Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 1238 Heroes Create the Times

After a pause, Guan Xuqing continued: "As for Germany, I think it's better to reconsider the current issue. You should start from the overall situation and don't think about those unrealistic things."

Hearing that the other party was magnanimous to seek peace from France, everyone present was shocked.Then Guan Xuqing continued to speak: "I think we should make some reservations about whether it is advisable to destroy the British Empire. I personally think that even today, preserving Britain's interests in the world is in line with our requirements. This is still important for maintaining the balance of power in the world. It’s an important factor.” At this point, he turned around and said to the Foreign Minister Wu Tingfang who just came in: “I firmly support your suggestion of negotiating peace with France on lenient terms, and I don’t need to suppress France too much. Because they It is not in our interest. However, certain claims must be fought for. Because we are the victorious nation, and we have made great efforts to obtain them. If you don't get something back, then you are really sorry to the people of the empire. You Go there first, ask the French what they want, and then bring over the French terms. Then come up with our plan." He waved his hand and said lightly: "Okay, you can go to your business."

The next thing was much easier to handle. Although William II repeatedly raised objections, Guan Xuqing remained unmoved.Because now, Guan Xuqing knows that he is a gambler who has won a lot of money, and this kind of adventure is not worth taking again and again.

William II wrote in his diary. "Today, he (Guan Xuqing) spoke with reservations, and when he met with us, he was very alert. After such a big victory, it is surprising that he said that. People can't accuse me of He's too gentle, but I do admire him, really admire him."

After six hours of negotiations, Guan Xuqing and William II finally reached a verbal agreement.

China will negotiate with France first.The negotiation stipulates that France will not be divided, and France will not be asked for too many overseas colonies and land.In addition to obtaining the right to build overseas military bases in France, China only obtained priority land use rights for a part of the Flanders Plain.Peace talks between Germany and France will follow later.

Guan Xuqing especially warned William II that the peace treaty should not be too harsh, especially not to make too many demands on the French mainland and the Mediterranean colonies.In addition, the territory acquired by Germany in mainland France should be based on the actual demarcation line of Germany before the armistice.

To commemorate this great day, Guan Xuqing and William II also held a special ceremony.The two parties jointly signed the postcard and affixed the local postmark and time as a souvenir of the meeting.

Interestingly, on a postcard of the scenery of southern France, William II wrote a delicate inscription on a postcard of the Alps: "The times make heroes!" Guan Xuqing wrote in a vigorous style: " Heroes make the times!"

Paris France.

"Is it here?" Pointing to a red brick building next to the Retonde station in the Compiègne Forest in the north of Paris, France, he asked in a low voice the French Paris Gendarmerie Commander Danz next to him as a guide.

"Yes!" Danz lowered his head and nodded slightly, obviously extremely reluctant to this matter.

"Then let's start!" Zhang Xuesi who was standing beside him nodded slightly.

"Okay!" Zhang Xuesi immediately rubbed his hands together, and then waved his hand, "Soldiers, break down the wall for me!"

The assault engineers of the Dragon Army took out their shovels and pickaxes one after another.Soon the red wall came crashing down.

A gray train appeared in front of everyone, and on the body of the carriage there was a huge eagle on a laurel wreath, which was the symbol of Napoleon I.

"Is this the place where the Chinese signed the Supplementary Clauses of the Tianjin Treaty?" He waved his horsewhip and pointed to the train carriages that had become somewhat dilapidated due to time and poor maintenance. At this time, he seemed very arrogant.

"Yes. It is here that we signed a peace agreement with the Chinese representative." Danz carefully explained.

"That's right." Wei Wei nodded, and said to Zhang Xuesi: "Drag him out, have him overhauled, and then drag him to the original place."

"Understood!" Zhang Xuesi nodded, "Then what about this house?" He pointed to the house without a wall in front of everyone.

"It exploded!" He said lightly, with no expression on his face.

On June 6, the peace talks venue in the Compiègne Forest had begun to take shape.After Guan Xuqing flew to Paris, he ordered the place for Sino-French negotiations to be in the carriage where China and France signed the armistice agreement during the Opium War.

The boulevard leading to the "ceasefire site" has also been partially repaired, the cement road has been repaired, and the French Victory Monument near the roadside has also been covered with a five-clawed golden dragon flag.Next to the forest, a company of guards of honor and a military band were specially arranged, and a clerical office, telephone switchboard defense and wireless sending station were set up in tents in the surrounding forest.

