Chapter 151 The League of Nations is founded
Immediately after the meeting was over, Pitt asked delegates from all countries to come together at the British mission's lodgings to discuss it.
The aim is to persuade all countries to go back to the one-country-one-vote rule.
Pete himself doesn't have much hope for his goals.
In an era when strength determines status, especially when there is a Ming Dynasty as a reference.
If you want each country to accept one country, one vote, all countries can have the same status on an important occasion.
It's not an easy thing to do.
If you accept the rules of the Ming Dynasty from the beginning, put a group of Ming vassal states in to get votes, and directly set the rule of one country and one vote, that would be fine.
At that time, he also wanted to ask for two more tickets for the UK, but it set off a chain reaction, and finally it became a ranking for all the Tessie countries.
Right now...... A lot of things can't be turned back when they start.
Pete's current efforts just don't want to regret it, and the prime minister doesn't know how long he can do it.
In the face of the representatives of various countries, Pete tried to explain the sinister intentions of the Ming Dynasty, and explained the despicable strategy of the Ming Dynasty to divide and sow discord between the countries of Taixi.
The most serious of the results were the representatives of the Netherlands, Italy, and Portugal.
Lucia's Wedemeyer was thinking seriously, but Prince Nikolai seemed a little impatient.
Prince Nicholas looked at the representatives of the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, and even England, and was a little disgusted.
After Pete's great truth finally came to an end, Prince Nikolai spoke directly:
"Originally, Da Ming's idea was that we all had one vote for one country, and Da Ming used the vassal state to get the amount of votes he needed.
"As a result, you British jumped out first, and you want your colonies to vote.
"So what you want most is three votes for you British, including us Lucia, and all other countries have one vote, right?
"Now that you're back and persuading everyone to stick to one country, one vote again, how do you make us trust you?"
Heinrich of Prussia also directly picked up the conversation:
"I think what His Royal Highness Prince Daishi said is very reasonable, and the pale absolute equality is meaningless.
"The rule that strength determines status can truly bring stability.
"Moreover, according to Prince Daishi's assumption, the voting weight of each country is not fixed, but is adjusted every five years.
"If you are dissatisfied with your status, you can work hard to improve your national strength.
"I'm not in favor of going back to a one-country-one-vote solution."
The royal representatives of several other countries also expressed their views one after another, and their views were not much different, and they basically supported the distribution of voting rights according to their strength.
Representatives of the imperial courts, though some of them have carefully analyzed it, believe that one country, one vote may be more beneficial to Europa's unity.
However, uniting the countries of Europa is not a necessary task or goal, but rather a more tangible task to preserve their own position.
Therefore, after several rounds of discussion in this internal meeting, most of the delegates still thought that it was more appropriate to divide the voting rights according to their strength.
The discussion was fruitless until noon, and finally broke up.
Pete looked at the departing crowd and sat down in his seat with a long sigh.
The Prince of Wales sat next to Pete and seemed to look very open to persuasion:
"Your Excellency the Prime Minister doesn't care, it is impossible to unite the countries of Europa.
"Voting rights based on merit will ensure our supreme position in the Europa.
"Neither my father nor the rest of the cabinet could say anything."
Pete didn't know what to say.
There is indeed nothing unreasonable about strength determining voting rights.
But in this direction, Pete feels like he doesn't see a future for Europa.
His own prime minister is about to come to an end, and he doesn't care if the cabinet is satisfied, so there is no point in saying anything now.
In the end, Pete still didn't say anything.
The next day, the meeting continued, and after a brief discussion and confirmation, all countries accepted yesterday's final proposal.
Countries distribute voting rights according to their position of strength, and vassal states no longer directly determine voting rights.
The Ming Dynasty had twenty-eight votes, and the Taixi countries had a total of nineteen votes.
Then we moved on to the issue of voting weights and moved on to the other structures of the League of Nations.
This framework was basically planned by Zhu Jingyuan himself.
Zhu Jingyuan based on the experience of his previous life and combined with the actual situation of the current world.
It was decided that in the initial period of the League of Nations, a few of the most critical infrastructure institutions would be established first.
Conference of the League of Nations: Merging the main functions of the General Assembly, the Executive Yuan, and the Security Council, it is the supreme authority of the League of Nations, and is also a permanent body.
Ministry of War and Peace: It has some of the functions of the Security Council and is actually responsible for the formulation, updating, implementation and supervision of war-related agreements.
Ministry of Nature and Environmental Protection: responsible for researching and observing the earth's natural environment and climate change, and protecting mountains, forests, water bodies, animals and plants.
