IV. The Minister Comes to Beijing (4)

Liszt is a little strange, the Sifang Pavilion is a pavilion for Chinese to entertain foreign envoys, after the British and French envoys live in, they are extremely quiet, although the Chinese are already a little unhappy with the attitude of Britain and France, but generally still maintain a rational and harmonious attitude towards the envoys of the two countries, there has never been such a noisy situation, Ferrero pricked up his ears and listened to a few occasional sharp shouts and curses in the laughter outside, and suddenly stood up, with horror on his face, "How can it be our language!" ”

Liszt was also a little panicked, how did it feel as if a large wave of London demonstrators blocked the door of the House of Commons in China, two people pushed open the door and walked to the middle of the courtyard, Liszt's attachΓ© ran in from the outside in horror, and from his expression something terrible happened, "Mr. Minister, the Chinese army outside escorted a large group of British and French soldiers who had just been captured, and came to the door of our residence, and those soldiers heard that there were envoys from the two countries living inside, so they refused to leave anymore and cursed at the door. ”

Liszt and Ferrero were irritated and hurriedly rushed out of the gate, only to see a group of Chinese around the gate of the Sifang Pavilion pointing and laughing at the British and French soldiers with shackles on the ground, dozens of British and French soldiers were in tatters, kneeling on the ground and cursing loudly, seeing two well-dressed people coming out, they knew that it was the season when the two countries were newly inaugurated, and they were even more passionate, and for a time the female families of Liszt and Ferrero were greeted countless times.

β€œFK!” A bearded British soldier spewed angry words at the two men, "What are you goddamn politicians up to?" Why didn't you save us for so long! Let's be laughed at like brutes on the streets! The Chinese have already said that they want to let us go back, it is you damned politicians who do not agree, so let us do this, I tell you, if you don't take action to rescue us again, believe me, the head of the attendants in the Prime Minister's Mansion is my cousin, as long as the Chinese can let us go, you sons of bitch," the bearded man even trembled with anger, "there will definitely be no good fruit to eat!" ”

Liszt was dumbfounded, he had completely lost the ability to speak at this time, and Ferrero's face was full of bitterness, he could not explain at all that what the Chinese promised was not to release these soldiers, but only to release the diplomats, and the prisoners who had only listened to the bearded man's speech seemed to be speechless, and became more and more convinced of what the Chinese told him, "The envoy of your country said that there is no need to release you, our prince originally said that he would release you." ”

The captives were excited again, cursing and cursing, the bearded man took off a boot with difficulty with his shackled hands, and threw it at Liszt, Liszt was caught off guard, his forehead was hit, and the whole person leaned back, and the bearded man refused to give up, so he was about to rush up to fight Liszt, but was stopped by the Qing soldiers, who whipped the restless captives with whips, made the captives retreat the steps, and took them away from the scene.

Gong Cheng came out, looked coldly at Liszt, who was knocked to the ground by his stinky boots, and shouted at the leader of the Qing army who left with the prisoners: "Prince Gong didn't say that he wanted to release these soldiers, but only said that he wanted to release diplomats, do you think this will make the two countries bow their heads?!" ”

"I don't know who said these words," the leader took his little thumb and gouged out his ears, his face full of indifference, "It's just that they heard that their family was here, so they begged to come and see each other, not to mention the barbarian words of these foreign devils, I don't understand, I don't know if you understand, master, why are you still stunned," the leader shouted to his subordinates, "Hurry up, take these foreign devils to the prison of the Criminal Department!" ”

Gong Cheng was angry, the criminal department was in Dongcheng, the Sifang Pavilion was in Xicheng, and he entered Beijing from the Yongtong Bridge in the east, and he didn't need to go through the Sifang Pavilion at all, these people came to stimulate Liszt and Ferrero, those captives were taken away, and the onlookers in the capital smacked their lips unsatisfied, and saw that a few people were still standing at the door of the Sifang Pavilion, and with a shout, countless rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves flew overwhelmingly to the British and French envoys, and several people couldn't avoid it, and they were hit again and again, and the servants who were waiting in the Sifang Pavilion at this time were not seen at all, Several people hurriedly closed the door in person, hiding inside and gasping for breath.

Ferrero had a rotten egg thrown on his shoulder, and his face was full of frightened expressions, and he said to Liszt: "I can't delay any longer, Mr. Minister, I must hurry up and negotiate peace with the Chinese, I can't believe that if I don't care about the words of the French captives and return to China, the emperor will not send me to the guillotine!" ”

Liszt sighed, "I didn't expect the Chinese to be so shameless, their own people have no way to deal with us, they actually pulled out the prisoners of war to make trouble for us, we can't delay it any longer, go and tell the Chinese prince that tomorrow we will negotiate with him personally!" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for the recommendation ticket, your support is my biggest motivation. )

PS: I was in a bad mood at noon and cried a lot, so the update was late, I'm sorry, there is a change in the evening, there are many monthly passes, and there are many updates.