is the so-called smell of the same, although it is just a sesame mung bean size of the six-product editing, and he has not even been qualified to leave an impression on the devil Liuyixun, but with the Wu family's ancestors and grandchildren coming to Prince Gong's mansion, just after a few words, Li Hongzhang immediately won the favor and attention of the devil six, Wu Chaoyue took the opportunity to suggest that the devil six also bring Li Hongzhang to Dagukou to help with the paperwork, and the devil six also agreed. As a result, a diplomatic negotiation team that can definitely be regarded as a stench for 10,000 years has been formed.

The head of the negotiation team: Devil Liuai Xinjueluo Yixun, a signatory of traitorous treaties such as the Sino-British Beijing Treaty, the Sino-French Beijing Treaty, and the Sino-Russian Beijing Treaty, during the Second Opium War, one person successively ceded more than 1.32 million square kilometers of land to Lao Maozi, and paid more than 22 million taels of silver to Britain and France!

Minor members of the negotiation team: Li Hongzhang, a pasteur of the Qing Dynasty, signed the "Treaty of Vietnam", "Treaty of Shimonoseki", "Treaty of Xincho", etc., on behalf of the Qing court, ceded Taiwan, Penghu and Ryukyu and other places to Japan, if it were not for the intervention and obstruction of Russia, Germany and France for their own interests, and almost ceded the Liaodong Peninsula to the devils, only the two treaties of Maguan and Xinchou, would have paid 650 million taels of silver!

The main members of the negotiation team: Wu Jianzhang, the pioneer of the comprador leading the way, demarcated the boundary of the Shanghai Concession, advocated borrowing troops from foreigners to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Qingpu teaching case investigators forced the people to pay compensation to foreigners with 300 taels of silver!

Low-level members of the negotiation team: the potential comprador leads the way to the party Wu Chaoyue, helps foreigners to preach, partners with foreigners to build factories, and is good at borrowing foreigners' power to fake the tiger, although he has not yet participated in any lesson plans, what treaties have been signed to cut land and pay compensation, but he will definitely not be able to run away in the future!

As soon as the situation was critical, as soon as the negotiation team, which was mainly composed of traitors and compradors, led the way, was formed, they all rushed to Dagukou the next day, rushed to Tianjin in only one day, rested for a little night, and hurried to the military grain city the next day to meet the Qing army troops stationed there, and then sent a liaison messenger to inform the Western six countries of the combined fleet of the situation, and invited the negotiator of the combined fleet, Bulblon, to the military grain city to start negotiations.

In the evening of the same day, the liaison messenger brought back the news, saying that Burbulon categorically refused to come to Wuliangcheng to negotiate in person, and asked Guizi 6 to negotiate at Dagukou, and stipulated that Guizi 6's entourage should not exceed 20 people and could not carry any weapons.

In this regard, the ancestors of the Wu family, who have a deep friendship with foreigners, are not worried, but Devil Six is scared, and he hesitates for a long time and does not dare to agree to the condition proposed by Burbulon, and the guards of Devil Six also think that this is because the foreigners want to deceive Devil Six to Dagukou and cut it down, and strongly oppose Devil Six to accept Burbulon's conditions. In the end, Devil Six simply kicked the ball to Wu Jianzhang, asking Wu Jianzhang to go to Dagukou to negotiate with the foreigners, and asked Burbulon to bring people to Wuliangcheng to negotiate, and also asked Burbulon and others not to carry any weapons.

Coming to Dagukou to negotiate was originally an alliance under the city, and the peacemaker wanted to let the victor not negotiate in the barracks, Wu Jianzhang was of course dumbfounded and did not dare to accept this errand. Seeing Wu Jianzhang's embarrassment, Wu Chaoyue stood up and volunteered, saying, "Lord Wang, my grandfather is old and his legs are inconvenient, so let me go." ”

"Are you sure?" Devil Six hurriedly asked.

