Zhu Jingyuan asked Osman to break away from the anti-Ming alliance.
Grand Vizier Zayedin, the representative of the Ottomans, had already thought about it all, so now he nodded lightly:
"The time when Osman and the Ming Dynasty signed a treaty was when Osman officially broke away from the anti-Ming alliance."
Representatives from several other Thai and Western countries subconsciously wanted to stop it.
Osman's departure from the anti-Ming alliance seemed to be Osman's own business, but it symbolized the beginning of the disintegration of the anti-Ming alliance.
For representatives who want to maintain the alliance, of course they must find ways to stop it, if possible...
The first to speak was French Foreign Minister Talleyrand:
"Please wait a moment, Grand Vizier, do you understand the consequences of signing a contract with Ming Dynasty alone?"
Zayadin responded without hesitation:
“Othman understood that signing a separate contract meant that Ming could tear up the peace treaty with Osman alone.
“But joining the anti-Ming alliance for so many years ultimately failed to help the Ottomans retain the land in the south.
“Usman referred to the peace treaty between Ming Dynasty and Lucia, and finally decided to believe in Ming Dynasty’s promise.
"The Ottomans need to end the war as soon as possible, settle down and resume production as soon as possible."
Talleyrand understood Osman's attitude instantly.
Since you Tessie don't want to help Osman fight the Ming Dynasty, then don't stop Osman from jumping ship alone.
You Tessie don’t want to fight, and we Osman don’t want to fight either.
Talleyrand and Pitt continued to persuade, but they could not find any good reasons.
The key is that Osman has already decided to leave, and the two people's unconfident persuasion is of no use at all, and in the end they get a few ridicules.
"We, Osman, have accepted your suggestions and accepted all of Ming's requirements. Now it's time to see how you sign the contract."
The representatives of Britain and France were speechless.
I went to persuade Osman to accept Daming's request before, but now I want to ask Osman not to jump out of the car alone, which is not convincing at all.
Among all the member states of the Anti-Ming Alliance, Osman was originally the most special one.
The Ottomans did not participate in the battles in other areas at all, and did their best to simply resist the Ming's attack at home.
Osman was already fighting the Ming Dynasty before the anti-Ming alliance was established.
When the Anti-Ming Alliance was established, Osman was not a member of the alliance.
After the Anti-Ming Alliance declared war with the Ming Dynasty, Osman was brought into the alliance.
Although the Ottomans controlled a large amount of European territory, their cultural beliefs were not a Taishi country at all, but a Dashi or Anxi country.
The relationship between the Ottomans and the Western countries is not very good, and it can be regarded as a feud with Lucia and Austria.
Osman also knew that Ming's negotiations with Britain, France, Lu, Spain, and Portugal would definitely be difficult.
Now that Osman has paid the price and obtained a separate peace commitment as long as possible, it is natural that he should sign a separate contract with Ming Dynasty in advance.
Instead of continuing to be entangled with the European and American countries.
Countries in Europe and the West also understood these logics, so they quickly gave up persuasion.
In this way, Osman basically surrendered unilaterally, and Ming Dynasty's strategic goals in the Great Qinhai were basically achieved.
From the Mesopotamia and Mesopotamia to the west bank of the Great Qin Sea, the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of ancient human civilization, has now completely fallen into the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
Another cradle of human civilization, the Egyptian region downstream of the Nile River also became a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.
In this way, China, Tianzhu, Babylon, and Egypt, the four cradles of classical human civilization, were all controlled by the Ming Dynasty.
It was also the first time that Ming Dynasty achieved its strategic goals by using diplomacy as its main force instead of war.
It can be regarded as an unprecedented diplomatic victory.
This made Zhu Jingyuan feel very good.
After taking over the Crescent Zone, the entire Dashi Peninsula in the south was in the Ming Dynasty's possession.
Those local separatist forces, as well as the remaining Ottoman client organizations, will soon be wiped out.
The southern region of Egypt, as well as the entire two sides of the Red Sea, will soon be the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Red Sea will also become the inland sea of the Ming Dynasty.
In the future, the entire east coast of Mozhou will also become the land of the Ming Dynasty.
From now on, along the entire Little Western Coast, only the southern part of Tianzhu will be under the influence of other countries.
How to deal with the issue in southern Tianzhu will be a big difficulty for the British.
It is not the difficulty of Ming Dynasty, because it is completely surrounded by Ming Dynasty.
It will be absolutely impossible for Tianzhu to hold on until the next war.
As long as the communication lines are simply destroyed, the British will be unable to contact Nantianzhu.
Nan Tianzhu was the "hostage" that Ming Dynasty took to hold the British.
