Episode 81 The Chicken Rib Stage of Negotiation

She thought about it in the sofa, her mind was so confused that she couldn't clear up a clue in the middle of the night. She is usually smart and decisive, but now she has a feeling that she wants to escape.

With her, there are things in my heart, and I can't sleep in the middle of the night, and Xiang Xiaoqiang.

Yonggui suddenly went to see Fourteen Gege, and then Fourteen Gege called him up. After a long time, the ears and eyes said that Yonggui had come down again, so he didn't say anything, and directly asked the maid to take him back to his room. The whole process didn't have anything to do with him to Xiaoqiang.

This Xiang Xiaoqiang was depressed. Not only was I depressed that I didn't know what was going on, but I was even more depressed that I couldn't ask what was going on. Ask Fourteen Gege directly, Fourteen Gege saw Yonggui, not himself. It would have been nice if Fourteen Gege had taken the initiative to tell him, but now Fourteen Gege went straight to sleep. If I ask again, I don't trust it: Oh, you Xiang Xiaoqiang has been spying on me.

It's even more inappropriate to ask Yonggui to ask. This is tantamount to telling the Northern Qing Dynasty: We don't trust Fourteen Gege.

Xiang Xiaoqiang was also uncomfortable and didn't fall asleep in the middle of the night. When she woke up the next morning, Xiuxiu told him that the agent's maid had reported to her that the light in the fourteen-cell window was on until midnight.

At the breakfast table, Xiang Xiaoqiang and Fourteen Gege both looked sleep-deprived. They both looked at each other and smiled at the same time. The difference is that Xiang Xiaoqiang's smile brought a bit of suspicion, while Fourteen Gege's smile brought a bit of warmth.

After breakfast, Fourteen Gege stood up and said:

"Come with me, sir, I have something to tell you."

"Hey!"

Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately stood up, wiped his mouth with a smile, glanced at Xiuxiu, and followed abruptly.

In a small lounge, Fourteen Gege told Xiang Xiaoqiang what Yonggui told him last night, as well as what Guangwu asked Yonggui to send her.

After listening to Xiang Xiaoqiang, he pondered for a long time before he said a word:

"Oh."

Fourteen Gege didn't speak, just looked at him.

Xiang Xiaoqiang coughed a few times, nodded, and then said:

"Hmm...... What about this...... What do you think? ”

Fourteen Gege smiled and asked rhetorically:

"After listening to me...... What do you think? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang stared at the expression of Fourteen Gege, slowly relieved, and said with a smile:

"Guangwu and Yonggui's analysis is basically right, you are in Daming, and this is indeed the situation. Their rhetoric is indeed accurate and ruthless. But...... There's one factor they're ignoring, and that's me. The relationship between you and me is so close...... The intimacy they did not estimate. They may only know that you and I are relatively close, but they don't expect that we have come to this point and are already ...... Fiancé and fiancée too. ”

said to Xiaoqiang, grinning and leaning over with a shy face, he grabbed Fourteen Gege's waist and kissed her on the cheek.

Fourteen Gege didn't push him away like he used to. Since the "pneumonia incident", Fourteen Gege has not only regarded Xiang Xiaoqiang as a political partner, as a couple, and even as a fiancé.

She smiled, leaned gently into Xiang Xiaoqiang's arms, and kissed him back. After a while, he said:

"Don't be complacent, I decided to tell you after thinking about it. There is no such thing as a free lunch in the world, and although these properties were originally mine, now Guangwu could have kept them for himself, which is not a small amount. Since he returned the property to me, it means that I have received his benefits, which is equivalent to putting the matter in their hands. It is estimated that in the future, I will tacitly fight for their interests on Nanming's side and at the negotiating table. Otherwise, it won't be long before they settle for the next best thing, using this gift as a means of discord, and rumors will be released......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang grinned and said:

"How much money do you have on that property?"

Fourteen Gege glanced at him and said with a smile:

"What? What's the idea? ”

"Hey, ask, ask."

Fourteen Gege smiled softly again and said:

"I haven't seen it yet, it's hard to say. However, my property in the north, excluding the 'movable property' other than real estate, including cash, securities, and things, is about 100 million oceans. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was startled, his arm around her trembled violently, and he stared at her face in disbelief.

Fourteen Gege smiled again and said softly:

"Excited about what? This is just using Qingyang as a unit, which is converted into Mingyang, which is more than 40 million. ”

"Good boy!" Xiang Xiaoqiang shouted, "That's a lot!" …… 100 million oceans, do you know how much the reparations for the First Sino-Japanese War weredient? ”

Fourteen Gege's index finger was gently placed on his lips, and he chuckled softly:

"Shh......h

"And this is all what you got when you were the supreme officer of the sticky pole for a few years?"

Fourteen closed his eyes and smiled and nodded.

"Tian ......" muttered to Xiaoqiang, "***...... Standard *** ......"

Fourteen Gege laughed softly:

"Don't get excited...... People don't give me much directly, most of them come from the business I control, and they are all business income. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Business? I'm afraid it's a monopoly business, right? ”

Fourteen Gege smiled, then nodded with his eyes closed.

"In the upper echelons, I really don't have many ......," she smiled, "and the entire national economy, our major families used to divide the territory proportionally...... After the coup d'état in Guangwu, the whole thing was cleansed, and most of this wealth was gathered in his hands alone...... Hehe, compared to your precious majesty, my tens of millions are just a poor girl. ”

"Hehe, you compare ...... her Most of her possessions are pots and jars in the palace, and they can't be moved......"

