C509 The Diplomatic Secrets of Six Years Ago (1/2)
The moment Xiang Ying's words left his mouth, the atmosphere on the city wall became sluggish. Looking at the perplexed looks in their eyes, Xiang Ying and his companions knew that their guess was right.
Xiao Letian was good at teaching, which was something that everyone in the Ryukyu knew about. However, many people did not know that Xiao Letian had always been teaching based on his talent, and Xiao Letian, who had a different identity, placed a different emphasis on it.
For example, people like Cai Mao, Liang Kun, Xiao Hexin, would talk more about the impact of military technology on the war and talk more about strategy. As for Lin Yuanmiao and Fan Lian, they would talk more about the future development of paper money and the ways of Jewish finance.
If all the students in the classroom were Japanese Knife Puller like Yepingtai, Bing Tai Lang and Taro Shimadzu, then the topic of the lecture would be on national integration and the rise of Asia.
The military history that he had accumulated in his previous life was enough for him to squander for a few years. In any case, when the private goods in his stomach were all gone, his own subordinate forces would probably be able to evolve their own brains.
As the saying goes, time is of the essence. Xiao Letian did not have the time to train all of his talents, he could only train a large number of talented students to fill his team, while Xiang Ying and the others only talked about the laws of the world and diplomacy, he hoped that among the university students, there would be a group of truly reliable diplomats.
The power of diplomacy was very strong. In the Second Opium War six or seven years ago, the United States Minister Hua Ruohan relied on her astute diplomatic skills to get what she wanted. In a situation where she did not send a single soldier, she actually signed a diplomatic treaty that was not inferior to the English and French's Three Kingdoms.
was indeed a diplomatic genius, he had more than a hundred thousand soldiers hidden in his chest.
Today, Xiang Ying had asked for the authority of the prisoners of war to be taken over with a forceful attitude, which made all the Ryukyu officials present very surprised. They had never seen Xiang Ying be this rude, and had even forgotten to berate him.
It was only when Xiang Ying brought up the topic of British and French combined forces invading the Beijing six years ago that everyone knew that Xiang Ying definitely had his own reasons.
”Your Majesty, my lords, why did the British and French combined forces set the Yuan Ming Yuan on fire six years ago? Was it really just Gong Cheng selling the countries and the English and French being greedy? If they were greedy, why didn't they massacre the city? How can a little Gong Cheng command Elgin? ”
”Qing Dynasty has always been hiding a great secret from the public. Monarchs, don't let Qing Dynasty's hypocritical face fool you!”
Xiang Ying's question made everyone present speechless, only Molière laughed, his eyes flickered as he stared at Xiang Ying, and suddenly asked: ”Who are you? My information did not record you, what you wish to say, I have already guessed a few clues. If you can obtain this information from Xiao Letian's mouth, it means that you are not a nameless person … ”
Xiang Ying did not follow up his words, he only coldly looked at him, then turned and spoke to Shang Tai.
”In the spring of 1860, the British and French combined forces arrived in China one after another. They gathered outside the Da Gu Kou at the end of July and attacked the Da Gu Kou officially in August. They captured Tianjin at the end of August and the allied forces had already reached the oculi bridge at the end of September …”
”Qing Dynasty would never tell this to the common people. In fact, in such a long period of time, the English and French's envoys have never given up on trying to resolve the conflict through diplomatic means. Moreover, before the bloody war between oculi bridge and Pasha and the envoys were already detained by the Qing Dynasty …”
”Moreover …” Xiang Ying panted a few times before calming himself down. ”Furthermore, they have been subjected to inhuman treatment, which is one of the reasons why Qing Dynasty was so passive at the negotiating table in the later stages …”
Just then, Molière who was leaning against the city wall with a swollen face suddenly spoke out, ”Let me talk about the rest …” Seng Gelinqin was a high official of the whole family who negotiated the most with Ba Xia Li, but his negotiations were actually just brutal torture to force a confession … ”Seng Gelinqin made Ba Xia Li kneel and press his head to the ground, making him agree to withdraw his troops. Ba Xia Li said that he was a negotiator and could not make the decision, so Seng Gelinqin continued to knock Ba Xia Li's head onto the ground again and again until blood dyed the floor red.”
”Not only that, this barbarian also detained all 39 representatives who participated in the negotiations, and escorted them back to the capital. Among these people, the secretary of the Barbarian Priest and the British Special Envoy of China, Elgin, was imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice's Prison, and the rest of the people were imprisoned in Yuan Ming Yuan …”
Molière sneered and said, ”Yuan Ming Yuan, this emperor's summer palace was destroyed on the savagery of the Qing Dynasty … When they were being escorted, their hands were tied with soaked leather ropes that had never been untied ever since. This kind of leather rope is tighter and tighter, and within a few days, the binding area will begin to rot and produce maggots. ”