Chapter 202 Negotiations with Portugal

Huang Sheng put down the newspaper in his hand, picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, and then asked Luo Fenglu, who was sitting on the opposite side with a smile, "Those foreigners haven't come to you again recently, have they?"

Hearing these words, Luo Fenglu couldn't help but smile and nodded! Before the military parade began, Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and even Austria-Hungary, all of the big and small powers, almost all came to the door and told a lot of unequal treaties, such as opening treaty ports, lowering import tariffs, allowing them to build churches, openly preaching, and so on. I'm afraid that the harsh conditions for demarcating the concession and requiring the garrison have long been proposed!

"The prime minister is right, since the end of our victory parade, they have indeed stopped a lot in the past few days!

Hearing his words, Huang Shengshen nodded calmly! This world is still a world of power after all, the People's Army is strong, the army is numerous, the weapons and equipment are advanced, and there is also a naval fleet with good strength, so it does already have the strength to protect itself! At the same time, it also makes these Western powers who eat people and do not spit out bones have scruples in their hearts, and they no longer dare to threaten the Huo family army with the same means as they did against the Qing Dynasty!

Thinking of this, Huang Sheng also understood the fundamental reason why Huoshan still maintained a regular army of 52 divisions and a military personnel of more than one million people when various construction projects within the territory of the People's Army needed a large amount of funds! Without the protection of a strong army, the developed industry and economy would only attract greedy wolves around it!

Just when Huang Sheng was about to say something. Xue Fucheng, who served as the vice minister of foreign affairs of Huo Jiajun, knocked on the door and walked in with a smile on his face!

"Prime Minister. Minister! The Portuguese negotiating minister, Johansen, has arrived! He wants to start a new round of post-war negotiations with us!"

"Oh, it seems that the Portuguese can't hold it anymore!" Luo Fenglu couldn't help but say with a look of surprise on his face.

"Yes, a military parade in a show of force has made them no longer have any hope for the British who support the Netherlands! This separate negotiation is like ending the dispute with us as soon as possible, after all, their colonies in the Far East are not too far away from us!" Huang Sheng was also very happy about this result! This will take care of the Portuguese, and I believe that the Dutch, who are alone and alone, will not be able to survive for long!

"Prime Minister, then I'll go first!"

"Well, go ahead! But when the conditions are raised. Don't forget to ask for a higher price!

Hearing his words, Luo Fenglu nodded in understanding, and then left in a hurry with Xue Fucheng!

Looking at the backs of them leaving, Huang Sheng smiled faintly, picked up the documents that were placed aside, and picked up the pen. Looking at the sun rising high outside the window, a wave of hope full of joy filled his heart! At this moment, he had seen the future of a strong country and the rise of a nation!

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"Alas!" sighed deeply, and Johansen's face showed a deep sense of loss! He still remembered the well-trained soldiers and the steel cannons that had passed by at the grand parade held two days before! The quality of the soldiers, and even the number of soldiers, far surpassed that of the Kingdom of Portugal!

It is doubtful that the British Empire, which had been pinned on hope, would be able to make up its mind to help the Netherlands take back the East Indies after seeing such sharp soldiers of the People's Army again! Johansen can't wait any longer!

Now the situation in the East Indies has exceeded the original estimate of the Portuguese, because of the intervention of the British and the military strength of the KPA, so they must bring back the more than 50,000 soldiers as soon as possible. At the same time, try to extract yourself from the East Indies, where the smell of gunpowder is getting stronger and stronger! Even if you lose some money, you will not hesitate! Because if Britain really fights with the Chinese People's Army, it will naturally be better if it wins, Portugal can also get back its lost colonies, and the captured soldiers can return to their homeland to reunite with their families! But if it loses, then I am afraid that it will not only lose the East Timor colony! Macao, Goa and even Mozambique in Africa would be threatened, a situation that the Kingdom of Portugal could not accept in any case!

"It's better to complete the negotiations as soon as possible and leave the East Indies, which has a tendency to turn into a quagmire, as soon as possible!" Thinking of this, Johansen made up his mind, he was ready to be slaughtered by the Chinese!

"Welcome, Your Excellency Minister Johansen, I don't know if there is anything important about you coming here today to look for me in such a hurry?" Luo Fenglu pushed open the door of the reception room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a smile on his face, looked at the Portuguese sitting on the sofa with a worried sè, and asked in a tone full of pleasure.

