Chapter 610 - Meeting of Ministers
Dongjiaomin Lane, the British Empire Legation, and now the ministers of various countries gather, all come to the British Minister Zhu Erdian for advice, in Beijing Zhu Erdian is the big brother among the ministers of various countries, the international status of the British Empire, his own wrist, yes, Zhu Erdian is at ease in the ministers of various countries. [Ran^Text^Library] []. [774] [buy]. [com]
The French Minister Corne said urgently: "Mr. Juerdian, now we can't be silent, you see, these chaotic people have begun to storm the legations of various countries, and now I don't know what the chaos has become, our citizens, property, and lives have been greatly threatened, we must make a clear response, otherwise, more news will be transmitted back to China, and the pressure we are facing will be greater and greater!" โ
The Russian envoy on the side, Mu Dan, also said: "Yes, Mr. Zhu Erdian, we must make a decision, we will jointly send an international note to the Qing government, ask them to disband the Boxers, compensate us for our losses, we must severely punish the perpetrators, and hand over all the ministers and leaders of the Boxers to us for disposal!" โ
Zhu Erdian said in a deep voice: "Yes, we must act now, tomorrow, we will meet Prime Minister Zaiyi at this time, and ask him to give us a clear statement, if the Qing government does not show a clear attitude, then we will give them a hard one!" After some years of not cleaning them up, they have become more and more presumptuous! โ
The German envoy Klinder replied: "Mr. Zhu Erdian, you also know that the current Republic of China will not sit idly by and watch us send troops, once the Chinese tiger of the Republic of China takes action, it will cause great trouble, and his men are now strong!" โ
Zhu Erdian sneered and said, "Zhang Yi? He is not so bold, we are all powerful, no country in the world dares to compete with us, not to mention his small Republic of China, even our British Empire does not dare to take the whole world as an enemy! With him alone, he can't afford to turn up such a big storm, look at half a year ago, we suddenly tore up the warship trade contract, did he dare to fart, didn't he obediently compromise with us? โ
Clint sneered in his heart, did not answer Zhu Erdian's words, and obediently compromised? Jokes, you guys are so stupid! Don't you see that a lot of the benefits of the Republic of China have been taken away by us and the Americans? Didn't you see that Zhang Yi took this opportunity to poach a large number of naval engineering talents from your British Empire, after all, you are a bunch of fools!
Kรถllner continued: "Mr. Zhu Erdian, it is one thing to protest and demand a clear answer from the Qing government, what we still need to do is to send troops immediately!" Now that our legation is facing a strong threat from the Boxers, we must have enough troops to protect us! I propose to mobilize the mercenaries recruited by your country in Weihaiwei and rush to Beijing, and at the same time coordinate with all countries to organize an army to safeguard our interests. โ
Zhu Erdian sneered: "Well, now there are more than a dozen warships of our countries in the open sea of Tianjin, please contact the warships of each country and ask them to immediately organize troops to land from Tianjin and rush to Beijing, we must let the Great Qing Kingdom know that the majesty of our great powers is inviolable!" โ
Kรถllner continued: "The strength of only a dozen warships is still too small, only a few hundred, and because there is no combat mission, their weapons and ammunition are not so sufficient, we must organize a large army, at least a few thousand, I propose to immediately form a coalition of various countries, and at the same time appoint a general who thinks he can really fight as a commander to command our operation!" โ
Zhu Erdian nodded and said: "This is easy, although our troops are not very sufficient, but the commander is ready-made, and now our commander of the East Asian Fleet of the British Empire, Admiral Seymour, is staying in Hong Kong, I immediately called him and asked him to come forward and lead our operation!" โ
Mu Dan replied: "Ladies and gentlemen, our Tsarist Empire still has 100,000 troops stationed in the Far East, and it can go south at any time to support various countries, as long as the Tsarist Russian army takes the warships of the Pacific Fleet, within ten days, it can occupy Tianjin, and at that time, the entire Qing government will not be left to us to knead?" โ
Zhu Erdian glanced at Mu Dan coldly and said: "Mr. Mu Dan, don't forget, the bottom line of our British Empire is to maintain the status quo of the Qing Dynasty, I hope that your Tsarist Russian Empire will not break through our bottom line, no country in China can take it for itself, our British Empire can't do it, neither can your Tsarist Russian Empire, China is still an independent country!" โ
Also, now only Tsarist Russia borders on China, if it is true that the Tsarist Russian army is pressing, then how can the interests of the great powers in China be guaranteed? Not only the British are not at ease, but even the Americans, the French and even the Germans are not at ease, this polar bear is the most greedy, and what comes to their mouths should not be thought of pulling out again! The countries would never agree to Russia sending troops alone.
Mu Dan looked at the anger of the crowd, and reluctantly smiled: "Everyone, I didn't say that the Tsarist Empire wanted to annex China alone, hehe, mainly now in Zhili and Shandong, the number of Boxers has exceeded 200,000, if we only have a few thousand people, how can we completely exterminate the Boxers?" If you are not at ease, you can ask Japan to send troops together with the Tsarist Empire! โ
Japanese Minister Nishitokujiro has just come to China not long ago, his predecessor Ishii Kikujiro was just recalled to Japan last month, and he took over the position of minister, in this group of people, his qualifications are the shallower, and the right to speak is also the lightest, originally he has been speechless, at this time suddenly heard Mu Dan say that there can be Tsarist Russia and Japan to send troops together, I can't help but light up, this is a great opportunity.
Xi Dejiro hurriedly said: "Everyone, everyone, I feel that what Mr. Mu Dan said is very reasonable, after all, we are facing hundreds of thousands of Boxers, many of them have even obtained weapons from the Qing government, if we only have thousands or even hundreds of people, it is impossible to eliminate them, I also suggest that our Great Japanese Empire and Tsarist Russia jointly send troops, and then everyone's interests will be equal, how about it?" "The ministers of the countries here pouted, specially, they are neighbors with the two most greedy countries in the world, the Qing Dynasty is really unlucky, a pair of bastards, embarrassed and treacherous, Tsarist Russia is greedy, Japan is even more greedy, let them send troops together, it is even more dangerous, maybe they will take the opportunity to carve up North China! Zhu Erdian said in a deep voice: "In this way, let's see how our talks with Zai Yi tomorrow are, if there is an effect, then we don't have to make a big move, if we are really obsessed, it will be no wonder to us!" โ