After Hirobumi Ito and Mutsu Munemitsu saw it, they were furious and cursed the Toyoma Police Station as a group of pigs, and let the idiot Toyotaro Koyama, the ronin, assassinate Li Hongzhang.

As a result, the old man took advantage of the excuse to have confidence and lay on the bed so that Ito Hirobumi had nothing to do.

- You can't run to the bedside of Li Hongzhang in the Yinji Temple, lose your temper with Li Hongzhang (a patient) in front of foreigners, and make threats.

'At the end of the argument, there must be room for the other side to refute it again and again.'

The continuation of the lamentation prolonged the negotiations. If I do not point out the fallacy of his arguments, it may lead to the suspicion of outsiders that Japan is superior to its strength. ’

Ito Hirobumi and Mutsu Munemitsu discussed again and again, and decided not to give Li Hongzhang a 'face', and to give Daqing a 'frank and straightforward' warning and threat.

Rather than babbling with them on empty theories, it is better to make them conform in the face of facts. ’

In other words, Toyo will not reason with the Qing Dynasty, but will talk about 'facts' and 'fist sizes'.

It is necessary to let Li Hongzhang and the Great Qing Kingdom have a truly sober understanding of the current Qing-Japanese peace talks.

'Awaken from his dreams and repent! ’

At noon that day, Ito Hirofumi replied to Li Hongzhang and said nakedly:

"It should be understood that the terms required by the outcome of the war cannot be compared with the negotiation of an event under normal circumstances. The Chinese envoys were able to take into account the present situation between the two countries, that is, the fact that the East was the victor and China was the vanquished. ”

In his reply, Ito threatened: "If this negotiation breaks down, I will order sixty or seventy transport ships to carry the additional army and sail to the battlefield one after another." Our First Army will also immediately attack westward and capture Yanjing, and it is not guaranteed whether the Minister Plenipotentiary of China will be able to enter and exit the gate of Yanjing safely after leaving this place. How can we still postpone the time of the meeting? ”

As soon as this post came out, Li Hongzhang was shocked and blushed.

On the one hand, he replied to Hirofumi Ito, and he would reply to the draft treaty on the same day, and at the same time, he hurriedly sent electricity to Tongshu in China.

In the afternoon of the same day, Tongzhou received a telegram and hurriedly sent it to Yanjing.

After reading, the ministers set up changes.

The Qing Dynasty has always paid attention to a 'face', and even if everyone knows what is going on, such as which head has a scar, everyone can see it.

But for the sake of the 'face' of this man with a scar on his head, everyone seems to be selectively blind when they see this scar, and they can't see this thing.

Usually, between neighbors and friends, everyone gives each other 'face' like this, otherwise once they say it, they will immediately become 'mortal enemies'.

Who would have thought that the Oriental Kingdom would actually give the Qing Dynasty such a faceless and kick the leper scar on the head of the Qing Dynasty?

However, it was this kind of arrogance of the East that made the quarrel in Yanjing subside a lot, and sent Li Hongzhang two telegrams with still ambiguous contents.

"In the north and south, the imperial court regards it as equal, and it is a last resort, and it is impossible to refute it without it, so why can't it be abandoned? If the hostility is too extravagant to refuse, the minister must refuse to allow it wherever it is difficult to do so. Express your own opinions, explain them in detail, and do not retreat without saying anything, and return to the purpose of the section of land cutting. ”

Then he called again: "First of all, the land will be cut off in one place, and the compensation should be cut off by tens of thousands, and I will try my best to declare it." In his letter, there was a certain paragraph that was not allowed, and it was not necessary to refute it repeatedly. ”

On the evening of the 21st, the Toyoma Kanwaihamamachi Post and Telecommunications Bureau received a telegram from Tongshu, which was immediately translated and sent to Mutsu Munemitsu.

Hirobumi Ito and Mutsu Munemitsu are simply 'celebrating each other'.

'Unless you have to do it as a last resort, you can't get it with all your might, so why can't you bear to give it away?' ’

'First of all, the land will be decided in one place, and the compensation should be determined by ten thousand, and it should be said with all its might. ’

These two telegrams mean that the Qing court has alluded to 'Liaodong' and 'Taiwan', and the East can get at least one land.

