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503 Talking

Being moved means not far from success, but Li Xiaofeng knew that De Gaulle was not so easy to convince. Although he was still far from professional old foxes like Churchill, De Gaulle, who had experienced the pain of the country's destruction, had already undergone a baptism and was on the right path of a politician.

Li Xiaofeng knew very well that to truly convince De Gaulle, he needed to add another fire, because he knew very well what the issue De Gaulle really cared about. For De Gaulle, ensuring France's national dignity and national interests is the first priority, so even if the conditions offered by the Soviet Union are very good, it can satisfy France and his personal interests in the short term, but in the long run, France's national interests are not consistent with the Soviet Union.

To put it simply, in Europe, France has been seeking leadership. Unfortunately, over the past two hundred years, France's efforts have always been disturbed by Britain and Germany, especially the British, which really made France cry. However, in the past thirty years, especially after a series of exchanges of interests before and after World War I, the key issues of the conflict of national interest between Britain and France have been resolved. The common interests of the two countries have become consistent, which has also made the two countries follow in dealing with international issues.

On the contrary, the Soviet Union did not deal with the French on too many issues. First of all, on the **********, the French advocated freedom, while the Soviet Union advocated order, France belonged to the democratic and democratic system, while the Soviet Union belonged to the ****. Especially on the issue of ****, it was almost impossible for the two countries to reach an agreement.

This is the most important issue. As long as the Soviet Union does not give up its revolutionary output, France will probably not feel safe. Even the French can't help but shivering when they think of millions of Red Army soldiers squatting on the Rhine in the future.

At least Charles de Gaulle hoped that the Soviet Union would be as far away from France as possible. Even if he had discussed this issue in his previous talks with Li Xiaofeng, the Soviet Union also made a verbal promise that Germany should be completely disarmed and that countries should not be stationed in Germany. But is this verbal promise really reliable? Hitler and Chamberlain wrote clearly in black and white, but what happened? Chamberlain was fooled quite miserably!

Anyway, Charles de Gaulle was unwilling to be the second Chamberlain, which determined that he could not fully believe in the promises of the Soviet Union. He was afraid that the only thing he believed was himself, and he was even willing to use the influence of Britain and the United States to drive the Soviet Union away.

If it were Li Xiaofeng, I would probably have the same idea. No superpower would be neighbors with another superpower, especially the superpower that had conflicts with national interests. Look at what happened after the Republic of China and the Soviet Union turned against each other? In fact, both sides were afraid of being both sides, resulting in a large amount of resources being wasted in a meaningless confrontation.

This requires testing Li Xiaofeng's political level. It is obvious that a general treaty cannot dispel France's concerns. The Soviet Union and France must be consistent on the interests of Europe, at least Western Europe, so that both sides can sit down and live in peace.

Li Xiaofeng suggested: "We two countries can actually reach a broad consensus on the issue of Germany. Our attitude is that we must completely resolve the German issue, eradicate the root cause of Germany's war again, disarm Germany forever, and always ensure that Germany loses the possibility of war again. And to do this, the best way is to establish a federal Germany so that every state that joins the federal government enjoys full sovereignty and independence..."

Charles de Gaulle nodded slowly. Just imagine, if Germany was just a nominal whole, just like the Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages, all states enjoyed great autonomy, and the spirit of Germany no longer exists, interrupting the source of power of the German nation, will Germany still pose a threat to France in the future?

However, Li Xiaofeng wanted to say much more than De Gaulle realized. A certain immortal said: "Of course, in the initial post-war period, it was necessary for us victorious countries to supervise the reconstruction of the new Germany. I think it is appropriate for France to lead the reconstruction work in the Ruhr area!"

Charles de Gaulle widened his eyes. It was obvious that the Soviets were preparing to hand over the Ruhr industrial zone to France. This was an unimaginable piece of fat. You should know that after the end of World War I, France had contacted Belgium to try to occupy the Ruhr area on the pretext that Germany failed to fulfill its compensation obligation. However, it was only later given up under pressure from Britain and the United States.

