Ito Hirobumi, Okuma Shigenobu and others were extremely busy during this period, and after the Meiji Restoration's three masters, Okubo Ritsu, Kido Takayoshi, and Saigo Takamori, were either executed, or died of illness, or assassinated, the Japanese government formed a situation in which Ito Hirobumi and Okuma Shigenobu were in charge. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ito Hirobumi is the Secretary of the Interior, in charge of internal affairs, and Okuma Shigenobu is the Secretary of Finance, in charge of finance, both of them advocate Westernization, but in the implementation method, there are some inconsistencies, Okuma Shigenobu belongs to the radical faction, hoping that Japan can immediately open a parliament and establish a parliamentary government, Ito Hirobumi is a moderate faction, hoping to gradually advance, and finally pass the constitution, complete the Westernization of Japan.

The two men's political differences are technical, not general, and they can cooperate with each other, especially in this time of crisis in Japan, when they worked together to persuade other government officials to take as peaceful measures as possible.

But the increasingly tough attitude of the Ming Dynasty made the Japanese samurai class with a weak sense of right and wrong extremely angry, and the people shouted that they would impose rude bargaining against the Ming Dynasty, the so-called "rude bargaining" refers to a power of the samurai, who can punish the civilians who offend them at will without sanction, which is called rudeness.

During the Anglo-Saxon War and the subsequent Sakaichi Incident, Japanese samurai shouted rudeness and slashed foreigners with samurai swords, which led to British and French military operations against Japan.

Now the Japanese samurai threaten to launch a rude attack on the Ming Dynasty, because the people generally believe that the Ming Dynasty's interference in the affairs between Japan and the Ryukyus is very rude, a contempt for Japan, and an insult to the emperor.

This kind of popular radical thinking, Ito Hirobumi and Okuma Shigenobu could not be suppressed for a while, if in this limelight, regardless of the public opinion, forcibly compromise with the Ming Dynasty and accept the conditions of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that civil strife will break out among the people. If a civil strife on the scale of the Southwest War broke out, Japan's finances would really collapse, and Shigenobu Okuma, as the Ministry of Finance, absolutely did not want to see such a thing happen.

But the demands of the Ming Dynasty were unacceptable to even the most stable forces within the government, and even the unacceptable voices appeared among the descendants of Ito Hirobumi. It is believed that accepting the conditions of the Ming Dynasty is tantamount to placing Japan in a subordinate position of the Ming Dynasty. In the future, the imperial kingdom will be permanently subject to the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial kingdom will be harmed by tens of millions.

If the Ming Dynasty gets the Ryukyus, it will only be a hundred nautical miles from Amami Oshima, the northernmost island of the Ryukyus, to the Japanese archipelago, and the powerful Ming fleet will only arrive in Japan in half a day, and the threat to Japan will be too great for Japan to bear. Previously, they mentioned dividing the Ryukyus with the Ming Dynasty, assigning Amami Oshima and the main island of the Ryukyus to Japan, and the southern Sakishima Islands to the Ming Dynasty, and even made concessions in the end, Japan only asked Amami Oshima, but the Ming still did not agree.

In the case of the great Ming's refusal, Japan could not fully accept the great Ming's demands.

But Ito Hirobumi knew that he could not go to war, but he was cornered, and if he accepted the conditions of the Ming Dynasty, he himself could fall. The consequences of a war with the Ming Dynasty are much greater than that of the Korean Mainland, and the Korean Expedition will not damage the Japanese mainland regardless of success or failure, while the Ming Army has the ability to directly attack the Japanese mainland.

After weighing left and right, Ito Hirobumi decided to accept Daming's conditions, and he hated Daming in his heart, but he had to do domestic affairs first and then diplomacy.

But the problem is that the time given by Daming is too short, only twenty-four hours, Ito Hirobumi made his own decision, but he can't convince others in such a short time, but twenty-four hours is enough for him to convince the British.

Ito Hirofumi learned that Britain has a disagreement with Daming on the tariff issue, and Daming seems to want to take back tariff autonomy from Britain and abolish the tariff agreement signed before, which is infringing on Britain's core interests, because what the British want in the East is not interests.

