Daming 1805

Chapter 129 Yinzhou Colony Trading Plan

Spanish Prime Minister Manuel responded to Zhu Jingyuan's proposal to sign a 20-year peace treaty after careful consideration:

"His Royal Highness, we should be able to continue discussing and discussing, and we also hope that the world will be peaceful forever..."

The other party made a gesture of speaking well, but Zhu Jingyuan smiled and shook his head and said:
"The result of the discussion is that each other is unhappy, and eternal peace cannot be guaranteed, so it is better to sign a 20-year peace treaty.

"It's really not possible. We don't want the land in Nanyinzhou. We will directly use the front line as the border, so that we can be happy with each other."

Zhu Jingyuan's reaction made Manuel instinctively imagine that Zhu Jingyuan just wanted to fight after 20 years.

This Dashi Prince is just 15 years old this year, and will be 20 years old in 35 years, just in his prime.

Manuel could imagine that Ming's strategic goal might be the entire Yinzhou, or capture all the Spanish colonies.

But they think it is impossible to do it now, so they tend to sign a 20-year peace treaty.

Digest and integrate the current land, and wait until 20 years later to fight again.

Manuel's guess was basically correct.

In fact, Zhu Jingyuan really hoped that the Spaniards would choose a 20-year peace treaty.

Daming's ultimate strategic goal in Yinzhou is of course to completely dominate the entire Yinzhou.

Drive all the Thais back to Taixi, and establish a native reservation area for the Thaisi.

However, this strategic goal cannot be achieved in this war, and may not even be achieved in the next war.

So Zhu Jingyuan divided it into three stages.

The first stage is to fully occupy Southern Yinzhou and at the same time control part of the traffic arteries in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

This goal is actually not difficult.

The Southern Yinzhou War was originally the place where Ming had achieved the most victories.

The total area of ​​land that Ming seized from the Spaniards and Portuguese was nearly 200 million square kilometers.

Of the sixteen Huangzhuang in the Xintianfu area, six were built during the war.

Colonial civil strife in Spain and Portugal was of course an important reason.

The second stage is to completely occupy the west and south of the Mihe River, including the Mexican area currently controlled by Spain.

It is impossible to achieve the goals of this stage in this peace talks.

It is impossible for Spain to completely abandon all Yinzhou colonies.

Because 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 same is true for the Netherlands.

Although the mainland of the Netherlands is smaller and less populated, Ming currently has no ability to land on their mainland.

For the Netherlands, which is shrunk behind the mainland of England and France, it is difficult for Daming to even threaten and harass.

The Dutch mainland is safe until the British and French are dead.

If Daming forcibly claims all the colonies of the Netherlands, the Netherlands can completely swear and tell Daming that you can get it yourself if you have the ability.

That would only reduce Ming's deterrence against other countries.

So Zhu Jingyuan easily let the Netherlands go, and let the other party keep the best Mozhou colony, only 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 Ming to land and occupy the mainland of Spain for the time being, it has already formed a certain threat to it.

Ming's fleet can set off from Egypt to harass and threaten Spain's coastline in the Great Qin Sea.

Ming can accept the Ottoman legacy through Egypt and expand westward in the North Mozhou region.

In that way, the distance between Daming and the mainland of Spain will get closer and closer.

At the same time, Spain's most important Yinzhou colony, both north and south, was under the threat of Ming, and they were all handles held by Ming.

So Ming can be much tougher on Spain than on Holland.

But still can not be forced to death, still have to control the degree of oppression.

You can claim most of the colonies that the opponent cannot control, but you still have to leave some colonies to the opponent.

Avoid their tendency to be sloppy.

When one's own strategic bomber matures and one's own aircraft carrier can be used in actual combat, this duck (Spain) should be put on the grill.

Although the representatives of Spain did not know the future of aircraft carriers and aircraft, they could see the threats in front of them.

So the more Zhu Jingyuan wanted to sign a 20-year agreement, the more Spain dared not accept the 20-year agreement.

