Heinsius performed the helplessness of the leader of the country to the allies of the Grand Alliance. He even sought resonance with Li Junwei at a meeting outside Paris, and even said that the same is true in China. Li Junwei only comforted him for the sake of his old friends.

Of course this is not the case in the empire. In Li Junwei's view, it is a good thing for a country leader to consider public opinion when deciding on national strategies, but public opinion is not so reliable. Moreover, he does not think that this is just a matter of the system, it is the helplessness of boiling the country, but the helplessness of a small country.

A country like the Empire with vast land and wealth will not have such helplessness. Food is controlled by others and backfires against national decision-making. It is impossible for it to happen in the Empire.

After the Prussians took over the Palace of Versailles outside the city, leaders of various countries gathered here. The luxury of the past had long been gone due to the looting of the rioters. In the Apollo Hall, which Louis XIV liked, leaders of various countries negotiated on the issue of arbitrage.

Heinsius was the first to propose to end the war as soon as possible. The reason was very simple. The Netherlands had no motivation to persist. Heinsius once put pressure on the Austrian prince in private, saying that the Netherlands would only continue to persist if Austria agreed to hand over the South Netherlands to the Netherlands after the war. However, the Austrians rejected it, and in that month, Heinsius interrupted the financial aid to the Austrians.

The British stood on the side of the Dutch, but the one who represented the UK to negotiate was not the Duke of Churchill, the commander of the British army, but the British Prime Minister Robert Harry, who, together with the commander of the army Churchill, and the Minister of Finance, formed the core of Queen Anne's cabinet team, and was also the new leader of the Tories.

Prime Minister Harry's arrival changed the situation of the Grand Alliance. He showed closeness to Prince Yu before and after the meeting, which made people feel flattered. He even publicly criticized Duke Churchill's stubbornness and impulse in dealing with the Prince of China at the banquet.

Participating in the armistice negotiations between the Grand Alliance and France is only one of Harry's two major tasks. The most important thing is to negotiate the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Chinese prince.

At the beginning, the British supported Austria and demanded that the war be carried out to the end. They lobbled around the Great Alliance as a normal alliance, rather than an alliance established for the sake of war. At the same time, they should be further expanded to attract more countries, and even France would be allowed to carry it in the future, turning it into an Europa League and a Christian Civilization Alliance.

This is because the British knew that only the Grand Alliance could protect the current government of Britain. Once the Grand Alliance fell apart, Britain was worried that the Empire would counterattack Britain with the second glorious revolution, such as Fitz James, who supported Ireland, and re-establish the feudal royal rule.

But now it is different. During his time in France, Li Junwei witnessed the resistance of the National Self-Defense Forces led by the Third Level Conference of Paris to the Great Alliance Army. He found that the French Revolution was indeed led by a small number of bourgeoisie, but the energy emitted by the oppressed people was really shocking.

At least before coming to Paris, Li Junwei did not think that Paris would last for long. He thought those people would fall apart soon. But the facts made him look at it with admiration. Human pursuit of equality and freedom is really a necessity of history. Once the wheel of history is turned on, it may be slightly hindered, but it will also fail in the end.

It was precisely because of this that Li Junwei made up his mind to choose to recognize the new British government and establish diplomatic relations with it.

Li Junwei spread a little news, and British politics moved to the news and sent the Prime Minister to come. At the Palace of Versailles, the two countries held a series of exchanges. Prime Minister Harry said that for the sake of peace and friendship between the two countries, he would talk about everything. In order to make the negotiations go smoothly, Prime Minister Harry also brought Li Junwei's old friend, former manager of the East India Company, and the family friendship of the imperial royal family, Sir Thomas.

Sir Thomas was angrily breaking off his friendship with Li Junwei for patriotism, facing Li Junwei's insistence on cooperating with France and interrupting the glorious revolution in Britain. But now, for the sake of Britain, he appeared in front of Li Junwei, publicly apologizing for his impoliteness at the time, but only apologized and did not admit his mistake. His bowing was still out of patriotism.

Because Britain's recognition of the empire was very urgent, the negotiations between the two sides went very smoothly.

