Is Zhu Jingyuan afraid of war?

If we put aside all external conditions and simply talk about our attitude towards the war itself, then Zhu Jingyuan is indeed afraid.

If a large-scale war gets out of control, the outcome and harm cannot be predicted.

When Zhu Jingyuan had just regained his memory, he was really very scared when he analyzed the war situation in the Ming Dynasty according to the experience of his previous life.

If Da Ming continued to hold on at that time, there was really a certain probability that it would collapse.

However, Zhu Jingyuan will not run away from the war.

If there is an opportunity, it will take advantage of the war reasonably.

Zhu Jingyuan and his father actually have the idea of unifying the world.

Now this world refers to the whole world.

With enough strength in their own right, no one should be able to reject this idea.

So this is even the current public opinion of the Ming Dynasty.

This kind of public opinion is not the "general trend" as it was said in ancient times, but is really a demand that exists widely among the people.

Because the Ming Dynasty completely unified the world, it was indeed beneficial to the people of the Ming Dynasty.

However, according to the armistice agreement signed by Zhu Jingyuan with the Taixi countries, the Ming Dynasty would not seek territorial expansion in the Taixi continent.

Of course, Da Ming can tear up the agreement and use force directly.

But that would not only be infamous but more importantly, it would not be cost-effective to start a war directly.

It doesn't even meet Zhu Jingyuan's real goals.

Zhu Jingyuan wanted to unify the world and include the Taixi Continent into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

But they didn't want to accept the Tessie in their entirety.

Even if you have to accept it, the fewer the better.

In particular, the smaller the number of young men, the better.

In this case, the most ideal situation is that within the Taixi continent, a large-scale war breaks out on its own first.

It is better to be protracted, to beat the Tessie Continent into ruins, and to defeat the new generation of young people in the Tessie Kingdoms again,

When the war was in the later stages, the Ming Dynasty was "invited" by Britain and France to participate in the war according to the actual situation.

Or go directly to the scene under the banner of saving the people of Taixi.

Hanging the people.

Unless the country dominated the war by Taixi developed atomic weapons during the war, it would be difficult for the Ming to fail.

Even if the research and development of fusion weapons fails, fission weapons that have been mass-produced and have high combat value can already directly change the situation of war.

After the end of the war, the court of the former Taixi countries could not maintain social stability and protect the lives and safety of their own people.

Turn the Taixi kingdoms into vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, and de facto unify the world.

Therefore, although Zhu Jingyuan will not say it explicitly, he actually supports Prussia or similar countries in waging war.

In the history of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, the development and madness of Germany and Japan in the early stage were to some extent connived at by the United States and Britain.

In the current world, Zhu Jingyuan will also connive at countries that may launch wars of aggression.

Unless Lucia directly declares war on Daming, Zhu Jingyuan will even expect them to achieve better results.

If you want to make it die, you will make it mad.

However, in Zhu Jingyuan's opinion, unless Lucia's brain was pumped, it was impossible to declare war on Daming first.

Unless they have unified the continent of Ctessi and truly established the new Roman Empire.

By that time, war would actually be inevitable.

That's the war of civilizations and races.

Zhu Jingyuan's question now is how to respond to the Lucian question about the adjustment of the income distribution of the Volga-Ural oil fields.

The Volga-Ural oil field is an oil field located on the border of the Xianbei and Kazakh principalities to which Lucia and Daming belonged.

Zhu Jingyuan knew in advance the general distribution of oil fields, and knew that the oil-producing areas were basically in the current Lucia.

Therefore, in the ninth year of Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan promoted the cooperation between Daming and Lucia in the development of oilfields according to the situation at that time, and signed a cooperation agreement.

The agreement stipulates that Daming will provide part of the investment and related technology transfer.

In the first ten years of oilfield development, Daming received 70% of the oilfield profits, and from the tenth to the 20th year, Daming received 60% of the oilfield profits.

From the twentieth year to the fortieth year, the two sides will divide fifty-fifty, and after forty years, it will be distributed according to the actual output of the two sides.

This cooperation agreement is of course beneficial to Daming.

The oil output is basically in Lucia, and the income in the next 20 years will be the majority of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will basically take half of the income in 40 years.

But in the eyes of the unwitting Lucia, the cooperation agreement is fairly fair.

Now five years have passed, and the construction and development of the field, as well as the ongoing exploration of the surrounding area, have also been carried out for five years.

The Lucians have basically determined that there are no large-scale oil fields in the Daming land within the oil fields.

Unless the oil fields are expanded to the Caspian coast, which is impossible.

