Prime Minister Baldwin naturally understood that the report to George V was just lip service. Not to mention Prime Minister Raul, even himself, sometimes he doesn't take George V so seriously.

The position of the British royal family may be secure, but the power of the British king has long been dismantled, and it is not so easy to get it back.

Still, the attitude of the Australasian people made Prime Minister Baldwin feel a little unusual.

Perhaps since the defeat of the United States, the relationship between Britain and Australasia has ceased to be what it used to be.

The British are so strong that they have no rivals, or the rest of the powers are all opponents of the British.

The situation in the world has forced Australasia and Britain to go on guard, and may even lead to confrontation in the future.

Fortunately, relations between countries have always been complex, and such changes are easy for politicians to accept.

After adjusting his mentality, Prime Minister Baldwin ordered someone to bring a map of the United States, and carefully began to study the direction in which Britain could make concessions and the directions in which Britain must not concede.

With regard to the partition of the United States, none of Britain, France, and Australia wanted to annex the land of the United States as their own.

It's simple. Britain and France are located in Europe, and Australasia is located in Oceania, separated from the mainland of the United States by either the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean.

If you turn the land of the American mainland into your own, the problems of managing it are enough to collapse an entire government.

Moreover, the conflict between whites and blacks in the United States, the distrust of Americans in these countries that defeated them, and the problems of American capital are the real reasons that led Britain, France and Australia to abandon the annexation of the United States.

Since the United States cannot be annexed, the best way to do this is to prop up countries that you can control, like the Lone Star Republic that the French propped up.

The original intention of the British was to establish a new state in the 13-state colonies. Because it inherited the best of the United States, the state established by the 13 states was guaranteed to be a second strongest, and it could still play a good role for the British Empire.

Together, this country and Canada are the most powerful power in North America, and an important logistical support for the British Empire in the event of any danger.

With the help of Canada and this country, the Atlantic Ocean will become the inland sea of the British Empire, which will be very helpful for the British Empire to control the whole of Europe.

Unfortunately, the French would obviously not approve of the British doing so. If the entire 13-state colonies were controlled by the British, and another war broke out between Britain and France, the French would basically be destroyed in an instant.

Although France has weakened much after the First World War, this does not mean that the French have no ambitions to dominate Europe.

On the issue of at least 13 states, the attitude of the French is very firm. The French did not want to see the full 13-state colonies under the control of the British, and even less did they want to see the full 13-state colonies re-independent as a state.

Is it necessary to back down from the French on the issue of 13 states? This became a problem that the British had to consider.

Regardless of the fact that the British were very determined when they launched the war against the United States, a large reason was because the British stood behind the entire world alliance.

But if a conflict broke out between Britain and France, without the help of Australasia, the British would at most gain an advantage on the sea.

Leaving aside the words of the army, it is impossible to rely on the British army to attack Paris, the capital of France.

In fact, this also represents the current tone of the world situation, which is basically dominated by competition, supplemented by war.

No one wants to start a war unless it is absolutely necessary, because war represents not only a huge financial drain, but also a large number of casualties.

Although World War I was more than a decade ago, the countries of the world still have not emerged from it.

It is also for this reason that the population of France has remained at a low level, and most countries in Europe do not want to see the outbreak of war, except for the war that must be won.

How do you reach a compromise with the French? This question also takes into account the ideas of the French.

After much thought, Prime Minister Baldwin decided to get in touch with the French after the peace talks the next day, and try to reach a compromise with the French, so that the rest of Australasia could be dealt with.

The next day's peace talks ended in a stalemate, but Britain and France clearly expressed their willingness to compromise.

It is not a matter of dragging it out now, it will only make the situation in the United States worse and worse. This is undesirable for Britain and France, which want to make a lot of profits from the United States, which also means that Britain and France will still compromise after all.

What Prime Minister Raul did not expect was that a compromise between Britain and France could happen in a short period of time.

