Cromwell was completely dumbfounded, Portsmouth's army was blocked by the Ming army, and it couldn't be killed, how many people did this Ming army come?

Seeing that the British army could not support it, Cromwell had no choice but to order surrender, could it be that he really wanted to destroy the city of London? Now that the other four countries have surrendered, only the Empire of England remains, and there is nothing left to do on its own.

Cromwell surrendered to welcome the Ming army into the city, and at the same time ordered the generals of Portsmouth and the English fleet to surrender to the Ming army at the same time.

The five major Western powers all surrendered, and the Ming Empire had no more opponents, and the war came to an end, and all that remained was negotiation.

Xu Yifan also knew in his arrogance that it was impossible to complete the occupation of the West with just these forces in his hands, and he could only force them to surrender, and now all he could do was to squeeze them with all his strength and loot the wealth they had plundered over the years.

Of course, the most important thing is those scholars in the West, he knows that the emperor attaches great importance to the scholars of the West, and at this time, it happens that all of them are brought back to the Ming Empire, and with their existence, it is difficult for the Ming Dynasty not to prosper!

The Paris Six-Party Talks finally kicked off at the Palace of Versailles in Paris, one wanted to get as much benefit as possible, and the other side was to reduce their losses as much as possible and send the plague god away as soon as possible.

The treaty reads as follows:

1. This war was provoked by the five Western countries, and now that the five countries have been defeated, they need to compensate the Ming Empire for the war compensation of 100 million taels of silver, which is converted into gold and 20 million taels to make up for the losses of the Ming Empire; Among them, the English Empire bore 25 million taels of silver for the war; The Kingdom of the Netherlands bears the cost of twenty-five million taels of silver; The Kingdom of France bears the cost of twenty million taels; The Kingdom of Spain bears the cost of twenty million taels of silver; The kingdom of Portugal bears the cost of ten million taels of silver, with a down payment of fifty percent, and the remaining five to be paid off in five years, and at the same time, one-third of the indemnity must be denominated in gold;

100 million taels of silver, which was definitely an astronomical amount in the middle of the seventeenth century, even if the five Western countries squeezed the world's major colonies for more than 100 years, they only robbed the wealth of hundreds of millions of taels of silver, and in this world, in the seventeenth century, all the silver added together, whether it could make up 100 million taels, is an unknown; In terms of the finances of the Kingdom of France alone, eighty or ninety million livres per year, which is equivalent to less than 20 million taels of silver, the indemnity borne by the Kingdom of France is equivalent to a year's financial income, and for other countries, the same is true, which is also specially customized by Xu Yifan for them, each country takes out a year's financial income as an indemnity, and it is not good to have one or two taels of silver, and finally the five countries have to pinch their noses and admit it.

2. The five Western countries recognized the Ming Empire's control over the South Seas, and Western military forces were not allowed to enter the area east of the Strait of Malacca.

3. The Netherlands transferred the colonial rights of the Cape of Good Hope in Black Africa to the Ming Empire, and at the same time, Spain transferred control of Mexico; England transferred control of the East Coast of North America; France transferred its colonies in central North America to the Ming Empire; Portugal transferred the Brazilian plain to the Ming Empire, and the colonies of the rest of the countries in the Americas would be recognized by the Ming Empire.

4. Within the next 100 years, the strength of the naval fleets of the five Western countries must be limited, and the number of main warships of the fleets of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese countries shall not exceed 80, 80, 60, 60, and 50 respectively, and the strength of the land forces shall not exceed 50,000; Correspondingly, in the future, the number of main warships of the Ming Empire will not exceed 250, and the number of land forces shall not exceed 300,000;

5. The Ming Empire and Western countries opened their domestic markets to each other, and the Ming Empire exported products to the West into the West, and the tariff rate of each country shall not exceed 5%; The Ming Empire's tariffs on goods from Western countries should not exceed eight percent;

6. The Ming Empire returned the captives of Western countries free of charge, and the expenses incurred by the captives of various countries during the period were borne by the Western countries;

7. The Western warships and weapons captured by the Ming Empire shall be destroyed and shall not be preserved;

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The "Six-Party Treaty" has a total of thirteen paragraphs, each of which is aimed at the five Western countries, and puts a set of invisible shackles on the heads of the five Western countries, not to mention anything else, the war reparations of 100 million taels of silver alone are enough for these countries to drink a pot, and the wealth of these countries is a lot, but most of them are hidden in the hands of the people or nobles, and the finances of various countries are not very high, and although the commerce is developed, but the industry has not yet developed, just by virtue of the primitive plundering of the colonies, the accumulation of wealth is too slow.

What's more, under a treaty, all countries have to take out a huge colony to distribute to the Ming Empire, although the colonies of the Ming Empire are still not the most, but the territory of the Ming Empire is huge, the territory of the Ming Empire plus the huge colonies, I am afraid that it will exceed 25 million square kilometers, which is absolutely second to none in the world, and no powerful country is as strong as the Ming Empire!

The most important thing is to exchange scholars for prisoners, now the Ming Empire has more than 80,000 prisoners in the West, and a scholar for fifty prisoners will at least take away more than 1,000 scholars from Western countries, although these scholars are free, but, who has nothing to do, to the Ming Empire, and then run back to the West thousands of miles away? Isn't that death?

The treaty was signed, and Xu Yifan finally led the Ming fleet out of the Western Ocean and returned to the Ming Empire.

After half a year, the Ming fleet finally returned victoriously, this time it can be said that it was fully loaded, the indemnity of various countries alone exceeded 20 million taels of silver, and millions of taels of gold, in addition, there were also wealth taken from various countries, and the sea ships alone were loaded with dozens of sea ships.

The fleet went all the way north through Nanyang and directly reached Tianjin Wei, and Zhu Jie, who got the news, led his ministers to rush to Tianjin Wei from the capital in person to welcome the heroes who returned from victory!

"Yifan, Lao Cha, haha, welcome, welcome to the return of our heroes of the Ming Dynasty, welcome to the return of the heroes of our Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Jie laughed and stepped on the battleship!

"Your Majesty, now that the majesty of tomorrow is coming in all directions, the ministers are terrified, and they finally live up to the emperor's trust!"

Xu Yifan bowed.

Zhu Jie grabbed Xu Yifan and laughed: "Okay, good!" Your hard work is high, your hard work is high, and when they return, our Ming Empire will truly stand at the top of the world, and our brothers have finally established this immortal empire after more than ten years of war, and it will stand forever! ”

Finally, I would like to recommend a friend's new book "Three Kingdoms Lu Bu's Sweeping Thousands of Armies", which can be collected by interested friends.

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