Ministry of Social and Economic Affairs: responsible for the coordination of international social and economic issues such as science and technology, culture, industry, and ethnicity.
Investigation and Adjudication Department: responsible for cases between countries, including border conflicts, territorial disputes, war crimes, etc.
League of Nations Cabinet: Cooperate with various departments, handle various daily affairs, organize various meetings and activities, etc.
Among these institutions, the Ministry of Nature and Environmental Protection was forcibly added by Zhu Jingyuan, and in addition to this, they are all very necessary basic institutions.
With these institutions, the League of Nations was able to barely function.
If you need other functions and other affairs in the future, you can add the required departments under these institutions.
Historically, the League of Nations and the United Nations have been in the same vein as the "Mandate" and "Trusteeship" related bodies, but now they have not been established.
Zhu Jingyuan did not beat around the bush and did not boast that "the happiness and development of the people in the areas under his mandate is the sacred responsibility of the civilized world."
Nothing to preach: the best way to achieve this is to "entrust the trusteeship of the people entrusted to the developed countries".
"The resources, experience and geographical location of the entrusted State are sufficient to undertake the obligation and are willing to accept the commission."
The international alliance that Zhu Jingyuan is now establishing is very straightforward and directly allocates colonies.
Finally, the headquarters of the League of Nations, Zhu Jingyuan directly chose Haifa City on the coast of the Daqin Sea, a port city on the east coast of the Daqin Sea.
This directly written proposal surprised the representatives of the Tessie countries.
Originally, they all thought that the Ming Dynasty would ask for the headquarters to be located in the Ming Dynasty, or in a place like the Lion City in the Strait of Malacca.
Even if you don't want a group of Taixi people to get close to the Ming mainland, you can choose Tianzhu or the Persian Gulf.
Unexpectedly, Da Ming was directly placed in the Great Qin Sea, and the Taixi countries wanted to go here for a meeting, which was much easier than going to the Lion City.
The representatives of the various countries in Taixi, who thought that they needed to make a lot of trouble in choosing the location of the headquarters, breathed a sigh of relief.
There is nothing left to talk about in this position, and it is impossible to move any further west.
However, after the delegates breathed a sigh of relief, they quickly understood that even if it was the coast of the Great Qin Sea, it was now the Ming Dynasty.
It was nominally part of the Great Food Domain, but there were already political envoys in these places.
After thinking about it in this way, the representatives of various countries suddenly felt a little melancholy.
It is more than 7,000 kilometers away from the Ming Jingshi in a straight line, and the route is more than 10,000 kilometers, but it still belongs to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
It can even be considered local.
Daming is really too big, which makes people feel completely hopeless and powerless.
As for Zhu Jingyuan's purpose, it is actually very simple.
The Taixi countries were not close allies of the Ming Dynasty, and the two sides even had a hostile relationship.
To put the headquarters of this international alliance in Daming is to put a large group of de facto spies in.
At the same time, Zhu Jingyuan and the Ming officials did not want a large group of Taixi diplomats and staff to go east of Malacca.
To put it bluntly, it's disgust.
If you put it in places like Persia and Tianzhu, the representatives of Taixi countries have to go through the Xihai Canal when they come by boat, which is also a slightly sensitive place.
But just throw it away and put it on the coast of the Great Qin Sea.
Now it is different from before the war, and the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty is not only the Xihai Peninsula, but the entire east coast of the Great Qin Sea.
The key is to connect with the mainland, and don't worry about the security here.
Neither the territorial rules nor the right to vote were of particular importance to the organizational framework of the League of Nations, and it could still be modified once it was established.
Therefore, the confirmation of the relevant regulations is progressing very quickly.
Moreover, Zhu Jingyuan suggested based on the experience of his previous life that the draft of the convention formulated by the Honglu Temple of the Ming Dynasty is itself sufficiently complete and comprehensive.
At the same time, the Ming Dynasty is in an absolutely dominant position in the current international arena and can promote the rapid compromise and adoption of clauses that do not involve the fundamental interests of other countries.
This again increased the efficiency of the discussion in the meeting.
A large number of basic clauses are not questioned at all, and even the occasional problem is often resolved in a few words.
There are a lot of topics that can be done in one day.
The discussion meetings were held intermittently, and there were constant compromises between countries and the content of the articles was constantly updated.
The draft of the convention originally drafted by the Ming Dynasty has been continuously updated iteratively.
As the meeting continued, there were fewer and fewer points of contention, and the League of Nations Convention took shape.
On September 15, the 34th year of the reign of Taiping, the Convention of the League of Nations was formally drafted, and it took a total of almost 20 days.
