Chapter 885: Trilateral Talks
No matter how much Chen Ming's energy is scattered, some of his attention will be squeezed out of the trilateral negotiations between China, Austria and Russia.
Anyway, he doesn't have the habit of naming his grandson, and he hasn't named Chen Ding's son, so he won't set a precedent for Chen Wei.
Although he did pay attention to this grandson before, Chen Ming knew very well in his heart what the meaning of this baby boy was born.
He has another son who has stepped into the bottomless quagmire of the battle for the throne.
Chen Wei stepped in, and if he wanted to get out, it would not be so easy. But this is his own choice!
Born in the royal family, apart from holding a chair, what other goals do you have in life?
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The Chinese diplomatic negotiators led by Gao Yanming, the Russian diplomatic delegation led by Yegor Gaidar, and the Ottoman delegation led by Selim engaged in long and cautious negotiations in Nanjing. The Chinese side is very clear about the basic rhythm and guiding ideology of the talks, and has already prepared a number of countermeasures.
The Russian side was also very well prepared, and even the Ottoman delegation, which was the latest to know the news, prepared detailed materials and plans for the negotiations.
Russia needs a lot of time to lick its wounds.
Until the East has constructed a defensive line sufficient to resist the Chinese attack, they will not provoke a third Sino-Russian war again. But Russia will not make the greatest concessions to the Ottomans.
Russia is now only afraid of Chen Han, not Ottoman, Yegor Gaidar can make certain concessions to China, but for Ottoman, he always wants to bite the other side hard.
And China will also need time to consolidate its domination in the new territories/spheres of influence, to consolidate its position in the Kazakh steppes and Siberia. Both the Mongols and the Kazakhs also need time to lay their grounds.
That is the basis for this negotiation.
The Ottomans knew very well that the reason why they had themselves at the negotiating table this time was purely because the Chinese were honest and trustworthy, foaming at the mouth and spitting a nail. If you don't talk about peace with the Russians behind the back of the Ottomans, then you don't make small moves behind your back, and you do things above board.
Therefore, the Ottomans were very confident - because they had a strong ally who was honest and reliable.
Moreover, before they asked the Chinese to send troops to the west coast of the Caspian Sea, they did send troops over. The first group was less than 5,000 men, and the second group was only about 3,000, but now that these 8,000 men had made a stop on the west coast of the Caspian Sea, the remaining forces of the Russians in the Caucasus were all attracted.
Therefore, the Ottomans will not back down in this negotiation, not only to ensure their interests in Georgia, but also to fight back on the Crimean peninsula.
Even the last Khan of the Crimean Khanate, Bahadur Glay II, was sent by the Russians to Rhodes in the Aegean Sea nine years ago, and then beheaded. The Ottomans were also constantly working to return to the Crimean peninsula.
The Ottomans' greatest goal in this war was to restore their interests in Crimea and recognize Georgia as an Ottoman dependency.
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It's been a long and arduous negotiation.
The focus is not on China and Russia, but on Russia and Austria.
Chen Ming has consciously established China's honest and credible reputation in the world, which may play a role in the future world situation.
Moreover, the four words 'words are counted' are also in line with China's humanistic culture, its own image and the status of the boss.
Now is the critical moment for Chen Han to define his foreign policy for the next decade, and Chen Han's foreign policy is facing a major adjustment over the issue of routes.
Whether the Ottomans and Russians were aware of this is anyone's guess.
But it's really critical.
Ten years is a short time, and it is a long time, and it is not possible to guarantee that the two countries that are still closely related today will meet each other in ten years; There is no guarantee that the two countries, which have just fought a big war today, will be like a family in ten years.
China needs time for the Kazakhs to form a separation zone with the Mongols.
China also needs to divide the geographical boundaries with the Kazakhs and Mongols, and I don't know if it is due to bad taste, or if Chen Ming wants to experience the pleasure of making national borders on a map, the territorial boundary between the three Kazakhs and the Mongol khanates, which is really called a horizontal and vertical.
The course has been largely mapped out, leaving only minor aspects to be adjusted, plus the erection of boundary pillars.
However, the migration of Kazakhs and Mongols is a problem that will take a long time, and their settlement and nation-building will require China's support and support.
And whether this barrier will be self-inflating or self-tightening in the future depends on the specific situation.
