Chapter 6 The Fool Continues
Fishing Workshop more than 10 miles away from Guangzhou City, is an inconspicuous village, but these two days are lively, a few days ago there are loaded guns and ammunition of the ghost soldiers and the Qing Dynasty officers and soldiers, set up a few green canvas tents, and then the two sides are clearly divided into two columns to stand in the tent one south and one north, the number of people on both sides is equal, one to one, chest and belly, all glaring angrily at the foreign soldiers standing opposite themselves.
The most unusual thing is that every two or three hours, columns of soldiers on both sides change shifts, and then the scene of angry eyes and swords rattling is repeated.
This morning, a large number of ghosts came from the direction of Guangzhou City, with more than a dozen people riding horses in the front, and a group of red-uniformed privates in the back, a total of 180 people.
The ghosts on horseback all entered the tent, and the Yangyi soldiers were all lined up outside the tent, and their bayonets were shining, but the momentum of the twenty or thirty Qing soldiers on the opposite side was suppressed.
There are people who are watching the excitement from afar, but they are in a hurry, there are more ghosts than us, right? What about the officers and soldiers of our Shenzhou?
In the distance, suddenly the horn sounded, the hooves sounded like thunder, and more than 100 horses were seen in the distance like a blue whirlwind, the horn was excited, the iron horses were like a stream, this Biao iron rode each blue armor heavy helmet, like a wolf and a tiger, although there were only 100 people, the momentum was like a thousand troops and horses swept in, separated by a long distance, the fierce and fierce spirit has filled the heaven and earth, the original clear and clear sky seems to be a dark, cloudy everywhere.
The faces of the rows of soldiers with shiny bayonets changed, and they involuntarily retreated. Flag Guard, a devilish existence, this Chinese commander's pro-army represents bloody slaughter every time it appears on the battlefield, Huacheng, Tucheng, Huangshapo, the three names that the coalition soldiers don't want to think of in their sleep, each of them, there are terrifying blue flames fluttering.
"Boom", the blue-armored guards pulled the reins in a uniform manner, the fierce horses neighed one after another, and the wind and sand raised rolled into the Yi soldier array, many Yi soldiers couldn't help coughing loudly, and the originally neat phalanx was immediately scattered.
Looking at this scene at the entrance of the tent, Pashali's face turned pale.
The blue-armored pro-army was divided left and right like a tide, Ye Zhao turned over and dismounted, strode out, and said loudly: "Mr. Pashali, I have admired it for a long time!" ”
Looking at this young man with pink eyes in a splendid robe, Pa Xiali was a little stunned for a while, although he had heard that the Chinese commander was not very old, he really never thought that he would be a Wenxiu young man about twenty years old.
Ye Zhao came over early and joined hands with Pa Xiali to enter the account.
In the tent, there was a long row of tables, and on the south side, there were more than a dozen Anglo-French-Italian people with different expressions, which were the British and French delegations participating in the peace talks.
Ye Zhao smiled and bowed his hand to them, but said in English: "Hello everyone." ”
All the Yi people got up one after another, and their expressions were a little surprised, this young man is the Chinese commander who made the coalition forces suffer so much?
Pa Xia Li asked suspiciously, "Lord Commander, are you going to negotiate with us alone?" ”
Ye Zhao smiled slightly, and said, "Lord Sushun will arrive later, I am just co-organising, and I can't do the negotiation." ”
Pashali muttered even more in his heart, judging by the situation, this young commander didn't seem to be very enthusiastic about peace talks.
Ye Zhao sat alone opposite the Yi people, these tall, short, fat and thin Yi people all looked at him with good eyes, but Ye Zhao comfortably picked up the teacup and tasted tea.
Pa Xiali wanted to chat with Ye Zhao to find out his thoughts, but it can be seen that he is like this, and he really doesn't know how to speak. The soldiers are belligerent, not to mention the young generals, Pa Xiali couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this peace negotiation is afraid that it will be difficult.
Pashali couldn't help but look at several merchant representatives in the negotiation envoys, and said in his heart, "If you put forward such harsh conditions, how can the Chinese agree?"
More than half an hour later, the Great Qing Dynasty sent Su Shun and several other officials and interpreters and other entourages to enter the tent, Su Shun reluctantly shook hands with Pa Xia Li, and heard that the Yi people in Guangzhou abolished the punishment of Ling Chi and ordered the people to take off their hats and shake hands as a courtesy, but this is really unreasonable.
