Chapter 709: Orr War Negotiations
When Deackenson, the foreign minister of the Krull Kingdom, arrived in Daheng, he saw not the goodwill of the Daheng Empire, but the rapid rise of the industrial strength of the Daheng Empire and their significant threat to the Krull Kingdom.
However, this did not affect the negotiations on the Orr war this time.
Two days after the arrival of Deackenson, the Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Krull, the Crown Prince of Hollibat of the Kingdom of Orr, also arrived aboard the armored cruiser Chongke of the Great Heng Empire.
It's not that the Orr Kingdom itself doesn't have passenger ships, nor does it lack warships, but it's still in the middle of the war, and considering the importance of Hollybat's status as the crown prince, the Orr Kingdom is not willing to let him risk taking the risk of taking its own ships, in case the Krull people don't pay attention to their credibility and directly sink his ship.
At the same time, the Great Heng Empire did not want any accidents to happen to Crown Prince Holybat, an important figure in the Orr Kingdom, although the Krull Kingdom said more than once that for this negotiation, they would ensure the maritime safety of Crown Prince Holibart.
However, the Orr Kingdom is still not at ease, and in the end, after the negotiation of the three kingdoms, the Daheng Empire sent warships to pick up people, of course, the Orr Kingdom also supports a certain amount of money for this.
Crown Prince Holibat took the warship of the Great Heng people to and fro, so basically the safety of the voyage could be ensured, and even if the Krull people were proud, they would not risk a war with the Great Heng at such a time to sink the Chongke.
Speaking of which, this is not the first time that the Chongke has gone to the Orr Kingdom, in its many years of service, the Chongke armored cruiser has been a single ship, or accompanied by other warships to carry out ocean-going training, escort, diplomacy and other missions many times, and has gone to the Orr Kingdom four times.
This class is the most public appearance of the Empire.
The design concept of this class of ships has also directly contributed to the development of similar armored cruisers in the navies of various countries around the world, and its unique armored box design can reach the speed of cruisers, key defense layouts and other concepts, which has become a typical design of armored cruisers of the navies of various countries.
Of course, in fact, in the eyes of the Daheng Navy, this key defense concept of the Chongke-class armored cruiser is outdated, unable to keep up with the times, and completely unable to block the fierce fire of rapid-fire guns.
After the arrival of Crown Prince Holybat aboard the armored cruiser Chongke, and a number of other powerful delegations who were in attendance also arrived one after another, so the armistice negotiations of the Orr War officially began.
In order to show the importance of the Empire, the Great Heng Empire specially placed the venue of this meeting in the newly completed Royal Hotel.
If you look at the name of this hotel, you can know that in a monarchy, it is basically impossible to use the name of the empire, the royal or the name of the prefecture and county.
For example, Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, Jingzhou Iron and Steel Company, Luohai Iron and Steel Company, Imperial Central Bank, etc., these are all important national enterprises with a strong imperial atmosphere, and they belong to the State Assets Management Commission.
Those with the prefixes royal and royal are generally large enterprises under the Royal Asset Management Committee.
The same is true of the Royal Hotel, which is invested and built by the Royal Asset Management Committee, and is located along the Jing River, in the inner city of Jingshi, and next to the Jing Palace!
Just look at the geographical location, this hotel is not ordinary!
If you want to get a piece of land here to build a hotel, no one can do it except outside the royal house.
In fact, the hotel is not a simple commercial hotel, but a hotel with a strong political atmosphere, if you want to stay in this hotel, you have to go through three checkpoints first, ordinary people can't get in at all!
In general, the hotel was attended by nobles and officials from within the empire, as well as diplomatic members such as foreign missions.
The armistice negotiations were also held in the hotel, and on the first day of the talks, there was little to no discussion, that is, the two delegations met and then exchanged views with the diplomats of other countries.
By the time the next day for negotiations, this will be a gradual progression.
However, the negotiation process was not smooth, and the differences between the two sides were too great, for example, the Krull Kingdom demanded that the two younger brothers of the Orr Kingdom and the Orr Kingdom break away from the suzerainty relationship and have completely independent military, political and diplomatic powers.
Naturally, the Orr Kingdom categorically rejected this.
The royal families of the two younger brother countries themselves have a close connection with the royal family of Orr, and since the beginning of the two hundred years, all the successive queens of Orr have come from the royal family of these two younger brother kingdoms or the powerful families of several younger brother countries.
Successive Orr queens were either Anders or Venabes, without exception!
Similarly, the royal family of the younger brother country has basically chosen its queens from the royal family or aristocratic families in the Orr Kingdom.
The Three Kingdoms seem to be dominated by the Orr Kingdom, supplemented by the two younger brothers, but in fact, the relationship between the royal family and the nobility of the Three Kingdoms is very close.
