At six o'clock the next morning, Shen Wanqing came back, she pushed open the courtyard door, and saw Lin Yuan doing push-ups in the courtyard, Lin Yuan saw her walk in, and thought: "She doesn't know where Lu Dao went, I should ask, but looking at her attitude last night, she won't say if she asks, so don't ask." ”

Shen Wanqing saw that he didn't ask where she had gone last night, and couldn't help but think in her heart, "Why doesn't he care about me at all?" Don't even ask where I went? Although she was unhappy because of this, she still raised the bag in her hand and said with a smile: "The captain got up so early, look, I bought breakfast for everyone." As he spoke, he placed the bag on the stone bench on the table.

Lin Yuan smiled: "Okay, let's eat together." So he sat down on a stone bench on the edge of the stone bench.

People's sense of hearing seems to be very spiritual as soon as they hear what they eat, Chen Fei, Zhang Hua and Tang Fan all came out at once, Chen Fei directly opened the bag, stuffed a few sushi into his mouth together, and said while eating: "This is the most authentic Japanese food!" Zhang Hua looked at the contents of the bag and thought, "It seems that the things that Shen Wanqing brought back are only enough for two people to eat?" ”

Zhang Hua smiled thoughtfully, and then beckoned the others to go out to eat, just like that, Chen Fei had already eaten most of his breakfast, Shen Wanqing smiled and said, "You guys eat, I'll go sleep for a while, and I won't go to negotiate for a while." ”

After preparations, they came to Chunfan Tower at ten o'clock, and the meeting was held in a room on the second floor, and Lin Yuan volunteered to replace one of the translators. In addition to the editors from both sides, the Chinese side involved in the negotiations were Li Hongzhang, Li Jingfang, and Lin Yuan, and the Japanese side was represented by Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito and Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu. The others waited in other rooms.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the two sides checked each other's government's authorization documents, and the negotiations began. Hirobumi Ito began by saying, "According to international practice, negotiations should be conducted on the condition of an armistice between the two sides, and we have drafted an armistice clause for Li Zhongtang to look at. ”

Although the two sides have effectively terminated combat operations in Korea, there is still no armistice in the legal sense of the word, so it is still not considered an armistice.

The translator took the document, and it was written very simply, all the Qing troops had withdrawn from Korea, and the Qing government needed to bear the expenses of the Japanese army stationed in Korea.

Lin Yuan was happy when he heard it, and he learned from the historical materials that the negotiations between the two sides in history began with the negotiation of the armistice agreement, and the Japanese at that time demanded a sky-high price, aggressively, and even asked China to hand over Shanhaiguan, Tianjin, and Dagu to the Japanese army to occupy as texture! The military expenses of the garrison should be borne by the Chinese! But now the situation is completely different, and the Japanese still dare to ask for a sky-high price.

Li Hongzhang said: "Korea is the land of my Qing Dynasty, I sent my henchmen into North Korea to assist the king of North Korea to eradicate the rebellious party, and restore the peace and prosperity of the Korean people. ”

Hirofumi Ito: "The two countries have not yet ceased their wars, and we are each our own master, and if we want to stop the war, this is the only way. ”

Li Hongzhang said: "China and Japan are neighbors separated by a strip of water, and although there is a temporary discord, reconciliation will inevitably be made in the long run. ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Isn't talking like this being led by the nose by the Japanese?" So he had a plan, wrote something on the paper casually, and whispered to Li Hongzhang: "Lord Zhongtang, how can only one side of the negotiation put forward conditions, I will draft an armistice agreement, hoping that Lord Zhongtang will hand it over to the Japanese side." ”

On this occasion, it is really unimaginable that a small translator dares to give an opinion, but when Li Hongzhang saw Lin Yuan doing this, not only did he not get angry, but he had a good impression of him, thinking that this young man was really a master of art and bold.

