readx;?“ It's an African problem. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ。 ybdu。 Zhu Jishi took the copy of the telegram handed over by Weng Tongyi, looked at it, and said with a smile, "Napoleon III wants to know what we think about black Africa?" In addition, he raised the issue of French Annan. If we follow France in the Black African question, he is ready to give independence and sovereignty to French Annan. ”

Now the Ming Dynasty is already one of the three major powers, and its influence in the South Seas is also increasing, and the French Annam, the Spanish Philippines, the British Burma, the British Straits Settlements and the Dutch East Indies have all become the fat on the mouth of the Ming Empire. The Kingdom of Sarawak, ruled by the Englishman Brooke, was taken by Chu Jishi with the title of Prince of Sarawak shortly after the start of the North American War, and his land was included in the province of North Borneo. The Brooke family became the transnational aristocracy of the Ming Empire and the British Empire, which can be regarded as a scenery.

And the land of France in French Annam has been comfortable enough in recent years, and the situation there is also unstable, and there have been several uprisings against France one after another. In addition, the original Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam was also retained by the French for ease of governance. However, this puppet refuses to be peaceful now, and has been secretly accumulating force to seek independence. They also sent people to France every now and then to ask for national autonomy - of course, it is not independence, and the Vietnamese are not fools, so it is natural to imagine that if they are independent on the front foot, the invading army of the Ming Empire will come in on the back foot. So what they wanted was a self-governing kingdom under the patronage of France.

Napoleon's reaction to this is also quite interesting, he asked the Nguyen Dynasty to pay for the redemption of his country, and the asking price was not very high. That's just 50 million gold francs, almost 2 million pounds, about 6 million silver dollars. As long as Ruan Chao can take it. They would then be able to rule over the entire land of French Annam. However, for the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam, 6 million silver dollars is really an astronomical amount. It took several years to save money, and he also pawned all the belongings that could be sold, and called on the people to donate, so that he could raise 5.8 million silver dollars. Although the money was not enough, the freedom bought was full of color, and not only did it gain autonomy. It also received more precious sovereignty.

Hearing that France was going to withdraw from Annan, Guo Songtao arched his hand and said with a smile: "As soon as the French leave." Annan is just around the corner, and the minister is happy to the emperor! ”

Zuo Zongtang sat steadily, with a prime minister's bearing, and gently twisted his beard: "Africa is far away." Near ...... in Annam It's hard for us to digest even in the African enclosures. It's better to take Annan nearby. It's just that our feud with Annan is a bit deep. Your Majesty, the ministers heard that Annan had abandoned the Chinese script and switched to the French alphabet, and the whole country regarded China as an enemy. The first lesson of their children's enlightenment is what 'the more the three households, the more the dead will be'. If we want to use troops against Annan, I'm afraid it will be a protracted thing. ”

Zhu Jishi smiled, how do you look at it a bit of a fascist dictator: "...... Afraid of what? What battles have I not fought since the founding of the Ming Dynasty? Will you be afraid of millions of Vietnamese? Although there are three households...... Hmph, I'll kill them so that they don't even have three households left! The Jiulongjiang Plain is very good, and it can house many poor Han peasants. It's a big deal to shoot them all! He thought about it and said. Let Siam and Japan also send troops to help in the war. After the deed was completed, he gave the Siamese Zheng family a Duke of Phnom Penh. Japanese samurai and Ming soldiers who had made great achievements in battle could get fertile land in the Kowloon River Plain in Vietnam. ”

Zuo Zongtang and Guo Songtao glanced at each other, and both said "pity" in their hearts. Good or bad is also a country that has been taught by the sages, and it was once a subject country of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty. But it's a pity, it's a pity, it should be destroyed or it must be destroyed! It's the middle of the 19th century, and it's popular to destroy the country first and then the species! However, in some places where there is no serious state, and where it is not suitable for colonizers to settle, sometimes some large and small states will be fostered so that they can exploit and rule.

