Seeing that the Ming Dynasty and the Ottomans had basically reached an agreement with Egypt, French Foreign Minister Talleyrand came up with ideas in a hurry.

Reminds me of the question asked by the Ottoman Grand Vizier Zayadin just now:

"May I ask Shen Shaoqing, if the Ottomans hand over the Palestinian areas, how long will the peace treaty between your Ming Dynasty and the Ottomans last?"

Shen Fu did not reply directly, but turned to look at Zhu Jingyuan.

According to the previous agreement, if it is something that has not been determined internally beforehand, just look at it and ask Zhu Jingyuan for instructions.

Zhu Jingyuan can decide directly if he has an idea. If he doesn't think about it well, he won't give a definite answer yet.

Faced with this question, Zhu Jingyuan gave the answer without much thought:

"Five years."

Now Talleyrand smiled.

The transfer of a large piece of territory was merely in exchange for five years of peace, and it was impossible for the Ottomans to accept such conditions.

Others even let out suppressed sounds of surprise. Five years was really too short.

The expression of Zayedin, the Ottoman Grand Vizier, became very ugly:

"Your Highness the Food King, you claimed at the banquet that you were doing it for the sake of peace in this era. Is it just a joke?"

Zhu Jingyuan said of course:

"My promise at the banquet was to promise not to capture your core area, the Anatolian Plateau, and I say the same now.

"If Ottoman transfers all the land south of the Anatolian Plateau, plus the island of Cyprus in the Great Qin Sea, to Ming Dynasty, Ming Dynasty can promise you permanent peace.

"And the Ming Dynasty will provide protection to Osman and promise not to cooperate with Lucia and Austria to dismember Osman."

This is a promise, but it is also a naked threat.

The scene immediately erupted with exclamations of surprise.

But the meaning of everyone's exclamation was different. Some people were purely surprised by Zhu Jingyuan's straightforwardness, while others had slightly changed their thoughts.

For example, the Lucians thought of Constantinople, which was their spiritual sustenance.

The Austrians also had more lands in the Balkans in mind.

The Ottoman Grand Vizier Zayedin thought about all the situations, and then said loudly in a very heavy and painful tone:

"The Ming Dynasty's promise may be very important, but a promise can only be exchanged for a promise, not for land."

Zhu Jingyuan said without hesitation:

“Either we change or we don’t change at all, we sign directly according to the battle lines, or we don’t stop the war at all and we go back and continue fighting!

"I am the great food king of Ming Dynasty. I want to get all the great food areas that our Ming Dynasty considers to be great!"

Zayadin was silent and unable to respond to this threat.

But some people just have to stop talking.

British Prime Minister William Pitt immediately stood up, ready to say a few words:

"Don't get excited, both of you. Let's negotiate slowly. How about we both take a step back?

"Your Highness the Food King, our anti-Ming alliance still exists and we have not disbanded.

"If Ming Dynasty wants to continue the war, then our alliance will still continue..."

Zhu Jingyuan didn't wait for him to finish, interrupted directly and said more forcefully:

"Then let's keep fighting! I might as well tell you directly that I don't support an armistice in the first place!

"We'd better just break up and go back and continue fighting for another three, five, or ten years!

"Let me see how many more years you, the Western barbarians, you Osmans can last!"

Zhu Jingyuan didn't wait for their response, stood up and left the Wenhua Hall.

Guan Tianpei and two staff members quickly followed.

Shen Fu also stood up expressionlessly and announced:

"That's it for today's talks. You go back and think about it carefully. If you really don't accept it at all, you can return to your homeland."

Talleyrand's question caused the situation to take a turn for the worse, and representatives from various countries were confused.

Under the urging of the palace guards, he quickly left the Wenhua Palace and the palace, returned to his residence and immediately held an internal meeting.

Since there were too many countries in the anti-Ming alliance, the languages ​​were too complex, and it was impossible to waste time by having people translate them, so they still used the elegant dialect of the Ming Dynasty.

