Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 1241 The Polar Lion
After wrangling for a long time, Wu Peifu finally lost his temper. He sent an interpreter to find the Frenchman and issued an ultimatum: "If you can't sign the agreement that has been reached within [-] hour, then the negotiation will break down." , the French delegation will be escorted back to the French positions, and the war will continue!"

Facing the strength of the Chinese.The French had no choice.

At 11:30 p.m., after several conversations with Bordeaux, Gamalin issued a formal order over the phone: "French Republic, Ministry of Defense Order No. 43, hereby order the French delegation to immediately sign the armistice agreement with China .”

At 11:50, representatives from both sides stood in front of the signing table where the two sides signed the "Supplementary Clauses to the Treaty of Tianjin" during the Opium War. Henchig was pale, barely holding back the tears that continued to flow, and issued a statement intermittently. He said: France, having lost the war, had to stop fighting on the side of its allies, and thus faced very severe demands imposed on it.We will not forget that France has power, and expect that the Chinese will, for some time to come, engage in future negotiations in the spirit of enabling the peoples of these two great countries to live and work in peace. "

The answer is only a short sentence: "As winners, we should and will definitely respect the losers."

At 12 o'clock, Henchig and Keitel signed the armistice agreement as representatives of France and China respectively.According to the provisions of the armistice agreement, six hours after the signing, the two countries will stop all fighting, and the agreement itself will not take effect until the end of the armistice agreement between France and Germany.

After the ceremony, it was an agreement with Germany. Compared with China's triumphant advances, the poor performance of the German army on the French border formed a strong contrast.This also allowed William II and his family to fully understand how much they weighed.

The Beijing meeting with the Chinese emperor on June 6 marked the complete shattering of his dream of dividing France with China.The Germans without any confidence have no arrogance in front of the French delegation.Although the German negotiator Keidel forced several senior Chinese military officers to fight there, they still couldn't get rid of their weak position on the negotiating table.in the eyes.The two sides did not feel like negotiating at all. The Germans did not have the momentum that a winner should have, and the French did not have the humiliation of a loser.In short, the degree of friendship between the two delegations is simply unimaginable.

The entire meeting lasted only 10 minutes, and the two sides finalized the final agreement.The Germans didn't come up with any unrealistic ideas, he just asked for a demilitarized zone 50 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide along the border.In addition, Toulon in mainland France, Ajaccio in Corsica, Bizerte in Tunisia, and Oran in Algeria were to be demilitarized during the war against Britain.This surprised me. He thought Germany would carve up Corsica, but they didn't.Of course, the French delegation was not dissatisfied with this result. The two sides signed an armistice agreement at 25 o'clock in the morning on the 1th, which came into effect 6 hours later.

At this moment, Zhang Xuesi rushed over and whispered a few words in his ear, with an expression of disbelief and excitement on his face, "Is the news accurate?"

"Definitely."

"Where is that person now?"

"The Adlon Hotel."

"Okay, I'll rush over right away and prepare the car!"

The car drove into the luxurious Aronde Hotel.On the surface, there is no tight defense here, but in fact, most of the waiters inside have been replaced by spies from the Imperial Security Bureau.

The door on the second floor was opened, and under Zhang Xuesi's guidance, he walked in quickly.I saw a tall man in a gray military uniform standing up slowly. From this man's white hair and the Order of St. George hanging around his neck, it can be judged that this man is the actual leader of Finland. Mannerheim, known as the polar lion in the world.

"Are you?" The old man greeted him first in an unusual way.They looked at each other in confusion.The most outstanding commander in Finnish history, the greatest statesman, would take the initiative to say hello to himself, which really made him unexpected.

Slowly reached out and shook hands with the other party, "My name is Jiang Zhongzheng, and my name is Jieshi."

"Haha!" Seeing this, Mannerheim laughed heartily, and he patted his shoulder, "You surprised me so much. You are the general of the Dragon Army. We mobilized even more soldiers in Finland. Why are you calling me Your Excellency instead now? I won’t give you a military salary just because you called me Your Excellency.”

"Well, I don't call you General Jiang, and you don't call me Marshal or Your Excellency. We are equals, I call you Zhongzheng, you call me Carl. Or like this, you call me Old Carl. I call you Little Jiang, how are you?" Manahai said heartily.

