Chapter 304 Controlling the Western Pacific
When the Chinese Shence Army entered the Golden Triangle, the mercenaries of the British East India Company resisted fiercely, but they could not be defeated in the end and were all eliminated.
China completely controlled the Golden Triangle, and the final source of wealth of the East India Company was completely cut off, quickly disintegrated and disappeared into the long river of history.
The Palmston government in London lost the financial support of the East India Company, and the liberals were quite weak in counterattacks against the joint attacks of conservatives and royal families.
The founding of the Yuan Dynasty 39 ignored the fundamental contradictions between China and Britain in the fight for world hegemony.
With this good negotiation start, Benjamin's political pressure in Britain was suddenly relieved a lot. The British no longer accused Benjamin of begging for peace, but instead praised Jamin for doing a great thing for mankind. After all, the trade of Yabo films poisoned not only other countries, but Britain was also deeply harmed, because since ancient times, wealthy people can afford Yabo. The more economically developed a country, the more rampant Yabo films are. The United States and China in later generations are the most typical examples.
China and Britain signed the Manila Treaty in Manila.
1. Britain announced that it would give up its right to freedom of navigation. In the future, British warships will not appear in the baseline of the territorial sea that extends to the 12-nazzle mile territory of China and its vassal states, as well as the exclusive economic zone of the two-nazzle mile. If a British warship wants to pass, it must notify the Chinese government in advance before passing, otherwise it will be considered a war provocation.
2. The UK promised not to establish diplomatic and military ties with Chinese vassal states privately.
3. The Royal Navy withdrew from the East Asian waters and the Qizhou Ocean waters, recognizing the absolute influence of the Chinese Navy on the Western Pacific, that is, the sphere of influence.
4. The UK recognizes China's military occupation of the Philippines Islands and Borneo, and recognizes the Philippines Islands and Borneo as Chinese overseas territories.
5. China allows Britain to conduct economic, trade and cultural exchanges with China's vassal states without infringing on the sovereignty and laws of China's suzerain states.
6. China allows the UK to conduct legitimate and legal trade in the Philippine Islands and Borneo to protect the legitimate rights and interests of British citizens.
7. China lifts restrictions on exporting special drugs to the UK.
, China and the United Kingdom recognize each other the scientific and technological inventions of citizens of their respective countries and ensure that the relevant patent rights are valid.
9. China and the UK agreed to double the trade volume between the two sides and gradually reduce tariffs in the next five years.
1. China and the UK have established a military telegram hotline. When a conflict breaks out, the troops of both sides should maintain restraint and hand it over to the Military Telegram Hotline Committee for ruling.
11. China and the UK agreed to upgrade their current diplomatic relations, from the minister level to the highest level of ambassador level, and establish a mechanism for mutual visits between the highest leaders of both sides to enhance China-UK relations.
12. Since the agreement is signed, China should release captured British military personnel. The UK must pay China the life and medical management fees of the captured British personnel.
The signing of these twelve articles marks the end of the fourth Sino-British film war.
This was a short and rapid war. After the war, China and Britain quickly shook hands and made peace. The speed was so fast that they immediately shocked the friends all over the world.
The Wall Street Journal in the United States was the first to approve: "War as you say it, fight, and be as good as you say it. The war between China and Britain is like a quarrel between children and playing house!"
A famous Russian military expert also complained when he sat in the newspaper: "Since the founding of New China, China and Britain have fought every five years, which is more diligent than Russia and Turkey. The most puzzling thing is that after China and Britain fought, the economy and trade quickly recovered without any impact. This is very different from the situation where Russia and Turkey have not had any contact with each other for hundreds of years. Faced with such incredible situations, I am also drunk and unable to complain."
French military strategist General Mo De told the French newspaper: "There are two factors that cause this situation. One is that the British are very clear that losing the Asian fleet is equivalent to losing half of the British Empire's maritime power, and there is absolutely no benefit to continue the war with China. At the same time, the German Empire rising on the European continent is an imminent threat to Britain, and China is thousands of miles away. It cannot threaten the British mainland and overseas colonies."
British newspapers naturally have to debate, and they need to take care of the British's emotions, so the articles published by the commentators are cheering the British.
"Damn Klaus's incompetence in command ruined the Asian fleet, but the British Empire Navy is the best. We are not surrendering to China, but are temporarily accumulating strength. Because we cannot let the navy swim to China to fight wars, we will make the Chinese happy for a while. During this period, our British Empire Navy will build a large number of more advanced warships, and the next five years will be the entire Chinese Navy."
European powers such as Britain, France, the United States, and Russia only care about the peace talks between China and Britain, but they all collectively ignore Articles 4 and 6 of the Sino-British Manila Treaty.
Britain recognized that the Philippine Islands and Borneo belonged to China, what does this mean? All powerful countries are very clear, which means that China and Britain have privately granted each other, and they did not care about the feelings of the Spaniards and the Dutch, and directly gave up their colonies to China. It also guaranteed the interests of Britain in the Philippines and Borneo. The great powers of various countries did not help Spain and the Netherlands speak for it, which shows that they are all afraid of Britain and China, and it also proves a certain recognition of China's rise from the perspective of it.
