Duan Yi did not leave after arriving in Seville. Instead, he stayed in Seville to assist Li Zhaoyu, but this kind of assistance was not to supervise him, but to fully cooperate with him. For example, when the military cooperation between the empire and Spain was exposed, friendly countries such as Portugal, Genoa, and the Ottoman Empire, which were related to their interests, expressed concern, while Duan Yi came forward to solve similar difficult problems.

After Li Zhaoyu convinced the French representatives, no one in the major countries had opposed Corsica as the headquarters of the League of Nations. Genoa also gave a reasonable price under France's "corner convincing", that is, each of the five major countries will pay 100,000 imperial silver dollars.

After the decision, the five major countries sent a committee to Corsica for contact.

The committee first needs to determine which port the headquarters of the League of Nations is set up, and secondly, it is to contact the local people and restructure the local politics. The people in the Genoa colonial government will naturally get out of here, and the power vacuum must be compensated immediately. The five major countries have long decided to achieve complete autonomy in the local area, but they are listed as demilitarized areas.

On the issue of the local political system implementation, except for France, the five major powers surprisingly expressed their agreement, that is, the establishment of a parliamentary republic. France advocated the establishment of a constitutional monarchy for the simple reason. In the past few years, for the purpose of dealing with the Genoese, France has intervened in local politics and established connections with some indigenous nobles of Corsica. If a constitutional monarchy is established, at least the first generation of power will be very inclined toward France.

But the rest of the countries opposed that even countries that practice monarchy like the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Spain tended to let the Corsicans establish a parliamentary system, because everyone understood that the headquarters of the League of Nations was established here, and no single country could control it. The parliamentary system could better choose agents from it. Although it could not achieve any cause, it could destroy the influence of other countries in the local area.

Although they experienced ups and downs, the participating countries still reached agreements on the two issues of the selection of locations for the five major countries and headquarters. As for the various documents and constitutions of the League of Nations, some people naturally resolved them by humans. Although there were no major contradictions in the political structure, there were many contradictions on the small issues and it was difficult to implement them.

The first thing that cannot reach an agreement is the issue of membership fees. The establishment and operation of the League of Nations requires membership fees. How should the membership fees be shared?

The sharing standards of total economic volume and population size were proposed one after another, but they were quickly rejected by various countries. The reason is very simple. With the current technical conditions, many countries do not know how many people they have. As for the concept of total economic volume, it is even more unheard of.

It is even said that some countries do not even have the concept of nationality. The governments of most countries often only know how many taxpayers there are in their own country. As for those who do not pay taxes, they can only estimate based on one ratio.

This is completely incomparable to the time when the Eastern Alliance was established. The headquarters of the Eastern Alliance was directly established in the Empire, and all expenses were under the responsibility of the Empire. The staff of the Eastern Alliance organization were also sent by various countries to take charge of the expenses, and all kinds of miscellaneous expenses were also under the responsibility of the Empire.

But that's because the Eastern Alliance is an alliance dominated by the Empire, which is completely different from the League of Nations. The Empire has no surrender to bear the expenses of the League of Nations. In fact, the Empire has always been stingy in diplomacy.

Regarding the expenses required for the establishment of the League of Nations, Li Zhaoyu proposed a principle that was ultimately accepted by all countries.

That is, the main building of the League of Nations headquarters is constructed by the five major countries, and its architectural style is the "Pentagon". Each country builds the same part, but in internal construction and design, a common requirement is put forward, that is, the five major countries take turns to serve as the rotating presidency. Whoever takes the role should be held in the part where the country is located. Therefore, the buildings of each country should be able to meet the convening of an international conference.

As for other functional buildings attached, two methods were adopted, one was donation and the other was outsourcing. Li Zhaoyu announced at that time that he donated a hospital in the name of the Imperial Royal Family near the headquarters of the League of Nations. With this leadership, France announced the undertaken of heating facilities, Spain was responsible for the park, and the Ottoman Empire undertaken the construction of roads between all buildings. The British representatives initially announced the construction of a public canteen, but after hearing that this canteen only serves British dishes, representatives from various countries shook their heads, do there be any delicious food in the UK?

