Guo Xing'a did not study history well, he always thought that as soon as the coalition army passed Tianjin, they would directly meet the Battle of Bali Bridge, and then capture Beijing and set fire to the Old Summer Palace. In fact, the two sides in the middle still talked about it, Xianfeng really can't afford to fight, and it can't be done if he doesn't talk about it. If it hadn't collapsed again, there would have been no subsequent war at all, and Xianfeng would not have died in Chengde.

The tenth year of Xianfeng was the most critical year since the Qing Dynasty settled the Central Plains, and internal and external troubles almost forced the Qing Dynasty to a desperate situation. In the Jiangnan generation, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom played the last *. Li Xiu attacked together, occupying all the rich lands in the south of the Yangtze River, and the wealth of the Qing Dynasty had changed hands to others. The foreign devils have already occupied Tianjin again, and the soldiers are pointing directly at Beijing, which has become a situation where the soldiers are approaching the city.

Xianfeng and the ministers of the inner court had a tough attitude at first, and they were determined to give these foreign devils a long memory on land. However, there are still people of insight, and Monk Greenqin has been defeated again and again in Dagu, and some people still think that he is enough to choke. Monk Greenqin's own attitude is also a little ambiguous, and he is no longer as confident as before. Xianfeng is not a faint king, and when the courtiers mentioned it slightly, he was a little worried. After Monk Greenqin's music was folded a few times, Xianfeng cleared the door, this is bottomless!

The situation has reached this point, Xianfeng's attitude has to soften, and he has no confidence to be hard. After giving the henchmen a few glances, a few of the more intelligent people stood up and persuaded Xianfeng to negotiate peace again, and Xianfeng hurriedly got off the donkey. agreed to the request of the allied envoy to enter Beijing, and sent his absolute confidant, Prince Yi Zaiyuan, to try to quell the war.

Zaiyuan is also a master of Chinese humor, and before he left Beijing, he made a very funny proposal to Ergin and Gro. His Royal Highness Prince Yi thinks that everyone is a gentleman with a very high status, and it is a loss of status to negotiate in the wilderness, so he should find a place with an elegant environment, such as Tianjin. In addition to being dumbfounded, the only thing Ergin and the others could do was to flatly refuse. Although the coalition forces did not occupy any major cities, many military stations were built along the way, and supplies were transported. Now your brother will let us go back hundreds of miles with a word, and we will be idiots!

Ergin sent his number one cadre in China, Pashali, and sent the sinologist Wei Tuma to assist him. People tend to love their second home, but Pashali is definitely an exception. This buddy has spent almost his entire life in China as an adult, but he has a visceral hostility towards China. He despised the Chinese, hated everything in China, and was always thinking about how to deal with the Chinese. Since the beginning of the Opium War, this guy has been following the peace, and in the Second Opium War, he shined even more, and he was everywhere. After the coalition forces landed, Pashali was even more rarely active, jumping up and down a lot.

On September 14, Pasha Li and Wei Tuma walked into Tongzhou in a haughty manner, where they had come to pay a visit to His Royal Highness the Prince of the Qing Empire. But in their hearts, they have only come to see a little chief of a barbarian. After some cumbersome reporting procedures, Pashali and Wei Tuoma met Prince Yi Zaiyuan, and after a very hypocritical courtesy, the two sides sat down separately.

"Your Royal Highness, our negotiations are ongoing. But just four days ago, you shamelessly attacked our military station in Hexiwu. This is dishonest behavior, and you must give us a reasonable explanation. After sitting down, before the tea was served, Pashali began to attack impatiently.

"Your envoy is afraid that there is some misunderstanding, Xiao Wang has already sent people to inquire about the various departments, and no one has ever attacked your army!" Zaiyuan had already gotten the news from Monk Greenqin and knew the whole story.

Monk Greenqin himself had the idea of Hexi Affairs, and he had been sending people to keep an eye on the movements of the coalition army, and he knew anything about it. After Hexi was hacked by Guoxing, Monk Greenqin quickly got the news, but he didn't know who did it. He was also secretly wondering, who did it? The battle of Hexi was fought very beautifully, and the foreign devils suffered a big loss, and hundreds of people were killed in one go, and Monk Greenqin very much hoped that his own people did it. However, after inquiring about all the ministries, no one has ever sent troops at all, and no one has more captured materials in their hands. It must not have been done by his own troops, and Seng Lingqin thought it was other people, but after waiting for a few days, he didn't see anyone asking for credit from the imperial court. It seems that a non-existent army suddenly appeared, and after beating the foreign devils, it suddenly disappeared.

"Denial!" Pasha Li didn't leave any dignity for everyone, and directly reprimanded Zaiyuan.

"Absolutely not, our troops have never moved." Xianfeng didn't use this tone to speak to Zaiyuan, and Pashali's rudeness almost killed Zaiyuan. However, people have to bow their heads under the short eyes, and Prince Yi is also a manly man, so he has to be able to bend and stretch.

"Denial will not solve the problem, you must compensate us for our losses!" Pashali slapped the table.

"Good to discuss, good to discuss!" The purpose of Zaiyuan's trip was to discuss and dismiss the troops, and he was not willing to dwell too much on these trivial issues.

