"This peace meeting is really ugly..."

Looking at the venue that had already become noisy, Yan Guang said somewhat boringly.

"If I knew this was the case, I would have let you and Xu Shichang come..."

Hearing Yan Guang say this, Gu Weijun also smiled bitterly.

"To be honest, I didn't expect the peace meeting to end up like this......... I was looking forward to it..."

Against the backdrop of Yan Guang and Gu Weijun's words, at the venue of the peace conference, the representatives of Britain, the United States, and France were arguing, completely exposing the ugly side of the imperialist countries.

As for where the remaining two countries go? The peace conference began on January 18, 1919, and now more than two months have passed since the peace conference began. And some time ago, Italian Prime Minister Orlando quarreled with US President Wilson over the issue of Fum.

Fum was mostly of Italian origin at the time, and Italy had hoped to acquire the land in order to make it more complete and at the same time to further its economic interests in the Adriatic, but Wilson did not agree to this because it violated the "Fourteen Points of Peace".

Originally, if the United States did not agree, it would be nothing, the problem is that compared with Britain, France and the United States, Italy's role in the entire European war is almost negligible, at most it is to contain hundreds of thousands of German-Austrian troops for Britain and France.

So at the peace conference, Orlando naturally didn't have as much say as Wilson.

And in the case of not being able to get the benefits that he thought of, the end result was that Italy left the field, and the original 12-member committee of six countries became a five-nation committee of 10... These five countries are Britain, France, the United States, and China, and the 10 members of the committee are naturally the heads of state of the five countries and the foreign ministers of their respective countries――――――; in fact, in history, the book should have been withdrawn from the meeting room earlier than Italy, because the country has no interests in Europe, and in history, the country has already obtained the benefits it deserves in the Asia-Pacific region, so there is no need to stay at the peace conference.

But now... In order to contain China, Yueben has become a member who must stay.

As a result, at the peace conference, this delegation became a soy sauce delegation just like the Chinese delegation. Basically, it was to sit on the delegates' seats at the peace conference and watch Britain, France, and the United States quarrel over the affairs of the peace conference.

In any case, he only cared about the benefits he deserved and had already obtained, and was not at all interested in the quarrels between Britain, France, and the United States at the peace conference.

It is precisely for this reason that although there is still a [Committee of Ten] at the Peace Conference, in fact, almost the entire Peace Conference is controlled by Britain, France and the United States, forming a situation dominated by the Big Three―――――― of course, this has a lot to do with the lack of interest in China.

The Big Three are U.S. President Wilson and British Prime Minister David? Lloyd's? Georges and French Prime Minister Clemenceau, the three of them dominated the peace conference. The backgrounds, ideals, and even surnames of the three are all significantly different. Wilson was a university professor and therefore came from a theoretical background, an idealist, but not a nimble and responsive diplomat. Lloyd's? George and Clemenceau are another example, they have been in politics for many years, and both are experts in dealing with international issues, and they are old-fashioned realists in Europe.

Wilson vs. Lloyd? The conflict between Georges and Clemenceau represents the contradiction between idealism and realism, and is also a reflection of the general psychological state of the post-war world, on the one hand, everyone longs for the permanent establishment of world peace, and on the other hand, they are full of revenge for the old evils. Since Britain, France, Italy and other countries had concluded a number of secret treaties before or during the war, it was naturally difficult to achieve the desired effect of the Fourteen Points of Peace. Georges maneuvered between the two, but often came to conclusions that were on the side of France.

Of course, under such circumstances, Britain, France, and the United States have also asked for the opinion of the Chinese government, after all, the Chinese language cannot be completely ignored, not to mention that as a member of the committee of ten, Britain, France and the United States also need the Chinese government to support themselves in this regard.

And when Britain and France threw an olive branch to the company, it was true that there was no suspense about standing on the side of Britain and France―――――― because even Wilson felt that the Xiyuan Temple would not stand on his side, after all, in the past, the relationship between the company and the United States was absolutely not good, not to mention that he was not interested at all in the 14 articles of peace proposed by Wilson, after all, what he had always advocated in the past was to expand his sphere of influence.

