After the meeting ended early, Pitt immediately asked people to invite representatives from all countries to discuss it together at the British Mission's residence.
The purpose is to persuade all countries to go back to the one-country-one-vote rule.
Pitt himself doesn't have high hopes for his goal.
In an era where strength determines status, especially when the Ming Dynasty is used as a reference.
If you want all countries to accept the one-country-one-vote rule, all countries can have the same status on certain important occasions.
It was never an easy task.
If we had accepted the Ming Dynasty's rules from the beginning, let a group of Ming Dynasty vassal states come in to get votes, and directly set the rule of one country, one vote, that would be fine.
At that time, I was also thinking about asking for two more tickets for the United Kingdom, but it triggered a chain reaction, and finally ended up ranking all the European and American countries.
Now... there are many things that you can't go back from.
Peter's current efforts are just because he doesn't want to regret it. The Prime Minister doesn't even know how long he can do it.
Facing representatives from various countries, Peter tried hard to explain Ming's sinister intentions and Ming's despicable strategy of dividing and instigating conflicts between the European and Western countries.
As a result, the most serious ones who agreed were the representatives of the Netherlands, Italy, and Portugal.
Lucia's Wedemeyer was thinking seriously, but Prince Nicholas seemed a little impatient.
Prince Nicholas looked at the representatives from the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, and even the United Kingdom with a bit of disgust.
After Peter's reasoning finally came to an end, Prince Nicholas spoke directly:
“The original idea of the Ming Dynasty was that we all have one country, one vote, and the Ming Dynasty used vassal states to get the number of votes it needed.
“In the end, you British jumped out first and wanted to give your colonies the right to vote.
“So what you want most is three votes for you, the British, and one vote for other countries, including us Lucia, right?
"Now that you have turned around and persuaded everyone to adhere to one country, one vote again, how can we trust you?"
Prussia's Heinrich also directly picked up the conversation:
"I think what His Highness Prince Dashi said is very reasonable. Absolute equality is meaningless.
“The rule of determining status based on strength can truly bring stability.
“Besides, according to Prince Dashi’s vision, the voting weight of each country is not fixed, but is adjusted every five years.
“If you are dissatisfied with your status, you can work hard to improve your national strength.
"I'm not in favor of going back to a one-nation-one-vote approach."
Royal representatives from several other countries also expressed their opinions one after another. Their views were not much different, and they basically supported dividing voting rights according to strength.
Representatives of various countries' courts believe, after careful analysis, that one country, one vote may be more beneficial to the unity of Europe.
However, uniting the European countries is not their necessary task and goal. Instead, it is more practical to maintain their own country's status.
Therefore, after several rounds of discussions at this internal meeting, most representatives still believed that it was more appropriate to divide voting rights according to strength.
The discussion ended at noon with no results and eventually broke up.
Peter looked at the leaving crowd, sat in his seat and sighed longly.
The Prince of Wales sat next to Peter and seemed to be very persuasive:
"Don't worry, Prime Minister, it is impossible for all European countries to unite.
“Determining voting rights based on strength ensures our top position in Europa.
"My father and other cabinet members were speechless."
Pete didn't know what to say.
There is indeed nothing unreasonable in that strength determines voting rights.
But in this direction, Peter feels he can’t see a future for Europa.
His tenure as Prime Minister is coming to an end, and he no longer cares about whether the cabinet is satisfied or not. It is meaningless to say anything now.
In the end, Pete said nothing.
The meeting continued the next day. After simple discussion and confirmation, all countries accepted yesterday's final plan.
Countries allocate voting rights according to their strength and status, and vassal states no longer directly determine voting rights.
Ming Dynasty has twenty-eight votes, and the European and Western countries have a total of nineteen votes.
Then everyone moved on to the issue of voting weights and continued to discuss other structural issues of the League of Nations.
This framework was basically planned by Zhu Jingyuan himself.
Zhu Jingyuan based his experience on previous lives and combined with the actual situation of the current world.
It was decided that in the early stages of the establishment of the League of Nations, several of the most critical basic institutions would be established first.
League of Nations Conference: It combines the main functions of the General Assembly, Executive Yuan, and Security Council. It is the highest authority of the League of Nations and is also a permanent institution.
Department of War and Peace: Has some functions of the Security Council and is actually responsible for the formulation, updating, implementation, and supervision of war-related agreements.
Ministry of Nature and Environmental Protection: Responsible for researching and observing the earth's natural environment and climate change, and protecting mountains, forests, water bodies, animals and plants.
Ministry of Social Affairs and Economy: Responsible for coordinating international social and economic issues such as science and technology, culture, industry, and ethnic groups.
