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  Chapter 1112 The overall contraction strategy (the first bullet for Pikachu to learn one hundred thousand volts and a reward)

  The Royal Army of the Ocean Empire has more than 2.3 million posts. In two years, it will be cut by 2/3, and only 800,000 standing troops will remain in peacetime.

  The Royal Navy will also be downsized accordingly, from the current 710,000 to more than 550,000, which is roughly the same as the British Royal Navy.

  The Empire has cancelled a large number of subsequent shipbuilding orders. Among the six Duke-class battleships that are the main force of the Royal Navy, two are in service, one is launched, and three are in different construction progress and will continue to be completed.

   And two additional orders for the "Duke" class battleships were cancelled, including a new ship whose keel steel plate had been cut, and the construction work will not continue.

In terms of economic transformation after the war, the Ocean Empire was far ahead of other countries. Millions of labor opportunities in the military industry were realized under the two major measures of immigration and population restrictions and large-scale infrastructure construction. a smooth transition.

Thousands of discontinued military enterprises turned swords into plows, cannons turned into agricultural machinery, explosives turned into fertilizers, tanks turned into tractors, military vehicles turned into civilian trucks, and rifles. changed to the production of electric motors, realizing the transformation one step earlier.

  Most of the surplus production was jointly shot by the Empire and the Royal Fund to carry out a large-scale strategic purchase and storage, which achieved good results, allowing many military factories to go into battle lightly and quickly switch production, avoiding the fate of bankruptcy and liquidation.

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  The Paris Peace Conference, which divided post-war interests, brought together diplomatic representatives from all over the world, especially headed by the four giants of the Entente Group, Britain, France and Italy, and began negotiations to shape the post-war world pattern.

   A negotiating delegation headed by Marshal Li Shuanzhu and the imperial special representative Tang Zhaoyi has been stationed in Paris a few days ago to participate in the preparatory work for the Paris Peace Conference and various private talks.

   At this stage, the major countries are mainly looking for each other, and various rumors of asking prices are flying all over the sky.

   Recently, a delegation led by Marshal Zhang Daoru, Minister of the Admiralty, arrived in London and will start negotiations on the "Six Nations Naval Armament Restriction".

   The navies of these six countries are Britain, Ocean, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States. There is no Germany, nor the split Austria and Hungary, nor the split Ottoman Empire.

   These countries belong to the defeated countries. According to the consensus reached by the leaders of Britain, France, and the foreign countries, the defeated countries are only allowed to maintain the minimum army security force, not to mention the naval force, which is strictly restricted.

   After the World War

The Austro-Hungarian Empire quickly split into 10 countries: Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Montenegro, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Slovenia, the Republic of Macedonia, and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. There are only more than 7 million people, and the small Macedonia has only a population of more than 300,000, and the territory has become fragmented.

   And the territory of the original Austro-Hungarian Empire was even more chaotic, it was really a dance of demons.

  The British Expeditionary Force took the lead in occupying Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and imposed military control over it.

   Then, countries began to fight for territory, the Ocean Empire occupied Libya, the British occupied Syria, Jordan, the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq,

   However, this did not satisfy the British appetite.

  After occupying the above-mentioned areas, the British army began to march towards the Black Sea area in an attempt to seize control of the strait.

   They wanted to link their power from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean to expand their ambitions in the Caucasus. In addition, the British wanted to extend their power to the Democratic Republic of Armenia.

   Coincidentally, the new government of Tsarist Russia was also very interested in the region, and sent a large number of personnel to infiltrate Armenia and expand the influence of the Russian workers’ regime.

  The Greek Kingdom wants to realize its great ideals and establish a great Greek kingdom, and has put forward territorial claims on Istanbul and its surrounding areas, and those with a big appetite are not afraid to die.

   This is supported by British Prime Minister George. In Li Fushou's view, this is purely lip service and unrealistic, and it belongs to a kind of high-level molesting.

  The Italians wanted to implement the "Saint Jean-de-Molienes Agreement", control southern Anatolia, and cut a piece of fat from the Ottoman Empire.

The French quickly dispatched troops to occupy Hatay, Lebanon and Syria, and hoped to exercise the power of the Sykes-Picot Agreement to take over parts of southeastern Anatolia.

   The "France-Armenia Agreement" signed by France recognized Armenia's sovereignty in the Mediterranean region in exchange for the creation of the Armenian French Legion to expand its own strength.

   On December 21, 1918, the Armenian French Legion landed in Adana and occupied the surrounding territory.

   In short, the territory of the Ottoman Empire, which has now collapsed, has the characteristics of being torn apart.

   The war has just ended

  The Ocean Empire and the United Kingdom took the lead in seizing territory, and victorious countries such as France, Italy, Greece, and Armenia also continued to send troops to the Ottoman Empire in an attempt to gain more territory from the defeated Ottoman Empire.

   These days, the hands are fast, the hands are slow, the movements are slow, and even the feces can't be eaten hot, no matter what, take it first and then talk about it.

