Xuanyuan Jian and Guan Ning are not the same kind of people, Guan Ning plays games in order to obtain a large number of game points, so as to gain political capital. Of course, Guan Ning is still a person who likes to be in the limelight, even if his strength is insufficient, he will develop quickly through money, but the end is extremely miserable.

Xuanyuan Jian also wants to develop quickly in the game, but he is not as eager for quick success as Guan Ning, and he has a plan for every step. He has long had the blueprints for the construction of the B-level headquarters and has the strength to establish a base area, but he has never built the headquarters. He took a fancy to Benxi's rich coal and iron resources, but he never talked about it or paid any attention to Benxi.

After Xuanyuan Jian set the development plan, he worked towards the plan step by step, and he quietly collected the construction drawings of large coal mines, steel mills, and arsenals. As long as you find another drawing for the construction of a power plant, a base with a complete industrial system will basically take shape. After obtaining the machinery of the Jilin Machinery Bureau this time, his arsenal could continuously supply guns and ammunition, so as to arm an army that people dare not underestimate at the fastest speed.

If there are conditions, Chen Hao would like to develop in a planned way like Xuanyuan Jian, but this development model is completely unsuitable for him. At first, he didn't want to establish a base in the northeast, but after winning the battle and obtaining the position of Tongzhi of the Yingkou Zhili Department, he changed his original plan. His plans are always changing.

Xuanyuan Sword's way of development is to identify a goal to achieve, to forcefully solve obstacles, and he has the conditions to achieve the goal. Chen Hao can only constantly adjust and adapt according to the development of the game, because he has no human and financial resources to change, and can only try to adapt to the game and seize every opportunity.

Xuanyuan Sword has been praised by a large number of players on the forum, and the players who have followed him in the action have become his loyal fans. Chen Hao, who was bored in the dark passage, also read a post about Xuanyuan Sword on the forum, and he admired Xuanyuan Sword's planned breakthrough. Next, he will pay attention to where Xuanyuan Jian chooses to establish a base, because he is also developing in the northeast in the next few years, and he is likely to compete with Xuanyuan Jian.

Exiting the forum and returning to the secret passage, Chen Hao was also racking his brains about how to leave the capital with his belongings. Emperor Guangxu has already issued an edict against himself, and the next peace meeting will be the mainstream, and there is no chance to stay in the capital. After Cixi decided to negotiate peace, if she continued to attack the coalition forces everywhere as before, it would be a deliberate fight with Lafayette, and Cixi would not end well after returning to Beijing.

The only good news Chen Hao got was that Bruce had withdrawn, and when he heard the news, he couldn't help but want to look up to the sky and laugh, and it was estimated that Bruce would die of depression.

After the Guangxu Emperor issued an edict and the Empress Dowager Cixi decided to negotiate peace, the foreign powers began to attack everywhere, preparing to seize territory and expand their sphere of influence. The British army seized Shanhaiguan, while the German army marched into Jinxi Province, but was strongly blocked by Liu Guangcai's troops at Niangzi Pass, and had to transfer troops from everywhere.

In history, the Qing generals Liu Guangcai and Li Yongqin commanded the Zhongyi Army and the Wugong and Jinwei battalions, successively defeated tens of thousands of German troops, and the French army attacked many times and annihilated one of them.

According to information provided by German scholars who visited China in 2000, between October 1900 and April 1901, nearly 3,000 German troops died in China, nearly half of which were lost during the attack on Jinxi. In other words, in the Battle of Niangzi Pass, the Germans alone were killed more than 1,400 people! This is an extremely staggering number, from 1840 to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, there has never been a battle in which so many foreign invading troops have been killed! This is also the largest number of European invading armies killed by the Chinese army at one time from the invasion of Western colonizers to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty to the outbreak of the Korean War!

The much-hyped Battle of Zhenjiang killed only 37 British, which was called an unprecedented victory at Zhennanguan, and the French army was only nearly 300 killed! In the battle to defend the front line of Niangzi Pass and Dongtianmen, the Qing army only had a few thousand troops but blocked tens of thousands of German and French troops for several months, killing thousands of enemy troops, which is indeed an amazing miracle.

This miracle helped Chen Hao a lot in the game, and because the troops led by Liu Guangcai were too difficult to speak, the German commander transferred the two battalions that Bruce used to deal with him.

Bruce dug the tunnel with a battalion of sappers, and with the lessons learned from the last time, there was an additional battalion of soldiers to protect each digging. In order to completely defeat Chen Hao, he felt that it was worth sending so many soldiers, but the German high command thought so much that the Chinese with less than a hundred people were not worth wasting so long on two battalions, and these two battalions were also transferred just when Bruce was about to succeed.

Bruce was always sane, but he almost went crazy when he received the order, and the command not only transferred two battalions, but also issued him an order to follow the troops. Bruce worked hard for a long time, and finally found the buried tunnel branch, as long as this branch line was cleared, he could find the damn Huaxia player Chen Baxian, but the damn command actually ruined his good deeds at this time.

Chen Hao could imagine Bruce's expression when he got the news, and the pressure on his body was light, it was really uncomfortable to have an opponent like Bruce in the capital.

