Daming 1805

Chapter 127 South of Panama

On June 34th, the [-]th year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty, the Fengtian Hall of Huangzhuang Palace in Xiyangjiao.

The signing ceremony of the peace treaty between Ming and Lucia was officially held.

The layout of the site and the entire process of the signing ceremony are basically the same as Osman's signing ceremony.

Representatives from various countries stood on both sides to witness, Zhu Jingyuan sat at the top seat, and Prince Lucia Nicholas sat at the top seat on the right.

There are two types of signing documents, which are written in Minglu and Minglu respectively, but the Ming Dynasty still prevails.

According to the peace treaty, Lucia ceded the Lena River Basin and the upper reaches of the Yenisei River to Daming.

Lucia split the area east of the Ural Mountains and established the independent Grand Duchy of Xianbei, with Xianbei City (Novosibirsk) as its capital.

With Lucia's prince Alexander (Luo Yashan) as the grand duke, he signed a suzerain-vassal treaty with Daming, proclaiming his vassal and paying tribute to Daming.

The [-] kilometers on both sides of the ridge of the Ural Mountains are listed as a neutral demilitarized zone, and neither side is allowed to station troops in the area.

After Zhu Jingyuan and the two parties signed and stamped, they exchanged documents, and the peace treaty was formally established.

On behalf of Emperor Lucia, Nicholas conferred the Ural Mountains and the land east of the Ural River to Mount Roja as a feudal state.

On behalf of the Ming emperor, Zhu Jingyuan issued an edict to confer Luo Yashan as the Duke of Xianbei.

By the way, the edict to confer the Kazakh Khanate as a foreign vassal was promulgated.

On behalf of the Lucia Empire, Nicholas announced his formal withdrawal from the Anti-Ming Alliance.

During and after the ceremony, the representatives of Daming always had smiles on their faces, and they all believed that this treaty was quite beneficial to Daming.

Lucia's representatives were worried at first, then sighed slowly, and finally heaved a sigh of relief, hoping that the peace treaty could keep a hundred years of peace.

The remaining representatives of the anti-Ming alliance countries all looked very ugly.

Ming won another big step through negotiations, and the anti-Ming alliance was dismembered again.

Moreover, the Lucia Empire jumped from the Anti-Ming League, and the impact was much worse than Ottoman's jump.

Lucia is the real main force of the army, and is the barrier for the entire Taixi continent against Ming.

Now that Lucia and Daming have reconciled, and they have completely given up exploring the east, they will definitely go west and the Atlantic Ocean with all their strength in the future.

Whether it is Prussia and Austria at Lucia's feet, or Holland, England, France, Spain, and Portugal on the sea, they will all be challenged by a new and huge opponent.

Only when Italy does not border on the land of Lucia, and the mainland is completely located in the Mediterranean Sea, can it be a little calmer.

After the signing of the peace treaty, the representative of Lucia did not leave directly like the representative of Ottoman, but stayed and waited for the discussion of related affairs of the colony.

As far as the Ming Dynasty was concerned, the actual benefits of getting a few pieces of land in the Xianbei area, Lucia's dismemberment, and paying tribute may not be as good as Osman's cession of land.

But the impact of this incident was significantly more than Ottoman's cession.

First of all, Lucia's national strength and influence, as well as the threat to Daming, are not comparable to Ottoman.

Then there is the distance. Lucia's homeland used to be directly bordered by Ming's homeland. As long as the two countries fight, it is a homeland war.

Now that Lucia is split, the mainland of the two sides is truly separated, and the security of Daming's homeland has been greatly improved.

Some folk newspapers in the Ming Dynasty analyzed that: there will be no war in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, and China and China have enjoyed peace so far.

Five days after Da Ming signed the contract with Lucia, it was June 34th, [-]th year of Da Ming Taiping.

Daming and Lucia, as well as representatives from the countries of the Anti-Ming Alliance, once again gathered in the Wenhua Hall of Huangzhuang Palace in Cape Xiyang.

The third round of negotiations between the Ming Dynasty and the Anti-Ming Alliance officially began.

After Zhu Jingyuan announced the start of the meeting, he did not ask Shen Fu to talk as before, but continued to say:

"The peace talks have been going on for three months, and the affairs on Shenou Continent are basically over, but the progress is still a bit delayed.

"There are still international rules to be formulated and the preparations for the League of Nations to be discussed, so I hope to speed up some progress.

"Da Ming and Lucia have reconciled again, and I hope to reconcile with the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain in the future."

Zhu Jingyuan paused for a while when he said this, and his eyes slowly swept across the faces of the representatives of the Three Kingdoms.

There are six representatives in total, and their expressions are exceptionally dignified, even gloomy. They are obviously under a lot of pressure.

Daming's persecution of Osman and Lucia before made them instinctively think that Daming should treat himself in the same way.

British Prime Minister Pete also frowned, also in a state of stress. ,
However, what the British think is completely different from the three countries of Holland, Spain, and Portugal. He is worried about Ming's strategy.

At the same time, Zhu Jingyuan finally spoke:

"The premise of reconciliation is that Daming gets the entire South Yinzhou including Panama, plus the Antilles, and the Jiazhou Peninsula (California Peninsula) in the North Yinzhou."

The representatives of the three countries were taken aback for a moment, and before they spoke, British Prime Minister Peter spoke first:

"It is impossible to hand over the Antilles to Daming..."

