It didn't take long for Grenville to make a decision.

Grenville replied directly to Wang Wei and Libott that they could implement their planned tests.

That is, the Tianzhu people in the remaining British strongholds were driven to the interior of South Tianzhu, which had become a wilderness.

If the Tianzhu people can live on this continent that has been ravaged by the plague for a long time, it means that the plague has completely subsided.

If they all die, the plague is still ongoing......

Then, Grenville began to make continuous phone calls.

Call your own family, your closer relatives, your most important friends, and members of the same faction who have to keep in touch.

This call can only be made by yourself, and you can't arrange for your subordinates to do it, because this matter is very personal.

Grenville would like to remind them that if they have bought land, real estate, or manor in Tianzhu, please make sure that the property rights are clear.

If you are interested in buying and have not yet started, you should complete the transaction as soon as possible.

Now that Nan Tianzhu's asset prices have reached their lowest point, Nan Tianzhu is likely to be about to secede from the United Kingdom.

If there are families who are ready to arrange for members to go to Tianzhu to stay behind, they must also leave as soon as possible, otherwise they may not be able to catch up.

Now, the social order of the entire Nantianzhu has completely collapsed, and most of the area has become a wasteland.

There may still be some remnants of the local inland population, which have become absolute "remnants", and they cannot form settlements at all.

The vast majority of ordinary British immigrants also left and were relocated to southwest Mexicana.

At present, the local land, estates, and real estate are not able to generate any income.

However, in this extreme situation, some British people are secretly buying all kinds of fixed assets in the South Tianzhu area.

Among these people, in addition to a small number of clever private businessmen, there are more well-informed high-ranking civil servants, and a small number of nobles who are also well-informed.

They all got the news more or less, knowing that the United Kingdom would hand over Nan Tianzhu to Daming sooner or later.

According to past experience, after receiving land from other countries, the Ming would not recognize the nobility of the locals.

At the same time, the locals will not be allowed to retain all of their original wealth.

However, most of the areas that the Ming received so far would allow those who were willing to stay to keep some of their property.

The most typical reference object is the Dongyi Kingdom.

The key point is that when the Ming Dynasty accepted Long Island and the Chesapeake Peninsula, which was later the Dongyi region, for everyone who was in the Dongyi Kingdom at that time, the Ming Dynasty granted the status of Dongyi National or above, and registered their household registration.

Therefore, these well-informed civil servants bought some land, real estate, manors, mountains and forests and so on more or less when the land price in Tianzhu fell to the freezing point......

There are also many families who are ready to arrange for a family member to go to Tianzhu and wait for Daming to deal with and contact when he goes to receive it.

Their intention is already obvious, that is, to take advantage of this handover opportunity to obtain the household registration status within the Great Tomorrow Dynasty system.

With the identity in the Ming system, coupled with the local land of Tianzhu, there is the basis for formal immigration to Tianzhu.

Tianzhu is far closer to Shenzhou itself than Dongyi Kingdom, and has a higher status in the Great Ming Dynasty system.

The behavior of these merchants, civil servants, and aristocrats is a typical use of the information gap to invest or speculate.

The cost can be said to be very low, and now the value of Nantianzhu's asset certificate is almost waste paper.

The risk of investment is not high, after all, Daming is a civilized country, and there are traces of past operations.

But the end result can be very high.

After the Ming Dynasty obtained Nantianzhu, he would definitely immigrate to Nantianzhu and redevelop the land of Nantianzhu at the same time.

The assets that these merchants, aristocrats, and civil servants now picked up almost for nothing will be promoted with the redevelopment of Nantianzhu.

Although there is a high probability that they will be compressed according to a certain standard, according to the standard of assets that can be retained in the past, they can still become the middle class.

There is also the more critical identity and household registration within the Great Tomorrow Dynasty system.

Grenville had been on the phone for most of the day, and had not dealt with any government affairs for the whole day.

In the early hours of the next morning, before dawn, while Grenville was still sleeping in his bed, he was called out by the servants of the house.

Then Grenville received a message from the Ming side.

The official news of the cooperation agreement between the Ming and Lucia, Prussia and France, the construction of a free trade zone, the official news of the cooperation agreement of the Royal United Trading Company, and the invitation of the Ming to invite the United Kingdom to join the cooperation agreement.

It was listed as important intelligence by British information and intelligence officers, so he called Grenville overnight.

Grenville dragged his tired and sleepy body to his feet, took the file and looked at it, and then the whole person became serious:

"It turns out that Daming is pulling these countries to engage in this ......"

