allonlinenovel Chapter 141 Lord Martin's Confusion of Right and Wrong Leads to the Breakdown of the First Roun
Chapter 141 Lord Martin's Confusion of Right and Wrong Leads to the Breakdown of the First Roun
The person in charge of the negotiations was He Yujie, Director General of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Restoration Government, referred to as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He is also a professional diplomatic talent recommended by Chu Anshi. His style of foreign negotiations is mainly tough, which is very consistent with the foreign policy of the Fuxing government and also in line with Jiang Hua's wishes.
That's why He Yujie was able to stand out from many talented people and serve as the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
In the future, when the restoration government unifies the ancient country, the Ministry of External Affairs will naturally be upgraded to become the Ministry of Foreign Affairs representing the central government, and he will naturally become the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The representative sent by the four countries was Lord Martin, the Minister of John to the ancient country.
He will attend the negotiations on behalf of the other three countries to fight for the interests of their temporary alliance.
The concession was certain to be taken back, and they no longer hoped to continue to retain the concession in Tianjin and other cities under the rule of the Fuxing Army.
What they should do now is to stop the losses in time and evacuate all property and personnel in time.
Therefore, the concessions in Jiangcheng and other places have received evacuation orders from the embassy.
All personnel have begun evacuating.
After the negotiators from both sides sat down, He Yujie did not speak, but looked at Minister John Martin, the Second Class, with a sharp gaze.
"Mr. He, I need to ask you a question.
Why, after issuing the ultimatum, did you not follow the agreement and dispatch troops in advance to break through the defense line of the concession and indiscriminately arrest our Western personnel?
This incident has now attracted great international attention.
Not only do I want to understand this, but people in the West also want to understand this.”
Lord Martin started to confuse right and wrong and put labels on the Restoration Army right from the start.
This is also their usual method.
This shows how shameless they are.
Faced with the other party's tactics, He Yujie chuckled disdainfully.
When they cannot gain an advantage in terms of force, they will seek it from other places.
Confusing right and wrong, and then using public opinion to threaten.
What does it mean to attract high international attention?
Now the international public opinion is completely controlled by them, and they can say whatever they want.
No matter how they argued, their voices could not be heard.
So his threat seemed a little ridiculous to He Yujie.
“I need to correct two points in Minister Martin’s statement.
First, we are not disobeying the ultimatum we issued, but you chose violent confrontation and ignored our good intentions.
Second, we did not arrest your personnel indiscriminately.
Any benefits obtained in our country through improper means will be confiscated, and the relevant personnel will be arrested.
We only welcome people with normal business attitudes to conduct business in the land of our ancient country.
If you still hold onto your previous attitude of plundering and plundering, we will arrest every one of you who come and show no mercy."
He Yujie's well-reasoned answer left Lord Martin speechless for several times.
Because what He Yujie said was true.
But Lord Martin still insisted, "We set up a defense line because we were worried that you would rush into the concession without reason, not choosing violent confrontation as you said."
He Yujie didn't say anything and watched his performance quietly.
When he finished speaking, he said, "Minister Martin, you should know very well whether it is true or not. I think it is meaningless to continue arguing about this.
What you should care about now is whether those people stay or go.
Except for those who have seriously violated our country's interests and need to be tried and serve their sentences in the ancient country, the rest of you only need to pay a deposit of 1 pounds each and you can freely choose to stay or go.
Of course, these deposits are only kept in our bank to ensure that they will not continue to commit crimes in the ancient country in the future.
If a crime is committed, the person's bond will be forfeited while the trial proceeds."
After hearing what He Yujie said, Lord Martin was stunned.
At this moment, in his eyes, it felt that this ancient man had completely surpassed his cognition.
A security deposit? How did he come up with that?
Or is it just for safekeeping? Do you want to withdraw the money after it's in the bank?
And each person’s deposit is 10,000 pounds. This is an international joke.
Lord Martin felt his heart begin to beat fast, and he could no longer suppress his anger.
"Mr. He, we are extraterritorial. You have no right to arrest and try our citizens. We have the final say on whether they are guilty or not.
And this damn margin is impossible.
Our request is to agree to the abolition of the concession and at the same time ensure that our concession personnel and property are smoothly evacuated from the ancient country.
Otherwise, we will just have to replicate the coalition of the last century, which I think every ancient Chinese person has a vivid memory of.”
He Yujie's face immediately turned cold, and he looked at Lord Martin with cold eyes.
"Of course I remember. Every citizen of the ancient country should remember this shame. We will definitely wash away the shame imposed on us with our blood.
But if you dare to set foot in our territory again, I can guarantee that no one will return alive.
