The secret telegram read: "Lin Yuan was appointed as the minister of the Qin Mission, and Li Jingfang was appointed as a negotiator to negotiate an armistice with Russia." Lin Yuan was not surprised to see this secret telegram, Ilya had already told him that the armistice negotiations were about to begin, and the country's finances were already stretched, the war situation had been calmed, and the armistice negotiations were a matter of course. Lin Yuan ordered people to burn cement to build roads, and on the other hand, he was preparing to negotiate, the drive of money is always more efficient than the drive of administration, and under the stimulation of Lin Yuan's silver, many people joined in the construction of roads. The news of building roads to make money spread to Shandong, which is across the sea from the Liaodong Peninsula, and many people have crossed the sea in order to make money, coming to Yingkou and other places to build roads, and some people have chosen to settle in the northeast, which has inadvertently promoted the growth of the population in the northeast.

The negotiations were scheduled to take place in Vladivostok, where the Russian Far East Fleet was located, and the Russians did so in order to show off their force and put pressure on Lin Yuan.

Although he wanted to negotiate, Lin Yuan did not dare to relax in the slightest, because the two sides were only in a state of armistice, which was not solidified in the form of law, and the Russians could launch a counteroffensive at any time, so Lin Yuan carefully deployed defensive forces, and then rushed to Jilin to meet Li Jingfang and his party.

From Jilin to the east, we arrived at Hunchun, which controlled the Sino-Russian passage, or was occupied by the Russian army, where the Russians built a railway to Ussuriysk and Vladivostok, under the escort of everyone, Lin Yuan, Li Jingfang and his party boarded the train.

The train passed through the lush forest sea, and Lin Yuan asked Li Jingfang: "Do you have any instructions about our negotiations this time?" ”

Li Jingfang said: "The above means: let Russia return the land obtained by this invasion, and the border between the two countries will maintain the status quo of the Treaty of Aihui and the Treaty of Beijing. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "There is no intention to abolish these two treaties?" Li Jingfang said: "Those are just wild places, even if they are ceded to the Russians, it doesn't matter." ”

Lin Yuan nodded, did not speak, and the train finally arrived at Vladivostok, where the Russian Far East Fleet was located.

As soon as the group got off the train, the Russian chief negotiator Grodeco took someone to greet him outside the station, and just after entering the naval base, he heard a loud "boom" sound, and Li Jingfang was so frightened that he let out a "hey", and just as he was catching up with a step under his feet, he stepped on the air and stumbled, and the official hat fell off his head, and he rolled out of the city with a grunt.

An entourage had already stepped forward to pick up his hat, dust off it, and bring it to Li Jingfang, Grogerko saw it, and laughed loudly: "What is terrible about this cannon sound, our emperor is not a coward who is afraid of the sound of artillery." After saying that, the people of the Russian mission laughed.

Li Jingfang was annoyed when he saw being ridiculed, but he had no choice but to sneer twice, Lin Yuan looked at his watch, it was already twelve o'clock, the Russian naval fortresses all had time guns, and the cannons would be fired at twelve o'clock at noon every day, Lin Yuan saw Grogerko laughing at Li Jingfang, and thought: "This negotiation seems to have a strong smell of gunpowder!" If the morale at the beginning is suppressed, it will not be easy to do in the future. ”

So Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Our cannons have always been fired only when we see the enemy, and we have never fired our own cannons to give ourselves courage, so Master Li was surprised for a moment, I don't know which coward set this rule." "The person who formulated this chiming rule was the Russian Tsar Peter I, his position in the hearts of the Russians was very important, he was respected by the Russians as Peter the Great, and there were only a handful of emperors who could be called "the Great", Lin Yuan scolded him as a coward as soon as he opened his mouth, and Grogerko's eyebrows immediately stood up. However, the diplomacy of the two countries is not a rogue fight in the market, how can they fight because they disagree! Grogerko had no choice but to swallow his anger, holding back his strength to embarrass the Qing mission.

