Chapter 1171: Truce Negotiations

  Chapter 1149 Armistice Negotiations
The reform of the monetary standard is nothing new. The gold standard was also only accepted by European countries in the last thirty to fifty years.

There have been changes in the middle of the road, in order to avoid large-scale outflow of gold, countries have basically introduced restrictive policies during the reform period.

The most representative is the Vienna government’s financial control act, directly expressly: limit large capital outflow.

This is also one of the reasons why financial capitalists hate God Luo, large capital circulation is restricted, can not do fast in and out, seriously affecting the speed of everyone to make money.

Pre-war Britain was the financial hegemony, and had long been overcapitalized, so naturally there was no need to restrict capital outflows.

The situation is different now. Along with the deteriorating situation, capitalists with a keen sense of political smell are ready to run for the hills.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that once the Oceanic Alliance collapses, Britain will have no future to speak of, even if it manages to get out in one piece.

Looking around, there are enemies everywhere, how can we talk about future development?

Capitalists can run away with their money, but other vested interests can’t run away. After leaving Britain, the capitalists can still be capitalists, but the nobles and bureaucrats will have nothing left.

Although the power of capital is strong, but this year’s British Empire, it is not their turn to cover the sky.

We share the same blessings, and we must share the same difficulties. Capitalists want to withdraw from the whirlpool, other forces will not agree.

To die is also to die together, can’t we all in the battlefield, let the capitalists in the back stabbing knife.

The “principal system reform” is the countermeasure that we all took out. Once the capitalists withdraw funds on a large scale, then let the pound and gold completely decoupled.

Just as the French government did at the end of the Continental War. While abandoning the gold standard, it also stopped the free exchange of the franc for gold.

In the era of the gold standard, can not freely convertible currency is worthless, the international capital market does not recognize, take out is waste paper.

There is no reserve limit, in order to raise funds, the French government printing money recklessly, inflation quickly swept the country.

In order to preserve the value of wealth, holding a large number of francs capitalists, had to buy assets.

After the defeat of the war, holding a large number of assets of the capitalists, success was trapped in France was greatly injured. The unlucky individuals among them were also tried as war criminals.

Originally economically disadvantaged position of the aristocracy, in the subsequent struggle gradually prevailed, back to the aristocratic and bureaucratic era.

With the ready-made example there, it was natural for the British Government to take it out to scare the capitalists in the country.

There is no problem with running away, rolling up the money is impossible. Either pay money to buy the national debt, for this war blood transfusion; or turn over the table, after the collapse of the market, we all finished together.

No, to be precise, only the big capitalists and consortiums are going to go down. Other interest groups, will only lose a lot of money, not necessarily fatal.

If anyone pays attention, they will find that in recent times, the correspondence between the great nobles of Britain and their relatives in Europe has become more frequent.

Whether it is a normal interaction between relatives, or are looking for someone to build bridges and prepare the way back, it is difficult to say.

After all, the Holy Roman Empire is the stronghold of conservative forces, in the maintenance of good traditions, but very stubborn.

Just take a look at post-war France, except for a few ungrateful nobles who were court-martialed, the rest were gently spared.

With such a ready-made case in place, it’s not surprising that everyone behaved a little more aggressively. After all, the ship was sinking, and the people on board had to find a way to survive.

The concrete manifestation is that: the British Isles advocate the negotiation of a wave of calls, more and more people demanded the London government to end the war.

As for how to end the war, that is the government’s business, anyway, now “anti-war” is always right.

……

At Buckingham Palace, a distraught Edward VII is holding an encrypted telegram that has been crumpled up and reopened.

Compared to the content of the telegram, what needs to be kept secret is the address of the telegram – the Palace of Vienna.

As the two major royal families of the European monarchical world, the House of Gotha and the House of Habsburg were naturally linked by marriage, and more than once.

Franz and Edward VII are still proper child relatives. However, in the European world, it has always been “relatives to relatives, war to war”.

The First World War in the original time and space was a big war between relatives, and this time is no exception.

Only Edward VII tragedy a little bit, this European uncle, unfortunately stood on the opposite side of all the relatives, is now being beaten by everyone.

At the beginning of the war, in order to avoid the suspicion of Edward VII took the initiative to reduce the contact with relatives.

Unfortunately, the development of the situation is very face, looking at the end of the momentum, in order to the future of the British Empire, in order to save their own throne, and now have to re-establish contact.

Unlike the original time and space of a hundred responses, affected by the butterfly effect, now the center of the European royal family has become Franz, rather than him, the European great uncle.

From the reaction of Edward VII, it is clear that the “in-laws” of the Vienna Palace did not give face.

After calming down, Edward VII quickly relieved. Involved in the national interest, put on anyone is not good.

The war has been carried out to the present, is not to say stop, can stop.

Britain’s civil anti-war clamor is high, mainly by the bombing, the impact of the shortage of supplies, everyone’s days are already about to go on.

