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But Yang Xingguo's words gave the imperial court a signal that silver could solve this problem. As long as the price offered by the imperial court is appropriate, this negotiation can continue.

Thinking of this, Qin Cha hurriedly added, "Commander Yang, what is your request?" As long as the request is reasonable, for the sake of the county king, the court will definitely be able to agree. ”

Seeing that Qin Cha was so superior, Yang Xingguo nodded with satisfaction and said, "My request is only one, and the imperial court will redeem all the prisoners according to their grades." I won't open my mouth widely, just calculate it according to the price of Yuan Shikai to redeem the prisoners of the Beiyang Army. ”

Hearing that Yuan Shikai actually rushed to the front of the imperial court to redeem the Beiyang Army, Qin Cha immediately understood that Yuan Shikai wanted to use the captives to restore his strength as soon as possible.

And once the Beiyang Army regains its strength, the capital will fall under the encirclement of the Beiyang Army and the Liaodong Army.

In addition, the forbidden army controlled by the imperial court had just lost a Xie, and the troops were insufficient. Then the prestige of the imperial court in the entire Great Qing Kingdom will become weaker and weaker, and it will become less and less vocal.

In this case, the only way for the imperial court to break the situation is to expand the army. Only by mastering more armies will the Beiyang Army and the Liaodong Army have some scruples, and the imperial court will have more say in the Qing Dynasty.

Like the Beiyang Army in Yuan Shikai's hands, the expansion of the army required soldiers, silver, equipment, and officers.

For the imperial court, the front is not a problem, and in peacetime, we will find a way to save a province and reduce some other expenses, and we will have the money to buy equipment and expand the army and recruit troops.

Only officers, especially those who are familiar with the new army and who are loyal to the imperial court, are so many for the imperial court.

In this case, many officers became prisoners of the Liaodong Army. If the imperial court does not redeem these officers, with the remaining officers of the imperial court, even if the imperial court wants to expand the forbidden army, it will not be able to expand much.

Therefore, Qin Cha was sure that as soon as the news of the Beiyang Army's preemptive redemption of all the Beiyang Army prisoners reached the imperial court, the imperial court would demand that it redeem all the forbidden army prisoners at all costs.

Seeing the changing face of the imperial court, Yang Xingguo immediately understood that the news that he seemed to have inadvertently revealed that Yuan Shikai had ransomed all the Beiyang Army prisoners had worked.

With his own knowledge of history, now is the time for mutual suspicion between the imperial court and the Beiyang Army.

At this time, let the imperial court know that Yuan Shikai was secretly expanding the army, in order to ensure that his dominance was not threatened and to ensure the imperial power, the imperial court would definitely follow suit and do everything possible to expand the forbidden army and take the Gyeonggi area into its own hands.

And the stronger the imperial court's idea of expanding the forbidden army, the more important it is for the imperial court to take prisoners of the forbidden army. At that time, he will be able to force the court to ransom all the prisoners he can't use with heavy money.

After a sneer quickly flashed on his face, Yang Xingguo continued: "Xu Shichang, the former governor of the three northeastern provinces, is a member of the imperial court, and Yuan Shikai spent 200,000 taels of silver to ransom him. Other civil and military restoration, the grade is one level lower, and the price is halved once. ”

"In addition, there are not many forbidden army prisoners in my hands, and together with the Beiyang Naval Division, it is a little more than 3,000. Therefore, if the court wants it, it can only be redeemed at one time, and it cannot pick people. ”

Although there were not many prisoners, the rank of the officers of the forbidden army was obviously one level higher than that of the Beiyang Army. In addition, the rank of the officers of the Beiyang Naval Division is also very high, although only half of the prisoners to be redeemed by the imperial court are the Beiyang Army, and nearly half of the prisoners are ordinary officers and soldiers of the forbidden army. But the ransom to be paid by the imperial court was still as high as four million taels.

Among them, the king of the county alone accounted for one percent, 400,000 taels of silver.

After reading the entire list with a shocked face, the frightened Qincha's first reaction was that the imperial court couldn't take out so much silver.

But soon Chin Cha reacted.

Because the money to redeem these captives did not need to be paid by the court.

But even if this amount of silver were divided equally among the captives' families, it would still be an astronomical amount.

It is certain that after this price reaches the capital, it will definitely shock the entire capital.

Seeing that Qin Chaleng looked at the list for a long time and didn't speak, Yang Xingguo also knew that with the current strength of the imperial court, he would definitely not be able to take out so much silver at one time.

But just when Yang Xingguo was about to open his mouth to ease the atmosphere and tell the court that the people could use the people to deduct the ransom silver, the shocked Qin Cha actually agreed.

"Yes, four million taels of silver. But the dozen or so ships captured by your army must be returned to the imperial court. Without a naval division, there is no point in keeping these ships in the Liaodong Army! ”

Yang Xingguo, who was still immersed in the shock of four million taels of silver, immediately reacted.

"If there is no water master, there is no need for the imperial court to be superhearted. As for those ships, the court wanted to, but the court also needed to redeem them with silver. I will not open my mouth widely, but I will convert it according to sixty percent of the price of these ships purchased by the imperial court. ”

"If the court gives the silver, I will return all the ships to the court."

Qin Cha was stunned for a moment, and then refused with a wry smile: "Then forget it, these warships will be parked at Yingkou Wharf for the time being, I hope Commander Yang can protect these warships." ”

You must know that the cost of the imperial court to purchase these warships, even if there are no ten million taels of silver, seven or eight million taels must be there.

Even if Yang Xingguo is only sixty percent, it is four or five million taels of silver.

This cost will not be shared by the royal relatives and important ministers of the imperial court in the capital, and the imperial court cannot come up with so much silver. Thinking about it, the imperial court can only stop the idea of fighting these warships for the time being.

Besides, the biggest threat to the imperial court now is Yuan Shikai and Yang Xingguo in front of him, the threats are all on land, and the sailors have almost no effect! Instead of spending a lot of money to redeem the warship, it is better to expand the forbidden army of several towns loyal to the imperial court.

After two days of negotiations, Yang Xingguo learned from the intelligence sent back from the capital that it was not the imperial court that really ransomed all the forbidden army prisoners of the Liaodong Army, but the captive's family members, imperial relatives and important ministers who held a lot of wealth in their hands.

Despite the income of four million taels of silver, everyone in the Liaodong Army who knew about the deal was happy. But Yang Xingguo regretted it.

In Yang Xingguo's view, after the four million taels of silver were evenly divided, all the royal relatives and the imperial court in the capital could only be described as fur.

If he had known that the silver was from them, he would have asked for eight million taels of silver.

No matter how much Yang Xingguo regrets it, the negotiations are over after all.

In order to redeem the captives as soon as possible, the troops were expanded. Neither the imperial court nor Yuan Shikai did anything in this transaction.

Yuan Shikai sent the immigrants out of the customs, because he sent a large amount of food to the Liaodong Army by the way, Yang Xingguo directly dispersed them to the two provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang that the Liaodong Army had just controlled!

As for the silver sent by the imperial court! It is a good solution to the large amount of military expenditure urgently needed for the expansion of the Liaodong Army. (To be continued.) )