Chapter 856 ultimatum

"Is there any news in the UK?"

"There is no reply yet."

In the exquisite courtyard-style Xinhua Prime Minister's Office, almost every staff member will ask this question after work these days.

When Emperor Wilhelm II spoke in Parliament, the unexpectedly tough ultimatum was like a hurricane sweeping the whole world, making the whole world clear that the countries where the Allyte countries that are still stubbornly resisting have entered the last moment of choice.

Is the United States of America, which used to be proud to say that it did not fall, known as the first economy, go into decline from now on? Will the world be re-ruled by two upstarts? What kind of punishment will Serbia, which triggered the war, get? Will it be officially annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire? Will the hatred between Greece and the Ottoman Empire end? France, which has completely given up resistance, but has not finally surrendered, will become a second-rate country in the world?

Everything is like a huge knot that needs to be untied, attracting people's attention.

Even Tang Shaoyi, the prime minister of the country who is in charge of 500 million people and has the world's most powerful military force as the backing, after seeing Yan Fu coming in, he inevitably asked a vulgar question.

Yan Fu smiled and raised the telegram and said, "There are not many in Britain, but there are many in France."

"Oh? What's the matter?"

"Sneed is officially in power." Yan Fu put the telegram on the table and said, "He set up a department called the French [***] Administrative Committee and appointed himself the general manager. He also announced that he had taken over the entire French defense five hours ago!"

"Military Management Committee?"

This strange name made Tang Shaoyi twist her eyebrows, and even the action of cigaretteling was frozen in the air. She was surprised and said, "Isn't it good to be the president directly? What's the military committee? By the way, hasn't he announced his surrender yet?

"NO, this guy is a typical political speculator. He is estimated to be bargaining with Germany. It is said that after he came to power, it was once rumored that he would continue to resist and surround Bordeaux and Marseille!" Yan Fu laughed and said, "As for the military committee, I would also like to thank our emperor, because Gu Junhuo has entered Corsica at the request of Penggar and Fuxu. With the protection of the Seventh Fleet, about 5,000 French troops stationed there have announced that they will not recognize Sneid's political axe."

"Corsica?"

"Here it is." Yan Fu walked to the big map hanging on the wall of the office and found this small island next to Sardinia, Italy, more like a part of Sardinia. He pointed to it and said, "On May 15, 1768, Genoa signed a secret agreement with France to transfer Corsica to France and sold Corsica to France. But the islanders have never recognized the agreement. Even Napoleon's father, Charles. Bonapbat also took his wife here to participate in the defense of Corsica.

Later, Napoleon said that he could never forgive his father, because Bonapartist, who had been Pauli's adjutant, would agree to Corsica's marriage into France. He should share his fate with Pauli and fall with Pauli.

Tang Shaoyi put on her glasses and stared at Corsica for a long time before smiling: "Pengalle and others want to rely on Corsica as a base. I'm afraid it's not a good choice!"

"It's really not a good choice. No matter how dissatisfied Pengalle is with Snead, he will never use the division of the country as his card, so I'm afraid that the French people will abandon him." Yan Fu nodded and said, "So whether it's Pengalle or Fuxu, their goal must be to return to China for development after the war, and Corsica can only be temporarily used as a temporary foothold."

"Temporary stop, this word is well used." Tang Shaoyi took off her glasses and smiled, "Since he chose Corsica, we can't help them. Let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs go there to contact us. Maybe we can find someone. In the future, when Peng Jiale and others return to China, we can often take it out and beat the French political axe here."

"Prime Minister, don't worry, how can Chen Ping and other veterans let go of this good thing? They have been sent to the Intelligence Department. Feng Qi is also ready to take advantage of this visit to our country to establish the Corsician Embassy."

"These bastards." Tang Shaoyi laughed and scolded and asked, "Have Peng Jiale and Fu Xu come?"

"Vividani stayed in Corsica. The two of them have arrived in Singapore to rest. It is expected that they will arrive in Yanjing in about ten days."

"Prepare well." Tang Shaoyi narrowed her eyes, and those who knew him knew him very well. The Prime Minister's squinting must have a plan. This subtle action even raised the corners of Yan Fu's mouth, and only heard the Prime Minister say, "Help them."

"Prime Minister, what do you mean? Financial support!"

"Hmm."

Tang Shaoyi nodded: "Since Sneidel is on the stage, it is only a matter of time before France withdraws from the war. As you said, the continued resistance now is just political means and interfaces! Since there is no French containment, William II is embarrassed to take our assistance again! Italy is almost done. Let them find a way to save themselves, so that we can give the saved support to Pengalle and others.

"Hehe. Prime Minister, I'm afraid you don't just want to help Peng Jiale and others, do you?

After being exposed by Yan Fu, Tang Shaoyi smiled generously, pulled out a document from the table and handed it over. She smiled, "This is our post-war economic aid draft. We are going to submit it to the parliament for review after Pengalle's visit. You can have a look first."

After opening the file, Yan Fu's eyes suddenly lit up.

According to this draft, Xinhua Zheng Axe will provide economic assistance programs worth 10 billion blue coins to some post-war countries in the next five years, and this support for Pengalle is just a touchstone, mainly to explore the way for comprehensive assistance to countries.

On the surface, it seems to be cheap and obedient, because Xinhua's profit from this war far exceeds this aid, but in fact, this is a good way to solve the surplus of some industries in China.