If you want to let the Anderls and Venaba people become independent, they are not happy, and if they become independent, they will not be able to share the huge gold and oil revenues in the Orr Kingdom, and their economy and living standards will plummet, if so, they would rather continue to fight!
As for the Orr Kingdom, it is also necessary for the Andel Kingdom and the Venabe Kingdom to be used as a peripheral barrier to expand the strategic depth and block the war as much as possible in the hinterland of the Orr Kingdom, especially the main grain producing areas and gold producing areas in the central region of the Orr Kingdom, which is the core lifeline area of the Orr Kingdom, and it can even be said to be the core lifeline area of the Three Kingdoms.
If this place is destroyed by war, then the Three Kingdoms will have to break their bones.
Otherwise, do you think the kingdoms of Indel and Venabay would rather let the war destroy their own land, but also firmly side with the Orr kingdoms.
The core area of the central part of the Orr Kingdom is not only the core interests of the Orr Kingdom, but also the core interests of the Andel Kingdom and the Venabey Kingdom.
Besides, as soon as the war broke out, the people of the two countries in the war zone had already been evacuated to this area, and no matter how much they fought in the open field, they could not lose anything.
The relationship between the Orr Kingdom and the two younger brother countries is said to be the relationship between the suzerainty and the vassal state, but in fact, the three kingdoms are one, and no one can do without each other, if it weren't for historical factors and excessive external opposition, the three kingdoms would have merged together to form a single country.
At this time, the Kingdom of Krull demanded the complete independence of the two small states, and said that in order to ensure the security of independence, they demanded that the kings of the two countries be re-elected.
This request was categorically rejected by the Orr Kingdom, and Crown Prince Holibat made a bold statement on the spot: "The three kingdoms are one with each other, they are brothers and family to each other"
"If you want us to give up our brothers, our own families, this is absolutely impossible, not even war!"
"As long as there is an Orr alive, then he will never give up his brother, his family!
Deacenson was very unhappy to hear this, the words of the Orns were obvious, even if they were defeated by war, but don't expect them to agree to this, maybe there will be a continuous armed struggle in the future, unless the Orns are killed.
But do you really think that they Krull people are not good for swords and guns?
If it weren't for the international influence, if it weren't for the Daheng people, the Olisa, the Walians and other powerful countries staring at it, Lao Tzu would have slaughtered all the way through, and it wouldn't take long for your millions of people to be killed.
It's a pity that Krull, even if he is the world's largest power, does not dare to risk the world's condemnation.
After all, times are different!
Now is the era of industrial civilization, although it is okay to fight and kill or something, but it is a bit angry to directly slaughter all the people of a country.
Even if he is a barbarian who is recognized as a barbarian by the Blue Star countries, he has not engaged in any extermination policies in the past hundred years, and the current Lin Dynasty is still shouting about peaceful development and free trade every day.
Even the people of Daheng know that this kind of thing can't be played anymore, and they Krull people know even better, if they really kill too much, it is easy to become a public enemy of the world, maybe it will let those several big countries find an opportunity to unite.
If nothing else, even if the Walya Empire and the Keel Empire are united, it will be enough to give the Krull Kingdom a headache, not to mention the Gafiya Empire and the Daheng Empire.
In this world situation, the Krull people should be the world boss, the arbiter, and seek their own best interests from it, rather than standing up against the whole world.
That's something that only fools like the Constant Barbarians would do!
Besides, if you kill all the Orrs, who will mine the gold? They can't just emigrate here and re-establish a gold mining industry.
In the face of the strength of the Orrs, putting on an attitude that he would rather die than let the two vassal states become independent, Deacenson knew that this was no fun.
But even if it's no play, you have to keep talking.
Negotiation, that is, I offer a price all over the sky, you land and pay back, and no one will reveal their bottom line until the end.
After a few days of deadlock in the negotiations on the issue of the independence of the vassal states, the two sides finally agreed to skip this issue first and talk about the rest first, and the Krull Kingdom began to talk about the issue of war reparations, demanding that the Orr Kingdom spend at least two billion Heng Yuan as war reparations to compensate for the losses of the Krull Kingdom.
The Orr Kingdom is naturally not happy, the paralysis is that you came to invade me, I didn't ask you for compensation, it's good, you still want compensation.
If you have two billion Heng Yuan, Lao Tzu can directly ask the Da Heng people or Walya people to be mercenaries, and pay you back, go dream!
Subsequently, the Krull Kingdom put forward a number of other demands, such as the right to mine gold and the right to exploit oil.
Among them, the right to mine gold is the business of the Orr people themselves, and it has nothing to do with Daheng, but it has something to do with the empire if there is a problem.