When the sky in Moscow was slightly bright, the prince Nicholas and other important officials rushed to the imperial conference room of Emperor Lucia one after another.

Emperor Paul entered the conference room with two maids, glanced at the dress of everyone at the scene, and subconsciously looked at his clothes.

Above the Lucia court, most of the civil officials and relatively older people basically wore Ming-style wide robes, and the emperor also wore Tuanlong regular clothes similar to those of the Ming emperor.

Most military attachés and young people, from a few years to more than ten years ago, were basically dressed in the same Ming style, but in the past ten years, they have changed one after another.

They changed back to Thai-Western attire, with tightened over-the-knee stockings and breeches, placket shirts and heavy putty tuxedos.

When they saw the way they saluted, they were divided into two factions, one of them bowed down like the Ming people, and the other part knelt down on one knee and bowed their heads.

Emperor Paul, who had become accustomed to it, did not say much, and after everyone had saluted, he sent the message he had received for them to circulate.

"Let's all talk about it, what should Lucia do now?"

After reading the information, the officials at the scene also had very ugly expressions, and several of them closed their eyes directly.

Thirty-two-year-old Prince Nikolai was the first to speak:

"Father, can you be sure that it is not the Ming people who are 'bluffing'? We all know the current war situation, and it is a feeling that cannot be used even if it is powerful.

"As long as we also build the position well, what if the Ming people use all their strength? It is impossible to hit the Urals.

"We can also go to 'bluff', just to find out the real details of people!"

The prince's radical views, which were clearly inclined to the doctrine of the Great Lucia, immediately aroused the approval of ministers with similar thinking tendencies.

Not far away, the Minister of War, the sixty-year-old Earl of Bennigsen, Levine August, very helplessly dissuaded:

"Your Highness must not be reckless, Daming's 'bluff' can become true, because Daming still has a lot of potential to tap.

"They are removing the feudal domains to pacify the vassal states, opening up the royal monopoly industry to appease local capital and control the displaced people, and they are beginning to develop new industries for the royal consortium.

But Lucia's bluff can only be fake, because we are close to the limit, so we release the hint that peace can be negotiated.

Once Da Ming insists on fighting, Lucia can only make a fool of herself, and even face a large-scale rout.

"So regardless of whether the Ming is bluffing or not, the Lucia Empire currently has only one choice, and that is to let go of illusions and sue for peace as soon as possible."

The other relatively conservative and traditional ministers next to him immediately chimed in:

"Yes, it is not weak to ask for peace with Daming."

"His Majesty the Great Peter the Great once sued for peace with the Ming Dynasty."

"The Dutch, Portuguese, and Spaniards also asked for peace with the Ming Dynasty."

"Lucia must stop the war, the court is bankrupt, and order in the cities and villages is about to collapse."

The old people of Lucia actually don't have any psychological burden for such a thing as asking for peace with Daming.

His ancestors had already done it, and the other Tessians had already done it, so why couldn't he do it again?

But this traditional rhetoric has made the emerging Great-Lucian nationalist officials a little furious.

Under the leadership of the prince Nikolai, they did not hesitate to come back directly:

"Have you all forgotten the purpose of our participation in the war!"

"Now to make peace with Daming, what is the point of all the efforts made before?"

"We have made peace, how will we face the other Europa people in the future! How can we get back to Europa! ”

"Peace today, peace tomorrow, when will we Lucia people stand up!"

Emperor Paul saw that the two sides were about to quarrel, and suddenly slapped the table with some irritation:

"Shut up!"

Emperor Paul stopped the argument and was about to reprimand them loudly.

Just then, a secretary came running in and handed the emperor a new telegram.

Emperor Paul took it and took a look, and his face immediately showed joy, and most of the anger just now instantly dissipated.

He circulated the telegram to the ministers, and at the same time smiled with emotion and said:

"The Tatars of Anxi were even wise......"

After reading the newspaper, Earl Bennigsen couldn't help but be overjoyed:

"The three countries of Anxi are willing to mediate, then this time it is not a peace, this is considered a draw!"

