"Are you on the side of the court, and your personnel?" Li Hongzhang, who lowered his head and thought for a while, raised his head and asked Liu Jun in front of him,

This, Liu Jun thought for a while before he said again: "No, Songpan is our biggest one, and there is also a dead Kou Liancai." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info The others are not our people. ”

Liu Jun said this very sincerely, at the beginning, the army approached Shaanxi, as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Songpan knew that the imperial court was no longer the opponent of Liaodong, so he contacted the Liaodong Intelligence Bureau at that time, hoping to work for Liaodong with Li Hongzhang, for this matter, Liu Jun and Zheng Yiqian, Zhong Lin and others made a special trip to discuss, and finally decided to let Songpan follow the imperial court and grasp the intelligence of the imperial court. needs a person who can be in the upper echelons of the imperial court, and Songpan is the most suitable person.

This move is right, judging from the current situation and today's situation, Songpan has invisibly pulled Zhang Zhidong over, otherwise, Zhang Zhidong would not tell himself to hit Hunan first today.

What happened in Hunan, Liu Jun couldn't do anything, so the current situation, that is, Liu Jun still didn't know why he wanted to enter Hunan.

Everything, only after the news from Zhong Lin's side comes, can we know the exact reason.

Drunken Immortal Building. The imperial delegation was stationed on the second floor.

After the parade, Zhang Zhidong and the three of them came to Zaitao's room, sighing non-stop. Today's military parade of the Liaodong Army can be described as a slap in the face. Zaitao was weak, he finally understood what it means to have a sky outside the sky and a situation where there are people outside the world, compared with the equipment in Liaodong, the equipment of the imperial court can be regarded as scum.

There are two towns in Zaitao's hands, one town has 20 cannons, and the two towns have a total of 40 cannons. These are the proud capital of Zaitao. Today, however. When he saw the artillery of a brigade in Liaodong, it was as high as twenty, and Zaitao's heart was called a cold, not to mention, this artillery, and the kind of mortar that the imperial court had never seen.

The disparity in strength is too great, if this is not enough to satisfy Zaitao, then the appearance of the Liaodong airship has crushed Zaitao's last straw. Zaitao knew in his heart how shocked he was by the shaking of these airships in the sky.

"Two, you see how we should negotiate with Liaodong this time." Zaitao, who had been silent for nearly an hour, asked, Zhang Zhidong, who was sitting in front of him, and Songpan.

How to negotiate. Until now, neither of them knows what the bottom line of the imperial court is, and who knows how to negotiate this.

I was stunned when I saw the two. Zaitao realized that it was his own mistake, he did not tell the details of the court to the two people in front of him, he lowered his head and thought for a while, Zaitao told Zhang Zhidong and Songpan the words of Cixi that night.

It's over, the court doesn't know whether it's alive or dead, when is this, and the court still dares to surrender to Liaodong.

If you don't die, you won't die, but the court is purely looking for death.

When Zhang Zhidong heard this, he was very angry. Is this court a fool's behavior, in this case, it actually shares the world equally with Liaodong, is this deliberately delaying time?

"Lord Wang, after calming down, do you think Liaodong will agree to our conditions?" Zhang Zhidong held back the anger in his heart, and asked Zaitao beside him with a dissatisfied face, he believed that Zaitao should be sober this time.

"I can't." Zaitao shook his head, and then said dejectedly.

Zaitao is also a sober person at present, and he has clearly felt that the current Liaodong is not something that the imperial court can compete with, nor can the imperial court compete.

"What's going on above, how do we negotiate with that?" said Songpan, with some anger in his heart. He originally thought that the imperial court would be very fair, but this was simply the way for the lion to open his mouth, not to mention Liaodong, even if it was himself, he could not accept this condition.

Knock knock knock....... Knock knock knock........ There was a knock at the door. The three of them exchanged glances, and then Songpan walked over and opened the door to the room.

The person who came in between was a general of the Liaodong Army wearing the uniform of the rank of major general, and after this person came in, he saluted Zhang Zhidong and the others and said: "On the order of Marshal Li Hongzhang, the negotiator of Liaodong, I have come to inform the three of you that at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, negotiations will be held in the room on the third floor of the Zuixian Building, and I hope you will be ready." When the man had finished speaking, he turned and walked out.

What to do, tomorrow is the time for negotiations, and it is too late to ask for instructions.

"Mind you, what are we going to do?" Songpan on the side looked at Zhang Zhidong in front of him and Zaitao in front of him, hoping to get advice from them.

"Take one step at a time, the first article proposed by the imperial court, let Liaodong be a minister, we must not mention it again, we are still in our own way, I hope we can gain something." Zhang Zhidong on the side said after taking a deep breath.

It seems that this is the only way to do it at the moment. Hearing this, Songpan nodded, and then sat on a chair in the room, looking at the sky outside in a daze.

At night, the wind is cold. In Liu Jun's office, Liu Jun, who was sitting in front of the charcoal fire, was sitting in front of Zhong Lin, who was roasting the fire.

After a while, after seeing Zhong Lin relatively warm, Liu Jun raised his head and asked Zhong Lin in front of him, "What did Songpan say?" ”

This afternoon, Zhong Lin was ordered to go to the interface with Songpan and get news about the imperial court from him, so Zhong Lin came back and came directly to Liu Jun's room.

"Head, the bottom line of the imperial court this time is very clear, that is, there are two things, one is to hope that we will surrender, and the other is to hope that the southwest will bloom, and then go their own way.

Just kidding, Liu Jun, who heard this, had to say that Cixi was simply whimsical, he didn't know where Cixi got the courage to dare to put forward these conditions with him.

"Is the court crazy?" Zheng Yiqian, who was on the side, heard Zhong Lin's words, her eyes widened and she asked with a puzzled expression.

"The court is not going crazy, but Yelang is arrogant." Liu Jun didn't think about it for a while and said directly.

Hmph, I am well-intentioned, I hope to be able to peacefully solve the southwest issue and cultivate for future battles, but the imperial court is so ignorant of current affairs, thinking that this is still more than ten years ago, and it is shameless to propose such unreasonable things to myself, I really don't know, what Cixi thinks, is it really necessary to fight, the imperial court can understand its own situation.

"Zhong Lin, has there been anything from the investigation in Hunan?" Thinking of this, Liu Jun asked Zhong Lin directly, he thought for a while, if it really didn't work, he would take Hunan as a knife, first take the place of the governor of Huguang, and then go to the table to talk to the imperial court, the next mile. (To be continued.) )