Although the American Revolutionary War has gradually subsided, the battle for the negotiating table has only just begun. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The British have had to accept the fact that they have suffered a crushing defeat, in North America they have won the Battle of Long Island, and then almost all the way to defeat, whether it is on sea or land, with the support of the Tang Army, the Continental Army defeated the British, what makes the British feel even more humiliated is that the Tang and American coalition forces now control as many as 20,000 British prisoners (including Hessian mercenaries), which is bound to have an extremely adverse impact on Britain in the confrontation of the European powers.

In the later stage of the war, the British no longer sent a warship to North America, and the only warships were hiding in Halifax and did not dare to show their heads, and the British themselves were affected by the huge crisis that the North American teak ships could fall apart at any time, and the Tang people sank dozens of their ships in one go, even including many battleships above the third level, which made the British even more afraid to act rashly. George III was almost certain that if the Royal Navy lost more than ten battleships in North American waters, the French and Spaniards, who were also from the Bourbons, would almost certainly launch an invasion of Britain.

During the whole war, it is estimated that the happiest people were not the Tang people, who had expanded four or five hundred thousand square kilometers of land, nor the Americans, who had succeeded in seeking independence, but the French, who had done almost nothing from the beginning to the present, except for a limited amount of ammunition.

You know, on the other hand, Foreign Minister Gravier spared no effort to suggest that the newly enthroned French monarch Louis XVI provide strong support for the North American War, and the French did win in the end, and the United States could not have won without the French (the French commander Rochambeau commanded more troops in the war than Washington). But in the end, France paid a huge cost for the war.

throughout the war. France relied on borrowing to sustain the war. In the end, the debt reached more than a billion livres. Moreover, after the war, the French did not even regain the colonies of Quebec and New France from the British, let alone such a thing as British reparations. Unpaid debts finally intensified in 1789, and in addition to the economic crisis in France caused by the natural disasters of 1788 and the opening of English manufactures to the French market, Louis XVI convened the Estates-General to discuss countermeasures. The ultimate solution, however, was the French Revolution.

The Constituent Assembly ended up with the head of Louis XVI, an enlightened and kind king. In the end, a republic was obtained.

In this plane, not only did the war not involve the French, but the French saw the British lose tens of thousands of troops at almost no dime, spending tens of millions of pounds on military spending, and most importantly, losing the entire Thirteen Colonies, as well as Florida and the Bahamas.

To describe the French in one word, that's simply sour!

In order to satisfy their own extremely bad taste of seeing the British lose face and humiliation, after the war in North America ceased, the French invited representatives of Britain, the United States, and the Tang Republic almost immediately. Go to Paris and sign an armistice for peace. In this enactment. The French certainly did not gain any benefits, but if the British lost their interests, the French benefited.

Finally, in January 1778, the British representative Olwald, the American representatives Jay, Adams, and Franklin, and the Tang ambassador to the United States and plenipotentiary for negotiations, Chu Bai, gathered in Paris to negotiate the aftermath.

The Tories Cabinet of England was also supposed to be the Whig Cabinet led by Voss-Ventworth, and Alwald was instructed by His Majesty the King and His Excellency the Prime Minister to formally stop this damned war and to preserve the interests of the British Empire as much as possible.

This is not an easy task, the British are an exceptionally shrewd bunch of people at the negotiating table, they are calculating, and very bold, on the contrary, the French are clearly not like this. However, what you can't get on the battlefield, don't think about it at the negotiating table, this sentence is not Churchill's originality, but the British philosophy of international relations that has endured for hundreds of years.

The Thirteen Colonies are growing in size, and under the nourishment of the Tang Dynasty, they already have a warlike military force, and the Thirteen Colonies have a strong will to be independent, so I am afraid that even if they use discordant means, they will not be able to solve it. However, because of the land dispute, Vermont has a lot of conflicts with New York and New Hampshire, and can take advantage of it, but Britain has lost, can Vermont hold on? Apparently impossible.

As for Datang, it is an even more toothache opponent, before this war, the Datang Republic had never entered the sight of the British at all, but it was such a country that almost lost Britain alive. Their military power was invincible, both navy and land, and the country was mysterious enough to make it even more difficult for the British to determine anything.

Florida and the Bahamas, which are occupied by the Tang Republic, obviously don't think they can spit it out, and the British don't have the heart to get close to the intelligence, and can only understand through the British who escaped by boat in the Bahamas that the Tang Dynasty is building a lot there, and it is obviously a lie.

