As for the key War Department, He Changying also made large-scale adjustments.

The Ministry of War consists of three major departments: the Lushun Corps, the Liaodong Corps, and the Sino-Korean Joint Operations Corps.

Among them, this military conference focused on the reorganization of the Arthur Corps first.

The total strength of the Lushun Regiment is 25,000 and consists of three infantry brigades.

Major General Lin Yunyu, commander of the corps, Major General Li Zhenhua, deputy commander of the corps, Colonel Ma Decao, chief of staff, and Lieutenant Colonel Lu Wenjie, chief of military justice.

Major General Hao Tiansheng, commander of the First Brigade, Colonel Huo Guotao, deputy brigade commander, and Colonel Qi Youwei, chief of staff.

Major General Mao Chao, commander of the Second Brigade, Colonel Lu Shuncheng, deputy brigade commander, and Colonel Duan Xiongbo, chief of staff.

The commander of the 3rd Brigade, Major General Li Bohu, the deputy brigade commander, Colonel Cao Kun, and the chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Yin Wenxin (exceptionally promoted).

In addition, the first and second intelligence departments that are in charge of communication by the director of the office of the committee, the propaganda team led by Chen Shijie and Tang Feng, and the Weiying Society established by Chen Shijie and a group of young soldiers, and a series of secret institutions, are not mentioned.

As for the Dagu Military Station of the Anti-Japanese Army, the Yalu River Military Sub-district, and the management of Lushun City (now managed by the officials under Song Xi, and the military police are responsible for the assistance of the force).

As well as the management of the cities of Phoenix, Xiuyan, Yingkou, Liaoyang, Jinzhou, Panjin ——, and other places that have been actually controlled.

All of them will be put aside for the time being, and they will be discussed after the war.

After the morning meeting, in the afternoon, in the evening, and in the days that followed, the whole of Lushun was busy.

The whole of the new army was full of joy and excitement, and while carrying out the run-in operation of the new organization, they were excitedly preparing for the upcoming Dalian Bay Campaign.

At this time, the peace talks between the Qing Dynasty and the East were also going on with difficulty.

On the whole day of March 19 in the Western calendar, telegrams from governors from all over the Qing Dynasty flew like snowflakes to Tongzhou, and then were sent to the prime minister's yamen in Yanjing City.

Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kunyi, Qian Yingpu, Chen Baozhen, Zhao Shuqiao, Xu Yingqi, and even Liu Mingchuan, who was recuperating from illness,—— played one after another, and the Oriental contract was too harsh and could not give in to signing.

In the streets and alleys of Yanjing City, restaurants and tea shops, everyone discussed, angrily cursing the shameless greed of the Japanese children.

And in the early morning of the early dynasty, even with the big Buddha of Cixi pressing behind the curtain, the ministers still couldn't help but get more and more noisy, and then they all yelled with red necks and "no decency".

Hearing this, Cixi was irritable and directly ordered the dispersal of the court.

After that, Emperor Guangxu, who was really aggrieved and depressed to death, endured the symptoms of a severe cold and a splitting headache in his body, and summoned his imperial henchmen Weng Tongxi, Zhirui, Li Hongzao, Wen Tingshi, Zhang Qian, and Wang Mingluan to discuss urgently.

In the upper study, the imperial party was excited, and they all claimed that such a humiliating contract must not be signed.

However, Guangxu hesitated and asked, 'If you don't sign a contract, what if you send troops to attack Jingshi?' ’

Immediately, everyone was angry, and there was no way to deal with it.

At this time, Wen Tingshi, who has always been bold, suddenly said angrily: "If you resist the Japanese army, it would be good if you were in Beijing." ”

As soon as this sentence fell, Nie Eighteen, the eunuch who was in charge of serving as Cixi's ear next to him, was full of tears at that time, and he actually cried loudly.

Seeing Nie 18 crying, Guangxu roared angrily and reprimanded the eunuch who was going to drag Nie 18 out and was responsible for the heavy responsibility, 'get out', and then asked Nie 18 in a hoarse voice Why is he crying?

