Daming 1805

Zhu Jingyuan demanded that the Ottomans break away from the anti-Ming alliance.

Ottoman's representative, the Grand Vizier Zayadin, has long thought about it, so now he just nodded lightly:
"When Ottoman signed a contract with Daming, it was the time when Ottoman officially broke away from the anti-Ming alliance."

Representatives of several other Thai and Western countries subconsciously wanted to stop it.

Ottoman's separation from the anti-Ming alliance seems to be Ottoman's own business, but it symbolizes the beginning of the disintegration of the anti-Ming alliance.

For representatives who want to maintain the alliance, of course, they must find a way to stop it, if possible...

The first to speak was French Foreign Minister Talleyrand:

"Wait a minute, Grand Vizier, do you understand the consequences of signing a contract with Daming alone?"

Zayadin responded without hesitation:

"Osman understands that signing alone means Daming can tear up the agreement with Osman alone.

"But after joining the anti-Ming alliance for so many years, in the end, it failed to help the Ottomans to keep the land in the south.

"Osman referred to Daming's peace treaty with Lucia and finally decided to believe Daming's promise.

"The Ottomans need to end the war as soon as possible, settle down as soon as possible, and resume production."

Talleyrand instantly understood Ottoman's attitude.

Since you Taisi don't want to help Osman fight Daming, then don't stop Osman from jumping off the boat alone.

You Tessie don't want to fight anymore, and we Osman don't want to fight either.

Talleyrand and Pete continued to persuade a few more words, but they couldn't find any good reason in their mouths.

The key is that Osman's intentions have been decided, the two people's unfounded persuasion is useless at all, and finally a few words of ridicule are exchanged.

"We Osman have accepted your advice and accepted all of Daming's demands. Now it's up to you to sign the contract yourself."

The representatives of Britain and France were left speechless.

Before I persuaded Osman to accept Daming's request, and now I ask Osman not to jump off the train alone, there is no convincing at all.

Among all the member states of the Anti-Ming Alliance, Ottoman was the most special one.

The Ottomans did not participate in the battles in other areas at all, and did their best to simply defend against the Ming's attack in the homeland.

The Ottomans were already fighting against Ming before the anti-Ming alliance was established.

When the Anti-Ming Alliance was formed, Ottoman was not a member of the alliance.

After the Anti-Ming Alliance and Daming declared war, Osman was pulled into the alliance.

Although the Ottomans controlled a large amount of European territory, their cultural beliefs were not Taixi countries at all, but Dashi or Anxi countries.

The relationship between Ottoman and the Taixi country is not very good, and it can be regarded as a feud with Lucia and Austria.

Osman also knew that Daming's negotiations with Britain, France, Lu, Spain and Portugal would definitely be difficult.

Now Osman has paid the price to get a separate peace promise as long as possible, and of course he has to sign a separate contract with Daming in advance.

Instead of continuing to entangle with the Thai and Western countries.

Thai and Western countries also understand these logics, so they soon gave up persuasion.

Osman basically conceded defeat unilaterally, and Daming's strategic goal in Daqinhai was basically achieved.

From the two river basins to the west bank of the Daqin Sea, the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of ancient human civilization, has now completely fallen into the hands of Daming.

Another cradle of human civilization, Egypt in the lower reaches of the Nile River has also become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the four cradles of classical human civilization, Huaxia, Tianzhu, Babylon, and Egypt, were all under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

It was also the first time that the Ming Dynasty achieved its strategic goals with diplomacy as its main force rather than war.

It was an unprecedented diplomatic victory.

This made Zhu Jingyuan feel very good.

After the Crescent Zone was taken, the entire Caliphate Peninsula in the south was in Daming's pocket.

Those local separatist forces, as well as the remaining Ottoman vassal organizations, will soon be swept away.

The southern part of Egypt, as well as the entire Red Sea, will soon be Daming's territory, and the Red Sea will also become Daming's inland sea.

In the future, the entire east coast of Mexico will also become the land of Ming Dynasty.

In the future, only the southern part of Tianzhu will be dominated by other countries along the coast of the Little West.

How to deal with the problem in southern Tianzhu will be a big difficulty for the British.

It is not the difficulty of Daming, because it has been completely surrounded by Daming.

It is absolutely impossible for Tianzhu to hold on until the next war.

As long as the line of communication is simply destroyed, the British will be unable to contact Nantianzhu.

Nantianzhu was the "hostage" of the British that the Ming Dynasty held.

