At 10 o'clock in the morning, Li Guolou's motorcade came to the British Hall, today is the exchange of memorandums between China and Britain, each clarifying the viewpoint of the "Margaret case", Li Hongzhang does not need to attend this level of diplomatic negotiations, the Chinese representative is mainly Li Guolou, and the British representative is also a counselor-level official, the two solemnly stood in the lobby and shook hands cordially, let reporters from various countries take pictures, and then the negotiations, reporters from various countries can not observe, so this round of photos is very precious to reporters from all countries, they all pointed their cameras at Li Guolou, and the two translators, Yelia and Xie Liya, became the eyes of reporters

"Mike, how likely do you think it is that China and Britain will be at war, and if you are a commander, do you have the confidence to win?" Eugene, the editor-in-chief of the French Pravda, pushed the golden silk edge, and his eyes were serious, and he had already sat in a high position in the newspaper office under the support of Yelia, and also wrote a biography of Yelia, writing Yelia as a ragged French royal noble, and the words of praise were all used by Yelia, and the image of Li Guolou should be divided into two to see foreigners, but foreigners don't like pigtails, Manchu dogs are heroes, so Eugene writes Li Guolou in the book as a search for beautiful women and playboys, and Li Guolou can have such great achievements are all manipulated by Yelia behind the scenes

In the final analysis, it was the French who helped the Qing Dynasty to move towards the road of Zhongxing, and Eugene's theory was recognized by the French compatriots

Li Guolou said with a smile: "Thank you, Mr. Eugene, editor-in-chief of Pravda, for coming in person, I hope that the Chinese and British people will always be peaceful and take the road of common prosperity, and do not want there to be wars.

"Mike still has you as the coach," Eugene did not forget to remind Li Guolou

Dozens of reporters from various countries, half of them kept shorthand, and the other half had a camera around their necks, Li Guolou looked around the venue, pretending to have a bad brain, patted his head and said with a smile: "Oh, there is a second question, I haven't answered it yet, here I will first say sorry to offend French friends, how powerful are Prussian cannons and spears* The Chinese have learned that our army has long been recognized as the sixth strongest army in the world, and whoever fights with my glorious army will definitely lose a big tooth, if Britain also wants to taste it, it doesn't matter if I am the commander, the possibility of me being the commander is zero, and the Qing Dynasty has to be able to recruit the general Mr. Eugene, have you forgotten what kind of person I am?"

"Hey," Eugene scratched his scalp, not ashamed at all

The French are now also doing Gou Jian, hugging the thighs of the British, they want to defeat the Prussians, and the defeat in the European battlefield makes the French attach importance to the interests of the East, this time the French government stands as always in favor of the British, if the British Parliament approves the use of force against the Qing Dynasty, the French Parliament will also vote on whether to help Britain form a British and French alliance to preach the imperialist axiom to the barbaric Qing Dynasty

"Mr. Mack, I am a reporter from the British Sun, and I am at war with the British Empire, and you Qing Dynasty have never won, I want to ask what the outcome of this war will be, and the French Pravda reporter has the right to ask two questions, and I also have the right to ······ this power." The British Sun reporter was domineering and unforgiving

Li Guolou waved his arm and hurriedly replied: "Sun Daily reporter, don't be impatient, today is limited in time, let you ask a question on another day, enough for you to be in a hurry, Thames, Jin, Shanghai newspaper, etc., you have to give your compatriots a chance, I will answer you a question, okay?"

"Good" The other reporters at the venue agreed that such a momentous and historic moment should always give them a chance

Li Guolou looked at the enthusiastic fluctuations, the venue nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Okay, it's really good, everyone, it's really good, I want to say that the British people are civilized people, and they will not throw a stone in their own pond, and the water surface will fluctuate and ripple, and even the water will not splash and stone people to death, this Sino-British border conflict in Yunnan is purely an accident, it is an emergency, the Chinese side has a forward-looking attitude, is responsible for the deceased, has an explanation for the British, and has a serious and responsible handling of the Margaret case. It is normal for us to put aside some cognitive differences, and work together to handle the agreement between the two countries, and regard this agreement as a testimony to the friendship between the two people.

