Zhu Jinlei opened his hands, blocking Hu Linyi like a door god, but touching Hu Linyi's most sensitive nerve.

He was ruthless and hit him directly, saying, "I am also the Prime Minister of the Cabinet. Those who respect me call me Hu Xiang, and those who disrespect me call me Hu Runzhi, who are you, who dare to isolate the relationship between our monarch and minister!"

Since he entered Beijing, Liu Chang has granted him the right to meet at any time, but Hu Linyi has always regarded himself as a national scholar, but he has never used this right: "Your Majesty promises me to meet at any time, and you will see you at any time when you are blowing wind and rain. Do you dare to stop me?"

Hu Linyi and his two followers almost hit Zhu Jinlei, the door god. Zhu Jinlei had no choice but to retreat to the right, but was unwilling to give up his duties. He grabbed Hu Linyi's hand and said, "Xiang Hu, it's really inconvenient for His Majesty. He is now receiving foreign envoys."

Hu Linyi remembered the high courtyard gate of the Gongyuan again. He wanted to get rid of Zhu Jinlei's hand, but he couldn't get it away. Zhu Jinlei had already begged for mercy and said, "Your Majesty is indeed not convenient. Otherwise, I will send someone in to ask what Your Majesty means."

Hu Linyi weighed it and it would be fine if he wanted to continue to break through. However, he also knew that although Liu Chang was absurd and lustful, he never acted in a military-powered area like the small barracks. He asked skeptically: "Is it really inconvenient? Which envoy was the one who was receiving?"

He knew that Liu Chang never considered the opinions of the cabinet in military, political and diplomatic affairs, and ordered the cabinet to implement them after making decisions. Therefore, he often had no chance of meeting foreign envoys, and only after Liu Chang finalized it would notify him.

Zhu Jinlei's mouth was very tight: "Let's see what Your Majesty means."

He told a staff officer to go to Liu Chang for a quick look: "I just said that Hu Xiang asked for a meeting and asked if it is convenient for His Majesty now?"

About half a quarter of an hour later, the staff officer came back under the leadership of a man's beauty. The female officer in the khaki military dress stretched out her hand: "Prime Minister Hu? Please follow me. Your Majesty has already approved you to listen together and discuss matters with you in the Prime Minister later. Follow me."

Hu Linyi was proud of himself and immediately followed the female officer in, crossing one after another, and was also a little curious about the female officer.

He knew that Liu Chang's harem was quite large. Although he didn't know the specific number, it was said that there were at least dozens of numbers inside and outside Hangzhou. At least when the pseudo-Heaven King Hong Xiu all abandoned Jinling and left, the concubines left and the good daughters in Jinling City at that time all returned to Liu Chang. Among them were jade, noble ladies from the family, husband and wife, and a new widowed Wenjun.

However, Liu Chang's harem was not a decoration. Many of them were ladies from a high school and beautiful girls. They were the good daughters of real officials, so they also received the position of a female official appointed by Liu Chang to handle government affairs for him. Like Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei were very favored, but few of them were wearing military uniforms.

Although the female officer in front of him was young, she was wearing a Western general uniform, with a heroic ornament on her chest. She wore an armed belt, a silver sword on her waist, and a horse whip in her hand. She was so handsome that she didn't know who it was, so Hu Linyi asked casually: "I don't know which palace the girl is from?"

"Prime Minister Hu, please respect yourself." The officer in front of him had some frost on his face: "I am not from any palace, I am Zhou Xiuying."

When Hu Linyi heard this, he repeatedly blamed himself: "It turned out to be Zhou Xiuying, Commander Zhou, who offended him."

He had met several commanders of the Hong Army once, but only Zhou Xiuying, who commanded tens of thousands of elite cavalry in the entire Hong Army, had never met, so he apologized repeatedly: "I really didn't expect that it was the world-famous Dadao Xiu girl, Commander Zhou. Hu Linyi said the wrong thing just now, please forgive me."

Zhou Xiuying felt embarrassed to apologize to him, "Prime Minister Hu is polite."

Hu Linyi whispered and tentatively: "Which country is you receiving the envoys of this country? You are so solemn."

