Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 223: Military Advisor
Subtitle of this chapter: What is pretending to be awesome? This is pretending to be awesome!
"How come you didn't think about the situation in Ireland that concerns you..."
Having said this, our Master Yuan naturally stopped talking and started smoking again.
The three Japanese people were so excited by his behavior that they stretched their necks and asked in unison, "What does this have to do with us?!"
Yuan Yan suddenly spread out her hands and said as a matter of course: "Anglo Japanese Alliance!"
"Anglo-Japanese alliance?"
The First Sino-Japanese War in 1894, which the Japanese called the Sino-Japanese War and the West called the First Sino-Japanese War, was a battle of national destiny between China and Japan, two neighboring countries in East Asia. The fate of a country and a nation is ultimately forged with iron and blood.
One consequence of the Sino-Japanese War was the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
In order to curb Russia's ambitions in the Far East, Britain had to find an ally in Northeast Asia. Of course, they could not find the loser Qing Dynasty, so they found the little Japan. The little Japan was resentful of the fact that France, the United States and Russia forced it to give up the Liaodong Peninsula, which was the "Three-Power Intervention to Return Liaodong". Of course, whoever is a neighbor of the old Russians has to worry about that.
Therefore, the two countries hit it off and signed three alliance treaties in 1902, 1905, and 1911. For Britain, this was a military offensive and defensive alliance against Russia, while for Japan, it was a war tool to invade China and Korea.
Therefore, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was very important to Japan, especially the Japanese Navy. The secret clause stipulated that the navies of the two countries should cooperate in action to maintain superiority in the Far East waters.
The problem now is that the Anglo-Japanese alliance is targeting Russia, which has become Red Russia. They are holding the banner of national liberation, and for the time being, there is no ambition to inherit the Tsarist Russia's ambition to go south and wash military boots in the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans. This military alliance treaty is somewhat redundant for Britain.
The ten-year renewal period of the Third Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1921 has arrived!
However, these three naval elites of the Empire of Japan still did not understand what Yuan Yanshu meant. What is the relationship between the Irish War of Independence and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance?
"Of course it matters. It matters a lot!"
"You don't believe it?" Our Master Yuan looked at the three confused Japanese golds and suddenly pointed at the American next to him and said, "If you don't believe it, we can ask Major Chandler."
"Me?! " Julian, who was inexplicably dragged into this, also felt very confused.
Yuan Yan didn't wait for them to react and asked directly: "Well, Mr. Chandler, let me ask you a question. As an American, what do you think about what happened in Ireland?"
"Your Excellency" said righteously: "We Americans naturally hate the brutal behavior of the British Empire, and we are willing to support the just cause of the Irish people in their pursuit of national liberation!"
Master Yuan nodded in appreciation and continued, "Then Major Chandler, as a former American officer, what do you think of the British and our Japanese friends forming an alliance? Of course, this does not involve any state secrets. You just need to speak according to your military education."
The former army officer hesitated for a moment, glanced at the three Japanese golds, and answered honestly: "Well... naturally I hope that this treaty can be abolished next year. I am not targeting my Japanese friends, but the Pacific Ocean could have been a sea of peace for the United States, China, Japan, and other countries. There is really no need for the Anglo-Japanese Alliance."
Mr. Chandler is a professional officer who graduated from West Point. Although he is a second-rate officer in the US military, he must have read "Sea Power" and geopolitical works. It is not surprising that he said such a thing..
The logic is very simple. If the Anglo-Japanese alliance can target Russia, they can naturally turn around and target the United States.
"Sea of Peace... that's all good!" Yuan Yan turned around and looked at her Japanese "friends" and said, "Did you hear that, my friends? Isn't it obvious?"
Nomura Kichisaburo said in confusion: "Obvious?!"
Inoue Narumi also asked in confusion: "Where is it obvious?"
"Sweep Disne!" Only Yamamoto Isoroku slapped his thigh and shouted, "This is too obvious!"
The other two asked in Japanese at the same time: "Yamamoto-kun, you mean..."
"What Mr. Yuan said is indeed very clear." Lieutenant Colonel Yamamoto looked at Master Yuan with admiration, and continued to explain: "The United States has long been dissatisfied with the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and has long wanted to pressure our two countries to abolish the treaty. Now Britain is not only unable to take care of itself, but also wants the United States to promise not to support the Irish and not recognize their independence. In this way..."
Inoue Narumi suddenly realized and said, "In this way, the United States will use this as a condition to demand that Britain end its alliance with us!"
Nomura Kichisaburo frowned and said thoughtfully: "This is indeed... very likely!"
Three naval officers stood up at the same time, six pairs of eyes stared at Yuan Yanshu, with only two words in their minds, that is "genius"!
That’s right, if our Master Yuan could rely solely on logical reasoning to connect these seemingly unrelated events into a complete chain of events, he would definitely be called a genius.
They were extremely shocked in their hearts, but the great genius Yuan was not moved at all, and his face was calm as well, like a man who had mastered all the wisdom... well, the demeanor of a great military strategist.
In fact, this is nothing for the time traveler, because this is what was going to happen in the original time.
In 1921, Britain really terminated the Anglo-Japanese Alliance due to pressure from the United States, even though Crown Prince Hirohito personally visited Britain. The Japanese felt betrayed by the British, so there was a saying that "British and American are evil beasts".
Of course, except for people like me, this kind, this kind, it seems a bit embarrassing to say that I have a high level. Anyway, it is hard to say whether other time travelers can pretend to be good.
"Beep, beep, the host's S value has increased by 5% and is now 93%. Please be careful with your words."
In fact, compared with Master Yuan's "leaking" of history, the S value increased this time is not that high. The reason is that this inference is still very logical and is really a reasonable deduction.
The three Japanese golds nodded in tacit agreement, then bowed respectfully. Nomura Yoshisaburo said sincerely: "Mr. Yuan, hearing about you is worse than meeting you in person. It is our honor to meet you today. Thank you very much for this important news..."
"Now we have to say goodbye!"
Why are you in such a hurry to leave? I haven’t finished speaking yet.
I see, I have to go back and write the report!
