Chapter 473: A Righteous Move
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"Yes." Barand hesitated for a moment and replied.
Of course, he understood how these German military advisers went to Japan, but now he could only insist that these people were volunteers.
"Then I don't understand something, and I have to ask your envoy." Prince Jing smiled and asked, "Since they are volunteers of your country and have taken money from the Japanese government, then they died in battle in Japan, and they can only be said to be inferior in skills, so they should have no regrets, what does it have to do with my Celestial Empire?" How can your envoy come here and speak falsely? If you want to protest, you have to go to the Japanese government! ”
"But the person who killed them was Lin Yiqing, he was from Qianguo!" Barland choked on Prince Jing's words, but he immediately grabbed another reason and began to fight back, "Lin Yiqing is a native of Qianguo, which your country cannot deny!" That's why we protest to your country and demand that you punish the murderers severely! ”
"Lin Yiqing is a good citizen of our country, but his voyage to Japan to serve Saigo Takamori was done voluntarily and has nothing to do with the imperial court, just as the envoy just said, the military advisers of your country to Japan are all volunteers, and everything they do has nothing to do with the government of your country. If the two sides are unfortunate enough to see the battle array, they will live and die, and each will be in the sky, and it has nothing to do with their own government. Prince Jing asked with a sneer.
Barland never expected that Prince Jing would use his words just now to counter his own army, and he couldn't find a way to refute it for a while, and cold sweat couldn't help but ooze from his forehead.
"They are employed by the Government of Japan. Take the money of the Japanese government to do things. Someone died. Naturally, the Japanese government is responsible. It is a great mistake for your envoy to come and ask us about our country. Xia Jiahao got up as he spoke, and pushed the protest book that was not opened at all back in front of Barland, "This protest letter, please also ask your envoy to take it back, so as not to hinder the reconciliation between the two countries." ”
Yanagihara Maemitsu, who was sitting on the side, heard that the other party had pulled the Japanese government in, and he couldn't help but be anxious, and he looked at Barland. At this time, Barand just stared at Prince Jing and several prime ministers and ministers of the Yamen Sect, and he couldn't say a word.
"Your country has already stated that for the sake of peace and friendship between your country and Japan, your government restricts the people and prohibits them from participating in Japan's wars, and supporting the rebels is strictly prohibited. He has caused great harm to the Japanese army and foreign volunteers, but your government has not prohibited his actions. This is a grave violation and violation of public international law! "Russian Minister Yevgeny? Karlovich? Bu Ce got up at this time and said, "I strongly urge your government to take effective measures to arrest Lin Yiqing and return to Qianguo!" Suspend his actions to help the rebels! ”
"Japan is not a subject country of the Celestial Empire, the Celestial Empire has no soldiers and horses in Japan, and Lin Yiqing's whereabouts are uncertain, your country and tens of thousands of Japanese troops are helpless, how can they arrest him and return to China? Isn't that what a strong man does? Prince Jing spread out his hands and made a gesture of helplessness.
Hearing Prince Jing say the sentence "Japan is not a subject country of the Celestial Empire", Yanagihara Maemitsu was startled, and couldn't help but curse "old fox" in his heart.
In his opinion, Prince Jing's current performance is very different from before, and he has won Lin Yizhe's "true biography".
The peace talks with Yoshizhe Hayashi on the aftermath of Moss Bay can be said to be a lingering nightmare for all Japanese diplomats in their lives!
