Chapter 338

Marshal Bromberg and Ribbentrop couldn't help but smile. It would be best for the Gauls to soften their attitude. In this case, it will be more helpful for the Third Reich to achieve its own goals.

"Your Excellency, Marshal, the Third Reich's occupation of northern Gaul will not be permanent, it is only temporary. In the future, after some time, the Third Reich would return this area to Gaul." Ribbentrop said

"What?"Marshal Pétain was stunned. He didn't expect that things would take such a turn.

Originally, he thought he would lose these territories forever. That's why he strongly opposed it.

If the Third Reich only temporarily occupied these territories, then It's acceptable.

Who allowed them to lose completely in this war? If you lose the war, you will naturally have to pay the price. This is the eternal truth.

"Your Excellency, Marshal, the occupied areas of northern Gaul by the Third Reich are temporarily under our military control.In the meantime, we hope that the Gauls will cooperate with us. Even existing local officials can be retained as long as they are not opposed to the Third Reich. To ensure social stability as much as possible. Ribbentrop said.

Marshal Petain nodded. From this point of view, the conditions of the Third Reich are not too harsh and are within their acceptable range.

"So, how long will the Third Reich occupy?"Marshal Pétain is not that easy to fool.

"Regarding the issue of years, this is also related to the second condition of the empire. The Gallic State had to pay war reparations of 1.5 trillion marks to the Third Reich. These war reparations can be replaced with agricultural products, ores, and industrial products produced in Gaul. Of course, all the gold reserves, foreign exchange reserves, etc. in the banks of Gaul must be handed over to the Third Reich. When the Gallic Kingdom has paid all these war indemnities, it will be the time when the Third Reich ended its military control of Gaul." Ribbentrop continued

"1.5 trillion marks?"Marshal Pétain felt as if his heart was bleeding.

You know, the exchange rate between the franc and the mark is about 1 to 0.8. That is, one franc is equivalent to 0.8 marks.

One and a half billion marks is already equivalent to 1,870 billion francs.

In this era, the Gallic country’s annual fiscal revenue is only 60 billion francs.

If calculated this way, it will take a full thirty years of fiscal revenue to repay these War reparations.

Of course, if the entire Gaul produces various materials for the Third Reich and uses these materials to repay war reparations, it will undoubtedly be much faster. But even so, it will not be possible within ten years..

The Third Reich obviously wants to squeeze the Gallic country severely and suck its blood in the next ten years. It will rely on the materials provided by the Gallic country to defeat other people and gain the basis for future wars. Victory!

This is undoubtedly extremely unfair to the Gauls. However, do the Gauls have other choices?

Who made them think that they were defeated in this war?

In another time and space, the Gauls also wanted to The Third Reich paid protection fees. During the period when the Third Reich was defeated and occupied Gaul, the Gallic State paid a total of 700 billion francs in protection fees. Seventy- five percent of the iron ore in the entire Gallic State, 100% Fifty percent of the bauxite and 15% of the coal mines were all shipped to the Third Reich. At the same time, the precious metals, securities and industrial stocks of Gaul were also part of the protection fee. The

Third Reich also One million prisoners of war were taken away from the Gallic Kingdom and used for productive labor. In addition, half a million Gauls voluntarily or were forced to go to the Third Reich to work as laborers, etc. In this time and space, the Third Reich obviously also adopted In the same way.

If war compensation of 400 million francs can be obtained from Gaul every day, this will undoubtedly be a large amount of supplies. Moreover, this can last for a full fifteen years.

By obtaining 400 million francs in war compensation from Gaul, With various supplies, the Third Reich will inevitably become stronger and its military strength will be stronger in the next ten years or so. It will be easy to defeat powerful enemies in the future. The reason for adopting this approach , rather than directly military occupation of Gaul and implementation of direct rule, Hess also thought carefully.

Although Gaul was defeated by the Third Reich, after all, Gaul was a traditional power in Europe.

Even if the Gauls performed very badly in the war, they were still proud and would never be willing to fail like this.

If the Third Reich destroyed the country of Gaul, or even directly annexed Gaul, it would inevitably suffer Countless Gauls resisted.

Even those enemies, even potential enemies, will definitely strongly support the Gauls' resistance. By then, a large number of weapons and equipment from hostile countries will secretly flow in Gaul.

The resistance of the Gauls will also emerge one after another.

In order to ensure the stability of Gaul, the Third Reich will inevitably deploy a large number of troops in Gaul. This will make the Third Reich, which does not have sufficient military strength in the first place, be restrained by a large number of By that time

, the supplies obtained by the Third Reich in Gaul will probably not be as good as the manpower and material resources invested in Gaul. That would be a real loss outweighing the gains.

On the contrary, it would be better to conduct military occupation of Gaul for a period of time like now and squeeze the resources of Gaul to supply the Third Reich's consumption in the subsequent war.

More than ten years were enough to support the Third Reich to finish this war.

Even if this world war is larger than the previous one, it will not last more than ten years.

With the strength of the Third Reich, more than ten years would be enough to defeat every powerful opponent.

Marshal Pétain also thought of this.

Although this was very beneficial to the Third Reich, it was also very beneficial to the Gallic Kingdom.

The Gallic Kingdom was defeated in this war, but at least it no longer had to be subjugated and there was no need to worry that the country would not be able to continue.

Even if they have to bear sky-high war reparations, given Gaul's industrial strength, they will eventually be able to pay it back.

After paying off these war indemnities, Gaul will be able to get back on its feet.

Of course, during this period, Gaul will pay a huge price. But this is inevitable, and this is undoubtedly the price of failure in the war. _Feilu reminds you: three things about reading - collection, recommendation,