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After obtaining conclusive evidence, Chairman Shi summoned the consuls of Germany and France, put the confessions of the spies of the two countries in front of them, and then informed them that Nanhua was about to expel 1800 aviation school students from the two countries. It will be given to Britain, the United States, Italy, Japan, Russia, Austria and other countries.

At the same time, Germany and France will lose the qualification to purchase Nanhua's next-generation fighter jets.

This news is not without shock, and the consequences are not without heavy consequences.

The German and French consuls immediately panicked, and they immediately contacted the country to discuss countermeasures.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II immediately called Chairman Shi, first of all apologizing for the mistakes made by the German military department. At the same time, he expressed that the German federal government was willing to compensate the poisoned air force instructors. Specific compensation conditions were requested by Chairman Shi.

After Shi Jintang communicated with the cabinet, he changed the compensation conditions directly to the Marshall Islands, a German colony in the Pacific.

If Germany agrees, it will allow German students to continue studying and sign a guarantee agreement. In the future, they will not be allowed to send spies to spy on South China's military situation.

William II looked at Britain across the strait and reluctantly agreed.

Nanhua wants the Marshall Islands, and the most important thing is Nauru. The guano on this island has been discovered by the British and is now being mined.

After taking over, Nanhua will organize black people to go to the island to dig up guano and sell it to Australia.

The guano on this island is a considerable treasure and worth the effort.

As for whoever comes to occupy it in the future, as long as the sovereignty is in Nanhua, they will not be able to escape.

As for their independence in the future, when bird droppings are worthless, just let them be independent.

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The French were very aggressive at first and did not admit espionage at all.

Therefore, Nanhua was not polite. He first expelled the French consul, then expelled the French pilot students, and then transferred the aircraft order that should have been given to France to Germany.

After taking these three steps, French President Clément Armand Fallier could no longer sit still.

He sent Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Raymond Poincaré to South China to ask for a meeting with Chairman Shi Jintang and Prime Minister Ouyang Geng.

On June 1912, 6, the French Prime Minister came to Hanking.

He wanted to see Chairman Shi, but Chairman Shi declined because he was ill.

I asked to see Prime Minister Ouyang Geng, but Prime Minister Ouyang did not see him because he was busy with official business.

The French Prime Minister was in trouble, but this matter was related to France's future national destiny. He did not dare to take it lightly, so he could only continue to ask for meetings, and at the same time frantically visited important cabinet ministers.

Secretary-General Cai Shaoji and Vice Premier Shi Jinyong were both annoyed by him, and finally Shi Jinyong took the time to meet with him.

The address where the two met was still the Cabinet Office Building, the office of Vice Prime Minister Shi Jinyong.

Raymond Pooncaré is short and slightly fat. He has a bright forehead and wears a tuxedo suit.

The Prime Minister will succeed Falia as President of France next year. He advocated resolute resistance to Germany and signed the Treaty of Versailles with Germany on behalf of France after the war.

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"Hello, Vice Premier Shi."

"Hello, Prime Minister Poungale."

The French get straight to the point and state their reasons directly.

"On behalf of the French government, I apologize to Chairman Shi and Premier Ouyang for our wrong attitude. I hope these two gentlemen can forgive us.

Our mistake was very serious, and we hope to make some compensation for the injuries suffered by the flight school instructors to alleviate our apology.

We also hope that Chairman Shi will revoke his previous order. "

Shi Jinyong was speechless and just smoked a cigarette.

"Pfft~~"

He blew smoke rings casually, ignoring the Frenchman's growing cough.

When Shi Jinyong had smoked enough, he put the cigarette butt into the ashtray, and then smiled at the Frenchman who was trying to endure it, "Are you done? If so, you can leave."

Prime Minister Poincaré did not expect Shi Jinyong to be so arrogant, but the situation is stronger than the people. If France loses this opportunity, France will suffer a greater blow.

In particular, all French aircraft were transferred to Germany, which was even more unbearable and unimaginable for them.

So he suppressed his anger and said patiently: "If you have any requests, please feel free to put them forward and we can try to discuss them."