Wei Tuma looked at the excited Pasha Li and the submissive Zaigaki, and his mind was full of question marks, and he couldn't figure out what the situation was at all. There has been a consensus within the coalition that it was the bandits who attacked the Hexi military station, not the government army of the Qing Dynasty at all. Pasha Li is violent, and he used this matter to question Zaiyuan when he came up, which is simply inexplicable. Judging from Zaiyuan's reaction, Wei Tuoma believed him very much, and it was really not the Qing army that attacked Hexi. However, Wei Tuoma will not say anything now, Pasha Li succeeded, Jaeyuan admitted the debt, and the losses of the coalition army were revealed.

"Humph!" Pashali still seemed to be grunting, but Wittoma saw a sly smile on his lips.

"Your Royal Highness, let's sit down and talk about business!" Wittoma sang with a red face very tacitly.

"Okay, okay, let's talk about this exchange of contracts in Beijing!" Zaiyuan finally calmed down, and he was also glad that these two foreign devils could speak Chinese, otherwise this would be troublesome to translate. But he didn't know that this foreign devil who could speak Chinese was much more difficult to deal with than a foreign devil who couldn't speak.

"Go to Beijing to change the contract?" Pasha Li and Wei Tuma were very surprised, this Zaiyuan seemed to be playing Chinese humor again, when was this, why did these strange chiefs still play such strange games.

"Yes, let's talk about the specific situation of entering Beijing to exchange contracts." Zaigaki smiled.

"Your Royal Highness, we don't want to repeat the boring game we played with Mr. Wenjun and Mr. Hengqi of your country. What we are talking about now is not a change of treaty, but an armistice, with a new treaty. Pashali said in a tough tone.

"Whether it's a new contract or a new contract, we can just talk slowly." Zaigaki didn't care about the treaty or anything at all, and all he wanted in his heart was to get through the difficulties together. As for these foreign devils, when the Qing Dynasty arrives, the treaty and the like are just a piece of paper. At present, it seems that if you want to lose some silver, you will spend money to buy peace, and the Qing Dynasty needs time too much now.

"Okay, let's start formal negotiations in Tongzhou tomorrow!" Pasha Li and Wei Tuma exchanged glances with each other before saying to Jaewon.

"There are two Laos!" Zaigaki politely arched his hand to the two.

A few people reluctantly exchanged a few polite words, and Pashali and Wittoma took their leave.

"Zaigaki's words are very vague, should we confirm again." Not far from Tongzhou, Wei Tuoma asked Pasha Li impatiently.

"We don't need him to promise us anything, his promises are not credible, all we need to know is their attitude." Pashali replied nonchalantly.

"It's enough to understand their attitudes. Mr. Wittoma, you are too obsessed with Chinese culture. Their culture is different from their people, there is only hypocrisy in their culture, and you can't see the real Chinese in the culture. Pashali began to teach his seniors a lesson.

"Is attitude so important? What are your plans? Wittoma asked, confused.

"They're scared, they're so much softer than the previous ones, it's enough to understand that attitude. In tomorrow's negotiations, we can put forward conditions at will, they have no bargaining chips, and they can only accept whatever we ask! "Pashali has eaten through the path of these Qing court officials.

"Will it be that easy?" Wittoma felt that China's schemes were very subtle, and he did not agree with Pashali's idea, China has had a habit of showing weakness since ancient times, and this time was no exception.

"Do you think they're deliberately showing weakness again? Certainly not, the Tatar government in China is already in turmoil, and the rebellion in the south has exhausted their energy. Moreover, our battlefield is a negotiating table, not a real battlefield, and it is meaningless for them to show weakness and not to seduce us. The situation they are now exposed can only show that they have no bargaining chips, desperate for a respite, and they are willing to pay any price for this. Pashali said confidently.

Zaiyuan of Tongzhou sent away two foreign devils who could speak human words, and he felt a burst of grievances in his heart, he was the hereditary iron hat king, and today he was extremely humiliated.

"Hooray! The minion has been humiliated for your sake today! The slave is aggrieved! Zaiyuan looked in the direction of Beijing and sighed with emotion.

Zaiyuan's emotion has not yet landed, and Xianfeng's edict came from Beijing again. The edict is concise and to the point, in a word, foreign devils will give them whatever they want. As long as there is an armistice, the fighting in the north is stopped, and the army of Seng Lingqin is liberated, everything can be discussed.

Zaiyuan looked at the edict, and he understood the taste of losing power and humiliating the country. The foreign devil must bite the Qing Dynasty hard this time, but this word has to be signed by him, and he has to bear the infamy of the history. He had just left the capital, so he naturally knew what was going on. Xianfeng was in a hurry to mobilize Monk Greenqin, not for Jiangnan, the situation in Jiangnan was already like that, and it was not in a hurry to go or not. At present, the twisted army in Henan, Anhui, and Shandong is making trouble, and the Qing Dynasty is already full of holes and wolf smoke, and the imperial court needs Monk Greenqin to go to the Central Plains to extinguish the fire. If the Central Plains can't be suppressed anymore, the world of the Qing Dynasty will be completely chaotic.

Zaiyuan didn't close his eyes all night, and when the east turned white, he felt something pressed on his shoulders and walked to the negotiation table full of unknowns.