"I didn't know that the British people had to vote," the Sun reporter shook his head cunningly, refusing to answer Li Guolou's rhetorical question

"Mike, I'm an American Smedley freelance writer, we also danced a waltz together, do you remember" Four-eyed field chicken Smedley was a little anxious, Li Guolou actually ignored her, she has a lot of fierce material, women are invincible to men

"Oh······ You're Ms. Smedley······ What is your problem," Li Guolou was attacked by two translators behind him, but he did not frown, but he still maintained his graceful demeanor

"Oh Mike, actually, I'm not interested in you, but I want to do an interview for the two female translators today, I don't know if I have the honor of being a distinguished guest of Lady Yelia and Lady Cheria," Smedley doesn't believe in this evil, she is a pioneer and advocate of the women's freedom and independence movement, and now she is far from being as famous as Yelia and Cheria, because she didn't have the big tree of Li Guolou, Li Guolou respects her, so she finds another way, relying on women's unique conditions to get close to Yelia and Cheria

Yelia walked sideways to Li Guolou's side, standing behind Li Guolou was quite tired, Yelia said solemnly: "Ms. Smedley, today is a negotiation between the two countries, you ask me to answer you another day, please ask the next question, Mr. Huang Guanan, do you have any questions?"

Smedley's expression remained unchanged, and he didn't go away because Yelia didn't give her face, and the Americans still gave face to Smedley, believing that as long as she invited Li Guolou again and again, he would have a night with her

Report reporter Huang Guan'an is so thin and inconspicuous, and the foreigners are like chickens and cranes, he is grateful to take off his hat to Yelia, Li Guolou turned a blind eye to him, isn't it because the declaration refuted Li Guolou's remarks to nothing

The declaration is a newspaper founded by a patriot in the Shanghai Public Concession, not a mouthpiece of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and a patriotic literati should use a pen to change the situation of being beaten after the Qing Dynasty is the declaration and advocacy of the ideology of cultural salvation

Huang Guanan pushed the frame of the glasses on the bridge of his nose and let out a roar that was not in proportion to his figure: "Mr. Li Guolou, I want to ask you when the Qing Dynasty will be able to change its attitude of flattering and courting the outside world, will the reform of the Great Qing Dynasty be successful, please give a timetable?"

Li Guolou didn't expect that the foreigners would give him face, but the countrymen would take a deep look at him, and the Wen people could not offend Huang Guan'an, and if the world was guarded, they had to accept the scholars and scholars to rebel, and the country would not be far from the country

Li Guolou was domineering, looked directly at Huang Guanan, and said categorically: "Huang Guanan, as long as you don't die early, you can see the rise of the Qing Dynasty, whether the reform of the Qing Dynasty is feasible, and it is clear at a glance if you look at the country's annual income, Shanghai is changing day by day, it depends on the investment of friends from all over the world, and gives preferential tax treatment to friends from all countries, it is by no means a flattery and a courtesy, but a road of common prosperity, the Qing Dynasty does not reform, we can't even afford to pay war reparations, you are already a slave of the country, you must keep up with the times, you can't make up nonsense, nonsense, not a literati should have quality."

Huang Guanan didn't give in at all, and shouted: "Mr. Li Guolou can start a big discussion in his thoughts, you don't have to advocate only the words of the family, ideological imprisonment will make the Qing Dynasty become a sleeping lion, what do you think, we have the courage to declare it, publish the first edition, and take it out to show your level of Tanhualang."

On the one hand, the literati in the concession area called the people of the world to love the country, to use force to recover the land and defeat imperialism, and on the other hand, to enjoy the civilized system of the foreigners, to act as an anti-Qing mouthpiece, to live a decadent life, to break away from the toiling masses, and not to build a group of moths, Li Guolou understands the importance of ideology and culture, although he does not like Huang Guan'an's writing, and does not want to fight with those hooligan literati in Shanghai, but he has the courage to open up, is not afraid of being misunderstood, and is not afraid of being slandered and corrupted his private life, so Li Guolou hesitated for a moment, and then resolutely said: "Okay, Mr. Huang Guanan, as long as you dare to publish the first edition of my article, I will write another long article, I have also learned your article, I want to ask you, give you a textile factory, and give you 10,000 taels of silver, can you support 5,000 textile workers for two years, why do you have to pay for the newspaper, the newspaper should also benefit the people, and you will serve the people of Shanghai for free in the future, okay?"

