Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 1239 Negotiation is an Art

"Your Majesty!" Seeing the Emperor walking out, everyone saluted him immediately.

"Jieshi." Guan Xuqing called to stop the one who was walking outside.

"Your Majesty, what are your orders?" He replied respectfully.

"We are waiting for news here tonight, you ask someone to make arrangements." Guan Xuqing said flatly.

"Yes!" He replied immediately, "I will prepare right away."

"No need." Guan Xuqing waved his hand slightly, "It's a trivial matter, let other people arrange it. You accompany Ziyu and the others to go in and listen to the French's proposal."

After a pause, Guan Xuqing suddenly said loudly: "I hereby appoint you as China's deputy negotiator, and cooperate with Ziyu to negotiate with the French."

"Yes!" Immediately stood at attention, gave a military salute, his face was full of excitement.

After entering the venue, the entire peace talks officially started.

The two sides first introduced each other briefly, and then started the formal talks.

"Your Excellency General!" As soon as everyone sat down, General Henchig said: "I think the conditions you put forward are 'cruel and merciless', much worse than what France imposed on you in the Opium War. You know, we can't do these things completely, we have to think about it."

"Yes, of course." The person sitting on the side said, "But I think this is just a preliminary template. We still need to discuss and report all the situation to you at the end. I don't know if you agree or not. ?”

"Please allow me to explain first." After everyone sat down, Henchig said: "In the past few minutes, we have had a preliminary look at the agreement. I think we can negotiate most of the treaties in this agreement. , but there are a few points that we cannot agree to.” Having said that, he stretched out a hand: “First of all, regarding the army. These agreements stipulate that we in France cannot have an army of more than 5 people, nor can we have a gendarmerie. The number of troops and police cannot exceed [-], which is a bit too harsh."

Henchig pointed to the content above, and whispered to Wu Peifu and the Chinese representative opposite him: "10 people, including the police and other armed forces, cannot maintain the peace of the whole of France. The plans are not that harsh.”

Henchger paused for a moment, and continued to speak: "I believe everyone here knows that France has entered a state of anarchism. If we cannot control the whole situation as soon as possible, then the situation will be very complicated, and the red communism will be destroyed." We will take the opportunity to seize our power, and we believe that this is what your country does not want to see. In order to prevent the country from falling into the vortex of red communism, we must have a strong army."

"You're right." Before Henchig could finish speaking, Wu Peifu interrupted the other party, "But I think it's still necessary for you to give an exact number, how many troops you plan to keep, only the specific number can be provided. Come out, so we can continue to negotiate!" Wu Peifu said with a smile, as if sitting in front of him was not a defeated general, but an opponent who was negotiating with him on an equal footing.

"This" Henchig began talking privately with his representatives.Then he raised his head slowly: "Your Excellency, distinguished Chinese representatives, after the discussion just now, we agreed that the total number of French infantry should be kept at least 12, and in addition, 8 policemen and 2 soldiers are needed." There are 22 gendarmes in total.”

"Totally agree." Before Wu Peifu opened his mouth, he took the lead in saying: "France has so many armies. It is not too much. As a victor of the war, it cannot make things worse. This is not in line with our spirit of peace."

Unexpectedly, his following words were shocking: "However, I think 22 people are still too few."

"Ah?" Everyone present was dumbfounded. Both the Chinese and the French were confused by this guy. No one knew what this guy was thinking.

He continued: "I think that 20 people are too few for France to manage so many colonies and overseas territories. Therefore, I personally suggest that the number of the French Army should be around 18, and the number of police and gendarmerie should be around 12. However, only 5 French Army and 10 French Gendarmerie can be stationed in mainland France, and the rest of the troops are all stationed in French overseas territories. In addition," at this point, he stretched out his hand and stopped Wu Peifu, who was about to speak, "we Corresponding conditions also need to be put forward, and a group of French volunteers are required to join the army of our empire. Of course, we will not count these French who join us in the total number of the French army, but count them separately , their treatment is the same as that of infantry in our Dragon Army. I don’t know if you agree or not?”

Hearing this new proposal, Henchig immediately began to whisper to his companion again.After another round of discussions, they finally reached an agreement: "General, I agree with you, but this must be submitted to the French Prime Minister and President for a final decision."

