Li Hongzhang received three holy edicts one after another, which were sent by Cixi in the name of Guangxu, and this pot must be memorized by Guangxu. In the edict www.biquge.info of the pen & fun & pavilion, Cixi asked Li Hongzhang to agree to all the conditions of Japan, as long as the Qing Dynasty could be saved, everything would be discussed.

But Li Hongzhang sent a telegram back, asking if it was okay to cede Liaodong, but Cixi never replied.

Because the city of Beiqi was occupied, Cixi and Guangxu were nowhere to be found.

Was the Japanese government instructed the Japanese government to attack the city, of course?

Ito Hirobumi saw that Li Hongzhang was reluctant to sign for a long time, and it was very intersecting, and the war did not drag on for a day, the military expenditure would cost millions more, and the opportunities for the great powers to intervene would be one more point, and even Britain, who had always supported them, began to put pressure on them.

So Ito hoped that the army would put some pressure on the Manchu court in Beijing to launch a deterrent military campaign against the North.

As a result, the Japanese army turned Beiqian City into its own occupation area and stabbed the basket.

Was the Japanese government's occupation of Bei Yacheng instigated by the Japanese government, of course not.

Of course, the occupation of the northern city is beautiful, but Ito Hirobumi wants to end the war, and he wants benefits, not face.

He let the Japanese deter a little, but he overestimated his own binding power.

The Japanese army on the front line has been trying their best to cooperate with the Japanese government, the government has asked them to maintain military discipline, do a good job of saving face, they have been suppressing the soldiers, and even engaged in a lot of friendship with the local people, inviting reporters from all over the world to take pictures, foreign reporters were surprised to find that the smiles on the faces of the Manchu people were so sincere, eating Japanese rice and drinking Japanese sake were so satisfied, they really thought that Japan had a very good relationship with the local people.

However, it is easy to suppress soldiers from plundering, not killing, and not forcibly annihilating, and it is really difficult to suppress the desire of officers not to make meritorious deeds.

The front-line officers were under pressure from the government, and they had endured the desire not to attack the Northern Empire, and since Toyotomi Hideyoshi's time, and even from the earlier Tang Dynasty, how could Japan not want to capture the dream of capturing China's Kyoshi, if any officer did it, it would be worth dying.

It's hard to restrain your desires when you don't even care about your own life, so Ito Hirobumi gave them an opening and told them that they could take a deterrent attack.

After discussing it, several high-ranking generals simply turned the deterrent attack into a substantive attack and took the city of Beiya.

In order not to make trouble for the government, they felt that the government was just trying to force the Manchus to surrender, and they only wanted to take the city of Beiqi, and there was no contradiction between the two, as long as they could not only take the city of Bei, but also capture Cixi and Emperor Guangxu, this would be fine.

This not only did not cause trouble for the government, but it did the government a great favor.

Driven by a strong desire to make a difference, the officers genuinely believed that they were helping.

So they began to find fault with the Qing army, under the pretext that the soldiers were missing, thinking that the Qing army had kidnapped the Japanese soldiers, and asked to enter the Beiqi search, where did the Qing army dare to let them enter the city, closed the city gate, and the Japanese army began to aim at the Beiqi City with the muzzle, as a result, Cixi was frightened, and sent a telegram to Li Hongzhang, asking Li Hongzhang to sign the treaty quickly, Li Hongzhang did not reply, the Japanese cannon hit the city wall, Cixi thought that the Japanese began to attack the city, Qiao dressed up and ran away.

This was another mistake by the Japanese army, they wanted to capture Cixi and Guangxu alive, and they didn't want to attack the city so quickly, they planned to ambush their own troops on the main roads around Beiqian City before officially attacking the city. This is again the self-determination of the soldiers below, the senior officers have the desire to make meritorious contributions, and the low-level officers also have the desire to make meritorious contributions, so the Japanese officers in charge of the provocation could not help but give the order to open fire, thinking that if the fight broke out, his troops would be the first to enter the city.

As a result, as soon as this provocative cannon was fired, Cixi ran away, and the northern city was in chaos, and the common people also ran in large numbers, and the army ran away.

A small group of soldiers easily captured the city of Beiya, but they couldn't control the situation at all, and Beiba was completely out of control.

Li Hongzhang is still negotiating with Japan, how can this be discussed, the news of the occupation of Bei Gancheng and the disappearance of Cixi Guangxu spread all over the world as soon as possible.

Ito Hirofumi was stupid, and directly talked to Li Hongzhang privately, saying that you hurry up and sign it, and we will let it go again, Changli County will not want it, and the compensation will be reduced to 800 million pounds, and you can be regarded as a meritorious service to the Qing government. Li Hongzhang smiled bitterly at this time, who do you love, Lao Tzu really can't be the master this time, and the master doesn't know if he was killed by you. Li Hongzhang also ridiculed Ito Hirobumi, suggesting that the Japanese army attack the Central Plains, maybe the emperor can sit on the dragon chair of the northern country.

Li Hongzhang can see that the Japanese are in a hurry, ants swallow elephants, and he is also dead, he is a broken jar, this is the case at this time, and let him sign this treaty, except for letting him die with him, there is no meaning.

