Chapter 342: "The Hatred Sower"

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The self-government of Canada and 3 provinces announced their surrender.

After receiving instructions from the Empire, the governments of Lu and Qi announced on the afternoon of March 29 that they would accept the unconditional surrender proposed by the Canadian self-government, and declared the end of the war and entered the stage of peace negotiations.

After this, Winnipeg's military and local government announced their surrender, and the Qi army took over the city of Winnipeg.

The General Staff of the Republic of China sent cavalry from the Eastern Theater and the Northeast Theater to quickly receive the cities of Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec.

All Canadian militias heeded the government's call to get out of the woods and lay down their arms.

The venue of the negotiations was set in Zhongjing (formerly Kansas City), the capital of the country, and the negotiations began on April 20.

The countries involved in the negotiations include the self-government of Canada, the state of Qi, the state of Lu, the Xia Empire, the United Kingdom and France; Representatives of Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia and other countries attended the meeting as observers.

The negotiators of the Xia Empire were Li Jingfa, the ambassador to the United States.

The British negotiator was Sir Grey, the Foreign Secretary.

France was represented by the Special Presidential Envoy, Théofil del Casse.

The self-government of Canada is represented by the Governor General and Prime Minister, Earl Grey.

Zhang Wei was afraid that Britain and France and other countries would unite to deal with the Xia Empire, so after a comprehensive analysis, Zhang Wei, the General Staff and the Intelligence Department decided to launch money diplomacy and exchange warships for land, widening the military gap between Britain and France and Germany, so that European countries were forced to fall into a military race, so that they had no time to take care of the expansion of the Xia Empire.

The French representative, Théofler Delcasser, who had long dominated French foreign and colonial affairs and was resolutely opposed to the peaceful settlement of Franco-German contradictions, was a hardcore German revanchist who freed France from the diplomatic isolation it had had been in since Bismarck's time, and was the architect of the alliance system formed before the First World War.

Théofir Delcasé, who served as foreign minister in six cabinets and maintained his usual anti-German stance, feared a solid alliance between Germany and Austria and Russia, and tried his best to break up the Triple Alliance, strengthen Franco-Russian alliances, and ease contradictions with Britain, Italy, Spain, and other countries; In addition, Delcasse advocated the strengthening of France's navy as a way to secure the colonies and trade.

In 1906, he was ousted by the Germans due to the Moroccan Incident, and was once called the most dangerous Frenchman to Germany by Kaiser II.

French President Armand Fallier, aware that the rise of Germany would inevitably lead to another Franco-German war, supported Théofil delcasé's diplomatic strategy to strengthen the alliance with the Russian Empire and ease relations with Great Britain.

This time, President Armand Fallier appointed Théophile Delcasé to let him win over Britain, ease the contradictions with the Xia Empire, and avoid a war between Britain and the Xia Empire, and pull Britain's power back to Europe; And the overall deterioration of Anglo-German relations and the joint countering of German pressure, after all, Europe is their foundation.

The mission of the German representatives was to intensify the contradictions between the Xia Empire and Britain and France, and it was best for them to launch a protracted war and war of attrition against Britain and France in the Americas; At present, Germany regards the Xia Empire, like Britain, France, and Russia, as the most important hostile countries in Germany, and it is Germany that has the most to gain from a war between them.

The British Foreign Secretary, Sir Grey, is not very concerned about the gains and losses of the Canadian self-government, but is more concerned about how to obtain sufficient interests for Britain in this peace negotiation.

Theophile Delcasse first found Ambassador Li Jingfa and had a long private meeting, during which Théophile Delcasse expressed to Ambassador Li that the Xia Empire could completely occupy Quebec Province, and France would withdraw 1 million French-Canadians, hoping that the Xia Empire would give preferential treatment to France in purchasing Xia-class battleships and Baiqi-class battlecruisers.

Theofir Delcasser's proposal was in the hands of Ambassador Li Jingfa, with the French as an example, he took the initiative to evacuate the French descendants, and after the French descendants withdrew, Quebec Province would completely belong to the sphere of influence of the Xia Empire, and then the British would oppose it, and the Xia Empire would be able to gain a foothold in Canada.

Ambassador Li Jingfa said that he is very grateful to the French government for its support, and that the war launched by Lu and Qi against Canada was completely caused by the Canadian government, and even the US government apologized to the Chinese workers, while the Canadian government is still obsessed and continues to exclude China.

Ambassador Li also said that the Xia Empire and France have always had a deep friendship, and if France can persuade the British to cede the Dominion of Canada and the Dominion of Newfoundland to Qi, after the French government purchases two Xia-class battleships and two Baiqi-class battlecruisers, the Xia Empire will not only give them design drawings and manufacturing drawings and allow them to return to China to manufacture, but also give an additional Xia-class battleship and a Baiqi-class battlecruiser as a testimony of the friendship between the two sides.

President Armand Fallier, after receiving the report, promised Theophile delcasse that he would be appointed Minister of the Navy of the French Third Republic if the Xia Empire could then present a Xia-class battleship and a white-class battlecruiser.

The armies of Qi and Lu have fully entered the Canadian provinces, and Britain, France and other countries know that according to the urine nature of the Xia Empire, as long as it is the territory occupied, it will definitely not spit out, and there is no hope of taking it back.

The main contradiction with Britain now is the fate of Labrador, which previously formed the British Dominion of Newfoundland with the island of Newfoundland, which is on the same level as the Dominion of Canada, and now Labrador is also occupied by the Russian army, which is not allowed by the British government.