Manuel immediately laughed and said:
"No, no, no, we can still discuss it. There should be conditions acceptable to both of us."

Zhu Jingyuan took the time to ask back:

"Then how can we satisfy both of us? The Prime Minister might as well talk about it."

Manuel pondered for three seconds, subconsciously looked at the representatives of other countries, and seemed to think of a note:
"In this way... the dispute between our two sides in Northern Yinzhou is not actually a dispute between our two countries. Britain and France can be brought in to discuss 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 contract.

"Lucia, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain are the countries that broke the armistice agreement of Ming Dynasty.

"So let's finish talking with each other first, and then talk to the British and French."

Zhu Jingyuan didn't want to bring in the British and French to talk 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 Ocean, and Ming has no way to attack directly, but his colony in South India is next to Ming.

The French colonies have no contact with Ming, but Ming can harass France from the Qinhai Sea.

But the degree to which the two countries are threatened cannot be compared with Spain.

Britain and France hoped for a truce, and Ming could ask them to pay a small amount of compensation and cede a small number of unimportant colonies, which is equivalent to an "apology".

But it is 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 doesn't want Britain and France to get involved in other countries' negotiations in advance.

The English, the French, the Spanish all understand this too.

The British wanted to maintain their leading position, so when they heard the call from the Spaniards, 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 not ignore it.

"I have a suggestion, we can do a colony exchange among the three countries.

"Da Ming gets the Lesser Antilles, Cuba Island, and most of West Texas.

"Spain gets Florida, East Texas along the Honey River, and the Bahamas.

"Britain took out the Florida region and got Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and peace with Ming."

The Spanish representative was obviously taken aback after hearing this.

The British even took out the Florida area!

The Florida area of ​​the United States was originally a Spanish colony, and it directly borders on land with the British North American colonies.

Historically, this land was traded to the British by Spain.

But when the United States became independent, the British deliberately returned this land to Spain.

The United States endured for a while after independence, and finally took it away from Spain.

In the history of this world, when Spain was abandoned by Ming, Florida was directly taken from the land by the British.

When the British wooed the Spaniards to join the anti-Ming alliance, the Spaniards first opened their mouths and demanded that the British return all their colonies.

After some bargaining, the British finally returned Cuba, Haiti and other islands, as well as Guyana and other places.

Florida is still retained by the British.

Florida is directly bordered by the Northern Yinzhou colony of the United Kingdom, and obviously cannot be compared with separate islands such as Cuba in terms of defense.

Now the British hand over Florida to Spain, and let Spain hand over Cuba, the largest island in Central America, and West Texas to Daming.

In this way, Spain is not at a loss, and can still maintain contact and the right to speak in the disputed area in central Yinzhou.

The Florida peninsula and the Bahamas were enough to ensure the Spanish route to the Mexican colonies.

After such a transaction was completed, the six colonies among Britain, the West, and the Ming Dynasty intersected each other in the southeast of Yinzhou.

If each fights independently, it cannot be said that it is more beneficial to whom.

But when the British and Spaniards face Ming, they are potential allies and can gain an advantage.

Zhu Jingyuan and Daming's representative frowned.

The division of the British can't be said to be a canine tooth, it can only be regarded as a mess.

Without taking out a map to make a gesture, it is impossible to tell what is going on.

But Zhu Jingyuan didn't really need to make a clear distinction. Zhu Jingyuan only figured out one key arrangement, and sentenced this plan to death.

Although Ming 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 Ming at the same time. It was really a bargain.

It is impossible for Zhu Jingyuan to make such a good deal for the British...

So Zhu Jingyuan said directly and decisively:
"impossible!"

British Prime Minister Pete heard Zhu Jingyuan's determination, so he immediately adjusted the details of the plan on the spot:

"How about handing over the island of Cuba to Britain, and handing over Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica to Daming?"

The British took Cuba, and asked Da Ming to encircle him with Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, which seemed very sincere.