"Back to the prince, the grass people are not sure." Wu Chaoyue shook his head and said calmly: "But my grandfather is also not sure that he will go, rather than letting his old man run back and forth and be humiliated by foreigners, it is better for me to go." ”

Devil Six stopped talking, and Wu Chaoyue said again: "Lord, the emperor is still waiting for our news, and the foreigners are also impatient, if they can't even settle down for a long time, the emperor will definitely be unhappy, and if the foreigners can't hold their breath, maybe the war will be expanded." So whether you are sure or not, please let the grass people run for you, and strive to make the foreigners accept your conditions. ”

Wu Chaoyue deliberately mentioned that Emperor Xianfeng and the foreigners were already impatient, of course, indirectly reminding Devil Six not to delay too much time. Considering that the last negotiator, Hua Shana, was driven back to Beijing by the foreigners because of too much delay, and it also caused the foreigners to capture the Dagukou Fort and expand the situation, the devil who did not want to repeat this mistake thought about it all night, gritted his teeth, and finally decided to accept Burbulon's conditions and only brought twenty followers to negotiate in Dagukou. The guards sent by Xianfeng to Devil Six dissuaded him, but Devil Six did not listen.

In fact, Devil Six and his guards were completely worried that the combined fleet came to Dagukou for extortion, and had no intention of expanding the war, nor did they have the strength to start a full-scale war with the Qing army in Zhili, and of course they would not poison Devil Six and cut off the communication channels with the Manchu court. Therefore, at noon that day, when Devil Six led twenty unarmed retinues to Dagukou, not only was he not subjected to any harshness, but on the contrary, he was received by the Combined Fleet with great pomp.

When they met, something happened that made the ancestors of the Wu family quite embarrassing, in front of the devil six and Li Hongzhang and others, the leader of the combined fleet, the French minister Bourblon and the American brigadier general Matthew Perry, directly gave the ancestors of the Wu family a bear hug, and Perry, whose face was as big as his voice, also hugged Wu Chaoyue and shouted, "Dear Wu, I'm really happy to see you and your grandfather here, your stupid court of the Qing Kingdom has finally done a smart thing this time, let you also come to the negotiations, and this matter will be easily solved." ”

Perhaps thinking that the suspicion of the ancestors and grandsons of the Wu family was not big enough, Burbulon also hugged Wu Jianzhang and said directly in Chinese: "Wu, my good friend, we finally met again at the negotiation table, as before, I will never be polite to you, you are ready to cry and go back to report the results of the negotiations to your emperor." ”

Devil Liu, Li Hongzhang and others all looked at the ancestors of the Wu family without saying a word, and Wu Jianzhang had no choice but to explain with a wry smile: "Lord Wang, don't misunderstand, foreigners are used to talking so directly, no matter how good the relationship is in private, they are enemies at the negotiation table, and there is a clear distinction between public and private!" ”

"That's right!" Bourblon took over the conversation and shouted at Devil Six: "Mistergong, you have brought a good helper this time, Wu has always been our most cunning enemy at the negotiation table. But don't get too happy, I'm the winner every time, and this time will be no exception. ”

Fortunately, Devil Six and Li Hongzhang are both people who are more receptive to new things, although they were surprised by the direct confession of the foreigners, and they were somewhat worried that the ancestors of the Wu family would betray the Qing Dynasty, but they did not reveal it directly, but politely bowed to the foreigners, and then the Devil Six also proposed to start negotiations as soon as possible, and the people who had been waiting for a long time Bulblon and Perry couldn't ask for it, and immediately nodded in agreement.

The negotiation venue was set up in the command hall of the Dagukou Fort, although Burbulon and others received the devil Liuyi with courtesy, but they also played tricks in the arrangement of the seats, and immediately sat down as soon as they entered the hall, and invited the devil Liu and others to be opposite them, but when the devil Liu just wanted to sit down, Wu Chaoyue saw that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly stopped: "Lord, you can't sit." ”

"Why?" Devil Six asked suspiciously.

