The Royal Army, which has more than 2.3 million personnel in the Ocean Empire, will be reduced by two-thirds in two years, and only more than 800,000 standing troops will be retained in peacetime.

The Royal Navy will also be reduced from the current 710,000 to more than 550,000, which is roughly the same as the number of the British Royal Navy, similar in size, and the technical level of capital ships has its own strengths.

The Empire has cancelled a large number of subsequent ship construction orders, and of the six Duke-class battleships that are the main force of the Royal Navy, two are in service, one is launched, and three are in different construction schedules, which will continue to be completed.

And two additional orders for the "Duke" class battleships were cancelled, including a new ship that had already cut the keel steel plates, and the construction work was not continued.

In terms of post-war economic transformation, the Ocean Empire was far ahead of other countries, and millions of jobs in the military industry were smoothly transitioned by immigration restrictions and large-scale infrastructure.

Thousands of discontinued military-industrial enterprises have turned swords into ploughshares, agricultural machinery and implements have been replaced by artillery production, chemical fertilizers have been replaced by explosives, tractors have been replaced by tanks, civilian trucks have been replaced by military vehicles, and motors have been replaced by rifle productions.

Most of the surplus production was jointly carried out by the Imperial and the Royal Fund to carry out large-scale strategic storage, which achieved very good results, allowing many military factories to travel lightly and quickly switch to production, avoiding the fate of bankruptcy and liquidation.

Early 19 years

The Paris Peace Conference, which divided the interests of the postwar period, brought together diplomatic representatives from all over the world, especially the four giants of the Entente bloc, Britain, France, and Italy, and began negotiations to shape the postwar world pattern.

The negotiating delegation headed by Marshal Li Shunzhu and Tang Zhaoyi, the special representative of the empire, was stationed in Paris a few days ago to participate in the preparatory work for the Paris Peace Conference and various private talks.

At this stage, the main thing is that the major powers find out from each other, and all kinds of rumors about sky-high prices are flying all over the sky.

Recently, a delegation led by Marshal Zhang Daoru, Minister of the Admiralty, arrived in London to begin negotiations on the "Arms Limitation of the Naval Armaments of the Six Nations."

The navies of these six countries were Britain, Ocean, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States, and there was no Germany, no divided Austria and Hungary, and no divided Ottoman Empire.

According to the consensus reached by the heads of state of Britain, France, and the United States, the defeated countries were only allowed to maintain a minimum of army security forces, and their naval forces were not to be mentioned, and they were strictly restricted.

After the end of the world war

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was rapidly divided into 10 countries, including Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Montenegro, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Slovenia, the Republic of Macedonia, and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

And the territory of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire is even more chaotic, it can really be described as a group of demons dancing.

The British Expeditionary Force was the first to occupy Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and imposed military control on it.

Then countries began to fight for territory, the Oceanic Empire occupied Libya, Britain occupied Syria, Jordan, the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq,

However, this did not satisfy the good appetite of the British.

After occupying the above-mentioned areas, the British troops began to advance towards the Black Sea region in an attempt to seize control of the straits.

They wanted to expand their ambitions in the Caucasus by connecting their influence from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, and in addition to this, the British wanted to extend their influence into the Democratic Republic of Armenia.

Coincidentally, the new government of Tsarist Russia was also very interested in the region, and sent a large number of personnel to infiltrate Armenia and expand the influence of the Russian workers' regime.

The Kingdom of Greece, in order to realize its great ideal of establishing a great Greek kingdom, put forward territorial claims to Istanbul and its surroundings, and those who have a great appetite are not afraid to die.

This was supported by British Prime Minister George, who, in Li Fushou's view, was purely lip service, a kind of high-level flirtation.

The Italians wanted to implement the Saint-Jean-de-Molenne Agreement, take control of southern Anatolia, and cut a piece of fat off the Ottoman Empire.

France, for its part, quickly occupied Hatay, Lebanon, and Syria, and hoped to exercise the powers of the Sykes-Picot Agreement to take over parts of southeastern Anatolia.

The Franco-Armenian Agreement signed by France recognized Armenia's sovereignty in the Mediterranean region in exchange for the creation of the Armenian legal ** group and the expansion of its own power.

On December 21, 1918, the Armenian French regiment landed in Adana and wantonly invaded the surrounding territories.

In short, the territory of the Ottoman Empire, which has now collapsed, is characterized by fragmentation.

The war has just ended

The Ocean Empire and Britain took the lead in grabbing territory, and the victorious powers such as France, Italy, Greece, and Armenia also continued to send troops to the Ottoman Empire in an attempt to gain more territory from the defeated Ottoman Empire.

In these years, the hands are fast and the hands are slow, and the movements are slow, and they can't even eat hot, no matter what, they will occupy it first.

In Russia, an intervention force of 230,000 people from 17 countries invaded the army in support of the local white bandits against the Russian workers' New Deal army, igniting the flames of war in Eastern Europe and Central Siberia.

