Chapter 718 Nine Nations Stand in America

Prime Minister Baldwin naturally understood that the report to George V was just verbal talk. Not to mention Prime Minister Raul, even he himself did not pay so much attention to George V at certain times.

The status of the British royal family may be stable, but the power of the British king has long been dismantled, and it is not easy to regain it.

However, Prime Minister Baldwin noticed something unusual about the attitude of the Australasians.

Perhaps since the defeat of the United States, the relationship between Britain and Australasia has never been the same.

The British are so powerful that they have no opponents, or in other words, all the remaining powers are opponents of the British.

The world situation dictates that Australasia and the United Kingdom have to move on the defensive, and may even move towards confrontation in the future.

Fortunately, the relationship between countries has always been complicated, and such changes are easy for politicians to accept.

After adjusting his mentality, Prime Minister Baldwin ordered someone to bring a map of the United States and carefully began to study the direction in which Britain could make concessions and the direction in which Britain must never make concessions.

Regarding the partition of the United States, none of the three countries, Britain, France, and Australia, wants to annex the land of the United States as their own territory.

This reason is also very simple. Britain and France are located in Europe, and Australasia is located in Oceania, separated from the mainland of the United States by either the entire Atlantic Ocean or the entire Pacific Ocean.

If the land of the United States were to be turned into our own territory, the management problems would be enough to collapse an entire government.

Moreover, the conflicts between whites and blacks in the United States, Americans' distrust of the countries that defeated them, and the problem of American capital were all the real reasons that led Britain, France, and Australia to give up on annexing the United States.

Since the United States cannot be annexed, the best way is to support countries that it can control, just like the Lone Star Republic supported by the French.

The British's original plan was to establish a new country in the 13-state colony. Because they inherited the most elite areas of the United States, the national guarantee established by the 13 states was only the second strongest, and it could still play a good role in the British Empire.

This country and Canada combined are the most powerful force in North America and an important logistical support for the British Empire when any danger comes.

With the help of Canada and this country, the Atlantic Ocean will become the inland sea of ​​the British Empire, which will be very helpful for the British Empire to control the entire Europe.

But unfortunately, the French obviously would not agree with the British doing this. If the entire 13-state colony is controlled by the British and another war breaks out between Britain and France, the French deployment in the United States will basically be destroyed instantly.

Although France has weakened a lot after World War I, this does not mean that the French have no ambition to dominate Europe.

At least on the issue of the 13 states, the French have a firm attitude. The French were unwilling to see the complete 13-state colony controlled by the British, and they were even less willing to see the complete 13-state colony re-independent as a country.

Should we back down from the French on the issue of the 13 states? This became a problem that the British had to consider.

Even though the British were very determined when they launched the war against the United States, the big reason was because the British had the entire world alliance behind them.

But if a conflict breaks out between Britain and France, without the help of Australasia, the British will only gain advantage on the sea at most.

Let alone the army, it is simply impossible to invade Paris, the French capital, with the help of the British army.

This actually represents the tone of the current world situation, which is basically dominated by competition and supplemented by war.

No one is willing to start a war unless it is absolutely necessary, because war not only represents a huge consumption of funds, but also represents a large number of casualties.

Although the First World War happened more than ten years ago, countries around the world still have not emerged from the First World War.

The population of France has remained at a low level for this reason. Currently, most countries in Europe are unwilling to see the outbreak of war except for wars that must be won.

How to reach a compromise with the French? This issue also needs to take into account the thoughts of the French.

After much thought, Prime Minister Baldwin decided to get in touch with the French after the peace talks the next day and try to reach a compromise with the French, so that the remaining Australasia would be easy to deal with.

The next day's peace talks still ended in a stalemate, but both Britain and France clearly expressed their willingness to compromise.

Procrastinating is not a problem now, it will only make the situation in the United States worse and worse. This is something that Britain and France, who want to make a lot of profits from the United States, are not willing to see. This also means that Britain and France will eventually compromise.

What Prime Minister Raul did not expect was that a compromise between Britain and France could happen in a short period of time.

