In the one-on-one negotiations, the first thing the traverser got was Italy and Austria-Hungary, because these two countries belonged to the role of soy sauce in the Eight-Nation Alliance, when the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked Beijing, these two countries only sent dozens of soldiers to participate in the war, and after the Eight-Nation Alliance occupied Beijing, the two countries successively added some troops, but there were only 1, 200 people, and in the end the People's Army was captured, only 3, 40 people, so a little person naturally did not cost much. The traverser was too lazy to ask for a price, and the two countries did not bargain much, so they packed all the captives at a fixed price of 5,000 taels of silver.

The negotiations with Germany are also going very smoothly, because the two sides have negotiated before, the ransom cost of the German prisoners is offset by the machinery and equipment purchased from Germany by the crossing group, and the first batch of machinery and equipment ordered by the crossing group from Germany has already set off from Germany, and it is expected that there will be 10-15 days to arrive in Qingdao one after another, of course, the crossing group also needs a large number of machinery and equipment, and now the financial resources of the crossing group are abundant, even if there is no captive ransom fee, it can be fully afforded, and Germany naturally welcomes this, and said that it will immediately report to the country, as soon as possible to send representatives of relevant enterprises to China for negotiations。 In the end, the two sides also decided that next year, the group will send office personnel to Germany to facilitate better exchanges with each other.

Britain, France and the United States captured the same number of soldiers, between 1500-2000, but these three countries have a common characteristic, that is, most of the soldiers are not natives, but the natives of the colonies, the main force of the British army is the Indian Ksin soldiers, the French army is composed of natives from Cochin, India (that is, Vietnam), and the American army is indigenous to the Philippines, so the three countries do not have many domestic prisoners, about 200 people, basically all officers at all levels.

In the eyes of the governments of these three countries, the soldiers of the colonies are naturally cannon fodder, and naturally they will not pay for the ransom of prisoners for cannon fodder, except for a few people who have important positions in the indigenous tribes, so the three countries are only willing to redeem their own prisoners and a few indigenous officers, and the rest of the indigenous soldiers do not care. In the end, the two sides reached an agreement, Britain paid 38,000 pounds, France paid 1,035,000 francs, and the United States paid 217,000 US dollars, a total of 617 prisoners were ransomed, and the remaining 4,376 prisoners were to be disposed of by the overseas Chinese.

At the same time, the Crossing Group also reached an agreement with Britain that after the conclusion of the negotiations, the two sides would jointly deal with Russian expansion, and Britain would be responsible for rallying other countries to put pressure on Russia to accept the results of the Shanghai negotiations and withdraw its troops from Northeast China, while the Crossing Group would be responsible for further increasing military pressure on Russia.

The French side promised the traverser that it would urge Russia to accept the results of the Shanghai talks, and of course hoped to further develop commercial and trade relations with the traversal group.

The crossing group has reached a series of commercial agreements with the United States, in principle, both sides have agreed to strengthen economic and trade exchanges between each other, and the crossing group also welcomes American companies to invest freely in the area under their control, and the two sides are also responsible for the construction of the second phase of the Tianjin shipyard by American enterprises. The third phase of the project reached a consensus, and the project will be completed together, and it is expected to be completed by the end of 1903, and the Tianjin shipyard will be able to build about 20,000 tons of ships by itself, can dry dock and repair about 30,000 tons of ships, and berth and repair about 50,000 tons of ships. In addition, the United States has also agreed to set up an office in the United States to facilitate communication and political exchanges between the two groups.

In the development plan formulated by the group, the focus will be on the development of trade and trade relations with Germany and the United States, rather than strengthening ties with the United Kingdom and France. Because the group is developing, it is necessary to introduce a large number of foreign advanced technologies in a short period of time, rather than only introducing products, even if it is the purchase of machinery and equipment, it will also introduce technology, production lines, etc., only in this way can the group establish its own industrial system in a short period of time.

However, since Britain and France are both old capitalist countries, they have vast colonies, can obtain cheap resources and vast product markets, so their focus on opening up new markets is to promote their industrial products in pursuit of the greatest possible profits, and they are not interested in technology transfer and fostering and upgrading new markets. On the other hand, although Britain and France are interested in cooperating with the Crossing Group on the issue of containing Russia, there are structural contradictions between Britain and France in essence and the Crossing Group, that is, both Britain and France have a large number of economic and political interests in China and have formed their own spheres of influence, and sooner or later they will come into conflict with the Crossing Group, which also determines that Britain and France will not help the Crossing Group improve its technical capabilities.

Germany and the United States are both emerging countries in this era, compared with Britain, France and Russia such old countries, Germany and the United States have surpassed in industrial technology and economic capacity, Germany is now the world's largest industrial power, and the United States is currently the first economic power, but due to the lack of heritage and a large number of colonies.

