Chapter 1177: Surrender and Lose Half of Your Money
Chapter 1154 – Surrender and Lose Half
The British referendum is still going on, and the armistice negotiations have already started first. There are three pounds of nails in a rotten boat, let alone the British Empire.
The Continental Union has the upper hand is not false, really if you want to push all the way across the past, without a year and a half or can not do.
Especially the overseas colonies, Canada and Australia are typical of the vast territory, really if the fight, there are not a million or eight hundred thousand troops to control the place are difficult.
Franz does not have the energy to win the war, and then spend three years and five years to catch rats, the family is not so big defeat.
You should know that war is very costly, and continuous fighting is the most costly national strength. Consuming too much power on the British is not conducive to Shinra’s next strategic layout.
War was only a means to an end, not the ultimate goal. Weighing the pros and cons is one of the most basic abilities of a politician.
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Conference room at the Austrian Hotel
Getting the terms of the armistice, Adam blew a gasket. Declaring surrender was trivial, and it was only a matter of time before he conceded defeat, having lost the fight anyway.
The trouble was the cession of land and reparations. In accordance with the European tradition, the defeat of the war ceded land compensation is a very natural thing, Adam has long been prepared.
Only to see the specific amount of compensation, the request to cede the land, Adam can not help it.
Ceded land requirements almost and before said almost, all the overseas colonies, plus Ireland, Scotland, Wales independence, only in England and cut away a small piece.
The dismemberment of the British Isles was unacceptable, and to continue to weaken England was even more non-negotiable.
80 billion guilders of reparations, even the heyday of the British Empire can not be pocketed, let alone the five labor seven injured Britain.
Even if all the wealth plundered over the centuries was handed over, it would be impossible for the current British government to come up with this huge amount of wealth.
Specific reference can be made to France, just war reparations, pressured France can not breathe.
The Paris government has been paying back the money one after another for so many years, and even the annual interest has not been repaid, not to mention the principal.
Unless a major devaluation of the shield occurs, this century France can not escape the debt crisis. Similar scene, Adam naturally can not let it happen to Britain.
Unlike France, Britain now has Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the Royal Navy on the mainland, which is not weak, and still has the power to fight.
Although it can not restore the situation, but to create hundreds of thousands of casualties to the allied forces, or can do.
If you have the capital, you have to talk about it, and international politics is never realistic.
“Your Excellency, these conditions are simply too harsh for the British Empire, they have far exceeded our capacity to bear, and there is no way that forty million British people will accept such humiliation.”
Hearing the word “humiliation”, Shinra representative Leo directly couldn’t help but roll his eyes. Throughout the history of the world, how many defeated countries have not been “humiliated”?
Not all countries are the Far Eastern Empire, the Vienna government is not so wrongdoing, the winners are not held accountable are always a very few.
After picking up the coffee, Leo calmly said: “Doing something wrong is to pay the price, your country is now just for the previous mistakes to pay the bill.
Your Excellency, feeling that the stopping conditions are harsh, that is because Your Excellency has not realized the disaster that your country has brought to the world by starting this war.
Since the outbreak of the war, the foreign trade of all European countries has been plunged into disruption, the economy of the whole world has been plunged into negative growth, and the number of deaths because of this war is in the millions.
If we go back even further in time, the damage that your country has brought to the world is even greater. Let’s talk about the European continent, in the past two to three hundred years, which European war, there is no shadow of your country?
Having created so many sins, how can it be made up for by a mere amount of money. Eighty billion Shendian is already determined after considering your country’s ability to pay. If we really look into it, your country can only go to hell.
As for the colonies, they were never your country’s property in the first place, so we are just taking them back for the owner.
Ireland, Scotland, and Wales were all forcibly occupied by your country, and all the righteous people in the world are obligated to free them.
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Politics is so realistic, whoever loses a war is responsible for it, the victor is above reproach.
Obviously Vienna and London pushed the war together, and now all the responsibility for the war falls on the British government.
There is no point in arguing, in this age of the weak and the strong, it is ultimately necessary to speak with strength.
As for the losses brought about by this war, that is somewhat biased. Millions of casualties, but most of the dead and wounded came from the side of the Oceanic Alliance, of which India contributed most of the casualties.
Continental Alliance in addition to the unlucky Russian Empire, in the Far East, heavy losses, countries simply did not fight a few hard battles.
Only a few battles were fought, and those were also one-sided battles. The truly evenly matched battles were still fought in the navy.
The casualties of 10,000 men may be considered “heavy losses” at other times, but during the World War, they were not necessarily enough for one day’s casualties.
At least in the Indian theater, there were several times a day tens of thousands of casualties in the war. The only ones who suffered heavy casualties were colonial troops, which did not meet the eyes of the Vienna government.
All of this adds up to nothing more than a rehash of old scores. In the past years, Britain has done too many things to pull hatred, like coal how to wash can not be white.
If you add up all the losses caused by these behaviors, eighty billion dollars in compensation is really not much, and then add a zero to the back of the can.
After a little thought, Adam quickly reacted.
