Chapter 320 In the Name of Lord Jesus Christ

Of course, the 21st and 22nd Army would not allow the fleet carrying their captives to leave. Although the fleet was hung with star and striped flags, the soldiers, especially the middle and low-level commanders who had just arrived from the battlefield, would not care about these things. Although the senior commanders of the Army were still calm, there was no need for their command. The artillery arrays of various caliber set up like trees on the lower river bank had surrounded the two sides of the river that stretched for several kilometers and were unable to fly.

This has also become the best platform for firepower display. Although the fleet is not powerless to fight back, it is an inland river after all, and there are more than a thousand kilometers to go downstream. Needless to say, the estuary is definitely the Chinese navy waiting for it. Even the most optimistic commander cannot use the lives of these tens of thousands of people to gamble.

So when Beijing was in urgent consultation with the Americans, the other party had already paid off the other party's weapons that night. More than 70,000 surviving Indians and nearly 1,000 British commanders at all levels became prisoners of the 21st and 22nd Army. The British commander of Myanmar, Lieutenant General Zigvofi, announced a ceasefire. The war in Myanmar achieved a phased victory on the 11th day after Sethi landed, and the rest was to appease the public security in Myanmar.

At this moment, the imperial soldiers won the greatest honor since the Daoguang year. An active British lieutenant general and more than 70,000 Indian troops were captured. At the same time, the British and French fleets, which were later proved to have been hiding in the inland river for more than half a month, had a total of 31 large and small ships.

Of course, these people were not completely captured, but were in custody. All British and Indian personnel were detained on the thirty-one ships, with coal, fresh water and ammunition being unloaded on the ships. In addition to regularly distributing daily supplies, these people were temporarily deprived of their freedom. As for where they were going, they had to wait for the highest instructions from Beijing.

The progress of Beijing's affairs is not as smooth as on the battlefield. Various restrained diplomatic things are a bit cumbersome for both China and the United States. Since China and Britain broke off diplomatic ties after entering a state of war, lawyer Watson presented another letter of attorney entrusted by the British royal family to deal with Britain's interests in Asia on the evening of the 11th, to emphasize that he had a legal representative status in this prisoner of war incident, and at the same time, he negotiated with the royal family and military of the Chinese Empire on behalf of the United States of America and the British Empire on the matter.

Since my three points are absolutely impossible to shake my opinion, China cannot give in at all, so lawyer Watson also wisely avoided this point. During the negotiations on the same day, he proposed a new plan, proposing to set up a regulatory zone in Myanmar to establish a large prisoner of war concentration camp, and be jointly supervised by both China and the United States. All costs are borne by the United States. Before the two sides agree, China cannot use force against unarmed prisoners of war.

The latter article was officially accepted after one morning of consideration by China, but the previous article was immediately rejected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is equivalent to giving the United States a military personnel to enter China's sphere of influence for free. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated the unshakable unwavering Hawaii as a guardian, and hoped that the United States would carefully consider its position on this matter. In order to undermine the existing friendly relations between China and the United States, this is a way to make the relatives suffer and the enemy happy.

There was no progress in the talks that day, which could almost be said to be a waste of effort. Of course, we are not in a hurry, the British must be anxious. I instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make concessions to the Americans in irrelevant aspects while adhering to the three opinions.

In fact, this is also an opportunity to cultivate juniors. After considering the second son of the emperor, Puying and the third son of Puxia who already served in the Cabinet Bide Court, I gradually tend to let Puxia handle this matter alone. First, he has a background in education in the United States and has no problem communicating with the United States. Second, his second son's German background must be useful in the next stage of affairs. After a while, he plans to send him to handle German affairs and cooperate with his brother, King Xinmeng. He is now sent out and will be sent out again soon. It seems that his status as a culprit has basically been determined, which is not a good thing.

At the family dinner that night, I revealed this little meaning. The eldest daughter Huiyi and Shunshu were making noise and going, and the second daughter Shunshu and Shunshu also took the opportunity to express the intention of going out to see it. When I asked where she wanted to go, she couldn't say it. She looked very interested in someone, but now she didn't have time to pay much attention to this matter. She just took the opportunity to say that I was semi-open to my attitude towards my children's marriage, which means I went to find it myself, but in the end I had to weigh it before I could make it clear whether it was acceptable.