In addition to discussing the terms of the armistice of the North American War, the most important thing at the London Peace Conference was to establish one or several relatively powerful black regimes in sub-Saharan Africa! This request was made by the French and Roman Emperor Napoleon III, who came to London in person for the conference.

In the palatial chamber of Buckingham Palace, Europe's most powerful emperor sits at one side of a rectangular conference table, and to his left sits Mexican Prime Minister Juárez, a dwarf who stands out for himself at previous meetings, and whose eloquence has often silenced Europe's most prominent politicians. His concepts of pan-Indianism and Latin American agrarian revolutions won praise from the European left. But at the same time, he held high the banner of the Bonaparte dynasty, calling Mathilde I the mother and empress of the Mexican and Indian peoples, the greatest king in the history of the Americas. In short, this remarkable little man has made the whole of Europe realize that the Mexican-Indian Empire is a real American power, not as big as France, Britain, and China, but it is enough to be on an equal footing with Russia, Prussia, and Austria.

To the right of Napoleon III is Bismarck, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia, a Germanic man of more than 1.80 meters who is also the dazzling star of this peace conference. With the support of France, Prussia openly put forward the claim of creating a German empire that would not include Austria and Bohemia. And in order to force Austria to submit, Prussia also announced a general mobilization in November 1863, and more than 600,000 Prussian soldiers were mobilized and ready to fight. At the same time, the French and Roman Empires, which were allies of Prussia, as well as the Republic of Poland, also announced mobilization at the same time. With a large number of officers returning from the battlefields of North America as the backbone, the French and Roman Empires also quickly mobilized 600,000 troops. The Republic of Poland, on the other hand, organized an army of 200,000 troops to be on standby. In this way, Napoleon III already had an elite army of 1.4 million armed behind him.

And the Austrian Empire could mobilize less than 600,000 troops. Although Russia has 1.4 million troops, it has to use half of them to defend its eastern and southern fronts, and the situation in Ukraine, Lithuania and Finland is not very stable, and there are great signs of national uprisings, which require the Russian army to deploy heavy troops to control it. The army that could be concentrated in support of Austria was less than 400,000. The British Empire had no more than 100,000 land forces at its disposal in Europe.

In other words, Britain, Russia and Austria can commit up to 1.1 million troops against the 1.4 million troops of Fapubo. Even without taking into account the Ming Dynasty, Mexico, and Turkey, Napoleon III could have crushed the land power of the British, Russian, and Austrian powers, as his uncle Napoleon I did. But at sea, Napoleon III was not sure that he could win, France and the Roman Empire were still considered a naval power, while Prussia had little sea power, and Poland was simply a landlocked country. Therefore, Napoleon III, even with his overwhelming land superiority, was still willing to go to London and sit in the chamber of Buckingham Palace to negotiate with the British.

The main difficulty faced by the British Viscount Palmerston was not the land power of France, but the Ming Empire, an ally of France and the Roman Empire. Because no matter how strong France's land power is, that is, it is only to destroy the Austrian Empire, it is impossible to conquer Russia, which is too big and too cold for France. At the same time, Britain's naval power, together with the fleet of the United States of America and Russia, could easily seize sea supremacy in the Atlantic. The navies of France, Mexico, and the Confederate States of America could only take refuge in ports protected by the Confederacy. At that time, Napoleon III will face the same predicament as Napoleon I, and it is difficult to say whether Mathilde, the empress, and the Confederate States of America have lost the support of France, and it is difficult to say whether they can sustain it!

The problem was that the Ming Empire, the ally of France and the Roman Empire in the East, would take advantage of the concentration of the British navy in the Atlantic to destroy the British colonies in the East—first the seafood colony, then British Burma, then India...... And once India's wealth was lost, it would be equally difficult for the British Empire to survive. So a fragile balance emerges in the world right now. France's land superiority was balanced by Britain's maritime superiority, which in turn was pinned down by the Ming Empire's superiority in the East...... (To be continued.) )