Chen Hao's crisis in the capital was resolved, but he didn't know that he was also facing a crisis in Chang'an, and the Empress Dowager Cixi decided to negotiate peace after the great powers put forward the "Outline of Peace" twelve articles, the first of which was to punish the "culprit" with the most important law, and he was fortunate to be one of the "culprits".

Historically, the Qing court accepted the twelve demands of the great powers in full, but due to the efforts of Chinese players in the game, the great powers did not achieve as much success in history, and the Empress Dowager Cixi had the confidence to bargain. The two sides were almost close to reaching a consensus, but the Russians insisted that Chen Baxian, who had "mutilated" a large number of Russian citizens in the northeast, was the "culprit" and demanded that the Qing court must kill Chen Baxian.

The lords and ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee persuaded the Empress Dowager Cixi to agree to the conditions of the Russians, but the Empress Dowager Cixi refused several times in a row. Although Cixi has a good impression of Chen Hao, her refusal is not mainly because of this.

Chen Hao has made indelible contributions to many successive victories in the Northeast, and Cixi has praised him many times. On the way to Chang'an, Cixi had the commander assassinated the commander of the coalition forces, and after Chen Hao successfully completed the mission, Cixi praised him as the first loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty.

If she agrees to the Russians' terms, she will shoot herself in the foot. Because of this, despite the daily urging of the Lord and the ministers, Cixi did not agree to the conditions of the Russians.

The Russians came up with a plan, claiming that they could promise the Qing court not to punish the "culprit" Chen Baxian, but the Qing court would sign a separate treaty with Russia. Russia's target is the three eastern provinces, and if the treaty is signed separately, the Russians will put forward many harsh conditions, and this time not only the lord and minister, but all the ministers think that it is not worth signing a contract with the Russians for the sake of Chen Baxian alone.

Cixi insisted that Chen Hao was a loyal minister and not a "culprit", and was neither willing to punish Chen Hao nor to sign a separate contract with the Russians. Cixi had such confidence because the Russians did not achieve much success in the northeast, and the Empress Dowager Cixi was not very afraid of the Russians.

In desperation, the minister had no choice but to make another decision, taking advantage of the great powers' reluctance for the Russians to sign an agreement with the Qing court in private, and persecuting the polar bear through the foreign powers. Historically, the polar bear actually controlled the three eastern provinces, but was still forced to withdraw under pressure from various countries, and in the game, Tsarist Russia actually only occupied Jilin Province, and had no confidence to demand more, so it had to choose to give in.

After the Russians gave up punishing Chen Hao, the Qing court finally accepted the 12 articles of the peace outline. Prince Duan Zaiyi, Auxiliary State Gong Zailan, and Xinjiang. Prince Zhuang Zaixun, Youdu Yushi Yingnian, and Zhao Shuqiao, the secretary of the Criminal Department, committed suicide. Yuxian, the governor of western Jinxi, Shangshu Qixiu of the Ministry of Rites, and others were beheaded. Prince Zaifeng served as the first special envoy minister, went to Germany to apologize, and changed the prime minister's national affairs yamen to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Qing court sent a telegram to Germany and Japan, expressing condolences and apologies for the deaths of Clinder and Sugiyama. Li Hongzhang arrived in Beijing two days later and became a Chinese negotiator to negotiate with the foreign powers, but Chen Hao unexpectedly received a task.

Although Bruce has left, the capital is still the world of the coalition army, and Chen Hao and the others can only stay in the dark passage. During this time, he studied the "Yongle Canon" and "Siku Quanshu" every day, and his cultural attributes increased by four points again. Although it is a small gain, the days of being trapped in the dark passage are very uncomfortable, the NPCs are better, and the players under Liu Bang are already impatient.

In addition to appointing Li Hongzhang as the ambassador for negotiations, the imperial decree also appointed Chen Hao as the deputy envoy for negotiations. Because he didn't know where Chen Hao was, the Qing court gave the order to Li Hongzhang, Chen Hao only learned the news after Li Hongzhang arrived in Beijing, and after learning about it, he left the secret passage to go to Li Hongzhang's mansion to meet him, and was received by Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang didn't understand this appointment at first, Chen Baxian, a young man, he knew, this seventeen-year-old young man had made a lot of great contributions to the establishment, but the appointment of him as the deputy negotiating envoy didn't stimulate the Russians?

Later, after figuring it out, he had to admit that Cixi was clever, the northeast was the land of the Qing Dynasty's dragon prosperity, and only polar bears bordered the Qing court among the powers, and Cixi must have wanted to use the powers to deal with polar bears. The appointment of Chen Baxian as the deputy envoy for negotiations can make the powers see the intentions of the imperial court against the Russians, and the great powers will definitely oppose the Russians if they want to grab the interests of the Northeast at the negotiating table.

Chen Hao entered Li Hongzhang's house and saw this famous figure in modern Chinese history, and was full of emotion for a while. Cixi appointed him as a deputy negotiator, he couldn't refuse, but being a diplomat in the Qing Dynasty was a thankless task, and Li Hongzhang was also scolded when he signed the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", will serving as a deputy negotiating envoy affect the prestige in the game?

(To be continued)