Peace talks are not so easy to achieve. Hu Xiaoyan knows, and Dou Nale also knows.

Li Hongzhang arrived only five days after the recovery of Beijing, and he first traveled from Shanghai to Tianjin, and then stayed in Tianjin for a few days, and then asked about the situation before taking the train into Beijing.

Then, before taking a break, Dou Nale and others jointly visited and put forward the conditions for peace talks. Li Hongzhang's eyes darkened after seeing it, and he almost died of anger.

Hu Xiaoyan saw the terms of the peace talks when he met Li Hongzhang that night.

In short, there are a few points

First: The Manchus must apologize for the innocent foreigners who died in the Gengzi Incident.

Second: The Manchus must compensate the soldiers killed in the Gengzi Incident, and must unconditionally release the prisoners.

Third, the Manchus must open up their inland markets, designate Anqing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou as new treaty ports, and give them most-favored-nation status.

Fourth, the Manchus must exterminate the Boxers and promise to stop discriminating against foreigners and Christians

Fifth: Re-demarcate the embassy area, in which Westerners have absolute rights

Sixth, the establishment of a new diplomatic yamen to oversee trade and diplomatic affairs with other countries (recommended for Hu Xiaoyan). This yamen is the first of the six departments......

Well, here we go again. General Feng Zicai easily defeated the French, but at the negotiating table, the French were invincible. The Manchus were undefeated and defeated.

However, fortunately, compared with the historical Xinchou Treaty, the amount of compensation can be negotiated, and the foreigners did not ask for garrisons. Li Hongzhang didn't know this, he was angry: the Qing State was obviously a victorious country, but it was like the Qing State was a defeated country!

Hu Xiaoyan just looked at the treaty and put it down, without expressing any opinion. Now Lao Li is the negotiator with full powers!

But fortunately, Hu Xiaoyan also has eyes and ears in the negotiation team: Tang Shaoyi was transferred to the negotiation team by Li Hongzhang on the same day because he was familiar with foreign affairs.

That night, Hu Xiaoyan just repeatedly said that he was still Li Zhongtang's person, and he must only follow Li Zhongtang's footsteps, and only Li Zhongtang's orders were obeyed. Regarding the negotiations, Hu Xiaoyan said that everything is based on Li Zhongtang's opinions.

First round: Li Zhongtang was very satisfied, and Hu Xiaoyan retreated.

Hu Xiaoyan did fulfill his promise, he did not participate in the negotiations, but quickly participated in the reorganization of the army, after scheduling and investigation. Dong Fuxiang and Nie Shicheng were also rescued. After they were captured, they were imprisoned in the embassy because of their rank. Shortly before the negotiations began, Hu Xiaoyan inadvertently learned about the incident from Clinder, and then asked Clinder to release the two. Clinder agreed.

The negotiations did not go well, at least in relation to Lao Li.

Hu Xiaoyan didn't pay attention. In addition to training troops and expanding the recruitment of special forces, Hu Xiaoyan is also facing problems in his own industry. Because the Manchu princes joined forces to compete for Hu Xiaoyan's industry, the light industrial zone in Anqing and the heavy industrial zone in Lieshan were in chaos. On the Ma'anshan side, due to the proper defense (mainly because Hu Xiaoyan's power in training with cannons was too terrifying, and the magistrate did not dare to act easily), Ma'anshan was light and calm, and it was always under Hu Xiaoyan's control. With the defeat of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and after Anhui Governor Enming was placed under house arrest by Hu Xiaoyan in disguise in the inner city, the Anqing Light Industry Zone and the Heavy Industry Zone in Lieshan also urgently needed special personnel to stabilize the situation.

And Zhang Binglin also happened to come at this time. Lao Zhang's visit this time was, on the one hand, to investigate the situation in Beijing, and on the other hand, he did not have the intention of interfering in the political situation in Anhui.