Britain recognized all the deals between the Empire and James II back then, which meant that Britain no longer claimed sovereignty over the colonies of America, including the East Coast of North America, the Hudson Bay colonies, and the islands in the Caribbean.

At the same time, the UK relaxed tariff control and political ban on imperial goods. Although there were still many restrictions on textiles, steel, etc. that Britain wanted to develop, it relaxed the mechanical parts, power systems and other industrial products produced in China. After all, the UK could not produce these products on its own.

Li Junwei also reciprocated and was willing to open the old British colonies, Jamaica, Barbados and other Caribbean regions to Britain, so that the British could invest and immigrate there. After all, those colonies only had the source of finance and taxation for the empire. The more people and the more developed they were, the more tax they had.

When Britain joined the Grand Alliance, it was up to the Grand Alliance to resist the threat from the Empire and France. Now the threat from the two countries no longer exists. Although establishing a European Union is still beneficial to Britain, it is a long-term interest and can also be used as a bargaining chip for establishing diplomatic relations with the Empire.

Therefore, after the two sides determined to establish diplomatic relations, Prime Minister Harry took the lead in raising objections to the Grand Alliance. He publicly stated at the Palace of Versailles that it is not that the Grand Alliance to continue the war, but that Austria dragged the Grand Alliance to fight against France. If Austria cannot provide resources to compensate the countries, the Grand Alliance will simply disband and the countries will unilaterally make peace with France and Spain.

This proposal was publicly agreed by the Netherlands and Cossacks, which made Austria's invitation to the Empire to join the Great Alliance a little ridiculous. Your original alliance could not be maintained and you wanted to absorb new members. Isn't this nonsense? Moreover, the agreement of the Cossack Republic itself represents the meaning of the Empire.

Portugal and Prussia chose to default. The two countries did not want to offend Austria, and Prussia also wanted to end this war and start a war again in Eastern Europe. Portugal's purpose was simpler. During the war, they borrowed too much money to various countries. Now that countries cannot get compensation, if the finances of various countries collapse, who will pay back the money?

The French side was also trying their best to split the Great Alliance.

Louis XV soon announced that France and Spain would never merge, and Philip V had lost the right to inherit the French throne. Of course, this guarantee has no meaning at all, but Louis XV's next strategy made the Grand Alliance feel that France is really sincere.

Louis XV announced that the French-Spanish League was disbanded and France no longer had any demands on the Spanish throne. In other words, whether the Grand League could allow Charles Grand Duke to replace Philip V could not be negotiated, so they could only fight.

When all the countries in the Grand Alliance want to withdraw from the war, who is willing to send troops to fight Spain?

In April, in the Palace of Versailles, the leaders of the Great Alliance countries broke out in fierce quarrels. After a quarrel, the Great Alliance fell apart.

This quarrel mainly broke out between Britain and the Netherlands and Austria. Austria insisted on fighting and demanding huge compensation. Heinsius changed his perspective and discussed the issue of how the Grand Alliance distributed the assumption that compensation was obtained.

Austria insists on allocating according to the number of troops sent and the number of enemies annihilated, which is beneficial to Austria. The Netherlands said that money is money. When the compensation is obtained, it must first repay the national debts and loans borrowed by various countries due to the war, and then repay the annuity and aid funds. If there is any surplus, it will be allocated according to the "war contribution" proposed by Austria. If this is the case, 60% of the compensation will be in the hands of the Dutch, and this is the case where France compensates it all.

This directly triggered the division of the Grand Alliance, and countries were fed up with useless quarrels and responded with practical actions one after another.

First of all, the Cossack Republic, which was originally a white glove that the empire arranged to enter the Grand Alliance. At this time, no army announced a ceasefire with France and withdrew from the Grand Alliance on the battlefield of France. France also admitted that it did attack the Cossack merchant ships, which were still neutral, and France compensated it.

The Cossack Republic participated in the war in order to occupy the Gibraltar region for the empire that did not want to join the battlefield. After the empire declared war on France and Spain, the Gibraltar region had been handed over to the imperial army to build a rock fortress. Then the armistice between the Cossacks and Spain was natural.

