Episode 161 A question that Gua-sama can't understand

After the luncheon, there was an hour's break for both sides, Xiang Xiaoqiang and the members of the mission returned to the room, took out the radio and sent the situation back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanjing, telling them that they had successfully bribed the Minister of Northern Qing Negotiations.

Sure enough, after a while, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a telegram back, and as agreed, it was signed accordingly.

From the afternoon of 7 August to the afternoon of 8 August, the negotiations continued for two days without any seriousness. In the past two days, there has been no shortage of rhetoric at the negotiation table, but there has never been the expected smell of gunpowder.

On the evening of August 8th, Xiang Xiaoqiang received a secret message from Zhu Yourong to him, asking Xiang Xiaoqiang to work harder to make the family members of the more than 80,000 "new citizens" who stayed in Daming also come to Daming. Otherwise, they would stay in the Northern Qing Dynasty, and their fate would be unpredictable. As long as this article can be successfully negotiated, Daming can make greater concessions in material interests such as gold.

Xiang Xiaoqiang sighed, and completely understood why people in other places would rather die than come to Daming to be citizens.

That night, Xiang Xiaoqiang secretly found Guadxin again and made this request to him. And assured that as long as this can be done, what he will receive when he returns to Beijing will not be 500,000, but 1 million.

Last night, Guadxin had already asked people to take two diamonds and go to the jewelry shop in Lushun City to see them, and they were indeed real, and they were indeed worth so much money. Therefore, Xiang Xiaoqiang has "established credibility" here in Guadxin, and Guadxin is not very suspicious of how much money Xiang Xiaoqiang will give him after returning to Beijing. However, he said that Nanming's new request was not expected by the Qing Dynasty. The families of these 80,000 people together will cost 300,000 or 400,000 to say the least, and it will definitely be difficult to handle the number of people. The emperor is afraid that he will not be able to pass that level.

Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately threw two official chips so that Guade could explain to him:

As long as the Qing side agreed to this article, the Ming side could guarantee in the treaty that it would not encourage the people of the north in the future and organize them to flee south. In addition, the gold and tungsten bars given by the Ming side to the Qing side were originally 200 kilograms each, but now they can be given 1 ton each.

Guade Xin can be regarded as having learned Nanming's style. He couldn't help but ask Xiang Xiaoqiang:

"Lord Xiang, aren't they just a few ordinary people? Why are you so willing to bleed? Even if all these 80,000 people are incorporated into your army, you will only have 80,000 more troops, and it will not change anything at all. With this ton of gold and a ton of tungsten, you can build at least a hundred more planes and tanks, which is much more than tens of thousands of soldiers. ”

To be honest, what Guadxin is asking now, if Xiang Xiaoqiang just came to Daming more than half a year ago, he would not understand it, and he would have asked like this. But after this period of life in Daming, although he can't say that he fully understands, at least he basically understands.

Xiang Xiaoqiang tried to explain to him, but found that the concepts and ways of thinking in the heads of the two were too far apart, and it was not something that could be explained in one or two sentences. In the end, he had to say with a smile:

"Alas, this ...... You also understand that our majesty is a young girl, too soft-hearted, and studied in the UK, and her mind is full of foreigners...... I can't tell. Anyway, we are all on errands, what should we do when the emperor makes us, and what do we do when we are subordinates. Melon-sama, right? Hahaha......"

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Originally, on the first day of negotiations, the Nanming side held on to the Qing side's "core demands", repeatedly saying that this confused the basic right and wrong and challenged the moral bottom line of mankind...... On this article, the Qing negotiating minister Guadxin "had to" make concessions step by step.

But the next day, Nanming suddenly made a new request, saying that it was okay for us to sign a contract and agree to your war conclusion, but the families of the 80,000 new citizens in the Northern Qing Dynasty must also come to Nanming to reunite with their relatives.

Guade also did a good job in the new play, pretending to be inexplicably surprised, and then temporarily adjourned the meeting, went back to send the situation back to Beijing, and asked Guangwu for instructions. In the message, Guadxin emphasized that Nanming resolutely refused the core requirements of our Qing Dynasty from beginning to end, and the minions had no hope...... But now I didn't expect that Nan Ming would be so pedantic and put forward such a condition that made people laugh off their teeth, so this was a perfect opportunity to force Nan Ming to agree to our war.