However, the location of Cuba is more critical. After the British get it, they can directly cut off the Ming Dynasty's route from Nanyinzhou to Texas.

Zhu Jingyuan expressed his objection again with a trace of anger:

"I repeat, this is impossible, I will not accept your messy colonial deal.

"I came here for peace, not to create conflicts. Don't do this with me."

Pete was taken aback by Zhu Jingyuan's reaction, but he also thought he had touched Zhu Jingyuan's preferences, and immediately changed his strategy again:
"If His Highness really came here for peace, then Britain can hand over South Tianzhu to Daming.

"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 the United Kingdom.

"The Greater Antilles, the whole territory of Guya, and the territory of Panama, shall forever belong to the United Kingdom.

"North of the Viceroyalty of Peru in Spain, the whole of the Viceroyalty of New Granada shall forever belong to the United Kingdom.

"The Lesser Antilles are reserved by Spain.

"Eternal peace between Ming Dynasty, Britain and Spain."

The representatives at the scene were taken aback when this series of demands were put forward.

The British actually wanted to hand over South India!
Tianzhu can be regarded as the richest colony in the world.

So even half of Tianzhu can be exchanged for a large number of colonies.

The demands made by the British are not small.

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 are the ones that the Spaniards want to hand over to Daming, or the lands that Daming originally coveted.

It is equivalent to passing a circle in Daming's hands, and finally transferring it to the British.

The British will completely control the central area of ​​Yinzhou and the surrounding sea power.

However, Ming Dynasty was also able to completely unify Tianzhu and completely control the sea dominance in the Little Western Ocean area.

This is really a big deal, a deal that is good for world peace.

South Tianzhu had already been completely covered by Daming. In the future, if the British wanted to gain benefits from South Tianzhu, they had to always watch Daming's face.

The British had long been prepared to abandon the southern Indian colony.

Unexpectedly, it survived the war.

That's the right time to take it out and exchange enough land in other regions.

At the same time, it will completely shrink its power to the North Atlantic region, preventing Ming Dynasty from coveting the central and northern regions of the Atlantic Ocean.

This proposal, although unexpected, is within reason.

After thinking about this, everyone at the scene looked at Zhu Jingyuan, including the representatives of Daming.

Everyone instinctively thought that in the face of such a huge transaction, which seemed to be a fair one, Zhu Jingyuan would not make a decision right away.

It should be asked to go back and think carefully, and then discuss the details further.

In the end, Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand vigorously under everyone's surprised eyes, and said very resolutely:
"Don't change, don't even think about it."

The representatives at the scene were suddenly taken aback.

Pete also vaguely understood Zhu Jingyuan's true thoughts.

But Pete was still unwilling to give up, and tried to persuade Zhu Jingyuan again:
"Your Highness, handing over South Tianzhu to Daming and allowing Britain to completely control the Mid-Atlantic is the best way to avoid conflict between us.

"This is obviously conducive to peace between us. If you are not satisfied with the details of the transaction, we can continue to discuss it in detail."

Zhu Jingyuan still refused again without hesitation:
"If you don't change it, you don't want to change it. Don't bring up this trouble in the future. I'm not interested in Nantianzhu. I prefer the land of Yinzhou."

South Tianzhu can be regarded as a handle that the British put in Daming's hands.

These lands and islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean are also about to be acquired by Ming, and they are used to manipulate the Spanish and British.

The result of the exchange proposed by the British is that Daming's existing handles and what is about to be lost are all lost.

How could Zhu Jingyuan exchange with them.

Places like South Tianzhu that are completely surrounded can be directly captured by force in the next war.

The islands in the middle of Yinzhou and the British and French colonies in Northern Yinzhou would be very troublesome to occupy even in the next war.

Now claiming the islands of Yinzhou and the land near the Gulf of Mexico by oneself is an important fulcrum for the next war.

It is also completely inadvisable to give up important fulcrums in the Atlantic Ocean and Yinzhou for an easy goal.

(End of this chapter)