allonlinenovel Chapter 164 Fusang's Compromise: Fame over Profit
Chapter 164 Fusang's Compromise: Fame over Profit
"Didn't your father teach you what politeness and manners are?"
Sanpu Neijiang's expression also began to darken, and his cloudy old eyes stared straight at Su Zhengyang.
Su Zhengyang curled his lips and revealed a hint of sneer.
Duan Jinshu, who was sitting next to Su Zhengyang, immediately felt a tense atmosphere coming and was ready to stop Su Zhengyang's next outrageous behavior, but it was too late.
Su Zhengyang grabbed the edge of the low table with both hands and overturned it with force. The tea set and boiling water on it flowed all over the floor. Some of the boiling water poured onto Sanura Neijiang's feet, scalding him and making him scream.
"Baga! You unreasonable bastard! What are you doing!?"
Su Zhengyang looked at Sanpu Neijiang with cold eyes, and said word by word: "You Fusang have the nerve to mention my father in front of me! Do you really think that I, Su Zhengyang, have no temper? Don't think I don't know that my father's assassination is closely related to you Fusang!"
"Shut your damn mouth! Believe it or not, I can make you, the so-called cabinet minister, be buried in China with just one order!"
The huge noise inside the house also caused a series of chain reactions outside. Yan Shuangying, Li Yunlong and others subdued all the Fuso guards guarding the door very quickly, and rushed in with guns in hand, with the black muzzles pointing directly at the heads of Miura Uchie and Takeno Fangda.
As long as Su Zhengyang gave the order, they would blow the heads of these two Japanese devils without hesitation.
Miura Uchie had a gloomy expression and his chest heaved up and down, but he was still relatively calm facing the gun that posed a great threat to him.
In contrast, the new Fuso consul, Takeno Fangda, was pale, his legs went weak with fear, and he almost fell to the ground.
"I, Su Zhengyang, am putting my words here today. Apologies and compensations are out of the question. If you are smart, you should swallow your anger. Otherwise, as long as I, Su Zhengyang, control Shanghai, you will never have a good life."
The two sides were on the verge of a stalemate and the negotiations reached a stalemate.
Duan Jinshu pretended to be angry and glared at Su Zhengyang, saying, "Do you still have any demeanor as a member of the Northern Frontier Congress? In an occasion like this, you flip the table and pull out your gun at the slightest provocation. How is that different from a street thug who is not worthy of being in public?"
Su Zhengyang then waved his hand, signaling Yan Shuangying and others to put down their guns.
Miura Uchie said with a grim expression: "If this is the attitude of your Northern Frontier government in negotiations, I think there is no need to talk any further. Be ready for war at any time. Although we Fuso don't want to make enemies everywhere at this time, if you go too far, there is no cowardly person under the Emperor's command who is afraid of war!"
Duan Jinshu hurriedly tried to smooth things over, "Mr. Sanpu, negotiations don't always produce results in a short period of time. I think both sides should calm down, adjust their emotions, and continue the discussion."
Miura Uchie also understood that if he continued to argue, he would not get the result he wanted, so he could only give up and nodded.
Just like that, the first negotiation between the two sides ended in a bad mood. After leaving the Fuso Concession, Su Zhengyang gave an order to station the three regiment-level combat units of the Skeleton Division near the Fuso Concession. If the negotiations failed, they would directly destroy their Marine Division to give Fuso a warning.
Su Zhengyang's action frightened Sanura Uchie and Takeno Fangtian, who were in the Hongkou Dojo, so much that they couldn't sleep all night.
Late at night, Miura Uchie and Takeno Hoda sat in the room and began to discuss this matter.
"This Su Zhengyang is the most tough Chinese person I have ever met. He is simply a mad dog!"
"Lord Miura, I see that he has placed his troops around us, intending to attack us directly if the negotiations fail."
After closing his eyes and thinking for a while, Sanpu Neijiang slowly opened his eyes and said: "We in Fuso only want Su Zhengyang's attitude to maintain our status and prestige in Shanghai. Since Su Zhengyang is currently unable to accept our conditions, and Fuso will never easily start a war under the current situation, we can only find another way."
"what do you mean?"
"Let's continue the negotiation process tomorrow."
The next day, the two sides sat down at the negotiation table again. Shocked by Su Zhengyang's momentum, Sanura Uchie went straight to the point.
"This time, the troops under Councillor Su blew up the Fuso Consulate for a reason. We won't take it seriously. We even accepted the losses Councillor Su brought to our Fuso Concession. But we must get Councillor Su's attitude on our side."
Su Zhengyang looked at the determined expression of the old fox Miura Uchie and knew that this was almost the bottom line of Fuso.
"What do you mean by attitude?"
Miura Uchie slowly said, "Congressman Su only needs to pay a symbolic compensation of two million dollars to Fuso, but our domestic media and the Shanghai media will make a big fuss about it. Congressman Su paid us a whopping 50 million dollars in compensation to settle the matter. I wonder what Congressman Su thinks? The cash lost in our Sanhe Bank alone is equivalent to at least 60 million dollars. This is also the last concession from Fuso!"
Su Zhengyang frowned and thought. Sanura Uchie's words were easy to understand. To put it bluntly, he would just pay a symbolic amount of compensation, and Fuso would use the influence of the media to hype up the Su Zhengyang compensation incident to restore their image in Shanghai.
To put it more simply, Su Zhengyang gained tangible benefits, while Fuso wanted fame rather than profit.
After a brief discussion with Duan Jinshu, they both agreed that this was the best way to deal with the situation at the moment.
Both Fuso and the Northern Frontier government are now on edge. If the situation gets out of control and an all-out war breaks out, it will be an outcome that neither side can accept. In this case, it would be better for both sides to take a step back.
Negotiations cannot be one party making endless demands while the other party makes constant concessions. Both parties must always come up with a response that satisfies the other party.
In this way, both parties preliminarily recognized the negotiation results and began to finalize the details.
In the afternoon, when Su Zhengyang was leaving, Sanpu Neijiang said with a hint of meaning: "Senator Su, you Chinese have an idiom, which is called the future is long. This time, you have insulted us Fusang. I, Sanpu Neijiang, have remembered it. One day, I will repay you double!"
Su Zhengyang turned his head and glanced at Sanpu Neijiang with disdain: "No matter when or where, I, Su Zhengyang, am always here to accompany you."
That evening, several newspaper media supported by Fuso in Shanghai released the latest news that this time, Su Zhengyang, a member of the Northern Frontier Government Congress, would bear the responsibility for the losses caused to the Fuso Concession by his troops and pay a total of 80 million oceans in compensation.
Su Zhengyang, who had always been at loggerheads with Fuso and had never made any concessions, also did not make any response, which was contrary to his usual practice. This confirmed the payment of compensation. The next morning, a large number of soldiers on Su Zhengyang's side loaded heavy wooden boxes onto trucks and sent them to the Fuso Concession to be handed over to the new consul Takeno Fangda. Judging from the size of the convoy transporting the wooden boxes, if they were filled with cash, it would be consistent with the news from Fuso.
Little did they know that most of the wooden boxes were empty, and only a few of the boxes on the trucks were filled with glittering oceans.
The matter was settled at this point, and the Fuso side was in full swing in building a new consulate and repairing the damaged buildings in the Fuso Concession.