If Li Hongzhang just didn't want to get into trouble because of the sale of Taiwan, he had a way, for example, he threw out early on to exchange Taiwan for the Ming Dynasty not to support the Taiping Army, I am afraid that the Manchu civil and military forces, who had long regarded the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition as the top priority, would not have been so fiercely opposed. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

But Li Hongzhang did not throw out this plan at the first time, but went around in a circle, directing all the firepower to his teacher, so that everyone thought that this loss was settled, and he proposed this plan, which obviously made the Manchu courtiers suddenly feel that things were not so bad, and there would be a sense of unexpected gain.

Therefore, being able to exchange the inevitable surrender of Taiwan for the Ming Dynasty's abandonment of support for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is tantamount to a major diplomatic victory, but this victory only belongs to Li Hongzhang, because he was in Zeng Guofan and many ministers who supported the abandonment of Taiwan, and also let Taiwan, an abandoned land, play its value, that is, to say that others were scolded, and he Li Hongzhang made meritorious contributions.

Li Hongzhang's little tricks, not that no one could see it, Zuo Zongtang scolded him for being a gangster, misbehaving, and unrighteous at the first time.

But only Zuo Zongtang can see it.

Zeng Guofan can't see it?

Yi Xin can't see it?

Can't see it in the Manchu Dynasty?

Many people saw it, but Zeng Guofan didn't speak, Yixin didn't speak, and the people who understood the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty didn't speak. Because everyone knows that this is the way the Qing court does things now.

If it is really clear that there are so many officials who want to yin, but Li Hongzhang himself does not dare to do it, does he really dare to yin Zeng Guofan, dare to yin Shen Baozhen and other magistrates.

It can only be said that Li Hongzhang understands that this time the matter can only be done like this, he knows that his teacher can understand him, and his colleagues can understand him, that is, he wants to use the pot on those people's heads to protect Li Hongzhang's position.

Because Zeng Guofan can't be scolded, Zeng Guofan is responsible for being scolded, Li Hongzhang is very capable of doing things, but he needs a platform, so he has to give priority to keeping his position, so that the two of them can cooperate better with one in the court and the other in the place.

As for Li Hongzhang's request to Da Ming, he was sure that Da Ming would agree, because he had already figured out Da Ming's attitude in private.

Therefore, the negotiations went very smoothly, and the Ming promised to maintain strict neutrality and not sell weapons and ammunition to either side in the war between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing Kingdom.

Can Daming really do it, Li Hongzhang doesn't care, what he cares about is the agreement that has been implemented in black and white, this is the real achievement, as for the smuggling after Daming, what does it matter to him. Anyway, if Daming doesn't sell it, foreigners will sell it.

So the dispute between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing court on the Taiwan issue, at the beginning of 1875, was quickly resolved through negotiations, after the signing of the treaty, the two sides agreed on a transfer procedure, and soon carried out a formal delivery, under the witness of the Western ministers, including the Japanese minister, the Ming flag was raised in the Taipei prefect Yamen, Taiwan is considered to belong to the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, there are some follow-up matters to be dealt with, such as the Qing court withdrawing troops from various places, recalling the dispatched officials, and the Ming Dynasty went to hand over separately, these substantive affairs, On the contrary, it can't attract the attention of the audience.

After the Ming Dynasty recovered Taiwan, it immediately announced that it would revise Taiwan's political structure and rebuild Taiwan's government institutions in accordance with the methods that the Ming Dynasty had explored over the years. Officials from Fujian and Guangdong were sent to Taiwan, and the navy and army were stationed in the Fujian Military Region.

At the same time, the issue of Taiwan's development was put on the agenda, and at Zhu Jinglun's suggestion, the entire Taiwan Island, with Lukang in the central part as the center, and the entire Taiwan Island ownerless wasteland north of Lukang was entrusted to Pan's Tongwen Bank for development, and all the barren mountains and woodlands south of Lukang were entrusted to Wu Jiayi and Harmony for development. The reason given by the government is that both of them have opened up vast tea plantations in Fujian, and they are the most experienced and powerful in cultivating the island of Taiwan, which has a similar climate to Fujian.

But as soon as this appointment came out, the entire Ming business community, especially the tea merchants, was full of resentment, and they felt extremely unfair. But the government's attitude is resolute, and they slowly experience a different taste. It's just that they don't know what it is.

Not to mention that they don't know, even many senior officials in the DPRK and the Central Committee don't know, only a few officials such as Chen Zhiting and Wu Chongyao know better, they know very well that this is the emperor's will, and it is the emperor's will that requires them to keep it highly secret. The emperor needed the Pan and Wu families to continue to seek benefits by developing Taiwan, and at the same time to find a set of methods to develop such tropical and subtropical islands, as for the reason, it was because there were too many similar islands in the Pacific Ocean, and if the Ming wanted to occupy those places, they needed to have a complete set of development plans.

However, the government stepped forward to develop the Pacific Ocean, fearing that it would attract excessive attention from the Western powers and even the United States, and thus cause everyone to compete for islands in the Pacific, just as the Germans later entered the Pacific Ocean, which soon triggered Britain, France, and the United States to agree with Germany to divide the Pacific.

