In this era, Jin Guo's foreign affairs and foreigners always suffered more losses, and there were few draws, and as for taking advantage of them, it was mostly in a dream. The reasons for this are always inseparable from factors such as weak national strength and backward military, but on the other hand, there is also an important aspect, that is, the lack of understanding of diplomatic rules. Or take the ideas of hundreds of years ago, under the vassal system, to handle diplomacy, and naturally run into walls everywhere. Either it was too soft and it was pinched, or it was too hard and lacked security, and it was beaten to the head and broke the bloodstream.

For example, the county order negotiates with foreigners, but the interpreter is acted by the parties, resulting in the negotiation being his own hands, and there is no reason to be undefeated. Zhao Guanhou's Capetian pronunciation is far more accurate than Li Tingxuan's Capetian pronunciation, and Mareddin was stunned. After hearing Zhao Guanhou's question, he was a little excited

"I can assure you that he did shield the bandits. These boxers have killed two innocent Catholic priests in Juye, and your court has already paid the price for this. But these thugs are still at large, and they are being helped by your people to escape their punishment. Your government must deal with such acts and cannot tolerate adultery. ”

"If you have conclusive evidence, then I support you, but the question is, where is the evidence?" Zhao Guanhou sneered and pointed at Li Tingxuan with his hand, "If it can be established by relying on the accusations of the parties, then I can also say that he harbored the boxers and should behead him first." Asking our government to behead our people before you can produce evidence is also inconsistent with the rules of diplomacy and the public law of all nations. ”

Zhao Guanhou actually didn't dare to give Jiang Bu a packing ticket. He travels extensively, and he has many and miscellaneous friends, and there are some people who are not very innocent in it. There are not a few people who commit adultery. To say that he has shielded the boxers of the Broadsword Society. It's also entirely possible.

But he ate a little. Bishop Maledin heard the news more than he witnessed it, and he had no hard evidence in his hands. In this case, this is the advantageous condition of his own side, as long as he bites the evidence to death, this foreigner, no matter how he jumps, has no way to take Jiang.

Sure enough, Mareddin said with a gloomy face: "I am a clergyman. Won't lie. I can confirm that Liu Dadao, the main murderer in the Juye case, was sheltered and shielded by this Jiang martial artist, and finally personally sent him out of Jinmen. ”

"The missionaries involved in the Juye case, without exception, were all Prussians. And the right to protect the church in the Shandong region was also in the hands of the Prussians, and your honor, as a missionary of Capet, was involved in this matter in a way that was unreasonable. Even less credible. ”

Zhao Guanhou was in the Wubei Academy, and Qi Kaifen and others had talked about the Juye teaching plan. I still know more about this matter, and I know that the people involved in this are all Prussians, and they have nothing to do with Capet. Moreover, Capet's relationship with Prussia was not harmonious, and there was no good cooperation between the two.

The reason why this priest came out was probably because of the forty acres of land. After all, if Jiang does not fall, it will not be easy for the church to reclaim the land. If you make an example and cut off Jiang Bu's head, not only the Li family will give in, but when the church buys other people's fields in the future, I'm afraid no one will have the courage to say that they will not sell it.

Ma Redding's face turned blue when he was blocked by Zhao Guanhou, "Your Excellency, this matter involves local security, and it seems that it is not within the scope of military intervention. If you intervene forcibly, you will bear full responsibility for all the diplomatic consequences that will be triggered. Can you bear Cape's wrath? ”

"Your Excellency Mareddin, as a clergyman, do you take the responsibility of provoking and provoking war on your own?"

The two went toe-to-toe, and the scene was about to erupt. Zhao Guanhou took advantage of the shortcoming that Maleding couldn't come up with evidence, and refused to admit that Jiang Bu was harboring the boxers. Maledin's witnesses are actually a few gangsters who have believed in religion, and they are indeed not very strong.

But when I think of the forty acres of land and the expansion of the church in the future, there must be many problems with local land disputes, and if I don't get out of school the first time, I don't think much about the future. Mareddin could not compromise on life or death, and only said:

"If it can't be confirmed now that Jiang Bu is harboring the bandits, then he should also be handed over to the Ministry of Industry for interrogation, and if it is confirmed that he is innocent, he can be released. Moreover, he was very unfriendly to the church and actively participated in the conflict between the local mob and the church, which I think should be regarded as evidence of his offense to the church. ”

"I seriously disagree with this, Your Excellency Mareddin. Master Jiang has the right to choose his own faith, and he hasn't hurt anyone in the church, so you can't say he deserves to be tried just because he doesn't like Catholicism. ”

"I think he's creating conflict between parishioners and ordinary people."

