Chapter 191: Paris Peace Talks
The year 1919 was a very important year for all the countries of the world, first of all, the European countries were to hold concrete and formal talks in Paris, and the disposition of the Central Powers would be carried out in this meeting. More than 1,000 envoys arrived from the Paris peace talks, including 70 plenipotentiaries, including Prime Minister Massena, who represented the Czech principality plenipotentiarily.
In fact, it would be more appropriate to change the Paris peace talks to a four-member meeting, because the entire meeting can be decided by almost all the US President Wilson, British Prime Minister Lloyd Georges, French Prime Minister Clemenceau, and Italian Prime Minister Orlando. Of course, it can also be called a three-member meeting, because Italy played a small role in the war, its contribution was almost negative, and its own foundation was thin, and it was left out in the cold by Britain and France. To put it simply, Italy is playing the role of soy sauce, and the real giants are Britain, France and the United States.
This meeting is destined to be delayed for a long time, because the three giants have their own evil intentions and want to take this opportunity to work hard to strengthen themselves.
Needless to say, Britain hopes to continue to maintain maritime hegemony and colonial hegemony, and he also hopes that the continental countries can contain each other with equal strength. France no longer has any extravagant hopes for the sea, and what he wants at this time is the hegemon of the European continent, but this is destined to be something that Britain does not want to see and will do its best to prevent it. Perhaps the United States is the most ambitious of the Big Three, because what he wants is world hegemony, which makes it a rejection of both French and British goals.
The three countries contain each other but support each other, because they all want to unite one side to suppress the other, Britain intends to unite with the United States to suppress the European hegemony that France wants but is worried that this is to lure the wolf into the house, the same thing happened to France, he also wants to unite with the United States but is worried that the United States will not be able to expel it when it lands in Europe in the future. The United States is willing to join forces with either of them, but who will be comfortable alliing with him because each has its own intentions?
Under these circumstances, the talks continued until May, during which the other countries had little right to speak, and finally reached a certain compromise on their respective objectives, and a new contradiction reappeared at the meeting, that is, the matter of war reparations.
"How about you France get 50% and we get 30% in England?" "No, absolutely not! In this war, France lost the most, and we should have 58%. ”
"It's too much, we don't agree."
"Then we don't agree with that either."
The whole meeting was like a vegetable market, and every day the envoys of all the countries of the world could see that the prime ministers and secretaries of state of the three countries were arguing, biting, and pestering like mad dogs, without any image or care, and the word money was almost written on their hideous faces. Of course, such a matter was quickly resolved, and the main thing was that the United States made compromises in it.
The United States first withdrew from the dispute over interests, mainly because it did not lack these riches to restore the domestic economy. France gets 56 per cent, Britain 28 per cent, and the rest is the share of the rest of the world's victims.
Disputes came and went, and the matter of war reparations was almost negotiated, but at this time the territorial contradictions suddenly arose, and France wanted to get the Saarland, an important economic region of Germany.
The Saarland is the most important military-industrial region in Europe, and once France obtains it, it will be able to claim hegemony in the future and gain the status of continental hegemon, which is an outcome that Britain and the United States absolutely do not want to see, because they will refuse to do so. Even when it was intense, Britain and the United States threatened France more than once with withdrawal from the peace talks, and France had no choice but to make compromises.
After numerous disputes and bargaining, the three men finally came to an end: Britain received a territory of 10 million people under the Mandate of the League of Nations, France received 7.5 million people, including Alsace, Lorraine, and Saarland (France was only allowed to occupy Saar for 15 years before returning it to Germany), Japan was given German possessions in the Pacific, and the American principle of "open doors" was adopted, and American goods and capital could enter these areas and implement equal opportunities. Everyone has benefits to share.
After the distribution of the spoils, it was clear that the future territorial division of the European continent would be stifled, and the Soviet government would definitely strangle it, and the blockade of the economy was only the most common method, and in addition they would resist the Soviet government militarily and in alliance with other countries.
The war reparations related to the Czech principality also began to be officially implemented at this time, and the New Russian Empire still did not reap any benefits in the end, after all, he was the younger brother of the Czech principality. At this time, the Beiyang government did not reap any benefits, and the fact that the southern army began to attack the northern warlords was not mentioned for the time being, and there was no doubt that the Beiyang government suffered a big loss in the matter of Japan.
Germany's interests in the Far East were allocated to Japan, which meant that Qingdao was about to be taken over by Japan, and although the Beiyang government was angry, the civil war made them have no time to take care of them. Not to mention the other warlords in the midst of the civil war, even the local warlords in the northeastern region began to be unable to withstand the Japanese offensive.
The world was changing, and a new era was coming, and the Czech principality was trying to pay the war reparations while trying to develop its own economy, because the British and American countries wanted to blockade the economy of the Soviet government, which gave the Czech principality a rare opportunity. Because of the blockade of the Soviet government, the British and American countries not only could not restrain the development of the Czech principality, but also did their best to help the development of the Czech principality. This was the opportunity for the Czech principality, an opportunity to develop itself as a defeated country.
The intelligence service of the Czech principality was greatly developed with the support of Britain and the United States, and a large number of Czech principality spies were able to sneak into the Soviet government and lurk, waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity for the Czech principality to overthrow the Soviet government and rule the Russian Empire.
At this time, the German Nazi Party had been formed, and a new era belonging to Germany was coming. Of course, it was the young man named Hitler who really caught Ernst's attention. Born in 1989, he was only 5 years older than Ernst, and at this time, except for Ernst, no one would have thought that he would start World War II more than ten years later!
Quietly paying attention to him, but Ernst did not mean to disturb his development, if there was no Hitler, then the Czech Duchy would not have a chance to develop, and it was not appropriate to help him develop, because Ernst did not know whether his intervention would affect the final result, and everything was still how safe and how to be better.
In March, in the middle of the Paris peace talks, Italy formed a fighting Italian fascist, which was the beginning, the same as the Nazi Party, and Ernst began to look forward to the future.
A new era is about to begin, and Ernst is leaving behind all the old traditions, the old rules and regulations, the old laws, the old technology, everything that is old.
New railway tracks are being built, and the Prague Cabinet has ordered that everything about railways must be detoured, and that railways must be given the highest priority. At the same time, the roads of the whole country are trying to pass, the national highway must ensure that it can connect every city, and the local road must be connected to any county town.
The new regions of the Czech Principality are divided into four levels: provinces, cities, counties and towns, and villages that originally lived in remote areas must be integrated into small towns, and the newly integrated plantable land must not be less than 500 acres. The mechanization of agriculture in the Czech principality was being strongly promoted with the support of the royal family, and a large number of peasants had to go to the cities to work.
The support of Britain and the United States and the ruined cities after the war gave the Czech principality many opportunities, and the light and heavy industrial goods of the Czech principality sold well in Europe, which made the United States, which was originally snickering at the opening of the European market, very angry.