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The inside and outside of Topkapi Palace are heavily guarded, and the oval-shaped negotiating table in the central hall is crowded.

After being chosen as the site for negotiations at the end of the war, the Ottomans, as the host country, were overjoyed, and Muhammad V did everything he could to entertain the dignitaries who came from afar, and even sent the imperial chef.

Although the cost is not small, every Ottoman knows that the reward for waiting until the meeting is over is a thousand times greater!

Whether it is Germany's 850 billion gold marks plus Africa, and the 28 articles proposed by China cannot complete the division of the world, although the Ottomans cannot open their mouths like these two because of their own strength, as long as they leak a little bit between their fingers, it is enough to support a small country.

Like the Ottomans, North Korea, Bulgaria, Ecuador and other countries all have this mentality, they know that they are not big gainers, and they basically can't intervene in Britain and the United States, but there are also countries such as Greece, Spain, and Portugal, and their compensation will be mainly used for the allies outside the two giants.

As a result, quarrels and blackmail have never stopped for a minute since this hall was opened as a place for negotiations.

As the negotiations entered the substantive phase, the two main disputes began to become clear.

Interior and exterior.

Internally, it refers to the distribution between China and Germany, both sides are not satisfied with the distribution of Gibraltar, South Africa and other regions, because the two countries are the two giants in the alliance, although the Chinese war swept through Britain and the United States after the start of the war, annihilating a large number of Entente forces, but if it were not for Germany dragging too many Entente troops in the European theater, the war may not have come to this day.

For the other countries of the alliance, this is a fight between the gods, and it is very worrying for the leaders of various countries to stand on that side on this issue, but in terms of the total number of people who are on the side of China, there are more Austria-Hungary and Italy, which are recognized as the third and fourth strongest allies, and Austria-Hungary and Italy, which are recognized as the third and fourth strongest allies in the alliance, plus the partiality of Bulgaria and the Ottomans, intentionally or unintentionally, China does not have an advantage in this respect.

But the problem for Germany now is that Huadu is actually occupied. For example, when Germany first proposed whether to distribute the interests of Australia, Zealand and the Pacific Islands equally, China's negotiator and deputy prime minister Yan Fu bluntly refused, and did not even intend to let other countries continue this issue.

Do you have what it takes to send troops to get it back?

Germany is not so stupid to turn the other cheek now, not to mention that the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal, the two main passages where Europe and Asia meet, have been firmly controlled by China, and Egypt and Colombia have been fully reversed to the East, so it can only retreat to the next best place to compete for the key African, European and Atlantic regions.

It's internal, and externally it's simple. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

The offer is too high!

Britain and the United States alone need to pay 850 billion gold marks, and if other countries are counted, the total amount of reparations will reach an unprecedented one trillion! And it is necessary to pay almost the entire colony of Africa, and it is better to continue to fight than to change no one's willingness.

As Wang Shizhen said, Wilhelm II and the German high command were really greedy for the colonies to the point of no return, but the problem was that if China did not support it, then with Germany's current strength, even if the British navy was trapped in Scapa Bay, Germany still had no guarantee that the army would be able to cross the channel to win the Battle of Great Britain.

Therefore, Germany threw out the secret agreement that had been reached with the Sneijder government a long time ago, and sent a fleet to surround the Scarpa Bay anchorage by surprise, just to use it as a stepping stone to let Britain understand that the country had completely failed and Britain was unable to support itself.

"His Majesty Prince Heinrich." In the corner of the conference room, Yan Fu sat side by side with Prince Heinrich, one of the German negotiators, a member of the German royal family who participated in the signing of the Brest Treaty and one of the trusted people of Wilhelm II.

"With all due respect, the possibility of your country's victory in the Battle of Great Britain is only theoretical!" Yan Fu squinted his eyes and didn't give this prince any face, because this is a negotiation, a negotiation that involves hundreds of millions of yuan in reparations and affects the distribution of the post-war world. Pointing to the flaw!

Therefore, Prince Heinrich frowned very much, unwilling to back down: "Maybe, but what we have is time, and maybe we can let the countrymen help." ”

"Really? Are Chinese people really willing to help? Do you really want to continue fighting? ”

"We have no choice, Your Majesty the Deputy Prime Minister, you do not understand Germany, for a country whose access to the sea is locked in the North Sea, we must ensure the country's maritime security! Have to! ”

"Your Majesty, I am very clear about this and understand your decision." Seeing that Heinrich was a little moved, Yan Fu slowed down his voice and said, "But do you think that if you get Gibraltar, you can ensure that the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea will be unblocked in the future?" And do you think that Britain, having lost all its colonies, will be able to repay such a huge debt? Or do you think your country will become your country's allies from now on? Do you want everyone to fight again in ten years, and let the soldiers sacrifice again? ”

A series of questions made Heinrich a little stumbling, but he still fought back and said: "Your Majesty, your country, we must ensure the security of the North Sea, and don't you think that your country is the same with North America?" ”

"That's different." Yan Fu shook his head: "Your Majesty, in order to win over Mexico, your country also promised to return its homeland to the Mexican government after the war, do we have to break our promise now?" If so, how will we deal with our allies in the future? As for Florida, don't you think it's a good opportunity to weaken the United States, to create future conflicts, to give it to those black self-government? ”

"I agree with these, but what do you say about the cession of Alaska and California that your country demands?"

"Alaska we have to get it, it's not negotiable! As for the ...... of California. Yan Fu pretended to think about it, then made a difficult and painful expression and said: "We can promise that the local people will be self-governing and not break away from the United States, but the premise is that Britain will hand over Bermuda to us!" ”

"No, Bermuda is deep into the Atlantic, beyond the scope of the agreement we reached in Cairo!"

