The military situation on the front line was urgent, and the speed of discussions and compromises in all the rear areas was unprecedentedly fast.
The British and French quickly obtained the conditions offered by Zhu Jingyuan.
If Ming only helps stabilize the front, keep the remaining land and ports, and wait for the British and French forces to arrive, he will make his own judgment.
Then the Ming Dynasty wanted to get the land west of the connection between the southernmost tip of Lake Michigan and the Port of Mobile, and the land north of the connection between the southernmost tip of Michigan and the westernmost tip of Lake Yinli.
It was almost the land in the western parts of the four states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, and the two states of Kentucky and Tennessee in the later United States.
At the same time, the British ceded the states north of Virginia and the area of West Virginia to France.
After the three parties exchanged territory, it was equivalent to Britain and France each giving Ming 200,000 square kilometers of land, which was almost one-fifth to one-quarter of the area of their respective Yinzhou colonies.
If the Ming Dynasty needs to be the main force to counter the rebellion throughout the whole process, then the entire west of the Appalachian Mountains will be given to the Ming Dynasty. The British and French will only have the territory of the 13th founding colony of the United States in history.
At the same time, the land exchange was still based on the same plan, and the north of Virginia was assigned to French Canada.
Zhu Jingyuan finally chose a compromise plan, taking land from the western part of the British and French colonies for his own strategic goals.
Drive the British and French colonists from west to east.
At the same time, it mediates the conflicts between the British and French colonies and shows the sincerity of Ming Dynasty.
After reading the contents of the telegram, Talleyrand handed it to Duke Richelieu and said with a very complicated expression:
"The Ming Dynasty still has some sense of conscience and supports us in exchanging territory with the British to eliminate the internal problems of British America.
"But the appetite is also huge. If the west of Michigan and Hu is handed over to the Ming Dynasty, then Canada will not have its own iron ore in that area.
"At the same time, British America would have basically no industrial capacity north of Virginia."
Duke Richelieu said after reading the telegram with a complicated mood:
"Such a split is certainly not a good thing for Canada and the United States.
"But for us in France and the British on the other side, it may not be a bad thing.
"After being divided like this, they will completely lose the threat to the suzerain country."
Of course Talleyrand understood, but there was something he didn't want to say.
There is no threat to the suzerain country Britain and France, and there is no threat to the Ming Dynasty.
Duke Richelieu continued to read the contents of the telegram three times. After thinking about it carefully for a long time, he said:
"For us in France, the objectively best choice seems to be to let Ming help us suppress the bandits with all our strength.
"But we cannot choose this option. His Majesty the King, the nobles and ministers will not accept it.
"So we can only choose the first option, and the British should be in the same situation."
Talleyrand nodded silently.
Richelieu was silent for a while, and then asked reluctantly:
"Is there room for negotiation regarding the specific land we want to hand over?"
Talleyrand glanced at Duke Richelieu with a strange expression:
"This telegram is from the Kingdom of Dashi. The situation in Yinzhou cannot be delayed."….
Talleyrand's meaning is obvious. Zhu Jingyuan set these conditions.
And if you want to bargain with Zhu Jingyuan, you have to be prepared to break up the negotiation and then start all over again.
In that case, time would be running out. Maybe the negotiation would be over and Yin Zhou wouldn't have to fight.
Richelieu sighed helplessly again:
"Let's not talk about land, let's talk about population. The Ming Dynasty can no longer drive out the population immediately. The situation in Canada collapsed, and the population driven out by the Ming Dynasty from the north is a very important reason.
"Their arrival directly led to the collapse of the local labor market and even more terrifying inflation. This situation must never happen again.
"No matter what the Ming Dynasty does to those people, they can no longer drive them away...
"
Population is wealth, but sometimes it is also poison. If it cannot be controlled, it would be worse than nothing.
Talleyrand hesitated to speak, and finally nodded slightly.
First of all, I went to communicate with the British, who also had similar ideas.
So both parties jointly sent a message to Zhu Jingyuan again.
Zhu Jingyuan was obviously a little shocked when he saw the news from Niu Jian:
"Don't want the population? Ask us not to drive away the locals?
"What is my purpose of taking land from the west? Isn't it just to drive people away?
"If you don't let me drive people away, why should I eat the land from the west?"
Zhu Jingyuan's thinking and logic are actually about fighting for living space.
On a piece of land, people of the Ming Dynasty live, and this land is the living space of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
If the land belongs to the Ming Dynasty, but the people living on it are Taixi people, isn't that still the living space for the Taixi people?