Now, the Soviet Union promised to give the Ruhr area to France after the war, which was simply unthinkable. De Gaulle was a little disobedient at the beginning and began to feel that he could really cooperate with the Soviet Union. But he did not realize that Li Xiaofeng threw out more than these big cakes!

Li Xiaofeng said with a smile: "In view of the great damage to the French economy during the invasion of France, in order to help the French people resume production, the Soviet government will give France a low-interest loan of 500 million Swiss francs..."

Five hundred million Swiss francs were not a small number back then, equivalent to more than 100 tons of gold. For France, which was plundered by Germany, with this amount of money, not to mention returning productivity to pre-war levels, at least they could have the money to buy rice and put it into the pot.

De Gaulle was a little excited. In his opinion, the Soviet Union was quite sincere. You should know that the Soviet Union's economic situation was not good, and the war was damaged even more. In this case, the Soviet Union was willing to use money to help France. When did the polar bear become so generous?

Li Xiaofeng also smiled bitterly in his heart. It was not that the polar bear was generous, but that the polar bear was generous to others. The 500 million Swiss francs were actually lent to the Soviet government by the Northern Industrial Group, and it was interest-free. However, the Soviet government added some interest and transferred it to France.

If you ask Northern Industry, where does it come from so much money? In fact, Northern Industry can't afford so much money. This money is actually Northern Industry, which is jointly invested by Nokia and Umbrella, and Northern Industry accounts for the smallest proportion. The real big head is Umbrella. During World War II, this "drug dealer" made a lot of money. The export of antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs and anesthetics are well-known around the world. The three giants, including the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, ordered a large amount of medicine from Umbrella, and made a total of billions of dollars. Taking out hundreds of millions of Swiss francs to help Daboss do research is simply a piece of cake.

If Li Xiaofeng hadn't considered not to reveal his money and had to spend a huge amount of money to stimulate Britain and the United States at once, he could have made Umbrera spend more money. Of course, 500 million Swiss francs are not a small amount. At least even Charles de Gaulle's heart was beating faster and he began to think about how to spend the money.

Some comrades may say that Charles Charles de Gaulle was too jealous of money. Isn’t it just 500 million Swiss francs? After the war, the United States helped him billions of dollars, which is no more than just 500 million Swiss francs. Why bother offending Britain and the United States for such a small amount of money?

That's not what it said. It's not after the war. Do you know whether the Americans will aid Europe, let alone as mentioned earlier, Americans are not living Lei Feng. Before Europe agreed to their harsh conditions, there was no Marshall plan.

Now, the 500 million Swiss francs given by the Soviet Union do not have many additional conditions. First, do not want France to open up the market, and second, do not want France to give the Soviet Union unilateral most-favored-nation treatment. The only requirement is to let France help drag the UK and the United States back. This condition is simply for nothing!

However, Charles de Gaulle was still a little confused. He knew that the Russians were not living Lei Feng. If it were not profitable, there was no need to invest such a large amount of capital to win over France. And once he decided to cooperate with the Soviets, the future Soviet armor torrent would be very close to France!

Based on this point, De Gaulle could not make up his final decision. Li Xiaofeng knew that the last moment had come and he had to let De Gaulle accept this reality.

"God of General, I know what you are worried about. It's nothing more than worrying that the Soviet government will not keep its promise. At that time, the Soviet Red Army was too close to France... I don't think this kind of worry is necessary!"

De Gaulle obviously looked at a fairy with an expression that you should not think that I am a child and casually fooled me. Li Xiaofeng explained with a smile: "First of all, I want to say that the Soviet government has repeatedly emphasized that we can implement this through international conventions, and we are willing to abide by this convention. Let's take a step back, even if the French government does not believe in the credibility of the Soviet government, can you change the reality of the Soviet Red Army stationed in Poland and even eastern Germany?"