In fact, Britain also deliberately shifted China's expansion direction. The British did not snatch the colonies of Spain and the Netherlands, but did not want China to snatch the British colonies. Therefore, the best way is to guide China to snatch the colonies of other countries.
China naturally accepts this idea from Britain. This is the secret operation of the China-UK Manila Treaty, sacrificing the interests of weak countries to satisfy the balance of interests between China and Britain and slugging the conflict between China and Britain.
This is a means of a great power and a strong country, so the European and American powers knew that no one would sympathize with weak countries. In their eyes, Spain and the Netherlands were obviously declining empires. If they don’t bully them, who will bully them?
Spain was angry and protested against China and Britain's private entrustedness, severed diplomatic relations with Britain, and declared war on China.
However, Spain just declared no war because the Spanish army obviously did not have the power to recover the Philippines. This was just a means for the Spanish government to defend the last dignity of the empire.
For the Netherlands, they dared to say anything even more. They just defended themselves against the outside world that Borneo was originally the territory of the country, and it was appropriate to return it to China. In fact, if the Dutch authorities had not contributed the entire Borneo to China at the first time, then their Dutch East Indies would probably have disappeared. Because compared with Spain, the Dutch military power is weaker now.
Europe and the United States are talking about it, but one thing they guessed is that Britain still cannot sit idly by and watch China rise into a superpower and seize the world hegemony.
Although the new British Prime Minister Benjamin seems to show kindness to China, those who really know him know that Benjamin's ruthlessness is no weaker than Palmston.
As the head of the conservatives, Benjamin wanted to do the most after seizing the prime minister and ruling power, his most wanted to maintain the British Empire's hegemony.
What is conservative? It is true that you don’t want to make progress, but you cannot lose your existing glory and wealth.
Glory means that the British Navy is now the overlord of the world's oceans for hundreds of years, and China must not be stolen.
Wealth, four commercial wars (Ya Phoenix War), in addition to the first victory of Britain, it won a huge compensation of 210,000 yuan. At that time, the yuan referred to Mexican silver dollars. The 14-year Mexican silver dollars were equivalent to one ku Ping twelve silver in the Qing Dynasty, and ten times the fiscal revenue of the Daoguang government at that time. It was very cruel. The fundamental reason for the outbreak of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was also one of the means by Britain to destroy China.
However, in the following three Yabo wars, Britain lost all of them, and they lost very badly. The first two British and French coalitions lost a total of 500,000 troops, and the navy suffered very little losses. The latter major war was at sea, and the British Asian fleet was completely destroyed. The direct economic losses were greater than the previous two, up to 100 million pounds, because the navy was upgraded to iron-clad ships made of wrought iron, which was expensive.
But there is another real reason, that is, the pound has depreciated, and the culprit is violation of money.
Violations from China flowed into the British financial market, seriously undermining the British monetary economy and causing the British pound to depreciate.
Benjamin naturally knew all this, but there was no evidence. The Palmston government planned to defeat China by war, and then pursued China's crimes for the violation of the money. Unfortunately, the war was defeated, and no one immediately made Palmston's efforts. However, the Benjamin government slandered Palmston, but in his heart he was carrying out the unfinished path that Palmston had taken, that is, expanding the army and preparing for war, and completely stopping the violation of the money from China.
On the one hand, the Benjamin government issued new pound banknotes, and on the other hand, the fiscal appropriations were tilted towards the navy. For this reason, the Benjamin government borrowed large amounts from consortiums in Britain and even Europe and the United States, setting off a new round of shipbuilding craze in the UK.
The British government's actions naturally could not hide them from China's S.H.E.L.D., and the information was soon sent back to the Forbidden City, the capital of China.
Li Weiguo immediately convened a meeting of imperial predecessors to discuss countermeasures.
Of course, Li Weiguo denied the violation of money. Many of the civil and military officials guessed that the violation of money that appeared in countries around the world is related to the AIIB, but the AIIB is His Majesty's private bank, and no one dares to indicate it.
Moreover, harming the financial system of Europe and the United States and destroying the economic development of Europe and the United States itself is in line with China's national interests. Besides, most of the huge profits obtained by Li Weiguo with illegal banknotes have invested in domestic economic and military construction. When he thinks of this, no one has stood up to oppose it.
If it really comes out one day, at worst, you can fight. Even if you are enemies of the whole world, as long as it is for the sake of the Chinese, it doesn’t matter if you treat foreigners even more black.
Li Weiguo will naturally be responsible for the violation of money, because no one except him has the same ability to make counterfeit coins like real coins.
In addition, the only topic that civil and military officials can discuss is the construction of military power.
In response to the vigorous development of the British naval power, everyone knows that the British are dissatisfied and are preparing to engage in a big navy in the future to seek revenge on the Chinese navy.
Therefore, at the Imperial Front Meeting, all civil and military officials unanimously passed the Navy's next five-year development plan. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!