Late at night, August 9, 1877. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info [Robert Brown, who has just finished a day of desperate work. The vast majority of power figures in Churchill's cabinet began to rest. The Foreign Secretary, the Marquess of Salisbury, returned to his residence in the city of London and prepared to travel to Rome the next day for the peace conference. The Rome Peace Conference was still in full swing, and the Marquis of Salisbury was now running between Rome and London, bargaining with Li Hongzhang, the right prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, with all his might, trying to save the empire he loved with diplomatic efforts. But all his efforts were practically meaningless, because the British Empire could not afford the consequences of defeat, its economy had completely collapsed from the losses of the American Revolution and the war, and the defense of the British pound, and it could no longer afford even the minimum war reparations.

Secretary of State for the Army, John. The Earl of Russell, born in 1792, is 86 years old this year, and his physical and mental strength has reached the point of running out of oil. It's a dazed all day, and it's rare to have a sober time. At the time of the War Office meeting, it was even proposed to let Arthur . Wellesley (Duke of Wellington) led his troops to fight in Europe - who did he think he was fighting against? Napoleon I? But Robert. There was nothing Churchill could do to bring such an old fool out as a minister, because he really couldn't find a big man willing to take over the mess of the War Office......

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is William of the Liberal Party. Gladstone, as an active supporter and executor of the battle to defend the pound, spent the evening with the Governor of the Bank of England, Edward Edward. Charlie. Bahrain continued to discuss a plan to save the pound - although they both knew that the pound was completely doomed and could not be saved, but the face was not sloppy at all.

and the London Martial Law Command, located in the War Department building on Whitehall Street. It's still working as always. Although several reports have been received of the infiltration of the Socialist Party into the martial law forces. But Frederick, who presided over this command. Lieutenant General Roberts can only treat them as a few individual incidents. How else could it be? Is there a purge in the army? This will only further shake the morale of the army, which is already seriously shaken - pessimism and discontent are now pervasive in the army. Most of the officers and men of the army have also been deprived by the collapse of the economy and the depreciation of the pound, and who can expect them to be loyal to the king on the basis of their salaries, which have been turned into waste paper?

Oh, and there are reliable troops, at least three cavalry regiments (1,500 men in total) and one infantry division (about 5,000 men in 8 infantry battalions) of the Royal Guard sequence are reliable for now. The Royal Guard has long been considered the "private army" of the royal family.

At this extraordinary moment, the royal family used its own property to pay the officers and soldiers of the royal guard gold francs as military salaries, and required all officers and soldiers to swear allegiance to the king. These 6,500 reliable officers and soldiers of the Royal Guard. It is now guarded around Buckingham Palace and also controls a military dock on the River Thames. There were even some officers and men aboard the battleship Hood, the armored cruiser Shannon, the armored cruiser Clingwood, the Royal Cruise ship Britannia, and four other 10,000-ton steam galleons - these ships formed the fleet codenamed Z, and were part of the position of First Sea Lord, Alfred Brown. Under the direct control of Sir Ryder. The First Sea Lord's own ship was already on the battleship Hood, and he slept on the battleship tonight.

As for Prime Minister Robert . Churchill, on the other hand, spent the whole night with Randolph. Churchill together with a erection in Randolph. The high-powered radio station upstairs in Churchill's parliamentarian's office was in contact with Fort William, Calcutta, thousands of miles away. Asked in detail about the Chinese's requirements for India and the Indian Ocean. In Su Yan Law with Will. After the preliminary agreement was reached by Hemming, the Ming side sent Zheng Yongyi, the governor of the Donghui Kingdom, with a higher status, to Calcutta as a plenipotentiary representative. Hemming's further negotiations involved the most critical issues.

For example, whether the Indian Empire should bear the obligation of the defeated British Empire to pay reparations - of course, yes, after some bargaining between the two sides. 500 million Chinese dollars were reached, which will be repaid in 30 years. A war reparations agreement at the rate of 5% per annum. For the British, who were adept at running the colonies, it was not too difficult to pay these reparations.

Another example is whether the market of the Indian Empire should be opened to the Great Chinese Empire - there is no doubt about it, and the huge market of India is exactly what the Great Chinese Empire values, and this is the main reason why the Great Chinese Empire did not ask for excessive compensation, because India is a chicken that lays golden eggs, and it would be foolish to kill it in soup!

