C2896 Bargaining (1/2)

Puff … Cough cough cough …

Bismark was completely defeated by Xiao Letian's shamelessness, he choked on the cigar smoke while coughing out, ”You are too greedy! Do you think I have no intelligence? ”

”To the north is simply a barbaric land that has never been run by any Western powers before. It is a place that the French do not even bother taking. It belongs to the Ruan Royal Family and has always been living according to the traditions of the Middle Ages …”

”Of course, the most fertile one is to go south, yet you want to leave with just one mouth? ”Stop dreaming, it's impossible, there's no such thing as right now …”

”Ai ai ai …” ”Why are you in such a hurry?” Xiao Letian rubbed his hands together and laughed, ”Doing business, we are still bargaining, how do you think we should split it?”

The French colonies at Annan would definitely not be preserved, and the Chinese and Prussia would definitely divide up the France colonies in the world.

It was worth mentioning that Bismark was not a fanatic of colonization. He was an extremely rational politician, in terms of space and time, Bismark did not even want a piece of the French overseas colony.

Bismark wants your Alsatian and Lorraine from France!

This is where the excellence of a mature politician comes from. Bismark knows how much of his food needs to be compatible with your ability to digest.

Bismark was always steady walking. He would firmly eat everything that he could digest into his mouth, and then digest it into his own flesh and blood. It was unlike the small and violent Japanese where he had shortsighted and had a big belly.

Bismark was very clear that Prussia's navy still needed a long time to develop. Without the protection of a powerful navy, overloading the overseas colonies would only be a burden.

Therefore, what Bismark wanted was a large amount of war reparations and the European lands that bordered the Germany!

In the real history, when Bismark offered a price to cede Arthas and Rolin, Queen Ou Renni, the wife of the French Emperor who had taken refuge in the UK, once wrote a letter to the Prime Minister Iron-Blood while bowing and kneeling.

In the letter, the Empress begged Bismark to be magnanimous, and even offered to exchange Annan and the two colonies of French India for Alsace and Lorraine.

But she never thought that Bismark would not be fooled and immediately reject the Queen's suggestion to cede two provinces of northeastern France!

Pragmatic, too pragmatic! The practical and conservative spirit of the German was fully displayed here.

In contrast, Asia's Japan, the first Asian country to enter industrialization, ended up losing by playing itself to death. This bunch of short legs had no strategic mind at all.

In the entire process of the rise of Japan, the only one who understood clearly was Itou Hirobumi. Only he understood that occupying and digesting those two things were two entirely different things.

After the war, Japan obtained Korea and Taiwan. At that time, Itou Hirobumi was only focused on managing these two new lands.

Suppressing the military's desire to stir up trouble, he forcefully promoted the Japanese culture in the new land of occupation, both in words and customs. He even began to unify the style of the buildings.

There was even a history saying that after Itou Hirobumi was assassinated, on the verge of death, she made a will asking the successor to swear that he wouldn't be able to start any war of aggression within a hundred years, and that he had to completely manage both Korea and Taiwan first.

A hundred years was enough time for the indigenous residents of those two lands to forget about their own language and language, as well as their past clothes and customs. A hundred years was enough for them to accept the fact that they were Japanese.

After properly digesting them, the two pieces of land became Japanese muscles and tendons, instead of a drag on fat!