On June 5, the thirty-fourth year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty, Fengtian Hall, Huangzhuang Palace, Xiyang Cape.
The signing ceremony of the peace treaty between Ming Dynasty and Lucia was officially held.
The on-site layout and the entire process of the signing ceremony were basically consistent with Osman's signing ceremony.
Representatives from various countries stood on both sides to witness, with Zhu Jingyuan sitting at the top and Prince Nicholas of Lucia sitting at the top on the right.
There are two types of signing documents, each written in Ming and Ming scripts, but Da Ming script still prevails.
The peace treaty stipulated that Lucia ceded the Lena River Basin and the upper reaches of the Yenisei River to the Ming Dynasty.
Lucia split the area east of the Ural Mountains and established the independent Xianbei Grand Duchy, with the capital being Xianbei City (Novosibirsk). Update without error@
With Prince Alexander of Lucia (Roya Mountain) as the grand duke, he signed a vassal treaty with the Ming Dynasty and paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty.
The three hundred kilometers on both sides of the ridge of the Ural Mountains is classified as a neutral demilitarized zone, and neither side is allowed to station troops in this area.
Zhu Jingyuan exchanged documents with both parties after signing and sealing, and the peace treaty was formally established.
On behalf of Emperor Lucia, Nicholas granted the Ural Mountains and the land east of the Ural River to Mount Roja as a feudal state.
On behalf of the Ming Emperor, Zhu Jingyuan issued an edict conferring Luo Yashan as the Duke of Xianbei.
By the way, an edict was issued to confer the Kazakh Khanate as a foreign vassal.
Nicholas, on behalf of the Lucia Empire, announced his formal withdrawal from the Anti-Ming Alliance.
During and after the ceremony, representatives of the Ming Dynasty were always smiling and believed that this treaty was quite beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.
Lucia's representatives were worried at first, then slowly sighed, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that the peace treaty would maintain peace for a hundred years.
The remaining representatives of the anti-Ming alliance all looked very ugly.
Ming Dynasty won another big step through negotiations, and the anti-Ming alliance was dismembered again.
Moreover, the Lucia Empire's departure from the Anti-Ming Alliance had a much worse impact than the Ottoman Empire's departure.
Lucia is the real main force of the army and the barrier against the Ming Dynasty in the entire western continent.
Now that Lucia has reconciled with the Ming Dynasty and completely given up exploring the east, she will definitely go all out to the west and the Atlantic Ocean in the future.
Whether it is Prussia and Austria at Lucia's feet, or the Netherlands, Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal on the ocean, they will all be challenged by a new and huge opponent.
Only if Italy does not border Lucia and its mainland is completely located in the Mediterranean Sea can it feel a little calmer.
After the peace treaty was signed, the Lucia representatives did not leave directly like the Ottoman representatives, but stayed to wait for discussions on colonial affairs.
For the Ming Dynasty, the actual benefits from obtaining several pieces of land in the Xianbei region, dismembering Lucia and paying tribute, may not be as good as those from the Ottoman ceding of land.
But the impact of this incident was obviously greater than the Ottoman ceding of territory.
First of all, Lucia's national power and influence, as well as the threat to the Ming Dynasty, are not comparable to Osman.
Then there is the distance. Lucia's homeland once directly bordered the Ming mainland. Whenever the two countries fought, it was a local war.
Now that Lucia is split, the mainland of the two sides is truly separated, and Ming's homeland security has been greatly improved.
Some newspapers in the Ming Dynasty analyzed that there would never be a war in the Ming Dynasty, and China and China would now enjoy peace.
Five days after the Ming Dynasty signed the contract with Lucia, it was June 11, the thirty-fourth year of the Ming Dynasty.
Daming and Lucia, as well as representatives from various countries in the Anti-Ming Alliance, once again gathered at the Wenhua Hall of the Imperial Palace in the Cape of the West.
The third round of negotiations between the Ming Dynasty and the Anti-Ming Alliance officially began.
After Zhu Jingyuan announced the start of the meeting, he did not let Shen Fu talk as before, but continued:
“The peace talks have lasted for three months, and the affairs on the Shenou continent have basically ended, but the progress is still somewhat delayed.
“There will be further discussions on the formulation of international rules and preparations for the League of Nations, so I hope to speed up some progress.
"The Ming Dynasty and Lucia have reconciled again. I hope that we can reconcile with the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain again in the future."
Zhu Jingyuan paused for a moment when he said this, and his eyes slowly scanned the faces of the representatives of the Three Kingdoms.
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There were six representatives in total. Their expressions were extremely solemn, even gloomy. It was obvious that they were all under a lot of pressure.
Daming's previous persecution of Osman and Lucia made them instinctively think that Daming would treat them in the same way.
British Prime Minister Peter also frowned, looking equally stressed. ,
However, what the British think about is completely different from that of the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal. He is worried about Ming's strategy.
At the same time, Zhu Jingyuan finally spoke:
"The prerequisite for reconciliation is that the Ming Dynasty gets the entire South Yinzhou including Panama, plus the Antilles, and the Jiazhou Peninsula (California Peninsula) in the North Yinzhou."
The representatives of the three countries were stunned, and before they spoke, British Prime Minister Peter spoke first:
"It is impossible for the Antilles to be handed over to the Ming Dynasty..."
The Antilles is the island in the middle of Yinzhou, which is divided into two parts: the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles.
The Greater Antilles is almost the dividing line between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and other places.