Wu Yue did not answer, but turned to Burbulon and the others, and said in Chinese with a smile: "Dear Minister Mr. Burbulon, I am very sorry, it seems that your staff made a serious mistake when arranging the seats, how did you arrange the seats in a north-south direction?" This seating arrangement seems to be going east-west, right? ”

In ancient China, there was also the word facing north, and after being reminded by Wu Chaoyue, Devil Six and Li Hongzhang discovered the tricks played by foreigners - they first sat in the north and south on behalf of the winner, but gave up the position of the loser who sat in the south and north to Devil Six. And Bourblon smiled and said: "Wu, you are more cunning than your grandfather, but this kind of position arrangement is not bad, we have won the big gukou, and we are the winners, so we should sit in the north." ”

"Dear Mr. Bourblon, it's a pity that Prince Gong is not here to negotiate a truce with you this time, and the Qing Dynasty has not declared war with the six European and American countries." Wu Chaoyue, who had participated in two foreign trade negotiations in the 21 st century, said with a smile: "Prince Gong, the purpose of his negotiation with you is to negotiate with the six European and American countries in the Qing Dynasty on trade, the construction of factories and the establishment of embassies. Mr. Bourblon, you are a well-known French diplomatic expert, do you think it should be so? ”

"Wu, you articulate guy, I shouldn't have saved you in Shanghai."

Bulbulon complained helplessly, and then discussed it in a low voice with Perry, Laurio and others, Bulbulon finally agreed to change the seat to the east-west direction, and let Devil Six and Wu Jianzhang and others sit on the east side of the representative equality, Devil Six was overjoyed, and quietly patted Wu Chaoyue's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Okay, go on, this king will definitely ask the emperor for credit for you." ”

Wu Chaoyue smiled bitterly and said secretly: "It's such a trivial matter, foreigners are talking about international conventions, but they are never soft in terms of interests, whether I can bear the infamy of a traitor less, the key is still up to you." ”

The result was not as Wu Chaoyue expected, although it was only a combined fleet of warships and armed merchant ships improvised with a total strength of only more than 4,000 people, and at the same time, it did not get permission to start a war at home. But Burbulon and the others still opened their mouths widely, put forward a lot of reasonable and unreasonable harsh demands, and insisted that the devil six accept them all.

The conditions set by Bourblon and others were mainly as follows: First, merchants from Britain, the United States, France, Spain, Belgium, and Prussia were allowed to rent and buy land in treaty ports and establish commercial facilities such as factories and banks.

2. Missionaries from the six countries were allowed to travel and preach in the interior.

Three: Britain and France were allowed to establish embassies in Beijing, and France was allowed to establish a concession in Shanghai.

Fourth, the six treaty ports of Nanjing, Tainan, Wenzhou, Chaozhou, Haizhou (Lianyungang) and Tianjin will be opened, and the six first-class ships will be allowed to freely enter and leave the ports of the treaty cities, and the six-first fleet will be allowed to anchor in the treaty ports.

Fifth, the "Treaty of Nanjing" was amended, allowing merchants from the six countries to enter and leave the port city freely, and severely punishing officials and ordinary people who obstructed foreigners from entering the city.

6. Compensate the United Fleet for its military expenses of 1 million taels of silver.

Seven: Recognize the innocence of Wu Jianzhang and Wu Chao's ancestors, severely punish the murderers who framed Wu Jianzhang and Wu Yue, allow Chinese merchants, ordinary people, and officials to carry out all commercial cooperation with merchants of the six countries, and allow Chinese to help missionaries from the six countries, and the Qing government must not obstruct them.

