C3271 The lethality of Frankfurt Treaty

62 billion and 60 million Gold franc s for war reparations!

France ceded Alsace and Lorraine to Germany!

France ceded Annan colony to Chinese people!

Land delivery must be completed within six months. The war reparations must be settled over a period of three years!

Before all the reparations were paid, Germany would be stationed in the France with a hundred thousand troops, while the Chinese would be stationed in a three hundred man military observer mission.

In other words, if we don't have enough money, we can forget about retreating!

Such harsh conditions frightened the whole of Europe. There had never been such a contract. Not only was land ceded, but there was even an astronomical amount of compensation!

Six million and two hundred million Gold franc! Was it to prevent France from turning over for an entire generation?

The Queen, who was at Buckingham Palace, immediately knew the details of the treaty. He immediately called for the former Prime Minister Benjamin and asked him, a veteran diplomat, for his opinion.

"Bismark and Xiao Letian are too ruthless, they want to make France unable to raise their head for 30 years!"

"The world is in a state of turmoil now. New ideas are flooding the world, and there are signs of a revolution among all races. Science and technology that Europe is proud of is spreading to the world at an accelerated pace …"

"The countries of the world have already entered a phase of speeding up their races. Let alone thirty years, even ten years of national destiny is already an insurmountable gap …"

"Your Majesty, the French cannot possibly pay off this huge sum of money in three years. I think it will take at least ten years!"

"That is to say, the French must pinch their nose and let the German occupy this place for ten years. And in these ten years, the national power of both sides will disappear and from now on, I am afraid that the France will never be able to surpass the Germany!"

"Oh, Germany has become our biggest enemy! Our diplomatic strategy must be adjusted! "

Adjust? It's very easy to say, but how do you plan to adjust it? Benjamin is not the Prime Minister, and the Queen would definitely not interfere in the politics of the court for your sake!

The Queen Victoria did not say anything, but let Benjamin leave. Three hours later, Gladstone, his son and all the ministers in the Cabinet came to pay their respects to her.

Gladstone's judgement was pretty much the same as Benjamin's, but Gladstone was even more pessimistic about France. He believed that the France would be occupied by Germany for 20 years!

"Your Majesty! That was 6.2 billion Gold franc, how could the French take it out all of a sudden? Even if our British Empire were to take out two hundred and fifty million francs in one go, that would be impossible! "

"France is finished, they will be completely crushed by this astronomical figure!"

Queen Victoria's face did not show any expression, but her tone was a little unfriendly. "What was your judgement before? What about the situation where both sides were heavily injured? The strategy of suppressing the two strongest has been formulated by you two, but now it has become the crippling of a wolf and the raising of a fierce tiger! "

"Who will take on this responsibility?"

Gladstone's face was pale. "I apologize, Your Majesty. I apologize. If the council wanted to impeach me, I wouldn't miss my position of power. I will relinquish my position as Prime Minister!"

"I didn't mean that. I didn't want to interfere in the decision of the Council …" The Queen Victoria waved her hand and said, "What I want is a way to solve this, a strategy for the future …"

All of the ministers' faces paled. Gladstone was in fact a scapegoat. His judgement of the battle was the universal judgment of the entire upper echelons in England!

So many nobles, so many capitalists, so many politicians... No one had expected such a dramatic reversal in the situation. Everyone was waiting to see both sides suffer!

But reality had slapped the whole British elite hard, and Gladstone had become the last one!

In fact, the Queen knew that Gladstone was wrongly accused, and that the British internal reform would not leave him, so she decided to let him go!

"The key now is this treaty, how can it not harm the interests of my British Empire!"

"I would like to make only two suggestions... "Please remember, I am not interfering in internal affairs, I am just making suggestions in my personal capacity!"

"France is useless. We cannot add insult to injury, on the contrary, we have to change our strategy to actively support the economy of the France, and use France to restrain Germany!"

"If Germany and the Chinese win, then their attitude towards us is very critical. Will they become our enemies in the future? To pay attention to two aspects... "

"Germany has five billion francs. It depends on whether they prepare a strong navy. If their naval strategy is defensive and non-threatening, then we can treat it as harmless."

"The Chinese got 1.2 billion francs. We want to see where they keep the money, especially the gold!"

"These two countries must accept my British maritime and financial rule. These two rules of the game cannot be challenged! As long as these two bottom lines are kept, I will allow them to enter the world's grand stage to eat some leftovers! "

Ok, the Queen has finally decided on the British strategy. No wonder she is the Queen of Power who has been in power all her life.

Frankfurt Treaty's deterrence towards the European powers was very strong. After the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Emperor found out about the details of the treaty, she didn't say anything for a long time.

On the table beside him were all kinds of secret insurance sent over by the ISI. The most confidential of them all was a record of his wife's and Xiao Letian's clandestine love affairs.

Although it was not 100%, but for more than 80% of the private meeting times and locations, all of Austro-Hungarian Empire's intelligence personnel s had recorded it!

Although Europe didn't care about the chastity arch, it was very shameful for her to not return home and mingle with the wild men for so long!

But today, looking back at the intelligence report, the Emperor did not have the strength to get angry. He picked up the report and lit it up with a lighter.

"Qian Qian, you have good eyes. What you're interested in is an extremely powerful man …"

Franz. In the end, Yue Sefu gave up on the idea of revenge and adjusted the green hat on his head. He had decided to wear it for the rest of his life!

At the same time, far to the north in Moscow, the Alexander II in the Kremlin actually lit up a fireplace in the summer.

The tsar was curled up in flames, papers scattered across the floor!

"It's over …" It's all over … There's no way to turn the situation around! "

"God, how could this be? Even France is no match for him. Do you think I will forever lose the Far East?"

"Do you still want to build my Far East Railway? Will the Empire never have a Warm Water Port? "

"What about the prisoners? The empire's finances are already in a mess, how can I still have the money to redeem those prisoners of war! "

"But if we don't redeem it, what about the internal protests? What about the Revolutionary Party? "