In fact, the Meiji Emperor didn't think much about it, because the facts are stronger than people, Japan doesn't have many choices, and the emperor doesn't have many choices, but the Meiji Emperor still decided to resign for a day and then reply, in fact, he wanted to give people the impression that the emperor made the imperial judgment in pain and contradictions, and minimize the impact of this imperial judgment on the emperor and the imperial family.

Later, a literary work introducing the biography of Emperor Meiji was described sensationally as follows: The emperor did not rest that night, but sat alone in his study, facing the map of Japan, and struggled in pain and entanglement all night, but for the safety and interests of the Japanese people, he could only choose to accept the humiliating conditions of East China, let the imperial family, let the emperor bear this infamy, after dawn, he found that the emperor's hair had become gray overnight, and after signing the imperial edict, the emperor seemed to have exhausted all his strength and fainted.

In fact, Emperor Meiji didn't think much about it at all, just dragged on for a day, and officially issued the emperor's imperial ruling and held negotiations with East China.

After the edict was announced, many people cried on the spot, and many people suggested petitioning the emperor to ask the emperor to withdraw the imperial ruling, or to change the result of the imperial ruling, because everyone knew that to negotiate with Huadong ** is actually to give in to Huadong **, and finally to pay compensation to Huadong**, which is absolutely unacceptable to these people.

However, Katsura Taro, Aritomo Yamaguchi, and Ito Hirobumi insisted that the emperor's imperial decision was immutable, and that no one must obey the emperor's imperial decision, let alone question the emperor's decision, otherwise it would be disloyal to the emperor, and even doubt the emperor. After all, it was not easy to find such a good excuse, and there was still a miss, so the three of them joined forces to forcefully implement the emperor's imperial ruling on the grounds of maintaining the emperor's authority.

It should be said that the education of the deified emperor in Japan has played a huge role at this time in recent decades, so when Katsura Taro, Aritomo Yamaguchi, and Ito Hirobumi played the trump card of "the emperor's authority is unquestionable", it really overwhelmed the hardliners, of course, at this time, there are still many Japanese officials who know that the war can no longer be fought, and they should hold negotiations with East China ** to end the war. In fact, there are quite a few of these people, even more than the hardliners, but they do not dare to speak out in the discourse environment that advocates negotiation is surrender and betrayal of the country, but now that they have the shield of the emperor's imperial ruling, they can naturally make their views public.

And the voice of this group of people, Katsura Taro, Yama Prefecture Aritomo, and Ito Hirobumi are also strong support, so in the end, the Japanese cabinet finally made a formal decision to implement the emperor's imperial ruling and negotiate with East China, and Ito Hirobumi is fully responsible for the relevant matters of the negotiation. Ito first sent a request to the United States and Germany to mediate between Japan and East China.

As a result, the United States and Germany also immediately sent a proposal for mediation to East China, and they soon received a response from East China, which originally intended to accept the mediation of the two countries and hold negotiations with Japan to restore peace.

Although Britain, France and the Netherlands have successively surrendered to East China, and let East China basically lock in the victory on the diplomatic battlefield after the war, and Japan's submission has made East China completely victorious in diplomacy, because now most of East China's resources are invested in Japan and Russia, and they are also a little overwhelmed, so Japan's submission will greatly reduce the burden on East China and get out of the quagmire of war, and the only remaining Russia is not to be worried.

First of all, the two sides should temporarily stop the war on the basis of the existing state of affairs, neither side should launch a threatened military action or occupy the area, and after the negotiations are concluded, it should be handled according to the agreement reached through the negotiations; second, the venue for the negotiations should still be set in Shanghai, and Japan should inform East China ** of the list of negotiators and the time of the negotiations.

After receiving the suggestion of East China, Japan also quickly responded, first of all, opposing that the two sides should temporarily stop the war on the basis of the existing state, because now East China occupies the Noto Peninsula, Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe regions, if it accepts this proposal of East China, it means that before the end of the negotiations, Japan will not be able to recover these areas, and the ownership of these places in the negotiations can become a bargaining chip for East China, so Japan requires East China withdrew all of its troops from the Japanese mainland, and lifted the naval blockade of Japan.

However, East China ** also responded immediately, in order to show the sincerity of East China**'s negotiations, the naval blockade of Japan can be lifted, not attacking Japanese ships, but refusing to return the occupied areas to Japan before negotiations, this is because East China**'s naval blockade of Japan, more or political pressure, Japan's coastline is too long, with the current East China ** It is impossible to completely blockade Japan, so it is better to do a favor and lift the naval blockade of Japan, but the places that occupy Japan absolutely cannot be returned to Japan in this way, first, these places are important bargaining chips in the negotiations, and second, it will take time for the people captured by the People's Army in these places to transport the looted property back to Qingdao.

