The next day, Guo Ye took Yan Chunyu and set off straight to Rehe.

The distance from Beijing to Rehe is almost 500 miles, and it will take at least two days to get to Rehe.

In the Rehe Palace, Xianfeng is already bedridden, and can only lie on the hospital bed every day, except for the queen and Concubine Lan waiting every day, it is Su Shun, a close minister, who is by his side.

In the early morning of this day, Xianfeng had just finished using the medicine and was in a slightly better spirit, when the chief eunuch Lu Xi walked in and said, "Your Majesty, Guo Ye, the chief soldier of Baoding Town, was sent by King Gong to come to Rehe to meet the emperor, inquire about the emperor's body, and ask for a meeting. ”

Xianfeng's heart perked, although the negotiations led by Guo Ye and King Gong were constantly attacked by the important ministers of the court, but for Guo Ye's ability, Xianfeng still recognized it very much, such loyal ministers and good generals are rare, Xiaoxiao can't hide his great virtue, since Guo Ye is here, then he has to see it anyway, not to mention his previous exploits, but in the past few days, she has been demoted, and she should be soothed.

Xianfeng said: "Oh, Su Shun, you arrange it first, comfort Guo Ye on my behalf, tomorrow morning, the ministers will be in the dynasty, and I will meet him." ”

Su Shun was overjoyed when he heard this, he met Guo Ye first, this is just right, you can first explore what kind of attitude Guo Ye is.

Su Shun hurriedly agreed, said goodbye, and came towards the mansion.

When Guo Ye heard that Su Shun was coming, he was not easy to slacken, so he hurriedly welcomed Su Shun into the mansion.

Guo Ye bowed down and said: "Su Zhongtang, I haven't seen you for a long time, but Kangtai is the same as before." The lower officials are polite. ”

Su Shun smiled: "Okay." Guo Ye. Let's be a minister in the same palace, don't be polite, you are for the country and the people, and your hard work is high, you should be our consolation, no, the emperor decreed, let me entertain you first. Tomorrow morning, he will meet you personally. ”

Guo Ye hurriedly replied: "Don't dare to be, the lower officials don't dare to praise the middle hall lord." ”

Su Shun's eyes flashed, and he asked: "Guo Ye, what is the situation in Beijing now, and what is the situation of the treaty signed, you should tell this official." ”

Guo Ye said in a deep voice: "Lord Zhongtang doesn't ask, the lower officials also want to say, this time the lower pass is here for this matter." Presumably, Lord Zhongtang also heard that the foreigners invaded the city of Beijing. The entire Old Summer Palace was ransacked, and at the same time, the Old Summer Palace was burned to the ground. It's really heartbreaking. However, we may not be completely on the right side of this matter, after all, we abused the British and French missions first, more than 40 British and French envoys, more than 20 people died, and a few of them no longer look like people. ”

Su Shun was a little unhappy in his heart, and replied: "Guo Ye, there is indeed something wrong with the handling of this matter by Zaiyuan and others, but we can't let the foreigners' temperament come, meeting Your Majesty is a big deal, involving **** orthodoxy, our etiquette system is set by our ancestors, foreign envoys meet you, you must bow down, you can't be sloppy, this is a matter of **** dignity, there is no room for accommodation." ”

After all, whether it is Zaiyuan, Duanhua, or Gui Liang and others are all Su Shun's people, Guo Ye first brought out this matter, and Su Shun was of course a little dissatisfied.

Guo Ye smiled bitterly in his heart, everyone is upright and strict, quite talented, and far-sighted, now it seems that he is just a pedantic person who clings to the ancestral religion, what age is it now, and what **** is the country, the problem is that you are boasting of yourself, why do people in Britain and France want to go around you, what is not as good as you now?

Guo Ye replied: "Lord Zhongtang, you should know that now we are not the prosperous Kangqian era a hundred years ago, at that time, our national strength was strong, so naturally we could do whatever we wanted?" After all, whoever has the big fist is the boss. However, now that we are suffering from internal and external troubles and the country's situation is declining, if we still have such an attitude to deal with foreigners, isn't it asking for trouble? Now the foreigners are still gathering tens of thousands of people in Beijing, and there are thousands of troops in Tianjin. It's not that Guo Ye is arrogant, if I have available soldiers under my command, where can I trouble Lord Zhongtang? I've been killing them a long time ago! But can't we beat them? Even if I have dragon slaying skills, then I have to have a dragon slaying knife, foreigners are an evil dragon, tens of thousands of foreign soldiers may go north to Rehe at any time, and now the cavalry of the monk king has been lost, what can we resist? To put it mildly, do you really want Jingkang's incident to happen again? ”

Su Shun's heart gloomed, he is not a fool, let alone those old pedants who are looking for chapters and sentences, although they are xenophobic, but they still have a vision, foreigners are strong, and they want to let people withdraw from the army, and they don't give benefits, how is it possible?

Su Shun said helplessly: "Guo Ye, what you said has a certain truth, people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads; However, that clause is really too harsh, I have read the contents of it one by one, although it is not as fierce as Lord Woren, but it is also a little dissatisfied, we are too weak, that is a traitor to seek glory, Lord Woo Ren even directly accused you of being a traitor......"

Guo Ye's cheeks twitched, and he almost scolded directly, being old and not dying is a thief, that old guy is fighting with himself with his arms!

Guo Ye said in a low voice: "Lord Zhongtang, the lesser of two evils, I can only guarantee that we will suffer less losses now, as for the matter of face, let's just endure it, is it that compared with the compensation of tens of millions of taels of silver, the face of our **** country is so important?" Han Xin still has the humiliation of his crotch, Gou Jian is even more courageous, it's a big deal that in the future, we will be in Huaxia Zhongxing, and then fight back, if that day comes, I, Guo Ye, will be the first to ask Ying, lead the division of tigers and wolves, and smash Huanglong! ”

Tens of millions of taels of silver?

Su Shun was also taken aback, he was not in Beijing, so naturally he didn't know some of the details.

Guo Ye smiled bitterly: "You don't know yet, during the period when I was recuperating from my injury, the foreigners used that Gong Cheng as an internal response, and they knew our every move clearly, and the persecution of Prince Gong was exhausted, and the compensation demanded by the two countries reached 30 million taels of silver, which is not counted, and there are more harsh conditions such as one-sided most-favored-nation treatment, if it weren't for the fact that I directly squeezed the ministers of the two countries with words and slashed Gong Cheng with a sword, I'm afraid we will be more passive!" (To be continued.) )