Daming 1805

Chapter 138 The World War Is Over!
Monroe was cornered, and no matter what he chose, Florida couldn't keep it.

"That's the tragedy of the colonies."

Monroe muttered something in his heart, without haggling with Zhu Jingyuan, he directly stated that he knew, and then said goodbye and left.

The possibility of Da Ming lowering his requirements is very low, and it may not be beneficial for him to lower his requirements.

So Monroe just gave up.

After Monroe returned to the residence of the British delegation, he went directly to Peter and the Prince of Wales and conveyed Zhu Jingyuan's request.

Prince Will was a little puzzled after listening:

"Why does Ming want Hudson's Bay? Could it be the French..."

Pete sighed and said:
"The French probably gave up the land north of the Great Lakes. Daming wants all the land north of the Great Lakes..."

Monroe said with a wry smile:
"The world is really peaceful now."

The Prince of Wales looked somber:
"Peace under the rules set by Ming Dynasty, Prime Minister, do you think we should accept this condition?"

Pete repeated his point again:

"If you don't take Yinzhou's coastline into account, this kind of representation is not huge, so my suggestion is to accept it.

"So I hope His Highness will join me in persuading His Majesty to accept this condition."

The Prince of Wales was silent for a while, then nodded weakly:

"All right……"

In the next half month, no formal meeting was held again.

Representatives of various countries communicated in private, communicated with Daming in private, communicated with the king and court behind the mainland.

Most of the conditions have been determined one after another.

On July 34th, the [-]th year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty, representatives from various countries gathered again in the Wenhua Hall of Huangzhuang Palace in Cape Xiyang.

Various conditions that have been negotiated in private are submitted by representatives of various countries one by one, and officially disclosed and recorded for confirmation.

Britain and France ceded territory and paid compensation, Spain and Portugal ceded territory, and Prussia, Austria and Italy paid compensation.

Prussia compensated Ming Dynasty with 500 million gold notes, Austria 500 million gold notes, and Sardinia Italy 300 million gold notes.

The five countries paid a total of 300 million gold notes, equivalent to 650 tons of gold and 16 billion silver notes.

Converted into about 11 billion taels of Kuping silver in the late Qing Dynasty.

38 times the cost of the battlecruiser Hood in history.

Of course, the construction cost of the warship is actually only a small part of the navy's military expenditure.

In the last year of the First World War in history, in 1918, the British Navy’s military expenditure was as high as 3000 million pounds, and the cost alone could build 54 Hoods.

However, after the armistice, several ships of the same class that had already started construction were quickly cancelled, and only Hood was completed in the end.

The amount of 11 billion taels of silver can directly kill the Qing Dynasty, but it is not too much pressure for a group of industrialized countries.

Otherwise they won't accept it either.

The total is equivalent to [-]% to [-]% of their annual fiscal revenue.

It can be paid in ten-year installments, and about [-]% of the fiscal revenue of the year is paid each year.

Then there is the land.

South of the Great Lakes, east of Honey River, and north of Florida, this area was a British and French colony.

Between Mexico and Panama are Spanish colonies.

Greenland belongs to Norway and Denmark.

Except for these three areas, the entire Yinzhou continent and surrounding islands are all owned by Daming.

Of course, it is still only nominally owned by Daming.

The central part of Northern Yinzhou, that is, the central and northern part of the United States and Canada in later generations, has more than 600 million square kilometers of land, and now only a small number of Yin tribes are active.

Because the large railway across Yinzhou has not been built, the central part of Yinzhou has been a disputed area for a long time. Now it is still a paradise for Yinzhou bison, and the total number is still estimated to be 3000 to [-] million.

In the northernmost polar archipelago of Beiyinzhou, only the indigenous Inuit live there.

How to effectively control these vast primitive wastelands is an important task for the Ming court in the future.

Only the fringe areas of Southern Yinzhou have been developed.

The destruction of the rainforest on both sides of the Yajiang River in the middle is much lower than in the 21st century.

With a total area of ​​about 700 million square kilometers, it is the world's largest tropical rainforest world, and only a very small number of Yinzhou indigenous people live around it.

The Brazilian plateau in the south of the rainforest is also a sparsely populated place, and Thai-Western immigrants are mainly concentrated in the southeastern coast.

The total area of ​​Yinzhou in the north and south is more than 4000 million square kilometers, and the total number of Ming people, Taixi people, and aboriginal people will definitely not exceed [-] million.

Moreover, the population is relatively concentrated, mainly in the south, southeast, middle Yinzhou, eastern and western coasts of Nanyinzhou.

The central parts of the northern and southern Yinzhou are almost all "no man's land".

On this basis, in the north of the central part of Nanyinzhou, most of the territory handed over by Spain and Portugal is still in a state of melee among princes.

How to deal with these separatist forces in the future is also a difficult problem for the Ming court.

The comprehensive planning of the entire Yinzhou is a difficult problem for the future of the Ming court.

However, that is all in the future. The on-site talks went very smoothly that day, and after the talks ended, formal agreement documents began to be produced.

The Ottoman Grand Vizier Zayedin set off again, preparing to attend the follow-up meeting of the League of Nations.

On July 25, representatives from various countries gathered in Fengtian Temple again.

Witnessed by the countries watching the ceremony, and witnessed by each other, representatives from Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Prussia, and Italy successively signed permanent peace treaties with Ming Dynasty.

