In London, the capital of the British Isles, at three o'clock in the morning, several middle-aged and elderly people got up for a meeting again overnight.
First there is King George III, who is sixty-seven years old and a bit mentally ill like the other world line.
Britain did not copy the Ming Dynasty's emperor retirement model. The king is still a lifelong king, so even if the king occasionally gets sick, he is still the king.
The official name of the United Kingdom is the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland", and its abbreviation is the United Kingdom.
The Hanoverian family where the king belongs, and the Hanoverian territory in Germany, have long been annexed by Prussia, so they have long lost the title of King of Hanover.
Then there is William Pitt Jr., the British Prime Minister or First Minister.
The Westerners tried to translate Prime Minister into Chief Assistant, but the Ming Dynasty did not agree with this and still wrote Prime Minister or State Minister.
Peter is the youngest British Prime Minister in history in another world. He was only 24 years old when he first became Prime Minister.
He is also a "little cabinet elder", and his father, William Pitt Sr., also served as the British Prime Minister.
In this world line, the British king has greater control, and Pitt was already forty years old when he became prime minister.
At forty-six years old, Pitt is still the youngest of the current cabinet ministers.
Historically, he died at the age of forty-seven, but he still looks very healthy.
William Pitt Jr. took several important cabinet ministers to the royal meeting room in the cold wind in the early morning in London.
After kneeling down on one knee to salute the yawning old king, Peter took out a telegraph newspaper and handed it to King George III opposite:
"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty has agreed to peace talks, but requires the anti-Ming alliance to withdraw from all occupied areas and withdraw from the Anxi Three Kingdoms at the same time."
The news has been informed to George III by phone. Now George is only looking at the details when reading the telegram, and then he still asks in disbelief:
"Did Ming agree so easily? Is there any 'fraud' involved? Is it just a 'strategy' to regain the previously lost territory?"
Peter nodded slightly and said:
"The cunning of the people of the Ming Dynasty is 'well known', and many of them use 'a soldier never tires of deceit' as their 'mantra'.
"The key is that they have begun to 'withdraw the vassal' and have officially banned six major industries, so more forces can be put into the battlefield.
"And last night I received news that the Ming Dynasty was recruiting servant soldiers from the vassal countries that had withdrawn from the vassal state, and they were going to be sent to the Dashi battlefield.
"So we must deal with it with extreme caution..."
Pete knows the Ming Dynasty very well and is full of Ming Dynasty idioms and special vocabulary.
If you are not a real "cultural person", you will not understand what he is saying. Fortunately, you are surrounded by cultural people.
And Peter's view is also the common view of the British. The British do not believe in the Ming Dynasty.
Although Britain has been Ming Dynasty's most important ally for a long time.
The two sides once happily divided Spain, Yinzhou, Tianzhu, and food together...
But the deeper the cooperation with Ming Dynasty and the deeper their understanding of Ming Dynasty, the more the British understand that Ming Dynasty's allies are like wheat in the field.
Da Ming will cultivate allies and harvest them when they mature. Most of the harvested food will be eaten by Da Ming himself, and a small part will be used to cultivate new allies.
From the British point of view, Ming Dynasty has cultivated at least two crops and three allies. Britain would have been the fourth, but it was almost harvested.
The Ming Dynasty initially had a heated relationship with the Netherlands and Portugal, allowing the two countries to trade directly with the Ming Dynasty's home ports.
The two countries also worked very hard to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty's actions and helped Emperor Zhu Cihong conquer Zheng Zhilong, the overlord of the southeastern sea.
Emperor Zhu Cixiang vigorously developed and built the Ming Dynasty's navy based on Zheng Zhilong's fleet.
Later, the Ming Dynasty used its own navy as the main force, with the help of the Dutch and Portuguese, provoking a war against the Spanish and seizing Dongpan Island and Luzon Island.
With these two cooperations, both the Dutch and the Portuguese felt that their friendship with Ming Dynasty was getting deeper and deeper, and they could be regarded as reliable allies.
But the good times did not last long...
The Ming Dynasty suddenly gave the tamed Spaniards foreign trade franchises, and in turn banned the Dutch and Portuguese Eastern trade.
At the same time, let the Spaniards assist the Ming Navy in driving out the Dutch and Portuguese throughout the Nanyang region until they are completely driven out of the Nanyang and Xiaoxiyang.
The Ming Dynasty's ocean-going fleet, which it had gradually developed before, took over the colonies and trade routes of the Dutch and Portuguese.