"It's the Spanish envoy." Zhou Xiuying took a step in a spirit: "I'm very ignorant of the current affairs."

As soon as the evaluation of "I don't know the current affairs" was released, Hu Linyi knew it in his heart.

The two of them crossed a guard post, and then four female inner guards and six male guards checked that they did not carry weapons or other prohibited items on their bodies, and then they officially entered the lobby where Liu Chang usually handled official duties. As soon as Hu Linyi showed up, Liu Chang waved to him and signaled to sit beside him.

Hu Linyi looked up and saw that the negotiations could be said to be a gathering of elites. Liu Chang was sitting in the main seat, with many senior officers and government officials from the Hong Army next to him, among which Yung Wing, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Rites of the Cabinet, was also among them. He was a little embarrassed when he saw Hu Linyi.

Hu Linyi naturally had many dissatisfactions in his heart when he put aside his prime minister, and even came to negotiate with the Spanish without even knowing it, but he was soon attracted by the content of the conversation between the two sides.

The envoy sent by Spain was not a professional diplomat, but a missionary. He held the Bible in his hand and had a cross on his chest. He was tall and thin, had high cheekbones, and his eyes were full of preachers and some fanaticism. He spoke up and punished him, and refused to make substantial concessions.

"You have violated God's realm. The Philippines is the sacred territory of the Kingdom of Spain. This land was given to Spain by God through the Pope. It was established after three hundred years of development, management and blood and sweat. If you refuse to withdraw from the Philippines, you will be punished by God."

Hu Linyi carefully sat down beside Liu Chang, and then heard Yung Wing argue, he pointed out that the Hong Army's actions were purely self-defense counterattacks, and that Spain and the Philippines intervened in the Chinese civil war and supported the rebellious Guangdong government, so the Hong Army had to send troops to punish them.

But the missionary was indeed not a qualified diplomat. He roared, "You know what you did? You are committing unprecedented actions in human history. You confiscated the property and land of the church, distributed them to a group of barbarians, drove the shepherds out of their pastures, and even handed the gentle believers to a group of heretics. You are waiting for God's judgment!"

Liu Chang interrupted Yung Wing's action of getting up and speaking. He held the teacup and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Missionary, I don't believe in God, so God's judgment has no meaning to us. We should not waste our time. I can make our greatest concessions."

"We can divide the Philippines with the Kingdom of Spain, and the Spaniards can return to Manila and Luzon, throughout the Philippines. We have equal authority to make a series of reforms made by Lin Mengchu in the northern Philippines, such as the redistribution of church land and the expulsion of Spanish missionaries. We can give appropriate compensation, and the property of the church and the Spanish can be redeemed from the treasury of the new Philippines, and the Spanish missionaries and the governor can also come back."

"But in return, Spain must acknowledge the reality and promise to keep the status quo of Luzon, for example, the church land and property that has actually been allocated. This is the biggest concession I can make."

"If you want, we can now lay the friendship between the Chinese people and the Spanish people."

Hu Linyi couldn't help but secretly applaud Liu Chang's speech. He had to admit that Li Hongzhang said something. This Liu Juehuo did not have the status he is today because of a little luck. At least at his age, he could not organize such a wonderful speech.

Moreover, the conditions he proposed were very reasonable. Although the Philippine colony was not within the jurisdiction of the cabinet, it was the territory of the Philippine Governor Lin Mengchu. The cabinet did not have the authority or ability to manage such a distant colony and could only provide assistance to the best of his ability, he was still very familiar with the actual situation in the Philippines.

The Spanish envoy, or the missionary, was furious at the concessions made by Liu Chang: "You have violated the Philippine colonies and taken away our parishes, property and colonies. Remember, it was only after hundreds of years that we Jesus could return to the Philippines, but you invaders, pagans, and heretics tried to take away everything we had."

"The Philippines is the Philippines of Spain." The missionary clenched his fists, and he stared at Liu Chang and these pagans fiercely: "I now solemnly announce that the request of the Kingdom of Spain is very simple, immediately withdraw from the entire Philippines and compensate for all losses caused by this war, otherwise you will know what God's judgment is! Pagans!"