Although I had a barbecue with my nephew that night, I finally felt that my nephew's love was quite cute, but in the face of Yangyi, the disgust in Su Shun's heart couldn't help but churn.
When he saw Yangyi send the draft terms of the peace treaty, Su Shun was even more angry.
Ye Zhao also took a copy of the document submitted by Yangyi and looked through it, although they suffered losses in Guangzhou, Britain and France obviously pinned their hopes on winning a big game at the negotiating table, and put forward the same terms as before, such as requiring ministers from various countries to be stationed in Beijing, opening more than a dozen treaty ports such as Yingkou, Dengzhou, Tianjin, and Taiwan, allowing foreigners to travel and trade in the interior, foreign merchant ships being allowed to travel and trade in various ports on the Yangtze River, revising tariffs, reducing the tonnage tax on merchant ships, allowing Britain and France to recruit Chinese laborers to go abroad, allowing missionaries to enter the interior to preach, ceding Kowloon to Britain, and so on.
Of course, there are also some ancillary clauses, such as not harming the Chinese who helped the British and French forces in the war.
As for the military reparations, it was only two million taels, which was lower than the eight million taels in the previous life.
Rao is like this, Su Shun came up with a burst of fire, threw the grass on the table, and said in a loud voice: "It's nonsense, it's too deceitful!" ”
The interpreter secretly glanced at Ye Zhao sideways, and seeing that Ye Zhao was silent and had no hint, he faced the crowd, so he became stern in his words, "Ladies and gentlemen, Lord Qincha rejects all the terms of this draft agreement!" ”
The Yangyi roared, and they began to talk about each other.
Pashali's face sank like water, he knew that this negotiation would be extremely difficult, and the harsh conditions put forward by those businessmen had not yet been come up, and the Chinese were already so tough, and the prospects for this peace talk were probably more auspicious.
Pa Xia Li looked at Ye Zhao, and his gray eyes flashed with a hint of meaning, "Your Excellency, Commander, haven't you prepared a peace treaty herb?" ”
Ye Zhao sat at this negotiating table, in fact, there were some ups and downs of thought, representing China, colliding head-on with the top figures of foreign powers in China, and the negotiation was like a dream, but the twilight "old devil" who was talking to him on the other side had once humiliated the Chinese nation.
Himself, whether it is a name in history or a stench for thousands of years, from now on, will write a heavy stroke in history, the name Ye Zhao, thousands of years later, how will future generations comment?
Great Qing Eagle Dog? The Founding Emperor of China? President? An exiled loser full of fantasies? Or do you not know when someone took your surname?
Ye Zhao shook his head, threw away his messy thoughts, smiled at Pa Xia Li, and said in Chinese: "We only have two requirements, first, your [***] team withdraws from Guangzhou; Second, hand over the Chinese war criminals in the war. Saying that, clapping his hands, the interpreter hurriedly translated his words, took out another page and handed it over, there were more than a dozen names on it, and Li Minghan was in the first place.
The people were in an uproar again, but Pa Xiali was very calm, to be honest, he didn't think that the Chinese only put forward a list of more than a dozen people, you must know that the Chinese like to settle accounts after the autumn are famous, originally thought that the Chinese who had served the coalition forces in Guangzhou City would be severely punished.
The Frenchman in the three-person committee, Xiulai, knocked on his pipe, although he restrained his arrogance, his tone was not polite, and said to Ye Zhao: "Mr. Commander, you are completely insincere about this peace talk. "In fact, before this young commander, Xiu Lai was really a little weak-hearted, who knows if this inscrutable Chinese will suddenly turn his face, and his terrifying pro-army is just outside the camp tent. He even complained a little in his heart, why did he state that the number of retinues on both sides could not exceed one hundred and fifty, didn't this give him an excuse to bring the Blue Banner Army, a big killing weapon, to establish his authority?
But he has always been known for being tough, his heart is a little hairy, but his mouth is stiff, and he can't be laughed at by others.
