The Nanjing Peace Conference was much more serious than the Vienna Peace Conference after the Napoleonic Wars, and most of the members of the diplomatic delegation composed of big nobles in the West did not have the heart to participate in any balls at this time, and there was no place to hold a similar ball here.

So a meeting is a meeting, and everyone gathers at a round table to constantly discuss, quarrel, intrigue, and bluff. Private secret meetings, exchange of interests.

France and Austria were relatively detached, and they only came to confirm their vested interests. France basically did not get any substantial benefits through this war, but a military victory, but strengthened the foundation of the Bourbon dynasty, after they came to power, the most dissatisfied with the common people is their cowardice towards the foreign powers, there is no Napoleon when he was the emperor of the tough posture, as for life, in fact, it is not much different from the Napoleonic era, Napoleon's later French economy is also very withered.

A victory over Russia gave the French a sense of self-esteem, a spiritual appetite that was the only thing they could get, and the only thing they sought in an age of material poverty.

Austria benefited greatly from the war, gaining control of three principalities, including Moldova, a territory of 200,000 square kilometers in what would become Romania, all of which were fertile arable land in the lower Danube plain, and which gave Austria excellent ports to the Black Sea.

These conditions were first promised to Austria by Britain and France, and although the French agreed to it reluctantly, at that time Britain and France were at odds with Russia, and they urgently needed more troops from the Austrian Empire; Secondly, the Russians also agreed, and signed a treaty with them. Therefore, Austria feels that these interests are already in their pockets, but they still need to be confirmed through an international system, and then they will be sure.

The most awkward is Britain and Prussia, the British are now caught in a global war with China and are struggling to support, European countries are generally in economic crisis because of the war, the economic crisis in Europe makes British products sell poorly, causing the economic crisis in Britain, it has been fought for five years, China has just entered the war, and it seems that the Chinese will not change anything after another five years, because the British found that the impact of this war on China is really not big, and their people's lives have hardly changed, a war of 300,000 people, It is true that it has little impact on a country with a population of nearly 400 million, but for Britain, a country with a population of just over 10 million, it can be called a national force.

Although Prussia had just entered the war for a year, Finland, which had the intention of taking advantage of the fire and looting, wanted to get the promise of Britain, but who knew that the Poles had moved behind his back, caught the Prussians by surprise, and the operation of attacking Finland ended hastily, and then fell into the national war with Poland, and now the Polish regular army was repulsed, but it began to be tired of dealing with the Polish rebel army.

Poland was also represented, who wanted to confirm their territory and at the same time to recover part of the old land from Prussia.

Although the Russians have the support of China, the problem of serfdom in the country is becoming more and more serious, and they are becoming more and more unsuitable for this era, and they urgently need reform, but they have no conditions for reform, and they are also very troublesome, and they only hope to end the war as soon as possible and stabilize the country. The Tsar already understood that it was impossible to compete with the great powers by relying on serfdom, because the form of war after Napoleon had become national wars, and the great wars of hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn made the serfdom society simply unable to support it for a long time, and the Tsar could not always count on fighting a short-term war that ended in two or three months.

Spain and Portugal are also represented. Spain wanted the international community to recognize their colonies, but they feared that the less secure colonies would be taken away, and they wanted the countries to abandon their support for the rebel forces in the colonies, and the British had been supplying arms to the rebels in Colombia and elsewhere.

Portugal also came to the British, they hoped to get back the West African colonies that were taken away by the British, and with the development of gold in Mali, the value of the West African colonies became higher and higher, and they were no longer a simple slave trading base.

Since it was an international conference, countries that were at war with China were also invited to participate, and representatives of the Ottoman Empire also came. The Ottoman sought to restore peace with China, and this international war was caused by the independence of his vassal country, Greece, and the Ottoman Empire was the most affected, and the Ottoman Sultan already felt that his country would be completely eliminated if he did not reform, and he was willing to give up Greece in exchange for a stable time to complete the reforms he had long wanted. The war has made the people at home realize that the gap between them and the world powers is widening, and the call for reform has given Sudan an opportunity for deep reform. This opportunity is more valuable than one or two subject countries.

Among the stakeholders of this war, there was another special country that sent representatives, and that was the Manchu Empire, which was also invited to send representatives because the war with the Ottoman Empire needed to be resolved.

