Daming 1805

Zhu Jingyuan's attitude towards Lucia and Ottoman is different.

Osman was able to cede a large area of ​​land at the negotiating table, and it was more difficult for Lucia.

After Ottoman cuts off the south of Anatolia, it can be used as a buffer zone between Daming and Taisi.

As for Lucia... something so big, that's not a buffer at all, it's a threat.

More importantly, Ottoman is not a Thai country after all.

Lucia's root is a Taixi country, at least the current self-recognition is still a Taixi country.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan wanted to split Lucia, so that the Xianbei area east of the Urals would be fully enlightened, and the cognition of Taixi would be abandoned.

Or it may be a complete enlightenment of the whole, so that Lucian people give up their identity as Taixi people in terms of self-awareness.

But in fact the latter is a pit, and Lucia really does that to find death.

Splitting the east of the Urals is the only way to survive.

For Daming, the most affordable thing is actually this kind of tail docking.

Anyway, the land directly ceded by Lucia, it is impossible for Daming to directly set up a political envoy. Originally, it had to be set up as a vassal state, but there should be no vassal kings for a long time.

If Lucia took the initiative to split, it would be an extra vassal for Daming, but at the same time, more land and resources could be easily obtained.

Although Daming ridiculed Ottoman and Austria as suture monsters, Daming himself was actually a suture product.

It's just that Austria and Ottoman are random stitched monsters, and Daming can be regarded as a carefully crafted handicraft.

Daming's stitching has a well-defined body.

The number of Daming people accounts for two-thirds of the total population, and the population of the local directly-administered areas accounts for one-half of the total population.

Most of Daming's important manufacturer organizations and industrial production capacity are concentrated in the local area, and after the reform, the industrial production capacity of the directly-administered areas can account for the absolute majority.

Daming's stitching has layers and contexts.

Zhili, local, inner vassal, Huangzhuang, Qin vassal, Xun vassal, and outer vassal, from the inside to the outside, the level of control and independence of the imperial court is very clear and clear.

The whole Daming territory uses the Daming elegant language, the general Daming etiquette, the crown clothing, the official system, and the popular Daming-style cultural and entertainment products. There is no local culture that can compete.

The current Ming Dynasty is a civilization cluster with a clear center, not a country in the modern sense.

If we must compare, it can barely be regarded as a federal empire.

In the second German Empire in history, if Prussia could become the clear suzerain of all other states, it would be similar to the current Ming Dynasty, but the scale would be far worse.

There are subjects, rules, and cultural centripetal force.

A newly added part, even if the Ming Dynasty did not specifically guide it, it could naturally and slowly integrate it.

If the Ming court paid special attention, the rate of assimilation and integration would be accelerated again.

After Lucia's east of the Urals was cut off and sewn onto Daming's body, it was basically impossible to get rid of it.

It will gradually be absorbed by the Daming group, and eventually become part of the Daming civilization.

Thai people have a certain understanding of this situation, but they are still relatively immature, and they are more cautious.

However, these two options seem to be concessions after all.

The atmosphere at the meeting site recovered a little from the extreme depression.

After quickly clarifying the logic of the two new choices, Wedemeyer, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Lucia Cabinet, subconsciously wanted to bargain:
"Since Lucia has become a vassal, or the Xianbei part of the Romanov dynasty has been split into a vassal, there should be no more ceding territories."

Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand directly to stop the other party:

"The premise of ceding the Lena River basin and the upper Yenisei River is Lucia's compensation for tearing up the peace treaty on her own initiative, and there is no room for discussion.

"Then, split the east of the Urals to become a vassal state of Ming, or Lucia as a whole becomes a tributary of Ming.

"Or directly cede Central Xianbei, make Western Xianbei a demilitarized zone, and sign a 20-year peace treaty.

"There is no room for further discussion among the three options. You can only choose which one to accept, or continue the war directly."

Prince Nicholas remained silent.

Wedemeyer bowed to Zhu Jingyuan:
"His Royal Highness Food King, we need time to discuss and consider."

Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand as expected:

"Like Osman, you have a month."

Today's meeting just started and ended.

Zhu Jingyuan sat in his seat, watched the delegates carefully leave the hall, closed his eyes and thought for a while.

My father conveyed the meaning of my grandfather, if I really want a 20-year truce, then I will relax a little bit with Lucia.

Force Lucia to sign a 20-year peace treaty before moving forward bases to Khiva and Kazakhstan.

If I completely follow my personal opinion, the war will be ceased for 20 years, and there will be another world war after the upgrading of Ming's equipment is completed.

