"Loans have to be secured, and we give loans to the British because in addition to their tariff guarantees, we have the credibility of the crown of the British crown, and we give loans to North America because they have enough resources, iron ore in Minnesota, coal mines in the Appalachian mountains, oil in Pennsylvania, but what do you have, what do you have to guarantee?

First, you don't have enough resources, and second, you don't have the credibility of the crown, and it's just an elected republic that can be used as a guarantee for nothing more than that tariff revenue, but your tariff guarantee wants to lend 10 billion Chinese dollars, which is a bit ridiculous, and I guess it is impossible for me to see the date when you will repay this loan in my lifetime. ”

Since Emperor Yang decided to help the Spaniards, he naturally started to act immediately, so the manager of the People's Bank said the above words to the French Minister of Finance who came to the door with pride.

You won't be able to see the date when we pay off the compensation in your lifetime, okay?

But he is indeed right, even the French Minister of Finance knows that it is indeed a fantasy job to apply for a loan of 10 billion Chinese dollars, just like the guy in front of him said, what can France guarantee? Britain can get loans because of their friendship with Emperor Yang, the British crown prince and his wife are now visiting Wèn in China, and it is said that Edward VII is no longer ready to do it, because he feels ashamed of the British people in this war, so Crown Prince Victor will inherit the British throne immediately, and his friendship with Yang Feng for nearly twenty years is enough to ensure that he can get any loan he wants.

Needless to say, the relationship between Empress Alexandra and Yang Feng has long been well known, not to mention that Russia also has resources, even if it loses most of its land, the remaining land area of this country still reaches tens of millions of square kilometers, coal, iron ore, and various non-ferrous metals are all over the remaining land of this country. What they have for the Chinese capitalists is value to squeeze.

The same is true in North America, not to mention that the iron ore in Bright Nisota, is enough for them to borrow 10 billion Chinese dollars, not to mention that there are other things, the Appalachian Mountains have good things, and they also have enough value to squeeze.

But what does France have?

Without the iron ore in the Lorraine area, in the future, French steel mills will have to import iron ore from abroad, not to mention other oil or something, what qualifications does France have to apply for loans, and it is still 10 billion Chinese dollars. In the final analysis, at this time, you are just asking others to squeeze, and you have to be qualified.

But without this loan, France really can't survive, the German government has made it very clear that the first indemnity must be paid within a year, otherwise France must repay by ceding land again, and now France is smashing the pot and selling iron and even the railroad tracks are being transported to Germany, not to mention that Germany is not the only one waiting to get the reparation.

"Your Excellency, I hope you can see our friendship in the past. Be lenient in this matter and the French people will always remember your friendship. His Excellency the French Minister of Finance said in a pleading tone.

"Your Excellency, we are friends and more than willing to help you through this difficult time. But the problem is that I am only a manager, the People's Bank is not my property, I am only managing the bank for His Majesty the Emperor, and I have no power or possibility to lend a loan without sufficient security because of my personal feelings. In that case, the chairman of the board of directors will remove me from my post and even send me to prison to deprive me of my title, you probably don't know that the chairman of our People's Bank of China has just been replaced. The manager said with an embarrassed face.

The chairman of the People's Bank of China is held by Yang Feng's concubines in turn, and this year it happens to be the turn of the most feared Ye Guifei.

All right. As soon as he heard this name, the French Minister of Finance knew that there was no hope for this loan, Yang Feng's wives represented his different faces, and the queen represented his nobility, kindness, and benevolence were all the virtues that could be imagined, but Ye Guifei represented his ferocity, as long as this wife was sacrificed, it meant that he was ready to mercilessly slaughter those lambs to be slaughtered, anyway, no matter how outrageous Ye Guifei did, His Majesty the Emperor would not bear to blame her, this is called love or not.

"Hmph, what reputation does a republic have?" At the ball held for the Prince of Wales and his wife in the United Kingdom, Ye Guifei and a group of noble ladies chatted with the princess with a look of disdain.

"Your Royal Highness, what if it's a kingdom?" In fact, Princess Marie, who had been requested by France, asked tentatively, and at this time the French were really cornered.

"The kingdom may want to think about it." Ye Guifei shrugged and said.

