After settling on the land of the United States again, Zhang Meng felt refreshed all over, as if he had returned to the days when he was robbing money in the United States a few years ago. It was a wonderful time worth remembering.

However, this time Zhang Meng came to the United States not to rob money or to force demolition, but to discuss with US President Hoover to purchase several American islands in the Pacific, including American Samoa, American Guam, American Wake Island, etc.

These islands are strategic priorities in the Pacific, so Americans naturally cannot easily sell them to Zhang Meng.

However, Zhang Meng never fought unprepared wars. Since he dared to come to the United States and asked the United States to voluntarily withdraw from the intervention group, he obviously had already made full preparations.

At this time, the new round of elections between the Democratic and Republicans of the United States began. Hoover was preparing for a second re-election campaign, and his opponent was extremely powerful. His name was Roosevelt.

As Hoover was in office, he was in a row with the outbreak of the US economic crisis and the most turbulent four years, the unemployment rate remained high, the economy was in a recession, social unrest, and the crime rate surged. Hoover was criticized and abused, and his approval rating was much lower than Roosevelt, which put him in the danger of losing his campaign.

Zhang Meng knew Hoover's inner world well and his desire for re-election was higher than anyone else, so Zhang Meng devoted himself to his preferences and carefully helped Hoover prepare campaign materials and sponsorship funds.

Zhang Meng originally supported McDonald's election for British Prime Minister. He was very fierce in the US election and could not solve everything by relying solely on money. Especially at this moment, the US economy is in a downturn, and if you want to win the election, you must use other means.

Zhang Meng then prepared to hand over to Hoover with something that could turn the tide, and the exchange was to sell those American islands to Zhang Meng.

Hoover agreed. That's why he officially invited Zhang Meng to visit the United States.

At the airport, Vice President Curtis personally picked up the plane, and Liu Kaiwei and staff from Datang Consulate in Washington picked up the plane together.

Curtis accompanied Zhang Meng to inspect the US military guard of honor. Then the two went to the hotel where Zhang Meng stayed. The two had a brief meeting, mainly to implement Zhang Meng's itinerary in the United States these days. Of course, the most important thing is naturally about Hoover's campaign for president.

"His Highness Zhang Meng, I wonder if you have any way to get President Hoover to be re-elected?"

"Don't worry, when I see President Hoover, I will naturally tell you."

Zhang Meng smiled. He looked at the hotel he stayed at was pretty good, so he continued, "How about you researching the conditions I proposed?"

Seeing that Zhang Meng was cunning and did not show off his eagle, Curtis deliberately said: "This matter is of great importance. The strategic location of the islands mentioned by His Highness is extremely important, and we cannot easily transfer it to your country."

Zhang Meng smiled and said, "Don't worry. I didn't want you for nothing. I will give you money."

Curtis said: "This is not a matter of money. If your country gets these islands, builds an airport on the island, and the fighter jets reach the United States directly, wouldn't we suffer on our own?"

Zhang Meng's heart trembled. He didn't expect Curtis to be very strategic and actually thought of Zhang Meng's future strategic layout.

But Zhang Meng couldn't admit it, and pretended to be confused and said, "Mr. Vice President is so serious. I bought these islands from your country because my Tang Dynasty land area is too small and lacks strategic depth. Purchasing these islands is only for defense and provides an earlier warning time for the local area."

After all, Curtis is not a soldier and lacks a real military strategy. What Zhang Meng said is very reasonable, so he believed it.

In fact, as a meeting between Zhang Meng and Hoover, the issues must be resolved before the meeting. It is impossible for the leaders of the two countries to start bargaining and negotiations after meeting. The leaders do not have so much time at all, so the content of the two sides to discuss and the agreement to be reached will be completed ahead of schedule.

Curtis, who is in front of him, is the solemn representation of Hoover to conduct specific negotiations with Zhang Meng. Once an agreement is reached, the next meeting between Hoover and Zhang Meng will only be in a formal way.

Curtis saw that Zhang Meng was not letting go. He understood that if Zhang Meng was not sure enough, he would never put forward such harsh conditions with Hoover. Seeing that Zhang Meng was as cunning as an old politician, he knew that he could not take advantage of the other party, so he had to let go.

