"Something we don't need?" Baptiste wondered, "What is it?" ”

The visitor said a few words, and Baptiste stared at his pale yellow eyes in shock, "Oh my God," he seemed to understand at once what the Chinese were asking for, "your appetite is so great," he seemed to be so angry that his face flushed, "aren't you afraid that our things will spoil you?" ”

"Of course not," said the visitor with a graceful smile, "it has been twenty years since we carried out the Westernization Movement this year, and the relevant industrial equipment has almost a certain foundation, which allows us to digest more advanced things." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"So the so-called green water naval plan is also your country's troublemaker?" Baptiste said coldly that he now had every reason to believe that this plan was a conspiracy promoted by the Chinese in France in order to seize their own interests.

"Of course it can't be, when did your country find out what kind of espionage and intelligence activities our China had in France?" "Our focus has never been in Europe, of course, I'm sorry, if there is any intelligence agency in Europe, it won't be in Paris, if our intelligence agency can affect a country's navy, do we still need to fight?" This war in Vietnam will not happen at all. ”

Thang Long Province.

On this day, the whole city was happy, and the worshippers and actors brought over set up a stage performance in the Thang Long Mansion everywhere, and sang the play in the middle of the night lively, and it was almost twelve o'clock in the morning, the Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the play to be dispersed, Zuo Zongtang saw that the Empress Dowager Cixi had not yet gotten off, so he stepped forward to inquire about the negotiation, and the Empress Dowager Cixi was not ready to rest, and when he came over, he ordered the Minister of Military Aircraft to discuss political affairs together, and when he arrived in the lobby of the Governor's Palace, the palace maids served tea, and the Empress Dowager Cixi took a sip and said with a smile, " I am afraid that it will be difficult for the French to get a lot of silver, so I am not going to ask them for so much, and it is better to ask for silver, than to ask for hens that can lay golden eggs, so what I want most is not silver, but shares in the Suez Canal. ”

These few people in the military aircraft department know this, but Zuo Zongtang still doesn't know, he was taken aback at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he feels that this plan is very reasonable, the French are still boasting that the sky is 1 dynasty 1 on 1 country, cough cough is not the day 1 dynasty 1 on 1 country, but a European power, concerned about their own face, unwilling to pay too much compensation, if not for the fact that Saigon is still left, there are still many French soldiers who are locked up by the Chinese as coolies, it is estimated that France is not willing to negotiate at all, then the French are still very pretentious, And in the absence of a better way for China to force France to compromise, a certain degree of concession is possible.

"Wouldn't it be nice that the French have less reparations and we also get benefits?" The Empress Dowager Cixi said with a smile, "They want to save face, so we don't want to slap people in the face all the time, and it's not too much to ask for a little stake in the Suez Canal." ”

"The matter of reparations, if the French talk about it like this, it is not too bad," Zuo Zongtang said suspiciously, "but I don't know if the British agree," he looked at the mysterious smile of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and suddenly understood something, "The Empress Dowager Shengming, used French India to force away the British intervention." ”

"I guess Britain knows that we are talking about the Suez Canal with France, but I'm afraid that we will chirp crookedly, so just let him get out first, let's talk about it, presumably the British don't have to care about him later, it has always been the most stable three-legged stand, here in the Suez Canal, the Qing Dynasty must intervene, and they can't let them do anything by themselves and leave us alone."

"The Queen Mother's strategy is really superb," Zuo Zongtang sincerely admired, and he didn't know how the Queen Mother cultivated into the general trend of the world like a view in the palm of her hand, at a glance, "With retreat as advance, French India is used to gently and skillfully squeeze out the British, and without the British fingers, it will be more convenient for us to discuss something." ”

"That's right, if I say that I am not interested in French India, this is impossible," Empress Dowager Cixi stood on the platform and smiled at a group of important ministers underground, "No country can let go of the territory, but," she shook her head regretfully, "The current Indian Ocean is indeed British, and we can't interfere at all. Speaking of which, China's national strength is still insufficient. ”

Sun Yuwen hurriedly said, "The Queen Mother has won such a big victory in more than 20 years, and the minister looks at the history of the United Kingdom, which has developed for no less than two hundred years, and the time gap is so huge, the achievements are already remarkable, and the British are not weak in any case." ”

"I love to hear this, as long as you take your time and work together, there will be no day when you will succeed," the Empress Dowager Cixi said with a smile, "Since it is a place that cannot be kept, what can you do with it?" It's better to change something more affordable. ”

This matter was originally something that only the Xuanli Office and Guo Songtao knew about, but now it's almost time to tell the truth, "There is no need to cede land at all, France is far away in Europe, even if he is willing to give it, how can we keep it?" The rest of the place, he himself is too busy to take care of, and he has to give it to us, this is just a smoke bomb, what I want is," the Empress Dowager Cixi's eyes were blazing, and her spirit was refreshed, and she said the words that made the four or five ministers present almost unable to sit still today, "The ocean-going navy of the French! ”

Zuo Zongtang stood up in shock, he didn't expect the Empress Dowager Cixi to have such a big appetite and actually want a French ocean-going navy! "The French shouldn't give this, right?" He muttered, thinking that this was unlikely, "Could it be that there is a problem with the construction of the French navy?" "The Empress Dowager Cixi said this, then it will never be untargeted, "Please ask the Empress Dowager to explain and solve the doubts of the ministers and others!" ”

"That's right, France's current trend is to prepare to shift from the ocean-going fleet to offshore defense, which is more convincing after the defeat of Vietnam's Haiphong port, and the green water naval plan for coastal defense is more convincing, so this is an excellent opportunity," the Empress Dowager Cixi said proudly, "For China, we used to buy warships, and the technology of building our own warships has not been able to keep up, and we have been asking foreigners to buy warships, which is not a long-term solution, so in general, the best way is to use the technology of the French Navy, In particular, the technology of ocean-going warship construction has been taken back one by one, so that we can digest these technologies ourselves for a few years, and it will not be long before we can build large warships on our own! (To be continued.) )