The Goros Minister to China, Cassini, has been in a hurry for the past few days, because he has not received a telegram of instructions from the Tsar of Moscow and Foreign Minister Gilles for a week in a row.

In the past, it was not surprising that no telegrams were received from China for a week or even half a month, but now the Qing court has become the Chinese Empire, compared to the Qing court, the Chinese Empire showed a completely different style from the Qing court as soon as it was established, and the affairs of the Chinese Empire can be described as a thousand miles in a day.

In particular, in the war with the Qing army in China, Cassini estimated that even if it did not last ten or eight years, at least three or five years, during this period of time, if Oros could seize the opportunity to fight against it, it would certainly be able to gain great benefits between the Chinese army and the Qing army.

Who knows, this Huaxia army showed surprisingly strong strength, not only completely defeated the Japanese army, but also in less than half a year, the Chinese mainland of 13 million square kilometers, except for Xinjiang, Tibet, Mongolian steppe and other remote places are still in the process of marching, the rest of the places were taken with almost no effort.

As a result, Mr. Casini, the Oros minister, who had always been arrogant in the Qing court, could not eat rice or Oros-style bread for many days.

Seeing that the Chinese army was already marching towards Xinjiang, Tibet, and the Mongolian steppe, and the opportunities available to Oros were getting fewer and fewer, Cassini was so anxious that his eyes were about to burst into flames, but at this time, he did not receive a telegram from Moscow for a week.

Anxious to get angry, Cassini had to go to the telegraph office in person for several days to ask if there was any telegram from Moscow, and the answer was: no!

In 1880, China was incorporated into the world's cable telegraph network, and before the full realization of wireless telegraphy, the embassies and consulates of various countries communicated with their governments through the telegraph bureau through the telegraph office.

The Huaxia officer on duty at the telegraph office always shook his head with a dead face and said no, and Cassini was eager to rush up and slap the young yellow man a few times.

However, he saw the Chinese soldiers standing guard at the door, and understood that this was no longer the former Qing Dynasty, although it was only in the past half a year, this Chinese Empire is different from the incompetent Qing court, it is a big empire that can defeat the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States.

So, Casini, who was furious, held back and said to the officer on duty: "Sir, please help me send a telegram to Moscow!" ”

The officer on duty accepted the code of the telegram handed over by Cassini, nodded and said: "Okay, Mr. Minister, please pay the fee according to the previous procedure, and I will arrange for this telegram to be sent to your homeland!" ”

Amid the ticking of telegrams in the telegraph room, Cassini left the telegraph office in three steps and one by one.

Cassini waited anxiously for another four days, but there was still no news from Moscow.

Unexpectedly, on the fifth day, a fast boat came from Vladivostok, which was controlled by Oros, and as soon as the Oros personnel boarded the dock, they immediately bought tickets for the Beijing-Tianjin train and galloped to the capital.

However, due to the construction of roads everywhere, the train was a bit abnormal, and it was always delayed, and it was only a day later that Cassini received a diplomatic emergency seal.

After the diplomatic urgency was opened, Cassini was taken aback, it turned out that this was a document sent from Vladivostok to the Chinese Empire, asking him to send an ultimatum to the Chinese Empire: the Oros Empire did not recognize the Chinese Empire that had stolen the power of the Qing court, and demanded that the Chinese Empire immediately revoke the state name and withdraw from the Chinese mainland.

In this diplomatic document, there was also a document written in code, which asked Cassini to immediately negotiate with the Chinese Empire, saying that the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing court was now in Siberia and had agreed to cede the territory north of the Yellow River to the Oros, and if the Chinese Empire was willing to hand over the land north of the Great Wall to the Oros Empire, the Oros Empire could consider forming an alliance with the Chinese Empire to completely eliminate all the remnants of the Qing court.

Cassini immediately rushed to the office address of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire with this ultimatum in high spirits, saying that he wanted to meet with Foreign Minister Niu Quyun.

"He's finally here!" Niu Quyun had been waiting for a long time, and ordered with a cold snort: "Let him in!" ”

When Cassini came in, he put out the score, looked like a bull, and after handing the document to Niu Quyun, he stood there motionless without saying a word.

Niu Quyun glanced at the documents roughly, pretended to be surprised, and said, "Mr. Minister, what does this mean?" ”

"Please act immediately according to the requirements of the Oros Empire, otherwise you will bear all the consequences!"

Niu Quyun sneered: "What time do you think it is?" Do you think this is dealing with the Manchu government? You can do whatever you want? ”

Cassini originally wanted to hand Niu Quyun the ultimatum, so he waited for Niu Quyun to beg him, and then sat on the ground and raised the price, slowly reaping the best interests of the Oros Empire, but he didn't expect that Niu Quyun didn't buy his account at all, so he didn't have a chance to play at all.

Hearing Niu Quyun's words, Cassini had no choice but to say: "If your country does not do what the Oros Empire requires, then the army of the Oros Empire will support the army of the Qing court to recover all the territory of the Great Qing Kingdom!" ”

"Hmph, such an act of your Oros is equivalent to an act of war with an immediate declaration of war, which will bring endless disasters to your Oros Empire, and Siberia will no longer belong to your Oros!"

Cassini couldn't imagine that Niu Quyun had launched anti-blackmail and anti-threats against him, which he had never encountered in the diplomatic mission in the Qing State, so he suddenly trembled with anger and pointed at Niu Quyun with his finger: "You, you are a threat to the Ororos Empire......

"Ha, who threatened whom, who came to the door with an ultimatum to threaten!"

"Hmph, you yellow-skinned monkeys are waiting for the army of the Oros Empire to come to your door!"

"If you Oros want to fight, then see who is afraid of whom!"

Cassini originally hoped that while the Chinese Empire was newly established and ready to be rebuilt, he could rely on his incorruptible tongue to move the Chinese Empire and win the maximum benefits for Oros without going to war, but who knew that this foreign minister seemed to be a little neurotic, and he didn't eat the set he used very well in the Qing court at all.

Cassini walked out of the door angrily, and Niu Quyun immediately shook a hotline: "Your Majesty, the minister of Oros is here, and it is really exactly the same as the emperor expected!" ”

Hu Zhen's calm voice came from the other end of the telephone: "War with Oros is inevitable, from now on, we must put aside all illusions and prepare for the ...... battle" (to be continued. )