The "Confucius Temple Case" committed by the French in Tianjin caused a huge response among the scholars, which was simply exciting. This is the Confucian religion that foreigners wanted to destroy us, and they wanted to enslave us spiritually. Public opinion forced the court to send an investigation team to Tianjin with the French ambassador to China to conduct an investigation.

The head of the investigation team gave Cixi a headache again. The diehards disdained to deal with foreigners, and the disciples of the saints could not be sent. Some of them proposed that if you want to destroy my holy teachings, I will destroy your foreigners. So Kang Youwei, who was full of trains, continued his career in writing books. Cixi had to give Wan Qing the first Westernization master Li Hongzhang. Li Zhongtang was also helpless. He really didn't want to accept such cases. If you say that foreigners were intentionally insulting us Chinese, it would be impossible to say that the problem was insulting us Chinese from the perspective of the Chinese, but if you look at the problem from the perspective of the Chinese, the matter would be big again.

It was still the imperial court's will. No matter how unwilling Li Hongzhang was, he had to come to Wu Tingfang, Xu Jingcheng and other diplomatic players and joined French Minister Grelis to fight to Tianjin.

After Ye Zhikui, as the admiral of Zhili and the governor of Zhili, Wang Wenshao, met Li Hongzhang with Li Hongzhang, he was asked by Li Hongzhang to assist in handling the case and resolve the diplomatic dispute.

In Tianjin and French Concession, French Minister Grelis came to China for a long time. He obviously knew the culture of Chinese wine tables and knew the clear statement that it was easy to do things at the wine table. He invited Li Hongzhang and his party in a French restaurant. Ye Zhikui, as a Chinese investigator, was also invited and sat at the head of Li Hongzhang.

Grelis obviously had the pride of being a Gaul rooster. Before the banquet started, he walked up to Ye Zhikui arrogantly, staring straight above, stretched out his hands like a gift, and said in his rough Chinese: "Ye, I have heard of your name and admired your straightforward personality. However, in this incident, I hope you can control your temper and not affect the relationship between China and France because of your personality."

Ye Zhikui was inexplicably, do you need your appreciation? But out of politeness, he still reached out and shook hands with the Frenchman. Then he picked up the napkin on the table and carefully wiped the fingers he had just touched with Grelis, and said with a smile: "I won't let you down with my little cabbage." Cabbage is the term used by the French when calling mistress.

Grilis's face turned from white to blue, and he glared at Ye Zhikui with hatred. What surprised Ye Zhikui was that before he left, he replied charmingly: "Ye, it turns out that you are too, so we will see you in the evening!"

Now it was Ye Zhikui's turn to turn yellow and blue. Li Hongzhang, who was beside him, didn't pay attention to the conversation between the two. Seeing Ye Zhikui's face changed, he asked in a little uncertain way: "Congyun, you have a bad face. What did you say to the Frenchman just now?"

Ye Zhikui rubbed his hands and replied, "Zhongtang, he said he admires you very much!"

Li Hongzhang said seriously: "Is that so? Then I want to communicate more with him. By the way, how is your new army trained in Congyun?"

Ye Zhikui suppressed his smile and replied: "With the old Zhongtang taking care of the court, how can you be embarrassed? It's just that there are too few people who understand Western military tactics now. Zhongtang needs to borrow more boys, wait... Zhongtang, the boy hasn't finished speaking yet."

Li Hongzhang had already turned his head aside and talked to others. He was very clear that Ye Zhikui had the hobby of "poaching people" Li Hongzhang was afraid that he would say a few more words to this kid and lose several subordinates.

Ye Zhikui opened his eyes innocently and asked to the only person he carried next to him, "Did I say something wrong?" After asking, Ye Zhikui regretted it again, asking what the use of this bitch is!

Sure enough, Shigeo, who said, "Old people are always right in the eyes of small people, but villains still have to admire you. You are the only person in our Qing Dynasty who made the Zhongtang turn around and leave when they see it." Is this a compliment or a criticism? That is a bitch.

After a while, the banquet began, the French served a roast chicken. Grelis introduced: "We in France are known as the country of roosters. Chicken is a very noble animal. This dish is the most suitable for entertaining nobles like the middle hall."

After hearing this, Li Hongzhang looked at Bai Jie's snow-sliding plate and the grilled chicken with oily oil on it. He was stunned. After thinking about it, he grabbed the whole chicken with one hand, teared a piece of chicken with the other, stuffed it into his mouth, tasted it, and spit out two words: "It's okay!"

The French man opposite was stunned. French minister Grelis was stunned. Seeing this, Ye Zhikui laughed secretly, picked up the roast chicken with his hand, and ate it directly: "Zhongtang, what's okay? Are you lying to the boy! This chicken tastes very ordinary."

Most of the Qing officials who didn't know how to start saw the two of them eating with relish, and suddenly realized in their hearts: It turns out that the French people always grab chickens with their hands. Alas! It's really a barbarian country, but it's better to enter the country and follow the customs. So they followed suit and stuffed the chickens into their mouths. For a moment, they saw a pair of hands flying up and down on the French dining table.

Seeing this, Grelis was helpless and had to abandon the knife and fork. He gritted his teeth and picked up the whole chicken with his hands. When the other Frenchmen saw that Grelis had done this, what else could they do? Just use their hands! After eating Grelis, they really felt it was like this. This method seemed good and tasty! A few years later, Grelis returned to France and introduced this way to Europe. After that, Europeans grabbed the chicken with their hands to eat it.

