At the Nanjing wharf, a middle-aged man in a suit stepped off the steam passenger ship, and then stepped on the wooden trestle bridge, and stepped on the land of Nanjing with other passengers.

The man didn't stay long at the docks, but quickly got into a two-wheeled carriage on the docks and headed for the city.

About half an hour later, this person appeared in front of a two-story brick and stone building, and this small building is a little different from the building next to it, there is a small flag hanging in front of this small building, this flag pattern is a little complicated, ordinary people must not know what flag it is at first glance, but if people who are familiar with the situation in Myanmar will definitely be able to see that this flag is the national flag and military flag of the Burmese Ning Dynasty established by Lin Chengting.

Under this banner, there is an inconspicuous, but very clear signboard, which reads: "Daning Machinery Company Office in Nanjing!" ”

The last few words on this signboard are naturally understandable at a glance, but what is Daning? This is the name of the Burmese Daning Dynasty established by Lin Chengting.

The Daning Dynasty established by Lin Chengting did not pay tribute to the empire, nor was it officially recognized by the empire, because the Daning Dynasty was a subject of the empire, and at the same time the Daning Dynasty had established formal diplomatic relations with the empire, the empire had previously supported Lin Chengting in order to take care of the protests of the British, but it had not accepted the Daning Dynasty in formal diplomatic relations to accept Lin Chengting's vassals, nor did it establish formal diplomatic relations.

However, the Daning Dynasty had close relations with the empire, and there was naturally a lot of foreign affairs, and since there was no formal diplomatic relations, the offices of commercial companies were borrowed to serve as de facto diplomatic and consular offices.

And the so-called Daning Machinery Company. In fact, it was Lin Chengting who set up a trading bag company that specialized in importing various types of weapons to China.

I saw that after the middle-aged man entered the office, he went straight to the second floor!

About two hours later. He's coming out again, but it's not just him who comes out this time. There were two other men.

After the group of three people went out, they got into a carriage and went directly to the Imperial Foreign Ministry building.

At noon, they met with the director of the Asian Department of the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and soon after, accompanied by the director of the Asian Division, they made an appointment with the director of the Imperial Foreign Ministry's vassal department and other dignitaries.

After discussing for a while in the conference room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they met with Han Kyung-sheng, the co-director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and who was also in charge of Europe-related affairs, and hurried over.

For a moment, the officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noticed that there seemed to be something unusual in the air.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Song Guanqian, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Han Qingsheng, Minister of Foreign Affairs, entered the palace together. and personally met Lin Zhe!

And when Lin Zhe listened to their words, he couldn't help but look contemplative!

This time, Song Guanqian and Han Qingsheng came to an urgent audience together and reported a major incident about Lin Chengting.

That is, Lin Chengting plans to negotiate peace with the British!

"Their argument is that they have been at war with the British for many years, and although they have defended their territory in the war, they have no ability to reverse the current situation and march into Lower Burma, and at the same time, the war for many years has made the northern Burma they control full of holes, and they urgently need to end this battlefield and then resume people's livelihood construction!"

"In addition, they have already negotiated with the British many times. But the British asked for too high a price for Lin Chengting to accept, so they came to us and asked us to mediate! ”

Lin Zhe listened to Song Guanqian's words. The brows couldn't help frowning, the life and death of the Burmese? He didn't care, what he cared about was that Lin Chengting was scared of being beaten. Now you want to end the war, and that's not a good thing for the Empire.

Lin Zhe also counted on Lin Chengting to continue the war in Burma. Thus dragging the British.

However, Lin Zhe is also aware that with the current influence of the empire. It is impossible to really influence Lin Chengting's decision, and Lin Chengting is not a fool, how can he distract the British from the empire and continue this war that is destined to have no hope of victory?

After pondering for a while, he said, "What are the conditions they are talking about now?" ”

"The British demanded that the Ning Dynasty fully open its trade with the British, and at the same time accept the military stationing and protection of the British, and pay an indemnity of one million pounds!"

Lin Zhe smiled when he heard this: This British has a good appetite, and what cannot be obtained in the war actually wants to be obtained through the negotiation table! ”

Even if Lin Chengting wanted to agree to the British's conditions, then the empire would never be able to accept that the British would infiltrate the entire Burma, and at the same time garrison troops in Upper Burma, which could threaten the empire's Yunnan region at any time.

If Lin Chengting really agreed, then I am afraid that the empire will immediately send troops to the Daning Kingdom, first destroy Lin Chengting, and then keep the British out of Upper Burma.

Not to mention, Lin Zhe had always hoped to build a railway line from Yunnan to the coast of Burma, thus providing the southwestern region of the empire with access to the Indian Ocean.

So whatever the case may be, the Empire will not be able to tolerate the complete control of Upper Burma by the British!

"What about Lin Chengting? What do they think? Lin Zhe continued to ask.

