July 4th.

Both the Commonwealth of America and the Confederate States of America consider it to be the anniversary of the founding of the United States. Eighty-six years ago today, the Continental Congress of North America adopted the Declaration of Independence, drafted by Jefferson, and proclaimed the birth of the American Union, but now it is the day when the United States and the Eastern Empire signed a humiliating peace armistice. This is undoubtedly a great irony!

Early that morning, British Minister to the United States Richard Lyons, French Minister to the United States Mersier, and Russian Minister to the United States Scottli, came to the White House in Washington to meet with President Davis of the Confederate States of America in advance.

These three men chased them from Philadelphia to Washington, much to their dismay, as early as two days ago, when they learned that Seward, acting president of the American Federation, was going to Washington to negotiate peace with the representatives of the Chinese Empire, they were in a hurry and immediately rushed to the Philadelphia presidential palace to ask to see Seward, but they were directly refused to meet. The three of them were stuck in the presidential palace for most of the day, but they had no effect at all. In desperation, he could only ask someone to meet with the other cabinet members of the Federation, but he was told that the matter had been decided, and even the Congress of the American Federation unanimously agreed to approve the authorization of Acting President and Secretary of State Seward to go to Washington for peace talks, and that Seward had already taken the train to Baltimore the night before, but he was afraid that he had already arrived in Washington by this time.

So, the three of them were shocked and hurried to Washington, but they were never able to see Seward. At this time, these three people also understood, and this Siward obviously knew what the three of them meant, so he deliberately avoided them, and was determined to make peace with the Chinese Empire and the Southern Confederacy.

But how could the three of them, as British, French, and Russian ministers to the United States, watch the American Federation and the Confederate States of America negotiate peace with the Chinese Empire in the east? Britain and Russia, in particular, have long been on the same page as this Eastern Empire, and now is the perfect time for the British Expeditionary Force to go to the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, the three ministers to the United States, who had been competing for a long time, reached a surprising agreement this time, that is, to do their best to prevent the United States from negotiating peace with the Chinese Empire.

However, the cunning Seward did not see them at all, which made them very helpless, and a thousand words that were always prepared did not work. The time had come to the morning of the peace talks, so the three of them could only pin all their hopes on Davis, the president of the Southern Confederate States of America.

Davis didn't hide from them, but what made the three even more depressed was that as soon as Davis saw the three, he smiled contemptuously and said, "Mr. Lyons, Baron Scottley, and Sir Mersier, didn't the three of them move from Washington to Philadelphia?" How did you suddenly appear in my Washington? Could it be that you have figured it out and are ready to move the embassy back to Washington? ”

Davis's words embarrassed all three of them.

When the Confederate States of America had just been announced, Davis took the initiative to send people to Lyons, Mercière, and Scottelli to ask for their support, and stood up to announce the recognition of the Confederate States of the South, but they were all refused, and it was Valewski who came forward and the Chinese Empire to announce the recognition of the independence of the Confederate States of America.

Later, even if the Confederate States had gained a foothold and moved their capitals to Richmond, Davis again invited the three countries to move their embassies to Richmond, and France, because it recognized the international status of the Confederate States like the Chinese Empire and supported it, and reluctantly set up an embassy in Richmond, but the British and Russian represented by Lyons and Scottelli were extremely bad. Although Lyons did not speak on behalf of Britain, he did not pay any attention to Davis's suggestion, and Scottly was even worse, not only did not move the embassy to Richmond, but even did not set up an embassy in Richmond, but on behalf of Tsarist Russia favored the federal government of the United States of America in the north.

Davis has these old grievances in his heart.

"President Davis, you're laughing!" Even if Lyons was thick-skinned, he was a little embarrassed, and he said directly: "President Davis, you Confederate States of America cannot hold peace talks with the Chinese Empire and the Federation, in that case, it will be extremely unfavorable to the Confederate States of America!" ”

"Haha, Mr. Lyons, that's what you do!" Davis laughed and said, "It's a pity, it's not up to you to decide whether it's good for the American League or not." Do you think that it is in the interests of the Allied States to spend money and soldiers' lives to fight to the death with the Chinese Empire and to kill the soldiers of the Northern Federation? ”

"But, President Davis, if you let the Chinese Empire gain a firm foothold in the Americas, the Confederate States of America will be in danger in the future!"

"But if the war with the Chinese Empire continues, our American Confederate State will be directly destroyed! Why don't you send us $300 million in aid or loans, and another 100,000 troops to support us? Maybe we can reconsider. ”

Davis's words immediately made Lyons shut his mouth.

And Davis's clear attitude made the ministers of the three European powers very helpless.

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Around 10:55 a.m.

The square in front of Capitol Hill. Today's peace talks are not scheduled to take place at the White House, but on Capitol Hill, the seat of Congress of the Confederate States of America. Capitol Hill occupies the highest point in the whole of Washington, D.C., and was specifically requested by the Chinese Empire side of the negotiations.

In five minutes, the peace talks would begin, but the negotiators of the Chinese Empire had not yet arrived, and the acting president and secretary of state of the American Federation, Seward, had not arrived.

President Davis and Secretary of State Robert Tooms of the Confederate States of America, British Minister to the United States of America Lyons, French Minister to the United States of America Mersier, and Russian Minister to the United States of America Scottley stood in front of Capitol Hill Square, anxiously waiting, looking at the large pendulum clock in front of the Capitol building from time to time.

Three minutes before 11 o'clock, a carriage and dozens of knights finally rolled in, startling the dust.

Riders and carriages are parked at Capitol Hill Square.

President Davis and Secretary of State Toombs, who were waiting in the square, took the initiative to greet them, while the British, French, and Russian ministers Lyons, Mercière, and Scottelli did not move, but just watched quietly.

At this time, on the exquisite carriage headed by the leader, a person walked down, and everyone recognized it at a glance, it was Lu Ziyue, the ambassador of the Chinese Empire to the United States. Behind him, a tall and a short walked out of the carriage arm-in-arm, but these two people were surprised: although a Chinese was young, he was obviously noble, and he must be Fan Ruzeng, the plenipotentiary envoy of the Chinese Emperor headed by him, and the other person was the acting president of the American Federation, Seward!

How could Siward get out of the carriage of the envoys of the Chinese Empire? At this moment, the onlookers felt a little bad in their hearts for some reason.

The other knights were all dressed in colorful national costumes, and the onlookers noticed that it was the Indian leader and the Irish representative, who seemed to have been called by the Chinese Empire.