“Problems should be looked forward, the past is a historical legacy, left to historians to explore on the line, there is no need to involve politics.
The fact that we are able to sit here today is to represent peace-loving people from all over the world to discuss how to end this war.
We have demonstrated our utmost sincerity, and we hope that your country will demonstrate its sincerity, face this issue carefully and come up with an agreement acceptable to all parties as soon as possible.
Britannia can give up most of its colonies and pay a reasonable amount of war reparations, but native sovereignty must be respected, and its international status after the war must be guaranteed without any discrimination.”
Sincerity was naturally seen, even if there was no sincerity, along with the decline in domestic food reserves, the British government had to be sincere.
Including the Vienna government was equally sincere, otherwise it would not have agreed to a one-week truce, creating an opportunity for the British government to throw in the towel.
It is just that sincerity cannot be taken for granted, and negotiations always have to revolve around interests.
Leo shook his head without hesitation: ”Sorry, Sir Adam. Such truce conditions are not only unacceptable to us, but the allies will not agree to it.
In the past years, your country has left too many bad impressions on everyone. If your country is not weakened, I’m afraid the whole world won’t be able to sleep.
If your country really wants to end the war, surrendering all colonies, paying war reparations, and limiting armaments are all necessary.
Of course, if your country can show more sincerity, we can also make some concessions.
For example: whether Ireland, Scotland, and Wales become independent or not can be determined by a referendum of the locals after the war.
Your Excellency, the time left for you is running out, your government must make up its mind quickly.
Once the seven-day truce expires and we haven’t reached a preliminary agreement, then the only way left for your country in the future is unconditional surrender.”
It had been proven that allies were meant to be pitched. At the final hurdle of the end of the World War, the Vienna government’s first consideration was still self-interest.
In contrast, disciplining Britain came second. As long as the colonies were cut off and armaments were limited, Britain, as an island nation, could not make waves at all.
“More sincerity” is a clear-cut demand for favors. As long as the benefits are big enough to feed the Holy Roman Empire first, there are non-principle issues that can be discussed later.
Finally came to this step, Adam secretly breathed a sigh of relief, not afraid of the Vienna government greed, for fear of the Vienna government has no desire.
No matter what, feeding a country is easier than feeding dozens of countries. If you really want to run to talk to the Continental Union, it may be the second France.
After a moment of silence, Adam asked cautiously, “What does your country want?”
The British Empire’s bottom is still very thick, even at this point, there are still a lot of good things to peek at.
If it wasn’t for the sake of rushing, Adam didn’t want to be so direct. A step by step offer slowly grinding, the price paid might even be a little smaller.
Shen Luo Foreign Minister Leo: ”We don’t have too many demands, just letting your country do some small favor is not a difficult task.
As you know, we don’t like trouble. As long as when your country evacuates Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, it will take all the trouble with it as well.
The other thing is that those old guys in the Academy of Sciences are interested in some of your country’s technologies and want to exchange them.
The last thing is to do a bit of advertising. Your Excellency knows that we have been committed to environmental protection and saving resources for the long-term development of mankind.
For example, in the field of military industry, the market is not big and there are many players, but these players are not technically competent, so a lot of raw materials are wasted every year.
In order to change this situation, we have been working hard to promote the integration of global weapons and equipment, and have already achieved some milestones.
More than 70% of the world’s army and air force equipment and nearly 40% of the world’s naval equipment have been integrated, saving at least tens of thousands of tons of raw materials every year.
All of them are developing in a good way, but only in your country there is a problem. After the war, your country’s military production will be restricted, and all the existing military enterprises will be shut down.
If possible, when your country purchases weapons and equipment from foreign countries, you can take proper care of our military products.
Your Excellency can rest assured that our military products are all of guaranteed quality. They enjoy high popularity all over the world and are doubly praised by users.”
The small favor is not small at all, it can be said that every one of them is digging up the roots of the British Empire, and it is preferred that Adam can’t afford to have the courage to refuse.
Grabbing colonies, grabbing technology, even the military industrial market to monopolize. Once these plans were completed, the future dominance of the Holy Roman Empire over all countries would become insurmountable.
What is even more desperate is that these plans are almost completed, and the outside world still knows nothing about them.
But all this has nothing to do with Britain. Experiencing the fiasco of the current world war, Britain was able to retain the mainland is not easy, the struggle for supremacy that is the future of the challenger.
Adam did not have the idea of piercing the windowpaper, along with the decline of the British Empire, the world could no longer find a country that could checkmate Shinra.
Even if the ambitions of the Vienna government were revealed, everyone could only pinch their noses and admit to the established facts that had already been created.
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On December 16, 1905, the London government announced the results of the vote counting, and the “Cessation of War” was passed by an absolute majority.
A total of 27,345,000 people participated in the vote, and 25,494,000 people supported stopping the war, accounting for more than 90%.
As to how the voting and vote counting were completed in such a short time, it can only be attributed to the British “efficiency” during the special period.
On the same day, the British Parliament announced that the vote was valid and that Britain had officially withdrawn from the war.
(End of chapter)