"Now we will mobilize our army and attack the island of Dumb Bay, and kill this guy who dares to be rude to us great Atlanticians. The German minister, Hasenhow, said as he smoked a cigar.

"No, no, no. The American minister, Joningham, shook his head: "If we take the initiative like this, we will wipe out the Taiping army." How to make money from the Qing court. It's a big deal. We must negotiate with the Qing court and extort a good sum of money. ”

The ministers of several other countries also nodded again and again when they heard Joninghan say this.

"It's a great opportunity to make a fortune. ”

"This time, I had to move away the wealth of the Qing court. ”

"This opportunity to make money, how can we let it go. ”

"Then let the Taiping Army on Duwan Island live longer. ”

U.S. Minister Jöningham lit a cigar: "I've heard from the Qing court before. The leader of this Taiping army seems to be some kind of monster. It can withstand our Western muskets. ”

"I'm afraid it's an exaggeration, how can anyone resist our Western muskets. The German minister, Hasenhaw, said with a smile.

"We've all fought all over the world, and we've never heard of anyone who could stand up to our muskets. The Portuguese minister, Maladins, said with a smile: "Of course, there are some primitive and backward parts, those old wizards, who claim to have mysterious black magic, can resist our muskets, and we have all been killed alive. ”

"Besides, the muskets we gave to the Qing people were originally eliminated, and we ourselves had more advanced ones. ”

"That's right, it's still serious to negotiate with the people of the Qing court now. ”

......

On the side of the Qing court.

I've been struggling lately.

In the past, when I negotiated with Westerners, they still had a lot of negotiations.

But the recent negotiations with Westerners have not been right. These Westerners are simply crazy extortion, and the amount they knock is so high that they almost want the Qing court to move the entire treasury to them.

If they want to send troops, they will ask for 100 million taels of silver!

That's 100 million taels!

The annual income of the Qing court is only 20 or 30 million taels.

One hundred million taels, this is four or five years of state income!

The current treasury of the entire Qing court cannot take out 100 million taels.

When Li Hongzhang returned to the court with this news, the court was directly blown up: "What, 100 million taels." This is simply cannibalistic, where did you get so many silver taels. ”

Li Hongzhang spread his hands: "I tried my best to say it, but the people of Western countries just bit the price to death and refused to let go." If you have the ability to negotiate a lower price, then go for it. ”

Everyone couldn't help but look at Cixi behind the bead curtain.

"100 million taels of silver! These Westerners are really bad. Cixi's voice was also angry: "We continue to buy guns from the Westerners, and we don't believe that we can't stop the attack of the Taiping army." We don't ask Westerners now. ”

"Yes. Li Hongzhang nodded, he also knew that Westerners were lions with their mouths wide open, Cixi was afraid that he would not agree easily, anyway, he had already talked about it, and he did what he should do.

"Li Hongzhang, you have to go to train the new army immediately, and when the new army is trained, we can also solve the Taiping army ourselves. Cixi looked like she was going to hand over the great cause to Li Hongzhang.

What Li Hongzhang can say, he can only be.

However, he also understood that if the training of the new army was useful, Zeng Guoquan would not be defeated.

......

This side of Stay Bay Island.

The Taiping army waited for the Westerners to attack.

But after waiting for a long time, I haven't waited.

"It seems that the Westerners will not attack for the time being. He Xuan said.

"Why? Westerners are the strongest country in the world, aren't they angry when they are offended?" Shang Yanyan asked.

"Westerners are a group of capitalists, and they want to make money, not face problems. This is the biggest difference between us and the Chinese court. If they act now, it will be equivalent to helping the Qing Dynasty clean up us, and it will not do them any good. I guess the Westerners should be blackmailing the Qing court now. But the Qing court should not have paid so easily. So, they haven't decided yet. ”

He Xuan quickly explained the relationship between the Qing court and the Westerners.

Shang Yanyan also understood: "In this way, as long as we are not in a hurry to attack the Qing court, then the Qing court will not be in a hurry to call Westerners." ”

"Yes. So for the time being, both of us can be in a state of relative peace. He Xuan nodded.

"That's great, I don't have to deal with Westerners for the time being. I heard that the Westerners had terrible artillery fire, which was much stronger than that of the Qing court. Shang Yanyan gasped and said.

This is actually what most people think in this era.

In this era, the gap between Western countries and China in terms of weapons and technology is too big.

In this way, the Taiping army, the Qing court, and the Western countries were in a temporary calm.

If you don't hit me, I won't hit you.

And He Xuan also took advantage of this empty space to earn negative emotions like crazy.

Before you know it, half a year has passed.

And He Xuan got 20,000 negative emotions worth it.

However, now 20,000 negative emotions are not worth much, and they are only worth ten intermediate defense fruits. After adding it, it also increased its own defense value to 11.6.

In this way, one's own attributes become like this.

He Xuan (Hong Tianguifu)

Mental power: 5.

Strength: 5.

Speed: 10.

Constitution: 10.

Defense: 11.6.

......

And this year, in distant Beijing, something happened that was not big or small.

This matter should start with the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The Ryukyu Kingdom has always been an independent country, and they have been the same for generations to be the subject of China.

During the Ming Dynasty, they paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

During the Qing Dynasty, they were vassals to the Qing Dynasty.

However, as Japan became stronger, Japan began to plot against other countries. Japan's ultimate goal, of course, is China. But now Japan knows that they have not been able to do so for the Meiji Restoration, and that they are no match for the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, they set a step-by-step policy, first to Ryukyu, then to Gurwan, and then to Goryeo. Invade the territory step by step, strengthen yourself, and finally eat the whole of China.

Their first step was quite good, and they invaded the Ryukyus at once. It was in the second step that Gui Zhenzhi led more than 3,000 people to attack Duwan, but was defeated by the Taiping army, so they wanted the Qing court and He Xuan to fight to the death, revealing the information that He Xuan could be hit by bullets and passing it to the Qing court.

This also caused the Qing court to send 100,000 troops, led by Zeng Guoquan, to attack Duwan, if it weren't for He Xuan's primary hegemony, the Taiping army would also be exterminated.