Hoover's re-election of president is a foregone conclusion, and he is naturally very grateful for Zhang Meng's help.

Considering that Zhang Meng's impression in the eyes of Americans was not very good, Hoover used the government's power to control a number of media newspapers, making public opinion not allowed to mention the old stories of Zhang Meng's once raising money in the United States and violently demolishing American factory facilities, and instead guided public opinion to point the finger at major American gangs.

As a result, a storm of anti-gangs broke out on American soil, disbanding a large number of American societies and gangs, greatly reducing social crimes, and invisibly improving Hoover's image.

The United States had reservations before on the issue of Japan. With the conclusive election of Hoover as a president, the Hoover policy continued. Therefore, the United States played a great role in the negotiations in the last stage of Tang and Japan, and the negotiation results were developed in a direction that was beneficial to the Tang Empire.

Although the Hoover administration transferred the islands in the Pacific Ocean such as Guam, American Samoa and Wake Island to the Tang Empire for "management", this incident did not cause much response in the United States, and the Americans did not care about the broken islands, but for the US side, a group of officers led by MacArthur expressed concerns.

Although these US military officers have limited influence on the US side and are even more unlikely to influence the decisions of the Hoover administration, they still attracted Zhang Meng's attention.

Should I kill MacArthur together?

When Zhang Meng received the news that the Cobra Commando had successfully assassinated Roosevelt, he couldn't help but feel the idea of ​​killing MacArthur, a future American star.

But Zhang Meng weighed the pros and cons and finally gave up this idea. He did not want to provoke the US side on his own initiative. The current situation in the Pacific is subtle. The United States is a country with strong potential for war, and any action against the United States will take great risks. Zhang Meng would not be stupid like the Japanese army to launch the Pearl Harbor Incident to anger the Americans. At least it would be unwise to provoke the United States before it completely defeated Japan.

However, the Americans were still wary of the Tang Empire. After all, the Tang army was an existence that tyrannized the Japanese joint fleet, which was a powerful force, and the Americans had to guard against it.

In order to completely dispel Americans' vigilance against the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Meng once again played political tricks. His relationship with President Hoover is "the most powerful" now, and he even helped Hoover kill Roosevelt completely to eliminate future troubles. Roosevelt's assassination did not attract too much attention from Americans. But Hoover knew very well that this must have been done by Zhang Meng. He did not doubt Zhang Meng's real intention, but only thought Zhang Meng was too interesting. He thought he was just helping him.

When Zhang Meng met with Hoover, he exchanged views on the US military's concerns about the rise of the Tang army. The two agreed to establish mutual trust between the Tang and the United States. The two sides signed the Tang and the United States' non-aggression treaty and reached an alliance on the issue of joint anti-Japanese issues.

At the same time, the Tang-Japan negotiations were also over. As the United States' withdrawal in turn supported the Tang Dynasty, the power of the British-French alliance was greatly weakened, and it was impossible to put huge pressure on the Tang Dynasty during the negotiations, which made the Japanese Saito Mi cabinet eventually forced to accept the armistice agreement.

For Japan, it is already a good result to be able to sign an armistice agreement. If the war continues, the losses will be greater.

For the Tang Empire, although continuing the war can weaken Japan even more, the benefits that the Tang Empire itself can get are very small. Instead, it will force Japan to get desperate and fight to the end. In the end, it would rather die than fight with the Tang Dynasty to the end. Then the Tang army itself will suffer greater losses, and most importantly, it will not receive any compensation.

Just like when killing a chicken, you should first cut off the arteries and blood vessels of the chicken and let the blood die before letting it die. After weighing the pros and cons, Zhang Meng believed that draining Japan's wealth and making it poor forever was a clever strategy to eliminate future troubles, so he agreed to the peace talks.

The conditions of the Tang-Japan armistice agreement were extremely harsh. Japan handed over the trusteeship of the Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and Caroline Islands to the Tang Dynasty and ceded the southern islands to the Tang Dynasty. Because Japan refused to hand over Taiwan to the Tang Dynasty and refused to withdraw troops from the three northeastern provinces, the amount of compensation for the Tang Dynasty increased to US$12.05 billion, exceeding the total amount of 8.5 billion goldmarks of Germany's compensation to France after World War I, and became the world's largest war reparation after World War I.

This huge sum of money is actually a mountain pressing on Japan. It is a huge shackle that will take away the social wealth created by the Japanese every year. It will have a huge blow to Japan, and it will have a greater harm to the Qing Empire than the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 in that year. Even the Germans think that the Tang Dynasty's sanctions on Japan are much crueler than the sanctions on Germany by the Allies. You should know that Japan's national income in 1932 was only US$12.288 billion, and the United States only US$200 billion. This huge compensation is equivalent to making all Japanese work for one year without eating or drinking.

Obviously, Japan cannot pay the compensation in full immediately.

However, the Tang Empire did not intend to allow Japan to repay in one lump sum, because it had to allow other great powers to share the interests of the US$12.05 billion, the agreement stipulated that the 12.05 billion US dollars would be paid within three months from the date of the agreement's entry into force, and the remaining 10 billion US dollars would be repaid in 50 years. It would be guaranteed by the Japanese customs tariffs and would be supervised by the five countries of Tang, Britain, France, the United States and Italy. The treaty specifically stipulates that Japan could only borrow from banks of Britain, France and the United States, and could only repay the loan at the international gold price or US dollar price of that year.

This additional provision is actually because Zhang Meng is worried that the Japanese were deliberately borrowing contracts to delay time, and after the Japanese joint fleet is rebuilt, they will be denied the debt and refuse to repay it. Therefore, Zhang Meng is worried that his money will not be collected, and he also considers that Britain, France and the United States will get a share of the pie, so as to ease their hostility towards the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, if the Japanese really lose money in a few years, then the one who is crying must be Britain, France and the United States. However, that is all the future. In terms of immediate interests, Britain, France and the United States are very happy that the Tang Dynasty could give them a share of the pie. After all, the most profitable thing is to lend usury.

Americans are still the richest. Although they suffer the worst economic crisis, the lean camel is bigger than a horse. Major American banks have closed down in China, providing Japan with $6 billion in loans, and the other $6.05 billion is borne by the banking group of Britain and France.
Chapter completed!