Like Soong Mei-ling, there are also Chen Ying, who has become a famous reporter writer in China. Chen Ying, Zhou Tao's cousin, also sat at the table very elegantly.

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On the surface, the little sisters Chen Ying and Zhou Tao are still as close as ever, and they will whisper from time to time to time some unique topics of little girls.

However, Chen Ying showed a hint of sadness in her smiley eyes that others could not perceive.

Chen Ying, who was deeply rooted in Xun Huaizhou, had to lock the infinite love in her heart tightly, and sent her best wishes to Xun Huaizhou and Zhou Tao in her heart.

While Xun Huaizhou and Zhou Tao were busy dealing with the two sides, Zhou Haorong and Zhou Yuanqingzheng accompanied Premier Zhou to introduce to him the senior American officials who came to the country for inspection as a private person this time.

Of course, both parties were very cautious in communicating as purely private, deliberately avoiding some sensitive topics. Despite this, this meeting was of great significance.

For this purely private visit, the US government is actually making sufficient preparations.

The most important person to go to China this time was to search for Harry Lloyd Hopkins, the special assistant to Roosevelt who was known as the shadow president of Roosevelt in Huaizhou.

Hopkins is a genius diplomat and has a deep private friendship with the Zhou family. Once Roosevelt sent him to visit China in his private name this time, which is naturally the most suitable.

In later generations, Hopkins favored freedom and isolationism. In this life, under the influence of those who are interested, Hopkins favored conservative isolationism.

Therefore, in this life, the United States is currently not strong in its willingness to intervene in world disputes.

This also brings relatively large variables to the upcoming world war.

Of course, this is also a situation that Xun Huaizhou and Zhou Tao are happy to see.

After a series of wars in the East, the momentum of the Chinese region provoking the war has been obviously curbed by the Chinese team.

However, the nature of Japanese militarist aggression will not change, and it is impossible to change. Moreover, the current Japanese army has never lost any more except for two painful failures in North China and East China.

On the northern battlefield, the Japanese army and the Soviet Union won the battles step by step, and many of them even felt that they were incredible. During the war, every time at critical moments, the Soviet army would make inexplicable mistakes, which made the Japanese army firmly grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

Since the Japanese and Soviet troops clashed with the Soviet Union in July 1937 in the Northeast Nomenhan area, the Soviet Union and Japan officially declared war, and the Japanese and Soviet troops began to fight each other in Outer Mongolia and Siberia in China.

The war started from the end of July 2017 to March 2018, and both sides invested heavily on the front line.

Although the Japanese army invested nearly 300,000 troops during the Shanghai War with China, most of these troops were dispatched from the Japanese army's southern front and had a considerable number of troops, and were deployed on the battlefield from Taiwan and other places. Therefore, it had little impact on the Japanese army on the northern battlefield.

Moreover, when the Japanese army formulated the strategy for the Battle of Shanghai, because of the lessons of the Battle of North China ahead, after the launch of the Battle of Shanghai, the Japanese army was not sure whether the victory of the Battle of Shanghai could expand the results and arouse the People's Liberation Army's rebound and join the war.

Therefore, the Japanese army did adopt a relatively conservative strategy of deportation in the Battle of Shanghai. The Japanese army's hope at that time was to defeat the Kuomintang army in one fell swoop, control the eastern China region east of Jiaxing and Suzhou, and form an isolation belt between the Kuomintang army controlling the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions and the People's Liberation Army controlled by the **.

This can avoid direct conflict between the Japanese army and the People's Liberation Army, and also leave a solid foothold for the Japanese army to fully invade China after resolving the Northern War.

The Japanese army's ideas were beautiful, the ideas were naive, but reality was cruel.

The official participation of the People's Liberation Army completely shattered the Japanese army's fantasy of seeking a foothold in East China, and also made both the military and the government completely abandon their strategy of entering mainland China. They seek breakthroughs from the north and the south to try to implement a strategy of long-term siege and suppression on China.

At present, due to the successive victory of the Japanese army on the northern front, the strategic focus of the Japanese army has been adjusted again, and is preparing to implement a long-term development strategy of first the north and then the south, and encircling the siege in the middle.

Because of this, Japan's recent threat to the United States in the Pacific region has become smaller and smaller, making the United States' isolationism more prevalent.

It was under this trend of thought that Hopkins was more inclined toward isolationism, but Hopkins was an excellent politician and a genius diplomat after all.

Therefore, Hopkins was very sensitive to China's rapid rise, and he first suggested that Roosevelt focus on China, a mysterious Eastern power. He could no longer treat this awakened Eastern master with traditional thinking. Therefore, this trip to China in a private name led by Hopkins was also given.

The Prime Minister is also a great diplomatic man, and his style and manner made Hopkins and others, who were engaged in high-ranking officials for the first time.

