When the Chinese Shence Army entered the Golden Triangle, the mercenaries of the British East India Company put up fierce resistance, but in the end they could not defeat them and were all wiped out.

China completely controlled the Golden Triangle, and the last financial resources of the East India Company were completely cut off, and soon disintegrated and disappeared into the long river of history.

The Palmston government in London lost the financial backing of the East India Company, and the liberals were powerless to fight back in the face of a combined attack by conservatives and the crown.

On February 4, 3971 (March 8, 1871), British Prime Minister Palmston announced the dissolution of the cabinet and resigned at the same time.

Benjamin quickly conveyed the armistice and request to the Chinese Imperial Court through the French government's envoy in China, and shifted the responsibility to the Palmston government, and at the same time withdrew the declaration of war on China and apologized to the Chinese emperor Li Weiguo, hoping to continue to maintain the friendly peace between China and Britain and end the state of war as soon as possible.

Li Weiguo also knows that the struggle for world hegemony with Britain cannot be completed overnight or in one or two wars, and that an all-out war with Britain is not in China's national interests, and that China's national strength is constantly rising, and the growth rate far exceeds that of Britain, and even if it does not use the method of war, it will surpass Britain in the next ten or twenty years.

For any country, war is only a last resort, and since the British government has once again proposed to sue for peace, then Li Weiguo will also push the boat to end this war.

Of course, Li Weiguo will not be cheap to the British, and if you want to end the war, you must pay a certain price.

In response to this, Li Weiguo ordered Zhou Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Peilun, the head of the Li Fan Yuan, to negotiate with the British and grab the war dividends.

The total annihilation of the British Asian Fleet was a huge blow to the British Navy and even the whole of Britain, so after the new Benjamin government came to power, it could neither provoke China. It is necessary to appease the British people.

Therefore, Benjamin, who has just come to power, is not much better than Palmston.

But Benjamin was still very capable, he deliberately hyped up the media and put the blame for the war on Palmston. As a result, the ignorant British people immediately poured their anger on Palmston, and within a few days, Palmston committed suicide, but Benjamin still ruthlessly charged him with suicide.

Using Palmston to deflect the anger of the British public, Benjamin began negotiations with China to release British naval prisoners of war as soon as possible. But we must not lose the face of the British Empire too much.

After three months of bargaining, the two sides finally came to an agreement.

China and Britain unanimously agreed that the Fourth Cinematic War (known as the Fourth Commercial War in the United Kingdom) was a huge misunderstanding, and the main culprits were the British East India Company and its henchmen of the Cinematic Films, and that the two countries would jointly impose sanctions on the British East India Company and the world's Cinematic dealers, completely eradicate the Cinematic trade, and save the health of people all over the world.

As a result, the British East India Company and the world's film dealers fell victim, while the British government found the most reasonable step to save some face.

People all over the world naturally hate Yapian deeply. Therefore, the negotiations between China and Britain began with the punishment of the East India Company, the world's number one film dealer, and naturally won the favor of people all over the world. Even the British believed that the East India Company was the main culprit of the war, ignoring the fundamental contradiction between China and Britain in their struggle for world hegemony.

With this good start to negotiations, Benjamin's political pressure in Britain was greatly reduced. The British no longer accuse Benjamin of bending the knee for peace, but instead approve of Benjamin doing a great good thing for humanity, after all, the Jacoon trade is not only poisoning other countries, but Britain is also suffering from it. Because since ancient times, only rich people can afford to use elegant films, and the more economically developed countries are, the more elegant films are proliferated. The United States and China are the most typical examples.

China and Britain signed the Treaty of Manila in Manila.

1. Britain announced that it would renounce the right of freedom of navigation, and that in the future, British warships would not appear in the territorial sea baselines extending 12 nautical miles from the territory of China and its vassal states, as well as within the two-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.

2. Britain promised not to establish diplomatic and military ties with Chinese vassal states without permission.

3. The British Royal Navy withdrew from the seas of East Asia and the waters of the Seven Continents Ocean, recognizing the absolute influence of the Chinese Navy in the Western Pacific, that is, the sphere of influence.

