After renunciating the nationality of the Republic of China, the Paris Peace Conference actually had nothing to do with Qin Zhiyuan.

Lan Fang was not a participating country, and the distribution of spoils after the war naturally did not have anything to do with Lan Fang, but at the same time, the Foreign Legion made a significant contribution in World War I, so how to compensate the Foreign Legion became an unavoidable problem for the Entente.

It is impossible to make up for it economically, and both Britain and France themselves owe the Americans a bad debt and really can't afford it.

Then only other compensation can be given.

The machine in the German factory is a good choice.

In fact, during this time, there were also constant disputes within the Entente countries, and the British first demanded that the Germans take out 2 billion pounds as war reparations, which was exactly ten times that of the Germans who had blackmailed the French.

But just one day later, that figure was £10 billion.

This is far beyond the ability of the Germans to pay, not to mention 10 billion pounds, even if it is 2 billion pounds, the Germans will not be able to make up half of it even if they smash the pot and sell iron.

So the Americans with deep pockets reappeared, willing to lend to the Germans and make the Germans pay reparations.

The American gang of money strings are very shrewd, even if they give money to the Germans, the Germans will take it out to pay reparations, and then the money will be used by Britain and France to pay off the foreign debt owed to the Americans during the war.

Look, the United States just moved its mouth, the money went around in circles, and finally it went back into the pockets of the Americans, but with more interest that the Germans had to pay, and the benefits that the Germans promised to pay when they took out loans.

If this development continues, the debts of Britain and France will certainly be transferred to the Germans, and the United States, in order to ensure that Germany is able to repay the loans, will inevitably support Germany and strengthen the economic strength of the Germans.

It looks like a dead knot.

In this cycle, the British and French received nothing, they did get the reparations from the Germans, but changed hands and gave them to the Americans. And Germany, although in debt, has a chance to rise again.

The only ones who benefited were the Americans, who made a lot of money in the course of the war of the century, and who reaped a lot of benefits by joining at the right time at the end of the war, and still had benefits to be gained after the war.

The British and the French understood this, especially the French, who had the greatest losses in the war, so the French did not want to give the Germans any chance.

Clemenceau proposed to dismember Germany at the first meeting held by Britain, France and the United States, and then after strong opposition from Britain and the United States, Clemenceau proposed a package, which included the return of Germany to Alsace and Lorraine to France, and the occupation of the Saar region by Germany for 15 years, after which the ownership issue was determined by a referendum, and Germany must cede part of its territory to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Poland and other countries, while the allies occupied the West Bank of the Rhine for 15 years, and so on.

As for the reparations, Clemenceau did not say how much the Germans were supposed to pay, nor how they were paid.

Clemenceau was adamantly opposed to the Germans borrowing from the Americans, and Clemenceau hoped that the Germans would never be able to pay reparations, so that France would be able to occupy the Rhine forever.

For the time being, Lloyd George and Wilson did not come up with a more feasible plan, so Clemenceau's conditions were discussed as the basic conditions, and the only thing worth discussing was the time, whether it would be 15 years, 10 years, or 20 years.

No matter how you look at it, these conditions have nothing to do with Lan Fang, Lan Fang will not get even a single mark from Germany, and Lan Fang will not get even an inch of Germany's territory.

As for the island of Papua and the colony of the Solomon Islands, which once belonged to Germany, although they are now owned by Lan Fang, they were bought by Lan Fang with money, and they were bought from Australians, and they have nothing to do with the distribution of spoils.

So the Entente acquiesced in Lan Fang's large-scale "demolition" in Germany, anyway, the money Lan Fang paid was still returned to the Entente in the end, no matter how much Lan Fang would pay, it was much better than selling it to the Japanese as scrap iron and scrap steel.

Just when the Lanfang delegation was "looting" in Germany, the Entente set off a wave of calls for the Kaiser to be hanged,

This is not the first time.

As early as the end of the war, the sailors of the port of Kiel launched an uprising, and the immediate cause of the soldiers in the port of Kiel was that they were going to be sent to the battlefield to die, and the sailors for the first time raised the slogan "Whoever starts the war will die".

Then there was the workers' uprising in Berlin.

Immediately after the Armistice was signed, the workers in Berlin staged an uprising, which was a hasty move, and the workers marched to celebrate the end of the war, and then somehow it turned into an uprising.

The workers demanded the transformation of Germany into a Soviet state on a par with Russia, and directly raised the slogan "Hang the Kaiser".

This crossed not only the bottom line of the Junker aristocracy, which controlled the German regime, but also the bottom line of the Entente.

The fact that the Entente hated Germany did not mean that they wanted Germany to become a Soviet state, and that was another nasty extreme. The Germans at the front were allowed to return to Berlin to suppress the workers' uprising, which was intensifying, and the French released 400,000 German prisoners of war to suppress the workers.

