In a spacious conference room decorated with exquisite chandeliers, there is a long conference table.
The conference table is made of precious teak. The color of the wood is so good that you can even smell the fragrance emitted by the trees.
Wang Tao and his assistants sat on one side of the table.
On the other side sat Russell, the new Foreign Secretary of the Republic of Korea.
This time Stanley became prime minister, and the entire cabinet completed a major shake-up.
All the liberal personnel originally in the cabinet were removed.
The new cabinet consists entirely of Conservative members.
Russell is also one of the elders of the Conservative Party. This time he inherited a complete mess as Foreign Secretary.
The Great Empire has never signed a failed Armistice Treaty on its own soil.
Russell felt like a scapegoat and could not complete the task without signing the treaty.
But after signing the treaty, he will inevitably be cast aside by the people. At that time, the cabinet can only temporarily stabilize the people by abandoning him.
"Mr. Russell, we came to the country with sincerity this time. Otherwise, it would have been our fleet."
"Our Renaissance Army has always been peace-loving and responsible. Our President, Your Excellency, is committed to establishing a new order in the East so that the people there can live a stable, happy and civilized life."
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Wang Tao simply made an opening statement.
Then Russell said with a cold face: "If your country wants to establish a new order, it cannot be based on harming the interests of the Great Empire. When the Great Empire ruled the subcontinent, the people there had already lived a stable life."
"But your country's actions broke the balance that was originally formed there, causing a war to break out there and killing a large number of civilians. Therefore, the war initiated by your country is not just."
Russell tried to suppress Wang Tao morally.
The purpose of the people of the Yu country is very clear. They will be reasonable when they can't defeat others.
If others cannot defeat him, his justice is within the range of the cannon.
Not wanting Wang Tao to be familiar with this routine, he sneered: "Mr. Russell, the war in the subcontinent is the choice of the local people. Their sacrifice for their own freedom is worth it. Their sacrifices are also caused by your country's forced colonization of the local area.
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"Sir, the era of colonial oppression has passed. The East under the leadership of our Renaissance Army is the free and equal development of all races." Wang Tao said.
Although Russell knew that Wang Tao was talking nonsense, he couldn't refute it.
Although what the Renaissance Army does is not colonial, it goes deeper than colonialism.
They can either directly occupy and control it, and then immigrate, and soon the Chinese will become the majority of the local population.
Then this place came under the jurisdiction of the Renaissance Army itself.
Then there is indirect control, that is, supporting small national forces locally, and then allowing them to join the Greater China Circle and become its political, economic and cultural allies.
In fact, these small countries are completely dependent on the Renaissance Army.
"Sir, we Europeans have spent hundreds of years building a new order in the world, allowing those ignorant and backward places to bathe in the dawn of civilization." Russell continued.
Wang Tao was already impatient with the old guy's nagging.
"Sir, I think it's best for us not to discuss these issues. I think the almost extinct Amelia natives and Australian natives will not agree to what you said."
"Mr. Russell, let's take a look at the world order division plan proposed by our Renaissance Army."
Wang Tao handed a thick stack of documents to Russell.
The key points of the treaty are condensed at the top of the document.
So Russell could clearly understand the conditions proposed by the Fuxing Army with just one glance.
"Mr. Wang, we cannot accept these conditions." Russell said bluntly.
"Our fleet of the Great Empire has the freedom to sail in any sea area in the world. What reason do you have to restrict us to the Atlantic Ocean?"
Seeing Russell blowing his beard and staring angrily, Wang Tao smiled and said: "Mr. Russell, even the lowest animals know how to divide their territories. What they need is survival, not endless fighting. Our Renaissance Army divides the sea
The purpose of spheres of influence is to reduce disputes. But this is only for our two maritime powers."
"And this plan is two-way. Our Renaissance Army's navy will not enter your sphere of influence. This is fair, isn't it?"
Russell thought in his mind, it's fair. You occupy two oceans, and we Chinese only have one Atlantic Ocean left.
How is this fair?
"Does this treaty bind the allies of the Ba'ath Army?" Russell asked.
"There are restrictions on our vassal states, but our allies, such as the Donghua Empire, have their own independent diplomatic powers, and this treaty does not restrict them." Wang Tao said.