But the 20-year truce must also be the time for Lucia to fully prepare for the war. Lucia will mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized.

In the next war, Daming should be able to win the overall situation, but there will definitely be many variables in the details.

Considering the reality, considering the possible losses and casualties of war, it is obviously better to just get permanent peace.

Many things can be achieved without war, or without a world war.

The two options that he set out actually relieved the pressure on Lucia, giving them room to breathe and rethink.

But now it's time to pressurize again, otherwise the other party will definitely not be appointed honestly.

Zhu Jingyuan thought about it for a while, and opened his eyes again. The ordinary representatives at the scene had already left, and he opened his mouth and told his staff:

"Send a message to the capital and the Governor's Office of the Right Army. Ten days later, Shiva will set up a vassal and the army will enter."

After the representatives of the anti-Ming alliance countries left the palace, they went directly to the place where the representatives of Lucia lived to conduct internal emergency consultations again.

Just as the door of the conference room was closed, Prince Nicholas, who was holding his breath, opened his mouth first and said loudly to the representatives of several other countries:
"You are all traitors!"

Representatives from other countries were embarrassed.

Britain's Prince of Wales came out to appease, saying:
"Nikola, don't do this. In fact, our strategy has already taken effect. The last two conditions given by Daming have been considered concessions."

Prince Nicholas' anger is still not completely gone:

"But we also actually made concessions, tacitly accepting the request to hand over the Lena Valley and the upper Yenisei River to Ming.

"The two options were obviously prepared in advance, and should have been an ultimatum, just like the conditions given to Ottoman."

French Foreign Minister Talleyrand immediately said:

"What we need to consider now is how Lucia should choose, instead of entangled in the past."

Archduke Karl of Austria laughed dryly and said:
"If we follow the traditional understanding of our Europa, it is obviously more appropriate to split only the east of the Urals.

"Establishing the Xianbei Principality under the branch of the Romanov family and becoming a part of the Ming Empire is more in line with the interests of the Romanov family.

"Because then only the area east of the Urals needs to pay taxes to the Ming Empire, and the part west of the Urals can still develop independently.

"But you have to consider that the object of your allegiance is the Emperor Daming, not other Europa monarchs.

"It's a question of whether you can continue to exist independently if you split up to join Daming's family branch.

"It is said that you know that there are too many people in Lucia's country, especially in the East, who are in Lucia and their hearts are in Daming.

Archduke Carl is not good at diplomacy, so these words are more direct and rude.

The key is that the statement that the heart is in the bright, for Lucia, it is a bit like an exaggeration.

Prince Nicholas was on fire, looking at Archduke Karl of the Habsburg family, so he said strangely:

"The Daming royal family only married local commoners, and they did not need to marry to enhance and maintain the royal family's dignity.

"They will never marry other royal families, and they will never seize the territories of other families through marriage."

The Habsburgs have gradually become the largest royal family in Thailand through continuous marriages, and they have been dubbed "the lower half of the castle" by later netizens.

He once ruled the whole of Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and half of Italy, and occupied the throne of the Holy Roman Empire for a long time.

Archduke Karl is not good at diplomacy in the first place. Prince Nikolai's words made Karl a little irritated, and he snorted and said:

"We Austria don't care about your Lucia affairs, you choose how to be Daming's dog."

Faced with this rude humiliation, Prince Nikolai couldn't bear it any longer:
"Who in the end wants to be Daming's dog? The one who most wants to stop the war and withdraw from the anti-Ming alliance, and then go to form an alliance with Daming is your Austria, right?"

Archduke Karl went straight up, and subconsciously wanted to take out a weapon.

Fortunately, everyone went to the palace to negotiate in the morning, and they didn't have any weapons on them, so they just took it out.

The court representatives on both sides saw that the situation was not good, and immediately came out to hold the royal family members on both sides.

Then British Prime Minister Pitt came out to maintain order:

"Both His Royal Highnesses have calmed down. We Europa can't be messed up by ourselves. That's what Daming wants."

Lucia's court representative, Wade Meyer, held his own prince:
"We have four options before us, number one, continue the war, number two, stop the war for 20 years and then continue the war.

"Third, the whole becomes a special vassal state of Daming, and fourth, split Xianbei into a normal vassal state of Daming.

"We really only have a fourth choice.

"And there is no need to think about opportunism, Daming will definitely have detailed requirements and supervision.

"Da Ming doesn't mind continuing the war at all."

Lucia herself is obviously inclined to split, and use a branch of the Romanov family to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty to reconcile, so as to keep the continuation of the Romanov dynasty.

