Rise of Australia

Chapter 464 Small meeting, big power

The first to stand up against the French proposal was British Prime Minister Lloyd George.Originally, Prime Minister Lloyd George's idea was to sit on the Diaoyutai. After all, the British Empire is still the most powerful country in the world, and any distribution of benefits is destined to be inseparable from the attitude of the British Empire.

But I didn't expect that the Frenchman was ruthless as soon as he came up.The French are not asking the Germans to pay the price for the war. This is simply stepping on Germany to re-establish France's hegemony in Europe and make France the most powerful country in the world again.

Germany, which has disbanded all its military forces and fired all its military industries, is destined not to be an opponent of the French.

This also means that in mainland France, especially in Western and Central Europe, the French will no longer be invincible.

Under the influence of the French, countries like Belgium, the Netherlands, and even Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire are bound to change their diplomatic attitudes.

If these countries fall to France, the continental balance policy that the British worked hard in Europe will be invalidated.

At that time, France will be unstoppable on the European continent. Can there be another anti-French alliance to combat the arrogance of the French?

"Mr. Clemenceau, the conditions of your country are too harsh for Germany, and it does not conform to the spirit of our pacifism. The complete abolition of the German army will only plunge the country into further chaos. It is in the interests of all of us. At the same time, ceding too much German land will make the Germans hate us even more. I hope that the war will end because of this peace talk, not because of this peace talk, which will lead to the next war." Law He George stood up and expounded his point of view.

It is necessary to teach the Germans a lesson, but it must be done in moderation.For the British Empire, a strong Germany can hold back the expansion of the French.

After all, Germany and France are both a threat to the British Empire, and the attitude of the British and the French before World War I was not so good

As two old powers, Britain and France still have a lot of face in Europe.Although Britain is relatively stronger and supports more countries, the peace conference was held in Paris after all, which is the territory of the French.

The quarrel between Britain and France also turned the first few days of the peace talks into a vegetable market.The progress of the peace talks has increased almost to zero in the past few days, and neither side can come up with a good proposal to resolve their current conflicts.

In the end, Prime Minister Kent proposed a compromise solution, which was to reduce the number of people participating in the meeting. The conflict between Britain and France was resolved by the four major powers of the Allied Powers, and even the peace talks were directly discussed by the four major powers.

For small countries like the Balkan countries and Belgium, they only have the right to wait for the notice, but they do not have the right to participate in the talks to compete for their interests.

As for the United States and Italy, these two countries are not adjacent to Germany and have no territorial claims.

At that time, Germany's indemnity will be directly distributed to all the victorious countries, just leave a share for them, and you don't need to care too much about their opinions.

It was under the proposal of Prime Minister Kent that the chairman of the peace conference, Clemenceau, announced that the number of people participating in the peace talks would be reduced, and a total of 3 people were drawn from the four major powers of the Allied Powers, Britain, France, Russia, and Australia, respectively. Determine the current conflict of interest between Britain and France and the progress of the entire peace talks.

The announcement caused an uproar, but all the countries excluded from the meeting could do nothing.

Only Italy and the United States are truly qualified to resist, but this does not mean that Italy and the United States have the strength to resist.

As for countries such as the Balkan countries and Belgium, these small countries are relatively knowledgeable, so they can only visit the representatives of the four major powers of the Allied Powers as much as possible, and hold their respective thighs tightly.

After the number of people has been streamlined, the progress of the peace talks is going smoothly.Although Britain and France still have conflicts of interest, they all know that peace talks are inevitable.

The German indemnity is unavoidable. After preliminary estimates of the casualties and losses of various countries, combined with the actual situation in Germany, the four major powers of the Allied Powers unanimously agreed to set the German indemnity funds at 200 billion pounds, and the four Allied Powers The big powers carve up the equipment of all military enterprises and important factories in Germany.

Australasia was also allowed to have priority access to some of the equipment and technical personnel of these factories, and all countries agreed to Australasia's immigration in Germany.

