As early as when the war in Shandong was still raging, in the spring of 1914, when the cold winter passed, the war in Europe had begun to rekindle.

Paris, the capital of France, a city with a long history and a long history as the center of Europe, is facing the greatest crisis, when the colors of spring have begun to gradually envelop the European continent, and the war that has been waiting for the whole winter finally comes again, and the two sides have piled up millions of troops, ready to fight in Paris at any time.

Throughout the winter, there was no more action on either side, Germany controlled all the main roads outside Paris, according to the previous state of war, for a few months, the defenders of Paris would be demoralized, but the German blitzkrieg fortress in Belgium, using airships from the northwest, so far the airships completely stepped onto the stage.

The use of helium, the anti-sinking performance of the airship, has become an important air power, Britain and France with the help of airships, to support Paris, but since the arrival of 1914, this support action, has become more and more difficult, Britain and France concentrated in Paris, there are more than 400 airships, in the next month or two, and 150 ships have been transported, almost 600 or so, the Germans on the other side, their efforts are no less than that of Britain and France, they also have more than 500 airships, the airship that should be launched has only a slight advantage.

It is impossible for Britain and France to send out all the airships, but Paris is too important, and it has become the current situation to take care of Paris as much as possible, and the number of two-room airships is so large that even the soldiers who specialize in serving airships exceed 20,000 people, and the air force represented by airships. It seems that from this moment began to enter the history of world wars, and the call for this part to be separated into equalization. It's getting higher and higher.

If it's a cold winter, it's not suitable for land operations. Germany did not care about the actions of Britain and France, but with the pace of spring approaching, the ground operation is about to begin under the premise, the German airship also began to act, the last half month, the German airship dispatched more and more times, they have some flexible activities in this part of the airspace around Paris, constantly attacking the logistics supply of Britain and France, and some are patrolling regularly. Squeeze the space of Britain and France.

Britain and France, due to the weakness of the war situation, did not choose to go head-to-head with Germany, but they also knew that the countdown to the war was approaching, and the battle of Paris was imperative.

Near the Louvre in Paris, the American Sousa. Looking at the sky with some depression, he, as the director of the National Museum of the United States, was ordered to come and receive a part of the precious artifacts of the French museum, the trade between the Northwest and Germany. Let the French government, which is already a little exhausted, open its mind, and in order to defend Paris, it only sent a large number of airships to Paris. By the way, some supplies were sent. What was taken away were some of the wounded, elite personnel and part of the hard currency. The value of antiques is very high, but it is too large, and there are many types, and the gold of antiques in the prosperous era is chaotic, and in war-torn Europe, they never thought that these antiques can be exchanged for money.

The deal between the northwest and Germany gave them hope, half of France's rivers and mountains had been occupied, in this sense, France had nothing to lose, and it was better to exchange him for something useful. The accumulation of countless years in France, coupled with the Napoleonic era, and many other times across the world, has accumulated a large number of excellent cultural relics, including the cultural relics of the United States and the American continent.

For any country, things are valuable, even if they don't need to, the United States is like this, some very important items for European history, and even for the United States itself, of course, it is impossible to let go, just like that, the two sides hit it off, more than 550 pieces of cultural relics that can be called rare in the world were negotiated at a price of 55 million US dollars, each with an average of 100,000 US dollars, which is already quite high in this era.

Cultural relics of such a large scale and value must be guaranteed to be foolproof, and Sosa, as an expert in cultural relics research, is responsible for identifying and receiving them. When he came, it was quite smooth, on the airship, Sosa and his team of more than 20 people, successfully crossed the French border war zone, entered Paris, and completely opened the Paris Museum to him, which gave him a huge shock, and he was almost immersed in these beautiful and unique cultural relics.

Related to cultural relics, fakes have always emerged in an endless stream, 100,000 US dollars each, in this era of 20 US dollars is equivalent to an ounce of gold, close to 5,000 ounces of gold, which is in this era, it is definitely a lot of money, he is also afraid that in addition to the problem, for the agreed cultural relics, almost a piece of identification, many cultural relics, need to be personally seen, so the time, it is a little long, it is easy to spend half a month, most of the cultural relics are identified, as long as these cultural relics are shipped out, This is a huge deal that is about to be completed.

