After the Shanghai negotiations ended, Qin Zheng only rested in Shanghai for one day before preparing to return to Qingdao, because at this time, the new election in East China was about to be held, which was also one of Qin Zheng's main tasks when he returned from Shenyang this time.

At this time, Li Jingfang came to bid farewell to Qin Zheng, and repeatedly thanked Qin Zheng: "This time in Shanghai negotiations, my father's spirit in the sky can also be blinded, and when I return to my hometown this time, I will definitely pay tribute to my father's grave." ”

Qin Zheng said: "Mr. Jingfang, don't be polite, these are all things we should do, it's a pity that we couldn't take back Taiwan this time, there are still some fly in the ointment, but there is no chance this time, next time we will definitely take back Taiwan." ”

Li Jingfang said with a smile: "Speaking of Taiwan, now there is a group of people who crossed from Taiwan back then, coming to Shanghai, hoping to see Speaker Qin, I don't know if the speaker has time to see them." ”

In fact, there is news that Taiwanese have come to Shanghai, Qin Zheng has already received it, although Shanghai can enter and exit freely, but the light is loose and the secret is tight, the supervision is very strict, and you must register when you come to Shanghai, so this is more than the Taiwanese as soon as they arrive in Shanghai, Qin Zheng knows, and also knows that the leader is called Qiu Fengjia, but at that time Qin Zheng was still negotiating with Japan, and he didn't pay attention to it.

And this Qiu Fengjia, Qin Zheng also knows that although this person's ancestral home is Guangdong, he is actually a native of Taiwan, originally a Jinshi, and was appointed as the head of the Ministry of Industry by the Qing court. However, Qiu Fengjia had no intention of returning to Taiwan as an official in Beijing to teach and educate people for a living.

However, Qiu Fengjia's real name in history is still related to the First Sino-Japanese War. After the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing court ceded Taiwan to Japan, Qiu Fengjia angrily pointed to the four words "refuse to defend the land" in the blood letter, and led the gentry of Taiwan to write to the Qing court to oppose the cession of Taiwan, and said that "they want to live and die together with the land of Sangzi", but the Qing court did not accept it. Seeing that it was irretrievable, Qiu Fengjia and the then governor of Taiwan, Tang Jingjiang, Admiral Liu Yongfu, and others proposed that Taiwan establish itself as a democratic country, and led the people of Taiwan to lead the telegraph of the 16 characters: "The people of Taiwan are not subordinate to the Japanese." I am willing to be an island country and always wear Shengqing. The pro-draft constitution, with the blue ground yellow tiger as the national flag and the "Yongqing" as the era name, is based on Japan's annexation of Taiwan.

In the following year, Japan launched the Yiwei War to invade Taiwan, and Qiu Fengjia, knowing that the Qing court had abandoned Taiwan, still united a group of Taiwanese patriots and served as the commander of the Volunteer Army to start a war of resistance against the Japanese army. After Taiwan Governor Tang Jingjiang abandoned Taiwan and fled, Qiu Fengjia still insisted on fighting against Japan for more than 40 days and fought more than 20 battles. But in the end, due to the disparity in strength, it was difficult to recover the overall situation, and finally had to retreat with his family. Settling in his ancestral hometown of Zhenping, going back and forth between Chao, Shantou and Guangzhou, C expressed that he did not forget to recover Taiwan Suzhi, and gave his son Qiu Cong the alias "Niantai", and the house was named "Niantai Jingshe".

In Taiwan in the old time and space, there are many places named after "Fengjia" to commemorate this anti-Japanese and Taiwan-defending hero. In the Chinese Memorial Hall of the Anti-Japanese War, there are traces of Qiu Fengjia's deeds of resisting Japan and protecting Taiwan, as well as Qiu Fengjia's relics donated by the Qiu family

After Qiu Fengjia crossed over, he never forgot to return to Taiwan, and devoted himself to building schools, promoting new learning, and cultivating talents. Once went to Hong Kong, Macao, Nanyang and other places, and met with Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. However, Qiu Fengjia saw that the Qing court was becoming more and more corrupt, did not want to forge ahead, and had no hope of recovering Taiwan, so he gradually leaned towards revolution from approving the restoration and royalism, and once covered the anti-Qing activities of the League members.

Of course, Qiu Fengjia knew about the deeds of East China, and he once wanted to contact East China, but he couldn't find the relationship for a while. Later, at the beginning of the Far East War, East China defeated Britain, France, Japan, Russia and the Netherlands one after another, and won the British, French and Dutch land reparations and peace, Qiu Fengjia was also very excited, thinking that the recovery of Taiwan was in sight, although East China ** was not the Qing court, but it was also the same line of China, as long as it could recover Taiwan.

So Qiu Fengjia first found a relationship, found Zhou Fu, who was the governor of Liangguang at the time, and got a letter of recommendation to Sheng Xuanhuai, so he took more than 10 friends who were also Taiwan Neidu from Guangdong to Shanghai.

Seeing Sheng Xuanhuai, he handed over a letter of recommendation from Zhou Fu, and Sheng Xuanhuai wrote him another letter and introduced him to Li Jingfang, because Li Jingfang and East China ** have a closer relationship, and at this time Li Jingfang is serving as a consultant to the East China ** negotiation team, so Li Jingfang introduced Qiu Fengjia to him, which is more suitable than himself.

