Qin Zheng smiled and said: "Because even if it is cooperation, the two sides should be equal, just like the lion will only talk about reciprocal cooperation with the tiger, and the rabbit can only be forced to ask, if it weren't for the fact that we annihilated the German Far East Fleet and captured Qingdao, which shows that we have enough strength to negotiate with Germany on an equal footing, why would His Excellency the Prince still sit in front of me and discuss cooperation with me calmly?" I'm afraid that like Xiang did three years ago, His Excellency the Prince will come with an army and force us to hand over the drawings of the three sets of British warships, isn't that so?"

Heinrich listened, and couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, originally he proposed Germany's losses, and really hoped that overseas Chinese could make some concessions in formal negotiations, after all, it was you who made me suffer losses, so now that the two sides have cooperated, they should naturally give me some compensation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But Qin Zheng's reply was greatly unexpected by Heinrich, and he did not use any diplomatic orders, but directly said the essence of the negotiation, the negotiation will not sympathize with the weaker side, but the strength of both sides as a guarantee, as Qin Zheng said, if it is replaced by the Qing court to have the drawings of these three sets of British warships, the German state will not be so honest negotiation, but directly threaten with force.

Qin Zheng then said: "In addition, we also think that the greater the losses of Germany in this battle, the more likely it is to cooperate with us, because Germany cannot let itself suffer such heavy losses, so it must try its best to recover its losses, then the best choice is to cooperate with us." I do not deny that Germany's losses were caused by us, but a qualified politician should understand that there are no permanent enemies, no permanent friends, and that it is the national interest that will always be the national interest, at least at this stage, and it is in Germany's greatest interest to cooperate with us, and for the sake of the national interest, France and Russia can work together and form an alliance, let alone us and Germany. ”

When Heinrich heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, knowing that in this conversation, he had completely entered the pace of the other party, so he said: "Political Commissar Qin, I have to admit that you are an excellent orator, an excellent diplomat, and an outstanding politician. ”

Qin Zheng smiled slightly and said, "Your Excellency, you are too rewarded, I believe that your decision will bring huge benefits to Germany, far more than Germany's losses, so you will definitely not regret it." ”

In fact, before coming to Qingdao, Heinrich and Tirpitz stayed in Shanghai for three days to collect and investigate information about overseas Chinese, after all, to negotiate with the other party, you must first understand the situation of the other party.

At this time, all countries are also trying their best to collect information from overseas Chinese, more or less there will be a certain harvest, after all, the traverser has appeared for half a year, and there are a lot of real and false news, and the pamphlet that introduces the history of the traverser has been circulated, and various countries have carried out their own interpretations of this pamphlet. Of course, it's all the same.

The German consulate in Shanghai also divided the origin of overseas Chinese, and also came to some uncertain conclusions, the first is that it is certain that this group of people is indeed Chinese, but they have left Chinese mainland hundreds of years ago, lived overseas, and established a country on a certain island. The reason why the ancestors of overseas Chinese left Chinese mainland, the Germans speculate, should be related to the current ruler of China, the Qing State, because the rulers of the Qing State were not Han Chinese, but Manchus, who conquered Chinese mainland and became the rulers of this land about 250 years ago. The ancestors of overseas Chinese should have fled Chinese mainland at that time, not under the rule of the Manchus.

The reason is that after they established their own countries overseas, they were still very low-key, and although they participated in the world's great maritime trade, they deliberately concealed their identity and history, probably because they were afraid that the Qing court would hunt them down, so for a long time, they were not known to the world. However, the level of technology of this group of overseas Chinese is roughly the same as that of Europe, and it seems that there is no need to be afraid of the Qing court.

Not long ago, the island founded by overseas Chinese was sunk by a volcanic eruption, and only this group of survivors, about 6,000 people, may have felt that there was no way out, and they knew that the Qing court had been weakened to the extreme, so they returned to Chinese mainland.

Although they are of the same race, this group of overseas Chinese is completely different from the Chinese living in Chinese mainland, they are more advanced, civilized, open-minded, and have a good understanding of the overall situation of the world, and their way of thinking and behavior habits are very close to those of Europeans.

Heinrich felt a little strange about these materials, but at least he had a general understanding of the overseas Chinese, Heinrich had participated in the negotiations with the Qing court, and had been received by the Chinese emperor and the empress dowager, and knew that although the Qing State had begun some modern changes, it was still a medieval country in essence, and this group of overseas Chinese was obviously different from the Qing State, so they must not communicate with overseas Chinese in the way of treating the Qing State.

