Ten Dragons Take the Inheritance

Chapter 437

On November [-]th of the third year of Yuanzhuo, the capital, which had been snowing heavily for days, finally encountered a rare good weather. The snow stopped and the wind calmed down, the clouds dispersed and the sun rose. The warm sun shone on the body, making people want to take a nap under the sun In the previous game, of course, such enjoyment can only be enjoyed by those who are rich and have leisure time. As for the emperor Yin Zuo, no matter how powerful and rich he is, he can’t be lazy at such a time ——It’s not because of the ongoing marathon negotiations in the capital. To be honest, Yinzuo has nothing to worry about about Yunzhi’s cunning, sophistication, and ability to promote. Except for the meeting records, I no longer attend the negotiations; of course, it will not be for the reform of the currency system. With Yun Zhen, the iron-faced king, presiding over the overall situation, and Shi Shilun, Yang Mingshi, and Hongli assisting from the side, the currency system. Yinzuo just took some time every day to ask about the progress. It was the reform of the military system that really involved most of Yinzuo's energy.

That's right, most of the resistance to military system reform has disintegrated, and the gang of the Eight Banners have all been crushed to death. There is no big wave at all. Minister Zhou Yongcheng, Acting Chief of the General Staff Ye Nanhe and others are capable officials, and Yunxiang and Yunyu are two elder brothers in command, but there are still many things to do, and many decisions are made. Yinzuo has to decide by himself—from the determination of military uniforms to the detailed responsibilities and authority of each department, etc., Yinzuo must decide by himself. Of course, this is also a matter of no choice. It is impossible for Yinzuo to let others do it for all the reforms of the military system. Even the opening ceremony of the Beijing Military Academy, which was temporarily borrowed from the former Luding Academy, had to be presided over by Yinzuo himself. How can Yin Zuo be free from government affairs and local government affairs?

The sky is fine, but Yinzuo doesn't have the time to steal a little leisure time, play something like stepping on the snow, and still deal with those papers that can never be finished. There are so many things to worry about, Yinzuo can't help feeling a little impatient, reluctantly After approving a copy, he breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to stretch and relax, he saw Gao Nianying, the eunuch in charge of ceremonies, hurried into the Yanbo Zhishuang Pavilion, and said with a low eyebrow, "Qi Zuo, Your Majesty, Prince Cheng and The second elder brother is here."

"Oh, let's go." Yin Zuo knew that today is still a day for negotiations. Although Hong Kong secretly visited the Dutch ambassador yesterday, the negotiations should not end so quickly at this moment, so he felt a little strange Without thinking too much about it, Gao Nianying was directly asked to declare Yunzhi and promote the audience.

"After all, what's the important thing to see me in such a hurry, and what's the result of the negotiation?" After Yunzhi and Hongyang finished their greetings, Yinzuo asked directly.

Yunzhi glanced at Hongyang, and signaled Hongyang to go forward to make a statement with his eyes, but Hongyang was not polite, he took a step forward, bowed his body and said, "Returning to Emperor Ama, the tripartite agreement has been reached this morning..."

Before Hongyang finished speaking, Yin Zuo immediately interrupted Hongyang's words with a wave of his hand, looked carefully at Yunzhi, then at Hongyang, frowned and said, "Well, what's going on?"

"Reporting to Emperor Ama, I have already reported to you that I went to see the Dutch ambassador Count Van Horn Cage last night. This morning, the Dutch envoys very cooperatively agreed to my proposal. The ambassador of England did not raise any objections, the two sides have exchanged the text of the negotiation, and everything is handled according to Huang Ama's original plan." Hongyang hurriedly explained.

