When the lamp was in hand, Tang Jiyao woke up from a coma, with a sick face, and opened his eyes with difficulty, and saw a room of people surrounding him.

"Geng, you're awake." A richly dressed woman saw that Tang Jiyao had woken up, and hurriedly asked a young Western doctor who had been waiting next to her for a long time to show him, "Doctor, doctor, show the master." ”

"Ma'am, the Overseers are all right. As long as you don't move your liver fire, your body should be fine. "The doctor first auscultated and examined it, and then took the pulse again." I'll prescribe some medicine for the Overseers. ”

The people of the Tang Mansion surrounded Tang Jiyao, and I don't know who squeezed the pen in the doctor's hand to the ground, and the doctor had to bend down to pick it up and continue to write the prescription.

After the doctor finished prescribing the medicine, Tang Jiyao waved his hand slightly and motioned for everyone to go out, he knew very well whether he was sick or not, this disease was not only physical, but also psychological. "Let's all go out, Xiao Bei stays."

Everyone withdrew, and Tang Xiaobei closed the doors and windows, he knew very well that his father was not sick this time, but was angry. When he saw the initial negotiation agreement drawn up by the script, he was almost frightened. As the heir of Tang Jiyao's key training, Tang Xiaobei is extremely capable and quite a city government. Therefore, Tang Jiyao can rest assured that he will be in charge of this confidential negotiation.

He knew exactly what the conditions on the contract meant. It's not that he is patriotic, let alone how reluctant he is to those lands or resources, but once these treaties are leaked, not to mention that the negotiations have not yet been completed, even a little rumor is enough for his two fathers and sons to be scolded by tens of thousands of people in unison.

"Father, you have to pay attention to your body, you still need to preside over the overall situation of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou." Tang Xiaobei sat next to Tang Jiyao and helped him to sit up. Now that my father has fainted once, the next step is to get into the subject.

"What about treaties?" Tang Jiyao trembled and stretched out his hand and motioned for Tang Xiaobei to take out the treaty and show it to him again.

Tang Xiaobei carefully took out the folded treaty from her underwear and handed it to Tang Jiyao.

Tang Jiyao, who was already mentally prepared enough, trembled and opened this talisman-like paper, but his trembling hands were difficult to open this small piece of paper, and then handed it back to Tang Xiaobei, "You still read it, I'll listen to it." ”

Tang Xiaobei took the treaty and read it in a low voice: "There are 13 secret covenants in total. After the Southwest Dading, the factories in the Dongchuan District will be sent by the Great Empire to send inspectors and have the right of first refusal. 2. Lease Fangchenggang City for 99 years. 3. It is said that the two places in Guangxi and Sichuan have the priority right to open mines, build seaports and shipyards, and build roads. 4. Employing the soldiers as instructors of the three armed services 4. Recognizing the privileges of the citizens of the Great Empire to reside, travel, operate industry and commerce, and mine mining in the four provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guizhou, as well as special diplomatic immunity......"

"Read, read the conditions I gave this time." Tang Jiyao endured it and did not faint again, he knew very well in his heart that these conditions, not to mention all of them, were agreed to any of them, which could make him sit on the throne of the number one traitor since Yuan Shikai. He wasn't stupid at all, but what he had promised verbally was too tempting.

"Although it is only the first negotiation, I still add some additional conditions on the basis of the previous one." Tang Xiaobei endured the pounding of his heart and began to read the conditions he had promised, "First, the Great Empire promises to help us build a modern army of no less than ten divisions within five years. And promised to provide all weapons and equipment. Second, the Great Empire will provide us with a loan of 4,000,000 yuan, which will be offset by the taxes of the four provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guizhou. Third, the Great Empire will liaise with other countries to promote and maintain the situation of the Southwest's reading power......"

"Father, father......" After Tang Xiaobei finished reading, he found that his father was a little distracted, and he called out twice before he brought Tang Jiyao back to his senses. In this private negotiation, I was very clear that among the 13 points they gave, especially the first one, there was no room for negotiation at all. Moreover, they expressed their demand that troops must be stationed in a certain place in Guangxi. ”

"What factories do they want? With the strong industrial scale of this book, Zhang Shusheng's little belongings should not let them make such a big move. "Putting aside other clauses, the garrison is not unprecedented, but Tang Jiyao is very puzzled about his coveting of Zhang Shusheng's belongings.

Why did I name the factory in Dongchuan District after I pacified the overall situation in the southwest?

After all, he is a martial artist, and he doesn't know much about the situation in various countries today. In his mind, he was an extremely powerful neighbor. Not only did they have a powerful navy, which could bully the late Qing fleet and the Russian Far East Fleet, but they also had a powerful army, and the Russians were defeated by them in the northeast. Nowadays, not only North Korea, but also Northeast China is also my own world.

In 1904, when he first arrived in Yueben, he clearly felt the strength of Yueben, and in his opinion, with the industrial scale after the successful reform of Yueben, it should not be for a small Dongchuan District.

Tang Xiaobei has a different opinion on this point, "Father, Zhang Shusheng is an extraordinary person, according to intelligence officers, his factory in Dongcheng District is almost all over the mountains. Many products are even exported to foreign countries, and now they are even more powerful, and many commodities are shipped from Dongchuan overnight, through Guangxi, and sold to all over the world. ”

"How could Zhang Shusheng be so powerful? His hometown is just a mountain, can he still raise a golden phoenix? "Tang Jiyao is very familiar with Huize, which is his hometown. But he has never been back all these years, but he has heard that the changes in his family have been great. When the old relatives of the family came to visit him, he had never even heard of some greeting gifts...... But in his opinion, with the current situation of being poor and white in China, no matter how powerful Zhang Shusheng is, it can only be a small fight. Running a factory? There are also factories in Kunming, but I didn't see that I wanted to buy them.