On the contrary, it is the Church that creates conflict and causes public resentment to boil. If the people are angry and do something unspeakable, then the song is also in Your Excellency, not me. ”

Mareddin stood up, "Are you threatening me?" Don't forget, the last Jinmen case, the price paid by your imperial court. ”

"No, I guess you don't forget, in the last lesson plan, it was the missionary who died." Zhao Guanhou snorted coldly and glared back fearlessly. "I came today to bail out this Master Jiang, precisely to stabilize the situation and avoid the situation from deteriorating. Whoever stops me will be responsible for what will happen in the future! ”

"I will not tolerate the release of a potentially dangerous person on bail. He may harbor a boxer, or he may be a boxer himself, and he will never be released on bail. And, you! Mareddin pointed at Zhao Guanhou with his finger, "I suspect that you are also an anti-church element, and I will reserve the right to protest to your court and expel dangerous elements from the army." You also don't have the right to bail anyone out. ”

"He doesn't have the right to bail anyone, so do I have the right to bail?" A woman's voice suddenly sounded from outside the door, and when the curtain was lifted, the first person to come in was a sturdy man from forty miles away. As he entered the room, he made another gesture of invitation, and a graceful European lady slowly entered from outside.

She walked straight up to Zhao Guanhou, stretched out her hand, and said in Jin Guoguan's words: "It seems that we are really fated, and we just broke up the night before yesterday." See you again today. That night. I'm very ...... Pleasant. Who's this? Your new girlfriend? She's beautiful. ”

She looked at Jiang Fengzhi. The corners of her mouth moved slightly, "It's like an Amazonian warrior." He turned to look at Mareddin again, "Bishop Mareddin, do you think I'm a potentially dangerous person?" Do I have the right to bail out that poor Mr. Jiang? ”

Maredin also knew this noblewoman, although he was a clergyman, but he also had a reverie about this famous lady of high society. On the other hand, Madame Jensen was accompanied by Capet's Consul General in Zimbabwe, Antoine. This man is precisely the Lord that Maledine cannot provoke.

Antoine, a lover of adventure and detective novels, is no secret in his frenzied pursuit of the rich American widow Madame Jenson, and whether he catches it or not, at least he spares no effort to curry favor with Madame Jenson. It would be unwise to offend such a woman.

It's just that he doesn't understand what Mrs. Jensen has to do with the people of the Jin Kingdom, and why she would stand up for this military attaché. He shook his head and smiled, "Mrs. Jenson, of course you have the right to bail anyone. But I must make it clear that you may lack understanding of them. And some people take advantage of your good intentions. These people are a gang of thugs and robbers, and they are suspected of murdering two ......"

"They are suspected of murdering two Prussian missionaries. It's no secret. Antoine picked up at this point. He deliberately bit the three words Prussia extremely hard

"Bishop Maredin, as the Lord said, the patronage of Shantung belongs to Prussia, not to us. You have never lived in Shandong, how can you be sure that they really shielded the boxer Liu Dadao? Also, I just heard that you have made a threat of war against the Kingdom of Jin, and I must remind you that you have crossed the line, and this is not something you have the right to decide. ”

Antoine's face was very unkind, and the last time Capet and Jin Guo went to war in Annan, which led to the collapse of the cabinet. He didn't want to start a war at random, let alone a bishop of a church. This is already suspected of violating the authority of his consul general, and given Mrs. Jensen's position, it is not difficult to imagine his dissatisfaction with Maredin.

"Bishop Maredin, I have just learned about this matter, and it seems that the cause is a land dispute between the church and the residents?" Mrs. Jenson got straight to the point: "I wonder if the owner of the land is not here, and it would be better to figure out some words in person." ”

Although Li Chunting is a martial artist, on this occasion, he is nothing, and at this time, he is on the side, and he doesn't even have anything to say. It wasn't until Xu Haoran called him that he came over and said, "Those forty acres of land are handed down by my ancestors, and I didn't want to sell them." Moreover, the church has not given me a penny, so that I can give. I don't believe in foreign religion, so why should I give my land to foreigners, it doesn't make sense. ”

As soon as Zhao Guanhou translated this, Bishop Mareddin shouted again, "Lie! This man is lying! I paid the land price at the price of 10 yuan per mu of land, why didn't he pay? The person who handled this matter was Li Tingxuan, and they could confront each other in court. ”