On the fourth day of the talks, on January 18, 1929, Britain and France had reached a certain unification on the question of the partition of the United States.

The only problem was Georgia, the southernmost land in the 13-state colonies, which the British wanted to bring under their rule.

But the French also wanted to bring the region of more than 2 million people under their rule, and in the end it was the British who compromised.

Of course, the price for the French to acquire Georgia was that Michigan, which was supposed to be administered jointly as a region of the five continents, became directly Canadian territory.

It is worth mentioning that the Anglo-French compromise with each other did not forget the interests of Australasia.

According to the compromise partition method reached by Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand, a complete United States would be divided into at least nine countries, and two more regions would be annexed by Canada in the north and Mexico in the south.

This is also the advantage of two countries close to the United States, able to annex a part of the land as their own, rather than creating new countries like Britain, France and Australia.

After a compromise was reached, the theoretical situation in the United States was as follows (homegrown):

Australasia controls California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, and Utah.

France controls Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky.

Britain controls Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia.

Canada annexes Michigan.

Mexico annexes New Mexico and Arizona.

The remaining states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missosouri, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio form the Great Lakes Condominium and are jointly administered by all the warring nations.

Among them, the areas acquired by the United Kingdom, France, and Australia (only the mainland of the United States) may not be annexed into the mainland, and they may not be merged into a single country.

It also hindered the idea of the British wanting to re-establish a 13-state colony, and without the 12-state colony of Georgia, it would become at least two states.

Under the influence of Britain, France, and Australia, the countries involved in the talks reached an agreement that the Great Lakes Condominium would bear the debt of the Great Lakes Condominium because it inherited the most important industry of the United States.

What does that mean?

When the Great Lakes Condominium is administered by the warring countries, most of the annual tax revenue is divided equally among all the warring countries, and the administration of the Great Lakes Condominium is terminated when the reparations are paid.

Although a large part of the debt of the United States has been repaid before, because of this war, the United States will have to bear another part of the debt.

All of these debts were credited to the Great Lakes Condominium, which is why the British were so generous in lending the remaining Great Lakes region, including Illinois, with a population of more than 7 million, to other small and medium-sized countries.

After counting all the debts, the Great Lakes region is to pay £8.5 billion to the World League.

The Great Lakes Condominium covers an area of approximately 1.28 million square kilometers and has a total population of more than 30 million.

Even at one-third of the U.S. revenue, the Great Lakes Condominium receives about $1 billion, or £258 million, a year.

This was before the economic crisis, and after the economic crisis, the industrial region of the Great Lakes also suffered a devastating blow.

This means that even if there is only 8.5 billion pounds in reparations, the Great Lakes Industrial Zone will have to repay it for at least 50 years.

If a few more provinces are deducted from the Great Lakes Industrial Zone, I am afraid that this account will not be paid off in 100 years.

Although no land was allocated, the countries were satisfied with the presence of a stable Great Lakes region to repay the reparations.

Moreover, there are many factories in the Great Lakes region, and although countries cannot blatantly relocate factories, it is still okay to buy some industrial equipment.

Many countries can also take advantage of this opportunity to develop their own industries, and they are sucking the blood of Americans anyway.

A sip of the soup also satisfied these small and medium-sized countries, and the plan for the partition of the United States was approved by most of them.

The rest of the country did not dare to openly oppose it, which led to the smooth passage of the plan and its public implementation.

No one in the peace talks spoke for the US government, which has become a military government. It is also true that even if the US government has changed masters, the United States is still the defeated side. Defeated countries have no human rights.

However, the British also generously gave MacArthur, who considered himself the president of the United States, a choice, that is, to go to the Great Lakes region and become the interim president of the Great Lakes region.

With the exception of the Great Lakes, the rest of the United States will no longer have anything to do with the United States in the near future.

Even the Great Lakes Industrial Zone, which is nominally a condominium area, will essentially form a new republic and sever all ties with the United States.

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