1825 My New Daming

Chapter 150 Land Cessation, Indemnity and Marriage, Great Britain Metropolis! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

London, Downing Street.

On this busy street, it is rare today that the Bow Street Police Force (there is no Scotland Yard Police Force yet, and the headquarters of the London Police Force is on Bow Street) dispatched black-clad mounted police to set up a guard around 10 Downing Street Wire.

Old London, who often comes and goes on Downing Street, knows that this must be a visit by a foreign head of government to No. 10 Downing Street.Moreover, those who can enjoy this kind of security treatment from the black-clothed mounted police must be the heads of the governments of big countries.

So, after a while, many British gentlemen gathered on both sides of Downing Street to watch the excitement.Just take a look, don't ask each other in a hurry. Otherwise, you won't be a gentleman.

After a while, when the gentlemen were waiting a little impatiently, a jingle of carriage bells came from an entrance of Downing Street, and then three carriages drove in and stopped firmly at Downing Street Outside door 10.

Huck, the cabinet secretary at No. 10 Downing Street, had already led a few civil servants in tuxedos out of the famous little black door. He was standing on the sidewalk with a smile on his face, waiting for the carriage to stop, and then walked forward graciously. The door is opened for passengers.

Getting off the first carriage was Prime Minister George Canning. Huck bowed slightly and said with a smile, "Mr. Prime Minister, welcome back to No. 10 Downing Street."

After George Canning got out of the carriage, he put on his top hat and a cane in his hand, and went to the second carriage with Huck.It was Huck who opened the door, bowed, and said to the people inside in Rakshasa language, "His Royal Highness, welcome to No. 10 Downing Street."

The one who came out of this carriage was Grand Duke Mikhail of Rakshasa. After getting out of the carriage, he saw that the grand duke in military uniform walked up to George Canning who was waiting outside, and kissed him twice—— This is Mao Zi's kissing ceremony, which is an etiquette introduced from France.

After kissing Grand Duke Mikhail, Huck led George Canning to the last carriage. After opening the door this time, Huck greeted him with a Wuji Valley accent. Chinese: "He Zhongtang, my little Huck greets you."

He Shen was dressed in a Qing Dynasty, oh, he was wearing the Hualing court clothes of the great gold minister, and when he saw Huck saluting himself, he quickly reached out to help him, and said with a smile: "Secretary Ha, you are too polite Get up, get up. You are a cabinet secretary from Oxford University, and you can be regarded as a second-ranked official in the Qing Dynasty." He said, and he clasped his fists at George Canning again, "Kan Zhongtang, let's Stop kissing."

"No more kisses, no more kisses." George Canning also imitated He Shen's appearance, clasped his fists together, and said with a smile, "Kiss rituals are French and Rakshasa rituals, which are not popular in England."

He Shen laughed out loud when he heard this, and pointed to Grand Duke Mikhail next to him and said: "When I first went abroad as an ambassador, I went to their Rakshasa and met his grandma Ekaterina The second generation wants to kiss hands, this is really better than kowtow!"

After hearing what He Shen said, both George Canning and Grand Duke Mikhail laughed in response to the occasion, and Huck made a gesture of abhorrence, and George Canning, He Shen, and Grand Duke Mikhail, There was also Qi Shan who got out of the car quietly behind He Shen, and invited them into the small black door at No. 10 Downing Street together.

After entering the small black door, several people went straight to the small meeting room dedicated to the prime minister.

After sitting down separately in the conference room, George Canning said to He Shen in English, "He Zhongtang, Major General Hugh Gough, our commander-in-chief of the Indian Army, appreciates your naval paratroopers very much. He is the most powerful naval fighter in the world, even surpassing the naval fighters of our British Empire and Ming Empire."

He Shen knows English very well, but now it is a diplomatic meeting. He is representing Dajin, and he must use Manchurian, Wujigu Chinese or Mongolian, so he replied in Chinese: "That's right, it is better than marksmanship and riding skills , knife skills, parachute jumping from the sky, and the ability to dig trenches and build fortifications to fight battles. Our Daikin’s navy is second, and no one’s navy dares to be number one. It’s a pity, our Daikin There is no real sea, and this navy is useless! Kan Zhongtang, why don’t you Daying give me a useless island and give me Dajin, so that my Dajin navy can also see the sea?”