Hu Xiaoyan didn't delve into this, a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, let alone a person like Zhang Binglin? After a long conversation, Hu Xiaoyan handed over the development strategy he had recently written to Zhang Binglin, and then asked Li Zejun to lead a 2,000-strong mixed army (the Boxers, the New Army, and the Armed Guards) to escort Zhang Binglin to take office. Also passing through is Liu Min's father, Liu Wei. This person has been a county magistrate, and there is no big problem in going to Xiao Gui Cao Sui in the light industrial zone. As for the magistrates of Anhui? As the news spread that Hu Xiaoyan had fallen into the Eight-Nation Alliance, before the imperial court contacted Cixi, no bold guy dared to fight against Hu Xiaoyan.

After stabilizing the situation in Anhui, Hu Xiaoyan's foundation was preserved. If the foundation is maintained, then even if Hu Xiaoyan is defeated in the Russo-Japanese battlefield, he will not collapse from now on.

A few days later, Mr. Zhang sent a telegram back saying that everything was ready. Hu Xiaoyan was finally relieved. Zhang Binglin took away 10 million taels of silver, while Liu Wei took 500,000 taels of silver. With these gold and silver foundations, there is no reason why the situation in Anhui cannot be resolved. The situation in China has always been a matter of money. As long as there is money, no peasant problem or any class struggle is a problem. Don't you see that the poor people in Dubai can live in luxury houses and have a big meal? Although they don't have much pocket money.

On the Internet, it was reported that someone paid more than 2 million yuan for the medical expenses of a seriously ill patient in China, and he didn't blink his eyes? To others, more than 2 million yuan is only 400,000 US dollars. How many barrels of oil is 400,000 equal? Being rich is human nature!

After bidding farewell to Zhang Binglin, Major Andrew of Germany also came to the Fengtai camp in Beijing with a team of officers, where all the recruits except for the special forces were stationed. Puppet special forces and more than 1,000 veteran recruits were transferred to Beijing to maintain law and order.

The more than 30,000 New Army was divided into three divisions: Wang Tingjiao, Zhang Shaozeng, and Jiang Yanxing were appointed division commanders. This made Zhang Hongkui, who was still sick, very angry, and kept shouting that Wang Ting's frame was wrong for me! It's a pity that it didn't happen.

The Fengtai camp occupies a vast area and has ready-made military camp facilities. After Hu Xiaoyan was stationed here, he asked Major Andrew to reformulate the emergency training plan and the emergency training plan for non-commissioned officers. Shells and ammunition were then dispatched to the battalion. Thanks to the Eight-Nation Alliance, which worked as a porter and brought Hu Xiaoyan at least 15,000 Mosinagan rifles and more than 10,000 Lee Enfield rifles, Japan's garbage is forgotten, and the number of guns in other countries is too small to be used.

By distributing these guns, the three newly formed divisions finally had their own weapons. It's just that ammunition is scarce. There's no way around it. New weapons and ammunition are still being developed at the Ma'anshan Arsenal, and the design experts from Germany and the heavily excavated Hanyang Arsenal (who received support after bribing Zhang Zhidong with a lot of money) are a little confused about designing a rifle suitable for China's national conditions.

Hu Xiaoyan trains with the New Army every day, and at the same time takes care of the training of special forces. The special forces are currently arranged in the Tongzhou camp, which is far away, and Hu Xiaoyan only went twice and then didn't care anymore.

Because of British mediation, and because of Dou Nale's recognition of the newly occupied land by Japan and Russia. Russo-Japanese war stopped. The amount of the new treaty indemnity came out, a total of 150 million taels of silver, of which Japan and Russia divided 100 million equally, and the other 50 million was divided equally among the other countries.

Lao Li vomited three liters of blood again. The most important thing is not here, but that Cixi and Emperor Guangxu have not heard any news since they fled for their lives out of the city. Lao Li sent Ma Yukun and Nie Shicheng to each lead a newly recruited Wuwei army of 5,000 people to search everywhere but to no avail, and after sending telegrams to various places, all localities also reported that they did not see the shadow of Cixi and Guangxu.

More than a month later, almost the whole country understood in their hearts that Cixi and Guangxu were more auspicious. At this time, there was a large number of voices in the court demanding revenge. The Manchu princes were finally released from house arrest by Hu Xiaoyan at Lao Li's repeated requests.