Then Grenville quickly breathed a sigh of relief again:

"Since the UK has also been officially invited, it means that there is no specific deliberate intention to leave the UK.

"There is no way for the railway to cross the English Channel directly, so the UK cannot be the main signatory country.

"This explanation is also completely reasonable, and I was worried about it in vain......

"It's just...... The question is ......"

After reading the briefing, Grenville could not help but start to worry again when he considered the implications of the briefing and the feasibility of Britain joining such cooperation.

From his own point of view, from the point of view of British private businessmen, considering the interests of British native capital, of course, he did not directly join this kind of cooperation.

Because this is the Ming Dynasty again, and it is about to forcibly deepen ties with the countries of Taixi.

The capital of the Ming Dynasty will invade the British market more deeply, which will harm the interests of local British merchants.

The Ming royal family wants to establish a joint venture with the British royal family, which will strengthen the power of the royal family.

The point is to stand in the position of the British Prime Minister, but not completely refuse to join such a cooperation agreement.

If all the other continental countries joined, and only Britain did not, then Britain would be completely marginalized.

Especially now that Prussia and France have become the main signatory countries.

Grenville adapted to the life of a prime minister, but his personality did not change much.

Thinking of this contradictory and troublesome thing, I suddenly felt a little impulsive to pick a child.

I can't wait to go directly to Tianzhu by myself......

Having difficulty getting a good night's sleep, Grenville put down the message file and went back to bed to sleep again.

After daybreak, Grenville got up again, ate breakfast with a sad face, and went to the cabinet meeting.

The Prince of Wales, regent of the United Kingdom, and his daughter, Princess Charlotte, also came to the Cabinet.

Two years ago, Charlotte left the United States because the British court resisted cooperation with the Ming Dynasty.

Later, after the cooperation between Britain and the Ming Dynasty in the design and construction of warships and many industries was officially launched, Charlotte also returned.

And from that time on, Charlotte began to participate more and more directly in British politics.

Charlotte is eighteen years old this year and looks like she's a full adult.

Now it feels like he's in more control than his father.

Grenville was a little uncomfortable.

Today, Grenville and the ministers had just finished saluting, and the Prince of Wales had nothing to say as usual.

Charlotte spoke directly:

"I have received a message from His Royal Highness the Prince of Great Food inviting us in the United Kingdom to join the continent-wide trade cooperation agreement organized by the Great Ming Organization.

"Now I hope that the Cabinet will cooperate with the start of actual negotiations as soon as possible, complete the signing of the agreement, and implement it as soon as possible.

"The cooperation of the royal family will also be promoted at the same time, and I will directly go to Daming to participate in the talks as a representative of the royal family."

Grenville was a little confused for a moment, and instinctively blocked Charlotte:

"Your Highness, we can't make such a hasty decision, and it may not be the most beneficial for the United Kingdom to directly join this kind of deeper economic cooperation."

Charlotte responded, as a matter of course:

"Accession is not necessarily in the best interest of the United Kingdom, but non-accession is certainly the least in the interest of the United Kingdom.

"This is no longer the union of the entire Tessie Continent, but the union of the entire Old Continent.

"The whole Old World royal family cooperates, and we British people are excluded, this is a huge crisis of unprecedented proportion.

Do you agree with this judgment?

Grenville was speechless, and could only nod silently.

Then Charlotte continued:

"So the issue of participation in cooperation is not an issue that needs to be discussed at all, it is an issue that must be decided immediately.

"If the United Kingdom refuses to join, I will let the United States of America join as well.

"Then it will not be the whole Old World that will isolate Britain, but the whole world will isolate Britain proper.

"Can you think about the consequences? Do you dare to face the consequences? ”

Grenville shook his head helplessly.

The union of the entire Tessie continent can make it difficult for the British to sit still.

In its original history, the American Revolutionary War was a semi-open war against the British Alliance.

France openly sent troops, generals, and warships to fight, and the Spaniards also participated in the war to retake Florida, and countries like Lucia followed behind with a wave of flags and shouts.

At that time, the entire Tessie continent was openly or implicitly supporting the United States and jointly fighting against the British.

Britain was feeling an unprecedented crisis and pressure.

After the American Revolution, the British went to contact the Qing Dynasty in a daze in order to find allies.

George III arranged for Magalny to give gifts to Qianlong.

The cooperation between the British and the Qing Dynasty was obviously fruitless, but the French Revolution followed with the outbreak of the British and the other Tessie countries to form an anti-French alliance.

The anxiety of the British being isolated by the entire continent simply disappeared.