Since Nanming has to ask for the hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers' families, then I am happy to throw away these hundreds of thousands of mouths to eat to achieve our goal. Anyway, most of these hundreds of thousands of people are old and young, women and children, and there are not many people who can be incorporated into the army by Nanming, and they can't get anything except consuming more food. In the opinion of a servant, it is very possible to talk to Nan Ming.

After a long time, Emperor Guangwu called back, if the Nanming side can agree to our core demand, then we can also agree to their request. However, we must also do our best to fight for other peripheral interests. In addition to the core requirements, try to get back as much practical stuff as possible.

Guadxin watched the emperor call back, and his heart blossomed, thinking that this million oceans were in his pocket. So he called back: The slave obeys the order and must try his best to strive for more benefits for the Qing Dynasty.

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As a result, in the following negotiations, the two sides no longer entangled in the "core demands" of the Qing side, the deadlock in the negotiations was broken, and the two sides began to negotiate other interest exchanges one by one.

By the afternoon of August 9, the two sides finally "reluctantly" reached a consensus:

1. The Qing side's discussion of the war at the beginning of the year was written at the beginning of the treaty, and both sides signed and acknowledged.

2. The Qing side repatriated 6,312 Ming prisoners of war to the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the Ming side repatriated 71,154 Qing prisoners of war to the Northern Qing Dynasty. As for the other 82,176 Qing prisoners of war, given that they voluntarily stayed in the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Qing side did not ask the Ming side to repatriate them.

3. In view of the fact that the 82,176 Qing prisoners of war who voluntarily remained in the Ming side have been naturalized in the Ming Dynasty, the Qing side, in the spirit of humanitarianism and the supremacy of humanity, will send their families to the Ming side in four batches within one month after the signing of this treaty, so that they can live with their relatives.

4. With regard to the definition of "family" in Article 3, after discussion between the two parties, it was agreed that there should be no limit on the specific number of people, but it should be "family" rather than "clan", that is, it should be determined within the scope of "parents, wives and children, and brothers and sisters who have not yet started a family".

5. From the date of the signing of this treaty, the Ming side shall permanently cease to carry out activities of agitating and organizing the people to flee illegally in the areas controlled by the Qing side.

6. From the date of the signing of this treaty, the Ming side will no longer provide any support to the guerrilla forces in the Taihang Mountains.

7. In view of the consensus reached by the two sides on the war conclusion in Article 1 of this Treaty, the Ming side admits that it has carried out armed aggression and terrorist bombing against the Qing side, and is therefore willing to make war compensation to the Qing side. The specific figures are: 1 tonne of 99.9% pure gold; 1 metric ton of tungsten bar with 99.5% purity.

8. The war compensation provided for in Article 7 of this Treaty shall be delivered by the Ming side in four batches to a port controlled by the Qing side within one month after the signing of this Treaty.

9. The performance of Articles 5 to 8 of this Treaty by the Ming side shall be based on the performance of Articles 2 to 4 of this Treaty by the Qing side.

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The above is the general content of the treaty between the two sides. Xiang Xiaoqiang, He Weibang and Gua Dexin took the draft of the treaty and carefully read it, and both sides expressed satisfaction. Then, it was handed over to the Qing side to be formally transcribed.

The last clause of the treaty, in fact, means that although the two sides have signed it, neither of them can go back. Once you don't return the prisoners of the Ming army and the families of the 80,000 new citizens in the Northern Qing Dynasty within the time limit, then not only will the Ming side not give you gold and tungsten strips, but I will continue to support the Taihang Mountain Column and continue to encourage the organization to flee south in your rear. So, it's an insurance clause.

The Qing delegation sent the transcribed treaty. In this era, Western treaties and official documents were typed on typewriters, but Chinese characters were relatively special, not composed of letters, and could not be typewriters, so in addition to printed matter, important documents could only be transcribed by hand.

The two sides carefully read the original copy of the treaty in block letters with a brush, and then exchanged signatures and seals, and one side took one copy.

At this point, the armistice treaty after the Ming and Qing wars was officially signed, and the Ming Liquidation was a formal armistice.