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Demon King Chapter 24

.For a few days, the sharpshooter from Russia has lived such a monotonous and boring life. Since the middle-aged man brought back a high-power telescope, he has been able to observe the distant Capitol from the window of this room every day.

Dong...dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong...dongdong...dongdongdongdongdongdong...

The door was knocked in rhythm again. He still pressed his hand on the gun handle with a sharp face and then responded in a low voice: "My heart is still the same!"

The door was opened immediately, and the middle-aged man and the buzzhead walked in with a tired look on his face.

"It's started?" The face-cutting took back his right hand from his waist, and the middle-aged man handed him a pack of food as usual.

The buzz cut is still responsible for finishing the finishing.

"Yeah! It's starting!" The accurate news was found, but the middle-aged man didn't look excited at all. The reason was probably because of their contact point - a place called Tequila Bar was blocked by the US police several days ago, and since then they lost contact with the above. As for why the Tequila Bar was suddenly blocked, the middle-aged man didn't know the details, but he felt that it should be related to the news they saw in the newspaper that day.

"Oh!" He curled his face without asking much questions. He took the bag of food and started to enjoy it. This was his dinner yesterday, and today's breakfast was connected to today's lunch.

At this time, the buzz cut walked to the edge of the bed, "When will I go and drive that car over?"

"No hurry! Now when Americans are on the most serious alert, we have to wait a few days, at least wait for them to relax a little!" Middle-aged people still have the same idea of ​​acting safely, and the car they mentioned was a second-hand Ford car I bought from the market two days ago. Although it was a second-hand product, the buzz cut was carefully checked. The performance of the car was not much different from that of the new car. The two of them even drove around the city in a special car.

"But without the support from above, how can we transport explosives in?" He expressed his doubts with food stuffed into his face.

The middle-aged man showed a look of embarrassment. Since he learned that something happened to the Tequila Bar, this is the expression that appears the most on his face.

"Oh... I can only find a way myself!"

"Even without us, everyone else can complete this action!" The decision of the buzz cut seemed to be far less firm than the middle-aged man. In recent days, he began to say some discouraged words from time to time.

In contrast, the face-cutting only asks one or two questions when they come back from outside, and always silently obeys the arrangements of middle-aged people.

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man put on a righteous tone: "Have you forgotten? Your Majesty once told me that this is an opportunity that must not be missed. For our country, for our nation, and for ourselves, we must not retreat!"

The buzz cutter stopped talking, while the middle-aged man thought about it and made a decision helplessly:

"Let me do this. I will go around the hotel where the delegation is staying in the evening to see if it is possible to contact the head of the intelligence department directly. If we really cannot contact us, we can only act according to the original plan!"

After saying that, he came to the high-power telescope used by astronomy enthusiasts to observe the moon and stars. From here, he could clearly see the iconic dome of the Capitol, as well as the fountains and grass in the square in front of the building. At this moment, his targets were all in the same hall.

Even without much explosives, the world pattern will be reorganized.

On the first day of the meeting, the focus of countries was on the formal proposal to limit the naval armament by the German delegation. As with the intelligence previously discovered, the German proposal was to limit the naval navies to a lower level and thereby reduce the naval arms race and alleviate the once tense Pacific situation.

In this proposal, the total tonnage of major ships of each country is divided into three levels. The strongest Germany and Austro-Hungarian Empire are both 455,000 tons, the United States and Japan are second, each with 320,000 tons, and Russia and Turkey are last, including 240,000 tons and Turkey is 230,000 tons.

As soon as the proposal was released, the representatives of each country responded differently. The Americans were the ones who agreed most about this. In fact, they had already obtained exact data from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs before, and this figure was very close to what they expected. After the German delegation, the Americans proposed their own proposal, Germany and Austria were still the first-class, with total tonnages of 400,000 tons and 380,000 tons, and the United States were 350,000 tons, between the first-class and the second-class, and Japan was 300,000 tons. It was located in the second-class, Russia was 250,000 tons and Türkiye was still ranked last.

