The London Peace Association is simply a big market, and the interests of various countries are trading here. But in fact, this is a normal phenomenon in the international community. It would be strange if it doesn't do this.

After helping the American Empire, the two sides started negotiations on the Panama Canal. Finally, the British obtained 45% of the equity shares in the entire canal at the cost of building a ship lock in the direction of the Caribbean Sea!

This transaction looks really clean... Well, all the diplomatic ambassadors from other European countries understand in their hearts that the British are rebelling!

But this agreement is still preliminary now, but a 45% data was settled immediately. Isn’t it a bit too fast?

You know, there is still no Atlantic cable at this time, so it is very slow to deliver messages. Such a major decision was obviously not approved by the American Empire Emperor Clint Lee. So, is this done real?

Whether it is true or not, Mr. Liszt, the ambassador of the American Empire, patted his chest. He promised everyone that this matter would be feasible, and also assured God that there was also the signature of the empire's father-in-law Huang Sanye.

Then it seems...

That's right, in fact, Li Mengyang has already set a tone for this matter since the beginning, with the upper limit being 49%, which means that as long as it does not exceed 49%, the rest will be played by you, Liszt.

In other words, there will be Liszt's rights here, so he naturally has to be fooled!

In fact, it is impossible for the entire Panama Canal to belong to you. Li Mengyang is quite clear about this. You should know that the current governor of Panama is Matthew McConaughey. This old boy is good to him. Then you, Li Mengyang, can't treat others badly, right?

So, Li Mengyang's design is like this: the Empire takes 46 and Matthew takes 5%. As for the rest, it depends on Liszt's level of deception. Of course, it is impossible for Liszt to give all of the 5% now.

This is the only way to do it for the time being, and the transaction is completed, and next, that will be another highlight, the French Empire vs. the Qing Dynasty!

In fact, the reason why the Qing Dynasty sent Li Hongzhang to London to attend this meeting was for this matter.

Last year, it should be said that on the eve of the Pakatan-Austria War, a French colony came to a large number of soldiers and warships in Vietnam, and they brought a lot of soldiers and warships. They were very direct. They made territorial requests to the Vietnamese vassal king, and the reason was very simple, that is, you Vietnamese persecuted Catholics again!

To be honest, the previous war between Vietnam and France was really because Vietnam persecuted Catholics. Napoleon III was particularly weird. He would fight anyone who couldn't get along with Catholics. In fact, Napoleon III wanted to coax the pope to comfort him. During his rule, every war in France was actually due to this religious reason.

But this time, the vassal king in Vietnam was so unfair, it was really unfair!

After Nguyen Phuc suffered a loss last time, he was really very good to Catholics. He was almost licked. This is the real thing. The current Catholic Church in Vietnam is prosperous.

But you have to know that this is a religion. There are also religions in Vietnam. If there is no friction between local religions and foreign religions, wouldn’t that be nonsense?

Therefore, it was too easy for the French army to find this excuse!

Naturally, the new French official was General Bazan. His current new position was commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Force of the French Empire. The whole plan was done by Bazan. You really want to say that, victory was continuous.

Then Ruan Phuc was unable to defeat him, so he had no other choice but to ask the Qing Dynasty. This was normal. Originally, this small country in Asia had been like this before.

The vassal kings are here, please, what should I do if the Qing Dynasty?

It’s simple, there are only two options, whether to send troops or not!

From a broad perspective, from the perspective of the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Empire, the Qing Dynasty had no choice but to send troops!

but!

How could he not know that the person who truly governed the Qing Dynasty and who really acted as a driver for this corrupt empire?

Then who was the driver on the old chariot of the Qing Empire?

"You must never send troops!" Prince Gong Yi said righteously at that time!

Although Prince Gong is not very old now, he is definitely an old driver...

What is the current state of the Qing Dynasty? As long as you are a ruling person, even a idiot, you can understand that the Qing Dynasty is really unable to fight, especially when fighting with European powers like France, the Qing Dynasty really needs to lick its own wounds, regain its energy, and develop itself.

However, there is a very interesting opportunity here, that is, Prince Gong said he could not fight, so is Prince Gong too cowardly?

Of course, no one dares to scold this, but don’t forget that some people must come out and shout.

Who is it?

Clean flow!