Moreover, although all rights and interests in China have been lost, the current version still occupies Taiwan and North Korea, and if we follow the fifth of Wilson's 14 points: equal treatment of colonial peoples and the idea of national self-determination, then this is still not mixed?

You know, now it is said that it can be maintained by Taiwan and North Korea.

Therefore, there is no suspense that I am on the side of Britain and France in this matter.

However, compared with his own choice, Yan Guang's choice was somewhat surprising.

Because when Britain, France and the United States sought China's support respectively, Yan Guang actually stood on the side of Britain and France without hesitation.

This not only surprised Britain and France, but also exceeded the expectations of the Americans.

As we all know, relations between China and Germany were always good before the outbreak of the European War, and after the outbreak of the European War, although China also sent expeditionary forces to the Caucasus, because there was no major conflict with Germany, the relations between the two countries were not bad.

In addition, when the national social and political axe was founded, it had received the help of many Germans, and Germany's interests in China in the past were also quite small in the country, so Germany had considerable influence in both the military and political terms of the national social and political axe.

Even now, there are Germans in the middle and upper echelons of the national political axe who are serving the interests of the national social axe.

Therefore, after the defeat of Germany, the German ambassador Marzan, who still lives in Yanjing, and those Germans who served in the national social political axe, have begun to use their influence to influence the upper echelons of the national social political axe, hoping that they can give some help after the defeat of Germany... After all, China's influence at this time was different from that before the war, and among the 27 victorious countries at the Paris Peace Conference, China's influence was second only to Britain, France, and the United States, and higher than that of Britain, France, and Italy, so if China could intervene, it would definitely bring great help to Germany.

For example... Support Wilson's Peace Fourteen... Here is a brief explanation of Wilson's Fourteen Principles for Peace.

Article 1. No secret diplomacy. Article 2. Freedom of navigation. Article 3. Removing barriers to international trade. Article 4. Limitation of armaments. Article 5. Equal treatment of colonial peoples. Article 6. German troops withdrew from Russian territory. Article 7. Restoration of the Belgian surname of Reading. Article 8. Germany returned Alsace and Lorraine to France. Article 9. Reshaping the Italian borders according to the principle of national surnames. Article 10. National self-determination of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Article 11. National self-determination of the Ottoman Empire. Article 12. The Central Powers withdrew from Romania, Serbia and Montenegro. Article 13. Reinstatement of the Polish surname of reading. Article 14. The League of Nations was formed to maintain world peace.

From these fourteen points, we can see how loose the fourteen points proposed by Wilson are. If these fourteen are followed, the Germans will indeed be able to accept them.

In fact, Wilson himself was awarded the Dynamite Peace Prize in 1919 for his Fourteen Articles.

Of course, Wilson proposed such 14 articles because of the national conditions of the United States at that time.

Around the time of America's entry into the war in April 1917, isolationism was rife in the United States, and there was a general belief that Europe should be disengaged as soon as possible. As the United States benefited from trade in World War I and became the number one economic power, the political axe tended to appease Germany and ensure equal trade opportunities and a smooth recovery of war debts.

Before the end of the war, Wilson proposed the Fourteen Points of Peace, which were more lenient and more acceptable to the German people than in Britain and France.

The American people generally did not want another world war, and President Wilson felt that the excessively harsh terms would cause Germany to take revenge and that war would be inevitable. Therefore, he proposed the establishment of a League of Nations to maintain the international order, that is, the international community would provide guarantees to protect weak countries from aggression by powerful countries. However, the European powers generally believe that this idea is too idealistic and does not conform to the reality of European countries, and that such a policy will lead to excessive involvement of the United States in international affairs.

Wilson realized that his fourteen-point proposal required compromise in order to achieve the goal of building the League of Nations. And he adhered to a policy of "national self-determination", as in the case of Poland, which had just regained its reading power from Germany and Russia after World War I. At the same time, he strongly opposed the establishment of secret treaties, such as secret military alliances, but he agreed to weaken the German [***] power to a lower level.

The friendly relations between China and Germany are no secret to Britain and France or to the United States, and in fact China has never regarded this matter as a secret.

It is precisely because of this that the United States has placed great expectations on China.

After all, with the friendly relations between China and Germany in the past, coupled with the influence that the Germans are wielding in China, it is not impossible for Yan Guang to stand up for Wilson at the peace conference.

