Daming 1805

Chapter 154 Is this the end?
Of course Daming would not really be a nice guy when assigning assignments.

Especially after Uncle Jiu's reminder.

After Zhu Jingyuan and other representatives from various countries had no objections, they continued to explain Daming's attitude:

"Since Morocco has been handed over to the countries of the Great Qin Sea for joint protection, the area claimed by Ming in the south will be expanded."

Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand as he spoke, and the two guards moved forward to move the map.

The map was originally contained in a huge picture frame, and a huge piece of glass was installed outside the picture frame.

The two guards turned the map around and put the front in front of Zhu Jingyuan.

Zhu Jingyuan picked up the oil-based pen on the table and enlarged the red circle in the south of Ximozhou outward.

The Gambia of the British, the Guinea-Bissau of the Portuguese, and the southern Senegal colonial strongholds of the French are all drawn in.

So after these few strokes, the representatives of the three countries immediately exploded.

Especially the British are particularly wronged. Prime Minister Peter said with his eyes widened:
"His Royal Highness Prince Dashi, what does it have to do with me, the United Kingdom, when Da Ming handed over Morocco to the seven kingdoms of the Great Qin Sea to share? This is completely unreasonable!"

Both the Portuguese and the French immediately expressed their indignation.

Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand and said:

"Don't worry..."

Then Zhu Jingyuan changed to a dark blue pen, and added a few strokes around the nearby French Senegal colony.

Let this land extend to the north, directly adjacent to Western Sahara in Spain, and extend the border between the two sides to the interior of the mainland.

Finally, it was painted near the western border of Mauritania in later generations.

At the same time, he continued to arrange in his mouth:

"Further inland, we don't know what there is. Let's talk about it later, so we don't draw the western inland boundary.

"In this way, the allocation of the western coastline of Mexico is completed. Can France and Spain accept this arrangement?"

The representative of Spain nodded directly to express that he had no opinion. Just now, he had a little opinion about not being able to fully control Morocco, but now it is completely gone.

The French felt a little awkward, giving up an existing colonial point, and got a large area to be developed that was recognized by Ming and other countries.

Overall, it is certainly not a loss, but Daming wants both, and they are all for nothing.

However, Talleyrand, the French representative, thought about the status of Ming Dynasty, and finally chose to accept this arrangement.

Don't think about what Ming got, any country is incomparable with Ming, just think about what your own country can get.

After Zhu Jingyuan arranged for the French, he took a look at the British and Portuguese.

Representatives of the two countries were waiting for Zhu Jingyuan to make suitable compensation arrangements.

Several other countries are also staring.

The emotions of the two sides are completely different.

Both Britain and Portugal want Daming to compensate more, and other countries naturally hope to compensate less.

What happened today is very clear, the whole Mozhou is a piece of cake, and Zhu Jingyuan is the one who divides the cake.

The share that Da Ming wants is fixed, and after compensating for Morocco's loss, Da Ming will not ask for it anymore.

After Morocco's accounts are evened out, what's left is a fair share.

Zhu Jingyuan asked the guards to turn the map, and sent the southern part of Mozhou to him, looking towards the southwest corner of Mozhou.

Angola, Namibia, and the northwestern part of South Africa in later generations are now empty inland.

The northern coastline of Angola belongs to Portugal, and the northwestern coastline of South Africa belongs to the United Kingdom.

Zhu Jingyuan took a ruler and a pen, and extended the coastline of Portugal to the south for a certain distance, and the coastline of England to the north for a certain distance.

Expand the width of the colonies of the two countries, and then draw a straight line westward along the border to connect with the border of Ming Dynasty.

Relatively speaking, the expansion of the United Kingdom is more, and the expansion of Portugal is less, which is also in line with the status of the two countries.

Then Zhu Jingyuan looked up at the representatives of the two countries:
"This is the compensation to England and Portugal, and the land that should be allocated to both countries."

The representatives of the two countries looked serious and carefully looked at the colony that Zhu Jingyuan allocated to him.

The colony of one's own country has indeed expanded a lot.

The coastline was extended, and at the same time extended inland to the end, and these places clearly belonged to their own country in the future.

This kind of compensation and distribution is barely acceptable.

But now that area looks like three layers of a sandwich.

The Portuguese and British colonies are separated from the upper and lower sides, and there is a small piece of land in the middle that is still vacant.

That is, the northern part of Namibia in later generations, plus the southern part of Angola.

This is the transition zone between desert and grassland. Although it is not a good place, there are no too many colonies.

The representatives of the two countries spoke up almost instinctively, hoping to share the land in the middle with themselves and not to keep it.