Unfortunately, the situation is changeable, and Sousa, after just appraising a precious item from the Napoleonic era, gets the news that the item can no longer be shipped.

This made Sosa angry, and specifically found the Paris garrison headquarters, and the final situation made him depressed, and the Germans began to patrol around Paris, especially airships, almost non-stop, at this time, not to mention transporting fragile antiques out, even if they couldn't even transport them personally.

In just 3 days, at least more than 20 air battles broke out in various parts of Paris, and both sides suffered losses on both sides, but the purpose of the Germans was clear, and nothing was allowed to be shipped out.

Sosa was a little dazed, he didn't understand, why it became like this, it was fine a few days ago, at least when he came by airship, he didn't encounter any obstacles, and he entered Paris smoothly, and now it's still cold outside, not very suitable for fighting, and the rhetoric that should be issued can't be explained, because of this, Sosa's subordinates are also excited, and they all think that France may not be willing to implement the agreement.

Sosa began the process of arguing with the British and French troops, and Sousa did not know that the reason for this was directly related to his entry into Paris. The actions of the French and the Americans, at the beginning, the Germans did not know, neither the French nor the Americans, were aware of the secrecy, they seemed to have consciously or unconsciously promoted and hyped up this matter, for France, the more popular it was, the more he could sell, the more he could earn.

55 million US dollars, this is not a small amount, the same is true at the national level, the United States is a commercial society, counting on Congress to come up with such a sum of money, it is basically difficult to reach the sky, with DuPont, Morgan headed by the consortium, homeopathic set up a fund, dedicated to this batch of antiques service, in addition to paying money, but also the antique display is also included, after Sosa identified most of the antiques, the detailed list of antiques sent back to the United States, because of the huge number, Together with a number of 17th- and 18th-century masterpieces contributed by several major consortia, the United States is preparing for a grand exhibition of European antiques.

Since the rise of the United States from industry, it has been seeking its position in the world, but there is no history, it has become an eternal pain for the United States, coupled with being far away from the center of Europe, which is also one of the fundamental reasons why the United States is actively approaching the Entente.

Americans have in their hearts that it seems to be a good choice to get the precious cultural relics of the French who were once high up to the United States, which is equivalent to a certain extent, and to climb up on the legs of the French. Buying things is to make money, for exhibitions, and then sell some, these are normal, for other times, will not attract the attention of Europe on the other side of the ocean, first of all, Britain and France did not care too much, but Germany cared, for no other reason, Paris is one of the few museums in the world concentrated area, in the past few centuries, the French have not done a lot of bad things, burning and killing a lot of cultural relics, including a large number of important cultural relics from China.

Of course, in addition to selling 550 precious cultural relics to the Americans, France is also preparing to transfer more than 3,000 of the most precious cultural relics in Paris, France, from Paris, which is about to be surrounded by war.

But no one knows, such a propaganda for their own interests, let Germany get the news, in the eyes of Germany, these things are already in their pockets, part of it will be enriched to the Royal German Museum, showing the will of the conqueror, and part, will be used to trade with the northwest, from Belgium and northern France to taste the sweetness of Germany, feel the whole of Paris, more than 70 museums of all sizes, hundreds of thousands of cultural relics in the collection, this is a huge wealth, especially among them, obtained from China, and the treasures of the Parisian people and dignitaries, which will be sold for a good price.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of World War I, Germany imported a large number of materials from China, which must be paid for with hard currency, because Yang Yuanzhao's mention can be offset by cultural relics.

Now, the Americans and the French have joined forces to openly sell the antiques that should have belonged to the German war trophies, which is tantamount to moving Germany's money bag, which Germany cannot accept in any case, even if it is only for money, it cannot be allowed to be shipped out, and Germany has increased its patrols, even if it has caused some damage. (To be continued.) )