After the Ming Dynasty occupied northern Tianzhu and Nanmozhou, it did not exchange colonies with the British who occupied southern Tianzhu. Instead, it continued to develop around Xiaoxiyang. This was the reason for this situation.
So that is the difficulty of the British, not the difficulty of the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, except for the northwest border, most of the other areas in Persia are already within the Ming camp.
It no longer has much practical significance for Persia to remain an independent country, so it should be accepted as a vassal.
From now on, the buffer between Ming Dynasty and Taixi will be Ottoman.
From now on, Daming will start to deal with Lucia himself.
The next negotiation is mainly with Lucia, but that is not today's matter.
Next, Ming Dynasty and Osman determined more details and signed a relatively formal memorandum.
The signing will be formalized after the formal agreement text is completed.
After the meeting that day, relevant news was sent back to the rear of each country as quickly as possible.
The news that Osman was about to surrender had already spread before the meeting began.
However, the confirmation process at the formal meeting is still very important. Once the results are clear, they can be made public to the public.
Officials from Honglu Temple, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, received the news and immediately ran to report Zhu Jianyan.
Zhu Jianyan took the telegraph newspaper and read it several times with a smile on his face, and then handed it to the people around him:
"Publish it in the newspaper immediately! Tomorrow morning's newspaper must have all the papers! I'll tell my father!"
After the telegram was passed on, there was cheers in the Cabinet Office.
Since this year, the actual war has basically stopped, but it has gradually turned from a disadvantage to a draw, and from a draw to a victory.
This strange feeling has not appeared in the past Ming Dynasty.
In the past, it was just a matter of annexing or driving away the enemy. A relatively casual treaty might be signed, but there was no such careful negotiation.
He didn't seriously consider that he could force the Western Yi group to admit defeat simply by pacing around on the negotiating table.
They had never exerted the diplomatic power that Ming Dynasty should have before.
It’s not that I won’t, it’s that I don’t need to at all.
This was the first time that a near draw was achieved in a foreign war.
Zhu Jianyan walked briskly and went next door to find the old emperor and briefly explained the official news he had received.
The old emperor was already mentally prepared. After listening, he smiled and nodded gently:
"This result can be attributed to Jingyuan, but Osman is not actually the focus, the focus is still on Lucia's side.
“The outcome of the negotiations on Lucia will determine whether this is a twenty-year truce or a true peace.
"But a twenty-year truce should be exactly what that kid wants.
"Otherwise, would his weapons have been prepared in vain?"
The smile on Zhu Jianyan's face was slightly stiff. He had just skipped over him in the past twenty years:
"hehe……"
The old emperor thought about it again and reminded him more seriously:
“If he really wants a 20-year truce, he would just let go of the vassalization of Khiva and Kazakhstan until the negotiations are over.
“It is impossible for Lucia to completely abandon the east of the Urals or the east of the Yenisei River by any means now.
“During the peace talks, the Lucians may act impulsively and fight the Ming again as members of the anti-Ming alliance.
“But after the armistice agreement is signed, they will never dare to unilaterally declare war on Ming Dynasty.
“At that time, we will be free to build forward bases around the Caspian Sea and extend the railway directly to the Ural River region.
"When the armistice agreement period comes and the troops move north from the Caspian Sea, the east of the Urals will be in our possession."
Zhu Jianyan opened his mouth, and many thoughts came to his mind. However, this incident happened twenty years later, and it seemed that it had nothing to do with him anymore:
"I understand, I will tell the boy later."
Zhu Jianyan exited his father's room and continued to work on his own affairs.
Now the old emperor is letting go more and more, and he has more and more things to do.
At the same time, Zhu Jianyan's order was also passed to various newspaper offices through the Ministry of Rites, forming two tasks.
First of all, news must be published normally, indicating that the negotiations between Ming Dynasty and Osman have basically ended, and Ming Dynasty has basically achieved its strategic goals.
Then there is the more important task of analyzing and evaluating the realization of strategic goals itself and the achievement of strategic goals through negotiation.
It was already afternoon, and the next morning's newspapers would be printed before dawn.
Including the time required for typesetting, the relevant writers only have a few hours to rush to the manuscript.
Reporting is easy, but commenting is difficult.
The subject matter of this kind of thing is huge. If I start to conceive directly on the spot, I may not be able to write an impactful article.
However, many newspapers and writers do not need to start from scratch now. They usually have various preparations.
The Ming Dynasty's direction of seizing Egypt was made public shortly after the war began.
Many newspapers and current affairs writers had written similar articles ten years ago and planned to publish them after the Ming Dynasty captured those areas.
