Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Molotov did not bother to travel to other countries to go to Germany. Instead, he left Moscow and went straight south to the front line. He held a white flag and came to the German army. He was then sent to Berlin and met Yannick.

"Lord Molotov, long time no see. Stalin sent you here at this time. It seems that you can't fight anymore?"

"Your Highness is wise." Molotov said respectfully. "But I'm afraid His Highness can't imagine the peace terms proposed by Stalin." Then he told all Stalin's demands.

"Ha!" After hearing this ridiculous request, Yannick felt dumbfounded. "I think Stalin's brain is burned out. Does he have the nerve to negotiate such terms? Does he think he has the initiative? Can he launch a major counterattack soon?" Yannick nodded after mocking. "You go back and tell Stalin that it's okay if you want to talk, but to show his sincerity, he has to pay the 'peace negotiation fee' first. If he doesn't pay, he just wants to fool us, so naturally there will be no negotiation. I don't want much, that's all. Let’s say 200 tons of gold.” Although he wanted one to two thousand tons, his demands were so severe that even Stalin could not afford it.

Molotov said a little doubtfully. "What if Stalin really gives it?"

Yannick smiled slightly. "Then let's talk. It's just a matter of fighting and talking." There is no law that explicitly stipulates that the two parties must stop fighting during negotiations. "That's it. After this period of time, my promise to you will be fulfilled. Miss Svetlana should be arriving soon. You should go see her."

Coincidentally, the Americans on the other side were also thinking about making peace with the Germans, and all the top leaders quickly reached an agreement on this.

After receiving the domestic order, Ambassador Anderson to Sweden rushed to the German Embassy in a hurry to express his intention to the German Ambassador Eber.

Ebel sent a telegram to Berlin and soon received a reply. "Sir Anderson, our Highness agrees to negotiate with your country. However, the prerequisite is that your country needs to pay a 'peace negotiation fee'.

Ambassador Anderson was stunned. "'Peace negotiation fee'?" He had never heard of the so-called "peace negotiation fee", but from the word "fee" it is not difficult to tell that Germany wants money again? "Does your country mean that if we want to negotiate, we have to pay a fee first?"

"Your Excellency Anderson is indeed a smart man." Ambassador Abel nodded seriously. "Yes, your country needs to pay 200 tons of gold as a 'peace negotiation fee' first. We will not enter the next stage of formal peace negotiation process until we receive the gold. Before that, it is useless to say anything."

Of course, Yannick is aware of the United States' tactics, using negotiations as a means of delaying time, and then immediately overturning the negotiation table and starting a war when he is ready. This is the consistent style of the United States in foreign affairs. I'm afraid Stalin had the same calculation.

Seeing that there was no room for negotiation, Anderson could only return to the embassy angrily and send a telegram to Washington to report the news.

"200 tons of gold?! These damn Germans!!" Although 200 tons is quite less than the previous 3,000 tons, it still made the senior officials gnash their teeth with hatred. After all, there is not much gold left in the U.S. treasury today; if these 200 tons of gold are handed over, there will really only be a few gold bars left in the treasury.

"what to do?"

But the Germans have already said that if they do not hand over these 200 tons of gold, the negotiation will not proceed at all.

Then I can only hand it over.

While the Americans were preparing gold, Yannick set off to the front line to condolences the soldiers.

The first stop was Leningrad, which has been renamed St. Frederik's Castle.

The "Air Force One" he was riding on circled in the sky above St. Frederik's Castle. Looking at the city below that was full of desolation and broken eaves, Yannick couldn't help but sigh at the destructive power of mankind. It may take decades or even hundreds of years to build a city, and only a few months to destroy it; only a few seconds after the emergence of nuclear weapons are enough to destroy a city.

The plane landed slowly at an airport in the suburbs. When walking out of the cabin door, there seemed to be a trace of gunpowder smoke lingering in the air.

Yannick looked around and sighed. "It seems that St. Petersburg is not a city that cannot be defeated!"

More than three hundred years ago, the Neva River overflowed and seawater poured in. St. Petersburg was a swamp and inaccessible. But Peter the Great had a unique vision and took a fancy to this land, and developed and planned it. It was initially developed as a port city, and this is how the city of St. Petersburg came into being.

However, the traffic and transportation conditions at that time were not very good. If a city was to be built on a swamp, it would need to be well planned. It would indeed be a large, time-consuming and labor-intensive project. More than 40,000 workers come to St. Petersburg every year. They travel across mountains and rivers, bring their own food, heavy labor, insufficient food, and harsh climate and environment. About 200,000 people were sacrificed in the construction of St. Petersburg. Therefore, some people say, St. Petersburg is a city piled high with the deaths of 200,000 people. After the city was built, Peter the Great saw the development prospects of St. Petersburg and moved the capital here. For more than 200 years until 1918, it was the center of Russian culture, politics, and economy.

As for why Yannick made such a sigh, it is because from the time it was built to the present, St. Petersburg has never been captured by a foreign enemy.

During the Russo-French War of 1812, although Napoleon militarily occupied Moscow, the main Russian force led by Kutuzov was still there, and support forces from St. Petersburg were still being formed and rushed to the battlefield, eventually defeating Napoleon.

As for why Napoleon went to Moscow instead of the capital St. Petersburg?

According to the war tradition at that time, occupying the enemy's capital was the main goal of the war. Although St. Petersburg was the political center of Russia at the time, Moscow was the spiritual capital of the Russians. Napoleon expected that after the capture of Moscow, Tsar Alexander I would surrender on Moscow's Mount Kabul. But the Tsar did not choose to surrender, and the Russian army adopted a scorched-earth policy, taking away all the food and releasing the prisoners before withdrawing. The last evacuating soldiers set fire to the city. As a result, by the time the French army invaded the Kremlin, Moscow was already an empty city with scorched earth.

During World War II, St. Petersburg, which was renamed Leningrad, was besieged by the German army for nine hundred days. There was no water, no food, hunger, cold, artillery fire... This caused St. Petersburg to lose about 900,000 people. It was the longest siege and counter-siege operation during World War II. Under such difficulties, the army and people of Leningrad broke through the enemy's siege after 900 days of tenacious struggle and finally won victory.

But now, he finally set foot on this land that had never been conquered before, and he felt a mixture of emotions in his heart.