After the fall of the Russian Empire, France lost a traditional ally, and the French hated the Soviets to the extreme, even more than the downtrodden Germany.

Thanks to the efforts of all parties, the workers' movement was quickly extinguished, but calls for the Kaiser's abdication grew louder.

The call for the "hanging of the Kaiser" at the end of January came from the impassioned Britain.

Britain offered the Germans to pay 10 billion pounds in reparations, and even gave rise to a very widespread slogan, "Search their pockets", in which "they" refer to the Germans.

The British also knew that the Germans could not afford to pay so many war reparations, so Kaiser Wilhelm II became a punching bag.

At this point, whether he was hanged or not, the abdication of Wilhelm II had become settled.

On January 25, Kaiser Wilhelm II announced his abdication, and Crown Prince Wilhelm ascended the throne on the same day, becoming "Wilhelm III".

Crown Prince William ...... No, on the day of Wilhelm III's accession to the throne, quite a few things happened in Berlin.

On this day, it was proposed that Germany should end its empire and establish a republic recognized by the Entente in order to facilitate its participation in the Paris Peace Conference.

This proposal aroused the interest of many people, who were not disgusted with the German royal family, nor were they against Wilhelm III, but wanted to try a different form of government.

The military did not take a stand in this process, and from the moment the Armistice Agreement was signed, the military was forgotten in a corner, and no one consulted them on anything.

The 400,000 prisoners of war released by France played a key role, and William III was the backbone of the 400,000 prisoners of war, who suppressed all revolts by force.

At dawn on the 26th, the three members of Congress who were most active in calling for the establishment of a republic, one was shot dead in front of his house, a fire broke out in the house of one and the whole family was killed, and the last man was found dead in the street, with an axe cut into the back of his head.

As a result, before the proposal of the republic could be voted on, it was violently nipped in the bud.

On the 26th, William III sent a note to Clemenceau, saying that he would send a delegation headed by Prince Marx to France in early February to participate in the Paris Peace Conference.

Clemenceau agreed to this proposal.

It also marked the recognition of Germany represented by William III by Clemenceau and the French government.

The next thing is logical, and the most intuitive manifestation is that the work progress of the Lanfang delegation has suddenly accelerated.

At the end of January, the first ships loaded with machines left Germany for the Far East, where the volume of transport increased considerably due to the use of containers, with more than 15,000 machines on four ships, equivalent to two Krupp plants.

In Corsica, a fleet of six destroyers is waiting, and those warships now belong to Lan Fang, and they will become the team of Lan Fang's navy.

At the same time, the withdrawal of the Foreign Legion began, and the first batch of 14,000 soldiers would be withdrawn to Lan Fong within ten days. The reason why it took so long was because it was the artillery led by Zheng Dali and Cheng Feiming, who would withdraw to Lanfang with this equipment, with a total of nearly 500 large-caliber guns.

These cannons do not need to be paid extra by Qin Zhiyuan, this is a small gift from the French government to Lan Fang, used to express the friendship of the French government to Lan Fang.

The reason why it is said to be a small gift is because France and Lanfang have a bigger move.

On February 1, 1919, Lanfang and France signed the first alliance treaty, under which Lanfang and France would support each other's interests in the world, whether military, economic, or territorial, and the other side must provide unconditional support as long as one party's interests are violated.

And this day, if you look at it according to the Chinese calendar, is the first day of the new year.

The reason why it is the first covenant is because Lanfang will definitely sign alliances with other countries in the future, such as Germany, on the second day of Kaiser Wilhelm III's accession to the throne, Wilhelm III put forward a request to conclude an alliance with Lanfang.

Considering the reaction of the French side, Qin Zhiyuan did not agree at the first time.

From Qin Zhiyuan's own point of view, he was more inclined to conclude an alliance with Germany, although in the original history of the monks, Germany launched World War II and was defeated again.

But the current Germany is no longer the Germany of history, and it remains to be seen whether the mustache will appear, and Germany under Wilhelm III will not necessarily repeat the mistakes of the past.

In fact, if all objective factors are put aside, is it really evil for Germany to launch World War I and World War II? Did the Entente really uphold justice and justice?

In Qin Zhiyuan's view, this is really not necessarily.

History is written by the victors, and it is only because the Entente or the Allies have won the war that the Germans have become evil Germans, and what if the Germans have won?

Putting that aside, the Germans contributed to the rise of nationalism in World War I and the disintegration of the colonial system dominated by Britain and France in World War II.

Of course, this explanation is limited to Germany, but in the case of Japan, that's another story.

Qin Zhiyuan did not pay too much attention to the Paris Peace Conference of the Entente and the turmoil before and after the accession of William III, which had nothing to do with Qin Zhiyuan.

On February 1st, after Qin Zhiyuan presided over the signing ceremony with France, he returned to the Black Swan Castle and prepared to come to the first Spring Festival in this world.

(To be continued.) )