The representative of Bulgaria agrees!
Then the German representative voted for Gustav Stresemann, the foreign minister. At this time, Stresemann seemed to be hesitant to agree, and then the Turkish representative would vote for it. If we abandon this vote, it will be passed. If we have a negative vote, we can reopen this bill, but there are many things behind the negative vote.
Not far from here, a group of orientals are anxiously waiting for news in a small cafe.
At 12 noon, the representatives of the five countries walked out of the venue one by one and saw the Russian Foreign Minister with a relaxed face and Kato hanging his heart high and finally released.
Stresemann immediately got into a waiting car after leaving the meeting place and galloped away.
On the last day of June, 1914, the headlines of the world’s major newspapers were published with almost no exception.
A new member of the Irish "Alliance Circle"!
Japan was the first Asian country to join the Allies!
People are not surprised at the position of the Republic of Ireland that this country can get rid of British rule so quickly. The strength of the Germans is inseparable. At the beginning of the war, most Irish people expressed their willingness to unite with the outside world during the war. However, as the war progressed, the British government recruited the Irish people heavily, which changed with the gradual increase of casualties of government troops. Especially after the war entered the second year, the Irish people resisted the government recruitment, and there were constant conflicts between the government and the army and armed riots. At the same time, the new German emperor loved it. The Irish incident showed a positive attitude, and several German arms companies also smelled the huge benefits. In early February, 30,000 rifles and 100,000 bombs were delivered to Ireland. In March, several Irish independent armed leaders successively reached a secret agreement with the German government to contain the British government troops stationed in Ireland with German government funds, weapons and instructors.
Part of the secret agreement, Ireland naturally became a strategic ally of Germany after independence.
Many people don’t understand that Japan, once a close ally of Britain, once called itself a "traitor nation" privately, and this despicable nation is spying on east indies (Indonesia) in the Netherlands! Then news came out from the Allied Council that the Russians voted in favor of this bill, which was even more puzzling! Haven’t Russia and Japan always been at odds? Have the Russians forgotten that they suffered a crushing defeat in the Far East in 19o5?
"This is politics! There are no eternal friends and enemies in the political world! Watch and we will soon know how much the Russians and Austrians have benefited from the Japanese! "
In Berlin Palace, Chen Tian comforted Stresemann in this way. Although Chen Tian had told him something before the meeting, the imperial foreign minister still seemed a little lost. After all, he and his own emperor had never had a little affection for the Japanese government, even though the Japanese had previously helped the German government in the Pacific Ocean.
"But before we sent troops to the Indian Ocean, I’m afraid the British colony was captured by the Japanese army long ago!" The foreign minister’s concern is justified. After the signing of the secret agreement between Singapore and Malaysia, the sun flag was planted in these two places in March, and it is certain that the Japanese will extend their influence into the Indian Ocean.
"This is inevitable!" Chen Tian is not depressed. "Our goal is to stabilize the situation in the Mediterranean, not to explore the Indian Ocean! Now that the Japanese have come in, we don’t have to kick them out to be happy! There is an old saying in China that when you come, you will be safe! "
"Come and be safe?"
Stresemann is not that kind of inexperienced young man, he soon got the gist from it.
"To restrict certain actions of the Japanese government by benefiting from the status of an allied country?"
"That’s right! Since they insist on wearing the coat of the Allies, let this coat be a tool to bind them! " It is not a long-term solution to stop Japan from joining the EU for a while.
"I hope it is …?"
China!’
China?’
"There is no doubt that is the number one goal in the Japanese government’s aggression plan!" I know all about Japanese ambition.
"We want to stop the Japanese from invading China?" Stresemann was puzzled. "The Japanese Foreign Minister once told me that the best way to solve the dispute in the Far East is for Germany and Russia to jointly carve up China through consultation!"
