PS: Someone in the family has a birthday today, so it's a little late......

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London, 25 February, 2761 (1920).

After two years of hard fighting, the fallen London finally returned to the hands of the British, but to the shame of the British, it was not their own strength to retake their capital, but the Germans themselves gave up.

Because of the ravages of the Spanish flu, the German Fourth and Fifth Armies, which were in charge of the British raids, suffered heavy losses, with more than 150,000 people dying of illness alone last year, and several times as many officers and soldiers lost their combat effectiveness due to illness. If it had been before, it would have been replenished from the country, but it was not possible during this period of the plague outbreak, and the country was also plagued. What's more, the German shipping industry has been severely affected by the plague, and the capacity has dropped significantly, and the logistics have been somewhat unable to keep up.

Under these circumstances, the Germans in Britain could not bear it, and since last month, they have gradually narrowed their defensive lines. By three days ago, they had given up even London. Now the Germans occupy the zone in Britain, leaving only the southeast of London, the Chatham to Hastings line.

But in this case, the Anglo-American forces were also unable to fight again, let alone pursue or anything, and they died more in the plague than the Germans. So the two sides acted in tacit agreement, and the territory that the Germans gave up, they went to take it again.

Now London has finally been returned, but the British are not happy. Because they just picked up an empty city, yes, an empty city, a literal empty city. In the past two years, the Germans have long collected all the valuable things in London, and the fierce war has also turned the city into ruins, not to mention ordinary buildings, even the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace and countless other famous ancient buildings that symbolize the glory of the empire on which the sun never sets, are only left in ruins.

As for the people of the city of London, they either died of war and plague, or they had long since fled the fallen city. After the British and American forces took it over, they found that the most populous city in the world was already empty, and now there were less than 10,000 people left in the entire city of London.

Elsewhere it was more or less the same, the Confederates also began to shrink on the Western Front, and now they had completely abandoned Orleans and retreated to Paris. The Japanese, who had suffered heavy losses in the plague, also had to shrink their defensive lines, retaining only the Re-Na-Ya and Turin lines, and the rest of the region was completely abandoned.

Things have come to this point where the world war can't go on.

Not to mention Europe, even the most brutal Russian Red and White Song Club has stopped, no matter how much the Red and White sides do not share the sky, they will not be able to fight in the case of the outbreak of the plague. As for the uprisings and repressive operations in Africa and India, they all came to a halt under the threat of the plague, and the two sides ceased fire on the line of actual control. Of course, they are only a ceasefire, and no one can say when the war will resume.

Now the whole world doesn't want to fight, and I don't have the strength to fight. The Spanish flu has been lost less than half a year since its outbreak, and the number of lives it has claimed is almost equal to that of the previous five years combined, a loss that no country can afford. As long as the government has a normal IQ, it will not have the energy to fight a world war in the case of a plague, even if the elites are very unwilling and want to divide the victory, but the middle and lower class citizens don't have that morale.

Besides, this war has been fought for more than five years, and the people of all countries are full of war weariness and do not want to fight. If anyone dares to force the army to continue fighting at this juncture, then wait for the revolution to break out at home, not even the neurotic Wilhelm II has the guts, let alone the heads of other powers.

Since we can't fight anymore, let's make peace.

Since January of this year, the Entente and the Central Powers have communicated their willingness to negotiate peace with a number of neutral countries and international organizations such as the Red Cross. At the beginning, all the countries involved in the war were still very arrogant, and the peace conditions proposed were more exaggerated than the other, and each opened their mouths wider than the lion, as if they were the victors. But as the plague became more and more severe, they were all arrogant. After some contacts, the two sides agreed to hold peace talks in Geneva, a neutral country, Switzerland.

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20 March, Geneva, Switzerland.

"Absolutely impossible! The German Empire will never give up the African colonies, and you must return all the colonies of the Reich! This is the bottom line of the Reich, otherwise the Reich will not care about continuing to fight!" the German envoy said menacingly.

The British envoy said unhurriedly: "Germany must first withdraw from the territories of France, Great Britain, Belgium and Luxembourg, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria must withdraw from Serbia, and the Serbian state must be restored." ”

True, this peace negotiation was mired in a fierce quarrel from the very beginning, and the difference in conditions between the two sides was so great that it could be said that there was a world of difference. Because the battle on this plane has been going on so far, and the winner has not yet been decided, then no one wants to suffer.

If it weren't for the terrible plague of the Spanish flu, which made all countries weak, it is estimated that this negotiation would have broken up long ago, and such a big difference would not have been able to be discussed. But now we don't want to talk about peace, we have to talk about peace, and now the war-weariness of the people in various countries has reached the extreme, and it has been magnified by the plague in a geometric progression, if any government dares to disagree with peace talks, it will be the best result to be ousted by the angry people, and if you don't do well, you can wait for a revolution to break out in the country.

After arguing for more than a month, the delegations of the two sides finally reached a preliminary agreement under the pressure of the people of various countries and the epidemic.

Allied and Allied armies withdrew from their respective European territories, including France, Great Britain, and Belgium on the Allied side, and Italy on the Allied side. As for the colonies in Africa, the colonies and spheres of influence of each country should be redivided according to the actual control zones at present. As for the indemnity, since there is no defeated country, there is naturally no reparation, and both sides agree not to propose war reparations to the other side.

As for the interests of Russia, Serbia, Luxembourg and Bulgaria, they were magnificently ignored. True, they were all betrayed. Russia lost large areas of western Ukraine (west of the Dnieper River), two-thirds of Belarus, eastern Poland, Finland, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and with the support of Germany and Austria-Hungary, the six newly established states of Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, all of which were recognized by both sides and became full-fledged sovereign states.

