Wang Guorui soon completed his wedding and began to continue working. And his newlywed wife, General Zheng Hong, also temporarily took off her military uniform and began to raise a baby. After all, this is related to the stability of Taiwan's future, and we have to pay attention to it! And Wang Guorui promised her that she would continue to be in charge of the government after she gave birth to a child and finished her confinement, and she would not be removed from her position for this reason.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the French Minister to the Qing Dynasty, Shi Alan, asks to see you!" Li Enfu said.

"Shi Alan, what does he want to do? Let him come over! Wang Guorui said.

Soon, outside the meeting room of the Governor's Palace, Wang Guorui and the French minister in Manchu Shi Alan met again, and the two sides began to talk.

"Dear Governor Wang, congratulations on your new marriage! I'm really sorry to be here this time, because it was almost a month ago when I left for your capital, so I didn't know in time that you were going to get married. I didn't bring any gifts, what a rude! Shi Alan said.

Wang Guorui thought in his heart: "You are not a weasel giving New Year's greetings to chickens, then I will be content." ”

"Aha, Minister Shi Alan, do you have anything to do?" Wang Guorui asked.

"Dear Governor Wang, since we learned that you Taiwan has a powerful navy, our French government is very appreciative. And Governor Wang, you are one of the real powers in this ancient country, which is very remarkable. And we, the French government, have come to discuss the next relationship between our France and the Governor Wang. We, the French government, would like to ask you if you are part of China, and whether you still recognize the treaty signed between the Chinese central government and us. Shi Alan asked.

"This grandson is not good!" Wang Guorui thought in his heart.

Wang Guorui began to recall in his heart the treaty signed between the Manchu government and France, and he soon remembered the Sino-French war more than ten years ago. And China lost the Sino-French war, while the French gained suzerainty over the Vietnamese. Since then, southwest China has become the sphere of influence of the French, which is also the oppression of China by the French.

And Wang Guorui once heard about it from Huang Feihong's mouth. Liu Yongfu participated in the War of Resistance against France in France, but that war was not like the situation of later generations at all. Many people in later generations said that the Sino-French War was defeated without defeat, but if Wang Guorui knew the key from Liu Yongfu, the party involved in the year. The so-called victory at Zhennanguan was actually a result of borrowing many fortifications and many advantages to kill more than 70 French soldiers. And this is the legendary victory of Zhennanguan, and it has become a great victory to kill seventy-four people. One can imagine how weak the Manchu Qing Dynasty was.

Moreover, the victory of Zhennanguan cannot be replicated, only this time. Therefore, the Manchus could not continue to fight with France at that time, because France actually had an absolute advantage back then, which forced the Manchus to sign a treaty on the suzerainty of Vietnam. So it's not that Wang Guorui exonerated the Manchu Qing, but if from the perspective of the war, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, whether it was the navy or the army, was already on the verge of collapse, plus the Manchu Qing royal nobles who did not regard themselves as Chinese, then it was natural to have such a result.

"Minister Shi Alan. What exactly are you trying to say? Wang Guorui asked.

"I just want to say that I hope you will abide by the treaty, after all, the treaty is sacred and cannot be torn up at will. If you dare to tear up the treaty at will, you will be the enemy of our entire Western world, and I am afraid that you will not be able to stand it when the time comes! Shi Alan said.

"You're threatening me?" Wang Guorui asked rhetorically.

"No, no, no, I'm just a reminder." Shi Alan said.

Wang Guorui looked at this Shi Alan and looked at the stubble, obviously strong on the outside. Wang Guorui combined what he just said. If you have a strong navy, you know why the French are so afraid.

Wang Guorui is now the governor of Taiwan. And with a strong navy. And the French fleet in the East is not Wang Guorui's opponent at all, I am afraid that Wang Guorui will let his navy go out, and the so-called Far East Fleet of the French will be used as the son-in-law of the Dragon King. So of course the French were afraid of Wang Guorui, because the French colony of Vietnam was also within the scope of Wang Guorui's navy. As long as Wang Guorui is willing, he can send a navy to attack Vietnam, so that Vietnam may not be able to defend it at all. Just by those French soldiers in Vietnam. It was simply not enough to resist Wang Guorui's extremely powerful army.

