Emperor Paul of Lucia was stunned for several seconds before he handed over the telegraph newspaper in his hand in a daze.
After the princes and ministers circulated it again, the cheerful atmosphere at the scene disappeared, and the silence made people feel a little depressed.
After a long time, Emperor Paul looked at Count Bennigsen:
"Tell me about it! What kind of attitude does Daming have! Why did he refuse so directly? What should we do?"
Count Bennigsen's lips trembled slightly and he said:
"Now it seems that Ming Dynasty may have become angry with shame and will fight us to the end at all costs!
"This is something that Ming Dynasty can bear, but we cannot bear, so we must formally propose peace talks, and we can no longer care about the final 'face'.
“First let the British contact us on behalf of the Alliance to negotiate peace. If we cannot succeed, we will then unilaterally sue for peace, just like His Majesty Peter the Great did.
"In order to preserve the Lucia Empire and the Romanov dynasty, we must do this."
Prince Nicholas subconsciously wanted to object, but Emperor Paul directly stretched out his hand to stop him:
“If Ming Dynasty rejects the British peace talks and rejects our unilateral peace proposal, then the news will be announced to the whole country.
"When the time comes, Nikolai, you will use the power of the Lucianist group to stir up the humiliation and anger of the Lucian people.
"Use all the power of the people of Lucia to fight to the death against the Ming Dynasty in the empire!"
Prince Nicholas was not stupid and immediately understood his father's intention.
It may be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to directly occupy the mainland of other Thai and Western countries for the time being, but Lucia's mainland is right in front of them.
If Ming Dynasty is really desperate and fights Lucia regardless, and continues to fight for a few to more than ten years, then the Romanov dynasty will be over.
There is no need to completely defeat everyone in Lucia on the battlefield. The loss of population and materials in the war can cause the Romanov dynasty to collapse.
This is of course a strategy of annihilating one thousand enemies and damaging eight hundred.
However, if the Lucia Romanov dynasty can control only one share of the wealth and population, then the Zhu Ming dynasty has at least ten.
If the Zhu family were ruthless enough to take out a share and completely exchange Romanov's Lucia, then Romanov would have no way to deal with it.
Therefore, when the core members of the Romanov dynasty felt that the Zhu family was going crazy, they immediately made a guilty decision to officially sue for peace.
But the Lucians were also brought out to their wildest parts.
If the Ming Dynasty chooses to consume the Romanov dynasty, they will also work hard to launch a trapped beast fight to cause as much damage to the Ming Dynasty as possible.
The best way to achieve this goal is to mobilize the power of Lucia's nationalists to fight a comprehensive defensive war and guerrilla war on the mainland.
Of course, the losses of this style of play must be very heavy. After the war, the Romanov dynasty should also cease to exist.
After Emperor Paul gave the order, Prince Nicholas and other ministers with similar thoughts all knelt down to accept the order with a heavy heart.
The Romanov dynasty has reached a "critical stage of survival".
At the same time, other countries on the Western continent were a little calmer because they were far enough away from the Ming Dynasty and separated by the huge Lucia.
Of course, it's just "a little bit".
All the kings and cabinet ministers got up at four or five o'clock in the cold spring morning for meetings, and most of them even forgot to eat breakfast.
They have been doing this for many days, and have become somewhat accustomed to this kind of life.
Because news from the East often begins to arrive in the second half of the night from the West, so that they begin to fit in with the Ming Dynasty's life patterns.
During the meeting, a variety of new news was received, including the news that the Anxi Three Kingdoms first proposed mediation, and the news from the Anxi Three Kingdoms that Daming refused.
Finally, there was a message from Lucia officials requesting Britain to formally host the peace talks.
After several ups and downs in their moods, the king and ministers finally decided to "accept" the Lucians' suggestion, gave up their last reserve, and took the initiative to invite peace talks.
Like Emperor Zhu Zhongliang of the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Paul of Lucia, they were worried not only about the country's failure in the war, but more importantly about the survival of their own dynasty.
As long as they can maintain their rule, it is nothing to take the initiative to offer peace talks, and even suing for peace as before is not unacceptable.
In today's western continent, all countries are kingdoms or empires, including the Netherlands.