"Father, I also heard about ......" Tang Xiaobei hesitated slightly, and then said: "I heard that Shusheng Company is very close to some large foreign companies. A few years ago, we seized some of their products under the pretext of having them seized, but foreigners came to the door to ask for their things back. You say, will he ......"

"Are you saying that Zhang Shusheng has been colluding with foreigners for a long time? He is also selling, selling ......" Tang Jiyao looked shocked, but in the end he still didn't say the two words that made him uneasy.

"Zhang Shusheng must have colluded with foreigners for a long time, and I don't know how many years he has been doing traitorous deeds." Tang Xiaobei's mind turned sharply, and she seemed to have figured out something, and hurriedly said: "In my opinion, where did he go to build so many factories in the mountains?" Even if a factory is built, why should foreigners buy the products they produce? There is only one possibility, he colluded with foreigners to buy back some advanced technology and investment, and then he could open so many factories and make those strange products. Do you remember? Last time the third uncle came, he said that his hometown was more pleasing to the eye than Kunming, not to mention anything else, the foreigners were more than us in Kunming......"

"That's a lot! How did I forget this!! Tang Jiyao slapped the bed suddenly, and as soon as the cause and effect were linked, he suddenly understood the doorway here, "Xiaobei, you are right. Zhang Shusheng must have done a lot of collusion with outsiders. Otherwise, how could he build so many factories? How could he train so many powerful troops? It must be a foreigner, it must be, he wants to learn from Zhang Zuolin in the north, and wants to drive us away with the power of foreigners......"

Thinking of being pressed by Zhang Shusheng all these years, Tang Jiyao was furious for a while, he also graduated from this non-commissioned officer school, how can he compare his knowledge with a student who has studied foreign literature for a few days? But he has been pressed to death by him, and even caused a confrontation within the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou.

"Father, make up your mind. I promise that except for the first article, everything else can be discussed. Although Tang Xiaobei was very afraid of the requirements put forward by Yue himself, when he thought of the elite troops of the ten divisions and the millions of yuan in loans, the excitement in his heart was difficult to calm, "Father, as long as we get the benefits promised by Yue himself, there will be no opponents in the entire southwest." If he can do it, we will definitely do better than him. ”

Tang Jiyao was silent, yes, as long as he has such strong support from himself, in the entire southwest, he Tang Jiyao will be the king of the southwest. As for my own conditions, I replied that as long as I did not lease Fangchenggang for 99 years, I would agree to them otherwise.

"Father, I also said that the 13 articles can be used as a secret agreement, and everything is just done in secret." Tang Xiaobei was already a little impatient, since Zhang Shusheng could do the first year of junior high school, why couldn't his father and son be the fifteenth, "I also promised that as long as the secret agreement was signed, the equipment of the two divisions could be immediately shipped from Yuben and sent to Yunnan along the Sino-Burmese border." ”

seemed to be deaf to his son's words, closed his eyes and thought for a long time, Tang Jiyao said lightly: "Three days later, you told me that the 99-year lease of Fangchenggang is absolutely impossible. They can be promised to build their own ports there. All they wanted was garrison rights, and they had privately promised them the right to garrison in the port. As for the conditions they promised, as soon as the treaty is reached, we must immediately send instructors to help us reorganize our troops and transport the equipment of the three divisions to Kunming within half a year. In addition, the repayment period of the loan will be extended by another 10 years. ”

"Yes, don't worry, father. With the bottom line you give, the child will not let you down. Tang Xiaobei said excitedly.

Tang Jiyao nodded: "When negotiating with me, you must be very careful, don't live up to your father's hopes for you." And if the treaty is not satisfactory to me, I will not sign it in the end. ”

This is also forced to be helpless, the exposure of Yuan Shikai's traitorous behavior back then had something to do with the lack of secrecy, so Tang Jiyao took a huge risk and just sent his most trusted son to negotiate with Yue himself, and then he finally decided whether to sign or not. In his opinion, this is the best way to keep secrets.

Kunming, a hidden single building.

A man in a linen cap looked around for a moment, then quickly pushed the door open and entered the small building.

"Boss, the medicine is back."

The family was eating in the small building, and one of the men stood up and said to the family, "I'll go back to the study to take medicine first, and you can take it slowly." ”

Taking the medicine from this servant, the man walked into the study, closed the doors and windows, carefully opened the medicine bag, selected a pill with a strange color from it, and pushed the window open.

There was a pigeon cage hanging under the eaves, and the man opened the cage and took out the pigeon, carefully placed the pill in a small tube at the pigeon's feet, and after carefully placing it, carefully released the pigeon. The dove flapped its wings and flew into the sky and disappeared.

"Teacher, this is top-secret information I just received." Zhao Ziyun took out a sealed envelope from the secret bag and handed it to Zhang Shusheng.

After asking Zhao Ziyun to wait outside, Zhang Shusheng took out a small decoder, removed the pill from the envelope, and put it into a small hole in front of the decoder, but in a few seconds, a clear dialogue was broadcast in a player connected to the decoder: "...... Father, I ......"

"Bang!"

Zhang Shusheng slammed the new teacup that had just been replaced for less than two days and flew out, and it fell into powder again, and the right hand holding the information was even trembling constantly, "The country is in danger, even if you fight in the nest, you still rush to sell the country, it's really damn good." ”

"Someone!"

"Report!"

"Let Wu Tiejun and Jiang Baili come to see me overnight."

"Yes!!"

(To be continued)