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"15 billion!"

The low, thick wooden houses shelter the cold winds of the West Siberian plains at night, and since there is no electricity and gasoline generators need to carry oil from the interior at an expensive cost, kerosene lamps are still good lighting equipment in Western Siberia. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

Under the light, pinching the forwarded Cairo news, Li Enfu's eyes popped out, he turned the newspaper over and read it a few times, and after confirming that there were no words "pure joke" on it, he breathed a long sigh of relief and sighed with a big tuǐ.

The afterlife is terrifying!

Du Dazhuang, who was standing on tiptoe and pricked up his ears next to him, was adoring, and the usually amiable Prime Minister opened his mouth to slander 15 billion people, and also used grain as a bargaining chip to prepare to empty the factories and machinery throughout Italy.

Are you sure this is our prime minister of China, not a street scoundrel?!

That's 15 billion! It's not the lira yet, it's not the depreciated dollar, but the Chinese "ocean blue" that already has a faint meteorology of the world's first currency!

At present, as long as there is no problem with gold reserves in the gold standard era, the currency is absolutely stable, according to the current calculation of one gram of blue coins per 100 tons of gold, every 100 tons of gold is 100 million blue coins, it took so much effort, a few years ago began to lay out the robbery of the Tsar and the United States gold reserves are only about 5,000 tons, that is, a little more than 5 billion, and now the Prime Minister is 15 billion calculations, that is, 15,000 tons.

Gold!!!

Sell Italy per capitation, and then count the total value of the land, I don't know if it's enough!

Damn, if this is in hand, let alone building aircraft carriers, even if it is to build another seventeen or eighteen heavy aircraft carrier battle groups, it will be a drop in the bucket!

Emperor Li also put his arms on the table, his fingers on his forehead, and his slap blocked most of his face, which he didn't know if he was smiling or helpless. To be honest, when the telegram of this negotiation process came, he was also stupid by this number, and in the case of inflation dozens of times in later generations, 15 billion may be taken out by a certain super cross consortium without a loan, but now...... It's 1917!

Although negotiation is like being a street bargaining vendor, bargaining on the spot, it is .......

Hey, I wonder if Bateman fainted directly?

While lamenting for the unlucky German Prime Minister, Li Mo also secretly praised Tang Shaoyi and Feng Qi's negotiation skills, Germany obviously wants to take Italy, and would rather give up some interests at this time.

"Your Majesty, do you want to remind them that if you go too far and provoke Germany, I am afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. "Li Enfu said solemnly.

Li Mo didn't speak.

In this regard, he is different from Li Enfu, from his point of view, the Pacific Germany is completely hopeless, and the Indian Ocean can still compete for a little interest because of the existence of German East Africa, at least he cannot completely annex Seychelles.

Germany's goal is now obvious, desperately competing for interests in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, especially after Malta is in its own hands, and the only way for Germany to contain it in the Mediterranean is only two, the first is to take Cyprus, and the second is to get a complete Italy.

The former is very difficult, if Germany peeps into Cyprus, not to mention whether the Ottomans will agree, first of all, they will not agree, and the General Staff has also done a plan to quickly take over Cyprus in case of a change, according to that top-secret plan, as long as Germany shows a little bit of this **, the troops stationed in Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula can kill the island of Cyprus the next morning, without giving Germany a chance.

The German High Command is also very clear about this, because Chen Ping telegraphed Wang Shizhen and the German side hinted that it was really because Cyprus was too close to the Sinai Peninsula and the Suez Canal, and the strategic location was too important, so the German High Command also knew that Hua was very close to this place, and would rather hand it back to the Ottomans, and everyone should not take it.

This is not to say that Wilhelm II and the German high command headed by Hindenburg are not courageous, but everyone is an ally after all, and it is still a critical moment, so they are not willing to really tear their faces to fight for interests that may affect the overall situation, which is the same as he is ready to return the Frank Islands to Argentina and lease them back.

He didn't like Wilhelm II, this guy's attitude towards China in later history was not good, and Germany was also one of the positive ones in the Eight-Nation Alliance. As for Wilhelm II, he also did not like Li Mo, which can be seen from his visit to Germany with Chinese ships before the war, when Wilhelm II only arrogantly wanted to obtain battleship technology, and he did not consider anything else at all.

Speaking from the bottom of his heart, he doesn't care whether the future between China and Germany will evolve into the shocking Cold War state of the United States and the Soviet Union in the future, and the differences in culture, ethnicity, belief and market competition have made it difficult for Germany and China to become real allies, and even the relationship between Germany and China is not as good as the North Korean peace that has been adjusted.

And now he has a great advantage in his hands, for this war he has been secretly preparing since the founding of the country, and the accumulation of nearly twenty years has today's outbreak, if it were not for such a big global war, Yihua's family would have gone bankrupt seventeen or eighteen times!