However, although Heinrich already attached great importance to overseas Chinese in his heart, after talking with Qin Zheng, Heinrich was still very surprised, because Qin Zheng's insight, concept, grasp of the situation and frank style are very rare even among European politicians, and Qin Zheng is only one of the leaders of overseas Chinese, which also shows that the leadership of overseas Chinese is quite outstanding.

Before he knew it, a morning had passed, and Tirpitz was still looking at the drawings and asked for lunch to be brought to his room, and he was going to look at it while eating. Qin Zheng invited Heinrich to lunch with him and continued to chat.

The two then talked about the history and current situation of Europe, starting from the English Revolution, to the French Revolution, the Napoleonic War, to the rise of Russia, the unification of Germany, and now the situation in Europe after the Franco-Prussian War, the Crimean War and the Russo-Turkish War, including the current strategic dilemma of Germany.

This also made Heinrich's view of Qin Zheng change again, because Qin Zheng has a very deep understanding of the history of European development, and it is clearly organized, and he has a very unique view on the internal connection and interaction of each major historical event, many of which are Heinrich's first time heard, and they are very reasonable, which also makes Heinrich feel that he has grown a lot of knowledge, and feels that he needs to add a title of historian to Qin Zheng.

It wasn't until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon that Qin Zheng and Heinrich returned to the reception room to continue drinking coffee and chatting, when Tirpitz and Huang Zhe came out of the room where the drawings were appraised.

Although Heinrich still wanted to continue chatting with Qin Zheng, he still knew that business was important, so he immediately stopped talking to Qin Zheng and got up to meet Tirpitz. Although he didn't ask, seeing Tirpitz's expression, Heinrich knew the authenticity of the drawings, because Tirpitz's face was full of red light and his eyes were full of excitement, and Heinrich still didn't understand the result.

At this time, Qin Zheng first asked Tirpitz and Huang Zhe to sit down, and poured them coffee, and then said, "General Tirpitz, how is your appraisal of the drawings?" ”

Tirpitz took a sip of coffee before saying: "Political Commissar Qin, thank you very much for providing these three sets of drawings, in addition, Ensign Huang is indeed an excellent warship designer, he has many advanced and practical concepts, today let me learn very fast knowledge, this trip to Qingdao is indeed a correct decision." ”

Qin Zheng smiled slightly: "You are too awarded, but Ensign Huang is indeed our excellent talent, if our country is not destroyed, Ensign Huang should have started to preside over the construction of the warship by now." ”

It turned out that at the beginning, Tirpitz really didn't take Huang Zhe seriously, after all, the experience of building ships takes time, and Huang Zhe is only in his twenties, how much can he understand. But after Huang Zhe explained the design ideas, advantages and disadvantages of these three types of British warships to Tirpitz, Tirpitz's opinion of Huang Zhe changed greatly, because he can make such a comment, he is definitely an insider, and Tirpitz is basically sure that these three sets of drawings are indeed true.

And Huang Zhe also came to the mood, and after commenting on these three types of British warships, he evaluated the three types of British battleships in service: the Sovereign class, the 100-man commander-class, and the prestige-class battleships. Since Germany is aiming at Britain in building an ocean-going navy, it naturally tries every means to collect information on British warships, although it has not been able to obtain a complete set of drawings of British warships, but it has indeed collected a lot of data, and naturally has also analyzed the design ideas of these warships, it can be said that Tirpitz is no stranger to these types of warships.

However, after listening to Huang Zhe's division and commentary, Tirpitz also had to admit that Huang Zhe's division and commentary were indeed much more clever than those of Germany.

Later, Tirpitz asked Huang Zhe to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the two types of warships of the German Far East Fleet, the Brandenburg-class battleship and the Count Bismarck-class cruiser. even moved the idea of poaching Huang Zhe.

Originally, Tirpitz also wanted Huang Zhe to evaluate the Type 2 Frederick III battleship and the Wichersbach-class battleship under construction in Germany, but Huang Zhe realized that these two types of warships were still under construction in Germany, and Qin Zheng's request to him was that he could only talk about the warships he had built, and could not mention the warships under construction or not built, so he said that there were no drawings and it was not good to evaluate.

And Tirpitz also came to his senses, it turned out that he was too fascinated by the conversation, these two types of warships are German warships under construction, how can overseas Chinese have drawings of these two types of warships? At this time, it was also three o'clock to start, and it was time to report the appraisal results to Heinrich, so he and Huang Zhe left the appraisal room together.