Yalfheim gave roughly 10 conditions for peace talks.

1. Charlemagne recognized Alfheim as a sovereign and independent state;

2. The two sides shall divide the territory along the Line of Actual Control, and Agen Toraton and Lorraine Tower must be ceded to Alfheim in their entirety;

3. Charlemagne's retreat from the territory of Yalfheim after disarmament based on the agreement reached between the two countries;

4. Alfheim does not annex Charlemagne;

5. Alfheim waived his claim for state compensation against Charlemagne, and retained and supported the civil compensation claim of private individuals and enterprises against Charlemagne;

6. Charlemagne must reduce his armaments, and can only retain an army of 100,000 men and a navy of 10,000 men, and must not possess offensive weapons such as combat vehicles, submarines, large aircraft carrying motherships, rockets, and poison gas. The tonnage of naval warships and floating ships shall not exceed 100,000 tons, and no new ships shall be built within ten years after the war, and new ships shall be allowed to replace decommissioned ships after ten years, provided that they are declared to the countries in advance;

7. In order to urge Charlemagne to carry out the reductions, the countries will regularly verify Charlemagne's armed forces and the size of their armaments during Charlemagne's symbolic 25-year period. If Charlemagne performs well, the withdrawal of troops will be discussed at the end of the term. Expenses incurred during the garrison were borne by Charlemagne;

8. Charlemagne should uphold the policy of free trade and open door after the war, with the interests of all countries equal, the free circulation of goods from all countries within Charlemagne's territory in a relatively equal manner, and the prohibition of exclusive tariff barriers;

9. Charlemagne's official must ban all organizations and activities that advocate nationalism and expand xenophobia, and establish a censorship system for the circulation of non-governmental education syllabuses, books, and information. Based on Charlemagne's reflection on the war and the performance of reckoning, 25 years later, whether to retain the institution or adjust the composition of the personnel will be discussed;

10. In order to demonstrate his sincerity in the pursuit of peace, Charlemagne should achieve regime change before the formal signing of the armistice agreement, and the current regime that opposes the peace talks must be collectively ousted, and those directly responsible for the war should be handed over to an international tribunal composed of legal professionals from various countries as war criminals, and the list of war criminals should be drawn up by the countries through consultation;

From the winner's standpoint, this is definitely a generous offer.

Since ancient times, it has been the norm for the victor to give to the defeated, the reparations for land cession are the basics, the extinction of the country and the extinction of the species are the norm, and even the traces of the existence of a certain country will be erased if the game is more frustrated. Now is no longer the era of tribal warfare, everyone has long evolved a set of conventional rules for the treatment of the vanquished, and the appearance of eating is much better than before, but there is no change in the plundering and squeezing of the vanquished.

As all participants expected, Yalfheim demanded a formal recognition of sovereign independence and recognition of national borders, but the waiver of war reparations was too surprising. You must know that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although Charlemagne said that he had exhausted the treasury because of the years of war, he had a good family background, and if Alfheim proposed a huge indemnity, Charlemagne could still pay it with territory or overseas colonies. It's a big deal to use tariffs as collateral and accept an installment plan with high interest rates, and it is very likely that you will survive in the end. However, this is tantamount to increasing the strength of Alfheim in disguise, especially the cession of overseas colonies, which will undoubtedly make Alfheim pay more attention to overseas rights and interests, and devote more strategic attention and resources to strengthening the construction of naval forces, which is undoubtedly unacceptable to Albian, who witnessed the advanced warships of the defense force at the mouth of the Río de la Plata.

Envoy Wood had already prepared for the fact that he expected that the Lions of Alfheim would open their mouths to make an astronomical demand for reparations: a huge indemnity of 5 billion Egua, for example.

There is no doubt that it is impossible for Charlemagne's government to pay such a high war reparation, or even to obtain this huge reparation through loans. Through the efforts of a large number of spies, Charlemagne ghosts, and accountants, the people of Albion are well aware of the old enemy's finances.

And there are two dangers to Alfheim's demand: either it will cause the negotiations to break down and things will return to the old ways, or Charlemagne will accept this condition, and because he cannot afford to pay such a large reparation, Alfheim will naturally get a lot of things that he would not have been able to obtain in the first place.

For example, Charlemagne's concessions and military bases are all over the country, such as Charlemagne's economic lifeline, mineral resources, road construction rights and management rights, "consultants" who infiltrate government departments and all walks of life, and the open market of consortia.

The people of Albion have always maintained sufficient sensitivity and vigilance in politics, in order to safeguard their own interests and for the balance of power on the continent. Once Alfheim made a non-cent demand in the negotiations, they would join other countries in standing up for Charlemagne's interests.

It sounds like a bad joke, but it's a harsh reality.

According to the original script, at this time, he and Count Ramsdorf should take turns to reduce the indemnity to less than 10 million ec like a sausage (this is an estimate based on Charlemagne's financial situation and ability to pay, higher than this figure may cause financial deterioration, and 5 billion egu can directly declare the state bankrupt and liquidated), and then lend to Charlemagne for payment of war reparations. In this way, Charlemagne's strength was retained, and Charlemagne's economic lifeline was taken advantage of this opportunity, and Yalfheim's non-divisive thoughts were also curbed.

