People are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden! This is also the case between countries in many cases. After the strong statement of the Imperial Foreign Minister Wu Tingfang, the momentum of the Russian Foreign Minister Izvorsky was suppressed at once. After all, now on the battlefield, China is still in an advantageous position, and Russia is in a position of being passively beaten. If an agreement could not be reached to end the war, Russia would suffer even greater losses if the squadron continued to attack westward.

"Your Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs, I would like to remind you that Russia will never be defeated. Napoleon did not succeed then, and now, no one will! "Russian Foreign Minister Izvorsky is a dead duck.

"Humph! Your Excellency the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. China is not France, our Emperor Xià, nor Napoleon. What Napoleon couldn't do, doesn't mean our country can't do it! Wu Tingfang is still competing against each other. If Wang Yuze is an emperor who is reckless and greedy for merit, maybe Wu Tingfang will not be so confident. On the contrary, Wang Yuze is very clear about the current war situation, and knows that if Russia is to be destroyed, the current China does not have such strength. Therefore, this war against Russia is nothing more than to expand the strategic space of the empire as much as possible and strive for the greatest interests of the empire. He will not be hot-headed because of the victory on the battlefield, feel that he is invincible, and want to take the opportunity to destroy Russia.

Russian Foreign Minister Izvorsky's face was so gloomy that he could almost drip water. However, he knows Russia's current situation, and he also knows that Russia now has no capital to bargain with China, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will only be to Russia.

"Your Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I wonder how China will have to agree to end this war? Kasini, the former Russian minister to China, who accompanied Russian Foreign Minister Izvorsky, asked.

"It's easy! First. Russia returned all the territories it had occupied since the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Second. The national border between the two sides shall be subject to the actual control zone at present. In other words, the area east of the Ural River in Central Asia and the area east of the Irtysh River to the Ob River in Siberia are all owned by China. Thirdly, Russia spent 500 million pounds in reparations, and as for the captured Russian soldiers, Russia needed to pay for redemption. A soldier, a hundred pounds! Wu Tingfang smiled and said China's conditions.

"Nope! It's absolutely impossible! "Russian Foreign Minister Izvorsky jumped up like a cat that had been stepped on its tail. If the area is divided according to the actual control of the two sides at present, Russia's efforts over the past several hundred years will be in vain, and Russia will almost lose more than half of its territory. Although these territories are barren lands of little value, they will not have much impact on Russia's national strength. However, to go from the largest country in the world in terms of territory to the sixth or seventh place in the ranking, this is something that Tsar Nicholas II absolutely could not agree to.

"Your Excellency the Foreign Secretary. Such is the condition of our country. If Russia does not agree. Then we can only solve it by means of war. It dragged on until one side couldn't fight anymore. Then it will be solved! Wu Tingfang said. Although the war had some impact on China, the society as a whole was relatively stable. But Russia is different. Russia's national strength was almost exhausted during the war, and its society was turbulent and turbulent. In this case, the longer it drags on, the worse it will be for Russia!

"Your Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs, otherwise, the territory that Russia has acquired from the Qing State can be returned to China. But the other territories were opened up by the ancestors of Russia, and this does not belong to China! As for the war reparations, 500 million pounds is too much, and Russia simply can't take it! Russian Foreign Minister Izvorsky softened his attitude somewhat. Russia can no longer afford to procrastinate, and must withdraw from the war as soon as possible.

"It's a pity! Your Excellency the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. With such conditions, I can't convince my Emperor Xià! Wu Tingfang shook his head, looking helpless, and put all the responsibility on Wang Yuze. Russian Foreign Minister Izvorsky can't go to Wang Yuze for a theory, right?

"Your Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia will never accept such conditions. Farewell! Russian Foreign Minister Izvorsky saw that Wu Tingfang looked like he didn't eat oil and salt, so he had to leave angrily.

After returning, Russian Foreign Minister Izvorsky sent back to Moscow the conditions offered by the Chinese side. This made Tsar Nicholas II very angry, and the Chinese porcelain in the Kremlin suffered again. Tsar Nicholas II roared wildly, claiming that Russia would never accept such conditions, which was a shame for Russia, which would carry the war to the end.