4. Britain recognized China's military occupation of the Philippine Islands and Borneo, and recognized the Philippine Islands and Borneo as China's overseas territories.

5. China allowed Britain to engage in economic, trade, and cultural exchanges with China's vassal states on the premise of not infringing on the sovereignty and laws of China's suzerainty.

6. China allows Britain to conduct legitimate and legal trade in the Philippine Islands and Borneo to protect the legitimate rights and interests of British citizens.

7. China lifts restrictions on the export of special medicines to the UK.

8. China and the United Kingdom recognize each other's scientific and technological inventions and ensure the validity of relevant patent rights.

9. China and the UK agreed to double their trade volume and gradually reduce tariffs in the next five years.

10. China and Britain shall establish a military telegraph hotline, and in the event of a conflict, the armies of both sides shall exercise restraint and submit it to the Military Telegraph Hotline Committee for adjudication.

11. China and the UK unanimously agreed to upgrade the current diplomatic relations from the ministerial level to the highest ambassadorial level, and to establish a mechanism for the exchange of visits between the top leaders of the two sides, so as to enhance the relations between China and the UK.

12. With effect from the date of the signing of the treaty, China shall release the captured British military personnel. Britain is required to pay China the living and medical management costs of the British prisoners.

The signing of these 12 articles marked the end of the Fourth Sino-British War.

This was a short and rapid war, and China and Britain quickly shook hands and made peace after the war, and the speed was so fast that it immediately stunned the little friends all over the world.

The Wall Street Journal of the United States took the lead in approving the article: "If you say you will fight, you will make peace, and the war between China and Britain will be like a child's quarrel and play!" ”

A well-known Russian military expert also complained when he sat at the newspaper office: "Since the founding of New China, China and Britain have fought every five years, which is more diligent than the fight between Russia and Turkey. The most puzzling thing is that after the war between China and Britain, the economy and trade recovered rapidly and were not affected at all, which is very different from the situation in which Russia and Turkey have not been in contact for hundreds of years. I'm also drunk and can't complain. ”

The French military strategist General Morder told the French newspaper: "There are two factors that have caused this situation: First, the British know very well that the loss of the Asian fleet is equivalent to the loss of half of the sea power of the British Empire, and there is absolutely no benefit in continuing the war with China." At the same time, the rising German Empire on the European continent was an imminent threat to Britain, and China, after all, was thousands of miles away and could not threaten Britain itself and its overseas colonies. ”

British newspapers naturally have to debate, they need to take care of the mood of the British, so the commentators' articles published are all to cheer up the British.

"Damn Klaus's command incompetence buried the Asian fleet, but the British Imperial Navy was the best. We are not capitulating to China. But for the time being, we are accumulating strength, because we can't let the navy swim to fight in China, so we will temporarily make the Chinese happy for a while, during this time our British Imperial Navy will build a large number of more advanced warships, and the next five years will be the total destruction of the Chinese Navy. ”

Britain, France, the United States, Russia and other European powers only care about the Sino-British peace talks, but they collectively ignore Articles 4 and 6 of the Sino-British Manila Treaty.

What does it mean that Britain recognized the Philippine Islands and Borneo as part of China? All the great powers know very well that this means that China and Britain give and receive from each other. Completely disregarding the feelings of the Spaniards and the Dutch, they ceded their colonies directly to China and guaranteed British interests in the Philippines and Borneo. The fact that the great powers did not speak for Spain and the Netherlands showed that they were afraid of Britain and China. It also proves a certain recognition of China's rise from the side.

In fact, Britain also deliberately shifted the direction of China's expansion, and the British did not want China to rob the British colonies of Spain and the Netherlands, but they did not want China to rob the British colonies. So the best thing to do is to steer China to grab the colonies of other countries.

China naturally laughs at Britain's idea, and this is the black-box operation of the Sino-British Manila Treaty. Sacrificing the interests of weak countries to satisfy the balance of interests between China and the UK, and easing the contradictions between China and the UK.

This is a means for the big and powerful countries, so the European and American powers know that no one will sympathize with the weak countries. In their eyes, Spain and the Netherlands were clearly declining empires, and they did not bully anyone.

Spain was furious, protesting against the private concession between China and Britain, severing diplomatic relations with Britain and declaring war on China.

