509 Diplomatic secrets from six years ago
As soon as Xiang Ying's words came out, the atmosphere on the city wall was stagnant, looking at the confused eyes of these people, Xiang Ying and his friends knew that they had guessed correctly, and these people had never heard of the prime minister's diplomatic course at all.
Xiao Lotian is good at teaching, which is known to everyone in the Ryukyus, but many people don't know that Xiao Lotian has always taught students according to their aptitude, and the focus of Xiao Lotian in different audiences is also different.
For example, people like Cai Mao, Liang Kun, and Xiao Hexin talk more about the impact of future military science and technology on warfare, and they talk more about strategic knowledge. As for Lin Yuanmiao and Fan Yao, they talked more about the future development path of paper money and the financial way of the Jews.
If the class is full of Japanese sword-drawing team members such as Noheita, Hyotaro, and Shimazu Dairo, then the content of the lecture will focus on national integration, the rise of Asia, and so on.
Anyway, Xiao Lotian is a big fool, and the military history accumulated in his previous life is enough for him to squander for a few years, anyway, when the private goods in his stomach are shaken clean, his own forces are estimated to be able to evolve their own brains, and when the time comes, how beautiful it will be to be a hands-off shopkeeper.
Xiao Letian's dream can be realized first put aside, just say that his way of teaching students according to their aptitude is still very correct, as the so-called time does not wait, Xiao Letian now has no time to cultivate all-rounders, he can only cultivate a large number of partial talents to fill his team, and Xiang Ying's group of people Xiao Letian focused on telling them about the public law of all countries, talking about diplomacy, he hopes that these college students can produce a group of real and reliable diplomats.
The power of diplomacy is very strong, and in the Second Opium War six or seven years ago, the American minister Warren relied on his shrewd diplomatic skills to move left and right, and without sending a single soldier, he actually signed a diplomatic treaty that was not inferior to Britain, France, and Russia.
It doesn't cost a group of soldiers to get actual diplomatic benefits, Hua Ruohan is really a diplomatic genius, and there are more than 100,000 armored soldiers hidden in his chest.
Today, Xiang Ying stalked his neck and asked to take over the management of the prisoners of war, and the tough attitude of not giving it made the Ryukyu monarchs and ministers present very surprised, they had never seen Xiang Ying so rude, and they forgot to scold him for a while.
It wasn't until Xiang Ying mentioned the topic of the Anglo-French alliance that the British and French forces broke through Beijing six years ago, and the people present knew that Xiang Ying must have a point.
"Your Majesty, my lords, why did the British and French forces burn down the Old Summer Palace six years ago? Is it really Gong Cheng's traitor and the British and French greed for money? If they are greedy for money, why didn't they slaughter the city? How can a little Gong Cheng order Ergin?"
"The Manchus have always hidden a big secret that has not been made public, don't let the hypocrisy of the Manchus be deceived..."
Xiang Ying's question made everyone present speechless, only Molière smiled, his eyes flashed and stared at Xiang Ying, and suddenly asked, "Who are you?" I didn't record you in my intelligence, I have already guessed a clue about what you want to say, if you can get this knowledge from Xiao Letian's mouth, it means that you are not a nobody......
Xiang Ying didn't answer his words, just glanced at him coldly, and then turned his head to King Shangtai and said.
"In the spring of 1860, the British and French troops rushed to China one after another, assembled outside the Dagu Pass at the end of July, formally attacked the Dagu Pass in August, captured Tianjin at the end of August, and by the end of September, the allied forces had reached the Bali Bridge ...... the Beijing Division."
"The Manchus will never tell the people, in fact, for such a long time, the British and French envoys have never given up trying to resolve the conflict by diplomatic means, and before the bloody battle of Bali Bridge, Pasha Li and several envoys have been detained by the Manchus......"
"And ......" Xiang Ying took a few breaths to calm down his feelings, "and they were inhumanly abused, which is one of the reasons why the Manchu Qing were extremely passive at the negotiating table in the later period......"
At this moment, Molière, who was leaning against the city wall and had a swollen face, suddenly spoke: "I'll talk about the rest of the matter...... Monk Lingqin was the high-ranking Manchu official who negotiated the most with Pashali, and his negotiations were in fact brutal torture to extract confessions...... Monk Greenqin made Pashali kneel, pressed his head and knocked him to the ground, so that he agreed to withdraw the troops, Pashali said that he was a negotiator and could not be the master, so Monk Greenqin continued to let Pashali's head knock to the ground again and again, until the blood stained the floor tiles red......"
"Not only that, but this barbarian finally detained all 39 delegates who participated in the negotiations and escorted them back to Beijing, among whom Pashali and the secretary of the British plenipotentiary to China, Ergin, were imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department, and the rest were held in the Old Summer Palace......
Molière sneered and said, "Old Summer Palace, the emperor's summer palace was destroyed by the barbarism of the Manchu Qing Dynasty...... The men were escorted with their hands bound with water-soaked leather ropes and never untied again. Such a leather rope is tightened more and more, and within a few days, the binding place begins to rot and grow maggots. ”
"When he first came, Emperor Xianfeng also sent someone to interrogate them, and then the Chinese side failed in the Battle of Baliqiao, and Emperor Xianfeng fled in a hurry, and no one cared about the rest of these people. So these foreign envoys were tied behind their backs, knelt on the ground, and did not eat water and rice for three days......"
