Spanish Prime Minister Manuel, faced with Zhu Jingyuan's proposal to sign a twenty-year peace treaty, carefully considered his response and then carefully selected his words:
"His Royal Highness the Food King, we should be able to continue discussing and discussing. We also hope that the world will always be peaceful..."
The other party pretended to talk nicely, but Zhu Jingyuan smiled and shook his head and said:
"The result of the discussion is that both sides are unhappy, and eternal peace cannot be guaranteed, so we should sign a twenty-year peace treaty.
"If it really doesn't work, we don't want the land in Nanyinzhou anymore. We can just use the battle line as the border. This way we can both be happy."
Zhu Jingyuan's reaction made Manuel instinctively imagine that Zhu Jingyuan just wanted to fight again in twenty years.
This Prince of Dashi is just fifteen years old this year, and will be thirty-five in twenty years, in his prime.
Manuel could imagine that Ming's strategic goal might be the entire Yinzhou, or capture all Spanish colonies.
But they believe that it is impossible to do so at present, so they prefer to sign a twenty-year peace treaty.
Digest and integrate the current land, and wait until twenty years later to fight again.
Manuel's guess was basically correct.
Zhu Jingyuan actually really hopes that the Spaniards will choose a twenty-year peace treaty.
The ultimate strategic goal of Ming Dynasty in Yinzhou is, of course, to completely dominate the entire Yinzhou.
Drive all the Taixi people back to Taixi and establish a native reservation area for the Taixi people.
However, this strategic goal cannot be achieved in this war, or even in the next war.
So Zhu Jingyuan divided it into three stages.
The first stage is to completely occupy Nanyinzhou and control some of the transportation arteries in the mid-Atlantic.
This goal is actually not difficult.
The Nanyinzhou War was originally the place where the Ming Dynasty achieved the most results.
The land that the Ming Dynasty seized from the Spanish and Portuguese totaled nearly two million square kilometers.
Currently, six of the sixteen imperial villages in the Xintianfu area were built during the war.
Civil strife in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies was certainly an important reason.
The second stage is to completely occupy the west and south of Honey River, including the Mexican area now controlled by Spain.
The goals at this stage cannot be achieved in this peace negotiation.
Spain could not completely abandon all Yinzhou colonies.
Because the Ming Dynasty has no land border with the Spanish mainland, it is temporarily unable to directly occupy the Spanish mainland.
So there is no way to push to death like Osman and Lucia.
In fact, the situation is similar in the Netherlands.
Although the Dutch mainland is smaller and the population is sparse, the Ming Dynasty currently does not have the ability to land on their mainland.
For the Netherlands, which was shrinking behind the British and French mainland, it was difficult for Ming Dynasty to even threaten and harass.
The Dutch mainland was safe until the British and French were dead.
If Ming Dynasty forcibly demanded all the colonies of the Netherlands, the Netherlands could completely scold Ming Dynasty and tell Ming Dynasty that if you have the ability, you can get it yourself.
That would only reduce Ming's deterrence to other countries.
Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan easily let Holland go, letting the other party keep the best Mozhou colony, and only wanted the bad land of Nanyinzhou.
This is to remove the other party from the negotiation sequence as soon as possible.
However, the situation in Spain and the Netherlands is slightly different.
Although it is still difficult for the Ming Dynasty to land and occupy the Spanish mainland, it has already posed a certain threat to it.
The Ming Dynasty's fleet can set out from the Egyptian area to harass and threaten Spain's coastline in the Great Qin Sea.
The Ming Dynasty could accept the Ottoman legacy through Egypt and expand westward in the North Mozhou region.
In this way, the distance between Ming Dynasty and mainland Spain will become closer and closer.
At the same time, Spain's most important Yinzhou colony, both in the north and south, was under the threat of the Ming Dynasty, and it was the handle that the Ming Dynasty held in its hands.
Therefore, Ming Dynasty can be much tougher against Spain than against the Netherlands.
But you still can't push to death, and you still have to control the intensity of oppression.
You can claim most of the colonies that the other party cannot control, but you still have to leave some of the colonies to the other party.
Prevent them from being prone to stumbling to death.
When its strategic bombers mature and its aircraft carriers can be used in actual combat, it's time for Spain to get on the gridiron.
Although Spanish representatives do not know future matters such as aircraft carriers and aircraft, they can see the threats before them.
Therefore, the more Zhu Jingyuan wants to sign a twenty-year agreement, the less Spain dares to accept a twenty-year agreement.