Ye Zhao leaned sideways and whispered a few words to Su Shun, and then Zhengse said to Pa Xiali and the others: "We are willing to make concessions and allow your merchants to enter Guangzhou City, provided that you agree to our two small demands, withdraw the troops, and hand over the people." ”
Now that the city of Guangzhou is occupied by allied forces, merchants come and go at will, and the so-called "concessions" of the Chinese are really infuriating.
Pa Xiali's hooked nose twitched slightly, staring at Ye Zhao and said: "We have a preliminary understanding of each other's attitude, it seems that there is a big gap between the sincerity of your and my two sides on the peace talks, and there will be no results in today's talks, so the meeting will be adjourned for the time being, please carefully consider our draft after you go back." ”
Ye Zhao didn't squeak, Su Shun listened to the translation and translated, didn't say a word, stood up and left.
…… A military camp was set up twenty miles away from the city of Guangzhou, and the temporary station of Lord Qincha of Hetan, and the second battalion of Zhenwei and Zhenhe were stationed as guards.
In the tent of the Chinese military camp, only Ye Zhao and Su Shun were drinking tea and secretly discussing peace matters.
"Sixth uncle, I'm afraid it won't work if you don't give Yiren some sweetness!" Ye Zhao sighed softly.
Although Su Shun is a hardliner, he also knows that if the peace negotiation fails, the British and French heavy troops will attack, and if the nephew's Cantonese soldiers are broken, coupled with the rebel thieves in various places, the Qing Kingdom will be in danger.
If the nephew can lead the Cantonese soldiers to gain a firm foothold in Guangdong, then the north will lead the bandits to the south to resist the thief party, which can be described as a needle in the sea, and can protect the Beijing division as stable as a rock.
After taking a sip of tea, Su Shun frowned and said: "It's okay to open a few more ports, but depending on the meaning of the red-haired ghosts, they are determined to want the priests and merchants to enter my hinterland to preach and cause chaos, and they want to set up the consulate in the capital?" Isn't that heaven-shattering? You ponder and ponder, what kind of system can foreign devils become when they are swaggering in our Sijiu City? ”
Ye Zhao nodded slightly and said, "That's too." After pondering for a long time, he said: "Sixth uncle, if we are like this, the ghost priests and merchants are only allowed to travel and trade in Guangdong, I will keep an eye on it, and there will be no trouble, and the consulate will also ask them to be located in Guangzhou!" "Sigh, there is a posture that I will not go to hell and who will go to hell, you guys come on, just take care of the tragedy of my Guangdong place.
Su Shun was slightly stunned, looked at Ye Zhao, and said, "This, it's not good." "It's hard to see that my nephew wants to gain a firm foothold in Guangdong, but he has to be noisy by ghosts, which is not beautiful.
Ye Zhao said in a condensed voice: "This is the only way to do it for now, but don't worry, sixth uncle, I will have a way to make these ghosts unable to stir up the wind and waves, and keep them obedient." They will never be allowed to mess with our Chinese Guidelines. ”
Su Shun frowned and thought for a while, and also felt that if he wanted to be satisfied, this was the best result, and for his nephew, Su Shun was still very relieved, that is, there was a way to cure ghosts, and it was definitely not empty nonsense.
Ye Zhao said again: "Of course, this is our bottom line, if we can talk about a better result, we don't have to mention it." ”
Su Shun nodded, and said in his heart that it was natural. In the officialdom, it can be said that fighting the waves and sitting firmly at the head of the tide. But when it comes to foreign affairs, it is far inferior to Ye Zhao. Not to mention being able to see through Ye Zhao's true thoughts about this peace talks.
In the next ten days, both sides were grinding their mouths painlessly, stating their own views, and the discussion was intense, but in fact, there was no actual progress.
In the blink of an eye, it was September, and the autumn wind rose, driving away a few traces of stuffiness.
After dealing with Pa Xiali and others in a routine manner, Ye Zhao pondered how to find an opportunity to make a breakthrough and implement his plan.
When I returned to the camp of the Chinese army, I was about to discuss with the sixth uncle Su Shun, but before my ass was firmly seated, the pro-army hurriedly came in and reported: "Marshal, Zhao Sanbao asks to see you!" ”
Su Shun laughed and said, "Okay, I heard that Sanbao is your tiger general, but now I want to see what kind of hero he is!" ”
But today's Zhao Sanbao is really not heroic, he came in with a thumb-thick hemp rope tied to his body, and when he entered the camp, he knelt down on his knees, and said with a face full of shame: "Handsome! The Three Treasures are incompetent in governing the army, and today they are here! ”
Ye Zhao couldn't help but laugh dumbly, Zhao Sanbao didn't know a few words, and his brain was not very good, if in the era of peace, he was only afraid of the role of a migrant worker coolie, but he was extremely talented in the battle array, brave and fearless, which could shine in this era.
