"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, the United States is too powerful.
They are destined to be Brazil's rivals, and we in Japan are willing to cooperate with Brazil and work together to restrict the United States."
Ichiro Honda, adding fire at the right time, said that Japan and Brazil have a lot of room for cooperation, especially at the strategic level.
"Please, Your Excellency, Prime Minister, convey to the King our sincere cooperation opinions of the Kingdom of Japan.
The Kingdom of Japan is a natural ally of the Kingdom of Brazil and has the potential to cooperate in many aspects. We in Japan are willing to help Brazil rise."
What Ichiro Honda said was not like a yawn, it was so loud.
Today, Japan does have capital.
The Kingdom of Japan, even the weakest of the great powers, is still a great power. It also has world influence and can change the situation.
The United States is still very afraid of Japan. At this time, the United States has begun to try its best to restrict Japan.
After all, Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. The actual strength of the great powers is still very intimidating.
What kind of strength is Russia? That is Spain, which is not even worthy of carrying shoes.
The United States became a great power by defeating Spain, and Japan became a great power by defeating Russia. The objects they defeated are incomparable.
In the Russo-Japanese War, although Russia had a long journey and a naval expedition, its combat power was damaged and its strength was limited, it still had more than 100,000 soldiers.
The Japanese navy completely defeated Tsarist Russia, and the Japanese army also defeated the Tsarist Russian army, achieving a brilliant victory.
Although Japan defeated Tsarist Russia and when the two countries signed the treaty, Japan received the fruits of victory, which were far from comparable to those of Hou Daikin and could not make up for the war losses and huge domestic losses, but there were still some gains.
After all, Tsarist Russia also ceded land and half of its sphere of influence in the Far East. This is proof of failure.
Spain, whether in terms of military or national strength, cannot be compared with Tsarist Russia, and the gold content of the United States' war victory cannot be compared with Japan.
The Japanese navy also exerted influence in the Battle of Tsushima and became the world's naval power.
In the world's perception, the Japanese navy, which has experienced war, is not comparable to the U.S. Navy.
After becoming a great power, Japan also assumed the posture of a great power.
Facing the United States, which became a major power first, Japan used to be submissive, but now it dares to raise its own demands.
In the central North Pacific region, Japan no longer retreats, but confronts the United States tit for tat.
In order to deal with the Japanese threat, the United States did not remain indifferent, but responded actively, began to support Jin, and helped him rebuild his army.
After many discussions and negotiations between the two sides, in order not to arouse interference and alertness from third countries, the naval alliance between Kim and the United States took a modified form. The US steel giant Bethlehem Steel Company came forward to sign a package of naval construction assistance contracts with the Kim government.<
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The U.S. government operates behind the scenes in the form of commercial contracts, providing personnel, funds, technology and other conveniences, giving it the green light.
In October 1911, representatives of the Navy Department of the Kim government and the American Bethlehem Company formally signed the "Bethlehem Contract" in Beijing.
The contract stipulates that the United States will provide Jin with a targeted loan of 25 million taels (annual interest of 5%), of which 2 million taels will be used to improve the existing guns and ammunition of the Jin Dynasty's navy and help Jin build a brand new ordnance factory.
It will be used to help the Jin Dynasty improve existing dock facilities and build a brand new shipyard. The remaining 21 million taels will be used to build new warships for Jin in the United States.
Although this contract fell through, the United States still has many restrictions on Japan's actions, and this is just one of them.
The United States has a strong sense of oppression against Japan, and Japan is not a soft persimmon, and its threat to the United States is real.
If Brazil wants to become the second great power in the Americas, it is inevitable to face the United States. In this process, of course it must attract allies.
In today's world, it is actually a confrontation between cliques.
In addition to the two major organizations of the Entente and the Alliance, there are also other small alliances as supplements to consolidate the strength of each country.
There is an Anglo-Japanese alliance between Britain and Japan. This alliance used to be aimed at Tsarist Russia, but now it is aimed at the United States.
Brazil currently has no alliance, but it is essential to find allies in the future. This trend is irreversible.
Isolationism will not work.
Even the world's most powerful country, the United Kingdom, has begun to seek allies and form power groups. How can Brazil avoid it?
The United States does not have allies, but it is the only one in the Americas. No European power dares to face it alone.
After all, if you have to deal with the United States as a country, you will sacrifice your own country and benefit other countries.
Not even the UK dares to do this.
You know, Canada is just north of the United States. If it really wants to suppress and divide the United States, it should have been done long ago.
