After the British defeat, the Chinese government, through France, once again expressed to them the proposal of political negotiation to solve the problem, hoping to negotiate immediately and avoid indifferent conflicts and sacrifices: "The government of the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom hates war the most, and what it likes most is the friendship and peace of mankind, and it hopes to engage in political exchanges, economic cooperation, and cultural exchanges with any country, rather than confrontation and hostility." ”

In the face of a huge defeat, the British government was dizzy for several days before discussing the results and agreeing to the negotiations, however, the results of the battle of the Yangtze River Estuary he published were completely different from those of the Chinese side, the British Foreign Secretary said: "The battle of the Yangtze River Estuary is the victory of our British Empire, after hard fighting, our army wiped out the vast majority of the Chinese fleet, and we also suffered certain losses, and our army achieved the expected victory, however, in pity for the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom, we agreed to negotiate." ”

This is the text published by British newspapers, and it has also been widely spread in Hong Kong, and many newspapers have even told many legendary stories about the glorious victory at the mouth of the Yangtze River and the great lesson of the British Imperial Navy to the Chinese.

On the Chinese side, there is no exposure to the old face of the United Kingdom, anyway, people's faces are like toys for Sichuan people in China.

The negotiations began in July of this year, in a small city in the south of China, a small town in the Zhoushan Islands, the reason why this place was chosen instead of other big cities, because of military secrets, the secrecy of military facilities, in the Zhoushan Islands, the representatives of the Chinese and British governments, under the coordination of the invited French and Dutch ministers, went smoothly, the negotiations went on for ten days, and after a series of struggles, finally, the "Document on the Coordination of Relations between the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom and the British Empire" was signed, in fact, It is known as the Sino-British New Testament, or the Treaty of Zhoushan,

This treaty basically fulfilled the claims of the Chinese government, excluded any British privileges in China, achieved peaceful and equal relations, and abrogated numerous treaties such as the Treaty of Nanjing, the Treaty of Humen, the Annex to the Treaty of Nanjing, the Treaty of Tianjin, and the Treaty of Peking.

The British Government promised to abolish the rights enjoyed by Britain in these treaties, including extraterritoriality, that is, consular jurisdiction, treaty ports opened in China, and related rights in ports, and to abolish the right of British people to freely travel in Chinese mainland, preach, build churches, do business, etc., and as for the one-sided most-favored-nation treatment in the economic aspect, it is even more straightforward.

With regard to the opium issue insisted by Britain on the pretext of waging two wars, Britain agreed not to trade it to China anymore, and also expressed its willingness to give up its customs management rights in China.

The Chinese side has made considerable concessions, is flexible and flexible, and in order to quickly change the face of the country, it cannot blindly fight to the death, so it has gracefully given Britain some face.

The Chinese government did not condemn the harm caused by the British invasion of many wars, nor did it demand compensation from them, especially the British army's attack, destruction, mutilation of the people, robbery and other bad acts in many places in China in this war, and pardoned it, but asked the British government to understand itself and offset all the British commercial materials, factories, churches, etc. in China.

It's not that he doesn't want reparations, Luo Yang thought of the few reparations that Britain asked the Qing government for, so he was particularly angry, but think about it, set the overall situation first, and then have a chance to repair them.

The Chinese government released all the British subjects held in China, the merchants, their families, the missionaries, and the customs officials, and sent them back to their homeland, and the British sent new merchant ships to collect them themselves outside the nose and ocean.

For this matter, there are many follow-ups, anyway, the Chinese government has played a lot of tricks, tossing these opium dealers enough, for example, all British businessmen involved in opium smuggling are sentenced to fifty years in prison in China, of course the British are not willing to do it, but the Chinese say that special care has been taken, because the Chinese opium dealers have only one way, death, moreover, it is Ling Chi to death, Minister Zhang Zhidong also asked the British minister, the British want to enjoy the Chinese national treatment, the eyes of this guy from blue scared green,

In the negotiations, there are soft adaptations, for example, if you want to return to China, you will not live in 50 years of re-education through labor, or you can take money to ransom and give you a chance, so it is 1,000 taels of silver a year, and the British businessmen who participated in drug trafficking in China are unlucky, more than 400 people, an average of 50,000 taels of silver per person, of course, because of the family's financial problems, only 230 people have paid all, and the rest have begged for a long time, dragged on for several years, and only paid a part, anyway, a card on a question made the drug dealers vomit blood, More than 15 million taels of silver came to the pockets of the government of the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom.

Regarding the issue of Kowloon Division and Hong Kong Island, the Chinese government demanded that Britain return it, but the British government did not agree, so the Chinese government gave up, because Luo Yang instructed Zhang Zhidong: "It doesn't matter, in the future, this is the fuse for us to provoke a war, let the British drug dealers hold it, sooner or later they can be detonated and blown to pieces." ”

Indeed, the issue of Hong Kong and the Kowloon Division became the fuse of the Second Sino-British War, and that was a few years later.

The release of customs officials is not something that can be put at will, and the Chinese government demands, ransom,

"Please note that the Minister and Mr. Representative of your country are not ordinary British, who were not detained because they were stranded in China because of the war, but the main culprits of the war, who embezzled and stole Chinese assets, so they aroused the anger of the Chinese people, and according to the results of the trial, they were all sentenced to death."

The British did not believe it, and demanded to participate in the trial, to conduct a new trial, and also asked representatives of many countries to participate, which made the Chinese representatives' teeth cold: "This is a problem in China's domestic affairs, as an externally hired customs official, it is also dealt with according to the corruption of domestic officials, and Bortala's country must not interfere, otherwise, we, the Chinese government and people, would rather choose war." ”

This face darkened, and the British were startled,

The reason why the British government is willing to negotiate is that it was blinded by the fiasco of the war, and it wants to take a breather for a while, sort out the dog's head, and then decide on the trade-off.

The defeat of the navy and the army is something that no one in the British upper echelons can understand, and the failure of the army is understandable, but what about the great navy, isn't Britain the first in the world?

Britain's participation in the negotiations is also fooling China, so it can only be patient, and if he endures, the Chinese government will reap a lot of benefits, "This case is equivalent to a drug dealer, which can be ransomed, but it will be dealt with according to his crime and the number of years of imprisonment.

To put it simply, more than 20 million taels of silver have entered the pockets of the Chinese government.