But this is obviously not in the interests of other Thai-Western countries. After Lucia reconciled with Daming, she became a hellhound on the Thai-Western border.

So Talleyrand of France spoke directly:

"Haven't you guys considered challenging Daming again after 20 years of full preparation!"

Wedemeyer shook his head weakly and said:
"Impossible, we Lucia are not Da Ming's opponents."

Talleyrand immediately asked:
"What about the whole of Europe? We have stood together today, and we must stand together in the future, otherwise we will have to be Daming's dogs!"

Others were stunned when they heard it.

Talleyrand immediately followed his thoughts and said:
"The so-called international alliance organized by Daming has no practical significance for us, it is just a platform for negotiation with Daming.

"We want to preserve our own anti-Ming alliance, transform it into a long-standing alliance, or even a real federation.

"The native population of Ming Dynasty is only over 3 million, and our native population of Europa is also over 3 million.

"If all of us Europa were truly united, Daming would not be able to bully us so casually.

"Although our cooperation this time has not been smooth, we have barely reached a tie with Daming.

"What if we took 20 years to really connect with each other?
"We are fully opening our borders to each other, fully connecting our railways and roads.

"Opening up industry and finance to each other, removing import and export restrictions between each other, and allowing manufacturers to operate freely throughout Europa.

"Form armies directly under the Union and even the Commonwealth to guard our territories and seas.

"If we wait 20 years to fight again, we may not be able to draw with Daming again, and we may not be unable to win the battle.

"As long as we are truly united, Daming can only place us in the same position as a country at the same level as Rome.

"It's a very clear and clear direction, and the only direction.

"We all have the opportunity to be on an equal footing with Daming, and there is no need for anyone to beg for mercy to Daming!"

Talleyrand was very emotional, and some of the representatives on the scene were very emotional.

However, some people are thinking calmly and objectively, and some people directly question it.

Hardenberg of Prussia asked directly:

"How exactly should we unite? Who should be the leader of our alliance, or even the emperor of the federal empire?
"What language should be used within the alliance and even the federation? You can't continue to communicate in Daming Yayan, right?

"Totally open borders and traffic and tariffs is simply not fair to our countries.

"We, Austria, Italy, and Lu are all native countries, while Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal are countries with colonies.

"How can we unite? Are you willing to share the colonial market with us?"

Talleyrand responded without hesitation:

"In fact, I have already thought deeply about these questions of Mr. Hardenberg, otherwise I would not have made a big speech here.

"My idea is that the leader of the alliance and even the emperor of the federation can be elected like the Holy Roman Empire.

"But the alliance and even the federation should have more power than the Shinra court, and all countries should jointly transfer part of their power.

"Language uses traditional Latin, and all our countries popularize Latin education locally, so as to achieve the same text for books.

"The colonies of our four countries can arrange for the branches of their respective royal families to take over, split into independent countries, and join our alliance."

Some representatives of the royal family and court nodded lightly, but others couldn't help shaking their heads.

Hardenberg, still disapproving, said:
"The model of the Holy Roman Empire cannot produce a truly powerful empire, because such an empire has no basis for rule.

"According to Emperor Renwu of Daming, it is a suture monster.

"Almost all the Western countries have tried to learn the traditional Chinese book education, but the results are very different.

"Only countries like Prussia, France, England, and Lucia with absolute nationalities can successfully implement them.

"Austria and Ottoman are not good at all, they put in more effort than us, but they are less effective than us.

"Because they don't have a real core nation.

"It will be more difficult if we force Latin across the Europa than Ottoman Turkish in the Ottomans.

"The Europa League you've put together doesn't have a real core either.

"At best it's just a big Austrian or Ottoman, maybe even a big Shinra.

"It's still useless stitching monsters, there is no way to really concentrate, and we still fight each other when we encounter things.

"It is basically impossible for the royal families to transfer power to an uncertain target."

Talleyrand immediately continued to respond:
"There are difficulties, of course, but that's what we should be working towards, and it's the only way we can succeed.

"Even to the extent of Austria, we at Europa are stronger than we are now.

"At least have the ability to say no to Daming, and the ability to no longer be arbitrarily bullied by Daming."

Hardenberg still shook his head noncommittally, clearly still not believing that Talleyrand's vision could be realized.

But Hardenberg himself has no good solution. Since Europa does not have a main nation, it is impossible to unify.

Even if it is unified by a certain great emperor, at most it is a large Austria, this kind of stitching monster country may collapse at any time.

The discussion at the scene was deadlocked.