After Li Zhen sent Ruan Lele away, he sent someone to invite Liu Jintang, Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng.
Four people were sitting in the room.
Liu Jintang straightened his body and faced Li Zhen. He glanced left and right and found that Li Zhen's confidant Lu Shaochuan was not there. He felt a little weird in his heart, guessing the reason why Li Zhen came to him. However, Liu Jintang's expression showed that He was very serious, and he did not dare to be presumptuous in front of Li Zhen. The same was true for Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng, who sat in a dignified manner.
Li Zhen said straight to the point: "Just now, I got the news that envoys from Britain, France, the United States, Russia and other countries have come to Wuzhou Prefecture and will catch up with us soon."
The three of them raised their eyebrows, feeling a little surprised.
Liu Jintang pondered the deeper question, what was Li Zhen's intention in inviting them here.
Are we going to send troops?
Li Zhen smiled slightly and continued: "I estimate that the envoys from various countries came to Wuzhou Prefecture for only one purpose, and that is to prevent me from sending troops to Vietnam. I will stay for the time being to hold off the coalition forces from various countries, while the three of you will lead a brigade of troops first. To move south to Vietnam and gain a foothold, I will try my best to delay the situation and hope you can open up the situation in the shortest possible time."
"yes."
The three of them won in unison, and Liu Jintang's face showed even more excitement.
Among the three, he has the highest military rank, so naturally, he has the greatest chance of gaining military exploits.
After Liu Jintang understood Li Zhen's intention, he took Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng to leave. That day, Liu Jintang led three thousand soldiers to continue southward. After Lu Shaochuan got the news of the order, he could only smash his mouth and look at this group of people. Leaving, I was helpless to stay.
This was Li Zhen's decision, and Lu Shaochuan did not dare to resist.
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Just a few days later, all envoys from the eight countries arrived at Wuzhou Prefecture.
The leader was the British envoy Gobard.
He brought the Russian envoy Stopsilin, the French envoy Frankfort, the American envoy Ma Hui and others to the prefect's Yamen. Apparently, Gobard had received the news that Liu Jintang was leading his army south. He stood at the prefect's Yamen. With a professional smile on his face, he asked the soldiers to pass the news. After the soldiers passed the news, they came back and took Gobad and others into the government office.
In the hall, Li Zhen received everyone with a smile. Li Zhen seemed quite happy and said cheerfully: "Everyone has come a long way. Thank you for your hard work. I have ordered people to prepare a banquet to welcome you."
Gobard said angrily: "It's better to take the wind. Please explain to the president about sending troops to Vietnam."
Ma Hui also said: "President, the treaty signed by the nine countries that day has made it clear that they must not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and cannot send troops to other countries. Now, China has violated the treaty and sent troops to Vietnam without authorization. How should we deal with this? Please call the president back to the army immediately to avoid breaking his promise and losing the face of the president and China."
When the others heard this, they applauded.
These people all agreed with Ma Hui and wanted to contain Li Zhen.
"I bother,."
A disdainful shout came from outside the hall.
The person who came was actually a woman.
This woman was Ruan Lele. He looked at the foreigners present and wished he could return home immediately. The soldiers sent by Li Zhen were his hope, so Ruan Lele hoped that Liu Jintang and others would win. Ruan Lele heard Ma Hui's words , eyes bursting with blazing anger, wanting to fry Ma Hui.
She walked into the hall, pointed at Ma Hui, and shouted loudly: "Who are you? You don't know the situation and you talk nonsense and point fingers in front of the president. It's simply embarrassing."
"You, you... are so rude."
Ma Hui was scolded by a woman and was so angry that he trembled all over.
Especially, this woman is only fifteen or sixteen years old.
Although Ma Hui is an American, he has stayed in China for a long time and has gradually been influenced by Chinese writing styles and habits. Naturally, he despises women. Now, in full view of everyone, he was actually yelled at by a woman. This is simply embarrassing. Ah, after Ma Hui scolded him, his eyes fell on Li Zhen and said: "President, is this the upbringing in your house? It's so rude to let a woman break into the palace. I'm still here." When discussing official business, she comes in without informing her, does she still have law and order in her eyes?"
Li Zhen smiled and replied: "Her name is Ruan Lele, and I invited her here."
"ah."
Ma Hui exclaimed, knowing that he had just made a mistake.
The person was invited by Li Zhen, not uninvited, and the situation is different.
Ma Hui was embarrassed and would not admit it, so he asked: "We are discussing things, why did the president invite a woman here?"
Gobard also said: "I have also heard that China is a country of etiquette. It pays great attention to etiquette. When negotiating things, even maids have to avoid it. Now the president has called a woman into the hall like this. Could it be that I want to let this woman dance, but this occasion is not appropriate."
"You just dance, your whole family dances."
Ruan Lele snorted and immediately spoke back.
Even though she was quite well-behaved in front of Li Zhen and Ye Chengzhong, her gentleness was not something everyone could see.
When dealing with bad people, there will always be bad people.
The corners of Gorbad's mouth twitched, thinking that this woman was too tough.
Li Zhen sat above, looking at Ma Hui below, and couldn't help but want to laugh. In order to save Ma Hui's face, Li Zhen still suppressed his laughter and said: "Gentlemen, this lady and you are looking for My matter is really relevant. Come to think of it, you have really wronged me by saying that I sent troops into Vietnam. I did not send troops, but borrowed troops. I just borrowed troops."
"Borrowing troops, hey, that's nice to say."
Stopsilin stared at Li Zhen and said coldly.
Li Zhen flicked his sleeves and said loudly: "Don't you believe it? Let me introduce you and you will understand. The lady standing in front of you is not an ordinary person. She is the sister of the Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam and the surviving Nguyen The aunt of Prince Ruan Minh Duc, the two of them came to me to borrow troops to restore the country, why don't I lend them out?"
After a pause, Li Zhen continued: "Speaking of which, Yunnan is a vassal state of China. If the vassal state offers to lend troops, shouldn't I not lend them? So, I am not sending troops, nor am I going against our nine nations. It’s not illegal to make a treaty.”
Ruan Lele observed the words, and immediately said at the right time: "I am Ruan Lele, the only remaining princess of the Ruan Dynasty. The emperor's brother was killed, the country was occupied, relatives were killed, the hatred of the country and the family all came, but I have no strength to fight with Xi Yinglong. , unable to fight back, so I found the President. I am borrowing troops from the President, so please understand."
The envoys from various countries frowned after hearing this.
At this moment, they also felt embarrassed, but they did not expect that Li Zhen dug a hole for them.
Now they jumped into the pit, but how to exit?
ps: First update, I have to go out during the day, so the update is slightly delayed.