"Does your government just ignore what Lin Yiqing did in Japan?" Bu Ce also heard that Prince Jing's words were wrong, and he understood very clearly what the word "subject country" meant in the mainstream ideology of the Great Qian Empire, "The World View", and quickly brought the conversation back to Lin Yiqing, "Your government's inaction and indulgence of Lin Yiqing's behavior are actually tantamount to helping the rebels!" ”
He glared at Prince Jing angrily and asked, "Is your government trying to overthrow the current legitimate government of Japan?" ”
"Your envoy's words are not right! My Celestial Empire has always valued faith and righteousness, and I will never do such a thing! This king has a small head, but he can't afford such a big basin to buckle! Prince Jing was a little angry, and his voice unconsciously became louder, "In the final analysis, it is the Japanese government that has failed to govern the people, which has caused the scholars to have no livelihood and provoked chaos, and the blame is the Japanese government!" Lin Yiqing helped Xixiang Longsheng Qingjun to punish the traitorous ministers, but he was motivated by the righteousness, in all fairness, there was nothing improper in what he did! If you want this king to arrest him, it will be difficult to obey your fate! ”
"Motivated by righteousness? Lin Yiqing helped the rebels against the Japanese government, and His Excellency the Prince actually thought it was a righteous act? Bu Ce felt that he had grabbed Prince Jing's handle, and immediately fought back, "So, His Royal Highness agrees with Lin Yiqing's behavior?" ”
"Of course! If this king doesn't think so, I, the great cadres of the government and the wilderness, all those who have righteousness and wisdom, are all like this! Prince Jing stood up suddenly, pointed at the ministers of the three countries, and said sharply, "In the name of reform and reform, the Japanese government arbitrarily oppressed the domestic scholars, resulting in the lack of livelihood of the scholars, and the poverty and destituteness. Lin Yiqing, as a loyal and good man of my Celestial Dynasty, has been in Japan for many years, and has been motivated by righteousness, helping Saigo Takamori to seek justice for the world's scholars and redress grievances. ”
"Your envoy thinks that I praise Lin Yiqing's behavior, hum, the matter has not come to your envoy's head, and your envoy naturally stands and talks without backache!" Prince Jing's angry gaze swept over Barland and Buze, "Your envoy is also from an aristocratic background, if the government of your country is also like the Japanese government, in the name of reform, wantonly oppresses the nobles, is your envoy willing to endure it?" I'm afraid that your envoy is willing to endure it, but the nobles of your country can't bear it? ”
"I remind Your Excellency the Prince that nothing like this has ever happened in the history of our country, and that your statement is only an imagination, not an actual situation." Bu Ce took Prince Jing by surprise, he had been in the Qianguo for many years, and he had a very clear understanding of the Qianguo people's understanding of the "great righteousness," and he did not want to entangle with the ministers of the Qianguo on the issue of "great righteousness," for fear of arousing a strong reaction from the other side, so he planned to pull the conversation back.
"Not the case? It seems that your envoy has a history of your country. What a limited amount of knowledge! Prince Jing sneered. As far as this king knows. This was the case when the great monarch of your country, Peter I, reformed! Don't you know what happened to that Generalissimo Menshikov in the end? How dare you say such a thing before this king? ”
Hearing Prince Jing say the name of "Menshikov", Buze couldn't help but secretly scream "bad" in his heart.
He never expected that Prince Jing would know about this Russian celebrity.
Alexander? Danilovich? Menshikov was a boy selling bread on the streets of Moscow, a friend of Peter the Great in his youth, and a later favorite of the Empress Catherine I and the Younger Tsar Peter II.
Since playing young. Menshikov has been loyally assisting Peter the Great in consolidating power and expanding territory, and is an indispensable right-hand man of Peter the Great in building New Russia. Therefore, both in the time of Peter the Great and in the time of Catherine I, the second wife of Peter the Great, he was an unsurpassed minister. Although the two emperors also knew that he often mixed the treasury with private property, and was quite greedy for money, they remembered that his credit was enormous. are generous and do not care, so his power is even more powerful. Stay until the grandson of Peter the Great. That is, when Peter the Younger, the son of the crown prince Alexei who was executed by Peter the Great, succeeded to the throne at the age of 11, Menshikov used his power to take him back to his home to raise him. He did this for two purposes: first, to control the young Tsar and hold power tightly in his hands; The second was to make the little tsar close to his daughters and force them to be betrothed. But in the struggle to consolidate personal power, Menshikov did not have the support of the Janissaries, much less did he eliminate the influence of the old nobles who were hostile to him on Peter II. Under the conspiracy of the later Empress Anna and the German envoys, the old nobleman Dolgoruki instigated Peter II to escape from Menshikov's mansion, and immediately had Menshikov arrested, confiscated all the family property of the Grand Duke and Generalissimo, and forced their entire family to be exiled to the cold and distant Siberian wilderness for the rest of their lives.
