Zhu Jingyuan's attitude towards Lucia and Osman was different.

The Ottomans were able to cede land on a large scale at the negotiating table, and Lucia was more difficult.

After the Ottomans cut off the south of Anatolia, they could serve as a buffer zone between the Ming and the Tessie.

As for Lucia...... Such a big thing, that's not a buffer at all, it's a threat.

More crucially, the Ottomans were not a Tessi country after all.

Lucia is the Tessie country in its roots, and at least the current self-perception is still the Tessie country.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan wanted to split Lucia, make the Xianbei region east of the Urals fully clear, and give up the Taixi cognition.

Or the whole is enlightened, so that Lucia gives up her identity as a Tessie in self-perception.

But in fact, the latter is a pit, and Lucia is really looking for death if she does that.

Splitting the east of the Urals is the only way to survive.

For Daming, the most affordable thing is actually this kind of broken tail survival.

Anyway, the land directly ceded by Lucia, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to directly set up a political envoy, and it should have been set up as a vassal state first, but there should be no vassal king for a long time.

If Lucia takes the initiative to split, it will be one more vassal king for the Ming, but at the same time, it will easily get more land and resources.

Although Da Ming ridiculed Ottoman and Austria as suture monsters, Da Ming himself was actually a stitch product.

It's just that Austria and the Ottomans are monsters who stitch together, and the Ming can be regarded as an elaborate handicraft.

The stitching of the Ming has a clear body.

The number of Ming people accounted for two-thirds of the total population, and the population of the local areas directly under the central government accounted for one-half of the total population, and the population directly under the central government will rise to two-thirds after the reform.

Most of the important manufacturers and industrial production capacity of the Ming Dynasty are concentrated in the local area, and the industrial production capacity of the directly governed areas can account for the absolute majority after the reform.

The stitching of the Ming Dynasty has layers and veins.

Zhili, local, internal domain, imperial village, pro-domain, honor domain, and external domain, from the inside out, the level of control and independence of the imperial court is very clear and clear.

The entire territory of the Ming Dynasty is full of Ming Yayan characters, general Ming etiquette, crown clothes, official system, popular Ming style cultural and entertainment products, and there is no local culture that can compete.

The current Ming Dynasty is a cluster of civilizations with a clear center, rather than a country in the modern sense.

If you have to compare, it can barely be regarded as a federal empire.

In the Second German Empire in history, if Prussia could become the clear suzerainty of all the other states, it would be similar to the current Ming Dynasty, but the scale was far from the same.

There is a subject, there are rules, and there is a cultural centripetal force.

A newly added part, even if the Ming Dynasty does not specifically guide it, it can naturally and slowly integrate it.

If the Ming court had paid special attention, the pace of assimilation and integration would have accelerated again.

After Lucia's Urals were cut off and stitched onto Daming's body, it was basically impossible to break away.

It will gradually be absorbed by the Ming group and eventually become a part of the Ming civilization.

The Taixi people have a certain understanding of this situation, but they are still more ambiguous, and the performance is to be more cautious.

But those two options seem to have given way after all.

The atmosphere at the meeting, in the midst of extreme depression, recovered a little bit.

Wademeyer, chairman of the Lucia Cabinet of Ministers, quickly sorted out the logic of the two new choices, and subconsciously wanted to bargain:

"Since Lucia is made a vassal, or the Xianbei part of the Romanov dynasty is split into a vassal, no more land should be ceded."

Zhu Jingyuan directly waved his hand to stop the other party:

"The cession of the Lena River valley and the upper reaches of the Yenisei River is a prerequisite, and it is Lucia's initiative to tear up the reparations of the peace treaty, and there is no room for discussion.

"Then, split the east of the Urals and become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, or Lucia as a whole became a tributary state of the Ming Dynasty.

"Or directly cede Central Xianbei, make Western Xianbei a demilitarized zone, and sign a twenty-year peace treaty.

"There is no room for further discussion of the three options, you can only choose which one to accept, or to continue the war directly."

Prince Nikolai still had a black face and did not speak.

Wademeyer bowed to Zhu Jingyuan:

"His Royal Highness the Great Food King, we need time to discuss and consider."

Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand as expected:

"Like the Ottomans, you have a month."

Today's meeting has come to an end just after it began.

Zhu Jingyuan sat in his position, watched the representatives leave the hall cautiously, closed his eyes and thought for a while.

His father conveyed what his grandfather meant, if he really wanted a twenty-year truce, then he would be a little more relaxed with Lucia.

Lucia was forced to sign a twenty-year peace treaty before moving her forward base to Khiva and Kazakhstan.

If it is completely in accordance with his own personal meaning, it is a truce for 20 years, and when the equipment replacement of the Ming Dynasty is completed, there will be another world war.

