At first, Li Hongzhang and Daewon-kun, the senior consultant around these cute presidents, repeatedly delayed negotiations with the Japanese on the excuse of handling state funerals for Queen Min. Daewon-kun, who has always been xenophobia, was also angry at the rudeness and viciousness of the Japanese. On the surface, while expressing his remarks to Ito Hirobuki no longer stubbornly in the country, he secretly persuaded the mob president to mobilize national forces to repel the Japanese army.

Hiromori Ito was very dissatisfied with the North Korean side's delaying tactics, so he led the Japanese army out of Seoul and back to Jeju Island on April 22, 1878 to show the breakdown of the negotiations. He issued an ultimatum to the North Korean government of China, intending to resort to force once the negotiations break down.

Asahi and Japan confronted each other in Seoul and Incheon, and the situation was unprecedentedly tense.

The Chinese army had two brigades, plus a fully organized artillery regiment, with a total of 20,000 people, and the security forces, with a total of more than 30,000.

The Japanese have less than three thousand, and their weapons and equipment are not of the same level, and both sides are not on the same level.

The question now is not how long it takes for the Chinese military to kill all the Japanese people in North Korea, but because China is trying to reverse relations with Britain and France and does not want to easily expand the scale of the war.

It was because the Japanese saw this that they kept provoking.

The Japanese army's retreat in anger also gave the Chinese army the opportunity to attack people from behind.

On August 22, 1878, Li Hongzhang and Dayuanjun sent people to rush to Mashanpu and requested the secretariat of the President of the Chinese Army to deal with the conflict between the North and the South.

"Since that's the case, there's no need to talk about it. I now order to kill all the Japanese and Koreans in the North Korean territory. Those who have not evacuated North Korea to the New Three Siberian provinces and Central Asia provinces are all people who do not intend to submit to the Chinese regime anymore. There is nothing to regret if they kill!" The cute president stood up and said calmly.

Li Hongzhang and Dayuanjun actually guessed that the emperor would give similar orders, but they didn't expect that Emperor Hua would react so fiercely. If he was not satisfied, he would have to terminate the negotiations.

You should know that the naval power of Britain and France in Asia is still an absolute advantage, and they will fight wherever they want. Doing so will be another regression to the relationship between Britain and France that has just eased.

"Your Majesty, it's easy to start a war, you can start fighting at any time. The Japanese have actually escaped almost. The rest is a little good at mountain combat. In our words, a little guerrillas." Li Hongzhang pondered: "Do you tell the embassies of various countries again?"

Princess Katrina Kaif also advised: "Yes, it's okay to fight and give a note while trying. If you don't say anything, it seems inappropriate."

President Meng nodded and said, "You can continue to give a note to the diplomatic state, but you must make it clear to all countries that North Korea is a province of China. Now it is all Han people and an inseparable part of China. No country can attempt to interfere with the unification of China. In addition, we cannot forget about the behavior of the Japanese. We must let them ced Nagasaki Castle. Moreover, due to the Japanese's military and hostile behavior in North Korea, the Japanese will also be compensated, at least 100 million Chinese dollars!"

One hundred million Chinese yuan is equivalent to one hundred million taels of official silver from the Qing Dynasty. How could the Japanese take so much?

Everyone present was stunned, but Li Hongzhang nodded calmly and said, "Yes, Master, I'll do it right away."

Li Hongzhang has changed the old-style names of old ministers that he was used to talking about with new era terms.

On the one hand, the Chinese army launched a "aftermath" throughout North Korea, ensuring that North Korea no longer has illegal foreign personnel and military personnel except for Han people and foreigners registered with the Chinese government, who have passports and legally entered the country.

On the other hand, Li Hongzhang is actively contacting ministers from various countries.

"Hello everyone, I'll invite you here today, just gather together, don't be polite." Li Hongzhang raised his red wine glass with a smile, and the bright red wine rippled in the goblet, with beautiful shapes and beautiful colors.

With Li Hongzhang's words, gunfire was everywhere outside. From Seoul to Busan, more than 20,000 Chinese troops launched a full-scale attack on such a short distance. It was difficult to hide because the Chinese army was originally from guerrilla warfare. The more the main division of the Chinese army's First Field Division, the more they would never forget these old traditions and would often be taken to the mountains for training in mountain combat.

The ministers of several countries stood up one after another and started to talk softly. Everyone thought that the battle between the Chinese army and the Japanese was about to begin again.

"Mr. Foreign Minister, you can talk about the conditions that are unreasonable, and you can't start a war again!" The British minister frowned and said to Li Hongzhang: "After the Emperor of China extended an olive branch to European countries, have the relationship been eased? Why did the fight start again?"

The olive branch that the British refer to is the one that the cute president talked to British reporters a few days ago. When he talked to a British reporter, he said that the social system of China and the system of European powers are the same ideology. Everyone has a similar system. Therefore, there is no political and economic system dispute, which is the most important thing.

As mentioned earlier, only this form of dispute is the fundamental point of contradiction. Since there is no such contradiction, then what remains is disputes over interests, which is not a big deal. The British, French, and other countries, the powerful countries do not want China to be too powerful, but China is already strong. It is impossible to prevent China from unifying North Korea, which borders the border. They basically have no idea of ​​preventing China from unifying North Korea.