Grogerko whispered to his subordinates, "Change the location of the meeting in a moment to the Thousand Miles Pavilion." ”

This attic was built on the top of the hill, originally built by the Qing court, and later Vladivostok was seized by the Russians, and naturally fell into the hands of the Russians, who saw the beautiful scenery here, so they expanded on the original basis.

Grogerko wants to negotiate in the attic, the purpose is to make the Qing court mission make a big fool, although this mountain is not steep, but it is tiring enough to climb up, among the Qing court mission, except for Lin Yuan, which of the rest is not pampered on weekdays, to climb this mountain, it is enough for them to bear.

Sure enough, Li Jingfang and his entourage looked ugly when they arrived at the bottom of the mountain, Grogerko looked at Li Jingfang and hesitated, he was so happy in his heart, he was still obedient when he got cheap, and smiled at Li Jingfang: "Master Li, although I don't know much about Chinese culture, I also know that many literati love famous mountains and rivers, and the scenery on the mountain is beautiful, why don't adults go up?" ”

Lin Yuan walked up to Grogerko and said with a smile in Russian: "Since Your Excellency the General understands my Chinese culture, when you know that this literati climbs the mountain, most of them are in groups of three or five, and now we are a large group of people, and it is really indecent to go up together, otherwise it would be like this." Saying that, Lin Yuan turned around and said to the Qing court mission: "You wait here, I'll go up alone." ”

Lin Yuan is the head of the mission, what he said is an order, Grogerko is an outsider, naturally it is not easy to object, so he had to agree, today's negotiation is just to exchange government documents, Lin Yuan took the official documents, made a "please" gesture towards the mountain road, and then went up the mountain road.

Grogerko followed behind with a few entourage, he saw Lin Yuan go up the mountain first, he couldn't help but laugh secretly, Grojieko loves mountaineering, and is also good at this, he decided to surpass Lin Yuan for a while, and then tell him to hurry up in front of Lin Yuan, take this opportunity to laugh at him, Grogerko made up his mind, secretly quickened his pace, the mountain road is not narrow, enough for him to surpass Lin Yuan.

What Grogerko didn't expect was that he and Lin Yuan were more than a meter away, and he accelerated Lin Yuan and accelerated, and he couldn't surpass it, Lin Yuan also turned around and smiled at him: "Your Excellency General, why don't you go faster?" There is a beautiful view from the top of the mountain! ”

Lin Yuan was born as a pilot, and the physical fitness of pilots is beyond the reach of ordinary people, so Grogerko is chasing hard behind, but he can't catch up with Lin Yuan.

On a section of the mountain road, Lin Yuan turned around and saw that there were already beads of sweat on Grogerko's forehead and face, so he quickened his pace, Lin Yuan accelerated, Grogerko said that he couldn't catch up, and was directly pulled away more than ten meters away. Lin Yuan arrived at the top of the mountain first, and waited for Grojieko with a victor's smile, Grojieke was secretly angry in his heart, but it was not easy to bring it out on his face, so he could only eat Coptis chinensis dumbly - he couldn't say what he was suffering about, and he was silently thinking about a way to get back a city in his heart.

Taking Lin Yuan into the attic, Grogerco did not take a seat, but pushed open the window of the attic, and said to Lin Yuan with a smile: "General Lin doesn't come to see the scenery?" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "What new tricks are you going to use?" When he came to the window, he immediately understood Grogerko's intentions, it turned out that from here he could overlook the military port of Vladivostok, and there were more than a dozen warships neatly moored in the military port, Grogerko pointed at them and smiled: "Look! That's the warships of our Russian Empire. Lin Yuan thought to himself: "What do you have to show off, your Vladivostok military port will be mine sooner or later." But Lin Yuan said with envy: "I don't know when we can have such a fleet!" ”

Looking at the smug smile on Grogerko's face, Lin Yuan thought to himself, "It's time to make a move to fight back!" ”