1683 Governor's Prerogatives

"You don't know how terrible that war was, and we fought night, street, and hand-to-hand battles with Chinese in order to win...... We are fighting with them inch by inch, with them for the ...... of the streets, buildings."

"That's right, we lost, but we're not cowards! If you have the opportunity to restore this war, you'll know how badly we fought! Not only are we miserable, but those Chinese are even more ......tragic."

"They are definitely not the weak and incompetent medieval army of the Qing State, these volunteers dare to fight with us with bayonets, dare to fight with us in close combat, when the first wave of charge, they were almost dead in the crowd of 10,000 people, and none of them retreated......"

"I don't think it's a shame to fight against such soldiers! Their weapons are sharper than ours, their logistics are more abundant than ours, their local warriors are more courageous than ours, and they have the will to fight to the death...... I don't know what you're going to do with such an army......"

"More importantly, we are outnumbered, and we do not have an advantage in force at all......"

Andreev allowed the blood to drip on his uniform, on the ground, and flowers of blood bloomed on the golden ingots. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

He was discerning for himself, and even more for the warriors in Vladivostok who had persevered to the end, and he knew very well that if he didn't pick out the thorn in Ackerson's heart today, once he was allowed to return home with anger, none of these captives would end well.

The soldiers in Vladivostok who fought to the end and had to surrender would be mercilessly censored by the Reich, and a quarter of them would survive even if the bureaucrats had a conscience.

The officer who had just swung his fist didn't stop at all, but instead scolded angrily: "Shut up, coward, the empire does not accept surrender, and those who surrender are traitors!" Go to death......" While scolding him, he was about to pull out his gun, but the officer next to him hurriedly stopped him.

Now I know why Ackerson is closing, it turns out that these officers have long been on the verge of collapse, if the soldiers outside see that the officers have become like this, the original fragile military spirit will immediately collapse.

Andreev looked at the crazy officer in disappointment and whispered, "How easy it is to die on the battlefield, but those who live have to bear all this...... You want me to die, but who of you knows that there are thousands of innocent citizens in Vladivostok waiting for me to save ......."

"If I don't sign this surrender order, what will happen to the massacre, who will protect the lives of women and children......

"It is their glory to die for the Empire! They should be prepared from the day they came to the Far East! The East Asian territories that the Empire has so hard won must not be given to these Chinese...... in vain," the madman-like officer yelled hysterically, and as a result, he accidentally kicked over the compressed biscuit crumbs on the gold bricks.

The officers who ate salty salt and enjoyed it as much as they took drugs suddenly became furious, we don't care if you go crazy, you sprinkle our salty salt, that's not good.

"Your eyes are on your ass? This is the last bit of salt we have, and you have been ruined before the chief has even eaten it!"

Andreev looked at the group of madmen in pain, and said to Axon with a sigh, "Sir...... At this point, it is useless to punish anyone, we must look forward, if you kill me, you can talk about it later, I just want to know what you are going to do now?"

Exexon, who was injected with morphine, smiled and looked at the farce in front of him, "Hehehe...... What can I do? What else can I do? Stay up, wait for news from the outside world day by day, until the good news comes......

"If you don't bring good news, then I'll wait for the good news from Fadeyev, and if there is no good news from Fadeyev, then wait for the good news from our minister in Beijing......"

"My lord!" looked at the decadent Aikeson Andreev and was furious, "Don't hold any more illusions, have you not fought with these Chinese, they are strong and cunning, do you really think that Fadeev will reverse the situation?"

"An army without logistical supplies marches thousands of kilometers in the wind and snow, what combat effectiveness does it have......Chinese?

Before he finished speaking, Exon's face changed drastically, and he shouted: "Then what do you say I should do? Order the surrender of the whole army in the name of the Governor of the East? Don't forget that you are only officers, your surrender order is limited to your own army, and my identity must not surrender!"

"Governor of the Far East with full powers, I already have the power to sign treaties with independent countries, can I use this power? Xiao Letian, that bastard is waiting for my signature, I know his plan!"

"This bastard, if you don't kill us, you just surround us and you want to fight a lawsuit with us, and they want to defeat us de jure too! damn it...... Why is there such a damn bastard in the East, how does he understand so much!"

Exxon gasped for breath, and his words shook everyone in the vault silently, and even the officers who were fighting lowered their fists and looked at him blankly.

Exxon is right, before the middle of the nineteenth century, that is, before the advent of fast telegraph technology, human information transmission technology was very backward.

As soon as the territory began to globalize, including the empire, the sun never set, it was necessary to introduce the system of governors, which may be called differently but the basic principles were the same.

It is to send a plenipotentiary governor to manage the territory that is not covered by the capital and core areas of the empire, because the transmission of personnel, materials, and news in the Age of Sail is too slow, and the administrative center of the empire is completely unable to directly control the distant colonies, which must give the governors privileges.

Sometimes the state even gave privileges to merchants, such as the East India Company when the Netherlands was prosperous, and was granted the power of overseas wars by the Dutch king, so that a company could go to war with an independent and sovereign state according to the actual situation.

It is conceivable that even the power of war has been delegated, let alone the power of peace negotiations, and sometimes the colonial governor can decide the direction of the borders of many countries with a single word.

The borders of many countries in modern Africa are straight, and they are completely divided by straight lines according to the latitude and longitude lines, which is actually a good thing done by those lazy governors and commissioners, for example, Britain and France are randomly drawing a straight line on the map: "The east is the territory of Britain, and the west is France, do you think it will work?"

"No, would you like to move fifteen more dimensions?"

"No, I'll give you another twelve, that's the bottom line......"

After some bargaining, the borders of the divided colonies appeared, and the borders of the countries were formed for a long time to come.

Exon's worries are not unreasonable, because he knows how hard negotiations will await him as long as he surrenders and falls into the hands of Xiao Letian.

Just look at the empty morphine injections that the young governor was under, and it is clear how much pressure he was under.