"Yes, President, the Chinese refused to agree to the sphere of influence we demarcated. They also insisted on retaining Bombay and the Sydney stronghold in New South Wales, but they did not want other places on South China Island. Other places in the subcontinent except Bombay
They don’t want it either.”
"In addition, they require that the East African coast must be within the range where the Imperial Navy of Great Britain can move freely. We must also ensure the free navigation of Chinese merchant ships in all oceans."
After hearing this, Dong Shuheng was not angry. He kept asking for the price and sat on the ground to pay back the money. This was normal.
Negotiation is inherently a matter of come and go.
Dong Shuheng's right index finger tapped the table, making a very rhythmic rhythm.
He said: "The land issue cannot be discussed. We have made clear arrangements for Bombay and Sydney. For navigation in East Africa, they cannot cross Zanzibar Island and can only move south of the island. As for merchant ships, after the peace talks are over,
We welcome them to do business."
"Yes, President, I will sort out the message and send it out right now." Jiang Yuqin walked out.
Du Ji walked out of the room wearing a light yellow dress.
"President, here is a letter from my father from Fuso." Atsushi held a letter in her hand. The bright yellow envelope looked very simple.
Dong Shuheng took it and read it carefully.
Du Ji came behind him and gently massaged Dong Shuheng's cervical spine and head.
The letter was relatively long. Qi Bin analyzed the pros and cons of forming a Greater China Federation and proclaiming himself emperor.
There are also specific steps for this matter.
In this regard, Qi Bin is indeed more professional. He has conducted in-depth research on Emperor Fusang as a human god, as well as the local emperor as the emperor, and various imperial cultures.
"The Son of Heaven, if he has the Tao, people will push him to be the master; if he doesn't have the Tao, people will reject him and not use him. He is sincere and can be feared."
Now so many people want Dong Shuheng to be the emperor, but Dong Shuheng is not happy at all.
Wearing the imperial crown is not an easy task.
They all want to tie Dong Shuheng to the chariot of the Great China Circle.
They do not believe in the power transfer model formulated by Dong Shuheng.
Whether Dong Shuheng hands over power to Zuo Jigao or Liu Jigao, they will all have a sense of crisis.
There is only one way to make Dong Shuheng look at this stall forever.
"Pull out the few white hairs on my temples." Dong Shuheng said to Du Ji.
Du Ji had already locked onto the few white hairs on Dong Shuheng's temples.
After a few snaps, he pulled it out: "President, you can't pull out all the white hair. If you pull out one hair, two will grow. As long as you make sure to go to bed before ten o'clock every night, you won't get any more white hair."
Du Ji said with concern.
As Dong Shuheng's life secretary, she knows best how busy Dong Shuheng is every day.
Even if nothing comes to him, he is still thinking about things in his mind.
The Greater China Circle, which occupies half of the earth, and the millions of troops of the Renaissance Army all need his care.
There was also the confusing future. Which one did he not want to keep thinking about in his mind?
"I would like to, but these people want me to be their wage earner. It's not easy to be a wage earner." Dong Shuheng threw the letter in his hand on the table.
He reached out and grabbed Duji's smooth and slender wrist.
Du Ji, who was wearing a long skirt, fell into Dong Shuheng's arms as softly as if she were boneless.
…
Plymouth, the southernmost industrial city in the Great Empire.
Like most Chinese cities, the roads and buildings here are a gray scene.
Rainwater accumulated in a small pond in the middle of the road.
"Wangwang..."
A skinny wild dog was drinking water from the pond.
It suddenly ran away, and it turned out that three black official carriages were driving in the distance.
The wild dog stood on the side of the road and barked several times unwillingly, as if it felt that doing so would consume his little physical energy.
So he turned back and walked towards the garbage pile in the alley.
There is less and less food in the garbage dump recently because there are more and more competitors competing for food.
These competitors are still humans.
He is just a wild dog, a thin wild dog. How can he fight against those humans?
Those people always picked up stones on the ground and threw them at him, and some used sticks to hit his legs.
It could feel someone looking at him as if he had found a piece of bread in the trash can.
