"The words of the lord's department, every word is golden and jade! The villain keeps it in mind and never forgets it! Cen Chunxuan said excitedly.

At this time, Cen Chunxuan's heart was full of admiration for Lin Yiqing.

"Rest well! If you fall under the poison of the Nanyang cultists, it will take a few days to recover. Lin Yiqing said, turning to Bai Chuan Guanghui, "You can also take a good rest, and by the way, get close to this Cen Gongzi." ”

"Dare to ask the Lord's Department, what's going on with this Gu medicine? What does Heaven and Earth want? Cen Chunxuan remembered the strange bloody battle last night, and there were still palpitations in his heart.

"Heaven and Earth Society has been hiding from China to Vietnam for a hundred years, and it has used the Vietnamese people to worship ghosts and gods, and attracted such evil arts from the South Seas, and made poisonous smoke with foreign medicines and other substances, which charmed the soul, so that people were driven to do illegal things for them in the case of confusion. What you destroyed last night was one of its important mandalas. Lin Yiqing replied succinctly, "Go back and let Baishan talk to you in detail." ”

Cen Chunxuan understood, and was about to ask Lin Baishan for details, he suddenly remembered Lin Baishan's companion, so he asked about his situation, and learned from Lin Baishan's pass that his name was Wu Churen, and he also survived last night's bloody battle, but he was seriously injured, and when he heard that he also saved his life, Cen Chunxuan was relieved.

At this moment, Cen Chunxuan, somehow, began to worry about the safety of that girl and Mr. Zhao.

When Guba learned about the riots in Hue from the people sent by General Miller and was about to mobilize the army, an officer of the Qianguo brought a letter from Lin Yiqing, the envoy of the Qianguo Emperor, saying that there were "Heaven and Earth Society evildoers" in Hue City. Now that it has been settled, please don't worry about it, and said that if you feel that your body is recovering well recently. It is hoped that talks on the Vietnam issue will be held as soon as possible, with a view to settling once and for all the dispute between the two countries over the Vietnam issue.

After reading Lin Yiqing's letter, Guba was suspicious, he first sent a messenger back, and then immediately sent someone to the city to investigate, and learned that there was indeed a riot, and some Vietnamese officers and soldiers were involved. However, the purpose was unclear, and the Qianguo army dispatched elite red-clothed marines to suppress it, and also received the cooperation of Vietnamese officers and soldiers sent by the Vietnamese minister. The riots were quickly quelled.

Hearing that Lin Yiqing was able to mobilize the Vietnamese officers and troops in Hue City, Gu Ba's heart couldn't help but sink.

And now he also figured out why the more than 30,000 rebellious troops in Hanoi were wiped out by a cadre army of less than 2,000 men in a very short period of time.

Guba understands. It's time to negotiate with Lin Yiqing as soon as possible.

9084 (10th year of Da Qianguangxu. On August 1, the 17th year of the Meiji era, Japan and France formally held negotiations in Hue, the capital of Vietnam.

The negotiations between Gu Pao and Lin Yiqing took place in a French-owned seaside hotel near Ha Long Bay, and on this day each side brought an equal number of attachés and guards to the negotiation site, and the two sides set up the same sentry posts and hoisted the national flag, maintaining absolute equality, "to ensure that they are on an equal footing in everything, and that neither side is higher or lower than the other in any detail." ”

As a soldier. Gu Ba and Lin Yiqing naturally attended the negotiation in military uniforms.

Seeing Lin Yiqing, who was radiant opposite, Lone suddenly felt it. I'm really old.

After introducing the attachés and exchanging greetings, the two sides immediately entered the theme.

"There was a terrible riot in Hue last night, and General Guba and I decided to send additional troops to protect the people here." General Millet said first.

"There is no need for this, the defense of Hue City is currently managed by the troops of our army to help the Vietnamese government, and now that the rebel parties have been ambushed and the order in the city has been completely restored, please do not need to increase the number of troops, lest unnecessary conflicts arise due to language barriers." Lin Yiqing said fluently in French.