George Canning also knows a little Chinese, and the cabinet secretary next to him, Huck, is a top student at Oxford and has a Chinese level six. He is now sitting behind George Canning as an interpreter.

Hearing that Heshen wanted Daying to cede land to Dajin, George Canning couldn't laugh or cry.But he was not angry, just smiled and said: "Da Jin always has a chance to build a navy. When the Turkish Empire is eliminated, I will draw a long coastline for you on the west coast of the Persian Gulf. As long as you can put your Just lend us some of the British Empire’s naval paratroopers, and you can talk about military pay!”

He Shen has no interest in the coastline of the Persian Gulf. He also knows that the place is a wasteland with nothing but sand, but He Shen is still very interested in the military pay that George Canning said.

Moreover, the confrontation between Daikin and the British and Indian troops in Kabul and Peshawar has been going on for several months.Because the British army was stuck in the Kabul Valley and the Khyber River Valley, the golden soldiers in Peshawar could not get supplies by land. They could only rely on airship airlifts and eat the money captured in the city of Peshawar, which made it difficult to maintain.

The situation of the British and Indian troops is also not good, because the mainland from Mardan to the Khyber Pass has to pass through Peshawar. The surrounding area of ​​​​Peshawar city is now controlled by the Jinbing, and there are guerrillas from the Tianfang Sect who run a little farther away. .Therefore, it is also very difficult to supply the British and Indian troops trapped in Afghanistan!
In addition, since there are tens of thousands of British and Indian troops in Afghanistan, a large amount of supplies are consumed every day, and they can be transported in from outside earlier, so it is not easy to have conflicts with the locals.However, once there was a problem with the logistics, they could only scrape land in the Kabul Valley and the Khyber Valley. Naturally, there was a serious confrontation with the local Pashtun tribes, and as a result, there were "god warriors" everywhere.In addition, the troops of Daoguang and Dost Mohammad Khan marched towards Kabul bit by bit around the Hindu Kush Mountain. The morale was low. The British and Indian troops fought several battles with them, but they failed to win. Hugh Goff There is almost no way out, so I can only request to retreat.

And if you want to withdraw your troops, and you are afraid of being chased and killed by the Daikin-Afghan coalition forces, don't let them invade the Indus River Basin in one fell swoop!

Therefore, George Canning, who took office as the new prime minister, had no choice but to resort to the trick of "cease land, pay compensation, and marry", and first appease the Dajin Kingdom.

Oh, the marriage was not with Dajin, but Princess Victoria and Duke Alexander.Although both of them are still children, the marriage has been finalized.Therefore, Grand Duke Mikhail will participate in today's talks. He is a silent peacemaker.

Although they didn't say a word, He Shen and Zhongtang still knew what to do!

He Shen smiled and asked: "Kan Zhongtang, how do you borrow this soldier? How do you calculate your military salary? And how do you draw the border between Afghanistan and British India?"

Huck, who is at the sixth level of Chinese, has already translated He Shen’s words into English. George Canning smiled and stretched out a finger and said, “He Zhongtang, we only lend you a thousand soldiers to give you a one-time payment of 100 million pounds. Another hundred thousand pounds will be given every year in the future."

100 million pounds is only 500 million Daming silver dollars, which is much lower than Daoguang's heart price!However, Daoguang only planned to make a one-shot deal, while George Canning planned to give money every year, and there was still 50 pounds a year. That is, 2000 million silver dollars.After several decades of collection, [-] million silver dollars can be scraped together.So Heshen and Zhongtang were just noncommittal.

"As for demarcation, we withdraw from the whole of Afghanistan, including the Gandhara Basin." George Canning continued.

This time He Shen nodded.

George Canning said again: "We have one more condition!"

"What condition?" He Shen asked.

"You have to support our Prince William in seizing the throne of the Indian Empire," said George Canning. "We may need your cooperation, and we may need to send thousands of troops!"

He Shen nodded: "Okay, but you have to add more money! Add another 300 million pounds!"

(End of this chapter)