Zhu Jingyuan was the first to leave, and the officials and representatives in the hall, after a short period of confusion and consternation, also got up and left the venue one after another.

The royal representatives of the Tessie countries, while getting up and walking out, looked at their companions around them, and many of them showed thoughtful expressions.

Several princes recalled what Zhu Jingyuan said, what the real Roman successor should be, and can directly refer to the current status of the Ming Dynasty.

In Shenzhou, no one asks which Ming is the Ming Dynasty, and no one does not know who the current Shenzhou Orthodox Dynasty is and who the successors of the Han and Tang Dynasties are.

There is only the Ming Dynasty, there is no second answer, and all the countries around Shenzhou are all de facto vassals of the Ming Dynasty.

In the case of Europe, it is because their own countries have not really united Europe, and because the other countries that call themselves Rome still exist, and the countries that keep Rome's claims still exist.

Therefore, his own country is not a real Roman successor, and there is no real Roman successor in today's Europe.

To become the successor of Rome, it is necessary to destroy ...... At the very least, it is necessary to completely defeat all the states that have Roman claims, and force Qi to abandon them.

At the same time, it was necessary to seize key lands where the capital and birthplace of the Roman Empire were located.

At least rule the Sardinian-Italian peninsula, the Balkan peninsula, the Asia Minor peninsula.

It is necessary to basically completely destroy the Ottoman Empire, defeat Prussia, Austria, Lucia, and France, and force them to hand over part of their lands.

The highest goal was to restore all of Rome's homeland and turn the Mediterranean Sea back into its own inland sea.

This goal is largely impossible to achieve and is not feasible at the moment.

But the seed has been planted in the hearts of the princes.

In everyone's subconscious, they have begun to regard the countries corresponding to their targets as opponents and obstacles to becoming Rome.

But none of them spoke.

The princes and representatives of the royal family thought they were hiding their thoughts.

However, the ministers of the imperial court obviously found that the royal representatives of several countries that were originally more enthusiastic have now become obviously much colder.

The ministers were all worried, and they were going to talk to the representatives of their royal family when they returned.

Let them recognize Zhu Jingyuan's sinister intentions, let them not go up easily, and don't ignore reality for the empty title of Rome.

French Foreign Minister Talleyrand, after returning to the residence of the French representative in the outer city, followed Prince Louis Charles directly into the room.

The twenty-year-old Prince Charles watched Talleyrand come in, and at the same time asked with a little surprise and some impatience:

"Your Excellency, do you think we in France have a chance to become the real Rome?"

Talleyrand did not hesitate to remind:

"Your Highness, don't be deceived by the words of the Ming Dynasty, the purpose of selecting Roman successors is to provoke us to fight in Europe.

"Let our anti-Ming alliance collapse on its own, and then the Ming Dynasty can 'reap the benefits of the fisherman'.

"Da Ming will definitely not just watch us choose the real Roman."

Charles didn't seem to listen at all:

"Your Excellency, I mean, is it possible for us in France to become Rome?"

Talleyrand is a very flexible person, and after feeling the persistence of his own crown prince, he immediately changed his thinking:

"If you want to say if it's possible, of course there is......"

The prince of the charr came immediately to the spirit:

"Let's talk about how to get Prussia, Austria, Lucia, Ottomans, and Italy to recognize that we are the Roman ......"

Talleyrand replied directly:

"It's actually very simple to get them to recognize us, as long as we completely defeat the Ming Dynasty head-on, we are the undoubted Rome."

Prince Charles was directly stunned:

"Simple? How can it be simple? Wait, how do you want to defeat Daming? What does this have to do with being a Rome? ”

Talleyrand saw that the prince had already gone to the road, and immediately continued to induce along this line of thought:

"Because the Ming Dynasty is the real obstacle to the emergence of the real Rome in our Europe, we must first defeat the Ming before we can compete for the title of Rome."

Prince Charles was a little distressed, and said a little impatiently:

"It's because we can't defeat the Ming that we want to become a Roman, minister, aren't you all nonsense."

Talleyrand squeezed out a little smile:

"It's not nonsense, it makes you realize that you first thought you couldn't beat the Ming before you wanted to compete for the Roma title.