The four major powers also have preliminary negotiations on the share of the 200 billion in compensation.As the true dominant country of the Allies, the four major powers allocated the highest proportion, accounting for 200% of the 85 billion in reparations, which is 170 billion pounds.

其中，英法俄澳分配这170亿英镑赔款的比例分别为3：3：3：1，折算下来大约为51亿：51亿：51亿：17亿（单位英镑）。

Although the casualties of Russia and France are indeed the highest, but the United Kingdom is currently the strongest, and the three countries can only accept the average distribution of compensation.

Although Australasia is also one of the four major powers, it has contributed the least amount of effort, and its national strength is also the lowest, so it is only natural to get the lowest [-]% indemnity.

Although it seems that it is only one-third of the indemnity paid by any country in Britain, France and Russia, it is only more than the indemnity paid by all other countries except the four major powers, and it is only a little less than their sum, which is also worthy of Australia. The status of the four major powers in West Asia.

After all, Australasia is a small country. In theory, the compensation of 17 billion pounds can do a lot of things, such as raising the country's strength to a higher level.

If the indemnities from other countries of the Allied Powers are added, the amount of indemnities that Australasia can receive has exceeded 20 billion pounds, which can be described as a wave of sudden wealth.

As for the remaining 1.5% of the compensation, which is about 30 billion pounds, it will be distributed to the United States, Italy and all other victorious countries.

It just happened to allow them to transfer the conflict from the four major powers of the Allied Powers to other competitors. After all, 30 billion pounds is not a small number. I am afraid that one tenth of it is enough to make those small countries suddenly rich.

As for the most controversial cession of German land between Britain and France, the four major powers also reached a certain consensus.

Germany must cede part of the land as compensation. Alsace and Lorraine, which the French miss, cannot escape.

In addition, a small amount of land on the border between Germany and Belgium was to be ceded to Belgium as compensation for Belgium's innocent involvement in the war.

The French gave up their request to form a republic on the west bank of the Rhine River, and transformed a part of the land in the northern part of Lorraine, Alsace, into a republic under the trusteeship of France.

Although the west bank of the Rhine was not at risk of being ceded, the French had demanded that the land be made a military zone, barring any German troops from entering, and that the Allied forces would be stationed in the area.

On the German Eastern Front, the Russians annexed East Prussia, and the appetites of German Poland and Silesia would certainly not be satisfied by Britain and France.

Originally, the French did not object to Russia's request, but most of their own request was rejected by the British, and the French were unwilling to see the Russians cut off such a large land in vain.

In the end, in the negotiations between the four major powers, the Russians reached a compromise, abandoning their land claims in East Prussia and Silesia, and instead annexed the entire Polish region.

The famous Polish Corridor in history should also be called the Russian Polish Corridor at this time.In addition to being ceded to Poland, Danzig, an important city in East Prussia, will be jointly managed by the four major powers of the Allied Powers as a free city that nominally belongs to Germany but is stationed by Allied troops.

Because the current Austro-Hungarian Empire is not torn apart, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire is one of the defeated countries, the Silesian region was not allocated to Czechoslovakia, which was not born, but continued to remain under the rule of Germany.

But that wasn't a good thing for Germany, as the Entente looked to make up for it elsewhere.

The first is the German army and navy. The German navy is completely disbanded, and only small warships under 300 tons are allowed to remain.

All German warships were accepted by Britain and France, and the main warships were handed over to Britain and France in a ratio of 6:4.

The German Army was only allowed to keep 15 troops and was not allowed to equip other weapons except rifles.

Machine guns and artillery are prohibited weapons in Germany, and German officials and civilians are not allowed to produce them privately. Violators will be severely punished.

The war indemnity of 200 billion pounds will be divided into 80 years, and 10 million pounds will be repaid every year in the first [-] years, and it will be handed over to the Allies for distribution.

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