If the social and cultural development logic of this world in the future will gradually converge with that of the previous life, will these Western barbarians be able to commit suicide in the future?
And then create a white lives matter movement for yourself?
In Zhu Jingyuan's view, the disappeared Europeans are good Europeans, so Zhu Jingyuan has always been accustomed to wanting land but not people.
Also, do the two countries want a piece of land as a reservation for these Thai people?
Draw a square on both sides of the Ohio River between the two countries' colonies?
Instead of asking for it like this, it is better to ask for an island on the coast and learn from the British.
Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while and asked Niu Jian to write a telegram to reply to Britain and France:
"If Britain and France wanted to leave the local people to the Ming Dynasty, they would have to give two extra pieces of land to resettle these people.
"I want Long Island and its affiliated islands across from New York, plus the Chesapeake Peninsula across from Norfolk.
"Since these lands were originally intended for France, the British set aside land in northern Kentucky to compensate France.
"Warn them not to bargain with me anymore, either accept the previous conditions or accept this condition.
"There is no other possibility. We shouldn't waste time in a place like this."
Zhu Jingyuan's original condition was just that he instinctively asked Britain and France for a large piece of inland land with the view of a continental country like Lucia.
The bargaining between Britain and France reminded Zhu Jingyuan of the operation plan of maritime countries similar to that of the British.
Next to the mainland, in key areas, islands and peninsulas with excellent environments are required to serve as a bridgehead for controlling and interfering with the mainland countries on the opposite side. ….
This is actually how the British asked for the Zhoushan Islands and Xiangjiang area.
The Chesapeake Peninsula and the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay on both sides, as well as New York across from Long Island, are the only places in the eastern part of Beiyinzhou with naturally better port conditions.
Although the coastline on the east and south coasts of Beiyinzhou is very long, there is an extreme lack of natural harbors.
Only in the northeastern part of the country from New York to Maryland, on this coast at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains, are there a few barely decent ports, and the entrance to the natural channel is barely ten meters away.
South of Virginia, all the way to Florida, and even the northern Gulf of Mexico to Texas, the topography of the coastal areas in this area is the impact plain.
There are many tidal flats and silt on the coastline of the impact plain.
Just like Jiangsu, although it is a coastal area, it does not have a famous port city.
Because the silt beach is not suitable for building a port.
Most of the southeastern coastline of the United States is similar to Jiangsu, but the situation is even worse.
Most of its coastline is "lagoon" coast.
The sediment washed down by the river from the land accumulates outside the coastline under the action of relatively moderate tidal strength, forming a natural "sand bar".
The sand bar continues to expand and thicken, eventually separating the internal waters from the ocean, forming a
between lagoons.
Lagoons are topographically classified as lakes or swamps, and are considered land on large-scale maps.
So the coastline of the southeastern United States seems to be very smooth.
It is not as winding as the coastlines in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong.
But when I zoomed in on the satellite map, I found that there were lagoons everywhere along the coastline.
It looks like there are "little bays" everywhere here. Some people may think that there are natural harbors everywhere.
In fact, on the contrary, the lagoon coast is very unsuitable for building a military port.
The water in the lagoon is very shallow, two or three meters is considered good, and many places are directly swamps.
The southeastern coast of the United States is like a sand bar made of sand in addition to the shallow coast in eastern Jiangsu.
The water is shallow and the silt is thick, the geological base is soft and hard, and the underwater environment is complex and changeable. Building a port in this place is a huge challenge to the construction process.
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Currently, the largest ship in the world is only 40,000 tons, and it is still early for large ships of 100,000 tons to become common.
At present, Zhoushan Islands and Xin'an County are not prosperous areas, and there are no large ports specially built.
However, it does not prevent Ming Dynasty from acquiring ports from other places in advance, just like the British asked for Zhoushan and Xiangshan.
Although ports of this level around New York and Norfolk are everywhere on the coastlines of Liaodong, Shandong, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty, there are only these two places on the southeastern coastline of Beiyinzhou.
When the Ming Dynasty captured Long Island, they captured half of New York. Brooklyn and Queens in later New York were all located on this island.
Taking the Chesapeake Peninsula exposed the entire Chesapeake Bay to Ming Dynasty.
These two places are historically the core areas of the United States.
From now on, if the French want to go to New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, and if the British want to go to Norfolk, Richmond, or the Isle of Wight, they will all have to go under the nose of the Ming Dynasty. .
Wang Zixu