Manuel immediately smiled and said:
"No, no, no, we can still discuss it. There should be conditions that both of us can accept."
Zhu Jingyuan asked in reply:
"Then how can we both be satisfied? The Prime Minister might as well talk about it."
Manuel pondered for three seconds, then subconsciously looked at the representatives from other countries, and seemed to have thought of something:
"In this way... the dispute between our two sides in Beiyinzhou is actually not a dispute between our two countries. Britain and France can be brought in to discuss it together."
Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand directly and said:
"No, our Ming Dynasty has not signed an armistice agreement with the British, and the British do not have the problem of breaking the agreement.
"Lucia, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain are the countries that broke the armistice agreement of the Ming Dynasty.
"So we'll finish talking among ourselves first, and then we'll talk to the British and French."
Zhu Jingyuan does not want to bring the British and French in for talks now.
Both the British and the French can be regarded as a mixture of the Netherlands and Spain in their current negotiating positions.
The British mainland is in the North Atlantic, and Ming Dynasty cannot directly attack it, but their southern Tianzhu colony is next to Ming Dynasty.
The French colonies had no contact with the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty could harass the French mainland from the Qin Sea.
However, the degree of threats to both countries cannot be compared with Spain.
Britain and France hoped to cease the war, and Ming Dynasty could ask them to pay a small amount of compensation and cede a small number of unimportant colonies, which was equivalent to an "apology."
But it will be difficult to get them to make substantive concessions.
That's why Zhu Jingyuan encouraged Napoleon to go to the British and French colonies to cause trouble.
So now Zhu Jingyuan does not want Britain and France to interfere in the negotiations of other countries in advance.
The British, the French, and the Spanish also understand this.
The British wanted to maintain their leadership position, so upon hearing the Spanish's call, British Prime Minister Peter took the initiative to speak:
“Since the interests of the UK are involved, the UK must of course participate in the discussion and cannot ignore it.
"I have a suggestion, we can do a colony exchange between the three countries.
“The Ming Dynasty got the Lesser Antilles, Cuba, and most of western Texas.
“Spain got Florida, the area along the Honey River in eastern Texas, and the Bahamas.
"Britain took out the Florida area and got Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and peace with Ming Dynasty."
The Spanish representative was obviously stunned after hearing this.
The British actually took out the Florida area!
The Florida region of the United States was originally a Spanish colony and directly bordered the British North American colonies on land.
Historically, this land was traded to the British from Spain.
But when the United States became independent, the British deliberately gave this land back to Spain.
The United States endured it for a while after independence, but finally took it away from Spain.
In the history of this world, when Spain was abandoned by the Ming Dynasty, Florida was taken away directly from the land by the British.
When the British tried to win over the Spanish to join the anti-Ming alliance, the Spanish first opened their mouths and demanded that the British return all their colonies.
After some bargaining, the British finally returned only a few islands such as Cuba and Haiti, as well as Guyana and other places.
Florida was still retained by the British.
Florida directly borders the British colony of North Yinzhou, and its defense is obviously not comparable to that of independent islands such as Cuba.
Now the British handed over Florida to Spain, and asked Spain to hand over the largest island of Cuba in Central America and western Texas to the Ming Dynasty.
In this way, Spain is not at a loss, and it can still maintain contact and discourse rights over the disputed areas in central Yinzhou.
The Florida Peninsula and the Bahamas were enough to ensure the Spanish's shipping route to the Mexican colony.
After such a transaction was completed, six colonies between the British, Spanish and Ming countries intertwined with each other in the southeast of Yinzhou.
If each fights on its own, it’s hard to say who is more beneficial.
But when the British and Spanish faced the Ming Dynasty, they were potential allies and would have an advantage.
Zhu Jingyuan and the representatives of Ming Dynasty frowned when they heard this.
This division of the British cannot be said to be a canine disparity, it can only be regarded as a mess.
If you don't take out a map and draw a map, you won't be able to tell what's going on.
But Zhu Jingyuan didn't really need to make a clear distinction. Zhu Jingyuan only figured out one key arrangement and sentenced the plan to death.
Although Ming Dynasty got the largest island of Cuba, the surrounding Haiti, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico were all British.
The British handed over a piece of land on the mainland, took back several key islands, and formally negotiated peace with the Ming Dynasty. It was really a good deal.
It is impossible for Zhu Jingyuan to give the British such a bargain...
So Zhu Jingyuan said directly and categorically:
"impossible!"