When Li Mengyang got these information from the Qing Dynasty, for example, Qingliu began to speak out, he immediately realized that this matter was interesting!

Why is it interesting as soon as the clear stream comes out?

Because, Qingliu, if you know what Qingliu is, it will definitely be the same as Li Mengyang's judgment.

When many people hear the word Qingliu, the first thing they think of is that these two words are good, they should be good people!

Li Mengyang knew very well that he would not knock a boat of people over with one stroke. There were indeed good people in Qingliu, but this good person, hehehe... The biggest part of the so-called Qingliu is the censor!

Censors, you hear his name, their official is speaking, and in fact, this is the case. If these people do not participate in administration, these people will do one thing. They are speaking, but in fact...

Swear! Swear whoever you get!

In the Qing Dynasty, an old driver spoke out. We cannot send troops, we cannot fight with the French. And the reasons are actually very sufficient. The current country needs cultivation. Vietnam, a foreign country, has territorial contact with us, but it is so far away. What do we care about them?

Vietnam was not a province of the Qing Dynasty at that time. Is this war as for?

But in the eyes of the censors, this is not right. Our Celestial Kingdom is the great Qing Dynasty, and it is powerful all over the world. Vietnam also pays tribute to us and is our vassal. How can we ignore it?

So, Prince Gong is just a coward!

Just a coward!

It's just a traitor!

Well, in fact, those memorials and other memorials are still very tactful. As for censors, their language skills are very high and they are very good at turning around and cursing people in different ways.

In fact, censors, this is their job. They do this, just criticize! This is one of the most interesting things about this official position. In the Qing Dynasty, they could even say it casually and criticize it casually. This is also a name called "Wind and Hearing the Words". To put it bluntly. The legislation of the Qing Dynasty gave them such casual talk, which did not require any factual basis at all. They could get a salary by just opening their mouths!

As for this official position, in Li Mengyang's view, because there are too many records in our country's history, Li Mengyang felt that these censors and the entire system of censors can be regarded as democratic supervision under the feudal imperial power!

Although it's just talking nonsense... well, basically 90% of the 91% of the 100% of the 100s are talking nonsense, but this is really a progress in the direction of democracy, but it seems like it's going wrong.

In other words, it is these people, censors who are all swearing around, and it is already very common in the court. People with political experience generally think that this is nothing.

However, someone can see that there is a chance here!

Who is it?

Cixi!

What opportunity is this?

The opportunity to defeat Prince Gong!

Now that foreign enemies are coming to bully our Qing vassals, should we, the masters, come forward?

If we don’t come forward, will the various vassal states around our Celestial Empire come to pay tribute?

This is a vassal relationship established by our ancestors! If we don’t come forward, where will the ancestors be?

Basically, that's what it means. Of course, it can't be the original words, but Cixi's slap in Prince Gong was really amazing.

Because everything Cixi did now was right!

Nothing wrong at all! It's all right!

You see, she is also for the Qing Dynasty? She is still for the ancestors? And her words are not interfering in politics, she said it according to the words of those clear streams!

Just look at it this way, from the Confucian ideas of governing the country, from the political system of the Qing Dynasty, from all aspects, you can find it casually. Cixi's approach and other statements, but there is nothing wrong with it!

But everyone knows that this old lady just wants to defeat Prince Gong!

From the perspective of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Gong, an old driver, was still good in such a difficult environment. In other words, Cixi's purpose was very bad at this time.

But her methods are completely correct, and there are some problems, so what do you think?

Prince Gong had no choice. He knew that if he really wanted to be good for the Qing Dynasty, he could not defeat him, so he sent Li Hongzhang!

Li Hongzhang came with such a major task.

Simply put, this task is to negotiate and prevent the Qing Dynasty from fighting this battle with France!

To be clear, it is necessary to force the French into the warehouse!

But this task... Li Hongzhang himself was so worried. The previous verbal battle between him and Master Huang San actually had a certain purpose of venting.

How to talk about it?

The so-called international politics is actually an exchange of interests. How could Li Hongzhang not know that there was no interest in the Qing Dynasty that they had at all?

Of course he knows!

But then we have to talk about it. Since that's the case, the first step in negotiations must know the French price, right?

What are the prices of the French? What do they want?

"Taiwan!" This is the price that Leonard, the French Foreign Minister, said very clearly at the London Peace Conference! (To be continued)

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