Chapter 836 Fight for Profit

"15 billion!"

The low and thick wooden house blocks the cold wind on the western Siberian plain at night. Because there is no electricity, gasoline generators need to be expensive to transport oil from the mainland, so kerosene lamps are still the best lighting equipment in Western Siberia.

Under the light, holding the forwarded Cairo message, Li Enfu's eyes were about to stare out. He turned over the electric newspaper and read it several times. After confirming that there was no word "pure joke" on it, he breathed a long sigh of relief and patted his thighs and sighed.

The afterlife is terrible!

Du Dazhuang, who stood on tiptoe next to him and pricked his ears, looked even more worshipful. The usually amiable Prime Minister opened his mouth to scold 15 billion people, and also used grain as chips to empty the whole Italian factory and machinery.

Are you sure this is the prime minister of Xinhua, not a street scoundrel?!

That's 15 billion! It's not the lira or the depreciated dollar, but the Xinhua "Ocean Blue" that has the world's first currency!

At present, in the gold standard era, as long as there is no problem with gold reserves, the currency is absolutely stable. According to the current calculation of one dollar blue coin and one gram of gold, every 100 tons of gold is 100 million blue coins. After so much effort, the tsar and the U.S. gold reserves that began to be robbed a few years ago are only about 5,000 tons, that is, 5 A little more than 100 billion yuan. Now the Prime Minister's mouth is 15 billion yuan, that is 15,000 tons.

Gold!!!

Sell Italy by head, and count the total value of the land. I don't know if it's enough!

Oh my God, if you get it, not to mention building an aircraft carrier, even if you build another 17 or 18 heavy aircraft carrier battle group, it's a piece of a piece of a broku!

Emperor Li also put his arms on the table, put his fingers on his forehead, and blocked most of his face, which he didn't know whether he was smiling or helpless. To be honest, when the telegram of the negotiation process was sent, he was also stunned by this figure. In the case of dozens of inflation in later generations, 15 billion may be taken out without a loan, but now it is 1917!

Although negotiation is like bargaining hawkers in the streets and alleys, bargaining on the spot, but.

Hey, I don't know if Bateman fainted directly?

While Li Mo lamented for the unlucky German Prime Minister, he also secretly praised the negotiation skills of Tang Shaoyi and Feng Qi. Germany obviously wanted to win Italy, so it would rather give up some interests. Originally, this flaw seemed to be small. With Germany's strength, it could easily bypass Xinhua and take Italy into its arms. But the problem is that Italy is short of food at this time!

"Your Majesty, do you want to remind them that if you provoke Germany too much, I'm afraid the gains will outweigh the losses." Li Enfu said, "The old man" said.

Li Mo didn't say anything.

On this point, he is different from Li Enfu. From his point of view, Pacific Germany is completely hopeless. Because of the existence of German East Africa, the Indian Ocean can still compete for a little interest. At least it can't completely annex Seychelles.

Germany's goal is now obvious, fighting for the interests of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, especially after Malta has entered its own hands. There are only two ways for Germany to contain it in the Mediterranean. The first is to win Cyprus, and the second is to get a complete Italy.

The former is very difficult. If Germany peeps on Cyprus, not to mention whether Osman will agree or not, first of all, he will not agree, and the general reference has also done something in case of change. The army's plan to quickly take over Cyprus, according to the top-secret plan, as long as Germany shows With a little desire, the troops stationed in Egypt and Sinai could kill the island of Cyprus the next morning without giving Germany a chance.

The German command is also very clear about this, because Chen Ping sent a telegram to Wang Shizhen and the German side that it is so helpless to make it clear that Cyprus is too close to the Sinai Peninsula and the Suez Canal, and the strategic position is too important, so the German command also knows that Xinhua is very close to this place and would rather return it to Osman. Don't take it at home.

This is not to say that William II and the German command led by Hindenburg are not bold, but that everyone is an ally at this moment, after all, and now is still the most critical moment, so they are unwilling to really tear their faces to fight for the interests that may affect the overall situation, which is the same as his preparation to rent back after returning the Frank Islands to Argentina. Of.

He doesn't like William II. This guy's attitude towards China is not good in later history. Germany is also one of the most active in the Eight-Nation Alliance. As for William II, he also did not like Li Mo, which can be seen from the visit to Germany with the Chinese ship before the war. At that time, William II only arrogantly wanted to get the new battleship technology, and he did not consider anything else at all.

To be heartfelt, he doesn't care whether the future between Xinhua and Germany will evolve into the shocking cold war state of the United States and the Soviet Union in the future, the differences in culture, nationality, belief market competition, etc., which makes it difficult for Germany and Xinhua to become a real ally, and even the relationship is not as good as the ** of North Korea and Japan. This is connected with the fact that later Europe, on the one hand, desperately showed a pro-China attitude for orders and markets, but turned around and was blocked by the United States.

