The peace talks broke up unhappily because of Yang Meng's attitude, and after Wen Xian and the others left, Yang Meng still stayed in the Dragon Temple, and he knew that someone was going to turn back.

"Find a master and tell me about the history of the Warring States period!"

This is the learning method arranged by Wei Zhiqing for Yang Meng, looking for someone to tell Yang Meng about history, talking about intrigue and intrigues, the history of the world's common people, Yang Meng has no intention of reading, but many things in the book are useful, before Wei Zhiqing told Yang Meng about the history of the Three Kingdoms, and then Wei Zhiqing's stomach finished speaking, and those poor masters in the Qing Dynasty became Yang Meng's teaching.

The historical materials of the past dynasties are made into something similar to storytelling, and this matter is also capable of Yang Meng and Wei Zhiqing, and replaced it with Zeng Disheng, Zuo Jigao and the like, I am afraid that I will despise Yang Meng.

However, this is how to tell history, so that Yang Meng has learned a lot of things, three thousand years in China, there are too many good things left, even so, what Yang Meng has learned is just a drop in the bucket, maybe this method can be promoted in the future!

The master who talks about history, he also walks the flow of storytelling, and when he talks about historical materials, he laughs from time to time, when the power spreads all over a country, many things have become impossible and possible, those masters before, do these things, their faces are full of resentment, and now they can tell history for Yang Guogong, and they are also honored, and the so-called world change is not so!

The intrigue of the Warring States period has been talked about for more than two hours, and Yang Meng and other people have also come, it is none other than Andre of France, for Yang Meng and these people, a look at the negotiation table means a change of attitude, and Andre's hint before. Yang Meng received it clearly.

"Oh...... Andrey, my friend. There you are. What do you want to say? ”

Yang Meng's attitude was somewhat cold, and it took two months for Andre to give a reply, which was a little late.

"Your Excellency, will France be allowed to withdraw from this war early?"

This war in the Far East also meant a disaster for France, and now France is not without nothing to do, and the French Emperor Napoleon III, who has just ascended the throne, is busy establishing power in Europe. After the end of the Crimean War, France participated in the Theo War and the Far East War against the Qing Dynasty.

In order to be able to divide the Qing Dynasty in the future, a part of the interests, France also needs to bear a considerable part of the military spending, since Napoleon III ascended the throne, France and the English Palmerston cabinet did not have much intersection, this cooperation to send troops, most of the reason is because of Yang Meng's strangulation of the Ergin British and French forces.

Now the war has been fought for a long time, and the daily consumption of the British, French and Russian forces is fifty or sixty thousand pounds. With nearly 100,000 troops and 50,000 or 60,000 navy, the consumption is quite huge.

The grain of Millican. The price was at least three times that of Europe, not counting the pension, and such a burden was heavy enough for France, which, unlike England, which had vast colonies, had few colonies and did not produce much.

England may be able to support such a war for a long time, but for France, the war in the Far East today is somewhat worth the loss.

For the Qing State in the Far East, France has also made a more accurate analysis, and the Qing State today is probably not inferior to France, and it is wrong for France to participate in such a war.

But breaking away from the war means fighting with England and Tsarist Russia, and may even be isolated by Europe, but France has not fought with Britain and Russia before, and the current situation is the best choice for France to withdraw.

"Condition!"

France has a reason to quit, but Yang Meng doesn't want to let France go lightly, this is a aggressor!

"Annulment!"

When he said this, Andrei was also a little lacking in confidence, maybe the British and Russian ministers did not know the ferocity of this duke, but Andrei was clear, in business, this duke is definitely the world elite!

"Not enough!"

The withdrawal of France is a good thing for Yang Meng, which can not only divide Europe, but also deal a heavy blow to Britain and Russia.

"What about the conditions of the Duke?"

The abrogation of the treaty was not enough to get France out of the war, but France did not want to admit the burning of the five royal gardens of the Qing Dynasty, the cost was too great, and once it was settled, the compensation of two billion taels of silver was not something that France could take.

"An indemnity of ten million francs! The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway will start construction this year! France and a batch of cultural relics plundered by France in the colonies, the quality of these cultural relics will determine our attitude, the matter of the five gardens is not a trivial matter, this requirement is already very low!

As before, you have two months to prepare! Don't pin your hopes on the northwest, the four khanates of Central Asia will be defeated! It's better not to tell Britain and Russia about such news, otherwise it ......"

In order to get France out of the war, Yang Meng also offered a very low price, and some of Yang Meng's words were just talking, if he really wanted to make Britain, France and Russia a monolith, it would be of no benefit to him.

"I tried my best to fight for it, but the French army at the front ......"

"This is impossible, France can cut off the salaries of the coalition forces, so that two months is enough to save at least five million francs, do you need to tell me more about some things?

Time is running out, you have to cherish this opportunity! ”

All right! As a minister, I agreed, but the outcome depends on the situation in the country.

"Two months, if it's late, there will be no chance!"

How big the consumption of the war is, no one knows better than Yang Meng, tens of thousands of taels of silver have been lost, if it was the previous Qing Dynasty, it would have been ruined!

This war is also very stressful for England, and the war has been fought so far, I'm afraid that England is more than 100 million pounds, right? A large number of casualties of the Russian mercenaries, England has to pay reparations, France does not have as many colonies as England, and the income is a big difference, and if you don't quit, the deaths and injuries of the Russian mercenaries, France will have to pay for it, which is definitely not a small amount of money. Tsarist Russia will not let go of blackmailing Britain and France.

