Representatives of the two blocs, Britain, France, Germany, and Austria, as well as Italy and the United States, which have complicated relations, gathered in Beijing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It can be said that the Beijing Peace Conference was manipulated by these six major countries and China.

The negotiations at the conference were extremely intense, because countries had different demands.

The demands of Germany and Austria-Hungary were that both sides end the war with pre-war territories, but Austria-Hungary demanded the annexation of Serbia, or they allowed Serbia to become an autonomous republic within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and now the new Austro-Hungarian Emperor has begun to carry out reforms, allowing Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and even Poland to form their own governments, adding a Serbian (Slavic) government, to form a quadruple empire.

Austria-Hungary said that an empire encompassing the four major ethnic groups of southern Europe would help maintain stability in the region. Bismarck once said that the existence of Austria-Hungary's enemy state is conducive to peace in Europe, and if there is no Austria-Hungary, a country that can sustain all peoples, Europe must also form a similar state, otherwise there will be no peace in southern Europe.

This war was triggered by the dispute between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, so if Austria-Hungary annexed Serbia, it would mean that they had won, which was simply unacceptable to Britain and France.

The Germans demanded that the Peace Conference recognize their treaty with Soviet Russia, that is, that the European countries would recognize all the territories west of Belarus as belonging to Germany.

Although Germany's demands did not harm the interests of Britain and France, and the Germans also said that they would withdraw from French territory, Britain and France still strongly refused, and the Americans strongly objected, they demanded to ensure a complete Russia, and the United States demanded to ensure the territorial integrity of Russia, absolutely not to protect the Russians, but they did not want Germany to be too strong.

To be honest, Germany is the biggest competitor for American industry. One of the greatest ambitions of the Americans in the interests of World War I was to completely defeat Germany's industrial strength, and after the war, the United States invested heavily in Germany, and at its peak, controlled eighty percent of Germany's industrial production.

As far as Britain is concerned, they will not be able to accept a Germany that dominates Europe, and has acquired a large area of Russian Eastern European territory, especially the agricultural potential of Belarus, which will definitely cause an imbalance on the European continent, and France will not be able to contain Germany, and Russia will probably directly become a vassal state of Germany.

So the British had to be opposed.

France would not be able to agree to it, for such a Germany would be too terrible for them.

Britain, France and the United States also have their own demands, Britain is to continue to maintain the balance of Europe, and at the same time carve up Germany's colonies, and the French paid such a heavy price to defeat Germany to gain hegemony in Europe, so that they can make up for their losses this time, anyway, on the issue of colonies, it must be Britain that divides up the most and the best colonies, and they can't compete at all.

The Americans are trying to maintain the balance of Europe and the security of their foreign debts, so they don't want Britain and France to lose, but they don't want Britain and France to completely destroy Germany, they want Germany to accept defeat and pay a certain amount of reparations, so that the United States can recover the huge foreign debt lent to Britain and France, and at the same time, it will not allow Britain and France to completely control Europe.

Italy, for its part, demanded that Austria-Hungary cede territory along the Ritriya coast, while at the same time acquiring large German colonies in Africa.

It's just that Italy and Austria-Hungary have been fighting on the border for more than three years and launched more than a dozen battles on the Isonzo River, but they can't break through this river, and if they can't contain some Austro-Hungarian troops, Britain and France don't bother to deal with them. The German-Austrian army even invaded Italy for a time, and in the just-concluded Battle of Caporetto, the German-Austrian army attacked the Italian Second Army, which suffered more than 200,000 casualties and surrendered more than 200,000 people.

The German-Austrian army was only about thirty kilometers away from Venice, which made Britain and France feel panic, it didn't matter if Italy could not win Austria-Hungary, but once they failed, Germany and Austria would be able to attack France from the south through Italian territory, and Britain and France couldn't help but fall into a situation where they wanted to protect Italy.

Such Italy is indeed not qualified to ask for this requirement that, it is estimated that Britain and France regret pulling this strange thing into the war, and the game of war is really not suitable for this country to play.

Therefore, not only Germany and Austria disdained Italy's demands, but even Britain and France were embarrassed to support Italy, which made the Italians feel aggrieved, and they also lost hundreds of thousands of people, and also contributed to the war.

However, during the negotiations, due to China's strong demands and the positive response of the United States, the artillery on the European battlefield temporarily subsided, and both sides were willing to cease fighting during the peace talks.

This decision has aroused great popularity in various countries, but can it really end the war?

This can only be nonsense, no one knows better than Yang Chao, because during the truce, the actions of the Germans did not end, they increased the purchase of materials from China, and from the past grain, to aluminum alloys, these aluminum alloys to Germany, will only become airplanes and airships, obviously the Germans have not given up the war.

"But the Germans have a hand in it, and they have resumed agricultural production so quickly."

Although Yang Chao is in Tyumen, his entire business network is still operating as usual, and the Germans ordered 200,000 tons of aluminum alloy for such a business, which naturally had to be reported to him for approval.

"How is that possible? There are not enough people, there is not enough land, and it is impossible for the Germans to produce enough food! ”

Wang Changping is sure.

"Germany's land is not enough, but the land they grabbed from Russia is all good land, and 100 million acres of arable land in Belarus is not much, enough for the Germans to eat."

"Belarus?"

Wang Changping was puzzled.

Yang Chao sighed: "Yes, the arable land conditions in Belarus are nothing compared to Ukraine. But be careful to double Germany's grain production. It seems that the Germans were not idle for a year, they went so far as to restore Belarusian agriculture. Look at Russia, which has Ukraine, why bother to fight around. ”

The famine in Russia was a drama of absurdity, which gave the Germans a reason why the land was a waste in the hands of the Russians.

Wang Changping nodded, even he felt pity for these things that the Russians played, what a good land, people starved to death!

"Fortunately, the Russians themselves made a lot of trouble, otherwise Germany would not have been able to control it."

Yang Chao sighed.

"In that part of Ukraine, there is not only arable land, but also more minerals. The idea of the Germans back then was to hope that Soviet Russia would compensate them with Ukrainian grain and minerals, but unfortunately the Russians themselves were in a big mess, not to mention minerals, and the grain could not be transported. ”

Wang Changping nodded, and suddenly thought that he was here to report the situation: "Today, the Russian army captured Yekaterinburg. (To be continued.) )