The emissaries of Tsarist Russia consisted of two people. The envoy was the former Tsarist Governor-General in Siberia, Alexander Dugameli, and the deputy envoy was Ivan Fedorovich Babkov, the former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Siberian Military District and an active member of the Royal Geographical Society of Tsarist Russia. Of course, now the whole of Siberia has been captured by the Chinese Empire, and they have become idle posts who fled back to Orenburg, so the Tsarist government sent them to the Holy Capital of the Chinese Empire, because they set out from the inland Orenburg, experienced a lot of hardships, lasted more than half a year, and finally arrived in Orenburg, at this moment, these two envoys, it is not clear that many things have happened during their departure from Orenburg, Tsarist Russia, even Orenburg, have all changed dramatically.

Bao Ling knew that the Kingdom of Great Britain originally had an embassy in Shengjing, but soon after the establishment of the Chinese Empire, the Kingdom of Great Britain decided to send an expeditionary force to wage war with the Chinese Empire, and the two sides became hostile countries, and the embassy of the Kingdom of Great Britain was abolished and has not been restored until now. Therefore, he could only enter the Western embassy in the holy capital, just like Tsarist Russia, which had never established diplomatic relations.

The Western embassy was free of charge for food and lodging for a month, but inside, Bao Ling was clearly under the watchful eye of the embassy staff all the time, and even when he went to the toilet, he could feel that there were several eyes staring at him from a crack in a certain wall, which was very uncomfortable. But he can't help it, now he is asking the Chinese Empire to negotiate peace, he is anxious, and he doesn't have much say at all. If it weren't for the fact that the Kingdom of Great Britain had asked France for help and asked the French Empire to mediate before its departure, it was afraid that the Chinese Empire would not want to negotiate peace with itself at all, and would have maintained the status of a hostile country and occupied the overseas territories of the British Empire all the way.

Think about what the status of the British Empire was, even if it was just a small consul in Guangzhou, how majestic it was. At that time, the British Empire was the world's number one power, dominating almost half of the foreign trade of this Eastern country, and even France could only sigh gloomily. But since the war with the Chinese Empire, the two expeditionary armies of the Kingdom of Great Britain have all been defeated, and many of them have even been wiped out, completely consuming most of the military strength of the British Empire, so that now the British Empire has fallen to such a point, and it has become an extremely down-and-out Western peace envoy! Not only that, but the request for peace was not accepted by the other side, and it needed to be mediated through France, which the Kingdom of Great Britain had not looked at all.

It's sad to think about! Bao Ling sighed inwardly.

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Wu Ruxiao got up early in the morning.

Today is the appointed day for negotiations with Britain and Tsarist Russia. Originally, he was said to be in charge of the negotiations, but because the envoys from Britain and Tsarist Russia were not of high status, it was temporarily decided that Chen Lanbin, director of the Western Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, would come forward to negotiate with the British and Tsarist envoys. And although Wu Ruxiao also came to listen, he did not come forward behind the scenes.

Chen Lanbin was a Jinshi of Xianfeng for three years, originally selected as a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, as a compilation and repair of the National History Museum, and later reappointed as the director of the Criminal Department, but after the Manchu Qing Dynasty was destroyed by the Chinese Empire, he followed a large number of Manchu officials and surrendered to the new court of the Chinese Empire.

Of course, because it had long been known that Britain and Tsarist Russia were coming to negotiate and ask for an armistice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had long been prepared, so both Wu Ruxiao and Chen Lanbin, who was negotiating specifically, knew that the initiative was now completely in their own hands.

As soon as Wu Ruxiao entered the back hall of the meeting hall of the Western Division, Chen Lanbin followed, and the two talked a few more words, and a soldier outside the door announced: "My lord, the foreigners have arrived!" ”

Chen Lanbin hurriedly walked out of the back hall and came to the conference hall, only to see the French minister Bourblon leading three foreigners in.

Burbulon greeted warmly: "Director Chen, it's been a long time!" Recently, our French embassy has received a new batch of wines from the Château Lysalus in Bordeaux, which taste mellow, and I will ask my assistant to send you ten barrels later, and by the way, I will help to divide a few barrels to your lord. ”

Chen Lanbin and Burblon were also very familiar with each other, and said with a haha: "Mr. Minister is in love." We are not used to drinking your country's wine, we still like the old self-brewed rice wine, which is mellow and sweet. Mr. Minister, who are these three? ”

Chen Lanbin is very familiar with the Burbulon in front of him, including the officials of the entire Ministry of Foreign Affairs. First, this Bourblon can be said to be the longest serving minister of the Chinese Empire among all Western countries, he has served as the French minister to China since the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and has held this position for almost 10 years until the current Chinese Empire, and it is difficult for everyone to be familiar with it. Second, since the British expeditionary fleet was defeated twice in a row, the British national strength was great, and because Britain blocked the foreign trade trade of the Chinese Empire in Europe, and the United States had a civil war, only Prussia and France became the biggest beneficiaries of the foreign trade trading partners of the Chinese Empire, so Chen Lanbin and others had a lot to deal with Burblon.

Thirdly, the reason why Bourblon served as the minister to China of the French Empire for so long was not that he could not be promoted, but that he did too well to satisfy the French emperor, and Bourblon himself was unwilling to be transferred back to China, so he has been serving as minister to China. For example, in the past two years, the Chinese Empire purchased many large warships from France and the Ottoman Empire, especially battleships, all of which were achieved by acting as a broker in the middle. This allowed Bourblon to earn a large amount of commissions, and because of this, Bourblon had always been friendly with the Chinese Empire, and Chen Lanbin even suspected that if the French Emperor wanted to transfer him back to Europe one day, it was likely that Bourblon would resign as minister and become a special intermediary in the service of the Chinese Empire.

Seeing that Chen Lanbin directly mentioned the three main masters behind him, Burbulon hurriedly introduced: "Come on, come on, I'll introduce Director Chen." This is the Plenipotentiary Envoy from England, Sir Bowing. The other two were the Russian Plenipotentiary Count Alexander Dugameli and the Deputy Envoy Ivan Fedorovich Babkov. ”

Chen Lanbin nodded, with a smile on his face that people could see at a glance that it was forcibly squeezed out, and said, "It turns out that you are Sir Bao Ling, and you have admired your name for a long time!" Sir Bao Ling is a China expert, who has lived in our Chinese empire for many years, and is very familiar with us. As for the other two Russian envoys, apart from this Mr. Babkov, which I have not heard of, Count Alexander Dugameli, I have long admired the great name, the former Governor-General of Siberia, whose name I saw a year ago in the report of the great victory in the north-west of our Chinese Empire. ”

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