Once France withdrew. Because of the war situation in the northwest. Britain and Russia are bound to insist, and with this insistence, France will completely break away from this war, whether it is the reparations to the Qing Dynasty or the reparations to Tsarist Russia, France can not admit it.

The most important point is the current situation on the European continent, where the four countries of Fasa-Ode are vying for hegemony. It's just right to be missing Britain and Russia!

"We're doing our best!"

It is a matter of national interests, which one is not self-cleaning? France's withdrawal has a great impact on Britain and Russia, France knows very well, but for the sake of national interests, it can only be sorry for Britain and Russia, and now the war in the Far East, in terms of France's national strength, participation is an extremely unwise choice.

After Andre left, Yang Meng also lived in Jinkou City. What is the situation in Europe today? What is the situation in Beitang? Or what is the situation in the Northwest? He doesn't care anymore, the Northwest will win! That's what he asks. There are not enough people to add people, there are not enough guns to make guns, even if there are more people who die, there is only one requirement for him, the northwest will win!

Andrei came and went in a hurry, after he returned to Beitang, he stayed for a day, took a few French warships, and withdrew from the Bohai Sea, and the French warships on the sea also formed a group alone, and the division between Britain, France and Russia was already clear.

After André left, France's military spending was gone, and the finances of the entire war were completely pressed on England, and France was going to betray! But now the British Empire is also difficult to ride a tiger, the five major gardens of the Qing Dynasty were burned, such a loss, the British Empire can not bear it, defeat reparations, that is impossible!

For the change of the situation, Tsarist Russia is also very clear, and now the best measure for Tsarist Russia is to withdraw from the war like France, but Yang Meng's unrelenting reluctance made Tsarist Russia very helpless, and now withdraw, there will be less support from England in the future, and the Qing State alone will start a war of annihilation, Tsarist Russia is also incapable, and the situation has forced Tsarist Russia to the side of England, and this is also the result that Yang Meng wants.

Tsarist Russia must be fought, the geographical relationship allows Yang Meng to grab a large amount of land from Tsarist Russia, Siberia is also a mineral paradise, there is such an opportunity Yang Meng will certainly not give up.

Fighting England, it is difficult to obtain actual benefits now, a thousand birds in the forest is not as good as a bird in hand, England's navy is still strong, rather than competing for interests in the unfamiliar sea, it is better to first bring down Tsarist Russia, eat a good meal and then talk about others.

The best choice is to give up the army, the navy retreat or attack the south of the Qing Kingdom, but this has a great impact on the English army, England is different from other countries in Europe, he implements the mercenary system, most of the armies in England and the colonies are mercenaries, once the army in the Beijing and Tianjin areas is abandoned, the impact on the mercenary system is too great.

Yang Meng, the Duke of the Qing State, is also a person who is very good at using public opinion offensives, once the army in the Beijing and Tianjin areas is abandoned, the local area may be better, but the army of the colony is likely to collapse because of this, England is subject to the military system, the risk of the most correct choice is too high, and now what England is looking forward to is the war in the northwest of the Qing Kingdom, and the army near the Qing Jingshi can be transferred, maybe the victory or defeat of this battle, there will be a reversal in a few months?

Once the Qing State started a war on two fronts, the Northwest and the Beijing Division, no matter which side had a loophole, the Qing Army's siege of the Anglo-French alliance would come to naught.

If the Qing State defends the national capital, then their troops in the northwest will be insufficient, and it is not impossible to subvert the Qing Dynasty from the northwest, of course, in this way, England will have to rely on the army of Tsarist Russia in a large way, so it is likely that there will be an unfavorable situation in which Britain and Russia divide the Qing State, but compared with defeat, such a choice is undoubtedly the best.

The stalemate of the war situation, because of the early withdrawal of France, and the variables, this variable is not in the northwest of the Qing Dynasty, but in Europe, France's withdrawal, is bound to put England in an extremely disadvantageous situation, and the substantial increase in military spending, will also cause domestic dissatisfaction, but the matter has come to this, many things have no room to turn around, can only wait slowly.

England's costs are increasing exponentially, but these costs are not unaffordable for England, which owns Australia and Canada, and these costs will be multiplied once the Qing Kingdom is defeated.

The battle of Beijing and Tianjin was not without impact on Yang Meng, the supply of hundreds of thousands of troops was a huge cost every day, because of the war, the area of Beijing and Tianjin, more than 100,000 acres were abandoned in two days, even if it was a season a year, Yang Meng's loss of grain was also around tens of millions of catties.

Tens of millions of catties of grain may not seem like much, but this is enough to support the grain and grass of the 500,000 army for more than a month.

And the consumption of the army is continuous, the war in the northwest, in a short period of time, the Yang family will have to help the grain, if this year's grain production, encounter any natural disasters, then the food crisis will fall on Yang Meng's head, the population of the Qing Dynasty is too much, even if you can buy grain from overseas, it is not enough to maintain the needs of 40,000 people, once there is a large-scale disaster, the consequences are unimaginable!

The war of attrition, I really can't afford to fight, looking at the food list, Yang Meng also has a headache, and now he can only look forward to the canal repair project, which can ensure the grain production in the south, if the grain in the south is finished, then the Yang family will open a human flesh mouth in the four khanates of Central Asia! (To be continued......)