that the Chinese were not interested in the Philippines, but he had to admire that 'Holy Light' could bear it.

China also needs American industrial products, and recently it has used the funds obtained from the sale of assets in the United States to frantically buy them.

The American consortium is making money like crazy.Faced with the cash check issued by the Chinese side, they not only sold the goods, but even dismantled the factory and shipped them to China—the freight rate on the Pacific route soared tenfold.

"In fact, Britain can provide everything that China needs, or even better." Charles I was very sure that China and Great Britain had any irreconcilable strategic conflicts.

"China's ambitions are in East Asia, plus Oceania at most. This is the limit of their expansion in the next 100 or [-] years. As for Germany, it will take decades to digest the 'repairmen' who took over Eastern Europe.

China's combined fleet will soon have six aircraft carriers, which can form three dual-carrier fleets, which is enough for them to easily capture the Philippines, and then Guam, Midway and Pearl Harbor.

But how can we let China, let the 'Holy Light' do it? "

Silently staring at the aging reflection in the pond, feeling that life is getting closer and closer to the end, His Majesty the King discovered for the first time that the fate of Great Britain is not in his own hands.

Older, Charles I was unable to think for long.He sat on the rocking chair and slowly closed his eyes until the sound of footsteps woke him up.

The royal attendant coughed, handed over the message, and whispered: "It was sent from Tokyo to the British Embassy in the United States. The sender wrote Kompany, and the content on it..."

The pages of the message were narrow, strips torn from telegraph machines.

Charles I took it over, put on his reading glasses, glanced at it, and smiled.This telegram across the Pacific Ocean, the North American continent, and the Atlantic Ocean, forwarded from Tokyo to London, contained only one word.

America?

Hahaha... The king laughed a few times, "The leader of 'Holy Light' is very smart, he has noticed my intentions, and he is interested. But he is also full of doubts."

But there was only this one word on the message, nothing else.

After laughing, Charles I was silent again.

It is impossible for Britain to announce the abandonment of its colonies in Southeast Asia, let alone withdraw the Anzacs who fought bloody for themselves.As for the territory of several million square kilometers in Oceania, it cannot be given up publicly.

Therefore, the war in East Asia must continue, but this does not mean that China and Britain cannot cooperate secretly.

How can China get its hands on the Philippines and even Hawaii controlled by the United States?Simple, make it strong enough.Ambition naturally swells.

When the Cold War of 'Later World' began, the Iron Curtain had just fallen between the East and West camps.

However, the United Kingdom provided the most advanced 'Nin' and 'Derwent' turbojet engines and technology to the Soviet Union, which greatly improved the aviation strength of the red camp.

"Is Prime Minister Cameron here?" Charles I asked.

"Here we are, and several other congressmen and cabinet ministers have also come." The attendant whispered, "They saw that you were resting, so they didn't bother you."

Two attendants stepped forward to help the king up, and walked slowly back to Windsor Castle.

Cameron and the others were on the second floor of the castle, standing by the window and watching the hobbled steps of their white-haired king.Everyone sensed some urgency to get things done before the chief died.

If another king comes up, without that prestige, the British bureaucracy and army cannot be integrated, things will not be done, and the empire will surely sink.

A selected candidate from the Navy Department also stood in front of the window and asked in a low voice: "Can we really encourage China to attack the United States?"

"It's difficult." Cameron is not as confident as Charles I, "but as long as China is strong enough, the US government cannot remain indifferent.

The arrogance of the Yankees is in his bones.It's as if they might have dispatched another 'Great White Fleet' in order to deter Japan. "

The British selectee from the War Office also joined the discussion, "The news from Singapore is not optimistic. The 60 troops of the Anzac Army have lost a tenth.

The combat effectiveness of the Indian troops that have just completed training is very poor.The French troops in Annan are planning to retreat.We are likely to lose the Indochina Peninsula next year and have to retreat to Indonesia.

But Indonesia can't hold it either. There are many Chinese armed reclamation groups on Sumatra and Kalimantan.There is a lack of infrastructure, and it is difficult for the army to get supplies. It is only a matter of time before it falls.

If we continue to strengthen China, Australia will not be able to hold on. "

"These are not important. Anyway, the loyalty of the running dog of Australia is only for the strong. When Great Britain weakens, it and New Zealand will immediately go to please the United States."

The conversations between the army and the navy revealed a ruthless reality-when Great Britain was strong, the descendants of criminals in Tu and Australia were very loyal.But in the original history, it was only 20 years from World War I to World War II, and these lackeys turned around to curry favor with the United States.