Chapter 1052: Boiling Yingtian (2)
"Harmony is precious? Well, Your Excellency Count Rodriguez said well, harmony makes money, you and I have cooperated for many years, and we have always communicated with each other, is this a model of harmony is precious, I think you and I should be able to work together, Earl, what do you say? โ
The person who came to the fore at this sight was Count Diego Rodriguez, the envoy of the Kingdom of Portugal, Hongqing's face was tense and suddenly relaxed, and he nodded his head with a pleasant face, as if he really had an infinite sense of approval with Count Rodriguez's words.
"This is natural, this ......, ah, your Royal Highness, our six countries are the representatives of the European countries, advancing and retreating together, I believe that His Royal Highness the Prince will be able to reach a consensus agreement with my European countries to jointly maintain world peace."
Among the envoys of the six countries present, if the most reluctant to have a bad relationship with the Qing Dynasty, it must be Count Rodriguez, no other, because of the Guangzhou shipyard shareholder Portuguese da Agassi, the Qing Dynasty established commercial relations with the Portuguese at the beginning of overseas trade, and the trade volume between them has always accounted for the largest proportion, in other words, the Portuguese earned the most money from the Qing Dynasty, and it is precisely by virtue of the trade with the Qing Dynasty and the gold import of South America that the Portuguese can rise again and become the second naval power in Europe. In this sense, the Portuguese really don't want to have friction with the Qing Dynasty, but this time the Qing Dynasty was jointly initiated by the four major powers of Britain, France, Russia, and the Netherlands, and it engulfed most of the countries in Europe.
"World peace? Hehe, if this king heard correctly, the Earl Wilson mentioned such a word before, and now His Excellency the Earl also said so, then the king does not understand, whether I invaded other countries in the Qing Dynasty, or did something very hurtful, you have to mention this matter to this king so repeatedly, how about the earl, please give this king an explanation? โ
Hongqing has long known that sooner or later there will be a vicious war with the Western powers, and naturally he will not neglect the collection of intelligence, although it is limited to means, the information that can be learned is generally limited to the South Seas, as for the intelligence of Europe, it is just some sporadic news, far from in-depth understanding, but the general situation still has some concepts, naturally will not believe the nonsense of even the integration of European countries, this saw that Count Rodriguez was insincere, and he would not let him pass the customs lightly, so he laughed coldly, Hold on to Count Rodriguez.
"Hmm......"
Count Rodriguez was reluctant to have a bad relationship with the Qing Dynasty in his heart, and after listening to the interpreter's relay, even if he was dumbfounded and stunned for a while, he didn't know how to answer Hongqing's question.
"Your Royal Highness, this question is still answered from below, your country brazenly sent hundreds of thousands of troops a few years ago, invaded the Dzungar Khanate, killed and plundered countless people, the Khanate and our Great Russian Empire have always been close and friendly, our Great Russian Empire is not angry with the atrocities of your country, and resolutely sent troops to resist the violence, but was tragically poisoned by your country, and even took advantage of the fire to rob, from our Great Russian Empire forcibly occupied hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land, so far, it is still indignant!"
Count Rodriguez was silent, but Grand Duke Alexei Petrovich, the Russian envoy, was in good spirits, but when he saw his head raised, he was filled with righteous indignation and accused the Qing Empire of "atrocities".
"Presumptuous, bold and fanatical, dare to reverse right and wrong, is it trying to deceive me and no one in the Qing Dynasty?"
As soon as Grand Duke Petrovich said this, the envoys of all countries were bowed their heads, obviously sympathizing with what Grand Duke Petrovich said, but they annoyed Rong Zhu, the deputy envoy of the Qing Dynasty, but when he slammed the table, he was already unceremoniously scolded.
"Lord Rong doesn't have to be like this, it's too wasteful to talk to a robber about the truth, and it's better to bark like a dog."
As soon as Rong Zhu was so angry, the envoys of several countries suddenly became noisy, accusing the Qing Dynasty of losing diplomatic system, and his voice was as noisy as a vegetable market, so that several interpreters did not have time to relay the words of these people, but Hongqing didn't care, but when he saw that he pressed his hand, he had already commented casually.
"The prince's words are very good, and they should be revealed!"
As soon as he heard Hongqing's words, Rong Zhu's anger immediately disappeared, and he clapped his hands with laughter, ignoring the ugly faces of the envoys of the six countries, and shouted loudly.
"I protest, Your Royal Highness, you can't insult me so much about the Great Russian Empire, is this a declaration of war with our country?"