At the same time, Chen Ming needed a 'time' to brew war for the French, the French Revolution had already begun, but the revolutionary storm in Paris was far from enough to sweep Europe.
In today's European continent, absolute monarchy is the mainstream.
The two Central European powers in northwestern France, Prussia and Austria, both opposed and interfered with the French Revolution.
In addition, the dizzy Gustav III, although Chen Ming really can't find any actions of Sweden during the French Revolution in Chen Ming's memory, does that mean that the Swedish king who is very 'emotional' will usher in his own tragic end soon?
But anyway.
The situation on the European continent is like the development of the previous life, and the French revolutionary government, because of its increasingly radical policy, has aroused the dissatisfaction of more and more European countries, and it can be said that a war to interfere with the revolution has now begun in Europe.
Will Napoleon be able to emerge from this war?
I didn't know that Chen Ming, who had been in his own territory for a while in the next twenty years in Europe, was still hoping that Napoleon would get ahead, otherwise, he would never have 'leaked' the Mini rifle.
Yegor Gaidar agreed to the Chinese's request for a detailed map of Siberia, not to mention that during the war, the Chinese had figured out how much of Siberia's geographical terrain, only that the maps they captured from the Russian army were not much less weighty than the entire map.
Siberia's rivers, mountains, permafrost, ice fields, and other complex terrains would be too slow if they only relied on Chinese expeditions to explore little by little. The Russians have been operating in Siberia for 200 years, and they can definitely be teachers of the Chinese in this regard. Many years ago, Russian fur traders had been widely traveling in the north and south of Siberia, and Chen Han had not even figured out the geography of the outer northeast.
Another major purpose of China's negotiations is to seek a port in North Africa, not Egypt.
Before the opening of the Suez Canal, Egypt did not have the interests that Chen Han had to compete for. Even Djibouti and Chen Ming don't plan to get involved.
He knew that the next twenty years would be the years when Britain and France waged war against Egypt.
If China intervenes in Djibouti now, it will inevitably have to deal with the British and French colonial forces. This is by no means what Chen Ming wants to see.
He doesn't have much interest in Africa right now, and the most attractive thing about Africa is definitely not Egypt, but South Africa, the gold of South Africa.
Therefore, Chen Han only needs to open a few ports in the coastal areas of Africa.
Chen Ming really didn't want the Ottoman Empire to misunderstand and think that Chen Han had become interested in its homeland. Chen Ming only intends to open a few gaps in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Just as the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutch, British, and so on did in the previous two or three hundred years, they established port strongholds, so that domestic merchant ships traveling between the East and the West could rest on the way, replenish food, water, etc.
This can be regarded as a game that Chen Ming wants to do. Chen Ming wanted to convince both the Russians and the British, who were closely following the negotiations, that China was not interested in Europe itself, nor in Africa.
Chen Ming hoped that this would send a signal that the British could confidently and boldly win over European countries and form an anti-French revolutionary alliance to add fire to a full-scale war in Europe.
According to the established plan, it is best for China to make Russia "have no worries" and make Russia think that the Chinese are satisfied when they hit the Ural River ~ the Ural Mountains - the evidence is the establishment of the 'isolation belt'.
Let the British, who are hiding behind the Russians, believe that China is now full of food and drink, and it is about to enter a 'dormant period', and it needs to digest the food it eats in its stomach.
In conjunction with China's series of actions in India, it is necessary to give the entire Indian prince and the British a feeling that China's strategy towards India is completely different from that of the British.
China does not need the exact right to rule India, on the contrary, China will choose obedient and effective feudal princes from India, and cultivate them.
China has no urgent land claims to India, but only economic interests.
The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese Qiqiao Festival. China and the Ottoman Empire first reached a purchase deal of up to 50 million yuan.
First, Selim applied for a very low-interest 'financial loan' from China, which is likely to be as high as 5,000 Chinese yuan. The Ottomans will use all of this loan funds to purchase Chen Han's military supplies, which can be called the largest single European arms sales since the founding of Chen Han.
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At a time when China's diplomatic situation is intensifying, this does not prevent the first plenary session of the State Advisory Bureau, the Information Administration Yuan, from officially convening.
Representatives of all provinces, capitals and municipalities across the country gathered together.
Everyone's identities include aristocrats, veterans, farmers, businessmen, teachers, doctors, journalists, entertainers, and so on, involving many industries in society.