As a result, Zhu Jingyuan's originally friendly expression suddenly became a little ugly:

"You two have enough colonies in Mozhou, let's distribute it to other countries that don't have colonies."

The representatives of the two countries already understood Zhu Jingyuan's temper, and seeing his reaction, they knew that there was nothing to talk about.

Several representatives were a little bit unwilling, but faced with the oppression of Daming represented by Zhu Jingyuan, they could only nod and accept this assignment in the end.

In this way, the accounts of the colonies of various countries will be evened out.

But it seems that there is not much land left in Mozhou.

Representatives from several countries that have not yet colonized are a little anxious now, and the eyes of the Lucians are a little green.

Zhu Jingyuan looked up at several countries without colonies:

"Who is the land between England and Portugal? Is Austria interested?"

Zhu Jingyuan originally wanted to give Lucia a border with the British, so as to create territorial disputes and conflicts between the two sides.

But this place also borders on Daming.

Daming really didn't want to border on Lucia anymore, so he chose Austria, which is considered to be adjacent to Daming by sea.

Let Austria, which has no border with the British, pass by.

For a country like Austria that has no colonies, the answer to Zhu Jingyuan's question is obvious.

you still need to ask?

The representative of Austria, Foreign Minister Stadion, responded almost without hesitation:

"We in Austria are willing to accept!"

Zhu Jingyuan nodded slightly:
"Okay, so the Southwest Mozhou is finished, let's change the angle..."

Zhu Jingyuan asked the guards to adjust the angle of the map again, and moved the west side of Mozhou in front of him.

In the depressed area in the middle of the Mozhou continent, there is another raised area inside, with two lines drawn on both sides.

This is pretty much the Nigerian region of later generations.

In the north is the relatively well-known Songhai Mo Empire, which was not gradually occupied by the British until the 1880s in history.

It's a great place.

Simply looking at the population of [-] million people in later generations, directly accounting for one-sixth of the entire Mozhou, one knows that this place can support people.

Moreover, it is also the largest oil producing country in Mexico, the seventh largest oil exporting country in the world, and the largest natural gas reserves and production in Africa.

It is also the only coal-producing country in West Africa, and other resources are also very rich.

Now this is still a theoretical "land of no man", at least Ming and Western countries have not yet established colonies.

Zhu Jingyuan seemed to say very casually:
"According to the original armistice agreement, Prussia's original stronghold in the east of Mozhou was given to Daming, so let's give this land to Prussia now.

"I heard that the resources here are quite rich, including coal and oil, and there is land suitable for farming inside.

"I hope you can build a new Germany here."

The two representatives of Prussia were overjoyed directly, and Hardenberg subconsciously asked:
"Your Highness, is there really coal and oil here? Where did you hear about it?"

Of course, Zhu Jingyuan's memories of his previous life cannot be said directly:

"I don't remember where I saw it, maybe a book, maybe some explorer's notes.

"I don't remember very clearly, and I can't give you an exact guarantee. Whether it is specific or not, you have to verify it yourself."

Hardenberg and Heinrich had no suspicions.

Colonial development in this era is often a lot of individual explorers, individuals or funded by certain countries, to explore unknown areas.

Then, according to the investigation situation of the other country, it is decided whether to arrange the army and immigration.

Data confusion and uncertainty are very large.

The two Prussian representatives happily agreed, and sincerely thanked Zhu Jingyuan:
"Prussia thanks His Royal Highness Prince Dashi for his support..."

Zhu Jingyuan raised his head again and glanced at the representatives of several other countries. They were all ready to move, especially the people from Lucia.

So Zhu Jingyuan continued to write next to the Prussian colony.

First, the Cameroon region on the east side was assigned to the Lucians.

The Cameroon region is just in the inner bend of the western coast of Mexico. The coastline is not long, but the internal openable area is not small.

And it's close to the equator, a real land in the sun, with the warmest port.

Lucia's Prince Nicholas and Prime Minister Wedemeyer are a little bit excited now.

Let's accept this assignment solemnly together, and at the same time thank Zhu Jingyuan very much.

Lucia's colony is also adjacent to Prussia, so I don't know what will happen in the future.

Zhu Jingyuan nodded slightly, and continued to divide the colonies on the map.

The Benin and Togo regions on the west side of Nigeria were assigned to the Italians.

The southern side of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, areas not covered by rainforest were allocated to the Spaniards.

To the south of Gabon, on both sides of the Congo River estuary and inland, a small part of the surrounding non-rainforest area was allocated to the Ottomans.