This time, Ambassador Li Jingfa still exercised money diplomacy, and if the British government transferred the Dominion of Newfoundland to the Xia Empire and returned all the British to the mainland, the Xia Empire would pay the price of a Xia-class battleship.

Britain already had 4 Xia-class battleships, and the desire for Xia-class battleships was not as strong as that of France, and Sir Gray refused the request of Ambassador Lee Ching-fa.

The Xia Empire is determined to win Nova Scotia, and does not care very much about Newfoundland, because Nova Scotia has the world's second largest ice-free deep-water port - Halifax Port, which is the largest military port in the northern West Atlantic region planned by Zhang Wei, and is also the closest ice-free port in North America to Europe.

Théophile Delcasse gave Sir Grey a job that if the Canadian question could be resolved peacefully, Britain and France could form an alliance to deal with the rise of Germany, and when European affairs were settled, the two countries could form an alliance against the Xia Empire; If you feel that the price of the Xia Empire is not ideal, continue to talk, according to the Chinese, the negotiation itself is a matter of asking for a price to pay back.

Sir Grey proposed that if Qi wanted to occupy all of Canada and the Dominion of Newfoundland, it would have to pay Britain 1 White Rise-class battleship and 5 King-class battleships and the corresponding drawings.

Li Jingfa directly rejected Sir Gray's request, and now that Qi and Lu have completely occupied Canada's territory, as for Newfoundland, it is meat on the lips and can be eaten at any time.

The Canadian government has been completely abandoned by the British.

The representatives of the German government gave full play to the function of a-stirring stick and supported the opinion of the Xia Empire, and whoever occupied it, the territory belonged to whomever he owned; Moreover, this was a contradiction between the vassal states of Britain and the Xia Empire, which had to be negotiated between the vassal states, and the suzerainty had no right to decide the future of all the vassal states.

The opinion of the representative of Germany was ignored by all the deputies.

Théofler delcasse countered the German delegates, saying: "If the opinions of the suzerains are invalid, then the German delegates should not be present at the talks." “

After Li Jingfa asked Zhang Wei and Theophile Delcasse to reconcile, the Xia Empire finally reached an agreement with the British, and Britain purchased 2 Baiqi-class battlecruisers from the Xia Empire, and the Xia Empire donated 1 Baiqi-class battlecruiser, and gave an additional Xia-class battleship and 2 King-class battleships, as well as related drawings.

Qi completely occupied the territory of Canada and the Dominion of Newfoundland, Lu was not allowed to station troops in Canada and Newfoundland, and the British government relocated all British Canadians within 3 months.

The British government also demanded that the Xia Empire not place more than 200,000 tons of naval forces off the coast of Canada and Newfoundland, and that the displacement of a single warship should not exceed 20,000 tons.

The officers and soldiers of the Qi army shall not exceed 300,000.

The British government knows that the Dominion of Newfoundland is on the lips of the Xia Empire, and as long as the Xia Empire wants to eat, they will not be able to keep it anyway, so it is better to exchange a little benefit as soon as possible.

All the negotiation process was quietly completed at the table, the self-government of Canada was destroyed, the Dominion of Newfoundland was sold to the Xia Empire, and the British and French went all out to relocate their descendants.

The outcome of the negotiations took the world by surprise.

The British government sold the Canadians for one pound per person.

After returning to China, Théofir delcasse mediated the conflict between the Xia Empire and the British, negotiated the purchase price of warships with the Xia Empire and signed an agreement on the gift of warships, and President Armand Falier appointed him as the French Minister of the Navy as promised, and let him preside over the purchase of warships from the Xia Empire.

The Xia Empire was really honest and fully fulfilled its original promise, making France a military power in the Mediterranean.

After becoming Minister of the Navy, De Casse continued to promote military cooperation between Britain and France, and he even signed a secret agreement with Britain on naval cooperation behind the back of the vast majority of the members of the French Parliament and Cabinet, which allowed Britain to withdraw the main forces of the Royal Navy from the Mediterranean Sea to the mainland and concentrate on countering the German threat from the North Sea direction.

The Germans played the role of soy sauce in this peace negotiation, and completely fell into the upper hand in the confrontation with Britain and France.

And by dealing with the Canadian question, Britain's naval power has reached a new level.

Theofir Delcasser's subsequent actions not only nullified the assumption that the German fleet would only have a "risky" local advantage over the dispersed Royal Navy home fleet, but also forced Germany to engage in a de facto full-scale naval race with Great Britain.

Moreover, after the Canadian peace talks, Britain and France added 12 capital ships at one time, which also forced Germany to passively participate in the naval race against Britain and France.

The naval competition between Britain and Germany led to an overall deterioration in Anglo-German relations.

Italy, Austria-Hungary, the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire were also forced into the naval race, and they were forced by circumstances to continue to purchase capital ships from the Xia Empire.

The Germans not only did not provoke the war between Britain and France and the Xia Empire, but put themselves in an even more embarrassing situation, accelerated the alliance between Britain, France and Russia, and made Germany have to face greater military pressure in Europe; It made Kaiser II very annoyed, and it was all the Xia Empire's fault.

While gaining the territory, the Xia Empire paid 6 capital ships, which was a lot of money, but it was completely worth it.

Delcasse triumphed, and he fully deserved the title of "Hate Sower".

Of course, the biggest victor was the Xia Empire, which not only gained a large amount of land, but also diverted the hatred by sending the capital ships wildly. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.