In fact, before the peace conference, there were indeed many telegrams in China that reached Yan Guang, and even when Yan Guang was still floating in the Indian Ocean, the telegrams had already been transmitted.

Although those who sent the telegram gave both or that reason in the telegram, there is absolutely no doubt that these people were in fact the result of the German use of influence.

It's a pity... Just when the Germans did their best to use all their influence in China, and the United States also had great expectations for China, but at the Paris Peace Conference later, Yan Guang stood clearly on the side of Britain and France, and did not even hesitate at all.

This undoubtedly made the other four countries fall through the glasses.

After all, given the friendship between China and Germany in the past, it is really hard to imagine that China would not hesitate to make such a decision.

It's just that this may be difficult to imagine to outsiders, but it is a matter of course in Yan Guang's eyes.

Indeed, Yan Guang does have a strong affection for Germany, and Yan Guang also has a good personal relationship with Germans such as Sunil. So in terms of personal feelings, Yan Guang is indeed very willing to help Germany.

But... Although it may not work to help Germany, the problem is that if the treaty that Germany finally accepts is really the same as Wilson's Fourteen Articles of Peace, then it will be difficult to stir up revenge among the Germans.

And if the Germans had not suffered the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles, I am afraid that not only the Nazi Party in later generations, but also the Second World War would not have happened.

If this is the case, then Yan Guang's follow-up plan will all fall through.

This is the first reason why Yan Guang did not help Germany.

As for the second reason... Don't forget, now Yan Guang has not only recovered the Outer Khingan Mountains and Outer Mongolia, but also invaded and occupied most of Central Asia (Central Asia in the narrow sense refers to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, and Central Asia in the broad sense refers to the southern part of Kazakhstan, the Xinjiang Province of China and the northern part of Afghanistan), the southern part of the Volga River, the whole of Mesopotamia and Kuwait and part of the Turkish territory... It should not be forgotten that the provisions on the self-determination of peoples also carry considerable weight in Wilson's 14 articles, and although they do not mention the land occupied by China, there is no doubt that both Iraq and Kuwait once belonged to Turkey.

You know, on the land that China occupies now, at least ten countries were born in later generations... If he stands up for Wilson now, then Yan Guang will be in big trouble in the future.

What's more, although only some countries are mentioned in Wilson's 14 Articles, the meaning of the four words "national self-determination" is to advocate that all ethnic groups in the world, large and small, can decide for themselves the political axe system, the organization of the ruling party, the political environment and the destiny to which they belong. And these decisions must not be made for other countries or other regimes.

The colonial reading trend after World War II also stemmed to a large extent from the four words "national self-determination".

By the way, the historical Tibetan Province, Outer Mongolia and Tangnu Ulianghai also [self-determination], and later Outer Mongolia and Tangnu Ulianghai [succeeded], while Tibetan Province failed, so it can be seen that [national self-determination] is not necessarily a good thing for China, after all, China is a country with 56 ethnic groups.

While it is not a good thing for China in history, it is even more so for China today. After all, Yan Guang's interest now is to lay down a large territory for China.

Therefore, in public and private, in terms of emotion and reason, Yan Guang must stand in opposition to Wilson, or the Germans.

―――――――――― China will side with Britain and France instead of the United States, which is indeed beyond everyone's expectations, especially after the news is transmitted back to China, it has caused quite a reaction.

After all, the relationship between China and Germany in the past was indeed good, and there was no large-scale conflict with China in the entire European war, so it is difficult for the Chinese people to have a great revenge against Germany like Britain and France (France is naturally the whole country hates Germany, but the British are not willing to punish Germany too much, whether it is a balance problem or a Soviet Russian problem, but because the British expeditionary force has lost too much in Europe, the British people also hate Germany, And the end of the European war coincided with the British general election, in order to cater to this psychology of the British people, Lloyd's? George can only do what he likes).

At this time, China, whether it was a political axe or a non-governmental person, was very similar to the United States psychologically.

However, when the people in the country learned from the newspapers that if they had agreed with Wilson's so-called Fourteen at this time, the territories they occupied now might have [troubles] in the future, the attitude of the people in the country quickly changed... Well, that's not surprising.