The key is Japan. Originally, the British and French wanted to use the power of the Japanese to involve Tsarist Russia in the Far East, but now Tsarist Russia no longer exists. So, they just follow the flow and use the power of the Japanese to involve the power of the Chinese. In fact, it is the same. They just don’t want to fight casually. Especially, Japan is no match for China at all. After releasing a brigade in China in Japan, the problem of guarding Nagasaki Castle is actually not big.

The Chinese army is still in a weak position, with a lot of brigades, but if the waters from North Korea to Japan are cut off by the British fleet and the French fleet, there will be no supplies. If China had not had nearly one million people in Nagasaki City, even a trump brigade with nearly 10,000 people would not have been able to persist for a long time.

"There is no way, who makes the Japanese always stop leaving? Isn't this just a fight? It will not affect the business of various countries in North Korea, nor will it affect the relationship with China." Li Hongzhang smiled slightly, "We drink, these are small things."

"Yes, North Korea's problem is a small problem now. The key is when will the Chinese army evacuate from Japan and cannot always occupy Nagasaki Castle? Moreover, the conditions for demanding Japan to compensate 100 million Chinese dollars are too harsh, and none of our countries can accept it!" said the British minister seriously.

"This is a matter between us and Japan. Mr. Minister, are you a little bit lenient? The compensation cannot be reduced. Nagasaki Castle must also be controlled by China. According to our emperor's wishes, if any countries want to have ports in Japan, our China will also give affirmation." Li Hongzhang replied with a smile.

Several ministers were stunned. They had a big appetite and were thick-skinned enough, but they really couldn't catch up with the Emperor of China. What do you think of Japan? Is it a cabbage? Is it like to divide it?

The key countries are not interested in Japan's local area. They have few people and small areas, and the benefits they can get are limited, unlike China.

In the early and mid-19th century, especially before the founding of the shogunate, Japan suffered from aggression, although there were incidents such as black ships, the Treaty of the Five-Countries of the State of Anzheng, the opening of trade ports, etc., it was not as deep or broad as that of the Qing Dynasty, and it was not invaded on a large scale.

At that time, under the Edo Shogunate ruled, Japan was already a country with loose military equipment due to nearly two hundred years of peace, and did not have much resistance in front of Western powers.

The Qing Dynasty and Japan were not much different in the early and mid-19th century. They also closed their doors and the shogunate's military strength was even weaker than that of the Qing Dynasty. Even in the early Meiji Restoration, Japan's military strength could not be within the eyes of the great powers such as Britain and France.

More than 10,000 British troops who fought to Zhenjiang in 184o and more than 20,000 British and French coalition forces who fought to Beijing in 186o could still be thrown into Kyoto and Edo, and there would be no difference.

The reason why Japan has not suffered from a large-scale invasion is that it has geographical location and its poor resources.

Japan is an island country hanging alone in a corner of Northeast Asia. Its geographical location is not superior, nor is it located on the important commercial channel at that time. For Western powers, large-scale invasion of Japan was actually difficult (the British was able to invade the Qing Dynasty because of India's base and springboard). It was obvious that the troops were mobilized. When Brigadier General Perry led several black ships to open the shogunate gate, the purpose was to provide a supply point for the United States' future merchant ships and fleets to the Far East.

Of course, if Japan had resources that made the great powers salivate, then in the 19th century, even if it was geographically remote, it would still attract large-scale invasions from Western countries, but it did not.

This is by no means that Japan has always been very barren. In fact, in the early Edo period (17th century), Japan was a well-known rich country - because it was rich in gold and silver, it was even called the "Golden Country" by Marco Polo in his travel notes, and was later called a paradise of prosperity by the Spanish and Dutch.

Kurokawa Kinshan, Yuno-Okinshan and Sado Kinshan were all the larger gold mountains in the world at that time. In the early days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, these gold mountains became an important source of wealth and financial support for the shogunate.

In addition to Kingsoft, Japan also has many large-scale silver mountains, which were among the forefront of the world at that time.

Therefore, in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish and later Dutch, including the Qing people, gained huge wealth through trade with Japan.

Unlike the general impression, Japan also does business with the Qing Dynasty, and even regards the Qing Dynasty as its main trading target.

In the "New Regulations on the Transactions between Sea Ships" issued by the Shogunate in 1715, the shogunate stipulated that the Qing Dynasty could come to trade 10 ships in one year, with the transaction amount being limited to 3 ooo jin, while the Dutch's transaction amount was limited to 15 ooo jin per year (the weight unit of Japan at that time was about 3.75 kilograms).

Due to the small export volume at that time, Japan's trade with foreign countries brought about an astonishing trade deficit, and the consequence of this trade deficit was the large outflow of gold and silver.

From 1655 to 1715, Japan had 2.39776 taels of gold and 3742 taels of silver, accounting for half of the gold production at that time and three-quarters of the silver production. This is also the reason why the shogunate decided to promulgate the "New Marine Trade Regulations" to limit the scale of trade.

