Chapter 673 Lobbying

"Britain is really a trustworthy friend." Watanabe laughed softly.

Jack said: "Of course, and our interests are currently consistent with those of Japan."

Some time ago, Japan spread the threat of the King of Yan to him, but he did not take it too seriously, but was a little wary.

But now, this King of Yan actually has more than 30 sailing warships and has destroyed the navy of Japan.

He can't help but pay attention.

Because this exceeds Britain's naval power in the East.

He must feedback this news to Governor Bolt and let him adjust the strategy of the East according to the situation.

After all, Britain's next strategy is to tame the Liang family of Dasong, which is now the Wu Kingdom, through war, and let Wu, like Tianzhu, became a British colony.

But if the King of Yan had the ambition to unify Dasong, they would have a conflict of interest.

So, he agreed to Watanabe's proposal for Britain's own interests.

As Watanabe said, Dongying was a dynasty with a population of 30 million in the East.

Now there is a serious conflict with the King of Yan of Dasong.

There is no doubt that such Dongying is very suitable to be Britain's thug in the East.

After all, Britain is too far away from the East, which is not conducive to the war against the King of Yan.

But the East Ying can make up for this disadvantage.

Moreover, he has another worry. The King of Yan built more than 30 warships in a short period of time.

He does not believe that the King of Yan is just to use it to deal with Dongying.

If the King of Yan declares ownership of the East like the Sam Kingdom declared ownership of the New World when it was founded, and competes with them for the interests of the East.

Then the Tianzhu Kingdom, which is closer to Dasong, will be threatened.

Among the many overseas assets of Britain, Tianzhu Kingdom is the most valued colony of Britain.

So when Ross Kingdom When the influence of Japan penetrated deep into the Middle Earth, Britain chose to block them everywhere, worried that Ross would compete with them for their interests in Tianzhu.

Now, this King of Yan seems to be more threatening than Ross.

He has to be more vigilant.

This temporarily suppressed his anger because of the establishment of exchanges between Japan and Sam.

However, he still decided to provoke the relationship between Japan and Sam, so he said, "If Japan can cut off exchanges with Sam, I believe Governor Bolt will be more willing to provide help to Japan."

When Watanabe went to the consulate, he thought of this problem and had the answer in his mind. He said: "We are forced to have exchanges with Sam. You must have heard the gunfire of Sam's warships. At present, Japan already has the enemy of Dasong. It is obviously unwise to provoke a powerful Sam, unless Britain is willing to expel the Sam people. "

Jack was speechless. The meaning of the Watanabe case was very clear. He wanted Britain to expel the Sam people by force.

This was of course impossible.

Sam had been independent from Britain for more than 50 years.

At the beginning, in order to suppress Sam, they did fight with Sam for decades.

But due to the support of Frank, Sterling and other countries for Sam, their siege failed.

After that, they had to recognize Sam.

Now, although the relationship between Britain and Sam is still bad, the war between them has stopped, and sometimes in some common There is also cooperation in terms of interests.

At present, it is impossible to go to war with the Sam people again for Japan.

He smiled awkwardly, looked at Watanabe, and found that there was a hint of cunning in Watanabe's eyes.

He was angry in his heart. It was obvious that Watanabe was between Sam and Britain, asking for benefits from both sides.

But he had to admit that Watanabe was a smart man, and he really had no way to deal with it.

Britain could not give up Japan.

Because it was obvious that Dasong was a greater threat than Japan.

Moreover, there are no eternal enemies between countries, nor are there eternal enemies between countries. For friends, the only eternal thing is interest.

The presence of Sam in the East may not be a bad thing.

Perhaps they can find common interests again in dealing with the Great Song Kingdom.

After chatting casually for a few more words, Watanabe left the British Consulate and went to the Sam Consulate to meet Elson.

After the last bombardment of Edo, Elson stayed in Edo as Sam's consul to the East.

According to his understanding, among the Western countries, Sam ranks first in the production of sailing warships, because Sam has a large amount of high-quality wood.

Moreover, from Sam The route from China to Japan is shorter.

More importantly, since Sam is a newly established country, the goods sold are cheaper for trade.

He believes that Sam will be more willing to sell warships to them.

However, Sam's firearms technology is still slightly inferior to Britain.

This is why he bought warships from Sam and muskets and artillery from the British.

"Consul Elson, once the King of Yan defeats the Yan-attacking coalition, the next step will be to cross Jiujiang and attack Wu. I believe you will not want to see this King of Yan occupy Wu, right?" Watanabe deliberately provoked.

Elson's face was a little pale. The news that the Japanese navy was attacked made him a little frightened.

Like Jack, he did not expect that the King of Yan in the north of Dasong would grow so fast.

However, since there is no colony in the East for the time being, he is not as nervous and urgent as Jack.

However, in order to win them over and contain the British, Wu State gave them a lot of benefits in trade.

If the King of Yan conquered Wu, their trade interests would be damaged, which he did not want to see.

And the rising King of Yan was indeed worrying.

Obviously, it would threaten the interests of the Western countries in the East.

However, he did not think it was necessary to directly conflict with the King of Yan.

However, it was indeed necessary to hold a chess piece that could contain the King of Yan and implement a balance of power strategy.

Obviously, Japan was very suitable to be this chess piece.

Without directly clashing with the King of Yan, they could arm Japan and use the fight between Japan and the King of Yan to gain greater benefits.

Thinking of this, he said: "I will report this to the Congress, and the general only needs to wait for the news."

Watanabe was overjoyed. His lobbying this time was unusually smooth.

Then, a bolder idea was born in his mind.

It is not impossible to establish an alliance with Japan as the core and the Northern Di and Western countries participating.

It is impossible to say that he was not afraid at all when the Japanese navy was destroyed.

But if he can broker this alliance, Prince Yan will have to think twice before dealing with Japan.