"According to later survivors, Bowlby, a Times journalist, died on the fourth day, and his body was left in a cell for three days before being thrown into the field and eaten by wild dogs; Lieutenant Anderson, whose hands and feet were strangled to maggots, who watched the maggots spread all over his hands, went insane, screamed for three days, died, and a French prisoner, maggots got into his mouth, ears, nose, and finally went mad......"
The more Molière spoke, the more excited he became, and finally he almost roared: "A survivor is still counting maggots in prison, saying that 1,000 maggots can be bred in a day..."
"This is the ancient civilization that you boast about? Savages, you are all a bunch of savages...... In the end, the war was lost, you couldn't beat us, and you returned the captives to the coalition forces, but ...... There were 39 people when they went, and only 19 people came back, and they were all tortured to the point that they didn't look like people... If such atrocities go unpunished, then God will not bless us......"
Moli's chest kept rising and falling, and then Xiang Ying sighed and took over the conversation: "That's right, according to the public law of all nations formulated by their Europeans, if an envoy is killed, he will break the city one day, and no chickens and dogs will be left." Moreover, Ergin also deliberately put forward a point, that is, when he entered Beijing, he would not kill people or disturb the people, but he must burn the Old Summer Palace, because his envoys were imprisoned there......"
Before setting fire to the Old Summer Palace on October 18, Ergin posted a notice in Beijing explaining the reason for the burning of the Old Summer Palace and the scheduled time for setting it on fire: "Everyone, whether high or low, must be punished for his foolish fraud, and on the 18th the Old Summer Palace will be burned as a punishment for the emperor breaking his promise and as revenge for violating the truce." None of the people involved in this action were affected by this action, but the Qing government was responsible for it. ”
"Hehe......" Xiang Ying sneered twice, "It's a pity that Ergin's notice didn't work at all, who cares about the people of Beijing City's emperor Lao Tzu's house was burned, that garden was originally where the emperor lived, what does it have to do with me, whoever comes in will return to whom, how is love, what can you not stand about abusing a prisoner, how many years has China been like this, and also picked out some grammatical errors in the notice." ”
Therefore, the destruction of the Old Summer Palace was not only a complete military fiasco, but also a diplomatic fiasco, if there was an understanding person at that time who could have stopped Emperor Xianfeng...... Oh, of course that's my fantasy, I'm just saying that if the whole dispute had been resolved according to Western diplomacy at that time, I'm afraid that even the city of Tianjin would not have fallen......"
"Your Majesty, we can't repeat the mistakes of those idiots in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, even if we are angry, we must refrain from it...... If you really can't restrain yourself, then endure until the prime minister returns, this can always be done, right?"
There was a dead silence on the city walls, no one spoke, and in the end it was Molière who spoke first, "Hmm...... If all these diplomatic secrets were told by Xiao Letian, then he is really a European expert...... But I wondered, it is impossible for him to be unknown in the Western world with such profound knowledge, and what is his identity......
Before Molière's question could be answered, suddenly a tidal wave came from the direction of Naha Harbor, and everyone looked at the water battle that had captured the lobster soldiers in the entire bay was coming to an end.
"Not good...... Your Majesty, please come with me, the sword drawing team will follow, and we must go to the docks at once to stop the atrocities...... Hurry up, it's going to die when it's too late......"
King Chantai did not dare to slack off, and turned his head to the Imperial Guards and shouted, "Hold Molière in custody and not be abused...... The rest of the people, all the horses in the city are assembled, let's hurry to the docks......"
After a while, the south gate of Shuri Castle opened, more than a dozen war horses rushed out, the Ryukyu King Banner was hunting and fluttering in the hands of the Royal Forest Army, Xiang Ying was afraid that the people would not obey the order, and let Lin Zhen play a Xiao character recognition flag, and the group rushed to the dock like a dragon. Behind them, hundreds of sword-drawing team members and Shimazu samurai chased after the horse's buttocks.
Now the Naha dock has gone completely crazy, and the French soldiers who were driven into the sea are now being fished out one by one like chickens in soup.
This naval battle was completely one-sided, the French army totaled only more than 2,000 people, and the rifles that fell into the sea were useless, while the Ryukyu soldiers and civilians who rushed into the sea to arrest people were more than 20,000.
The difference of ten to one completely collapsed the French army that tried to escape, and many French troops with bad water quality let four or five fishermen stuff their feet into the deep sea and drown alive.
The trestle was full of people, and a French soldier appeared on the sea, and some soldiers and civilians took out long ropes to fish him out, and then tied them up into rice dumplings.
"Damn, damn invader, your 'good days' have finally arrived, grandpa, I have 108 tricks to play with you slowly, and if you kill you, I am not skilled ......"
"Folks, bundle up, tie into a lobster pattern...... Our chance for revenge has arrived..."
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