The Russians should be happy for their intelligence services, because their reports are basically consistent with this proposal, and 240,000 tons are also fully acceptable to the Russian Navy.

The Turks would not object to this, not only because of their relationship with Germany, but in fact, their current total tonnage of the main battleship is less than 200,000 tons, but this is the number after obtaining three German armored battleships. If 230,000 tons are passed, it means that they can also build 1-2 new battleships.

According to the data in the proposal, if the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Japan calculate the construction of new ships, the active battleships with corresponding tonnage must be scrapped.

However, after the German delegation announced this proposal, the Austro-Hungarian delegation maintained unexpected peace from Crown Prince Carl to the naval generals, with 455,000 tons, which means that at least 2 of the warships they took over from the Italian Navy and had begun to be modified cannot be used. In addition, with the service of the fourth Joint Force-class battleship, they still need to scrap 2-3 old battleships. Of course, many people believe that 80% of the old battleships in the Austro-Hungarian Navy are no longer competent for combat missions outside the coast, and their best belongings are the cold seabed or scrap recycling station. Therefore, the Austro-Hungarian Empire could completely exchange for some benefits from Germany and the United States by accepting this treaty.

Judging from the current situation, only the Japanese delegations of the six delegations present responded strongly. They believed that this suggestion had a discriminatory component to the Navy of the Great Japanese Empire, which actually stifled the development potential of the Asian navy. In their opinion, as the "representative country of the Asian navy", Japan deserves treatment comparable to Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Even if it cannot reach the level of Germany and Austro-Austria, it cannot be at least less than 400,000 tons.

After the Americans proposed their own proposal, the deputy head of the Japanese delegation and Minister of the Navy, Saito Mi, walked onto the podium, "His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Japanese Empire and the government cabinet both attached great importance to this naval meeting, so they commissioned the Navy of the Great Japanese Empire to draft a very complete proposal. In the matters during the Great Japanese, I also hope that the German Empire can use their powerful navy to maintain peace in Europe and even the world! Secondly, the Austro-Hungarian Empire's significance for peace in Europe is also extraordinary. After defeating Serbia and Italy, the southern part of Europe and the northern part of the Mediterranean were becoming increasingly stable under the governance of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so it is understandable to maintain a main fleet of no less than 450,000 tons; Russia has a long coastline and its territory is adjacent to the Baltic Sea.

The Barents Sea, Black Sea, Bering Sea, Japan Sea and the Pacific Ocean. It is necessary to guard such a large area and have a large navy of 300,000 tons; the Turkish Republic has made a lot of contributions to the war to defeat Britain and France, and it also protects the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Therefore, maintaining the scale of the navy at a level of 250,000 tons will not destroy the stability of the surrounding situation; the United States of America has always had two fleets, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, looking eastward to Europe, across the sea from Asia, and looking westward to Asia, and is also the main protector of the Americas, and is enough to have a water force equivalent to the Russian navy. As for our great Japanese Empire, due to its defenses in East Asia, western and central Pacific, and northeastern Indian Ocean, it should have a peaceful navy with strong combat effectiveness and high maneuverability!”

Saito Mi's face was already flushed when she said this. Then there was a warm applause from the audience. Needless to say, it was from the Japanese delegation. Looking at the representatives of other countries, they looked at the Japanese Navy Minister on the stage with surprise and even contempt, as if they saw a shameless arrogant maniac.

"So..." Saito Mi signaled the members of the Japanese delegation to temporarily stop applauding. While increasing the volume, "The Imperial Japanese Navy should have maintained a fleet that is no less than that of the German and Austrian navy, but in order to show sincerity for world peace, our country voluntarily reduced the tonnage of the naval main ship to 400,000 tons!"

There was another round of applause in the audience, 400,000 tons, which was 100,000 tons more than the Americans, which meant 3-4 first-class main ships!

"400,000 tons, this is our survival line!" Japanese Navy Minister Misato reiterated again.