Yinzuo knew the result of Hongyang going to negotiate with the Dutch ambassador. The Dutch were really unwilling to be replaced by England as a "sea coachman". This time, they really planned to cooperate with England to seek benefits from the Qing Dynasty. Only after witnessing the exercises of the First Fleet of the Qing Dynasty, the Dutch ambassador completely changed his mind—the Dutch ambassador, Earl Van Horn Cage, is not as brainless as he appears on the surface, in fact, he is an extremely smooth person , and his acting skills are also amazing. Although he was thinking about how to sell England to the Qing Dynasty, he seemed to be on the side of England on the surface, but in private, he gave all the strength of England's fleet to the Far East to Hongyang. All that was to be exchanged was Qing's guarantee of the interests of the Netherlands in the Far East, and Qing's opening up of the Japanese market.

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. The European market is currently in turmoil and the economy is sluggish. The large influx of England led to limited sales of low-end products of primary industrialization in England, so England set its sights on the Qing Dynasty, the richest country in the world today, and what it implemented was nothing more than a blackmail policy. The total number of ships of the several squadrons is not more than half of that of the First Fleet of the Qing Dynasty, let alone the power and tonnage of the artillery. As for the Dutch fleet, according to Earl Van Horn Cage, it is not under the English fleet. But it is estimated that this is basically nonsense. With the current strength of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it would be good if the fleet that can be sent to the Far East is half of England.

It is said that the combined 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. The current combat capability of the fleet may not be the opponent of the British and Dutch coalition forces, let alone the other three fleets of the Qing Dynasty. One of the three fleets formed an army later, and the training level of the two is far inferior to the third. One fleet, three, and the total tonnage of the other three fleets is actually equivalent to that of the first fleet. The reason why a fleet went to the exercise.

This negotiation is actually a psychological warfare, the game is the heartbeat, as the old saying goes - the hemp stalk beats the wolf with fear at both ends.Early this morning, Daqing, who learned of the other party's hole cards, reversed the posture of Taijiquan some time ago, and came up with the plan that was originally made by Yin Zuo, and regarded it as a backup plan. The Qing's backup plan was to sign, and the stance of going to war if you don't sign, and because the Dutch had already signed a relatively favorable agreement with the Qing in private, they immediately cooperated with the Qing's move and expressed their softness, regardless of the English envoys How to imply that, if you agree to it, you will use the backup plan of the Qing Dynasty as the final signing text.As a result, the English envoys, who were alone and alone, had to bow their heads and admit defeat. After hastily raised doubts about several clauses in the text and were strongly rejected by the Qing side, they could only honestly sign the text. Words, this negotiation task has been completed.

The "Sino-British Treaty of Beijing" and "Sino-Dutch Treaty of Beijing" were two treaties concocted by Yinzuo. Although the names of the two treaties are different, the content of the two treaties is basically the same. The main points are as follows :
Article [-]: China, Britain (Netherlands) each set up an embassy in each other's capital and send ambassadors to each other. The embassy is not governed by the laws of the country where it is located. The ambassador himself enjoys legal immunity. You can ask the other party to change the ambassador. (In other words, if the host country does not like the ambassador, it can ask the other party to replace it, but the power of whether to replace it is in the hands of the sending country. Of course, if the two countries are at odds, expulsion of the ambassador is a matter of course. )
Article [-]: Both China and Britain (Netherlands) share the right to develop the Japanese market. The Qing Dynasty agreed to set aside a certain area in Nagasaki, Japan as the location of the British (Netherlands) commercial firm. The British (Netherlands) merchant ships were the same as the Qing merchant ships. You can dock at any port in Japan, but British (Dutch) warships are not allowed to dock at any port in Japan, otherwise it will be regarded as a declaration of war against the Qing Dynasty.

Article [-]: The Qing Dynasty agreed to increase the import amount by a certain amount. The specific amount was one-half of the total amount exported by the Qing Dynasty to Britain and the Netherlands (calculated in silver). The specific types of imported commodities were proposed by Britain and the Netherlands, and Depends on the import quota approved by Qing Customs.

Article [-]: According to the usual practice, the Qing merchant fleet can still go to Southeast Asia and India to engage in trade, but the Qing fleet is not allowed to accompany it, and the safety of the sea area where it is located is protected by the British and Dutch; no matter what the reason, the British and Dutch Merchant ships and warships of the two countries shall not enter China's territorial waters, nor shall they seek to stop at Chinese ports.

