London, Buckingham Palace.[

The London Peace Conference continued. In early 1864, the Peace Conference finally achieved the first important result - the division of Turkey. It included the Ming Dynasty, France and Rome, Britain, Austria, Russia, and was temporarily invited to participate.

The representatives of Greece and Serbia at the meeting were satisfied and signed an agreement called the Protocol on Turkey. This determined the fate of a great empire that once spanned the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, making the entire Christian world chill.

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Although this empire is still stubbornly resisting, it is meaningless before its destined fate, just like Constantine carried out by Constantine XI and his people, the last emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The battle fort defense is the same.

After signing the Protocol on Turkey, no one mentioned the fighting Istanbul at the London Peace Conference. No matter when the city resists or whether its residents are killed, it has nothing to do with the London Peace Conference.

.As for the possibility that the Turks defeated the Russian-Austrian coalition and protected Istanbul, it absolutely does not exist.

After solving the big episode of the Türkiye issue, the focus of the discussion in London turned back to the original theme, with the North American armistice and helping black Africa.

Negotiations on the North American armistice have been underway these days. The main questions are two, one is how much territory the United States of America should retain - Lincoln, the representative of the United States of America, proposed a principle of "referendum decision" and hoped to pass the citizens.

Voting to decide whether to belong to the United States states, whether to join the alliance or the federal government. However, the coalition president of the alliance states is worried that too many states will vote to join the North or... join the South! Yes. President Davis does not want to get the North

All states, because that would be a waste of fighting this Civil War. All he wanted was to separate the agricultural states in the south and central America and form an alliance country that would benefit farmers.

So he hopes to determine the ownership of the states through negotiations, and to exchange the industrial cities of the Great Lakes occupied by the Alliance for a large amount of compensation to repay the huge debts owed by the Alliance for this war.

The second issue of the North American war armistice negotiations is of course compensation. The alliance, including Mexico, issued a huge claim of 1 billion pounds! The federal side proposed to use western territory to pay off debts, and Lincoln wanted to recognize the ownership of the Kingdom of California by recognizing the ownership of the Kingdom of California!

The Mexican Empire was in exchange for exemption of all or part of the compensation in order to allow the federal government to start post-war reconstruction in lighter installations. However, both the Union and Mexico took a firm stand against this.

Because there are huge differences on these two issues, the North American armistice negotiations were slowly dragging down. In fact, the alliance countries that occupied several important industrial cities in the Great Lakes region were not in a hurry to sign a peace treaty. Anyway, the discomfort is the federal one now.

On the one hand, as the coal and iron towns and grain-producing areas were occupied, the entire federal industrial chain was broken, factories and banks in the eastern states went bankrupt one after another, prices soared, and people's actual income and living standards plummeted.

Some people who are desperate about the future of the federal government have differentiated from left to right. The working class at the bottom of society has been unemployed and has difficulty living, which has given the left-wing trade union organizations great room for development and American workers supported by the International Workers Association.

The association was officially established in the second half of 1863. The radicals in it shouted the slogan of using revolutionary war to fight against reactionary forces in the southern region and international interference!

Some of the upper classes of the United States of America were frightened by this revolutionary atmosphere and the desperate future of the country. They hoped for Britain's support. They also raised the banner of racism and even shouted "UK-US united. White supremacy"

The slogan attempted to establish a white empire with British and American duality to resist the so-called Yellow Peril and regain the lost southern and western lands...

It seems that Bamazun’s wishful thinking is coming true, so the British Empire is not in a hurry to end the war in North America. Negotiations on North America are probably delayed!

In contrast to North America's delays, negotiations to help Black Africa progress were quite rapid. In previous negotiations, Britain and France had reached an agreement on the issue of dividing the sphere of influence. France withdrew from East Africa and Britain withdrew from West Africa - including British gold that Britain had operated for many years.

The coast (part of Ghana), British Senegal, British Sierra Leone, British Lagos, all were transferred to France, and France handed over Madagascar, which had been painstakingly managed by many years to the UK for protection, and at the same time recognized that Britain had dominance on the coast of East Africa

, recognized the British Cape colonies sovereignty over the Free State of Orange and the Republic of Terratua.

After Britain withdrew from West Africa, the situation in West Africa became relatively simple. In sub-Saharan areas near the coast, part of them were "borderless lands", including later generations of Namibia, Congo, Cameroon, most of Nigeria, and Togo.

Benin and other territories. These territories are not really unowned, but are ruled by local black kingdoms or tribes, and most of them have signed unequal treaties with European powers.

The other part is of course the "domestic land". In addition to the French territory, it is the colonies of the two declining empires, Portugal and Spain, including Spanish Guinea, Portuguese West Africa, Sao Tome and Principe, and Portuguese Guinea.

Of course, in this era, the colonial power of Western colonists in Black Africa was still limited to coastal areas and did not penetrate deep into the vast inland African areas. For them, most of Black Africa was too vast and too primitive, and it was really not suitable for their permanent residence.

This is also the reason why Napoleon III decided to support a Black African empire. He hoped to rule the uncivilized black people through civilized black people and turn the primitive Black African inland into a rich place that can create wealth for France and Europe.

Of course, the existing colonies of European countries in Black Africa should be protected. The Black African Empire can only be built on uncivilized land.

"Everyone, I think the mission of helping the Black African people move towards civilization is very difficult! It is impossible to complete it with a Black African Federation alone. This work requires the shared burden of the entire white civilized world. So before finally determining the general territory of the Black African Federation,

I would like to ask you the opinions of everyone here, whether the countries you represent are willing to have a greater obligation to help the Black African people!"

Napoleon III was telling lies seriously, and what he heard was the representative of the entire civilized world. Not only a few powerful people, but also representatives of all independent European countries came to London to attend this conference to help Black Africa.

Of course, Wu Chunqiu, the special envoy of the Ming Empire, and Huyarez, the Prime Minister of the Mexican Empire, were also on the scene, but there was no share in the matter of helping black Africa - Napoleon III said that this matter must be shared by the entire white civilization world.

The burden...is not the case with you two Huang civilizations.

"Prussia hopes to help the Cameroonian people progress. This is a very meaningful cause and the beginning of the German Empire's international obligations after the unification." Prussian Prime Minister Bismarck was the first to stand up and speak, as France on the European continent.

The number one allies, of course, want to help the French take some responsibility.

Napoleon III nodded gratefully, "That's great, the Black African people in Cameroon will always be grateful for Germany's help."

"Spain hopes to help the blacks and Tylenols on Hispaniola." The Spanish Foreign Minister who attended the meeting also made a request.

"Hispaniola?" Napoleon III frowned. The island is in the Caribbean Sea. There are two countries on the island, Haiti and Dominican. Among them, the Dominican is suffering from the invasion of Spain, which hopes to turn the country into another

Become your own colony.

"Okay, Spain is indeed responsible for Hispaniola, and France can support Spain's demands!" Napoleon III thought for a while, but still supported Spain's demands. Because Spain is also an important ally of France on the European continent, it is also a major ally of France.
Chapter completed!