Shi Jinyong thought for a while, "Our request this time is still territory, but this matter cannot be negotiated unilaterally with you. We must have Sir Gray come with us. So why don't you take the trouble to invite Sir Gray here." Listen. When he came to South China and wanted the British to come with him, the French Prime Minister immediately thought of French India.

“You want our territory in India?”

“Yes, your country’s territory in India is small and scattered.

Therefore, we want to take over this part of the territory and then exchange it with British India in exchange for a territory as complete as Goa. This request is not too much. "

After listening to Shi Jinyong's request, the French Prime Minister could only walk away sadly.

How to invite the British requires a lot of thinking.

In the end, the French Prime Minister decided to tell the truth. After all, Britain and France signed the "Sincere Agreement" and are still close allies.

If South China is allowed to do this, it will definitely weaken France's strength, and it will only be more difficult for Britain to fight against Germany as a country.

The British should understand this stakes.

When Sir Gray received the telegram from the French Prime Minister, although he was surprised, he did not delay and rushed directly to Nanhua.

Finally, on July 1912, 7, the three parties met in Cape Town.

It was Prime Minister Ouyang Geng who came forward for Nanhua. During the tripartite negotiation, Ouyang Geng revealed Nanhua's request: French India would be transferred to Nanhua, and Nanhua would transfer French India to British India.

British India ceded Bombay to South China.

French India included Pondicherry, Kalaika, and Yanam on the Coromandel Coast, Mahi on the Malabar Coast, and Jinder Nagar near the Bay of Bengal.

In addition, supply areas in Mergelibardnam, Kozhikode and Surat were included, but these "supply areas" were generally just scattered French factories.

In 1901, French India had a population of 273185.

French India has a total area of ​​526 square kilometers, the largest of which is Pondicherry, with an area of ​​293 square kilometers.

After India's independence, these territories in the original time and space joined the Indian Union one after another.

(The red dot is French India, and Bombay is requested by South China.)
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As for Mumbai, let’s start with the Portuguese.

In the early years, there were a large number of Portuguese, so they occupied territory everywhere.

At that time, Portugal and Britain were about to marry, and Portugal gave these seven islands to Charles II of England as the princess's dowry.

King Charles II of England was really happy for a while when he got this dowry list.

Since the Portuguese did not write clearly whether this India was West India (Caribbean region) or East India (South Asia and Southeast Asia), he thought that the free territory was in the New World.

Britain's expansion in the New World was not smooth at that time, and it was in urgent need of new islands to expand its strength.

After he sent someone to search for the place according to the map, he realized that he was happy too early.

This turned out to be a string of tiny islands on the east coast of the Arabian Sea and the west coast of the South Asian subcontinent.

At that time, Mumbai was just seven islands deep in the Indian Ocean, with a total land area of ​​less than 50 square kilometers.

After Charles II learned the truth, he scolded the Portuguese in his heart.

Because the place was too small, Charles II didn't care and handed it over to the East India Company for management at a rent of 10 pounds per year.

The East India Company took a fancy to the harbor advantages of this archipelago, so they moved their headquarters from the remote inland Surat to the seven small islands here.

Because the seven small islands were too scattered, the British decided to reclaim the sea and build land.

It took more than a hundred years of hard work to fill up Bombay into a large island of several hundred square kilometers, connected to the mainland only by a bridge.

Inhabited by British merchants and ordinary people, the island is about the size of French India.

The British were rich in the whole of India, so the importance of Bombay dropped directly. The British reclamation and land reclamation project in Bombay was abandoned halfway, and the situation was serious.

French India was governed very stably, which was an enhancement to British India.

The British were naturally satisfied, and Nanhua got a deep-water port in the South Asian subcontinent.

Although the French were in pain, there was nothing they could do. Who allowed them to be choked by Nanhua?
The three parties reached an agreement on July 7 and jointly signed the "China-Britain-France: Cape Town Agreement."

The Nanhua Cabinet directly placed the recently acquired Bombay Island under the jurisdiction of the East India Administration. (End of chapter)