Crimson Dawn

On December 1919, 12, the Kaiser fled Berlin in a panic and went to the Netherlands. At 8:12 a.m. on December 9, at the Redon station in the Compiègne forest northeast of Paris.The German delegation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs boarded the train on which the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces and French Marshal Foch took, and signed the treaty of the armistice of the First World War.The treaty of the armistice is very harsh, it includes:

Within 14 days, the German army will withdraw from the territory of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg occupied in this war, as well as the Alsace-Lorraine area occupied in the Franco-Prussian War;

Hand over German territory west of the Rhine and 30 kilometers east of the Rhine to the Allies within one month;

Surrender cruisers, battleships, destroyers, 234 submarines, all aircraft of the Air Force, 500 cannons and a large number of guns and ammunition;

Germany handed over 3168 billion U.S. dollars in war reparations (Germany could not pay so much, and then repeatedly reduced it to 714 billion U.S. dollars); [

Germany will hand over 5000 locomotives with good performance, 15 carriages, and 5000 trucks.

Germany handed over all its colonies... and this tragic war finally came to an end.

It has been said that when there is an end, there is a new beginning.On the day of the end of the old war, the spoils meeting was immediately launched.There are a lot of smart people in this world. Even before the official end of the war, in mid-November 1918, the Republic received an invitation from the United States to invite the People's Party to discuss post-war issues.

The Republic is very interesting, as a member state that reaps great benefits, but also as a partner country of the United States.Chen Ke himself did not attend the peace meeting, but sent a diplomatic team consisting of Premier Shang Yuan, Minister of Propaganda Zhang Yu, new recruits from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gu Weijun and Tang Shaoyi, and Li Runshi and Wu Xiangyu who were urgently transferred into the diplomatic team.

After spending more than half a month on the road, the diplomatic team arrived in Washington on January 1919, 1, and went to meet with US President Wilson and Washington's post-war peace decision-making team.The United States revealed a piece of news to China. On January 10, representatives of Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and Italy held a preparatory meeting for the Paris Peace Conference. At the preparatory meeting, Britain, France, Italy, and Japan tried to reach a secret agreement, stipulating Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and Italy are "belligerents with general interests" and can participate in all meetings of the peace conference.Belgium, China, Serbia and other countries are "belligerent countries with individual interests" and can only attend meetings related to their own countries.Countries such as Bolivia that have severed diplomatic ties with Germany are only allowed to make oral or written statements when the five major powers deem it necessary.The rules of procedure also limit the number of plenipotentiaries from each country to attend the meeting, five each from the five major countries, three each from Belgium, Serbia, and Brazil, and two each from China, Poland and other countries, totaling 1.

One of the common phrases of the People's Party is "relying on mountains to fall, relying on rivers to dry up".Regarding the attitudes of Britain, France and other countries, the representatives of the Republic feel that it is normal. If they do not do this, they will surprise the representatives of the Republic.

The representative of the United States thought that the indifferent look of the People's Party was a sign of frustration. He proudly stated that with the strong insistence of the United States, China has also become a "belligerent country of general interests" and has the right to participate in the discussion of all issues.

Reciprocating, the United States is so considerate, of course the People's Party is very interesting and expresses that it will try its best to support the position of the United States.

After confirming that the People's Party had no "unreasonable ideas," the U.S. representative arranged for the People's Party delegation to meet President Wilson.Wilson hoped that the People's Party would firmly support his "Fourteen Point Plan".Since the People's Party firmly believes that everything can only depend on itself, it is natural to support Wilson.Chen Ke previously quoted

The revolutionary mentor Engels predicted this war with a profound vision, and the representatives of the People's Party admired it very much.The only problem is Engels' prediction of the outcome of the war,

". . . the old state and its ancestral statecraft crumble together, so that crowns are rolled in the streets by the dozen to be picked up; jus cogens foresees how it will end and who will be victorious in the struggle; only One result, which is absolutely indisputable, is general exhaustion and the creation of the conditions for the ultimate victory of the working class."

After the war, the crowns of the Russian Tsar, the Second German Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire fell, and it is likely that there will be no more emperors in these three countries.Even though the crowns of other European kingdoms are still there, they have no power to influence the world.But whether the final victory of the working class will take place after this war or in the distant future.Seeing what Chen Ke meant, the imperialists did not learn a lesson from this war at all. This war is only the beginning and not the end.

In order to prepare for a new war, some comrades who accompanied the team temporarily left the team as soon as they arrived in Paris.After meeting with the German representative, Pu Guanshui went to Berlin with the guidance and help of the German delegation.

As a student of a German school, Pu Guanshui first connected with several of his surviving teachers, as well as the survivors of the "Storm Commando" experts sent back to Germany by the People's Party.Krupp Steel is the largest supplier of weapons and equipment in Germany. With the introduction of the German army, Pu Guanshui finally met the president of Krupp.

"Do you think you need to set up some research centers in Asia in the next 15 years?" Pu Guanshui asked.

President Krupp was obviously not interested in this suggestion.Krupp is a traditional industrial family business, not a joint-stock company like the United States, let alone an organization like the People's Party that uses capital operations as a means.Based on the firm attitude of the family business, even Pu Guanshui's lips were worn out, and the president of Krupp did not agree to cooperate with the People's Party.

At this time, Germany was in chaos, the old army was in panic, and various thoughts in society were flooding.Pu Guanshui couldn't believe that this was the Germany he saw when he was in school.Although Pu Guanshui also tried to contact the upper class figures in Germany in many ways, but in such a critical period, Pu Guanshui's efforts could not find the point at all.

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