Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1201

[Chapter 1187 Treaty]

Austrian Palace.

This place is already filled with imperial soldiers with nuclear weapons and live ammunition.

The Vienna Conference will be held here.

When the sun just rose, members of the Vienna Entente came here early, along with representatives of the defeated countries.

Compared with the elation of the victorious countries, the representatives of the victorious countries seemed a little downcast.

At eight o’clock, Xiao Ming’s motorcade appeared outside the Austrian palace on time.

After getting off the car, Xiao Ming walked into the palace with officials from the empire, followed by members of other countries to the conference room for negotiations.

At this time, the conference room was ready, and a table more than ten meters long was filled with fruits and desserts.

Entering the room, the representatives of each country sat in their seats in order, with the defeated and victorious countries sitting on both sides.

Everyone took their seats, and now their eyes looked at Xiao Ming.

They all knew that the protagonist of this meeting was the emperor, and that the emperor’s decision would affect the direction of Europe.

Xiao Ming noticed the gathering gazes of everyone, and the corner of his mouth slightly raised. This time, both the victorious and the defeated countries almost sent their country’s top leaders. In this way, this meeting can solve the problem neatly.

At this time, he signaled to Tang Wenjie.

Tang Wenjie understood. At this time, he stood up and sent the prepared documents in his hands to the representatives of various countries one by one. The documents contained the main topics of this meeting.

After getting the document, the representatives from each country couldn’t wait to read it. The members of the victorious countries were naturally not happy to see the contents of the document, while the representatives of the defeated countries looked heavy.

When everyone understood the document, Xiao Ming said slowly: “You must have seen the contents of the document, so I won’t belabor it. As a victorious country, we have the right to deal with the defeated country. As a defeated country, you need to make compensation for your crimes.”

After Xiao Ming finished speaking, thunderous applause suddenly broke out in the conference room.

The members of the victorious nation all smiled because Xiao Ming’s words were domineering enough.

In fact, for them, the lies of benevolence, justice and morality are all false. There is only one reason why they can sit here and face the defeated country with arrogance today, and that is that they defeated them through war.

If the St. Petersburg Entente had won, they would be the target of demands for compensation today.

The British representative who came to Vienna this time was Murphy. As he had guessed before coming, the emperor of the Eastern Empire was indeed a very tough man.

You must be careful when dealing with such people. Pointless anger will only anger this strong man, and the results will be extremely tragic.

So after Xiao Mingyan briefly and comprehensively explained his thoughts, he did not speak, but remained silent.

The other defeated countries also had the same attitude. This time they finally learned to be smart. Through this war, they understood the gap between themselves and the empire.

They didn’t come here to argue at all, but were prepared to be judged.

The only thing they hoped for was that the emperor would be lenient.

The expressions of the representatives of the defeated countries were seen by Xiao Ming. Just as he thought, this time the St. Petersburg Allies were really defeated by the empire.

If so, the Vienna Conference would be simple.

At this time, he asked someone to spread a huge map of Europe on the conference table.

When the representatives of the victorious countries saw the map, they all stood up and stared at the land they requested. The location of the land was already marked on the map.

The representatives of the defeated countries looked at the map at the same time, and they suddenly sighed when looking at the enclosed land.

But they were more shocked, because they found that the ceded land was only disputed land, and the traditional territory in history had not been divided, which made them feel confused.

“The land above is the land you need to cede to the victorious country. Do you have any opinions now?” Xiao Ming asked.

Representatives of the defeated countries shook their heads. If they were destined to lose part of their territory, they would rather lose this part of the disputed territory.

Xiao Ming nodded. He had communicated with the representatives of the victorious countries last night. It was not that the victorious countries only wanted this part of the disputed territory, but that he had vetoed the requests of other victorious countries for more territory.

The reason is simple. He does not want to weaken traditional powers such as Britain and Europe will rise again from other powers. This is the empire’s balancing policy in Europe.

If the European members of the Vienna Entente no longer needed the protection of the Empire then the Vienna Convention would have no reason to exist.

Therefore, he cannot beat all the defeated countries to death with one stick, but wants them to have only one breath left, so that they can be revived at any time when they want to be revived.

When he persuaded the victorious countries, his reason was that he did not want conflicts in Europe to continue to intensify.

The war has now started, and countries like Austria no longer want to continue fighting. After all, they were responsible for most of the supplies for the imperial army during the war, and the war also destroyed many of their cities.

For this reason, they decided enough was enough.

The defeated country had no objection, but the victorious country was naturally overjoyed.

They signed documents one after another to confirm the land ceded.

The Empire also had its own claims on land and they formally recognized the Empire’s occupation of colonies around the world.

And asked Spain to cede Gibraltar as the empire’s military port in Europe.

Let France, Britain, Prussia, and Tsarist Russia each cede a port city as the location of the imperial garrison.

After the territorial negotiations ended, Xiao Ming immediately raised the issue of war compensation.

He demanded that the defeated countries pay a total of 8 billion gold dragons to the empire, which should be paid back in installments within ten years.

Including the demands of other victorious countries, the total amount of compensation from the defeated countries reached 9.6 billion gold dragons.

When this amount came out, the defeated country was shocked. One golden dragon weighed 1.5 grams, and 100 million golden dragons were equivalent to 150 tons of gold.

Nine.

But the sentence was merciless, and they had to carry out the resolution whether they wanted to or not.

After the compensation matter, Xiao Ming elaborated on the remaining content. He demanded that the defeated country not produce and develop lethal offensive weapons, including tanks, aircraft, and warships.

Only self-defense forces can be retained in the territory, and no offensive army can be formed.

Economically, he demanded that the defeated countries open their markets to the empire, allow the empire to open banks within their borders, and recognize the circulation role of the Imperial Dragon Coin and recognize it as a world currency. In the future, all international trade will use the Imperial Dragon Coin as the settlement currency.

Xiao Ming’s decision was not just for the defeated countries, but for all countries.

But now that the empire is the world leader, who dares to say no?

(End of chapter)