Prince Gong Zaiying's son, Prince Gong Puwei, wrote a letter back some time ago and said that he wanted to return from Western Xinjiang. He is now stationed in Dushanbe, the capital of Western Xinjiang. He may be unable to get used to the local environment and said that he wanted to adjust the east, but he did not dare to say that he wanted to go back to Beijing, but he just wanted to stay in Japan for a few years. (Note: Pu Wei was not the son of Zaiying in history.)

I plan to let him stay in Xijiang for a few more years, and go back to Beijing to see the materials. Now that he wants to change places, he has no reason to refuse, so he asked him to move to the Matsuhira clan in Kyoto. During the Chinese New Year, Matsuhira clan talked about the fact that he wanted to be a prince of Meiji, and he happened to do it to him to check his abilities. This young man looks smarter and capable, but judging from his performance records in Xijiang, he may not be able to even have one-tenth of his father's ability.

After settled the affairs of these young men of the royal family, I guess Princess Huiyi was probably going to see Cai E when she went to southern Xinjiang. These two people should get married. Cai E has been too supportive recently, and this foundation may be a problem. Fortunately, this kid has been successful and fought a beautiful battle. But I thought that his position should not be moved. The title was originally planned to give him a Jin Jin, but he was about to be the prince. It was a bit inappropriate to move again. It seems that it would be a compensation for Huiyi to marry him. As for the temporary military position he is currently in charge, it is better to take it down for him.

Just lay on the bed and thought about it, and when I looked back, I saw that I was preparing for my children that night. The Concubine Ye was quietly lying beside me, without moving, and then I saw that she was already asleep.

Early the next morning, the consultations between China and the United States on the issue of British, French and Indian prisoners of war began the second day. The Americans proposed a new plan as soon as they came up. They first expressed their willingness to accept the three opinions I put forward, especially the opinions of the Hawaiian concentration camp. However, they hoped that China and the United States could modify the conflict points on the demilitarization clauses of Hawaii. It was not enough to imprison 70,000 to 80,000 prisoners of war. It was not enough to just a few hundred security police officers. This is reasonable and we have no reason to refuse. So we spent a morning to increase the total number of quasi-militarized personnel stationed on both sides to 10,000, and China and the United States allocate them according to a three-to-seven ratio.

In the afternoon, Watson may be in a good mood. He started by talking about his feelings about the current world being shrouded in war and expressed his hope for peace. Then he came up with a proposal of peace. Along with it, there was also a photo of him taking a photo with Pope Benedict XV in the Vatican not long ago, claiming that he also represents the dawn of His Holy Descendant of the Pope to seek peace to a considerable extent. This is also the reason why the United States stands on the weak side of Britain and France on the issue of the Myanmar war.

He then proposed a new solution, that is, under the presidency of the US representative, China temporarily released the prisoners of war and returned to China when they swore to no longer be enemies with China, and all the supplies were harvested with spoils. This could not only calm the dissatisfaction of the Chinese military, but also show peace and sincerity.

In addition, as compensation, the British side can make demands on the issue of war compensation. All important ports in the Indian Ocean are open to China and ceded Ceylon to China. Bangladesh is demilitarized as a buffer between China and Britain between the South Asian subcontinent and the Indochina Peninsula. The British side is also willing to make concessions on the issues of Persia and Afghanistan.

Such high-sounding reasons, the so-called religious reasons and compassionate feelings and other nonsense cannot attract me and my diplomatic officials, but the Pope's special identity and the terms of peace proposals he put forward must be faced with caution. According to the current situation, the Pope has not made any systematic peace plan publicly. He has only published disgust of war and ridicule of war countries in some public occasions, such as "incompetent massacre", "stupid politicians", etc. The documents presented by Watson this time should be the first time that the Pope tried to intervene in the mediation of the war.