"carve up? Hum! Don’t be fooled by Japanese tricks! We Russians can’t invest a lot of manpower and material resources in the Far East in a short time, and the Japanese government is different! "
Chen Tian’s resistance to this division stems to some extent from the fact that he can’t tell outsiders the secrets of his life. On the other hand, he also doesn’t want Japan to become strong by plundering China’s resources. Only now, Japanese people in Japan, Turkey, the Korean Peninsula and Singapore and Malaysia are far from getting the expected resources.
"We can sign an agreement to restrict Japanese expansion in China when we agree to its conditions for joining the EU!" Stresemann made a suggestion, which is what Chentian wants.
"We want the Japanese government to turn its finger at other places and further away!"
Chen Tian remembered that he had a private discussion with his 6 th Army and Navy generals not long ago. The topic was the possibility of Germany winning the war once Germany and the United States broke out, but the result was not so satisfactory!
Erpitz and the Navy can guarantee to defeat the existing US Navy in the Atlantic Ocean, but if the war cannot be quickly ended, the powerful economic and industrial strength of the Americans will continue to drive their war machine. Quite a few of the best ship designers in Admiral of the fleet have been recruited by the Americans, and the strength of the US Navy in the future will not be underestimated!
Including the Minister of the Sixth Army and the Chief of Staff of the Sixth Army, all the generals in the Sixth Army agreed that if the war was fought in Europe, the Sixth Army of Germany would wipe out the Sixth Army of the United States in two weeks. But now the two countries are separated by an ocean, and the long supply line, strange geography and climate are far away from the soil. The current conventional model is very different!
In the end, Chen Tian and his generals came to the general conclusion that the United States was not terrible before it was fully mobilized! But once their war machine moves, even if they can’t beat us, it’s hard for us to beat them! If you fight a protracted war, the result is bound to be both sides!
"Farther place … the Indian Ocean? Australia? "
"Not across the ocean!" Chen Tian definitely replied that after that private seminar, he had a new view on the future. The General Staff of the Sixth German Army has secretly formulated a new "schlieffen" plan according to his orders, which will be an important task for the General Staff in peacetime.
"Emperor …" Stresemann opened his eyes wide that he had never imagined! But now his monarch clearly told him that the main goal of the empire was to consolidate post-war Europe, but he should take a longer view.
"benefit all available forces!"
After the Kaiser talked in detail for more than an hour, Stresemann left with a lot on his mind.
The next day, the representatives of the countries participating in the alliance treaty sat down together to discuss the specific issues after Ireland’s accession to the alliance. After imitating the German-Austrian alliance treaty representatives and consulting and discussing on it according to the instructions of various governments, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Ireland and Japan signed the Eurasian Union Treaty three days later!
At the same time, Germany, Russia and Japan signed a joint agreement to ensure the stability of the Far East. In the future, the three parties must station troops in China by public and non-military forces, which must not exceed the number limit of 750,000 in Germany, 1.25 million in Russia and 20,000 in Japan, and must be maintained in the existing areas and not expanded to non-occupied areas.
Stresemann chuckled when he saw Japanese Foreign Minister Kato Takashi signing this subsidiary agreement on behalf of the Japanese government, because it was different from letting the Japanese government "abstain from sex" in front of a "beautiful woman" at your fingertips. Although a treaty alone could not completely curb Japan’s ambition to expand in the Far East, it could at least ensure that the Japanese government could not invade China under the guise of "allies", which was not only out of the personal wishes of the Kaiser but also in line with Germany’s established Asian strategy.
However, the Japanese government will bite the bullet and sign this treaty not only because Germany and Russia have lost interest in China, but also because the Japanese have set up a joint fleet to jointly safeguard the conditions for peaceful exchange in the Pacific region.
On September 10, Germany, Japan and Russia announced the joint formation of the "Pacific Joint Fleet".
On September 16th, German Pacific Fleet and Russian Pacific Fleet set sail from Qingdao and Vladivostok respectively, and they will go to Japan to participate in the first joint fleet training!