Knowing that the Lucian people had suffered a big loss, they obviously couldn't stand it, and naturally wanted to revise the cooperation agreement.

In fact, before Emperor Lucia came to the Ming Dynasty, Lucia had already explained to the Ming Dynasty about France-related affairs.

Of course, it is more polite and official, and I hope to be able to renegotiate the way of cooperation with Daming.

Of course, Daming didn't take this stubble, but replied according to the original cooperation agreement:

According to the terms attached to the contract, the contract is revised every ten years, and it is not yet time to do so.

Now that Emperor Lucia has come to Daming, it is very likely that he will take the initiative to talk about this matter.

The small talk between King Wilhelm III of Prussia and Zhu Jingyuan did not last long, and Wilhelm III knew that he could not take up too much time for Zhu Jingyuan.

Most of the others are still waiting to talk about themselves, and they may even have applied and lined up.

So I felt that the attitude had been done, so I took the initiative to say goodbye and leave.

After William III went out, he first went to see Emperor Nicholas Lucia, and explained Zhu Jingyuan's attitude very optimistically.

Nikolai listened to William III's introduction and looked incredulous:

"Emperor Ming, did he really say that?"

William III smiled and nodded in confirmation:

"That's what I said, otherwise I wouldn't have had such an easy time now."

While Nikolai breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he couldn't help but discuss Zhu Jingyuan's mentality with William III:

"So, why did Emperor Ming allow this kind of thing so simply?

"It's war!

"Da Ming doesn't care at all about the outbreak of war between countries within the alliance?"

William III looked around, and then said what he thought:

"I think it's possible that I really don't care.

"The agreement of the League of Nations, which was drawn up under the auspices of the emperor himself, did not prohibit internal war.

At the same time, when the naval treaty was signed, Daming also showed his attitude again.

"The Ming Dynasty is not the suzerainty of the Europa countries, and it has no obligation and will not help the Europa countries establish rules.

"The Emperor also knows the situation in our countries.

"Knowing that in this case, a fight is the easiest way to fix it.

"What's more, the war between the countries of Europa is also a relatively beneficial thing for the Ming Dynasty.

"Of course, there is another possibility......

"The emperor himself did not want the Ming Dynasty to participate in the war, this is the attitude that has been shown since the armistice of the world war......"

The words of William III were not uttered in full.

But when Nikolai heard this, he quickly understood the meaning of the other party's hint:

"If the Ming want to stop the wars of other countries, it is likely that they themselves will also be directly involved in the war.

"If the Ming Emperor doesn't want to participate in the war, then he can only hint at or even allow wars between other countries."

William III nodded lightly:

"But whether we don't care, whether we're not interested, or we don't want to get involved in the war, it's a good thing for us......

"Daming's attitude was originally the biggest problem, but now it is not a problem directly."

Nikolai let out a long breath, and his expression changed slightly when he looked at William III.

There was silence for a few seconds, and Nikolai said in a somewhat relaxed tone:

"In this way, we are a little more likely to be able to re-enter into an oilfield development cooperation agreement and get a fairer plan......

William knew that Nikolai and even the Lucian court were now thinking about the oil field.

Of course, it is better to solve this big loss as soon as possible.

William recalled Zhu Jingyuan's attitude, and also felt that the success rate of this matter was very high:

"Good luck to Lucia......"

Nikolai nodded slightly, then said goodbye to William III and went to see Zhu Jingyuan alone.

When Zhu Jingyuan chatted with William III, Nikolai expressed his request to meet Zhu Jingyuan alone through Zhu Jingyuan's servants.

Not long after William III went out, Zhu Jingyuan thought about his future strategy and asked Nikolai to be brought in.

Nikolai had already brewed his emotions, first greeted him politely, and then chatted with Zhu Jingyuan about family life through Luo Feiya's relationship.

But both sides know that there must be something serious, and of course the family routine does not last a few words, and it is over with such a meaning.

Then Nikolai put forward his main purpose of meeting Zhu Jingyuan in the most tactful way possible:

It is hoped that the Volga-Ural oilfield cooperation program can be renegotiated with Daming.

The cooperation with Daming in this oil field has been a heart disease in the Lucia court for the past two years.

In particular, the oil fields developed by the Ming in the Xianbei principality, which can now be determined to be larger in scale than the Volga-Urals, made the Lucians even more unbalanced.

The Principality of Xianbei was originally the land of Lucia!

Now Daming not only has the Xianbei Tyumen oil field alone, but also wants to take most of the proceeds of his remaining Vol oil field, which is really too bullying.