Seeing that he suddenly made up an allusion to "bear the guilt of Jing and ask for it", Ye Zhao laughed for a while, and Ye Zhao liked Zhao Sanbao very much.
His face was naturally impassive, and Ye Zhao asked in a deep voice: "Why do you ask for guilt?" "Even if Zhao Sanbao disturbed the place, if it wasn't extremely bad, Ye Zhao would not be willing to punish him.
Zhao Sanbao kowtowed, and said indignantly: "Sanbao is incompetent, and he can't restrain his brothers, yesterday more than a dozen brothers secretly changed their clothes into the city and tied up Li Minghan!" ”
Ye Zhao was stunned, "What?" ”
"Please punish the marshal!" Hearing the surprised tone of the big handsome, Zhao Sanbao felt even more ashamed of the big handsome, and lived up to the high expectations of the big handsome, knocked down his head again, and didn't get up again, and a wisp of blood slowly came out of the corner of his forehead.
"It was the original Chao Yong who did it, right?" Ye Zhao asked lightly.
Although Zhao Sanbao wanted to go back to protect his brothers, but the handsome man didn't dare not tell the truth, his head was still pressed against the hard mud, and a word came out of his mouth, "Yes!" ”
"Send Li Minghan to the big tent, and those who violate military discipline will be punished with 100 lashes each, recorded as the crime of killing their heads, and allowed to wear the crime and make meritorious service." After all, he did not sign a peace treaty with Yingyi, although he also passed down a military order to order all battalions to be brave and not to cause trouble, but he never ordered those who violated the order to be beheaded, in fact, these people also made meritorious contributions and gave themselves a generous gift, but they should still be punished.
"Xie Dashuai!" Hearing that the brothers' lives were saved, Zhao Sanbao's heart was relieved, and he kowtowed again and again.
"As for you!" Ye Zhao glanced at Zhao Sanbao and said, "Write a review, if you dare to act recklessly, be careful of your head!" He said harshly, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.
Zhao Sanbao froze and wrote a review, but he was more guilty than killing his head, but he didn't dare to disobey the order of the handsome, kowtowed a few more times, and went out with a sad face.
Su Shun looked at this scene with a smile, just tasting tea, and his nephew's prestige in the army seemed to be higher than he imagined.
At tea time, Li Minghan, who was tied like a rice dumpling, with a blue nose and swollen face, was dragged in like a dead dog by the Blue Flag guards.
"The handsome spare, the handsome spare!" Li Minghan was frightened, he was going to flee to Hong Kong in the past few days, who knew that he was so unlucky, he was put in a sack when he went out, and he was beaten I don't know how many punches and kicks, his leg is still unconscious, and I don't know if he was beaten and broken. And then the torture of pouring water and so on, made him want to die, and when he was pressed to the basin of water, he was pulled back every time he had to suffocate to death, and that sin was really worse than death.
When he heard that he was going to be brought to see Jing Shuai, Li Minghan was so frightened that he was full of feces and urine, and now he smelled like himself.
"You are Li Minghan, and you have been famous for a long time." A trace of coldness flashed on Ye Zhao's face.
"Spare your life, spare your life!" Li Minghan was frightened, his brain was wooden, and he turned it over and over in one sentence.
Ye Zhao was about to speak, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a figure flashing at the door of the camp, and immediately shouted: "Thirteen, come in!" ”
Sure enough, outside the tent, Thirteen walked in quickly, but before entering, he seemed to hide the short blade in his hand.
"Handsome! Thirteen in! Thirteen dozen thousand, but his eyes hated to stare at Li Minghan who was paralyzed on the side like mud.
Shouting and shouting and killing without coming in is already very progressive. Ye Zhao said indifferently on his face: "Thirteen, you are not allowed to touch him, do you know?" ”
"Dashuai wants to let him go?" Thirteen looked up in surprise and indignation.
