Daming 1805

Chapter 61 The Final Compromise
George III recalled the past of cooperation with Daming, listened to the views of the young Prime Minister William Pitt, and subconsciously asked:
"Then do we have to reject Akito's request? Let's stop the fire at the current occupation line and start peace talks directly..."

After thinking about it, Pete nodded and said:

"Mingren shouldn't accept this, but we can try a 'compromise' plan, we only withdraw from the Anxi Three Kingdoms.

"Anyway, it was originally a nominally independent country, and this is what the Anxi Three Kingdoms themselves demanded."

George III nodded, and Pete immediately asked the secretary to send a telegram in response to the request from Akira.

As a result, a few minutes after the telegram was sent, Daming's response came directly.

Pete handed the new telegram to the king:
"Akito refused outright and demanded that we must withdraw from all occupied areas, otherwise there would be no negotiations.

"Such a quick response shows that Honglu Temple did not go to ask the Emperor Daming for instructions, and the emperor gave instructions in advance."

After King George III read the telegram, he forwarded the document to others with an ugly expression:

"So, we are now back to the starting point, and we have to re-judgment whether to accept Daming's request.

"Whether Daming really intends to negotiate with us, is this a 'trick' or a real request."

The cabinet ministers looked at each other and quickly read the detailed contents of the telegram, all with complicated expressions.

The places where Daming demanded the withdrawal of the anti-Ming alliance were not all colonies that Daming had owned for a long time.

There are many lands that Daming seized from the anti-Ming alliance at the beginning of the war, occupied it for a short period of time, and later recaptured by the anti-Ming alliance.

Although most of them are relatively remote and barren places, the significance of this requirement is that all the things occupied by Daming are Daming, and those occupied by the Anti-Ming Alliance are not counted.

From the standpoint of equal diplomacy, Daming's request must be completely unreasonable.

However, in the current world situation, the British did not feel that it was too much. After all, most of them were colonies, but they were worried that they would be tricked by Daming.

After a long discussion at the scene, the second youngest person at the scene stood up.

47-year-old James Monroe, from the Virginia colony in Northern Yinzhou, was the Secretary of American Affairs who took office last year.
Monroe in another world line is the fifth president of the United States, and the very famous proposer of the Monroe Doctrine, and is now an important member of the British King's Cabinet.

"Your Majesty, I think the Daming royal family should also want peace talks. The logic is the same as our decision to negotiate with the European royal family.

"They should also not want to overly squeeze the potential of war and avoid the collapse of the dynastic ruling order.

"The change of dynasties in the East is bloodier than ours in Europe, and often ends with the death of entire family members.

"The Zhu Ming Dynasty accepted the peace talks relatively easily, and there should be a reason for this.

"As for withdrawing the vassal and lifting the ban, these are things that Daming will still do even if the war is stopped, otherwise the Zhu Ming Dynasty will also be unsustainable.

"It is a long-term policy of the Ming Dynasty in the vassal countries to recruit servant soldiers to the distant battlefield.

"Similar to how we drove and hunted Yin people in Yinzhou, the purpose was actually to completely occupy the other party's land."

Listening to Monroe's point of view, George III and the ministers thought and discussed for a while, and finally basically agreed.

Everyone's vigilance against Daming was originally just instinctive vigilance, and there was no concrete evidence that Daming wanted to deceive people.

However, while agreeing with George III, he also raised new questions:
"The peace talks will definitely continue, but we cannot accept Daming's demands unconditionally, which will prevent us from explaining to our allies."

This time, the alert Prime Minister William Pitt said directly:

"Your Majesty, if Daming has the sincerity to negotiate, he should be able to understand this, and there should be room for a final compromise.

"We can agree to hand over the corresponding colonial land, but not the land that belongs to the homeland, such as the lost and recovered territory of the Ottoman Empire.

"At the same time, until a formal armistice agreement is signed, the Ming troops are not allowed to enter the areas we ceded.

"And Daming wants to retreat in sync with our troops, retreating within the borders before the outbreak of the war, including completely withdrawing from the territory of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi.

"After the troops on both sides have retreated, they cannot deploy again, and cannot build a large-scale defense system again.

