Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 226 Negotiation Begins

About three hours later, at four o'clock in the middle of the night, members of the French wizard guerrillas in the castle of the Capet family estate launched a night attack.

They were a little anxious. Although they were not short of supplies, due to the number of people, they were very tired after fighting for a long time. At four o'clock in the evening, they took advantage of the effect of the Felicia they had taken a few hours ago, and launched another attack .

John Korsdorf had anticipated this night attack. He asked the five teams of Aurors to take turns to monitor and rest, ensuring that each time the three teams of Aurors were awake and ready to fight at any time.

Therefore, this attack by the French wizard guerrillas did not achieve any effect, but made him even more exhausted. Moreover, two personnel were lost in this operation.

John Korsdorf still did not launch the next attack on the Capet family manor castle. The success of the defense just now confirmed his tactic of continuing to drag on. He decided to continue despite the French Ministry of Magic's request to end the battle early. drag on.

At about six o'clock the next morning, things changed, and the voice of a member of the French wizarding guerrillas in the castle of the Capet family estate came out.

"We demand negotiations!"

"There is absolutely no such possibility, the only thing waiting for you is a trial!" John Korsdorf resumed.

Two minutes later, a corpse was lifted into the air by a levitation spell from the castle of the Capet family estate, with a painful expression on his face.

John Korsdorf didn't know the identity of the corpse, but someone soon recognized it. It was the 22-year-old Ryan Capet, the son of the head of the Capet family.

"You still have 2 minutes. If you don't agree to our request, we will kill a member of the Capet family within 2 minutes. This is the trial they deserve!"

Johann Korsdorf wanted to respond by killing a captured French partisan, but was stopped by Madame Maxime.

"It can't be like this. They have far more hostages than us. We can talk to them temporarily. Even if there is no result, we should stabilize them."

"You still have one minute." In the castle of the Capet family estate, the voice just now came out again.

"We agree, tell us your conditions." Ms. Maxim responded with a loud curse.

"You send someone in to negotiate with us." The voice just now replied.

"No, you come out and negotiate with us."

The two sides exchanged a few symbolic words, and finally reached a provisional agreement to start negotiations on such a conversation.

This is exactly what Lockhart and the Red Ghost would want. As long as this negotiation is open, there is no fear of the French Ministry of Magic going back on its word in the future. As long as they back off, the Red Ghost will definitely arouse the anger of wizards all over France.

But how to negotiate is a science. Although there is a saying that "what you can't get back on the battlefield, don't expect to get it back on the negotiating table", but there are still many examples in history of winning on the battlefield but losing money on the negotiating table. .

For example, the famous "Sino-French New Treaty" signing event in the late Qing Dynasty in China was an event that won the battlefield but lost at the negotiation table.

Since China's modern times, disputes and even wars with foreign powers have occurred from time to time, but the Sino-French war is extremely controversial.

Different from the complete defeat situation in the previous wars between the Qing Dynasty and the big powers, the Sino-French war actively sought peace while the Qing Dynasty maintained a certain military advantage. This result is called by historians as "France wins without victories, and China loses without defeat." , or China's "military victory, diplomatic failure"

In 1883, the French army attacked Hue, Vietnam, and forced Vietnam to sign the Legislative Treaty of Hue, which meant that Vietnam would break away from China's vassal status and become a French protectorate.

Empress Dowager Cixi was furious and issued an edict to send troops to Vietnam, and the Sino-French war began. In December 1883, the Qing army failed in northern Vietnam, and the impact was far-reaching. Later, the Qing army on the front line in Guangxi lost its morale and collapsed across the board. France took advantage of the situation to occupy Zhennan Pass.

At that time, the situation was unfavorable to the Qing Dynasty. Under the mediation of the British, the "Sino-French Treaty" was signed in Tianjin. The two sides guaranteed the independent status of Vietnam, and China opened the Sino-Vietnamese border to trade with France.

Later, the Qing Dynasty and France disagreed on this treaty, and war broke out again.In the beginning, the situation of the war was always at a disadvantage for the Qing Dynasty, especially in naval warfare, and the Qing Dynasty was defeated.

After the sea struggle calmed down, in 1885, the veteran Feng Zicai won the Zhennanguan victory on the Sino-Vietnamese border, which shocked China and the world.

In this war, the great powers France lost to the Qing Dynasty, and the French Prime Minister Jou Ferry took the blame and resigned. The domestic political situation in France fell into a certain degree of chaos.

However, the Qing Dynasty was afraid that it would be disadvantageous to continue to fight, so it did not continue to pursue and expand the results of the battle under such favorable circumstances. Instead, it forcibly withdrew its troops and stepped up negotiations with military victory as capital.

In order to save the decline, France took advantage of the opportunity and signed the "Sino-French New Treaty" with the Qing Dynasty, which was powerful to itself. defeat".

The impact of the Qing-French War was far-reaching. After the war, France relied on unequal treaties to open the door to the southwestern frontier of the Qing Dynasty, and controlled important railways and transportation centers on the frontier of the Qing Dynasty, which gradually expanded and stabilized France's sphere of influence in the Southwest. .

And the Qing court once became the laughing stock of the international diplomatic circles and lost all face.

However, conducting diplomatic negotiations is a technical task. Lockhart believed that it would be difficult for the wizards of the French Wizarding Guerrillas to defeat the cunning politicians of the French Ministry of Magic through simple short-term training, so he did not expect the French Wizarding Guerrillas to be able to negotiate. Too much achievement on the table.

Only two negotiating bottom lines were proposed:

One is that wizards suspected of committing crimes among members of the French Capet family must be publicly broadcast across Europe, and at least three-quarters of French wizards must be able to watch the public trial.

The second is not to hold accountable the French wizard guerrillas and all wizards who participated in the parade and strike.

For the rest, Lockhart didn't make demands on the negotiating wizard of the French wizard guerrillas, but let him play freely, take the initiative to strive for more favorable conditions, and at the same time pay attention to text and language traps, and don't directly agree to any conditions.When preparing to sign an agreement, be sure to bring back relevant information and study it again.

In this way, a negotiation between the guerrillas and the Ministry of Magic began.

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