Guo Xing'a added firewood and poured oil, and finally let the Old Summer Palace burn for three days, although it only burned some inconsequential buildings, but it also made the entire Old Summer Palace look like smoke and fire. Although the environment was a little worse, Guo Xing'a was not idle, he built a prisoner of war camp in Yaotai, Pengdao, and brought prisoners of war, including Grant and Durant.

In a big battle outside the Old Summer Palace, the Gu'an army captured a lot of prisoners of war, some of whom didn't have time to run away, and some of whom were directly stunned and unconscious, adding up to more than 400 people. In the past, there was no place to hold prisoners of war, and the scale of each prisoner was not large, so he sent people to Gu'an after being arrested. The scale of the prisoners of war this time is unprecedented, and he also has the advance base of the Old Summer Palace, so naturally there is no need to toss. Moreover, after all, Gu'an is far away from Beijing, and it is too much of a toss to relocate prisoners of war in the future peace talks. Therefore, Guoxing'a directly built a prisoner of war camp in Yaotai, Pengdao, and transferred some important prisoners of war who were originally held in Gu'an.

The place of Pengdao Yaotai is spacious, the scenery is also very good, and it is in the middle of Fuhai, which is very suitable for holding prisoners of war. The GIs could only live in tents set up in the open air, and high-ranking generals like Grant and Durant were arranged in the side hall of Yaotai on Pengdao. Although the soldiers were like cattle in the pen, the accommodation and food conditions were poor, and they had to do hard labor. But Grant and Durant didn't feel it, and they never felt that Goxinga had mistreated them.

The rebels finally confirmed that the Old Summer Palace was not beneficial, and after it gradually dispersed, Guo Xing'a let out a long breath and ordered someone to extinguish the fire. He secretly got the cook out of the imperial dining room, and made a table of imperial food for each of the senior generals of the Gu'an Army, and the soldiers also had noodles and side dishes. Guoxinga also has a very sumptuous table of imperial food, and it is a combination of Chinese and Western, including Chinese delicacies and Western-style steak roast chicken, but the person who eats this meal with Guoxinga is a little special, it is Grant who was locked up in Pengdao Yaotai. Guo Xing'a called two eunuchs in charge of the case, used the most exquisite Western-style tableware in the Old Summer Palace, and set up a banquet at the main seat of the main hall of the picturesque Pengdao Yaotai.

"General Grant, enjoy! Because of the lack of ingredients during the war, this table is a little simpler, but even if it is simple, this is a veritable imperial meal! It's hard for ordinary people to eat, and I'm also stained with your light! Guo Xinga did not communicate with Grant in his English with a strong northeastern accent, but brought Rong Hong as a translator.

"Plenty of hospitality!" Grant looked at the silver knife, fork and spoon in front of him, and the steak in the fine porcelain, and was really moved by Goxinga's preparation. He used many words to describe his gratitude, but Rong Hong simply and crudely filtered these diplomatic words, leaving only four words, which can be called concise and to the point.

"Although the steak has butter, it uses a Chinese sauce, so you can only be wronged. However, this wine is excellent, and although it may be different from the way it is made and stored in your country, it is also very precious to be a 100-year-old vintage. "Guoxing's meal is from the ingredients to the tableware is the inventory of the Old Summer Palace, and the wine is also the cellar of the Old Summer Palace.

"A very rare wine indeed!" Grant had no sense of being a prisoner of war, and shook and sniffed the goblet, and finally took a small sip. After a long time of afterthought, I was able to answer Guoxing's sentence.

"I'm going to change to a yellow bar!" Guo Xing'a also took a sip, but he didn't have Grant's fluttering feeling, he only felt sour and bitter.

"Beijing rice wine is also very famous, cut the ginger shreds, put a few plums, after warming, moist and delicious!" After taking a sip of rice wine, Guo Xing'a recommended it to Grant very sincerely, as if he just wanted to taste wine with Grant today.

Grant took a sip of the rice wine that Guo Xing'a admired, and then had an unacceptable expression on his face. Just as Xing'a didn't know how to drink red wine, Grant didn't get used to the beauty of rice wine at all.

"You can try this again, the lotus white of Jingxi Liulangzhuang is also the best quality! The dignitaries and dignitaries in Beijing are also good at this mouthful, and they should be drunk according to the season! Our department just occupies Liulangzhuang, this solar term, it is also when the lotus has just fallen, let's try it! Guo Xing'a didn't drink it himself, and recommended a pot of lotus white to Grant.

"It's a great spirit, with the scent of flowers!" Grant loved the lotus white taste, and Chinese liquor was really good, especially spirits.

"It turns out that you like this kind of wine, and when you return home after the war, I will send two bottles of Rose Fen, which has the taste of roses! Goxinga enthusiastically recommended, as if he and Grant no longer had any national hatred and family hatred, but became two friends who had been friends for many years.

"Mr. Major General, thank you very much for your hospitality, but you should be very busy right now, and you should have some kind of conspiracy to have lunch with me all of a sudden." Grant smiled at Gohinga, and then calmly uttered the word "conspiracy".

"Cheers, Cheers!" Guo Xing'a smiled helplessly, Grant's speed of speech was too fast, he couldn't react, but words like "conspiracy" were definitely added by Rong Hong himself. After being down, Rong Hong became a little impatient, and behaved too upright and even mean in many places.