The United States attaches more importance to the development of foreign markets, and pays more attention to trade fairness, and the blockade of technology is not so strict. Moreover, because the United States adheres to the policy of opening the door, it has basically given up seizing colonies, and has instead used its strong economic capabilities to promote globalized trade, which is already a level higher than that of established countries such as Britain, France, and Russia. Therefore, although the United States also has a large number of economic interests in China, it has not formed its own sphere of influence, so there is no irreconcilable structural contradiction with the traverser.

Germany is in another situation, although Germany has a strong desire for foreign expansion, but its power in the Far East is very weak, and it is unable to seize the colonies by force, so it can only obtain the opportunity to promote its own industrial products by cooperating with the crossing group, but this has to be exchanged through the transfer of technology, of course, the crossing group can also use its own military technology and Germany to exchange, in this respect the crossing group still has a considerable advantage. In addition, Germany has irreconcilable contradictions in Europe and Britain and France, and the crossing bloc can also import military technology to Germany to enhance Germany's military capabilities to contain Britain and France and strive for opportunities for its own development.

In the end, there were not many Japanese prisoners in the group, only 12 or 300, which was not much to ransom the prisoners, but now Japan does urgently need to join forces with the group to deal with the expansion of Russia, coupled with the incident of this intelligence base, the result is that Japan is very passive in this negotiation, and Consul Odakiri, who is responsible for the negotiation, greets the women in the family of those people in the Japanese military department more than once in his heart.

However, in the end, the two sides reached an agreement to ransom the prisoners, but it was very surprising, and the Japanese exchanged all the Japanese prisoners with the ironclad ship Zhenyuan captured in the First Sino-Japanese War.

The Zhenyuan ship is one of the main forces of the Beiyang Naval Division, with a standard displacement of 7,300 tons, in the old time and space, until the 20s of the 21st century, only in terms of tonnage, the Chinese Navy has not built the main warship that surpasses the Zhenyuan Ship, so between the Beiyang Naval Division, the Zhenyuan Ship and the Dingyuan ship of the same class are known as the first giant ship in Asia. However, the Beiyang Naval Division was formed in 1888, and after the First Sino-Japanese War, the technical level of the Zhenyuan ship had already fallen behind, and now, the Zhenyuan ship has been eliminated among the major naval powers.

Long before the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan had ordered two battleships with a standard displacement of 12,000 tons, the Fuji and the Yashima, from the British, but at the time of the First Sino-Japanese War, these two battleships had not yet been completed and delivered. After the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan incorporated the Zhenyuan ship into the Japanese fleet, but with the return of Fuji and Yashima one after another, and Japan formulated the expansion plan of the "66 Fleet", the Zhenyuan ship with a backward era of technology also lost its former glory, and in 1898, the Zhenyuan ship was classified as a second-class ship by Japan. Therefore, exchanging such an obsolete old ironclad ship for more than 1,200 prisoners was a very good deal for Japan.

No matter how backward the Zhenyuan ship is now, but after all, it represents the glory of the Chinese Navy, this warship was captured by the Japanese and incorporated into the Japanese fleet, which is undoubtedly a huge shame for China, although this shame is carried by the Qing court rather than the crossing group, but for each traverser, it is a knot, so in exchange for the Japanese prisoners back to the Zhenyuan ship, although it cannot be said to be a complete wash of this shame, but it is also a comfort.

After Li Hongzhang heard this result, he couldn't help but sigh, although he didn't say anything, he slept much later than usual that night.

The Shanghai negotiations ended smoothly, and an armistice agreement was reached between the crossing group, the Chunting and other countries, and the treaty was signed, although Russia did not join the treaty, but because Russia is now unable to launch a new war, it can also be considered that the Qing court called the "Gengzi National Change", and the history called the "Eight-Nation Allied War of Aggression against China" also officially ended.

After the official treaty was announced, the focus of public opinion finally returned from exhibitions and concerts to negotiations, and although the treaties signed by the crossing bloc and various countries appeared almost exclusively from the position of a single country, or at least an independent political force, it did not cause much controversy. First, although the Qing court had already appeased overseas Chinese, it had not yet formally sealed it, so the overseas Chinese could not be regarded as subordinates of the Qing court, and the territories occupied by overseas Chinese were all taken from the hands of various countries, and they had nothing to do with the Qing court, and they were fully qualified to sign treaties with various countries in an independent capacity. Second, everyone knows that the Qing court was able to negotiate such a treaty that basically protects its own national interests this time entirely because it has the support of overseas Chinese, and if there are no overseas Chinese, the Qing court will be stripped of a layer of skin even if it does not lose the country, so what else is there to say.

Some optimistic people still think that after the Qing court officially seals the overseas Chinese, then the interests will be one, but everyone who understands knows that the overseas Chinese are now an independent political force in the land of China, with their own interests and political demands, and it is impossible to really be consistent with the Qing court.