"It's too little to give these islands only five million dollars, and their strategic value must be at least more than 100 million dollars."

Zhang Meng naturally knew the true value of these islands, but he did not dare to pay high prices, because if he offered high prices, it means that these islands were very important. Instead, they would ask more by the other party, which would make the other party feel that those islands were too important and became vigilant.

Therefore, Zhang Meng bit the five million US dollars and refused to let go, which is a huge contrast with Zhang Meng's willingness to spend 100 million pounds to buy the Fiji Islands from the UK. Of course, the area and resources of these islands cannot be compared with the Fiji Islands, and this is just a means of negotiation.

In Curtis's position, those islands are optional to the United States and do not belong to American territory. At present, the rising isolationism and the constitution do not recognize the occupation of these islands. Even the Americans do not know very well that the Philippines is a colony of the United States. The government deliberately blocked all negative reports about the Philippines, which made the Americans only think that the US military was helping the Philippines manage it.

The islands that Zhang Meng wanted to buy were even more colonies that most Americans didn’t know or care about. For US defense policy, Hawaii was the real key barrier, and nothing else mattered.

Hoover, Curtis and the Republicans have discussed privately that if Zhang Meng can really help Hoover's successful campaign, then these islands can even be given to Zhang Meng to gain friendship between the United States and the Tang Dynasty and a joint alliance against Japan.

For most Americans, they do not believe that the Tang Empire can threaten the United States. Instead, Japan, which lost its wars in the Tang and Japan, is still the main potential enemy of the United States. This stems from the hostile ideology that has been hostile for more than 30 years since the US-Japan military confrontation in 1898, and has deeply influenced a whole generation and a half of Americans. This is not easily replaced by the great threat that the Tang Empire that has only won Japan for several months.

However, Curtis didn't want Zhang Meng to get what he wanted so easily. In addition, he was also dissatisfied with Zhang Meng's previous series of forced buying and demolition behaviors in the United States. He wanted Zhang Meng to make more blood and make some compensation.

Zhang Meng will not lose a penny of money, but he will not lose a penny of money he should not spend, so Curtis is doomed to fail if he wants to take advantage of Zhang Meng.

"If you ask me to say that five million is more than that, it's worth it for you to give me directly!"

Curtis rolled his eyes. Zhang Meng not only did not increase the price but reduced it down. He really counted the iron rooster.

"It depends on how His Highness can make Hoover re-elected president? You are so hiding, what are your plans? Don't you tell us now?"

Zhang Meng smiled calmly and said, "We have signed the agreement now, and I promise to make President Hoover re-election successful."

Curtis was really helpless. No matter how he wanted to induce Zhang Meng to hand over his trump card, he failed in the end. Zhang Meng was as cunning as a fox and was not fooled at all.

There was no choice but Curtis had no choice but to sign a secret agreement with Zhang Meng first.

The agreement had already been signed by Hoover, and it can be seen that Hoover had been desperate to defeat Roosevelt in order to re-election as president, which was exactly in line with Zhang Meng's speculation.

After Zhang Meng signed the agreement, he immediately smiled like victory.

"Now your Highness can take out your trump card!"

Zhang Meng nodded, not afraid of Hoover's tricks, otherwise he would use this agreement to directly defeat him from the campaign stage.

Zhang Meng glanced at the adjutant, who took out a document from the folder and handed it to Curtis.

After seeing it, Curtis suddenly showed surprise and asked tentatively: "Is this OK?"

Zhang Meng smiled and said, "Don't worry, I guarantee that Hoover won, otherwise I would have been in vain. I don't have that much spare time!"

Curtis saw Zhang Meng's expression firm and looked through the documents again. After he looked closely, he became more and more shocked. Only then did he see the key power of the content. Unexpectedly, Zhang Meng knew so much about the situation in the United States, even far surpassing Hoover and Roosevelt who were running for election.

"It would be great if Your Highness was us Americans. This presidential election must be yours."

"Gold like you and me will shine everywhere!"
Chapter completed!