The Han ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were clamoring for war with the Eight-Nation Alliance, while the princes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were in constant contact in private, and they did not know what they were doing. Only Yixuan and Zaifeng didn't move, and as for Zaitao, because he was young, no one paid attention to it at all.

Hu Xiaoyan receives some invitations every day, but he just smiled faintly and asked Liu Zhensheng to throw all the invitations into the trash.

On this day, Li Hongzhang summoned him again.

Lao Li is even older than the previous meeting, and iconic things such as white hair and wrinkles have crawled all over his face, although Hu Xiaoyan does not know physiognomy, he can also know that Lao Li is only one step away from death.

"The Japanese and Russian ministers openly clamored to send troops to attack if they did not agree to the treaty, how sure are you there?" Lao Li got straight to the point, his old man had no soldiers and no power. To put it nicely, he's a minister plenipotentiary, but who listens to him? In history, after Lao Li signed the Xinchou Treaty, Zhang Zhidong, Yuan Shikai and others directly branded him as a traitor, without considering that this old man had exhausted himself until he died.

"Don't dare to deceive adults, I can't be sure." Hu Xiaoyan had no choice, he wanted to make a promise. However, before the radar came out, the short-distance flying airship could still accurately bomb, and at a long distance, the airship might not know where to fly. There are very few people who can use a sextant in China.

Lao Li was gloomy.

"If the lord hands over the Beiyang Naval Division to the lower officials, the lower officials are about five points sure that they will hold the line of Zhili Fengtian, and as for Heilongjiang and Jilin, the lower officials will not be able to do anything." Hu Xiaoyan is still a little worried about the Beiyang Naval Division. There are still a lot of talents in the Beiyang Naval Division, and most of the captains and other non-commissioned officers are high-achieving students who studied in Britain and Germany. These people are too wasteful to use in the navy, because China does not have a navy at all, and the few broken ships of the Nanyang Naval Division and the Beiyang Naval Division dare to call it the navy? If these high-achieving students use the airship, add the map in Hu Xiaoyan's mind. Hu Xiaoyan is sure that the airship will fly freely on the land of China.

Hu Xiaoyan has now started to learn drawing, and he wants to draw the map in his mind into text. He advertised in England to recruit two good mappers, one of whom was an elite cartographer in the British navy, but had retired.

The drawing is not so simple, a simple scale is enough for Hu Xiaoyan to work for half a day. He wasn't a professional draftsman after all, and he didn't spend enough time on it.

Lao Li's expressionless face finally showed a weird smile: "Master Hu, it's not enough for you to catch Cheng Biguang, you still want to wrap up the Beiyang Naval Division?" Can you afford it? ”

"I don't have to worry about this." Hu Xiaoyan smiled, he is now sending prisoners of war to dig up the treasury and carry the property looted by the coalition army, which is not much, if he shoots them all, it is still very easy to get 100 million silver. There are also weapons of the Eight-Nation Alliance, these weapons Hu Xiaoyan can't look down on, but I believe that selling them to Yuan Shikai and Zhang Zhidong can also bring him a lot of income. Moreover, Li Hongzhang is trying to rebuild the Wuyou Army, and the issue of weapons is also required to Hu Xiaoyan. Hu Xiaoyan will never give away these incomes in vain.

Lao Li's face froze, and he suddenly remembered the infantry and artillery coordination tactics reported by Ma Yukun. Among them, there is a great demand for excellent cannons. And the treasury is currently occupied by Hu Xiaoyan, will Hu Xiaoyan spit it out? Lao Li is not so naïve. Therefore, in the end, Lao Li still had to pay for the military expenses of the Wuyou Army.

"You stinky boy!" Lao Li was helpless about this, but he was relieved.

The attitude of Japan and Russia is very clear, and it will not work if they do not fight. Since Hu Xiaoyan said that he could hold the line of Zhili Fengtian, then he could definitely hold it. As for Heilongjiang and Jilin, Lao Li can't take care of it now.

Second round: Lao Li acquiesced, and Hu Xiaoyan won completely.