British politicians have also thoroughly established the diplomatic concept of-stirring sticks, and will never allow the Tessie continent to unite again.

The British people of this world had not felt that anxiety before.

Now Charlotte's statement has created an even more terrifying anxiety.

All continental countries cooperated, only Britain was excluded from the world, and no British politician dared to try.

Regardless of whether the cooperation is beneficial or not, no matter how you deal with yourself in the future, you cannot directly refuse it in any way.

So much so, under Charlotte's intimidation and orders, and with the acquiescence of the Prince of Wales, the British participation in the affairs of cooperation began to operate as a matter of course.

Charlotte also said as a matter of course that she would personally participate in the negotiations as a representative of the royal family.

Charlotte's goal is clearly to balance public and private.

She was indeed going to take the opportunity to see Zhu Jingyuan, and she was even preparing not to come back in the short term.

Charlotte felt that she would be nineteen years old now, and twenty years old after the new year.

According to the imaginary age, they have reached the age agreed between His Royal Highness Prince Dashi and himself, and the two can have their own children.

Zhu Jingyuan has memories of his past life, so he specially introduced the risk of dystocia to Charlotte, and specially optimized the medical technology of caesarean section.

Charlotte is also very careful and attaches great importance to this, and is ready to give birth directly to Daming and come back.

The ministers led by Grenville, although they instinctively wanted to complain, Your Royal Highness Princess, are you negotiating or going to see your lover, but in the end, no one dared to say it.

But Grenville thought of something else, reminding and advising Charlotte to say:

"Your Highness, if you see His Royal Highness Prince Dashi again, you can discuss the transaction with His Highness about Nan Tianzhu again.

"In the past few years, there has been an outbreak of extremely vicious and large-scale plague in the South Tianzhu region.

"According to recent reports, it is likely that there are not many people on the ground anymore.

"Now the situation of Nan Tianzhu should already meet the requirements of His Royal Highness Prince Dashi."

When Charlotte heard this suggestion, she immediately instinctively frowned:

"So...... I've always wondered why this coincidence......

"Jingyuan...... His Royal Highness the Prince of Great Food is unwilling to accept the old, weak, sick and disabled population of Nantianzhu, and there is a plague outbreak there?

"It reminds me of some of the records I've seen in the United States.

"In the early days of the Yinzhou colony, the colonists deliberately sold the blankets used by smallpox patients to the local Yin people.

This led to a large-scale outbreak of smallpox in the Yin settlement......

"So the plague in Nantianzhu, what's going on?"

Grenville thought of what his cousin and ex had done, and sighed helplessly:

"Your Highness...... It's better not to ask about these details. ”

Charlotte had a guess in her heart, so she was a little disgusted with these British ministers, and instinctively wanted to question them:

"Why don't you ask? What do you really know? Why didn't you tell me? ”

Grenville stopped talking and looked at the Prince of Wales.

The Prince of Wales, who had not spoken, shook his head:

"Charlotte, don't ask."

Charlotte didn't realize the problem right away, but she also subconsciously felt that it really seemed better not to ask now.

So I stopped asking questions with doubts and continued to discuss practical issues.

After the cabinet meeting, Charlotte followed her father back to the palace where she lived.

Charlotte looked at her surroundings and confirmed that it was only herself and her father, and couldn't help but ask directly:

"So, Dad, did we Britons make the plague in Nantianzhu ourselves?"

The Prince of Wales nodded helplessly:

"Don't say it publicly, and don't question the ministers anymore.

"Prime Minister Pitt has taken the blame and the other ministers continue to follow the plan to get things done.

"If you don't know these things, you don't have to bear the blame, and you don't have any responsibility.

"This kind of thing...... Mere knowledge and not hindering it can be considered a moral fault.

"So don't take the blame on yourself.

"In the unlikely event that the truth of the corresponding matter is exposed in the future, when you are questioned by reporters and parliamentarians, you must be very resolute to show that you are completely unaware.

"You're not involved in it, no one is reporting it to you in public, so no one can prove you know.

"Do you see what Daddy means, my darling?"

Charlotte finally understood what her father meant, and understood why he didn't let herself be questioned in the cabinet.

This father of mine is indeed weak, completely indecisive and not responsible.

But correspondingly, his ability to absolve himself of responsibility is also top-notch.

It can even be said that it is like instinct, and there is no need to learn it at all.

Maybe it's also because of your personality.

I had just finished sending out the leave slip and was just lying in bed getting ready to go to bed, when the call happened to come and I quickly got up and coded a chapter.

(End of chapter)