"Lin Chengting's side naturally doesn't want to become a puppet, and they don't want to pay compensation, they still owe us almost two million yuan, and if they pay millions of pounds in compensation, Lin Chengting can't take out the whole of Myanmar! Therefore, what Lin Chengting meant was that he wanted to maintain the status quo and negotiate peace: no compensation, no soil cutting, and no garrison. Song Guanqian continued: "What he means is simply to end the war, but not to change the status quo!" ”

When Lin Zhe heard this, he couldn't help but admire Lin Chengting, this person's attitude was tougher than that of most monarchs throughout the ages, and this courage was not small.

You must know that Lin Chengting is not facing a small country, but the contemporary world boss Britain, after fighting a war with the British, he can still do it without paying compensation, cutting land and not stationing troops, which ordinary people don't have.

But if you think about it carefully, you can understand that Lin Chengting is not without confidence.

In the past few years, he has been fighting intermittently with the British, although he has often lost battles. However, the overall situation has been maintained, and the British have already invested nearly 10,000 troops. It is said that there have been two or three thousand dead and wounded in total, but this still failed to take Lin Chengting. Even Lin Chengting's main force failed to defeat it.

It can be seen from this that unless the British really make up their minds, and then send tens of thousands of troops over, otherwise they don't expect to be able to completely defeat Lin Chengting.

But will the British be able to make such a determination? It is unlikely that the war in Burma in the past few years has already caused a wave of opposition in Britain.

What's in Myanmar? Barren land, there is nothing, if you can capture it by sending troops casually, then the British Empire naturally does not have many colonies, but this is not easy to fight in Burma. Now there are two or three thousand dead and wounded, and if we want to fight down, won't we have to kill and wound tens of thousands? Is it worth all the effort to fight down?

Economic value is almost none, and diplomatic political interests? It's nothing more than being able to threaten the Chinese Empire from Yunnan, but these things are a fart for those members of the British Parliament.

Threatening the Chinese Empire? Even planning a war with the Chinese Empire? Why? Could it be that the profits from trade between Britain and the Chinese Empire were too glaring?

You must know that the largest trading country of the Chinese Empire is not Britain, nor France or Prussia, nor Russia, but Britain!

In the early years of the Chinese Empire, more than half of the import and export trade volume was with the British, although in recent years it has vigorously opened up other markets. The proportion of Britain was somewhat reduced, but the trade between the Empire and Great Britain still accounted for more than 35 percent of the total import and export trade of the Empire.

This is clearly a lot of profits without war, so why go to war?

The parliamentarians, who were behind the merchants involved in the trade of the East, would never allow such a thing to happen.

Just as the Empire exercised considerable restraint in its dealings with the British. In fact, the British did not want to clash with the empire for no reason, thus causing war.

Even in recent years, there has been a lot of cooperation between the empire and the United Kingdom, for example, in the export of military weapons to the United States, although China and Britain are competitors to each other. But at the same time, it is also a collaborator, and China exports large quantities of weapons to the United States. Almost all of them were transported by British merchant ships.

Like the British, in order to keep the civil war in the United States going. The trade of the Empire and Great Britain in armaments was always a balancing measure, and if 10,000 rifles were sold to the Northern government, the same rifles would certainly be sold to the Confederates.

This can be seen from the fact that the weapons used by the Northern government forces and the Confederate army are the same weapons, and the United Kingdom and China have been trying to maintain a balance between the North and the South of the United States over the past few years.

It's just that the effect of this effort is not great, and the advantage of the northern government of the United States is too great, and the southern federation of the United States cannot resist the offensive of the northern army at all.

In addition to cooperating in arms sales, the Reich and Britain have also maintained a synchronized relationship on the issue of Japan in the past two years, and have even formed a coalition to directly intervene in the Japanese civil war.

This series of cooperation also greatly eased the diplomatic relations between the empire and the British!

In order to show goodwill, the empire has not brought up the Hong Kong issue for a long time, and in response, the British are no longer insisting on Tibet's independent status.

Thus, although there were still contradictions and conflicts between the Empire and Britain on many fronts, both sides tried to exercise restraint and would not break this semblance of peace until the last resort.

The relationship between Britain and the Empire was also a direct reflection of the Burma War, and the British had to consider the Empire's reaction if they wanted to expand the scale of the war in Burma.

Similarly, if the empire wanted to send military instructors directly to Lin Chengting, or even send volunteer troops, then it would have to consider the strong opposition of the British.

As Lin Chengting, who is sandwiched between Britain and the empire, he is not a stupid person, maybe his eyes were only limited to the country before, so after fighting with the British for several years, his vision has also expanded, and he dare not say that he pays attention to the global situation, but at least he has seen the situation in Southeast Asia very thoroughly.

In this place, the struggle between Britain, France, and the Chinese Empire is the essence, and he is just a pawn in the middle, but this does not mean that the pawn cannot benefit himself.

Now, he just wants to fight for the best interests of his Daning Dynasty in the struggle between the empire and the British! (To be continued.) )