The three ministers agreed very happily, but when it came to the negotiation table, it was the black man who would not die, which made Zeng Guofan really surprised!

Due to the urgency of time, the next day, Zeng Guofan made an appointment with the Russian company Crowsky to urgently mediate with the envoys of the three countries on the matter of the Russian army's invasion of the border. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Minister Clough, on behalf of the Qing Empire, I solemnly protest to your army's sudden invasion of our border. I demand that your army immediately withdraw from the Heilongjiang valley and Jiangdong and stop the aggression! ”

Now with the support of the ministers of the Three Kingdoms, Zeng Guofan's waist was a little stronger, and he said in a deep voice to Crowski.

Crowski shrugged his shoulders and replied, "Lord Zeng, who said we had no reason?" You must know that when the British and French forces invaded Beijing, we came forward to mediate, and your country asked our Tsarist Russian Empire to mediate, but after the mediation was completed, Guo Ye, the plenipotentiary minister of your country at that time, actually played with us, completely ignoring the reasonable demands of our Tsarist Russian Empire, and even brazenly launched a war and annihilated thousands of our soldiers. It's just that at that time we had just finished the Crimean War, and we didn't have the energy to start another war, and now that our strength has recovered, of course we have to take revenge! ”

Zeng Guofan's face turned dark, he was still in the south to exterminate the Taiping Army at that time, this matter was completely co-presided over by the current emperor and Guo Ye, can he say that the emperor is wrong?

"Mr. Clough, you have gone too far! A few years ago, the war between Britain and France and the Qing Kingdom was just a misunderstanding, and we could solve it ourselves, and you made it up yourself, as for who is to blame for your request afterwards? Why should we give you so much land? Even if the British and French armies brazenly dispatched, they did not plunder a mile of our land, at most it was only a lease! ”

Zeng Guofan shouted.

Chris on the side smiled and said: "Yes, Minister Crowski, it is a bit too much for you to talk like this, at that time, our British Empire and the French Empire had the advantage, and they just let people open their markets and rent land, and you directly grabbed other people's land......"

Crowski's face turned red, and he immediately replied: "Chris, let's not talk about this, how can the thousands of Tsarist Russian soldiers in the Jiangdong War be counted as buried in a foreign land?" It's always fake, right? ”

Chris nodded, turned around, looked at Zeng Guofan, and said, "Lord Zeng, what do you say about this matter?" ”

Zeng Guofan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly replied: "Mr. Chris, who will complain about the thousands of Tsarist Russian troops who died in battle?" They didn't invade Koto, how could such a thing happen? And this war was commanded by Guo Ye, Guo Ye is now the emperor of the Chinese Empire, even if he wants to take revenge, he has to find Guo Ye and the Chinese Empire, right? What does it have to do with our Great Qing Kingdom? ”

Padopan shook his head and replied: "Lord Zeng, what you said in this matter is unreasonable, although Guo Ye is now the emperor of the Huaxia Empire, but he fought on behalf of the Qing Empire back then, and he was the plenipotentiary minister of the Qing Empire, and the Qing Empire is at a loss in this matter......

Zeng Guofan's face turned red immediately!

"Mr. Padopan, you!"

Zeng Guofan faintly had a bad feeling in his heart, Chris's attitude was better, but how could this Padopan feel that his tone was a little wrong, this was on Crowski's side!

Padopan shrugged his shoulders and replied, "Lord Zeng, nothing in the world can escape a single word of reason, and your country is indeed at a loss in this matter, is it not permissible for me to say a fair word?" That's thousands of lives! “

Zeng Guofan was furious and dissatisfied: "Mr. Padopan, could it be that thousands of lives in Tsarist Russia are lives, and tens of thousands of lives in our Great Qing Kingdom are not human lives?" At that time, the Russian army invaded, and there were tens of thousands of casualties in our Great Qing Dynasty? How can this be explained? ”

"Well explained!"

Crowski said disdainfully: "The lives of our Tsarist Russians are valuable, and we will not exchange 10,000 taels of silver, and the lives of your people in the Qing Kingdom will be penniless!" Our Tsarist Russian Empire has lost thousands of soldiers, then you need those hundreds of thousands of lives to pay off the debt, or one person is a thousand square kilometers, we will exchange it, and you will choose it yourself, hehe......"

Zeng Guofan's face turned green, one person is a thousand square kilometers, isn't that thousands of people millions of square kilometers? Now in the entire three provinces outside the customs of the Qing Dynasty, how much land is left? That's only 3 million square kilometers in total! It's not enough to pay off the debt!

"Crowski, you're dreaming!"

Even if Zeng Guofan's qi cultivation kung fu is unparalleled in the world, he is a little angry.

Padopan replied: "Mr. Crowski, you are indeed a bit excessive, and one person is still a thousand square kilometers? It's delusional, let's be pragmatic, how can you withdraw from the army? Let's be practical, if you can avoid the war, it's better to settle it peacefully......"

Crowski nodded: "It's okay if you want us to stop the war...... First, all the territories north and east of the Heilongjiang River, as well as Sakhalin Island and other lands, were ceded to the Russian Empire, and the entire territory of the Mongolian Plateau was ceded to the Russian Empire; Second, compensate the Tsarist Empire for 10 million taels of silver for the war expenses and provide 10,000 tons of grain to the Tsarist Empire......"

"I'll go to your ancestors' ......"

Zeng Guofan directly burst into foul language, not to mention the territory east and north of Heilongjiang, just one Mongolian plateau, that is, more than two million square kilometers of land! What's more, there are ten million taels of silver? Now the financial revenue of the entire Qing Kingdom is less than 10 million taels of silver a year!

"Impossible! Minister Clough, absolutely impossible! ”

Chris and Pardopan also frowned, this condition was indeed excessive......

"Crowski, you'd better be practical, it's too demanding......"

Whether it is the British or the French, although the two sides have an agreement secretly, they do not want the Russians to take advantage too much, that is millions of square kilometers of land!

"Mr. three ministers, it's not that I don't give you face, but this matter is really difficult to handle, our Tsarist Russian Empire dispatched 200,000 troops to work on an expedition, and if we can't get enough benefits, isn't it a loss-making deal?"

Crowski smiled, "There is still time for this matter, Lord Zeng, you can think about it slowly, when you figure it out, when you will reply to me, anyway, we have ...... time"

Saying this, Crowski smiled and nodded to a few people, turned to leave, and left the stunned Zeng Guofan behind!

(To be continued.) )