After reading the message, the other civil servants and old ministers also had a tendency to almost cheer.

"In the face of Daming, a draw is a victory for us!"

"The purpose of the anti-Ming alliance has been achieved, and we can start discussing and planning the post-war order!"

"This is a victory for our whole Europa!"

"The Europa people have finally stood up!"

In the face of the cheers on this side, the prince Nikolai on the other side was also a little surprised in his heart after reading the news.

It's just that he is completely silent on the surface, and deliberately snorts coldly with a straight face:

"Don't be too happy, this is just the proposal of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi, not an invitation from the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has not yet agreed.

"Da Ming is tapping into the potential of the war, if we directly refuse mediation, what should we do?"

By this time the telegram had already been circulated, and Count Bennigsen smiled and said:

"Your Highness, I don't think Da Ming will refuse, although Da Ming still has strength, but they are also very uncomfortable in this battle.

"It is almost impossible to make the Ming take the initiative to surrender and admit defeat, so the biggest difficulty in this anti-Ming war now is how to end the war with dignity.

"Moreover, I even suspect that the mediation of the three kingdoms of Anxi could have been hinted at by the Ming Dynasty.

"Now the Anxi Three Kingdoms have sent 'steps' to both sides, and I think Daming should take over this 'steps'."

The surrounding ministers nodded their heads when they listened, and Emperor Paul above couldn't help but ask:

"If the Three Kingdoms of Anxi are really hinted at by Da Ming, doesn't that mean that Da Ming really can't hold on?

"Are they really bluffing their removal and banning? So do we still have to accept the mediation of this Anxi Three Kingdoms? ”

The idea mentioned by Emperor Paul made the eyes of many courtiers suddenly light up, and Prince Nikolai subconsciously wanted to speak:

"Then we can bluff and get more land from the east and south......"

Count Bennigsen immediately shook his head and directly strangled everyone's delusions:

"We must not be greedy, we can make Daming accept that a draw is a victory, and we must not force Daming to be angry and ashamed, because we are simply unable to insist.

"However, we can be a little tougher at the future negotiation table and let Daming concede as many interests as possible......"

The Count's words aroused the approval of the Conservative Ministers, and the radical young men did not object after considering it.

What Lucia's situation is, they themselves know in their hearts, and they have really tried their best so far.

As a result, the imperial meeting immediately changed direction, and everyone began to discuss how to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty and what land or interests should be claimed.

The minimum requirement is that in order to split the Three Kingdoms of Anxi, Lucia must be given a part, and it cannot continue to be the forbidden territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The mood of Emperor Paul and his ministers became more and more pleasant during the discussion, and the conference room was slowly filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

It wasn't until almost an hour later that Emperor Paul's secretary ran in again and handed over a telegram again.

Then Emperor Paul was directly dumbfounded, his eyes widened and he looked at it several times, word by word, word by word:

"Anxi Sanguo said—Da Ming—refused—mediated—"

There is no need to circulate it now, the ministers below all understood what was happening, and then subconsciously looked at Prince Nicholas.

Prince Nikolai was also completely stunned, he was actually just a hard mouth before.

I can't wait for a truce in my heart, but I didn't expect that now I really let myself say the result.

According to Daming Yayan, this is a typical "crow's mouth"!

The key is that Daming refused so quickly, this may be that the telegram has just been sent to Daming, and Daming's telegraph operator asked the emperor after seeing it, and the emperor directly refused on the spot.

At least it wasn't carefully thought about at all, otherwise with the transit time of the three Anxi countries, it would not have been possible to send it to the capital of Lucia so quickly.

The ministers were happily discussing just now, how to force Daming to make concessions at the negotiation table, and now they are all dumbfounded.

In particular, Count Bennigsen, who had speculated before that the mediation of the Anxi Three Kingdoms was hinted at by the Ming Dynasty, but the people did not pay attention to the mediation at all and directly rejected it.