Listening to Wang Huaiyuan and Xiao Hexin's analysis, everyone present was poured a basin of cold water on their heads, and there was silence in the flower hall, only the sound of matches striking, and the smoke of cigars.

Xiao Letian looked at the silent crowd and knew that the goal had been achieved, he took a sip of bitter tea and stood up, "I know that everyone has another breath in their hearts, and I also know that today's incident is enough, and I know that the continuous victories have made you forgetful!"

"But today's incident is a wake-up call for us, he reminds us that we are not as strong as we imagined, and we are not prepared for the national war at all......"

"So I decided...... Open negotiations with the Manchus, suspend all plans for revenge, and if we can't achieve our goal, then achieve it at the negotiating table!"

"Prime Minister!" Luo Huo was the first to stand up, "Are we so admitted......?"

"Bastard! This is not a question of whether to accept or not, this is politics, this is a secret war! Not to mention that there is no such thing as taking the limelight in the world, and we can take advantage of the opportunity when the Manchu Qing Dynasty is weak and licking its wounds, and this is already taking a big advantage, what is our purpose? It is to accumulate our strength in more than 10 years, complete industrialization, and form an army that can protect our country...... Especially the Navy!"

"This is our grand strategy, and no one can change it! We are not misers, our business has never been to make money for the sake of making money, what do we want to get? Is it that the country is rich and then happy?"

"If you think that is your ideal, then I can also learn from Cixi and sell the country! If you sell this country, the fee will be enough for our next eight generations to enjoy the blessings!"

Xiao Letian looked at them and said sadly, "But we are not that kind of people, our purpose is to save the vitality of a country, and to protect the country through the pass safely, this is our responsibility!

Luo Huo's aggrieved eyes were red, "Prime Minister, you know me, I Luo Huo doesn't care about money, the current money is enough for me to spend for several lifetimes...... I just can't swallow that!"

"Angry?" Xiao Letian shook his head, "If you really love this country, love it to the bones, not to mention being angry and losing face, even if you are humiliated by Han Xin's crotch and the suffering of Su Wu Beihai all his life, you can endure it!"

"Are we not as good as the ancients? Just because of such a small setback, we can't wait to die together?" Xiao Lotian took out a piece of paper from his pocket.

"This is the news of Zeng Dashuai brought by the Shanghai Flying Pigeon in the morning, there is only one word, that is, forbearance! I can understand the meaning of Dashuai, now Zuo Jigao is desperately vomiting blood to pacify Ganshan and the Western Regions, what is he for? Is it really because it is this Manchu Qing? No, he is for our Han people or the future of our civilization!"

"At this juncture, don't make any extraneous branches, just let the Manchus get some cheaper, isn't it just a little money? I know what they want to do, that is, they want to train the new army. Then let's let him practice! My brother Xiao Letian must have that ambition and let him train with all people, even if he trains 100,000 heavenly soldiers, we can smash him!"

Now the atmosphere in the flower hall is finally better, and the gloomy atmosphere on people's faces has finally dissipated.

"If you want to let the Tartars eat some more dividends, sooner or later they will even spit out the principal and interest......"

"That's right, it doesn't matter if you have money or not, just like the prime minister said, more than 10 million square kilometers of land can't be lost, not a single penny can be lost!"

Xiao Letian clapped his hands, "That's right, people can't just look at money, what is money? Money is just a tool, as long as we are given Chinese a space for peaceful development, the wealth that hard-working Chinese can create is so much that you can't imagine......"

"What is the vitality of the country that we want to protect? it is the land left by our ancestors, it is our national integrity, it is our culture and wisdom...... As long as we don't lose these things, we have a chance to turn over!"

"Okay, let's take action, there's still a lot to do at the negotiating table!"

In the sixth year of Tongzhi, the officials of Ryukyu and Beijing suddenly canceled all their holidays, and they were unusually busy, and the initial telegraph network, although some areas still need to fly pigeons to pass books, fast horses, but the efficiency has been very fast, and the Manchu court tasted the sweetness of the telegraph network for the first time.

There are two options for sending a telegram from Beijing to Ryukyu, one is to send the telegram directly to Dengzhou, and then change the pigeon to pass the message straight to Fuso, and then pass it to Ryukyu through the submarine cable.

The other route is to send a telegram directly to Shanghai, and then change to a flying pigeon to pass the book straight to Ryukyu, the time of the two routes is about the same, and it takes about three days to arrive.

At this moment, the submarine cable from Ryukyu to Fuzhou and Shanghai is being laid, and the submarine cable from Dengju to North Korea is also being pushed forward at the same time, and if nothing else, a telegraph network for the instantaneous transmission of information in East Asia will be formed in May and June next year.

At that time, Beijing and the Ryukyus could communicate with each other, and it would really be possible to achieve it in an instant.

The negotiations went smoothly beyond anyone's imagination, and people thought that Beijing and the Ryukyus would quarrel over the details, but they did not expect that both sides agreed to make concessions.

Xiao Letian was afraid that the Manchu court would go crazy, and the Manchus did not want to see the demagogy of the people's newspapers, and it was best to maintain the current normalcy.

On the 29th of the lunar month, the two sides reached a draft in which the Ryukyus side promised to provide Beijing with a full set of printing equipment and technology, and to send engineers to help the imperial court print bonds.

The imperial court agreed to the Ryukyu proposal, in which the two sides would jointly manage the number of bonds issued, with the Yellow River as the boundary, and the taxes of the provinces north of the Yellow River, including arrears, would be used as a reserve for the printing of bonds in Beijing.

The tax arrears of the provinces south of the Yellow River are the reserves for the printing of bonds by Lotte & Co., and the two sides reconcile the accounts once a quarter and make a schedule for the printing of bonds in the next quarter.

This is to legalize counterfeit money, Xiao Letian is very smart When he found that he could no longer suppress the desire of the imperial court to print counterfeit money, it was better to directly delegate power and put his desire on the right track.

Don't you just need money? Then join in, and the two sides will make a fortune together, and you will be guaranteed to earn more than you can print counterfeit money, so that the imperial court will naturally lose the incentive to counterfeit.

The People's Daily has not been banned, but Xiao Letian promised that each issue of the People's Daily will not appear to slander the imperial court, and in the future, the style of the People's Daily will be transformed into a commercial newspaper, advertising, issuing commercial information, and introducing world anecdotes or something.

Xiao Letian knew that he couldn't be too eager to open the people's wisdom, so he first developed the habit of reading the newspaper for the people, and then mixed it with sand a little bit.

It really responds to the old saying that Xiao Letian said: "The so-called negotiation does not mean that it has to be a winner or loser, it is necessary to cry and laugh, the most intelligent negotiation should be after the results are released, both sides and even many parties have complained a lot, and they all jumped to scold the street, but in the end they can be implemented...... This is the highest level of successful negotiation!"

On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the sixth year of Tongzhi, the two sides confirmed the details of the draft for the last time and exchanged messages, and representatives of the two sides signed an agreement in Tanggu on the 16th of the first month, and the entire crisis was finally satisfactorily resolved.