Lin Yuan wrote directly in Japanese, Li Hongzhang couldn't understand it, and he motioned for Lin Yuan to translate it for himself. But Lin Yuan didn't seem to understand, and handed the document directly to Ito Hirobumi, and when Ito Hirobumi saw it, his face suddenly changed!

It turned out that Lin Yuan's document was impressively written: Armistice agreement, all Japanese troops withdrew from Korea, Pyongyang and Seoul were handed over to the Qing army to garrison, and all expenses during the garrison period were borne by the Japanese side.

Ito Hirofumi then smiled and said: "It's not too early now, it's time for lunch, the puffer fish in Chunfan Tower is famous far and wide, why don't you ask Li Zhongtang to move and enjoy, after lunch, we will send a commissioner to accompany Li Zhongtang and his party around, and come to negotiate tomorrow, I don't know what to do?" ”

Li Hongzhang agreed, Lin Yuan just returned to the station, he saw Shen Wanqing calling him, he entered the room, and saw Shen Wanqing and the two comrades listening to something with headphones, Lin Yuan immediately understood that Shen Wanqing was going to install the bugging device that night.

Shen Wanqing smiled: "Look at me." I can hear not only your conversation, but also the conversation between Hirobumi Ito and Mutsu Munemitsu now. ”

Shen Wanqing said again: "How do I think that in today's negotiation, both sides are testing each other, and they don't seem to know each other's hole cards very well." ”

Lin Yuanyi frowned and asked, "What does this mean?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "I think neither side knows very well what happened on the battlefield in Korea? The personnel of the Qing court seemed to feel that they were losers on the battlefield, so they did not dare to reject the Japanese plan in a rigid manner; And the Japanese also seem to feel that they are the losers on the battlefield, so after you give them a draft, they make excuses to stop negotiating. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Your analysis is very reasonable, I also think that the two sides are not very clear about the situation on the battlefield, after all, an aircraft carrier crossed over and captured the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, this kind of thing is not something that anyone can imagine." ”

At this time, Ito Hirobumi's voice came from the earphones, and he seemed to be discussing things with a group of people, because the voice in the headphones was very noisy, and he said, "Do you think the Qing government does not understand our situation, or do they have other tricks?" ”

At this time, a voice that Lin Yuan was very familiar with came from the earphones - Ito Youheng, it turned out that after the Beijing ship left Garlulin Bay, Japan sent other ships to pick up the soldiers of the Combined Fleet.

Ito said: "The mysterious power used by the other party is far more than we imagined, they can even directly attack Tokyo itself, our combined fleet has been controlled by them at this time, but the personnel of the Qing court do not seem to know this, looking at their appearance, it seems that they are a defeated country." ”

Ito Hirobumi said: "That one named Lin Yuan looks very mysterious, our intelligence department can't find any information about this person at all, as if he came out of thin air, and although he is ostensibly Li Hongzhang's translator, he doesn't seem to care about Li Hongzhang at all, and he doesn't look like Li Hongzhang's subordinate at all." ”

Ito Hirobumi said: "Commander Ito, we have organized experts and professors from Tokyo Imperial University, you can meet with them in a while to see if you can uncover Lin Yuan's mysterious identity, as well as those flying weapons, if we also have these things, we can drop hundreds or thousands of tons of bombs on the heads of the Shina people and those Western ghost animals." ”

Mutsu Munemitsu said, "In tomorrow's negotiations, we should be tougher and fight for greater rights and interests for our great Japanese empire!" As he spoke, the attendees echoed and left, and silence returned to the room.

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Agent Shen Da has really helped a lot, we have figured out the hole cards of the Japanese this time, and we don't have to worry about knocking them hard at the negotiation table!" Wanqing, please find a way to get the content of Ito Youheng's conversation with those professors, okay? When Shen Wanqing heard him call herself like this, she couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in her heart.

At this moment, a doorman hurriedly ran in and said, "Is it Mr. Lin?" Is there a person named Tang Fan among your people, he has an accident. ”