In the 19th century, due to the oppression of Westerners, the outflow of gold and silver increased again.

After Brigadier General Perry arrived at the black ship, he signed the "Japan-US Peace Treaty" in 1854. The shogunate agreed to open up trade with the United States in full. As a result, other Western powers flocked to it and finally reached the "Five-Country Treaty of Security and Political Affairs", and the great powers all received one-sided most-favored-nation treatment for trade with Japan.

These merchants used the treaty to seize huge profits from Japan. An important part of them was to use the gold-silver ratio of Japan to be lower than that of the outside world (at that time, Japan's gold-silver exchange rate was 1:1o, while in the UK and other countries it was 1:2o), and used a large amount of silver to buy Japanese gold.

In just over a decade, Japan's gold flowed out in large quantities again, and the shogunate finances reached the end of their lives. It was precisely because of the financial failure that the Reformers could easily overturn the shogunate rule that had been close to two and a half centuries.

What's even more terrifying is that after centuries of mining, Japan's mines have become exhausted. The output of large gold mines such as Sado Kinshan has become very low in modern times and can no longer be compared with their heyday.

So after centuries of mediocrity and the failure of trade with the Qing and Westerners, Japan's original precious metals have flowed out in large quantities, from a gold country that everyone envies to a barren country. Compared with the Qing country, which has accumulated silver for hundreds of years through trade in silk, tea and other trade, it is tantamount to a country with no invasion value.

If Japan had as much wealth as the Qing Dynasty, then in that era when the strong prey on the weak, no matter how institutionally enlightened the Japanese shogunate or the Japanese court was, they would definitely face invasion by Western powers. Therefore, what is important is not how it is, but whether it is worth invading.

The British and French must not watch China exploit Japan like this. If China succeeds, how much will China's national strength be strengthened? How much will Japan weaken?

Li Hongzhang and the ministers of several countries started a long verbal quarrel.

Of course, there is definitely no result.

During the quarrel, China completely solved the North Korean issue. North Korea no longer has "outsiders" controlled by China. Only Han people, and they are all Han people with ID cards, foreigners, and foreigners, all legal foreigners who have obtained their passports.

Now the rest is the Japanese issue.

"President, Takaho Saigo asked for a visit." Wang Zhankui came to report.

The cute CEO was stunned. Why did this guy come to Seoul? In Japan, the cute CEO will not go there again. After playing it once, it will be almost done. The key is that it is not "safe".

The cute president still attaches great importance to personal safety issues. As long as he does not die, China will at most slowly develop. Even if it is slow, according to the current level, it is not a big problem to catch up with the strongest one within ten years! It can even catch up with the French powers.

"Let's meet me?" Since we all came from Japan, I don't know what happened." Princess Katrina Kaif said softly.

The cute president smiled slightly and shook his head and said, "I can't guess what he is going to do. He is unwilling to rely on China, and he is still fighting with the government forces. I can't understand. Who is more thorough in Japan's Meiji Restoration Government or Saigo Takamoto's government?"

The essence of the Shogun War was not to overthrow the feudal system or establish a capitalist system. Saigo was largely just to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate. His real purpose was to build another powerful regime ruled by the samurai aristocratic group.

The components of the Shogun faction are quite complex, including semi-bourgeois and semi-landlord classes like Mitsui, semi-samurai and semi-capitalist supporters like Okubo Rito and Sakamoto Ryuma, and feudal samurai like Saigo. When the common enemy Tokugawa Shogunate fell, class contradictions began to intensify.

In the early days, the Meiji government relied on the two powerful vassals of Saha-Chang in military affairs, and relied on the support of rich and oligarchs in economic terms. Politically, it was feudal conservatives and bourgeois reformists on the surface, while the conservatives could suppress the reformists everywhere because of the army.

The ideal Meiji government in Saigo serves Daming and the samurai class, uniting internally to resist foreign enemies, so he does not care about the conflicts within the Meiji government, because he has an army in his hands and can continue to be a daimyo who remotely controls the government.

Reformers and intellectuals who took Okubo Ritoshi believed that establishing a capitalist system was the only way to save Japan. Then, the feudal Daime and the backward samurai class that separatist the country were obviously the objects that must be eliminated. Therefore, various policies against the Daime and the samurai class began to be introduced under the iron fist of Okura. At the same time, the new government began to eliminate the conservative forces in the Saha-Chung-Chung and establish their own army, and the contradictions eventually intensified.

Therefore, the Southwest War was a true bourgeois revolution in Japan.

"Who is more thorough? Is the emperor referring to the bourgeois revolution? That should be considered the Meiji Restoration Government of Japan." Princess Katrina Kaif smiled and said, "Sigo Takamori still has a feudal color. He is actually considered feudal capital imperialism. The Meiji government is actually considered feudal capital imperialism, but it is just a little better."

The cute president nodded, "You said it very well, and I think so too, so in essence, they are just a battle for power! There is no irreconcilable contradiction. If I don't swear in this war, the more thoroughly revolutionary Meiji government will prevail and will achieve the final victory."
Chapter completed!