In the end, the British were responsible for stables and parking facilities. As for other buildings and infrastructure, countries were responsible for it. However, supporting facilities such as ports were directly contracted to the outside world. Although these two methods were not perfect, the grass-roots team was set up.

As for the daily maintenance of the League of Nations, it is even simpler to directly divide the money into pieces and allocate them to various countries.

However, the establishment of the League of Nations is only a small problem after all, and the cost is not much. The equalization of membership fees is still on the operating expenses of the League of Nations.

Although the League of Nations is just a platform for quarrels and a scapegoat for being scolded for itself in the eyes of the five major countries, the League of Nations still has to do things after all. At least in the "League of Nations Convention, the League of Nations has two major tasks: the first is to maintain world peace and stop aggression. The second is to care about and deal with world economy, society, health, humanitarian issues.

Even if it is only concerned about some international issues and collecting information, it will cost. As for the Empire's dispatch of peacekeeping security forces to the Southern Russia during the Great Northern War, it was even more costly. No matter what the League of Nations wanted to do, the first thing was to ask for money. How should this money be shared?

It was finally proved that the solution proposed by Li Zhaoyu was just to stop the boiling and would not solve the real problem at all. After all, there must be an even share ratio of membership fees of the National League.

In terms of specific proportions, neither the five major countries were consulted behind closed doors or the formal meetings discussed together, the problem was solved. All countries were pessimistic about the sharing of membership fees, especially those small countries.

How much money does the League of Nations require in a year is not fixed, because it depends on how many things are handled, but there is no doubt that the early days of the League of Nations was definitely the busiest time. The British who knew how to calculate suggested that instead of doing boundless calculations, it was better to find a real case to simulate it. Therefore, the League of Nations chose the Russian and Ukrainian conflict.

The Ukrainian Federation was established, but the border between the Ukrainian Federation and Tsarist Russia has not been clearly defined. Now there is only one line of actual control and a ceasefire area near the border of the empire. In the actual control area of ​​Russia, a large number of Ukrainians and Cossacks want to defect to the Ukrainian Federation. In the actual control area of ​​the Ukrainian Federation, many people want to obey Russian rule.

Both countries have entered a period of peace and development, so they have always advocated demarcation of border lines, but obviously, they cannot be done without giving in. On both sides of the actual control line, conflicts often break out, forcing the two countries to maintain a considerable size of troops on the border.

On the relatively disadvantaged side, Ukraine proposed to follow the example of sending peacekeeping security forces, with the League of Nations, and military intervention, first establishing a ceasefire completely, and then negotiating the boundary division.

The problem is that the long border between the two countries requires at least 15,000 troops to achieve complete isolation and control, and the League of Nations has to bear the military expenditure of this 5,000. Obviously, if peacekeeping security forces are really sent, all the five major countries must participate. Even if the Ottoman Empire, which has the lowest soldiers, sends 15,000 troops, the military expenditure will be more than 700,000 imperial silver dollars per year.

If it were replaced by the Imperial Army with the highest treatment of soldiers, the military expenditure would exceed 1.3 million silver dollars. If the five major countries sent troops on average, they would consume about one million military expenditures a year. Considering the various problems arising from the clampdown between Ukraine and Poland and the ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, this border division will take at least two to three years. If an accident occurs, more time will be needed.

In other words, the League of Nations requires two to three million military expenses, even if it is only two million, which is about the annual fiscal revenue of France one-twelve. For small countries with a population of only one or two million, or even hundreds of thousands, even if they only bear ten thousand silver dollars for it, it is a mountain.

It can be said that due to the huge gap in national strength, most small countries can only be atmosphere groups. These military spending is also a huge pressure for big countries, not to mention that there are other problems that need to be solved urgently.

In fact, small countries are reluctant to take out one-thousandth of their fiscal revenue, and all countries are counting on these permanent and non-permanent members to bear all their membership fees.