This is also a systematic peace plan, with a total of seven points: one, end the war, sign open peace treaties, and eliminate all secret diplomacy. Two, absolute freedom of sailing on the high seas in peacetime and during wartime. Three, reduce the armaments of each country to a reasonable limit. Four, the German army restores Belgium's territory and regime. Five, restores the territory and regimes of Romania, Serbia and Negro of the Negro. Six, rebuilding Poland to ensure peace. Seven, France and Germany restores Europe's border line before the Franco-Prussian War. The overseas colonies of Britain, France and Germany should make appropriate adjustments that are sufficient to reduce the risk of conflict.

Of course, this is also a luxury peace. A pope without any secular power. Without the support of a strong secular government, any of his peace plans can only make the strong people in war sneer at it. This plan strives to be fair to Britain, France, Germany and other countries. Some clauses are extremely unfair to the group of allies, and some clauses require Britain and France to make great concessions. In this era when the blood hatred has already been established, it is ridiculous to expect them to make concessions to each other.

So, when this plan was passed on to me later, my officials had established a consensus with me that Benedict XV had already sought support from the United States and that he was seeking support from China.

The seven o'clock content of this peace plan is no longer the focus of the imperial meeting that night. Watson did not explain earlier that his clone would just throw out this new material on the second day after the negotiations reached a deadlock, and the focus of the discussion that night was.

There are only two possibilities, and it is not difficult to guess. Either the Pope did not mean to win China's support, because China is not a Christian country, but a country with Confucianism as the state religion. Even if he wants to fight for it, it may not be able to achieve it. The reason why Watson threw this thing out was probably because the United States also hoped that China could work with them to help them achieve their own goals by supporting the Pope's peace plan. After all, China is also one of the participating countries in the war. In the future, no matter what, the contribution of the implementation and promotion of the peace plan will not exceed that of the United States. Putting this peace plan can also explain why the United States will not hesitate to offend China on the issue of the Myanmar war.

Another possibility is that the Pope intends to seek China's support, but has not officially started contacting China. The reason is that China is not a Christian country. Or he also hopes to transfer China's support through the United States. After all, the US-China relationship is one of the most successful bilateral relations in recent years. China is also hidden as the leader of the world outside the Christian world.

Americans, however, consider their own interests and do not hope that China has established a superior status and lofty reputation in Asia and then plays more role in the world's efforts to rebuild peace, so they hide this important message. It is just that they fully consider that the feasibility of completely concealing is not high, and they also need a reason to explain their position to China, so they will not officially announce the reason for this plan to China nearly ten days after they arrived in China.

Both of these may have a certain credibility. The ministers here agree that no matter what, the United States has gradually begun to show an unfriendly tendency toward China, or that China has become one of their important strategic opponents, and they need to use various methods to reduce China's influence. No matter how the British and Indian prisoners of war problem was resolved this time, China and the United States would go to two different extremes in the eyes of Britain and France.

Therefore, the pro-German faction in China is the happiest. Prince Chun Zai-ying is the highest representative of the military in Beijing. He and the two marshals in Beijing both said that in any case, China should take this opportunity to significantly strengthen cooperation with Germany and force US President Taft, who arrived in Beijing next month, to sign a fair trade declaration, that is, the freedom of navigation for civilian ships in any waters, so as to expand sales to Germany from sea to sea.

Their proposal was also recognized by most cabinet officials, which is conducive to stimulating China's industrial production. Various industries can usher in a new peak of development in the next year. This is also consistent with the seven-point peace plan proposed by the Pope. China may wish to issue a statement to express its position of basically supporting the Pope's peace plan. At the same time, it is prepared to forcibly convince the United States to approve of the Fair Trade Declaration.

The bargaining chips are these nearly 80,000 prisoners of war and 31 large and small ships. In any case, since the United States has agreed to Britain and France to ensure the issue of prisoners of war, they should make some efforts to complete this task. China can completely bind the prisoner of war with the peace plan and thus affect the signing of the Fair Trade Declaration.

