The Third Reich: The Return of the King

With this batch of munitions as a greeting gift, the attitude of the Northeast Army towards this small German delegation was completely different!

Although they did not know why the German munitions were delivered using Eagle Sauce's transport ships, they were not concerned with this issue, they were more concerned with what the Germans could provide them with in addition to these weapons.

"Our country has a large population, but the grain production is relatively limited, and all overseas colonies have been lost, so it is necessary to purchase grain and minerals from abroad, and the iron ore reserves in the northeast region are very rich, and our country is willing to provide equipment to develop the iron ore in the northeast region with your army!"

After hearing Mainz's request, everyone in the Northeast Army breathed a sigh of relief.

To tell the truth, this gift from the Germans was very valuable, 50 fighters, 50 Renault tanks, 1,000 Maxim heavy machine guns, 500 MP14 submachine guns, 100 Krupp cannons, 20,000 Mauser rifles plus 5 million rounds of ammunition and 10,000 shells.

According to the market price, this batch of arms is estimated to be worth at least 50 million silver dollars!

In 1918, that is, last year, Zhang Zuolin once sent troops to snatch a batch of weapons purchased by Feng Guozhang from the foot basin, that batch of weapons was only 27,000 rifles, and the price was as high as 18 million silver dollars, and it was with this batch of arms that Zhang Zuolin's Northeast Army could quickly recruit troops, from the previous small warlords of tens of thousands of people, suddenly expanded to 200,000 people, and became an existence that can wrestle with direct warlords and Anhui warlords!

And this time, Mainz gave away not only 20,000 Mauser rifles, but also a large number of submachine guns and heavy machine guns, and even planes and tanks, and the value of this batch of arms is much more expensive than the one they grabbed last year!

Zhang Zuolin and the others are not stupid, of course they understand that there is no free lunch in this world, and the Hans people gave such a valuable gift, naturally they want to get some other benefits from them.

Before, they were still speculating and didn't know what the Germans wanted, but now after hearing Mainz's words, the generals of the Northeast Army were immediately relieved.

The Northeast Plain is 350,000 square kilometers, and such a vast area can feed hundreds of millions of people, while the population of Northeast China is less than 20 million at this time.

It is precisely because of the abundance of land in the Northeast that a wave of population migration to the eastern part of the country has begun in recent years.

Since the conditions proposed by the other party are not excessive, the Northeast Army has no opinion on the matter of cooperating with Hans.

The two sides soon secretly signed an agreement, and after settling the matter, Colonel Mainz did not continue his stay in the Celestial Empire, and immediately sailed to North America.

In this trip, North America is the most important part, because the layout of North America determines the source of funds for their future activities!

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Just when Mainz arrived in North America, the Tower City Peace Conference, which had taken more than half a year, finally came to an end.

There were huge differences in the positions of the three main members of the Entente on the German question:

Gaul's proposition was to punish and weaken Hans as much as possible

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The sun never sets, out of the traditional continental equilibrium policy, hopes to maintain a relatively strong and economically self-reliant Hans, so as to maintain the balance of power on the continent and prevent Gaul from becoming a monopoly;

Eagle Sauce, on the other hand, wants to establish a system that will guarantee a lasting peace as soon as possible and benefit from it, and they want to get as much benefit as possible, but at the same time they don't want to get involved in the war, so they need to appease Hans and avoid revenge for this defeat in the future.

If the European problem cannot be properly solved, the Eagle Sauce people think that the war in Europe is just postponed, but sooner or later it will come again.

Despite their divergent interests, the three countries agreed that they also claimed that Hans needed reparations for the war.

After the three countries discussed, they decided that the Weimar Republic should pay a total of 226 billion marks in compensation to the Entente countries according to the decision of the Entente Reparations Commission, but in view of the continuous depreciation of Hans's currency, they asked the government of the Weimar Republic to use gold to pay war reparations, and this war reparations became a jaw-dropping astronomical amount when converted into gold!

The Weimar Republic was required to compensate the Allies with 96,000 tons of gold !! within 99 years

You must know that at this time, the total amount of gold in the world is only about 80,000 tons, that is to say, even if all the gold in the world belongs to Hans, it is not enough for them to compensate the Entente!

The Entente's demand for war reparations is too outrageous, but there is even more outrageous, after discussing privately between Britain and France, they decided to jointly send troops to block Hans's access to the sea, so as to control Hans's foreign trade, if there is a problem that the Weimar Republic cannot repay its war debts, then they will directly send troops to seize Hans's goods and even ships, as a reparation! !

This action was strongly opposed by Eagle Sauce, who had always wanted a piece of the Hans post-war reconstruction work, and the British and French undoubtedly sent Eagle Sauce out of the trade of the Weimar Republic, which was unacceptable to Eagle Sauce.

As a result, after the Peace Conference at Tower City ended and the Treaty of Versailles was issued, President Eagle refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles and signed a contract with Hans alone.

At that time, this incident caused a heated discussion in countries around the world, some of them did not think it was a big deal to see the excitement, some of them planned to watch Eagle Sauce's jokes with bad intentions, and some were worried that Britain and France would take war measures against Eagle Sauce.

However, few people care about and sympathize with the country that lost the war and had to bear such heavy war reparations.

Like Eagle Sauce, another country that refused to sign the treaty, the representative of the Celestial Empire, also came to the capital of the Weimar Republic after Eagle Sauce and signed a treaty with Hans alone for the Jiaodong Peninsula of the Celestial Empire.

In this treaty, the Weimar Republic recognized the sovereignty of the Celestial Empire over the Jiaodong Peninsula and expressed its willingness to pay compensation for past crimes, of course, given the current financial situation of the Weimar Republic, the amount of compensation was not too large, only about 1 million pounds, which was almost symbolic compensation.

However, when the news was transmitted back to the Celestial Empire, the attitude of the people of the Celestial Empire towards the Weimar Republic had changed greatly, since the Opium War, this was the first time that foreign countries compensated the Celestial Empire, rather than the Celestial Empire compensated foreign countries.