Among them

Fuso was the most diligent, and by the beginning of 19 years, a total of more than 70,000 troops were dispatched, ranking first, and using Vladivostok in the Far East as a base, attacking and advancing along the Trans-Siberian Railway from east to west, burning the war to Central Siberia.

In second place were the more than 50,000 members of the Czech Legion, who were originally Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war, but after being equipped by the Entente, they grew into the main force of foreign intervention forces.

In third place was the United Kingdom, with more than 40,000 troops.

For London, the most important task of the time was to contain the workers' power of the new Tsarist government, even if it was to invest heavily in it, to prevent the spread of the workers' movement in Europe.

In fourth place is the Ocean Empire, with a total of 28,000 troops, which sent a brigade in Murmansk, basically guarding the city and not initiating an attack.

And to invest a division in the Far East, mainly based in Vladivostok, to control several surrounding cities in the Far East, and not to participate in the crackdown on the new workers' government, is purely fishing.

In fifth place was France, with 12,000 troops, and as a traditional world power, how could there be no France in this kind of collective robbery?

Other countries have not sent tens of thousands of troops, more than a few thousand, less a few hundred, and the meaning of making up the number is even stronger.

A **foreign** team rushed into the territory of Soviet Russia. From Murmansk in the north to the Black Sea coast in the south, from the Baltic region in the west to Siberia in the east, the figure of the foreign ** team seems to be everywhere, and the White Guards are fighting on all fronts with the Soviet Russian army with their support, and the war spreads everywhere.

In Li Fushou's opinion

At the end of May, the Czechoslovak Legion, composed of 50,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war, rebelled on its way back via Siberia and occupied the Middle Volga, the Urals, Siberia and the Far East, and tore the Russian hinterland to the ground.

Cossack White Guards in Krasnov, Don Region, North Caucasus. Denikin's "Volunteer Army" rebelled one after another, formed a rebel government, and began to expand the rebel forces.

In the middle of the year, due to the new Tsarist government's monopoly on grain, the local party members took the opportunity to support the rebellion and set up an anti-worker regime, and the situation was chaotic, and by the beginning of 19, the new Tsarist Russian government lost three-quarters of its territory and fell into the danger of being attacked on all sides.

In this unprecedented and tragic civil war in Tsarist Russia, the harsh battlefield conditions and the constant famine caused more than 10 million deaths, which caused a heavy blow to Russia's strength.

They are already miserable enough, and Li Fushou doesn't need to intervene again.

Therefore, the two Grand Duchesses, Tatiana and Maria, who had been stranded in Vladivostok, turned a deaf ear to the request of the Empire for the restoration of the country.

In Li Fushou's view;

These two women have no ability, thinking that they can unite people's hearts by relying on the noble blood of the Romanov dynasty, which is simply wishful thinking.

Say something nasty

Even if Nicholas II were to be resurrected, the leaders of the White Army, who were now revolting throughout the country, and the numerous local governments, would not heed his orders.

These warlords of Tsarist Russia have different interests, no one wants to be subordinate to others, and their demands are different, even the gods cannot satisfy them, let alone unite them into a fighting army, which is pure fantasy.

At the time of the collapse of the Russian Empire, tens of millions of troops had not been able to prevent great social change.

With the negligible influence of the two female archdukes, they wanted to turn the tables against the strong workers' government of integrated Russia, and the odds of victory were not even 1 in 10,000.

The gang of people in the Russian Far East Governor's Office, who instigated the two female archdukes to restore the glory of the Romanov dynasty, actually had the idea of pulling the Ocean Empire into the water and using the peak military power of the Ocean Empire to strike at the power of the Russian workers' government.

How could such a small calculation escape Li Fushou's eyes?

Therefore, even Li Fushou was not satisfied with these two daughters-in-law of the Tsarist Russian royal family.

In mid-March, the twelfth and fourteenth princes of the Emperor will follow Crown Prince Li Siyuan on a visit to Vladivostok in the Far East, a trip that will decide the fate of the two Russian Grand Dukes.

If you obediently come back to get married and have children, then everything is not to be discussed.

If they still want to get into trouble, the crown prince Li Siyuan will use the power of the prince to abolish these two marriages with the Tsarist Russian royal family and completely cut off their illusions.

Anyway, the empire will not play with it, at most by the end of 19 or the beginning of 20, a division stationed in Vladivostok will also be withdrawn back to the country and end the overseas dispatch mission.

The reason for this

The imperial side is not at all interested in that cold territory, such a large area of Alaska, which is still tens of thousands of people, is Siberia very fragrant?

In the post-war period

The empire implements an overall contraction strategy, tries to rein in its edge, minimizes geostrategic conflicts with Britain, France, Russia and other countries, avoids a full-scale showdown with Britain, further accumulates and strengthens its national strength, and waits for the next opportunity to explode and export.

Take a step back, the sea and the sky! (To be continued)