On January 18th, the Iron Tower City Peace Conference, which was targeting the allied countries after the war, held its first meeting.
The heads of the three countries held a formal meeting.
In this meeting, the Gaul President, Puengale, ridiculed the Second Empire as " born of injustice and died of shame." He also expressed the views of the Gaul government and proposed a basic plan that included punishing the war culprits, judging the German Emperor Wilhelm II and the German war criminals, and dismembering the Hans Empire.
Although the Gaul government had already expressed an extremely tough stance before this, it was still very shocking that the Gaul president officially raised this point at the peace conference.
However, after the shock, many people reacted. Gaul was not only trying to completely solve the hidden danger of the Hans Empire once and for all, but also to clear the obstacles for him to dominate Europe.
As for Gaul's proposal, the representatives of Sun Never Sets had yet to express their attitude. It was impossible to tell whether they supported or opposed it.
However, President Wei Erxun mercilessly expressed his opposition.
"Gentlemen, I believe that all of you here are civilized gentlemen and should not do anything against humanity. I don't object to the punishment of the defeated country, but if you ignore the tens of millions of people of the defeated country because of your own selfishness, I beg to differ!”
He added," I believe that the 80 million citizens of the United States will not approve of such shameful behavior!”
Wilson's words were very merciless, so much so that the Gaul's expression turned extremely ugly after hearing his words!
However, even though the Gaul people were furious after hearing President Wilson's words, the other countries nodded after hearing President Hawkeye's words.
Obviously, they all agreed with President Wilson's speech. The Gauls had proposed to severely punish the war criminals and dismember Hans for their own benefit. Not to mention whether this proposal was realistic, just how should the 70 million citizens of Hans be dealt with?
It was already the 20th century, not the dark era of the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages, people fought for survival, but in this era, people fought for benefits.
With the technological advancement brought about by the second industrial revolution, agricultural technology had been greatly developed. The production of synthetic nitrogen technology not only allowed the rapid development of weapons technology, but also solved the problems of fertilizers and pesticides that plagued agriculture. Therefore, countries could rely on limited land to produce enough food. They no longer needed to fight for farmland!
When the problem of survival was solved, the European countries entered the stage of civilization. At least on the surface, they were civilized countries.
Under such a social background, if the plan proposed by the Gauls was implemented, it would probably cause a huge human crisis. At least tens of millions of Hans would die.
If this kind of thing happened in remote countries such as Asia, Africa, and Latina, the Western media could pretend not to know. However, this happened in Europe, which was close at hand, and it was a traditional Western European region. This made it impossible to hide this kind of thing.
If they couldn't hide it, they would be exposed. Once exposed, it would have a huge negative impact on the government.
Moreover, with the rise of nationalism in the 20th century, the problem of nationalism began to become more acute. If they really followed the plan of the Gauls to divide Hans, the nearly 70 million Hans would definitely resist. They would definitely use all kinds of methods to resist the foreign invaders. If the countries wanted to control and digest this place, they would need to invest a lot of manpower and material resources. It would take years or even decades to finally digest this place.
This would bring a huge economic burden to the countries. Faced with such a huge cost, the countries naturally had no interest in dismembering Hans.
If Hans's land was unowned and uninhabited, the countries would not mind dividing it up. However, when Hans 'land was filled with Hans' people, this proposal became unattractive.
Instead of wasting manpower and resources on something that would not benefit him, it was better to ask for something that could benefit him, such as asking the Weimar Republic to pay war reparations!
Therefore, the representatives quickly abandoned the proposal put forward by the president of Gaul and began a fierce negotiation on the post-war compensation and the division of Hans 'domestic and overseas assets!
"Since we want to suppress Hans, we might as well empty their family's assets and take away all the machinery and equipment in their factories. Wouldn't that also be effective in suppressing Hans?”
The representative of the Billy Kingdom made a suggestion. Before the war, Billy was a neutral country, just like the neighboring Windmill Kingdom.
However, they were not as lucky as the Windmill Kingdom. After all, the Queen of the Windmill Kingdom was a distant relative of the German Emperor.
After the Franco-Princes War, Gaul had built a large number of fortresses and offensives on the German-French border, hoping to block the German invasion. The German army was naturally unwilling to attack the Gaul's battlefront. They hoped to bypass the Gaul's front line of defense on the battlefield and attack Iron Tower City from the undefended lowland countries of Gaul!
In order to realize this battle plan, they chose to attack Gaul through the Billy Division. Therefore, even though the Billy Division declared neutrality, they were still forcefully dragged into the war by the Second Empire.
This attack plan of the German army was the famous Schlieffen Plan, which was also the tactical basis for the German army's flash attack on Gaul during World War II.
Billy Division was just a small country and could not be a match for the powerful German army. Therefore, after they were dragged into the war, they immediately hugged the thighs of Gaul and Sun Never Sets. The Anglo-French coalition forces took this opportunity to enter Billy Division and fight with the German army.
At this time, although Belish looked like an independent country, it was actually just a follower of Gaul. Therefore, everyone was not surprised by Belish's suggestion.
Of course, the Bilishite's suggestion was not only in line with their boss's proposal, but they also had their own plans.
To the east of Billy's division was the Ruhr industrial area, which was very important to Hans. There were a lot of factories and machinery here.
If they could seize the Ruhr industrial zone, not only would they be able to make up for the losses of Billy Division in the war, but they would also be able to make a lot of money for themselves. They could even greatly improve the industrial level of their country and bring their national strength to a higher level!
In history, three years after the signing of the Versailles treaty, Billy and the Gauls openly invaded the Ruhr industrial zone and looted it again!
A pitiful person must have something hateful about him. During the Second World War, the German army invaded the three countries. Other than the windmill country, the other countries were not innocent at all!
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