As for the slave empire of South Africa, which was divided from the Manchu Empire, because Su Chong'a's country was the Kingdom of South Africa canonized by China, it was a vassal state of China, and did not send a representative, and their diplomacy was managed by China, in fact, it has always been managed by African companies.

Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Prussia, Austria, Poland, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, the Manchu Empire, and China, a total of eleven countries were at the game, and the meeting was more complex than you could have imagined, so that the negotiations could not be completed in a short time. If there is no consensus in negotiations, the war will continue.

Lin Di, the Minister of the Chinese Exclusion Domain, presided over the peace meeting, and he collected the issues submitted by each of the countries, and then combined the similar ones together, and then put them together for all countries to express their views.

Almost every issue that comes up is met with opposition. Portugal demanded that Britain return their colonies, and most countries supported it, and Britain had few friends in Europe, but Britain was adamantly opposed, believing that those colonies, which they had transferred through an agreement with the Portuguese Directory, were legitimate. Portugal, for its part, did not recognize the legitimacy of the British-backed Directory, considered the territorial transfers illegal, and demanded that the British return the occupied colonies of the Gold Coast and Lagos.

All countries basically agreed to the colonial issue raised by Spain, and even Britain said that it could cut off the supply of arms to the rebels in the Spanish colonies, but most countries put forward demands for open trade with the Spanish colonies, and they were very dissatisfied with Spain's monopoly on colonial trade. Forced by public anger, Spain finally stated that it could open the colonial market, and the Spanish colonies, which had been monopolized for hundreds of years, finally began to open up. As a result, Spain made concessions, allowing their remaining colonies to be officially recognized by the Great Powers.

The Ottoman Empire was the most tragic of all, and almost became the target of public criticism, both its allies in the war, Britain, France, Austria, and its enemies, Russia and China, who demanded that they recognize the independence of Greece, and that China also demand the confirmation of the power of European companies over Crete. Both Greece and Crete could be given up by the Ottoman Empire. But the two river basins, they insisted on refusing to hand them over to the Manchu Empire, while China supported the Manchus to get the two river valleys, which was a promise to win over the Manchus into the war.

But having lost the valley of the two rivers, what was left of the Ottoman Empire? The native Anatolian Peninsula is very barren, the European territory of Serbia is autonomous, Bosnia has been annexed by Austria, Romania has been annexed by Austria, Bulgaria and Albania are very unstable, Greece is still independent, and only the Middle East remains, the most fertile is the two river basins.

But no one wanted to protect the interests of the Ottoman Empire. Poland was more than sorry for the Ottoman Empire, mainly because they had too much appetite and tried to restore the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian alliance, which meant that they had to take back the crown from Prussia, Galicia from Austria, and the whole of Ukraine from the Russians, so they were unanimously opposed by the three major powers. Neither allies nor enemies supported his claims.

The goal of the Manchu Qing was very clear, that is, the two river valleys, for which they mobilized 300,000 people, fought for almost a year, and paid 80,000 casualties, that is, they wanted this land, there was no other purpose, and they were very happy, either to get here, or to continue fighting.

The most divergent interests are still in China and the United Kingdom, which are vying for global hegemony, and the interests of the two sides are intricately intertwined. China demanded that Britain cede Sumatra and Ceylon, cede eastern Bengal to Burma, return Sindh Province to the African Company, and cede the Cape Colony to the Kingdom of South Africa.

This was almost on the terms of the British defeat. Therefore, it was difficult for the British to accept. They could give up Ceylon and Sumatra, but ceding eastern Bengal would be unacceptable, meaning losing a third of the fertile lower Ganges plain, as well as 10 million people. The surrender of the Cape Colony to the Kingdom of South Africa deprived Britain of a strategic point to the Indian Ocean, and in the case of the Suez Canal being controlled by China, Britain needed a safe passage to India, even if it was not used in normal times, it had to be controlled, otherwise the future contact with India would be completely subject to China.

As for the other countries, there was a tacit understanding between Prussia and Russia, Prussia no longer mentioned Finland's belonging, and Russia did not mention the state of war with Prussia, as if the two countries had never been at war at all, but had united against Poland.

With such a complex entanglement of interests, the progress of the peace conference was very slow, but as time went by, countries made some concessions, peeled back the cocoons, and slowly reached agreements that seemed difficult to reach, and a series of international treaties began to be signed, and everything was developing in a good direction.