Chapter 1036 Another Country
When the Chinese army arrived at Lysandry, which was still 80 kilometers away from Paris, they were stopped by representatives of the French Provisional Government, who expressed their intention to negotiate surrender.
This made Tao Kewu, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, very helpless. He wanted to ignore the opponent and push all the way to Paris.
However, this would be a bit excessive and might completely anger all the French people.
After all, it is definitely unjustifiable to beat someone after they have promised to surrender.
If we want to fight, we should wait until the negotiations break down before fighting. This makes sense logically.
After consulting Wu Changqing, Tao Kewu started negotiations with the French Provisional Government in Lysandre.
The negotiation process was also surprisingly smooth.
In order for Dahua to withdraw its troops and to cease the war, the French Provisional Government had no bottom line and easily agreed to Dahua's requests.
This made Tao Kewu completely lose his temper, and he couldn't find any excuse for the breakdown of negotiations.
In other words, he may not have a chance to play in Paris again.
Of course, if France can be forced to agree to Dahua's conditions, this battle can be considered to have achieved enough gains, and it is not impossible to withdraw its troops.
After many days of negotiations, Dahua and France signed the Lysandre contract.
The treaty stipulated that France ceded all the territory of the former Netherlands to Dahua, making it Dahua's first province in Europe.
It is very easy for Dahua to occupy European territories at this time.
However, not all places will be liked by Dahua.
For example, if England cedes London to Dahua, Dahua doesn't really want it.
Londoners were too hostile to Dahua, making it difficult to govern, and the occupation was meaningless.
It's almost the same in other places.
Only the Netherlands is different. After all, the Dutch government-in-exile has been seeking help from Dahua and is very close to Dahua.
Therefore, these people’s propaganda in the Netherlands is all about Dahua.
Now that Dahua has helped them break away from French rule, their favorability towards Dahua has increased again.
Therefore, it will be easy for Dahua to manage this area without having to worry about guerrillas causing trouble to them all day long.
Moreover, Dahua also needs the Netherlands as a demonstration site, just like Fuso's Minami Kyushu.
Dahua wants to govern the Netherlands very well and let people in other European countries see how comfortable they can be if they are merged with Dahua.
At that time, it may not be that Dahua wants to forcibly conquer other places, but that other places are begging to be merged into Dahua.
It is difficult to achieve this step, but even if it cannot be done, it does not matter. As long as it can make people in other countries less hostile to Dahua and more yearning for Dahua, then the Dutch demonstration site will have completed its mission.
This is also the reason why Dahua wants the Netherlands during negotiations.
As for France, the Netherlands had originally stolen it, and it didn't matter if it was lost at this time. Anyway, neither they nor the people in the Netherlands could pee in the same pot.
Those Dutch people were making trouble all day long and were very annoying. Throwing this place to Dahua is equivalent to throwing away a burden.
This is how the French government explained it to the people.
In the official interpretation, losing the Netherlands was like a great victory.
Not to mention, for ordinary people with low levels of education, this statement is very suitable for them.
The people at the bottom who are not highly educated really don't care much about losing their country. On the contrary, they are dissatisfied with the compensation.
After all, losing territory is a matter for the country, but paying reparations will increase their taxes.
Lysandre's contract naturally included war reparations, and they were very heavy.
Fifteen million Chinese dollars, three times that of England.
There is no way, who told these guys not to let the Chinese army go to Paris to rob, this made the Chinese army very dissatisfied.
On the issue of compensation, Hua Jun said that if the amount was lower than this, they would meet in person and they would go to Paris to grab 15 million themselves.
This made the representatives of the provisional government want to cry, so they could only agree with tears.
Fifteen million Chinese dollars is a big burden for France.
The important thing to note is that it is for France, not for them, the nobles in power.
The French government has no money, but these nobles are actually very rich.
It is easy for them to raise fifteen million.
But what does the defeat of France have to do with me, the French nobles?
It is absolutely impossible for nobles like them to pay for it.
This money can only be obtained by liquidating the Bourbon royal family, and then collecting some from the private sector to see if they can collect enough.
If it's not enough, you can only increase the scraping intensity. If there is more, these nobles can still get a share.
In addition, France does not allow any more emperors, and the top leader can only be called king or president.
Secondly, France’s colonies in Central America, that is, in Mexico, were also ceded to Dahua.
Of course, France doesn’t care whether the local immigrants are happy or not. This needs to be handled by Dahua itself.
The Lysandrian Contract is very similar to the London Treaty. What is included in the London Treaty is also included in the Lysandrian Contract.
Including limiting the number of armies, the number of French armies was limited to 100,000.
It seems to be twice as large as England, but France's territory is also much larger than England's
That's a lot.
An army of 100,000 people is barely enough to maintain the rule of this country, and no more troops can be spared for expansion.
Of course, the current interim government has no ambitions to expand. They just want to survive.
There are also things like abolishing tariffs and adding Chinese language classes.
Among them, what makes the provisional government more uncomfortable is the mandatory addition of Chinese language learning.
The French are quite satisfied with their language. They think French is the most standard language and they don't like English, Spanish and other languages.
Although they dare not say that French is more beautiful than Chinese, it is also a kind of torture for them to learn Chinese which is super difficult to learn.
However, the conditions are placed in front of them, whether they like to sign or not.
In desperation, the interim government could only choose to swallow its anger. The worst thing is, Dahua will be perfunctory in execution in the future.
The signing of the Treaty of Lysandry meant that France also became a semi-colonial country.
Although it doesn't look as bad as England, its prospects are even worse than England's.
After all, England still had a unitary government.
Although France solved Louis XIV, there was no strong figure who could convince the public.
Next, the main theme in France will not be development, but the distribution of power.
It is foreseeable that the political situation in France will be in chaos again by then, and it is entirely possible that the people of Paris will revolt again.