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Chapter 547 Between Allies (First update, please subscribe)
In Chang'an, every day starts with the same scenery.

When most people were still sleeping soundly in their dreams, a rising sun jumped over the distant horizon, coating the thick clouds covering the city with golden light, creating the illusion of clear weather, and then disappeared without a trace.

Frank laced up his running shoes and ran out of the embassy. Running towards the seaside facing the rising sun. Frank, who was born in the military, has a very regular personal life. He goes to the beach for jogging every morning to keep fit.

For Frank, this is his morning. Not much different from that president.

After finishing his run and returning to the embassy again, Frank took a hurried shower, dried himself, and hurriedly changed into clean casual clothes. As soon as he entered the hall above, he was stopped by a young man from Nanyang. These young people usually run errands and do some miscellaneous things here.

"Major Frank,"

The young man gasped and said,
"Mr. Coker wants you to go to his office immediately."

"Tell him I'll be there when I get dressed."

"At once, sir."

I don’t know what it is.

Frank thought to himself as he buttoned his shirt and tied his tie.

A few minutes later, Frank arrived at the ambassador's office on the fifth floor.

"Major!"

Ambassador Cork pointed to an upholstered armchair beside the large coffee table. He sat down in another chair and looked at his intelligence officer with bright eyes.

"Do you know about the state funeral two days ago? What do you think?"

The state funeral was held two days ago, not for the Nanyang people, but for a German - John Rabe. He died in the Army Hospital a few days ago. Not only the president and senior government officials attended the grand state funeral, There are many ordinary people who have benefited from him, and of course there are many Germans. Finally, John Rabe was buried in the Martyrs' Shrine in Chang'an.

Frank looked at the ambassador in front of him and said.

"On the surface, it seems that they are holding a state funeral for Mr. John Rabe to thank him for his good deeds in Aurous Hill. In fact, this is fundamentally related to the strong pro-German atmosphere in Nanyang. As we all know, Germany belongs to Nanyang. The third largest source of immigrants, but unlike Japanese labor brides, German immigrants are mostly skilled immigrants. They bring the knowledge and technology needed by Nanyang. German scholars are commonly found in various universities and enterprises. If you are interested in If you trace the origins of the "Southern Miracle", it can be attributed to German immigrants, sir."

As an intelligence officer at the embassy, ​​Frank has a very clear understanding of Nanyang. Looking at Da Shi, he began his narration.

"With the post-war reconstruction of West Germany, coming to Nanyang for gold mining or immigrating to Nanyang no longer has obvious advantages. It is inevitable that some Germans will have the idea of ​​returning to Germany. Therefore, in order to win over German immigrants, they There was a state funeral for Rabe. Of course, this is my personal opinion.”

Kirk made a gesture and said.

"Your view is a common view among the outside world. The "Nanyang Miracle" is equal to the "German Miracle". This is a common view among all walks of life. But is there anything else that needs to be added?"

"Actually, I need to add something..."

Frank said when asked by the ambassador.

"War criminals, we don't have a single war criminal here. Yes, to a certain extent, Nanyang is still a shelter for German war criminals, but this does not prevent them from advocating that no Japanese war criminals should be spared."

Ambassador Cork sat there silently. At this time, his secretary came into the office with two cups of coffee, put them on the table and asked:
"Major, do you think this is okay?"

Frank smiled at her:

"Thank you, Miss Anne!"

"We don't care about this issue. The reason why I asked you about the state funeral is because things have changed."

After the secretary left the office, Kirk said in a serious tone.

"What Washington is now concerned about is whether Nanyang, as our friend, will have a pro-Russian tendency. As we all know, Russia needs to import tens of thousands of tons of rubber every year. In the past few years, Nanyang has exported more than 70,000 tons of rubber to Russia every year. Thousands of tons, and a large amount of cane sugar is exported. With the implementation of the embargo, the losses to Nanyang will be very large. Will this lead them to Russia to a certain extent? "

"Unless they're crazy!" Frank shook his head.

"Which is more important for exporting rubber to Russia or exporting products to the United States? Nanyang senior officials have made it very clear."

"really……"

The number one person in the embassy pondered for a moment, just like Frank had just done, as if thinking about the next few steps of action. He picked up a stack of papers stapled together from the table and handed them to Frank:
"We don't know how far they will implement the embargo, but according to Washington's requirements, you need to contact some German personnel in the company, and we have to make sure that they will not circumvent the embargo and sell goods to Russia. People provide prohibited goods, which of course includes Tangshan..."

"It's unlikely,"

Frank said directly.

"Since immigration stopped there, conflicts between them are inevitable, and they also involve hundreds of millions of dollars in railway equipment loans. For Nanyang, this loss is extremely heavy. If it weren't for the official Many banks, including the Bank of Borneo, have provided capital injections of hundreds of millions of dollars. These banks may even go bankrupt as a result, and their negotiations in Hong Kong have also broken down. Therefore, it is almost impossible for them to have a relationship. Any cooperation.”

"Frank."

Ambassador Coker said.

"However, the UK has recognized them and they will soon launch further negotiations. Not only are they members of the Commonwealth, but they are also members of the same nation. These are the factors we need."

"Bloody Labor, sooner or later they will give Britain up to the Russians."

Frank complained, looked up at Cole and said.

"I will step up work in this area."

As he spoke, he slowly flipped through the list page by page. This list listed prominent German people from all walks of life in Nanyang, from professors, scholars to business executives. These people were obviously German elites. Get up, Frank said.

"Are these people we need to contact? They're not necessarily willing to help us."

"Frank, you want to exploit their hatred of the Russians. That is the most important thing. What we need is for them to provide some intelligence on their transactions with the Russians. Do you understand?"

Kirk said in a calm tone,

"That's all. You can understand it as our concern for our allies, of course, if they don't know."

Facing the ambassador's request, Frank felt an unprecedented pressure in his heart.

"But, sir, if the matter comes to light, it will most likely affect our relationship with them."

Frank frowned and said.

"We need their help for many matters in Southeast Asia. If things come to light, it will be my turn to deal with this tricky situation, right?"

Kirk said directly.

"Who else can get away with it? We're all involved."

"But,……"

Frank hesitated: This is the working situation in the intelligence circle. Even if Kirk says this now, once the incident occurs, this person will deny that he knows these situations, and then blame everything on himself. After all, this person When it comes to quarrels with allies, someone always needs to be held accountable in the end.

If that's the case, there's no point in saying anything now.

"Sir, you know, I work in the military intelligence department and I am not suitable to deal with this matter that has nothing to do with the military. Your favorite person should be-Fox, he is from the intelligence agency and does this kind of thing , they are the best at it.”

Even in intelligence agencies, when there is possible danger, people will always choose to protect themselves first, and other things are not important...

(End of this chapter)