On November 20 of the third year of Yuanzhuo, the capital division of heavy snow for days finally encountered a rare good weather, the snow stopped and the wind was quiet, the clouds dispersed and the sun rose, and the warm sun shone on the body, making people always want to take a nap under the sun, of course, this kind of enjoyment can only be done by those who have money and leisure, as for Yinzuo, the emperor, even if he has the right and money, he can't be lazy at this time - not for the marathon-like negotiation that is going on in the Beijing division, to be honest, Yinzuo's cunning of Yunzhi, There is nothing uneasy about the ability to be old and promoted, these days, Yinzuo no longer goes to observe the negotiations except for looking at the records of the talks; Of course, it will not be for the currency reform, with Yun Jin, the iron-masked king, to preside over the overall situation, as well as Shi Shilun, Yang Mingshi, and Hongli to assist, the currency system, Yinzuo just took some time every day to ask about the progress, and what really involved most of Yinzuo's energy was actually the military reform.

That's right, most of the resistance to the reform of the military system has been frozen and collapsed, and the gang of the Eight Banners have all been crushed to death, and they can't make any big waves at all, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, the current Minister of the Navy Liu Shuangcheng, the Minister of the Army Wang Changtai, the Minister of General Logistics Zhou Yongcheng, the acting director of the General Staff Ye Nanhe and others are all capable cadres, and there are Yunxiang and Yunyu, the two brothers, who are in charge, but there are still a lot of things, and many decision-making and decision-making work have to be decided by Yinzuo himself - from the determination of military uniforms to the detailed responsibilities of various departments. In order to fully grasp the army, all the military system changes, Yinzuo can't let others do it for him, even if he temporarily borrowed the opening ceremony of the Beijing Military Academy of the former Luding Academy to open classes, Yinzuo himself had to come forward to preside over it, plus the six government affairs and local government affairs, how could Yinzuo be idle.

The sky was clear. But Yinzuo didn't have the kung fu to steal a little leisure, play a snow treading or something like that, still dealing with those folds that can never be dealt with, and he was a little upset, Yinzuo couldn't help but be a little impatient, reluctantly finished a fold, sighed, and just wanted to stretch and relax. I saw the eunuch Gao Nianying hurriedly walked into the Yanbo Zhishuang Pavilion, and said with low eyebrows: "Qi Shengshang, Prince Cheng and the second elder brother are here." ”

"Oh, proclamation. Yinzuo knew that today was still a day of negotiation, although he secretly visited the Dutch ambassador yesterday, but he should not end the negotiation so quickly, so he couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart, and he didn't think much about it. directly let Gao Nianying go to announce Yunzhi and promote the audience.

"Anyway, what's the matter with being in such a hurry to see me, and what is the outcome of the negotiation?" As soon as Yunzhi and the promotion of the ceremony were completed, Yinzuo asked directly.

Yunzhi glanced at Hongyang. Signaled with his eyes to carry forward the statement, but he was not polite, took a step forward, bowed and said: "Return to the words of Emperor Ama." This morning, the tripartite agreement has been reached......"

Before he finished his words, Yinzuo immediately waved his hand to interrupt Hongyang's words, looked at Yunzhi carefully, looked at Hongyang again, frowned and said, "Well, what's going on?" ”

"Emperor Amma, Erchen went to see the Dutch ambassador Van Horn last night; The Earl of Cage has been reported to you. Early this morning, the Dutch envoys agreed to the proposal of the retainers very cooperatively, and even the English ambassador did not raise any objections, and the two sides had exchanged the text of the negotiations, and everything was handled according to the original plan of the emperor. Carry forward explained.

The result of the negotiations with the Dutch ambassador was that the Dutch were really unwilling to let their position as a "sea coachman" be replaced by England, and this time they did plan to cooperate with England to seek benefits from the Qing Dynasty, but after seeing the exercises of the First Fleet of the Qing Dynasty. The Dutch ambassador completely changed his mind – the Dutch ambassador Van Hoorn; Earl Cage is not as mindless as it seems. In fact, this person is an extremely sleek character, and his acting skills are surprisingly clever. Although he was thinking about how to sell England to the Qing Dynasty, on the surface, he seemed to be on the side of England, but in private, he gave all the strength of England's fleet sent to the Far East to carry forward, in exchange for the Qing Dynasty's guarantee of Dutch interests in the Far East and the opening of the Dongying market by the Qing Dynasty.