The Antilles is the island in the middle of Yinzhou, and the interior is divided into two parts: the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles.

The Greater Antilles is almost the dividing line between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and other places.

The Lesser Antilles is almost the dividing line between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, including Grenada, Dominica, Guadeloupe and other places.

Most of these islands were originally Spanish colonies, and later most of them were taken by Britain.

When the British formed the Anti-Ming League, they returned this part of the island to Spain.

Spain in this era is still very powerful, not weaker than the British and French colonial empires.

The key is that there are several times of enmity with the United Kingdom. If the British want to reconcile with Spain and join them, it will have to pay a price.

In the original history, Spain was the earliest world colonial empire, the earliest empire on which the sun never set, and the earliest world ocean overlord.

According to the history textbooks for middle and high schools, the British defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588, which marked the decline of Spain's maritime hegemony, and Britain began to replace Spain as the maritime hegemony.

However, that is just a knowledge point for the exam, and it is a completely generalized description.

After the British defeated Spain's "Invincible Fleet", they tried to launch an attack on the Spanish mainland in the second year, but the whole army was wiped out. The actual loss was greater than that of the Spanish in the 1588 war...

Three years later, Spain's sea power began to recover, and it defeated the British again at the Battle of Flores.

Ten years later, the Spanish Armada was stronger than ever, and the British were once again pinned down.

In fact, for almost 200 years from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century, the overlords of the world's oceans were all Spanish.

Otherwise, Spain would not be able to maintain the huge Yinzhou colony.

The British sea power is also growing, but for a long time, it cannot be compared with Spain.

Otherwise, the British would not encourage pirate ships to raid, they would only do that if they couldn't fight head-on.

The British wanted to seize the Spanish Yinzhou colony, but several attempts ended in failure, so they could only continue to open up a colony in Northern Yinzhou.

The complete decline of Spanish sea power will not come until the Napoleonic War era, after the Battle of Trafalgar, and after the independence of the Yinzhou colony.

As for the British, it was not until the Industrial Revolution was fully completed, that is, the Victorian era, that they truly secured their position as the world's hegemon.

In this time and space, Spain first started the Industrial Revolution following Ming Dynasty, so it is not weak compared to Britain.

The British already needed Ming's support in order to suppress Spain in the Atlantic region.

After the British fell out with Ming, or even when they were about to challenge Ming, they had to talk to Spain.

So in this time and space, the entire Antilles still belongs to Spain.

But a large part of it was handed over by the British before the war.

So when Zhu Jingyuan asked for it, the reaction of the British was greater than that of the Spaniards.

But before Pete's instinctive objection was finished, Zhu Jingyuan directly interrupted Pete's objection loudly:
"Stop your delusions, Englishman.

"Stop trying to stop Da Ming from acquiring land on the Atlantic coast.

"That was already impossible.

"Either way, the Netherlands has to give up Guyana, or the Gold Coast, and I think the Netherlands should go for Guyana.

"The distance between these two places and the British mainland is not far from the Antilles.

"Your delusions are pointless!"

Pete's expression froze immediately, and he immediately understood that what Zhu Jingyuan said was the truth.

The Guyana area in Nanyinzhou was originally a colony of the Dutch.

In history, it was later divided into three parts, which belonged to the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France. Portugal also participated in the competition.

In this world, when Spain monopolized the Ming and Ming trade, it seized the entire Guyana region from several other colonists.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. After the British formed an alliance with Ming Dynasty, they took it from the Spaniards.

When the Anti-Ming League was established, the British divided it into two parts and returned it to Spain and the Netherlands in order to win over the Spaniards and the Dutch.

The development area in Guyana is very limited, the population is very sparse, and the tax revenue that can be contributed is relatively limited.

So the British didn't feel much distress when they handed it over, and now the Dutch don't feel distressed when they hand it over.

The Dutch were unable to continue to control the Yinzhou colony.

Now it is necessary to pay the price for the truce. Abandoning Guyana in Yinzhou is much better than abandoning the golden coast of Mozhou.

This condition is very easy for the Dutch.

The Netherlands has a small area, a limited population, and even a very limited colony, which did not play much role in the war.

Zhu Jingyuan asked them to take out the Guyana colony of limited value, which is equivalent to an apology and an apology.

Zhu Jingyuan learned from the advanced experience of the British, and suppressed the strong countries in Thailand and the West as much as possible, and let them go to the weak countries a little.

More importantly, Da Ming is currently unable to threaten the Netherlands. If the Netherlands is bad, Da Ming will have nothing to do with him.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan set the simplest conditions for the weakest Netherlands, first removing him from the peace talks sequence.

But on the other hand, Da Ming does not lack the income of the Gold Coast, and Da Ming cares more about Guyana's geographical location.

Guyana can cooperate with Xintianfu in the south to attack Portugal's Brazilian colony from the north and the south.

The key point is that it is closer to the east coast of Yinzhou, which can contain the British American colonies.

Pete considered these situations in his heart, and looked at the two representatives of the Netherlands with a very complicated mood.

It is impossible for the British to force the Netherlands to give up the Gold Coast instead of handing over Guyana, unless the British can come up with better terms to exchange with the Dutch.

After discussing a few words with the prime minister, the Dutch prince quickly responded directly:

"If Ming can promise permanent peace, the Netherlands can give up all its colonies in Yinzhou."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded slightly:
"Okay, then our two countries are settled. Next, let's look at Portugal and Spain. How are you thinking?"

(End of this chapter)