Cecil continued: "That's all I have to say, I hope that the Russian Empire and the Qing Empire will put the interests of the people on both sides first, and use negotiation to resolve the current border dispute as soon as possible." ”

Cecil returned to his seat after speaking, and then the protagonist of the negotiation appeared, and Gilles said indignantly: "Since Prime Minister Cecil mentioned the interests of the people, I have to reiterate that the Qing Empire launched an attack on our territory Khabarovsk last year, that is, on October 30, 1895, without any reason, causing a large number of casualties among our soldiers and civilians!" ”

"Not only that, but in the following months, the Qing Empire launched attacks on Vladivostok, Blagoveshchensk and other places in our country, and still brazenly occupies our Russian territory.

Lin Yuan was proficient in Russian, and he heard Gilles's words clearly and clearly, but he still gestured to the translator on the side with his eyes and asked him to translate, in fact, he did this as a common technique in negotiation - delaying time, during this time, Lin Yuan was able to discuss with the people around him.

Lin Yuan asked Xu Jingcheng beside him, "Have you ever seen the envoy of a defeated country still so arrogant?" ”

Xu Jingcheng shook his head and replied: "No, never, the negotiations I participated in before have always been that our Qing Dynasty was a defeated country, and even more so when we negotiated with the Russians." **It seems that you are used to being a victorious country, Lord Lin, you have to fight their arrogance! ”

At this time, the translator also finished speaking, and Lin Yuan said slowly: "I have known Mr. Giles before, and I admire Mr. Giles's talent very much, but I didn't expect that Mr. Giles would reverse black and white and confuse the public in front of ministers of various countries, which really disappointed me!" ”

Giles, who was also proficient in Chinese, listened to Lin Yuan's words and asked, "You say I reverse black and white?" Do you have proof? ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "You said that we launched an attack for 'no reason', this sentence is a big lie!" ”

Giles angrily asked, "What do you mean by that?" Before the start of the war, you neither declared war, nor submitted diplomatic notes, and even within half a month after the start of the war, the diplomatic department did not give an accurate answer, this is not an attack for no reason! ”

Giles's words raised his tone, and suddenly filled the scene with the smell of gunpowder, and the ministers of various countries and the reporters present behind them all held their breath and waited for Lin Yuan's response.

Lin Yuanyi said solemnly: "You have been saying that we provoked a war, what I want to say is: we have never intended to provoke a war, we just want to protect the Chinese residents in Boli City from slaughter!" ”

Lin Yuan stood up as he spoke, and said to the ministers and reporters behind him: "You heard it right, the Russians carried out a barbaric massacre of our Chinese inhabitants in the city of Boli, this kind of massacre is like the Romans slaughtering the city of Carthage, like Mehmed II slaughtering Constantinople!" ”

Lin Yuan said and took out a stack of photos from his briefcase, these photos were taken by Shen Wanqing when she fled from Boli, there was no color photography technique in this era, but Lin Yuan did not plan to process the photos in black and white, so he put the colorful, high-definition photos in front of everyone.

Everyone couldn't help but exclaim when they saw the tragic image of corpses tied to wooden stakes, Lin Yuan looked at the photos in everyone's hands, and thought to himself: "I see what the Russians have to say this time." ”

Gilles stood up and said loudly: "Don't believe Lin Yuan's words, I suspect that he is deceiving everyone with fake photos!" ”

Lin Yuan laughed when he heard his words, and said, "I have already investigated clearly, we don't have Anton Lev inside?" Stanlia! ”

After Gilles' slander against Lin Yuan was exposed, he put the Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Anton Lev? Stanlia pulled out to apologize, Lin Yuan mentioned this person, obviously sarcastic Gilles, Lin Yuan's sarcasm had an effect, and many people in the audience laughed.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Giles's mind was racing, and he immediately came up with a trick, and he said to Lin Yuan, "Can you let me see those photos?" ”

Lin Yuan handed over a few photos, Gilles looked at them, and smiled confidently: "This is not a massacre at all, these people are just criminals of our country!" Is there something wrong with us executing criminals? ”

Lin Yuan frowned, and said angrily: "You dare to say this!" Saying that, Lin Yuan took out a photo, held it up in front of Gilles, and said: "Look at this photo, it is a woman, her lower body is naked, it is obvious that she was violated before she died, I don't understand, what crime this woman has committed, and she will be insulted and raped before she is executed!" Lin Yuan then sent the photo to everyone behind him, and the woman's naked body stabbed everyone's eyes like a steel needle.

Gilles frowned and was speechless, Lin Yuan took out a few more photos and said, "The people in these photos are all dead on the streets, do you have such a law that kills people on the streets?" What's the difference between that and a barbarian? ”

Giles was forced to be asked by Lin Yuan speechlessly, and when he heard this, he finally found a breakthrough to fight back, and he sneered and said, "Isn't killing people in your country just on the streets?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled slightly and said, "That was the previous law of our country, but now that we have revised this law, don't you know the way?" ”

Giles asked, "What?" Modified? When did you change it? ”

Lin Yuan said: "Our country once carried out an operation to eliminate Japanese spies, and after that operation, we abolished the uncivilized corporal punishment, and the punishment of killing people on the street was completely stopped!" Lin Yuan looked back at the reporters and said with a smile: "If any of you know about China, you should know that what I said is all true." ”

Shen Wanqing raised her hand among the reporters and said, "That's right, what he said is true!" ”

Gilles saw his words and was refuted by Lin Yuan as useless, his face was a little unbearable, he had never met such a difficult opponent as Lin Yuan in so many years of negotiations! "First of all, I must make it clear that the deaths of these men were not caused by the government, but by the wrongdoing of some mob; Secondly, these people are all us Russians, and their affairs are simply not in the turn of the Chinese! ”

Lin Yuan said confidently: "Russians? You say they are Russians? If you look at their looks, do they resemble the Russians? They speak the language of the Chinese and have the ethical concepts of the Chinese, how can they become Russians! ”

Gilles sneered: "They are residents of our country, why are they not us Russians?" If you talk about appearance and language, you also have ethnic groups in China that look very different, aren't they all Chinese? ”

Lin Yuan shouted "not good" in his heart, thinking: "One of you didn't pay attention, and you actually left a flaw for Gilles!" ”