Accepting dangerous loans infiltrated by Britain, France, and the United States, or continuing the war and finally fighting the last bit of the Bright Governance Restoration, or letting the Ming Dynasty occupy Nagasaki for 50 years, the Japanese court found that among the three conditions they did not dare to accept, they had to choose one, Ito Hirobumi did not dare to speak, and he handed over the right to speak to Yamaguchi Aritomo who insisted on peace talks, and let the army decide. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because Ito Hirobumi felt that if he advocated the passage of the peace talks, then in the face of domestic public opinion, he seemed to have no choice but to apologize.

Yama Prefecture Youpeng, who had been fighting before, implored the emperor to make a ruling, not to say whether he won or lost, but only that as long as the emperor's order was issued, the army would fight until one soldier and one soldier, and then he would die with all his might.

How did this make the emperor decide, what Yama Yama Youpeng meant was that to fight was to annihilate the army, how to fight?

At this time, the situation in Northeast Asia is becoming more and more strange.

North Korea, a small country, is actually talking to Russia.

It was obviously impossible to sell their own ports, but they were willing to give Russia a little benefit in exchange for Russia's support to defend Korea against Japanese oppression.

Later, the famous traitor Li Rong, who promoted the merger of Japan and South Korea, said that he died of arrogance, which is true.

Because there are always some anachronistic things in the character of the North Koreans, in 1869 the Korean famine, a large number of Koreans fled to Manchuria, the Qing government opened up a piece of land on the bank of the Yalu River for more than 700 kilometers to settle the Korean refugees, North Korea asked the Qing government to return the people, the Qing government agreed, but hoped to return gradually, because there were too many immigrants, the North Koreans immediately changed their words, saying that the land was originally Korean. The Qing government was very depressed, and began to draw a clear line on the border, setting up 10 huge boundary monuments on the border, one monument and one character, engraved with 10 big characters, "Huaxia Jintanggu, rivers and mountains are long."

After the defeat of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the suzerainty of the First Sino-Japanese War, the king of Joseon not only did not hate the war that broke out in Korea and caused great harm to Korea, but was very happy and held a grand celebration in Changdeokgung Palace. After that, North Korea began to revise history on a large scale. Joseon is no longer the Jizi Joseon of King Wen of Zhou, but an independent country created by the legendary Danjun and has been independent for more than 4,200 years.

Korean scholars tried their best to exclude influence from the mainland in their textbooks, and the status of the Joseon dynasties was elevated, and it seems that they never belonged to the Central Plains Dynasty, and even began to fabricate stories that Korea could have entered the Central Plains and dominated China. Those who distinguished themselves in the "invasion" of the Central Plains Dynasty, such as the Goguryeo general Ulji Wende, who defeated the Sui army, became national heroes.

In 1896, the Korean "Independence Association" set fire to the Seoul Yeeun Gate, which was originally used by the Kingdom of Korea to welcome Chinese envoys, and replaced it with the Independence Gate, and the state guest "Muhwa Pavilion" next to the "Yeeun Gate" was also renamed the "Independence Hall" at the same time. In the Independent Shimbun, the organ of the "Independent Association," he called on the Koreans to learn from Japan, build a rich and powerful country with 10 years of hard work, defeat China, seize Liaodong and the entire northeastern region, and demand 800 million yuan in compensation from China.

Under the complicated maneuvering between China, Japan, and Russia, Korea at this time seemed to have succeeded in "defeating razing with razing", not only gaining "independence", but also seemingly getting rid of the situation of being controlled by Japan, and beginning to unleash an untimely ambition on the mainland.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, Korea became nominally independent, established the Republic of Korea, and continued to have ambitions for Manchuria, and in 1909, after the Russo-Japanese War, it also wanted to use the power of Japan and Russia to annex the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which constantly caused a lot of bloody conflicts on the border, and wanted to seize the Manchu island, but Korea was annexed by Japan the next year.

After the merger of Japan and South Korea, the Koreans also borrowed Japan's extraterritoriality in the Manchu Qing Dynasty and were arrogant.

If Japan is a wolf and has wolf ambitions, North Korea thinks it is a group of wolves and has wolf ambitions, but in fact they are just a sheep.

Lee Yong-koo, one of the initiators of the reunification of Japan and South Korea, pointed out sharply that the core problem of Korea was "arrogant" in urging the emperor of the "Korean Empire" to merge with Japan.

Li Yong-gu said that the reason why the DPRK has come to the point where it cannot survive or die is because it has violated the ancestral precept that "the north should not be rude and the south should not lose its trust." During the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, Korea was supposed to "be righteous and not confused" and "hold the northward salute and be absolutely out of favor with Japan." If the country was to die because of this, it would also be "a death of righteousness" and "a great honor." However, the DPRK abandoned the 500-year-old tradition of etiquette and righteousness overnight, "suddenly tearing the 500-year-old dress overnight", "fluttering on the name of independence", and obeyed and followed Japan, which was the first mistake.

