Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

In the foggy city, the old Simpson's Restaurant may not be extremely luxurious, but it is a place that celebrities like to visit. After becoming famous, celebrities such as Van Gogh, Dickens, and Shaw often lingered here.

Today, Ambassador King invited Maurice Harold MacMillan to have a small gathering here.

As the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the old cabinet of the TV series "Swordsman", Harold Macmillan is a man of great experience. He has worked in the Ministry of Housing, Defense, Foreign Affairs and Finance, and can be said to be a powerful figure.

Normally, Ambassador Jin also has to deal with this heavyweight figure. However, today, a special envoy who came from the country told him that he could now place his heavy bets on this person. John Bull's regime is already crumbling and will not last for many more days. The person most likely to take over next is the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

As the host for the evening, Ambassador Jin tried his best to create a relaxed atmosphere for communication. After all, this was an important task assigned by the higher-ups.

"Good evening, Mr. Harold. Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to host you tonight. I hope Mr. Harold can have a pleasant evening today."

Ambassador Jin laughed.

"Good evening, Mr. King, thank you for your invitation. I think this evening will be a very nice one." Harold responded politely.

After the greetings and three rounds of drinks, the relationship between the two sides became much closer.

"Mr. Harold, to be honest, I have a little trouble now and I need your help," Ambassador Jin said after laying the groundwork for a while, finally creating a good atmosphere. "You know, our two countries have very good cooperation in the field of agriculture. In the past period of time, the cooperation between the two sides has also been very fruitful. But now, for this win-win situation, we have heard some noises. Some people are stirring up trouble and trying to undermine our cooperation. Mr. Harold must know about this. We hope that Mr. Harold can stop these inappropriate voices from the overall situation of cooperation between the two sides."

Now comes the main topic, Harold thought to himself. When he came, he already had an idea of ​​what the other party was going to talk about tonight. This was probably what they wanted to know most.

So Harold already had a plan in mind.

"Mr. Jin, I do know something about what you said. Congressman Smith has the support of North American grain giants. I think this is no secret to you. Your country's achievements in the field of hybrid rice have obviously affected the supply of the international grain market. Frankly speaking, this kind of matter involving North America has a great impact on our party. You are also very clear about the special relationship between North America and us. I'm afraid this matter is really not that easy to handle. Next, we may have to continue our cooperation based on a new bill."

In such a private occasion, Harold did not just speak in official language, but brought out the relationship behind the matter, on the one hand to show his sincerity, on the other hand to explain his inaction.

Ambassador Jin was not surprised by this answer at all. He certainly knew the ins and outs of the matter, and he smiled.

"Mr. Harold, speaking of your country's special relationship with North America, I think it will change a lot starting with the Suez Canal incident."

"None of your allies are on your side this time. I think Mr. Harold is well aware that North America does not expect the Middle East to continue to be dominated by Europe," Ambassador Jin's words made Harold's heart skip a beat, as if something important was about to be revealed.

Because Ambassador Jin didn't care about his polite refusal at all, he called him over for a private meeting, obviously not wanting to have a meeting that would produce no results.

This is an important country in the world. Even if John Bull has a special relationship with North America, the East University of China dare not neglect this big country in the face of this world. It is pointless to provoke this big country. The consequences are obviously not something they can bear easily. After all, they still need the support of the other party in many aspects internationally.

Regarding the Suez Canal War, the University of Tokyo has not yet taken sides.

They neither stood on their own side to express support nor on the other side to strongly condemn it. They just expressed regret for this and hoped that both sides would stop fighting and sit down to negotiate to resolve the dispute. It seemed that for the University of Tokyo, it didn't matter whether it was restoring the status quo or moving to Pharaoh.

After all, here, Dongda only has the security interest of a trade channel. In this world of Sword, Dongda has not even bought oil from the Middle East! What they are most concerned about is probably transporting the growing goods to the European continent for sale.

