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Cecil went on to say: "That's all for me. I hope that the Russian Empire and the Qing Empire can put the interests of the people on both sides first, and use negotiations to resolve the current border disputes as soon as possible."

After Cecil finished speaking, he returned to his seat, and then the protagonist of the negotiation came on stage. Giles said angrily: "Since Prime Minister Cecil mentioned the interests of the people, I have to reiterate that the Qing Empire , That is, on October 1895, [-], without any reason, an attack was launched on our territory Khabarovsk, causing a large number of casualties among our soldiers and civilians!"

"Not only that, the Qing Empire also launched attacks on my country's Vladivostok, Blagoveshchensk and other places in the next few months, and it is still brazenly occupying our Russian territory. Therefore, on behalf of the respected Russian Tsar and the Russian government, I demand that the Qing Empire immediately withdraw from the above-mentioned territories and compensate our country for all losses.”

Lin Yuan is proficient in Russian, and he heard Gilles' words clearly and clearly, but he still gestured to the translator beside him with his eyes, asking him to translate. In fact, he did this as a common technique in negotiations-delay Time, during this time, Lin Yuan can discuss with the people around him.

Lin Yuan asked Xu Jingcheng beside him, "Have you ever seen an envoy from a defeated country be so confident?"

Xu Jingcheng shook his head and replied: "No, never. In the negotiations I participated in, it was always that our Qing Dynasty was a defeated country, and this was especially true when negotiating with the Russians. It seems that the old man is used to being a victorious country. Lin My lord, you have to fight their arrogance!"

At this time, the translator had finished passing on the words, and Lin Yuan said slowly: "Mr. Giles and I have known each other before, and I admire Mr. Giles' talents very much, but I did not expect that Mr. Giles would actually be in front of the ministers of various countries. , Confused black and white, confusing the public, really let me down!"

Gilles is also proficient in Chinese. After listening to Lin Yuan's words, he asked, "You say I've turned black and white? Do you have evidence?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "You said that we launched the attack 'for no reason', this sentence is a big lie!"

Gilles asked angrily: "What do you mean? Before the war, you neither declared war nor submitted a diplomatic note. Even within half a month after the war started, the diplomatic department did not give an accurate answer. This is not what it is to launch an attack for no reason!"

Gilles raised his tone with these words, which immediately filled the scene with a sense of gunpowder. The ministers of various countries and the reporters sitting behind held their breaths, waiting for Lin Yuan's response.

Lin Yuanyi said sternly: "You keep saying that we provoked the war, but what I want to say is: we never intend to provoke the war, we just want to protect the Chinese residents in Khabarovsk from being massacred!"

Lin Yuan stood up and said to the ministers and reporters behind him: "You heard me right, the Russians brutally massacred our Chinese residents in the city of Khabarovsk. This massacre is like the Roman massacre. Killing Carthage is like Mehmed II slaughtering Constantinople!"

Lin Yuan said that he took out a stack of photos from his briefcase. These photos were taken by Shen Wanqing when he fled Khabarovsk. There was no color photography technology in this era, but Lin Yuan did not intend to process the photos in black and white. So the colorful, high-resolution photos were placed in front of everyone.

Seeing the tragic images of corpses tied to wooden stakes, everyone couldn't help but exclaimed. Lin Yuan watched the photos being passed around in everyone's hands, and thought in his heart: "I see what the Russians have to say this time. .”

Giles stood up and said loudly: "Don't believe Lin Yuan's words, I suspect he is deceiving everyone with fake photos!"

Lin Yuan laughed when he heard what he said, and said, "I've made a thorough investigation, we don't have Anton Lev Stanley inside!"

After Gilles’s slander against Lin Yuan was exposed, he pulled the Russian ambassador to the UK, Anton Lev Stanley, to take the blame. When Lin Yuan mentioned this person, he was obviously satirizing Gilles, and Lin Yuan’s irony had an effect. Many people off the field laughed.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Giles thought about it, and immediately came up with a trick. He said to Lin Yuan, "Can you let me see those photos?"

Lin Yuan handed over some photos. Gilles looked at them and smiled confidently: "This is not a massacre at all. These people are just criminals in our country! Is there anything wrong with us executing criminals?"

Lin Yuan frowned, and said angrily, "How dare you say that!" Lin Yuan took out a photo, held it up to Gilles, and said, "Look at this photo, it's a woman, she It was obvious that she had been violated before she died, and I don’t understand what crime this woman committed, and she was insulted before she was executed!” Lin Yuan then sent the photo to everyone behind him, the woman’s naked body It hurt everyone's eyes like steel needles.

Gilles frowned, speechless, Lin Yuan took out a few more photos, and said, "The people in these photos all died on the streets. Does your country have such a law that murders must be killed on the streets? What's the difference between that and a savage?"

Gilles was speechless by Lin Yuan's questioning, and he finally found a breakthrough when he heard this sentence. He sneered and said, "Isn't killing people in your country just on the streets?"

Lin Yuan smiled slightly and said: "That was the law of our country before, but now we have revised this law, don't you know?"

Giles asked, "What? Revised? When did you do it?"

Lin Yuan said: "Our country once carried out an operation to eliminate Japanese spies. After that operation, we canceled the uncivilized corporal punishment, and the punishment for killing people in the street was completely stopped!" Lin Yuan turned his head and looked at the crowd. The reporter said with a smile: "If any of you know China, you should know that everything I said is true."

Shen Wanqing raised her hand among the reporters and said, "That's right, what he said is true!"

When Gilles saw his words were refuted to nothing by Lin Yuan again, he couldn't hold back anymore. He had never met such a difficult opponent as Lin Yuan in all these years of negotiations!Gilles was quick to gain wisdom and said: "First of all, I have to clarify one point, that is: the death of these people was not caused by the government, but the illegal actions of some thugs; secondly, these people are all us Russians, and their affairs are fundamental. It’s not the turn of the Chinese to take care of it!”

Lin Yuan said confidently: "Russians? You say they are Russians? Look at their appearance, do they look a little bit like Russians? They speak Chinese language and have Chinese ethics. How could they change?" To be a Russian!"

Gilles sneered: "They are residents of our country, why aren't we Russians? In terms of appearance and language, you also have ethnic groups with very different looks in China. Aren't they all Chinese?"

Lin Yuan yelled "Not good" in his heart, thinking: "One inattentive left a hole for Gilles!"