In the Tongzhi Dynasty, Japan did not establish an embassy in Beijing like Britain and France, because the Qing Dynasty completely implemented the system of suzerainty and vassal states before the Second Opium War.

The Qing Dynasty is the center of the world, and all other countries are vassals, as long as you come to see us, then the work of the Imperial Domain, what is the Imperial Court? It is to manage the feudal state, anyway, in the eyes of the Qing Emperor, all other countries are inferior feudal states, and the center of the world of the Celestial Empire will always be the Great Qing.

As a result, the two opium wars gave the Qing Dynasty two resounding slaps, a fire in the Old Summer Palace, and a life in the summer resort Xianfeng, which made the Manchus completely bow their heads, that is, from that time on, Britain, France, Russia and the United States began to take the lead in establishing embassies in Dongjiaomin Lane and sending permanent ambassadors.

Later, according to the agreement, other European countries began to establish embassies, but later than the four countries that participated in the Second Opium War.

An important prerequisite for the establishment of an embassy is the recognition of equality between states, because in the diplomatic rules, although the embassy is established on your land, it is equivalent to the territory of another country and has absolute diplomatic immunity.

Moreover, the ambassador also had the right to apply to the emperor of the empire and discuss the relationship between the two countries. Obviously, the Manchus and Confucian ministers were unwilling to accept this equality, but the army was not able to defeat the imperial powers, so they could only pinch their noses and admit it.

Of course, in the hearts of the Manchus and Confucian ministers, this power to establish embassies could only be given to the strong. None of the European powers could defeat them, so they could only pinch their noses and admit it, but in Asian countries like Japan, the Manchu Qing would never give them the power to establish embassies.

At this time, the foreign affairs of the Qing Dynasty and Japan were still handled by the traditional Imperial Court, where is the location of this place, in fact, it is the place where the Beijing Hotel is today, next to Wangfujing.

The distance from Taixue all the way south to the Lifan Yuan was really not close, and more than a hundred Taixue students stared at the strong wind, shouting chaotic slogans and rushed south.

Originally, these students thought that they would raise their arms and shout, and naturally the people would be excited, and when the time came, they would first surround the Lifan Courtyard and whether there was any result, and first encourage the people who loved to watch the excitement.

As long as there are more people, these students can turn their heads and go west, go straight to Tiananmen Square, and when the time comes, incite the people to knock on Luan, and if they don't force the court to declare war, it won't be over.

Little Japan dares to bully to the head, it's really an uncle who can bear it, and an aunt who just can't bear it.

The students were full of confidence, because just over three months ago, someone had already done the same thing, and the group of Eight Banners wastes actually gathered together and surrounded Prince Gong's Prime Minister Affairs Yamen, and that night the entrance of the Dengshi was crowded with people.

Didn't the Imperial Court also compromise in the end? No one dared to disobey the Jingshi Health Regulations from now on, isn't this the credit of forcing the palace!

So today, the students have learned the same, since you dare to force the palace, of course we dare, and we are for the dignity of the Qing Dynasty, and the truth is greater than the sky.

Today is a good day, there has long been a well-informed insider who told everyone about the arrangements on Jingshan, the princes and ministers of the court and the two queen mothers have gathered, this is not the best time to force the palace.

"Declaration of war...... Declaring war! Japan, a small country, dared to infringe on the dignity of the Qing Dynasty...... Phew, what a mouthful of sand......"

"The fathers and villagers of Sijiu City, go to the Lifan Courtyard together...... Let's go and ask those old men, how is the emperor...... Oops!" snapped the sycamore leaf that flew out of nowhere and slapped him in the face.

At first, there were still people who were encouraged to go to the streets to watch the excitement, but when they looked up at the dark and dreary sky, there was a whirlwind getting bigger and bigger, and everyone shrank their necks again.

"Why don't you pick a good day, if the heat and cold make a fever on this stormy day, it would be terrible...... Go home and go home, let's see the excitement tomorrow......"

The students don't understand at all, demonstrations and demonstrations have to pay attention to an atmosphere and aura, especially when the first three feet have to be kicked, only after the first batch of people is coerced, then there will be a second and third batches, and finally after the mass fanaticism, even if there are knives in the sky, this group of people will not leave.

But today's broken weather has scared away the first batch of people who are eager to try, and the smaller the number of people, the more people feel that this group of students is like a clown, and in the end, except for some semi-crippled people who are not afraid of running around the streets after them, there are really not many people following.

No matter how fanatical the people are, at least their nature is good, and they will not be at ease to harm others. But those half-crippled idlers who let Xiao Letian cut off his thumb, after a year of idleness and idleness, have long become a major tumor in Jingshi.

They eat the Eight Banners Emperor grain all day long, and they are abducted and deceived all over the streets, where there is excitement, they are absolutely indispensable, and they definitely toss things out of control.

After arriving at the Lifan Academy, the original more than 100 Tai students were coerced by more than 200 and half of the idle men, and less than 100 people were the ordinary people who really loved to be lively.

The soldiers at the gate of the Lifan Courtyard hurriedly closed the gate when they saw this posture, and shouted in their mouths, "The adults are not here, there is no one here, no one ......"

"Whoa, nobody, nobody, what are you......" Just as the group of half-crippled men were about to rush in, three figures flashed out of the alley near the Domain, just showing their heads and then turning around and running.

"What kind of person? sneaky?" a group of idlers raised their feet and chased after them, "Look! It's Japanese! I know this dress, it's the clothes worn by the Japanese......

The besieged man was Shintaro and his entourage, who were not Japanese officials at all, but a Japanese businessman. Since the diplomatic relations between Japan and the Qing Dynasty were not close, they lived separately across the sea, and the limited contact was done by merchants.

Sometimes, when the Tokugawa shogunate had diplomatic matters to communicate with the Qing Dynasty, they temporarily appointed a merchant to be a temporary petty official, and then sent the letter back, and then brought the Qing Dynasty's receipt back to China, and this task was completed.

In any case, both countries pursue a policy of seclusion and seclusion, and there is no less intersection between them, and sometimes they can't send a diplomat for a year.

Today, this is because Xiao Lotian suddenly came to Japan with Emperor Tongzhi, and for fear of misunderstanding, he urgently appointed Shintaro as this liaison officer.

Due to the sudden assassination of Emperor Tongzhi, Shintaro, who had planned to stay for ten days and leave, could not leave Beijing, and did not know how long he would stay, so Shintaro did not dare to stay in the hotel, so he rented a house in the alley south of the Rifan Yuan and prepared to stay in Beijing.

But no one expected that the city of Beijing, known as the state of etiquette, would become the place where Shintaro died.