Expedition to Europe

The cleanup of the Baliem Valley lasted for nearly half a month.

Huang Li and his team initially underestimated the duration of the cleanup and were not fully prepared. In fact, they found out when they arrived in the Baliem Valley that the Asmat people here were not all concentrated together, but scattered in various corners of the Baliem Valley, which greatly increased the difficulty of the cleanup.

However, the advantage of hot weapons over primitive cold weapons is undoubted. Huang Li and his team spent most of their time on the road, and did not spend much time actually fighting.

Considering that the cleanup of the indigenous people was too brutal, Qin Zhiyuan instructed Lance to downplay the incident in the Daily News and stop hyping it up, but instead shift his attention to withdrawing troops from Europe.

From September 1916 to August 1919, the Foreign Legion fought in Europe for three years, and now it was finally time to withdraw from Europe.

The Bolsheviks and the coalition government signed a peace agreement in Paris, unanimously agreeing to use the currently occupied areas as the armistice demarcation line to end the war.

In the current Russia, the Bolsheviks occupy vast territories north of Moscow, including St. Petersburg.

Yes, although it looks much smaller than the original Russia, the Bolshevik-controlled area is still about 4 million square kilometers.

The coalition government controls the remaining territories south and west of Moscow, and Kolchak controls a larger area, as much as 10 million square kilometers.

Comparing with the Russian map of later generations, you will find that nearly 3 million square kilometers are missing, and those missing are the areas controlled by Lan Fang.

Although the peace agreement has been signed, Europe still has no sense of security, so conflicts broke out between Kolchak, Denikin and Yudenich. The interests within the coalition government cannot be reconciled, so the land controlled by the coalition government is divided again. Kolchak occupies the territory west of Moscow, including most of Siberia, and Denikin occupies the relatively developed areas south of Moscow. Yudenich is the worst. He lost almost all his troops in the civil war and only got a little pitiful land in Estonia and Latvia.

So now Russia is dismembered into five parts, namely Bolshevik Russia, Kolchak's coalition government, Denikin's South Russia, Yudenich's Estonia, and the Northern Xinjiang controlled by Lan Fang.

It seems that the civil war in Russia has basically ended.

But everyone knows that this end is temporary. After a period of time, no matter which side feels that it has recovered its strength, the war will start again.

But that has nothing to do with the Foreign Legion. The Foreign Legion will withdraw from Russia to the Far East along the Trans-Siberian Railway in batches.

Yes, it is the Far East. After the war stopped, some people in the Foreign Legion chose to retire, and the remaining about 60,000 people will return to the Far East and be stationed there from now on.

As for the ownership of the Far East, it is still unresolved. The Japanese, British and Americans all asked Lan Fang to return the Northern Xinjiang to the Republic of China.

Lan Fang asked for Lan Fang to temporarily trustee it on the pretext that the Republic of China had not yet formed a unified government, and the French did not comment on this.

No comment?

This is not okay!

France is Lan Fang's ally, and the two countries must be consistent on the issue of territory.

So Lu Zhengxiang, the ambassador to France, went to the French Prime Minister's Office to meet with Clemenceau, hoping to communicate with Clemenceau on the issue of the Northern Border.

"The main resistance comes from the Japanese. Their reasons are very sufficient. If Lan Fang continues to control the Far East, it will pose a great threat to Japan's security. The British and Americans also agree with the Japanese. To be honest... your territory is now too large, even I can't help but be jealous." Clemenceau said half true and half false.

Lu Zhengxiang and Clemenceau are also acquaintances. Because of the relationship between Lan Fang and France, the relationship between the two is also good. When facing Lu Zhengxiang, Clemenceau did not make excuses, but went straight to the core of the problem.

If you look at the map, if Lan Fang continues to retain the Northern Border, then Japan will be caught in the crossfire between Lan Fang and the north, and the Japanese certainly have reason to express dissatisfaction.

The position of the Americans and the British is also understandable, because the Americans and the British now have territorial disputes with Lan Fang, about the American Philippines and British Malaya.

"No, no, no, it's not like that. Lan Fang has no ambitions for Japan. Lan Fang just wants to seek justice for his ancestors, and has no intention of targeting Japan..." Lu Zhengxiang first stated his position.

Of course, Clemenceau would not believe Lu Zhengxiang's nonsense. Anyone can say high-sounding words. So Clemenceau just spread his hands and made a "helpless" gesture, letting Lu Zhengxiang continue.

"In fact, the Japanese currently enjoy most of the rights in the Northeast of the Republic of China. If Lan Fang returns the Far East to the Republic of China... then Mr. Prime Minister, you can imagine who will eventually control it? I think it is definitely not the Republic of China, because the Republic of China does not have that ability at present." Lu Zhengxiang wants to divert the trouble to the east.

