Wanlan touched her face, calmed down, and began to smile again: "Am I telling the truth? You have not been able to negotiate with your father all night after talking about such a big matter, do you think that I can do it if I say a word?"

"That being said," Xie Daoyong stroked his beard, meaningful: "But there is also a saying that three people become tigers, and I can't do it alone, maybe you can also persuade him from the side, and it will be done?"

Wanlan was silent, feeling that something was wrong, the junior was talking about the big things in the family but it was a bad rule, and bad rules were the most taboo thing in Xie Dao, she understood Xie Daoyong's situation that it was difficult to support alone, and she could choose her as a helper, but I was afraid that it was not a correct decision.

Xie Daoyong seemed to see her thoughts, and opened his mouth to persuade: "I know what you are taboo about, but this matter is urgent, and if you make a decision a moment earlier, you will have a better chance of winning." Ah Lan, you may not know that on the twenty-eighth day of the first month of this year, a French missionary in Nanchang, Wang Anzhi, murdered Jiang Zhaotang of Zhixian County, which intensified the conflict in only three days, causing Nanchang to riot, not only destroying the church, but also killing six French missionaries including Wang Anzhi and three English missionaries in one go. ”

Before Wanlan could speak, Wanxian couldn't help but ask angrily: "It's not the fault of the civilians, why do you want to kill the civilians? Why do you have to pay so much silver? Isn't there any heavenly reason? As the head of a country, how could the Queen Mother Lafayette be confused in this matter?"

Xie Daoyong waved his hand and sighed, and explained to Wanlan: "This is not something that can be solved by the law, the missionaries who were killed, I am afraid that those ministers have not even heard of their names before the incident, and they have taken advantage of this incident to make a big disturbance, but they just want to extort some silver from my Qing country." ”

"Why do they want us to give it?" Wanxian still couldn't understand: "I don't believe that these two countries don't have the rule of killing people to pay for their lives!"

Xie Daoyong was a little helpless: "These things ...... You'll understand when you grow up. ”

Wanxian was unhappy again: "I really don't know who spread this sentence that has no truth at all, what I don't understand, someone has to tell me to understand, is it that there are thousands of truths in this world, just stay up for some spring and autumn to understand? ”

Xie Daoyong opened his mouth, and couldn't find the words to refute her for a while, Wanlan looked at Xie Daoyong's stunned expression, and couldn't help but hide her mouth and snicker: "Uncle don't want to reason with Ah Xian, she knows a lot, ordinary people can't talk about her." ”

Xie Daoyong smiled bitterly: "I have always seen your father's pedantic temperament, but I don't want him to be able to raise a daughter like your sister, if my daughter Wanxin can have half of Ah Xian's mind, I won't go to such great lengths." ”

Xie Daoyong has been away from home for seventeen years, and he got married and had children by himself in the capital, he only has one wife in the main house, and only one daughter under his knees, Wanlan has never seen this cousin, at this moment hearing him say this, I can't help but be a little curious, but before I can ask, Wanxian interrupted the conversation between the two more and more angrily: "Don't think that you are so light to expose this topic." ”

Xie Daoyong hurriedly patted her lightly on the back to appease her, and explained in a kind tone: "It's not that I mean to perfunctory you, it's just that this question, my uncle doesn't know how to explain it to you." Only the party with great military power is qualified to choose how and what attitude to deal with other countries, and now I am weaker than France, and I have no power to win or compete with its unreasonable demands, so I have to let him eat and drink. ”

Xie Daoyong said, glanced at Wanlan, and continued: "The country is like this, and the family is like this, if the family that is strong outside and strong in the middle does not reform and strive to be strong in time, then the end is only one way, but the real terrible thing is not destruction, but knowing that it will perish, but still going on that dead road." ”

Wanxian was a little puzzled and asked, "Then isn't this self-destruction?"

Xie Daoyong straightened up and glanced at Wanlan again: "Yes, it is to bring about your own destruction." ”

Wanxian wanted to say something, the maidservant girl sent breakfast for the three of them at this time, Wanlan stood up and personally served the dishes one by one in front of Xie Daoyong, and interrupted the conversation with a smile: "Uncle's meaning, I have it in my heart, and I also ask my uncle to eat first, and my niece has her own considerations." ”