General Mi Le was about to say more, but Lin Yiqing said: "General Mi Le, last night, were there any overseas Chinese, soldiers or foreigners in your country who were injured or killed? ”

"Hmm...... I haven't received a report yet...... "Miller breathed," but that doesn't mean there aren't ......."

"I tell you unequivocally, not a single foreigner was injured or killed last night." Lin Yiqing said, "Our army also protects the churches of foreigners, and there are several foreign priests who can testify, so please don't make any trouble, it's good for all of us." Otherwise, if there was such a fool as Lieutenant Colonel Duseni in the French army who came to Hue, I would not have been so polite. ”

Hearing Du Senny's name, General Miller's face turned red and white, and while he was embarrassed, he felt the murderous intent implied in Lin Yiqing's words, and he couldn't help but feel a little weak in his heart.

"I would like to remind Your Excellency! Please do not insult the officers of the French Imperial Army! Hearing Lin Yiqing directly accuse Dusenny of being a fool, a French attaché couldn't help but stand up and say.

"Shut up! There's no place for you to talk here! General Miller pointed at him and shouted, and the attaché's face flushed, and he bowed to General Miller and sat down in a daze.

"Your Excellency, I'm very sorry." General Miller hurriedly apologized to Lin Yiqing.

"You don't have to be sorry, General Miller, I think you've seen that there are still many people like Lieutenant Colonel Dusenny in your army, and I hope you will be able to put your troops in order in the future and weed out such black sheep." Lin Yiqing said calmly.

Hearing Lin Yiqing say that people like Du Senny were black sheep, Gu Ba seemed to remember something, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile.

Lin Yiqing noticed the subtle change in the expression on Gu Ba's face, smiled slightly, and simply played with it, revealing this allusion: "I remember that General Clausewitz of Germany once divided the people in the army into four categories according to intelligence, stupidity, diligence and laziness: smart and diligent, who can be staff officers; The wise and lazy can be an officer; Stupid and lazy, can be soldiers; And the stupid but diligent ones are the real black sheep and should be cleared of the army immediately. I think he has a lot of point, what do you think? ”

Listening to Lin Yiqing's words, the French people present, including Gu Ba and Miller, all laughed, and the face of the French attaché turned the color of pig liver. But he didn't dare say anything more.

"Since your army can guarantee order and peace in Hue City, then we don't need to discuss this issue anymore." "Let's talk about Hanoi City." ”

"The rebellion in Hanoi City has been put down. Although the city has been badly damaged, order has now been restored, the original residents are returning, and our army is helping the residents to rebuild the city. Lin Yiqing said calmly, "I don't have to worry about the general here." ”

"That's fine, but I want to point out that Hanoi has a concession for the French Empire." Gu Ba stared at Lin Yiqing's eyes. "It has been completely destroyed by the fighting, and many French businessmen have lost their lives in this disaster, how can these losses be calculated?"

"The destruction of the concession. It was the blind actions of Captain An Ye and Colonel Li Weiye like Lieutenant Colonel Duseni that aroused the dissatisfaction of the Vietnamese and provoked retaliation from the Black Flag Army, which had nothing to do with the Chinese government," Lin Yiqing said lightly. "However, we will be responsible for the reconstruction of the concession area. Whether or not the expatriates of your country will return at that time will be up to us to hear and respect. As for compensation for damages, my Government, in the spirit of humanitarianism, is willing to give some compensation, and the Government of Viet Nam will also do so. ”

"In order to prevent the recurrence of riots, the French army has the right to enter the concession area to protect the expatriate." General Mi Le listened to Lin Yiqing's answer and hurriedly said.

"Yes, but in order not to cause disgust among the local population. It is advisable to limit your army to 200 men and not to carry heavy weapons such as artillery. Lin Yiqing said. Since Hanoi City will exist as a treaty port and be treated as a city of Qianguo, our army will help the Vietnamese army to defend the city, and your army will have nothing to do except to protect the expatriates and the consulate, so the number of people is not too large, which is also for the sake of reducing the burden of military spending on your country. ”

"Hanoi is treated as the same as a city in Qianguo?" Gu Ba and Mi Le were all stunned when they heard this.

