Regardless of whether Ma Hui guessed the result or not, there was no point in continuing to ponder it.
Aitang and Aliguo left the tent, left the camp, and headed towards the Qing army camp. As soon as the group walked halfway, drizzle began to fall in the gloomy sky. After a while, the drizzle turned into
It rained heavily, and big raindrops fell on the ground, quickly making the road wet.
Aliguo walked on the muddy road with one foot deep and one foot shallow, looking depressed and defeated.
Now there is no village in front, no store in the back, and no place to hide from the rain.
The heavy rain wetted A Liguo's clothes, making Aliguo look like a bereaved dog. His thick hair was scattered, and drops of rainwater continuously flowed down from his hair.
At this time, Aliguo was in a terrible mood.
"Ouch!"
Suddenly, Aliguo's feet slipped and his body fell forward. His strong body fell to the ground with a thud.
"Wow!"
Mud splashed everywhere, and Aliguo fell to the ground in the posture of a dog eating shit. His mouth was full of mud, and his body was also covered with muddy mud. He completely turned into a clay figure fished out of the mud.
"Shit weather, shit weather!"
Aliguo kept yelling and scolding, with an angry expression on his face.
With the help of the guard, Aliguo stood up carefully, but he looked nervous and was afraid of falling down again. Aitang looked at Aliguo who was as embarrassed as a dog, and suddenly had the urge to laugh, but when he thought of being caught in the heavy rain
I became a drowned rat, the smile in my heart disappeared completely, and was replaced by deep despair.
Aitang shook his head and sighed, saying nothing.
The group of people moved forward in silence, one step deeper and one step shallower, at a very slow speed.
When we arrived at the Qing army's station, the heavy rain stopped and the sky cleared up.
The golden sunshine penetrated the clouds and fell on the ground. Reflected by the water on the ground, the golden patch that hit the eye was full of vitality. But Aliguo couldn't be happy. This ghostly weather seemed to be specially targeted at him. After leaving the camp
Then it started to rain halfway along the way. When we arrived at the Qing army station, it stopped raining and started to clear up.
At this moment, Aliguo's face was covered with mud, and patches of mud on his body were still dripping, forming a strong contrast with the clean and refreshing soldiers in the Qing army garrison.
"Ah sneeze!"
Aliguo couldn't help but sneeze, his head felt dizzy, as if he had caught a cold.
Aitang shook his head and sighed, secretly saying that today was an unlucky day for Aliguo. When Ailiguo and Aitang stood at the gate of the camp, the soldiers on guard laughed loudly and even staggered with laughter. This laughter reached Ailiguo's ears.
It was extremely harsh. He frowned and wanted to scold him, but thinking of his current embarrassment, he simply stopped talking.
A soldier quickly went to report, and soon Li Zhen came out with Huang Shihai, Yang Banhou and others.
At the same time, Adams also walked out.
Adams looked at Aliguo's miserable and defeated appearance. He stood there stunned for a moment, and then suddenly exclaimed: "My God, dear old friend, how did you become like this?"
Adams pondered in his mind whether Aliguo did this deliberately to win Li Zhen's sympathy.
Yang Nengge and Lan Weiwen were also surprised. Adams just lost the battle, and Aliguo didn't have to torture himself like this? Yang Banhou and Huang Shihai laughed, and Li Zhen immediately shouted: "Shut up if you are laughing."
At that moment, the two of them shut their mouths obediently, not daring to make any more noise.
Seeing Li Zhen stop his subordinates from ridiculing him, Aliguo felt grateful in his heart. Immediately, Aliguo said pitifully: "Dear General Li, Aitang and I were drowned. I also fell in the mud.
I fell down and feel very uncomfortable. Can you let me take a shower in the camp and change into clean and fresh clothes?"
Li Zhen nodded and said: "Okay, I will make arrangements for you immediately."
Li Zhen ordered Huang Shihai to ask the soldiers to boil water for A Liguo and his party to take a bath, and then prepare clean clothes.
The next step must be negotiations between the two parties. Li Zhen didn't want to talk to the dirty Aliguo, so he made it easier. Half an hour later, Aliguo, Aitang and other accompanying soldiers finished washing and walked out in clean and fresh clothes.
.However, there were no suits or shirts in the Qing army camps, and they could only wear the clothes of soldiers in the army.
In the big tent, Li Zhen, A Liguo, Aitang and others sat down separately.
Yang Nengge and Lan Weiwen were absent and were detained by Li Zhen.
Aliguo took a sip of hot tea and said: "Dear General Li, Your Excellency Adams impulsively attacked the Qing army garrison. I deeply apologize and express my condolences to the dead soldiers. Adams is still detained. Can you please return it to me?"
Take him back." Even though Aliguo knew that it would be difficult to bring Adams back without paying the price, he still had to try.
Li Zhen asked: "Mr. Aliguo, do you think it is possible?"
Ali Guo sighed in his heart, knowing that he was going to bleed heavily.
Especially since the person in front of him is arrogant and domineering, he is a hardliner and is not threatened at all. Aliguo was silent for a moment and asked: "General Li, if you want to redeem Aliguo and others, what are the conditions?"
Li Zhen said with a smile: "It is very simple to redeem all the British prisoners. One price, one hundred thousand taels of silver, one thousand breech-loading rifles, and two hundred thousand rounds of ammunition. As long as these three conditions are met, I will
The captured British soldiers were released. But this was for the captured British soldiers, and Adams had to calculate separately."
Ali Guo frowned and secretly scolded Li Zhen for speaking like a lion.
Li Zhen continued: "Adams is the commander of the British fleet and the commander-in-chief of the British-French coalition this time. To redeem him, he certainly cannot be judged according to the standards of an ordinary soldier. Adams alone needs 400,000 taels of silver. In other words, you
It costs five hundred thousand taels of silver, one thousand rear-decorated rifles, and two hundred thousand rounds of ammunition."
"Five million taels of silver??"
Ali Guo exclaimed and said loudly: "There are so many silver coins, why don't you go and grab them?"
Li Zhenxiao said: "Is five hundred thousand taels a lot? I think it is still very little. For Mr. Consul, five hundred thousand taels of silver is just a small amount that can be paid easily. Mr. Aliguo, this is quite a lot."
A fair price. If you are unwilling, please ask Mr. Aliguo to go back and think about it before we discuss the price."
Aitang noticed that Li Zhen only mentioned British prisoners and knew that he was also going to bleed heavily.
Aitang was a little nervous, but still asked: "Dear General, you mentioned that the ones you redeemed were British soldiers. Do we, the French soldiers, also have to redeem our soldiers separately?"
"clever!"
Li Zhen nodded and said: "There is no big shot like Adams among the French prisoners, so the price will be lower. I thought about it carefully. You will pay 300,000 taels of silver, 1,000 rear-decorated rifles, and 200,000 rounds of bullets."
, I released the French soldiers detained in the camp. Your Excellency Aitang, this is already a very fair price, I believe you will agree."
Aitang frowned and said: "General, we don't have a coach, why do we need so much money?"
Li Zhen explained with a smile: "The reason is very simple. There are no commanders like Adams among the French prisoners, but there are many grassroots officers. These officers are the future of the French army. They will become French commanders, marshals and so on in the future. Such a promising future
Shouldn’t the price of officers be a little more expensive? It’s worth the money, they are worth the price.”
The corner of Aitang's mouth twitched, and her heart kept bleeding, thinking that Li Zhenzhen really thought highly of the French soldiers.