The two sides shook hands, and after sitting down, Johansen's expression also became calm! "Minister Luo! You have a saying in China, I remember very clearly, it is called 'open the skylight and speak brightly', and I am here today to make final negotiations on this war between our two sides! and hope to reach a treaty that we are both satisfied with!"

Hearing his words, Luo Fenglu smiled faintly, "As for the cause of the war between our two sides, you must already know it! If it weren't for your Governor Steve of the East Timor-Leste colony who attacked our migrant ship for no reason and killed more than 200 of our immigrants, I don't think there would be this war between our two sides!"

"Damn the Dutch, stupid and greedy Steve! If it weren't for the fact that their Kingdom of Portugal would have lost the colony of East Timor, how could they have suffered such a great loss, how could they have been turned into a bunch of hateful yellow people!" Although Johansen secretly cursed in his heart, there was not the slightest difference on his face! "Minister Luo, I apologize for the harm caused to your civilians by Steve, the Governor of East Timor! I believe that this executioner has now received the punishment he deserves! Our Kingdom of Portugal has no meaning in this! Moreover, we can also abandon East Timor and sign a treaty to recognize your sovereignty over it! But we want to take this as a condition and hope that you will release more than 50,000 prisoners of war from our Portuguese army by sea and land! The war will be ended and normal diplomatic relations will be formally restored! "Although the two sides have not directly declared war because the Huo Jiajun has not yet established a state!" However, after a naval war of the century, the two sides are basically no different from a direct declaration of war!

"I'm sorry, Minister Johansen, Timor-Leste is already the spoils of our Huo family's army, and you have long lost control of it, so you can't redeem the more than 50,000 soldiers of your country!"

After listening to his words, Johansen's face changed, although he had long known in his heart that the Chinese might refuse this condition, but now he heard it with his own ears and saw it with his own eyes! It still made him feel a strong disappointment in his heart, and that anger that rose from the bottom of his heart!

"Then what will it take for you to be able to release our captured soldiers?" Johansen asked directly!

"It's very simple, as long as you come up with 50 million pounds of war reparations and pay a ransom of 500 pounds for each soldier, then your country can take all the prisoners of war!"

"This is impossible? Portugal will not accept such conditions!" said Johansen angrily, although Portugal had already completed the Industrial Revolution, and still occupied two colonies in Angola and Mozambique, and their influence on South America was also very deep, but so far the annual revenue has only exceeded 20 million pounds! The war reparations of 50 million pounds, plus the war reparations of 25 million pounds, are already four times the total annual revenue of Portugal! Not to mention whether Portugal can afford to pay so much money! But is it really worth spending such a large price just for the more than 50,000 prisoners and a peace treaty of armistice?

"Nothing is impossible, Minister Johansen! We have given up many of our demands on your country compared to the Dutch! and, since we have made mistakes, we must be punished, don't we?" said Luo Fenglu in a flat tone.

Standing up suddenly, Johansen's face was blue, and his tone was full of anger: "If it is really necessary to sign such a humiliating treaty in exchange for peace, then we Portugal would rather choose to continue the war!"

"Hehe, is it? Seriously, I admire your country's courage very much! But please think clearly before you go out of this door, and don't regret it when the time comes!"

Hearing his words, Johansen was stunned, and a bad thought surged in his heart! "What does Minister Luo mean?"

"It's not interesting! It's just that our Chinese People's Army has lost patience with your country's repeated delays in negotiations with the Netherlands! Although our current naval strength is not too strong, it is true that there is no way to deal with the Dutch in Europe! Therefore, we have to find trouble with your country first! By the way, our People's Army has been looking at your country's Macao, Goa, and other colonies for a long time!"

"You can't do this, these places belong to Portugal, and you are destroying peace ...... the Far East!"

"Minister Johansen, you have to be clear about one thing, we have not signed any armistice agreement, nor have we reached any peace treaty, and now our two sides are in a state of war! In addition, you are only allowed to join forces with the Netherlands to attack us, and we Chinese and people's troops cannot launch a counterattack? Sorry, I have never heard this strange logic!" Luo Fenglu said with irony in his tone.