In this four-nation negotiation between China, Britain, the United States, and France, China and Britain are naturally the protagonists, while the United States has temporarily assumed the position of a supporting role because of factors on the Hawaii issue, and as for France, it is purely here to play soy sauce, because the Hong Kong issue and the Hawaii issue actually have little to do with France.

After some arguing among the diplomats of the four countries, and at the same time stimulated by the external environment, such as the outbreak of the Austro-Prussian War in Europe, the call for disarmament and the development of people's livelihood in the United States, the British Royal Navy has dispatched at least two large ironclad ships to reinforce the East India Fleet, and mobilized more than 100,000 troops to deploy in northern India, Lower Burma and Singapore and other important places.

These external factors are intertwined and have had a direct or indirect impact on the Shanghai negotiations of the four countries.

Under these influences, the four countries finally reached a preliminary agreement and signed a relevant treaty.

The first is the agreement between China and Britain on Hong Kong, Burma, India, Tibet and other issues!

The treaty has the following main points, the first is that the empire will pay 300,000 pounds to the British to redeem the remaining lease term of Hong Kong Island and compensate for some of the previous British infrastructure investment on Hong Kong Island, and Britain will formally return Hong Kong Island to China.

At the same time, the empire ensured that Hong Kong Island would continue to exist as a treaty port, and that it would allow merchants from all over the world to trade and live in the same coastal cities as Guangzhou and Shanghai.

The Empire guarantees the safety of the lives and property of citizens of all countries currently residing on Hong Kong Island, and shall not restrict citizens of all countries who wish to leave.

At the same time, Britain and the Empire were to limit the number of troops to be stationed in Lower Burma and Yunnan, and to the border areas between India and Kokand and Xinjiang, the exact amount of which was specified in the annex to the treaty.

The Empire will be within three days of the signing of the treaty. Unconditional release of all British prisoners.

These are some of the relevant agreements between the Reich and Great Britain in East Asia, as well as the Reich and France. The treaty between the Empire and France was a formal complement to the recent Vietnam Understanding, which prohibited France from sending troops to invade the northern region of Vietnam. The empire, on the other hand, is not allowed to send troops to southern Vietnam, and the empire will ensure that no more than 10,000 troops will be stationed in northern and central Vietnam.

In addition to the East Asian agreement, Hawaii, which caused the conflict between China, Britain, France, and the United States in the past six months, has also been properly accommodated in this treaty.

The Four-Power Treaty stipulated that the Kingdom of Hawaii was an independent state, and for that reason, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and the Empire were required to commit to relinquishing their claims to the Kingdom of Hawaii. Including suzerainty claims.

In order to get the empire to give up its suzerainty claim to the Hawaiian Kingdom, Britain, the United States and France also made certain concessions, such as they recognized the new king of Hawaii and recognized some of the treaties signed between the empire and the new Hawaiian Kingdom, the most important of which was their recognition of the imperial concession of Pearl Harbor.

Of course, in response, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States also obtained military access to the port of Honolulu in the Kingdom of Hawaii and the interest in obtaining a leased land in the Kingdom of Hawaii.

The Hawaiian question was dealt with by abandoning the dispute and then joining forces to divide Hawaii, for which the empire occupied Pearl Harbor. The remaining three countries were granted military access to the port of Honolulu and a corresponding land concession.

As for the losses caused in the war, it is naturally difficult to mention again, because before that, although the armies of the four countries were fighting. But in reality, both sides are under the guise of the Hawaiian Civil War.

So there is no such thing as an indemnity!

As for the handling of the Hawaii issue, in fact, Lin Zhe is not satisfied with this, he wants the whole of Hawaii. However, the attitude of the other three countries is too tough, especially the attitude of the Americans is very tough. He even said that even if Britain and France withdrew, the Americans would continue to send fleets to protect American interests in Hawaii.

At the same time, the Hawaii issue and Hong Kong and the entire East Asian issue are linked and linked in this negotiation. In order to be able to obtain concessions from the British on issues such as Hong Kong, the empire also had to make concessions on the Hawaiian issue, handing over most of the Kingdom of Hawaii, which was now largely controlled, leaving only one Pearl Harbor.

The above-mentioned series of agreements are divided into three parts: the Hawaii Peace Treaty, the Sino-British East Asian Friendship Treaty, and the Sino-French East Asian Friendship Treaty, which can also be collectively referred to as the 'Four-Power Treaty'

Judging from the above-mentioned treaties, the empire has made a lot of money, the United States has also made money, France is still playing soy sauce, but Britain is losing a lot.

However, there is naturally another reason why the British signed this treaty!

That is, the empire will promise Britain that over the next five years, gradually open up more areas to allow British citizens to trade and reside, and even promise that within the next ten years, the empire will completely remove some of the current restrictive policies for foreign nationals.

And what does that mean? It means that the empire will completely open its domestic market and fully join the international trading system.

This is what the British value and want the most!

The development of the empire in recent years is obvious to all, as an emerging industrial market, the empire's demand for some overseas industrial raw materials, industrial equipment is very huge, and at present, the vast majority of the empire's imports of industrial raw materials and machinery and equipment are from the United Kingdom.

This alone is enough to bring tens of millions of pounds of benefits to Britain every year, and if the empire continues to open its market, then it is possible to bring tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of pounds of benefits in the future.

You must know that China has a population of hundreds of millions, those British businessmen are so finger-wrenching, even if these Chinese consume one pound per person, then it is hundreds of millions of pounds, if one person consumes ten pounds, it is a huge market of billions of pounds.

This is a much bigger market than India, much bigger than the whole of America.

In recent years, diplomatic relations between the British and the empire have been revolving around how to open up more markets.

And there is a very key thing here, that is, in fact, the empire, to be precise, Lin Zhe does not exclude joining the international market, and even integrates into the international market with an active attitude, but just like the **** who is born lewd and likes to be, even if she likes ****, she also has to collect money.

Although the empire took the initiative to open up, it used openness as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the British in the process.

Considering China's closed-off attitude in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it has already given the outside world a common inherent concept, that is, China rejects Westerners and rejects international trade.

Therefore, in order to strive for China to open more treaty ports, the British spent a lot of effort.

For a series of imperial development strategies formulated by Lin Zhe, full opening is inevitable, because the current various treaty port models are actually relatively large restrictions on domestic industrial development.

And for Lin Zhe's open-mindedness, the British undoubtedly maintain the greatest welcoming attitude!

As a direct evidence of the opening-up, the Imperial Central Bank announced that it would reduce the proportion of deposit deposits for foreign-funded and Sino-foreign joint venture banks, and that joint venture banks, which hold more than 51 percent of the shares of Chinese capital, will have the same proportion as pure Chinese banks.

At the same time, it was announced that the empire would further improve its monetary policy and clean up and rectify the current chaotic currency circulation in China's coastal areas.

Although this move was initially due to the need for foreign trade, it soon became the clarion call for the Imperial Ministry of Finance to carry out financial reform, thus setting off a wave of financial reform! (To be continued.) )