Russell completely failed to understand the complex relationships within the Great China Circle established by the Renaissance Army.
In fact, in order to understand this issue, he first had to study the vassal system in the East.
This is really difficult for a Westerner.
"So, Mr. Wang, if we have a conflict with a country like Donghua, will your Renaissance Army intervene?" Russell asked again.
"If the conditions listed in our covenant are met, we will of course send troops to protect our allies." Wang Tao spread his hands and said.
"Huh, then what's the use of the treaty between us?" Russell was completely angry. He felt that he had been tricked.
"Of course it will work. As for the Donghua Empire, your country can also talk to them alone."
"Okay, Mr. Wang, let's not talk about this issue for now. Since you said that we can continue to do business in the East, then we hope to retain some port cities as supply and docking points for merchant ships. This is not too much. You can
Allow the French and Portuguese to retain their own colonies on the subcontinent. As the former masters there, it shouldn't be too much for us to leave one or two ports there."
"Mr. Russell, the Great Empire made mistakes in the subcontinent. Therefore, the issue of land cannot be discussed."
"Let's do this, sir, we will build Bombay into a free city, where Chinese merchant ships can dock freely." Wang Tao seemed to have proposed a compromise plan.
"So let's put this aside for now and let's talk about what this war reparations are?" Russell asked.
"Mr. Russell, isn't it your practice that the losing side has to pay for the failure of the war? When you invaded us, didn't you also ask for 20 million taels of silver in compensation?"
"No, no, no, we are talking about the armistice now, not the surrender of the Great Empire."
Money issues seem to be more sensitive.
The two sides discussed whether compensation should be paid and how much it would be.
Whenever the attitude of the Japanese people was too tough, Wang Tao would stay in the hotel to rest and suspend negotiations.
Anyway, the deployment of the Ba'ath Army in East Africa will take time.
It is impossible to build a large military base without a year and a half.
Dong Shuheng told him not to rush the negotiations, but to negotiate slowly. It should be the people of the Yu State who are anxious, not the Fuxing Army.
Time has entered seven years of revival.
The Fuxing Army stayed in Xinjing after vacationing in Yazhou. He was waiting for the upcoming vassal state conference.
There are now more than twenty vassal states of the Renaissance Army, and there are nearly thirty core alliance countries in the Greater China Circle.
It deserves to be the largest organization in the world.
In Central Asia, there are Aiukhan, Khiva Khanate, and Bukhara Khanate. In addition, there are some small countries on the west side of the Persian Gulf, which have become vassal states in the name of the protectorate of the Baath Army.
In addition, the Persian Empire and the Sultanate of Oman are both franchisees of the Greater China Business Circle.
In the subcontinent, there are vassal states such as the Northern Alliance, the Taiping Kingdom, the Kingdom of Burma, the Tamil Kingdom, Gorkha, Chemeng Hung, and Bombay Free State.
There are a total of more than a dozen vassal states in the Nanyang region, some of which are sultanates established by local people, and most of them are states established by the Chinese.
These countries use islands, mountains, and rivers as natural dividing lines.
A relatively stable natural national ecosystem has been formed here.
The only exceptions are the several cities controlled by the Dutch and the native tribes that are vassal to them.
However, the local indigenous people who are affiliated with the Netherlands are gradually breaking away from the rule of the Netherlands and joining the rule of the Renaissance Army.
Just at the beginning of this year, under the instigation of the West Pacific Company, the Timor Island under the control of the Netherlands became independent and established the Timor Sultanate.
The reason is that it guards the maritime traffic route from the mainland to Nanhua Island.
Because this is a relatively remote colony of the Dutch, they accepted this reality without any struggle.
The Dutch East India Company in the Far East had long since collapsed.
What else can they do now but ruin it? Resistance will only accelerate their demise.
West Pacific has undergone three capital injections this year and is now a large company with assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
With the disclosure of iron ore and coal mining projects in the west of Nanhua Island.
The company's stock price not only did not fall due to the share expansion, but rose against the trend.
It's even hard to find.
After the city of Sydney was occupied, Lu Shun rushed here. He was also the supervisor of Nanhua Island.
He changed the city to Nanhua City.
