New Shun 1730

"Dear envoys, I want to say that no country will allow warships of other countries to enter their territorial waters without permission."

"Perhaps, you allow it. But this is Dashun, and the Celestial Empire has the final say. The Celestial Empire does not allow it. If you can abide by it, continue to trade; if you can't abide by it, then come and break this rule, I'm waiting."

After saying this, he looked at the envoys around him, and the envoys nodded one after another, thinking who would be stupid enough to break this rule?

These envoys could also notice the cheers of the people of Dashun in the distance. They didn't know that the version heard by the people was different from the real version, so they thought that the people of Dashun were excited and could fight for their territorial waters at any time.

Looking at the fleet that Dashun had gathered on the sea, he thought that these ships were far from enough to make the rules of the world. But it was more than enough to make the rules of the waters around Dashun.

"Dutchman Grotius once said: If people sailing on a part of the sea can be forced by people on the shore, then this part of the sea belongs to this piece of land."

"I think you all understand what this sentence means."

"That is to say, within the range of the cannon, it is the territorial waters. Of course, it doesn't have to be a cannon, as long as it can force the ships sailing on the sea from the shore and cause a threat."

Speaking of this, Liu Yu was a little helpless.

I originally wanted to use things like the Fire Dragon Out of Water and the God Fire Flying Crow to recycle waste. I thought that although this thing could not be accurate, the Soviets did not have enough rocket thrust to make so many engines and eventually failed. The accuracy of the four-thrust "rocket" of this era is of course not worth thinking about.

But I asked the defense envoy about the old weapons that were eliminated. When I asked about the range of this thing, I found that it could not be recycled, and it was not as accurate as a cannon filled with gunpowder and adjusted at an angle.

He was too embarrassed to say that this thing was also on land with the heater, and that how far it could fly was considered "people sailing on the sea can be forced by people on the shore", and that it was within the scope of territorial waters.

He had to bring out the general standard at that time, or the unspoken rules agreed upon by all countries.

"I don't care how far you are, at least for Dashun, three nautical miles outside the territory is territorial waters. I don't care about other places, but this is how it should be done here. Once you enter the territorial waters, if it is a warship, you must lower the flag, otherwise it will be regarded as an invasion."

Before, Dashun had never really engaged in diplomacy. Although it has started to engage in diplomacy now, some rules have always been unclear.

Before, there was really no concept of territorial waters, because there was no need. The whole world belongs to the king, so is there a need for the concept of territorial waters?

But now, Liu Yu took this opportunity to talk about the content of the first international law convention that is easiest to sign, which is just right.

If you want to create a world order, you must first have the ability to maintain it. Since we don’t have the ability now, we might as well use this kind of “nonsense” to prove that Dashun is trying to integrate into the world and become a part of the world as a maker of international law and international rules.

Previously, we signed agreements with France such as rescuing seafarers and anti-piracy, which were only used on Dashun’s side. France itself has a lot of privateers. This agreement is only a regional agreement in the direction of East Asia and Southeast Asia. It cannot be regarded as the first step of the “Five Hegemons’ Rites”. It can only be regarded as France’s recognition of Dashun’s absolute hegemony in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

Now that Europe has begun to consider the issue of territorial waters, it might as well make it clear.

Anyway, Britain is shameless and says that the entire English Channel is British territorial waters, but other countries do not recognize it at all, at least France certainly does not recognize it. This is an excellent entry point.

The envoys of various countries who are still waiting for the monsoon thought that they didn’t talk much about this matter when they were in the capital.

But now that the British have crossed the line and are finally going to make such substantive issues public, the envoys of various countries are relieved.

This ancient Eastern Empire was too mysterious, and there were some rules that they really couldn't understand, and ways of thinking that they couldn't understand at all.

If many things were not explained clearly, it would be easy to have no solution.

This trip to the capital only confirmed the exchanges with various countries in the general situation, but some explicit rules had not been made clear.

Under the pressure of the fleet, what Liu Yu said was also the unspoken rules of various countries at this time, but there was no binding international law - the law had to be maintained by violent organs, and now the countries were about to beat their brains out, so there was no real Celestial Empire to maintain the law and build the world order.

However, everyone accepted San Haili's statement alone. But Liu Yu added: "However, it is three nautical miles now, and it may change in the future."

"I didn't use the hot air balloon to fly far to make the territorial waters of the Celestial Empire, because hot air balloons can fly from Calais, France, to Canterbury, England. It is meaningless for the Celestial Empire not to make an international law that is impossible to implement."

"The Celestial Empire loves peace and desires rules. You may not understand why we invaded Japan, because this is an internal matter of the Celestial Empire, and the reason for the invasion is to ensure order and rules."

"So, I sincerely hope that in the future, countries will have peaceful free trade, exchange what they have, promote commercial prosperity, and allow European people to use the best porcelain and silk, and let the people of the Celestial Empire drink the best coffee."

"Therefore, here today, we are setting the diplomatic bottom line of the Celestial Empire, and we also hope that all countries can sign an international law together in the future to constrain the behavior of all countries."

Talking about this at this time is purely taking the moral high ground.

Liu Yu was obsessed with turning the Austrian War of Succession and the subsequent Seven Years' War into the First World War.