Li Zhaoyu originally thought of raising one million silver dollars for the League of Nations to make action costs, first using this million to share, and then raising other expenses according to the itinerary. In his contact with Shen Jing, two principles were established.

First, the cost borne by the empire cannot exceed one quarter. Second, the cost borne by the empire cannot be lower than the cost borne by Britain, France and the Netherlands.

Of course, if the British disrupted the situation, this method would be completely invalidated.

In the final analysis, the countries participating in the League of Nations do not want to assume international responsibilities, but only to safeguard their own interests. Especially for the Empire, even if there is no League of Nations, the Empire will not lose any huge benefits in the foreseeable future, and the membership fees they bear every year are real losses.

What are the benefits of helping Ukraine and Russia establish a border line? Li Zhaoyu couldn't think of it for a while, but the disadvantages were obvious. Isn't the empire's promotion of the establishment of the Ukrainian Federation just to restrain Russia?

The empire did not need the League of Nations to protect its own interests. Britain and France were worried that if the League of Nations had too much action, it would limit its overseas expansion. Spain and the Ottoman Empire did not want the League of Nations to hinder its revival or revenge. The five major powers did not want the League of Nations to have too much action, so it would be a real ghost to bear the membership fee.

On the way to Operation Seville, Li Zhaoyu looked out the car window. The Spanish guards were using whips and spears to clear the beggar who wanted to come up. Duan Yi reached out and pulled down his curtains directly, covering Li Zhaoyu's sight. Duan Yi said: "Everyone has compassion, but you and I can do nothing."

In fact, Li Zhaoyu could have given some of the money to give alms to these people. Even if he didn't like trouble, he could still give it to others. But the problem is that this is a country in Spain, an imperial diplomatic system is striving for. If the representative of the empire is to give alms to the poor here, he will undoubtedly slap Philip V in the face, which will hurt the relationship between the two countries.

"Why did Chief Duan attend the meeting with me this time?" Li Zhaoyu asked on his own initiative. Duan Yi would not attend the meeting in normal times. Because most European representatives from all countries who attended the meeting knew him, Duan Yi did not want to steal Li Zhaoyu's limelight.

Duan Yi smiled and said, "This consultation will not result in any results, and the issue of membership fee sharing cannot be solved."

"So what?" Li Zhaoyu was even more puzzled.

Duan Yi said: "So, this time it will be boring. Young Master, you are good at solving problems, but you are not good at machining. This time, you have to say a lot of high-sounding words, but you can't make any promises. I'll do this."

"Yes, I don't actually want to attend today's meeting." Crown Prince William also echoed.

Li Zhaoyu smiled: "I think it's better to learn from it. Chief Duan, not every time, can get help from someone like you."

Duan Yi smiled: "The eldest son thinks, how should we solve the problem of membership fee sharing?"

Li Zhaoyu glanced at Prince William and seemed to be considering whether to say in front of him. After thinking for a moment, he felt that there would be no conflict between the two sides. Li Zhaoyu said: "The countries have proposed different allocation ratios, and it seems that each has its own reasons, but none of the five major countries can reach an agreement, so this matter cannot be done."

The five major countries conducted multiple rounds of consultations on the sharing of expenses, but no results were achieved. The empire cared more about proportional issues. Anyway, the empire is rich, and its fiscal revenue is not the same order of magnitude as other countries. The rest of the countries care more about share issues. No countries want to spend too much in the United Nations.

"... Therefore, we can only find a plan that everyone can accept, or find a step so that all countries can get down." Li Zhaoyu continued: "I will not propose it now because I think the quarrel between countries is not enough. After the negotiations with Spain's military cooperation, let all countries communicate fully and completely disappoint, we will propose my solution.

My solution is, whoever advocates it will bear it. Don’t Ukraine and Russia want to set a border? The League of Nations can intervene as a neutral party, but whether it is sending peacekeeping troops or conducting surveying and mapping, all the costs will be borne by the two countries. If you do not bear it, then this matter will be delayed by the League of Nations.
Chapter completed!