There are no officials, and there are no public officials in office.
Chen Ming gave the National Consultative Bureau he had created an 'old name' - the Information Council.
This was an institution introduced by the Manchus when they were playing with the pre-constitutionalization.
The composition of the two houses is almost equal to that of the British.
Hereditary nobles, officials, and tax-paying people were all in the hands of the Manchu royal family. The rest are elected members elected by the provincial councils.
Chen Ming's fiddling with the Senior Administration Yuan is completely different.
As I have said before, this advisory board is a weakened version of the NPC, except in the border areas, such as North Korea, and in the interior of the country, it has just emerged.
Although once this thing is decided to be rolled out by the top, whether it is the county advisory bureau, the provincial advisory bureau, or the provincial advisory bureau, it will be broken by the scramble.
In the domestic public opinion newspapers, there are really reporters who evaluate it as China's 'Congress'.
In response to this gimmick, the two factions also quoted scriptures and classics to fight in the newspapers.
The most striking evidence of the opposition is that the 'Congress' is not good, and the influence of MPs is staggering in both the UK and the US. Charles I, who lost his head, died under the Jiuquan without blinking.
The rights and interests of the Senate are similar to those of the Advisory Council.
But it is much stronger than the Federation of Industry and Commerce. The number of representatives of the Federation of Industry and Commerce has been grabbed, and the identity of this member of the Advisory Council has become a fragrant bun nationwide.
However, after such a big incident in China, the trilateral negotiations that are in full swing seem to be two straight lines that are forever parallel, and there will never be a moment of intersection.
As the Ottoman Empire under the leadership of the Sultan, the word "boiling" coincides with it in the slightest. Russia was also one of the most powerful empires in Europe, and people on both sides were not interested in the Consultative Bureau at all.
The Swedes are a little self-aware, and they are not clingy to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a while. In many cases, a few key figures in the mission stayed in the Swedish embassy in Nanjing, quietly waiting for news of the talks.
“…… Judging from the contents of the diplomatic memorandum sent by the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman side accepted our position of opening up some economic and military assistance to the Kingdom of Persia while maintaining neutrality. "The Persian kingdom has really helped a lot in the matter of the Western Sea.
Although China had promised absolutely no official contact with the Persian kingdom, the grim situation facing the Ottoman Empire forced Istanbul to acquiesce in the emergence of a Sino-Polish crossing.
In the war against Russia, Persia was also a musical ally of the Ottoman Empire.
In order to draw Chinese troops into the west coast of the Caspian Sea, Istanbul could agree to anything. It's just that now their situation has improved, so the Ottomans feel a little unwilling.
But the Ottoman Empire today has no ability to turn back on China.
Now they can only watch China and the Persian kingdom walk in, and the feelings of both sides are rapidly heating up.
"After the signing of the armistice, Russia wants us to release prisoners of war and civilians from the war as soon as possible. In addition, they hope that our side will immediately return the remains of a high-ranking Russian army officer headed by Rumyantsev. ”
"The Russians firmly disagree with the Ural River ~ the Ural Mountains as the dividing line, they believe that doing so will damage Russia's interests too much, and their steel production base located in the Ural Mountains will be completely lost. This is a condition that is absolutely unacceptable to St. Petersburg.
The Russians repeatedly emphasized the Ob.
Mr. Gao believes that our side must also show an appropriately tough attitude on this issue. ”
After listening to the report, Chen Ming was silent for a long time.
The Russians gritted their teeth and did not agree with the proposal to divide the Ural River ~ the Ural Mountains, which shows that this proposal really hurts their foundations. But Gao Yanming, this guy thinks that Emperor Chen doesn't need to be tough?
If the troops on the front line can have sufficient reserves of war materials, he can now give an order to the Northwest Military Region to let Chen Qi and Zheng Hongyu lead their troops to continue westward, cross the Ural Mountains, and attack Kazan.
It's just that it's easier said than done.
The Ural Mountains stretch for more than 2,000 kilometers, and although the mountains are not high, and the opposite side of the mountains is the eastern part of the Eastern European Plain, it is also militarily difficult. The Wehrmacht has not yet completely swept away even the Russian military cities west of the Urals.
Several large cities have been captured, but there are still many small towns and rebels that have not yet been cleared.