Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1124

[Chapter 1113 Chapter 1116 Surprise]

fragrance wafted out of the teacup on the conference table, which made people feel at peace.

After reaching an agreement on patent fees and extradition, Xiao Ming brought up another important topic in this meeting, which was the issue of war compensation.

This time he wasted a lot of ammunition in the battle against the Empire in Nanyang. These ammunitions were all real money. It was impossible for him to pay for them all.

Brooke was embarrassed. Among many topics, this one was undoubtedly humiliating, but he knew that this topic could not be avoided.

In order to reach an armistice agreement and avoid further damage to their colonial interests in South America and Africa, they had no choice but to accept it.

“So how much war compensation does your Majesty want?” Brooke’s voice seemed to be squeezed out of his throat.

Xiao Ming’s expression remained calm, “This war compensation includes land and money. In terms of money, you need to pay a total of 30 million pounds in compensation. As for how to distribute the 30 million pounds in compensation among the five countries? The payment is your own business. “

Brook couldn’t help but break into a cold sweat after hearing this. The compensation of 30 million pounds is not a small amount. It is a heavy burden on the British finance, but fortunately this compensation is The payment is shared by the five countries. If this is the case, it will not be so difficult and the price will be relatively reasonable.

“Thirty million, we accept!” Brooke agreed repeatedly. He knew the emperor very well. If he continued to bargain, the price might be raised even higher.

Xiao Ming raised his eyebrows. In his opinion, this negotiation was surprisingly smooth, which was enough to show that these Western powers were frightened by him.

He signaled to Qian Dafu, who then took out a world map and spread it on the negotiation table.

Brooke frowned when he saw the map. He immediately thought of something and immediately refused: “Your Majesty, we in the UK will never cede any territory. If your Majesty insists on doing this, then your Majesty will be prepared to step over the corpses of the British and occupy the UK.” “

Xiao Ming glanced at Brooke. As he expected, the British are very sensitive to the local area. He smiled, “I haven’t finished speaking yet. What are you anxious about? Your UK has a small territory and not many resources. I really don’t like it. What I want is part of your overseas colonies, which you also stole. Give us some, isn’t it too much?”

Brook calmed down and looked at the world map, and sure enough he found America on the map. There are many small dots circled on the colonies in Africa.

Not only Britain, but also France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal have such small dots in their colonies.

“The red dots you see are the land we need. For your huge colonies in Africa and America, this land is nothing.” Xiao Ming said slyly.

It is true that the land he wants is not much, but it is equivalent to sesame seeds on a piece of cake, but the sesame seeds he wants are not simple.

Because these are areas where minerals are concentrated in America and Africa, controlling these strongholds means they control most of the resources.

As for other barbaric territories, they don’t have much value. After all, the empire’s population is limited and there is already too much arable land.

Moreover, the current empire is preparing to follow the path of industrial countries. They want to use industrial products to randomly seize cheap agricultural products.

This means that as long as they sell industrial products, farmers all over the world are working for the empire.

Brooke breathed a sigh of relief. They had also considered this situation when they came here, and he had been authorized.

Compared with his own imagination, the empire’s asking price this time was not high. He agreed wholeheartedly, “If it is just a small range, there will be no problem.”

Xiao Ming suddenly laughed heartily, and he said: “If so, we can negotiate It ended perfectly. “

Brook stood up happily, “I hope your majesty can sign a treaty and no longer attack Britain and its colonies.”

Pang Yukun handed a treaty in Chinese and English to Brooke. Britain basically agreed to the empire’s conditions, and there was no need to change the treaty.

“Treaty of India?” Brooke took it and read it carefully.

The contents of this treaty are similar to those negotiated just now. It requires Britain to formally recognize the Chinese Empire’s occupation of Australia and India. Of course, the most important thing is the armistice clause.

Australia and India are now in the hands of the Chinese Empire. Whether they admit it or not is a fact. After reading the agreement carefully, he signed the treaty.

Xiao Ming took the treaty and also signed it.

The British negotiations were over, and Brooke didn’t want to stay in the conference room for a minute. He pushed out the door with the envoy.

Xiao Yi asked at this time: “Father, the British are so unruly, why don’t they set the amount of British compensation in the compensation to punish them.”

“This is the deeper reason you need to understand. If the empire specifies, then The resentment of the five countries against the empire will be even deeper, but if it is left to them to distribute, they will definitely fight over the issue of how much compensation their country will pay. “

This way, they will have another obstacle to the alliance. “

Xiao Ming nodded slightly.

At this moment, the door of the conference room was pushed open. At this time, Rhodes came in, and the negotiations with Holland officially began.

Similar to Brooke’s requirements, Xiao Ming also listed similar conditions. The only difference was that Rhodes hoped to continue the rubber trade with the empire.

He naturally agreed to this condition. Although the empire now has its own rubber plantations and rubber grass planting bases, the empire’s industry is developing rapidly and the scale of rubber required is large, and the country is gradually unable to meet it.

However, compared with the previous expensive rubber prices, Xiao Ming used the power of this war to severely suppress the price of Dutch rubber.

The price of Dutch rubber is even lower than that of domestic rubber.

In the end, Rhodes left with a sigh. Natural rubber is a profitable business. Even if the price is low, they still can’t refuse the rubber trade.

Because the whole of Europe combined did not need as much rubber as the Empire needed.

After seeing off Rhodes, Spain and Portugal followed. Like Britain and the Netherlands, negotiations with them were equally smooth.

But when it was France’s turn, the negotiations ran into trouble for the first time.

“Your Majesty, our consul, Andrew, refuses to pay war reparations unless the empire promises not to attack East Indochina.” Henry said in a tough tone.

But he changed the subject, “Andre is a fool. His arrogance will bring disaster to both countries. I hope that your majesty can support me in ousting Andre. Then I will agree to all today’s conditions.”

Xiao Minghe Pang Yukun looked at each other, and the two of them showed interesting eyes.

(End of chapter)