Initially, due to the Ming Dynasty's targeted attacks in the East and the continued suppression of trade, the Dutch East India Company quickly went bankrupt.
Coupled with the joint suppression of Spain and Britain in Europe, this earliest bourgeois democratic regime was unsustainable, and the monarchy was restored after its eventual collapse.
This has severely damaged the confidence of the Thai and Spanish people in the democratic republic system, and indirectly affected the development direction of modern Thai and Spanish political ideas.
In addition, Ming Dynasty has won successive victories on the global battlefield. Whoever Ming Dynasty chooses as an ally will be the overlord of the Atlantic Ocean. Various epoch-making new technologies are constantly emerging in Ming Dynasty.
These realities faced by all Taixi people have convinced them that the Ming Dynasty model is the right direction.
The Eastern thought and culture of the Ming Dynasty spread rapidly in Europe and the West along with the epoch-making technology of the Industrial Revolution in the process of war, trade, and exchanges.
The Mingxue craze gradually replaced the Renaissance, completely changing the modern culture of Europe and the West.
The actions of Emperor Zhu Cixiang, who attracted the most attention, inevitably became the object of imitation by the European and Western monarchs.
This strengthened the traditional monarch's recognition of capitalist reform and strengthened the bourgeoisie's trust in the autocratic monarch, giving the two a basis and method for peace.
The traditional feudal monarchs in Thailand and the West slowly transformed into capital monarchs. At the same time, they continued to strengthen monarchy and centralization, which greatly suppressed human rights and democratic ideas.
The authority of the British king was continuously restored, and the gradual democratization process was interrupted by the spread of Minghua thought.
The ideological foundation of the French Revolution was gone. Louis XV and Louis XVI continued to promote Minghua reforms, thereby maintaining the rule of the Bourbon dynasty.
Napoleon became Louis XVI's army general, rose to prominence in the anti-Ming war, and was quickly promoted to general.
Prussia learned from the Ming Dynasty and quickly strengthened the royal power and centralization system. Following Qin's example, it annexed the surrounding German states by force and unified most of the German regions in advance.
Austria was forced to give up the title of the Holy Roman Empire, but it also weakened the independence of the various ethnic regions within its territory, and the empire's degree of centralization was also greatly enhanced.
At the same time, both Prussia and Austria regarded each other as an obstacle to "unifying the world."
But Prussia's "world" is Germany, and Austria's "world" is the Holy Roman Empire.
However, the two countries still cooperated with Lucia and jointly divided up all the land in Poland.
Under the continued influence of Minghua thought, the second round of religious reform movement also appeared in Taisi, and the secular influence of the church was greatly weakened.
The nobles gained the right to determine the legitimacy of their illegitimate children by themselves, and could choose to give an illegitimate child inheritance rights.
At the same time, referring to the plan of Emperor Zhu Cixiang, all legitimate and illegitimate children will be given comprehensive elite education, and practical training will be continued in governments at all levels.
The weakening of the power of the Holy See allowed the Kingdom of Sardinia to seize most of the Papal States and then unify most of Italy in advance.
The spread of technology in the Ming Dynasty, especially the emergence of steam sailing ships, greatly accelerated the development of the British Beiyinzhou colony, and the population rapidly increased to tens of millions.
The contradiction between the British mainland and the Beiyinzhou colony gradually emerged, but the steam sailing ship also strengthened Britain's control over Beiyinzhou.
In the end, the British king referred to the Ming Dynasty's vassal state system, granted secondary citizenship to immigrants from the American region, and installed a minister of American affairs in the cabinet.
This compromise temporarily appeased the Yinzhou immigrants, making them not yet consider independence, let alone republic.
The decisions of these semi-feudal and semi-capital royal families were finally summarized before the organizers of the Anti-Ming Alliance, the British King and cabinet ministers.
At this moment, the British King also made the final decision to accept the Lucian people's suggestion and take the initiative to propose peace talks.
At the same time, they were determined to fight a long-term war for several more decades, and to kill off the last Tianzhu people and completely abandon the Tianzhu colony.
As a result, at 4 p.m. continental European time, Britain formally sent an invitation to Ming for peace talks in the name of the Anti-Ming Alliance.
But at this time, all the kings and ministers of the Ming Dynasty were already asleep, and there was nothing to wake them up now.