But those twenty years of truce must also be the time for Lucia to prepare for the war with all her might, and Lucia will mobilize all the forces she can muster.

In the next war, the Ming Dynasty should be able to win in the overall situation, but there will definitely be many variables in the details.

Given the reality, and given the losses and casualties that war can cause, it is clear that it is better to get a permanent peace directly.

Many things can be achieved without war, or without a world war.

The two choices he offered actually gave Lucia a relieve, giving them room to breathe and rethink.

But it's time to put pressure on it again, otherwise the other party will definitely not be honestly appointed.

Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while, opened his eyes again, and the ordinary representatives on the scene had already left, so he opened his mouth and instructed his staff:

"Send a message to the Governor's Mansion of the Jingshi and the Right Army, and ten days later, Khiva will set up a domain, and the army will enter."

After the representatives of the anti-Ming alliance left the palace, they went directly to the place where the Lucia delegates lived, and once again held urgent internal consultations.

As soon as the door to the conference room was closed, Prince Nicholas, who was holding his breath, opened his mouth first and said loudly to the representatives of several other countries:

"You are all traitors!"

The representatives of other countries were embarrassed.

The Prince of Wales of England came out to reassure him:

"Nikolai, don't do this, in fact, our strategy has already taken effect, and the two conditions given by Daming in the end are already concessions."

Prince Nikolai's anger is still not completely gone:

"But we also made a de facto concession and tacitly accepted the request to hand over the Lena River valley and the upper Yenisei River to the Ming Dynasty.

"Those two options were clearly prepared in advance and should have been an ultimatum, just like the conditions given to the Ottomans."

French Foreign Minister Talleyrand immediately said:

"What we have to think about now is what Lucia should choose, instead of dwelling on the past."

Archduke Karl of Austria said with a dry smile:

"If we follow the traditional perception of Europa in the past, it is obviously more appropriate to divide only the east of the Urals.

"It is more in the interests of the Romanov family to establish the Xianbei principality, which is governed by the Romanov family's branch system, and become part of the Ming Empire.

"Because then it would only be necessary for the regions east of the Urals to pay taxes to the Ming Empire, and the part west of the Urals would still be able to develop independently.

"But you have to consider that the person you owe your allegiance is to the Ming Emperor, not to the other Europa monarchs.

"You have branched out to join the family branch of the Ming Dynasty, and it is a question of whether you can continue to exist independently.

"It is said that there are too many people in Lucia, especially in the East, who are in Lucia and whose hearts are in the Ming Dynasty.

Archduke Karl was not good at diplomacy in the first place, and these words were more direct and unkind.

The point is that the statement that the heart is in Daming is a bit like a short-term revelation for Lucia.

Prince Nikolai was on fire, looking at Archduke Karl of the Habsburgs, and said in a strange way:

"The Ming royal family only marries local civilians, and they don't need to marry to enhance and maintain the dignity of the royal family.

"They never marry other royal families, let alone take the territory of other families through marriage."

The Habsburgs once slowly became the largest royal family in Tessie through continuous marriage, and was jokingly called the "lower body fort" by later netizens.

He once ruled all of Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and half of Italy, and for a long time held the throne of the Holy Roman Empire.

Grand Duke Karl was not good at diplomacy in the first place, and Prince Nicholas's words made Karl a little irritable, and he snorted coldly and said:

"We in Austria don't care about your Lucia's affairs, you can choose how to be Ming's dog."

In the face of this unceremonious humiliation, Prince Nikolai could not bear it anymore:

"Who wants to be Ming's dog? It is you Austria who want to quickly stop the war and withdraw from the anti-Ming alliance, and then go to form an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, right? ”

Archduke Karl went straight to the head, and subconsciously wanted to pull out the weapon.

Fortunately, everyone went to the palace to negotiate in the morning, and they didn't bring weapons with them, so they directly took out a blanket.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the representatives of the imperial courts on both sides immediately came out and grabbed the royal family members on both sides.

Then British Prime Minister Pitt came out to maintain order:

"The two highnesses are discouraged, we Europa can't mess with ourselves, that's the result that Da Ming wants."

Lucia's court representative, Wademeyer, pulled the prince of his own family:

"There are four options before us, first, to continue the war, and second, to stop the war for twenty years, and then to continue the war.

"Third, the whole became a special vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and fourth, the Xianbei was split to become an ordinary vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.

"We can really only choose the fourth.

"And there is no need to think about opportunism at all, Daming will definitely have detailed requirements and supervision.

"Da Ming doesn't mind continuing the war at all."

Lucia herself was apparently inclined to split, using a branch of the Romanov family to reconcile with the Ming Dynasty in order to preserve the continuation of the Romanov dynasty.