It's just that the important ministers of the Russian government are worried one by one. As the war dragged on, it did not benefit Russia at all, and Russia had lost hundreds so far

The army of 10,000 is gone. At the same time, in order to support the war, the Ministry of Finance has already spent the last ruble. The money borrowed from abroad has been almost spent. In addition, because Tsar Nicholas II ordered heavy taxes on the rich, the industrial and commercial capitalists and some nobles were very dissatisfied. As a result of the war, the grain harvest in the Don Valley has also failed, and there are already signs of famine in many areas. If we don't get out of the war in time, Russia will collapse.

However, the enraged Tsar Nicholas II could no longer listen to any persuasion. Let him give up tens of millions of square kilometers of land, even if it is tens of millions of square kilometers of wasteland and desert, he will never agree. As the emperor of the Romanov dynasty, he would never have promised to give up these territories.

Tsar Nicholas II was extremely tough and refused to budge. And China, which has the advantage, will naturally not budge. As a result, the negotiations between China and Russia have also reached an impasse.

On August 2, U.S. Secretary of State John ? Sherman arrives in Beijing to join Sherlock, the former U.S. minister to China, who had arrived in China earlier. However, Sherlock brought him bad news. Sherlock has been working hard in Beijing for nearly a month, but it still has no effect, and China still insists on harsh armistice conditions against the United States. In particular, after the squadron successfully landed on the west coast of the United States and occupied Los Angeles, the Chinese side showed a tougher attitude. This leaves the American side without the slightest solution.

On August 3, U.S. Secretary of State John ? Sherman met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Tingfang, during which Chinese Prime Minister Yang Hua also took the time to meet with John Brown. Sherman side. After all, John? Sherman is the secretary of state of the United States, and his status is comparable to that of the prime minister of a country, and if Yang Hua does not show up, it will be a little unreasonable.

However, during the meeting on this day, no agreement was reached. China still demands the same demands, such as the cession of Alaska and California, the reparation of China's billion-pound war reparations, and the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act. However, US Secretary of State John? Sherman could not agree to anything other than the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

The squadron landed on the west coast of the United States and had a very great impact on the United States. People in many places have been interested in Garrett? The Hobart government no longer trusted, and there were opposition demonstrations everywhere, one after another, which also made Secretary of State John ? Sherman, feeling a lot of pressure.

U.S. Secretary of State John? Sherman offered a £100 million war reparations to China and the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act as a condition for China's withdrawal from the West Coast of the United States, but Ng still did not agree. That's too far from China's asking price. What Wang Yuze means is that even if you can't get California, Alaska must get it. As for the war reparations paid by the United States, it must not be less than 300 million pounds. After all, in this war, China spent about 400 million to 500 million pounds. Adequate war reparations must be obtained, otherwise the government's finances will be overwhelmed.

Under such circumstances, it is obvious that China and the United States cannot reach an agreement, and the negotiations have once again reached an impasse. It can be said that, apart from some progress in negotiations with France, the disagreement between the two sides is mainly over the amount of reparations. Negotiations with other countries were too big to reach an agreement. One country was excluded from the negotiations. Despite repeated requests by Japanese Foreign Minister Shuzo Aoki to see Ng Dinh Fong, Ng Dinh Fong refused his requests each time. As for Japan, China will not negotiate with them at all. At least not to negotiate with Japan under the circumstances. In order for China to completely solve Japan's threat to China, it needs to completely defeat Japan through military means, eliminate all those radical points in Japan, and then support the pro-China government to come to power. Just as the United States raised Japan into a dog that defended the Soviet Union during the Cold War and restrained China after the Cold War. Therefore, there is no need for China to negotiate with Japan at all. After all, the Japanese problem can only be solved by military means.

After the negotiations with China reached an impasse, foreign diplomats from various countries contacted China on the one hand and asked whether they wanted to continue to be tough or to compromise appropriately. On the other hand, they hope to find out China's hole cards through their respective relationships, so that they can take the initiative in the negotiations. For a time, the city of Beijing became a battlefield for diplomats.

However, with the military as a strong backing, China has always taken the initiative in the negotiations and tried to maximize the interests of the empire. (To be continued.) )

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