After receiving the news that the Chinese army was attacking Australia on a large scale, the British domestic political circles were suddenly very anxious, although the British navy still had a lot of strength, and the number of battleships would not be less than that of the Chinese army, which had captured a large number of warships, but it was necessary to defend the territory of England and ensure that the colonies all over the world had no strength to rescue Australia at this time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Almost all of them unanimously demanded that the Earl of Rosebury, as the prime minister of the caretaker government, should immediately negotiate with the Chinese Empire, and through negotiations should guarantee the interests of the English Empire to the greatest extent.

However, the Chinese Empire was not at all concerned about negotiating with the British Empire, and Xue Fucheng, the minister in London, always said that he was not in good health and needed bed rest as an excuse, and he did not see the representative sent by the British Prime Minister's Office to ask for immediate negotiations.

Under the repeated pleas of Prime Minister of the Earl of Rosebury, Xue Fucheng finally agreed to report to the Chinese Empire and the British Empire's request for negotiations.

But this report is also very long, and the wait for the reply of the Chinese Emperor is also very long.

Finally, news finally came from the capital of the Chinese Empire, saying that they agreed to negotiate, but the place of negotiation was to be held in the city of Shanghai or the capital of the Chinese Empire.

Negotiations in the capital of the Chinese Empire or in Shanghai, which would have taken two or three months for the English negotiators to arrive, was clearly a sign of delaying the pace of time.

The bitter Prime Minister, the Earl of Rosebury, strongly disagreed with such a negotiating location.

Xue Fucheng also insisted that this was the negotiation venue arranged by the emperor, and if England did not agree, forget it, anyway, wait for the Huaxia army to take Australia.

With that, he brushed his sleeves and left.

Xue Fucheng's actions made the Earl of Rosebury angry, and he was in a hurry, and proposed to imitate the story of the Chinese Guild and the United States of America negotiating a wrecked ship treaty on a broken cargo ship, and proposed to negotiate on the ship of the Chinese Empire off the coast of the English Empire.

The Earl of Rosebury said sincerely: "This can also be regarded as negotiating on the territory of the Chinese Empire!" ”

Xue Fucheng couldn't imagine that even such an idea would be thought up by the Earl of Rosebury, and he was speechless for a while.

In fact, Hu Zhen's order to Xue Fucheng was to obtain the vested interests of the English Empire to recognize the Chinese Empire through negotiations, and cede Australia, so that the Chinese Empire could quickly focus on domestic economic construction and national education, but before the negotiations, it was necessary to make a sufficient posture.

After a while, Xue Fucheng said slowly: "I can't call the shots on this matter, Mr. Prime Minister, let's wait for the reply of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the emperor!" ”

With that, turn around and leave, regardless of Mr. Prime Minister, the world's largest power, who is standing still.

"The English are going to imitate the story of our negotiations with the rotten ship of the Milicians?"

Hu Zhen listened to the performance of the Prime Minister of the British Empire, and he didn't feel that he was smiling, and the English people were also crazy.

In fact, Hu Zhen had already set a strategy to determine the interests of the Chinese Empire through negotiations.

Since the founding of the Chinese Empire, more than 2 million soldiers of the Chinese Army's navy, land, and air force have fought in the south and the north, and fought in the east and west, and after years of bloody battles, they have won nearly 20 million square kilometers of vast territory with the Pacific Ocean as the inland sea.

More importantly, the Chinese Empire urgently needs to build infrastructure, expand industrial production capacity, and quickly improve the quality of the people through education.

Otherwise, under the fatigue of the Huaxia Army's continuous operations, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be any mistakes, resulting in the loss of the benefits in hand.

Therefore, it was now necessary to negotiate a treaty with the English Empire that would allow the English Empire and the whole world to recognize the benefits of the Chinese Empire.

Hu Zhen considered that it would not be good if he made the British Empire jump over the wall in a hurry, so he said to Foreign Minister Niu Quyun: "Okay, I agree that Xue Fucheng will find a steamer that my country is sailing in Europe, and negotiate with the English on the ship!" I knew that Xue Fucheng was not in good health, so I asked him to find a better ship, so that he could negotiate more comfortably, and if he was unwell, he would immediately suspend the negotiations! ”

Everyone was sympathetic to Hu Zhen's courtiers, but as everyone knows, this is exactly Hu Zhen's negotiation strategy, he authorized Xue Fucheng to suspend the negotiation at any time, but did not send other representatives to implement the negotiation, in fact, he was exerting a strong pressure on the British Empire:

The Chinese Empire may stop negotiating at any time, please do it and cherish it in the English Empire!

The Emperor of the Chinese Empire nodded, and the other matters of negotiation were not difficult, and the two sides soon decided that the negotiations would be held on a steamship in the English Channel.

This 8,000-ton freighter was a freighter of the Chinese Empire, on the way to Sweden in the Atlantic, and was once detained when the major European powers organized a joint fleet expedition to the east.

On this morning, the English Prime Minister, the Earl of Rosebury, with great weariness, wrote heavily in his notebook in a depressed mood:

"The secrets of my life seem obvious to me, even though I always hate politics. It was through the campaign of Lothian that I was unexpectedly drawn into politics. It's nothing but a knightly adventure. Once I found myself in this stinking mire, I struggled to get out. People often talk about my lost plans, and that's the secret, but today I have to negotiate with the abominable devil myself, God, save me......"

The steamer was still very comfortable, and although it was already early summer, the sailors of the steamer of Chinese nationality took advantage of the flow of water and skillfully made a very cool cabin for the representatives of both sides to sit in and negotiate.

Negotiation is a difficult process.

The two sides spent a day arguing just to determine the authorization of the negotiators, exchange diplomatic documents between the two sides, determine the seats of the representatives of both sides, and other technical issues, which made the forty-seven-year-old Earl of Rosebury almost vomit with nausea, but for the sake of the English Empire, he finally held back and completed the first day of negotiations in accordance with the general negotiation procedure.

However, at the end of the first day of negotiations, the Earl of Rosebury was about to return in a dinghy when suddenly a speedboat delivered an urgent document to the Earl of Rosebury.

After he read it, he was immediately furious, ran back to the negotiation site angrily, slapped it on the table with a loud bang, and said to Xue Fucheng: "How can your country go back on its word? ”

Xue Fucheng can not only understand English but also speak English, but on this occasion, he can't speak English, so he has to say it in Huaxia and let the translator translate it again: "Mr. Prime Minister, what's going on that makes you so anxious?" ”

"Your country has done a good thing, sending a naval fleet to attack the Suez Canal!" (To be continued.) )