The army can't fight it, and the navy can't fight it, and either they have to transfer troops from the country. The French may have begun to ponder whether to transfer troops from home to protect their Vietnam. And Wang Guorui guessed that this Shi Alan was mostly a salute before a soldier. If Wang Guorui did not agree to recognize the Sino-French New Treaty and recognize France's suzerainty over Vietnam, then the French would also have to strengthen their strength in the Far East, for example, by transferring their navy and land forces to the Far East.

However, if Wang Guorui is willing to recognize France's suzerainty over Vietnam, there is no need to transfer troops from within the country. After all, the domestic transfer of troops is not a simple matter, because the military expenses to be borne by domestic troops are many times higher than that of soldiers serving in the country. After all, if you let someone leave the motherland to serve in a place thousands of miles away, then you will definitely not be able to treat others badly. What's more, the navy is not simple, and if you want to mobilize the navy, you must draw warships from the active forces. The strength of other fleets is insufficient, so they will inevitably increase the budget of warships again, and it will be a lot of money.

Therefore, the French were a little whimsical and wanted Wang Guorui to recognize France's suzerainty over Vietnam, so that they could avoid spending more additional military spending to defend Vietnam. However, sometimes it's so whimsical, after all, if you don't even dare to think about it, then don't you have to suffer in the end? If you don't try it, how can you know that it won't work, so the French also hope that Wang Guorui can recognize the suzerainty over Vietnam, so as to avoid transferring troops from the mainland, which will cost a huge amount of military spending.

Wang Guorui made a thought look, and then said: "In this way, let's simply sign a contract, and we, Taiwan and France, will recognize each other's cooperative suzerainty." In addition, the decision of the other party to maintain its suzerainty over certain vassal states may not be objected to, and it must be duly supported. Also, I hope that the two sides will be able to resupply each other with warships on the land where the other side has suzerainty. If it is a war that breaks out for one side to maintain its own suzerainty, then the other side must support and supply the other side's navy! “

Wang Guorui said so much, in the final analysis, it is also a sentence, that is, if one side wants to maintain its own colony, and the other side must open the military port above its colony as a supply port. Moreover, the other side cannot oppose the other side's efforts to assert its colonial suzerainty, and even have to support it appropriately. This is a two-way agreement between the two sides, which is tantamount to supporting each other in maintaining the ownership of the colony.

However, the strange situation that made Shi Alan feel was that it was completely unilaterally beneficial to France, because this China did not have a so-called colony in East Asia. You must know that Mongolia, the so-called vassal state of China in East Asia, has already been incorporated into the Manchu Qing, and Japan has already beaten the Manchus to the ground in turn, so Japan will not be a vassal state of the Manchu Qing? As for the Ryukyus, they already belonged to Japan. And Vietnam, which was also abandoned to France by the Manchus, so where are the vassal states of China?

If China did not have a so-called colony, how could it want to sign this treaty with France? This is obviously beneficial to France, and as long as this treaty is signed, although Wang Guorui does not recognize the French occupation of Vietnam, it is tantamount to everyone's acquiescence. Although it was just a tacit acquiescence, it was also very rare, after all, Wang Guorui, a military strongman, might not recognize their treaty with the Manchus. So they French are very worried about this, and now if they can get Wang Guorui's acquiescence, it will probably be very good.

"I'll send a telegram to the country to ask for instructions!" Shi Alan said.

Shi Alan came to Wang Guorui's telegraph room, and this telegraph room was a wireless telegraph that Wang Guorui specially obtained with a lot of money. Now radio has been invented, but it is expensive. Wang Guorui only got one, mainly used to send important messages, as for ordinary messages, they still use telegram to send.

After about three hours, Shi Alan said: "The country has agreed, let's sign it!" ”

The French agreed to sign the Taiwan-France contract, which was an act of mutual support for each other to maintain their legitimate colonies. Wang Guorui did not recognize the French occupation of Vietnam, but he also chose to acquiesce, but France must also recognize Taiwan's demand to maintain China's colonies.

Although the French did not know what Wang Guorui's contract was for, they agreed to it in order to appease Wang Guorui. After all, if Wang Guorui really wants to threaten Vietnam, then the French power in East Asia will not be able to stop it at all, so naturally it is to appease Wang Guorui, so he can only choose to support this inexplicable treaty. Anyway, the French can't see the unfavorable clause in this, and at most they support Taiwan to maintain China's vassal colonies. However, the French are also curious, do the Chinese have colonies? Anyway, the French searched all over the world map, but they couldn't find it. (To be continued......)