1890 King of Southeast Asia

On November 31, the third meeting of the second round of negotiations.

With Germany's sudden statement, Britain and France were forced to withdraw, and the progress of the meeting progressed rapidly. After two rounds of consultations.

"In summary, we believe that paying a total of 200 million taels to Japan and Russia is the most reasonable and most conducive to peace." Tang Shaochuan sat opposite the Japanese and Russian representatives, but he looked at Lin Pingzhi.

"Objection! The compensation is too little, and the Qing Empire has not made a statement on the other conditions required by Japan and Russia. Did it acquiesce?" The Japanese said hurriedly.

Of the 200 million taels, 120 million belonged to Tsarist Russia and 80 million to the Japanese. The Japanese really couldn't accept it.

This is really sensational. The Japanese spent 60 million yen to fight this war (about 43 million taels of silver, almost 20 million US dollars.) It is not certain to make money with only 80 million taels of silver.

After all, war is not only about how much it costs to fight a war, but also a series of impacts. The impact on Japan is not large, and 80 million taels may make a few million.

However, in the long run, if 80 million taels does not include other conditions, Japan will definitely lose.

"This is exactly what I want to say. We have made deep reflections on the reasons why the conditions of Japan and Russia have been put forward. In order to prevent such incidents from happening again..." Tang Shaochuan took a breath.

"We plan to carry out preliminary market opening within three years, fully open to all countries, and invite people from all countries to come to China to discuss relevant events." Tang Shaochuan said extremely humiliated.

"My great emperor, considering the friendship between the three countries, specially allows the expatriates of Japan and Russia to immigrate to the Northeast after obtaining consent."

At this time, the attitude of the Chinese towards foreigners was contempt and fear, that is, although I can't beat you, I also look down on you barbarians.

In this case, any compromise and flattery to foreigners will be regarded as 2 devils and insulted.

"Viscount Mikhail, what do you think?" Seeing Tang Shaochuan sitting down, Lin Pingzhi nodded and asked Mikhail who didn't say a word.

Mikhail looked at Lin Pingzhi and stood up with a gloomy face.

"The great and benevolent Nicholas II, considering the current situation of the Qing Empire and the people of the Qing Empire who are suffering, agrees to the Qing Empire's conditions."

After speaking, Mikhail sat down again, tilted his head, and said nothing.

Lin Pingzhi looked at the Japanese representative again.

"The Japanese Empire agrees to this condition..." The Japanese bit his cheek, looking dissatisfied.

"Do the representatives present have any objections?" Lin Pingzhi asked according to the procedure.

"We think this is unfair..." The Germans were trying to gain the favor of Tsarist Russia, but after losing the consent of other countries, this could not change anything.

After a lot of entanglement, Lin Anmin announced that the conditions were determined.

In the afternoon, representatives of the three warring parties and the mediating countries signed their names on 6 contracts respectively.

Why 6?

Because the Qing Empire signed contracts with the two countries respectively, namely:

"Qing Russia Capital Treaty" and "Qing Japan Capital Treaty".

One copy was kept by the warring parties themselves, one copy was kept by the mediating organization Nanhua, and the other mediating countries received copies of the treaty - but they were equally valid.

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The next day, December 1.

"Your Majesty, the Northern Treaty has been signed." Secretary Wang knocked on the door gently.

Liu Ming was discussing Sun Zaizhi's affairs with Wang Xu, and nodded to Secretary Wang to show that he knew.

"For the specific situation, it's like this for now. We don't know what problems they are facing, and there is no way to get involved too much. Everything is based on their own decisions." Liu Ming said to Wang Xu.

"Okay, I'll send them a telegram now." Wang Xu got up and left.

The cause of the incident was a telegram from Sun Zaizhi. After Sun Zaizhi arrived in Shanghai, he contacted many people with lofty ideals and gathered more than 100 people. He initially decided to establish an organization in Shanghai.

As a result, some of these people failed because they were afraid and reported to the Qing Empire government. Sun Zaizhi fled to the leased land in a hurry and then took a boat to Guangzhou.

After staying in Yangcheng for a while, he gathered a group of young people. It happened that after the Qing Empire cleared the central officials, it began to clear the activities of the local war faction, which made the people's hearts turn. Sun Zaizhi thought that the time had come and prepared to start an uprising.

However, due to the serious lack of training in firearms, he asked Nanhua for support.

Liu Ming thought about it and gave it to him.

Although the chance of success at this time was very low, because Sun Zaizhi had no organizational program or political structure except for training the youth. In short, it was only dominated by a vague goal and had no other preparations.

However, the Qing Empire needed these voices of change, and a success was not necessarily a good thing.

"Lin Pingzhi did a good job." Liu Ming looked at the final conditions and nodded silently.

This time, Lin Pingzhi was mainly in charge of the negotiations. Liu Ming did not intend to interfere too much in the changes in the north-as long as it did not involve territory.

For more than ten years, he had long known that suffering was a necessary process of change.

"Your Majesty, Sir Cyril is here." Secretary Wang knocked on the door and said.

"Please ask him to go to the reception room." Liu Yiming stood up and straightened his clothes.