The eunuchs of the inner palace are definitely the best waiters in the world, they always bow their bodies humbly, and provide all kinds of services in every detail. Guo Xing'a is a little confused, how do these guys distinguish whether you want to eat this dish or just look at it, as long as you understand the idea of eating this dish, the eunuch in charge of the case will already be clamped and sent to you. This is definitely not judged by the time you look at this dish, Guo Xing'a and Grant have both looked at the hundred birds and phoenixes with intricate carvings for a long time, but they didn't have the idea of eating, so the eunuch didn't clip them. And the blue water and floating cloud soup they wanted to eat, just with a sweep of their eyes, the eunuchs had already served it to them, as if these two eunuchs had the ability to telepathize. The bowl had just been put down, and on the way back to the hand, a towel to wipe the mouth was delivered to the hand.

"Thank you!" Although Goxinga seized some of Grant's military belongings, he returned his personal belongings, so when Grant was also shocked by this magical service, the habit of tipping in London made him subconsciously hand his gold-encrusted pocket watch to the little eunuch who served him.

"Ah...... "The little eunuch served people, he had never been rewarded, and he was a little overwhelmed by Grant's pocket watch.

"Hehe......" Guo Xing'a laughed, waved his hand, and asked Fuquan to reward each of the two little eunuchs with silver, and then blasted away.

The two eunuchs were specially selected by Fushun, and their positions were very low, and they were also young. They are all people who only know how to serve people, and they don't know who they are serving today, nor do they know anything about it, and they don't have a head or tail when they want to leak secrets. Otherwise, Guoxing A's private use of the imperial meal and the news of letting the eunuchs serve it will definitely end up in the court.

"Let's get down to business! Mr. Grant, I personally believe that the war has come to an end, and that it is almost time for peace talks. However, your army is still carrying out a senseless attack, which has caused your army to suffer huge losses, and at the same time, I am a little puzzled, I hope you can give me an answer! Grant also learned about the general situation of the tactics, although Goxinga did not specifically introduce it to him, nor did he deliberately isolate the news in this regard. The hard work of the prisoners of war in the prisoner of war camp was to make coffins for the British dead outside the Old Summer Palace, and Grant was of course very aware of the British losses.

"It is true that in the overall situation, the strategic purpose of the coalition has been basically achieved, but your emperor's act of kidnapping the mission has not yet paid a price, and I think this may be the reason why the war is still going on." Grant didn't catch up with the skinny version of Pashali, so he could only guess by what he knew about Elgin.

"Shabali's gang can't be considered kidnapping! They were not captured in the envoy's mansion, but near the Qing army's position. I don't rule out that Seng Lingqin had plans to clean him up before, but at least when it came to doing it, Mr. Pashali's behavior was not very regular. "Guo Xing'a is polite to say this, everyone is a belligerent! And in the future, it is rare to ask for help from the British. Otherwise, you invaders will rush into my house and talk to me about kidnapping the emissary, and you will be shameless.

"Whatever the reason, attacking someone with a white flag is unacceptable to the international civilized community." Grant was also a little weak-hearted, he instinctively believed that Goxinga was telling the truth, and Pashali was not a person of rules.

"Let's talk about some possibilities for ending the war! Now is not the time to analyze and debate the causes of the incident, your army has used the white flag in Xinhe to delay the army, so it is normal for the white flag to fail in some places! "The British are not as beautiful as they say they are, a lot of black history, Guo Xing'a can be turned over at any time.

"As you wish, Mr. Major General!" Grant didn't fight anymore, with Xinhe in front of him, morally speaking, Pashali deserved to be killed.

"What do you think is the end of the war now?" Guo Xinga motioned for Rong Hong to brief Grant about the current situation of the Pasha Mission, and then asked Grant about it.

"According to the provisions of the Public Law of Nations, if an envoy is killed, he will break the city one day, and no chickens and dogs will be left. The British will take revenge on you, and the war will not stop until it is done. The British army attacked here before, probably to destroy this place as revenge, this place is so beautiful, they must want to destroy your emperor's beloved manor as revenge. Grant didn't want to fight, but after hearing what happened to the Pashali mission, he knew that Ergin would not stop.

"I don't want to threaten anyone, but as far as the current situation is concerned, your army will not destroy anything, and a stalemate will only result in the destruction of your army. Our country needs to face a rebellion in the South, and it is true that we need trade to learn from the scientific and technological civilization of the West, so we don't want to destroy the coalition forces and cause a bigger war. I know how strong Britain is in India, and I know how strong Britain is in the world, but that is not enough to make us afraid. China is a large country with a population of nearly 400 million, with a territory as vast as the whole of Europe, and if it really triggers a full-scale war, we will have to suffer some hardships, but Britain is also dragged into the quagmire of war, and the long war may last ten to twenty years, or even longer! Goxinga tried to convince Grant that he didn't want to fight, and it would be a big trouble to attract hundreds of thousands of British troops, and China still needed time to develop.

"Mr. Major General, I agree with you, we don't want the war to expand, but it's a pity that Sir Ergin doesn't know this, he is not a soldier but a politician!" Grant shook his head helplessly.