Ye Zhao's face sank: "I have my own score on how to deal with him!" ”
Thirteen just asked the marshal and knew that it was not good, the flag guard, no one had ever questioned the marshal, he had violated the rules of heaven.
"Yes, Thirteen knows!" Enduring the grief and indignation, Thirteen slowly lowered his head, the things that the handsome man was thinking about were not something that a rough girl like himself could figure out, even if he really let go of Li Minghan, he would have other plans to deploy, but he was so unwilling in his heart.
Staring at her, Ye Zhao's gaze finally softened, and he said slowly: "I know you want to take revenge on him, and you can also take revenge, but not now, he is going to die on the occasion of the damn, do you understand?" In the whole of Guangdong, you are not the only one who hates him, how many people are waiting to see him be corrected. Quietly dying here today, isn't it cheap for him? I promise you, the Fa-rectification said, you will take the sword. ”
"Yes!" Thirteen suddenly kowtowed, but he didn't say a word, and the gratitude and the heart of death were all written on his face.
"Alright, you take him out!" Ye Zhao waved his hand.
Thirteen got up, grabbed Li Minghan's feet, and dragged him out in stride.
Su Shun looked at this marquee-like scene, and then looked at Ye Zhao's gaze, but he was a little more thoughtful.
…… As Ye Zhao expected, the next day, the angry Xiu Lai severely condemned the provocative behavior of the Chinese soldiers and demanded that the Chinese commander immediately hand over Mr. Li Minghan, otherwise he would start another war with the Chinese. Xiu Lai was the most familiar with Li Minghan, and Li Minghan had helped him do many things, and he couldn't help but be annoyed and angry when his loyal old friend was arrested.
Ye Zhao just sneered and said, "If you want to fight, you will fight!" ”
The tent immediately quieted down, and Xiulai's roar stopped abruptly, wanting to collide with Ye Zhao, but he didn't know how, he couldn't say anything when the words came to his mouth, that is, the French soldiers in Guangzhou did not exceed 1,000 people, and they were not controlled by him.
Pa Xiali sighed in his heart, and said in his heart that this young commander is afraid that he would like to fail the peace talks, isn't it humiliating for you to Xiulai? I heard that the young commander of China is the son of the prince of Beijing, and he is already a Chinese duke at a young age, and he has a good understanding of combat strategies, and he doesn't know from what channels he can always buy weapons and ammunition.
"Mr. Pashali, our Great Qing Kingdom has agreed to open up the whole territory of Guangdong, and foreigners can travel and trade in Guangdong. Li Minghan's matter, I don't think there is any need to mention it again, it has ruined the harmony between the two families. The translation is Su Shun's words.
Yesterday, I received an urgent 600-mile rush from the capital, and the capital praised Su Shun and Ye Zhao's proposal, and it was naturally worth exchanging the "chaos" of Guangdong for the safety of Beijing's Shenzhou. What's more, Guangdong is now facing enemies on all sides, which can be said to be precarious, and whether it is open up or not to open up the whole territory is secondary, and now they are all looking forward to the success of the peace talks, and the Guogong Jingxiang can gain a firm foothold in Guangdong and suppress the party's thieves.
Su Shun has a bottom in his heart, and the surname Suo said it, and it is time for everyone to show their hole cards, so if the stalemate continues, the war will start again at any time.
Pa Xiali sneered in his heart, and the Chinese finally relented, but only opening up Guangdong, and arresting Li Minghan and refusing to release people, this is unreasonable.
Looking at Su Shun with eagle-like eyes, Pasha said: "Your Excellency, I hope that your country will agree to all our conditions, and we have carefully considered every clause of the draft, and we are not playing a bargaining game with Lord Qincha. Now we have added an article to the draft, which is to release Mr. Lee Ming-han. ”
Ye Zhao frowned and interjected: "Mr. Pashali, all negotiations are the same as business bargaining, since Mr. Pashali thinks that your draft is already the bottom line, then I will inform Your Excellency of our bottom line, in addition to the proposal of Lord Sushun just now, we also hope to use 500,000 taels to buy your country's third-class battleship Duke Ivey." This is also our bottom line. ”
Pashali was slightly startled at first, but he was a Chinese expert, and immediately understood that this was the Chinese who had begun to play their arrogant word games again, a brand-new third-class ship, costing nearly 60,000 pounds, that is, 200,000 taels of silver in the Chinese currency. The Duke of Ivey, a sail battleship launched five years ago, was damaged by a gunpowder explosion near Macao due to improper operation, and is now parked at a shipyard in Hong Kong awaiting repair.