There were three carriages, each drawn by four dark horses.
The carriage is inlaid with a strange logo, a golden dragon on a red background.
It looks like a golden dragon flying in red flames, or bathing in blood.
"Plop..." The carriage crossed the puddle and splashed with water.
The wild dog that had just turned around was splashed all over by the dirty water in the mud puddle.
The wild dog shook helplessly, and mud and water splashed around it.
Splashing muddy water hit a pile of garbage on the roadside.
Suddenly, the garbage moved, and a homeless man in ragged clothes and a slovenly beard stretched out a stick and struck the wild dog on its thin waist.
The homeless man almost blends in with the garbage around him.
Even the smell on his body is exactly the same as that of a garbage dump.
The always vigilant wild dog also miscalculated this time.
After being hit with a stick on the waist, the wild dog's two hind limbs suddenly lost consciousness and lay limply on the ground.
It whined and crawled forward with its two front legs, trying to escape from here.
But the tramp immediately grabbed its two hind legs, raised the wooden stick in his hand, and struck it on the top of its head.
The wailing stopped.
In the dead of night, a bonfire was lit not far from the garbage dump.
The fuel for the bonfire is garbage.
A skinned dog was grilled on the fire. The dog was so thin that it gave the impression that the tramp was grilling a dog skeleton.
Two figures in round hats suddenly appeared at the entrance of the alley.
It's weird like two evil ghosts.
One of them pointed his gun at the homeless man.
The other man fought the chains from his hands.
The homeless man, trembling with fear, fell to the ground and watched as the two policemen locked him up.
He knew very well that these policemen would not be merciful to him. As long as he moved a little, the other party would definitely shoot.
"Cameron, there are so many homeless people lately. When are we going to catch them? I haven't had a vacation in three weeks."
"Officer, I don't want to be homeless, but so many factories are laying off employees now. I have no job, can't afford to rent a house, and can't afford food. God, what have we done wrong? In order to support the war in the Great Empire
, working overtime every day.”
"Now that the war is over, no one comes to reward us, but we are the first to be abandoned. Why? What did I do wrong?" It was the tramp who spoke.
The economic problems of the Great Empire have long been apparent.
They are just an island nation.
The economies of island countries are mostly export-oriented.
The economic ecology of the islands is incomplete.
Their economy is a process of output and input.
Why did the Great Empire spare no effort to expand its colonies and continue to suck blood from the colonies?
Because if they don't, their economy will collapse.
Without the input of raw materials, their factories would not be able to operate.
There is no market that can be dumped at will. Who will the products they produce be sold to?
The most important raw material supply base and dumping market for the Korean people is actually the subcontinent, otherwise they would not have to spend such a high price to fight this war.
There have been problems in the subcontinent for several years. In fact, they have already affected the local economy of the Great Empire.
Coupled with the Great China Circle created by Dong Shuheng.
The Chinese market has long shrunk by more than half.
Before the war between the two sides, the domestic economic problems of the Great Empire had already emerged.
Economic problems were also an important reason why Temple finally decided to go to war with the Ba'ath Army.
The state of war ended with Temple's resignation.
During the war, factories accepted a large number of orders from the government. Not only were many factories not affected by the previous economic contraction, but they actively expanded production.
It seems that government orders are never finished anyway.
Stanley was promoted by those conservative big financiers.
These people want to step down because they no longer want to pay for this war.
So the first thing Stanley did after taking office was to repeal the Wartime Act.
The next step was to find a way to negotiate a truce with the Renaissance Army.
There is really no need to fight the war. The main battlefields have already been lost anyway.
The colonies and spheres of influence that should be lost have been lost.
The Renaissance Army has already marked out its sphere of influence for the Yu people.
From now on, the Pacific and Indian Oceans will all fall under the sphere of influence of the Baath Army.
Excluding the fact that the Arctic Ocean is not suitable for navigation, the Maritime Renaissance Army controls more than two-thirds of the world's oceans.
Of course the people of the People's Republic of China are not convinced. There is only one Atlantic Ocean left as the original maritime hegemon. How can the people of the People's Republic of China accept this?