After all, even if the wars were fought from Europe to Asia, America, and Africa in history, the wars that Dashun did not participate in were not qualified to be called world wars.

At this time, he was talking about peace with a righteous face, and he wanted to laugh.

But these envoys did not know, but some nodded and agreed with Liu Yu's statement.

This statement was nonsense in Europe, because Dashun's warships were not qualified to maintain the world order he participated in formulating in the Atlantic.

But in East Asia and Southeast Asia, Dashun still had the right to say something.

However, the envoys of various countries were not very interested in the "free trade" mentioned by Liu Yu.

The country that shouted the most for free trade was the Netherlands. Because at that time, the Netherlands was barefoot, and Spain and Portugal wore shoes. The Pope drew a meridian, but the Netherlands did not get Southeast Asia. At that time, it had not yet transformed into finance and lending, and its own handicraft industry was also developed. Of course, it cried for free trade.

But now the barefoot have become the shod ones, the Netherlands also has Southeast Asia, and even those who shouted the loudest at the beginning have become silent when they heard the word free trade.

They all thought that you Chinese can trade freely, but our goods can't be sold here anyway. But we can't trade freely unless you hand over the cultivation technology of tea and rhubarb; the production methods of porcelain and silk.

However, through these words, it seems that we can also see that Dashun wants to do business peacefully and is not thinking about going to war. After all, peace and free trade are just desires, not requirements.

The European envoys could only say: "Your country is of course peace-loving, and this is obvious to all. We have always believed, and we have reached a consensus in the capital, that our countries all regard your country's conquest of Japan as the internal affairs of the Celestial Empire, and do not consider it a foreign war."

"We will definitely convey the idea of ​​the Marquis to formulate international law to our monarch or parliament, and we also hope that the Marquis will be able to negotiate more details during his trip to Europe."

Liu Yu nodded and said: "Of course there are many more details, but today's matter is still the Celestial Empire's rules and territorial waters. Since you agree to the territorial waters, there are three things that must be made clear."

"First, the reason why this dynasty prohibits Catholicism is because there is no second master for the people. The Celestial Empire has an emperor, so there cannot be a pope. So, the pope The Celestial Empire will not recognize the so-called meridian. In fact, it does not recognize it at all, but it must be made clear that the Pope cannot even control Britain and the Netherlands, let alone the Celestial Empire. "

"Second, from the east of Tsushima Island and the north of Japan to the Ezo Islands and Kamchatka, this is called the Whale Sea, which is the Celestial Empire's inland sea. In order to avoid conflicts between vassal states and cause diplomatic incidents, countries are not allowed to pass through the inland sea without permission."

"Third, I have ordered people to draw a map of the scope of the Celestial Empire's territorial waters. This naturally includes the territorial waters of tributary states. Japan, Korea, Ryukyu, and Vietnam, these four countries have always been shields and are naturally included in it."

"Before you leave the Celestial Empire, this matter must be made clear. If you have any opinions, raise them now."

The envoys only looked at the people of the Dutch East India Company, thinking that we have no trade opportunities in these places anyway. Kamchatka belongs to Russia, but why should we care about the affairs of the Russians and the Dashun?

The Dutch breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the company had already withdrawn from Japan. As long as you don't say that wherever there are Chinese people is your territory, of course you can agree to it.

"We have no objection." Even the Dutch themselves have no objection, and the rest of the people have even less objection. The Russians who may have an objection are not here, and no one will care about Russia's opinion on the sea.

"Since you have no objection to this, then do you have no objection to my punishment of British warships? This is our internal affairs, and there is no need to ask for your opinion. But the Celestial Empire has always been about convincing people with reason, and the reason must be made clear. In short, in the future, you just need to abide by the laws of the Celestial Empire in the territory, inland seas and territorial waters of the Celestial Empire, and the Celestial Empire will not do anything that violates the agreement. But if you violate it, then you must retaliate."

"Considering that Britain is a first-time offender, it will only be slightly punished. If there are violators in the future, they will be directly sunk, trade will be cut off, and war will be considered."

How to define territorial waters requires unanimous approval from all countries.

But what to do if they intrude into the territorial waters is the internal affairs of each country.

The envoys of each country also clearly distinguished between the two, and there was no objection to this.

Even the British East India Company, at least verbally expressed that it had absolutely no objection.

In any case, the point of cutting off trade is really terrible.

Britain knew that it had hit the muzzle of a gun, and it was used as a chicken to scare the monkey, but it could only swallow its teeth.

Before, because of its "disrespectful" attitude, it was disgusted by Liu Yu. Everyone has seen the ability of a toad crawling on the foot, not biting but disgusting.

Who doesn't have some messy things in the backyard? If you really piss off Dashun, you really can't start a war in the Atlantic, but if you act as a troublemaker behind the scenes and give money and guns, it will make all countries miserable.

The concept of territorial waters is a definition that all countries can accept anyway. Since Dashun has taken the initiative to take a diplomatic attitude, it just happens to be settled.

As for the Whale Sea being an inland sea...originally the inland sea was a geographical concept, but Dashun wanted to turn it into a political concept, but it was none of their business, so they just agreed to it.