I want to be emperor

With the surrender of the Ottoman dignitaries, Constantinople finally avoided the fate of being completely destroyed, but this was only limited to the fact that most of the civilian and other insignificant buildings were intact.

In fact, most of the military buildings on Constantinople, well, at least the military buildings in the eyes of the Chu army's hot air balloon observers, were targeted by the Chu army's long-range artillery fire.

In particular, several coastal defense batteries and military camps along the coastline were heavily bombarded.

A large number of 150mm artillery shells were dropped on these important target areas.

At the same time, suspected military camps, official office buildings, palaces, warehouses and other places in the city were also attacked by long-range artillery fire.

Because of this shelling, many members of the royal family were killed and wounded in Constantinople, many powerful officials were killed and wounded, and thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded.

Military: After this three-hour bombardment, most of Fort Dante's military defense force was completely destroyed. Only a few were left who were far away from the coast, or whose targets were not obvious, and were not discovered by the Chu army's hot air balloon observers. military objectives still exist.

Of course, these are not important. What is important is that after this blow, the Ottoman senior officials finally realized the reality: stubborn resistance will not end well!
Then the summation was carried out simply and neatly.

The high-ranking Ottoman dignitaries fled the city in panic after the bombardment, leaving only a few unlucky ones to preside over peace.

When their peace envoys waved white flags and arrived at the Mediterranean Fleet and expressed their intentions for peace, the Mediterranean Fleet stopped shelling.

Immediately after the two sides began preliminary negotiations, the Chu side once again came up with a series of conditions of their own and asked the Ottomans to agree.

Including ceding territory in the western and northern parts of the Black Sea, the northeastern part of the Black Sea, and the territory north of the Caucasus Mountains.

Completely cede fifty kilometers of land on both sides of the Black Sea Strait, including the Malamar Sea.

Cede Nacaler, Malamar Islands and other Malamar Sea islands in the Black Sea Strait.

Cede Egypt and the peninsula, including Basra and other Persian Gulf coastal areas.

The market is fully opened, and tariffs are controlled by Chu State and relevant tariffs are formulated.

The Ottomans compensated the Chu State for the cost of sending troops, 850 million Chu yuan.

There are also some other fragmentary conditions, such as handing over the die-hard rebels to ensure that there will be no armed resistance to Chu in the future, etc.

This kind of condition is naturally extremely harsh. The Chu people usually apply it to the indigenous countries that have been completely defeated by their own side. As for the Osmen people, although they claim to actively seek peace, they are still far from being completely defeated. No matter what, we need to maintain the national constitution.

There is no big problem in ceding some land and paying compensation, but the Strait area is more sensitive. In addition, the comprehensive opening of the market also needs to be discussed. The Ottomans still understand the so-called comprehensive opening of the market by the Chu people, so they still want to Try to avoid becoming an economic colony of the Chu people as much as possible and retain some interests.

As for the Chu people, they actually did not intend to get all the Ottomans to agree. They just proposed more conditions first to lay the foundation for real negotiations.

However, before the formal negotiations, in order to put more pressure on the Ottomans and to prevent them from using the peace talks to delay the negotiations, they actually wanted to resist.

The Chu people requested to land first and control some important areas in the city.

Faced with the Chu people's request, the Ottoman representatives who came to negotiate did not dare to refuse. They could only agree to the Chu people's landing request first.

A few hours later, hundreds of Chu army marines began to land and took control of one of the small ports and coastal defense forts. However, because there were not many marines coming with the fleet, there were also few people available for landing, so After only controlling such a small port and fort, they did not go further into the city.

However, the fast communication ship has been dispatched, and it is estimated that the ground troop reinforcements from the rear will arrive only tomorrow.

Controlling the entire city and subsequently the straits was not a problem.

As for the specific negotiations and what results can be achieved in the end, that is not the military's business. It will naturally be handled by people from the Domain Affairs Department of the Ministry of Etiquette and Education.

What the military has to do now is to control the entire Black Sea Strait, and then enter the Black Sea through this strait.

The Chu army in Europe has not forgotten that fighting the Ottomans this time is not the goal, but the Eastern European grain development plan is the core goal, and fighting the Ottomans is just to serve this goal.

In order to achieve the Eastern European grain development plan, the Chu army in Europe needs to do two things. One is to open the Black Sea Strait, and the other is to put pressure on the Ottomans from the sea and force the Ottomans to give up their territory in the northern Black Sea.

These two are the core conditions that the Chu State is most concerned about at present. As for the other ones, to be honest, they are incidental... At least in this war, the people of the Chu State do not have to say anything to achieve many goals.