The British did not know that the United States and Datang had privately granted each other, and gave the land south of the Tennessee River and east of the Mississippi River to Datang. The British had already anticipated that the land east of the Mississippi River and west of the Appalachian Mountains was obviously unlikely to be kept. Because it is claimed to be a royal territory, there are no immigrants. And even if there are any immigrants, they are royalist immigrants, and they will be purged by the American cubs in the end.

Of course, when it came to the negotiating table, Alvard still fought for it, but it was meaningless for him to fight for it, because the diplomat of Datang looked at him with a smile on his face, but he didn't speak, because the things he said really made people not even care about him.

The Americans also did not agree that the land east of the Mississippi River was still British, so Tang Mei bit this to death, and the British had no choice but to admit it.

The rest of the negotiations went relatively smoothly, and although the Americans defeated the British, there was still a deep sense of awe for the former suzerain, which meant that Washington did not dare to have any delusions about the British. Originally, Washington also thought about attacking Canada in the north, but Datang obviously did not support this strategy, so it had to give up.

Of course, Datang cannot support the United States in conquering Canada, which will give them more resources and strength, but Datang wants to control the development of the United States. Moreover, before and after this war, Datang also consumed as much as 50 million Tang Yuan's special military expenditure, although the return obtained is definitely not tens of millions that can be measured, just operating the three southeastern states, Datang Xing may be able to return to its original cost within three years.

The treaty would establish the former Thirteen Colonies as the United States of America, whose sovereignty and legitimacy would be recognized by Great Britain, and that the two sides would be separated from the relationship between the colonies and the overlords. The boundary between the United States and Canada was no different from that of the other plane, with the British occupying land north of the Great Lakes and the east of Mississippi being ceded to the United States.

Regarding the Tang Dynasty, Britain will recognize the Tang Dynasty's occupation of Florida, Pengzhou, and Yuzhou, and recognize the Tang Dynasty's legitimate sovereignty over the three southeastern states.

After the details of the territory are determined, the other details are easier to say, Datang's attitude is to weaken Britain, but not to let the United States get too much advantage, and it also weighs its appetite and ability, and will not make a senseless lion's mouth. So, in the end, the negotiations decided on some minutiae.

For example, the United States allows fishing in its own territorial waters - isn't that nonsense?

All debts owed by the colonies and overlords still need to be met. This is not too much of a problem, it is mainly some private debt, and if Britain wants the United States to pay for the money they have invested in the development of their colonies, it is obviously unrealistic.

Britain demanded that the United States return all the property of the royalist inhabitants who had been usurped. During the war, the loyalists of the Thirteen Colonies were discriminated against in many areas, and some were even severely persecuted, and in some areas, there were such bad things as tying the loyalists to the cross, not to mention robbing their property and houses.

Obviously, the United States did not intend to recognize possession that was essentially a banditry, and the post-war reconstruction and development of the colonies required the participation of loyalist residents, so there was no suspense about this.

Eventually, the British demanded that the United States and the Tang Dynasty return their prisoners of war, as well as allow Loyalist residents to freely leave the United States and live in other colonies. In fact, as many as 100,000 to hundreds of thousands of loyalists will leave the United States for Canada, and historically they will also go to Florida and the Bahamas, but now they don't have that option. In fact, Datang also supported the departure of these loyalists, after all, they did not want to see the population of the United States grow too fast.

The British residents of the three southeastern states, Datang also came to this article, and the British residents of the colonies of Florida and Pengzhou all moved away, and if they volunteered, they could move to the Bahamas. However, Datang also affirmed that they will all be transferred to become Tang people, and any behavior that is not conducive to the national interests of Datang will be punished by Datang law, and Britain has no rights and obligations to them, and Datang does not welcome Britain to meddle in Datang's internal affairs.

In this way, after three months of negotiations, Tang, the United States and Britain finally signed the "1778 Paris Peace Treaty" in Paris, and finally officially declared the independence of the United States, and then France, Spain and other countries recognized the United States one after another. At the same time, Datang also officially acquired the three southeastern states and became a force to be reckoned with on the stage of world powers.

As soon as the peace treaty was signed, the British did not mind that the Tang Dynasty beat themselves miserably, and the British representative Alwald found Chu Bai again, hoping to sign a trade agreement between Tang and Ying with Chu Bai, and seemed to be very interested in technical exchanges. The French, who realized the advanced nature of the Tang Dynasty, were not far behind, and for a while, the Tang Dynasty seemed to have become a guest and a favorite of various European giants. (To be continued.) )