Charlotte followed her own plan and stayed directly in Xi'an.

However, he did not forget his work, and the next day he sent Zhu Jingyuan's response to the Tianzhu transaction to his father, the Prince of Wales, by telegram.

In addition to the conditions directly explained by Zhu Jingyuan, there is also Charlotte's own explanation.

Directly forgive the remaining loan, this is the final condition, and Daming will not come up with any additional price.

Moreover, whether it is now or in the future, no matter how much money is left, Daming's condition is to forgive the loan.

If the loan is repaid normally, then Daming will not come up with any conditions.

At the end of the Yinzhou War, the Ming Dynasty provided large loans to Britain and France.

Part of the loan received by Britain was used to repay the war reparations to the Ming Dynasty, part of it was used to help Britain and the United States through the financial crisis, and part of it was used for the recovery and infrastructure construction of the United States.

Today, half of the loan has been repaid, and the remaining amount is still quite large.

If it is directly exempted, of course, it can directly reduce the financial burden of the United Kingdom.

The Prince of Wales looked very entangled,

In addition to forgiving the loan, the Prince of Wales wanted a large sum of money.

Just looking at her daughter's statement, the attitude of the Ming people is very clear, either the British will accept this conditional transaction, or the two sides will continue to wait and will not accept other conditions.

The Prince of Wales couldn't make up his mind, so he called in Prime Minister Grenville.

After reading the instructions, Grenville was of course not satisfied with these conditions either.

There is still a considerable distance from the psychological expectations of British bureaucrats such as Grenville.

But unlike the Prince of Wales, Grenville was quick to decide:

"Your Highness, I propose to accept Daming's conditions......"

The Prince of Wales was taken aback:

"Accept? Just accept it? That's Nan Tianzhu, can you only exchange for these loans? ”

Grenville rightly said:

"The current Nan Tianzhu is no longer the original Nan Tianzhu.

"That continent has been completely hollowed out by us, and now it is just a hot and humid wasteland.

"The point is, Her Royal Highness Charlotte said that Da Ming will not come up with other conditions.

"If we continue to procrastinate, the actual reward we can get will continue to decrease."

Grenville agreed so readily because he was ready to give up.

The relevant personnel of the bureaucracy are ready to hand over Nan Tianzhu to Daming and keep an asset.

If it is not handed over to Daming, this asset is a non-performing asset, and the key is that it cannot be developed directly.

The Prince of Wales did not want to give up such a piece of land at such a low price:

"Your Excellency Grenville, do we have a chance to reopen the land of Nantianzhu?

"After all, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled have all disappeared, and only the young and middle-aged remain.

"The land of Tianzhu is better than Southwest Mozhou after all.

"And now our relationship with Daming is getting closer and closer.

"Now there shouldn't be too much worry about Nan Tianzhu being surrounded by Daming.

"And Da Ming doesn't seem to be very interested in Nan Tianzhu......"

Grenville was stunned for a moment, and then there was a hint of the idea of trying it out in his heart.

But this idea was quickly extinguished.

If Nan Tianzhu is not handed over to the Ming Dynasty, but continues to be developed by the British, then the preparation of a large number of British civil servants and nobles, including Grenville, will be in vain.

So Grenville said very decisively:

"Impossible, we can't redevelop Nantianzhu.

"The cost of transporting people from Mozhou to South Tianzhu is too high.

"But what is more important is the relationship with Daming.

"Nan Tianzhu is a thorn between us and Daming.

"Only by handing over Nan Tianzhu to Daming can we truly eliminate the contradictions between the two sides.

"Da Ming doesn't care about Nan Tianzhu, but he doesn't care too much, this is a typical bargaining strategy.

"If the deal doesn't go through, the British colony left in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty will become the fuse for the next war.

"If we want to maintain a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty, we must give up Nan Tianzhu.

"And the sooner the better, the longer the stalemate, the less benefits Nan Tianzhu can exchange......"

Although the Prince of Wales was a little reluctant and reluctant, he finally sighed and agreed under the continuous persuasion of Grenville.

Then the Prince of Wales sent a message to Charlotte.

Charlotte was also very surprised to receive the news, and she didn't expect her father to agree to it at all.

Charlotte had thought that it would continue to drag on like the last time.

When Charlotte transferred the news to Zhu Jingyuan, Zhu Jingyuan was also a little surprised.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at Charlotte and asked:

"Did your father really agree to that? To exchange Nan Tianzhu for the conditions of Daming's forgiveness of all loans? Have you made it clear to your father what I mean? ”

Charlotte explained with a bitter face:

"Of course I made it clear, and I was surprised myself, I don't know why my father agreed directly......"