Japan's cooperation with Britain is very pleasant, Japan's customs are actually under the control of Britain, although Britain did not send a tax department to manage Japanese customs, but the tariffs are also agreed, Japan took the initiative to hire a large number of Western consultants, Japan's customs have long been Westernized.

Therefore, Ito Hirobumi believes that Japan will be able to secure Britain's interests if Japan is able to guarantee its interests, and the Ming Dynasty is competing with Britain for its interests, Japan will definitely be able to gain British support.

At the same time, the Japanese government also knew that Britain had a plan to make Ryukyu the Singapore of Northeast Asia, and if it really did not work, Japan could use Ryukyu in exchange for British support.

Since the Manchus didn't want it, and the Ming Dynasty didn't want it, then Japan would divide the Ryukyus with the British. Japan ceded the Ryukyu Sakishima Islands, which were closest to Taiwan, to Britain, and did not believe that Britain would intervene in exchange for it. As long as Britain can intervene, even if it can't directly send troops to attack the Ming Dynasty, I believe that the Ming Dynasty will not be able to ignore Britain's attitude, and at least will delay the use of troops against Japan, so that Ito Hirobumi can buy time.

Ito Hirobumi's idea was very correct, and the British did not want to see a war break out between the Ming Dynasty and Japan, and the wars in the Yangtze River valley in recent years had seriously affected British interests. If there was a war between Japan and Daming, Britain's two major trading partners in the region, it would greatly hit Britain's trade interests, which would be tantamount to another negative for Britain, which had just survived the international crisis.

Therefore, the British minister to Japan immediately accepted Japan's request, promised to help Japan mediate, and persuaded the Ming Dynasty to abandon the ultimatum and give Japan a few days of grace.

After the attitude of the British was conveyed to the Ming government, the Ming responded very positively, telling the British government that if Japan intended to make concessions, the Ming was willing to give Japan a few more days and extend the ultimatum by three days. But the Ryukyu King Division's action to recover the land will not stop, the so-called Ryukyu King Division, but the Ming Dynasty pulled up the Huai Army, the Yue Army, the Ryukyu Army and the Ming Army composed of the grass platform, the real ability to fight, but the 1,000 Huai Army and 10,000 Ming Army, the others are all local chickens and dogs, just make up the number.

The British asked if they could stop all military operations, and Daming replied that since the ultimatum had been issued, stopping it halfway would have too great an impact on Daming's international credibility, and the government could not afford to take this responsibility.

Instead, through the British, the Ming Dynasty expressed to the Japanese government that if Japan did not want to push Japan to the point of becoming enemies of all its Asian neighbors because of the Ryukyu incident, then it was better for Japan not to try to resist the Ryukyu royal division in the Ryukyus.

The biggest reason why Daming is willing to accept British mediation is just to give Britain a face, as for the military action to be carried out, it cannot be delayed for a moment, just to tell the other party that Daming will suspend military action against Japan, but in fact, Daming's military action against Japan, from the beginning, did not plan much.

But now it has to be put on the agenda, because Japan has drawn Britain into this dispute, which makes Zhu Jinglun feel that Britain seems to have begun to organize a network to restrain the Ming Dynasty, and Japan is likely to become one of them, so the Ming Dynasty must be serious about Japan, and it is necessary to beat Japan at once, and then let them not dare to be enemies of the Ming Dynasty for decades, lest the other party will be used by the British and become a pawn of the British counterbalance to the Ming Dynasty in East Asia.

Twenty-four hours later, the Ming fleet set fire to anchor and appeared off the coast of the Ryukyus the next day.

Forty-eight hours later, the Ming landing force had established a firm foothold, and the Ryukyu royal division set foot on Ryukyu soil.

Seventy-two hours later, the Ryukyu Imperial Division announced the recapture of Shuri Castle, and Shotohiro set off for the Shuri Palace.

Ninety-six hours later, the deadline for the Ming ultimatum to Japan ended, and in the name of the Ryukyu king's division, the Ming fleet went north and announced that it would go directly to Tokyo, in the name of welcoming the Ryukyu king back to the throne.