Finally, the border between the Netherlands' Gold Coast and France's Côte d'Ivoire was extended inland.

In this way, the entire coastline of Mozhou is completely divided.

Each country got some land more or less.

But the mood of the representatives of each country is different.

Some are more satisfied, such as Prussia, Lucia, Ottoman.

Ottoman's representative, Grand Vizier really did not expect that Ottoman could still divide the colony.

Some representatives thought it was okay. For example, Austria and Italy basically got the right to develop a colony at zero cost.

The Dutch also kept the Gold Coast and were relieved to be able to expand its scope to the interior.

Some countries are not very satisfied, such as France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Portugal.

They basically didn't get much extra land on the Mozhou continent, and basically expanded on the basis of the original colony and then expanded to the inland.

Seeing that inland countries such as Prussia and Lucia have acquired not a few colonies, I feel a little unconvinced.

If Daming hadn't intervened, the colony development capabilities of these countries would certainly not be comparable to their own.

Portugal had already been planning on both sides of the Congo River, and gradually incorporated this area into Angola in history.

But now that Da Ming has given it to Osman, he can only give up these plans.

However, the representatives of the four countries did not feel particularly uncomfortable. The Ming represented by Zhu Jingyuan at least did not harm their interests.

Da Ming does not support those inland countries, and Da Ming directly competes with him, so he may not be able to get more land.

Now that there is no need for any war, the country can safely expand its land, which is already a good thing.

Of course, the representatives of Britain and France did not know how much land they occupied in Mexico in the original history.Otherwise, you may be depressed.

As for Zhu Jingyuan himself, when assigning colonies to Western countries, of course it was not based on personal preferences, but had direct goals.

Let the countries of Thailand and Western countries maintain a relative balance, and give more to countries without colonies, and less to those that already have.

Of course, it doesn't mean that whichever country is the weakest will give the most colonies.

The weakest country simply cannot maintain too many colonies, nor is it capable of building them.

It is useless to force them to distribute it, and it will make it difficult for other countries to accept it.

Therefore, Italy, Ottoman, and Austria, the three countries that have no stamina, do not directly acquire much land.

The most directly allocated land, and possibly the best, are Prussia and Lucia, and their development potential can be regarded as the strongest in the entire West.

Let capable Thai and Western countries participate in the carve-up and construction of Mozhou, so that they have the opportunity to have conflicts in Mozhou.

Now this distribution is barely balanced.

The representatives of various countries at the scene carefully analyzed and discussed for a while, and slowly accepted this division.

Then the French representative Talleyrand asked a more concerned question:

"His Royal Highness, now on this map, only the rainforest area and some areas to the south, the borders of the countries are completely connected.

"The interior of the continent in the north and west is still blank, how should these areas be allocated in the future?"

Zhu Jingyuan had already prepared for this:
"The ownership of those blank areas is still to be determined.

"For one thing, the current information on these places is too vague, and countries need to explore directly, and it is not appropriate to directly distribute them.

"Secondly, many places here may not be suitable for survival, especially the large desert in the northern inland, it is difficult to maintain a large-scale settlement.

"So whoever can survive in those places, establish basic settlements and garrison troops at the same time, it's theirs."

Talleyrand was obviously surprised, and reconfirmed with some concern:

"You mean the competition mode? Whoever explores it first wins?"

Zhu Jingyuan added and emphasized:
"It's not just explored, there must be basic settlements or garrisons that can maintain effective rule over the local area.

"Instead of just making a profit by deceptive trade.

"Otherwise it can only be regarded as a public trade market, not the direct territory of each country.

"In my opinion, an organization should be set up under the alliance to supervise and inspect the development effects of various countries on Mexico.

"Governance can be assessed every five years.

"If the governance capacity is not up to standard, the local area should be reclassified as public land to be developed, allowing other countries to explore and build."

The scene fell silent.

Zhu Jingyuan's request cannot be said to be unreasonable, if he can't even control the natives, then of course he is not qualified to own those colonies.

The huge power of industrialization has made all countries in Thailand and Western countries realize the huge gap between themselves and traditional indigenous people.

It is not a difficult problem to completely rule the Mozhou natives.

Moreover, Yinzhou has been divided up, and Mozhou is the last land.

If you want to control and keep these lands, you need to make great efforts to build them.

Especially Lucia, Austria, Italy, Prussia and other countries that had no overseas colonies.

But Zhu Jingyuan's request, as well as the so-called supervisory organization, will obviously put pressure on all countries.

It could turn into a colony-building contest.

(End of this chapter)