MTL - The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven-v3 Chapter 47 Treaty of Hue

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Friedrich didn't want to waste time with these people, since the translator in the cathars immediately shouted a few times outside the palace gate, and an old **** came out shortly after, speaking in very awkward French.

"My Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Southern Empire, invites you."

Friedrich sat on a sedan chair he had just seized, and casually shot the old **** at the foot, scaring the old **** so much that he wet his pants.

"Don't speak French to me. I failed in French. Let the people inside come out to talk immediately, otherwise I will burn this place down and find someone who is willing to talk."

After a while, the Vietnamese Emperor Shaozhi, accompanied by a group of concubines, came to the square in front of the palace tremblingly.

Friedrich looked at the trembling man hiding among the women in front of him, and suddenly lost interest in playing around, and took out the translation of the treaty text he had prepared and handed it to him.

1. Ceded the Jiulongjiang Plain to the Austrian Empire, plus an indemnity of 3 million taels of silver.

2. Return the remains of all Western missionaries over the years and make a public apology in writing.

3. A pension of 300,000 taels of silver must be paid to relatives or churches. "

The above terms were all within Emperor Shaozhi's expectations. Although the cession of land and compensation made him feel pained, the Ruan Dynasty was like a live fish waiting to be slaughtered on the chopping board, and had no right to bargain.

As a feudal emperor, Ruan Phuc Doi does not have the so-called family and country feelings. As a believer in "existential philosophy", his principle of life is "everything is for existence, existence is everything".

Other land and money people are just a passing cloud, and they are not as important as living, so all acts of losing power and humiliating the country, in the eyes of Emperor Shaozhi, are nothing more than spending money to eliminate disasters.

However, there are two things in the treaty at this time that he finds it difficult to accept, that is, "prohibit the slave trade and free all slaves." Because since the Tang Dynasty, this Vietnam has been the largest slave trader in Asia and has been profiting from it.

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For example, the famous Kunlun slaves came from the Saigon market. The legendary Bodhisattva is very likely to allude to Vietnamese girls and Persian white skins, and these two types of people are also believed to be from the Saigon market.

However, with the maritime ban of the Ming Dynasty, the seclusion of the country by the Qing Dynasty, and the subsequent gunboat diplomacy of the Westerners, Saigon is no longer an important node in the trade between the East and the West. In the slave market in Vietnam, only the natives from the Indochina Peninsula remained.

The Vietnamese have been expanding their slave army by capturing Laotians and Chenla people. In addition, some people who cannot repay their debts and criminals are treated as slaves, so once the slave trade is banned, it will undoubtedly touch the cake of many people.

At the same time, if all the slaves were released, it would be an astronomical figure, which would definitely arouse the dissatisfaction of Quan Yue.

"Why are you still hesitating? If you don't sign, your wooden house will be burned!" Friedrich saw the other party's hesitation in his eyes, so he started to start a threatening offensive. After all, according to what Franz said, some people just don't cry when they don't see the coffin.

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Ruan Fuyun really wanted to know about this matter as soon as possible. But as a monarch he is not the only ruler of the country.

If the jade seal was really put on in such a hasty manner, not to mention the dignitaries and landlords in Vietnam would be offended by him, and the reputation of the defeat would be ruined, and the Nguyen Dynasty would die in a humiliating way.

"If you sign, you will die. If you don't sign, you will still have a chance." Thinking of this, Ruan Fuyun immediately stood up, tidied his clothes, and walked forward with the support of his favorite concubine. Said.

"I have practiced in the country of Dayue since ancient times. The law of my ancestors cannot be changed. As the orthodox Ruan family, I should not do such a rebellious thing. If you want to kill or cut, it is up to you!"

At this moment, Friedrich really wanted to shoot the trembling old **** in front of him, but his reason stopped him. Because once this nominal legal ruler is lost, this place will turn into a quagmire that swallows everything.

He remembered a conversation he had with Franz not long ago about trying to avoid security wars; the income of a colony depends on its output and maintenance costs.