Or if the Indian Empire could be integrated into a unified state - don't even think about it! The division of India is at the heart of the South Asian policy of the Great Chinese Empire! However, the territories under the direct jurisdiction of the Indian Empire could have a unified government and army, and the area of the territory directly under the direct jurisdiction of the Indian Empire should be controlled at about 30% of the total area of the Indian Empire. The rest of the lands were supposed to form about 50 semi-independent states, dependent on the Indian Empire.

Moreover, whether the Indian Empire was going to cede land to the Great Chinese Empire - this is for sure. However, the Great Chinese Empire did not have many territorial claims to India, except for the former Assam, East Bengal and Ceylon islands, as well as a few small islands in the Indian Ocean.

And with the exception of the Donghui Kingdom, which was established on the soil of Assam, East Bengal, Ceylon, and several islands in the Indian Ocean would not be members of the Great Chinese Empire. East Bengal will be ruled by Queen Bayi, who is closest to the Ming Empire, and her heirs, while Ceylon will be ruled by another princely leader, Nana. Sahib ruled. As for the other small islands in the Indian Ocean, they were "entrusted to rule" by the Great Chinese Empire.

In addition, both East Bengal and Ceylon were vassal states of the Ming Empire, and their kings would be vassals to the Ming Empire rather than to the Indian Empire.

Finally, the question of how many land and navy the Indian Empire could possess was also a focus of negotiations between the two sides - the Indian Empire was an independent state, and there was certainly no limit to the number of land forces it could have. However, the size of the Indian Empire's navy will be limited by the Indian Ocean Naval Treaty, and the total tonnage of the Indian Navy shall not exceed 20% of the total tonnage of the Ming Navy, and the tonnage, armor, and main gun caliber of the capital ships must be approved by the Ming Empire.

By August 9, all of the above key issues had been basically agreed. In fact, China's interest in India has not been very high, and this hen, which lays golden eggs in the eyes of the British, is a big trouble in Zhu Jishi's view, a big problem with 300 million people now, and probably 1.5 billion people in the future! It will not be difficult to establish rule in India, but it will be a headache to stop the future of the 1.5 billion people who will crowd the South Asian subcontinent into the resource-rich and affluent Great Chinese Empire. Therefore, a well-managed and economically prosperous South Asian subcontinent is actually in the long-term interests of Greater China. And the British, to be honest, are much more capable of management than the Indians themselves. To quote a more reactionary statement in later generations, the longer India was colonized, the more progressive it became......

After watching Randolph. After Churchill personally took the text of the "Daming-India Peace Agreement" translated from the codebook, Robert Churchill personally took the text of the "Daming-India Peace Agreement". Churchill finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although a large amount of reparations had to be paid and some land was ceded, India was able to keep it anyway. When the chaos in Britain has passed, the Indian Empire will be able to return to the embrace of the British Empire...... Even without this day, India is a good place to build a business. Robert Brown, who has served in India for more than a decade. Churchill knew more about this ancient country of the East than he knew about Britain itself.

"Randolph, this is something to celebrate with champagne!" Robert. Churchill leaned back on the couch and sighed, "3.8 million square kilometers, nearly 300 million people...... We have this rich country! ”

"Yes, a rich country, but why should the Chinese abandon there? They were so greedy for land that they took away more than 10 million square kilometers of territory from the British Empire, but spared India, the richest of all. "Randolph. Churchill shook his head.

Robert. Churchill smiled and shrugged, "What's so strange about that?" For us, India's greatest asset is its population! 300 million hard-working slaves, under the stewardship of our British, they can create unimaginable wealth. But for the Great Chinese Empire, which already has 750 million people, the livelihood of 300 million Indians is a big problem!

Moreover, Chinese still has the idea of a joint British law...... They didn't want the Roman Empire to be the sole ruler of the Western world! That old friend of mine wants not a great empire to rule the East, but a great empire to rule the world! It's a ...... ambition."

Robert. As soon as Churchill's words were spoken, a crisp gunshot suddenly came from the night sky outside the window, then two more, and then a loud burst of gunfire!

Robert. Churchill snorted and stood up sharply, "It's finally begun!" I'm going to Buckingham Palace to be with His Majesty the King! Randolph, you go home at once and take the family to the dock and get on the boat! His nephew also stood up, "Uncle, are we leaving England now?" Maybe tonight's chaos is just a false alarm......"

Robert. Churchill shook his head, "It's not a false alarm, but a general outbreak of all kinds of contradictions in the British Empire, we have no strength to suppress it, and choosing to leave is the best for this country!" Well, hurry up, move fast, the fleet will go to sea early tomorrow morning! (To be continued.) )