We, the Renaissance Army, have never been afraid of the threat of force, and we are capable of protecting the integrity of our territory and the safety of our citizens.
And I need to emphasize one thing to you.
What I said was not a request for negotiation, but a notification.
Now we have informed you, three days! I only give you three days!
If there is no response, they will appear in our prisons and mines."
After saying that, He Yujie snorted coldly and stood up to leave, leaving Lord Martin stunned on the spot.
Only then did Lord Martin come to his senses.
I seem to have messed up this negotiation.
But they could never agree to these conditions.
How could the noble white people accept being judged as second-class people in this backward and barbaric land of the ancient country?
Moreover, each person's deposit is as high as 10,000 pounds, which is absolutely impossible.
You have to know that in this era, the British pound is more valuable than the US dollar.
One pound can be exchanged for four dollars.
That means they have to pay $4 for each person, which is as much as $10 in dollars.
The number of detainees has reached more than 2.
This also means that they will have to pay 2.6 million pounds for these 2.6 people.
The annual national income of their country John is only 50 billion pounds.
So how could they possibly accept this number?
Of course, Lord Martin also knew that the Renaissance Government was asking for an exorbitant price, and the price could be negotiated.
But he didn't want to talk about it. Neither he nor John's government wanted to spend a penny on these detainees.
But so many people must be rescued.
Otherwise, the country will be in chaos and the prestige of their government will be severely damaged.
After all, if you don’t rescue the citizens of your own country who were detained, what would your subordinates think if they saw it?
And now this matter is beyond his authority to handle.
So the ball was kicked back to their respective countries.
Naturally, this also caused a stir in John, Gaul, Italy, and Bireg.
This condition directly angered these senior executives.
In their opinion, the conditions they proposed were already very good.
They were noble and voluntarily gave up the concession. You just need to ensure the normal evacuation of personnel and property.
As a result, the Restoration government not only had to try the noble white man, but also had to pay bail.
Their John country's concession was the largest and had the largest number of detainees, reaching more than 13,000.
If they pay a deposit of 10,000 per person, they will need to pay more than 130 million pounds.
And how much is their military expenditure this year? Only 1.5 million pounds.
This price is equivalent to their annual military expenditure.
Immediately, many people clamored to join forces to send troops to the ancient country to teach the Fuxing Army a lesson.
What's more, John's senior management actually studied the issue of sending troops.
But they quickly abandoned the idea.
No other reason, because it’s too expensive.
The Fuxing Army is not the previous Northern Frontier Imperial Army.
It is an army with a total strength of more than 300,000 troops and more than 2,000 fighter jets.
Moreover, the Renaissance Army is also equipped with a large number of tanks, large-caliber heavy artillery and other heavy weapons.
If they need to send troops, they will need at least 500,000 troops.
Not to mention how to send so many troops to the ancient country thousands of miles away.
The transportation cost alone was unaffordable for them, not to mention the huge sum of money that would be made from the sound of a cannon.
The cost of war is not something they can afford.
Therefore, it is no longer realistic to form a multinational coalition to send troops.
Not to mention that their domestic economy is still suffering from the ravages of the financial crisis.
Military spending has been cut again and again, how can we come up with so much money?
But it is impossible for them to agree to the demands of the Renaissance Army.
Not only the top officials were arguing about this, but even the two houses of the John Kingdom started arguing loudly, and they could not reach a consensus at all.
After arguing for two days, neither of them came up with a workable suggestion.
But the restoration government only gave them three days.
They know that the Renaissance government does what it says.
These people must be saved.
So they proposed a second round of negotiations.
This round of negotiations mainly focuses on two issues: one is the issue of personnel trial, and the other is the issue of deposit.
Lord Martin took a much more humble stance in this negotiation.
Because both the domestic people and he found that they were no longer able to threaten the Renaissance Army.
So they had to lower their proud heads temporarily.
I can only wait until this matter is settled before I can get back at him.
This is also their plan.
Now that so many of them are in the hands of the Fuxing government, it is not easy for them to turn against it.
Once this matter is over, they will launch a fierce revenge against the Restoration Government.
Because the two sides had already formed a feud over the concession issue.
If they don't get this place back, how can they still be the boss?
“We agree to your first condition, but we also have one condition.
The trial of the personnel must have our personnel present as jurors, and the trial must be conducted in secret, without any text information or photos being leaked.
As for the deposit of 10,000 pounds, it is absolutely impossible.
You have already confiscated the property of the four concessions and taken back the customs, which is already a huge amount of money, so we cannot accept the deposit."
After hearing Lord Martin's words, He Yujie smiled lightly and said, "I'm sorry, I don't agree with either of your two conditions."