In the middle of the fourth lunar month, the Sino-British Mumbai negotiations came to an end. After five rounds of talks, on May 18, 1895, the two countries reached an agreement on peace between China and Britain: the Sino-British Bombay Peace Treaty!

In the Testament, the British recognized China's vested interests in the South Seas, Central Asia, and Russia, and the North American question ran aground. China will fully withdraw from India and withdraw from Bangladesh, which will form an independent state as a buffer between the two countries. China's withdrawal from the northern archipelago of the Andaman Islands and the handing over to the British, it can be said that the entrance and exit of the Strait of Malacca can still be under the noses of the British. The retreat of a small number of Chinese ships and vanguard troops from Australia, where they had already landed, was a personal act of Liu Mingchuan, and it was now time to give way to national interests.

China officially recognized the British Empire's independent suzerainty over Gorkha Nepal, and China and its troops did not enter Afghanistan and Iran, but the British Empire also needed to recognize the sovereign independence of the two countries. And the Wehrmacht in the south of Turkmenistan retreated a hundred kilometers to the north, and no longer stationed troops within this distance......

China returned the captured British soldiers, and the two sides did not discuss the issue of reparations and ransoms. Both sides have made major compromises and concessions in order to ensure their own vested interests.

The British completely withdrew from East Asia, and let China solve its biggest problems on land, so that you can imagine the rapid development of China's navy in the future.

As for China, in order to keep the land and rights and interests of the South Seas and the Western Front, it has spit out the state of Bangladesh that has been swallowed into the country, and it has to sever relations with the anti-British forces in India that have only been closely linked up these days, and at the same time it has to separate Afghanistan and Iran, which have already taken the initiative to move closer. Let these three countries act as a buffer zone between them! To this end, it is necessary to take into account the Turkmen region, which is closest to India, and Australia, which has been killed by the Nanyang army. Such a sacrifice is not insignificant!

Therefore, negotiation is a process of mutual compromise. When both negotiating opponents have strong strength and hole cards, there is only mutual compromise. in order to get the best result of the negotiation.

In this negotiation, the British sold Tokyo Japan, and China sold Bengal and a handful of Indians. People who don't experience each other's trade-offs can't imagine how complicated it is. Moreover, the North American issue has been shelved on both sides.

On the issue of North America, China made it a condition that it would spit out all the Canadian occupation zones such as Vancouver, hoping that the British would recognize China's vested interests in North America. It was firmly rejected by the British Empire.

Therefore, after this negotiation, the British simply withdrew from the battlefield with China, and their figures went into the background. It is also because of this attitude of the British that the Chinese side sternly rejects the British proposal to restore British interests in Hong Kong.

But in any case, the withdrawal of the British and the conclusion of the Sino-British peace agreement also had a major impact on the United States and France. No one expected that a peace agreement between the two sides would be reached so quickly. Was the British Empire so eager to withdraw?

Spain and the Netherlands have been forgotten by the people of the world.

The Chinese army began to retreat from India in a big way, and the pace of the retreat of the Wehrmacht forces in the European region accelerated considerably. Because of the British, who withdrew from the war. A large number of bankers and financiers were organized to lend large sums of money to Russia, so that Russia could recover its economy as soon as possible and pay off the reparations to China. If Russia does not pay off its reparations, the Chinese army will not completely withdraw from its territory, just like Germany after the Franco-Prussian War. You settle the money that should be given to me, and I'll slap my ass and leave the same day. But if you can't catch it clearly, I won't move if I call out to God, uncle.

Whether it is in terms of restoring national order and the credibility of the government, or in terms of restoring national self-confidence and national dignity. It is absolutely necessary to send Chinese gifts out of the country as soon as possible. The British showed their attitude by their deeds - although I withdrew from direct combat with the Chinese. But I still stand in the interests of the West, Europe and the United States.

The complete withdrawal of so many Wehrmacht troops from Russian territory cannot be done in three to five days. By July, the British had played another trick - they sent a force of 50,000 volunteers and more than 3,000 officers to the United States. The preaching to the outside world is very open: it is a spontaneous act of the people, and it is no longer within the scope of the government's control. It is a good start for European countries. In just one month, at least 200,000 European regular troops appeared on the east coast of North America.

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"This number will increase over time."

In the cabinet office, Zhang Shouyan spoke with a very serious face at the enlarged cabinet meeting. What to do with the war in North America next? It is to continue to fight, to use China's own strength against the entire Western world; Or look at the opportunity. Truce and peace talks between the two sides. The current situation in which the war has been going on is also necessary to think carefully.