Her words quickly reached the ears of the French cabinet ministers and parliamentarians, and by this time some of the parliamentarians had openly proposed the restoration of the monarchy, but their target was not Carlos of the Spanish Bourbons, who could not change the fact that they were Spaniards, and the French were more inclined to find a real Frenchman, of course, their goal was certainly not Victor. Napoleon, this Napoleon V is now in England.

If one more Napoleon ascended to the French throne, it would undoubtedly be a provocation to the feelings of the entire European people, especially for Germany, not to mention that his grandfather had indeed left a deep shadow in the hearts of the French people.

So the target of the French is Philip, the Duke of Orleans, before this guy was kicked out by the French government because of the restoration, and later asked to return to France to participate in the battle, but was rejected by the French government, so he had to continue his travels abroad, and now he has traveled to Sweden, and he will be the king of France, at least not to worry about the feelings of European countries, and also not to worry about the feelings of his own people, in the final analysis, the Orleans family has not offended the European people or the French people, Louis in detail. Equality is still very pitiful.

However, when the French parliament publicly proposed to welcome back the Duke of Orleans and restore the Kingdom of France, it was opposed by the Spanish government, and King Alfonso XIII of Spain publicly claimed that it would not be the turn of the Orleans family according to the order of succession to the throne. They pushed up to the original Philip I was only the son of King Louis XIII of France, and the Spanish royal family pushed up to Philip V as the grandson of Louis XIV, and it was clear who should belong to the throne according to the law of succession. Not to mention the fact that the Orleans family should actually be counted as a traitor to the Bourbons, if not for Louis. Equality, such a rebellious minister and thief and the people are complicit, how could Louis XVI be pushed to the guillotine, and then how could the tragedy of Napoleon's destruction of Europe happen, as for his own guillotine, that he deserved to be unlucky, how could the descendants of such a person be qualified to ascend to the throne of France?

Of course, our Spain is purely for justice and fairness, and definitely not coveting the French throne, as the king of Spain, Alfonso XIII will definitely not be the king of France, but don't forget that we have another Spanish Bourbon family, the Duke of Madrid Carlos is fully qualified to inherit the French throne, if the French government still insists on putting the Duke of Orleans on the throne, then don't blame our Spanish army for an explanation.

Although the Beijing Peace Treaty has been signed, it does not mean that we cannot start another war over the issue of succession.

Immediately after this threat, the Spanish government took substantive action, not only to regroup the troops on the Pyrenees front, which had already begun to retreat, but also to withdraw the most elite units of the Spanish army from the North American theater, including the naval fleet, which also sailed out of the military port and ran outside Toulon.

And the Spaniards also pulled an accomplice, and the Spanish government in exchange for the support of the House of Savoy at the cost of reducing part of the reparations, and the Italian government declared its support for the Spaniards, and if the Spanish government waged war against France on the grounds of succession to the throne, then Italy was willing to help, including military help.

At this time, it was not only Yang Feng and Yuan who saw what the Spaniards thought, but also the Germans saw that William absolutely did not want to see France and Spain merge, his goal was to slowly and gradually annex France in the future, if France and Spain merged, not to mention the strength, even Yang Feng standing behind Spain was enough to make him restrained. So immediately after the German government announced that the throne of France could not be inherited by a Spaniard, and the Kaiser supported the Duke of Orleans as King of France, and if Spain invaded France because of this, then Germany would absolutely not accept.

Europe that had just subsided was in turmoil again, and for a while people were in a trance back to the ancient Middle Ages, poor French people were about to cry at this time, Nima, our own king, we let whoever we like to be, why now we have no right to speak, this is not bullying!

Of course, in fact, everyone is just bragging, except for Spain, which still has a little strength to wheel knives, others, including Germany, are absolutely incapable of starting another war, and the ruins of their own homes have not been cleaned up, it is estimated that William really dares to do this, and those German people dare to get up and kick him aside, and fight? We're not going to follow you anymore, nearly 10 million casualties aren't enough?

In this way, diplomacy is the only solution.

The changes in Europe naturally alarmed the Chinese emperor, and the peace-loving Emperor Yang naturally did not want his friends to fall into war over a trivial matter, so he decided to mediate the dispute over the succession to the French throne.

"You don't need to make a fuss about this little thing, I have a mention here, you might as well think about it." He invited the envoys of the four countries, including France, to the palace and said. (To be continued......)