But thinking of the huge size of the Fuxing Army, the people of the country could only sigh.
If the Great Empire had a population of 50 to 60 million, it would have been able to develop its colonies into its own territory long ago.
Now that I think about it, the ideas used by the Great Empire in managing colonies were all wrong.
A colony established by simply using the colony as a dumping ground for goods and a supplier of raw materials is very unstable.
Like a castle in the air, it will easily collapse once it encounters strong external interference.
Because without someone there is no absolute control.
The local natives were very obedient and useful when the Great Empire was strong.
But at the critical moment, they still stand on the side that is most beneficial to themselves and will not care about the interests of your empire.
After Stanley came to power, he made an important decision, which was to send all bankrupts and homeless people to the colonies.
And the decision was made in the name of law.
After such a war bill ends, the bankrupts and homeless people created by the shutdown of factories will not cause trouble for the new cabinet internally.
The situation within the Great Empire is improving rapidly.
Apart from some economic contraction, the impact of the defeat was not significant.
At least those capitalists can still live their luxurious lives.
Of course, their assets have also shrunk, after all, they have lost so many colonies.
Especially such an important colony in the subcontinent.
The economic value of Nanhua Island and New Zealand to the Chinese people is not high yet.
After the subcontinent was lost, many places in Central Asia and West Asia were also eliminated from the market list of the Chinese.
The power of the Renaissance Army has penetrated here, so the Renaissance Army must penetrate its economic influence here.
A good platform for the Renaissance Army is the Greater China Circle.
If you don't want to join a military alliance, you can also join a business alliance alone.
According to the Great China Free Trade Circle agreement, as long as it is signed, the competitiveness of Fuxing Army's products will inevitably squeeze out the products of the Chinese people.
The key is that the agreement given by the Renaissance Army is two-way, and the country that signed it can also benefit.
Because they also enjoy the huge market in the Greater China Circle.
In comparison, most of the treaties signed by the Chinese people with them were one-way.
Although the Ottoman Empire did not join this trade organization out of pride, its governor-general areas in the Mesopotamia were actively approaching the Renaissance Army.
Except for the Ottoman Empire, which still had a relatively strong ruling foundation in the Balkans and Asia Minor, most other places were controlled by a few governors.
In some places, pashas even privately approached merchants of the Renaissance Army to purchase weapons.
Since taking control of the Persian Gulf, merchants from China and Southeast Asia have flocked here.
The tribes on the Arabian Peninsula have not yet become the wealthy people that they will be in later generations.
Most of the tribes are not rich, but the nobles and religious leaders of those tribes are wealthy people.
These people make very good business partners.
The products of the Renaissance Army are very suitable for their taste.
Luxury goods include fine silks and porcelain, and daily necessities, whether grain or tea, are very cheap when shipped from the Renaissance Army.
If you want to buy weapons, that's no problem. The equipment of the Renaissance Army defeated even the Japanese, so there's definitely no problem in terms of quality.
The people living in the eastern parts of the Ottoman Empire were mainly Arabs, and they were not of the same mind as the Ottoman Empire.
It turned out that they wanted to separate from the Ottoman Empire by relying on the Chinese people.
Now they have consciously found a backer for themselves.
For those big capitalists in the Republic of China, there will be losses in the ceasefire, but the losses may be even greater if the war continues.
The most important thing is that they cannot tolerate the French on the side continuing to profit from the losses of the United States.
If this continues, the Great Empire will no longer be able to maintain its hegemonic position in Europe.
Europa will always be the core interest of the Great Shadow Empire.
Otherwise, the Chinese could have moved their political center to the New World long ago, where the strategic depth would be greater.
In that case, where did Milician come from?
"Dingle bell..." the carriage's brake bell sounded in front of a building.
In front of the building stood some Chinese people wearing black tuxedos.
These people are not young.
The average age of the new Da Ying cabinet is much higher than that of the previous one.
Wang Tao, with his hair parted and glasses, slowly stepped out of the carriage.
He shook hands with these Chinese people one by one with a serious face, because these Chinese people also had serious faces.