"Cyril, you came at the right time. The negotiations in the north finally ended, which was shorter than I expected. You have made a lot of efforts." Liu Yiming smiled when he saw Cyril.

"Your Majesty, I came here for this matter too." Cyril looked solemn.

"What's wrong?" Liu 1ming sat down and asked in confusion.

"Does the open market promised by the Qing Empire include the Yangtze River Basin market?" Cyril looked unhappy.

"Of course not, who told you that?" Liu 1ming smiled speechlessly.

"London, Whitehall received news from Jordan." Cyril couldn't laugh.

"Well... then contact the countries with spheres of influence in China, jointly exert pressure and oppose this matter, isn't it enough." Liu 1ming didn't understand why Cyril was like this.

"Nanhua doesn't object?" Cyril was a little confused.

"Why oppose? For the so-called free market? Isn't the market of the Qing Empire free enough? There are no tariff barriers, no import and export bans... This is simply the freest market in the world." Liu 1ming laughed.

"What about the open market promised by the Qing Empire? Oh! Sorry, I forgot..." Cyril blurted out, and then smiled embarrassedly.

After being upright for a long time, he thought he was upright.

"Understand?" Liu 1ming also smiled.

"Yes, we only need to open up the markets that are not included by other countries, then it will be fully open, right?" Cyril touched his head, and then apologized to Liu Ming frantically.

"This matter has come to an end, but I think we still have to pay attention to Russia, and we can't let him focus too much energy on the east, otherwise if they taste the sweetness, it is not impossible to cooperate with the Germans." Liu Ming waved his hand to show that he didn't care.

"Yes! Russia, Germany..." Cyril sighed with a complicated expression.

"Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire are inseparable allies. The Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire have conflicts of interest in the Balkan Peninsula. Why not start from this aspect?" Liu Ming said casually.

Cyril glanced at Liu Ming and nodded.

The predecessor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was the Austrian Empire. After the defeat of the Austrian Empire in the Austro-Prussian War, the Austrian Empire was excluded from the German Confederation. Hungary sought independence. In order to maintain the country, the Austrian Empire was forced to reorganize into the dual system of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Such a country full of problems must be full of contradictions.

For example, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, no ethnic group accounted for more than 50% of the total population, and all national affairs often required the joint decision of representatives of 12 ethnic groups in the country.

(In World War I, there was even a division commander in the Austro-Hungarian Empire who could not command the regiment commanders under him because they were not of the same ethnic group and did not speak the same language.)

In this case, in order to stabilize the country and carry out reforms, the only way was to transfer the contradictions first, so external expansion became the only choice for the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The only direction for the Austro-Hungarian Empire to expand was the Balkans. Due to interests, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a bad relationship with the Kingdom of Italy, Tsarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire and the small countries in the Balkans.

Whenever there was a conflict between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Tsarist Russia, Germany would inevitably stand up to mediate, and after Bismarck's death, Germany would usually stand on the side of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (the British played a significant role).

Because this trick has been tried and tested, the British have started to make trouble in the Balkans again. Cyril knew about this, so he looked at Liu Yiming with a mysterious look.

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At the Banjarmasin Naval Base, Tesla was standing in front of a machine the size of a Warrior car, constantly opening and closing various valves.

"Hello... This is... Banjarmasin... See you?"

A series of intermittent voices came from the receiver. Tesla was ecstatic at first, and then felt the frequency.

The voices gradually connected.

"Hello, hello, this is Surabaya, calling Banjarmasin, can you hear me?"

"Hello, hello..."

Tesla picked up the microphone and turned on a switch.

"This is Banjarmasin, this is Banjarmasin, Banjarmasin heard it, can Surabaya hear it?"

After saying that, Tesla held his breath and listened quietly.

"Surabaya heard it, congratulations, Sir Tesla, you succeeded." The distorted voice came from the loudspeaker, a little harsh.

But in Tesla's view, this sound is like the sound of nature.

"It seems that your gift is successful. Congratulations." Rutherford said with a smile.

"This is our common gift. Unfortunately, it is made in the laboratory. It is too expensive and too easy to damage." Tesla sighed.

After Tesla knew that he was going to be knighted, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep well for a few days. Finally, he decided to give a gift to Nanhua.

The one that has been made cannot be given, it is not sincere, and the one that has not been made... It can't be made in a short time, so Tesla found Rutherford.

Rutherford gave Tesla advice, "Make a device that can communicate remotely in real time, integrate the technology, and convert electrical signals into sound. This should be the fastest way."

So, the electron tubes that were still in the experimental stage in the laboratory were requisitioned by Tesla, and more than 100 of his students were also requisitioned.

Don't think it's too much. He is very energetic and is carrying out many projects at the same time. He always feels that there are not enough students (high-quality labor), or the school is a little worried that he can't be busy (not teaching well), so he stopped allocating students to him.

More than 100 people worked for more than half a month, emptied 3 electronic laboratories, and made this machine.

"It's not enough to just communicate. We also need to know what affects the radio waves. Next is the anti-interference experiment, the communication distance experiment..." Tesla did it as he thought of it, and started to torment the students again.

Rutherford shook his head. It was clearly said to be a gift, but he started to torment it after receiving it...

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