Of course, to achieve this goal, I am afraid that some concessions will be needed. The United States must have gained huge benefits from Britain, and this time it will support Britain so much. Judging from the terms of negotiations, all the efforts made by Britain are to preserve India. This is understandable. After Australia and New Zealand are firmly blocked by the German navy, the only overseas military sources that Britain can send to great use are India and some African countries. The population and loyalty of the Indians can allow the British Empire to obtain certain guarantees in future wars. If China and German naval forces enter the Indian Ocean and gradually gain a foothold in the Persian Gulf and Arabia, the estuary of the Red Sea will be easily blocked. The British Empire only relies on its homeland, so it is really a requirement for God's blessing to resist the Germans' iron hooves.

Moreover, there is a big trouble in their own backyard. The Irish are carrying out a great uprising, which also restricts some of the army and navy forces. If the navy had not been supplemented by the Pacific Fleet in time, the Germans could even interfere in Irish affairs. At that time, there is no need to say more whether the British mainland is safe.

Therefore, it is conceivable that Britain must have invested a lot in the United States to support it so much. As for what it is, it is impossible to know now, but it will never be too small. After obtaining this big investment, the United States will change its cautious attitude in Asia and directly intervene in the Myanmar war.

And their appetite will gradually grow. As for whether it will prompt them to directly participate in the war, it is a genius who knows.

The imperial meeting, which was originally discussed on diplomatic consultations that day, finally turned into the American Association for Research. After about three hours of talk, I saw that several old ministers such as Yuan Shikai, Dai Hongci and others were no longer energetic, so they planned to leave the meeting. But I remembered that there was still a Russian affairs that had not yet discussed, so I kept them there.

After using the midnight snack, everyone recovered a little. I don’t know how many times such a meeting has been fought since World War I started, and these military and political ministers have become accustomed to it. The next agenda said that it was the Russian issue, but in fact it was just a general term, and it was not incompatible with the previous American issue.

For example, on the Middle East issue, does the Saudi king need a warning? As for his actions to seek another protective country outside of China, the empire should give him warnings in certain aspects and control some important parts of his country. The current Arab Kingdom has not found any oil. In my ministers, it is just a barren country with no products or interests. The only value lies in its position. In such a country, their king dares to play tricks with the Celestial Kingdom. After the Celestial Kingdom takes care of them and helps them, they dare to go against the Americans. This is really intolerable.

This issue is not the focus of tonight. Yuan Shikai proposed that there are also Hadaramao tribes in the south of the Arab Kingdom that were not so convinced by the Saudi king. I have put it aside for the time being. I will take time to find an opportunity to discuss it with a few important personnel in the future, but not tonight.

Russia is currently in a civil war. While the two regimes in St. Petersburg and Moscow are fighting directly with each other, they are also fighting in other parts of the old empire. At present, there are more and more red areas on the map. St. Petersburg has established the Soviet Congress as the supreme authority and passed a peace decree and a decree related to the system of the state, especially the contents of private property, which gave Moscow a huge excuse. There is a terrifying rumor circulating in Russia. If the guys in St. Petersburg rule, Russia will enter a ridiculous society, and everything is shared, even your woman.

This kind of rumor is extremely harmful to the expansion of St. Petersburg's career. Although the Red Army and the Red Guards of the Workers did not allow the army loyal to the Tsar to gain any advantage in the war, and even approached less than 100 kilometers from Moscow, their progress in the competition in other areas was far less than they expected.

Jugassviri on the Hokki Island in Japan should be able to play a role in this period of time. This matter should be carried out in a unified manner with further settlement of Japan's current new situation. This task was handed over to Shanqi to find someone to deal with. It is best not to change the status quo of Japan. Several Japanese contributors should send them back to their country in honor after the war ended. Comrade Jugassviri had been working for more than ten years. He should also come to his role. He should first take out some theoretical things for the relevant parties to use. At the moment, the trend of the red revolution is far inferior to my expectations. When the Tsar can even act disdain for the help of the outside world, I need him to make this fire prosperous.

The second son of the emperor, Pu Ying, was also entrusted with an important task by me. He will go to Germany at the right time to deal with the issue of two Chinese trainers in his special capacity, and cooperate with the situation in Russia to make targeted corresponding actions in conjunction with the situation in Russia. In this regard, I still trust his ability, which does not conflict with Germany's interests. His very smart wife should not pull him back.
Chapter completed!