Since Peter II came to power, the Russian Empire has tried its best to reorganize its armaments, and has continuously transferred troops from Europe to the Far East, and has long had the idea of fighting with the Qing Dynasty again, but I just want to think about it, and I really didn't have the courage for a while, until the Kingdom of Great Britain came forward to Zhang Luo's joint action against the Qing Empire, Peter II had already made up his mind, and secretly ordered Grand Duke Petrovich to try his best to sabotage the talks, so as to form a sea and land encirclement and suppression of the Qing Empire by European countries, so as to regain the dominant position of the Far East for the purpose of the Russian Empire. Because of this, Grand Duke Petrovich was not only not angry at Hongqing's evil words, but secretly rejoiced, of course, he was happy, but he would not miss such a great opportunity to stir up disputes, but when he saw his erection, he roared in anger.
"The protest is invalid, you can fight, this king is just accompanied, as for you, please go back and tell the emperor of your country, how many soldiers and horses have been sent, I am afraid that there is a shortage of domestic labor, welcome your country to send more free labor, okay, you can go, come, send guests!"
For the scoundrel Lao Maozi, Hongqing has never had a good impression at all, as for the war declaration he issued, Hongqing didn't pay attention to it at all, even if this is not the best time to start a war, but it really wants to fight, with the Qing Dynasty has now updated to the third generation of weapons and equipment, only a unit of the Third Army stationed in the northeast is enough to deal with the so-called elite soldiers deployed by Lao Maozi on the Sino-Russian border, because of this, in the face of the protest of Grand Duke Petrovich, Hongqing's attitude is extremely tough, It can even be said that it has reached the point of being quite unreasonable.
"Wow!"
All the palace guards have fought with Lao Maozi, and they will not have the slightest good impression of Grand Duke Petrovich, so when they heard Hongqing's order, they immediately responded to the promise, and rushed up, set up the two main and deputy envoys of the Russian envoy group, and dragged them out.
"Your Royal Highness, slow down!"
The envoys of various countries are diplomatic elites, and they have long been accustomed to the fake Sven who waits for his eyes to tell nonsense in diplomatic occasions, even if there is a dispute, it is just a verbal argument, and he has really never seen such a style as Hongqing who wants to drive people out if he disagrees, when even if they were all stunned on the spot, seeing that the two Russian envoys were about to be so wolf bรจi were extremely eloquent and slipped out, Earl Wilson, who was the first to react, was in a hurry, and hurriedly stood up and shouted to stop his throat.
"Hmm!"
Hongqing's tough attitude itself is just a gesture, not necessarily to drive out Grand Duke Petrovich, but now, even if Earl Wilson came out, Hongqing was happy to give him a face, but seeing that he waved his hand first, he spoke softly to stop the guards from dragging him, and the color behind him was a board, looking at Count Wilson coldly, and said in a cold voice: "Does Your Excellency Earl have any questions, huh?" โ
"Your Royal Highness, our six nations have come with sincerity to conclude an agreement of eternal friendship with your country, and this must be your country's wish, in this sense, the interests of your two sides should be the same, of course, there will be some skirmishes, if you think that what Grand Duke Petrovich said is wrong, you can give evidence to refute it, everyone present is diplomats, naturally there will be a fair judgment, forcibly expelling people, it seems that it is not polite, it is better for everyone to sit down and discuss slowly?"
The relationship between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Russian Empire is actually not very good, in the past half century, in fact, there has been no less confrontation, the reason why this time to pull the Russian Empire to the Qing Dynasty, the importance is one point, that is, the Russian Empire borders the Qing Dynasty, and there have been several border wars between each other, and the calculation is to use the Russian Empire to balance the Qing Dynasty, in this sense, even if Earl Wilson no longer likes Lao Maozi, he must not sit back and watch Grand Duke Petrovich be driven away by Hongqing like this, Even in the face of Hongqing's cold face, Earl Wilson could only talk nonsense head-on.
"Your Excellency the Earl, please forgive this king for not agreeing, right or wrong, it is not that you can calculate what the six countries say, I am not in the Qing Dynasty and it is not your turn to evaluate the six countries, if His Excellency the Earl has such an attitude to negotiate with the king, then there is no need to talk about it, you all please go back, as for peace or not, hey, although I love peace in the Qing Dynasty, I have never been afraid of war, where to go, Your Excellency the Earl can choose by yourself, and I will accompany the Qing Dynasty to the end!"
Earl Wilson's words and muddy words sound fair, but in fact they are harboring evil intentions, this kind of nonsense, can only deceive those uncivilized Indians in North America, to Hongqing to appear, obviously to find the wrong object, to this day, with the Qing Dynasty's strong armament, has not been afraid of any threat of war, not to mention that the main forces of the Western powers are all in Europe, even if they are all transferred to the East, the Qing Dynasty also has the absolute strength to defeat the enemy who dares to attack, it is because of this confidence, Hongqing didn't show much affection for Earl Wilson at all, and refuted his words mercilessly.