These two treaties are both unequal treaties. Of course, neither party who signed the contract suffered a loss. The only one who suffered a big loss was Japan, which did not sign the treaty. This inequality is only for Japan.These two treaties were concocted by Yinzuo himself, so Yinzuo didn't have to look at them at all. He picked up the vermilion pen on the dragon table, swiped the pen, and signed it, which was considered approved.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Russian ambassador has asked to see His Majesty dozens of times, but because the negotiations with Britain and the Netherlands have not been completed, I have always ignored them according to His Majesty's will. Now the matter of England and Holland has come to an end. Does the Holy Majesty want to announce their audience?" Seeing that Yinzuo signed the two treaties, Yunzhi asked in a hurry.

Uh-huh, the third child, the negotiations have become addictive, and the English and Dutch have just been sent away, and the other is thinking about cleaning up the old man again.Yin Zuo raised his eyes and looked at Yun Zhi, secretly amused in his heart, but said calmly on his face: "I don't have time to see them, third brother might as well meet them first to see what they want, well, if Jin likes If you plan to offer bribes, third brother just go ahead, the old man’s money is worthless, and I don’t need you to hand it in, as much as you get, it’s third brother’s."

Jin likes to stay in Beijing for a long time, and what he likes the most is to go around and make money to open the way. When the third child was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, he did not take less money and things that Jin liked. At this time, Yinzuo let him go to blackmail , suddenly became happy, but the third child can be regarded as a man of the city, so he just agreed with a smile and didn't say anything more.

"Third brother, although the contract has been signed, but there are still a lot of hands left, third brother will work hard and go to the Ministry of Rites to sit in charge and make arrangements." Yinzuo said lightly.Yunzhi is a sensible person, seeing that Yinzuo issued an order to drive away guests, he didn't dare to stay any longer, so he knelt down and kowtowed, resigned, and went to the Ministry of Rites to get busy.

After Yunzhi left, Yinzuo looked at the two treaties, looked at Hongyang and said, "Yanger, tell me your opinion on this negotiation, I really want to know what you learned from it? "

"Yes, Huang Ama." Hongyang bowed his body, sorted out his thoughts, and said slowly: "Huang Ama, my son thinks that these treaties and other texts are not binding at all, and do not have strong strength. As a guarantee, all the treaties are nothing more than empty letters. Even if these two treaties have been signed, Japan will still be in chaos. Sooner or later, the UK and the Netherlands will also call."

"Very well, it's not easy for you to realize this. In this world, there is no such thing as tolerance and kindness. There is only a difference in strength. Take a good look at the fate of Dongpu. A country without strength is connected to the front line. I don't even have the right to speak, I hope you don't know it with your mouth, but with your heart." Yin Zuo nodded with satisfaction and said: "You don't have to interfere with foreign affairs, go to the Ministry of Households and see your fourth uncle There is something that needs your help, go ahead, I am tired, you can kneel down and rest."

Hongyang couldn't help being stunned for a moment after listening to Yinzuo's words - the household department is now in charge of Yun Zhen, and the big brother Hongli is there, but Yinzuo asked himself to go to the household department. Do you want the two brothers to compete for a while?Hongyang was full of doubts in his heart, but he didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he knelt down and kowtowed, agreed, and left Yanbo Zhishuang Pavilion with his head bowed.

Fang Bao, who was always sitting in a corner of the room and buried his head in reading the scriptures, saw that Hongyang retreated, raised his head, looked at Yinzuo, and said in a low voice: "My lord, is this too early?"

morning?Well, it seems a little bit, but better sooner than later, right?Yinzuo shook his head with a smile and said, "Let's have a look, I just want to take a look, and have no other meaning."

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Promise to everyone that the third update has finally come out. I'm tired. I finished seven chapters in two days, with a total of [-] words. Huh, Xiaoliu is exhausted. Brothers, give some monthly tickets to encourage it?
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