"Explain? Apologize? With this posture you are showing, you still want to be polite to me?"
Xiao Hexin pointed at the chaotic Norodom Palace behind the Baron. The red carpet at the flagpole on the lawn was also kicked off. The honor guards also began to look for bullets. The people who arranged the table for Annan fled in all directions, throwing away the long The cold table was knocked over.
Further away, more than 300 soldiers left behind in Norodom Palace were rushing to reinforce the main gate, and some of them were rushing to report to the military camp outside the city.
"The Chinese take over Annan. How can you show off such a small number of people for such a big thing? Are more than a dozen veterans just trying to get away with it? Are you still claiming to the outside world that you, the French, are only leaving temporarily and will have to come back sooner or later?"
One sentence exposed the old baron's little thoughts and made the French governor slightly embarrassed. He really promoted this to the residents of Saigon.
In his propaganda, France only temporarily leased Annan's interests to the Chinese for three years, and would still take them back after three years!
Those barbarians didn’t know the inside story anyway, so at least I looked better when I left!
But I didn't expect the Chinese to even inquire about this, but the governor was ready to fight to the end, "It's my freedom to prepare what kind of ceremony. There are no express provisions in any treaty. Are you not convinced?"
"Pass my order, just leave me two honor guards and one flag bearer..."
Hey... this is called a competition. The officers and soldiers around Xiao Hexin were so angry that their noses were almost crooked!
Xiao Hexin was not angry and sneered and said, "Okay, okay, I won't choose the honor guard, but I want to ask you... where is the information?"
"Information, what information?" The old baron immediately woke up and glanced at Xiao Hexin, and then his eyes quickly looked to the side with a guilty conscience.
"Are you pretending to be confused with me? Where are the population registers? Where are the most detailed maps? Where are the hydrographs and maps with contour lines?"
"Where is the hydrological data of the Mekong River? Where is the detailed data of all the Gulf Streams, reefs, and waterways along the coast of Annanguo? When will you hand it over to me..."
"No!" The old baron screamed like a cat whose tail was stepped on. "What nonsense are you talking about? I don't understand. I just handed over the security to you. I don't know the rest..."
"Haha... You are really good at pretending to be confused. Then let me ask you, how many days will your soldiers prepare to withdraw after the security handover? Tell me!"
The old baron was made furious by Xiao Hexin's aggressive tone, "This is a French colony, and our soldiers have the right to station here!"
"Fart! This place has been ceded to us Chinese by your French government, and it is still your colony. You are just deceiving the Annan people who are like fools. You still want to secretly change your concept with me?"
"I, I, I... I am providing protection to French businessmen, and our army has the obligation to protect expatriates!"
"Bullshit! Do you think that the Chinese are the decadent Manchu Qing Dynasty? You just want to protect overseas Chinese when you say we send troops to protect overseas Chinese? Not even the British will station troops in the territory controlled by the Chinese. You big French nose is nothing!"
"Shame, this is France's shame! His Majesty the Emperor will definitely punish you!"
Xiao Hexin immediately found the flaw. He immediately shouted to the reporters following the army, "Did you hear that? You all heard it clearly... Record it for me. This guy is a royalist and he is against the French Republic!" "
The old baron was so angry that his blood pressure soared and he was about to fall into coma. "You slandered... you are so... so shameless!"
Xiao Hexin glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw six to seven hundred Saigon citizens gathered around him. Many of them were businessmen, local officials, gentry and other educated middle class people.
Moreover, reporters from many countries who came with the battleship also caught up with the main force, and the real performance finally began.
Xiao Hexin raised his hands in the air and shouted loudly, "You call me shameless? Call me slanderous? Well...how do you explain this? Send us our gifts!"
The Chinese soldiers quickly pushed a flatbed truck common in Asia, open on all sides, a large truck commonly used in rural areas.
The four teak boxes on the carriage were still emitting moisture. Next to the boxes were tied six dark-colored Annan locals. Judging from their clothes, they looked like fishermen from the coast.
The cart was pushed in front of the old baron, and the lid of the wooden box was opened with a bang. People stepped forward to watch, while reporters curiously moved closer.
I saw two huge clay wine urns placed in each box. One of the wine urns had been pried open, and something like black sand flowed out of it.
"Black fire# medicine? Granular black fire# medicine..." Half of these reporters have had military experience, and they can see how scary this thing is at a glance.
Granulated gunpowder was the most common gunpowder before the emergence of maroon gunpowder in the West. It has great power and stable performance.
The old baron's face was pale and his thin lips were pressed together tightly.
Xiao Hexin stared at him with wolf-like eyes: "Your Majesty the Governor...our ship anchored outside the mouth of the Mekong River last evening!"
"But suddenly two fishing boats approached my warship, one on the left and one on the right, wanting to sell me seafood... Unfortunately, our Chinese warships always have some back-up tactics when anchoring in dangerous waters!"
"Just when they were trying to get close to me, our water ghosts started searching. Guess what happened?"
"Haha... a group of fishermen who are selling us crabs and tiger shrimp actually dare to resist!"
"Dear Governor, how do you explain it?"
"What do I have to explain? It's just a few criminals. What do I have to explain..."
"Ouch! I have nothing to say? I'm just wondering, how can this little thief from Annan get the granulated black fire #powder that is only available in the army?"
"As far as I know, the Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam does not have this technology now!"
"It's not a high-tech technology. How do you know the Vietnamese don't know it?"
"Haha, the cooked duck is really tough! Even if the Annan Kingdom has this technology, is there still an Annan Army in Saigon?"
"This is your French colony, the foundation of all your armed forces in this world! Do you dare to say that you have nothing to do with these things?"
"No! We French people don't know these indigenous monkeys!" the old baron said with a tilt of his head and neck.
Xiao Hexin was very angry, "Are you refusing to admit your guilt? A dead pig is not afraid of boiling water? These criminals have already confessed that they were secretly instructed by you, but you still dare to fight with me?"
"This is so shameless. Journalists, please write it in. Please write it clearly!"
The old baron's face was livid and he did not defend himself. He just searched around with his eyes. At this time, there was suddenly the sound of dense footsteps in the distance, and then a group of French soldiers appeared on the street.