But the Holy Roman Empire is different, now from top to bottom want to pull down the British Empire, they go to be the world hegemony drink and eat meat.

Now that Britain wants to negotiate a truce, the conditions cannot be less harsh. As the telegram demanded three points:
One, the transfer of all colonies;

Two, Irish independence, Scottish independence, Welsh independence;

Three, compensation for the losses of the warring nations of the Continental League.

In addition to the third compensation for losses, there is no specific figure, there is room for negotiation, the previous two are hard and fast. If you can meet them, you can talk about them. If you can’t, there’s no point in negotiating.

If Edward VII dares to agree to such conditions, Buckingham Palace will have to change its owner in less than three days.

Despite knowing that the end is not ideal, George, who was near the front, couldn’t help but ask: “Father, what did the telegram say?”

“Read it yourself!”

Edward VII said while handing over the telegram. It could be seen that he was in a very low mood and did not even want to say much.

“This is impossible! It is simply too deceitful, the great British Empire will never tolerate it ……”

Not waiting for his son to finish spilling his heart all out, Edward VII interrupted, “Don’t say these useless things, there is no meaning.

Franz dares to be so tough, it’s not because of our poor performance on the battlefield, making him think that the Holy Roman Empire is secure in its victory.

The war has broken out for most of the year, and the Empire has been routed all the way, never winning a major battle.

Now that the countries of the world have joined the Continental Alliance, the enemy’s strength is growing like a snowball. Changing places, I would have done the same.”

Calmness was Edward VII’s greatest strength, even when the situation was so unfavorable, he was still able to think rationally and did not complain.

George: “But we ……”

“No buts! In this age of weakness, weakness is the greatest original sin.

In the past, when Britannia was strong, it treated countries in the same way, and even acted more aggressively.

Now that Britannia is weak and has fallen behind in international competition, it is now our turn to be unlucky.

Unless we can turn the tide in the next war, the final armistice will only be worse than this.”

Edward VII said in a serious tone.

Listening to his father’s explanation, George’s eyebrows tightened more and more, “This armistice treaty, I’m afraid that the folk can’t accept it, and it’s not good for the royal family ……”

Perhaps because of tradition, Queen Victoria looked at Edward unfavorably, thinking that he was vain and difficult to be a king.

Now Edward is looking at his son in a bad light, and is even more desperate about George’s political responsiveness.

Fortunately, Edward VII is not a traveler, otherwise, knowing George’s historical god operation of giving up the power of the monarch, he must find a way to change the heir.

“Accept the Armistice Treaty”?
Are you kidding me, how do you get the royal family to do something like that.

The whole country can testify that since the outbreak of the war, the Honorable Edward VII has been ill and has delegated all matters of government to the Cabinet Government.

Anyone with a modicum of political savvy knows that it’s not just power that’s delegated, it’s responsibility as well.

From the beginning, Edward VII did not participate in this war. Even if he wanted to do something, it was with the approval of a vest.

Since he was not involved, no matter how serious the consequences were, the royal family was not involved, and all the responsibility was the cabinet government’s.

Now, contacting the Habsburgs was just another insurance policy to ensure that the royal family would not be liquidated after the defeat.

……

Capitalists want to run away, the royal family, the big nobles are busy preparing the way back, the London government dancing on the egg once again ushered in the bad news.

On October 2, 1905, the Battle of the Mid-South, which had lasted four months, came to an end. Britannia was once again defeated, and the Continental Allied Forces swept all the way to Burma, aiming straight for India.

On October 7, 1905, the Suez Canal, which had been blocked for nearly a year, was reopened to traffic.

The combined fleet was free to go east, and the biggest problem restricting the Allied Continental Army’s attack on India – logistics – could be solved by sea.

The Combined Fleet dares to divide its forces, does not mean that the Royal Navy is also able to divide its forces. To know take the Mediterranean Sea inner channel, can be closer than the Royal Navy around the road is not a half a star.

Once the royal troops, 100% will be the United Fleet to take advantage of the time difference, hit them by surprise, jeopardizing the safety of the mainland.

But do not send troops to reinforce, India and the mainland between the link will be cut off, can only fight alone.

Think of the Indian colonial army vs. the European allied forces, how miserable the scene was. Without India, would the British Empire still be an “empire”?

The question before the British government was whether it wanted “India” or “the mainland”. It was, without doubt, a question of death.

Without waiting for the British government to make a choice, the countries of the Oceanic Alliance, which were still hesitant, instantly made a decision – to get off the ship, and to do so at all costs.

Even Japan and the United States, which had not yet negotiated the terms, cut themselves off from the British at the first opportunity, with a view to diluting as much as possible the fact that they were hostile to the Continental Alliance.

Everyone jumped ship, the lone John Bull, naturally, can not fight. If you don’t negotiate while you still have a little money in your hands, drag it behind ……

(End of chapter)