Chapter 301: The Advantages and Troubles of Being Familiar with History
What made it even more difficult for Palucia to accept was that the next day the people from the Díaz government also came here "secretly" and were warmly welcomed by Wang Yongan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info said that it came in secret, but in fact everyone knew about it, and the representatives of Palucia, Díaz and Juárez, were very dissatisfied, but what could this be?
At least for now, the legitimate government is still the government of Dias, so both the secret history of Palusia and Juárez had to watch the Chinese negotiate with the representatives of the Díaz government first.
Obviously, Wang Yongan was taking advantage of the internal contradictions of the Mexicans to fight for the greatest interests, and Wang Yongan put forward the same conditions for them: "Three conditions, the first is to hand over the murderers of the Torreón massacre, the second is to compensate us with 50 million pesos, and the third is to abolish all unequal laws against the Chinese." ”
The representatives of the three parties agreed with the first and third articles, but all of them rejected or were unable to do anything about the issue of compensation under the second article. 50 million pesos, which is almost the annual revenue of the entire Mexican government, no one can come up with such a large amount of money.
Wang Yongan was a little overwhelmed by the fierce negotiation struggle between the representatives of the three parties every day, but in a group of people, only Wang Yongan had the ability to negotiate with them, and he had to hold his body to negotiate with the Mexicans.
On the other hand, representatives of the U.S. government also came to the city of Irapuato, demanding that Wang Yongan and the Overseas Chinese Protectors immediately withdraw their troops and not interfere in the Mexican civil war. The Americans put so much pressure on Wang Yongan to make concessions in the negotiations, and then Wang Yongan came up with a plan to replace the compensation with concessions, which surprised the Mexicans, after all, they had never encountered anything like it.
Due to the strong obstruction of the Americans, Wang Yongan could not divide the territory of Mexico, so he thought of a form of concession similar to that of Hong Kong, that is, the entire Baja California Peninsula became a Chinese concession -- of course, this proposal was rejected by all the representatives of the three parties, what a joke, 147,300 square kilometers, if this demand is accepted, regardless of whether it is Juárez, Díaz or Madro, all of them will become sinners of the Mexican nation.
So Wang Yongan repeatedly narrowed the concession from the Baja California Peninsula to Baja California Sur and finally to the 12,000 ordinary kilometers of Cape San Lucas, and the representatives of the three parties agreed. In addition, Wang Yongan secretly asked the Mexicans to give him several of Mexico's overseas uninhabited islands, which are the Revia Higedo Islands, including Socorro Island, Rocapati Island, San Benedicto Island, and Clarion Island as compensation in lieu of compensation, which will henceforth become Wang Yongan's private islands.
Then the negotiations went on repeatedly, Wang Yongan knew that the other party was just arguing with himself, so he asked Yu Yadong to negotiate on his behalf, while he arranged for soldiers to build a railway, transport everything looted along the road to Puerto Vallarta, and transport all Mexican supplies to San Lucas through the transport ship Yangzhou.
But at this time, Wang Yongan also got some news from China, and the Mexican chargé d'affaires Shen Aisun came to the city of Irapuato and said to Wang Yongan: "Sichuan has declared independence, and the imperial court has no way to extinguish the rebels in Sichuan, alas, ......"
"Chargé d'affaires Shen doesn't need to be like this, let alone Sichuan, I think the entire Qing Dynasty will become history in the future." Wang Yongan said lightly.
"What?" Shen Aisun was immediately frightened by Wang Yongan's "bold" rebellious remarks.
Wang Yongan said: "I was already aware of this problem when I left the Qing Dynasty, you must know that during my Shanghi period, I found that the newspapers and media had been controlled by the revolutionary party, and the people in the imperial court just hid in the yamen every day, ignoring the affairs of the world, and only wanted to make gold and silver. Alas...... Chargé d'Affaires Sun, if the Qing Dynasty dies, what are your plans? ”
"The Qing Dynasty will never die!" Shen Aisun immediately said angrily.
Wang Yongan sneered: "Chargé d'affaires Shen, are you also the kind of person who can't see the situation in the world clearly?" You can only see the overseas Chinese, and they still remember the Qing Dynasty in their hearts, but the country is already in full swing, and uprisings are everywhere. I can tell you in a very responsible way that eighty percent of the officers in the new army of the Qing Dynasty today are revolutionaries, and half of the soldiers support the revolution. ”
"Are you also a revolutionary?" Shen Aisun asked.
Wang Yongan shook his head and said: "I am not a revolutionary party, I am only loyal to the country." ”
"Good thing you're not a traitor." Shen Aisun said.
Wang Yongan said: "But I also have to think about my own future, do you say yes, Chargé d'Affaires Shen?" ”
"yes." Shen Aisun sighed, how could he not know the domestic situation, the emergence of the imperial cabinet, so that the whole country from the people to the government unanimously opposed, especially the Han people in the wave of opposition, Shen Aisun, as a supporter of the constitutionalists, also criticized the imperial cabinet. But for him, it was impossible to oppose the Qing Dynasty.
Wang Yongan was always paying attention to the domestic situation, and at the same time a very serious problem was in front of him, and they represented the Qing Dynasty when negotiating with the Mexican government. But Wang Yongan, who is familiar with history, knows that on February 12 next year, the time of the end of the Qing Dynasty will not change much even if Wang Yongan is a butterfly, then the treaty signed with the Mexican government, which he painstakingly sacrificed thousands of soldiers, will become a paper scrap because of the change in the country's political system.
No one has the idea that the Qing Dynasty wants the ultimate, even if the domestic anti-Qing tide is higher and higher, in everyone's hearts, everyone just thinks that it is just a local rebellion. The Qing Dynasty, which had gone through the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Opium War, the First Sino-Japanese War, and the Eight-Nation Alliance, how could it collapse with a bang.
Wang Yongan can't tell others that he is familiar with history, he can use his own speculation to tell the people around him, but no one believes it.
The biggest problem now is that the two sides of the negotiations are not the Qing government, and certainly not the Republic of China, which has not yet emerged.
"Alas......"
As night fell, Wang Yongan was still frowning, and if the problem could not be resolved, the negotiations would become meaningless. He walked out of the barracks alone, walked along the road, and before he knew it, he came to the field hospital, and suddenly heard a moving song from the field hospital.
A young girl is quietly singing a nursery rhyme: "Brother Moon is out, Sister Star is out, the baby is counting the stars, one, two, three or four, counting and falling asleep......"
The girl's whispering cordiality comforted the wounded, so that Wang Yongan unconsciously held his feet, he walked to the window, and saw a female nurse standing quietly in the middle of all the wounded singing songs.