In this matter, Daming's national strength is not enough, and if he really competes with those countries, I am afraid that the cake that can be shared will not be too big. Zhu Jinglun hopes that before attracting the attention of these countries, he can use the power of the non-governmental sector to develop those islands. This kind of civil power obviously cannot be scattered small businessmen, but can only be giants like the Pan family and the Wu family.

The Wu family is very suitable, because Wu Chongyao has developed a lot of land in North and South America and immigrated hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years by personally managing the Daming Labor Export Company. The Wu family's financial resources are also enough to support them to carry out this kind of project, which requires long-term investment and has relatively slow results. The Pan family is also very suitable, the tea garden they opened up in Fujian is not very good, but they have one advantage that the Wu family does not have, that is, sailing experience.

Pan Shicheng is not only a businessman, his main identity is a salt merchant, in the past there were quite a lot of salt ships in hand, every year from the salt works in the Leizhou Peninsula area, a large number of salt transported to all parts of Guangzhou. Later, he opened up trade with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he ate the first crab, first used salt ships to transport salt, grain and other materials to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and later with the fierce competition, especially after the foreigners joined, the use of the speed advantage of the steamship to seize a large number of interests of the Pan family, Pan Shicheng bought a large number of steamships in a fit of anger, and also joined the ranks of modern transportation, and the Pan family's Tongwen Bank is now one of the top local shipping firms in the Ming Dynasty.

With the shipping capacity of the Pan family and the development ability of the Wu family, this can open up interests in the Pacific Ocean.

This is not a personal matter, but fighting for the interests of the country, so Zhu Jinglun did not hesitate to use state power to vigorously support these two giants, and did not hesitate to give them more advantages. Although this would cause great injustice, it seems that there is no choice for a late-developing country with limited strength. Later generations of industrialization in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea chose to support the chaebol path, not only because it worked, but also because it was probably the only feasible path.

In addition to allowing the Pan family and the Wu family to divide the interests of Taiwan, the Ming Dynasty quickly rebuilt the Taiwan government, and retained most of the Manchu Qing system, Taiwan is still a government under the Fujian banner, and the counties under it are still county systems, and a county has also been added, which is the boundary of the Langqiao Eighteen Society in the Peony Society incident, in order to commemorate the Peony Society that was slaughtered by Japan, the Ming Dynasty named this county Peony County, which is the southernmost county in Taiwan.

Naming the county after an indigenous feudal community that was killed by the Japanese is obviously not how sympathetic the Ming Dynasty is to this feudal society, but only shows that the Ming Dynasty does not intend to let Japan invade Taiwan.

After the transfer of power in Taiwan, the Ming government immediately invited reporters from the Ming Dynasty and Western countries, as well as ministers from various countries, including Japanese ministers, to visit Taiwan, and the focus of the visit was the newly built Mudan County, in the name of inviting everyone to inspect how to develop interests in this newly established and vibrant county.

But the tour guide of the Ming Mansion let them see the traces of the killing of the Japanese samurai here, allowing them to see the indigenous feudal villages that were burned to ashes, and the corpses of the indigenous people who died tragically under the Japanese katana, these are nothing, when everyone saw more than one rotting corpse of a child or even a baby who was split in half with a katana, everyone's faces changed color, and if the Japanese minister didn't know that they were in trouble, his IQ would be problematic.

The Japanese minister bowed to everyone on the spot and apologized, saying that Japan needed to investigate these things, saying that Japan would not allow such barbaric incidents to happen, and that if it was proved that it was really the personal behavior of some Japanese samurai, the Japanese government would definitely punish these samurai.

In fact, in this era, especially in the East, this kind of infanticide is not uncommon. The foreign newspapers reported more than once that Hunan soldiers slaughtered babies for fun, but the Manchu government did not care about this at all. The Japanese have regarded this kind of thing as a kind of shame, not because they recognize in their hearts how shameful this kind of thing is, otherwise the Japanese army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression would not be so cruel, but because they have consciously built themselves into a civilized country under the standards of Western civilization in the international community, and the Qing government is really aware of this point, so during the First Sino-Japanese War, the war between the Manchus and Japan was already regarded by Westerners as a war between civilized countries and barbarian countries, and the Qing Dynasty was that barbarian country.

It remains to be seen whether the Japanese minister's apology will be accepted by the international community, but at least he has already begun to carry out emergency public relations.

In the past, because Taiwan was under the jurisdiction of the Qing government, he could extradite him to the US consulate with extraterritoriality, but now Taiwan belongs to the Ming Dynasty, and it is the Ming and Qing dynasties that declare a peaceful transfer to each other, and the two sides unanimously believe that the Taiwan government is a government under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, so in 1864, when the Ming and Qing dynasties signed a peace treaty, it should be the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but the transfer was delayed because of later reasons.

Therefore, Li Xiande's conspiracy to lead Japan to invade was actually the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and according to the practice of national law, he applied war crimes to convict.

And for this crime, Daming sentenced him to death, which is not too much at all.