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After the treaty was signed, the three parties announced it to the outside world, and for a while public opinion was in an uproar, because this was another policy decided by the cabinet, Concubine Min, the king, and Daewon-kun, which kept Japan in the dark, and Japan was the first to stand up against it, and warships were soon sent to blockade Busan.

The troops stationed in Seoul, North Korea, immediately threatened the royal palace and stationed near Gyeongbokgung Palace to conduct military exercises. Pro-Japanese officials collectively wrote to demand the abrogation of the treaty and impeached Daewon-kun, and under internal and external pressure, the Joseon king had to depose Daewon-kun.

At this time, Germany expressed a strong attitude, decided to send a fleet of eight cruisers to Pusan, and openly stated that Germany was safeguarding its legitimate rights and interests, and if Japan wanted to try to provoke the majesty of Germany, the Kaiser ordered the German Far East Fleet to have the right to open fire without asking for instructions.

To the embarrassment of the Germans, the German Navy at this time had 72 ships of about 190,000 tons. However, at this time, Germany did not have warships of more than 10,000 tons, but mostly second-class cruisers of two or three thousand tons. Their combat capabilities were also mostly limited to defending their own coasts and estuaries, and the fact that they did go to war with Japan would probably only bring Wilhelm II to shame.

Japan's attitude is tough, their understanding of the international situation is not that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they know very well what kind of goods the German Navy is, known as the dwarf navy in Europe, Japan is confident that even if the German navy goes to the Far East, they can clean it up one by one, so they resolutely blockade Busan, and at the same time put pressure on North Korea to abolish the treaty signed with Germany and the Ming Dynasty.

The Germans were difficult to ride at this time, eight cruisers were sent to East Asia, and it was possible to be annihilated by Japan, if they were not sent, Wilhelm II said it with a big mouth, and it was okay to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty, but let the Germans ask for help from an East Asian country, Wilhelm II couldn't wipe his face, and this unlucky boy felt more and more that Germany should have its own big navy, otherwise even a country like Japan could say no to Germany.

Wilhelm II kept making noises that Germany should have its own strong navy.

As soon as Germany wants to develop its navy, Britain will start to get nervous, you Germany already has the most powerful army in Europe, and now you have to develop a navy, and you are so close to the British mainland, isn't this going to do something, and immediately start lobbying Germany and appeasing Germany. Germany was also the only country that could blackmail Britain with its navy.

As a result, the British support for the confrontation between Japan and Germany, which was expected by the Ming Dynasty, did not happen, but Britain began to reassure Japan, hoping that Japan would not be nervous and that Japan would allow Germany to establish a base in Pusan. In fact, Britain didn't pay much attention to Korea at all, and what did it matter if they allowed Japan to dominate the region and let Germany expand here. In contrast to the threat to Britain from the German construction of a navy, there was nothing to lose for Britain by allowing Germany to expand in a place that it did not care about. As for Japan's attitude, they are not allies with Britain, and even if they are, they are not as important as the security of the British Empire itself.

Wilhelm II found that the effect of blackmail was very good, the British not only promised to support their interests in Pusan, but even promised to help Germany maintain their interests in Nantong, which made Wilhelm II think that it was more necessary for Germany to have a navy of its own, no navy could make Britain so nervous, once the German navy was strong, it was a big deal to threaten Britain with an expanded navy, and it would definitely be able to obtain more benefits.

To put it bluntly, he wants to build a navy, and he wants to build it by any means.

And the Japanese are not so easy to appease, they do not cooperate with the British Empire at all, Korea is the line of interests of Japan, Germany invades here, like Russia invades India, how does this make Japan accept.

The British Empire turned to the Ming Dynasty for support, and the British found that they could not do without the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, Britain also believed that although Germany's entry into Korea hurt Japan's interests and left Britain in the bud, and the plan to replace the Ming Dynasty with Japan to balance Russia was bankrupt, but Germany was probably more reliable to balance Russia than to use Japan to balance Russia, and the Russians also had considerable ambitions for Korea, and they also tried to build a railway from Vladivostok to Pusan, and they also had plans for Busan.

The Japanese made another mistake at this time, the Japanese ronin rushed into the Korean palace and launched a coup d'état, but in the coup, Concubine Min was killed, and Wilhelm II took the opportunity to make a strong attack on Japan.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty lodged a strong protest and took the opportunity to meet the British demand by sending a huge fleet of four ironclad ships and twenty cruisers to the Korean waters to exert strong pressure on Japan.

Japan had the courage to start a war with the Beiyang Naval Division, which was dominated by four ironclad ships, but it knew that there was no chance of winning a war with the Ming Navy, because in addition to these four ironclad ships, there were more than 30 ships in the Ming Navy, and the Ming Navy and the German Navy were not of the same magnitude at all.

Japan had no choice but to settle the situation by withdrawing the troublesome diplomats back home and withdrawing some of its garrisons.

The German fleet was also acquiesced in the stationing of the German fleet in Busan.

Suffering this humiliation, how could the Japanese be resigned, and if they were not willing to give up, they would build warships on a large scale, tighten their belts and build a large navy, and another round of arms expansion warfare began.

Obviously, this was aimed at the Ming Dynasty, but Wilhelm II insisted that it was aimed at Germany, and immediately pushed the Congress to pass the naval bill for the construction of twelve ironclad ships, and Germany entered the stage of expanding its navy two years earlier than in history.

The British were extremely dissatisfied with the behavior of the Germans, and the confrontation with Germany began to escalate, and for the time being, the Anglo-Russian contradiction had not yet been pressed, and it was estimated that when Wilhelm II's large navy had a certain size, the Anglo-German contradiction would escalate to the extent of surpassing the Anglo-Russian contradiction.

Another consequence of Germany's expansion of its navy and its gradual expansion in Asia was that Japan began to get closer and closer to Russia, and Japan began to communicate secretly with Russia on the question of how to contain Germany's expansion on the Korean Peninsula.

Faced with another round of tension in East Asia, the British are increasingly feeling powerless in the region. They began to re-examine the policy towards the Ming Dynasty, and they found a pattern, once Britain persecuted the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty would definitely respond accordingly, and the Ming Dynasty's correspondence would often make the situation more complicated, more tense, and the degree of complexity and tension had begun to give Britain a headache.

Britain understood at this time that the Ming Dynasty had grown enough to provoke a situation beyond Britain's control, and it seemed too late to say that it was too late to contain it, and that it would either strike directly or only cooperate.

The expansion of Germany and Russia had already made Britain nervous, and even more tension was happening.

In December 1896, the Ming Dynasty finally announced that it had reached an agreement with the Manchu court, and the Guangxu Emperor and the Ming envoy signed the "Ming and Qing Dynasty Merger Agreement" in Xi'an.