Obviously, the Cossack Republic's approach was instructed by the Empire. The military expenses consumed in the war were either directly withdrawn from the Yuwang camp or came from the imperial loans. After exiting the war, these loans were waived, so they naturally had no demands for the two countries.

The Netherlands and Britain followed closely, and the Dutch only demanded six million livres of compensation, which was equivalent to one and two million imperial silver dollars, and it was paid off for ten years. In addition, they asked France to open up the domestic market, but did not make specific requests. Instead, they agreed in principle, discussed in detail after the war, such as reaching an agreement with France, trade negotiations, etc.

The negotiations between the Netherlands and Spain were tripartite negotiations. Because they involved Spanish overseas colonies, according to the Treaty of Madrid that year, the change in tariff policies of Spanish American colonies required the consent of the empire.

The Spanish natives opened to the Netherlands, and the number of trading ports in American colonies increased from one to five.

Philip V received the recognition of his throne by the Netherlands. Immediately after Philip V agreed to the empire to occupy Gibraltar, the empire also announced that he would recognize Philip V as the king of Spain, but like the Netherlands, he did not recognize that Philip V owned all the territory in the era of Carlos II.

After the empire made clear his attitude, Portugal, Prussia and Britain all joined in. Philip V sent representatives to the Palace of Versailles and conducted comprehensive peace talks. The text of the negotiations formed was collectively called the Treaty of Versailles. In the Treaty of Versailles, only two territories had changed, one was the empire's occupation of Gibraltar, and the other was the merger of Cologne by Prussia. Under the operation of Li Junwei, this was written into the treaty, which meant that major European countries recognized the sovereignty changes of these two territories.

As a result, Austria was the only one left in the Great Alliance. It insisted on getting compensation from France, getting the throne of Spain and all territories, and at the same time refused to recognize the Prussian occupation of Cologne and the imperial occupation of Gibraltar.

This is not something that can be resolved by negotiations. In mid-May, after the Versailles Treaty was signed, the signatories of the treaty successively withdrew from France. Austria's 70,000 troops alone could no longer surround Paris, and the Austrians were forced to withdraw their troops to Strasbourg.

At this time, only a few states in the Shinro system supported Austria, mainly Savoy and Bavaria. They appealed the same as Prussia for territory. Austria also promised Bavaria to obtain the Spanish Netherlands, Savoy to obtain Sicily, but Spain's King Philip V refused.

But they had no motivation to fight, because the two territories they wanted were occupied by Austria and they only needed to hand over them. Even if they wanted to fight, they had to deal with Spain's counterattack. When France and Spain had broken up their alliance, there was no reason to fight with France.

The Spanish throne succession war entered a new stage. France and Spain were not busy with war. Philip V used all kinds of means to stabilize his throne, liquidated aristocrats close to Austria in Spain on a large scale, suppressed the Catalan uprising, and France was not in a hurry to recapture Strasbourg. Now France is the most important thing for France to complete the structure and system construction of state power, and the third level meeting and the royal power must reach a real compromise.

Although the third-level meeting was legal and although the third-level meeting had become normalized, the distribution of power between the two sides still had huge problems. In fact, this problem was not solved in the end. After Louis XV returned to Versailles, the third-level meeting reform was carried out, and the third-level meeting was reformed into a parliament with a scale of 300 people, among which the third-level representatives occupied 150 seats, and the nobles and the church had 150.

However, the third level immediately demanded the beginning of the Constitutional Convention and established a Constitutional Committee, requiring the formulation of a new constitution based on the constitutions of China, the Netherlands and other countries.

In this regard, the nobles showed considerable toughness, and eventually set off the Second French Revolution a few years later and overthrew the Bourbon dynasty.

The first thing the new third-level meeting needs to solve is the tax issue. Although the signing of the Treaty of Versailles made France only need to compensate less than 30 million Liver, which was not under great pressure, Louis XIV left the kingdom with 2.5 billion Liver's debts, and the interest on paying these debts each year occupied the majority of the kingdom's finances.
Chapter completed!