Episode 35 Ultimatum(2/2)
When he heard that it wasn't something like "kill your whole family", but just for convenience, the governor smiled:
"What type of convenience is Mr. Imperial Envoy referring to?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and said:
"I am here, on behalf of Her Majesty the Empress of Ming Dynasty and the government, to have formal talks with Mr. Governor. Can Mr. Governor allow us to provide a small room for us to contact our government at any time?... You know, our consul and his family
, has been exterminated in your territory, so if we want to contact the country, there is no need to run to the consulate, hehehehe..."
The governor listened to the translation, looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang's eerie smile, and said "the consul's family was wiped out", and felt cold sweat oozing from his back.
He chuckled: "I understand what Mr. Imperial Envoy means. I want a small room to serve as your country's temporary consulate in the Governor's Mansion. Yes, no problem... However, the consul family you mentioned... seems a bit irresponsible.
Already..."
Xiang Xiaoqiang laughed and did not answer the question. Instead, he motioned Sun Jiye and Wang Hexiang to take the radio and go with the governor's secretary to the small room next door. They set up the radio there so that they could send the negotiation status back to the country at any time, or receive instructions from the country.
Xiang Xiaoqiang bit off the end of the cigar, and then the guard behind him immediately reached out for a lighter and lit it for him. Xiang Xiaoqiang took a deep puff and was almost choked to the point of being speechless.
"Ahem, cough... damn, this piece of shit is so violent..." He cursed and coughed, "Let's... cough, let's get back to the business, cough... On behalf of the Ming government, I ask the Governor, Your Excellency, to
Bring peace and quiet to Batavia before eight o'clock in the morning. It is five o'clock and you have three hours."
The governor stared at him for a while, smiled like a friendly elder, and said:
"Dear Mr. Imperial Envoy, do you think I like this riot? Do you think I haven't tried hard to quell the riot? ... No, I have been trying, like a most devout Christian, to do my best to prevent the situation from getting worse...
…The force under my command is very limited, there are very few policemen, and our country currently does not have many troops stationed in East India..."
"There aren't many troops stationed, right?" Xiang Xiaoqiang muttered silently and nodded, "Well, okay, okay."
The governor stared at him: "What do you mean?"
"Ah? That's not interesting. Go on."
The governor looked at him for a long time and then continued:
"...I am like the most devout Christian...In order to ensure that your country's nationals can leave the dangerous area, I specially sent police forces to guard the port, so that your country's nationals can wait safely at the port for evacuation..."
Xiang Xiaoqiang stared at him and said:
"There are a few policemen at the port, but when I took the car from the port to your mansion, for such a long distance, I saw only local people burning, killing and raping our expatriates, and I didn't see a single policeman... If you
If you insist on saying that, then there is nothing to say. You said you are a devout Christian, then okay, you Christian, listen up, I will say it again: before eight o'clock in the morning, the riots must disappear in the whole city. I don't care
You can't do it, but you can't. When you can't do it, you, a devout Christian, will see what Satan is."
The Governor stared at him in surprise, as if a decent man had been insulted:
"Are you threatening me?"
"I'm threatening you."
The governor raised his hand and said, "Then we don't have to talk anymore. You can go. I will continue to work hard to solve the problems in the city. But I will never accept intimidation from anyone."
Xiang Xiaoqiang stretched his upper body across the table again, eyes almost touching him and said:
"If you don't accept threats, your Majesty Queen Wilhelmina and His Excellency Prime Minister Hendrickus Clarian may accept threats."
"What's the meaning?!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang stretched out his hand behind him. At this time, a telegram from China had been sent and transcribed.
Xiaoqiang took a step back and handed the document to the governor with both hands solemnly:
"Please forward it to your government on my behalf. This is our country's final attitude."
The governor took it in surprise, read it quickly, and murmured:
"If it doesn't end at eight o'clock... all diplomatic relations will be severed... If it doesn't end at nine o'clock, the two countries will automatically be in a state of war..."
He raised his head and said expressionlessly:
Chapter completed!