Including the number of reparations, in fact, Yang Feng's psychological price for reparations is the one that Germany paid in the original history, more than 100,000 tons of gold is completely fine, anyway, they will definitely not be able to take out more than 10 billion pounds, so they can only find a loan from the People's Bank of China. Borrowing requires all kinds of mortgages, all kinds of additional political conditions, in short, they need everything they wanted when they borrowed from China in history, and then print a bunch of Chinese dollar bills to them, so that they can use this to repay the compensation. Naturally, it will be used to carry out infrastructure construction, scientific research, and the welfare of the common people, and it will be returned to other countries such as Germany and Austria-Hungary, which will definitely be used to rebuild their own country, and use this money to buy all the reconstruction materials needed from China, from machinery to raw materials, and the result is that China's economy will continue to remain unbeatable.

And after the war, everyone wants to return to the gold standard, but what if there is no gold? At this time, Huayuan became the only reserve that could be chosen, although China banned the outflow of gold, but after all, Huayuan was on the gold standard, even if the gold remained in China, then it was also on the gold standard. When all the major countries in the world use the Chinese dollar as a reserve, then we have to sit down and discuss a monetary system with the Chinese dollar as the core, for example, simply replace gold with the Chinese dollar as the currency for international trade settlement. You disagree? Then you play the gold standard yourself, anyway, China will definitely cancel the gold standard, the pile of Chinese dollar banknotes in your treasury no longer represents gold, you can find a place to pan for gold yourself!

Obviously, in this case, unless someone has the ability to drive the army to Beijing City and force Emperor Yang to spit out the gold, he can only agree to a Yang Feng version of Bretton Forest, originally there was a Soviet Union staring at the United States in history, and Emperor Yang had no one here to restrain him, and if he wanted to play a scoundrel, others could only recognize it, once the world currency was controlled by the People's Bank of China. Then it will be very difficult for others to turn over again.

His first target was Italy.

"What? You can't even get 50 million pounds of gold? The guy looked at the Italian negotiators in amazement, and said their Excellency the Foreign Minister.

"Your Majesty, our country's finances have been completely bankrupt, not to mention 50 million pounds of gold and silver, even 5 million can't be taken out, and even if you issue government bonds, it is equally impossible to raise so much, so the first 50 million pounds of indemnity can't be taken out at all." His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs said with a look of shame that in fact he was not lying, and that the Italian government was already bankrupt at this time. Not to mention 50 million pounds, even 50 million Chinese dollars, they can't take it out, and as for the latter, he is not embarrassed to say that the current Italian government is also bankrupt, and the issuance of national bonds must be self-inflicted.

"Then this will not work, the reparations of 500 million pounds is the minimum, and the first batch of 50 million is also the minimum, I don't care what you come up with, whether it is a lira of gold or silver, or gold or silver. Even our Chinese dollar bills, in the first batch, you must come up with fifty million pounds, which if converted into gold would weigh three hundred and sixty tons of gold, or silver at the present price of gold and silver. Emperor Yang said very dissatisfied.

"Your Majesty, can we get a loan from the People's Bank?" The Italian Foreign Minister was very kind to bring it up himself.

"Loans? It's not impossible. As far as I am concerned, I very much hope to help you, but there must be a mortgage for such a thing, and as a private bank, the People's Bank of China will definitely not be able to lend to you. Yang Feng said lightly.

You're still calling it a private bank? How many countries have the right to issue banknotes in your hands! The Italian Foreign Minister sneered in his heart and then said with a smile on his face: "Then what does Your Majesty think we should use as collateral?" ”

"I don't know much about this specific business. You can talk to the manager of the People's Bank of China yourself, in short, as long as the collateral is suitable, then the loan is a very simple matter. Yang Feng said casually.

So what else can you have as collateral? What else did the Italian government have to pledge at this time? It's nothing more than all kinds of taxes. Especially the customs duties, and then the People's Bank of China supervises the Italian customs, when the money is deducted from the tariffs, even the interest, and when the supervision is ended, there are more operational things in this. However, with the economic situation of Italy, I am afraid that their tariffs will not be enough to collateralize, not to mention that they will have to pay another indemnity every year in the future, and there will definitely be new debts to repay old debts, and tariffs alone are certainly not enough, so some other things must be added. For example, giving the People's Bank some economic privileges, these can be operated, and as the country borrows more and more, the country gives more and more economic privileges to the People's Bank, and the country is basically controlled by the People's Bank.

