Daming 1805

Chapter 57: The Western Kingdoms of the West under the Ming Dynasty
Lucia Emperor Paul was stunned for several seconds before handing out the telegram in his hand.

After the princes and ministers circulated it again, the cheerful atmosphere of the scene disappeared, and the silence made people feel a little depressed.

After a long time, Emperor Paul looked at Count Bennigson:

"Let's talk about it! What kind of attitude is Daming! Why do you reject it so directly? What should we do?"

Earl Bennigson's lips trembled slightly and said:
"It now seems that Daming may have become 'infuriated', and he will fight us to the end at all costs!

"This is what Daming can bear, but we can't bear it, so we must formally initiate peace talks, and we can no longer take into account the final 'face'.

"Let the British on behalf of the alliance contact us to negotiate for peace. If it fails, we will unilaterally negotiate for peace, just like His Majesty Peter the Great did.

"In order to keep the Lucia Empire and keep the Romanov Dynasty, we have to do this."

Prince Nicholas subconsciously wanted to object, but Emperor Paul directly reached out his hand to stop it:

"If Daming rejects the British peace talks and our unilateral demands for peace, the news will be announced to the whole country.

"At that time, Nicholas, you will use the power of the Great Lucianist group to stir the humiliation and anger of the Lucian people.

"Unleash all the power of the people of Lucia, and fight Daming to the death in the mainland of the empire!"

Prince Nicholas was not stupid and immediately understood his father's intentions.

It may be difficult for Daming to directly occupy the mainland of other Taixi countries for the time being, but the mainland of Lucia is right in front of them.

If Daming is really desperate to fight against Lucia regardless, and continue to fight for a few years to a dozen years, then the Romanov dynasty will be over.

There is no need to completely defeat everyone in Lucia on the battlefield, the population and material depletion of the war can collapse the Romanov Dynasty.

Of course, this is a way of destroying one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred.

However, if the Lucia Romanov Dynasty had a share of the wealth and population it could control, then the Zhu Ming Dynasty had at least ten shares.

If the Zhu family were to take out a share, to completely redeem Romanov's Lucia, then Romanov would have no way to deal with it.

Therefore, when the core members of the Romanov Dynasty felt that the Zhu family was going crazy, they immediately decided to formally seek peace with a guilty conscience.

But the Lucians were also inspired to be wild inside.

If Daming chooses to consume the Romanov Dynasty, they will also try their best to launch a battle of trapped beasts to cause as much damage to Daming as possible.

The best way to achieve this is to mobilize the forces of Lucia's nationalists to fight a full-scale defensive and guerrilla war on the homeland.

Of course, the loss of this style of play must be very heavy. After the war, the Romanov dynasty should also cease to exist.

After Emperor Paul's order, Prince Nicholas and other ministers with similar thoughts all knelt down and took the order with a heavy heart.

The Romanov dynasty has reached a "crisis of survival".

At the same time, other countries on the Taixi Continent, because the mainland is far enough away from Daming, and there is a huge Lucia in the middle, so they are a little calmer.

Of course, it's just "a little bit".

All the kings and cabinet ministers got up to meet at four or five in the cold spring morning, and most of them even forgot to eat breakfast.

They've been doing this routine for so many days that they've gotten used to it a little bit.

Because the news from the East often began to come in the second half of the night in Taixi, so that they began to conform to the laws of life in Daming.

In the middle of the meeting, various new messages were received, including the news that Anxi Three Kingdoms first proposed mediation, and the news that Daming refused from Anxi Three Kingdoms.

Finally, Lucia officially sent a message asking the UK to formally preside over the peace talks.

The mood of the king and ministers went through several ups and downs, but they finally decided to "accept" the suggestion of the Lucians, give up their last restraint, and offer an invitation to peace talks.

Like Emperor Zhu Zhongliang of Ming Dynasty and Emperor Paul of Lucia, they were not only worried about the failure of the country's war, but more importantly, the existence of their own dynasty's rule.

As long as the rule can be maintained, taking the initiative to offer peace talks is nothing, and even asking for peace as before is not unacceptable.

In today's Taixi continent, all countries are kingdoms or empires, including the Netherlands.

Initially, the Dutch East India Company quickly went bankrupt as a result of Ming's targeted strikes in the East and continued trade curbs.

