The British Prime Minister and the Cabinet studied for a long time, and finally put the psychologically acceptable place for the negotiations on the Western Cape predicted by Zhu Jingyuan.

After Zhu Jianyan received the suggestion about Namibia, he deliberately delayed for a while, saying that he had "studied" for a while and finally gave an ultimatum.

At most, at the Western Cape, otherwise the peace talks will end and the war will continue.

The British pretended to be reserved for a while, but finally agreed.

After two and a half consecutive days of bickering, the Daming Honglu Temple and the British Cabinet finally finalized the venue for the negotiations.

The next step is to set a date for the negotiation and arrange specific negotiators.

Under normal circumstances, the personnel of the peace talks are well ascertained.

Either a professional foreign secretary or a political head such as a more senior prime minister.

But this negotiation was very special, for the ruling class of Europe, it was finally a reluctant draw with the Ming Dynasty.

This is a particularly significant event, and many people see it as an important sign of moving away from the barbarian label.

Of course, they still don't have the idea of being on an equal footing with Daming, and it is even less likely that they will have a contemptuous mentality, but they just have a feeling of wanting to be recognized and recognized.

At the same time, this is certainly the largest diplomatic activity in the history of the earth, and the entire civilization of the earth.

Many princes, princes, nobles, and even many kings and emperors themselves wanted to see it.

Even if the personnel are determined, the preparation and travel of the mission, as well as the cost of the trip, will be quite a long time.

At this time, there were no long-distance passenger planes, and the fastest way to travel long distances was to take an ocean passenger liner at a speed of twenty or thirty kilometers per hour, which was already very fast.

The real peace talks could not start in a month, because the participants could not afford to arrive, and the Western Cape was far away from the mainland of all countries.

However, finalizing the location can be regarded as a major juncture, indicating that the sincerity of both sides for the peace talks has once again risen to a new stage.

The constant compromises, the constant exchange of views, and even the repeated insistence on meaningless nodes are all adding credibility to the negotiations themselves.

In the case of low basic trust, if one party easily agrees and easily gives reasonable options, it will make the other party feel untrustworthy.

Just like Zhu Jingyuan's acceptance of the favor at the beginning, it made the British instinctively doubt their sincerity.

It's like bargaining when buying something, if the owner of the purchase readily agrees, the buyer will worry about whether it is expensive.

Now the people of the Ming Dynasty are so ridiculous, and the repeated tossing and turning of the baht must be more serious, but it makes the British participants a little relieved.

After the location was decided, the defences on the front line contracted and the troops were withdrawn in scale and speed again.

The most important generals on land and sea at the front were directly informed by the British Cabinet.

In addition to informing them of the progress of the peace talks as usual, some generals were also invited to participate in the peace talks.

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In the afternoon of the day, thousands of kilometers away on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

On the border of the Khiva Khanate, the Kazakh Khanate, and the Lucia Empire, on the Lucian Empire.

The railroad that stretched from the capital of the Lucian Empire made a turn to the south here.

After passing through the fortress on the border of the three countries, it continued eastward along the border between Lucia and the Kazakh Khanate.

The terminus of this railway is the easternmost point of the more valuable territory in the eastern region of Lucia, the Irkutsk region bordering the Beihai region of the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the great threat of the Ming Dynasty, the Lucian Emperor Paul I, from the accession to the throne more than 20 years ago, spent more than ten years to build this railway.

He was two-fifths shorter than the historical Trans-Siberian Railway, because Lucia did not have the entire region of Eastern Siberia anymore.

It was this east-west artery that maintained Lucia's control over the eastern frontier and supported Lucia's ambition to launch an attack on the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, Lucia would not have had a chance to covet the territory of the northwestern frontier of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, the steam trains on this railway, full of wounded and sick soldiers who have retired from the northern battlefield, swayed into the fortress on the border of the three countries.

The northern battlefield can be regarded as one of the actual main land battlefields, and the two sides have invested millions of troops under huge transportation pressure.

In the end, it was a lose-lose game.

After the official armistice, when the troops officially began to retreat, Emperor Lucia naturally ordered the wounded and sick to be evacuated first.

As a result, almost all the trains that came back for two consecutive days were wounded and sick, and there were few physical intact people in sight.

But in fact, it is already very lucky to be a soldier who can become a wounded and sick and come back by train.

More soldiers died directly on the battlefield, either in the field hospital, or in an unknown place.

The soldiers who returned by train were theoretically out of danger and were about to enter a peaceful area and could live normally.

However, the atmosphere in all the carriages was not as relaxed as it was after the war, and it was still extremely depressing.

Many soldiers wake up from their sleep suddenly, or suddenly become uncontrollably nervous, and are very sensitive to all people and sounds.

It seems that the spirit is still stuck on the battlefield, and I don't know how long it will take to recover.

The train slowly stopped at the station, and many soldiers subconsciously looked out of the train window, only to see a dense temporary barracks.

It was inhabited by troops who had withdrawn from the territory of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi, who were waiting for a spare spare train car to carry them back to their respective home countries ahead of schedule.

At the behest of the Ming Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms of Anxi forbade Lucia's railways to connect with their homeland.

Even in the western part of the Anxi Three Kingdoms, they themselves do not have railways.

The railways of the three kingdoms of Anxi were concentrated in the east and central part of the country, which were built for them by the Ming Dynasty, and the actual control was also in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

The armies of Lucia, Prussia, and France were transported to the border by Lucia's railroad and then marched into Ansi by machine and mule and horse.

This, of course, seriously slowed down the movement of the anti-Ming allied forces, which was the key purpose of the Ming Dynasty's railway restrictions on the Anxi Three Kingdoms.

After the Governor's Office of the Right Army of the Ming Dynasty got the news, it could start to act in an orderly manner, and after taking over the railways of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi, it would deploy defenses to the west in the west of the Three Kingdoms.

Now, not long after entering the territory of Anxi, the Triple Alliance, which has not been fully deployed, has once again turned around and accelerated the evacuation of the Three Kingdoms.

But ordinary soldiers may be disappointed, most of the carriages of this train are full, and they have no chance to leave immediately.

The train comes to the station here just to carry three people.

The commander of the army on the Lucian side, Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov.

Army commander on the Prussian side, Gebhard Leborecht von Blucher.

The army commander of the French side, Napoleon Bonaparte, was also the supreme commander of the Triple Alliance.

The three people who used to have a delicate relationship are now officers in the same camp, and it seems that the relationship is not bad.

Three people, with adjutant and orderlies, stood on the platform of this border fortress station, waiting for their special carriages to be ready.

Now say goodbye to each other and have a quick chat.