Daming 1805

Chapter 152 Establishment of the League of Nations
After the meeting ended early, Pete immediately sent someone to invite representatives from all countries to the residence of the British mission for a discussion.

The purpose is to persuade all countries to go back and adopt the one-country-one-vote rule.

Pete himself doesn't hold out much hope for his goals.

In an era where strength determines status, especially when Da Ming is used as a reference.

If you want each country to accept one country, one vote, all countries can have the same status on an important occasion.

It was never easy.

If you accept the rules of Ming Dynasty from the beginning, let a group of Ming Dynasty feudal states come in to get votes, and directly set the rule of one country, one vote, that would be fine.

At that time, I also thought about asking for two more tickets for the United Kingdom, but it triggered a chain reaction, and finally it became a ranking for all Thai and Western countries.

Now... a lot of things can't go back after they start.

Pete's current efforts are just because he doesn't want to regret it. The Prime Minister doesn't know how long he can do it.

Facing the representatives of various countries, Pete tried his best to explain Daming's sinister intentions, explaining Daming's despicable strategy of dividing and provoking conflicts between the Thai and Western countries.

As a result, the most serious echoes were the representatives of the Netherlands, Italy, and Portugal.

Lucia's Wedemeyer was thinking seriously, but Prince Nicholas seemed a little impatient.

Prince Nicholas looked at the representatives of the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, and even the representatives of the United Kingdom with a bit of disgust.

After Pete's reasoning finally came to an end, Prince Nicholas spoke directly:

"In the beginning, Da Ming proposed that we all have one country, one vote, and Da Ming used the vassal states to get the number of votes he needed.

"As a result, you British jumped out first, and you also want your colonies to get voting rights.

"So what you want most is three votes for you British people, and one vote for other countries, including us, Lucia, right?

"Now you have turned around and persuaded everyone to insist on one country, one vote again. How can you let us trust you?"

Heinrich of Prussia also directly took up the conversation:

"I think what His Royal Highness Prince Dashi said is very reasonable, the pale absolute equality is meaningless.

"The rule of determining status by strength can truly bring stability.

"Besides, according to Prince Dashi's vision, the voting weight of each country is not fixed, but is adjusted every five years.

"If you are dissatisfied with your status, you can work hard to improve your national strength.

"I'm not in favor of going back to the one country one vote formula."

Representatives of the royal families of several other countries have also expressed their views one after another, and their views are not much different. They basically support the distribution of voting rights according to their strengths.

Although some representatives of the imperial courts of various countries believe that one country, one vote may be more beneficial to the unity of Europa after careful analysis.

But uniting the countries of Europa is not their necessary task and goal, on the contrary, it is more practical to maintain their own status.

Therefore, after several rounds of discussions in this internal meeting, most representatives still think that it is more appropriate to divide voting rights according to strength.

The discussion went to noon with no results, and finally broke up unhappy.

Pete looked at the leaving crowd, sat on his seat and let out a long sigh.

The Prince of Wales sat next to Pete, and seemed to be very open to persuasion:
"Your Excellency, don't worry about it, it is impossible for the European countries to unite.

"Determining voting rights according to strength can ensure our top position in Europa.

"Father and the rest of the cabinet have nothing to say."

Pete didn't know what to say.

It is indeed not unreasonable for strength to determine voting rights.

But in this direction, Pete feels that he cannot see the future of Europa.

My own prime minister is about to end, and I don't care whether the cabinet is satisfied with it. Now it doesn't make sense to say anything.

In the end, Pete still didn't say anything.

The next day, the meeting continued. After a brief discussion and confirmation, all countries accepted yesterday's final plan.

Countries allocate voting rights according to their strength and status, and vassal states no longer directly determine voting rights.

Daming has 28 votes, and the Thai and Western countries have a total of [-] votes.

Then everyone continued to discuss the issue of voting weight and other structural issues of the League of Nations.

This framework was basically planned by Zhu Jingyuan himself.

Zhu Jingyuan combined the experience of the previous life with the actual situation of the current world.

It was decided that in the initial stage of the establishment of the League of Nations, several of the most critical basic institutions should be established first.

Conference of the League of Nations: Combines the main functions of the General Assembly, the Executive Yuan, and the Security Council. It is the highest authority of the League of Nations and is also a permanent institution.

The Ministry of War and Peace: It has part of the functions of the Security Council and is actually responsible for the formulation, update, implementation, and supervision of war-related agreements.

Ministry of Nature and Environmental Protection: Responsible for research and observation of the earth's natural environment and climate change, and protection of mountains, forests, water bodies, animals and plants.

