Next, the two sides inspected the government documents, agreed on the follow-up schedule of the negotiations, and the first meeting ended.

When Lin Yuan returned to the station, Li Jingfang said as soon as he saw him: "This ** son is too disagreeable, looking at what he did today, where is it like a diplomat of a big country, it is clearly a group of village women!" Fortunately, Brother Lin Xian was resourceful and knocked down their arrogance! ”

After a few days, the formal negotiations began, and Lin Yuan first said: "The most basic demand of our side is that the Russian side must return the territory occupied by us since December last year!" "We are not encroaching on your territory, we are sending troops only to ensure that our nationals are not invaded by bandits. ”

When Li Jingfang heard this, his face changed greatly, and he forcibly suppressed his anger and said: "You are clearly aggressive, and you dare to use strong words!" ”

Lin Yuan said quietly: "You said that your expatriates were violated by bandits, do you have any evidence?" ”

Grogeco whispered a few words to his subordinates, and his subordinates went out to get a few newspapers, spread them out on the table, and Grogerko pointed to the newspapers and said: "These are all newspapers about the teaching plan, purchased from your capital, or written by your people, can they be regarded as evidence?" ”

Lin Yuan flipped through it and said, "Of course, it is evidence, and the evidence is ironclad." ”

When Li Jingfang heard this, he was taken aback, and thought, "How can you help the ** speak?" ”

Lin Yuan pointed to those Di newspapers and said with a smile: "You see that the dates of these Di newspapers are all from last year, which means that there are no bandits there now, so should you withdraw your troops?" Lin Yuan's words pushed Grojieko into a contradictory situation, Grojieko was speechless, and after a long time he said: "The reason why we sent troops is because your Qing court is not effective in dealing with the bandits, so you must pay for this military expense!" ”

Lin Yuan sneered: "Okay, how much do you want?" ”

The purpose of this Russian negotiation is threefold: first, to hold on to the occupied Chinese territory; The second is to extort some military spending, because the Russian army is inferior on the battlefield, and they do not have much hope for this purpose; The third was to get the Qing court to return the prisoners of war. Grogerko didn't expect Lin Yuan to directly ask how much compensation for the military expenses, which couldn't help but make him stunned.

Grogerko discussed with the left and right for a while, and said: "Thirty million rubles, which is equivalent to twenty million taels of Kuping silver in your Qing Dynasty." "Russia, as an inferior party, also dares to ask for silver, all because there is such a precedent, in the seventh year of Guangxu, Zuo Zongtang led his troops to defeat Aguba, who invaded Xinjiang with the support of Russia, but then China and Russia signed the "Sino-Russian Ili Treaty", China compensated Russia for military expenses of 9 million rubles, equivalent to 6 million taels of silver.

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "It's okay to compensate for military expenses, but we are holding more than 2,000 of your prisoners of war, they eat us and live in ours, shouldn't this silver come out of your Great Russian Empire?" ”

Grogerko thought to himself: "How much does it cost to eat!" So he casually asked, "How much do you think you need us to pay?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Silver, fifty million taels." ”

Grogerko slapped the table and said angrily, "Shameless! How can you use so much! ”

Lin Yuan smiled and threw an English report on the table and said, "This is the investigation report of a neutral country, you can take a look." ”

It turned out that this was the investigation report on the prisoner of war camp prepared by Dunan, which recorded all aspects of the situation in the prisoner of war camp, Lin Yuan said with a smile: "You can see from it that in order to respect the food tradition of your country's prisoners of war, we give them potatoes and roast beef every day, and those beef are all from the common people's cultivated cattle, and I still say that 50 million taels is less." ”

Grodeco tore the report in half, which was too rude for a diplomat, which showed that Grodeco was already annoyed, and he said: "Okay, let's continue to fight, our Russian Empire has never been afraid of anyone!" ”

Lin Yuan raised his hand, looked at his watch leisurely, and said with a smile: "It's about the same now, it's time for your subordinates to report to you." ”

Grogerko asked angrily, "Report what?" ”

At this moment, the door of the conference room was slammed open, and an officer anxiously ran to Grogerko, whispered a few words, Grogerko couldn't hold back any longer, propped his hands on the table, leaned out towards Lin Yuan, and roared: "You bastards, it's so shameless!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Your Excellency, isn't it rude for you to look like this?" ”

Li Jingfang, who was beside Lin Yuan, saw that Grogerko was like a crazy wild boar, and he didn't know what he was talking about, and there was no way to ask, Lin Yuan stood up elegantly and smiled at Grogerko: "Your Excellency the General is not in a good mood today, let's talk about it another day." After speaking, Lin Yuan waved at Li Jingfang and the others, and said with a smile: "Let's go." ”

After speaking, Lin Yuan took Li Jingfang and walked out of the house with a swagger, and the Russians in the room, only the reporting officer and Grogerko knew what was going on, and the others were also confused.

On the way, Li Jingfang quietly asked Lin Yuan: "Brother Lin Xian, what's wrong with this **?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "My troops have captured Lahassusu. ”

It turned out that just last night, Lin Yuan ordered the troops stationed in Sancheng to organize elite forces and attack Lahassusu, the defenders in the city were caught off guard, the whole line was defeated, one part retreated back to Khabarovsk, and the rest surrendered. Li Jingfang asked in surprise: "When did this happen?" I've been with you for the past few days, how do you command the troops? ”

Lin Yuan didn't want to tell the communicator, so he smiled: "Do you know the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there are often tricks in it, don't you remember?" ”

Li Jingfang didn't ask again, but asked worriedly: "The two countries are negotiating, but we sent troops to attack, is this appropriate?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "What's inappropriate, since we haven't signed an armistice agreement with them, we are in a state of war, and it's normal to fight." ”

Back at the station, Chen Fei's voice sounded in Lin Yuan's communicator: "The Russian army has begun to organize a counteroffensive." ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "How many troops did they invest?" ”

Chen Fei said: "According to our preliminary estimates, it is around 5,000. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "How is the battle situation now?" ”

Chen Fei said with a smile: "The Russian army's counteroffensive was quickly defeated, I mainly want to ask, should we fight directly to Khabarovsk?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Don't move Khabarovsk for the time being, it's not the time yet." ”

Chen Fei said: "Okay, we will be stationed in Lahassusu. ”

The negotiations took place two days later, and at the meeting, it was learned that Grogerko, who had been frustrated in the counteroffensive, was like a defeated rooster, his spirit was greatly reduced, and the process of concluding the contract was much smoother, and the Russian army canceled the unreasonable demand for compensation for military expenses, and agreed to pay silver for the redemption of prisoners of war, Lin Yuan asked for 20 million taels, and the Russian side thought that this number was too big, and the Russian side only had more than 2,000 prisoners of war, and each person actually needed to spend 10,000 taels of silver!

Lin Yuan liquidated the expenses spent for the prisoners of war one by one, but they all increased the price, just like he said to Pang Xiude, all this money has to be returned to us by the Tsar, and the Russians were speechless.

After bargaining between the two sides, the Russian side finally agreed to the condition of 20 million taels of silver, but on the territorial issue, the two sides had a great dispute!