Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

At twelve o'clock in the evening, Lai left Lin Yi's temporary residence.

Since then, Poincaré has changed his previous attitude from opposing the establishment of an independent country by the consortium to acquiescing to it.

Without Poincaré's obstruction, within the Gallic Empire, there were growing calls for support for the consortium to establish an independent country.

A month later, at the end of the post-war peace talks, Poincaré finally signed the document transferring the Strasbourg area.

At the same time, Edmund and others also used financial pressure to force William II to sign the document transferring the Rhineland region.

Thus, in Europe, the prototype of a new small country appeared.

As soon as this country emerged, the Great Xia Empire, the Gallic Empire, the Hans Empire, and Milicia immediately chose to recognize it.

Immediately afterwards, the John Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Italy also recognized it.

Faced with this situation, countries around the world have recognized that this emerging country can be said to have established a firm foothold on the international stage.

However, this new country, like Switzerland, declared itself a permanent neutral country on the first day of its establishment and would not establish an army. National security would be shared by the Gallic Empire and the Hans Empire.

In order to establish this country, the consortium decided to exempt or exempt a certain amount of war loans from various countries after discussions. This move relieved the heavily indebted Hans Empire.

However, the Hans Empire lost its industrial area, the Rhineland, for these war loans, and the Gallic Empire also lost its defensive core on the eastern front.

I don’t know who wins and who loses in the end.

Originally, the proposal for the establishment of this country was put forward at the beginning of the peace talks, but Lin Yi and a group of heads of major participating countries were unwilling to talk about it at the beginning.

The reason is also very simple, because they know the thoughts of this group of consortium too well.

If he talks about the founding of the country first, the consortium will never relent on reparations. The only way is to take advantage of the consortium's eagerness to build a country and force them to make concessions in other aspects.

This sentence may sound funny and contradictory, but in fact, it is true.

It may be easier to understand if we use another concept to describe this matter.

If we look at the country like a company, it means that consortiums invest in competing companies for their own benefit. The two sides fought fiercely in the market, fighting to the death.

Then the losing party will be taken all by the winning party.

So the question is, what should the losers, those who originally owned the equity, do? Should it be resolved through negotiation?

If it is related to your own vital interests, then everyone must make it clear even if it is 0.01 equity.

However, at this time, you throw out something that all the consortia want, and they desperately want it. With this idea, will they still care about the 0.01 equity?

Under the temptation of establishing an independent country, everyone almost got it.

Lin Yi and the others just wanted to take advantage of the consortium's thinking and force them to relent as soon as possible.

The result of the matter was just as Lin Yi and the others thought. In order to establish the country as soon as possible, those financial groups gave up part of their interests to promote a formal armistice among European countries.

And when the document was officially signed, those consortiums couldn't wait to transfer their assets to the Rhineland.

Lin Yi really wanted to laugh when he saw the consortium's actions.

This is simply putting meat in the wolf's mouth. Doesn't this tempt the people around them to look at them with eager eyes?

Seeing such an operation, Lin Yi couldn't help but want to complain in his heart. These people are really only suitable for business, and they really don’t understand politics at all.

In other words, hundreds of years have made them lose their most basic vigilance.

As a consortium, they can control the economic lifeline of a country and call the shots. But when this subject becomes a country, this privilege will disappear.

If these people still manage the country with the same ideas they used to manage factories and enterprises, they will soon become full of complaints.

At that time, all it takes is a gentle push from someone, and they will be trapped in a point of no return.

However, these will still take some time, Lin Yi is not in a hurry.

This time, in addition to the founding of the country by the consortium, some important agreements were also reached during the peace talks.

For example, the distribution of interests among countries after the war.

The Hans Empire got what it wanted and got the land in southeastern Africa, connecting their colonies together.

In the next step, the Hans Empire plans to increase its investment in Africa and build Africa into its second homeland.

Speaking of territory, in this war, the biggest loser in terms of territory was the John Empire.

After all, they lost almost as much land in Africa as they did in their own country. Lost control of the Cape of Good Hope.

Although the importance of the Cape of Good Hope has become less important after the opening of the Suez Canal, it is still an important navigation channel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean.

If war breaks out and the Suez Canal is destroyed, warships from the Atlantic Ocean must pass through the Cape of Good Hope if they want to enter the Indian Ocean.

Once the Cape of Good Hope is blocked, if you want to enter the Indian Ocean, you must first break through the blockade.

In this way, the safety factor in the Indian Ocean will be greatly improved.

In addition to John's empire, Millican's losses were also not small.

Regardless of the fact that on the battlefield of World War I, Millikin seemed to have made very little investment. Their army basically did not participate in the war, but the losses were considerable.

The destruction of the entire Pacific Fleet caused Millikin to completely lose its right to speak in the Pacific. Then the loss of the Hawaiian Islands also allowed Daxia to extend its hands to the Eastern Pacific region.

However, due to the terms between Bactria and Milicia, Bactria withdrew its troops from the Hawaiian Islands and supported a Hawaiian Kingdom.

Daxia only has one naval supply base in the Kingdom of Hawaii, with only 30,000 permanent troops.

But anyone with a discerning eye knows that behind the Kingdom of Hawaii is Daxia. Daxia's warships will also be able to patrol the Eastern Pacific region for a long time because of this base.

If the establishment of the Kingdom of Hawaii made America uncomfortable, then the complete fall of South America to Bactria would be regarded as cutting off the economic lifeline of America.

As we all know, both South America and Central and North America are America’s backyard, and their capital has penetrated into all walks of life.

With the failure of the South American War, a wave of rejection of Millenia set off in South America. A large amount of American capital was squeezed out of the market by Daxia and local capital.

In addition, during the war, American capital invested, but lost the war in the end, which caused the American capital market to lose even its pants.

However, this also leads to another problem.

Facing the threat of Bactria, Millican realized the importance of the army earlier than in the original history. As a result, a large amount of capital began to be invested in military construction.

It is also worth mentioning that although the Jewish consortium diverted capital from most European countries and entered the new country, they were the only ones to strengthen their investment in Millikin.

Therefore, today's Millikin is basically controlled by the consortium.