Investigation and Judgment Department: Responsible for cases between countries, including border conflicts, territorial disputes, war crimes, etc.
League of Nations Cabinet: Cooperate with various departments, handle various daily affairs, organize various meetings and activities, etc.
Among these institutions, the Ministry of Nature and Environmental Protection was forcibly added by Zhu Jingyuan, but other than that they are all very necessary basic institutions.
With these institutions in place, the League of Nations could barely function.
If other functions are needed later and other matters need to be handled, the required departments can be added under these organizations.
The historical "mandate rule" and "trusteeship" related institutions of the League of Nations and the United Nations have not been established now.
Zhu Jingyuan did not beat around the bush or boast that "the happiness and development of the people in the mandated areas are the sacred responsibility of the civilized world."
Not to advocate: The best way to achieve this goal is to "entrust the guardianship of the people of the Mandate to the developed countries."
“The resources, experience, geographical location and other conditions of the entrusted country are sufficient to undertake the obligation and are willing to accept the entrustment.”
The international alliance established by Zhu Jingyuan is very straightforward and directly distributes colonies.
Finally, as the location for the League of Nations headquarters, Zhu Jingyuan directly chose Haifa City on the coast of the Great Qin Sea, a port city on the east coast of the Great Qin Sea.
This directly written proposal surprised all the representatives from Thailand and Spain.
They originally thought that the Ming Dynasty would ask for the headquarters to be placed in the Ming Dynasty itself, or in a place like the Lion City on the Strait of Malacca.
Even if you don't want a group of Thais to get close to the Ming Dynasty, you can still choose to go to Tianzhu or the Persian Gulf.
Unexpectedly, the Ming Dynasty was placed directly in the Qinhai Sea. It was much easier for the European and Western countries to hold meetings here than to go to the Lion City.
Representatives from various countries in Thailand and Spain, who originally thought they would have to spend a lot of effort in selecting the location of the headquarters, breathed a sigh of relief.
There is nothing left to talk about in this position, and it is impossible to move further west.
However, after the representatives took a breath, they quickly understood that even the coast of the Great Qin Sea was now the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.
It nominally belongs to the Oishi Domain, but chief envoys have been established in these places.
After thinking about it this way, the representatives from various countries suddenly felt a little melancholy.
The straight-line distance from the capital of the Ming Dynasty is more than 7,000 kilometers, and the route distance is more than 10,000 kilometers, but it still belongs to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
It can even be considered local.
The Ming Dynasty is really too huge, making people feel completely hopeless and powerless.
As for the purpose of Zhu Jingyuan's choice, it is actually very simple.
The European and Western countries are not close allies of the Ming Dynasty, and the two sides even have a hostile relationship.
Placing the headquarters of the League of Nations in the Ming Dynasty would mean letting in a large group of de facto spies.
At the same time, Zhu Jingyuan and Ming officials did not want a large group of Thai and Western diplomats and staff to go east of Malacca.
To put it bluntly, it is disgusting.
If we put it in places like Persia and Tianzhu, if representatives from the European and Western countries came by boat, they would have to go through the West Sea Canal, which is also a slightly sensitive place.
But just throw it farther away and put it on the coast of the Great Qin Sea.
Now it is different from before the war. The area controlled by the Ming Dynasty is not only the West Sea Peninsula, but the entire east coast of the Great Qin Sea.
The key is to connect with the mainland and no longer worry about security issues here.
Compared with territorial rules and voting rights, the organizational framework of the League of Nations is not particularly important, and it can still be modified after its establishment.
Therefore, the confirmation of relevant regulations is progressing very quickly.
Moreover, Zhu Jingyuan proposed based on his previous life experience that the draft convention drafted by the Honglu Temple of the Ming Dynasty was sufficiently complete and comprehensive in itself.
At the same time, Ming Dynasty is in an absolutely dominant position internationally and can promote the rapid compromise and adoption of terms that do not involve the fundamental interests of other countries.
This again improves the efficiency of the discussion in the meeting.
No one raised any questions about a large number of basic terms, and even if there were occasional questions, they were often solved in a few sentences.
A lot of topics can be completed in one day.
Discussion meetings were held intermittently, with countries constantly making compromises and updating the terms.
The draft convention originally drawn up by the Ming Dynasty was constantly iteratively updated.
As the conference continued, there were fewer and fewer points of contention, and the Covenant of the League of Nations gradually took shape.
On September 15, the thirty-fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, the League of Nations Convention was officially finalized, and it took a total of almost twenty days.
