With this batch of firearms as a welcome gift, the attitude of the Northeast Army towards this small German delegation was completely different!
Even though they didn't know why the German army was using Eagle Sauce to transport their weapons, they didn't care about that. They were more concerned about what the German army could provide them other than these weapons.
"Our country has a large population, but the food production is relatively limited. In addition, all the overseas colonies have been lost, so we have to purchase food and minerals from abroad. The iron ore reserves in the northeast are very rich, and our country is willing to provide equipment to develop the iron ore in the northeast with your army!”
Everyone in the Northeast Army breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the request from Maynz.
To be honest, the gift from the German army was very expensive. 50 fighter jets, 50 Renault tanks, 1000 Maxim heavy machine guns, 500 MP14 submachine guns, 100 Krupp cannons, 20,000 Mauser rifles, 5 million bullets, and 10,000 shells.
According to the market price, this batch of firearms was worth at least 50 million silver dollars!
In 1918, last year, Zhang Zuolin had sent troops to snatch a batch of weapons purchased by Feng Guozhang from the foot basin. There were only 27,000 rifles in that batch of weapons, and the price was as high as 18 million silver dollars. It was with this batch of arms that Zhang Zuolin's Northeast Army could quickly recruit soldiers and horses. From a small warlord with tens of thousands of people, it suddenly expanded to 200,000 people. It became an existence that could compete with the direct warlords and the Anhui-related warlords!
This time, not only were there 20,000 Mauser rifles, but there were also a large number of submachine guns and heavy machine guns, as well as planes and tanks. The value of this batch of firearms was much more expensive than the ones they had snatched last year!
Zhang Zuolin and the others were not fools. They knew that there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world. The Hans had given them such an expensive gift, so they naturally wanted to obtain some other benefits from them.
They were still guessing what the German army wanted, but after hearing what Maynz said, the generals of the Northeast Army were relieved.
Food and minerals were not a problem for the Northeast Army. The Northeast Plains was 350,000 square kilometers. Such a vast area could feed hundreds of millions of people. At this time, the population of the Northeast was less than 20 million. While the entire country was worried about the lack of land, there was still a large amount of wasteland in the Northeast that had not been reclaimed. The land problem was almost non-existent for the Northeast.
It was also because of the large amount of wealth in the northeast that there had been a large wave of migration in the past few years.
Since the conditions proposed by the other party were not excessive, the Northeast Army had no objections to cooperating with Hans.
The two sides quickly signed a secret agreement. After settling this matter, Colonel Maynz did not stay in China and immediately took a boat to North America.
In this trip, North America was the most important part because the layout of North America would determine the source of funds for their various activities in the future!
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Just as Maynz arrived in North America, the Iron Tower City Peace Conference that took half a year finally came to an end.
The three main member states of the alliance had a huge difference in their positions on the issue of Germany:
Gaul's idea was to severely punish and weaken Hans as much as possible.
Sun Never Sets, out of consideration for the traditional continental equilibrium policy, hoped to maintain a relatively strong and independent Hans in order to maintain the balance of power in the continent and prevent Gaul from monopolizing the power.
On the other hand, Ying-chan hoped to establish a system that could guarantee long-term peace as soon as possible and benefit from it. They wanted to obtain as many benefits as possible, but at the same time, they didn't want to get involved in the war. Therefore, they needed to appease Hans and prevent him from taking revenge for this failure in the future.
If they couldn't solve the European problem properly, the Hawkeye people believed that the war in Europe would only be delayed, but it would come again sooner or later.
Although their interests were different, the three countries had one thing in common. They all advocated that Hans should compensate for the war.
After the three countries discussed, they decided that the Weimar Republic should pay a total of 226 billion marks to the allies according to the decision of the compensation committee of the allied countries. However, due to the continuous depreciating of Hans 'currency, they asked the Weimar Republic to use gold to pay the war reparations. After this war reparations was converted into gold, it became a jaw-dropping astronomical figure!
The Weimar Republic had to compensate the allied countries with 96000 tons of gold within 99 years!!!
After all, there were only about 80,000 tons of gold in the world. That meant that even if all the gold in the world belonged to Hans, it would not be enough for them to compensate the allied countries!
The war compensation request of the allied countries was really too outrageous, but there was something even more outrageous. After private discussion, the British and French countries decided to send troops together to block Hans's sea entrance to control Hans 'foreign trade. If the Weimar Republic was unable to repay the war debt, they would directly send troops to seize Hans' goods and even ships as compensation!
This action was strongly opposed by Ying-chan, because Ying-chan had always hoped to get a share of the post-war reconstruction work in Hans. This move by Britain and France was undoubtedly sending Ying-chan out of the Weimar Republic's trade, which Ying-chan could not accept.
Therefore, after the conclusion of the Iron Tower City Peace Conference and the Versailles treaty, President Ying-chan refused to sign the Versailles treaty. Instead, he signed a contract with Hans alone.
This incident caused a heated discussion around the world. Some were just watching the show, some were planning to make a fool of Ying-chan, and some were worried that Britain and France would take war measures against Ying-chan.
However, very few people cared about or sympathized with the country that had lost the war and had to bear such heavy war reparations.
Just like Ying-chan, another country that refused to sign the treaty, the representative of China, also came to the capital of the Weimar Republic after Ying-chan and signed a treaty with Hans on the Jiaodong Peninsula.
In this treaty, the Weimar Republic acknowledged the sovereignty of the Chinese over the Jiaodong Peninsula and expressed its willingness to compensate for past crimes. Of course, given the current financial situation of the Weimar Republic, the amount of compensation would not be too large. It was only about 1 million pounds, which was almost a symbolic compensation.
However, when this news spread back to China, the attitude of the Chinese people towards the Weimar Republic changed drastically. Ever since the Opium War, this was the first time a foreign country had compensated China, and not China. When they thought of the heavy war reparations on the back of the Weimar Republic, the people generally had a good impression and even sympathy for this poor new country.
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