Menshikov's loss of power was not just a personal tragedy, it reflected the old aristocracy's counterattack against reforms after the death of Peter the Great. It is precisely because of his monopoly on power in the reforms, the brutal suppression of the opposition of the old aristocracy, aroused widespread hatred, during the lifetime of Peter I, because of Peter I's trust, no one touched him, but after the death of Peter I, the old nobles immediately fought back, as a result, this Peter the Great in the great cause of changing Russia backward behind the Western European powers, the three dynasties of the powerful minister, the special duke, the generalissimo, the Supreme Privy Councillor, the president of the Army House (the predecessor of the War Department), the admiral, Governor of St. Petersburg Province, member of the French Academy of Sciences, member of the Royal Society, recipient of various decorations, spent the rest of his life in the remote Siberian town of Belyozov, and died of poverty and illness after only two years.
"I have an old saying: If you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself! Your envoy is familiar with the scriptures and history, and has studied both China and the West, and when he knows the death of Prime Minister Okubo, he can compare to the generalissimo Menshikov of Russia! "Prince Jing transferred to Yanagihara Maemitsu," your envoy said that Okubo was harmed by Lin Yiqing, you must know that with Okubo's disobedience, even if he is not killed by Lin Yiqing, someone else will take his life in the future! This person can be the ring of all officials of the Japanese government! ”
Yanagihara Maemitsu listened to Prince Jing's reprimand, remembered what had happened these days, and felt angry for a while.
"Your Royal Highness, since you are unable to take effective action against Lin Yiqing, I am here to remind His Royal Highness that Lin Yiqing's actions have caused serious damage to Russia, Germany and Japan, and the governments of the three countries will take independent joint action against him when necessary, and I hope that your government will not interfere, but restrain the people of your country, and there will be no second Lin Yiqing, is it okay?" Bu Ce changed his softening tone and said to Prince Jing.
"It's nature." Prince Jing replied, "However, if you catch Lin Yiqing, you must not dispose of it at will, Gai Lin Yiqing is my people, even if there is something illegal, it should be handed over to our country, this is a peace treaty, all countries will abide by it, if you hurt his life at will, my country will not agree!" ”
Hearing that Prince Jing actually cited the "extraterritoriality" clause on the treaty to protect Lin Yiqing, Barland and Buze looked at each other with expressions on their faces. Angry, embarrassed and helpless.
The outcome of this meeting. In the end, it ended in a complete victory for Prince Jing.
After leaving the Prime Minister's Yamen. The envoys of each of the three countries sent telegrams to their respective governments to report the results of the negotiations in Beijing, but what was surprising was that the contents of the telegrams were different from those of the three ministers.
The German Minister Barland, who had been in the air and who should have been the most justified and justified in demanding action from his own government, was the most calm in his report, in which he pointed out that "the 'excessive concern' with Japan had affected the friendly relations between Germany and the Great Qian Empire" and suggested that the government "withdraw the military advisory group" at the appropriate time. "To avoid further tragic incidents," "Germany's center of gravity in Asia is the dry countries rather than Japan, and it is in Germany's best interests to maintain close cooperation with the dry countries in the commercial and military fields."
However, in his report to his own government, Butzer said that "the Qianguo government deliberately connived at and even supported Lin Yiqing's actions, and Prince Jing's attitude clearly expressed such a message" and claimed that "there seems to be British support behind Qianguo's actions." Therefore, he suggested that "the operation in Japan should be ended as soon as possible and that Qianguo and Britain should not be given a chance to interfere." The best solution is to eliminate him on the battlefield than to ask the government to arrest and try him."
Yanagihara's report to the Japanese government was brief. He said that "the Qianguo government deliberately shirks its responsibility and cannot expect the Qianguo government to take action against Lin Yiqing." He also pointed out the danger of demanding that the Qianguo send troops to arrest Lin Yiqing, and that "the Qianguo will take the opportunity to turn Japan into a subordinate state of the Qianguo," and suggested that the Japanese Government "should no longer negotiate with the Qianguo on this matter and avoid giving the Qianguo an excuse for interference."
While the envoys of the three kingdoms were busy, Prince Jing got on the royal train into Qingqi Garden and went to "Yongqing Changchun" to meet him.
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