The cabinet ministers and ministers who attended the meeting each had their own ideas. The Ministry of Finance is 10,000 willing to hold peace talks, but the Ministry of Defense, which represents the interests of the military, is the other extreme. The departments of industry and commerce, agriculture, mineral deposits and other sectors are another consideration.

"You can't say that." After the Chancellor of the Exchequer's words, the Minister of War and the Minister of Defence stood up and expressed his opposition.

"Is our war only a cost? How did the reparations for the Russians come about? How did Siberia and Central Asia come about? And how much interest are there in the lands of the South Seas and Europe? And we also control Myanmar and Ukraine.

War is not trauma and attrition. It's the benefit, the great benefit. ”

"Our international standing has risen again because of the war, and our peasants have more land because of the war. Our country has more than doubled its size because of the war. ”

"In the coming time, the international relations of our country may be difficult, and overseas sales of products may be blocked. But the market in our country has expanded. Look at Central Asia and the Volga? Look at the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea and the Black Sea? The whole of Siberia is waiting for us to build, and the middle South Seas is in the palm of our hands. Just like the Americans twenty years ago, China's industry will not stagnate by relying on domestic demand alone. ”

"As for overseas trade sales, the factories and capitalists should first fill the domestic market."

As far as the military is concerned, the state finances can continue to support, and this should continue to be fought. This year's tax revenue and other indicators have fallen, and it is only short-lived, only temporary. Sacrifice now for a better future.

When the war was really over, we had laid such a large territory for the country, and a domestic market was too huge for our own manufacturing industry to cope with. What could be better for the development of industry, commerce, taxation, finance? If you still want to think about foreign trade, you will be too long.

In a word, you can't just think about giving back and not giving. To do business, you have to invest first!

However, at this enlarged cabinet meeting, it was not the Ministry of Finance or the National Defense Forces that received the most support, and for most people, both views were too extreme.

Whether it is war or negotiation, you should not sit down until you have reached a certain point. This degree in the North American battlefield is that when the attack is weak on both sides and the defense is solid, it will really sit down and negotiate. Otherwise, it's all nothing. No one will take the initiative to make big concessions when their troops are winning, and they want to be 'knocked off their heads'. Therefore, in the eyes of many participants and others, it is too early to say that negotiations are going to be held at this time.

As for what Shousuke-sama meant, they also understood. It is to see that all European countries have begun to mobilize their troops to support the United States, and they want to take advantage of their successive victories to propose peace talks first, so as to save the future defeat and see that the losses will be even greater. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also had the same idea, but the victories of the Wehrmacht over the past year were so inspiring and encouraging that Zhang Shouyan's opinion did not win the support of the congregation at all. Because no one thought that the Wehrmacht would lose the battle, it was still the big defeat that Zhang Shouyan imagined. Even the Ministry of Finance and its supporters are opposed to 'reckless militarism' simply because of fiscal problems.

And this question has been repeatedly considered in Liu Xian's heart. He desperately wanted to knock the United States to death with a hammer. But the territory of the United States is too big, the population base is so large, and now there is the support of Europeans behind it, and it is really unlikely that it will be subverted in one fell swoop like Russia.

Liu Xian thought many times about how to cease the war. It was a good time to fight until both sides could not fight, just like the Korean War in the original plane. But the armistice line acceptable to China -- the Mississippi River, at least to the Mississippi River. If this line is moved further west, Liu Xian is unwilling to agree, he is not satisfied.

And if the Americans want to agree to draw the dividing line to the Mississippi River -- then the United States will almost only be left with the 13 states at the time of its founding, and it will be strange for them to be willing to do so -- it will not be easy for the United States to really fight the United States. The Wehrmacht's boots had to step east of the Mississippi River, or even penetrate the east coast of the United States from a certain point, in order to bring the United States to its knees.

Do you want the North American Expeditionary Force to concentrate a little on a long-distance assault? The danger is great. You must know that although Europe has begun to vigorously fund the United States, the progress of the Chinese expeditionary force in the North American battlefield is still rapid, the Southern Route Army has entered the territory of Texas, and the Northern Route Army has also won consecutive battles in St. Louis and Lake Michigan, successfully capturing St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee and many other important cities.

Among them, the city of Chicago is the second largest city in the United States, the world's first skyscraper built of steel frame is here, and the modern city of 1.5 million inhabitants ranks first in the whole world. Together with the Americans who have fled the country, the total population has reached 2 million. (To be continued......)