Liu Chang was also furious: "Is this what His Majesty Isabella mean?"

As another queen in Spanish history, Isabella II was a tragic king. She ascended the throne at the age of three, but the war around the throne went on twice, lasting until 1849. Before she officially took over the power of the kingdom, she found that the mother of the regent and the outstanding general had successively withdrawn from the center of power due to different ideas of reform. After taking over the power, she faced an unprecedentedly complex situation, facing the entire split Spain and an extremely declining empire.

Isabella didn't even have a happy family. The whole Spain was full of legends about her debauchery and despicableness. She could only devote herself to the dream of rebuilding the Spanish Empire. In 1860, she finally won an undeserved victory and successfully conquered Morocco. However, in 1867, a war with the old colony Chile not only caused all the mystery of rebuilding the empire to be dispersed, but even the entire Spain was in a civil war.

Therefore, Liu Chang did not think that Isabella was so crazy that she launched a large-scale war in the Far East, although Spain still had the ability to continue to invest in the Philippines.

When the Spanish-American War broke out, Spain invested 200,000 troops in Cuba (although there were only 12,000 combat-capable troops), and also invested 42,000 troops in the Philippines (including 26,000 Spanish). However, due to the limitations of its operational capacity and national strength in this time and space, Spain invested at most 20,000 Spanish local troops into the Philippines, which was the limit.

But this Jesuit missionary announced that Liu Chang's kindness would be gone: "Remember, this is God's judgment! The pagans, immediately withdraw from the Philippines and return all the gold, silver, wealth and property that they plundered from the Philippines, and compensate for all the losses, otherwise it will be the day of your demise."

Liu Chang did not take this seriously. The Spanish in the Philippines fought a war with the Muslims in the south for a full three hundred years. However, in the 330th year when Spanish rule was destroyed in the Philippines, the Spanish still retained only the nominal sovereignty over the Moroes in the south. What's more, the one who is now fighting against them is the Great Xia Kingdom, which is several times stronger than the Muslims.

"If you do not repent, you will face the tragedy of fighting on three sides. Ten thousand Spanish soldiers will immediately launch an attack on the entire Philippine archipelago, expelling heresy from this sacred Spanish territory, and fighting with them a total of five million Philippine people. They will even dispatch tens of thousands of indigenous soldiers to assist Spain in the war."

"In the land of the mainland, the original central empire will continue to fight against you. They have the most fertile land and the most troops in the whole of China. And a sacred uprising is taking place in your territory. You will be poor enough to deal with the rebel army."

The missionaries seized the Bible tightly: "And in the north, our most powerful allies, the Russian Empire is invading your land with the power of the whole country, taking away your valleys, grasslands, mines, rivers and forests. They hold the most powerful army in the world, the best Cossacks, the most hard-working soldiers, they are like hurricanes in the North Pacific, destroying everything and taking away everything. You are going to fight our country to the death while launching the world's largest battle with Russia!"

This is the life-saving straw for the Spanish missionary. He announced in a condescending tone: "Get out of the Philippines immediately and compensate our country for all losses, otherwise this will be the end of the pagans in the Eastern world!"

"Par!"

Liu Chang had already thrown the teacup out, and he stood up. His gentle temperament suddenly changed and became a momentum that Hu Linyi had never expected.

Originally, he thought that this Liu Juehu only had some luck, some talent, and some hard work to reach today in this chaotic world. However, at this moment, the murderous intent was the domineering aura that Liu Chang could not suppress.

"Since you want to provoke a war, let the Spanish howl, let Spain remember the Philippines forever, just remember Peru, Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay, and remember what the whole Latin America is like!"

"The war has begun!" Liu Chang raised his hand and pointed at the Spanish passer-shoulder: "Turn this person back to me, and let the whole Spain remember him!"

"From the beginning, we will devote ourselves to the greatest war in the entire Eastern world, and let our enemies fear us forever."

Liu Chang's domineering declaration shocked Hu Linyi until Liu Chang calmed down and called his name. Hu Linyi had not reacted: "Prime Minister, come to see me today, what do you want to discuss?"
Chapter completed!