C3358 A big deal (2/2)
”This is my lowest price. Please don't bargain …”
Almost no one was willing to listen to Luo Li's wordy diplomatic speech. When everyone heard the news that he was selling the Luzon's main island for ten million pounds, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs exploded.
”My God! ”This is false, this is impossible …” The Spanish delegation was the first to jump out in protest.
Gladstone was also shocked. ”Selling...” Sold? Main Island of the Philippines, Jean... Sold by this new king? ”How is this possible!?”
The Duke of Newcastle was also dumbfounded. No one would have thought that while the diplomats were still working hard, the King of Spain of Madrid would actually sell the Philippines off in private!
”Fake, it must be fake!”
Xiao Letian curled his lips into a smile as he looked at these flustered and exasperated European politicians. Hearing their complaints, he did not refute them, and the remaining Chinese officials all crossed their arms in front of their chest, happily watching the lively scene.
Gladstone's face was flushed. He did not say anything, but his men were helping him confirm all this.
Half an hour later, the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs received a royal telegram from Madrid stating that it was being sent to a delegation from Spain.
Everything was exactly the same as the first telegram, in which A Madiao ordered the delegation to come to an agreement with the Chinese to sell the Luzon's main island to Xiao Letian for ten million pounds.
Here, A Madiao secretly changed the idea. The main island of Luzon was not directly sold to the Chinese, the King did not want the two parties to get involved, she just wanted to sell it to Xiao Letian and the others.
Since the European colonial The Age of Great Navigation was at the peak of the monarchy and theocracy, the New World was developed by the Europeans at that time. The first was by God, and the second was by the King himself.
In the early days of Spanish rule in the Philippines, the European parliamentary system had not yet been fully developed, which created a legal loophole.
The king had to get the approval of the parliament when he was dealing with his affairs in the country. This was a rule that only appeared after the revolution.
However, when the king deals with the matters of the colonies, he has special privileges due to his history!
In fact, this tradition could be seen from the titles of kings. For example, the former Queen of A Madiao I was the depraved sow who had taken refuge in French politics.
Her honorific title during her reign was' Honourable Yi Suobeila II, blessed by God, 'Castile, Lyon, Aragon, two Sicily, Jerusalem, Navarra, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Mallorca, Seville, Sardinia, Cordova, Ke Xijia, Murcia, Menoca, Hahn, Los Algarves, Ahsilas, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, East and West Indies, continents and islands in the sea; Grand Duchess of the Austria; Burgundy, the Dukes of Brabant and Milan; Peregre, Flanders, and the Earl of Barcelona; and the Lord of the Province of Bimo. ”Wait.”
In this series of titles, the East Indies were talking about the Indian Ocean and the Southeast Asian region! The Philippines was one of them!
Someone had said, what if the War Queen lost part of her territory? It was actually very simple. It didn't matter if he took one of the titles.
If A Madiao were to sell the Luzon to Xiao Letian in the first place, then he would have to take the Eastern India in the list of honorifics, and the honorific would have to be placed on Xiao Letian's head.
The King being able to circumvent the Parliament's selfishness in selling out the colonies was a great opportunity for the European system at that time!
Xiao Letian looked at Gladstone and smiled faintly: ”Prime Minister, it seems that A Madiao and I are both pacifists, we are willing to use money to solve the problem!”
”Do you have any objections?”