However, Spain only declared no war, because the Spanish army obviously did not have the strength to recover the Philippines. This was merely a means for the Spanish government to defend the last dignity of the empire.

As far as the Netherlands is concerned, they dare not speak up even more, and only defend Borneo to the outside world that Borneo is the territory of Lan Fang and should be returned to China. In fact, if the Dutch authorities had not contributed the whole of Borneo to China in the first place, then his Dutch East Indies would probably have been gone. Because compared to Spain, the Dutch military is weaker now.

There is a lot of talk in Europe and the United States, but they are right about one thing, that is, Britain still cannot sit idly by and watch China rise as a superpower and seize world hegemony.

Although the new British Prime Minister Benjamin seems to be courting China, those who really know him know that Benjamin's ruthlessness is by no means weaker than that of Palmston.

As the head of the conservative faction, what Benjamin wanted to do most after seizing the prime minister and ruling power was to maintain the world hegemony of the British Empire.

What is a conservative, it is not false to be enterprising, but it is impossible to lose the existing glory and wealth.

The glory is that the British Navy has been the hegemon of the world's oceans for hundreds of years, and it must not be snatched away by China.

Fortune, four commercial wars (Yapian Wars), with the exception of the first one, when Britain won, won a huge indemnity of 21 million yuan. At that time, the Yuan referred to the Mexican silver dollar, and the Mexican silver dollar in 1840 was equivalent to one Kuping two silver in the Qing Dynasty, which was ten times the financial revenue of the Daoguang government at that time of 1.98 million taels of silver, which was very ruthless.

But in the next three Yapian wars, Britain lost them all, and they lost very badly. The first two Anglo-French forces lost a total of 500,000 troops, and the naval losses were very small, and the latter major war was at sea, and the British Asian fleet was completely wiped out, and the direct economic losses were more than the previous two, as high as 100 million pounds, because the navy was all upgraded to ironclad ships made of wrought iron, and the manufacturing cost was high.

But there is another real reason, that is, the pound has depreciated, and the main culprit is illegal banknotes.

Illegal banknotes from China have flowed into the British financial market on a large scale, seriously damaging the British monetary economy and causing the pound to depreciate.

Benjamin is naturally very clear about all this, but there is no evidence, the Palmston government originally planned to defeat China by war, and then investigate China's crimes for violating the banknotes, but unfortunately the war was lost, and no one immediately made Palmston painstaking, but the Benjamin government smeared Palmston with its mouth, but in its heart it was implementing the unfinished road of Palmston, that is, to expand the arms war and completely stop the illegal money from China.

On the one hand, the Benjamin government issued new pound sterling banknotes, and on the other hand, the financial allocation was tilted towards the navy.

The actions of the British government naturally could not be concealed from S.H.I.E.L.D., and soon the information was transmitted back to the Forbidden City, the capital of China.

Li Weiguo immediately convened a meeting of the imperial court to discuss the response strategy.

Of course, Li Weiguo flatly denied the illegal banknotes, and many of the civil and military officials guessed that the current banknotes violations in various countries in the world were related to the AIIB, but the AIIB was the private bank of His Majesty the Emperor, and no one dared to point it out.

Moreover, the scourge of the financial systems of Europe and the United States and the economic development of Europe and the United States are in itself attached to China's national interests. Besides, most of the huge profits obtained by Li Weiguo from illegal banknotes were invested in domestic economic construction and military construction, and when he thought of this, no one stood up to oppose it.

If there is really such a day exposed, it is a big deal to fight, even if it is an enemy of the whole world, as long as it is for the good of the Chinese themselves, even if it is black to treat foreigners.

Li Weiguo will naturally be personally responsible for the illegal banknotes, because no one except him has the ability to make counterfeit money the same as real money.

In addition, the only topic that civil and military officials can discuss is the building of military strength.

In view of Britain's vigorous development of naval strength, everyone knows that the British are not convinced, and they are ready to make a big deal about the navy and seek revenge on the Chinese navy in the future.

Therefore, at the imperial meeting, the civil and military officials unanimously approved the next five-year development plan of the navy. (To be continued.) )

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