With a bang, the lamp on the table turned into pieces. Prince Beigong now only has two diplomats who can negotiate, and now both of them are showing resistance to the task of negotiation.
"You are still not the people of Dongdi Kingdom. Now the whole country is in danger. Is this your loyalty to the empire?"
Prince Beigongbai said fiercely, wishing to kill the two people in front of him directly, but he also knew very well that if he really wanted to kill these two people, he might not even have the people to negotiate.
"Your Highness, it's not that the two of us are unwilling to be loyal to the empire, but it's really difficult to meet His Highness's requirements. Although Gao Shaoyi has not been in Haicheng for a long time, his subordinates have also studied him. This negotiation may have to satisfy him.
If His Highness has predicted some of his unreasonable demands in advance, the two of you would be willing to make a trip."
Nobe Ichiro knew very well that the task at hand was not something he could just push away if he wanted to. There was no use in talking too much here, so it would be more useful to talk a little bit.
Prince Beigongbai glanced at this guy angrily, just wanting to get a word from me. Even if you sign a humiliating peace treaty, you can still blame me. You two are really
Can play.
"Perhaps things are not that bad yet. You should first find an intermediary to talk to him and see what he means. As long as this war can be ended with dignity, you can make the decision on some things."
Prince Beigongbai left the office after finishing speaking. Anyway, I will never give you an accurate answer. Everyone knows that it may be something that will be remembered forever, so you should hide as much as you can.
"Your Highness, we have run out of medicines, but the enemy's shelling continues, and there will be new casualties every hour..."
Listening to the report from the combat staff outside the door, Ichiro Nobe and Ryoji Otomo glanced at each other, and they both saw despair in each other's eyes.
Still thinking about negotiating with others, and still thinking about ending the war decently without paying anything, is there such a good thing in the world? The concession can still operate normally in the past two days, at most, it will only take two or three days. I am afraid that the entire
The concession will no longer be able to hold on.
What is lacking now is medicine, and what may be lacking in two or three days will be food and water.
It is impossible to predict what the people in the concession will do at that time!
"What do you think the Suppression Army's requirements are?"
After returning to his office, Nobe Ichiro had already asked the intermediary to pass the message.
"It is certain to break off the engagement. We cannot avoid this."
Otomo Ryoji thought of this first.
"There is no need to consider this. We have no other choice but to agree. What I am afraid of now is that they will open their mouths."
When Ichiro Nobe said this, he felt a little cold all over his body. That guy Gao Shaoyi always did things like this. When he had the upper hand, it was impossible for anyone to avoid his fangs.
"As long as it is in the concession, give him everything he wants. If we don't give it to him, think about the concessions of the Blast Furnace Empire and the Rakshasa Kingdom. Sooner or later, they will vacate them."
Otomo Liangji knew Gao Shaoyi better. After all, he was the first person from the Dongdi Kingdom to have a conflict with Gao Shaoyi.
"The money must be a lot. Although it is not as good as the compensation from the last war, the entire concession will have to be looted by him. What I am worried about now is the territorial claims. We occupied a lot of their land in the last war. If he
Do you want us to return all the land?"
When Nobe Ichiro said this, Otomo Ryoji's face was not calm either.
They can make the decision on matters in the concession. They can give up on how much money it will cost to end the war with dignity, or on consular jurisdiction, but they can only ask them to return the land. This is probably not what they can make the decision on.
, and those people in the country are all a bunch of money-grubbers. If you make them spit out the meat they eat, you might as well kill them.
If this issue really comes up, then the negotiation will be delayed. Gao Shaoyi naturally doesn't worry about how long the delay will be. They have food and drink, but not the tens of thousands of people in the concession.
"Do you think there is a possibility that everyone, including the two of us, has been abandoned by the people in the base camp? They don't care whether we live or die. They can't give up the land."
Otomo Ryoji's head was already sweating, but he still expressed his guess.
"When that moment comes, we will definitely be sacrificed."
After all, Nobe Ichiro is an old man from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so he naturally knows how those people do things. The total number of troops and ordinary people in the entire Dongdi concession is about 120,000.
During the last battle, the largest island in the Daqian Empire was ceded to the Dongdi Kingdom with an indemnity of 200 million silver coins. Now the Dongdi Kingdom has immigrated to that island with millions of people, and just with their 100,000
There are not enough people to make Dongdi give up that island.
"And where are His Royal Highness the Prince and Earl Jingyi?"
Otomo Ryoji said with some reluctance, "We are all ordinary people, and it is normal for us to be abandoned by the empire, but they are different. One is the king's uncle, and the other is the king's youngest son. How can they do the same?"
Abandoned?
"Prince Beigong Bai is arrogant and domineering. You don't know what he is like in the country. He has many more enemies than friends over the years. If you have this opportunity to kill him, don't you think those people will do it? As for
Earl Jingyi, his reputation has been ruined for a long time, our king has more than one son."
After Nobe Ichiro finished speaking, Otomo Ryoji was completely dumbfounded. He had long known that this battle would fail because the combat effectiveness gap between the two armies was too far, but he did not expect that this would be a dead end.
Nobe Ichiro's eyes revealed despair, but Otomo Ryoji's eyes still had a glimmer of light, because he had cooperated with Gao Shaoyi, and even if it was a dead end, he would have to find a way to inform Gao Shaoyi when the time came.
It's time to be filial.
If we can't establish a good relationship with Gao Shaoyi now, we will have to live in a prisoner of war camp in the future. If this negotiation continues to be deadlocked, the Dongdi concession will definitely not last long.
Maybe this negotiation will take several years, and life in the prisoner-of-war camp is not easy, but if it is useful to Gao Shaoyi, that is another matter. With so many prisoners in the prisoner-of-war camp, can they be used?
For example, forming a mercenary army to serve as doglegs for the suppressing army???