So no matter who controls the canal, the cost of crossing the river is indispensable, so it makes no difference to their transport fleet who controls the canal.

"Mr. Jin, if you have anything to say, please speak frankly. You and I are alone here today, and no matter what we say, it will not be recorded in the official communication records of both parties. So we should try our best to exchange information to avoid misjudging each other." Harold hesitated for a while before speaking.

Bargaining in private diplomacy is too common. Everyone knows that the bottom line of face-to-face negotiations in the daytime is just an attitude. The real bottom line of both parties is explored in such semi-formal social interactions.

Some things even require secret meetings with the help of a third party.

Of course, Ambassador Kim and Harold do not need such a third-party bridge now, because they can communicate well among themselves.

"Frankly speaking, Mr. Harold, we judge that your situation in the Suez Canal War will be quite unfavorable. Our experts unanimously believe that both the Arctic Bear and the Rogue Eagle can no longer tolerate the current situation in which Europe dominates the Middle East. The Arctic Bear has expressed support for Pharaoh's military assistance." Ambassador Jin said slowly.

But Harold's face became worse and worse.

Although these are the most troublesome things for them internally, they still feel a little embarrassed when it was exposed by Ambassador Jin on this occasion. The Rogue Eagles are their closest ally, but they did not give them due support in this matter, which resulted in John Bull's current situation in the international arena being very difficult. Because the statements they passed in international organizations were not favorable to John Bull, the attitude of the Rogue Eagles played a great negative role in this. Not only did they not stop it, but they made their opposition clear in their speeches, leaving the countries sitting on the fence no chance to be ambiguous and had to follow the attitudes of the two largest countries. No country can bear the consequences of offending two superpowers at the same time.

But this was not the most uncomfortable and shocking thing that Ambassador Jin had done to Harold.

"Although the Rogue Eagles have not expressed military support for the Pharaohs yet, we believe that if your country and Gaul insist on occupying the canal, we do not rule out the possibility that the Rogue Eagles will sell pounds to force you to accept the conditions of a ceasefire and withdrawal of troops." Ambassador Jin's words came like a bolt from the blue.

"How could that be?" Harold subconsciously refuted, "No, Mr. King, your analyst is completely unreasonable and has made a completely unfounded misjudgment."

This news was too explosive for Harold. He was the current Chancellor of the Exchequer and was naturally aware of the current situation. If the rogue hawks really started to sell pounds, it would be a disaster for the already troubled pound exchange rate, and might even cause the entire pound to collapse!
This is not only because if they sell a large number of pounds, it will directly lead to a sharp drop in John Bull's foreign exchange reserves. More importantly, this is an "unforgivable betrayal" of John Bull's belief that he and the rogue eagle are in sync with each other in the purpose and spirit of the International Monetary Fund.

If something like this really happened, it would completely change the relationship between the two of them. The relationship, which already had some cracks, would probably become even deeper or even break apart.

How could Todai come to such a conclusion?

Harold absolutely did not believe that the rogue Eagle would take advantage of the situation. If that were the case, as the head of John Bull's finances, Harold had no confidence to hold on. This would cause a big disaster, and even the original equal relationship between the two parties would become an implicit subordinate relationship.

"Mr. Harold, whether you believe it or not, we think it won't be too late for this to happen. Let's wait and see." Ambassador Jin said softly but firmly.

"If this really happened, Mr. Harold, what would you do?" Harold's head was really buzzing with the bombardment of this information.

Given their special relationship with Rogue Eagle, they really had never imagined that Rogue Eagle would do such an outrageous thing.

But
Harold recalled that ever since John Bull and Gallic Rooster jointly launched the canal military operation, the Rogue Eagles had always been opposed to it no matter how much coordination was done.

It is very rare that the international community has maintained a unified attitude with the Arctic bear on this issue. This is an extremely abnormal signal.

This completely broke some of the pre-war predictions of the old Deng government about international reactions.