Although when the great powers carved up the interests in China, the people at home hated these powers so much, when they themselves became the great powers, and they were the ones who were the larger of the great powers, it was difficult for the positions of the people at home not to change.

Of course, it is impossible for the people in the country to blatantly tout the righteousness of the colony, after all, they have also been victims of the righteousness of the colonization in the past... But..."If Britain and France can practice the righteousness, why can't we do it." and "It's because we were so kind in the past that we were bullied." But there is a lot of market in China.

Of course, not everyone supports this argument, and many people believe that since China has been a victim of the Ming Dynasty in the past, it should not be transformed into a new perpetrator after getting rid of the victim status.

It's a pity that the market for this argument is too small.

And only a small group of intellectuals are willing to accept this argument, as for the spectrum of the masses? The spectrum public has little interest in this kind of argument.

Just like at home, everything that happens in Paris is just as unpredictable.

After all, after China also fell to Britain and France, Britain and France had formed an absolute advantage of 4:1 over the United States in the Committee of Ten.

And it was at this time that Wilson actually contracted the Spanish flu, which greatly reduced his physical condition and his energy was no longer as abundant as in the past... And Wilson wasn't the only one who suffered from the Spanish flu, Lloyd's? George and Clemenceau and the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Saionji Gongwang, also suffered from the flu (historically, all three of them were affected, and the one was not contracted because of the early return of the country, but since he has not returned now, let's bring him with him), but the severity is different, and the most serious of them is Wilson.

Of course, it's not that there are no suffering, for example, Yan Guang didn't suffer from it.

And Yan Guang is also the only person in the entire committee of ten who has not suffered from the Spanish flu.

This is not only others, but even Yan Guang himself is surprised. For this reason, Yan Guang even ignored the dissuasion of others, ran to the guard camp responsible for protecting himself, and visited the soldiers in the guard camp who were suffering from Spanish flu.

As a result, the officers and soldiers in the Guards Battalion were moved to death and life, and they swore that they would always be loyal to Yan Guang, and Yan Guang... Still nothing... Yan Guang was also deeply puzzled by this, after all, even Gu Weijun, who was also well-protected in the delegation, had the flu, and there was no reason why he had nothing to do.

For this reason, Yan Guang even thought about whether it would be the role of antibiotics in the previous life, after all, in the previous life, various vaccines were really used a lot. But if you think about it carefully, you didn't bring your body when you came, to paraphrase the saying of your previous life, that is, the soul wears... In the end, Yan Guang could only attribute this matter to the fact that he was immune to all poisons and diseases.

Although the progress of the peace conference was greatly delayed because many of the participants of the peace conference fell ill, Kolchak, who was far away in the Urals, did not wait for the end of the peace conference to launch an attack on the Bolshevik regime in the Volga valley.

After a long period of preparations, Kolchak, who had finally waited for the weather to warm, led the 400,000 White Army, which had been recruited and formed over the past nearly a year, to attack the Volga River Valley.

With a large army, Kolchak's 400,000 White Army soon advanced to the front line of the Volga, and at this time the White Army was not much distance from the southern Volga region controlled by the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

However, at this time, Kolchak did not think of provoking the expeditionary force, after all, he still needs a lot of support from China. Moreover, the expeditionary force garrison in Central Asia could easily destroy Kolchak's foundations in the Urals.

Therefore, even though Kolchak now only faces the area controlled by the expeditionary force in the south of the Volga River, in the end Kolchak still commanded the army to launch an attack on the area controlled by Soviet Russia.

In the face of Kolchak's offensive, the Soviet Russian Red Army in the Volga region resisted quite stubbornly, but under the fierce offensive of 400,000 White troops, the local Soviet Russian Red Army was still losing and retreating, after all, the gap between the Soviet Russian Red Army and Kolchak in terms of strength was too great.

The tense situation at the front forced Trotsky, the founder of the Russian Red Army, to take an armored train to the front line to supervise the battle, and Trotsky rushed to the front line not only brought a large number of reinforcements, but also sent guards to fight many times. Under Trotsky's skillful command, soon the Russian Red Army gained a foothold on the Volga front.