In fact, the Japanese are not welcomed by the British and Americans now. The Japanese took advantage of the world war to seize a lot of rights from the Republic of China, and these rights are exclusive, which will definitely affect the interests of the British and Americans. The British and Americans are not unaware of this, but they choose the lesser of two evils. When comparing Japan and Lan Fang, the British and Americans obviously think that Lan Fang is a greater threat, so they stand on the side of the Japanese.

Well, if we compare the performance of the Lan Fang army and the Japanese army in the world war, the two are indeed not on the same level.

"As for our territory, Mr. Prime Minister, a strong Lan Fang is better than a strong Russia, and the strength of Lan Fang is also what France wants, isn't it?" Lu Zhengxiang has a relatively accurate grasp of the French mentality.

To be honest, when Lan Fang began to resist the Dutch colonial government, almost no one realized that things would turn out like this.

Think about it, Lan Fang originally only occupied the Dutch East Indies, but almost in the blink of an eye, Papua New Guinea, which was entrusted to the Australians by the British, also became Lan Fang's territory, including the entire Solomon Islands, and now about 300 square kilometers of the Far East. The rise of Lan Fang caught everyone off guard, to the point of being terrifying.

Because of this, perhaps the British and Americans are now regretting it. If they had known that the Dutch were so terrible, why would they leave such a large territory to Lan Fang...

The French may not regret it, but jealousy is inevitable.

By the way, the Dutch, who had lost control of the East Indies, did not give up. Just a few days ago, the Queen of the Netherlands just announced a shipbuilding plan to build eight battleships within three years and then return to Southeast Asia.

Haha, what can I say about this plan? Regardless of whether the Dutch have enough financial resources to support this plan, even if it is completed, the Dutch may not be able to return to Southeast Asia as they wish.

After the establishment of the country, Lan Fang was not idle. At present, in the shipyard in Marseille, the keel of the first "legion-class" battleship has begun to be laid, and the progress is much faster than that of the Dutch.

The original text is in Liu # 9 @Book/Bar!

"You are right. I hope Lan Fang is strong, but I hope Qin can develop the country in another way, rather than the current aggressive way. You know, the current Lan Fang has caused anxiety among the British and Americans. If it continues, I am afraid the consequences will not be optimistic. Therefore, Lloyd George and Wilson both feel a certain degree of threat. You must understand this, especially Qin." Clemenceau knew who has the final say in Lan Fang at present, so every sentence is closely related to Qin Zhiyuan.

Clemenceau and Qin Zhiyuan have been dealing with each other for a long time, and Clemenceau knows Qin Zhiyuan very well.

Clemenceau thinks that if Lan Fang is not contained, then Lan Fang's territory will continue to expand, and one day, Lan Fang will endanger the interests of France.

Think about it, French Indochina is not far from Lan Fang.

"George, on this issue, I don't think you need to worry, and the British and Americans don't need to worry either. We are just a group of abandoned people, a group of poor people abandoned by our motherland, so please understand our uneasiness. Maybe it seems that Lan Fang is indeed full of aggression, but this is definitely not the norm. The World War has just ended, and no one wants to provoke another war. Currently, millions of people have to rely on Qin to survive, and Qin is under great pressure... So George, now is the time when Lan Fang needs the friendship of France, and please believe that Lan Fang will definitely repay France, just like we did in the World War." Lu Zhengxiang used both soft and hard tactics.

Lu Zhengxiang's words were pitiful, but in fact he was accusing the French of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, and implicitly pointed out that if France did not support Lan Fang now, then Lan Fang would reconsider its relationship with France.

This must be taken seriously by the French.

Perhaps Lan Fang's threat to the Japanese would make the French feel uneasy, but if France lost Lan Fang as an ally because of the Japanese, then the result would indeed be more loss than gain. Clemenceau made the right choice in a short time.

France has already lost Russia, its traditional ally. If it loses Lan Fang again, then France will be alone.

Think about it, if Lan Fang joins Britain or remains neutral, then France will now be isolated. The Americans are the "sons" of the British, the Japanese are the "godsons" of the British, and what does France have?

Kolchak's coalition government?

Don't be funny!

So at the League of Nations meeting the next day, France immediately changed its tone and firmly supported Lan Fang to temporarily manage the Far East until the Republic of China formed a unified government.

In this way, Lan Fang's situation has greatly improved.

The current France is not the France that was completely occupied by the Germans. The French are now the victors, and they are the victors who won the world war as the main force. The British and Americans may ignore Lan Fang's opinions, but they must pay attention to the opinions of France.

Of course, in order to make the British willingly give up Japan, Qin Zhiyuan has a backup plan.

At the same time, the Corsica Research Institute finally received good news. After the unremitting efforts of the Chemical Research Institute, polyamide fiber was finally born. This is the first synthetic fiber in the world, and it has a name that was once widely known as "nylon".