"The troops from different regions are gradually withdrawing in batches, and the two sides have arranged personnel to supervise the other's withdrawal.

"If Daming can't accept this mutual supervision and retreat, then whether the other party is arrogant or for any other reason, we can only deal with it as deceit.

"Then we don't have to think about peace talks and start planning for a long-term war.

"We can make this point clear to the other party. To negotiate, both parties must withdraw from the battlefield."

Monroe and the other ministers pondered for a while, then nodded in agreement one after another.

George III also nodded, agreeing with Pete's idea, and motioning him to make arrangements directly.

This time, Pete wrote the message himself, wrote it on paper and handed it to the secretary to send.

This time the secretary went a little longer, but everyone's uneasy mood became a little calmer.

Because the waiting time is long, it means that the other party is thinking or discussing without directly rejecting it.

After more than 30 tangled minutes, Pete's secretary came back with a reply.

The king and ministers read it together, and Pete took the telegram first and read it as quickly as possible.

While overjoyed, he handed the telegram to the king:

"Your Majesty, the Ming people agree to withdraw their troops at the same time, but require us and the French Yinzhou troops to completely retreat to the east of the Mi River.

The king and ministers at the scene immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Daming was willing to accept the withdrawal of troops in this way, indicating that he was indeed willing to negotiate.

As for this last additional condition, it is not a big deal.

The Honey River is the Mississippi River.

East of the Lower Honey River, east and south of the Ohio River, from Boston to Florida to New Orleans, including the Greater Antilles, was a British American colony.

East of the upper middle and upper reaches of the Honey River, north of the Ohio River, the entire Great Lakes region and both sides of the St. Lawrence River, north of Boston, belong to the French colony of New France.

The lowermost reaches of the Honey River, west and south of the river bank, later Mexico plus southern Texas of the United States, belonged to the Spanish colony of New Spain.

To the west of the ridge of the Rocky Mountains and to the north of the northern border of Mexico in later generations were the vassal states of Northern Yinzhou of the Ming Dynasty.

The middle of the clear colonies owned by these four countries, that is, the area west of the upper and middle reaches of the Honey River mentioned by the Ming Dynasty, including the original historical Louisiana region and central Canada.

The Ming, British, French, and Western countries all claimed these areas, but neither France nor Spain established colonies here.

Only the British Hudson's Bay Company has built some strongholds around the Hudson's Bay.

Daming established several colonial points in the upper reaches of the Su River (Missouri River), which are the North American feudal rocky Shandong strongholds mentioned in the news.

The troops of the British, French, and Western countries here were dedicated to harassing the colonial points of the Ming Dynasty.

Withdrawing the troops now is actually just restoring the pre-war state, and the specific ownership will definitely be discussed during the peace talks.

So, King George III coughed lightly and made a decision to the ministers:

"Notify other allies, and convince all allies as soon as possible to start formal peace talks on the basis of these conditions as soon as possible!"

William Pitt immediately went to contact other allies, and most of the allies quickly accepted the advice, only the Ottoman Empire had a little problem.

Before the establishment of the Anti-Ming Alliance, the war between Daming and the Ottomans was already underway, and Daming successively captured the Mesopotamia and the Sinai Peninsula.

If the British had not intervened, Daming would have taken the whole of Egypt and opened up the Daqin Sea (Mediterranean) from the Mesopotamia.

But Ottoman doesn't seem to realize this.

What the Ottomans see now is that the Ming Dynasty occupied the Sinai Peninsula, the Ottomans were separated from Egypt, and Egypt entered a state of separatism under the protection of the United Kingdom.

So the Ottomans believed that they had been deceived and betrayed, and believed that Britain was still a gang of Ming.

Little William Pitt was quite helpless, so he replied more bluntly:

"If there is no anti-Ming alliance, the Ottomans will fight against the Ming Dynasty alone for more than ten years, and the result must be that the entire Ottoman Empire will cease to exist!

"Ottoman joins the Anti-Ming Alliance. As a member of the Anti-Ming Alliance, the truce and peace talks with Daming are already the most favorable result!"

The Ottomans finally realized that they were not qualified to negotiate with Daming alone. Without the alliance, the Ottomans would be gone.

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