As for what happened to Cixi and Guangxu, Li Hongzhang actually wanted to know, he understood that the most widely informed person must be Daming, and he asked to see the minister of Daming in Japan, but this minister did not know.

Where did Cixi and Guangxu go, the whole world wants to know.

In addition to the Japanese, the British were also very anxious, at the beginning of this war, they were sincerely neutral, but with the victory of Japan, they saw the potential of Japan, and felt that Japan really had the potential to balance the Ming Dynasty, so they began to support Japan, after all, the Japanese arms were basically imported from Britain, and the money was borrowed from British bankers, and Japan lost, who to ask for money.

But supporting Japan does not mean that they are willing to see Japan annex the Manchus, they also know that Japan cannot swallow it, and the best result is for Japan to force the Manchus to pay a large amount of military spending, and then Britain's loans will be settled, and Japan can become stronger to help balance the Ming Dynasty and Russia at the same time.

Britain has long been dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty, a country that is not very obedient, but only the Ming Dynasty can balance Russia in the East, and it is Britain's foreign policy to balance Russia, and now a more obedient Japan has jumped out, and it is still very capable of fighting, and is very willing to fight, such a thug is not easy to find, Prussia has played this role for a long time in history, and as Prussia has become the German Empire, it is not willing to play this role, and Britain wants to balance Germany instead.

Japan is a thug, and this positioning is very clear, so it can be vigorously supported until this thug becomes an empire.

But the thugs missed, and the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was ended, and the central government collapsed directly, and the Queen Mother and the Emperor were nowhere to be found, what should I do.

At this time, Britain found that it was the Ming family that had the ability to deal with this great change.

They immediately approached the Ming Dynasty to negotiate the situation on the East Asian continent.

Britain expressed their attitude, as long as the Ming is willing to intervene to maintain the situation in East Asia, Britain can make certain concessions to the expansion of the Ming on the mainland, they believe that the territory of the Ming and Qing courts can make some adjustments, such as the territory of the Ming Dynasty can be advanced to the Yangtze River basin, Hunan, Guizhou and Jiangnan and other places can be incorporated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Britain made such concessions, what are they afraid of?

Because Russia acted, the Tsar would be a fool if he could not seize such an opportunity.

The tsar saw that the Manchus were vulnerable, and even small Japan could not be defeated, they were polite, and immediately increased their troops by 100,000 on the grounds that the situation in the Far East was tense and affected the interests of Russia, and stationed in Zhangjiakou, they had existed in Zhangjiakou for many years, and when they were fighting for Huludao, they built a barracks in Zhangjiakou, and they had not withdrawn for so many years, and they retained thousands of garrisons, and now they suddenly increased their troops by 100,000, and the devil knows what their intentions were.

Britain approached Russia for representation, and Russia said that it did not occupy the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but Britain also dared to believe that Russia had expressed many such expressions, especially in Central Asia, but now the whole of Central Asia is Russian territory.

What worried Britain even more was that the Germans also intervened, and after learning the news of the collapse of the Manchu Central Committee, a German cruiser sailed to Nantong and occupied the county seat of Nantong, in the name of protecting overseas Chinese.

Germany directly invaded the river basin, which is the core interest of Britain, and Nantong and Shanghai are separated by a Yangtze River, how can Britain not worry.

The French saw the Germans in action, and they also sent troops to occupy Haizhou (Lianyungang).

Britain had nothing to do but increase its troops, and the worst case scenario was that the Manchus would be divided by the great powers, and Britain would just get a piece of the pie.

But this is not in the interests of Britain, Britain does not want to see any great powers compete with them for the cake of the Manchu Qing, the same as Britain is the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty does not want to see any great powers compete for the Manchu Qing, so Britain believes that in this regard, they are natural allies with the Ming Dynasty.

It was inconceivable that the territorial integrity of the Manchus must be guaranteed, firstly, as a buffer for Russia to move southward, and secondly, to continue to serve British commercial interests, and let Britain rule the Manchus directly, which was unthinkable, and the cost of input was completely disproportionate to the output.

For this reason, he could make certain concessions to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty proposed that Sichuan was also in the south and should also be included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so as to better manage and prosper commerce, and the British agreed.

Daming and Britain hit it off, saying that maintaining the territorial integrity of the Manchu Qing is also the national policy of the Ming Dynasty, when the diplomat of the Ming Dynasty said this, the British minister's face was not very natural, coax the ghost to go, who does not know that the Ming Dynasty dreamed of unifying the country.

With the acquiescence of the British, the Ming army soon marched into Jiangnan, Hunan and Sichuan, without the need to mobilize the army, and directly sent back the soldiers originally recruited here.

There was hardly any tremor, and the south of the Yangtze River belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jinglun sighed, the situation is still chaotic, sure enough, as he imagined, once the Manchu Qing Dynasty collapses, the huge geopolitical power vacuum will make the situation difficult to clean up, Mongolia, Northeast Russia and Japan are eyeing each other, the Germans will also come to get a piece of the pie, and the French are not to be outdone.

The United States, which had just been beaten by Daming, did not come.

He had just finished sighing, when suddenly news came that even Italy had come to cut meat, and they sent troops to occupy Rizhao, claiming that Italy should also have a special zone of interest in China.