Thiers must surrender. All his destiny is held by Bismarck and Xiao Letian, especially the army. Now all Thiers' hopes are pinned on the elite army trained by Napoleon III. !
There are a total of 300,000 French prisoners in the hands of Germany and the Chinese, and these people are the last army Thiers can count on. No one in the Paris Commune can suppress the rebellion except them!
Xiao Letian's bet before was very simple. If Thiers could solve the problem in Paris by himself, then these 300,000 prisoners would be of little value!
France can redeem the worthless captives by paying one or two hundred million more!
But the beauty of the bet is that Xiao Letian has identified you Thiers, and the army in your hand is no match for the commune at all!
Anyone who is not a truly proficient military expert or a person who has a unique judgment on the current situation and people's hearts will not dare to start this bet!
If Thiers wins, then we will carry out the price agreed with the old general Trochu, and pay an indemnity of 1.2 billion in exchange for peace between the two countries.
If you lose in Thiers, which means you still have to rely on the 300,000 prisoners in our hands in Paris, then the price will have to be settled!
Are you heartbroken? Sorry, who else can you count on besides these 300,000 imperial veterans? Should the British be asked to send troops to quell the rebellion? It is estimated that the price they will ask for will be even more severe by then!
It is really ironic to say that Napoleon III was abandoned by France like toilet paper, but the legacy left by Napoleon III has become the most popular and the only hope to save the Republic!
Only today did Thiers understand the brilliance of the French Emperor. This army really cannot rely entirely on the compulsory military system. Professional legions must be maintained!
The more than 300,000 elite members of the French Emperor are all lifelong professional legions. As long as they can be selected into it, their lifelong jobs are guaranteed!
If the state keeps these people together, not engaged in production and out of touch with society, then their thoughts will be purer and their fighting power will be stronger!
With such a legion, we can suppress any revolution without mercy, even if we shoot at our compatriots without any psychological burden!
They are trained like this, and military orders are as big as the sky!
The Southern Army led by Gambetta also included the former Paris garrison. Those soldiers were, to put it bluntly, a nationalist army that came together for money and a sense of national justice!
Once this kind of army encounters foreign enemies or invaders and fights what they consider to be a just war, it will be invincible and will die without hesitation!
But if such an army is to suppress the rebellion in the country, it will be useless at all, because every component of such an army, that is, every soldier, has his own chaotic thoughts.
They have their own judgments about everything in the world, and they may not recognize your commander's values. Military orders like mountains are accepted selectively!
Kill fellow citizens? Your grandma! I quit and start an uprising before the battle!
It's just like this, such a simple and small problem, Thiers can't analyze it!
Maybe he could analyze it, but the current situation trapped him and forced him to take risks! Because he really has no other legions in his hand to use, and no cards to play, he can only take a gamble with his eyes closed!
If he loses, he still loses in the end, so there is only the last way left in front of him, humiliatingly accepting all the conditions, and then in exchange for 300,000 imperial veterans, used to suppress the Paris Commune!
"Please...can we discuss it again...can Alsace and Lorraine hold a national referendum? Let the people choose which country they belong to?"
The referendum declares that it belongs to Germany, so that Thiers can retreat. At least it has an excuse and a step down!
But Bismarck will never cause trouble, he will not add any more surprises!
"No! There is no referendum, only cession! I will not take any risks. From now on, it will be my German land!"
Xiao Letian also shook his head, "Annan, don't even think about the referendum. You can't win. It's better to save a few lives... Just cut it off. There are many benefits!"
As soon as he said this sentence, Xiao Letian felt a chill all over his body, bah bah bah... Why did he just sound like the eunuch who cut off the penis in Zhou Xingxing's The Deer and the Cauldron? It was so disgusting!
At this point, Thiers had no choice but to accept his fate. He nodded in humiliation, "What about the compensation... I really can't afford that much money. Can it be less, any less..."
Xiao Letian's eyes turned blue when he talked about money. He was short of money right now. When he heard this, his eyes suddenly widened. "Haha... Sixty-two hundred and sixty million gold francs, not even one less!"
"Stop dreaming, you have no choice!"
ah! Fangguan, who was ordering tea next to her, shook her hand and poured out a cup of tea. This was the first time she heard the negotiated figures. At that time, the opera goddess was dumbfounded.
Xiao Letian glanced at him and gave her a look that you heard right: "Your Excellency, 6.26 billion gold francs! Five billion of them are compensation to the German Empire..."
"The Chinese gave me 1.2 billion, and the remaining 60 million is for you to compensate Belgium... You have invaded someone else's territory, so you have to be considerate!"
"This is a punitive indemnity. This is to make you France remember and never be an invader from now on! Whenever you want to declare war, think carefully about this number of 6.26 billion! "
"Are you trying to drain France of its old wealth? The people will not survive!" Thiers roared sadly.
"That is your nation's own problem. You should solve it yourself... Don't cry about being poor. France is a country of loan sharks in Europe. You have a lot of wealth among the people. This small amount of money can't trouble you!"
Bismarck stared at Thiers with a venomous gaze like a hawk: "To tell you the truth, I just want to use these 5 billion war reparations to suppress your French national destiny for fifty years!"
"I will make France fall behind Germany by a whole generation, so that you will never be able to launch a war of aggression again!"
"When this money is paid in full, my troops will withdraw from the country... I have the patience to waste it with you!"
The negotiations have reached a deadlock. During this period, Fangguan has been sitting in the Netherlands handling some stock and bond tasks. He is very familiar with the current exchange rates in European countries.
Sixty-two hundred and sixty million francs, that’s £250 million!
Sixty-two hundred and sixty million francs, that’s US$1.25 billion!
6.26 billion francs, that is 1.55 billion Qing Kuping silver!
6.26 billion francs, that’s 2.25 billion Chinese dragon-patterned silver dollars!
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