Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 474 Gambling Fight
In the former world, dominions were a special system in the British colonial system, marking the final step for the colonies to move towards independence.

In addition to enjoying a high degree of autonomy in internal affairs, the dominions also have their own trade policies, limited independent foreign policies and armies, but the right to declare war is still held by the British government.

Historically, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland were all British dominions.

After a period of self-government, these dominions gradually gained full independence. For example, Canada became a dominion in 1867 and gained full independence in 1982.

In the original world, before Perfectoct traveled through time, there was no such thing as a dominion in the world.

However, after independence, those former colonies still have some connections with the United Kingdom, for example, they are still members of the Commonwealth.

However, with the continuous decline of Britain, the so-called Commonwealth is nothing more than an empty name without much substance.

Although this is a huge organization consisting of 56 independent sovereign states or dependencies, theoretically controlling a quarter of the earth's land area, the British King theoretically also serves as the head of state of fifteen Commonwealth countries.

All we can say is that Britain once had some wealth, but today it can no longer stand up.

However, these are all things that happened in the original world. Apart from having a certain reference value, they are actually of little significance to the problems that Perfectcot is facing now.

But it must be said that some of the British systems are of great reference value for Perfectoct to solve the current problems.

"The so-called dominion means that you enjoy a high degree of autonomy and can decide all matters except diplomacy and military affairs." Perfect explained to the representatives of the revolutionary army what a dominion is: "You can make your own laws. Of course, in principle, they cannot conflict with the constitution of the empire. You have independent sovereignty in theory, but in name you are still a member of the empire and need to respect Her Majesty the Queen as the head of state.

Of course, the Empire will not interfere in your internal affairs. These are nominal terms and have no practical significance.

But correspondingly, leaders elected by you or produced in other ways need to be nominally appointed by Her Majesty the Queen to be legitimate.

Your diplomatic stance must also be consistent with the Empire, as for military matters..."

In Perfecto's opinion, such conditions actually have little impact on the empire.

Although colonies are very important to the empire, the empire often does not interfere in how the colonies are governed.

Generally speaking, the empire would appoint a colonial governor, and then use the governor to implement the empire's will in the colonies.

The establishment of a dominion was nothing more than changing the governor originally appointed by the empire into a leader elected by the colonies themselves.

As for whether the establishment of the dominion would cause disunity between the local people and the empire, or whether the dominion would seek true independence in the future, this was not something Perfecto was concerned about.

All she wanted was to try to establish a regime led by the proletariat. Now that this regime had the opportunity to be born, this was already very good for Perfecto, and she didn't care about anything else.

"We can't give up the command of the army!" The representatives of the Revolutionary Army listened carefully to the conditions proposed by Perfectcot. They did not express any opinions on other terms, but when the army was mentioned, one of them immediately stated that they would not give up the army. "The Empire does not intend to take the command of your scattered soldiers." Perfectcot glanced at the other party with contempt in his eyes: "To completely defeat you, the Empire only needs a Guards Division plus a Steam Knight Order, which is just a drop in the bucket of the huge Imperial Army.

But now the end of the world is near, and the empire cannot spare the time to deal with you. I also don’t want to cause unnecessary casualties, so I will give you a chance.

If you really don't know what's good for you, then at worst I can send out a few Steam Knights to wipe you out completely."

Perfecto deliberately put on this attitude. If she remained friendly all the time, these uneducated representatives of the revolutionary army would probably take advantage of her.

And in some ways, such an attitude is actually conducive to the progress of negotiations.

After all, the notorious Earl of the North suddenly became friendly to others. I'm afraid that the representatives of the revolutionary army will start to suspect that she has ulterior motives and set a trap for them.

"Hmph! You might as well give it a try! Let's see who kills everyone! Those tin cans of yours are nothing more than that!" Although the Revolutionary Army was forced to shrink its defense line by the Steam Knights, this does not mean that these representatives will admit the power of the Steam Knights in front of Perfect.

However, facing the provocation, Perfect simply smiled more contemptuously: "Is that so? It seems that I need to give you a deep impression so that you can understand that peace is just a charity and a gift I give you, not that you are strong enough to bargain with me."

As he spoke, Perfect snapped his fingers and said to the flying knights standing behind him, "Weber, take your flag team to take down the fortress outside the city. Is half an hour enough?"

"Twenty minutes is enough. I only need two knights to launch the attack together, My Lord Earl." The great knight commander named Weber tapped his breastplate lightly, appearing very confident.

"Well, let's add one more thing. Don't kill anyone." Perfect looked at the worry in the eyes of Kallen, the negotiating representative, and after thinking about it, he added one more sentence.

This did not make Weber feel embarrassed. He replied affirmatively: "Please rest assured, Lord Earl. If we don't need to kill anyone, it will only take us about fifteen minutes."

After saying this, Waver turned and left with the flying knights.

Seeing this scene, the faces of the representatives of the Revolutionary Army were distorted. It was obvious that Perfect didn't take them seriously at all.

But this incident is also an opportunity, a very important opportunity for the Revolutionary Army. If they can defend the fortress under the attack of the Flying Knights, then they will have the capital to negotiate with Perfect.

But if they failed to hold on, they would have no room for bargaining with Perfectcot.

And Perfect added, "Oh, by the way, you can send reinforcements, so that we don't say that the fortress is not well prepared or has insufficient troops.

But I doubt whether you can mobilize the army quickly enough? Don't let Weber take down the fortress by then, and your reinforcements won't be dispatched yet."

(End of this chapter)