Of course, the secret assistance of the expeditionary force also played a great role, and when the Soviet Russian Red Army was losing and retreating, Jiang Baili, who had already rushed from the Caucasus to Volgograd, had already begun to consider aid to the Soviet Russian Red Army.

However, many of the weapons equipped by the expeditionary forces are only owned by the Wehrmacht in the world, and it is too obvious if these weapons are helped.

Therefore, when Trotsky arrived, Chiang Baili drew more than 1,000 mortars from his troops and gave them to Trotsky. After more than 4 years of war in Europe, mortars are no longer exclusive to the Wehrmacht, especially when the expeditionary force expeditioned to the Caucasus, Tsarist Russia also produced a large number of mortars under the license provided by the national social axe.

Moreover, in terms of caliber and model, the mortars produced by the Russian political axe are no different from the mortars equipped by the Wehrmacht, so after destroying the marks on the mortars, even if more than a thousand mortars are sent to Jiang Baili, there is no need to worry.

In fact, after receiving more than 1,000 mortars from Chiang Baili, although it could not be said to be a tiger with wings, at least it could be regarded as a lot of strength in Trotsky's hands.

After integrating the reinforcements he had brought with the original Red Army on the Volga, and with more than 1,000 mortars given by Jiang Baili, Trotsky soon entered a stalemate with the White Army led by Kolchak in the Volga Valley.

Just when the Russian Red Army and Kolchak's White Army were in a stalemate on the Volga front, the time finally entered April, and Yan Guang, who had never been able to catch the flu, finally waited for the Germans.

In other words, the British, French, and American commission, which had finally agreed to the German delegation's entry into Versailles.

Over the past three months, the five-nation committee of 10 has been at loggerheads and has been the result of "unpleasant compromises" because of the conflicting goals of the negotiations.

However, in any case, because China did not side with the United States, in the end, in the Committee of Ten, Britain and France had an overwhelming 4:1 advantage over the United States. Therefore, the final treaty with Germany became a treaty that met the requirements of Britain and France.

When the final draft was reached, it was already late April, and the day after the draft was reached, German Foreign Minister Ulrich ? Feng? A German delegation led by Count Bruckdorf-Lanzu arrived at Versailles.

When Germany learned of the treaty, anger and humiliation quickly spread within Germany. On 7 May, the German delegation accepted the conditions put forward by the victorious powers, including the division of part of German territory to its neighbors, the division of Germany's overseas colonies by the victorious powers, and the limitation of Germany's ability to wage war again.

However, because Germany was excluded from the negotiations, the German government decided that the above conditions were unfair and protested, and immediately withdrew from the peace conference.

However, there is no doubt that Germany has been defeated, so on June 20 Gustav? After the establishment of the German New Deal of which Bauer was chancellor, the vote held in the German parliament on the 23rd won by 237 votes to 138. Müller signed the peace treaty.

At this point, the Treaty of Versailles on Germany was finally declared to be over.

But German Foreign Minister Hermann? The scene when Mueller signed, Yan Guang couldn't see it.

Because in the former German Foreign Minister Ulrich? Feng? After Count Bruckdorf-Lanzu arrived at Versailles and accepted the terms of the victorious powers, Yan Guang had already left Paris by ship.

After all, Yan Guang can't leave his country for too long after all, not to mention that now a full half a year has passed since Yan Guang left... Therefore, the news about the acceptance of the treaty by the German political axe, Yan Guang actually learned about it on the passenger ship [Fushun].

And when Yan Guang learned that the contract that was the same as the historical [Treaty of Versailles] had been officially signed, Yan Guang understood that the occurrence of World War II could not be terminated... Indeed, after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Britain, France, and the United States had helped Germany or lightened the burden of the treaty in the face of the need to confront the Soviet Union.

But it's like a person stabbing another person, and finally suddenly realizing that he still needs him, so he took a lot of money to send him to the hospital for treatment.

The wounds on the body may heal due to treatment, but will the pain caused by being stabbed heal because of the healing on the **?

Others may not know, but Yan Guang understands that he won't... So, when Yan Guang learned that the contract had been signed, he said the same thing as Foch..."This is not peace, this is only a truce of twenty years."

(To be continued)