Buying a warship with an estimated value of more than 100,000 taels of silver for 500,000 taels means that they are ready to compensate more than 300,000 taels for military expenses, and the Chinese have played a new trick, so that in the expression of the peace treaty, the Chinese side can not mention the matter of compensating for military expenses, and they are accustomed to being arrogant and self-deceiving.
It's just that if this is the bottom line of the Chinese, do they really think that if the war continues, our British Empire will lose to you? It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous.
Pashali finally couldn't bear it anymore, originally he was very resistant to the terms of the businessmen's representatives, thinking that this group of businessmen's sky-high asking price would make the success of the peace talks far away, but now, since you Chinese are still consistently arrogant, then the peace talks will break down! When you taste the bitter taste of failure, you will know what a terrible price to pay for the stupidity of today.
Pa Xia Li took out a red wallet document from the stacked documents on the table, threw it to Ye Zhao, and said arrogantly: "This is our latest clause. ”
Ye Zhao's proposal to buy the Duke of Ivey with 500,000 taels is naturally not what Pa Xia Li thought, just to pay compensation and look good. Although Ye Zhao knew that, like firearms, Western ship technology was also advancing by leaps and bounds, and now the so-called ironclad ships were just the original first-class ships, second-class ships, and other sail warships with added steam power and broadside armor, and sails and maneuver were used together, while the real shipside steam ironclad ships were born after two or three years. But you can't wait for the birth of the steam ironclad to find a way to buy a ship.
Now that he has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Ye Zhaozi hopes to have a gunboat in his hand, needless to say how important the navy is in this era, even if it is used as a training ship to enlighten the future navy.
What's more, although it is nominally a third-class ship, in fact it has always been the main battleship of the British Imperial Navy, as for the first-class ship, because of the cost and other relationships, the British Empire did not have much equipment. In the whole of Asia, not counting the British and French colonies, no country has ever had such a warship equipped with more than 70 guns. Even by the end of the century, such battleships had a place.
Ye Zhao's psychological price, if he can buy the Duke of Ivey, he will not hesitate to increase the military indemnity to one million taels, after all, now is not the time of the Westernization Movement in the previous life, and he is in harmony with the Western countries, and wants to buy ships to prepare for the fleet? Choose from a variety of gunboats.
In this life, there has just been a vicious war with Britain and France, and the results of the war are very expensive, which will inevitably arouse the suspicion of Britain and France, and it will be more difficult to buy other people's ships and weapons than in the previous life, if you buy them with Prussia and other countries, I am afraid that it will take at least a year before the ships can be in place, and now there is such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Ye Zhao does not want to let it go, and it is worth paying some price to be able to fool a gunboat.
Now seeing Pa Xiali throwing a stack of documents in front of him with an angry face, Ye Zhao smiled in his belly, and his eyes couldn't help but glance at Lawyer Hall diagonally opposite him at the negotiation table, the senior class of Shenghexing, and also one of the representatives of businessmen.
Lawyer Hall remained silent, sipping his coffee slowly.
Ye Zhao didn't need to read it to know what the clauses were in this document: foreign merchants were allowed to build a telegraph line from Guangzhou to Hong Kong; foreign merchants were allowed to build railways from Guangzhou to Foshan and Shaozhou; foreign businessmen were allowed to expand Huangpu Port, and so on.
With regard to these three payments, Pashali would have thought that the Chinese would not have agreed to them anyway. If these conditions are put forward and resolutely refused, it will be tantamount to sitting back and watching the peace talks break down.
Ye Zhao also knew how many twists and turns it took for the telegraph and the railway to appear on the land of China, and more than ten years later, the sea telegraph line from Hong Kong to Shanghai had already been erected, but the Qing Dynasty government axe did not allow the telegraph line to go ashore and did not allow it to enter the concession. It was not until later that the telegraph line appeared on the land of China, but at first the villagers often cut down the telephone poles, because they believed that this was the soul flag of the foreign demon, to suck the earth qi of the Chinese, to suck the soul of the Chinese.
(To be continued)