"No, no, no... Dear Xiao, you should rest tomorrow. This is just an ordinary surrender ceremony. The Emperor will give me his sword, and I will send him away from Sedan, and then the army will surrender..."
"It's just that simple. It's not the final negotiation. There's no point in you going!"
How could Bismarck dare to let Xiao Letian meet Napoleon III? He knew that the French emperor hated the Chinese Xiao Letian several times more strongly than he hated Prussia.
Because everyone has vanity and wants to save face, the French Emperor was defeated at the hands of Prussia. He could still accept it emotionally. After all, William I was the heir to the Hohenzollern family.
It is not a shame to lose at the hands of the Hohenzollern family, which has been inherited for thousands of years! But losing at the hands of China is not a good feeling.
This is just like ordinary people will always envy and hate the prosperity of those around them, but will not envy the world's richest man!
How did he become a millionaire after playing as a child? How did a poor relative who was too poor to take the blame become rich? This strong sense of contrast is the main reason for people's emotional imbalance.
And the richest man in the world makes 100 million today and 1 billion tomorrow. This has nothing to do with him, because he is too far away and no one knows him!
This is the mood of Napoleon III now. The French palace guard who came yesterday has made it very clear that he can surrender to anyone, but he cannot surrender to Xiao Letian.
If Xiao Letian or anyone from the Chinese clan appears at the surrender ceremony the next day, he will immediately order the battle to continue until the last soldier is killed!
Bismarck knew that the Emperor was not joking, he really did not want to see Xiao Letian!
The hatred between these two people started five years ago. In early 1865, Xiao Letian officially visited Europe. In that year, Xiao Letian was chased and intercepted by the French in the Mediterranean. In the end, he escaped and was imprisoned by the French Emperor in Bayland. Sanson.
At that time, the French Emperor was extremely arrogant when facing Xiao Letian. In the eyes of Napoleon III, Xiao Letian was just a small warlord in Asia, a careerist as small as an ant.
In the heart of the Emperor, you should be grateful for the treatment I give you as a guest, and you should be overwhelmed with excitement if I can meet you.
But I didn't expect that Xiao Letian was even more ruthless. His soldiers sneaked directly into France and rescued their leader by force.
A small war even broke out on the French-Swiss border. Although the scale of the war was small, the winner was the Chinese. The slapped French emperor was confused.
The hatred is over like this. Napoleon III will never reflect on his mistakes. He will not think that it is a sin for him to imprison Xiao Letian. Instead, he will think that it is a huge sin for you not to accept my imprisonment.
Since then, France has become the mortal enemy of the Chinese, and even a large-scale naval battle broke out, and Ryukyu was almost captured!
The hatred was getting deeper and deeper, and Xiao Letian had no intention of resolving it. He was not even willing to send a mission to France to negotiate.
This arrogant behavior made Napoleon III even more angry. He wanted to cut Xiao Letian into pieces!
But fate is so wonderful! The Emperor's revenge was not avenged, but he himself became Xiao Letian's defeated general. Even Bismarck believed that the Emperor surrendered so happily just because Xiao Letian's airship was too close to him.
The Emperor doesn't want to be captured by Xiao Letian! Subconsciously, he believed that he would rather face Prussia than face the Chinese!
What kind of bullshit is the Chinese? It was a concept that did not exist five years ago. Even the city of Beijing in the Qing Dynasty was captured by the French. Do I have to give you a small Chinese surrender?
The King of France is determined. If Xiao Letian dares to humiliate himself, he will order to fight to the last soldier!
Bismarck would never allow such a thing to happen. He walked up to Xiao Letian with a smile, put his arm around his shoulders and said, "The headquarters is too stuffy. Let's go for a walk and smoke a cigarette..."
The night breeze was cool and comfortable, and the headquarters was built on a high ground. From here, you could have a panoramic view of the entire battlefield at night. Behind the blood station, 300,000 Prussian troops and 100,000 French troops were resting and licking their wounds.
The light of bonfires and torches is like stars, forming a Milky Way on the earth. It is endless and looks very spectacular!
"Don't show up tomorrow! This war has finally achieved the results we want. Don't cause trouble..."
Xiao Letian took a few deep breaths, "Why don't you listen to me? If the decisive battle is delayed for more than ten hours, we can at least annihilate tens of thousands of French troops!"
"Didn't we already have a plan to eliminate a large number of French military noble groups?"
Bismarck smiled bitterly and shook his head, "No, Europe is not Asia, and the cultural differences between us are too great! What you said is indeed a good way to solve it once and for all, and completely create a gap in France's military heritage!"
"But we, the German nation, cannot do this! This is massacre and will be punished by God! And other countries in Europe will not agree!"
Xiao Letian lowered his head and said nothing for a long time, "Hey...then you have to be prepared...forty years later, I'm afraid the French, who have taken a breather, will have to settle old scores with you!"
"Forty years? It can't be that fast... I think we can protect Germany for seventy or eighty years in this battle!"
There is nothing easy to distinguish in this kind of thing. Xiao Letian can't say that he can predict the future!
"Since you have accepted the French Emperor's surrender, I won't say anything else...but you won't let me participate in the surrender ceremony. Isn't this a bit unjustifiable?"
"In this battle, my Chinese nation also shed our blood and contributed our strength! If I don't participate in the surrender ceremony, how can I protect my interests?"
"Don't worry about this. Prussia will definitely guarantee the interests of the Chinese people. All compensation will be given priority. If you have any requests, you can make them now!"
"But tomorrow, you really can't come forward... The personal hatred between you and the Emperor is simply irreconcilable! The Emperor has made it clear that as long as he sees you, he will order to fight to the last soldier!"
"I can feel it... he is serious!"
Xiao Letian turned pale and looked at him like a castle: "The old guy has quite a few problems. How come you still want to save face after all this?"
"This is a rare and important historical moment! Now that I'm here, you don't let me witness it with my own eyes... Isn't this a bit unreasonable?"
Bismarck stuffed a cigar into Xiao Letian with a grimace, "How about Cam Ranh Bay? Isn't that where you've always wanted? I'll help you get it!"
Xiao Letian's eyes lit up when he heard this, "How can a Cam Ranh Bay be allowed... With Hue as the boundary, give me all the south!"
"You have such a big appetite! Impossible, impossible..." Bismarck kept waving his hands, "The place is too big, even Britain will intervene!"
"What's more, France will not make such a big concession. There is another problem...you have to consider the attitude of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty!"