Judging from the news revealed by the Dutch ambassador, England has kicked off the industrial revolution and urgently needs a big market to digest their industrial products, while the European market is currently in turmoil and the economy is in a recession, and the sales of low-grade products of primary industrialization in England are limited due to the large influx of Chinese goods, so England has hit the idea of the Qing Dynasty, the richest country in the world today, and the implementation is nothing more than a blackmail policy. The total number of ships of the several detachments transferred from Europe was not more than half of that of the First Fleet of the Qing Dynasty, not to mention the power and tonnage of artillery, and as for the fleet of the Dutch side, Van Horn; Count Cage's words are not under the English fleet, but it is estimated that this is basically nonsense, and with the current strength of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it would be good to send half the fleet to the Far East as England.

It is said that the fleets sent by England and the Netherlands to the Far East are not as strong as the First Fleet of the Qing Dynasty, of course, this refers only to the firepower of the fleet and the number of warships. This is also the reason why Yinzuo ordered that Britain and the Netherlands should never be allowed to understand the strength of the Third Fleet in Guangzhou, and sent the First Fleet to exercise.

This negotiation is actually a psychological warfare, playing with the ground is a heartbeat, as the old saying goes-the hemp stalk beats the wolf and the two ends are afraid. Early this morning, the Qing side that learned the opponent's hole cards reversed the posture of playing Tai Chi some time ago, and came up with the plan that was originally set by Yinzuo, as a backup plan, and put on a posture of signing according to the backup plan of the Qing Dynasty, and starting a war if not signed, plus the Dutch had signed a relatively favorable agreement with the Qing Dynasty in private, and immediately cooperated with the Qing Dynasty's moves. Expressing convincing, no matter how the English envoys hinted, they accepted it as soon as they agreed, and took the Daqing Land Reserve Plan as the final signing text. As a result, the lonely English envoys had no choice but to surrender and admit defeat, and after hastily questioning several clauses in the text, which were forcefully rejected by the Qing Dynasty, they could only honestly sign the text. It can be regarded as the completion of the negotiation task.

The Sino-British Treaty of Beijing and the Sino-Dutch Treaty of Beijing were born, and although the names of the two treaties are different, the actual content is basically the same, and the main points are as follows:

Article 1: China and Britain (Netherlands) shall each set up embassies in each other's capitals and send ambassadors to each other, and the embassies shall not be governed by the laws of the host country, and the ambassadors themselves shall enjoy legal immunity, and the governments of the host countries shall not arbitrarily dispose of each other's ambassadors. However, the other party can be asked to change the ambassador. (In other words, if the host country does not like the ambassador, it can ask the other party to replace him, but the power to change or not is in the hands of the sending country, of course, if the two countries are at odds, it is logical to expel the ambassador.) ）

Article 2: China and the UK (Netherlands) jointly enjoy the right to develop the Dongying market. The Qing Dynasty agreed to set aside a certain area in Nagasaki as the location of the British (Dutch) trading houses, and the British (Dutch) merchant ships, like the Qing merchant ships, could dock at any port in the East Ying, but the British (Dutch) warships were not allowed to call at any port in the East Ying. Otherwise, it was regarded as a declaration of war against the Qing Dynasty.

Article 3: The Qing Dynasty agreed to increase the import value by a certain amount, the specific amount of which is one-half of the total amount of the Qing Dynasty's exports to Britain and the Netherlands (denominated in silver), and the specific types of imported commodities shall be proposed by the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and shall be determined by the import quota approved by the Qing Customs.