In their prediction, even if the Rogue Eagles did not agree with this matter, at most they would remain neutral and not express their views, or abstain from voting, which would be a passive state. They never thought that they would stand up and directly express their opposition, and form a UN resolution to intervene.

This misjudgment, coupled with the heavy financial pressure caused by launching the war, led to another wave of short selling against the pound internationally, although the short sellers were temporarily repelled through various efforts.

But they don't have much foreign exchange left now, only more than 2 billion US dollars. They can still barely hold on in the face of current speculators. If they face the pressure from a superpower like Rogue Eagle, they can basically surrender directly.

Harold was silent.

I recalled in my mind the recent policies of Rogue Eagle and the conversations with the other party's top leaders.

If he had not dared to think of the impossible result before, and now took this result out and compared it with the speeches of the top leaders of Rogue Eagle, Harold was horrified to find that, logically speaking, there was nothing wrong with the conclusion drawn.

The probability of the rogue eagle taking advantage of someone's misfortune is really three points higher than standing idly by!
If John Bull insists on acting without considering the special relationship between the two parties, he will not be able to resist at all.

Under the financial attack from the other side, there is even a huge risk of causing the collapse of the pound!

It is reasonable and sad to find that if the current rogue eagles want to target John Bull, they will be like lambs to be slaughtered and have no room for resistance!

Harold had been confident at first, but now he was completely stunned by Ambassador Jin's bold prediction.

There is no need to make much speculation. If the rogue eagles join the ranks of selling the pound, it will directly become the last straw that breaks the camel's back for John Bull. When the pound collapses, the military advantage over the Suez Canal will have no meaning at all. What is the point of John Bull and the Gallic Rooster concentrating tens of thousands of troops to achieve an overwhelming victory?
The more they invested in military and the more successful they were, the faster they went bankrupt economically. Today, the empire on which the sun never sets is no longer there.

Looking back further, in fact, their former glory had long been consumed in the protracted battle with the mustache men!
Harold was confused for a moment.

He is a very mature politician. No matter how difficult the past days were, nothing was more difficult than the current situation.

Because Ambassador Jin was a third party, there was no need for him to fool around in this regard, especially since they were very sure that such a thing would happen in the near future. That was to say, they already had a very high-level information channel on the Rogue Eagle side. The hateful thing was that even with such a fatal incident, the Rogue Eagle channel on their side hadn't heard a word of it.

This is obviously very abnormal.

The sky has changed!

Harold's mind was like a raging tide, and suddenly such a thought flashed through his mind.

Then there was a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

If dismantling colonies and depriving the country of control over the Middle East was a long-term plan for the new king to take the throne, then the Suez Canal War was like handing the final blow to their hands.

No wonder they repeatedly verbally called for a stop to this, but never actually stopped it.

Because if the European brothers were not really trapped, the knife would not be able to deliver the final accurate and fatal blow.

This is really cruel.

There was absolutely no chance left for them.

No, perhaps there is still one last chance. Harold raised his head and looked at Ambassador Jin with burning eyes.

"Mr. Jin, you didn't come here to tell me bad news tonight, did you?" Harold asked hesitantly with the last glimmer of hope.

"Mr. Harold, we at Dongda have always been pursuing a win-win situation. We believe that the most stable relationship is a truly win-win relationship." Ambassador Jin's words were a bit difficult to understand, but it was not difficult for Harold to understand. The hope in his heart grew.

"Yes, in the future pound crisis, if our help is needed, we will not stand idly by. If we can maintain a win-win situation in a series of cooperation, we are willing to help our friends stabilize the situation. We will not be profit-seeking like some countries. We hope for more diversity in the world."

What Ambassador Jin said was not something he came up with, but something he heard directly from the special envoy.

If the sun never sets, is there still hope?!

Harold couldn't help but feel less despair.

Fortunately, this world is not full of people and countries who take advantage of others’ misfortunes.

(End of this chapter)