Although the empire has never been propagandized for political reasons, those who are sensible know that if it weren't for the Nuland Federation, I'm afraid a new war would have broken out long ago.

This is not putting gold in the face of the Nuland Federation, it is just admitting the facts.

What if, suppose Wilkins didn't have a stroke, Congress ratified the peace treaty he brought back, and became a founding member of the League of Nations?

Perhaps, in less than a decade, the victorious group will be torn apart by serious internal contradictions, or it will be diverted through external expansion.

Obviously, in either case, the peace order established by the peace treaty and the League of Nations will collapse.

It won't be long before the big war breaks out again.

If the overall strength of the country is the standard, then in the next all-out war, only the Liangxia Empire and the Nuland Federation are likely to achieve the final victory.

It can be seen that if the Nuland Federation really wants to come out of the isolated continent, I am afraid that the world will be in chaos.

Not to mention the Liangxia Empire, even the Western powers were not mentally prepared to welcome the Newland Federation, or to be precise, to bow down to the Newland Federation.

According to the tradition of the West, a battle must be fought to complete the transfer of power.

If it doesn't work out, the Newland Federation will even join forces with the Liangxia Empire to overthrow the order established by the Bran Kingdom, the Locke Republic, and the Narrow Empire as victorious powers.

In fact, when making strategic planning, the staff officers of the Imperial Navy Command took this possibility into account.

Of course, the Nuland Federation is not without other things.

In the third year after the armistice, in the year 81 of the Imperial New Era, the newly inaugurated President Felix of Nuland issued a call to negotiate the limitation of naval armaments.

It wasn't a decision made on a whim by Felix.

At that time, the Locke Republic was in contact with the Manman Empire for a comprehensive reconciliation, and the Bran Kingdom began to woo the Narrow Empire with common interests, and the Narrow Empire clearly wanted to consolidate its international position by sending troops to the Luosha Federation, while the Liang Xia Empire was in full swing to carry out internal rectification.

At that time, both the Liangxia Empire and the Bran Kingdom restarted the shipbuilding plans formulated during the Great War, and even the weak Narrow-Sized Imperial States rushed to join in the fun, proposing the idea of building the "88th Fleet", in a vain attempt to become a maritime power on an equal footing with the superpower.

What is this for?

That's right, the great powers are all sharpening their knives.

If this continues, a war will break out again in a few years!

It was at this time that President Nuland came forward and proposed to curb the momentum of war and maintain the hard-won peace by limiting naval armaments.

In fact, it was this call that the great powers were waiting for.

Don't look at the Liangxia Empire, the Bran Kingdom and the Narrow Yi Empire, but in fact, there are a lot of domestic contradictions waiting to be resolved. If the arms race continues, I am afraid that before the war resumes, it will already be in disarray, or even wiped out in the wave of mutiny.

Don't forget, the tragedy of the destruction of the royal family of the Luosha Empire is still vivid!

In that year, representatives of the great powers gathered in the capital of the Union of Newland and began negotiations on the limitation of naval armaments.

Although there were twists and turns, and the talks almost collapsed several times, by the end of the year, after mutual compromise and concession, the most important issues were all negotiated.

December 31, 81 in the Imperial New Calendar, a day worth remembering.

On the same day, the Liangxia Empire, the Nuland Federation, the Bran Kingdom, the Narrow Empire and the Locke Republic officially signed the "Treaty on the Limitation of Naval Armaments" in the capital of the Nuland Federation. Because there were five initial signatories, it was also called the "Five-Power Treaty" to distinguish it from the later "Nine-Power Treaty".

The treaty is valid for 10 years and is automatically extended for another five years if no objection is raised by a Contracting State for one year prior to expiration.

Theoretically, the treaty would be annulled by the last day of the 96th year of the new imperial calendar at the latest.

At this point, the naval arms race, which had been vigorously going on for decades and triggering the First Global War, came to an end, but in fact it was temporarily stopped.

In any case, at least for the duration of the treaty, there is basically no risk of a major war.

Because it was too hasty, or in a hurry, the Hwaseong Naval Treaty was not perfect, and there were many loopholes that were not thought of at the time.

To this end, five years later, in the year 86 of the Imperial New Era, a treaty of a complementary nature was signed in the capital of the Kingdom of Bran. The Treaty of Luntai was the Naval Treaty, and an additional clause of the treaty extended the validity for five years, to 10 years later, in the 96th year of the Imperial New Calendar.

As a result, the Hwaseong Naval Treaty and the Luntae Naval Treaty became the cornerstones of the postwar order.

Although a paper treaty could not fundamentally resolve the contradictions between the great powers, these two treaties brought peace to the world for at least 15 years.

The decade after the end of the war, that is, from 79 to 88 in the new calendar, is called the golden decade because of the stable international situation and sustained rapid development.

In essence, it was not peace that brought about the golden decade, but war, or more precisely, the offspring of war.

Post-war reconstruction!

The Nuland Federation was both the initiator and the biggest beneficiary of the post-war reconstruction, and the orders of various countries alone made the enterprises of the Nuland Federation make a lot of money.

It's just that it was the Nuland Federation that ended the golden decade.

The most direct consequence of the rapid development like a wild horse is disorderly investment and the resulting overcapacity.

When the catastrophe came in the 89th year of the Imperial New Calendar, no one believed that the Golden Age was over.

The economic crisis, triggered by the collapse of the stock market of the Union of Nuland, swept the world like a storm, destroying the post-war international order.

After waking up from the dream, the Great Powers found that beneath the waves of prosperity were reefs.

The demons of war, who were once imprisoned, are about to break free from their shackles and wreak havoc on the world once again.

The only way to survive is to arm yourself and take up arms and fight bravely!

From this point of view, in the twenty years after the end of the war, it was the Nuland Federation that dominated and influenced the global landscape, and she was the protagonist on the international stage.

Liang Xia Empire?

Although the Liangxia Empire is still the world's leader in terms of population, economic scale, industrial output value, war potential and total resources, etc., the leading edge is obvious, for example, the total population is more than twice that of the Newland Federation, but just twenty years is not enough for the Liangxia Empire to forget the pain of war. It can be said that in the twenty years after the war, the Liangxia Empire was like a fierce beast that was seriously injured in a duel and hid in the corner to lick its wounds!

If nothing else, for the 400 million people of the Empire, the mental trauma caused by the Great War alone cannot be forgotten in just twenty years.

If anything, the imperial military did not let up because of this.

Over the past 20 years, the millions of officers and men of the Imperial Army have been waiting for the time when the horn will blow again and the battle flag will fly again.

The blood debt will be paid with blood.

The shame of defeat can only be washed away with the glory of victory.

The horn is loud.

The battle flag flies.

Imperial soldiers, brave to the battlefield!