"This is the inducement that Daming implemented on you, so that you voluntarily give up fighting with Daming, and instead fight with other European countries.

"In this war, all of us Europeans united and ended up in a draw with the Ming Dynasty.

On the other hand, Da Ming did not win in the end, so Da Ming changed his strategy and began to use their strategy.

"If a war breaks out in a European country over the title of Rome, then the Ming will win without a fight.

"This is the so-called 'discord plan', which is the classic conspiracy of the Ming people.

"You can put yourself in another position, if you are the ruler of the Ming Dynasty, do you want a real Rome to appear in our Europe?

"Do you want a new great empire in the world, one that can keep pace with you and that can threaten your position?"

Prince Charles finally fully understood:

"No, it's impossible, if I'm the Ming Emperor, I definitely don't want to see this happen, so what should we do next?"

Talleyrand said categorically:

"Maintain alliances, avoid infighting, unite and cooperate, and defend against foreign enemies.

"Prime Minister Pitt of the United Kingdom said very well at the meeting that the anti-Ming alliance is Rome, and we are all Rome.

"We should continue to preserve the anti-Ming alliance after the peace talks are over, and even continue to strengthen the anti-Ming alliance.

"Continuing to maintain cooperation at the military level has made the alliance countries more closely connected, so that the Ming Dynasty has always been at a loss.

"If, after the armistice, the Ming Dynasty has an opinion on the name of the Anti-Ming Alliance, we can change the name.

"It's just called the Rome League, or the Europa League.

"But we must not start another war unless necessary.

"We should use the peace period after this peace talks to strengthen our control over the colonies of Yinzhou and Mozhou.

"Then build on the existing colonies and continue to steadily expand the areas of control."

Charles understood what Talleyrand meant, but was not very clear about what he meant:

"Then I will leave these matters to Your Excellency."

Talleyrand stroked his chest and saluted:

"That's the foreign secretary's job."

The French were very glad to recognize the purpose of the Ming Dynasty and tried to find a solution to deal with it.

But many times, in the absence of coercive force, things often do not go as expected.

The representatives of the imperial courts of most other countries also understood the true purpose of the Ming Dynasty.

Some representatives of the royal family are also aware of the problem, such as Archduke Karl of Austria, who does not need to be persuaded at all.

However, in the process of persuading the representatives of their own royal families, the representatives of some countries encountered some problems.

To convince a member of the royal family, or even a clear crown prince, it is not necessarily capable.

There are even representatives of some countries, although they understand the intentions of the Ming Dynasty, but the final decision is far from the French.

Prussia was represented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl August von Hardenberg, the later Prince of Hardenberg in history and the Chancellor of the Cabinet.

The representative of the royal family, the younger brother of the King of Prussia, Heinrich, returned to his residence with Hardenberg and went to visit General Blucher.

The three of them found a small living room, first explained what had happened during the course of the meeting today, and then asked Blucher for his opinion.

Blucher said very decisively:

"The Ming Dynasty is trying to provoke our European infighting......"

Heinrich, a young member of the royal family, asked rhetorically with a little disappointment:

"So are we going to boycott? Even to persuade other countries not to be gullible? Should Europe even be persuaded to remain united?

"How can we really unify Germany then? How can Austrian lands be seized? ”

Blucher laughed and said:

"I don't say boycott, but if we continue our Greater German strategy, the infighting in Europe is exactly what we want to see.

"While this is certainly good for the Ming to weaken Europe, it is also good for us to continue to expand.

"We can continue to weaken Austria under this atmosphere and under cover, and truly unify all Germans.

"If there is really a long-term peace in the world after the peace talks, then the future of our Germany will end here."

Hardenberg snapped his fingers and said in a solemn tone with emotion:

"We are guarding against the English revisiting Hanover, we are against the threat of the French and Lucians, and we are against the Germans who ruled Austria.

"We Prussia, we Germans, still need war, but only a limited and controllable war.

"We, Prussia-Germany, are the 'land of four wars,' and we are enemies on three or even four sides.

"When I saw the reports and statistics of the Tianzhu battlefield, I was able to recall the past of our Germans.

"In every war in Europe, we Germans bear the brunt of it.

"The German land is the war in Europe, and the German people are the cannon fodder of the European countries.