"Yes." Lin Yiqing said, waving his hand, and a clerk brought the draft of the draft treaty to Guba.

"This is the text of the new treaty proposed by our side, which takes into account the interests of both you and us, as well as the interests of the Kingdom of Vietnam. Lin Yiqing said.

Guba opened the text and looked at it carefully.

The text of the treaty that Lin Yiqing showed Gu Ba was written in French documents, and the gist of the Qianfang treaty was: Qianguo recognized France's right to protect the Nanqi region, France recognized the Qianguo's right to protect the Beiqi region, and recognized the Kingdom of Vietnam as a protectorate (vassal state) of the Daqian Empire; Hanoi was opened to France as a treaty port, with the same status as a city in Qianguo, where French goods were transported and sold as well as those of Vietnam and Qianguo (the details of the treaty were agreed separately); The French troops withdrew from the Hue and Thuan An batteries and retreated to Nam Ki, promising not to invade the territory of the Kingdom of Vietnam again; The Qianguo army will also withdraw to the country after completing the training of the Vietnamese army and consolidating the city defense of Hue; With the signing of the new treaty, all previous treaties between France and Vietnam were nullified.

After reading the conditions proposed by Lin Yiqing, Guba quietly pushed the text of the treaty aside and let his subordinates circulate it.

As a matter of fact, speaking from the bottom of his heart, the conditions given by Lin Yiqing were quite generous, and the Qianguo side, which was the most important item for trade on the French side, had already agreed to it, and the other conditions did not matter, and if anyone was present in the French Government, they would certainly be quite satisfied with the contents of the treaty, and the French knew very well in their hearts that it would be impossible for France to occupy the entire territory of Vietnam with the intervention country, and since the Qianguo was interested in carving up Vietnam with France, it would of course be even better.

Despite this, Gu Ba knew that he still had to bargain with Lin Yiqing in line with the principle of "maximizing national interests".

"What do you think, Your Excellency, what about our proposal?" Lin Yiqing asked.

"The Royal Government of Vietnam has recognized itself as a protectorate of the French Empire in the treaty of 9074, although Vietnam has always maintained a tributary relationship with the Daqian Empire, but this relationship is not a relationship between a protectorate and a protectorate in the sense of international law, and it is not recognized by international law, and although the Kingdom of Vietnam pays tribute to the Daqian Empire, its internal affairs have always been autonomous, and the Daqian Empire has not effectively administered the Kingdom of Vietnam, so I think, The Treaty of 9074 is the true expression of the meaning of the Royal Government of Vietnam: the willingness of the Kingdom of Vietnam to become a protectorate of the French Empire is a fact and cannot be changed. Guba replied.

"There can be no doubt that a subject is a protected State under international law." Lin Yiqing smiled. He said, "This is something that our country has already affirmed to the other countries in its treaties with Korea and the Ryukyus, and the status of Vietnam has been affirmed. It is equivalent to North Korea and the Ryukyus. Our country has applied for a treaty first, and there is a hundred years of tribute, your country and the Kingdom of Vietnam made a treaty, is to deceive the Vietnamese monarch and ministers do not know the international law, now Vietnam has woken up, self-refusal to recognize, so. Your Excellency the General still does not insist on the contents of this fraudulent treaty. The situation has changed differently now, and you don't have to cling to the past, but you should face the reality. Isn't that good for both countries and for Vietnam? ”

Seeing Lin Yiqing reminding him to face reality, he smiled quietly.

