Chapter 41: The Excited Man

"Hello, I am Zhu Erdian, the minister of the Sun Never Setting Empire in China. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Oh, hello, I'm Xu Yuanhua."

Then there was silence, and Zhu Erdian and Xu Yuanhua sat in the office. There is a teacup in front of each person, and in the cup is the tea brewed with the best Biluochun, and the fragrance wafts up from the tea, refreshing people's hearts.

Zhu Erdian likes this kind of light and good tea very much, but now he is so anxious that he has no interest in tasting tea at all. After staring at him for a while, he looked at the white-bearded old man who was drinking tea comfortably across the street, and finally couldn't help but say, "Mr. Xu, I want to remind you that in front of you is the minister of the empire on which the sun never sets!" ”

The translator translated this sentence, Xu Yuanhua smiled "hehe", put down the teacup, and said: "Mr. Zhu, I don't think you need to be in such a hurry, and the head of state and the chief of the general staff are so busy people, we have always reported to them, and then stared at their summons, like you, who didn't care about it, came over and said that I wanted to meet them, I don't think it's appropriate." ”

The translator said with a strange face: "Mr. Xu, this Mr. Zhu Erdian is not surnamed Zhu. ”

"Whatever, he can't understand what I'm saying anyway, you just have to translate it."

"Mr. Xu, I want to tell you that I know Chinese." Zhu Erdian's face turned pale, and he said in a mouthful of Beijing films: "I have lived in China for a long time. ”

"Ahhh Xu Yuanhua was a character whose skin was thicker than the city wall, and said exaggeratedly: "It turns out that Mr. Zhu understands Chinese, so what else do you need to translate?" ”

"Because I now represent the British Empire!" Zhu Erdian said proudly: "It represents Her Majesty the Empress, who rules the Seven Seas." ”

These sentences were spoken in English, and the translator translated them as they were.

Xu Yuanhua stroked his beard and nodded, "Okay, I understand." So, do you have an urgent appointment with us, is there anything important about death? ”

Zhu Erdian perked up and said: "My country believes that it is extremely inappropriate for you to want to leave our country and issue currency alone. We firmly oppose such actions by you. ”

"Well, you're against our own currency?" Xu Yuanhua said: "And still resolutely opposed? ”

"Not bad!"

"Okay, we got it."

“and?”

"Then you can continue to oppose it," Xu Yuanhua said: "Well, resolutely oppose it." ”

Zhu Erdian frowned, looked at Xu Yuanhua, and threatened: "If you insist on acting like that, I'm afraid something will happen that we don't want to see." ”

Xu Yuanhua smiled dumbly, and said left and right: "Is he threatening us?" Well, he's threatening. But the threat has to be able to do so. ”

He said to Zhu Erdian seriously: "I have never heard that what you can't get on the battlefield can get at the negotiating table. I've never heard of a threat that can make the other party obedient. If you really have great strength, then show it! ”

After listening to the translator's words, Zhu Erdian glared at Xu Yuanhua angrily, but he had to agree with what he said. But the Englishman, who had always been fond of intrigues, took a deep breath and said slowly, "What if we cut off your sea transport routes?" ”

Xu Yuanhua said: "Please!" We've only got a port now, and if you're willing to cut it off, go ahead and cut it off! But I warn you that if you do that, I will expel all the British! ”

This is a mutual threat. With the background of the victory of the two wars, Xu Yuanhua did not care about the threat of the British at all, and sent hundreds of thousands of people to fight a war in North China. In this world, might is justice. If it's not strong enough, it's bullshit.

If His Excellency the Black Dragon King knew about his words, he would definitely be amazed by it, and then send him to that unknown corner.

Thanks to Chen Cheng and Lin Mengchu's consistent advocacy and brainwashing, coupled with their invincible martial arts, there are some militarists up and down in Handan City. It is Cao Futian, and older people like Jing Tingbin are not exempt from vulgarity. Although they are not as fanatical as young people, when they think about problems, they are usually inclined to solve problems by force.

And such a situation is very dangerous, they do not have the strength to fight the world, but because of the tradition of the Chinese, they have the belief of mixing one universe. When foreign wars bring them power, glory and wealth, such fanaticism becomes even more insane.

In the General Staff Headquarters directly under Chen Cheng, those young staff officers who had just learned how to fight a modern war were planning all day long how to send troops south to kill those princes in the country.

There are also people who have made plans to attack the Russians in the north, but under the existing conditions, no matter what kind of plan, it seems that in the end it will turn into a tragic war of attrition with hundreds of thousands of 200,000 people killed on both sides. After a dozen deductions on the sand table, after considering that it was necessary to leave enough troops for defense, their army was really not enough to destroy up to 300,000 Russian troops.

In the face of such a situation, even if those staff officers were confident, they had no choice but to give up. After all, they are not Japanese, and they can't do anything like changing the rules and data if the sand table deduction fails.

Zhu Erdian expressed regret for Xu Yuanhua's words, and he was just a casual threat just now. If the other party's ports were blocked, and the other party's sea lines were cut off, the million-pound-a-year deal would have been cut off with it.

The British spent so much money, spent so much energy, and died so many people, didn't they want the right to free trade? If Jurdian had done that, the old men in London would have been happy to hang him from the barrel of a battleship. They wouldn't really do that, but it was certain that he would be dismissed.

He didn't want to go back to the countryside of England so soon to retire, he was in the prime of life, and he wanted to serve the British Empire for a few more decades. Moreover, he has many acquaintances in China, such as a certain Manchu prince, or Yuan Shikai, who has just left the wilderness and is now on his way to Europe.......

Well, they're all outdated characters. But he has always been known in Britain as a China expert, and if he leaves here, his career will start anew.

He didn't want this, he hated it, he refused it. However, the glory of the empire cannot be desecrated.........

"Look, what if we build Qingdao into a ******?" Xu Yuanhua saw that everyone's cruel words were almost gone, and pretended to be careless and said: "If we are willing to build Qingdao into a ******, is your country interested in joining in?" ”

"What?" Jurdian thought he had misheard, a new ******? Think how much effort did they spend to force the Qing government to open the port in a unified manner? Will there be such a good thing in the world?

However, Xu Yuanhua's words just now still seem to be in his ears, although this guy hates it, he doesn't seem to have told a lie yet. And such a thing is not at all a lie that can be overcome.

Zhu Erdian felt that he was now excited. (To be continued.) )