1825 My New Daming

Chapter 294 Declare War!The nations of India must be liberated! (seeking subscription and monthly ticket)
Beijing, Forbidden City, Huangji Gate.

On the platform in front of Huangji Gate, Zhu Xijin, Emperor Taiping of the Ming Dynasty, and Zheng Yuhuan, Empress Dowager, were all dressed in splendid attire, with solemn expressions!
On Chang'an Avenue outside the Forbidden City, tens of thousands of Ming people held flags and chanted slogans of declaring war and punishing the British and Indian authorities.

On the square in front of the Huangji Gate, hundreds of courtiers and political officials stood in a dark crowd. In addition, many were allowed to come to record the imperial political meeting that was related to the fate of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Lin Zexu rejected the Indian Empire's ultimatum yesterday afternoon, and declared that he was in a state of war with the Indian Empire.But that was not the result of the imperial discussion, but a decision based on Ming's "Guiding Principles of Diplomacy".

Of course, the Great Ming Dynasty cannot accept an ultimatum from a foreign country, and must reject it face to face.This is stipulated in the "Guiding Principles of Diplomacy" formulated by King Zhuge Wuzhong. It is impossible for the kingdom of heaven to consider it for 72 hours after receiving the ultimatum from the enemy country. It would be too shameful.Therefore, ministers who meet with the enemy must face to face and declare a state of war!
The reason for doing this is of course to increase their own prestige - according to international practice, if the submission of an ultimatum is rejected, the next step must be a declaration of war.There's no such thing as an ultimatum being rejected and forgetting about it.However, if the other party preempted the submission of the ultimatum, then the declaration of war would not allow the other party to come. Daming must declare war before the other party declares war.

And to ensure that war is declared first, it is natural that war should be declared immediately when the ultimatum is rejected!

However, this is not a formal declaration of war, because it has not yet been approved by the Political Council and the Ming Emperor.Of course, a declaration of war after refusing the ultimatum is inevitable, so the subsequent imperial meeting is just a formality.

But the cutscenes that should be gone cannot be omitted!
Moreover, the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty also needs to take advantage of this opportunity to discuss and pass the declaration of war at the Imperial Political Council, so that all the people will know why the Ming Dynasty went to war with India?At the same time, let everyone know that the culprit hiding behind the Indian Empire and manipulating India to the battlefield is the British Empire!
In fact, since the Battle of the Jiyi Waterway, the Zhuge family and the Zheng family have joined forces to manipulate public opinion in the country and carry out anti-British propaganda-in fact, the conflict between Ming and Great Britain has a long history. The hatred of "Chiguoguo" with the second in industrial strength!

Moreover, Great Britain, the second largest industry in the world, has long controlled the trade routes between the East and the West, a large number of resource-rich colonies, and India, which seems to be a promising market.

Although Britain has always been afraid to completely exclude Ming's products from the market they can control, how could capitalists think the market is too big?
The market is money, and of course the more money the better.

In the era of sails and machine sails of the navy, it is not sure that it can win.But since the Navy entered the era of steam ironclad ships, the hatred of "Chiguoguo" has become deeper and deeper. Of course, the existence of "Chiguoguo" hatred does not mean that war will definitely start.After all, the Ming Dynasty has been in peace for too long, and there is no certainty of victory from top to bottom.

But the battle of Daoguang Printing and the subsequent battle of Jiyi Waterway and the Battle of Goa Off the Sea all let the insightful people of Ming Dynasty see that Great Britain is nothing more than that!

Since Daying is nothing more than that, what is needed now is a fuse.

And the fuse is now there!

"This is the copy of the ultimatum submitted by the British Pudingcha on behalf of Tianzhu to our Great Ming Dynasty!"

Lin Zexu looked righteously indignant, holding up the copy of the Indian Empire’s ultimatum (the original was returned, but the copy had to be thrown away), stood on the white marble platform where the emperor and the queen mother were, and said through gritted teeth to a floor-standing speaker: “The British use despicable The barbaric means of conquering the wealthy and gentle Great Tianzhu, occupying millions of square kilometers of vast land and a large market of hundreds of millions of people, and exploiting Tianzhu like bone-sucking marrow, is really hateful and abhorrent!"

