Chapter 647: Franco-German Negotiations (2)
PS: Keep asking for tickets
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"Everyone, for the sake of world peace, you all give way to each other......" Bai Mo smiled and diluted the mud.
Bai Mo received the task of getting France and Germany to reach a peace agreement, but the grievances between France and Germany also made him feel a lot of pressure. Of course, if you think about it, this task can still be completed.
There were no winners in the First World War, there was no Treaty of Versailles, and the Germans had little hatred for France. Nonsense, they took so much advantage, Paris was emptied, where will there be hatred?
Now it is not that the Germans are hostile to France, but that France is in turn hostile to Germany. During the First World War, the entire northern part of France was brutally looted by Germany, and now it has just recovered some vitality, and it has been ruined by the Germans, can you not hate?
However, now the French really can't afford to fight. The First World War, which lasted for more than five years, and the "Spanish flu", these two weapons killed them for almost a generation, close to 5 million, and most importantly, most of these deaths were young men. Such heavy casualties killed more than half of their young men. After the war, a large number of girls could not find their husbands, so that many Chinese young men took advantage of it, and in order to prevent more population outflow, the French government was forced to restore the polygamy before the Merovingian dynasty.
Even though the French government tried desperately to encourage childbearing after the war, due to the problem of folk customs, by the outbreak of World War II, the population of France was only 38.5 million, and the number had not yet returned to the pre-World War I number. Now that World War II has been fought for more than a year, and the French have died almost a million more, it has already made them feel the pain in their flesh.
Look at the opponent Germany, they also died more than 4.3 million people in World War I and the "Spanish Flu" combined, but they have a large capital and a large population base, with more than 66 million people, and they also made a lot of money in World War I.
Relying on this war dividend, Germany vigorously encouraged childbearing after World War I, and advocated for racially appropriate women to create large families. According to government regulations, a woman is awarded a bronze medal of the German Mother's Cross for giving birth to four children, a silver medal for giving birth to six children and a gold medal for eight or more children. Large families will be subsidized for utilities, school fees and household expenses. These measures have led to a significant increase in the fertility rate of the Germans.
Subsequently, taking advantage of the division of Austria-Hungary, it annexed Austria and Bohemia successively, so that the population of Germany exceeded 110 million before World War II, of which more than 100 million were Germans.
It's really not a wise choice to fight against such an opponent. Except for a small number of angry young people, most people in France now don't want to fight anymore in their hearts, and their current government has not surrendered, and is completely supported by one breath. If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't swallow that breath, coupled with the pressure of public opinion, the government bigwigs felt that it was difficult to surrender and step down, and they would probably have knelt down.
Now Germany is willing to negotiate peace rather than let them surrender, which gives the French a step down, so they also have the intention of peace this time, and now it is nothing more than a matter of conditions.
The mustache had a good grasp of the French mentality, and when he threw out the Walloon region of Belgium, the French immediately relented. Now they still refuse, mainly because they feel that the conditions are not good enough.
At this time, it will be China's turn to be a peacemaker.
"Monsieur Ribbentrop......" Bai Mo was about to convince the German delegates first, and he smiled and said: "Wallonia has been a French land since the time of the Frankish kingdom, and of course the province of Liège can not be included in the passage between the Flemish region and the German mainland. My opinion is that all the other regions of Wallonia can be given to France, except for Liège, what do you think?"
"Well, this one is acceptable......" Ribbentrop nodded reservedly, this German bottom line. The province of Liège had to be controlled by the Germans, otherwise the Flemish region they occupied would become an enclave, and how could they lay oil pipelines in the future? Do they still have to pay the French tolls? Isn't that reasonable?
The mustachioed Nazi Party is the supremacy of blood, which everyone knows. Under the guidance of this idea, their favorite population is Germanic, and the majority of the population of Walloon belongs to the French cultural circle, and the mustache does not like to have a group of French-speaking people under his rule, so his bottom line is that as long as the French-speaking region of Liège is the province, all the rest of the Walloon region can be handed over to France.
"What do you mean, Monsieur de Jean?" Bai Mo turned to the French again.
"Well, this is acceptable...... Dejean also hurriedly agreed, and of course agreed to take advantage of it. What, you say Belgium is an ally of France? What does it matter, allies are here to sell, and a big hooligan who can't sell his teammates is a big hooligan. Besides, Belgium is a country that does not exist in the first place! Now it is just a return to history.
"Well, we've all agreed to that. Let's move on to the next point, the division of power in Africa...... "Bai Mo is like a broker, flickering on both sides of Party A and Party B.