For war reparations, Toyo can get at least '10,000 taels'.

At this point, Dongyang has completely figured out the 'bottom' of the Qing Dynasty, and the remaining problem is to 'turn one place into two places', and move '10,000,000 taels' to '30,000 taels' as much as possible.

Daqing succumbed to the signing, it was only a matter of time!

"Mutsu, you need to continue to urge Li Hongzhang vigorously tomorrow to prevent long nights and dreams."

Ito Hirobumi said with a cautious face: "It is reported that Tsarist Russia is uniting with Germany and France to forcibly intervene in this peace talks, and now they are trying to lobby Britain; In these few days, we must sign the treaty before the intervention of the Western powers! ”

As for why Tsarist Russia built the 'Trans-Siberian Railway', the powers of the world are well aware of it, and the annexation of Liaodong by the East and the seizure of the entire Northeast is tantamount to snatching food from the mouth of a polar bear.

Therefore, Ito Hirobumi will use all kinds of means to force the early morning to give in and sign a contract.

21st, night.

Great Qing Liaonan, Dalian Bay.

The sky was moonlight.

The fine weather and the monsoon from the east have made the temperature in southern Liaoning warm day by day, and the ice in Dalian Bay has begun to melt rapidly, and the sound of falling water with pieces of ice breaking can be heard from time to time.

After more than two months of ice, the sea in the bay is once again sparkling.

Dashan Yan looked at the sea and knew that the days before he left this harbor and returned to the East were numbered.

At that time, nearly 26,000 troops and 5,000 Oriental soldiers were landed at the Huayuankou of the Zhuang River.

Later, the 1st Engineer Brigade was completely wiped out in Jinzhou by the Qing army's tricks, and the 1st Army transferred the 5th Engineer Brigade to Maba Zhengxiong to assist in building the Qing defense line.

Then when the Ludong detachment attacked Weihaiwei, the 6th Artillery Wing of the 2nd Army went over to reinforce it.

From the soldiers who died in the intermittent battle with the Qing army last year, plus a large number of soldiers who died of illness, the number of soldiers in the second army of Jinda at this time has dropped sharply to 18,000.

Of the 5,000 soldiers, nearly 1,500 fell ill and died.

In other words, in the land around Dalian Bay, nearly 10,000 Oriental soldiers died in this winter.

However, the Qing army's Lushun fortress was still as strong as an iron bucket.

It can even be said that until the end, the Second Army has never set foot on the land of Arthur.

Da Shanyan looked at the sea, thought depressed in his heart, and muttered angrily: "Didn't you say that the Qing army was short of food? How did they not starve to death in a winter! ”

In his sight, many soldiers were sitting on the beach talking, and without listening, Dashan Yan knew what they were talking about.

Now the whole Second Army's mind is moving, and everyone is thinking about their relatives in their hometown, thinking that the cherry blossoms in their hometown are about to bloom.

They were all talking about whether they could return to their hometown before the cherry blossoms bloomed.

"Fortunately, the war is over! Otherwise, with the mentality of these soldiers—"

Dashan Yan sighed, shook his head again, and decided to go back to the headquarters to drink another glass of sorghum wine made by the local people that the soldiers had confiscated.

Otherwise, he would have had trouble sleeping tonight.

Yingchengzi, the new army actually controlled the easternmost front.

He Changying, Wu Weiyang, Lin Yunyu, Shen Zhaoao, Hao Tiansheng, Li Zhenhua, Peng Qianyan, Ma Decao, seven people stood on the slope of Jiang Zishan, looking east.

Wang Shizhen and Liu Pingyun stood aside with a group of adjutants, guards, and clerks, waiting for orders.

In Xiaogangzi Village, about three or four miles to the east, along the north to Shagangzi Village, Xiaowentun, Xidianzi, and all the way to the Bohai Sea, there are flashing bonfires.

It was a Japanese soldier on guard burning a fire to keep warm.