On the fourth day of the talks, that is, January 1, Britain and France had reached a certain degree of unity on the issue of the partition of the United States.

The only problematic area was Georgia, the southernmost land in the 13-state colony, which the British wanted to bring under their rule.

But the French also wanted to bring this area with a population of more than 2 million under their own rule, and in the end it was the British who expressed a compromise.

Of course, the cost for the French to obtain Georgia was that Michigan, which was originally supposed to be jointly managed as a five-continental region, directly became a Canadian territory.

It is worth mentioning that Britain and France did not forget the interests of Australasia when they compromised with each other.

According to the partition method reached by the compromise reached by Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand, a complete United States will be divided into at least nine countries, and two areas will be annexed by Canada in the north and Mexico in the south.

This is also the benefit of two countries that are close to the United States. They can annex part of the land as their own territory instead of establishing new countries like Britain, France, and Australia.

After reaching a compromise, the theoretical situation in the United States is as follows (domestic):

Australasia controls California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, and Utah.

France controls Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

The British controlled Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia. states, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia.

Canada annexes Michigan.

Mexico annexes New Mexico and Arizona.

The remaining states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio formed the Great Lakes Condominium, which was jointly managed by all participating countries.

Among them, the areas acquired by Britain, France and Australia (only the continental United States) cannot be annexed as mainland territories and cannot be merged into one country.

This also hindered the British idea of ​​re-establishing a 13-state colony. The 12-state colony without Georgia would have to become at least two countries.

Under the influence of Britain, France and Australia, the countries participating in the talks reached an agreement: because the Great Lakes Condominium inherited the most important industry in the United States, the debts of the United States were borne by the Great Lakes Condominium.

What does that mean?

After the Great Lakes Condominium Area is managed by the countries participating in the war, most of the annual tax revenue will be equally distributed to all participating countries. When the compensation is repaid, the management of the Great Lakes Condominium Area will end.

Although a large part of the previous debt of the United States has been repaid, because of this war, the United States has to bear another part of the debt.

All these debts were calculated on the Great Lakes Condominium area. This is why the British so generously released the remaining Great Lakes area, including Illinois, with a population of more than 7 million, to other small and medium-sized countries.

After all debts were tallied, the Great Lakes region had to pay £8.5 billion in reparations to the World League.

The area of ​​the Great Lakes Condominium is approximately 1.28 million square kilometers, with a total population of more than 30 million.

Even if it is calculated as one-third of the US fiscal revenue, the annual fiscal revenue obtained by the Great Lakes Condominium Area is about 1 billion US dollars, which is 5.8 billion pounds.

These were statistics before the economic crisis. After the economic crisis broke out, the Great Lakes industrial region also suffered a devastating blow.

This also means that even if there is only 8.5 billion pounds in compensation, the Great Lakes Industrial Zone will have to repay it for at least 50 years.

If a few more provinces are deducted from the Great Lakes Industrial Zone, I am afraid that this debt will not be repaid even in 100 years.

Although some land was not allocated, the countries were satisfied with having a stable Great Lakes region to repay the reparations.

Moreover, there are many factories in the Great Lakes region. Although countries cannot blatantly relocate factories, there is still no problem in purchasing some industrial equipment.

Many countries can also take advantage of this opportunity to develop their own industries. Anyway, they are sucking the blood of Americans.

Taking a sip of thick soup also satisfied these small and medium-sized countries. This carve-up plan for the United States was approved by most countries.

The remaining countries did not dare to blatantly oppose it, which also led to the smooth adoption of the plan and its public implementation.

At the peace talks, no one spoke up for the US government, which had turned into a military government. This is indeed the case. Even if the US government has changed its owner, the United States is still the defeated party. Defeated countries have no human rights.

However, the British also generously gave MacArthur, who considered himself President of the United States, a choice, which was to go to the Great Lakes region and become the interim president of the Great Lakes region.

Except for the Great Lakes region, other American regions will have nothing to do with the United States in the near future.

Even the Great Lakes Industrial Zone, which is nominally a condominium area, will basically establish a new republic and sever all ties with the United States.

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