Because after the First Sino-Japanese War, Li Jingfang was responsible for handling the formalities of ceding Taiwan with Japan, Qiu Fengjia did not have a good impression of Li Jingfang, but in order to get in touch with East China, Qiu Fengjia still went to Li Jingfang and asked him to introduce him on his behalf, asking to meet the leaders of East China. Li Jingfang did not shirk when he arrived, and mentioned Qiu Fengjia's matter to Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng wanted to meet Qiu Fengjia, firstly, because he admired his behavior of fighting hard to resist Japan and protect Taiwan; second, although East China ** gave up recovering Taiwan this time, sooner or later he would recover Taiwan, and Qiu Fengjia's family was originally a big family in Taiwan, although he had settled in Guangdong, he still had a large number of relatives and friends in Taiwan, and he understood the situation in Taiwan in East China ** and prepared for the recovery of Taiwan in the future.

After a short time, Li Jingfang brought in a person, dressed as a writer, and said: "Brother Fengjia, this is the Speaker of Qin in East China." ”

Qiu Fengjia walked a few steps, bowed to Qin Zheng, and said, "Student Qiu Fengjia, I have seen Speaker Qin. ”

In fact, Qiu Fengjia is over 40 years old, but although he has the reputation of a Jinshi in the Qing Dynasty, he does not have an official position now, and he is younger than Qin Zheng, so he calls himself a student.

Although this title is a bit nondescript, Qin Zheng didn't mind, and said with a smile: "Mr. Qiu doesn't have to be polite, please take a seat." ”

After Qiu Fengjia Xie sat down, he sat down on the sofa on the left side, and Li Jingfang accompanied him on the right side.

Qin Zheng said: "When we were overseas, we also heard about Mr. Qiu's deeds, when the Qing court cut Taiwan, but Mr. Qiu's ability to organize righteousness and bravery, defend the isolated island of Taiwan, and be loyal and patriotic, is indeed admirable." ”

Qiu Fengjia said: "Ashamed, ashamed, although Fengjia has the heart to protect Taiwan and defend the land, but he has no power to protect the country and defend the family, and in the end nothing will be done. ”

Qin Zheng said: "There, knowing that the claw can do it, it is even more rare, if everyone can resist like Mr. back then, Japan may not be able to win." ”

Qiu Fengjia said: "Although Feng Jia is a little famous, but after all, it is useless, how can it be compared with the nobles, the nobles defeated Britain, France, Japan, Russia and the Netherlands, and tried to protect the three eastern provinces without loss, and recovered the land of Vladivostok. ”

Qin Zheng smiled and said: "Mr. Qiu is polite, we were originally in the Chinese lineage, and now we have returned to settle down, how can we not do our best for the country, nurses guarding the frontier, it is the responsibility of our Chinese people." ”

Qiu Fengjia suddenly stood up, bowed to Qin Zheng, and said, "Please forgive Speaker Qin for being ignorant, I want to ask Speaker Qin for advice in person." ”

Qin Zheng said: "Mr. Qiu wants to ask, this time we obviously won against Japan, but why didn't we recover Taiwan?"

Qiu Fengjia was stunned, he didn't expect Qin Zheng to be honest, although Qiu Fengjia already knew that East China ** had successfully signed a contract with Japan, but at this time he still wanted to make a effort, so he said: "Exactly, the student is asking this." ”

Qin Zheng said: "Mr. Qiu, I just told Mr. Jing Fang that although he defeated Japan this time, he failed to recover Taiwan, which is a fly in the ointment." ”

Li Jingfang also said: "Exactly, but if you think about it, you must also have unfortunate feelings." ”

Qin Zheng nodded and said, "Yes, it's not that we don't want to take back Taiwan, but it's really powerless." Britain, France, Japan and Russia are all powerful countries in the world today, although the Netherlands is a small European country, but it should not be underestimated, a single country, it is not easy to win, but it is a consecutive victory of 5 countries. In this battle, we dispatched a total of about 500,000 troops, plus the civilian personnel in the front and rear, a total of no less than 1.5 million people, manpower is so, and the material resources used are even more innumerable, and before the war, we only have one province in Shandong, and the other occupies a small amount of rural land in Henan, although it is not a small land, but a province, how many people can have, how many property, so this battle can be won, we have really exhausted our full strength, and there is indeed no way to recover Taiwan. ”

In fact, Qin Zheng's words are also true or false, although Qiu Fengjia had a period of military life when he resisted Japan in Taiwan, he was still a scholar after all, and he didn't know much about military affairs, so he couldn't hear the truth of Qin Zheng's words.

However, Qiu Fengjia still did some homework and said: "Then why don't you ask Japan to return Taiwan during the negotiations with Japan?"

Qin Zheng said: "Mr. Bu Hide that if we ask Japan to return Taiwan during the negotiations, we can indeed recover Taiwan, but we will not be able to obtain compensation. ”

Qiu Fengjia nodded, this is indeed his idea, but he doesn't plan to say it, because he is also a reasonable person, and he knows that it is not the responsibility of East China to cede Taiwan, so East China has no absolute obligation to recover Taiwan, and this time East China has retained the Northeast and also recovered Vladivostok. didn't expect Qin Zheng to have no scruples and take the initiative to say it.

Qin Zheng said: "I have just said that our strength is limited, for this war, we only borrowed 60 million pounds of foreign debt from the United States and Germany, plus interest of nearly 80 million, and it is in this Shanghai area that about 50 million silver bonds have also been issued, and these bonds are to be repaid." Turning his head to Li Jingfang and smiling, "I don't know how much Mr. Jingfang bought." ”

Li Jingfang said: "I bought 10,000 taels of bonds, and my sister and brother-in-law also bought 5,000 taels. ”

Qin Zheng said with a smile: "It seems that Mr. Jingfang's family is our creditor, and they are also big owners." ”

Li Jingfang said: "There and there, the nobles fought bloodily to protect the country and defend the family, we can't go into battle to kill the enemy, it is appropriate to give some money, in fact, the sister-in-law and brother-in-law do not plan to come back." ”