Under the premise that both sides were willing to negotiate, with Perfikot’s formidable military deterrence as a guarantee, the negotiation was finally able to proceed smoothly.

Even though after both parties sat down at the negotiation table, many issues were still heatedly debated, almost to the point of an all-out brawl, at least the war no longer needed to be fought.

Perfikot sent the preliminary intentions of the negotiation to the Imperial Center via telegram.

Although allowing this group of rebels to establish a dominion was somewhat difficult for the Imperial Center to accept, under Perfikot’s strong push, the Imperial Center reluctantly accepted the negotiation results.

After all, they also knew that dispatching elite troops to suppress this rebellion would be a huge expense for the Empire. At this stage, saving where possible was still necessary.

Using the Steam Knights could indeed quickly crush the Revolutionary Army, even suppress this rebellion, but the issue was that the Steam Knights’ operations were heavily reliant on logistical supplies, not to mention their numbers were very limited. Counting on a dozen knights to occupy a city?

They could neither accomplish such feats nor had the necessity to do so.

After all, war always comes with consumption. At such a time, rather than spending massively to quell a rebellion, it’s simpler to resolve the issue through negotiation.

The Imperial Center, considering the costs of pacification, reluctantly accepted Perfikot’s negotiation results.

For the Imperial Center, negotiation was acceptable. Their main discomfort was with the dominion promised by Perfikot.

The Victor Empire was not the United Kingdom, which had begun to decline after World War I, with sufficient strength and capability to maintain its colonies and suppress any issues within them.

This was just like during the North American War of Independence in the original world; without the French’s all-out help, Americans would have had no chance of succeeding in independence.

Though Americans boast a lot about their independence war, it doesn’t hide the fact that aside from an early invasion of Canada, they adopted a defensive strategy, just waiting for overseas forces to intervene.

Without interference from France, Netherlands, and Spain among other anti-British forces, which distracted the United Kingdom from its main focus and troops, Americans would have been crushed by the British.

This is evident later by the wars between the United States and Canada, where Canadian militia directly pushed to Washington, burning down the White House.

The White House got its name because after being burned by Canadian militia, Americans repainted it white to cover up the disgrace. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Therefore, in the eyes of the Imperial Center, as the Lord of the North, Perfikot, holding a heavy army, could easily have eradicated the Revolutionary Army in the New Continent colony.

Even if the costs were deemed too high and didn’t want to wage war, more favorable conditions than letting the other party obtain factual independent sovereignty could have been acquired.

However, this current situation wasn’t entirely unacceptable for the Empire, given that even though the dominion had acquired independent sovereignty, nominally, it was still part of the Empire.

With the arrival of doomsday, drastic changes in the international environment, and the Empire’s future core territories transitioning to the Northern Territory, even a dominion with independent sovereignty would still have to rely on the Empire for survival.

After all, without the Empire’s aid, the New Continent colony couldn’t survive this doomsday disaster, let alone the dominion segmented from the New Continent colony.

Even though the dominion occupied territories that were relatively more industrialized regions of the New Continent colony, they still couldn’t rely on their own power to solve the doomsday crisis.

Thus, in the eyes of the Imperial Center, the dominion’s independence was merely pleasing in title; in essence, it was still territory controlled by the Empire.

It was precisely because of this that after some discussion and finding no significant issues, the Imperial Center agreed to Perfikot’s peace agreement with the Revolutionary Army.

However, just because the Imperial Center had no significant objections to this matter doesn’t mean others didn’t.

"Count Brandelis, how can you privately negotiate with these rebels! This is selling out the Empire’s interests! You didn’t even consult me, the Governor of the New Continent colony! This is internal affairs for our New Continent colony!" The Governor of the New Continent colony, furious, confronted Perfikot, expressing strong dissatisfaction.

Subsequently, a Knight’s sword was placed against his neck.

"If you can’t speak properly, I don’t mind if the Empire changes the New Continent Governor." Perfikot didn’t even look up, merely gestured for Samantha to withdraw the sword before saying, "Your Excellency, Governor, I hope you understand that it was your inability to resolve the rebellion of the Revolutionary Army that the Northern Territory sent reinforcements to the New Continent colony.

Yet, you failed to even ensure the safety of the general I sent! Major General Richard was assassinated, with his command post even being attacked! It’s all due to your incompetence!

When I first arrived at the New Continent, I was assassinated in New Shaker City, and now my generals are being assassinated, which makes me highly doubt your capabilities!

Moreover, under your governance, not only has the issue of independence emerged in the New Continent colony, but there’s also a workers’ riot! How incompetent do you have to be for a colony, opened by the Empire for less than a hundred years, to have so many issues?

Though the rebellion of the Revolutionary Army was secretly instigated by Perfikot, the issues within the New Continent colony itself cannot be ignored.

Three years ago when Perfikot first arrived, the independence movement was already in full swing, with Independents even daring to openly assassinate Empire nobles, clearly on the brink of igniting.

If not for Perfikot’s bloody and brutal suppression of the trend, with any external interference over these three years, the entire New Continent colony would have been cut from the Empire.

Regarding the Governor’s failure in the ensuing three years, although the known end of the world was imminent, with no effective preparations made, it wasn’t even considered a particularly serious issue anymore.

Therefore, Perfikot was already very dissatisfied with him, and if it weren’t for the Governor’s prior cooperation in constructing the Northern Territory being decent, another Governor might have been standing before her right now.

"Even if all this is my responsibility, it’s not your place to meddle in New Continent affairs! I’m the Queen’s appointed Governor of the New Continent!" Being scolded harshly by Perfikot, the Governor’s face turned quite unsightly, thus in a moment of heated anger, he stubbornly confronted Perfikot.