The German minister was just about to speak, but when he heard the words of the Russian minister, Cassini, he chose to remain silent.

For Germany, its economic ties with the Qing Dynasty, including the industries invested in the Qing Dynasty, were far less large than those of Britain and France.

It's not even as good as Italy and the United States, it's about the same as a polar bear.

The relationship between Germany and the Qing Dynasty was more of a direct arms deal, which belonged to a hammer at a time, a hammer at a time.

It's not like Britain and France all year round.

Moreover, in the past few years, the Qing Dynasty has strictly controlled the purchase of arms, guns, ammunition, and artillery from abroad, and all of them have been completely domestically produced.

In particular, the warships that cost more than one million taels of silver were built by the Fuzhou Shipping Bureau itself, and even the replacement of parts was strictly controlled from being imported.

The 'Pingyuan Ship', which was launched in 1888, was the first self-built steel-clad and steel-hulled warship in the Qing Dynasty, and later built the 'Guangyi', 'Guangbing', 'Fujing' steel-hulled torpedo clippers, and the 'Tongji' steel-hulled training ship.

Moreover, almost all of the core components used in the 34 ships of various types built by the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau so far are British goods.

Moreover, for Germany, compared with the almost inconsequential Qing Dynasty, repairing German-Russian relations is now the most important effort of German diplomats.

After the Franco-Prussian War, Germany, fearing retaliation from France, chose to form the 'Triple Alliance' with Austria-Hungary and Russia.

Later, at the Berlin Conference in 1878, Austria-Hungary and Russia had a conflict of interest over the 'Balkan question', and Bismarck chose Austria-Hungary as an ally to conclude a secret German-Austrian alliance with Austria-Hungary.

Russia was furious when it learned that Germany and Austria had signed a German-Austrian alliance. Bismarck, a seasoned politician, signed a 'reinsurance treaty' with Russia in 1887 in order to maintain good relations with Russia.

However, when Bismarck stepped down in 1890, Kaiser Wilhelm II allowed the treaty to be terminated, and France, on the other hand, formed an alliance with Russia in 1892 after France's financial support for Russian industrialization. It was for the 'Franco-Russian Alliance'.

As a result, Germany is caught between the east and west of the two major military powers on the European continent, and it is simply difficult to sleep.

Although Shen Ke chose to be silent, Ou Ge Ke didn't want to let him go, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Shen Ke, I don't know if your country has any insight into this Qing-Japanese war that has been going on until now?" ”

"Our warships have always wanted to seek a temporary habitat in the Far East, and they dare not have the luxury of looking forward to a fortress like Lushun and Weihaiwei, as long as there is a small piece of sea, they will be satisfied."

Shen Ke's words were very detouring, but the people present immediately understood his subtext.

The Qing Dynasty has always regarded territory as a reverse scale, and did not give up an inch of land.

Now looking around the Qing Dynasty, except for Tsarist Russia's robbery during the Second Opium War, through the "Aihui Contract", the "Yanjing Treaty", and the "Northwest Boundary Survey and Demarcation Contract"; Taking advantage of the stupidity of the Qing officials, he permanently deceived the vast territory of 1.1 million square kilometers of the Qing Dynasty.

The rest of the Western countries, but only the Macao Concession, and Hong Kong Island, these two small places.

The Macao Concession is a legacy of the past, and the Portuguese began to live in Macao since the 32nd year of the Jiajing Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty in 1553.

In the past, the Qing Dynasty and Portugal had been in constant disputes over the ownership of Macao, and the people were even more intense.

On August 23, 1849, when the Governor of Macao's 'one-armed general' Amaliu returned to the city from the customs gate, he was attacked by seven young peasants, including Shen Zhiliang, Guo Jintang, Li Bao, Zhang Gen and Chen Fa, who cut off Amaliu's arm and head with a knife.

It was not until 1887 that the Portuguese government and the Qing government signed the "Qing-Portuguese Peace and Commerce Treaty", which was valid for 40 years, that the slits between the Qing and Japan in recent years could be regarded as a little subsided.

Hong Kong, a small place, is a mustard territory that Britain launched a war and fought intermittently for two years before it was obtained.

Shen Ke's words said that he wanted to borrow the Qing Dynasty's 'piece of sea' to stop the ship, and if Germany was not willing to spend a huge amount of military money, it would come all the way to the Qing Dynasty to expedition to the Qing Dynasty.

The only way to get this 'sea water' is to watch the Japanese army completely defeat the Qing Dynasty, or even break it apart, in order to make a profit.

The Russian Minister Cassini raised his glass with satisfaction and made a friendly gesture to the German Minister Gentry.

"Haha, we Italy also very much want to have a small 'sea water' in the Qing Dynasty,—— of course, I believe that our civilized countries will help the Qing Dynasty to end this war, and the Qing Dynasty will be generous and will not be reluctant to give up a little 'sea water'."

Italian Minister Martina, seeing the friendly 'boss' of Italy, looked over with a smile and hurriedly changed his words.

"We in the United States of America, who have always cherished peace, are deeply sorry for this war between the Qing and Japan; However, if the Qing Dynasty had intervened in the war at this time, the Qing Dynasty would still choose to close itself off from the country, and the East would have been devastated by this war, and the Korean royal family, which was extremely hostile to Western civilization, would continue to close their markets. ”

Tian Bei, the American minister, said to the envoys of various countries in the hall with a serious expression: "I personally think that at least now the Qing Dynasty has not been beaten, woken up, succumbed, and honest; Gentlemen, you may wish to take another look and wait. ”

Tian Bei, who has a good relationship with Li Hongzhang these days, has been conspiring with Li Hongzhang's personal secretary and adviser Bidger, a US Army officer railroad engineer and contractor Wilson, and former US Secretary of State Kosda.

And the most basic premise of this idea is that the Japanese army will attack Yanjing, capture the Guangxu Emperor, or drive Guangxu out of Yanjing.

Now four of the six countries have expressed their opinions, among which Russia, Germany, and the United States are all in favor of continuing to look on the sidelines.

Only Italy has chosen to be a wall-to-wall grass.

Everyone's eyes were on the French Minister Sallin.

"Although France had an unpleasant misunderstanding with the Qing Dynasty ten years ago, it is all in the past; I think not only France, but all countries need a stable Qing Dynasty, so that this huge market of 400 million people can bring sustained and great wealth to the empire; ”

Shi Alan took a sip of the red wine in the goblet: "As long as the Qing Dynasty releases the message of submission, the North Korean market will be completely opened after the war, in this case, why continue to fight and watch the innocent people of the Qing Dynasty suffer?" The photographs of the Golden State City, which you gentlemen have already seen, and these photographs will soon arrive in Europe, will they certainly cause an uproar. ”

Shi Alan's words are extremely lethal, but they are completely immune to the historically brutal polar bears, Italy is originally playing soy sauce, it doesn't matter, only the American minister Tian Bei, the German minister Shen Ke, the face is a little discolored.

Once labelled as 'cold-blooded', there is no doubt that their political life will be extinguished.

Hearing Shi Allan's unexpected statement, the British minister Ogon couldn't help but be overjoyed.

The British Empire was quite satisfied with the fact that the war had come to this point.