As a result, the war situation in the West China Sea reached a stalemate, so the manuscripts were revised many times and were not reported for more than ten years.
Now that I finally have the opportunity, many newspapers immediately published those original articles.
So the next morning's newspaper contained many refurbished versions of articles that had been suppressed for more than ten years.
There are also some ideas that can be called imaginative.
When Zhu Jianyan got up and read the newspaper the next day, he discovered something very strange.
"China has regained another piece of its homeland."
Another piece, not mentioning the last piece or which piece, and not using any absolute description, which makes it very rigorous.
But what is going on in this homeland?
Zhu Jianyan looked through it carefully and saw a few lines of words.
"The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Great Wilderness Western Classic" says:
South of the West Sea, on the shore of quicksand, behind the Red River and before the Black River, there is a large mountain called Kunlun Hill.
There is a god, with a human face and a tiger body, with text and a tail, all white, in the middle.
Below it is surrounded by abyss of weak water, and outside it is a mountain of flaming fire, from which things are thrown.
The West Sea is the Great Qin Sea, and the Great Qin Sea is the West Sea. The name of the Chief Envoy of the West Sea in the Ming Dynasty is aptly named.
Quicksand - Big Desert, there is boundless desert around the Big Food region.
Chishui - the Red Sea. The reflection of the stones around the coast makes the sea appear red. This is an ancient memory.
The black water - the Nile River and the Red Sea are already here, so the black water can only be the Nile River, not the Black Sea. The place is too far away.
Human face and tiger body - tiger body and human face, such a big thing placed there is the statue of this god.
In the Flame Mountain, things are thrown into the flames - it is the Flame Mountain caused by underground petroleum gas leakage. This phenomenon is quite common in the local area.
Therefore, the Dashi region, including Egypt, was originally my homeland of China, and now it has finally returned to the Celestial Empire, which is really a sign of prosperity.
Further down, there are all kinds of bragging rhetoric. In short, they are praising me for being invincible in the world.
After Zhu Jianyan read it, he first withdrew his "rigorous" evaluation, and then remained silent for a long time.
In terms of certain needs, what the newspaper said makes sense.
Regardless of whether this is true or not, whether it is far-fetched or not, it is the business of the cultural department to map the things in the newly occupied land of the Ming Dynasty to the cultural symbols of our own home.
So after the morning court the next day, Zhu Jianyan went to find officials from the Ministry of Rites.
Let the officials of the Ministry of Rites follow the direction of this article, or find other more suitable and available directions, to provide theoretical and cultural basis for the Ming Dynasty to rule the Dashi area.
The current Ministry of Rites in the Ming Dynasty no longer cares about examinations and education, and has assigned the responsibility to a separate academic department.
Regardless of diplomacy, all related functions were handed over to Honglu Temple.
He is still responsible for etiquette-related work, but it is very different from the etiquette of the classical era. It is more about the organization and management of various large-scale events.
The daily work is mainly in culture and publicity. All newspapers, publications, books, operas, poems, and excellence promotions are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites.
It is also the duty of the Ministry of Rites to provide a theoretical basis for the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
After arranging the tasks, Zhu Jianyan went to the Ministry of Personnel and asked relevant officials to determine the local administrative divisions.
There have been related discussions on whether to establish a vassal state, how many vassal states should be established, and how many chief envoys should be established.
Now it is just a matter of adjusting the most suitable plan originally determined based on the actual territorial scope now obtained, and then arranging manpower to implement it.
While Zhu Jianyan was busy, the news in the newspapers spread throughout the Ming Dynasty.
Most of the elites were cheering and gathering friends to go out to eat and drink to celebrate and discuss the opportunities that might exist in these new territories.
Unlike the classical era before the Renwu Dynasty, many of the emerging elites of the Ming Dynasty after the Renwu Dynasty became wealthy by taking advantage of the expansion and industrialization of the Ming Dynasty.
After more than a hundred years, the middle and upper class groups in the Ming Dynasty have formed a certain inertial understanding. As long as the Ming Dynasty can occupy new lands, there will probably be new opportunities to make money.
The officials in the court gradually became accustomed to this method, so they would not stop the Ming Dynasty's military expansion.
Before this world war, the situation of not being able to win was not even considered.
At the same time, the ruling classes of the various countries in the West and the West, although they did not feel as happy as the Ming Dynasty in welcoming the victory, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
The high-pressure atmosphere that had lasted for a month was finally relieved, and the frequency of entertainment activities that had been reduced for a month was restored immediately.
But this relaxation will not last long, because the negotiations between Daming and Lucia are about to begin.