All peace treaties are signed by a single country, and only the languages ​​of the two countries participating in the signing are used, and the Ming text shall prevail.

After all the peace treaties were signed, the Anti-Ming League was officially disbanded.

On behalf of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jingyuan officially announced his commitment to the western countries, promising not to occupy their western lands.

At the same time, the countries of Thailand and the West made promises to guarantee not to open up new lands outside the Mexican continent.

Yin Zhou can't open up anymore, because Yin Zhou has already been divided up.

Afterwards, Northern Yinzhou belonged to Ming, Britain, France, and Western countries, while Southern Yinzhou belonged to Ming alone.

In other words, the only land to be divided in the whole world is Mozhou.

Carving up the Mexican continent will be the first major event after the establishment of the League of Nations.

After the two sides released the official commitment, today's formal ceremony is all over.

The officials of Honglu Temple greeted all the representatives to go out and lined up in front of Fengtian Hall to take a group photo together.

The court representatives of the Ming Dynasty stood in the first row, leaving a space between each of them, nominally reserved for the Romans.

The main representatives of the vassal states and Huangzhuang of the Ming Dynasty stood on the left behind the representatives of the Ming court, and the main representatives of the Thai and Western countries stood on the right.

Ordinary representatives and entourages of both sides lined up behind the main representatives.

During the entire process from signing the contract to committing to release, photographers from various countries also left a large number of photos.

The photos in the middle of these peace talks and the group photo at the end will become important historical records.

It will definitely be written in the future archives of various countries, and it may also be listed in various books of later generations.

During the whole process, the representatives of Da Ming were all beaming. Da Ming did not win on the battlefield this time, but he won a complete victory at the negotiating table.

Representatives from various countries in Thailand and the West smiled happily. They did not completely lose on the battlefield, but they did not win at the negotiating table either.

But they were all relieved. Although the peace talks lost a lot of land, they were all colonies after all.

Moreover, among the areas actually ceded, the largest part is the area ruled by the warlords of Nanyinzhou, which may become independent at any time.

The other is to give Daming the ownership of a large number of undeveloped wilderness areas.

In fact, the lands directly and forcibly ceded by the Ming Dynasty, which were originally under the absolute rule of various countries, were actually very small.

The mainland of Thailand and the West has not lost a cent.

There are only a few strongholds in the middle of the east coast in the colony of Mozhou, which was promised to be handed over to Daming when the war ceased.

The other areas in Mozhou are still waiting to be divided up, and Da Ming did not ask for any additional land in Mozhou.

This is also the reason why Thai and Western countries can accept this peace treaty.

As long as the mainland does not lose ground, the pressure on the Thai and Westerners is relatively limited.

In the original history, when the Seven Years War (1756 to 1763) ended.

The British allowed the French to choose whether to give up French Canada or the three islands in the Caribbean where sugar cane could be grown.

This shows that in the eyes of the British at that time, the French Canadian region of Northern Yinzhou was similar in value to the three islands in the French Caribbean...

The French prefer sugar to fur, so the French abandoned French Canada and chose to keep the three "sugar islands".

In the eyes of later generations, this is simply unreasonable, but it was a natural choice at the time.

For most Thais, the vast overseas colonies are not particularly important.

Especially those uninhabited lands that have not been explored and developed, as long as there is no such thing as a gold mine, they have no practical value.

Before the Industrial Revolution, wealth was found in places with population, while uninhabited land was bad land.

It is completely incomparable with the land of mainland Europe.

Whether it is the change of ownership in Canada or the robbing of islands in the Caribbean, it is not as influential as Prussia's grabbing a piece of land from Poland.

Frederick the Great was called the Great because he saved Silesia in the Seven Years' War.

The Spaniards and the Portuguese, as the earliest colonial countries, can be regarded as empires on which the sun never sets, but in Taixi they are always just kingdoms.

The British took the throne of the Tianzhu people, and the British king is called the emperor.

In history, there were anti-French alliances, anti-German alliances, and anti-Turkish alliances, but there was no anti-British alliance that explicitly besieged the British mainland.It was just helping the United States during the American Revolutionary War.I didn't want to take the opportunity to occupy the British Isles.

The British have scraped so many territories overseas, and they did not attract much attention in Taixi in the early days.

Lucia concentrated on developing eastward, and her territory expanded to Alaska in Yinzhou without any obvious restrictions.

Once he goes to land along the Black Sea, once he tries to seize Constantinople, Britain and France will immediately intervene.

The peace agreement now signed by Ming and Taixi is the result of admitting defeat for the Taixi countries.

Daming didn't want a single inch of land in western Taixi, and also promised never to seize the land in western Taixi.

This commitment may be the most valuable thing the Tessian has ever gotten.

So this result is not particularly bad.

The news of the formal signing of the peace treaty was spread all over the world through telegraph wires on the same day.

Then it hit the front pages of almost every newspaper the next day.

"The World War Is Over! "

"Daming and the Anti-Ming League Formally Sign a Peace Treaty"

"Anti-Ming League Formally Disbanded"

"This is an unprecedented victory of the Ming Dynasty"

"The Age of Peace Has Come!" "

"Peace Promise, Europa Homeland Is Safe"

"League of Nations founding meeting to be held soon"

"A new world pattern is about to take shape"

"The Ming Empire Is Dominating the World"

"The Future of Europeans is in Africa"

"Where is Rome?" "

(End of this chapter)