After the Ming Dynasty occupied the northern part of Tianzhu and South Mozhou, it did not exchange colonies with the British who occupied southern Tianzhu, but continued to develop around the Xiaoxiyang for this situation.

So that is the difficulty of the British, not the difficulty of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, in addition to the northwestern border, most of the Persian regions are already within the Daming camp.

Persia continues to be an independent country, and it has no great practical significance, so it should be accepted as a vassal.

In the future, the buffer between Daming and Taisi is Ottoman.

In the future, Daming will start to clean up Lucia himself.

The next negotiation is mainly for Lucia, but that is not what happened today.

Next, Daming and Osman settled on more details and signed a relatively formal memorandum.

After the formal agreement text is completed, the contract will be officially signed.

After the meeting that day, the relevant news was sent back to the rear of the countries at the fastest speed.

The news that Osman was going to resign, although it had already spread before the meeting began.

However, the confirmation process at the official meeting is still very important, and after such a clear result, it can be disclosed to the public.

The officials of the Honglu Temple in the capital of Daming received the news and immediately ran to report to Zhu Jianyan.

Zhu Jianyan took the telegram, read it several times with a smile on his face, and then handed it to the people around him:

"In the newspapers now! There must be all the newspapers tomorrow morning! I'll go tell the royal father!"

After the telegram was passed on, there was cheers in the Cabinet Office.

Since the beginning of this year, the actual war has basically stopped, but it has gradually changed from a disadvantage to a draw, and from a draw to a victory.

This kind of strange feeling has not appeared in Daming in the past.

In the past, it was all about annexing or driving away the enemy, and a more casual treaty might be signed, but there was no such careful negotiation.

I didn't think about it seriously either, just tossing and turning at the negotiating table would force the gang of Xiyi to admit defeat.

They had never exerted the diplomatic power that Ming Ming should have before.

It's not that it won't, but it's not needed at all.

This was the first time that a near-tie situation had been drawn in a foreign war.

Zhu Jianyan walked briskly, went to the next door to find the old emperor, and briefly explained the official news he had received.

The old emperor has already prepared in his heart. After listening, he smiled and nodded lightly:

"This result is Yasuga's credit, but Osman is not the point, the point is still on Lucia's side.

"The outcome of the negotiations with Lucia will determine whether this is a 20-year truce or true peace.

"But a 20-year truce should be exactly what that kid wants.

"Otherwise, are his weapons ready for nothing?"

The smile on Zhu Jianyan's face was a little stiff, these 20 years just skipped over him:

"Ha ha……"

The old emperor thought about it a little more, and made a more serious reminder:

“If he really wants a 20-year truce, let’s put Khiva and Kazakhs on hold until after the negotiations are over.

"By any means, it is impossible for Lucia to completely abandon the east of the Urals and the east of the Yenisei River.

"During the peace talks, the Lucians may act impulsively and exchange fire with Ming again as members of the anti-Ming alliance.

"But after the armistice agreement is signed, they will never dare to unilaterally declare war on Ming.

"At that time, we will be free to build forward bases around the Caspian Sea and extend the railway directly to the Ural region.

"When the armistice period arrives, the troops will go north from the Caspian Sea, and the east of the Urals will be ours."

Zhu Jianyan opened his mouth, and a lot of thoughts came to his mind, but this incident happened 20 years later, and it seems that it has nothing to do with him:
"Erchen understands, turn around and tell that kid."

Zhu Jianyan exited his father's room and continued to work on his own affairs.

Now the old emperor is letting go more and more, and he has more and more things to work on.

At the same time, Zhu Jianyan's orders were also passed on to various newspaper offices through the Ministry of Rites, forming two tasks.

First of all, it is necessary to publish news normally, indicating that the negotiations between Daming and Ottoman have basically ended, and Daming has basically achieved its strategic goals.

Then there is the more important task, which is to analyze and evaluate the realization of the strategic goal itself and the strategic goal achieved through negotiation.

It was afternoon, and the next morning's newspapers were going to be printed before dawn.

Counting the time required for typesetting, even if the relevant writers go to rush the manuscript immediately, they will only have a few hours.

Just reporting is easy to say, and commenting is difficult.

The subject matter of this kind of thing is very large, and now the idea is directly started on the spot, and it may not be able to write any impactful articles.

However, many newspapers and writers do not need to start from scratch now, they usually have all kinds of preparations.

The direction of Ming's operations to seize Egypt was made public shortly after the start of the war.

Many newspapers and current affairs writers had written similar articles ten years ago, and they were going to publish them after the Ming Dynasty took over those areas.