What Honda Ichiro expressed actually implies that Japan is willing to form an alliance with Brazil to deal with the oppression of the United States.
Sure enough, Ichiro Honda's words were taken seriously by Constantine.
"Ambassador Honda is right. Brazil and Japan are natural allies and share common values and goals.
This time, I will try my best to persuade the king to agree to this cooperation in the mining area. Your Japanese conditions are very generous.
If there are no problems, we should be able to reach cooperation."
Facing the United States, Brazil will have to confront it sooner or later. For the sake of national interests, cooperation with Japan must be put on the agenda.
This mining area is the best opportunity.
What are the virtues of a capitalist? As a nobleman, Constantine understood it.
The Mellon family is just a business family that exists for profit, and the king can give them a lot of benefits.
If this mining area cooperation is not given to Mellon, there can be other cooperation.
Moreover, after the news is revealed, Mellon's target of resentment is most likely to be Japan, otherwise he can also target Brazil?
Brazil is such a big market, doesn’t the Mellon Group not want it anymore? Doesn’t it want the King’s friendship?
"Thank you very much for your efforts, Your Excellency Prime Minister.
If Brazil needs Japan, we, the Kingdom of Japan, will actively work together to fight against the United States."
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"This is Japan's cooperation plan!?"
Tangning briefly looked through the cooperation plan and then threw it away.
Constantine responded: "Yes, Your Majesty the King!"
"What do you think of Japan?"
Tang Ning did not talk about the cooperation plan, but asked her prime minister what he thought of the Kingdom of Japan.
"Japan is a great power in Asia, a naval overlord in the Western Pacific, and the most suitable ally for our Kingdom of Brazil."
Facing the king's inquiry, Constantine expressed his thoughts.
"Brazil needs time to develop now, but it must also consider the future.
Your wise Majesty the King, you should know the huge influence of the United States in the Americas and its oppression of Brazil.
Now, when Brazil is reforming, we have received huge help from Europe, so we must stand on the side of Europe and confront the United States.
Although we are not as good as the United States today, this is temporary, and now is the time to prepare for a rainy day.
Japan is one of our best cooperation targets now, and it is also the country that can best help us share the pressure from the United States."
After Constantine finished speaking, he stood aside respectfully, waiting for the king's reply.
Tangning did not respond quickly and give her prime minister a clear answer, but thought about it seriously.
Japan is a very powerful country now and in the future, there is no doubt about this.
Although Japan has not yet reached its peak, its influence is already there, especially in the North Pacific.
The United States is a two-ocean country, with Europe on one side and Japan on the other, sandwiched between the two island countries of Britain and Japan.
The Anglo-Japanese alliance exerts a great sense of oppression on the United States.
However, these two countries are far away from the United States after all, and Brazil now controls Venezuela, and is now separated by the Caribbean Sea.
It can be said that Brazil faces the United States directly and is under the greatest pressure.
Brazil is looking for allies, other than Europe, and should indeed make preparations early.
What's more, if one day Brazil wants to control Chile and Argentina and conflict with the United Kingdom, sooner or later, this support will weaken.
By then, Brazil will have to face the United States in person.
Japan and Brazil are far apart and there is no direct competitive relationship. Moreover, Brazil's power in the Far East is weak. Even if Portugal is included, it only has a small interest in the Far East.
Since he is now the king of Brazil, Tang Ning must now be responsible for Brazil. Although he hates Japan, in reality, cooperation between the two countries is a win-win situation.
Brazil has no big interests at all in the East Asian continent, and the current big country in East Asia has no need to cooperate, and Brazil's influence cannot keep up with other powers.
"Constantine, just do as you say.
Cooperation with Japan is led by you. You can talk to them about how to counter the pressure from the United States.
But one thing you have to pay attention to is that we in Brazil do not have the same obligation as the United Kingdom and need to help Japan obtain interests in the Far East.
You have to know that Japan relies on us and relies on us, not Brazil relying on Japan."
After some thought, Tangning decided to cooperate with the Kingdom of Japan, which is currently Brazil's best solution.
However, there are various modes of cooperation. It does not necessarily have to be a military alliance. Other cooperation is also possible. Japan can be treated as a friendly country and a preferential country to form a quasi-alliance.
Next to Japan is the American colony of the Philippines. The United States has directly blocked Japan's southward passage. In terms of trouble, small Japan is much bigger than Brazil.
The United States directly blocks Japan's expansion path, and Japan also blocks the United States from entering East Asia, which is irreconcilable.
This chapter has been completed!