Japan is not entangled, after all, it also knows that East China will not easily give up the place to occupy, and to be able to lift the naval blockade of Japan, it is a good result, although East China can not completely blockade Japan, but can scare off most of the ships of other countries, and only Japan's own merchant ships are far from enough to protect domestic demand, and East China** After the naval blockade of Japan is lifted, cargo ships from other countries will be able to dock in Japan, which will greatly alleviate the shortage of supplies in Japan.

So Japan** quickly replied, accepted the conditions of East China**, and determined that the negotiator was still Foreign Minister Komura Shoutaro, and at the same time determined the date of arrival in Shanghai, just a week later.

It turned out that Foreign Affairs Commissioner Li Sanjie was sick and hospitalized, and he had to rest for at least 10-15 days, so he was obviously unable to negotiate with Japan on behalf of East China, and he needed to choose someone else, but although East China was full of talents, there were not many people who were proficient in diplomacy and negotiations.

Although East China now has an absolute advantage over Japan, negotiations with Japan are by no means an easy thing, although Li Songchen, as Li Sanjie's deputy, has a good performance in the negotiations with Britain and France, but Bi Jing is still young and difficult to take charge alone. Therefore, after discussion, the Executive Yuan decided to transfer Qin Zheng, who was in Shenyang, to Shanghai in advance to take charge of the negotiations.

It was now the end of 1906, and the term of office of the current executive of East China was approaching, and new elections were about to be held to determine new leaders and administrative officials. Although Xia Bohai has full confidence in his re-election, he does not dare to be too careless, and Qin Zheng's position is the dean, so Xia Bohai also intends to transfer Qin Zheng from Shenyang back to Qingdao before the new election to complete the election; on the other hand, the Far East War has come to an end, and after the establishment of the new **, it is necessary to formulate a plan for the development of the next five years or even longer, these things need Qin Zheng's participation, and now Qin Zheng is also needed for negotiations with Japan, so Qin Zheng can only be transferred back in advance.

Fortunately, the situation in the northeast is very stable now, and Russia is indifferent to all the actions of the East China **, but there is no action, although it is also increasing troops in the Far East, but because the economic situation in Russia is also very bad, coupled with the efficiency of Russia, so although Russia has increased some troops in the Far East, it has only strengthened the garrison in the Chita area, and has not the ability to attack the People's Army again. Qin Zheng's departure from the Northeast at this time had no impact.

After receiving the notice from Qingdao, Qin Zheng immediately replied, asking Japan to change its negotiators, and named Ito Hirobumi as Japan's negotiator. Although Ito Hirobumi does not have an actual position in the Japanese cabinet, his political status in Japan is far above Komura Shoutaro, and he is also the negotiator of the [Treaty of Shimonoseki] signed between Japan and the Qing court after the First Sino-Japanese War.

And Qin Zheng also hopes to meet this historical celebrity in the old time and space for a while. On Chinese the one hand, Ito Hirobumi participated in leading Japan's Meiji Restoration, as well as planning the Sino-Japanese War, and brought great humiliation to China in the subsequent negotiations, which is a typical image of the enemy; on the other hand, it was Ito Hirobumi's efforts that finally made Japan strong, which also made many Chinese celebrities admire him.

Of course, Qin Zheng wants to meet Ito Hirobumi, not just the historical plot, but hopes to use his own eyes to see how much Ito Hirobumi has ability, if Ito Hirobumi really has the wisdom of the legend in the old time and space, Qin Zheng plans to try to discuss cooperation with Ito Hirobumi.

After the victory of the Far East War, East China will inevitably rise in East Asia, and the next goal is to dominate the order of East Asia.

Although after the Far East War, East China and Japan have formed a deep hatred, but if Ito Hirobumi is really a politician with great wisdom and strategic vision, it should be clear that with the rise of East China, there is no place for Japan in East Asia, and being an enemy of East China will only make Japan suffer a greater blow in the future, so taking the initiative to integrate into the East Asian regional order dominated by East China will still have many benefits for Japan, first, it does not have to be an enemy of East China, and second, it is in East China In the dominant East Asian regional order, Japan can rely on its own strength to sit in the position of the second leader, and can rely on East China for development, depending on whether Ito Hirobumi has such political wisdom.

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