At this time, the chief of staff of the Manchurian Army in the previous year also played a clever trick and replied next: "Yes, but all officers must be included in the four thousand prisoners!" ”

Yang Xingguo frowned, looked at the other party coldly and said: "I have already given in, if your army has this attitude, then there is no need to continue negotiations." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"In addition, I also want to inform your army that these captives will not be raised in vain by our Liaodong Army. Not surprisingly, these captives were sent to the mines for mining. They are all young and strong, as long as they don't die, it shouldn't be a problem to dig up hundreds of taels of silver a year. ”

"According to this rate of return, at most four years, I will be able to earn back more than four million taels of silver through these captives."

The chief of staff quickly put away his careful thoughts and stared at Yang Xingguo's eyes.

After half a minute, after confirming that Yang Xingguo was not joking again, the chief of staff immediately fell into deep thought and began to calculate.

According to the calculation of 100 taels of silver and 4,000 captives, an ordinary veteran prisoner is 250 taels of silver. and the cost of three hundred taels of silver that Yang Xingguo said at the beginning has been compromised.

Since the Liaodong Army made concessions, it means that there is a possibility of bargaining at this price.

Thinking of this, the chief of staff immediately proposed: "Ordinary prisoners, one hundred and fifty taels of silver per person, this is the highest price that the Manchurian army can offer, and if it is higher, the Manchurian army will not be able to bear it." ”

Yang Xingguo shook his head and replied: "It's too little, far less than we expected." Two hundred taels of silver for an ordinary captive, if you still can't accept it, then I'll leave them to mine. So I can earn more money from them. ”

Although this price has exceeded the bottom line that Dashanyan gave himself at the beginning, the chief of staff finally recognized this price after thinking about it.

After another bit of bargaining, more than 9,000 captives were finally determined to be sold at a price of 3,400,000 taels of silver.

Just when the chief of staff of the Manchurian Army thought that the negotiations were about to end, Yang Xingguo's tone changed, and he suddenly said in his non-negotiable tone: "Since our Liaodong Army has made so many concessions and agreed to this price, then you must also agree to two conditions for my Liaodong Army: First, 400,000 taels of silver out of 3.4 million taels of silver must be offset by field artillery shells and heavy artillery shells. Second, one million taels of silver must be exchanged for five hundred thousand taels of silver. I have two million taels of silver left, and I will cash or gold. ”

Give artillery shells to the Liaodong Army, although it is possible to increase the combat potential of the Liaodong Army. But Dashan Rock can't manage that much.

Even if they don't give it themselves, the Liaodong Army with the silver in their hands can buy it from other countries. In that case, why didn't you exchange the heavy artillery shells that were once captured by the Russian army in the warehouse for silver? Anyway, the Manchurian Army has artillery shells that can be consumed, and even if they don't have them, they can still be replenished from the country.

As for food, there is no problem even more.

The pressure from Japan may not be of much use in front of the Liaodong Army, but it is still very useful in front of the imperial court.

With domestic pressure on the Great Qing State, in the Jiangnan area of the Great Qing State. Maybe you can easily buy 500,000 quintals of grain without one million taels of silver, and when the time comes, the Manchurian army will be able to save a sum of silver.

As for the remaining two hundred taels of silver, they can be squeezed out of the large number of Russian army assets that Lushun took over with the Manchurian Army.

Thinking of this, the chief of staff of the Manchurian Army did not hesitate any longer and agreed directly.

The report sent by Fengtian was quickly whipped, and it only took two days to appear at the early court meeting.

When the content of the report reached the ears of every courtier, including Cixi, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were shocked by the news.

At the same time, some well-intentioned people immediately thought of the report sent to the imperial court by the Liaodong Army a few days ago.

The fact that the two reports are so consistent directly proves that what the Liaodong Army said in the reports is true and not false.

More importantly, after reading the report sent by General Sheng Jing, everyone no longer had a fluke mentality about the Japanese attack on Mukden.

As General Sheng Jing said in the report, if the Liaodong Army is not allowed to expand so that the defense of Liaodong will continue to be empty, there will be more small Japanese troops taking advantage of the weakness to enter and kill Mukden.

At that time, the Japanese troops around Mukden outside the activity will not be dozens, hundreds, but thousands, or even tens of thousands.

Before the courtiers could speak, Cixi had already said in her own categorical tone: "I won't say much about the importance of Fengtian, no matter what your next method is, the Mourning family has only one request: no matter what, you must ensure that Fengtian is in the hands of the imperial court!" ”

Cixi said so, then the only solution that everyone can think of is to reinforce the Liaodong Army, support the expansion of the Liaodong Army, and block the Japanese attack.

As a last resort, everyone could only take out the report sent by the Liaodong Army a few days ago and reinforce the Liaodong Army according to the requirements put forward by the Liaodong Army.

Yuan Shikai, who has always regarded the Liaodong Army as his potential opponent, looked at the two reports, and always felt that there was some connection between them, and even a conspiracy that he didn't know.

But with only two reports, Yuan Shikai could not find any other reason to refute, so he could only watch the courtiers finalize the various materials for reinforcing the Liaodong Army one by one.

Fortunately for the imperial court, in addition to the grain being the main head, the Liaodong Army's report was very small in terms of other materials and silver.

As long as there is no money, whether it is Cixi or Hubu, they all agree very happily.

When the Japanese Manchurian Army began to transport artillery shells and grain from Lushun to Liaozhong, the imperial court also began to allocate grain from Jiangnan to the Liaodong Army.

1.5 million quintals of grain were purchased, plus 1 million quintals extorted from the imperial court and the Manchurian army, totaling 2.5 million quintals of grain, enough for the Liaodong immigrants to eat until the autumn harvest.

After the autumn harvest, all the immigrants in Liaodong can be self-sufficient in their own food.

Of course, even if the Liaodong Army received reinforcements from the imperial court, in order not to let the imperial court know that the battle between them and the Japanese army was over. The Liaodong Army still sent a telegram to the imperial court every four or five days asking for reinforcements.

At the same time, the Japanese army directly under the Liaodong Army continued to operate in the territory of Fengtian, showing up from time to time, and asked General Sheng Jing in Fengtian City to help him write a report to the imperial court and ask for support.

But there is no impermeable wall in the world, and the imperial court and Yuan Shikai have also installed a lot of their own people in the Liaodong Army.

Even if Yang Xingguo tried his best to block the news, the news of the end of the battle between the Liaodong Army and the Manchurian Army was still known to the imperial court and Yuan Shikai.

The old book "Reborn Iron and Blood General", a military novel of the Anti-Japanese War, more than 4 million words, was re-put on the shelves after being blocked, Tencent Reading and Mobile Reading have been released, interested readers can take a look! (To be continued.) )