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the telegraph in his hand and read it back and forth twice:

"Hey, since Britain has accepted it, let's start preparing for the handover negotiations after that year."

Charlotte nodded a little confused:

"Hmmm......"

Nan Tianzhu's problem is the last thing in the nine years of Ankang.

The New Year, which has been ten years of good health, is just around the corner.

After the Chinese New Year, the Ming and the British each arranged diplomatic personnel to go to Mumbai in Tianzhu to negotiate.

This negotiation is much simpler, saying that the negotiation is actually discussing the handover process, and it was arranged in just five days.

In the middle of February of the tenth year of Ankang, the Ming Navy carried several groups of army officers and soldiers to the remaining major cities in Nantianzhu and officially began to take over the land.

British officials stationed in the South Tianzhu area left South Tianzhu one after another in the following month.

The family members specially arranged by the British bureaucracy led by Grenville remained directly on the land and manor of Nantianzhu.

The Ming people did not like the British very much, and Zhu Jingyuan did not support the use of foreign populations.

However, the transaction of Nantianzhu was a pure transaction, not the kind of claim of Dongyi in a state of tension, let alone a direct occupation in a state of war.

Coupled with the influence of Charlotte's relationship and more and more economic and trade exchanges, the relationship between the two sides has become closer and closer.

Now there is no suitable reason for the Ming Dynasty to directly and violently expel this part of the people who are willing to stay.

Therefore, the Ming officials who were responsible for taking over Nantianzhu, just as these British thought, referred to the original arrangement of the Dongyi Kingdom to the Taixi people, and gave them the national status of the Southern Tianzhu Domain.

The problem of Nantianzhu, which had been sandwiched between the Ming Dynasty and Britain for decades, was finally resolved.

The British abandoned the fertile, strategically located, but deserted colony, and forgave all remaining Ming loans.

The deal was certainly a loss for the UK.

But many British bureaucrats, civil servants, and aristocrats are in a state of jubilation......

While the United Kingdom may have lost at the national level, neither they nor their families have lost.

After the handover of Nantianzhu was completed, the local situation after the outbreak of the plague was also directly displayed in front of the Ming people.

The degree of abandonment of the cities in the South Tianzhu area and the degree of wilderness in the interior were completely beyond the expectations of the Ming people.

Ten years ago, there were 70 or 80 million people living in the area, but now there are almost no people.

The population outside the city has almost completely disappeared, as if returning to unexplored wilderness.

Only the Tianzhu people, who were forcibly driven to the wilderness for experiments before the British left, were still active on the edge of the city.

These Tianzhu people all know that the people in the inland have died, and some of them have fled from the inland in the first place.

Now I don't want to go deep into the interior again.

They didn't dare to go inland, and the Ming people didn't dare even more.

It is possible to patrol the sky with airplanes, look down from the air, observe and record the situation on the ground.

The long barbed wire fence that towers over the border between the north and south of Tianzhu has not been removed.

Now the relevant officials are very conservative, and they still temporarily isolate the entire Nantianzhu and wait for the final decision of the high-level.

Zhu Jingyuan soon received an explanation of the situation in Tianzhu from the imperial court.

A large number of facsimile photos of the interior of Nantianzhu made Zhu Jingyuan also shocked by the wilderness environment in the interior:

"Is this the original city and countryside after the disappearance of human beings?"

Charlotte sat next to Zhu Jingyuan, looking at the photos Zhu Jingyuan had seen, and also felt very shocked:

"The population of these villages and small towns, which has only been gone and disappeared for two or three years, is now completely covered with wild grass and wild trees......

Zhu Jingyuan sighed and said:

"There is plenty of rain and heat in the Tianzhu area, and without human intervention, it should soon become a grassland or even a forest."

Charlotte asked with some curiosity:

"Then Daming wants to start the development of the inland area of Nantianzhu immediately?"

Zhu Jingyuan thought about it for a moment and put down the photo in his hand:

"I think...... Don't go to the outback for now.

"God knows if there are any remaining germs of the plague, and whether it will be spread through rotting animals and human carcasses.

"Let's wait at least 10 years before we talk about developing the interior.

"However, the existing cities and settlements in the surrounding coastal areas can be rebuilt.