It's the perfect script.

In order to bring the plan closer to success, they also made a point of contacting Seres to adjust the arrangements for the reception of representatives of the two belligerents. In order to deliberately elicit Charlemagne's statement that he "wants nothing more than peace", and the Arfheim representative's domineering and openly mentioned the huge war reparations and Charlemagne's demand for more territory reparations, leaving the world with a bad impression that the elves are insatiable and take advantage of the opportunity to extort. In this way, the intelligence operation was carried out to guide the public to sympathize with Charlemagne and dislike Alfheim, and then use this pressure to assist Charlemagne in refusing Alfheim's demand for compensation.

But the Albiang diplomatic system and Wood's envoy plenipotentiary, who were full of "plan work!", did not expect that Alfheim would not be fooled at all, and not only treated Charlemagne's delegation with courtesy, but also simply gave up the war reparations at the beginning of the formal negotiations. This style of painting is obviously wrong. You said that this happened hundreds of years ago, when everyone's minds were frozen by chivalry, and now the two sides have spent countless money and lives, and Yarfheim has been preparing for this war for decades, and now he suddenly says that he will give up the reparations, and everyone will be dumbfounded. That's not the way to do charity, is it? Could it be that those pointy ears have a collective convulsion?

The failure of the first step made Envoy Wood a little shaken, but he was a veteran diplomat after all, and he quickly adjusted his mindset and looked at the remaining terms.

Although the rest of the clauses are a bit harsh, they are not unacceptable, after all, there are so many concessions in the front, and there should be compensation in the back. What's more, Charlemagne is also the target of Albiang's containment, and it is also Albion's pleasure to weaken Charlemagne's military power to an acceptable level. So up to Article 7, there seems to be no problem.

The question is the last three.

Maybe the average person can't see anything, but the old rivers and lakes like Wood's envoy can see at a glance what kind of trick Alfheim is playing.

Free trade, open doors, and equal interests. Ostensibly, it was to prevent countries from recurring conflicts over the division of Charlemagne's market, but in fact it was to prevent countries from entering Charlemagne by erecting tariff barriers and investment barriers. As long as this article is established, Alfheim can use its technological and capital advantages to slowly squeeze competitors out of Charlemagne's market and achieve disguised economic colonization. What's more, there is also an operational backdoor left in Article 5 - only state compensation is abandoned, and private individuals and enterprises can still file compensation claims against Charlemagne, because civil compensation is also part of the "post-war liquidation and reflection performance", which is directly related to whether foreign troops and review agencies will continue after 25 years, Charlemagne has no way to refuse. So Alfheim could have dressed himself in the skin of a consortium and demanded that Charlemagne use minerals, agricultural products, corporate shares, and even free labor from all over the world as compensation, which was actually equivalent to controlling Charlemagne's economic lifeline in another way.

The establishment of censorship institutions to eliminate xenophobic expansion and ethnochauvinism was intended to stifle Charlemagne's nationalism, and although Albion and Alfheim had similar needs in this regard, Albiang also needed to stir up Charlemagne's nationalism from time to time to ensure that Charlemagne did not fall to Alfheim and keep the tension between the two countries before the tipping point, so as to achieve its own strategic goals. However, the establishment of a censorship body would undoubtedly seriously undermine this goal, not to mention that the censorship agency, with its enforcement and extraterritorial powers over Charlemagne's judicial system, is a completely lawless secret police agency. With such a thing, Charlemagne's judicial sovereignty is also gone.

As for the last one, in Envoy Wood's view, it was simply holding back his mind to sabotage the negotiations, and the first nine were not as destructive as the last one.

Regime change is something that everyone agrees on and wants to do, but what do you want to do by putting such a blatant condition for peace talks and adding a deadline? Did you force Charlemagne's army red deer to flip the table and cut down the peace talks? The princess and the holy maiden who got in the way were chopped off by Charlemagne's own people, and I am afraid that Alfheim will wake up laughing from his dreams. is worthy of being a profiteer, and this trick of killing people with a knife is also very poisonous.

Envoy Wood let out a slight sigh, an overlapping sigh ringing in his ears, and he looked up just in time to meet the helpless gaze of Count Ramsdorf. Turning her gaze again, the holy maiden's calm gaze with hidden anger came to her eyes.

None of the lamps here were fuel-efficient, and Yalfheim's little abacus could see it.

But for a moment no one knew how to refute the list of peace talks, and three key technical issues – the waiver of reparations, the moral justification of all the conditions, and the close correlation between the terms of the peace talks – prevented any possibility of tampering with the last three articles.

"I propose to take a break and resume negotiations in an hour. ”

Half an hour after the start of the negotiations, the Albion Plenipotentiary Envoy, Lord Wood, made his first proposal.

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