So Li Mo finally shook his head and put the telegram next to him: "Just like that, ......, you will send a telegram to Chen Ping in a while, if Germany doesn't even have the idea of counteroffering, then immediately send troops to Cyprus and pull Italy to our side with grain!" ”

"Don, we can't accept such harsh conditions."

After a few days of urgent discussions with China, Bateman, who almost fainted in the hotel at that time, appeared in the Cairo Hotel and said with a serious expression: "It is impossible for Italy to pay such a large amount of compensation, and even I think it is difficult for Britain to afford it." ”

"Prime Minister Bateman, we might as well open the skylight and say that from the standpoint of our country, it is very doubtful that Italy will be able to help us for the end of the war, and please do not forget that Italy is currently a member of the Entente!

In the Battle of the Ionian Sea, we had 3 destroyers sunk by them, hundreds of more soldiers were killed, and do you think it is necessary to bring into the alliance a country that killed our soldiers and relatives with bayonets on the Western Front in Europe, in a situation of complete defeat?

And most importantly, Italy was in fact unable to continue the war, and you know that, we know that! If they want to join, they will have to provide extremely large assistance, so who will bear the cost? ”

3 destroyers, just a few hundred people, dare to open their mouths for 15 billion! Or blue coins! For the first time in decades, Bateman felt the urge to join in.

But he still suppressed his anger, because Tang Shaoyi's voice and sentence were like a thorn piercing Germany's current big weakness again and again, especially the problem of aid, Germany could not come up with a good solution at this point, because at present, Germany itself still needs China to provide materials and food help.

In more than three years, the unprecedented scale has long exhausted the vitality accumulated in Germany after the Franco-Prussian War, and as Prime Minister Batemann knows very well that even if he wins, even if he gets the war dividends, it will take at least four to five years for Germany to recover slowly.

Even sitting on the opposite side, the Chinese, who monopolized the Tsar and the gold of the United States, are actually exhausted, and the Army that is maintained in the United States alone has exhausted their energy, they seem to be beautiful, but in fact they have reached the limit, which can be seen from their sudden lack of ammunition when bombing the East Coast of the United States.

So he can understand that the other party wants Italy to pay compensation, but this amount is obviously too large!

"500 million!"

Bateman took a deep breath: "This is the great wealth that Italy can come up with at the moment." ”

"Okay, I'm really good at haggling." The translator next to him was dumbfounded, the previous Prime Minister's offer had already made blood spurt, but I didn't expect the German Prime Minister's counteroffer to be powerful!

Where does the translator know, in fact, the German high command meant 100 million more, but later, considering that it should not offend Hua too much, it was added to this number, although this also basically emptied all of Italy's gold and silver reserves.

"After the war, the post-dividends that Italy should receive will go to our country, except for the colonies, and the Italian government must pay us a dividend of 100 million yuan per year for the next twenty years, and all in the current monetary value!"

"It can't be."

Now that Li Enfu has a showdown, Bateman doesn't have to hide it anymore, and bluntly rejected such an offer, saying: "Five hundred million is already all of Italy!" As for the dividends, I think we can consider leaving them to your country, but your country must provide Italy with 500,000 tons of grain and 1 million barrels of crude oil. As for other compensation, it can't be! ”

"Prime Minister Bateman, please forgive me for not agreeing to such conditions, if as the victorious country cannot obtain enough benefits from the defeated country, I don't think there is any need for this war to continue!" Tang Shaoyi sneered, obviously very dissatisfied with this offer, the rotten ship still has three catties of iron, Italy is also one of the world's largest industrial countries in the past few decades, how much benefit has it scavenged from the colonies?

The government has no money? The state has no money? Well, the royal family always has some savings!

Bateman didn't expect Tang Shaoyi to be so difficult, although it is unrealistic not to continue the war at this moment, but if China only needs to delay the aid time a little bit, the German front line will also be lightning and thunder!

"500 million, war dividends, plus 50 million indemnities to be paid to your country every year for the next 15 years!"

"Hehe......." Seeing that Bateman was a little annoyed and angry, Tang Shaoyi suddenly crooked the corners of his mouth, and picked up the teacup lightly: "Come, this is my country's good black tea, I believe you will like it." ”

When Bateman didn't understand what this meant, Tang Shaoyi had already tasted the tea by himself, so he had to pick up the teacup and squint at the other party, seeing that he looked leisurely and didn't seem to care about the bargaining just now, he thought to himself, should he accept it?

Just as Bateman was thinking, Tang Shaoyi slowly put down the teacup and smiled slightly.

"Bateman, I have a suggestion."

"Oh? What is recommended? ”

"Adjourn!"

"Poof......." RO@。