The three foreigners stood outside the door, and Wang Kai looked up at the ceiling. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When he heard the announcement, he raised his eyes and waved his hand to signal that he was near.

There was no disagreement in the requirements and the draft agreement was signed.

Guns and ammunition are not visible, and horses are driven out of the inn.

When Princess Jianning left the guest room less than half a pillar of incense, Thomas brought Michael and Barna, the head of the English mission, to visit, and Wang Kai, who was sitting on the round bench in the center of the round table in the guest room, was facing the open door of the guest room, and saw the three of them walking outside the door of the guest room, but they sat motionless on the round stool, did not look at them, deliberately raised his head, and looked at the ceiling in a daze.

Thomas, who was leading the way in front, stood in front of the door of the guest room, and after seeing Wang Kai, who was sitting in the guest room only five or six steps away, looked up at the ceiling, he was stunned twice.

After Thomas came to his senses, he immediately leaned over and saluted, accompanied by caution, and asked in a tentative tone: "Lord Wang, I have brought our Excellency Michael, the head of the English Mission, and His Excellency Barna, the head of the French Mission, and the two of them, I wonder if it is inconvenient for us to come in and discuss cooperation with you, Lord Wang?"

After hearing Thomas's words asking him for instructions in front of the guest room opposite, Wang Kai, who had been holding the shelf, slowly lowered his head, waved his hand at Thomas outside the door, and said impatiently: "Since they are here, Thomas, you can lead the two of them in." ”

When Wang Kai finished speaking, Thomas led the two heads of the envoys, Michael and Barna, who were standing behind him, into the living room with a walking step on thin ice.

After getting up from the round stool, Wang Kai circled the round table for half a circle, changed seats, and sat on the round stool with the door of the guest room facing the open door of the guest room, in order to show that he was the leader of the negotiation table in time, and the two so-called envoy heads brought in by Thomas were only obedient and obedient in his eyes.

After seeing Thomas and the three of them standing aside, Wang Kai, who was sitting on the round bench at the door of the guest room, raised his head and glanced at the three of them first.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Kai slowly stretched out his left hand, pointed to the two round stools under his left hand, and a round stool directly opposite him, and said casually: "Since they are all in, then don't stand and talk, these three seats, the three of you can sit down casually." The pestle is like a flagpole here, what kind of words does that look like? ”

As soon as Wang Kai's words fell, Thomas, Michael and Barna first looked at each other for a moment, then nodded at each other, and then according to their understanding, Thomas sat on the round bench opposite Wang Kai, and Michael and Barna sat on the round bench on the left and right sides of Wang Kai respectively.

What made Wang Kai, who was a little nervous in his heart but looked very calm on the outside, felt very curious that since Thomas brought in Michael and Barna, the two heads of the envoys, the two of them did not say a word from the time they came in and the time they sat down, and he didn't know whether they were shocked by his arrogant performance, or if he did it on purpose, so as to wait and see what happened.

After seeing that the three of them were sitting on the round bench, Wang Kai thought for a while, and then immediately said straight to the point: "Lord Ben is very busy with official business, but I don't have time to sit here with you and chat, let's talk about business." ”

After saying this, Wang Kai paused for a moment, and then looked at Michael and Barna, who were sitting on his left and right sides with a solemn face, and said in an aggravated tone, and said with an extremely arrogant attitude: "Your Excellency, the two heads of the envoys, Thomas must have conveyed to the two of you the preconditions put forward by the official on the matter of trade cooperation according to my original words, if you two have any objections, you might as well raise them in person."

"However, first of all, I must state one thing here, all the requests I put forward are already the bottom line that our Qing Dynasty government can bear, and the bottom line cannot be broken, once this bottom line is broken, everything is not to be discussed. I hope that the two Excellencies will be clear about this, so that they will not end up with a bamboo basket to draw water. ”

After listening to Wang Kai's very tough words, Michael and Barna, who were sitting on the left and right sides of him, shook their heads slightly, and after making eye contact with each other, they nodded slightly.