As a result, the battle situation in the West China Sea was deadlocked, so those manuscripts were repeatedly revised many times, and it was still not reported after more than ten years.

Now I finally have the opportunity, and many newspapers immediately turned over the original articles.

Therefore, in the newspapers the next morning, many refurbished versions of articles that had been pressed for more than ten years appeared.

There are also some mind-blowing ideas.

When Zhu Jianyan got up and read the newspaper the next day, he found something very strange.

"Huaxia has regained another piece of homeland".

Another piece, without mentioning the last piece, nor the first few pieces, without any absolute description, it seems very rigorous.

But what happened to this homeland?

Zhu Jianyan flipped through it carefully, only to see a few lines of words.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness of the West" says:
In the south of the West Sea, on the shore of quicksand, behind Chishui and before Blackwater, there is a mountain called Kunlun Hill.

There is a god, a human face, a tiger body, a text and a tail, and they are all white.

Underneath it is an abyss of weak water, and outside it is a mountain of fiery fire.

Xihai - Daqinhai, Daqinhai is the West Sea, and the name of the governor of the West Sea in Daming is apt.

Quicksand - Great desert, there are boundless deserts around the Great Food area.

Chishui - the Red Sea, the reflection of the stones around the coast, making the sea appear red, this is an ancient memory.

Black water - the Nile River, the Red Sea is already here, the black water can only be the Nile River, not the Black Sea, the place is too far away.

Human face and tiger body—a figure with a tiger body and a human face, where such a big thing is placed, it is the statue of this god.

The mountain of flames was thrown at random—that was the mountain of flames caused by the leakage of underground petroleum gas. This phenomenon is quite common in the local area.

Therefore, the Dashi area, including Egypt, was originally my homeland of China, and now it has finally returned to the Celestial Dynasty, which is indeed a sign of prosperity.

Further down are all kinds of bragging words, in a word, it is to praise me for being invincible in the future.

After Zhu Jianyan read it, he first retracted his "rigorous" evaluation, and then remained silent for a long time.

On some needs, the paper made a lot of sense.

Regardless of whether this is true or not, whether it is far-fetched or not, mapping the things on the land newly occupied by the Ming Dynasty to the cultural symbols of their own home, this is the proper job of the cultural department.

So after the morning court on the second day, Zhu Jianyan went to find officials of the Ministry of Rites.

Let the officials of the Ministry of Rites look in the direction of this article, or find other more suitable and usable directions, to provide theoretical and cultural basis for the Ming Dynasty to rule the Dashi area.

The current Ritual Department of the Ming Dynasty does not care about examinations and education, and it is specially assigned to a separately established academic department.

Regardless of diplomacy, all relevant functions are handed over to Honglu Temple.

Still responsible for etiquette-related work, but it is very different from the etiquette of the classical era, and it is more about the organization and management of various large-scale events.

The daily work is mainly in culture and propaganda. All newspapers, publications, books, operas, poems, and advocacy of excellence are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites.

It is also the job of the Ministry of Rites to provide a theoretical basis for the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

After arranging the task, Zhu Jianyan went to the Ministry of Personnel again and asked the relevant officials to determine the local administrative division.

Whether or not to set up vassal states, to set up several vassal states, and to set up several chief envoys, there have already been relevant discussions.

Now we just adjust the most suitable plan determined at the beginning according to the scope of territory we have actually obtained, and then arrange for manpower to implement it.

When Zhu Jianyan was busy, the news in the newspapers spread all over the Ming Dynasty.

Most of the elite were cheering, going out to eat, drink and celebrate with friends and discuss the opportunities that might exist in these new territories.

Different from the classical era before the Renwu Dynasty, many of the emerging elites in the Daming Dynasty after the Renwu Dynasty were enriched by the expansion and industrialization of the Daming Dynasty.

After more than 100 years, the middle and upper classes of Ming Dynasty have formed a certain inertial cognition. As long as Daming can occupy new land, there will probably be new opportunities to make a fortune.

The officials in the court have gradually become accustomed to this method, so they will not stop the military expansion of the Ming Dynasty.

Before this world war, the situation of not even winning was not considered.

At the same time, the ruling classes of the native countries in Taixi, although they did not have the feeling of welcoming victory on the side of Daming, were greatly relieved.

The high-pressure atmosphere that lasted for a month was finally relieved, and the frequency of entertainment activities that had been reduced for a month was restored immediately.

It's just that this relaxation will not last long, because the negotiations between Daming and Lucia are about to start.