"Yes! It's extremely hateful!"

"The British are so bad!"

Immediately, a councilor joined in.

And most of the political leaders, courtiers, and reporters present nodded their heads repeatedly, as if they agreed with Lin Zexu's words—the British are so hateful!A market as big as India should be monopolized by Daming!

Daming is a friendly neighbor of India. Why do you occupy Britain, a tiny country on the Atlantic Ocean?
Lin Zexu clenched his fists, and his beard blew up—angry!It's about to explode!

I saw him clenched his fist and said loudly: "What is even more hateful is that in the name of the so-called Indian Empire, Yingyi wants to block the Strait of Malacca, and force me to withdraw from the Persian Gulf, give up the newly established Gulf Kingdom, and never enter Malacca Otherwise, the British and barbarians will manipulate India and consume me with the flesh and blood of the Indians! Since ancient times, the vicious people are none other than the British and barbarians! How should our Celestial Dynasty deal with these barbarians and thieves?"

"Declaration of war!"

As soon as Lin Zexu finished speaking, the 20-year-old little emperor Zhu Xijin jumped up and shouted loudly, waving his fists.

When the political officials below saw the emperor yelling to declare war, they all yelled together.

"Declare war! Declare war! Declare war."'

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting better, Lin Zexu winked at Mr. Zheng Guozhong, the left minister, and Mr. Yu, the right minister, who were sitting still.

Now it's up to them both to perform.

This battle must be announced!

The question is how and to whom?
Mr. Yu Quanyu had already stood up, and he strode out. When he arrived at the white jade platform, he first bowed to the little emperor and Queen Mother Zheng, then stood up straight, and said loudly, "Long live, Queen Mother!" Madam, I feel that the enemy of our Ming Dynasty this time is not India, but the British colonial authorities who conquered and enslaved India!"

"All the countries in India?" Queen Mother Zheng asked knowingly, "Isn't India just one country, how can there be countries?"

"The queen mother doesn't know," said the old man, "India is actually a geographical term, not a country's name. After the East India Company, a colonial tool of the British Empire, arrived there, it exhausted all kinds of despicable means. Countries were conquered one by one. And they screwed these countries together for the convenience of colonial rule, forming what is now called the Indian Empire.”

"So that's the case," Queen Mother Zheng asked again, "Then how many countries are there in India?"

Mr. Yu said: "There are always more than a thousand countries, big or small. Even today, there are still as many as five or six hundred states under the so-called Indian Empire."

"So much?" The little emperor Zhu Xijin was taken aback, "Then we all want it."

"They must be liberated from the British colonial rule!" Zheng Guozhong, the prime minister of the left, stood up at this moment, and took over the words of the little emperor, "Long live, we can't learn from the British and blindly engage in expansion and colonization. The land should prosper and destroy the country, inherit the peerless world, and raise the Yi people. Only in this way can the people of India return to their hearts!"

"Will a thousand kingdoms be restored?" The little emperor was taken aback, "Isn't this seal broken into pieces?"

"It's not that broken," Zheng Guozhong said with a smile. "Among the thousand countries, there are still many countries called China. That is, the small country depends on the big country, and the son country depends on the Laozi country. It cannot be regarded as an independent country. If we only count It is estimated that there will be no more than 100 independent countries."

"That's a lot," the little emperor asked, "Do we all have to recover?"

"Strive for recovery!" Zheng Guozhong said.

"Can you really recover all of them?" The little emperor was still a little unconvinced.

"It's a matter of human effort!" Zheng Guozhong said.

"Yes, yes," said Yu Quandao, "we should do our best, even if we really can't find the original royal families, we can choose another talented person."

"It's reasonable," the little emperor looked back at the queen mother, he is not "in charge" yet, he has to listen to his mother, "Mother, do you think this is okay?"

"That's it!" The Queen Mother Zheng nodded, "Then draw up an edict, declaring that the liberation of India will be the purpose of this war against the British and Indian authorities!"

(End of this chapter)