"First of all, I would like to say from a neutral standpoint that, as is the case in French West Africa, the southern region is largely out of your control. Do you agree with this, Mr. Derang?" Bai Mo said seriously.
Derang's old face turned red, and he defended himself: "Hmph, that's only temporary! If there was no World War II, those wouldn't have been able to jump at all! As long as we in France have our hands free, it will be easy to deal with those!"
After the First World War, the rebel army in the French African colonies was very active, and the French originally thought that the Black Millet was backward in equipment and could be suppressed by virtue of its equipment advantage. But they didn't expect that the weapons equipped by these black Shu millets were no worse than theirs. In particular, there are small arms, rifles, machine guns, mortars, and even a large number of "advanced" recoilless guns, rocket launchers and rocket artillery, and even artillery.
Oh, you ask, where did these things come from? Oh, there are many sources of this, and a few big hooligans such as China, the United States, Germany, Japan, and Italy all have a share, and even the Soviet Union has joined in, and even the British are no exception. With the exception of a portion of these arms to support the liberation of the African people, most of which were donated as war remnants.
After the First World War, all countries are disarming, there are a lot of surplus weapons, everyone is looking for the next home to deal with, Africa is no exception, although the consumption power of the black corn is not high, but the mosquito legs are also meat. As a result, a large number of international arms dealers resold those surplus weapons to Africa.
To be honest, although these things are surplus materials, they are really not lagging behind, and some are even very advanced. With these advanced weapons, the black corn made the trouble even happier, and the French who had just finished World War I were miserable. It doesn't matter how many of them die, but the French can't afford to die anymore.
As a result, France had to abandon some areas that were too far away, such as Madagascar and Central Africa. For the relatively close French West Africa and North Africa, it was suppressed with all its might, and in order to reduce the death of their own people, all kinds of poison gas bombs, planes and tanks were used, and it was not easy to suppress those damned black millets, Moors and Berbers.
Just a few years after stabilization, World War II broke out. North Africa is close to mainland France, and it is also a key control area, so this area is relatively stable. But areas in southern French West Africa, such as Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin, are no longer sustainable. Seeing the French being violently beaten by Erdezi, the Black Corn became excited again, so the situation in West Africa suddenly eroded.
Now the southern part of French West Africa is full of flames, and overnight it has returned to the situation of more than a decade ago. The French had almost lost control of the situation and were confined to a few cities. This fact makes the French very big-headed, but where can they take care of it?
"The current situation in France is one of recuperation. I think that you should entrust some of the southern part of French West Africa to Germany, so that you can concentrate on dealing with the turmoil in the rest of the region, otherwise if you continue, I am afraid that you will not be able to keep the existing ......," Bai Mo said very seriously.
He really looks down on the tsundere of the big rooster, and he can't digest it and still holds on, isn't this a death to save face?
The corners of Derang's mouth twitched, and he said, "This question, we need to think about it......" If this question is not explained, he can still fool around, and now that Bai Mo has spread this matter, he can't deny it. I had to use the Dafa of procrastination.
"Okay, so let's talk about the next disagreement. It's about Germany's temporary borrowing of military bases in the north of France...... "Bai Mo continued.
"The French people are absolutely ......," De Jean was just about to make a statement, when one of his secretaries ran in with a panicked expression.
"Mr. Minister, the latest information on the North Sea side! The U.S. 3rd Fleet has been heavily damaged...... he whispered, and handed the document in his hand to De Jean.
At this time, a secretary of the German Foreign Ministry also ran in with a document, and his expression was the opposite of that of the Frenchman, and the joy could be seen at a glance.
"Your Excellency, our Imperial Navy has achieved a great victory in the North Sea!" he deliberately raised his voice, and looked at the French with smug eyes: "My loyal and brave admiral, after a great battle, two hours ago, severely damaged the combined British and American fleet, and obtained six sunk battleships, four regular aircraft carriers, three heavy cruisers, seven light cruisers, and fourteen destroyers. Brilliant results of heavy damage to three battleships, four aircraft carriers, and more than a dozen cruisers......"
"Oh......" There was a gasp in the room.
Soon, a secretary from the Chinese side also ran in, and a document with similar content was placed in front of Bai Mo.
Bai Mo hurriedly took out the document and looked at it.
Indeed, as the Germans have just said, Germany has won a brilliant victory near the Shetland Islands in the North Sea. The combined Anglo-American fleet was crippled. And the German side lost only a dozen submarines and more than 70 aircraft.