His companion Du Zhengwen temporarily manages the city's assets.
Ding Li's Marine Corps will be stationed in several major towns here to maintain local security.
The main thing Lu Shun did during this period was to mobilize manpower from Xinhua Island to take over the farms and pastures near Xinhua City.
This place is far away from the mainland. To take root here, we must first be self-sufficient in food.
The future construction of Nanhua Island will require more manpower.
For example, if you want to build mining farms and steel plants in the western region, you will need a lot of food to feed those workers.
Lu Shun's job is not easy, and everything is difficult at the beginning.
He wants to have a long-term plan for the entire Nanhua Island.
The company seems unwilling to leave Nanhua Island completely under the control of this young boy.
Soon several older directors came to Nanhua City with an advisory group.
Lu Shun changed from a decision-maker to an errand boy.
At this time, Lu Shun was still very weak and did not have any capital to fight against the company.
Perhaps the people above had spoken, and the company began to send manpower to Nanhua Island with all its strength.
After the war, even the most prosperous southeastern coastal area of Nanhua Island was deserted.
If there is no one to manage it, the infrastructure built here will soon be abandoned.
In order to attract local immigrants, the company offered attractive conditions.
Not only land distribution, but also cash subsidies.
Suddenly, there was an endless stream of ships from the mainland to Nanhua Island.
A large number of mainlanders who had originally planned to immigrate came to the country.
However, those existing farms and ranches have long since become the property of the company.
These immigrants who came to allocate land had to develop their own land.
And their start-up capital needs to be borrowed from the company.
Not only money, the company can also lend them seeds and cattle.
So as soon as these people arrived in their new homeland, they were bound to the West Pacific Company.
The proposal to create a group of homesteaders in Nanhua was submitted by Lu Shun.
This report was even read by Dong Shuheng himself.
He very much recognized the recommendations in this report.
In the southeast, the area east of the Great Dividing Range developed a large farm and ranch economy.
Enrich the local population structure with a certain number of homesteaders.
Generally speaking, the southeastern region is dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry.
In the arid areas of central and eastern areas, mining and steel smelting industries are mainly developed.
Therefore, the population in the central and western regions is mainly industrial population.
In this way, the southeastern region and the central and western regions can complement each other to a certain extent.
After Lu Shun straightened things out in Nanhua City, he took a boat and rushed to the northwest coastal area.
He wanted to build a new port city at the location of what would become Darwin Port.
The city was named Zhenghe Port.
This is the closest location to the mainland on the entire island.
Of course, it is also because this place itself is a natural harbor.
Lu Shun had taken a fancy to this place when he was exploring the island before.
But he didn't have the energy to build the port at that time.
Building a new city is difficult to say, but easy to say.
It's as simple as Lu Shun just needing to use the company's manpower and material resources to build the port here.
As the saying goes, planting sycamore trees can always attract golden phoenixes.
After Lushun built the port, the company was able to continuously send supplies and immigrants.
After expanding its shares, Westpac is now not short of money.
If you can't attract immigrants, spend money on it.
After immigrants and materials come in, they will build the city themselves.
From now on, we will slowly build roads to the mining areas and continue to extend our influence to inland areas.
However, Lu Shun discovered that Zhenghe Port lacked a transit port.
Going north from Zhenghe Port, you have to cross the Timor Sea and then the Maluku Islands, and enter the southern part of the Luzon Islands from the Maluku Strait.
This north-south route is much closer than the previous route from eastern Luzon Island, through Xinhua to the east, and then to the southeast of Nanhua Island.
But there is a problem, that is, this route must pass through Timor Island.
The island of Timor has always been the sphere of influence of the Netherlands.
The Dutch also have spice-growing estates on this island.
Such an important island must be in our own hands.
If the Renaissance Army were to do this, it would be like using cannons to fight mosquitoes.
So Dong Shuheng left the matter to Xitai Company to handle it himself.
But the military will help them.
After the Zhenghe Port was built, "Taiwan Balm" Lu Shun organized the Chinese and indigenous people on the island to launch an uprising on Timor Island and drove away the few Dutchmen stationed on the island.
They then formed a sultanate under the control of the West Pacific Company.
Then it applied to become a vassal state of the Renaissance Army.