This question made De Gaulle stunned, because he always felt that the Soviet Union was too close and dangerous, and it would be better to drive the Soviet Union farther away, as possible. Based on this idea, he repeatedly rejected the Soviet Union's "good intentions". However, Li Xiaofeng's words just reminded him that if he did not accept the conditions of the Soviet Union, would France face better?

This is a problem that makes the French embarrassed, because judging from their current performance on the battlefield, no matter how poor the Soviet Red Army performed, it would be absolutely fine to invade eastern Germany. In other words, even if the French do not cooperate, the Soviet armored torrent will enter Germany. At that time, the Russians did not have any preferential conditions for France, and they could place heavy troops in Germany. Is there any way for France to do this?

The answer is that there is no way! What makes De Gaulle even more embarrassed is that once this happens, the United Kingdom and the United States may not be as generous as the Soviet Union and will give France so many preferential conditions. By then, France may not even be able to make a fortune.

After figuring this out, nothing could stop Charles de Gaulle from cooperating with the Soviet Union. Soon the two sides resolved most of the differences and worked together.

Learwin was not very clear about all this. She fell into the two giant pits of the Iran and Warsaw Uprising. She couldn't pay attention to the cooperation between France and the Soviet Union for a while. Moreover, the female spy thought she knew De Gaulle very well. She thought that there was no reason for her to cooperate with the Soviet Union and believed that a certain immortal must be doing useless work.

But what Li Erwin did not expect was that Charles de Gaulle was actually moved by Li Xiaofeng. With the French Communist Party undercover in Paris and Charles de Gaulle was a 25th boy in the Allies, the Paris uprising was imminent.

However, in order to successfully complete the uprising, some problems must be solved, such as weapons and ammunition, and operation command. Fortunately, Li Xiaofeng has built a large framework, so the remaining details are easier.

Anyway, there was no problem with the Soviet Union, and the real problem came from France. It was said before that Roosevelt did not like Charles de Gaulle, and even planned to cooperate with Vichy France. It was Churchill who helped Charles de Gaulle speak good things and do his work, which made Roosevelt reluctantly accept Charles de Gaulle and the Free France movement.

However, even so, Charles de Gaulle did not have absolute authority in Free France and Ora (French Resistance Movement). De Gaulle had a strong opponent at that time, and this person was Henry Gillard (some translated as Henry Gillard). General Gillard was much better than De Gaulle in terms of qualifications. In 1939, when De Gaulle was just a colonel, he was already the commander of the army and was definitely several levels older than De Gaulle.

Of course, General Gillard was not very smart when fighting. He was captured by the German army in Belgium during World War II, and then escaped from prison with magical skills. Anyway, this person's reputation in Ora was much better than De Gaulle. What's interesting is that the political propositions of both sides were completely different, the contradictions were unprecedentedly sharp, and the relationship was even more tense.

Roosevelt admired Henry Gillard very much, thinking that he was the most suitable person to lead France, so naturally he would not be able to bid farewell to Charles de Gaulle. Charles de Gaulle had no choice but to make Henry Gillard's backstage harder? For example, in the famous Casablanca conference, there was a famous photo of four people, three of whom looked familiar to everyone, and the one who wore long boots on the far left was Henry Gillard. Judging from the photos, Roosevelt obviously liked him more.

In fact, not to mention Roosevelt, Churchill did not like Charles de Gaulle. According to the latest declassified British wartime secret archives, Churchill would seize every opportunity to "elbow the Charles de Gaulle". For example, in 1942, the British Minister of War Economics was banned from allocating the 800,000 francs that he had promised to the French domestic resistance organization to Charles de Gaulle. At that time, Churchill scolded Hilber in person: "You do this to let Charles de Gaulle use the British treasury! We must immediately prevent Charles de Gaulle from using the British funds, even if it is not a small amount!"

As for Churchill's criticism, Hilber could only answer helplessly: "We must allocate this money to the Free France Movement led by Charles de Gaulle, because the organization's headquarters is in London. Through this headquarters, we can easily distribute the money to the French domestic resistance organizations."