Chen Tian sneered secretly in his position. He knew very well that the Japanese Navy could accept the underground line, thanks to the Japanese's underdeveloped communication confidentiality technology. Before the naval meeting, Germany and the United States had already established a monitoring department specifically for the Japanese delegation. The best telegram decipherers of the two countries had made it clear about the instructions sent by Tokyo. After successively occupying Singapore and Malaysia, the Japanese government needed to invest a certain amount of money and time to convert the resources of the two places into

For self-use, a series of islands such as the Polynesian Islands rented from the Germans are being converted into coal-gas stations and supply points, especially the Tahiti port and fortress under construction. These consumed the Japanese government's originally insufficient financial funds. Therefore, Tokyo's original intention was to avoid competing with the Washington navy in favorable circumstances. As for scrapping warships, the battleships seized from the Russians are basically on the verge of retirement. Once a war breaks out, most of these warships can only be used to consume the other party's shells.

At this time, the US representatives were also puzzled and looked at the Japanese on the stage. The proposal from Saito Mi can be described as a fool! Germany and Austria have 500,000 tons, so the delegations of these two countries are really empty because their naval scale almost does not need to be changed; Russia has 300,000 tons, even if it gives them more tonnage, it is useless. Many well-known Russia's economic strength is just like that. A new main battleship is barely enough every year, and old warships are constantly retired. It has been more than ten years since it has been established at this speed to build a large navy of 300,000 tons.

"According to the Japanese's vision, in five or ten years, our United States will have to use 300,000-ton main ships to fight against the 400,000-500,000-ton main ships of the Japanese-German-Russian joint fleet. Is there any suspense in the outcome?" General Benson said to President Wilson in a contemptuous tone, and Wilson shook his head repeatedly:

"Luckily, the Germans agreed to cooperate with us, otherwise the Japanese would really ask for a price on the negotiating table with their own advantages!"

In contrast, it is very obvious that except for Russia, the other four countries are more willing to accept the proposal of the German delegation, which is exactly the effect that the German and US governments hope to see.

After the six naval delegations elaborated on their respective proposals, the situation became obvious - the German delegation's proposal was the most pertinent, and except for the Japanese delegation, the United States, Austria, Russia and Turkey all expressed their support. Therefore, the Congress voted to pass the subsequent meeting on the first day of the meeting to make further discussions based on the proposal of the German delegation.

After the first day of the meeting, the members of the Japanese delegation seemed very discouraged, but with their personality they would not surrender so easily. At the banquet that night, the Japanese representatives seemed very active. Okuma Shigenobu Okuma, who was in a wheelchair, had a long chat with the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince. Foreign Minister Kato talked with Russian Navy Minister General Ivan, and Saito actually came to the side of the German Navy Chief of Staff Marshal Boer. Later, according to Marshal Boer's recollection, Saito "constantly searched out compliments from his head, and also vividly talked about how the German-Japanese-Russian joint fleet was majestic and how the US ships in the Philippine Islands were frightened. As he spoke, he also made disgusting laughs from time to time!"

The lively atmosphere of the dinner still could not help Chen Tian get rid of his depressed state for a few days. However, his distant relative Tsar Agreni came to chat for a few words, and Chen Tian did not hide the fact that he was assassinated. Agreni did not react strongly to this, nor did he say much comfort, but just reminded Chen Tian to be more vigilant in the future. After that, Carl also came to greet him, but talked about Chen Tian's assassination lukewarmly, and then spoke out in surprise and concern. Chen Tian was too lazy to explain to him. The two of them had a simple conversation in less than 5 minutes and went to socialize.

Because he was still feeling a little depressed, Tatsutian left the banquet and returned to the villa he stayed at very early. However, less than half an hour after returning to the villa, the attendant reported to him that the three giants of the Japanese delegation, Shigenobu Okuma, Kato Takamei and Saito Mi, came to visit.

Chen Tian quickly thought of the purpose of the Japanese. This was their usual trick, so he ordered:
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