"Counselor, of course we will come up with enough benefits to compensate for the losses suffered by your country, and all you have to do is that you must accept our request, and then negotiate the benefits exchanged, right?"

Qiu Qingfei looked at Shi Dakai, such an absolute need for Shi Dakai to come up with an idea. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Shi Dakai took a deep breath and replied: "Mr. Prime Minister, we must consult His Majesty the Emperor on this matter, but we can first reach an agreement on the framework of establishing diplomatic relations and in-depth cooperation, what do you think?" ”

Bismarck was naturally willing to accept such an intention, first the easy and then the difficult, first to solve the simple ones, and finally to overcome the most difficult ones, with the foundation of the front, the back can calmly compromise on the key issues.

Throughout the night, Shi Dakai and Bismarck finally reached a consensus: first, the two sides signed the "Puhua Treaty", which was to establish exchanges between countries and formally exchange envoys; Second, the two sides are willing to cooperate in various fields, and the coal and iron resources produced in China will be supplied to Prussia on a priority basis, and Prussia will transfer corresponding technology to the Chinese Empire; Third, Prussia is willing to accept students from the Chinese Empire to study in Prussia every year, including military students; Fourth, the Chinese Empire welcomed Prussian merchants to invest and build factories in China, and to operate legally under the laws of the Chinese Empire; Fifth, Prussia was willing to organize corresponding engineers and teachers to work in the Chinese Empire;

The entire framework does not include any specific matters, but just such a framework is already a big enough progress, and the cooperation between China and Prussia will develop rapidly in accordance with the framework.

Shi Dakai said goodbye to Bismarck and returned to his residence, and then a new round of communication began, one telegram after another, playing in the country, waiting for Guo Ye's reply.

Guo Ye was naturally busy, and this time, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, and the most important think tanks in Beijing all participated and began a large-scale discussion.

For a whole day, this large-scale meeting was over, and Guo Ye's telegram was also sent to Shi Dakai.

When Shi Dakai saw the telegram, he couldn't help but show a wry smile, this majesty's mouth is really big......

"First, it was required that at least three hundred students be sent to Prussia every year, ranging in age from twelve to twenty, in various disciplines; secondly, to request Prussia to send to China a contingent of teachers, numbering not less than 600, to support the university education and teacher education of the Chinese Empire, to teach for no less than three years, after which he will be free, and the Chinese Empire will be responsible for his salary; Third, Prussia was invited to China to invest in railway construction, and the two sides could share the benefits of the railway; Fourthly, Prussia supported mining and chemical technology and equipment at preferential prices; Four requirements, and these requirements are the bottom line given by Guo Ye, which means that when negotiating, this bottom line must not be taken out to bargain with the other party. As long as Prussia agreed to these four demands, the Chinese Empire could consider not selling heavy machine guns to Austria, and at the same time limit the arms sales trade of heavy machine guns with France, and the number of heavy machine guns sold to France would not exceed one-third of the total amount sold to Prussia in the future. ”

In addition, in Guo Ye's telegram, there were other requests for cooperation that Shi Dakai had to put forward to the Prussians, and this workload was not ordinary.

Fortunately, the conditions given by Guo Ye are not very harsh, and all the conditions, Guo Ye corresponds to giving the Prussians enough returns, and the courtesies are still exchanged!

When the two sides are together again, the two sides begin to touch on substantive issues.

The two sides negotiated round after round, and it took several whole days before they gradually implemented each item.

"The first clause is that China will provide Germany with a total of 5,000 heavy machine guns and 1 million boxes of heavy machine gun ammunition in five years, of which 2,000 Prussian heavy machine guns and 500,000 boxes of ammunition will be delivered in the first installment, and the rest of the heavy machine guns and ammunition will be delivered in batches in the remaining four years, of which the total value of heavy machine guns is 1,150,000 pounds sterling, and the total value of ammunition is 2,000,000 pounds, totaling 3,150,000 pounds, and the total price will be paid in three installments, with a down payment of 1,500,000 pounds sterling and the remaining part paid in four installments;

In the second clause, China promised that the Kingdom of Prussia did not want Austria to sell heavy machine gun weapons and ammunition; At the same time, it was promised that the total number of heavy machine guns sold by the Kingdom of Prussia to the French Empire would not exceed half of the number sold to Prussia; At the same time, the Prussian Deutsche Bank provided interest-free loans totalling two million pounds sterling to the government of the Chinese Empire, which was to be repaid in installments over the next six years;

In the third clause, Prussia agreed to accept a total number of students from the Chinese Empire with a total number of not less than 600 students every year, of which 50 were military students, and the Chinese Empire agreed that Prussia would send the same number of military students to China and establish a military exchange system;

Fourth, the Chinese Empire invited Prussian business elites to invest and build factories in China, and China was willing to provide tax relief measures for three years; Prussia also welcomed merchants from the Chinese Empire to invest in Prussia, and also enjoyed preferential tax relief measures;

Fifth, at the invitation of the Chinese Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia sent no less than 600 engineers and teachers to the Chinese Empire in three batches to support the establishment of a Western education system in the Chinese Empire.

In the sixth clause, Prussia invested two million pounds and came up with mature railway technology, and cooperated with the government of the Republic of China to build two railway lines from Beijing to Shanghai and from Datong to Fengning, with a total length of 3,000 kilometers and a total investment of five million pounds.

Seventh, the Chinese Empire gave priority to Prussia in the purchase of basic industrial equipment in the fields of mining, chemical industry, and machinery manufacturing;

Article 8, Prussia and the Chinese Empire were willing to open all the ports of the two countries to commercial trade on an equal footing, and that the taxes levied should not exceed the level borne by any third country;

Article 9, the Chinese Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia adopt a unified political and diplomatic stance on major international issues and support each other;

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A huge Sino-Prussian Treaty of Cooperation between Berlin and Berlin was finally agreed, and Shi Dakai and Bismarck signed their names on their respective documents.

It can be said that this was a mutually beneficial situation, Prussia got the coveted heavy machine gun weapons, could equip the troops, got investment returns, and at the same time, was able to open up the Chinese market, while the Chinese Empire got huge trade profits, thirsty equipment, technology, engineers, and even huge loans!

(To be continued.) )