Ministry of Society and Economy: Responsible for coordinating international social and economic issues such as science and technology, culture, industry, and ethnic groups.

Department of Investigation and Judgment: Responsible for cases between countries, including border conflicts, territorial disputes, war crimes, etc.

Cabinet of the League of Nations: Cooperate with various departments, handle various daily affairs, organize various meetings and activities, etc.

Among these institutions, the Ministry of Nature and Environmental Protection was forcibly added by Zhu Jingyuan, and everything else is a very necessary basic institution.

With these institutions, the League of Nations could barely function.

In the future, if other functions are needed and other affairs need to be handled, the required departments can be added under these institutions.

The "mandate rule" and "trusteeship" related institutions inherited from the League of Nations and the United Nations in history have not been established yet.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't beat around the bush, and didn't brag about "the happiness and development of the people in the entrusted areas are the sacred responsibility of the civilized world."

Not to preach: the best way to achieve this goal is to "entrust the guardianship of the peoples of the Mandates to the developed countries".

"The entrusted country's resources, experience, geographical location and other conditions are sufficient to undertake this obligation and are willing to accept the entrustment."

The international alliance established by Zhu Jingyuan is very straightforward and directly distributes the colonies.

Finally, Zhu Jingyuan directly chose Haifa City, a port city on the east coast of the Qinhai Sea, as the headquarters of the League of Nations.

This directly written proposal surprised the representatives of the Thai and Western countries.

They all thought that Daming would request the headquarters to be located in the mainland of Daming, or a place like the Lion City on the Straits of Malacca.

Even if you don't want a group of Thai and Westerners to get close to the mainland of Ming Dynasty, you can choose Tianzhu or the Persian Gulf.

Unexpectedly, Daming was directly placed in the Daqin Sea, and it was much easier for the Thai and Western countries to hold meetings here than to go to the Lion City.

The representatives of the Thai and Western countries who originally thought that they would need to go through a lot of trouble in choosing the location of the headquarters were relieved.

There is nothing to talk about in this position, and it is impossible to continue moving westward.

However, after the representatives breathed a sigh of relief, they soon realized that even the coast of the Great Qin Sea was now the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.

In name, it belongs to the Dashi Fan Kingdom, but these places have already set up chief envoys.

After thinking about it this way, the representatives of various countries suddenly felt a little melancholy.

It is more than 7000 kilometers away from the capital of the Ming Dynasty in a straight line, and the air route is more than 1 kilometers away, but it still belongs to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

It can even be regarded as local.

Daming is really too huge, making people feel completely hopeless and powerless.

As for the purpose of Zhu Jingyuan's choice, it is actually very simple.

The countries of Thailand and the West are not close allies of Ming Dynasty, and the two sides even have a hostile relationship.

Putting the headquarters of the League of Nations in the mainland of Ming Dynasty is to put a large group of de facto spies in.

At the same time, Zhu Jingyuan and Ming officials did not want a large group of Thai and Western diplomats and staff to go to the east of Malacca for activities.

To put it bluntly, it is dislike.

If it is placed in places like Persia and Tianzhu, representatives from the Thai and Western countries will have to go through the West Sea Canal when they come by boat, which is also a slightly sensitive place.

But simply throw it away and put it on the coast of the Daqin Sea.

Now it is different from before the war. The area controlled by Da Ming is not only the West Sea Peninsula, but the entire east coast of the Da Qin Sea.

The key is to connect with the mainland, so don't worry about the security here.

Compared with territorial rules and voting rights, the organizational framework of the League of Nations is not particularly important, and it can still be modified after its establishment.

Therefore, the confirmation of relevant regulations is progressing very quickly.

Moreover, based on Zhu Jingyuan's experience in his previous life, the draft convention drawn up by Daming Honglu Temple is complete and comprehensive enough in itself.

At the same time, Ming is currently in an absolutely dominant position in the international arena, and can quickly negotiate and pass clauses that do not involve the fundamental interests of other countries.

This again improves the discussion efficiency of the meeting.

A large number of basic terms are not questioned at all, and even if there are occasional problems, they are often resolved with a few words.

A lot can be done in one day.

Discussion meetings were held intermittently, with constant compromises among countries and constant updates of the terms and conditions.

The original draft convention drafted by Ming Dynasty has been iteratively updated.

As the conference went on, there were fewer and fewer disputes, and the League of Nations Convention gradually took shape.

On September 34th, 20th year of Ming Taiping, the League of Nations Convention was formally finalized, and it took about [-] days in total.

