In early August, after four months of bargaining, the "Five-Power Naval Pact" was finally signed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Through this treaty, Britain and the United States once again maintained their status as traditional powers, and they would have a total tonnage of 500,000 tons of naval capital ships, and Lan Fang, after giving up the alliance with France, got a total tonnage of 300,000 tons, and France and Italy each had 170,000 tons.

In terms of aircraft carriers, the total tonnage of Britain and the United States is 150,000 tons, the total tonnage of Lanfang is 130,000 tons, and France and Italy have 80,000 tons each.

The only thing that did not reach a consensus was the submarine.

The British hated submarines so much that the French, knowing that they could not compete with the British on surface ships, focused on submarines. The British insisted that the French, who already had an army of 800,000, should not have a large submarine force, and the French insisted on building a large number of submarines to deal with the threat of the British naval fleet.

At the height of the negotiations, the British and French representatives were almost to the point of a duel.

At this time, the French tasted the bitter fruit of losing Lan Fang as an ally, and the Lan Fang people turned a cold eye to the dispute between Britain and France and did not express any opinion.

On the last day of the conference, Lan Fang announced that it would dismantle the aircraft carriers "Taishan" and "Huangshan" that were commissioned during the World War, and proposed a plan to build six aircraft carriers in one breath, all six of which will start construction at Lan Fang's shipyard, and the Marseille shipyard did not receive an order.

For the Marseille shipyard, there is more than one bad news, after France announced that it would abandon its alliance with Lanfang, Lanfang terminated the order for the second "Legion-class" battleship that was originally scheduled to start laying keels in October, which made the Marseille shipyard, which had vacated the dock and waited for the injection of funds, directly dumbfounded.

After the World War, the French government began to reduce the army, and the Marseille shipyard could not get any orders from the French Admiralty, and it was all dependent on the orders from Lanfang, and Lanfang's "termination" behavior directly put the Marseille shipyard in trouble.

It's no wonder that Lan Fang, it was the French who tore up the agreement first, so don't blame Lan Fang for not being moral.

It is not only the Marseille shipyard that is in trouble, but also in France, there are still many projects directly invested by Lanfang, most of which are privately funded by Qin Zhiyuan, some of which have been in progress for a year or two and are about to be completed. Some have just been approved and have not yet entered the construction stage.

After France tore up the alliance agreement with Lanfang, Lanfang's response was very fast, almost overnight, all Lanfang's investments in France were suspended, and Lanfang's supply of funds was stopped.

The Paris consortium took over some of these projects, and many more were not taken care of at all, and those projects were basically basic projects, and the return on investment cycle took decades, and the businessmen of the consortium did not have the patience to do so.

The termination of the contract will of course bring losses to Qin Zhiyuan, but it is only monetary, and the losses to the French are even greater. These projects employ French workers, and almost overnight, France has gained more than 100,000 unemployed workers, bringing the total number of people affected to nearly a million.

At this point, many French people understood what Lan Fang brought them.

Before the aid promised by the Americans arrived, the Lanfang people had already begun to withdraw, and the French economy, which was struggling to survive the economic downturn, was once again in dire straits.

The unemployed French workers had nothing to say about the behavior of the Lanfang people, as reported by the Daily News, when the capitalists of the Paris consortium saw the input-output ratio of those infrastructure projects, the words of those capitalists were profound: "Only a madman would make such an investment, this is not an investment at all, this is burning money!" ”

Before, Qin Zhiyuan was the "madman" in the mouth of the businessmen, and after that, no one would ever do such a "stupid thing" again.

The workers, suffering from hunger, could only burn their anger at the French government, at the already notorious traitor, and the cries for Millerand's resignation were louder and louder, and the voices for a renewed alliance with Lanfang were heard.

However, this is useless, the French ambassador to Lanfang, Scott James, asked to see Qin Zhiyuan several times a day, and even set up a tent at the gate of Lanfang Palace, but the reply was always cold "His Majesty the King is not available".

Alexandre Millerand finally felt the pressure, he summoned the ambassador to France several times, and the results were equally disappointing, the previous ambassador was transferred due to a work error, the new ambassador has not yet arrived in France, and when the new ambassador arrives in France, the ambassador will visit the president as soon as possible.

The first time?

I'm afraid that the presidential palace has already changed owners by then.

Just as French society began to be in turmoil, in mid-September, the Americans finally belatedly arrived, and in order to appease the desperate workers, the Americans pinched their noses and took over the infrastructure that had come to a standstill, and the loans to France were paid as scheduled.