But this is obviously not in the interests of other Tessie countries, and after Lucia reconciled with Daming, she became a cerberus on the Tessie border.

So Talleyrand of France spoke directly:

"Haven't you thought about preparing for twenty years to challenge Da Ming again!"

Wademeyer shook his head weakly and said:

"No way, our Lucia is not Daming's opponent."

Talleyrand immediately asked rhetorically:

"And what about all of Europe? We have stood together today, and we must stand together in the future, otherwise we can only be the dogs of Daming! ”

The others were stunned.

Talleyrand immediately went along with his thoughts:

"The so-called League of Nations organized by Daming has no practical meaning for us, and it is just a platform for negotiation with Daming.

"We want to preserve our own anti-Ming alliance and transform it into a long-standing alliance, or even a real federation.

"The native population of Daming is only more than 300 million, and our native population of Europa is also more than 300 million.

"If all of us are truly united, there is no way for the Ming to bully us so casually.

"Although our cooperation this time is not smooth, we have barely reached a tie with Daming.

"What if we spent twenty years really connecting each other?

"We are completely open to each other and fully connect our railways and roads.

"Open up industry and finance to each other, remove import and export restrictions from each other, and let manufacturers operate freely throughout Europa.

"Assemble an army directly under the Alliance and even the Federation to jointly defend our territory and seas.

"If we wait for another battle in twenty years, we may not be able to draw with Daming again, and we may not be able to win the battle.

"As long as we are truly united, the Ming can only put us in the position of a country of the same level as Rome did.

"It's a very clear and unambiguous direction, and it's the only direction.

"We all have the opportunity to be on an equal footing with Da Ming, and there is no need for anyone to wag their tails and beg for mercy from Da Ming!"

Talleyrand's heart was surging, and several representatives at the scene were thrilled to hear it.

But there are also people who are calmly and objectively considering, and there are also people who directly raise doubts.

Prussia's Hardenberg asked directly:

"How exactly should we be united? Who will be the leader of our alliance, or even the emperor of the Federal Empire?

"What language should be used within the Union and even within the Federation? You can't continue to communicate in the Daming dialect, right?

"The complete opening of borders and traffic, as well as customs duties, is simply not fair to our countries.

"Prussia, Austria, Italy, and Portugal are all native countries, while Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal are countries with colonies.

"How can we unite with each other? Would you like to take out the colonial market and share it with us? ”

Talleyrand responded without hesitation:

"I have actually thought deeply about these questions of Mr. Hardenberg, otherwise I would not have made a big fuss here.

"My idea is that the leaders of the Alliance, and even the Emperor of the Federation, can be elected like the Holy Roman Empire.

"But the alliance and even the federation should have more power than the HRE court, and the countries should jointly cede a part of the power.

"Linguistically speaking, traditional Latin is used, and Latin education is universalized in all of our countries, so that the book is the same.

"The colonies of our four countries can arrange for the branches of their respective royal families to become the masters, split into independent countries, and join our alliance."

Some representatives of the royal family and the court nodded lightly when they listened, but others couldn't help but shake their heads vigorously.

Hardenberg remained dismissive, saying:

"The model of the Holy Roman Empire could not produce a truly powerful empire, because such an empire had no basis for domination at all.

"According to Emperor Daming Renwu, it's a stitching monster.

"Almost all Taixi countries have tried to learn the traditional Chinese book and text education, but the results are very different.

"Only countries such as Prussia, France, England, and Lucia, which have an absolute majority nation, can carry it out smoothly.

"Austria and Ottomans are not at all, they are trying harder than we are, but they are less effective than us.

"Because they don't have a real core nation.

"It will be more difficult for us to force Latin throughout Europa than it is to popularize Ottoman Turkish in Ottoman.

"The Europa League, which you have formed like this, has no real core.

"At best, it's just a large Austrian or an Ottoman, or maybe even a large Shinra.

"It's still all useless stitching monsters, there's no way to really concentrate on it, and when things come into play, they're still fighting on their own.

"It is basically impossible to get the royal family to cede power to an uncertain target."

Talleyrand immediately went on to respond:

"Of course there are difficulties, but that's exactly what we should be working for, and that's the only direction we can succeed.

"Even if we can only do it to the extent of Austria, we are more powerful in Europa than we are now.

"At least have the ability to say no to Daming, and have the ability to no longer be arbitrarily oppressed by Daming."

Hardenberg still shook his head noncommittally, apparently still not believing that Talleyrand's vision could come to fruition.

But Hardenberg himself has no good solution, and since Europa does not have a Juche nation, it is impossible to reunify.

Even if it was unified by force by a certain emperor, at most it would be a large Austria, and this kind of stitching monster country could collapse at any time.

The discussion at the scene reached a stalemate.