Although the two sides only talked in general at such a welcome banquet, they had a very close relationship. With Zhou Haorong's threading needles and threading, after a meal, the senior officials from China and the United States who participated in the dinner had established a relatively harmonious relationship.

Xun Huaizhou did not participate in this table of exchanges, which is also the reason why Xun Huaizhou deliberately avoided it.

Xun Huaizhou knew that there were already many voices in the party, saying that he had participated in and intervened in affairs too much. On the one hand, he could easily abandon his work in military construction, and on the other hand, he was also suspected of taking over power.

Xun Huaizhou was also helpless about such internal voices. The cultural connotation of Orientals particularly emphasizes the doctrine of the mean. In the past few years, although I have wanted to keep a low profile, as long as I do things, I cannot hide my sharpness too much. Therefore, I can also fully understand some strange voices. Xun Huaizhou is so wise that the so-called wood is fascinated by the forest and the wind will destroy it.

Such excellent performance in the past two or three years will definitely bring some rain. This is something Xunhuaizhou has expected. It is precisely because of this that Xunhuaizhou has followed the Chairman's pace from the beginning and is protected by the Chairman, so that he can do something he wants and must do.

Now, although Xun Huaizhou also has many ideas about US diplomacy and other aspects, and even secretly dominated the direction of the talks, he will no longer throw himself to the forefront.

Moreover, Xun Huaizhou believes that with diplomatic masters like the Prime Minister, it is more than enough to deal with these senior American officials.

In fact, Xun Huaizhou has long discussed the true foreign policy towards the United States for a long time. The major policies have been determined long ago, so Xun Huaizhou does not need to worry too much about this.

The dinner ended until after nine o'clock in the evening. Most of the people attending the dinner got their needs and loved it.

After the dinner, Xun Huaizhou accompanied Zhou Haorong and his wife, Zhou Yuanqing and his wife and others to Dongshan Botao Villa built on the shore of Taihu Lake.

This villa was built two years ago by Zhou Tao in the name of Botao Company in the Dongshan area of ​​Suzhou, and several small Taihu islands.

The villa covers an area of ​​dozens of square kilometers and is divided into outer villas that are open to the public as high-end hotels, called Boyuan, and inner villas that are not open to the public as private villas, called Taoyuan.

In the past two years, Botao Company has established countless such hotel chains and leisure resorts in China and around the world. Of course, it was invested in seizing the post-war tourism development, but more importantly, it is to facilitate Zhou Tao to have a good place to rest when he travels around the world.

This time, the Zhou family and friends group naturally moved into Botao Villa. Of course, most of them were arranged in Boyuan. Zhou Haorong and Zhou Yuanqing and his wife were naturally invited into Taoyuan. They were arranged to enter the quiet mountain villa with Jiangnan characteristics.

When we arranged for everyone to stop, it was already past 11 o'clock in the evening. At this time, Xun Huaizhou and Zhou Tao held hands and walked along the quiet and elegant mountain path in Taoyuan to the Mianhu Elegant House, which was built on the mountain, which they lived on the hillside.

This is the residence arranged by Zhou Tao for himself. Of course, not far from Tao Hall, on the same secluded hillside, a Boguan with a relatively elegant and light style and a better viewing angle is built. This is a residence specially arranged for Xunhuaizhou.

Near the top of the mountain, there is also a very grand and larger Taoyuan main building, Botao Pavilion.

Of course, this is the two-sleep venue that Zhou Tao is preparing to leave for himself and Xunhuaizhou.

In Botao Manors around the world, Zhou Tao's plans are almost always based on this standard. Zhou Tao can also take great pains to make her own and Xun Huaizhou happy life.

According to Zhou Tao's wish, after China is truly prosperous and strong, she and Xunhuaizhou will be born invisibly. At that time, the two of them will travel around the world and stay together for two days. What a wonderful thing that would be.

Of course, these ideas are still just Zhou Tao’s own dreams.

Zhou Tao knew that it was so easy to leave behind the country and nation that he devoted himself to, and stayed with him heartlessly without caring about the world. If you really have to wait until that day, you still don’t know that it will be the Year of the Monkey and Horse Month.

Thinking of this, Zhou Tao would inevitably sigh in secret, and a hint of sadness arose in his heart.

However, at this time, Zhou Tao has no intention of caring about future events. Walking hand in hand with Xun Huaizhou on this quiet mountain road, making Zhou Tao's heart full of tenderness and sweetness.

Xun Huaizhou held Zhou Tao's hand with one hand, and the other hand was on Zhou Tao's slender waist. Zhou Tao's graceful body was completely leaning on his body on the mountain road. In addition to the sound of nature, it was the crisp and pleasant sound of Zhou Tao's anklets like a fairy music.

The two of them walked freely, without saying a word, and no one was willing to break this extremely wonderful warm feeling with tacit understanding.

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