The young French prince Charles spoke first:

"Why is this Prince of Dashi so erratic? He said he came for peace in our time, but today he said he was not in favor of an armistice in the first place."

French Foreign Minister Talleyrand shook his head and explained:

"Your Highness, Prince Dashi's attitude is not capricious. He just expresses his purpose in different ways under different circumstances.

"He did come with peace on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, but this peace came with a price and conditions.

"In the past, Ming Dynasty had a long-term peace with the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain after Ming Dynasty achieved its strategic goals.

"The current situation is that Ming Dynasty did not achieve its goals on the battlefield, so it wants to achieve it at the negotiation table.

"If we all accept their conditions, there will be no need for war, so there will be peace.

"So he did come for peace."

Others roughly understood this logic, but they all felt very aggrieved.

This logic is like: If you give me everything I want, we can get along well, and I won't do anything.

The British Prince of Wales suddenly became a little irritable and said:

"Da Ming is too arrogant. What he didn't get on the battlefield still wants to achieve it at the negotiation table?

"The goals proposed today are only for the Dashi area. The goals in Yinzhou and Lucia are huge!

"How much land does he need to ask for from Lucia? How many colonies do he need to get in Yinzhou to achieve all their goals?"

Spanish Prime Minister Manuel said in a serious tone:

"When Ming Dynasty achieves its goals, peace can be given, but who can guarantee that Ming Dynasty's goal at this stage is the ultimate goal?

“The Ming Dynasty initially only regained the islands near their homeland, then took control of the entire Southeast Asia, and later the entire Da Ming Ocean and the Little Western Ocean.

"Now the Ming Dynasty is claiming the entire Dashi region, and the goals of Lucia and Yinzhou have not been clear yet.

"Who knows how much this greedy dragon will have to take before he can truly give up?"

British Prime Minister William Pitt felt that the direction of the discussion was being led by others, and immediately stood up to take over the conversation and preside over order:

"His ultimate goal has been put forward, at least temporarily, and he has promised not to claim land in mainland Europe.

"Requests for the Ottomans have also been made, and they will not ask for the Anatolian Plateau, that is, the Asia Minor Peninsula.

"So our question now is, do we trust him? Do we accept this condition?

"Can Osman accept it? If not, what should we do?"

Manuel asked subconsciously:

"Discuss directly whether we should accept Ming's request? Shouldn't we first determine whether it is Ming's bottom line?"

Peter looked at Manuel:

"Do you mean to find a way to repeatedly test Ming Dynasty and what are the minimum conditions for providing permanent peace guarantee?"

Manuel nodded naturally:

"That's right. Negotiation involves bargaining."

Pete asked directly:

"You are right, but it is against opponents on the same level, at least there will be no absolute differences.

"Facing the opponent Ming, do you dare to completely believe the bottom line you tried so hard to find?

“Have you ever thought about the perfunctory results you get that might make the other person impatient and give them casually?

"When you think you have succeeded and got the best terms, what you end up facing is a punishing war that refuses to negotiate?

"Do you still remember the ending of the exterminated countries and regimes in Chinese history that you have studied?

"The Ming Dynasty saw the difficulty of ruling Europe, so they promised never to invade Europe.

"But if your repeated temptations irritate them, they don't have to rule, they can just punish.

“In the past two thousand years, their strategy towards the northern nomads was to punish rather than rule.

"Especially the two emperors of the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu and Yongle, attacked the northern grasslands more than twenty times in total, with the sole purpose of killing people.

“After that, the grasslands were burned for a long time during the dry season, causing the livestock on the grasslands to starve to death in winter.

"Proactively cut off the trade of salt and daily necessities in the grassland, leaving the Mongolians to cook food in cowhide bags..."

Facing Peter's question, Manuel looked a little embarrassed, then he spread his hands helplessly and said:
To be continued...