"After the cities have eased up, they will slowly expand into the surrounding inland wilderness with these cities as the center."

Zhu Jingyuan thought about it carefully, wrote a simple report and suggestions, and sent it to his father through a special telegraph line.

A few days later, Zhu Jingyuan received a reply from his father.

Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously thought that it was a question and discussion about Tianzhu affairs.

As a result, after reading it, I realized that I was asking about things on the other side of the world.

In the attached documents, there is also a letter from Zhu Dijin, the treasurer of Panama Huangzhuang, and Wang Jinpeng, the chief engineer of the Yinzhou Canal Project, who signed the report submitted by the two.

After more than five years of construction, the Yinzhou Canal is about to be completed.

Of course, due to the huge size of the project itself, the process of ending it will be relatively long.

Now the scale of the project has begun to shrink, and more and more project areas have gradually entered the state of inspection and cleaning.

It is expected to be fully completed by July this year.

At present, the final construction standard is 20 meters of water depth, 120 meters of river bottom width, and 300 meters of water surface width.

Double-line navigation, that is, two canals that are basically parallel.

If you only look at the construction of the single-line canal, it was actually completed a year ago.

In other words, the canal was opened to traffic last year, and the construction of the two-line project has continued until now.

Even so, this speed is already terrifying.

In the original history, the French built it for six years and made a mess.

It took the Americans another decade to complete a narrow lock-like above-ground canal and turn the valley into a lake.

At most, ships of about 50,000 tons and a width of no more than 33 meters can be passed.

Now the Yinzhou Canal made by the Ming people is a behemoth compared with the Panama Canal in history.

In fact, the logic is very simple, first of all, Zhu Jingyuan directly listed the places where the French and Americans planted their heels.

Then Wang Jinpeng took Zhu Jingyuan's reminder and made very detailed and prudent exploration and engineering preparations.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty also had the advanced large-scale project management concept left by Emperor Shizu.

There is also the support of Judy Jin's unique logistics management and business plan.

In order to save money, the prisoner of war laborers were allowed to cultivate their own land and engage in a self-sufficient construction program.

Finally, there are more than 800,000 prisoners of war laborers captured in the Yinzhou War, plus about 200,000 Ming workers and craftsmen.

So far, more than 20,000 workers have died.

However, there are basically no deaths from high-intensity labor, most of them are caused by tropical diseases, and most of them are already weak old people.

In the previous life, there were only more than 40,000 laborers in the Panama Canal, and the number of laborers was directly more than 20 times worse.

The current Ming Dynasty still has more construction machinery that the French and Americans did not have in the previous life.

The combination of various factors allowed Daming to complete this super project in just over five years.

The project is about to be officially completed, and several important issues are also placed in front of Zhu Dijin.

How will these laborers be arranged in the future?

At the beginning, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of these prisoner of war laborers, Zhu Dijin applied to Zhu Jingyuan to issue the national status of Panama vassal state to the active prisoner of war laborers.

Zhu Jingyuan accepted the suggestion and allowed Zhu Dijin to make a formal commitment.

Zhu Dijin knew that Zhu Jingyuan didn't want these people to stay in Daming, so he worked very hard to control the number of identities issued.

However, Zhu Dijin, who has rich management experience, also understands that if this kind of reward is given out too little, the incentive effect will not be good.

So after five years of uninterrupted work, almost 200,000 identities have been sent out one after another.

Zhu Dijin doesn't want to break his promise, so these 200,000 active workers must stay.

So the question is what to do with the remaining 600,000 people.

Of those 600,000, only a handful were willing to leave Panama for Mexico in the north, as promised.

Most of these people have been nobles.

But the vast majority of ordinary POW laborers wanted to stay in Panama.

Because of the work of the past five years, these low-level Taixi people are completely familiar with the management method of Daming.

Although it is true that the Ming people are full of discrimination against them, the Ming people are much more civilized than their own people, the Taixi people, in terms of management and attitude towards workers.

After working here for five years, they did not even see a few workers who were killed, and the number of exhausted workers was very small.

Most of the time you can eat enough, and it's almost completely safe.

The living conditions here can be considered good in this era.

The point is that it is much better than fighting in Nanyinzhou in the past.

So they want to stay.

Zhu Dijin himself wanted to keep them, and these people were sent by familiar workers.

You can give a residency to continue to open up and build factories in Panama, and then slowly give national status.

But the resident builder also knew that Zhu Jingyuan didn't like foreigners, so he had to ask for special instructions.

(End of chapter)