After drinking and eating, Grelis summoned the French soldiers who insulted Confucius' clay statue to ask about the situation. In fact, there is no need to ask at all, everyone knows what's going on.

Sure enough, after a moment, Grelis came back and said to Li Hongzhang: "Li, our soldiers said that they were just curious about the sculpture and went up to touch it with their hands. Who knew that the sculpture was made of clay, and accidentally damaged the arm. This was just a small accident. Our Gaul warriors did not have any offense, so we hope you can give up."

After hearing this, Xu Jingcheng, the attendant of Li Hongzhang, stepped forward and said, "Mr. Greliss, Confucius in China is equivalent to Napoleon's status in the minds of you French people. Therefore, disrespect for his statue is disrespect for us Chinese. We hope that you can formally issue a statement of apology to us and be responsible for repairing the statue of the saint."

Grelis waved his hand and replied: "No! No! Mr. Xu, my soldiers don't understand this matter. They did nothing wrong. We will not apologize to the Qing Dynasty. It is possible to discuss helping to repair the statue. After all, my soldiers damaged the statue."

Xu Jingcheng had no choice but to explain to him again, saying that the Ming court must apologize to French soldiers.

The two of them had a blushing face and didn't make a comeback. Ye Zhikui really has no love for this kind of verbal battle. You say you are a Frenchman, you have to damage cultural relics. We just need to apologize. There are so many complaints there. Isn't it just that you rely on your arrogant and arrogant identity and refuses to bow to us, the "despicable inferior nations" in your eyes, to admit their mistakes, right? You are afraid that you will be sneered by other countries if you lose face!

Ye Zhikui became more and more annoyed as he heard it. He saw Xu Jingcheng almost begging others to apologize to him. He was bored. He was really kind and bullied by dogs. He was shameless. He said to Shigo with a calm face: "Go, get a basin of water."

Deep down, Shigo Shinobu was stunned. With his IQ, of course he didn't understand what Ye Zhikui wanted to do at this critical moment, but it did not prevent him from finding a basin of water quickly.

Ye Zhikui said again: "Spit a mouthful of phlegm inside." Minato Shigo stumbled his throat and vomited out a large mouthful of disgustingly. He always had the order of Ye Zhikui.

Ye Zhikui took the water and walked forward in two or three steps. In the astonished gaze of the negotiation personnel between China and France, he suddenly slammed the water and poured it on Grelis.

The Chinese and French personnel were caught off guard and looked at Ye Zhikui with wide eyes and wonder. They forgot to speak and think. Grelis was soaked all over. He was furious and asked loudly: "Ye, what are you doing! I want you to apologize to me, right away! Immediately!"

Ye Zhikui curled his lips and asked back: "Apology? Why? Lord Minister, I don't think I did anything wrong!"

Grilis wiped the water from his face and said angrily: "Ye, have you done anything wrong to make me look like this now?"

Ye Zhikui said slowly: "Mr. Grelis, in some places in Yunnan, China, we will pour water on guests out of respect, so I am not insulting you, but respecting you."

Li Hongzhang's old face twitched and he smiled bitterly. This Congyun is coming again.

Grelis stomped his feet, pinched the orchid fingers with both hands, and said to Ye Zhikui: "No, you must apologize to me! You are an insult to me!"

Ye Zhikui's face changed and he said coldly: "Mr. Minister, is this your robber's logic? You French soldiers damaged our saint's statue. We felt insulted and asked you to apologize, but you pushed and stopped. And I just watered you. When you feel that you were insulted, you asked me to apologize. Is your axiom what you think is right? Master, I am very disappointed with you. I have long heard a famous saying in the West that axiom is only within the range of cannons. Fortunately, your French concession is also within the range of my Ye's cannon. I hope you can understand that on our Chinese land, we must respect the customs of our Chinese."

Grelis jumped and said, "Ye, you are provoking, you are provoking a war between China and France!"

Ye Zhikui snorted coldly and replied: "So what if you provoke? Your President Kano has just been stabbed to death. Your domestic parties are fighting for power and profit. Those big men are probably not in the mood to take care of such trivial things that have happened in East Asia. Lord, watch your back on the land of our Chinese!"

Grelis had never met a Qing official who threatened him directly. He was like a rooster who was soaked in anger. He was so angry that he was trembling all over and couldn't speak. Li Hongzhang watched coldly for a while before he walked over and said, "Okay, Lord Minister, we have something to discuss. Why don't you go back and change your clothes first and then we will talk about it."

Then he smiled and said to Ye Zhikui, "Congyun, you are tired too. Go back and rest first. Leave the rest to me, the old man."

Ye Zhikui showed a victorious smile, stretched out two fingers to Li Hongzhang, made a victory gesture, and then left with Shigou, who was secretly accused of reincarnation.

Li Hongzhang didn't understand the meaning of the gesture. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly realized and murmured to himself: "This Congyun, I always remember to poach people from me, Li Hongzhang. I must have asked me for two more talents."

Shortly after Ye Zhikui returned, the discussion result came out. The French agreed to apologize to China and be responsible for repairing the Confucius Temple sculptures. Ye Zhikui once again proved to the world that his unique and stupid style was. Li Hongzhang praised him to the court, Congyun, this young man, he had two reasons, and had already started to go abroad.
Chapter completed!