He couldn't believe his ears, he really couldn't understand that this highly respected figure in the world would be so kind to him, a Chinese general.Because from the intelligence of the Imperial Security Bureau, he learned that this lion from the Arctic hates the Chinese very much. This may be mainly because he once fought against China in Romania in World War I.For example, in 1915, when it was the birthday of a Swede who was an explorer in the Western Regions of China, Mannerheim did not even accept the invitation, let alone go to Sweden to celebrate his birthday, because he disliked this old man who was of one heart and one mind with the Chinese. .Now from Mannerheim's expression, he didn't see any displeasure.So he was speculating in his heart, wanting to see what the old man wanted to do.

Thinking of this, a smile immediately formed on his face, and he replied cautiously: "This is not very good, you are an elder, and you are also a highly respected general. As a junior, I should learn a lot from my senior." Having said that, he bowed to the other party.

"Study?" Mannerheim was slightly taken aback, then looked around, "Zhongzheng, I really don't understand, what is there for you to learn from me?"

"Of course I did. In the Winter War last year, you led your troops of less than 20 people to bravely resist the attack of millions of Soviet troops. Your brilliant achievements have won you a great international reputation. Of course , I also deeply admire the excellent fighting qualities of the Finnish army. To be honest, I have always wanted to have an army like yours, and I also dreamed of winning a victory with less and more like you."

"Victory! Did you really win?" Mannerheim looked disappointed, and he shook his head slightly: "I didn't win, we failed, we ceded 10% of the territory, and gave the Cohan Port Concession to the Soviet Union , is this the so-called victory?"

"Yes! This is victory. At least I think so." He said decisively: "A country with a population of only 300 million defeated a powerful country with a population of 3000 million and a regular army of 300 million. Forcing the opponent to only achieve limited tactical victories, but unable to achieve decisive strategic victories. This is a victory in itself." Speaking of this, he paused, "Besides, with almost no foreign aid, you It is difficult to achieve peace with such a small price. At least, in my opinion, there will not be any country in the next few decades."

After finishing speaking, he sighed heavily, "To be honest, I feel annoyed that we did not provide timely assistance. Otherwise, I also want to go to Finland to see what the brave Finnish people have done to defend their country Fight bravely."

"You will definitely have a chance!" Mannerheim smiled mysteriously at the other party, and then patted the other party's shoulder, "To be honest, I am here this time mainly to thank you, your help to us is really great. It's too big!"

"Thank me?" Mannerheim was taken aback as soon as the words came out, glanced at the other party with doubts, and then said slowly: "Your Excellency, oh, no, Karl. I don't seem to have done anything about this .Why are you thanking me?"

"It's very simple, because when the whole world abandoned us, only your country gave us arms and material support, and sent a large number of volunteers to help us fight and command. I will never forget this .”

After listening to Mannerheim's words, I suddenly understood what he meant. It turned out that what Mannerheim said was that when the situation in Finland was unstable during the Winter War of 1919, your country secretly ordered Scandinavian People from the intelligence branch of the Imperial Security Service in the Dinavia area collected information on the local Soviet army and handed it over to the Finns.In addition, 10 ships loaded with various munitions were secretly transported to Sweden, where they were transported to Finland by railway.Then, China also signed the extremely secret "Sino-Swiss Concession Agreement" with Sweden.The main part of this agreement is that China will provide Sweden with a batch of arms worth 2000 million dragon coins and guarantee Sweden's neutrality.Sweden provides iron ore to China at one-third of the market price. In addition, if China intervenes in Scandinavia, Sweden will provide assistance to the Dragon Army.In addition to these superficial peace treaties, as usual, China also signed a secret contract with Sweden. The content of the contract includes two parts.First, China will ensure that Finland will not be completely annexed by the Soviet Union; second, when necessary, China will secretly provide weapons to the Finns.

Although the contract was signed, the reality changed.Due to the launch of China's plan to capture Scandinavia and the plan to attack the British Royal Navy.Therefore, China urgently needs the Soviet Union's Murmansk port as a temporary dock for its own fleet, and Stalin and Molotov began to ask for prices when they saw this situation.If the Soviet Union allowed the northern port of Murmansk in the Chinese Concession and sent supplies for China as it entered Scandinavia, then China must allow the Soviet Union to attack Finland and cut off Finnish arms routes by sea.Additionally, the USSR was allowed to occupy Finland's Hanko peninsula.In addition, if the Soviet Union attacks Finland, China must provide material assistance.Facing Stalin's looting by fire.China did not have a good countermeasure at that time, so it could only abandon Finland at the negotiating table.Because in his opinion, when the conditions are not ripe, it is better to abandon this seemingly small white country than to offend a powerful red empire.

(End of this chapter)