Nikolai and his ministers had already prepared a large number of rhetoric and several reasonable adjustment plans.

Nikolai was ready to take it out step by step according to Zhu Jingyuan's reaction.

Zhu Jingyuan had already expected this, and Zhu Jingyuan was not ready to negotiate with Lucia in this kind of place at all:

"I already know the specific situation, and I have also heard from the officials of Honglu Temple to explain the situation.

"Since we have signed an agreement, we just have to follow the agreement.

"There was already a method of revision on the agreement, which was originally a concession made by Daming.

"I hope Lucia will abide by the agreement and wait until the end of the ten years to talk about it."

Nikolai was immediately ready to come up with the statement he had prepared:

"Your Majesty, the oil fields of the Urals are not important to the Ming Dynasty, and they are indeed the key to Lucia......

Zhu Jingyuan directly waved his hand to interrupt Nikolai, and did not give the other party room to bargain at all:

"That's the end of the oil field matter, we don't have anything to talk about now."

Nikolai was a little stunned, he didn't expect Zhu Jingyuan to be so tough.

Before he came in to see Zhu Jingyuan, he also discussed and analyzed with William III that this matter should be discussed.

I even feel that I can get a relatively reasonable distribution plan.

As a result, Zhu Jingyuan directly refused.

At the same time, Nikolai was also a little upset, and Zhu Jingyuan's response was too domineering and unreasonable.

Now all the people involved already know that Daming has taken a big advantage, and Lucia has suffered a big loss.

Even if Da Ming doesn't want to give up these interests, he should use some rather mild rhetoric to constantly shirk and delay.

As a result, there is no explanation at all, not only does it refuse to discuss it outright, but it also has such a tough attitude.

Nikolai was furious in his heart, and some of the above said with a straight face:

"If Your Majesty insists on refusing to negotiate a solution to the problem, we can only unilaterally terminate the cooperation agreement......

That's a threat.

If Zhu Jingyuan really didn't want to participate in the war, then Lucia really tore up the agreement unilaterally, and Daming could only watch or threaten a few words.

Zhu Jingyuan's response was very direct, very straightforward and logical:

"The duty and meaning of the existence of the Ming army is to protect the interests of the Ming royal family, the imperial court, and the people.

"The agreement with Lucia on the joint development of oil fields in the Volga-Ural region is in the interests of the Ming royal family and the imperial court.

"If Lucia unilaterally tears up the agreement, the Ming will directly send troops to occupy all the existing oil-producing areas.

"This is my last warning, not to be taken lightly."

This is a direct threat of war, and Zhu Jingyuan really wants to see if Lucia has the courage to directly challenge Daming.

Nikolai was a little confused again.

Nikolai had already analyzed with Lucia's ministers, and had just discussed it with King William III of Prussia.

It was believed that the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty was very interested in war.

As a result, now he only mentioned it slightly, verbally mentioning a threat to terminate the agreement, and the other party directly responded with a clear threat of war.

Isn't that a bit too jumpy? Isn't it a bit of a fuss?

Is this the true mentality of the Ming Emperor, or is it just a simple bluff to intimidate himself?

Nikolai felt that the possibility of intimidation was not low.

But Nikolai couldn't try it, at least not now.

If this threat is serious, then Lucia will immediately be involved in a confrontation war with the Ming, which is not in line with Lucia's strategic plan.

If Lucia were to wage war, the priority targets should be Sweden, Norway, the Ottomans, Austria and other countries first.

After Lucia unified most of the Tessie Continent, she would have a chance to fight against the Ming Dynasty.

Now it is impossible to directly challenge Da Ming, and there is no chance of winning.

So Nikolai could only endure it.

In the original negotiation plan, there was indeed a record of Daming's complete refusal to negotiate, but the nuns thought that the possibility was not high.

As a result, now I have to use it to endure humiliation.

Nikolai first tried to control his emotions, and then said to Zhu Jingyuan in a rather panicked manner:

"Your Majesty is angry, Lucia has absolutely no intention of harming the interests of the Ming Dynasty, and she has absolutely no intention of engaging in any armed conflict with the Ming Dynasty.

"If Your Majesty thinks it is not appropriate to revise the cooperation agreement at this time, then we will wait for the ten-year revision period stipulated in the agreement to expire before discussing it."

Zhu Jingyuan snorted coldly and picked up the teacup on the table.

Nikolai knew that this was the meaning of the send-off, so with full of resentment and loss, he bowed and said goodbye with a smile on his face.

(End of chapter)