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Chapter 197 Armistice Negotiations

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    At noon on September 29th, the 11th year of Kang Mazi in the Qing Dynasty, on Baishazhou, five miles southwest of Wuchang, in a temporary marching tent, beside an ordinary hardwood square table, Wu Jun, who attracted everyone's attention,  The armistice negotiations with the Qing army officially started for the first time.  The participants of the meeting are as follows: the chief negotiator of the Wu side is Hu Guozhu, the chief secretary of the Pingxi Palace and the left general of Jinwu, and the left and right deputies are Lu Yifeng and Zhongshu Shifang Xueshi respectively; the chief negotiator of the Qing army is the four assistant governments  The last of the ministers¡ª¡ªE Bilong, the last Grand Master of the Kang Mazi Dynasty, and the two deputies were Zhe Erken, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Fu Dali, the head of the Imperial Academy.

    This is a negotiation that is destined to be full of hostility, disputes, bargaining, and gunpowder. Even before the negotiation officially started, Wu Jun¡¯s representative and Mi Qing¡¯s representative launched a psychological contest.  I am also the plenipotentiary representative of the Qing emperor to participate in the negotiations, so I asked my seat to sit north and south, taking the meaning of respect from the south, which made Wu Jun's representative fall into the psychological disadvantage of being a vassal from the north.

    It's a pity that among Ye Bilong's opponents, Lu Yifeng, who is the most difficult, cunning, and best at psychological tactics, although Fatty Lu doesn't understand ancient geomantic omen, he has also heard that representatives of the Volunteer Army and the U.S. Army during negotiations in Panmunjom in history  There was a fierce battle over who would sit in the north and who would face the south, so Fatty Lu immediately pointed out that the Qing army had lost consecutive battles and lost consecutively. They should be at a disadvantage if they sit south and face north.  .

    Faced with Fatty Lu's questioning, Ye Bilong immediately argued that what Wu Jun defeated was only Oboi, not the Qing court, and Wu Jun was negotiating with Kang Mazi, the Qing emperor, as a courtier this time, so he should sit on the south side  !  Fatty Lu immediately retorted, saying that this negotiation was a fair and just armistice negotiation, not a tribute from the Pingxi Palace.  The title was not deprived, so Wu Jun's defeat of Obai was equivalent to defeating the Qing court!  So, Wu Jun representatives are qualified and must go from north to south to win!

    The two sides insisted on their own words and refused to give in to each other. They fought with each other for nearly an hour, and the quarrel was so blushing that neither party was willing to make principled concessions. In the end, Ye Bilong became angry and demanded to end the negotiations immediately until the two sides sent representatives to each other to reach an agreement.  The seat direction will be renegotiated!  Fatty Lu did not show any weakness, and immediately agreed to Ye Bilong's request to suspend the negotiation, and threatened: "Yi Zhongtang, of course you can suspend the negotiation, this is your freedom!  The necessary expenses, as well as the expenses of the Yunnan-Guizhou generals and soldiers who guard them, must be borne by your army! From today onwards, five thousand taels of silver will be inscribed every day. After the negotiation is reached, your army must compensate our army for this expense, otherwise,  Our army has the right to refuse to release these prisoners!"

    "Five thousand taels of silver a day? You go and grab it!" Ye Bilong furiously said, "How much do we have captured Prince Baylor? How much food do you eat in a day? The grain bought by five thousand taels of silver can take them away."  Is your cell buried?"

    "Yi Zhongtang seems to have forgotten that thanks to your economic blockade, the price of food in Yunnan and Guizhou has skyrocketed." Fatty Lu replied coldly: "The senior prisoners of your army have fish and meat every day, and the people of Yunnan and Guizhou even eat food.  I can't afford it, but I have to support so many princes Baylor and more than 20,000 bannerman masters, after calculating all kinds of expenses, the price of five thousand taels of silver per day, the humble officials have already given Ye Zhongtang a 20% discount."

    "Of course, if Ye Zhongtang thinks the price of five thousand taels a day is too expensive and wants to lower it a bit, that's fine." Fatty Lu sneered and added: "Ye Zhongtang, please make a price, even if you only pay one tael a day  It¡¯s all right, we will use this tael of silver to pay for the freight of the people and the wages of the cooks, and then we will buy rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, and invite Kang Wang, Lord Shun, forty-six beiles and more than two hundred noble generals who are above the ranks,  We also invite the more than 20,000 captured bannermen and soldiers to enjoy it, and we will tell them truthfully that it is not we who are depriving them of food and clothing, but you, the old man in the middle hall, and only give them more than 20,000 people a food allowance of one or two taels of silver a day."

    "You even count the expenses of the banner soldiers and captives?" Ye Bilong's mouse tail almost stood up in anger.

    "If Ye Zhongtang wants the captives of the bannermen to be treated the same as the captives of the green battalion, of course we don't need to count the money." Fatty Lu replied with a smile: "You can report to the prince immediately for the lowly ranks, and ask the prince to treat the captives of the bannermen as the prisoners of the Han people.  , were all sent to the mines to do hard work, and were given a meal of pig food every day. Each person could not mine 500 catties of ore a day, and there was not even a meal of pig food! At that time, we will report to the Qing court to explain that we did not want to  This is what you asked us to do, Ye Zhongtang."

    "Rogue! You are a complete rascal!" Ye Bilong roared unbearably, and shouted: "Lu Yifeng!?Filling only the moat at the east gate of Wuchang is not only not conducive to the deployment of our troops during the siege, but it is also likely to be discovered by man dogs. Our authentic siege tactics are not as good as filling the moats at the east gate and south gate together.  It can attack the east gate and west gate of Wuchang at the same time, and it can also play the role of diverting the sight of the dog and covering the authentic tactics of our army.  In addition, after filling these two sections of the moat, the problem of tunnel leakage can also be greatly improved.  Even if the miners made a mistake in their exploration, dug in the wrong direction underground, and accidentally dug to the south, there would be no danger of river water pouring into the tunnel.  "

    "Then let's fill in the moat to the south as well." Since he didn't have to dig the tunnel himself, and seeing that what Fatty Lu said was quite reasonable, the traitor Wu agreed to Fatty Lu's strong request and ordered  Said: "Let Yang Fengxian's infantry team also dispatch, together with Yu Hualong's team, simultaneously fill up the moats of the south and east gates of Wuchang."

    The generals of Wu Jun who were present agreed, and when the old traitor Wu was about to say a few words to Fatty Lu, Fatty Lu cupped his hands and said in a hurry: "Grandfather, my son-in-law has something urgent to do, and I have to go to the military workshop.  Say goodbye first."

    "Stinky boy, you ran away as soon as you finished speaking. What's the rush?" Old man Wu scolded with a sinister smile, then waved his hand and said, "Since you are in a hurry, then you should go quickly, pay attention to rest, and don't be busy during the day and night."  I'm exhausted." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember the website URL:  www.hlnovel.com
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