"Until we in Prussia tried to annex the German Confederation and unite more and more Germans.

"We have gradually gained a certain voice in Europe, and we have the ability to refuse to become cannon fodder and the fate of the battlefield.

"If we are to take full control of our own destiny and continue to raise our voice, we must unite all Germans."

Now Heinrich was a little excited:

"Since both of you agree, what should we do next?"

Blucher thought for a moment and looked at Hardenberg, who was the plenipotentiary.

Hardenberg nodded lightly and began to explain his thinking:

"First of all, we must make it clear that we in Prussia are not capable of confronting the whole of Europe, and that is a strategy that even the Ming Dynasty cannot guarantee victory.

"So my point is that war can exist, but it has to be manageable.

"As soon as an anti-Prussian alliance appears, our country will quickly fall apart, and everything will go back to the way it was.

"Although we in Prussia often refer to the Qin Empire in China, I did not have the Guanzhong fortress of the Qin Empire as a way out.

"We have to be careful, we should 'use our strength' to fight with our strength, we should be the first to provoke other countries to enter the war first.

"For example, the war between Austria and Italy, the war between Lucia and the Ottomans, and the colonial war between France and England.

"Then we enter the war as an ally of one of the parties to the war, not as the main force of the war, and we want to make sure that we can end the war at any time.

"More importantly, we ...... The help of the Ming should be enlisted.

"If it's really necessary, if Da Ming really wants to, we can even consider forming an alliance with it."

Blucher listened and nodded slightly:

"Yes, we should enlist the help of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is nominal help, so that the surrounding countries can reassess their relations with Prussia."

After listening to this, Heinrich asked with some concern:

"Enlisting the help and alliance of the Ming Dynasty, is this considered 'seeking skin with the tiger'?"

Hardenberg smiled wryly and said:

"Outside of Europe, we Germans have nothing to lose, and to get to the land of Mozhou, we must pass through the Daming-controlled area.

"The Ming Dynasty will not have the idea of ruling tens of millions of Germans, and there should be no idea of any sufficiently large European nation.

"Because Europeans are not Indians, not Yin and Africans, not an ethnic group that can easily colonize.

"Those Boers in South Africa have already made Daming feel in trouble, and Daming should have no interest in Europe itself

"For the time being, our goal is mainly in Europe, so we have a basis for cooperation.

"Of course, it can't be complete cooperation, and there can't be complete trust.

"Everything must be done with caution, or again, we in Germany need war, but not a large-scale war in which we alone participate."

Heinrich basically understood, and then said excitedly:

"Shall we take the initiative to contact Daming? Release our sincerity early and cooperate a little with the conversation......"

Hardenberg directly waved his hand this time and vetoed:

"No, the Ming people should take the initiative to contact us, at least there should be a hint.

"Even if there is nothing, we can meet by chance at the upcoming banquet......

However, in the process of peace talks, he must not have direct contact with Daming in private.

"Once it is discovered by other European countries, the consequences are 'unimaginable'."

Blucher and Heinrich nodded at the same time, and the main members of the Prussian delegation were unanimous.

The French and the Prussians, in response to the provocation of the Ming Dynasty, had two completely different attitudes and ideas.

The French were quite satisfied with the current situation, and both the mainland and the Yinzhou colonies were relatively stable and developing rapidly.

The plan of the French for a long time in the future is to continue to expand their colonies in Mozhou and Yinzhou.

Due to the early appearance of steamships, the human sea-shipping capacity was enhanced in advance, and the value of the colony increased rapidly.

The direct rule of overseas colonies by countries around the world has also been directly advanced from the late nineteenth century to the late eighteenth century.

The development of the British and French colonies of Yinzhou also accelerated greatly in the eighteenth century.

Today, the population has grown to more than 20 million, and it has reached a level where there is absolutely no room for error.

So the French want a stable environment.

Of course, another key reason is that they failed to challenge the Ming Dynasty, and they could only completely give up their coveting of Xiao Xiyang.

This makes them more focused on their goals.

Prussia, on the other hand, had few valuable colonies overseas and did not have enough navy for expansion.

Therefore, we can only focus on our own country, hoping to muddy the waters of Europe and make it easier for us to fish in troubled waters.