Speaking of this, Xiang Xiaoqiang remembered it again, frowned and said:

"With such a huge wealth worth hundreds of millions of silver oceans, how can Guangwu be so generous and use it all to give you favors? This is not a small number of hundreds of thousands, millions! Isn't it more cost-effective for him to directly use this money to buy weapons and build an army than to use it to buy you? ”

Fourteen Gege lay in his arms, squinting and smiling:

"Of course he doesn't know how much property I have. The floating wealth I put on the surface is only a few million. Most of them are in the safes of three banks: Japan, Australia, and Switzerland. So Guangwu raided my home, and apart from the fraction of the millions of oceans, he only found three keys to the safe. As for how much money was in the safe, he didn't know. He didn't have a code, only a key and it didn't work. I just took it together to give me a favor. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang hesitated for a moment and said with a smile:

"That'...... Are you going to pick it up? Well, don't get me wrong, just ask, don't want you. ”

Fourteen Gege lay in his arms, looked at him and smiled:

"Do you want me to pick it up?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"If you are willing to go to Europe to get it, when the negotiations are over, I will get you an armed escort ship and let you go to Switzerland to get it. That wealth is also a waste to lie in the bank. After retrieving it, you can invest in Zheng's Mining Company in your name. Now I am a public official, and it is still sneaky to invest in Zheng's minerals, and the money for dividends is also sneaky, and it is not easy to see the light. Your wealth is more than 40 million Mingyang, but no one knows how much it actually is, and it can be used to help me launder money. Some of my illegal investment income can be recorded in your account and counted as your property. You're a princess, and you're a much better person than me, a mere public official. ”

The two discussed for a while, and Xiang Xiaoqiang thought that this matter should be "recorded" with Zhu Yourong. Because it's not a general thing. Fourteen Gege's identity is already sensitive, and he is receiving enemy negotiators late at night, so this matter must not be hidden. Yonggui's generous and blatant request to see Fourteen Gege seems to have no intention of keeping it very secret, probably intending to make the matter itself a part of the discord.

However, as long as Zhu Yourong has a number in his heart, no matter how much the other party does with this matter, it will be useless. Besides, the huge wealth of Fourteen Gege overseas must be retrieved by ship, and it must be legalized after it is retrieved. This process cannot be hidden.

Xiang Xiaoqiang is still very confident in the legalization of Fourteen Gege's property in Daming. Now the policy of the Ming Dynasty towards the upper echelons of the Northern Qing Dynasty is to recognize their vested interests. Even those high-ranking generals of the Qing army who surrendered on the battlefield, the Ming Dynasty protected their vested interests, not to mention the first fourteen Gege who surrendered and made so many contributions to the Ming Dynasty?

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After the Ming Dynasty proposed "media and migration" to the Qing Dynasty, it gained widespread support in the international community, and public opinion in the United States gradually turned in the direction of challenging the "Neutrality Act". Opinion polls conducted in several states show that the percentage of voters who support arms sales to Daming has been rising. Michigan has the highest percentage, at 84 percent. Because Michigan's pillar industry is automobile manufacturing, the motor city of Detroit is Ford's nest. Once the United States passes the bill on arms sales to Daming, Michigan will benefit the most, and it can be said that the results will be immediate.

But these two demands of Daming have had side effects on the negotiation table. Once this high profile is made, it is not easy to take it back. The Ming Dynasty regarded these two items as a hard condition for withdrawing from Shanxi, and the attitude of the Northern Qing Dynasty also saw that it was absolutely impossible to agree to these two items. Then there will be a stalemate.

In the bottom of Da Ming's heart, he actually didn't want Beiqing to accept these two items. Because then the Ming Dynasty had to withdraw from Shanxi unconditionally, and there was nothing to say. And Daming is reluctant to withdraw from Shanxi. The ideal state of the Ming Dynasty is that the Northern Qing Dynasty does not accept these two items, and the Ming Dynasty also retains the southern part of Shanxi, and the other territories should be divided and divided. In this way, Daming has also made a lot of money all over the world, and there is a high-sounding reason not to quit Shanxi. You Beiqing can't not accept these two items from me, and you must ask me to withdraw from Shanxi. That's too much to say at the negotiating table.

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The tone of the negotiations originally set by the top level of Nanming was to settle the negotiations in a short and flat manner, and to talk about it if it was possible, and to fight if it was not possible to talk about it. But now, I still can't help but be dragged into the quagmire of negotiations step by step by the Northern Qing Dynasty.

Beiqing's approach is to "give you a little more every day", the benefits are like squeezing toothpaste, squeezing Nanming little by little, and every time you squeeze out a little benefit, you have to go through a lot of back and forth at the negotiation table. It is not possible to make Nanming and these people beat, and it is not necessary to continue talking. If we continue to talk, we will see that the time is getting longer and longer, and winter is getting closer and closer. But if you don't talk about it and start fighting directly, you're very unwilling. Because of this, negotiating a little bit of land, although it is a little slower, it is much easier than fighting bloody battles on the battlefield and PK with the two million Central Plains Corps of the Northern Qing Dynasty. Especially among the 2 million Central Plains Corps, 800,000 are from the Eight Banners Division.

However, in recent days, since throwing out the "media and migration", seeing that the military vehicle procurement plan in the United States is approaching success step by step, Nanming has calmed down a little and is not so anxious. According to the development of the situation, it is very likely that tens of thousands of military vehicles will be transported back this winter, and even if the war is fought again in the spring of next year, the balance of war capabilities between the two sides will be greatly tilted in favor of Nanming.

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However, during the many days of negotiations, the Qing army was not idle for a moment.

In the southern part of Xuzhou, on the positions of the Central Plains Corps, the Qing army was implementing increasingly strict control methods in accordance with the Guangwu plan. Guangwu used all conceivable means to ensure that when the army faced the Nanming bombers and tanks again, there would be no large-scale surrender.

At present, all divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, and platoons are successively registering the family information of soldiers, on the grounds that "the establishment of a pension file for the dead in battle."