"Hehe, Cairo Agreement." Yan Fu just wanted the other party to say this, and said with a smile: "According to the Cairo Agreement, my country will receive 70% of the benefits of North America, and your country will receive 70% of the British interests, but I don't know how many years it will take His Majesty William to obtain those paper riches with the narrow territory of Britain after losing all the colonies?" ”

Inrich immediately knotted, but there was no refutation, because Yan Fu said a lot, even if the United States ceded so much territory, it is still vast, and it will not take many years to regain it, but once Britain loses all its colonies, it will inevitably accelerate its decline, although this is in the interests of Germany, but the problem is that Germany will not be guaranteed to get reparations.

Seriously, if Britain is pushed too quickly, they will definitely fall completely to Li Mo in the future, and the bad thing is that if Britain opens up and allows the Chinese fleet to be stationed on the mainland to fight against the strong Germany, it will be really bad!

After consulting with the country, Yan Fu, who was confident, saw that the other party was speechless, and said bluntly: "Your Majesty, I think we are wasting time, why don't you do this?" Demands that Britain refrain from stationing troops and navy in Scotland and to the north in order to ensure the free passage and undisturbed passage of your vessels, and that we are willing to exchange the Seychelles for Bermuda, and that South Africa and Gibraltar be under the joint administration of our two countries. ”

"Nope."

The absence of troops north of Scotland is indeed what Germany is looking forward to, and Bermuda can also be exchanged for Seychelles, after all, German East Africa lacks good ports, and having a Seychelles at the doorstep is equivalent to having a base in the Indian Ocean.

In fact, whether it is Bermuda or Seychelles, in fact, it can be regarded as an exchange of chess for the two countries to enter each other's sphere of influence, after all, both places are far away from the mainland, and if war breaks out again, the two places will also be encircled, and this is true for Germany, if you can't get Panama and the Suez Canal and bypass South Africa, Seychelles is just a decoration, so it's mostly a political level and a forward base.

But Gibraltar and South Africa are both anointed in this distribution, condominium means that the interests of the two families are half of one person, originally China has been very advantageous after occupying seventy percent of North America, if the condominium of South Africa and Gibraltar is tantamount to robbing more than sixty percent of the total war interests! It would be better to continue to hand over the two places to Britain, so as not to drive Britain to a dead end, and second, Britain's income from the colonies would also flow into Germany's pockets in the form of reparations.

Hearing Heinrich's direct refusal, Yan Fu was also a little annoyed, picked up the teacup and said coldly: "Your Majesty, this is our bottom line, and I suggest that the meeting be adjourned from today until the end of our country's exercises before resuming negotiations." ”

"Drill?!" Numerous black lines were directly drawn from Prince Heinrich's forehead. It's too rampant, it's too arrogant! At this time, it is better to directly say "land grabbing and pressure action" to engage in drills at the cost of life and money? !

Heinrich took a deep breath, a discerning person knew what this exercise meant as soon as he heard it, he was very annoyed by Limer's shameless move, but Germany couldn't come up with a little countermeasure, to be honest, since learning about the Liverpool tragedy, both Wilhelm II and the German high command have been much more cautious in dealing with China and Limer, and in the current situation where the other side has absolute air superiority, this means that they can create more similar tragedies in Europe!

Just when Prince Heinrich and the German High Command thought that China would send a few warships and planes as an example, a global sea and air exercise codenamed "Enduring Force" was officially launched.

The one who personally led the fleet to sneak attack the combined fleet that had just won the First Sino-Japanese War, especially after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and was successively clashed with Britain and the United States, and was named "war madness" and "Far East arsonist" The emperor finally let the world see his madness!

On 18 August, after learning that the German Navy's High Seas Fleet was trying to approach the east coast of the United States before the negotiations were concluded, the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire launched its first global naval and air exercise, codenamed "Enduring Force," in order to "ensure that the interests of the empire are not violated" and to exert pressure on the Entente countries that were reluctant to settle in the negotiations.

First of all, the two West Qin-class aircraft carrier battle groups that were wounded in the naval battle of Bermuda and returned to China for repair and recuperation were suddenly ordered to set off from Ryukyu and Gapo respectively, leading the latter two Taiwan-class battleships to the Indian Ocean and cross the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean.

Next, the two Xiqin-class heavy aircraft carriers that had just been commissioned and named after the small states of the Warring States period, "Song State" and "Lu State", and the last three Xi'an-class large cruisers in service, were also ordered to set off from Zhoushan for Panama and prepare to enter the Atlantic Ocean from there.

For a time, 12 aircraft carriers, 20 battleships, 40 cruisers, and hundreds of destroyers and supply ships formed two major arrows, and they struck the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean respectively.

According to later statistics, during the month-long exercise, China mobilized a total of 278 ships, 4,500 sorties of various aircraft, and a total of 370,000 troops participating in the exercise, which was enough for the troops to fight a small-scale war!

By August 30, this madness was at its peak.

On that day, 125 Raytheon bombers and 110 Kunpeng bombers took off from the Sinai Peninsula Air Base, first passed over Cyprus and then arrived in Ishtampur on the pretext of adapting to Xìn training, and after being inspected by delegations from various countries that were negotiating there, they were stationed in Malta, and set off the next day, bringing together 200 naval escort fighters and attack planes, passing through Italy and Corsica to the south of the country, and returning after a circle over Spain.

The sheer fleet stunned everyone who saw it!

As a result of this exercise, the negotiations that resumed on September 1 began to accelerate, and also made world leaders realize that the gap between themselves and China in the navy and air force has not narrowed because of the acceleration of technological innovation, but has become wider...... RO@。