Monroe was pushed into a corner, and no matter what choice he made, Florida could not be saved.
"This is the tragedy of the colonies."
Monroe muttered something in his heart, and without bargaining with Zhu Jingyuan, he directly stated that he knew, then said goodbye and left.
The possibility of Daming lowering his requirements is already very low, and at the same time, lowering his requirements may not be beneficial to himself.
So Monroe simply gave up.
After Monroe returned to the British delegation's residence, he went directly to Pitt and the Prince of Wales to convey Zhu Jingyuan's request.
Prince Will was a little confused after hearing this:
"Why did Ming Dynasty want Hudson Bay? Could it be the French..."
Pete sighed and said:
"The French are likely to give up the land north of the Great Lakes, and the Ming Dynasty wants all the land north of the Great Lakes..."
Monroe smiled bitterly and said:
"The world is really peaceful now."
The Prince of Wales looked dull:
"Peace under the rules set by Ming Dynasty, Mr. Prime Minister, do you think we should accept this condition?"
Pete repeated his point again:
“If you don’t take into account the coastline of Yinzhou, this representation is not huge, so my suggestion is to accept it.
"So I hope that His Highness will join me in persuading His Majesty to accept this condition."
The Prince of Wales was silent for a while and nodded feebly:
"All right……"
In the next half month, no formal meeting was held again.
Representatives of various countries communicated privately, contacted the Ming Dynasty privately, and contacted the king and court in the rear of the country.
Most of the conditions were gradually determined.
On July 12, the thirty-fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, representatives from various countries once again gathered in the Wenhua Hall of the Imperial Palace in the Western Cape.
Various conditions that had been negotiated in private were submitted one by one by representatives from various countries, and were officially made public and recorded for confirmation.
Britain and France ceded territory to pay reparations, Spain and Portugal ceded territory, and Prussia, Austria, and Italy paid reparations.
Prussia compensated the Ming Dynasty for its military expenses with five million gold coins, Austria compensated with five million gold coins, and Sardinia and Italy compensated with three million gold coins.
The five countries paid a total of 33 million gold banknotes in compensation, equivalent to 1,650 tons of gold and 1.65 billion silver banknotes.
Converted into about 1.1 billion taels of Kuping silver in the late Qing Dynasty.
Thirty-eight times the historical cost of the battlecruiser Hood.
Of course, the cost of building warships is actually only a small part of the navy's military expenditure.
In 1918, the last year of World War I in history, the British Navy's military expenditure reached 330 million pounds. Calculating the cost alone, it could build 54 Hoods.
However, after the armistice, several ships of the same class that had already started construction were quickly canceled, and in the end only one Hood was completed.
The number of 1.1 billion taels of silver can directly kill the Qing Dynasty, but it does not put much pressure on a group of industrialized countries.
Otherwise they won't accept it.
The total amount is equivalent to 70% to 100% of their annual fiscal revenue.
It can be paid in ten years, with about 8% of the current year's fiscal revenue paid each year.
Then there's the land.
South of the Great Lakes, east of the Honey River, and north of Florida, this area was an English and French colony.
Between Mexico and Panama were Spanish colonies.
Greenland belongs to Norway and Denmark.
Except for these three areas, the entire Yinzhou continent and surrounding islands are all owned by the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, it is still under the Ming Dynasty in name only.
The central part of Northern Yinzhou, which later became the central and northern part of the United States and Canada, covers more than 6 million square kilometers of land, and now only a small number of Yin tribes are active.
Since the large railway across Yinzhou was not built, the central part of Yinzhou has long been a disputed area. It is still a paradise for Yinzhou bison, and the total number is still estimated to be between 20 and 30 million.
In the polar archipelago area in the northernmost part of Beiyinzhou, only the indigenous Inuit live there.
How to effectively control these vast primitive wastelands is an important task for the Ming Dynasty in the future.
Only the fringe areas of Nanyinzhou have been developed.
The extent of rainforest destruction on both sides of the Yajiang River in central China is much lower than in the 21st century.
With a total area of about 7 million square kilometers, it is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. Only a very small number of Yinzhou indigenous people live in the surrounding area.
The Brazilian plateau in the southern part of the rainforest is also a sparsely populated place, and Thai-Spanish immigrants are mainly concentrated on the southeastern coast.
The total area of North and South Yinzhou is more than 40 million square kilometers. The total number of Ming people, Taixi people, and indigenous people combined will definitely not exceed 200 million.
Moreover, the population is relatively concentrated, mainly in the southern and southeastern parts of Nanyinzhou, Zhongyinzhou, the eastern and western coasts of Beiyinzhou.
The central parts of North and South Yinzhou are almost all "no man's land".
On this basis, most of the territories handed over by Spain and Portugal to the north of the central part of Nanyin Continent are still in a state of melee between princes.
How to deal with these separatist forces in the future is also a difficult problem for the Ming court.
The comprehensive planning of the entire Yinzhou is a difficult problem for the future of the Ming Dynasty.
But those are all things in the future. The on-site talks that day went very smoothly. After the talks, the formal production of agreement documents began.
The Ottoman Grand Vizier Zayadin set off again to prepare for the subsequent meeting to form the League of Nations.
On July 25th, representatives from various countries gathered in Fengtian Hall again.
Under the witness of the witnessing countries and each other, representatives of the seven countries of Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Prussia, and Italy signed a permanent peace treaty with the Ming Dynasty in turn.