The representatives of various countries who had held the meeting for 20 consecutive days went to rest first, and the staff of Honglu Temple began to sort out the official signing documents.
The Ming Dynasty is completely different from the United States after World War I, and the League of Nations promoted by the Ming Dynasty is also far from the League of Nations promoted by the United States.
At that time, the United States had the largest domestic industrial production capacity in the world, but there was no large colonial market for dumped goods.
Therefore, under the banner of universality and equality, the United States is calling for the establishment of independent countries in all parts of the world.
Or a vassal state with an open-door policy under the protection of the overlord.
Then let these independent states, as well as semi-independent open vassals, also join the League of Nations.
All in all, the aim is to get more open markets.
This is the goal that the United States has always pursued in modern times.
This was in fundamental conflict of interest with the colonial empires led by Britain and France.
At that time, the influence of the United States in the world was not enough to convince Europe and even the whole world, and it was far from being comparable with Britain and France.
In fact, Britain and France dominated the agenda of the Paris Peace Conference, and the goals of the United States were not achieved at the Treaty of Versailles.
The League of Nations was bound to the Peace of Versailles.
In the end, the United States, which was the first to promote the establishment of the League of Nations, did not join the League of Nations because Congress did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
This once again strengthened the isolationist atmosphere of the United States, and also led to the loss of the influence of the League of Nations, and it was difficult to interfere in the affairs of Yinzhou.
Because the United States was the country with the strongest actual industrial capacity at that time, and it was also the country that had the greatest influence on the Yinzhou region.
The failure of the United States to join the League of Nations laid the foundation for the eventual disintegration of the League of Nations.
Now the Ming Dynasty has its own colony, and its own market is broad enough.
So there is a certain idea of the market in the countries of Tessie, but it is not strong.
As for the broad promotion of colonial independence, it is impossible to get along with oneself, so there is no idea at all.
The purpose of urging the independence of the British and French colonies was in fact to cause them to annex after independence.
Therefore, the international alliance that the Ming Dynasty is now leading is not at all the kind of world alliance promoted by the United States in history.
It is a consultation platform for a few large countries, and they will not bring small countries in for discussion.
Instead, they are ready to impose the Ming Dynasty's leading construction order template on their respective colonies and the few small countries that remain.
On September 19, the 34th year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty, the Fengtian Hall of the Huangzhuang Palace in the Western Cape, the Ming Dynasty and representatives of various countries gathered together again.
The signing ceremony of the Convention of the League of Nations and the inaugural ceremony of the League of Nations were officially held.
The seats of the signatory countries will be the same as those of the previous signing ceremony.
Zhu Jingyuan is on the top, Ming officials and representatives of the vassal states are on the left, and Taixi countries are on the right.
However, apart from the representatives of the two sides and the vassal states of each country, no countries were invited to participate in the ceremony.
After the signatures were completed, Zhu Jingyuan stood up and announced:
"I declare that, from now on, the League of Nations is formally established, and that the countries to which the delegates present here belong are the original members of the League.
"The first meeting of the alliance will be held in three days to discuss the development and distribution of unclaimed land in Mozhou.
"After this meeting, countries are requested to appoint special representatives and staff to the headquarters of the alliance to participate in the day-to-day affairs of the alliance."
The representatives of various countries also breathed a sigh of relief, and while standing with Zhu Jingyuan, they all cheered up again.
In the eyes of the Taixi countries, compared with the rules and framework of the League of Nations itself, the real key is what Mozhou pioneers.
Yinzhou has been completely finalized, and the west and southwest of Mozhou are the last borderless lands in this world.
Although these places are actually inhabited, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Taixi countries, they all regard it as a borderless land as a matter of course.
No one thinks there's anything wrong with that title.
In this day and age, if someone thinks it's wrong, it's really wrong.
Now the countries of Taixi, whether they originally had colonies or did not have colonies, want to divide a colony in Mozhou.
Especially Lucia, there is no land at all on the Shenou continent, so you can only look overseas, and there is only Mozhou overseas.
The land in the sun and the warm port have been Lucia's dreams for hundreds of years.
However, delegates were also worried.
When the Ming Dynasty negotiated on the Yin Zhou side, will it show its absolute strong posture again when allocating the land in Mozhou?
If Da Ming negotiated the same as in Yinzhou, how much land could he get in Mozhou.
It's a tangling and worrisome question.
In this complex atmosphere, Zhu Jingyuan on the stage said in a relaxed tone:
"Okay, the signing ceremony is officially over, let's go to the front of the hall to take a group photo!"