Alexandre Millerand was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, openly declaring in the newspapers that "France has entered a new era".

It is true that we have entered a new era, but the effect of this new era still needs to be verified by time.

During this period, Qin Zhiyuan's pressure was not small, and a large part of it came from Sandy and Foch.

Sandy and Foch are both French living in Lanfang, although they are related to Qin Zhiyuan, but in terms of right and wrong, Sandy and Foch are still on the side of France, and Sandy and Foch do not approve of Lanfang's behavior.

But these two people Qin Zhiyuan couldn't afford to offend no matter what, so in the face of Sandy and Foch, Qin Zhiyuan was not as strong as he always was.

"On this issue, I have also thought carefully, I can choose some gentle means, and I can also make ordinary French people retain a good impression of Lan Fang, but for the sake of the future of France and Lan Fang, I have to do this." Qin Zhiyuan has always been patient in the face of Sandy and Foch.

"The future? If you do this, you are destroying the good impression of Lanfang in the hearts of ordinary Frenchmen, and once this impression is destroyed, what future can Lanfang and France have? "Sandy is a scientist and not very well versed in politics.

Foch didn't speak, compared to Sandy, Foch has more understanding of such countermeasures, and Foch is still waiting for Qin Zhiyuan's explanation.

"First of all, you must understand that what Lan Fang wants to establish is not a safe and harmless image, Lan Fang's purpose is that people do not offend me, I will not offend, if people offend me, I will offend people, or to repay grievances directly, to repay virtue with virtue, the current status quo is that if Lan Fang does not do something, then those ordinary people who are now in a predicament do not realize Lan Fang's value to France at all, they simply cannot understand what kind of sacrifice Lan Fang made in order to maintain relations with France, maybe they understand, But they take this kind of sacrifice for granted, which is absolutely unacceptable to me and the people of Lanfang. Facing his mother-in-law, Qin Zhiyuan had to explain patiently.

"If France were to face war again, what position would Lan Fang choose?" Foch was more concerned about the war, and as for the lives and deaths of ordinary people, to be honest, Foch didn't care much about it.

Foch is a marshal, and in the battles that Foch once commanded, there were more than 100,000 soldiers who died, so Foch can accept the difficulties of the people for a period of time, and Foch considers the relationship at the national level.

"If Lan Fang and France still have a chance to repair relations in the future, then I can promise that Lan Fang will not hesitate when France faces war, but if the relationship is not repaired, then I can only put the national interest first. Of course, that doesn't mean that Lan Fang won't help France, it's just that France needs to pay a greater price. "Qin Zhiyuan doesn't lie, and it's not easy to fool Fuxu with lies.

Foch people are indeed old, but Foch's heart is not confused.

"And what about Germany? If war breaks out again between France and Germany, which side will you be on? Foch was in hot pursuit, and the problem went straight to the core.

For the soldiers of Foch's generation, the Germans were eternal enemies, all military facilities in France were established against Germany, and Qin Zhiyuan and Wilhelm III's personal relationship made Foch have to worry about the future.

"On the side that is most favorable to Lanfang, believe me, it is unlikely that Germany and France will break out into war again, I will not sit idly by and watch the tragedy repeat itself, William is not a madman, as long as the leaders of France remain sober, the war will not break out between France and Germany." Facing his father-in-law-uh, it's another father-in-law, Qin Zhiyuan also has enough patience.

Qin Zhiyuan does not deny that there will be war, but Qin Zhiyuan will not let himself be in a dilemma.

"You made an alliance with the Germans?" Foch was vigilant.

"No, I won't do that, that would be a huge disservice to you, although I have a good relationship with William, but obviously, we have a better relationship." At a critical time, Qin Zhiyuan's ass can still do it right.

"And what about the workers? What about those workers? They still have to support their families, there are children waiting to be fed, and there are elderly people to support, don't they deserve to be pitied? "Sandy hasn't turned the corner yet.

"They are indeed pitiful, but they are to blame, you should know that a month ago, when France announced the dissolution of the alliance with Lan Fang, it was they who were cheering and ready to accept the help of the Americans wholeheartedly, Lan Fang's friendship is not worth nostalgia in their eyes, since they took the initiative to abandon Lan Fang's friendship, then they should be ready to accept the consequences, Lan Fang people are not philanthropists, Lan Fang does not want to be loved, I would rather be feared!" Qin Zhiyuan has a resolute attitude and is absolutely uncompromising.

(To be continued.) )