After listening to the conditions offered by the foreigners, of course the devil six and Wu Jianzhang frowned, because Emperor Xianfeng asked that foreigners should not be allowed to establish an embassy in Beijing, let alone open a port again, especially not to open Tianjin Port, and at the same time pay less compensation, preferably not at all. In desperation, Devil No. 6 and Wu Jianzhang had no choice but to agree to Articles 1, 2, 5 and 7 first, and at the same time agree to let the French establish a concession in Shanghai, and then bargain with the foreigners for the remaining few articles to keep the price as low as possible.

It is a pity that although Devil Six had the courage to agree to open the three southern ports of Tainan, Wenzhou and Chaozhou, and promised to pay 200,000 taels of silver in compensation, Wu Jianzhang, who was familiar with the customs and language of foreigners, also continued to explain and plead, and strongly persuaded Bur Bulon and others to make concessions, but Bul Bul and others did not give an inch, insisted that Devil Six unconditionally accept all the conditions they offered, and threatened war at every turn. In the end, in a fit of anxiety and helplessness, Devil Six also took the initiative to reveal the real hole card of Emperor Xianfeng, and said: "Mr. Burbulon, except for the matter of Tianjin Port and the embassy, everything else can be discussed, but if you must open Tianjin Port to the Qing Dynasty and allow you to establish an embassy in Beijing, then this negotiation will never succeed!" ”

Hearing this, Wu Jianzhang and Wu Chaoyue, of course, both changed their faces, and scolded the six fools in their hearts - in fact, the six devils are so stupid, after signing the Beijing Treaty during the Second Crow War, the French ** team that abided by the agreement to withdraw encountered heavy rain on the way to retreat, and was delayed for a few days, thinking that the French had repented, the devil six was so frightened that he ceded all the land east of the Ussuri River to Maozi, and also promised that the border on the Central Asian side would be demarcated by a sentry post, and he gave Lao Maozi hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land in vain.

The faces of the ancestors of the Wu family changed greatly, but the veterans of diplomacy such as Bourblon and Laurio had a twinkle in their eyes, and immediately pinpointed the weakness of Devil Six's dare not agree to open the port of Tianjin and allow the establishment of an embassy in Beijing, and forced Devil Six to open the Yangtze River route and open five more inland and oceanic ports in exchange, and the whale opened his mouth to raise the indemnity to two million taels, and did not make any concessions.

Seeing that Devil Six's face turned pale, for fear that this idiot would agree to these harsh conditions as soon as his mouth loosened, Wu Chaoyue had no choice but to quickly open his mouth and propose to Devil Six: "Lord Wang, if you are tired, you can suspend the negotiations, take a break and resume the negotiations." ”

Snorted blankly several times, Devil Six turned around and asked to suspend the negotiations, although Burblon and others agreed, but once again threatened to never make any concessions, Devil Six was amnesty, quickly escaped from the negotiation venue to gasp, Wu Jianzhang and Li Hongzhang and others hurriedly followed. And when Wu Chaoyue also wanted to go out with him, Burbulon seized the opportunity to come up and quickly whispered: "Wu, if you can persuade Mister Gong to agree to these conditions, 30,000 silver dollars." ”

Wu Chaoyue didn't say a word, and chased him out without hesitation, and the devil who went out first didn't look back, and ran to the edge of the fort, gasping for a long time, and then came back to his senses and said to Wu Jianzhang, Li Hongzhang and others: "The conditions offered by foreigners are too harsh!" Even if I reluctantly agree, the emperor will definitely not agree! ”

Wu Jianzhang, Li Hongzhang and the others nodded silently, and then Devil Six whispered to Wu Jianzhang: "Wu Daotai, aren't you very familiar with that Burbulon?" Can you give him some silver and make him make more concessions? ”

"Lord Wang, it's useless." Wu Jianzhang shook his head and replied truthfully: "The foreigners are joining forces with six countries this time, and any concession must be agreed by the representatives of the six countries before it can be decided. ”

