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Next, the two sides inspected the official documents of the government and agreed on the follow-up schedule of the negotiation. The first meeting ended. Grodjeko thought that the final display of warships shocked Lin Yuan, and he was very proud. How did he know that Lin Yuan had already planned to deal with him? way.

When Lin Yuan returned to the station, Li Jingfang saw him and said: "This old man is too outrageous. Judging from what he did today, he doesn't look like a diplomat of a big country, but a group of village women! Fortunately, Brother Lin is resourceful. Knock down their arrogance!"

A few days later, formal negotiations began. Lin Yuan first said: "Our most basic requirement is that Russia must return our territory that it has occupied since December last year!" Grodeko said: "Our side does not We did not invade your territory, and we sent troops only to ensure that our nationals are not invaded by bandits."

Hearing this, Li Jingfang's complexion changed drastically, and he suppressed his anger and said, "You guys are clearly aggression, and you dare to make unreasonable words!"

Lin Yuan said calmly: "You said that your overseas Chinese were invaded by bandits, do you have evidence?"

Grodjeko whispered a few words to his subordinates, and his subordinates went out and brought in a few newspapers and spread them out on the table. Grodjeko pointed to the newspapers and said: "These are the mansion newspapers about the teaching plan, and they were bought from your capital city. , or your people wrote it, can it be regarded as evidence?"

Lin Yuan flipped through it and said, "Of course it's evidence, and the evidence is as solid as a mountain."

When Li Jingfang heard this, he was taken aback and thought, "Why are you helping the old man?"

Lin Yuan pointed to the mansion newspapers and said with a smile: "Look at the dates of these mansion newspapers, they are all from last year, that is to say, there are no bandits there now. If this is the case, should you withdraw your troops?" These words pushed Grodjeko into a self-contradictory situation. Grodjeko was speechless, and it took a while before he said: "The reason why we sent troops was because your Qing court was ineffective in dealing with the bandits. Therefore, this You must pay for the military expenses!"

Lin Yuan sneered, "Okay, how much do you want?"

The purpose of this Russian negotiation is threefold: one is to defend the occupied Chinese territory; the other is to extort some military expenses, because the Russian army is inferior on the battlefield, they do not have much hope for this purpose; the third is It is for the Qing court to return the prisoners of war.Grodjeko didn't expect that Lin Yuan would directly ask how much he would pay for military expenses, which made him stunned.

Grodjeko discussed with the left and right, and said: "3000 million rubles, equivalent to 2000 million taels of Kupingwen silver in your Qing Dynasty." Russia, as the disadvantaged party, dared to ask for silver, all because of such a precedent, Guangxu In seven years, Zuo Zongtang led his troops to defeat Aguba who invaded Xinjiang with the support of Russia, but then China and Russia signed the "Sino-Russian Yili Treaty", and China compensated Russia for 900 million rubles in silver, equivalent to 600 silver Ten thousand taels.

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "It's fine to pay for military expenses, but we've imprisoned more than [-] of your prisoners of war. They eat and live with us. Shouldn't your Great Russian Empire pay this money?"

Grodjeko thought to himself: "How much can a person spend on food!" So he asked casually, "How much do you think we need to pay?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Silver, 5000 million taels."

Grodek slapped the table hard and said angrily, "Shameless! How can you use so much!"

Lin Yuan smiled and threw an English report on the table, and said, "This is an investigation report from a neutral country, you can read it."

It turned out that this was the prisoner-of-war camp investigation report written by Dunan, which recorded all aspects of the prisoner-of-war camp. Lin Yuan smiled and said: "You can see from it, in order to respect the food traditions of your country's prisoners of war, we feed them every day. Eat roasted beef with potatoes, the beef comes from ordinary people’s farm cattle, 5000 million taels I would say is too little.”

Grodjeko tore the report in half, this move was too rude for a diplomat, which shows that Grodek was already furious, he said: "Okay, let's continue fighting, we The Russian Empire has never been afraid of anyone!"

Lin Yuan raised his hand, looked at his watch leisurely, and said with a smile, "It's almost the same now, and it's time for your subordinates to report to you."

Grodek asked angrily, "Report what?"

At this moment, the door of the conference room was knocked open, and an officer anxiously ran up to Grodek and whispered a few words. Grodek couldn't bear it anymore, put his hands on the table, and turned to Lin Lin. Yuan leaned forward and roared, "You bastards are too shameless!"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Your Excellency, isn't your appearance too rude?"

Li Jingfang next to Lin Yuan saw that Grodjeko looked like a wild boar, he didn't know why, and he couldn't ask, Lin Yuan stood up gracefully, and smiled at Grodjeko: "Your Excellency is not in a good mood today. , let’s talk another day.” After finishing speaking, Lin Yuan waved to Li Jingfang and the others, and said with a smile, “Let’s go.”

After finishing speaking, Lin Yuan walked out with Li Jingfang swaggeringly. Of the Russians in the room, only the reporting officer and Grodjeko knew what happened, and everyone else was also at a loss.

On the way, Li Jingfang asked Lin Yuan quietly: "Brother Lin Xian, what happened to this old man?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "My troops have captured Rahasusu."

It turned out that just last night, Lin Yuan ordered the troops stationed in Sanxing City to organize an elite force to attack Laha Susu. The defenders in the city were caught off guard and defeated across the board. One retreated back to Khabarovsk, and the rest surrendered.Li Jingfang asked in surprise: "When did this happen? I have been with you for the past few days. How did you command the troops?"

Lin Yuan didn't want to tell about the communicator, so he said with a smile: "You know the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there are often tricks in it, don't you remember?"

Li Jingfang did not ask again, but asked worriedly: "The two countries are negotiating, but we send troops to attack, is this appropriate?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "What's inappropriate? Since we haven't signed an armistice agreement with them, we're in a state of war. It's normal to go to war."

Back at the station, Fade Chen's voice rang through Lin Yuan's communicator: "The Russian army has begun to organize a counterattack."

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked: "How many troops have they invested?"

Fade Chen said: "According to our preliminary estimate, it's around [-]."

Lin Yuan asked, "How is the battle going?"

Fade Chen said with a smile: "The counterattack of the Russian army was quickly defeated. I mainly want to ask, should we go directly to Khabarovsk?"

Lin Yuan said: "Don't touch Khabarovsk for now, it's not the time yet."

Fade Chen said: "Well, we will be stationed in Laha Susu."

Negotiations were held two days later. At the meeting, it was learned that Grodeko, who was frustrated in the counterattack, was like a defeated rooster. His spirit was greatly reduced, and the process of concluding the contract was much smoother. The Russian army canceled the unreasonable demand for compensation for military expenses. , Agreed to pay silver for the redemption of prisoners of war. The figure Lin Yuan requested was 2000 million taels. The Russian side thought this figure was too large. There were only more than 1 Russian prisoners of war, and each person actually needed to spend [-] taels of silver!

Lin Yuan settled the expenses for the prisoners of war one by one, but they all increased the price, just like what he said to Pang Xiude, the tsar must return the money to us, and the Russians were speechless. speechless.

After bargaining between the two sides, the Russian side finally agreed to the condition of 2000 million taels of silver, but on the territorial issue, the two sides had another great dispute!