The representatives of various countries who had held the meeting for 20 consecutive days went to rest first, and the staff of Honglu Temple began to sort out the formal signing documents.

The Ming Dynasty is completely different from the United States after World War I in history. The League of Nations promoted by the Ming Dynasty is also far from the League of Nations promoted by the United States.

At that time, the domestic industrial production capacity of the United States was already the largest in the world, but there was no large colonial market for dumping goods.

Therefore, under the banner of universality and equality, the United States demands that all parts of the world establish independent countries.

Or an open door vassal under the protection of the overlord.

Then let these independent countries, as well as semi-independent open vassal states, also join the League of Nations.

All in all, the purpose is to get more open markets.

This is the goal that the United States has always pursued in modern times.

This has a fundamental conflict of interest with the colonial empires headed by Britain and France.

At that time, the influence of the United States in the world was not enough to convince Europe and the world, and it was far from being comparable to Britain and France.

In fact, Britain and France dominated the agenda of the Paris Peace Conference, and the goals of the United States were not realized at the Versailles Peace Treaty.

The League of Nations was tied to the Treaty of Versailles.

In the end, the United States, which was the first to promote the establishment of the League of Nations, did not join the League of Nations because Congress did not approve the Versailles Peace Treaty.

This once again strengthened the isolationist atmosphere in the United States, and also caused the influence of the international alliance to be damaged, making it difficult to interfere in Yinzhou affairs.

Because the United States was the country with the strongest actual industrial capacity at that time, and it was also the country that had the greatest influence on the Yinzhou region.

The failure of the United States to join the League of Nations planted the seeds of disaster for the final disintegration of the League of Nations.

Now Daming has its own colony, and its own market is broad enough.

Therefore, I have certain ideas about the markets of Western countries, but they are not strong.

As for promoting the independence of the colonies on a broad scale, it is a problem with oneself, so I have no idea at all.

The purpose of urging the independence of British and French colonies is actually to annex them after independence.

Therefore, the international alliance dominated by Ming Dynasty is not at all the kind of world alliance promoted by the United States in history.

It is a negotiating platform for a few big countries, and they will not bring small countries into the discussion.

Instead, they are going to impose the template of Ming-led order construction on their respective colonies and the few remaining small countries.

On September 34th, the [-]th year of Taiping of the Ming Dynasty, in the Fengtian Hall of the Huangzhuang Palace in the Cape of the West, representatives of the Ming Dynasty and other countries gathered together again.

The signing ceremony of the League of Nations Convention and the founding ceremony of the League of Nations were officially held.

The seats of the signing countries are the same as the previous signing ceremony.

Zhu Jingyuan is on the top, Ming officials and representatives of the vassal state are on the left, and the Thai and Western countries are on the right.

It's just that apart from the representatives of the two sides' own countries and the vassal and vassal states of each country, no participating countries were invited to participate in the ceremony.

After the representatives of various countries signed, Zhu Jingyuan stood up and announced:

"I declare that from now on, the League of Nations is formally established, and the countries represented here are all initial members of the League.

"The alliance's first meeting will be held in three days, mainly discussing the development and distribution of unowned land in Mozhou.

"After this meeting, all countries are requested to assign special representatives and staff to go to the headquarters of the alliance to stay permanently and participate in the daily affairs of the alliance."

The representatives of various countries also breathed a sigh of relief, and while standing with Zhu Jingyuan, they cheered up again.

From the perspective of the Western countries, compared with the rules and framework of the League of Nations itself, the development of Mozhou is the real key.

Yinzhou has been completely finalized, and the west and southwest of Mozhou are the last unowned lands in this world.

Although these places are actually inhabited by people, no matter whether it is Ming Dynasty or other countries in Thailand and the West, they all take it for granted that they are lands without owners.

No one thought there was anything wrong with the title.

In this day and age, if someone thinks it's wrong, it's really wrong.

Now all countries in Thailand and the West, whether they had colonies or did not have colonies, all want to allocate a colony in Mozhou.

Especially for Lucia, there is no land on the mainland of Shenou, so she can only look overseas, and there is only Mozhou overseas.

The land under the sun and the warm port are all Lucia's dreams for hundreds of years.

However, representatives of various countries also have some concerns.

Will Da Ming's absolute dominance shown during the Yinzhou negotiations be displayed again when the Mozhou land is allocated?
If Daming negotiates the same way as in Yinzhou, how much land can he get in Mozhou.

This is a tangled and disturbing question.

In this complicated atmosphere, Zhu Jingyuan on stage said in a relaxed tone:
"Okay, the signing ceremony is officially over, let's take a group photo in front of the hall!"

(End of this chapter)