At noon that day, Guan Xuqing and his accompanying officials drove to Compiègne.At 1 p.m., the long convoy arrived at its destination.At this time, Guan Xuqing had a serious face and solemn actions. He walked briskly towards the dining car step by step.He stopped in front of a granite stone, looked at the words on the tablet and read aloud: "On January 1960, 1, the ancient autocratic oriental country was destroyed by French iron cannons, and its sinful pride succumbed here. "

At this time, he stood quietly beside the emperor.Quietly watching the emperor's expression.The face was very familiar.During many important moments such as the Imperial Parade, such a solemn expression appeared on his face.But today his face has a little more meaning, showing contempt, generosity, hatred, revenge and triumph.

Just when he was dazed, the emperor began to mutter words: "We will definitely destroy everything that can remind people of that shameful day in 1960. We must destroy everything!"

After speaking, he suddenly called out!
"Here!" Startled, he quickly walked to the side of the emperor, bowed and asked, "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"

"Blow this up for me!" Guan Xuqing said, pointing to the inscription.After a few seconds, he continued, "I will set up another monument next to this monument. It says: On June 1926, 6, the Chinese Empire rose again here. Will France surrender completely!" Not yet Agreeing, Guan Xuqing waved his hand immediately, "Forget it, don't write about that, just write about the surrender of the French army to the Long army, 24."

Then, near the venue, Guan Xuqing held a simple military parade.A company of soldiers was inspected by the emperor.This unit comes from the [-]st Battalion and [-]st Company of the Grenadier Regiment of the Panzergrenadier Division.When the emperor passed by, the soldiers present lined up to salute their supreme commander with guns, and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" Guan Xuqing waved back the salute.Although the whole scene is small, it is quite spectacular.

After the inspection was over, Guan Xuqing and his men rushed into the train that had already been prepared.In that dilapidated dining car, a long table had already been set up, with five or six chairs on each side for the delegations of both sides to sit on.Feng Xianghua, Guan Xuqing's right-hand man, stood at the head so as to hear the conversation between the two sides.After Guan Xuqing took his seat beside his interpreter, Liang Qichao, Zaifeng, Wu Tingfang, Gu Weijun, Xu Shichang and Zhang Zuolin took their seats respectively, and then sat down as well.

Around 2:[-], the French delegation showed up.The head of the delegation was General Henchger from the military, and the members included General Parisot from the Army, General Bergeret from the Air Force, Vice Admiral Le Luc and Ambassador Knoll.

Soon, the French delegation got off the car at the entrance of the boulevard. They passed the covered Victory Monument and the guard of honor, and slowly got on the carriage.When the delegation came in, they still wore the look of surprise on their faces when they heard where the negotiations would be held.However, Guan Xuqing didn't show any expression, he stood up from his seat silently.The French stopped in panic.They did not expect to meet all the key members of China and the military.Guan Xuqing stretched out his hands, made a posture of pressing down, and asked them to sit down with a short gesture.

The French representatives sat down after bowing to the Chinese emperor.After a while between the two sides, Feng Xianghua first read the preface of the armistice agreement.He stood up slowly, and began to read the preamble of the agreement in a leisurely manner.

While Feng Xianghua was spitting and reading out the compliments to the emperor, he was in a daze.in his eyes.The French and Chinese on both sides looked at each other blankly, like wax figures.

At this time, Feng Xianghua had almost finished his nonsense, and he began to quote the emperor's words: "China has no intention of slandering such a heroic enemy on peaceful terms. The purpose of China's request is to prevent the recurrence of hostilities. to enable China to continue her compelled war with the British, and to create the conditions for a new peace in which the injustice imposed upon the Chinese Empire by the Western powers is corrected"

Feng Xianghua finally finished reading, and then he slowly took off his glasses, closed the Chinese and French texts of the ceasefire agreement he had just read, and handed it to General Henchger, the head of the French delegation, which also marked that it had been A map of France showing the boundaries between occupied and non-occupied French regions, and the specific amount of the occupation fee.

The formal submission of ceasefire conditions ends here.

Guan Xuqing stood up abruptly, followed by Feng Xianghua, Liang Qichao, Zaifeng, Wu Tingfang, Gu Weijun, Xu Shichang and Zhang Zuolin stood up one by one.Seeing this, he also stood up.Feng Xianghua gave a standard military salute to the emperor, and the others immediately saluted the emperor as well.Guan Xuqing walked outside the venue.Compared with when he came in, his footsteps are a little more brisk, and it can be seen that he is very excited now.Then various military and political officials followed the emperor and filed out one by one.The empty carriage contained only the French delegation.When Guan Xuqing walked out of the carriage, Wu Peifu, Minister of Army Equipment Department, and several other generals were standing at the door. They were the Chinese delegation, waiting for the signing of the treaty.

(End of this chapter)