British Prime Minister Peter heard Zhu Jingyuan's determination, so he immediately adjusted the details of the plan on the spot:
"How about handing over Cuba to the British, and handing over Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica to the Ming Dynasty?"
The British took Cuba, and in turn asked Ming to surround him with Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. It seemed very sincere.
However, Cuba's location is more critical. Once the British get it, they can directly cut off the Ming Dynasty's route from Nanyinzhou to Texas.
Zhu Jingyuan once again expressed his opposition with a hint of anger:
“I say again, this is impossible, I will not accept your messy colonial deal.
"I'm here for peace, not to create conflicts. Don't do this to me."
Peter was startled by Zhu Jingyuan's reaction, but he thought he had figured out Zhu Jingyuan's preferences, so he immediately changed his strategy again:
“If His Highness really comes for peace, then Britain can hand over Southern Tianzhu to Ming Dynasty.
“But Britain demands complete control over the central waters of Yinzhou.
“The land on the Yinzhou continent north of Texas, south of St. Louis, and east of the Rocky Mountains will always belong to Britain.
"The Greater Antilles, the whole of Guia, and Panama shall forever belong to Great Britain.
“The entire Viceroyalty of New Granada, north of the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, shall forever belong to Great Britain.
“The Lesser Antilles were retained by Spain.
"Permanent peace between the Ming Dynasty, Britain and Spain."
The representatives at the scene were surprised by this long list of demands.
The British actually wanted to hand over Southern Tianzhu!
Tianzhu can be regarded as the richest colony in the world.
Therefore, even half of Tianzhu can be exchanged for a large number of colonies.
The British made quite a few demands.
The first is the central and southern parts of the United States, excluding Texas.
Then there are Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana in South America.
There are also some of the largest islands in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.
These lands were to be handed over to the Ming Dynasty by the Spaniards, or were lands that the Ming Dynasty originally coveted.
It was equivalent to passing through the hands of the Ming Dynasty and finally being transferred to the British.
The British will have complete control over the central area of Yinzhou and the surrounding sea control.
But the Ming Dynasty was also able to completely unify Tianzhu and completely control the sea in the Little Western Region.
This is really a big deal, a deal that is good for world peace.
Nan Tianzhu has already been completely wrapped up by the Ming Dynasty. In the future, if the British want to gain profits from Nan Tianzhu, they must always watch the face of the Ming Dynasty.
The British had long been prepared to abandon the southern Tianzhu colony.
Unexpectedly, it was defended during the war.
That's a good time to take it out and exchange it for enough land in other regions.
At the same time, it will completely shrink its power to the North Atlantic region to prevent Ming from coveting the mid-Atlantic and northern regions.
Although this proposal was unexpected, it was reasonable.
After thinking about this, everyone at the scene looked at Zhu Jingyuan, including the representatives of Ming Dynasty.
Everyone instinctively thought that Zhu Jingyuan would not make an immediate decision in the face of such a huge transaction, which seemed to be a fair one.
You should be asked to go back and think about it carefully and discuss the details further.
As a result, under everyone's surprised gazes, Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand vigorously and said very resolutely:
"If you don't change, don't even think about it."
The representatives present were immediately stunned.
Peter also vaguely understood Zhu Jingyuan's true thoughts.
But Peter still refused to give up and tried to persuade Zhu Jingyuan again:
"Your Highness, handing over Southern Tianzhu to the Ming Dynasty and allowing Britain to fully control the mid-Atlantic is the best way to avoid conflicts between the two of us.
"This is obviously in the interest of peace between us, and if you are not satisfied with the details of the deal, we can continue to discuss it in detail."
Zhu Jingyuan still refused again without hesitation:
"If you don't change, you won't change. Don't mention this again in the future. I have no interest in Southern Tianzhu. I prefer the land of Yinzhou."
Nan Tianzhu can be regarded as the handle that the British put in Ming's hands.
These lands and islands in the mid-Atlantic are also what Ming Dynasty is about to acquire, and will be used to manipulate Spain and the British.
The result of this exchange proposed by the British is that Ming Dynasty will lose all its existing handles and those that are about to be obtained.
How could Zhu Jingyuan exchange with them?
A place like Nan Tianzhu, which is completely surrounded, can be captured directly by force in the next war.
The islands in central Yinzhou and the British and French colonies in northern Yinzhou would be very troublesome to occupy even in the next war.
Now I am claiming the islands of Yinzhou and the land near the Gulf of Mexico, which will serve as an important fulcrum for the next war.
It is also completely undesirable to abandon the important pivot points in the Atlantic and Yinzhou for an effortless goal.