If the cost is too high, it will be a burden for the country, and if it is too heavy, it will lead to the intensification of domestic politics.

At the same time, investing too much power in a colony is very likely to fall into a desperate situation, and it is easy to generate a trend of thought to separate from the suzerain under the instigation and bewitchment of foreign forces.

To be honest, colonization has never been an easy process, no matter how big or small a country is.

Different from simply plundering grassland or looting, if you want to maintain the blood transfusion from the colonies to the country for a long time, you must first carry out long-term investment and development.

In other words, the necessary prerequisite for obtaining high returns is stable and uninterrupted investment of money, materials and manpower, which means that you also need to take huge risks.

Natural disasters and even simple poor management may lead to losses. After all, the current colonies are not only unable to bring economic benefits to the suzerain country, but also need to **** blood from the mother country.

A little carelessness may become a catalyst for intensifying conflicts among political groups.

Franz doesn't want all the Austrian expeditionary forces to be replaced with ptsd, the kind that scares the urine when they hear "foryunateson".

When writing to his naval genius uncle, he suggested that the Vietnamese hand over 20,000 slaves. The number of 20,000 was a shock to European countries, but for Vietnam, a country with millions of slaves But it's a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, Emperor Shaozhi finally won the bet. The Austrian general in a gorgeous navy blue dress put down his gun and took out a revised and more relaxed treaty from his arms.

Moreover, the Vietnamese monarch may not have been driven by the idea of ​​killing people with a knife. After all, 20,000 slaves are not as simple as painless to some families that may endanger his rule.

After completing the relevant procedures, Friedrich led the Austrian army to leave Hue, because he was not sure whether the opponent would return here.

If the 100,000 Vietnamese army really wanted to keep him desperately, the star of the imperial navy would probably fall here.

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In fact, Friedrich was overthinking.

At this time, at the other end, the unfavorable Vietnamese army on the plain of the Jiulong River lost thousands of troops after being attacked halfway by the Chenla people who had been prepared, forcing the coach Li Shan to choose to face off across the river.

However, on the other side of the river, Ambrosius, the coach of the Chenla Army, was not happy at all. The main equipment of the Chenla army in his hand is still antiques such as broadswords, spears, bows and arrows that should be exhibited in museums. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

And the sights of the artillerymen and gunners under him depended entirely on faith and luck. Twenty cannons plus 5,000 guns, if replaced by the troops of Austria and other major European countries, I am afraid that the opponent would have been defeated long ago.

Who ever wanted to take advantage of the attack and only caused thousands of casualties on the other side, and a considerable number of them were drowned by the water when crossing the river.

But fortunately, the edict of the Vietnamese monarch asking for surrender was soon passed to the hands of the frontline general Li Shan, and he gave up the idea of ​​fighting to the death and led his men to surrender. At this point, the first Austrian-Vietnamese War ended, and the Vietnamese ceded the Jiulongjiang Plain to Austria, plus an indemnity of 3 million taels of silver.

Another strategic value of this war is to obtain the future mining rights of a large amount of excellent-quality anthracite coal owned by Vietnam. This is an extremely scarce strategic resource, and it is also the only anthracite producing country that can be occupied in the entire Asian and African coastal areas.

In the age of steam, coal was the blood of warships. High-quality anthracite can not only provide it with stable and powerful power, but also facilitate the concealment of targets at sea.

In order to win a naval battle, the former Japanese United Fleet even spent a lot of money to buy anthracite from the United Kingdom. The poor quality coal even indirectly led to the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet.

Although there are a lot of coal reserves in the Austrian Empire, they are mainly bituminous coal and lignite, and the artificial production of anthracite seems to be not worth the candle in this era.

At the same time, anthracite is also an important chemical raw material, and its main use is in the fertilizer industry.

In addition, in industries such as ceramics and forging, anthracite also plays an important role, and it is the only choice for blast furnace injection.