At the same time, the Ming Dynasty's Yinzhou colony was established in the border areas not yet controlled by European colonial forces, mainly on the northwest coast of North Yinzhou and the southern area of South Yinzhou.
After the Dutch and Portuguese were driven away, Spain began to exclusively enjoy the European trade dividends of the Ming Dynasty.
Silver from Yinzhou poured into the mainland of the Ming Dynasty more rapidly, and tea, silk, and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty were also continuously shipped to Europe by Spain.
Under the advice and instigation of the Ming Dynasty, Spain continued to fight against the Dutch "rebels" in the Atlantic area beyond the influence of the Ming Dynasty.
The continuous seizure of Dutch colonies and even the reoccupation of the Dutch mainland directly led to the collapse of the Dutch United Provinces Republic.
Spain regards this as a major achievement of cooperation with Ming Dynasty around the world, and considers itself to be Ming Dynasty's most important ally and trading partner.
But the good times don't last long either...
The Ming Dynasty continued to expand in the north and south of Yinzhou, and finally directly bordered the Spanish Yinzhou colony.
So the Ming Dynasty suddenly cut off Spain's trade license and instead supported the British who were striving to replace Spain.
Spain lost the support of the Ming Dynasty's trade dividends, and its national strength saw a sharp decline. Soon it would no longer be a match for the Ming-British Alliance.
The Ming Dynasty cooperated with the British and gradually emptied the Spanish influence in the Ming Dynasty and the Lesser Western Ocean. At the same time, it also prohibited the British from invading the Southern Ocean and Southern China.
The Ming Dynasty began to completely dominate the Nanyang, Tiannan, and Damingyang regions, gradually discovered the situation in the southern continent, and began to immigrate on a large scale through steam sailing ships.
The British also continued to attack the Spanish in the Atlantic Ocean, and even occupied the Gibraltar region of the Spanish mainland. At the same time, they also established a foothold in Northern Yinzhou and southern Tianzhu.
The two sides cooperated very well, and Britain also felt that it was Ming Dynasty's most important ally.
But the good times didn't last long...
The Ming Dynasty expanded in the Little Western Ocean and developed colonies in North Tianzhu, East Mozhou, South Mozhou, and North and South Yinzhou. Britain also developed in these places.
After Tianzhu was divided between the north and south ends by both sides, the conflicts between the two sides gradually emerged.
When the Ming Dynasty controlled the Sinai Peninsula, built the West Sea Canal, and tried to completely monopolize the east-west trade, the conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the British reached a critical point.
Ming Dynasty was originally planning to repeat its old tricks and try to cooperate with France to clean up British forces in Dashi and Tianzhu areas.
But the British, who had a greater sense of crisis than their predecessors, completed the layout one step earlier than the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty and France had conflicts over the colonial development of the central and northern parts of Beiyinzhou and Mozhou.
The Ming Dynasty and the Ottomans had the most direct battle for territory in the Dashi area.
The Ming Dynasty and Lucia had conflicts over the demarcation of continental borders and the influence of cultural penetration.
The Ming Dynasty had profound historical conflicts with the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal, and there were practical conflicts over the ownership of the northern and southern Yinzhou colonies.
The Ming Dynasty had competitive conflicts with Austria, Sardinia, and Prussia in the development of new colonies in Mexico.
The Ming Dynasty's intention to completely control the east-west trade routes also conflicted with all countries in Europe and the West.
The British took advantage of these contradictions and showed their ability to be versatile and successfully organized the "Anti-Ming Alliance".
Under the threat of Ming Dynasty, the giant enemy, the entire Taixi reluctantly united for the first time.
After this world-class war broke out, both sides fought with great difficulty, and basically achieved no obvious actual results.
However, the Thai and Western people were a little surprised. They found that as long as they worked together, they could compete with the Ming Dynasty. This contributed to the rise of the Thai and Western national thoughts.
It's a pity that the good times don't last long after all...
After the war turned into a war of attrition, the Taixi people found that they were unable to succeed, but the Ming Dynasty obviously still had power that it had not used.
Therefore, the anti-Ming alliance led by the British made a decision to try to negotiate peace.
Facing an enemy like Ming, a draw would be considered a victory!
Now that Ming Dynasty has agreed to negotiate peace, the British can't believe it. After all, they were almost sold.
At the same time, I am also worried that the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain will not believe that these three have really been sold.