The representatives from various countries who had been meeting for 20 consecutive days went to rest first, and the staff of Honglu Temple began to sort out the formal signing documents.
The Ming Dynasty was completely different from the United States after World War I in history. The League of Nations promoted by the Ming Dynasty was also far from the League of Nations promoted by the United States.
At that time, the domestic industrial production capacity of the United States was already the largest in the world, but it did not have a large colonial market for dumping goods.
Therefore, under the banner of universality and equality, the United States demands that independent countries be established around the world.
Or it is a vassal state that implements an open door policy under the protection of the sovereign state.
Then let these independent countries, as well as semi-independent open vassal countries, also join the League of Nations.
All in all, the purpose is to get more open markets.
This is the goal that the United States has always pursued in modern times.
This has a fundamental conflict of interest with the colonial empires led by Britain and France.
At that time, the influence of the United States in the world was not enough to convince Europe and even the world, and it was far from being comparable to Britain and France.
In fact, Britain and France dominated the agenda of the Paris Peace Conference, and the goals of the United States were not realized in the Versailles Peace Treaty.
The League of Nations was bound to the Treaty of Versailles.
In the end, the United States, which was the first to promote the establishment of the League of Nations, did not join the League of Nations because Congress did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
This once again strengthened the isolationist atmosphere in the United States, and also led to the damage to the influence of the League of Nations, making it difficult to interfere in Yinzhou affairs.
Because the United States was the country with the strongest actual industrial capacity at that time, and it was also the country that had the greatest influence on the Yinzhou region.
The United States did not join the League of Nations, which laid the foundation for the eventual disintegration of the League of Nations.
Now the Ming Dynasty has its own colony, and its market is broad enough.
So I have some ideas about the markets in Thailand and Western countries, but not very strongly.
As for the widespread promotion of colonial independence, that is something that cannot be tolerated by oneself, so there is no thought at all.
The purpose of urging the British and French colonies to become independent was actually to annex them after independence.
Therefore, the international alliance now led by Ming Dynasty is not at all the kind of world alliance promoted by the United States in history.
It is a negotiation platform for a few big countries, and they will not bring small countries into discussions.
Instead, they are preparing to impose the order template led by the Ming Dynasty on their respective colonies and the few remaining small countries.
On September 19, the thirty-fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, in the Fengtian Hall of the Imperial Palace in the Western Cape, the Ming Dynasty and representatives from various countries gathered together again.
The signing ceremony of the League of Nations Convention and the founding ceremony of the League of Nations were officially held.
The seating arrangements for the signing countries are the same as those at previous signing ceremonies.
Zhu Jingyuan is on the top, officials of the Ming Dynasty and representatives of the vassal states are on the left, and the Thai and Western countries are on the right.
It's just that except for the representatives of the two countries' own countries and the vassal states of each country, no participating countries were invited to participate in the ceremony.
After the signatures were completed by the representatives of various countries, Zhu Jingyuan stood up and announced:
“I declare that from now on, the League of Nations is officially established, and the countries represented here are all initial members of the League.
“The alliance’s first meeting will be held in three days, and will mainly discuss the development and distribution of ownerless land in Mozhou.
"After this meeting, each country is asked to designate dedicated representatives and staff to stay at the alliance headquarters permanently to participate in the daily affairs of the alliance."
Representatives from various countries also breathed a sigh of relief. While standing with Zhu Jingyuan, they also cheered up again.
From the perspective of the European and Western countries, compared to the rules and framework of the League of Nations itself, the development of Mexico is the real key.
Yinzhou has been completely finalized, and the west and southwest of Mozhou are the last unclaimed lands in the world.
Although there are actually people living in these places, both the Ming Dynasty and other countries in Europe and the West regard them as unclaimed lands as a matter of course.
No one thinks there is anything wrong with this title.
In this day and age, if someone thinks something is wrong, then it is really wrong.
Now all the countries in Europe and the West, whether they have colonies or have no colonies, want to get a colony in Mozhou.
Especially for Lucia, there is no more land on the continent of Shenou. She can only look overseas, and the only overseas destination is Mozhou.
The land under the sun and the warm port have been Lucia's dream for hundreds of years.
However, representatives from various countries are also worried.
Will the absolutely strong stance that Ming Dynasty showed when negotiating with Yinzhou be shown again when distributing the land in Mozhou?
If Ming Dynasty negotiates like it did in Yinzhou, how much land can it get in Mozhou.
This is a confusing and disturbing question.
In this complicated atmosphere, Zhu Jingyuan on the stage said in a rather relaxed tone:
"Okay, the signing ceremony is officially over. Let's go take a group photo in front of the palace!"