Nie 18 knelt and kowtowed to ask for guilt at that time, and said with a choked head and bleeding on his head: "The slave remembered that when General He went to Beijing to face the saint last year, he told the slave that he would be loyal to the monarch and the country, and he would swear to the death to expel the Japanese from our Qing Dynasty, and he couldn't help crying bitterly. ”

As soon as the dazzling eyes came out, everyone in the upper study looked angry and didn't dare to speak.

For He Changying's tens of thousands of elite soldiers did not come to rescue the siege of Yanjing City, but stationed in Langfang City at the behest of Cixi.

Then Wang Wenjin, the left attendant of the military department, knew that the Japanese army was coming to surround him, but he did not let the anti-Japanese army go out of the city, and finally led to the defeat of the anti-Japanese army and left Yongping Mansion.

With the opening of the nine gates of the capital, it is now spreading in the capital, and everyone who hears it is dumbfounded and scolded Wang Wenjin as a traitor who is a traitor, and Li Hongzhang, who went to the East to lick the master's cheeks, are the two big lackeys raised by the East in the Qing Dynasty.

However, among the central ministers of the Qing Dynasty, who doesn't know what's going on inside?

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Guangxu sighed with grief and indignation: "You are sincere; Go down and bandage your head, I can't be without loyal people like you! ”

As he spoke, Emperor Guangxu couldn't help but think of He Changying's face to the saint, as well as the bold words inside, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

It's not that our monarchs and ministers don't have the ability to defeat this little widow, but that there is an old witch living in the Forbidden City, who is afraid that I will be in power, and will fight me and my loyal ministers everywhere!

Seeing that his lover was full of tears, Emperor Weng Tonggong didn't know his thoughts, and suddenly he couldn't stop crying.

Toyo, Maseki.

For a whole day on the 19th, the anxious Li Hongzhang did not wait for a call back from the imperial court, and he did not dare to go out for fear of being shot by the Japanese ronin again, so he had to sigh in the house like a trapped beast, unable to solve problems.

For a whole day on March 20 in the Western calendar, there were still disputes in the Forbidden City of Yanjing, and there was no decision.

Li Hongzhang, who was in Maguan, couldn't wait for telegrams left and right, and he sent a telegram to return to China to ask questions.

In desperation, Li Hongzhang had no choice but to invite Cresda, De Xuanlin, Bidege, and several foreigners to discuss the Oriental treaty together, and after repeated discussions, he came to a conclusion:

The second clause of the treaty draft, 'China will be the southern part of Shengjing Province', can be debatable, and it is determined that what the East really wants is the area along the Yalu River, and the most important is the 'Golden Brigade', so as to obtain the ice-free port of Lushun.

Article 3: 'China will compensate the Oriental military treasury with 30,000 taels of silver,' which should be appropriately reduced.

Article 4 'The subjects of the Oriental Kingdom shall be exempted from taxes and gold on all goods imported into China, and shall be exempted from all goods manufactured in China. It should be debatable.

After getting this conclusion, although he could 'do what he wanted', Li Hongzhang's heart was not easy at all.

Because even so, this contract was extremely harsh on the Great Qing Kingdom.

On March 20 of the Western calendar, this day was already the last day promised by the Japanese side, and the bigwigs of the Qing court were still arguing, and they did not send a single telegram to Li Hongzhang.

And Cixi, who was sitting behind the curtain, had already learned to be 'shrewd' this time, and was actually eating snacks and drinking hot tea behind the curtain, and seemed to be not in a hurry at all because the imperial court could not give Li Hongzhang in Maguan a conviction.

In fact, Cixi's heart was indeed not in a hurry.

In her opinion, even if the imperial court can come up with a compromise plan for Li Hongzhang, the content in it will definitely be 'thousands of miles away' from the Oriental condition draft.

If Li Hongzhang got this telegram, with the heart of this old fox, he would definitely talk to Dongyang according to the contents of the telegram, and then it was likely to anger Dongyang.

Once Dongyang ordered Langfang's army to come over and attack Yanjing City to warn, who could resist?

The face of the court has now fallen to the ground, do you have to do it again, and you can't be pressed into the mud pit!