In the eyes of the Entente, as long as these lands did not belong directly to Germany and Austria-Hungary, they were acceptable. As for the weakening of Russia, that is what the people of Europe want, and Russia, a behemoth, is about to bring the Europeans out of the psychological shadow, and a weakened Russia is a good Russia. Besides, the Red Russia, which is now controlling the European part, is not in the same way as the mainstream powers in the world, and it still relies on the accounts of the whole world, and the European and American countries are hoping that they will be unlucky.

In addition to the European part of Russia, the Asian part was also divided, Azerbaijan was given back to Persia, and Armenia became independent with the support of Britain and France.

The fact that Luxembourg was annexed by Germany was also recognized by various countries. Originally, Britain did not agree, but France strongly objected, and your London went back, but my Paris was still in the hands of Erdezi, and France, which was eager to take back the capital, naturally sold Luxembourg. And China, the United States, Japan and other countries are not willing to delay peace for the sake of a small Luxembourg, and they all feel that they can make concessions. Thus, Luxembourg was pitted.

Bulgaria's territory, which was occupied by the Chinese Revolutionary Union and Turkey, was also used as bargaining chips. China has argued on the basis of arguments in the negotiations that the lands were originally Turkey's and that it is very reasonable to re-belong to Turkey. China claims that Turkey has also paid the price, with Syria being half independent and half independent, as well as Lebanon and Palestine. It also ceded part of its territory to the south, and together with northern Iraq and northwestern Syria, the Kurdish Republic was formed. Since the family has lost so much, these lands in Bulgaria can be used as compensation for them.

At China's strong request, Germany and Austria-Hungary of the Central Powers did not want to cause more trouble, so they "replaced" Bulgaria and agreed. Because in their opinion, Bulgaria has not suffered in fact, they have divided a large territory in Serbia, and there is a surplus after this entry and exit. As for what Bulgaria thinks, that's another matter.

However, none of these countries are the worst, and they are already considered lucky compared to Serbia. Even if it was annexed Luxembourg, they would not suffer much by virtue of their inextricable ties with Germany. And Serbia's treatment is completely different, this world war is because of a few of their king-killing offenders, causing several countries to die a whole generation. Both the Central Powers and the Entente Powers hated this trouble-causing country.

Well, although strictly speaking, the outbreak of the First World War was actually only a matter of time, Serbia alone could not trigger a world war, they did not have the ability to do so. They were just unlucky to coincide with the meeting. But you must know that all governments and individuals in this world will shirk the blame and shirk their responsibilities, and this skill is the racial talent of all mankind, regardless of nationality or era. Since there is no loser to vent his anger in this war, Serbia, which caused the war, has naturally become the best target for all countries to shake off the blame.

Under the guidance of the governments involved in the war, consciously or unconsciously, Serbia became a heinous sinner. Although China did not participate in this "Let's Black Serbia" activity, it also did not come out, and took the People's Revolutionary Federation to watch the fire from the other side.

"China has no intention of interfering in European affairs, and we believe that the European people will handle Europe's problems on their own. This is how Chinese Foreign Minister Cavour expressed China's attitude.

Since no country is willing to stand up for this god-hating country, the fate of this "fuse of World War I" can only be described as extremely miserable, worthy of the name of a table full of tableware.

Not to mention the division of the entire country, there have also been numerous humanitarian disasters, whether it is casualties in the war, liquidation and oppression after the occupation by the Allies, which have caused a large number of unnatural deaths. After the outbreak of the Spanish flu, both Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria ignored the Serbs and did not give them any effective treatment and prevention measures.

According to preliminary statistics, the population of this country is at least 70% lower than before the war, and the fact that the territory has been divided has been recognized by the major powers, and there is no Serbia in the world. Of course, in order to show its own "just" position, Soviet Russia strongly opposed the elimination of Serbia, but they were only talking about it, and this kind of opposition was of course ineffective.

Then there is Africa, because there is no sea power, and the Allies are absolutely inferior in Africa.

Italy lost all its African colonies, Libya was divided between Britain and France, Eritrea was occupied by Britain, Italian Somaliland was occupied by China, and British Somaliland, which had been grabbed, was also occupied by China.

The Germans lost all their colonies in West Africa, but they had the "African god of war" and reaped a lot of benefits in East Africa, with the Iron Cross in Zanzibar, southern Uganda and Kenya, and northeastern Zambia. According to the agreement between the two sides, the territory of Africa is divided according to the current actual control line.

With regard to the new territories that China acquired from other countries during the war, the Geneva Peace Conference, at China's strong request, reaffirmed China's sovereignty over these lands, and the major powers also expressed their recognition. Seeing that China did this, the United States and Japan also demanded that the peace conference endorse their new territories.

In fact, everyone is dissatisfied with this result, and no country is satisfied, and they all feel that they have earned too little. But if one party is satisfied, then the other party is certainly even more dissatisfied. Politics is the art of compromise, and since both sides can't fight anymore, they can only compromise with each other.

All in all, the Geneva Peace Conference was a betrayal conference, a conference full of intrigue and tearing. The great powers joined forces to betray the interests of small and weak countries, but their own losses were also very large, too large to bear.

At 10 a.m. on April 18, 1920, the representatives of the various countries signed a peace treaty in Geneva, and at the same time ordered an immediate ceasefire on the front lines of the parties and the withdrawal of each other's homeland in accordance with the agreement. Thus, the First World War of the original plane officially ended after more than 5 years of war.

The most unhappy thing for all countries is that this is a war without a winner, and all countries feel that they have lost. Germany, in particular, generally thought that if it weren't for this damned plague, it would have been the Entente who knelt. If you have to say who made money in this war, I'm afraid there are only three companies: China, the United States and Japan.

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PS: World War I is officially over, and the next thing is the inter-war period of farming, O(∩_∩)O