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Chapter 622: The French-Penoptic War is over, and the German Empire is established

On March 1870, 3, Prime Minister Charles, on behalf of the French Second Empire government, and Regent Queen Eugenie, on behalf of the French royal family, signed a comprehensive armistice agreement with Bismarck and William I respectively at the Palace of Versailles in Paris.

According to the Treaty of Versailles, before William I proclaimed the establishment of the German Empire in Paris, the troops of the Kingdom of Prussia gained the authority to march troops east of Paris. These troops would not move until William I was crowned Emperor of the German Empire in Paris. Evacuate Paris.

The Second French Empire in Paris increased the compensation to the Kingdom of Prussia from the 2 million francs proposed by Bismarck to 50 billion francs.

This is because after the Second French Empire asked Prussia to withdraw from France, under the coercion of the British and other countries, Prussia's request to the east of Saint-Quentin-Reims-Challon-Troyes-Dijon-Challon was rejected, but this The amount was the amount of reparations reached after the Second French Empire only agreed to cede Alsace-Lorraine to Prussia.

Prussia's concessions on its homeland were exchanged for France's compromises in its overseas colonies and territories.

The two countries reached an agreement, and the French Second Empire would cede Gabon, Central Africa, Chad, Niger, East Oman, and French Guiana to Prussia.

On April 1870, 4, William I officially became the Emperor of the German Empire after his coronation at the Palace of Versailles in Paris, nine months ahead of schedule.

On May 1870, 5, William I retreated to the Alsace-Lorraine region with all the troops of the newly formed German Empire that invaded France.

On May 1870, 5, Napoleon III, who was captured by Prussia, was released and returned to Paris for a royal press conference. The 5-year-old Napoleon III did not seem to lose his energy because of being captured. He declared the Third French Republic in the South in Paris. In order to violate the regime and ask all countries in the world not to have any interactions with them, Napoleon III also announced that he would not recognize any agreements signed by the Third French Republic with foreign countries.

Obviously, the first thing Napoleon III did when he returned to Paris was to oppose the Treaty of Frankfurt signed by the Prussian and Lyon governments.

On June 1870, 6, the handover of French overseas colonies and territories around the world between the Second French Empire and the newly established German Empire was completed in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles.

Prussia's global influence immediately increased due to the acquisition of these overseas territories.In particular, the acquisition of French Guiana in South America allowed the German Empire to gain influence in South America for the first time.

In Africa, when Central Africa, Niger, Gabon, and Chad in the heart of Africa became Prussian new colonies, Prussia relied on its original half of Nigeria (east), Cameroon, Namibia, Somalia, northern Botswana, and western Zimbabwe. (That is, with the support of Western Southern Rhodesia, in terms of the area of ​​African colonies, France actually weakened France and became one of the four major powers of Britain, the German Empire, France and the Netherlands.

Especially in central and western Africa, Gabon, Cameroon, Central Africa, Nigeria (eastern), Niger, and Chad are connected together. The strategic interests of the German Empire are absolutely very important.

On July 1870, 7, just when everyone was still immersed in the fact that Prussia turned into the German Empire and the Second French Empire surrendered and ceded territory at a loss of money, Napoleon III was able to save himself.

On this day, the German Empire announced that it had reached an agreement with the Netherlands and would soon sell the East Oman region to the Netherlands for 100 million pounds.

Despite the opposition of the United Kingdom, the agreement was finally signed by the justice ministers of the two countries on behalf of their respective countries before the annual meeting organized by the International Court of Justice in The Hague on July 7.

On the same day, five major countries, including the German Empire, the United Kingdom, the Russian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, successfully applied and became new members of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.The justice ministers of the five countries signed the accession agreement in The Hague, Netherlands, on the same day.

On the same day, all member states of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, including the new members such as the German Empire, the United Kingdom, the Russian Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, all voted to adopt the first new agreement, which was to lift the The Second French Empire imposed sanctions, and within an hour, the Second French Empire in Paris announced its application to become a new member of the organization.This series of events all happened on the same day.

It can be said that this stunned the world's elites who are paying attention to the world's current situation.

On July 1870, 7, the Kingdom of Siam officially announced that it did not agree with the French Empire joining the International Court of Justice in The Hague, because the Second French Empire still occupied the territory of the Kingdom of Siam, a member of the organization, and nearly two-thirds of the territory of Cambodia and Laos. nearly half of the southern territory.

The conditions proposed by the Kingdom of Siam were that the two countries negotiate and require the Second French Empire to withdraw from the territory of the Kingdom of Siam.

However, Paris rejected the condition, and Napoleon III seemed unwilling to be shut out, so he sent a diplomatic envoy to Bangkok to conduct "frank negotiations" with the Kingdom of Siam.

After a week, the Second French Empire announced that it would stop launching war against the Kingdom of Siam in the Far East.And the two countries agreed that France would withdraw from the western part of Cambodia, and the Kingdom of France and Siam would assign southern Laos to the Second French Empire.

Regarding the issue of Cambodia, the two countries will return the west of the Mekong River to the Kingdom of Siam and the east to the rule of the Second French Empire.

In other words, one-third of Cambodia was assigned to the French Empire.Half of Laos was also taken away by France, but half of Cambodia was originally in France's hands, but now France has returned one-sixth.

After the biggest obstacle was overturned, the Second French Empire finally became a member of the new International Court of Justice in The Hague on August 8.

At this point, all European countries have become new members of the organization, and all those with some international weight have been acquired.

William IV, who was in Amsterdam, Netherlands, breathed a sigh of relief.

As the Franco-Prussian War officially came to an end, although Napoleon III was not completely overthrown, the French territory was divided into north and south, which was a huge surprise.Just like the United States is now divided into the Federal Republic of America in the north and the Confederate States of America in the south.

With his own arrival, the world has undergone tremendous changes.

Will France, which plays an important role in Europe's World War I and World War II, become weaker due to the separation of the north and the south, so that the German Empire will have minimal losses in the early stage, leading to a different result from its previous life?

And can the United States still lose the opportunity to rise due to the separatist strategy of 13 southern states?

All this made William IV very curious.

(End of this chapter)