"It's a pleasure to meet you, Your Highness Victoria."

In the splendid hall of the Hofburg Grand Palace, in full view of everyone, a beautiful young man about 16 years old, wearing a red five-clawed dragon robe, wearing a black gauze folded scarf, was greeting Princess Victoria, the regent and crown prince of the United Kingdom, in English.

Princess Victoria was born in 1819 and is only 13 years old this year. She was a small girl, with very delicate facial features, and a little baby fat, and she was wearing a long court dress with lace, which looked like an English doll, which was quite flattering.

Victoria raised her head and looked at the young prince of Daming in front of her, she was not as domineering as she imagined, not only gentle and polite, like a humble gentleman, but also very elegant and handsome.

Under the gaze of His Royal Highness King Daminglu, Victoria also lifted her skirt and made a curtsy to Zhu Xiyou.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Your Highness."

Her voice is very light, her demeanor is calm and elegant, and she speaks in Chinese with straight words.

"You speak Chinese so well." Zhu Xiyou looked at the girl in front of her, lowered her voice, and spoke Chinese.

"I ...... I don't really know how to say it. Princess Victoria looked a little embarrassed, although she was trying hard to learn Chinese, she still did not master this complex language, and could only speak some simple conversations.

"Then let's move on to English." Zhu Xiyou laughed, "You must not have been learning Chinese for a long time, otherwise with your ingenuity, you will definitely master this language quickly." ”

"I'm afraid I'm not as smart as you think......" Victoria lowered her gaze with some frustration, "Chinese is really hard...... It is not spelled out with letters, but is made up of countless square words. ”

"Don't rush, take your time, you will learn, I can teach you too." Zhu Xiyou comforted her.

"That's great...... the girl glanced at Zhu Xiyou again, "But we in Britain are at war with your Daming, although there is no official declaration of war, but the war has been going on for a long time......"

"That's the adults," Zhu Xiyou pondered for a moment before speaking again, "It doesn't have much to do with us, right?" In the end of the war of adults, it is always necessary to sign a peace treaty, and ours ...... It is the guarantee of peace, and it is our responsibility as royalty. ”

"Uh...... "......Listening to Zhu Xiyou's words, Princess Victoria also felt that it made sense, and wanted to nod her head in agreement, but suddenly thought of something that made people shy.

Zhu Xiyou looked at the shy appearance of the girl in front of her, and just smiled and said, "Your Royal Highness Princess, can I ask you to dance?" While the two of us holding hands and dancing won't bring peace to this world, it can at least add a guardrail to this war. It's a strange excuse, though...... Your Royal Highness, I just want to dance with you, can I? ”

As he spoke, Zhu Xiyou, the king of Daminglu, put his hand in front of Princess Victoria and officially extended an invitation to her.

Princess Victoria was a little shy, but she still raised her hand and took the hand of King Daminglu.

The music of the waltz sounded.

While the boys and girls were dancing, in a conference room in the Hofburg Imperial Palace, several elderly men were sitting around laughing and whispering something.

"Oh, I've started dancing, it's growing fast...... Duke, how about letting His Royal Highness King Lu become the crown prince of India? ”

"This is not possible, the Crown Prince of India is Her Royal Highness the Princess, she is the future Empress of India, Her Royal Highness the Prince...... Or be the king of Australia! ”

"No, Australians have to get rid of British colonial rule, so they can't let the Queen's husband be king."

"Prince, did you think of asking the Australians for their opinion when you mentioned that the Australians had to get rid of the British? Perhaps they were all loyal subjects of the King of England? ”

"How is that possible? You don't treat Australians as people when you are demographic, but you classify them as animal groups, how can they be loyal subjects of the King of England? ”

"Prince, when you say Australians, you mean the Aborigines!"

"They're the real Australians...... Isn't it? ”

"No, it's unacceptable!"

Among several old men, there are the martial king Zhuge of the Ming Dynasty, the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty, the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's foreign ministry waiter Wei Yuanda, the British Prime Minister Wellington, and the British Foreign Secretary Robert . Peel, who has the British Home Secretary, Viscount Melbourne.

And what a few of them are discussing is, of course, a condition for peace.

Zhuge Weijiu proposed to make Zhu Xiuran the crown prince of India, which was to control the power of India - in fact, the Ming Dynasty had no intention of India's territory, but the Ming could not allow India to be integrated into a unified power by the British. India must be broken up into twenty or thirty small independent, semi-independent political entities.

At the same time that the Ming Dynasty was involved in India, Australia and Western Oregon naturally had to be taken first.

The Duke of Wellington's proposal was to keep Australia on the plate of the British Empire, but Zhu Xiyou, the king of Lu, could be appointed as the Grand Duke of Australia - that is, the Ming Dynasty was allowed to eat a little Australian oil and water. But sovereignty is not negotiable!

But the Ming side is unwilling to admit that the British Empire has sovereignty over Australia, according to the Ming Dynasty, Australia belongs to the native Australians, not the foreign British whites!

In other words, the differences between the two sides are still relatively large!

Zhuge Weixue opened his mouth at this time: "Duke, prince, let's not just talk about differences, let's talk about consensus...... I think that the marriage of His Royal Highness King Lu and Princess Victoria is a consensus between us, right? ”

The Duke of Wellington nodded, "Of course! But...... Her Royal Highness the Princess is the prince of the British Empire, but His Royal Highness King Lu is not the presumptive heir to the throne of the Ming Dynasty, this doesn't seem to be quite equal, right? ”

Emperor Zhu Xijin of the Ming Dynasty still has no son. However, the rule of the Ming Dynasty is to "choose the emperor", and the heir to the throne must be selected from the three princes' palaces, rather than ranking according to the distance between relatives and relatives.

According to this rule, after Zhu Xiyou marries Victoria, it will be impossible for him to inherit the throne of the Ming Dynasty, and he and Victoria's descendants will not be selected as the heirs to the throne.

From this point of view, Britain has lost a bit in this "super marriage".

However, Britain's loss also reflects the current battlefield situation - the advantage of the Ming Dynasty is not small, and the British are at a disadvantage.

So the Duke of Wellington just mentioned it to see if he could use this "loss" to exchange something from Daming? Even if you can't change it, this marriage still has to be engaged.

Because the engagement of Victoria and Zhu Xiyou is equivalent to setting up a guardrail for the British Empire, which is at a disadvantage, - the empire always exists!

Otherwise, if the two sides continue to fight endlessly, they may completely destroy the British Empire, and they will die.

And the Ming Dynasty actually wants to protect the British Empire...... Britain is a European-stirring stick!

With Great Britain, Europe cannot be united. If it weren't for the-stirring stick of Great Britain and Napoleon, Louis XIV would have done the great cause of unifying Europe. In addition to Louis XIV and Napoleon, Europe was close to unifying the Germans on another timeline! Both Wilhelm II and the mustache had a chance, and they were both mixed up by the British.

As a European extraterritorial superpower with deep friendship with France and Rakshasa countries, it is absolutely necessary to create a "Zhu family Great Britain" to avoid the unification of Europe.

Because there is no "Zhu Family Great Britain", Europe will not be able to form a three-legged state, but it is easy to have a confrontation between France and Rakshasa!

The confrontation between the two powers is the most unstable, and if you are not careful, it will become a great unification!