Five days later, Mo Haihu personally led the First Fleet to escort the prisoners of the Russian expeditionary fleet to Wusong Port to present prisoners to show the military might of the Chinese Empire at home and abroad.

On the day of the surrender of prisoners, Li Yongji, as the emperor of the Chinese Empire, personally greeted him at Wusong Port with his escort to show his importance.

In addition to the royal family, soldiers and specially invited foreign envoys, there are also many ordinary people who came to see the excitement, after all, this is a major event to defeat foreign devils, even if due to the military blockade, it is impossible to watch it up close, and it is good to feel the atmosphere.

As soon as the endless ships approached, the crowd of civilians erupted in jubilation, and when they saw a large number of Russians walking up to the pier with their hands raised and being escorted away by the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard, the cheers resumed and quickly led to another climax.

The crowd watching the prisoner sacrifice was not only Chinese, but also many foreigners, especially British, French and Americans, whose feelings about this matter were more complicated, in addition to most people feeling unbelievable, some foreigners were full of worries.

Among the foreign crowd visiting, the French Minister Plenipotentiary to the Chinese Empire, Berdemy, was particularly worried, he looked at it for a while, frowned and turned to the British Minister Wittmar beside him, and said, "Sir, it seems that the situation is even worse than we thought. ”

"Yes, I know, of course I do." Wei Tuma nodded quietly, seemingly expressionless and worried, but in fact, the tightly clenched fists betrayed his mood, indicating that he was also shocked by this.

"Even though I don't want to admit it." "But the country seems to have woken up," Baldemi continued, "and at least after this war, I am afraid that we will have to look at this great empire of the East from a new perspective." ”

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Wittoma glanced at Baldemi.

"I would say that we should work together and work closely together." "Or not." With the strength of this Chinese empire, I am afraid that our previous interests in China will be affected. Or do you think that after this great victory, the young emperor will continue to endure the treaties we signed with the Qing Empire in the first place? ”

"Oh? Are you saying that the Emperor will take this opportunity to make a covenant with us? ”

"Who knows." "However, under the pretext of declaring war on Russia, he has already taken back all the powers of the General Department of Customs." The new customs are all in the Chinese, not a single one of ours. Then, he also took the opportunity of declaring war on Russia to forcibly unify China and become the real ruler of China.

Well, I'm already impressed by doing that, but now he's beating us at sea again...... Don't look at me, it's hard to believe, but it's true. He just beat us.

Now, it's not important what goes through, what matters is how to deal with the aftermath. The Russians were just that, but we were captured by him. I also detained so many ships, no matter what it was for, I would definitely have to negotiate with him, so you think. Once the negotiations began, with the appetite of that emperor, would he easily let people go? There must be a request, right? ”

"And what do you want?" Wittoma finally turned to look at Baldemy. "Do you want me to join forces with you and put pressure on that Emperor in the name of England and France? Hehe, that's not a good idea. As far as I know, that Majesty is young and vigorous, and eats soft rather than hard, and if we continue to threaten him, I am afraid that it will only make things stiff. ”

"No, you misunderstood, I didn't want you to join forces with me to put pressure on the Chinese emperor, on the contrary, I wanted you to help me intercede."

"Intercession?"

"Yes." "We've all seen their parades, and now their navy is ...... In short, we all know that it is no longer possible to use force alone against this country, and therefore I hope that you will unite with me to move His Majesty the Emperor in his own interests.

As far as I know, His Majesty the Emperor was able to build such a powerful army so quickly because of the support of a secret organization, most likely from the United States.

Well, the point is not here, the point is that these secret organizations will not unconditionally support him for no reason, and they will definitely make profits, and after many inquiries, the source of funds for this emperor is actually mainly based on the trade of those royal companies in his private name, and the largest customers with his private companies, except for Americans, are businessmen from you and me. Therefore, if we start from this place, I'm afraid he will still have some scruples, right? ”

As soon as he wanted to speak, he suddenly saw a soldier dressed in Praetorian Guard clothes come over and saluted Wittoma: "Mr. Special Envoy, our Majesty has an invite." ”

"Okay, I'll go." Wittoma nodded, then turned back to Baldem and said, "I'm sorry, I'll have to talk about it next time." ”

"Okay, I'm looking forward to it." Baldemi nodded.

Soon, Wei Tuma saw Li Yongji in a luxuriously furnished room, so he hurriedly bowed: "Honorable Emperor Xià, it really makes me feel very honored to meet you, first of all, congratulations to your navy on such a great victory, I think from now on, your country can officially be called a great power." From now on, at least in Asia, no country will be able to pose a threat to your empire. ”

"Thank you very much for your compliment, Mr. Minister." Li Yongji smiled and pointed to the sofa next to the coffee table, "Come, sit, you know my habits, I like to sit and talk with people." ”

"It's better to be respectful than to obey." Wei Tuoma nodded again, and then walked to the sofa designated by Li Yongji and sat down.

After sitting down, Wei Tuma immediately said, "Your Majesty must have come to me for the sake of the prisoners and peace talks, right?" Also, you have become the victor of the war, and you deserve the honor and benefits that the victor deserves, but ......"

"No, no, no, you're mistaken." Li Yongji waved his hand and interrupted him, "What kind of prisoner is for peace talks, then naturally the State Council has to worry about it, and there is no need for me, the emperor, to personally go out." ”

"Not peace talks? So why are you looking for me? ”

"It's for America's business."

"The United States?" Wei Tuoma was completely stunned this time, "What's the matter with the United States?" ”

"Mr. Minister, I am afraid that he also knows what is happening in the United States." Li Yongji said, "The United States has been divided into two countries, one is the United States of America, and the other is the Southern Union State. ”

"Of course I do." "Why, does this matter have anything to do with you coming to me?" ”

"It's a big deal." Li Yongji smiled slightly, and then began to tell his true intentions to the Minister of Wittoma after finishing the book. (To be continued......)