And now he has a great advantage. For this war, he has been secretly preparing for this war since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It took nearly 20 years of accumulation that today's outbreak. Otherwise, such a big global war would have been bankrupt 17 or 18 times in Xinhua's family!

So Li Mo finally shook his head and put the telegram next to him: "That's it, you can send a telegram to Chen Ping later. If Germany doesn't even have the idea of bargaining, then send troops to Cyprus immediately and pull Italy to our side with food!"

..“ Don, we can't accept such harsh conditions.

After a few days of emergency discussions with China, Bateman, who almost fainted in the hotel at that time, appeared in the Cairo Hotel and said seriously, "It is impossible for Italy to pay such a large amount of compensation. I think even Britain can afford it."

"Prime Minister Bettman, we might as well open the skylight and speak out. From the standpoint of our country, it is very doubtful whether Italy can provide help for the end of the war, and please don't forget that Italy's current status is a member of the agreement!

In the naval battle of the Ionia Sea, a total of three of our destroyers were sunk by them, and hundreds of soldiers were killed. Do you think it is necessary for a country that killed our soldiers and relatives with bayonets on the Western European Front to join the alliance when it has been completely defeated?

More importantly, Italy is actually unable to continue the war, as you know, we also know! If they want to join, they must provide extremely large assistance, so who should bear the cost?

Three destroyers, just a few hundred people, dare to open 15 billion! It's still blue coins! For the first time in decades, Beitman had the impulse to make people together.

But he still suppressed his anger, because Tang Shaoyi's voice, like a cones pierced Germany's biggest weakness again and again, especially the final aid problem. Germany can't come up with a good way, because Germany itself still needs Xinhua to provide supplies and food help at present.

For more than three years, the unprecedented scale has already exhausted the vitality accumulated by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War. As Prime Minister Bateman, it is very clear that even if it wins, even if it wins, even if it gets the war dividend, it will take at least four to five years for Germany to slowly recover.

Even if they sit opposite, Xinhua, who alone swallowed the Tsar and American gold, is actually already exhausted. The army that maintains the United States alone has drained their energy. They seem to be glorious, but in fact they are almost to the limit, which can be seen from the sudden lack of ammunition when they bombed the East Coast of the United States.

So he can understand that the other party wants Italy to pay compensation, but this amount is obviously too much!

"500 million!"

Bateman took a deep breath: "This is the greatest wealth that Italy can bring out at present."

"Well, I'm really good at bargaining." The translator next to him was stunned. The Prime Minister's offer had already made blood. Unexpectedly, the German Prime Minister's bargaining was even more powerful!

How does the translation know that in fact, the German command meant 100 million at most, but later it was considered that Xinhua should not be too offended, so it forced to add this number, although this basically emptied all the gold and silver reserves in Italy.

"After the war, the final dividends that Italy should receive, except for the colonies, belong to our country. In addition, Italy must also pay us a dividend of 100 million yuan a year for the next two decades, and all of them must be calculated according to the existing monetary value!"

"This is impossible."

Since Li Enfu had a showdown, Beitman did not have to hide it anymore. He directly refused such an offer and said, "Five hundred million is already all of Italy!" I think you can consider handing over the dividend to your country, but you must provide 500,000 tons of grain and 1 million barrels of crude oil to Italy. As for other compensation, this is impossible!"

"Mr. Prime Minister Bettman, please forgive me for not agreeing to such conditions. If I can't get enough benefits from the defeated country as a victorious country, I don't think there is any need to continue this war!" Tang Shaoyi sneered. She was obviously very dissatisfied with this offer. The rotten ship still had three catties of iron. Italy was also one of the world's most industrial countries in the past few decades. How many benefits did it take from the colonies?

Does the political axe have no money? Does the country have no money? Well, the royal family still has some savings!

Beitman didn't expect Tang Shaoyi to be so difficult. Although it is unrealistic not to continue the war at this moment, if Xinhua only postpones the aid time a little bit, the German front line will also be lightning and thunderous!

"Five hundred million, war dividends, plus 50 million compensations paid to your country every year in the next 15 years!"

"Ha ha." Seeing that Bateman was a little embarrassed and angry, Tang Shaoyi suddenly tilted the corners of her mouth and picked up the teacup lightly: "Come on, this is the best black tea in China. I believe you will like it."

When Bateman didn't understand what this meant, Tang Shaoyi had already tasted the tea by herself, so she had to take up the teacup and look at the other party obliquely. Seeing that he looked leisurely, she didn't seem to care about the bargaining just now, she thought to himself whether he accepted it?

Just as Bateman was thinking, Tang Shaoyi slowly put down the teacup and smiled.

"Mr. Bateman, I have a suggestion."

"Oh? What advice?"

"Suspuce!"

"Puff."

(to be continued)