Of course, there must be aircraft carriers of the Chinese Navy behind the PBOC, otherwise it would be a joke.

Italy has no other choice at present, although they must understand this set of things, but if you don't sell your national interests, you can only end up, and if you sell your national interests, you can guarantee your own interests, and it is not difficult to choose at all.

In this way, the Italian government first started loan negotiations with the People's Bank of China before reaching an agreement with the Allied Council on the surrender issue, and the managers under Yang Feng are all veterans of playing this, and it is estimated that they will not stop if they do not squeeze the Italians dry, and there is no need for Emperor Yang to care.

Lagos, the largest port in West Africa, the number one deep-water port, and the last major stronghold of the British Empire on the African continent.

In the city, there were more than 20,000 regular troops and militiamen, and a large amount of ammunition was hoarded, and there was even a fleet of more than a dozen gunboats and torpedo boats in the lagoon, and the main channel was blocked with mines and sunken ships, and in the opinion of the British guarding the city, they could hold out for at least a month. The terrain here is very special, and it is impossible for the landing ship to land in the form of a beach, and its outside is all small sandbanks alluvial by the sea, and even if it lands, it can only look at the criss-crossing waterways and lament.

"It's a good place, it's really easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially for landing operations, but it's a pity that they don't know that there is another thing in this world called an amphibious combat vehicle." Fu Cixiang, commander of the 1st Marine Division, said proudly while holding a telescope and looking at Lagos.

At the hatch of the bow of the landing ship at his feet, buffalo amphibious personnel carriers were slowly driving out, and then paddling from the sea to the surface of the sea directly like boats less than a kilometer wide. These buffaloes and the landing ships transporting them were the reason why the 1st Marine Division had not begun to attack Lagos until now, and they had to wait for these things to arrive in Cape Town, and this batch of 100 buffaloes, which could transport a regiment of soldiers at a time, continued to travel on land from the floating water to the sandbar, and when the waterway blocked them directly re-afloat, it took less than fifteen minutes to send a regiment directly to the beach on the outskirts of Lagos.

The British troops opposite them were stupid, no one thought that the Chinese actually had this kind of thing that could travel on land and float in the water, and this was still a tank, and those British troops lying in the trenches who were bombed by naval guns and carrier-based aircraft were about to collapse, and of course they had to fight if they collapsed. Fortunately, the Chinese soldiers who landed in these landings did not charge, but under the cover of carrier-based aircraft, they looked for hidden places to lie there and shoot at the British army, or it can also be said to ravage the British soldiers, and the second-line troops and militia stationed here are naturally not very well equipped.

The buffalo convoy turned around and returned, and then sent another regiment over, during which all the heavy fire kept bombarding the British line, and by the time the buffalo sent the soldiers of the third regiment to the beach, it was estimated that there were not many British troops left alive on the opposite side, and the three regiments attacked at the same time, and those buffaloes stopped directly on the beach with on-board machine guns to provide fire support for the infantry.

This kind of battle is already very simple, the British army is about to be killed by more than half of them, how can they still have the ability to stop these wolf-like soldiers, not to mention that even if there are still those who can fight, there are carrier-based aircraft hovering overhead, as soon as the machine guns fire here, the radio over there calls for air support, followed by large-caliber bullets or heavy bombs, it depends on the pilot's style, and even large-caliber naval guns can be called when encountering a stronger fortress, Not to mention the 380 main guns of the super battleship, the 152 guns of the light cruiser were enough to ambush the British fortress.

This landing battle can be said to be as easy and simple as a sand table deduction, and the British army had to abandon the beachhead defense and go to the city of Lagos to conduct street battles in the morning, but they were willing to fight in the streets, and those were not willing to bury them with them, and before the 1st Marine Division began to attack the city, the in Lagos first rebelled, and even drove the remnants of less than 10,000 British troops out of it with cold weapons and hot weapons.

Looking at the Chinese soldiers who were waiting for them with machine guns and cannons outside, the British commander led by him sighed helplessly, and then raised the white flag very simply, so that the most important port on the African coast easily fell into the hands of China, and from here to Europe north, the only obstacle left was the French army in Dakar. (To be continued......)