War is a monster. While destroying production, it also makes some industries flourish. For example, manufacturing and military industry are the biggest beneficiaries. These industries will certainly enter a long period of recession after the war. How to ensure their smooth transition is not only related to the economic development of the country, but also to the country. The stability.

As early as after landing in the United States, people of insight such as Li Mo and Tang Shaoyi have been looking for a suitable solution. In the end, Li Mo thought of the huge Marshall Aid Plan for future generations. On the surface, the famous Marshall Plan is to help Europe restore economic order, but in fact it is to solve the U.S. manufacturing surplus and help get through the post-war recession.

Tang Shaoyi is also very clear that after the war, the game between countries will be dominated by economic and commodity expansion, supplemented by the military. German industry has no damage. Once the war is over, commodity exports can be resumed soon. Standing on moral heights, economic assistance It is really a wonderful idea to accelerate the expansion and export of commodities.

So there are very few direct cash assistance projects in this assistance plan, and most of them are in-kind assistance. Of course, low-interest loans will be provided to help the domestic banking industry go global. However, almost every additional condition of each loan requires that at least 70% of the loan funds be used to purchase goods from Xinhua.

Yan Fu will smile after watching it. The huge assistance plan of 10 billion blue coins is unprecedented except for war, and 7 billion of them will be directly returned to domestic factories. This huge order alone is enough to support the manufacturing industry to tide over the difficulties of a year or two and minimize the pace of economic recession.

With the conversation between the two, a first phase of a political support loan plan worth 50 million blue coins was officially released. The core of this plan is to help Pengalle and Fuxu maintain internal stability, purchase the necessary weapons and equipment, ensure Corsica's food and support for the development of its domestic political parties in the future. There is a place in France's political status.

After sitting for a while, Yan Fu got up and was just about to leave the office. He suddenly remembered something and turned his head and asked with a smile, "William II has opened his mouth. Are we?"

Tang Shaoyi didn't understand Yan Fu's meaning and laughed, "Go and take care of the secretariat. The Prime Minister's Office will hold a press conference tomorrow afternoon to tell the newspapers that there will be major news this time."

At 3 p.m. on April 6, Yanjing time, the day after Emperor Wilhelm II issued the most severe demand for Britain's immediate surrender since the beginning of the war, the Xinhua Prime Minister's Office also held a press conference at the same time.

At the meeting, Xinhua Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi attended the press conference in person. Standing in front of the small podium, he, on behalf of the royal family and Xinhua political axe, issued an ultimatum to the six countries of Britain, the United States, France, Canada, Greece and Serbia, which are still stubbornly resisting at the same time, asking them to give up their illusions and immediately and unconditionally lay down their weapons. The army must Immediately walk out of the trench to disarm, hand over the criminals who started the war, and accept the supervision of the Allies.

Unlike William II's speech to Britain, Tang Shaoyi's speech was larger and listed a large number of detailed data, accusing the Allies of destroying world peace, economy and culture, pointing directly at the last six countries of the Covenant, and for the first time proposing the establishment of an international tribunal to conduct public trials of war criminals. Ideas.

Tang Shaoyi said harshly in her speech, demanding that the remaining Allies must unconditionally accept this ultimatum, otherwise all the consequences will be borne by them themselves!

At the same time, Tang Shaoyi also said in a press conference that in view of the fact that countries suffered varying degrees of destruction during the war and the economic system tends to collapse, as a responsible world power, Xinhua will consider providing a huge aid loan plan with a total of about 10 billion blue coins to all countries in the world, of which the first batch of 600 million Yuan will be handed over to Japan and North Korea after the official end of the war to restore the two countries.

One stone stirs up a thousand waves. When the two cores of the Allies issued an ultimatum at the same time, the whole world knew that the war was about to end. Xinhua's 10 billion aid loan program has trampled the threshold of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Colombia, Mexico, Italy, Austria-Hungary and other countries to inquire about how to get loans, and even Germany has tried to inquire about the content of the draft aid plan.

Immediately after that, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Osman, Japan, North Korea, Colombia and other allied countries also issued announcements demanding that the treaty immediately lay down their weapons and surrender. Even neutral countries such as Switzerland and Brazil, which had nothing to do with it, also spread the news that they liked to end the war as soon as possible and restore the world order.

After the ultimatum was issued, the first to react was the Canadian political axe.

On April 11, Canada's political axe, which had already recovered all the soldiers and had been waiting for the news of the United States, announced its surrender in Ottawa and began unilateral negotiations between the Allies on post-war compensation and other issues.

Only five days later, Sneidi, who reached an agreement with Germany, announced the surrender of France in Bordeaux, and at the same time announced the lifting of all troops and waiting for the full end of the war.

Seven days later, the Greek political axe announced its surrender.

On the same day, after urgent consultation, the alliance authorized the Ottoman 6th Infantry Division to enter Greece to help the Greek political axe maintain national stability and be responsible for supervising the army to lay down its weapons.

With the surrender of the three countries, the eyes of the world surrendered to the United Kingdom and the United States. As for Serbia, it has long been a ruined country and a country, so it has not attracted much attention.

In the case of a late reply. On April 25, the Xinhua Department of Defense officially ordered the 51st and 52nd Squadrons, which are on duty on the east coast of the United States, to be ready to cross the Atlantic.

On the same day, the German navy, which had just taken over the two latest York-class battleships, also began to prepare for war in Kiel Harbour

(to be continued)