   In Russia, the intervention army composed of 17 countries invaded massively, with a total of 230,000 people, supporting the local white bandits to attack the Russian workers' New Deal army, and ignited wars in Eastern Europe and Central Siberia.

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   The Fusang Kingdom was the most diligent. By the beginning of 2019, it had dispatched more than 70,000 troops and ranked first. Based on Vladivostok in the Far East, it attacked and advanced along the Siberian Railway from east to west, burning the war to the Central Siberia region.

   Ranked second is the Czech legion of about 50,000 people. They were originally prisoners of war in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After obtaining the military equipment of the Allied countries, they grew into the main force of the foreign intervention army.

  The third place is the United Kingdom, with a total of more than 40,000 troops.

  For London, the most important task at present is to contain the labor force of the new Russian government, even if it invests heavily in this, it must prevent the spread of the labor movement in Europe.

   Ranked fourth is the Ocean Empire, with a total of 28,000 troops. It sent a brigade in Murmansk to basically guard the city and did not take the initiative to attack.

   To invest a division in the Far East, mainly based in Vladivostok, to control several surrounding Far East cities, and not to participate in the attack on the new government of the workers, it is pure fishing.

   The fifth place is France, with 12,000 troops. As a traditional world power, how could there be no France for this kind of collective robbery?

   Other countries don't send tens of thousands of troops, more than a few thousand, less than a few hundred, the meaning of making up the number is stronger.

   A wave of foreign troops rushed into the territory of Soviet Russia. From Murmansk in the north to the Black Sea coast in the south, from the Baltic Sea region in the west to Siberia in the east, foreign troops seem to be everywhere.

   In Li Fushou's view

The most tragic civil war occurred in Tsarist Russia. At the end of May, the Czechoslovak Legion, composed of 50,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war, launched a rebellion on the way to repatriation through Siberia. Gotta be a mess.

  The Cossack White Guards of Krasnov in the Don River region and the "Volunteer Army" of A.I. Denikin in the North Caucasus rebelled one after another, established a rebel government, and started to expand the rebel armies.

  In the middle of the year, due to the grain monopoly implemented by the new government of Tsarist Russia, party members from all over the country took the opportunity to support the rebellion and established an anti-worker regime. The situation was chaotic. By the beginning of 19th, the new government of Tsarist Russia lost 3/4 of its territory and fell into the danger of being surrounded by enemies on all sides.

  In this unprecedentedly tragic Tsarist-Russian civil war, the harsh battlefield conditions and the constant famine resulted in the deaths of more than 10 million people, which severely damaged Russia's strength.

   They are already miserable enough, there is no need for Li Fushou to intervene.

   Therefore, the requests of the two Grand Duchess Taziana and Maria who have been stranded in Vladivostok for the support of the Empire to restore the country have fallen on deaf ears and will not be considered.

   In Li Fushou's view;

   These two female classmates have no ability at all, thinking that relying on the noble bloodline of the Romanov Dynasty can unite people's hearts, it is simply delusional.

   Say something bad

   Even if Nicholas II is resurrected, the leaders of the White Army and the numerous local governments who are now launching rebellions all over the country will not obey his orders.

   These tsarist Russia separatist warlords have different interests, no one is willing to settle down, and their demands are different. Even gods can’t satisfy them, let alone unify them into a combat-effective army. This is pure fantasy.

  When the Tsarist Empire collapsed, there were tens of millions of troops, but none of them could prevent the great changes in society.

   With only the negligible influence of the two female archdukes, the odds of winning against the powerful Russian workers' government after integration are not even one in ten thousand.

  The people from the Russian Far East Governor’s Office encouraged the two Grand Duchess to restore the glory of the Romanov Dynasty. In fact, their intention was to pull the Ocean Empire into the water and use the prosperous military power of the Ocean Empire to attack the Russian workers’ government.

  How could such a small calculation escape Li Fushou's eyes?

   Therefore, even Li Fushou was not satisfied with the two daughters-in-law of the Russian royal family.

  In mid-March, the twelfth and fourteenth sons of the emperor will follow the crown prince Li Siyuan to visit Vladivostok in the Far East. This trip will decide the fate of the two Russian princesses.

  If you come back obediently to get married and have children, then everything will be avoided.

  If they still want to get into the wrong, the crown prince Li Siyuan will use the power of the crown prince to abolish the two marriages with the Russian royal family and completely cut off their fantasy.

   Let’s make a fuss when you fall in love with it. Anyway, the Empire will not play with it. By the end of the 19th or the beginning of the 20th, a division stationed in Vladivostok will also be withdrawn to the country, ending the overseas dispatch mission.

The reason

  The empire is not interested in that cold and frozen territory at all. There are tens of thousands of people in such a large area in Alaska. Is Siberia very fragrant?

   In the postwar period

  The empire will implement an overall shrinking strategy, try to restrain its edge, minimize geostrategic conflicts with Britain, France, Russia and other countries, keep a low profile, avoid a full-scale showdown with the United Kingdom, further accumulate and strengthen its national strength, and wait for the next opportunity to explode its output.

   Take a step back, the sea is vast!

   (end of this chapter)