Coupled with the joint repression of Spain and Britain in Europe, this earliest bourgeois democratic regime was unsustainable, and the monarchy was restored after the final collapse.

This has seriously damaged the confidence of the Westerners in the democratic republic system, and indirectly affected the development direction of the modern political ideas of the Westerners.

In addition, Daming's continuous victories in the global battlefield, whoever Daming chooses to be an ally and who is the hegemon of the Atlantic Ocean, and various epoch-making new technologies are constantly emerging in Daming's homeland.

These realities in front of all Taixi people make Taixi people believe that the Daming model is the right direction.

The oriental thought and culture of the Ming Dynasty spread rapidly in Taixi along with the epoch-making technology of the Industrial Revolution in the process of war, trade and exchange.

The Mingxue boom gradually replaced the Renaissance, which completely changed the modern culture of Taixi.

The actions of the most eye-catching Emperor Zhu Cilian have inevitably become the objects of imitation by the monarchs of Taixi.

This strengthened the traditional monarch's identification with capitalist reform, and also strengthened the bourgeoisie's trust in the dictatorial monarch, giving the two the basis and method for reconciliation.

The traditional feudal monarchs in Western Thailand were slowly transformed into capital monarchs, and at the same time, they continued to strengthen the autocratic monarchy and centralization, which greatly suppressed the ideas of human rights and democracy.

The authority of the King of England was continuously restored, and the progressive democratization process was interrupted by the proliferation of Minghua thought.

The ideological foundation of the French Revolution was gone, and Louis XV and Louis XVI continued to promote Minghua reforms, thus maintaining the rule of the Bourbon dynasty.

Napoleon became Louis XVI's army general, emerging in the anti-Ming war and quickly promoted to general.

Prussia learned from the Ming Dynasty, and quickly strengthened the kingship and centralized system. Taking Qin as an example, it annexed the surrounding German states by force, and unified most of the German regions in advance.

Austria was forced to give up the title of the Holy Roman Empire, but it also weakened the independence of various ethnic regions within the territory, and the degree of centralization of the empire was greatly enhanced.

At the same time, Prussia and Austria both regarded each other as an obstacle to "unifying the world".

But the "world" of Prussia is Germany, and the "world" of Austria is the Holy Roman Empire.

However, the two countries still cooperated with Lucia and jointly divided all the land in Poland.

Under the continuous influence of the Minghua trend of thought, the second round of the religious reform movement appeared in Taixi, and the secular influence of the church was greatly weakened.

The nobles were given the right to determine the legitimacy of their illegitimate children, and they could choose to grant a illegitimate child the right to inherit.

At the same time, referring to the plan of Emperor Zhu Cilong, all the legitimate and illegitimate children will be given comprehensive elite education, and they will continue to be trained in governments at all levels.

The weakening of the power of the Holy See allowed the Kingdom of Sardinia to capture most of the Papal States, and then unified most of Italy in advance.

The diffusion of technology in the Ming Dynasty, especially the emergence of steam sailboats, greatly accelerated the development of the British colony of Northern Yinzhou, and the population rapidly increased to tens of millions.

The contradiction between the British mainland and the North Yinzhou colony gradually emerged, but the steam sailing also enhanced the British control over the North Yinzhou.

In the end, the British king, referring to the vassal state system of the Ming Dynasty, granted sub-citizens to immigrants in the United States, and set up the Secretary of American Affairs in the cabinet.

This compromise temporarily appeased the Yinzhou immigrants, so that they did not consider independence, let alone republic.

The decisions of these semi-feudal and semi-capital royal families were finally summed up in front of the organizers of the anti-Ming alliance, the British king and cabinet ministers.

At this moment, the King of England also made a final decision, accepting the suggestion of the Lucia people and offering to negotiate.

At the same time, he made the determination to fight the long-term war for several decades, and the determination to completely abandon the Tianzhu colony after the last Tianzhu people died.

As a result, at [-]:[-] pm continental European time, the United Kingdom officially issued an invitation to the Ming Dynasty for peace talks in the name of the Anti-Ming Alliance.

But at this time, the monarchs and ministers of Daming were already asleep, and there was nothing to call them up now.

(End of this chapter)