Chapter 137: The World War Is Over!

Monroe was cornered, and no matter what he chose, Florida couldn't keep it.

"That's the sorrow of the colonies."

Monroe muttered in his heart, and without bargaining with Zhu Jingyuan, he directly said that he knew, and then said goodbye and left.

The possibility of letting Daming lower his requirements is very low, and at the same time, it may not be beneficial for Daming to lower his requirements.

So Monroe just gave up.

After Monroe returned to the British delegation's residence, he went directly to Pitt and the Prince of Wales and conveyed Zhu Jingyuan's request.

After hearing this, Prince Will was a little puzzled:

"Why did Ming want Hudson Bay? Could it be the French......"

Pete sighed and said:

"The French probably ceded the north of the Great Lakes, and the Ming wanted all the land north of the Great Lakes ......"

Monroe smiled wryly and said:

"Now the world is really at peace."

The Prince of Wales had a dull expression:

"Peace under the rules laid down by the Ming Dynasty, Your Excellency Prime Minister, do you think we should accept this condition?"

Pete repeated his point again:

"If you don't take into account the coastline of Yinzhou, this kind of representation is not huge, so my suggestion is to accept it.

"So I also hope that Your Highness will join me in persuading Your Majesty to accept this condition."

The Prince of Wales was silent for a moment, then nodded weakly:

"Okay......"

For the next half month, the formal meeting was not held again.

Representatives of various countries communicated privately, privately with the Ming Dynasty, and with the kings and courts in the rear of the homeland.

Most of the conditions have been determined.

On July 12, the 34th year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty, representatives of various countries gathered again in the Wenhua Hall of the Huangzhuang Palace in Haijiao, Western Ocean.

The various conditions that had been negotiated in private were submitted in turn by the representatives of each country, and they were officially made public and recorded for confirmation.

Britain and France ceded land to pay compensation, Spain and Portugal ceded land, and Prussia, Austria and Italy paid compensation.

Prussia compensated the Ming military with 5 million gold bills, Austria with 5 million gold bills, and Sardinia Italy with 3 million gold bills.

The five countries paid a total of 33 million gold notes, equivalent to 1,650 tons of gold and 1.65 billion silver notes.

Converted into about 1.1 billion taels of silver at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Historically, the battlecruiser Hood cost thirty-eight times.

Of course, the cost of building warships is actually only a small part of the military expenditure of the navy.

In the last year of World War I, in 1918, the British Navy spent 330 million pounds, which alone cost 54 Hoods.

However, after the armistice, several ships of the same class that had already started construction were quickly canceled, and in the end only one Hood was completed.

The amount of 1.1 billion taels of silver can directly affect the life of the Qing Dynasty, but it does not have much pressure on a group of industrialized countries.

Otherwise they won't accept it either.

The total amount is equivalent to 70 to 10 percent of their annual fiscal revenue.

It can be paid in 10 years, and about 8% of the fiscal revenue of the year will be paid each year.

And then there's the land.

South of the Great Lakes, east of the River Honey, and north of Florida, this area was colonized by Britain and France.

Between Mexico and Panama was a Spanish colony.

Greenland belongs to Norway and Denmark.

In addition to these three areas, the entire Yinzhou mainland and the surrounding islands are all owned by the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, it is still only nominally owned by the Ming Dynasty.

The central part of North Yinzhou, that is, the central and northern parts of the United States and Canada, has more than 6 million square kilometers of land, and now only a small number of Yin tribes are active.

Since the Great Railway across Yinzhou was not built, the central part of Yinzhou has long been a disputed area, and it is still a paradise for Yinzhou bison, with an estimated total number of 20 to 30 million heads.

The northernmost polar archipelago of North Yin Chau is also home to the indigenous Inuit.

How to effectively control these vast primitive wastelands is an important task for the Ming court in the future.

Only the marginal areas of Nanyinzhou have been developed.

The extent of rainforest destruction on both sides of the Yajiang River in the central part of the country is much lower than in the 21st century.

With a total area of about 7 million square kilometers, it is the world's largest tropical rainforest, and only a very small number of Yinzhou natives live in the surrounding area.

The Brazilian highlands in the southern part of the rainforest are also sparsely populated, and the Tessi immigrants are mainly concentrated along the southeastern coast.

The total area of Yinzhou in the north and south is more than 40 million square kilometers, and the total number of Ming people, Taixi people, and indigenous people combined is definitely not more than 200 million people.

Moreover, the population is relatively concentrated, mainly in the south of South Yinzhou, the southeast, the middle of Yinzhou, the east and west coasts of North Yinzhou.

The central part of Yinzhou in the north and south is almost a "no man's land".

On this basis, most of the territories handed over by Spain and Portugal to the north of the central part of Nanyinzhou were still in a state of melee between the princes.

How to deal with these separatist forces in the future is also a difficult problem for the Ming court.

The comprehensive planning of the entire Yinzhou is a problem for the future of the Ming Dynasty.

However, that was all for the future, and the on-site meeting went very smoothly that day, and after the meeting, the formal production of the agreement document began.

The Ottoman Grand Vizierza Aden set out again for the subsequent meeting on the formation of the League of Nations.

On July 25, delegates from all over the world gathered again at the Fengtian Temple.

Under the witness of the countries of the ceremony, as well as the witness of each other, representatives of Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Prussia, and Italy signed a permanent peace treaty with the Ming Dynasty in turn.

