African Nationhood

In November 1919, Europe was in chaos, but the port of Funchal on Madeira Island was sunny, cool and comfortable.

The leaders of South China, Britain, France and Italy gathered here.

This meeting was to discuss the debt issues of the four countries. At the same time, South China also had to negotiate with the United Kingdom on the issue of the Rhodesia colony.

Before the war, in order to get Nanhua to agree to enter Europe, Britain promised to solve the problem of the Rhodesia Company. At that time, the Rhodesia Company was changed into the Rhodesia Colony and entrusted to Nanhua to manage it.

Now that the European War is over, the matter of the Rhodesian colony needs to be resolved.

Although it doesn't matter whether the UK gives an explanation on this matter, it is best to resolve the matter through legal procedures to avoid wrangling in the future.

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This time from South China came Prime Minister Ouyang Geng, from Britain came Prime Minister Lloyd George, from France came President Raymond Poincaré, and from Italy came Prime Minister Orlando.

The venue of the four-person meeting was the large conference room of Funchal City Hall. Ouyang Geng, as the host, welcomed the arrival of the dignitaries.

"Please take a seat, everyone. This is not the first time we have met. You can relax a little."

French President Raymond Poincaré, who was short and slightly fat, went to Nanhua to ask for a meeting with Ouyang Geng when he was involved in the espionage case at the Nanhua Aviation School. At that time, Ouyang Geng ignored him and it was Vice Premier Shi Jinyong who met him.

So what Prime Minister Ouyang Geng said is a bit wrong, but it is not the first time that Nanhua has dealt with these people.

Poincaré did not compete with Clemenceau at the Paris Peace Conference, because the forces represented by Clemenceau were stronger.

But because the old man signed the "Contract of Versailles", his nationality dropped drastically, and now he can no longer be tough, so the short president was able to attend this meeting.

"Well, thank you Prime Minister Ouyang for your hospitality, but our three countries do not support or recognize your country's Chairman Shi's act of proclaiming emperor."

Prime Minister Lloyd George's words were very representative, and the heads of state of France and Italy also nodded.

As soon as these words came out, Ouyang Geng immediately changed his face.

"Chairman Shi of our country, whether he proclaims himself emperor or not is decided by the people of our country and Chairman Shi. What does it have to do with you three countries?"

"You should think about how to repay the debts owed to our country. The three countries owe us a total of 10.26 billion pounds.

Britain owes us £6.2 million, France owes us £2.98 million, and Italy owes us £1.08 million.

It has been almost a year since the European war ended. How do you plan to repay the loan? "

Prime Minister Lloyd George picked up the black tea next to him and took a sip, "Debt is an economic problem. The dictatorship of Chairman Shi of your country is a historical retrogression. If he continues to dream of claiming emperor, he will set the clock back."

As your sovereign state in South China, we in the UK must not sit idly by and watch your historical retrogression, let alone encourage this kind of reversal of history. "

Ouyang Geng burst out laughing at the talkative Ansa people.

"You think you are invincible after defeating the Allies?
Don’t forget that the face of your British Empire is supported by our many new weapons and soldiers in South China, as well as every Chinese worker, many indigenous workers and Indian workers.

Without our Nanhua aircraft, submarines, and armored vehicles, could you defeat Germany?
Prime Minister Lloyd George, don't forget that you begged our Chairman Stone, hoping that we would send troops to rescue you.

Now you are laying it out in front of me, brazenly saying that you don’t support this and you don’t accept that.

What qualifications do you have to act like a master in front of us, Nanhua?
Do you believe that I can mobilize the army to annex the colonies of Kenya and Sudan right now?
The reason is that the UK has defaulted on repaying the debts owed to us, so we in South China can only use colonies to pay off our debts.

In addition, I would like to formally inform you that according to the monitoring of the global influenza epidemic by the Ministry of Medicine of our country, there will be another outbreak soon.

When you are short of Watsons, don’t come to us in Nanhua for medicine. "

These words directly made Prime Minister Lloyd George blush. He wanted to argue, but he couldn't. Because everything Ouyang Geng said is right.

The most terrible thing is Nanhua's Watson-derived medicine. This medicine is the technology that Britain, France and Italy want most.

The reason why he came forward just now and France and Italy followed was naturally because they wanted to take this opportunity to coerce Nanhua to come up with Watson's technology.

This technology is related to the well-being of everyone in the world. Relying on the power of defeating the Allies, they can connect most countries to force South China to compromise.

If you, the Emperor of Nanhua, want to gain recognition, just use Watson's technology in exchange.

But they didn't expect that Ouyang Geng didn't give them a chance at all and just stopped talking.

Moreover, with the resurgence of the influenza epidemic, the three countries are even more afraid of confronting South China.

If the epidemic occurs again, countries that maintain friendship with South China will definitely be the first to obtain the supply of Watsons.

If there is a falling out with Nanhua this time, wouldn't the three countries be unable to get the supply of Watsons?

When Shi Jintang proclaimed himself emperor next year, it happened to be at the time of the outbreak of the epidemic. Due to the epidemic, countries were forced to recognize Nanhua as an imperial country in order to obtain Watsons.

Then their alliance behavior would be self-defeating.

In the last wave of the epidemic, due to Nan Hua’s large-scale drug spraying behavior, all countries in the world owed Nan Hua’s immigrant population.

Nowadays, all countries are working hard to transport people to repay the immigrant population.

Another wave of epidemics will directly cause countries to recognize South China as an imperial state.

Why are you helping Nanhua during this damn epidemic?
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What Ouyang Geng said just now to attack Prime Minister Lloyd George was also a warning to France and Italy. The British colonies bordered South China, and they also bordered the colonies of France and Italy.

Italy needs to be especially careful because they are the weakest among the countries.

Italy's two colonies in East Africa, Somalia and Eritrea, are adjacent to South China's territory.

If these South Chinese people go crazy again and adopt the strategy of "killing chickens to scare monkeys", they will once again concoct a false excuse like "the watch is broken" and send troops to capture two Italian colonies.

Where can they go to reason?
Prime Minister Orlando immediately smiled and said: "Prime Minister Ouyang, don't be angry. What Prime Minister Lloyd George said just now is the thinking of some domestic members. As a responsible country, Britain will definitely not default on its debts.

As a country that has kept its promises to France, we must pay back the debt.

It's just that the current economic situation in our three countries is very bad. I hope your country can relax a little and extend the repayment period. How about that? "

Ouyang Geng snorted and glanced at Prime Minister Lloyd George.

The British didn't dare to be harsh now. He coughed and said with an awkward smile: "Yes, yes, the words I just said were just repeating the words of some members of the House of Commons.

The matter of proclaiming himself emperor disgusts many members of our country. They always feel that they cannot highlight their status if they do not express some opinions.

It's also my fault that I was too impatient and didn't explain clearly. "

Ouyang Geng ignored the British and looked at the French and Italians.

"How do you plan to repay the loan?" (End of Chapter)