Of course, if we can get more benefits from this war, such as the full opening of the market, the more the better. If the Ottomans are stubborn and very resistant to this condition, then the Chu negotiators will also put it aside first. , let’s first achieve the core goals of the first two, and let’s talk about markets and interests such as Egypt. It’s not impossible to wait until next time.

Anyway, the Ottomans are here, and it can't escape... It won't affect the fact that it has become the meal of the Chu Empire whether it is sooner or later.

Even more, they dare to thank themselves for having a large population. At any rate, they can be regarded as a civilized country, with their own civilization and the value of serving as an economic colony.

Under such circumstances, thanks to the changes in the foreign expansion policy of the Chu people in recent years, they have no plans to turn this place into their future core territory for the time being. Therefore, the pursuit of the Chu people in the Ottoman region is actually It’s just a matter of controlling a core area, a strategic location, and a market... Otherwise, haha, how have you ever seen the Chu people negotiate with the native Americans or African natives!
No!

Not once!

The Chu people have never negotiated with the indigenous people who were not even civilized and were no different from savages... They were unable to communicate with these primitive people, and these primitive people obviously did not have much purchasing power or productivity.

It is difficult for them to produce the industrial raw materials and agricultural products that the Chu people need, and they have no purchasing power or even motivation to buy the industrial goods of the Chu people.

The people of Chu can't just get some market, they have to be educated and civilized first, and guided into the civilized world...

Therefore, the Chu people in Africa and America have never conducted any negotiations with the local indigenous people, and have always focused on immigrating.

The effect is also very good. Today, the number of Chu people in the Americas has exceeded 2000 million, and it is still growing rapidly.

If you have to talk to the indigenous people, how can you let these 2000 million Chu people live?
No one thinks that these 2000 million people can survive on air without eating or drinking, right?

To feed so many people requires a lot of land...

This is the case in the Americas, and now the Chu people are also doing it in several other places, such as in Africa.The Chu people did not build any economic colonies in Africa. They basically continued to immigrate, and then pushed into the inland areas to establish immigrant settlements. The number of routes was basically the same as in the Americas.

It's just that the environment in Africa is relatively worse than in the Americas. For example, various infectious diseases are more troublesome and are not very attractive to immigrants from the Chu country. Therefore, the immigration promotion plan in Africa is not fast.

However, the Chu people still firmly continue to promote the immigration development plan in Africa... This Africa is actually a good place. Even if the wealth is not as rich as the Americas, it is not much worse.

Later generations may think that Africa is very poor, but that is a phenomenon of later generations... But if you understand Africa before World War II, you will find that the output of various agricultural products in Africa before and after World War II was actually pretty good.

During this period, African agricultural products accounted for 30.00% of global agricultural trade, which is not a low proportion... Of course, African agriculture dominated by European colonists mainly planted various economic crops, such as cocoa, sisal, and tobacco. Wait, although food is also grown, it is not the main crop...

Therefore, although there are various problems in Africa, there are many places with extreme climates and various infectious diseases. For example, the tsetse fly is disgusting. It not only makes people sick, but also causes cattle Sheep, horses and other livestock are also sick... This will cause a big problem, which will seriously restrict the development of agriculture.

However, so-called infectious diseases are closely related to the environment. Dirty and messy conditions naturally lead to various mosquitoes and flies flying around, which then lead to various infectious diseases everywhere, but the people of Chu will not mess up their living settlements. Dirty and messy.

The most important thing is that the management and medical and health care levels of the Chu people are not comparable to those of African natives or European immigrants. Industrial development has brought not only warships and cannons, but also medicines and medical technology, and the level of medical care has improved. Overall improvement.

With the support of industrial level, Chu people can immigrate in the tropical areas of Nanyang, which Chu people now despise as idle birds, and they can also do it in Africa.

Therefore, after the Chu people immigrated to Africa, although they also encountered various problems, they were generally controllable. The immigrants who immigrated to South Africa and Central Africa in the early stage had a good life after opening farms. The immigrants in South Africa Development is progressing relatively smoothly.

At least in southern Africa, mainly the area south of the South African gold mines controlled by the Chu people, the degree of immigration development is very good. There are basically no indigenous people in the modern era. Even if there are a small amount, they are working in those gold mines, but the number is also extremely high. limited.

After all, the Chu people's mineral development in Africa is currently limited to some gold mines. Others are limited by cost and other factors, and their development efforts are not strong for the time being.

There are a lot of minerals in so many places around the world, and the people of Chu don't just run to exploit them when they see them. Unless they are gold mines, other minerals are mined selectively.