All peace treaties were signed by a single country, in the languages of the two countries that participated in the signing, and the Ming text prevailed.

After the peace treaty was signed, the Anti-Ming League was officially dissolved.

On behalf of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jingyuan officially announced his commitment to the Taixi countries and promised not to occupy the land of Taixi itself.

At the same time, the Tessie countries also made a commitment not to open up new lands outside of Mozhou.

Yin Zhou can't go to open up anymore, because Yin Zhou has already been carved up.

After the North Yinzhou belonged to the Ming, Britain, France, and the West, the South Yinzhou belonged to the Ming Dynasty alone.

In other words, the land to be divided in the entire world is only Mozhou.

The partition of Mozhou will be the first major event after the establishment of the League of Nations.

After the two sides issued official commitments, today's formal ceremony is all over.

The officials of Honglu Temple beckoned all the delegates to go out and took a group photo together in front of the Fengtian Temple.

The representatives of the Ming court stood in the first row, leaving a space between each of them, nominally reserved for the Romans.

The main representatives of the vassal states and Huangzhuang of the Ming Dynasty stood on the left behind the representatives of the Ming court, and the main representatives of the Taixi countries stood on the right side.

Ordinary representatives and entourages of both sides lined up behind the main representatives.

Throughout the process from signing the contract to the promised release, photographers from various countries also left a large number of photos.

These photos in the middle of the peace talks and the final group photo will become important historical records.

It will certainly be written in the future archives of various countries, and it may also appear in various books in later generations.

During the whole process, the representatives of the Ming Dynasty were all beaming, and the Ming Dynasty did not win on the battlefield this time, but won a big victory at the negotiating table.

The representatives of the Tessie countries forced a smile on their faces, and they did not completely lose on the battlefield, but they did not win at the negotiating table either.

However, they were also relieved, although the peace talks lost a lot of land, they were all colonies after all.

Moreover, the largest part of the area actually ceded was the area seized by the warlords of Southern Yinzhou, and all of them could become independent at any time.

The other is to give the ownership of a large number of undeveloped wilderness areas to the Ming Dynasty.

The land that was directly and forcibly ceded by the Ming Dynasty was originally in a state of absolute domination of various countries was actually very small.

Tessie did not lose a single penny in his own right.

The colonies of Mozhou, with only a few strongholds in the middle of the east coast, were promised to be handed over to the Ming Dynasty at the time of the armistice.

The other Mozhou regions are still in a state of waiting to be divided, and the Ming Dynasty did not ask for any additional land in Mozhou.

This is also the reason why the Tessie countries were able to accept this peace treaty.

As long as the local land does not lose territory, the pressure on the Taisi people is relatively limited.

In its original history, the Seven Years' War (1756 to 1763) ended.

The British allowed the French to choose for themselves whether to give up French Canada or the three islands in the Caribbean where sugar cane could be grown.

This shows that in the eyes of the British at that time, the French Canadian region of North Yinzhou was similar in value to the three islands in the French Caribbean......

The French preferred sugar to fur, so they abandoned French Canada and chose to keep the three "sugar islands".

This seemed unreasonable to later generations, but it was a natural choice at the time.

For most Tessians, the vast colonies overseas were not particularly important.

Especially those uninhabited areas that have not been explored and explored, as long as there is no such thing as gold mines, there is no real value.

Before the Industrial Revolution, wealth was where there was population, and no man's land was rotten.

It is completely incomparable to the land of Europe itself.

Whether Canada changed hands or the Caribbean islands were snatched, it was not as influential as Prussia scraping a piece of land from Poland.

Frederick the Great is called the Great because he saved Silesia during the Seven Years' War.

The Spaniards and the Portuguese, as the earliest colonial powers, could be regarded as empires on which the sun never set, but they were always only kingdoms in Ctessy.

The British took the throne of the Tianzhu people, and the British king was called the emperor.

Historically, there have been anti-French alliances, anti-German alliances, and anti-Turkish alliances, but there was no clear anti-British alliance besieging Britain proper. It's just helping the United States during the American Revolution. Didn't think about taking the opportunity to occupy the LinkedIn Islands.

The British had scraped so much territory overseas that they did not attract much attention in the early days of Tessie.

Lucia concentrated on expanding eastward, and her territory expanded as far as Alaska on Yinzhou, without any obvious restrictions.

As soon as he went to the land on the Black Sea coast, as soon as he tried to seize Constantinople, then Britain and France immediately intervened.

The peace agreement signed by Daming and Taixi is the result of admitting defeat for the Taixi countries.

Da Ming did not ask for an inch of land in Taixi, and also promised never to seize the land of Taixi Continent.

This promise is probably the most valuable thing the Tessie people have ever gotten.

So this result is not particularly bad.

On the same day, the news of the official signing of the peace treaty spread throughout the world through a telegraph line.

Then it made the front page of almost all the newspapers the next day.

The World War is Over! 》

"The Ming Dynasty and the Anti-Ming Alliance Formally Sign a Peace Treaty"

"The Anti-Ming Alliance Officially Dissolved"

"This is an unprecedented victory of the Ming Dynasty"

The Age of Peace Has Come! 》

"Peace Promises, Europa Homeland is Safe"

"The Formation Conference of the League of Nations is about to be held"

"A New World Pattern is About to Emerge"

"The Ming Empire is ruling the world"

The Future of Europeans in Africa

Where is Rome? 》

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