"Yes, we should all face reality." Guba said. "Now. What worries us most is whether the Great Empire is capable of shouldering the responsibility of protecting the Kingdom of Vietnam, and we are worried about the riots that have just taken place and the tragic situation in Hanoi City that has preceded it, and the murderers who have caused these tragedies are often at large, and there are a large number of robbers and bandits in the northern region of Vietnam, many of whom are Qianguo people and are supported by the local government of Qianguo. These men often brutalized foreign traders, and neither the Vietnamese government nor the local government of Qianguo took strong action to protect foreigners and eliminate bandits. The Imperial Government was very concerned about the fact that the prolonged instability in North Vietnam would certainly affect the stability of the southern part of Vietnam controlled by the French Empire. This was the reason why the imperial government was reluctant to give up its protectorate status over Vietnam. ”

"That's right." Miller also said, "The French Empire is willing to conclude new treaties with the Daqian Empire on the question of Vietnam, but it is worried that these treaties will not be respected. ”

"Your fears are of course justified, but I can tell you now that the situation in North Vietnam has changed radically," Lin Yiqing smiled and said loudly, "The Black Flag Army bandits have been completely wiped out by us, their leaders have all been captured alive, they will be tried and executed in Vietnam, and the Chinese officials who support them have also been dismissed and sent back to Beijing for trial, and many of them will pay with their lives for their crimes." This includes a number of governors and governors. ”

Lin Yiqing said, waved his hand again, and a Qianguo officer got up and put a foreign newspaper in front of Gu Ba.

This is a British "Times," and the front page reads "The Great Southwest of the Great Qian's Empire, Many Governors and Governors Were Dismissed from Their Posts and Arrested." There are also a number of large-scale photographs below, in which several officials of the Qianguo State are put on torture instruments and detained in prison cars, some of them are silent, some are crying, and some are scolding angrily, with different expressions.

"I believe that these people are indeed officials who support the bandits in North Vietnam, and they have all been punished," Gu Ba glanced at the newspaper, handed it to Miller, and then said to Lin Yiqing, "The fall of the Black Flag Army bandits is a happy thing, but there are still many bandits similar to the Black Flag Army in North Vietnam, and their existence is still very dangerous, we are afraid that after you leave Vietnam, there will be other bandits to take the place of the Black Flag Army and continue to be the enemy of the French Imperial Army." ”

"You don't have to worry about this, we have spent half a year figuring out the hiding places of these bandits, and the army of the Daqian Empire will soon completely wipe them out, and until the situation in North Vietnam is completely stabilized, the troops of the Daqian Empire will be stationed in the northern region of Vietnam to help the Vietnamese government army fight. All bandits who harm your country's military and civilians will be severely punished, and I guarantee that no bandit will dare to be an enemy of your country's military and people. Lin Yiqing said.

"I trust your assurances, but I fear that the bandits will flee from North Vietnam into areas controlled by the French Empire." Gu Ba stared at Lin Yiqing and said, "For this reason, the French Empire will have to strengthen the military strength of South Vietnam. ”

"This is necessary, and as long as your troops do not come to North Vietnam and do not invade the areas under the jurisdiction of the Vietnamese government, it is reasonable for your country to increase its troops in order to protect its territory and people." Lin Yiqing replied.

Hearing Lin Yiqing's generous agreement that both sides would increase their troops in Vietnam, Guba was a little surprised, but Lin Yiqing immediately gave an answer.

"In view of the fact that the Vietnamese government is unable to effectively exercise sovereignty within its administrative sphere, the Emperor Daqian is very supportive of your government's military action to establish a security zone in Nam Ki, and the Daqian Empire will also set up a security zone in Bei Ki that is equivalent to that of Nam Ki, so as to help the Vietnamese government better manage their land and people." Lin Yiqing continued.

Mi Le realized the trap in Lin Yiqing's words, but at this moment, he couldn't find a reason to object.

"I would like to remind you that there is a close cooperative relationship between the Daqian Empire and the French Empire in many respects, and they also share common interests in Vietnam, and the increase in the number of troops stationed in Vietnam does not mean that the hostility between you and us has deepened." Lin Yiqing looked at Gu Ba and said, "I hope the two of you can calmly make your own judgment, the main army of the French Empire is not prepared for Vietnam, am I right?" ”

Listening to Lin Yiqing's last sentence, Lone's eyes instantly radiated a compelling light.

"Of course." Gu Ba said in a deep voice, "Then I can also understand that the most elite troops of the Daqian Empire under your control are not prepared for Vietnam, is that so?" (To be continued.) )

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