The most widely mined overseas is coal, which is needed for steam ships. Not to mention in Africa, even in newly conquered Europe, the Chu people will look for coal locally and mine it. For example, several coal mines have been developed in England. This is a high-quality anthracite coal mine. The mined coal mainly supplies Chu people's ships and daily necessities, and is also sold to European locals.

Secondly, there are precious metals such as gold mines, silver mines, and copper mines... After all, the profits are huge.

Iron and other minerals have been relatively little developed for the time being.

Africa does have future potential, but the conditions are temporarily poor. The Chu people have not done much in developing Africa in recent years, so they can only rely on time to advance slowly.

The Chu people's current priority for development is the American region... The development intensity of the American region is stronger than that of Nanyang, which is considered within the scope of the mainland.

After the initial enthusiasm among the Chu people in the Nanyang region, they soon lost interest due to the harsh natural environment, especially the climatic conditions, in various parts of Nanyang. Their enthusiasm for immigration quickly faded...

This is also the main factor why the Nanyang region is closer to the hinterland of the mainland, but its population and economy have never grown... Immigrants don't like to go there.

On the other hand, America attracts 200 million immigrants to live there every year.

Especially the central and eastern regions of North America have become new hot spots for Chu immigrants, and many people go specifically to this place.

Therefore, the Great Chu Empire's immigration development in the Americas, especially North America, did not require too much official investment. Spontaneous immigration among the people could be quickly promoted.

Regardless of the pros and cons, but overall, based on various factors, the Chu people in America and Africa played the same game as immigrants.

In other places, economic colonization is the main focus, such as Europe, West Asia and even South Asia.

Eastern Europe is an exception. Based on the good local land conditions, the Chu people attach great importance to this place and plan to occupy it all, then build a super large granary and operate it as their core territory.

The different foreign expansion policies adopted by the Chu people in different regions can also lead to the fact that the Chu people as a whole have a relatively gentle expansion policy towards the Ottoman region. It is basically the same as towards Europe. As long as you are an economic colony honestly , then the Chu people will not go too far.

Based on this policy, the Chu people still did not put too much pressure on the Ottomans during negotiations.

But this is the feeling of the Chu people, and the Ottomans feel the strong pressure from the Chu people.

Especially in early June of the 42nd year of Chengshun, news came from the Black Sea that the Chu people had marched along the Don River to the Black Sea, and the local Ottoman garrison had been surrounded and annihilated.

Subsequently, the local Chu army, the Army's No. 18 Division, quickly advanced eastward to the Crimean Peninsula.

Under such circumstances, in order to avoid further battlefield defeats and thus greater losses, the Ottomans finally formally signed a treaty with the Chu people after half a month of negotiation.

The treaty stipulated that the Ottomans ceded all lands in the northern part of the Black Sea and the northeastern coast and gave up suzerainty over the Crimean Khanate.

Fully open the Black Sea Strait, cede Canakkale, and part of the strait including the Marmara Islands. It is prohibited to station troops within ten kilometers on both sides of the strait, let alone build various forts.

The Suez Corridor area in Egypt was ceded, which is a narrow area from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean... The Chu people planned to build a railway in this narrow area first, and then see if they could build a canal to connect the Mediterranean and the Red Sea and shorten travel to Europe. transportation distance.

After ceding the West Asian Peninsula, including the coastal area of ​​Basra, the Chu people plan to build a large military port in Basra to station warships and soldiers. As for the large desert on the peninsula, it is considered a bonus... Anyway, it is just a piece of sand, and there is actually nothing on it. how many people.

There are only a few desert nomads on the contemporary West Asian Peninsula, with an estimated population of only a few hundred thousand. When the Ottomans evacuate, they will pack these people away directly.

Population is also an important resource in modern times, and the Ottomans will not give up these 10 people easily.

Then there is the liberalization of the market. However, although the market has been liberalized, it is not fully liberalized. For example, in terms of tariffs, the Ottomans have still won some autonomy. They are not like some defeated countries. Even tariffs were imposed by the Chu people. Direct control, and then adopt a near-zero tariff model... The Ottomans still retain some tariff power to some extent and will be able to collect some tariffs in the future.

Finally, there is the war reparations. After the Ottomans complained about their poverty and ceded a lot of territory as debt repayments, the amount of reparations dropped a lot, only about 2000 million Chu Yuan in war reparations.

There were also bits and pieces such as extra-legal jurisdiction. In the end, the two parties reached an agreement and signed it separately, and the Treaty of Chuao was officially signed.

It was announced that the Eastern European grain development plan has made significant progress!