Article 4: According to the usual practice, the Qing merchant fleet could still engage in trade in the South Seas and India, but the Qing fleet was not allowed to accompany it, and Britain and the Netherlands were responsible for providing protection for the security of the sea area where it was located. For any reason, British and Dutch merchant ships and warships are not allowed to enter China's territorial waters. Nor shall they seek to stop at ports in China.

These two treaties are unequal treaties, of course, both parties who signed the treaty did not suffer, the only thing that suffered a big loss was Dongying who did not sign the treaty, this inequality is just for Dongying. These two treaties were concocted by Yinzuo himself, so Yinzuo didn't have to look at them carefully, he picked up the red pen on the dragon table, waved his pen, and signed. It's kind of approved.

"Enlighten the Holy One. The Russian ambassador has made dozens of requests to meet with the Holy Majesty, but the negotiations with Britain and the Netherlands have not yet been completed. According to the will of the Holy Lord, the ministers have always ignored them, and now that the affairs of England and the Netherlands have come to an end, does the Holy Lord want to announce their audience? Seeing that Yinzuo had signed the two treaties, Yunzhi was free and hurriedly asked.

Uh-huh, this third child, the negotiation is addicted, this one Ying and Dutch have just been sent away, and the other one is worried about cleaning up the old hair. Yinzuo raised his eyes and looked at Yunzhi, secretly amused in his heart, but said very calmly on his face: "I don't have time to see them, the third brother might as well meet them first and see what they want, well, if Jin likes to plan to bribe, the third brother will follow, Lao Maozi's money will not be knocked in vain, and I don't need you to hand it in, how much you can get is considered the third brother's." ”

Jin likes to be in Beijing for a long time, his favorite is the four activities, money opens the way, the third child was in charge of the Ministry of Rites when he didn't receive less money and things that Jin liked, at this time he listened to Yinzuo's words, let him let go of his hands and feet to blackmail, and suddenly became happy, but the third child is also a person with a city government, just smiled and agreed, and didn't say anything.

"Third brother, although this treaty has been signed, there are still a lot of hands and tails, so the third brother will work hard, go to the Ministry of Rites to sit down, and arrange for a good life. Yinzuo said lightly. Yunzhi is an understanding person, seeing that Yinzuo gave an eviction order, he didn't dare to stay longer, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, retreated, and went to the Ministry of Rites by himself.

After Yunzhi left, Yinzuo raised the two treaties, looked at them and said, "Yang'er, talk about your views on this negotiation, I really want to know what you have learned from it?" ”

"Yes, Huang Ama. Carry forward bowed down, sorted out his thoughts, and said slowly: "Huang Ama, Erchen thinks that these treaties and other texts are actually not binding at all, there is no strong strength as a guarantee, all treaties are just empty words, even if these two treaties have been signed now, Dongying will still be chaotic, my Qing Dynasty and Britain and the Netherlands will have to fight each other sooner or later, even if I don't send troops to the Qing Dynasty, Britain and the Netherlands will come to the door sooner or later." ”

"Very good, it's not easy for you to realize this, there is nothing called tolerance and kindness in this world, there is just a high level of strength, take a good look at the fate of Dongying, a country without strength doesn't even have a right to speak, I hope you don't know it in your mouth, but in your heart. Yinzuo nodded with satisfaction and said: "You don't have to meddle in foreign affairs, go to the household department, and see if your fourth uncle needs your help with things, go, I'm tired, you kneel well." ”

After listening to Yinzuo's words, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment - the household department is now in charge of Yun Jin, and the eldest brother Hongli is there, but Yinzuo let himself go to the household department, isn't it clear that the brothers want to fight for a while? Hongyang was full of doubts in his heart, but he didn't dare to ask more, so he had to kneel down and kowtow, answer the promise, and withdraw from the Yanbo Zhishuang Pavilion with his head down.

Fang Bao, who had been sitting in the corner of the room and looking at the fold, saw that he had retreated, raised his head, looked at Yinzuo, and said in a low voice: "Holy Lord, is this too early?" ”

Early? Well, it seems a little, but it's better early than late, isn't it? Yinzuo shook his head with a smile and said, "Take a look, I just want to take a look, and I don't mean anything else." ”

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