"Of course!" Wei Wei nodded, "I respect your decision, this matter should indeed follow the procedure." He flipped through the notebook on the table, and said lightly: "Then let's move on to the next topic, shall we?" ?”

Soon they started with the question of the size of the non-occupied zone.China left France with only 40 percent of its territory in the south and southeast.This region is the poorest and most barren of the French.And China occupies the entire Atlantic coast, because China needs the ports there to block the British. In addition, several French piers in the Mediterranean will also be leased to China and jointly managed by both parties.In addition, Paris will also be taken over by China.

But Henchig was quick to raise the issue, and they asked for an extension of the Deoccupied Zone to include Paris.But China won't budge.Finally, he said: "We can consider expanding the issue of the non-occupied area. We can also discuss the issue of Paris." At this point, he glanced at the crowd and said slowly: "As for the non-occupied area, we can Let go of Bordeaux and several other places that are not close to the Atlantic Ocean. In addition, 60% of the tax revenue in the occupied area belongs to you, France. As for Paris, this is an order of the emperor, and we have no right to modify it, but as long as you want, You can also move your office to Paris." Spreading his hands, he said with a smile: "But you want to cede France's land in the Balkans, including northern Turkey and eastern Greece, which must be assigned to China."

"Yes." Henchig directly agreed to the other party's request.

Then we discussed the issue of Chinese refugees.China demands that France release all Chinese refugees in France, including those who were arrested and imprisoned by France.However, this request was opposed by France as they considered it unseemly.Finally, he spoke again. The plan he proposed was very simple, which was to exchange the captured Chinese for the release of French prisoners of war, and the two sides exchanged at a ratio of 1:1.In addition to ethnic Chinese, it also includes political prisoners imprisoned, wanted criminals and traitors wanted by China.

After the three topics were discussed, the two sides accelerated their pace.Soon, they talked about the cost of the occupation fee and the issue of China's garrison. China will station 40 to 80 people in France.After defeating the British, the number decreased year by year.The number of troops stationed in Paris does not exceed 5, and France provides all the expenses of the occupying army.

Just after the two sides had reached the dawn of the talks, he said: "Next, let's talk about the most important thing, the French navy." After finishing speaking, he glanced at everyone present with sharp eyes.

Everyone present was sitting in danger.Because whether it is for the French or the Chinese, the powerful French fleet has always been their most concerned object.

After the end of World War II, due to the decline of the German Navy and the political instability in France, France did not start building new warships. In 1919, Germany's new 3-ton large ship "Deutschland" class pocket battleship began to be built, and Italy also began to build their battleships, and France immediately planned its own new navy.To this end, he spent three years carrying out fruitful reforms.The construction of the new battlecruiser "Dunkirk" class and the world's latest and most powerful dreadnought "Richelieu" class at the time of the war started successively. The "Algeria" class heavy cruiser served as the main force of the French Navy's cruiser fleet.As of September 1919, the French navy ranked fourth in the world in terms of strength, and it was one of the most modern navies in the world.

As of the surrender of France, the French Navy had a total of eight battleships: "Guba" class dreadnoughts ("Guba", "Ocean", "Paris") and "Provence" class super dreadnoughts ("Provence", "Brita") "Richelieu", "Lorraine") "Richelieu" class fast battleships ("Richelieu", "Jean Barr") of which "Jean Barr" is under construction and 80% of the work has been completed.

“敦刻尔克”级战列巡洋舰（“敦刻尔克”、“特拉斯堡”）“贝亚恩”航空母舰1艘、正在建造“霞飞”级航空母舰2艘。絮弗伦级重巡洋舰2艘：絮弗伦、科尔贝尔。福煦级重巡洋舰2艘：福煦、迪普莱克斯。“贞德”号训练巡洋舰1艘。

In addition, there are 18 light cruisers and 50 destroyers of various types. Among them, the tonnage and power of the "Utopia" class super destroyers are almost equivalent to those of light cruisers, which can compete with China's Tianzi class destroyers. There are 101 submarines of various types. With a large number of auxiliary ships and gunboats, etc., the entire French fleet is far stronger than imagined in terms of tonnage and combat effectiveness.

(End of this chapter)