Li Tingxuan was already sweating on his forehead at this time, and he wanted to say something, but Zhao Guanhou was already standing behind him like a ghost, grabbing his shoulder with his hand. "Li Tingxuan, it seems that this matter has a lot to do with you. Well, let's talk about it carefully, what's going on with this money to buy land, I am Zhao Guanhou of the Small Shoe Shop Bone Club, a figure of the Li Zi generation in the Cao Gang. There are dozens of good brothers in his hands, and there are tens of thousands of fellow disciples on the road. If you dare to tell a half-word lie today, I guarantee you will regret it for the rest of your life! Even this foreigner Maredin can't protect you. ”

With a slight increase in his hand, Li Tingxuan only felt as if the two shoulder blades had been crushed, and he screamed at that time. As soon as Zhao Guanhou's hand shook, he collapsed to the ground like soft mud, and his arrogance was reduced.

Jiang Fengzhi put his boots on his chest a little, "Say!" What the hell is going on? Don't tell the truth, I'm not done with you today! ”

"Spare your life! Spare your life! Li Chunting ...... he said, "He just wanted to say something, Mrs. Jenson had already taken over" In order to prevent someone from making false corrections, I think it is necessary to make a point that if someone lies today, then he will be punished with the strictest punishment. ”

"Yes, lying in front of the clergy is an unforgivable sin. If anyone dares to commit such a great crime, I don't mind hanging him with my own hands. Antoine had a funny idea, he had no interest in such cases, but since Madame Jenson was interested, he was to side with the rich widow.

Today, the two of them played wild ducks all morning, which is a rare progress, and he doesn't want to affect the relationship with the beautiful woman for a trivial matter of a few hundred eagles.

Mareddin also said to Li Chunxuan: "Li Chunxuan, you have converted to the Lord, you must tell the truth. If you lie, you will go to hell in the future. I want you to tell the truth, or I won't be able to call the shots for you. ”

"Bishop...... Bishop wise, I really don't blame me for this. He is a dead brain, and he refuses to sell his land, so I have to make this decision. What he wanted was to complete the transaction first, and after he nodded his head, he would make up the money to him, but he didn't know that it would be like this. Seeing that he was going to become an outcast, Li Chunxuan's bones were not hard, so he recruited whatever he had at that time

"Those eagles are not spent by me, the two women I found for you are both big girls, if they don't give the family silver, who would want to spend the night with a foreigner? That money has to be counted as my service to the church, not my personal keeping. ”

Mrs. Jensen laughed, "My God, the credibility of the Capetians ......"

Antoine's face suddenly turned ugly: "Bishop Maredin, I think you should give the church an explanation. I will write a detailed explanation of this matter and send it to the church, and they will do justice to you. ”

Maredin didn't expect Li Chunxuan to shake this thing out, his face instantly turned red, and he roared loudly, "You are talking nonsense!" Thou treacherous villain has slandered me, and thy soul will never be at peace! ”

"I'm not talking nonsense! You want Jiang Bu's life, but also to kill the chicken to show the monkey, and you also told me that you know that he has a beautiful daughter. If you can get him to the Ministry of Industry, you can let his daughter be at your mercy. When you've had enough, you'll give me ......."

Jiang Fengzhi's face turned cold when he heard this, and with an involuntary force under his feet, Li Chunxuan spurted out a mouthful of blood, and swallowed all the words back, and the person was also angry. It was only at this time that no one was bothering to rescue him, and Madame Jensen glanced at Antoine, "The justice of the Capetian Ministry of Industry seems to be quite different from what I imagined. I have to think carefully about the investment of Warby Bank in the Capet Concession. ”

"No...... Madame, I think it was a misunderstanding. Antoine glared at Maredin viciously, "You owe not only the church an explanation now, but also me!" As for the conflict between you and the local residents, it is up to you to resolve it properly, and the Ministry of Industry will not intervene! ”

Maredin was like a deflated ball, slumped weakly on the chair, and Zhao Guanhou looked at Jiang Fengzhi with a smile on his face, things have come to this point, Jiang Bu can certainly be fine, even if Li Chunxuan does not die, there is no way to trouble the Jiang family again. As for Xu Haoran, he began to handle Jiang Buqiu's bail procedures without any pressure, allowing Zhao Guanhou to take people home. (To be continued.) )