All peace treaties were signed by a single country, using only the languages of the two countries participating in the signing, and the Ming text shall prevail.
After the peace treaty was signed, the anti-Ming alliance was officially dissolved.
On behalf of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jingyuan officially announced his commitment to the countries in Europe and the West and promised not to occupy their own land in Europe and the West.
The European and Western countries also made a commitment to ensure that they would not open up new lands outside of Mozhou.
Yinzhou can't open up anymore, because Yinzhou has already been divided up.
From now on, Northern Yinzhou belonged to the Ming, British, French and Western countries, while Southern Yinzhou belonged to the Ming Dynasty alone.
In other words, the only land left to be divided in the world is Mozhou.
The carving up of Mozhou will be the first major event after the establishment of the League of Nations.
After both parties issued official commitments, today's formal ceremony ended.
Officials from Honglu Temple called all the representatives out and lined up in front of Fengtian Hall to take a group photo.
Representatives of the Ming court stood in the first row, leaving a space between each person, nominally for the Romans.
The main representatives of the vassal states and imperial villages of the Ming Dynasty stood on the left side behind the representatives of the Ming Dynasty court, and the main representatives of the European and Western countries stood on the right side.
Ordinary representatives and entourages from both sides lined up behind the main representatives.
During the entire process from signing the contract to committing to release, photographers from various countries also left a large number of photos.
These photos during the peace talks and the final group photo will become important historical records.
It will definitely be written down in the future archives of various countries, and it may also appear in various books for future generations.
Throughout the process, all representatives of Ming Dynasty were beaming with joy. Ming Dynasty did not win on the battlefield this time, but it achieved a complete victory at the negotiation table.
Representatives from various countries in Thailand and Spain forced a smile. They did not completely lose on the battlefield, but they did not win at the negotiation table either.
But they all breathed a sigh of relief. Although a lot of land was lost in the peace talks, they were still just colonies after all.
Moreover, among the areas actually ceded, the largest part is the area controlled by the Nanyinzhou warlords, and they may become independent at any time.
In addition, the ownership of a large number of undeveloped wilderness areas was given to Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty directly forcibly ceded the land that was originally under the absolute rule of various countries. In fact, there is very little land.
The mainland of Thailand and Spain did not lose a penny.
Mozhou's colony only had a few strongholds in the central part of the east coast, which were promised to be handed over to the Ming Dynasty when the war ceased.
The other Mozhou areas are still waiting to be carved up, and Ming Dynasty did not ask for any additional land in Mozhou.
This is also the reason why the countries in Thailand and Spain can accept this peace treaty.
As long as the mainland does not lose its territory, the pressure on the Thais will be relatively limited.
In original history, at the end of the Seven Years' War (1756 to 1763).
The British allowed the French to choose whether to give up French Canada or give up three islands in the Caribbean where sugar cane could be grown.
This shows that in the eyes of the British at that time, the French Canadian region of Beiyinzhou was of similar value to the three islands in the French Caribbean...
The French prefer sugar to fur, so they abandoned French Canada and chose to keep the three "sugar islands."
In the eyes of later generations, this was simply unreasonable, but at the time it was a natural choice.
For most Thais, the vast overseas colonies are not particularly important.
Especially those uninhabited areas that have not been explored and developed, as long as there is no such thing as a gold mine, they have little practical value.
Before the industrial revolution, wealth was found wherever there was a population, while no-man's land was a wasteland.
It is completely incomparable to the land in mainland Europe.
Whether Canada changes hands or Caribbean islands are plundered, it will not have as big an impact as Prussia taking a piece of land from Poland.
Frederick the Great was called the Great because he saved Silesia during the Seven Years' War.
The Spanish and Portuguese, as the earliest colonial countries, can be regarded as empires on which the sun never sets, but they are always just kingdoms in the West.
The British took the throne from the Tianzhu people, and the British king was called the emperor.
In history, there were anti-French alliances, anti-German alliances, and anti-Turkish alliances, but there was no clear anti-British alliance that besieged the British mainland. They just helped the United States during the American Revolutionary War. I didn't think about taking the opportunity to occupy the British Isles.
The British had conquered so much territory overseas, but they did not attract much attention in the West in the early days.
Lucia concentrated on exploring eastward, and her territory expanded to Alaska in Yinzhou without any obvious restrictions.
Once he goes to acquire the land along the Black Sea coast, once he tries to seize Constantinople, Britain and France will immediately intervene.
The peace agreement signed between Ming Dynasty and Europe and Spain is the result of admitting defeat for the countries of Europe and Spain.
The Ming Dynasty did not ask for an inch of land in the mainland of Thailand, and also promised never to seize land from the mainland of Thailand.
This promise may be the most valuable thing a Tessie gets.
So this result is not particularly bad.
News of the formal signing of the peace treaty spread throughout the world via telegraph lines that day.
It made the front page of almost every newspaper the next day.
"The World War is Over!" 》
"The Ming Dynasty and the Anti-Ming Alliance formally signed a peace treaty"
"The Anti-Ming Alliance Officially Disbanded"
"This is an unprecedented victory for the Ming Dynasty"
"The era of peace has arrived!" 》
"Peace Promise, Europa is Safe"
"The League of Nations Formation Meeting is about to be held"
"A new world structure is about to take shape"
"The Ming Empire is ruling the world"
"The Future of Europeans is in Africa"
"Where is Rome?" 》
Look at the Ming Dynasty 1805.8.2...m. :