At that time, the money was of great importance to the life of the French Resistance Organization, because members of the Resistance Organization lurking around France urgently needed cash to buy food. Hilber also said: "No matter what conflict we will have with Charles de Gaulle in the future, if we cut off this life-saving money now, it would be equivalent to pushing the French Resistance Organization into the Nazis' mouth, so we must never cut off cash aid to them now!"

But how did Churchill answer? He scolded Hilber for being too narrow in political vision, and in the end, under Churchill's pressure, the money was directly distributed to resistance organizations in France by the British Special Operations Office. Regarding the reason for his hostility to Charles de Gaulle, Churchill bluntly said: "Charles de Gaulle hates Britain, and he exudes an anti-British aura!"

Henry Gillard can indeed cause trouble for Li Xiaofeng's plan. At least when Free France discusses whether to cooperate with the Soviet Union, Henry Gillard is the one who can do bad things. In order to avoid this guy from ruining good things, De Gaulle deliberately concealed the core content of the talks with the Soviet Union, focusing on how to instigate the Paris uprising. Only on this issue can De Gaulle be confident of defeating Henry Gillard.

The facts were similar to what Charles de Gaulle expected. When he raised the issue of the Paris uprising to the height of nationalism, Henry Gillard could not object. Even if he tactfully proposed to seek the consent of Britain and the United States to express his opposition, it would have no meaning. The French National Liberation Committee approved Charles de Gaulle's proposal and was determined to instigate the Paris uprising before September.

Before the Paris uprising broke out, let's take a look at the situation of the resistance in France. In addition to the armed forces of the French Communist Party, there is also the battle France formed by the Navy Colonel Henry Fullerne. In addition, there is a central intelligence operation team formed by Andre Darwin, who was a pseudonym of Colonel Percy. After Colonel Percy was arrested by the Gestapo, Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Tony reorganized the team into a mainland military organization (ocm). It recruited a large number of left-behind soldiers and volunteers in the German occupied area and obtained countless intelligence, including a large amount of information related to the Atlantic barriers.

In addition, there were also combatants, France, the Free Shooter, and the Liberation Front, which were very active in southern France. These three companies later merged into the United Resistance Movement (Mur) and were the boss of De Gaulle. This mur also established a secret army (as), led by General Derestland, who served as the commander of the army before the fall of France.

This secret army is still quite powerful. According to the aforementioned Fullere recalled: in 1943, the secret army had developed into a powerful force with 241,350 people (of course, most of them had no weapons).

However, the people of the Secret Army are still very awesome, such as the famous French national hero Jean Muran. This guy is a hardcore supporter of Charles de Gaulle. He has been constantly waving flags and shouting for Charles de Gaulle in France, and has made important contributions to the cooperation between the resistance organizations.

However, Jean Muran's ending was rather tragic. In order to unite the resistance organizations in northern France, Muran organized a parliament on resistance organizations in Paris, but the meeting held on June 9, 1943 became a complete tragedy. Not only did it indirectly lead to Muran's arrest, but it also directly trapped General Derestland, the most important leader of the secret army in France.

After General Dresserland was arrested, Muran suspected that it was a traitor within the secret army, so he instead held a secret army summit near Lyon. However, shortly after he arrived in Lyon, he received a small note asking him to go to a park to meet with the leaders of the resistance organization. However, what Muran did not expect was that this was a trap set by the traitor. Shortly after he arrived in the park, he was arrested by the German Gestapo leader, Klaus Baby, known as the butcher of Lyon. After that, Muran withstood the test of uninterrupted torture and confessed nothing. Because he was too seriously injured, he died in a German concentration camp on July 8 of that year.

Of course, this is a historical event. In this time and space, in order to make Charles de Gaulle more powerful, according to Li Xiaofeng's instructions, kgb took special care of Muran and Derestland, and rescued them from the clutches of the Gestapo at the critical moment.

Therefore, at this time, the traitors within the Secret Army were eliminated, and Muran successfully merged the resistance organization in northern France into a whole, with a much greater power than in history, and this indirectly helped De Gaulle to gain reputation. (To be continued.)
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