"What then?" Devil Six said distressedly: "The foreigners have already said that they will not give in anymore, if this cannot be negotiated, how can this king explain to the emperor?" ”

"Lord Wang, it's not that the lower officials said you, you are still too inexperienced." Wu Jianzhang complained: "How can you directly tell the foreigners that our Qing Dynasty will never allow the opening of Tianjin?" This is not the same as telling foreigners our true limit, foreigners don't open their mouths to blame! ”

The devil kept a straight face and didn't speak, and only said after a while: "If it doesn't work, just ask for an order, and see if the emperor agrees to the conditions offered by the foreigners." ”

The entourage nodded silently, and the devil six asked someone to bring pen and ink, personally picked up the pen and made a book on the spot, reported the negotiation situation to Emperor Xianfeng, and asked whether to decide the harsh conditions of the foreigners. During this period, the six followers of the devil, including Wu Chaoyue, were silent, but Li Hongzhang sighed lightly and said in a low voice: "It's over, at least the silver is compensated this time." ”

Although Li Hongzhang's voice was low, Wu Chaoyue happened to be standing beside him and heard it clearly, so Wu Chaoyue pulled Li Hongzhang back a few steps and asked in a low voice: "Brother Shaoquan, you said that the silver was compensated, do you think the emperor will definitely agree to pay the silver?" ”

"Something for sure." Li Hongzhang said in a low voice: "When the six princes were negotiating just now, they were obviously only concerned about the opening of the port of Tianjin and the embassy, and almost all the questions about the compensation were opened, and it was all negotiations between Lord Wu and foreigners, which shows that the emperor had already secretly explained to the six princes, and the matter of silver was easy to discuss." ”

Wu Chaoyue recalled carefully, and found that the situation just now was indeed as Li Hongzhang said, Devil Six really didn't care much about compensation, and then remembered the generosity of the wild boar skin family in history, Wu Chaoyue inevitably muttered a little in his heart, and said secretly: "No, I won't really agree to pay so much silver to foreigners, right?" ”

Although it is not his own silver to lose, but this matter can be traced back to his own related, when he thinks of the Chinese people's life money because he wants to give such a large amount of money to foreigners, Wu Chaoyue has some guilt in his heart, and he also tries to start thinking, "How can I solve this matter without losing silver or with less silver?" The foreigners actually came for commercial interests this time, and they had no intention of starting a full-scale war with the Manchu court, as long as they were given enough benefits, it was not impossible for them to make significant concessions. ”

"Then what kind of benefits can be exchanged with them so that they can give up the compensation? Build a railway? Build a telegram network? No, these investments are too large for the six countries to share in the benefits. Build more concessions? Open more ports? Mining? Open ......, wait, open a mine?! ”

Thinking of this, Wu Chaoyue's heart suddenly moved, and his mind suddenly quickly calculated, and subconsciously thought of several famous minerals in China, "Ma'anshan Iron Mine, Shanxi Coal Sea, Daqing Oilfield, Hanyang Iron Mine, Copper Mine, Gold Mine, Tungsten ......, and wait!" Gold mine! How did I forget about the gold mine there?! ”

A little late, when Wu Chaoyue racked his brains to make up his mind, Devil Six had already finished writing the recital, handed it over to the accompanying guards and sent it to the capital quickly, and had already ordered to return to the negotiation venue and asked the foreigners to wait for Xianfeng's reply. Wu Chaoyue hurriedly stepped forward and whispered to Devil Liu: "Lord Wang, I have come up with a way, maybe we can let the foreigners agree to our conditions without paying compensation and making so many concessions." ”

"What's the best way?" Devil Six hurriedly asked.

"Let's talk about it when we get to the venue." Wu Chaoyue was afraid that Devil Six would not agree and couldn't believe his whimsy, so he didn't immediately say his idea, but just said in a low voice: "Please go back to the venue to talk again, and when the time comes, please also ask the prince to allow me to argue with the foreigners." ”