Raku said mysteriously, "General, these 100,000 gold francs are just a normal exchange of courtesies, this is not allowed by time, otherwise I will prepare some Egyptian antiquities of equal value for you, so you won't feel the feeling of bribery!"

"In fact, it is very normal to give national gifts to each other in diplomatic negotiations, I bought a few Egyptian statues from 4,000 years ago for 100,000 gold francs to give to you, and no one may be able to say anything, but it seems to be a little bad to give money......"

"You can't think so! The value is the same, how can a statue see the light, and money is a bribe? Today is an emergency, if I have enough time, how can I prepare a gift for you, right?"

"Take it, don't shirk it......"

Raku grabbed it, and held down Xiang Ying's hand, and the cashier's note of the Bank of France was quietly placed next to the red wine glass. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Having said that, Xiang Ying couldn't hold the shelf anymore, so he drank the wine, and the atmosphere of the negotiation suddenly became harmonious.

Raku breathed a sigh of relief, "General, what do you think of making a suggestion? You have indeed been hurt in this conflict, and I have seen it with my own eyes, but now is not the time to hold you accountable after all, and there is no time for that!"

"You need to travel to London, and we need to look for clues to the attack, and it will take time to solve the case...... Aside from being a diplomat, I would like to advise you from a personal point of view that all diplomatic negotiations in the world take a long time, and this conflict will actually be resolved by Europe in the end!"

"Think about it, is this the truth? In the final analysis, it is still your head of state and our emperor to have a final consultation, which is the key to solving the problem, what do you say is the matter if you press me......?

"In this way, if you save me some face, I won't make this apology statement, but I can dissipate your anger in other ways, especially for the Chinese soldiers, what do you think?"

Xiang Ying glanced at him thoughtfully, and drank the valuable red wine in the glass in one gulp, "I want to smell it!"

"How about I compensate you in the name of the Canal Company? Wouldn't it solve your problem by giving you cash, glittering gold francs, to compensate for your losses, and then rewarding your soldiers?"

"Cash?hahaha...... Xiang Ying laughed, "Can you afford to pay for it? You are so arrogant, how much does it cost to damage the Zhiyuan? How much does it cost to fire a shell from the main gun? How much does it cost to depreciate the rifling wear......

"After the strong wind is pressurized, the entire battleship system is accelerated, as the old saying goes, how much does it cost to pay for parts, and how much does it cost to calculate depreciation expenses......"

"How can a wounded soldier be compensated, what about the fright, what about the loss of work, and what about the loss of youth?"

"Not to mention the soldiers, how much does the row of guns that the Long Live Lord of the Great Qing Kingdom have to count?"

"Hahaha...... You're kid......ding me with a little canal company that wants to pay compensation?

Raku wasn't joking, he smiled mysteriously and held out four fingers, "What do you think of this number?"

Xiang Yingqi wanted to open Ya's head with a wine bottle, "You are wasting my time! 400,000 gold francs want to settle this matter? You didn't wake up......

"No, no, no...... My general, I'm not talking about 400,000, I'm talking about 4,000,000 gold francs, what?"

Hiss...... Xiang Ying gasped and said four million gold francs? His heart thumped at that time, and at the international exchange rate of 1869, one or two taels of clear treasury silver was equivalent to seven francs, or four pounds.

Four million gold francs, that's a full five hundred and seventy thousand taels of silver!

Xiang Yinggang wanted to express his feelings, but suddenly felt that he was at the negotiation table at the moment, and he had to calm down, so he quickly took a sip of wine and pressed it, and began to rotate and calculate desperately in his mind.

Xiang Ying secretly said in his heart, "Since you want to give me a gift, then I'll play with you again, I want to see how much oil and water you have in your hand......"

"Haha, four million gold francs is only more than 500,000 pieces of silver, how much is that? To tell you the truth, my own pocket money is more than this......

"This amount of money is not to mention settling the entire visiting group, even if it is all given to Your Majesty, it may not be able to discourage Your Majesty, do you still expect our entire army to discourage?"

Of course Laku won't believe Xiang Ying's nonsense, how young are you, you have 500,000 taels of silver in pocket money?

"General, how much do you say?"

"At least one million taels of silver, that's seven million gold francs!"

"Huh, isn't that a lot......" Raku's face darkened slightly.

What was really shocked was Xiang Ying, he thought that if such a sky-high price came out, Laku would have to be furious, but in the end he got a little too much evaluation, could it be that this canal company is a gold mine.

Raku gritted his teeth and said, "Five million gold francs, no more......"

"You're so insincere, nine and a half million ......"

"Five and a half million, that's all!"

"Nine Million ......"

"No, I'll give six million, and there's no more ......"

Xiang Ying shook his head, "Eight and a half million, if you don't give it to us, we will send troops to land!"

"Is six hundred and five good? It's really so much money, how much cash reserves can the Canal Company have? This is already the limit!"

"No, I want eight million, not enough to accept the IOU!"

"Even if you are ruthless, it will be seven million, if you don't accept it again, I would rather start a war with you!"

The two of them froze, like a cockfight, you look at me, I see you for three minutes Xiang Ying suddenly smiled and stretched out his hand, "You can make a deal, but I have a question, you have to give me the answer, private question ......"

"How can the Canal Company have so much cash, and how can you, as a diplomat, mobilize it?"

Raku smiled, stretched out his hand, and the two shook together, "This is our secret, it's really inconvenient to answer!"

"Haha, I know you're not easy to say, so I'll answer for you...... Is it the money of the black family in Ottoman Turkey? Is it your little coffer?"

Raku was stunned for a moment, "Haha...... Hahaha...... I don't agree with you, what you said is not what you said, hahaha......"

Xiang Ying definitely guessed that the management of the Suez Canal in this era wanted to be chaotic, perhaps the French deliberately made him chaotic.

The management of the entire canal company was in the hands of the French, and even the most combat-ready army of the canal was French, while the sovereignty of this land belonged to Ottoman Turkey.

The Canal Company as a whole operated on a joint-stock basis, with the French and Egyptian governors holding the largest shares, followed by the British and the rest of the shares.

In this model, how could the French, who controlled the administration, not black Egypt, where the black hole was big and boundless.

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