After "independence", "there is no soldier on the land and no ship on the sea, how can this country be famous?" At this time, he should have obeyed Japan, kept his head in obscurity, and carried out changes with "new beginnings", but he had "two or three virtues" with Japan and "the treacherous change of diplomacy alone", which led to the killing of Concubine Min "The change of the mother of the country, and the indignation of the mountains and rivers". This is the second mistake.

Immediately, the king hid in the Russian embassy to give orders, and in the Russo-Japanese War, he once again "liked the ingenuity of diplomacy", which led to the fact that when Japan and Russia negotiated peace, they "decided to obey me first", and the Japanese first deprived Korea of its diplomatic rights. This is the third mistake.

North Koreans can't see themselves clearly, and they always think that they are very capable of this kind of character, and they can't even look past the traitors in their own country, and the criticism is very pertinent.

Now the arrogance of the Korean national character, after seeing Japan being beaten by the Ming Dynasty, there was an anachronistic idea, it happened that the Russians came to woo them, hoping to build a railway to Pusan on Korean soil, the Koreans did not want the railway, but they wanted the power of Russia, they hoped to use the power of Russia to expel the Japanese from Korea, since the signing of the Treaty of Ganghwa Island, a large number of Japanese expatriates entered Korea, and constantly clashed with the Koreans, which gave the Korean government a headache.

Of course, while asking Russia for help, North Korea was still secretly contacting the Qing government, hoping to use the power of the suzerain, and if the Qing government agreed, North Korea would really dare to arrest all Japanese expatriates.

At the same time, Russia and the Manchus were secretly negotiating certain conditions, always trying to exchange the interests of Xinjiang for the opportunity to go south, and the Manchus may not always disagree, because Russia not only invaded Ili a few years ago, but also gradually expanded its territory, and had many conflicts with the Hongfu Khanate, if Tsarist Russia could destroy the Hongfu Khanate and hand over the whole of Xinjiang to the Manchus, the Manchus would probably agree to further demands from Tsarist Russia, such as ceding Huludao to Russia.

What kind of diplomatic changes would collide between Korea, Manchu and Russia was a situation that British diplomats could not have predicted, because it was very difficult for foreigners to come into contact with both the Qing court and Korea.

Britain and the United States and other countries are completely unable to judge what kind of changes will take place in Northeast Asia, but they can already feel that any change will be bad for them, because any change will encourage Russia to increase its influence in this area, and the expansion of Russian influence is the weakening of British and American influence.

Therefore, they caught and lobbied the Japanese government, and put forward more and more favorable conditions, but there was only one clause, their loans, the Japanese government must use tariffs as collateral, and loans without collateral were not accepted by the foreign powers.

At this time, the thinking of the Japanese court also began to change, they saw that the Ming Dynasty continued to increase troops, and the negotiating table resolutely did not give in, and they had already felt the determination of the Ming Dynasty to destroy Japan, and Britain, France, and the United States had no intention of taking military action at all, and only hoped that Japan would make concessions in exchange for peace. The Japanese felt that they were pigs that had been stripped and washed, and that they had been put on a meat table by foreigners to be sold.

They will all be stabbed horizontally.

When the Ming increased the number of troops in Nagasaki to 300,000, deployed 200,000 reserve forces in the Ryukyus, and mobilized 500,000 people in the country, Japan decided to accept the demands of the Ming and the Great Powers.

But at this time, the amount of compensation proposed by the Ming Dynasty increased again, because Japan delayed for another month, and the consumption of a month was 30 million taels. The food, drink, and transportation expenses of a million people, all of which were money, had to be reimbursed by Japan.

The Japanese were annoyed to find that the more they delayed, the higher the cost, and this time they didn't delay, but fortunately they agreed to all the requests, asked for money, apologized, and guaranteed to promise, they were broken jars.

Britain, the United States, and France jointly gave Japan a loan of 100 million pounds, with an annual interest rate reduced to 2.5%, which was repaid in 30 years with Japanese tariffs, government-run mines, and railways as collateral.

At this time, Western countries have generally walked out of the economic crisis and entered another round of economic growth, and this money is not a problem at all for the three countries to share, not only is it not a burden, but it is still a good business.

In order to allow the Ming to withdraw as soon as possible, Japan demanded a lump sum payment, and the money would be transferred directly from the banks of the three countries to the account of the Ming government.

In August 1880, representatives of Japan, the Ming Dynasty, and the Ryukyus signed a treaty in Tokyo, in which the two countries guaranteed that the Ryukyus would be an independent and sovereign state, and that neither country would have any privileges over the other in the Ryukyus, and that neither country would be able to use the territory of the Ryukyu Kingdom for military purposes.

The Ming accepted these demands from Japan, as the Ming itself had no territorial ambitions for the Ryukyus.

As for whether it will borrow the territory of the Ryukyus in the event of a bad relationship with Japan, who cares about Japan's attitude at that time.

As long as the Ryukyus are independent, it will be a sharp knife that pierces Japan in the abdomen, which is determined by geography.

What the Ming Dynasty obtained, in addition to the direct war money, 230 million taels of gold equivalent to the Ming currency, was a perfect moral benefit. A political and cultural heritage that has been accumulated since the Ming Dynasty.