The Lesser Antilles is almost the dividing line between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, including Grenada, Dominica, Guadeloupe and other places.
Most of these islands were originally Spanish colonies, but most were later seized by the British.
When the British formed the Anti-Ming Alliance, they returned this part of the island to Spain.
Spain in this era was still very powerful and was a colonial empire not weaker than Britain and France.
The key is that they have several feuds with Britain. If the British want to reconcile with Spain and join, they will have to pay a price.
In its original history, Spain was the earliest colonial empire in the world, the earliest empire on which the sun never sets, and the earliest world maritime hegemon.
According to middle and high school history textbooks, the British defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588, marking the decline of Spanish maritime hegemony, and the British began to replace Spain as the maritime hegemon.
However, that is just a knowledge point used for exams, and it is a completely generalized description.
After the British defeated the Spanish "Invincible Fleet", they tried to launch an attack on the Spanish mainland the next year. As a result, the entire army was annihilated. The actual losses were greater than the Spanish in the 1588 war...
Three years later, Spain's maritime power began to recover, and it defeated the British again at the Battle of Flores.
Ten years later, the Spanish Armada was even more powerful than before, and the British were once again suppressed.
In fact, from the 16th century to the 18th century, for almost two hundred years, the overlords of the world's oceans were Spanish.
Otherwise, Spain would not be able to maintain the huge Yinzhou colony.
The British maritime power also continued to grow, but for a long time it could not be compared with Spain.
Otherwise, the British would not encourage pirate ships to raid. They would only do that if they could not defeat them head-on.
The British wanted to seize Spain's Yinzhou colony, but several attempts ended in failure, and they could only continue to develop colonies in northern Yinzhou.
The complete decline of Spanish sea power would not occur until the Napoleonic Wars, after the Battle of Trafalgar, and after the independence of the Yinzhou Colony.
As for the British, it was not until the Industrial Revolution was fully completed, that is, the Victorian era, that they truly established their position as world hegemon.
In this time and space, Spain first started the Industrial Revolution with the Ming Dynasty, so it was not weak compared to the United Kingdom.
The British originally needed the support of the Ming Dynasty to suppress Spain in the Atlantic region.
After the British had a falling out with the Ming Dynasty, and even when they were preparing to challenge the Ming Dynasty, they had to have a good talk with Spain.
So in this time and space, the entire Antilles still belongs to Spain.
But a large part of it was handed over by the British before the war.
So when Zhu Jingyuan asked for it, the British reacted even more than the Spanish.
But before Peter's instinctive objection could be finished, Zhu Jingyuan interrupted Peter's objection loudly:
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“Stop your delusions, Englishman.
“Stop trying to stop Ming from acquiring land on the Atlantic coast.
“That’s already impossible.
“No matter what, the Netherlands has to give up Guyana, or give up the Gold Coast, and I think the Dutch will choose Guyana.
“Both of these places are about the same distance from mainland Britain as the Antilles.
"Your delusions are meaningless!"
Peter's expression suddenly froze, and he immediately understood that what Zhu Jingyuan said was reality.
The Guyana region of Nanyinzhou was originally a Dutch colony.
Historically, it was later divided into three parts, belonging to the Netherlands, Britain, and France. Portugal also participated in the competition. @
In this world, when Spain monopolized the Ming Dynasty trade, it seized the entire Guyana region from several other colonists.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. After the British formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, they wrested it from the Spanish.
When the Anti-Ming Alliance was established, the British divided it into two parts and gave it back to Spain and the Netherlands in order to win over the Spanish and the Dutch.
The development area of Guyana is very limited, the population is very sparse, and the tax revenue it can contribute is also relatively limited.
So the British didn't feel too distressed when they handed it over, and the Dutch don't feel distressed when they hand it over now.
The Dutch were unable to continue to control the Yinzhou colony.
Now we have to pay the price for the armistice. It is much better to give up Guyana in Yinzhou than to give up the Gold Coast in Mozhou.
This condition is very easy for the Dutch.
The Netherlands itself was small in area, had a limited population, and even its colonies were very limited, so they did not play much role in the war.
Zhu Jingyuan asked them to give up the Guyana colony with limited value, which was equivalent to an apology.
Zhu Jingyuan learned from the advanced experience of the British and tried his best to suppress the powerful local countries in Europe and the West, while letting the weak countries go a little bit.
More importantly, Ming Dynasty is currently unable to threaten the Netherlands. If the Netherlands behaves badly, Ming Dynasty will not be able to do anything about it.
Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan set the simplest conditions for the weakest Netherlands, and first removed him from the peace negotiation sequence.
But on the other hand, Daming does not lack the income of the Gold Coast. Daming is more concerned about Guyana's geographical location.
Guyana can cooperate with Xintianfu in the south and attack Portugal's Brazilian colony from the north and south.
The key is that it is closer to the east coast of Yinzhou and can contain the British American colonies.
Pete considered these situations in his mind and looked at the two representatives of the Netherlands with a very complicated mood.
The British could not force the Netherlands to give up the Gold Coast instead of handing over Guyana, unless the British could come up with better terms in exchange for the Dutch.
After discussing a few words with the Prime Minister, the Prince of the Netherlands quickly responded directly:
"If the Ming Dynasty can promise permanent peace, the Netherlands can give up all its colonies in Yinzhou."
Zhu Jingyuan nodded lightly:
"Okay, then our two countries are settled. Let's look at Portugal and Spain next. How are you thinking about it?"