The reporters laughed and knew that Li Guolou and Shanghai declared a feud, in order to declare to denounce the capitalists' cruel exploitation of women, and bitterly criticized the capitalists for only pursuing big interests and using a large number of child labor to make black money, the declaration pointed the finger at Li Guolou's eldest brother Li Guoyun and sister-in-law Wen Yunjuan, and said that the couple was greedy in the Qing Dynasty, and the couple was secretly satirizing Li Guolou

Huang Guanan shouted: "If I had a rich and good wife, I wouldn't need to pay for the manuscript, but it's a pity that I'm too short."

The audience burst into laughter again, and Li Guolou couldn't help but say that Xie Liya had a pleasant London accent: "Please ask the last reporter to ask a question"

The British counselor was only jealous, and no reporter from any country still remembered asking him questions, and the reporters asked Li Guolou all kinds of tricky questions at the beginning, but Li Guolou talked and laughed and did not go away, but answered all questions, and used Tai Chi to push the difficult issues to the side of the British

The British Counsellor was bored on the platform, and he was noncommittal about Li Guolou's speech, this was a diplomatic courtesy, he couldn't leave, and he didn't hear Li Guolou say a word of grandeur from beginning to end, for "The Margaret Case", Li Guolou also clarified his own point of view, that is, to understand that it is in the interests of the people of the two countries to turn hostility into friendship, and only to hear Li Guolou keep saying that the friendship between China and Britain will last forever, and that cooperation will develop together for an hour

Under the leadership of the high-nosed master of ceremonies, the negotiation missions of the two countries entered the conference room, and the British minister Wei Tuma actually waited inside, which made Li Guolou very unhappy, and apologized repeatedly, saying that he did not know that Wei Tuma came to the negotiation venue, so that the distinguished British guests waited for a long time

"Your Excellency, I don't know, you're here too, why don't you come out to meet the reporter," Li Guolou stretched out his hands and held Wei Tuma's right hand, and rushed up to give a close hug, a veneer salute, and he was pretentious, but he still kissed Wei Tuma's beard and cheek

Li Guolou wanted to strangle the enemy of the Qing Dynasty to death, Wei Tuoma showed gratitude to Wei Tuoma on his face, and he gave him too much face, and there was no need for the British minister to come forward in person on this occasion

"Hey, Mike, you misunderstood, I heard that Lady Yelia and my compatriot Lady Cheria were coming, so I came from Tianjin without any painstaking efforts," Wittoma looked like a diplomat, and stepped forward to kiss Yelia, and Cheria invited the two beauties to lunch, and asked the two beauties to sit on either side of him

The Sino-British talks turned into a tea party, and Yelia and Xie Liya turned out to be the objects of everyone's scramble, taking photos of their lives like husband and wife, and taking pictures in the conference room of the representatives of the two countries' negotiating delegations, even Li Guolou's master Zheng Hengdan couldn't bear to learn the etiquette of Westerners, the magnesium powder kept burning, and the fire flickered, making people's eyes unbearable, Li Guolou wiped the corners of his eyes softly, as if his heart was crying

Wei Tuoma actually changed his usual party, and Li Guolou was very happy to be a special envoy for negotiations, and even said that the two were old friends, and still remember the banquet at Li Guolou's house in the British Concession in Tianjin, praising Xie Liya's skills, and saying that the next time Li Guolou goes to Tianjin, he must remember to invite his family to dinner

As soon as Li Guolou saw this posture, he knew that Wei Tuma would give him face, and the "Ma Jiali Case" would develop on the good side, and he had to take a good position to prevent Li Hongzhang from being ugly, and he would never let Li Hongzhang fall, and might let the eight traitorous treaties pass negotiations one by one

Li Guolou glanced at more than a dozen Qing officials behind him, these officials were all sent by the Prime Minister's Yamen, there were British spies and traitors in it, and the methods he used to deal with Wei Tuoma were generally mastered, and it seemed that there was a stain, and politicians would still look at it, betray some national interests in moderation, and kill the old bustard Yuan Jihong, this chess piece, it seems that there is no need to come out, and Western politicians can't afford to hurt it