Almost at the same moment, the two of them turned their heads to Wang Kai, who was sitting in the right seat, and replied in unison in a somewhat stiff Chinese, concisely: "Lord Wang, we have no objection to all the conditions and requirements you have put forward, please rest assured, Lord Wang, we are very sincere to come to you by ocean voyage to seek cooperation."

"As long as your Qing government agrees to open a treaty port along the coast, you will be allowed to do business with our merchants in England (France) and enjoy the same benefits as your own merchants. Including the next request that does not involve territorial sovereignty and territorial integrity, I think we will uphold the principle of equality and mutual benefit and cooperate with your Qing Dynasty government. ”

Such a long paragraph of words came verbatim from the mouths of the two foreign devils, Michael and Barna, and in Wang Kai's opinion at this time, these two foreign devils must have been summed up and drafted on the way to come. Otherwise, both of them would not be able to speak Chinese clearly, and it would be impossible to reach this level.

After Michael and Barna finished speaking in one breath, Wang Kai was quite satisfied that the two of them could unconditionally meet his requirements.

However, for these high-sounding words said by these two foreign devils, he felt that it would not be long before many parts of the world would become colonies of these two countries, and the two of them, as the heads of the envoys, would be almost like farts.

In this regard, Wang Kai was inspired to put forward his idea of cooperation to Michael and Barna, who were sitting on the left and right of him, and said solemnly: "In the process of cooperation, this official also proposed five basic principles to the two heads of envoys, namely, mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence. Moreover, it is necessary to include this clause in all treaties and agreements on cooperation between your two countries and our country in the future. ”

After this "five basic principles" came out of Wang Kai's mouth, the three foreign devils present were immediately dumbfounded, and after being stunned for a moment, the three of them nodded without saying a word, and agreed to Wang Kai's request.

Next, Wang Kai took out the four treasures of the study, and wrote a large piece of rice paper with a pen and a snake, as a cooperation agreement between the three parties. In addition, Wang Kai also took the initiative to propose that the two parties could have their own national language version of the agreement. However, the final interpretation right belongs to the Chinese agreement.

After Wang Kai, Michael, and Barna signed the triplicate agreement on behalf of their respective national governments, Wang Kai felt that everything had to be done before Princess Jianning returned. There was not much time left for him, only half an hour left.

So, Wang Kai hurriedly sent Michael and Barna away, the two foreign devils, and let them continue to stay in the inn, waiting for him to get Xuanye's approval in a few days, but only Thomas was left alone.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Kai first told Thomas, who was left behind by them, to tell him to go back, and quickly pack 100 guns into five large wooden boxes and 10,000 rounds of ammunition in two large wooden boxes, and send the soldiers of their mission to carry them.

Then, Wang Kai borrowed a carriage from the inn and parked it in front of the guest room, and when Thomas arrived with people carrying seven large wooden boxes, they were all loaded into the back compartment of the carriage.

After everything was done one by one, and all the relevant personnel were sent away one by one, Wang Kai returned to the guest room, carried his golden silk nanmu box wrapped in blue sheets behind him, and locked the door of the guest room from the outside, and then sat on the vacant board in front of the carriage and gasped for breath to rest, just sat and waited for a while, and waited for Princess Jianning, who was bored from the backyard of the post house.

After seeing Princess Jianning approaching, Wang Kaibian told her that the mission had been completed and they could return to the palace.

She was somewhat surprised by Wang Kai's sudden proposal to return to the palace immediately. Because before she left the guest room, Wang Kai also revealed to her intentionally or unintentionally that she had rushed back to the palace in the evening, but as soon as she went to the backyard of the post house, it was only an hour after leaving the guest room, and she suddenly changed her hexagram, and she was about to return to the palace at noon.

Although Princess Jianning was a little surprised, she did not raise any objections.

Because the carriage box behind the carriage was full of guns and ammunition, in order to hide people's eyes, Wang Kai decided not to let even Princess Jianning see it, so he let Princess Jianning sit with her on the left and right sides of the empty carriage in front of the carriage, and he drove the carriage slowly out of the post house, and spurred the horse in the direction of the palace noon gate.