Later, Li Hongzhang and Ito Hirobumi argued in the treaty to minimize the losses for China at that time. In the end, after Li Hongzhang's arguments, www.biquge.info treaty was changed to the following: "The scope of the cession of the Liaodong Peninsula was appropriately reduced, the indemnity was reduced to 200 million taels, and the treaty ports were reduced to four. ”

Ito said to Li Hongzhang: "Zhongtang saw me this abridgement, but there are only two sentences: yes and no. Li Hongzhang asked: "Isn't it allowed to distinguish?" Hirobumi Ito replied, "We can only debate, but not less." During this period, Li Hongzhang sent back a large number of telegrams to Premier Yamen every day to report on the progress of the talks, and all the telegrams exchanged were intercepted and deciphered by the Japanese side.

As a result, Ito fully grasped the bottom line of the Qing government's determination to avoid the breakdown of the negotiations, and at the same time realized that delaying the negotiations would be detrimental to Japan, so he took a tougher stance. The Qing court, on the other hand, had been helpless against Japan's demands, and after several setbacks, it saw that there was no room for maneuver, so it sent a telegram to Li Hongzhang on 14 April: "The original hope was to gain a penny and a penny, but if there was nothing to negotiate, it would abide by the previous decree and make a treaty with it."

At 11:40 a.m. on April 17, 1895, Li Hongzhang, on behalf of the Qing government, signed the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" with Japan at Chunfanlou in Maguan. On May 8, 1895, China and Japan exchanged instruments of ratification from the two emperors at Zhifu (present-day Yantai, Shandong), and the treaty officially entered into force.

According to the terms of the treaty, China ceded the Liaodong Peninsula (which was later unsuccessful due to the intervention of the three countries to return Liaodong), Taiwan Island and its affiliated islands, and the Penghu Islands to Japan, and compensated Japan with 200 million taels of silver. China also added Shashi, Chongqing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou as commercial ports, and allowed Japan to invest and set up factories in China's treaty ports.

The Treaty of Shimonoseki brought Japan enormous benefits and stimulated its aggressive ambitions; As a result, the national crisis in China has been unprecedentedly serious, and the degree of semi-colonization has been greatly deepened. The treaty adapted to the needs of the imperialist powers for the export of capital to China, and then the powers set off a frenzy to carve up China.

Although, in the end, under the intervention of the three powers, Japan returned the Liaodong Peninsula to the Qing court. However, Japan also took advantage of this to extort 30 million taels of silver from China again. According to the Japanese, the Liaodong Peninsula was not returned to the Qing court by Japan, but sold by Japan to the Qing court for 30 million taels of silver. In addition, the Japanese court was responsible for all the military expenses of the Japanese army stationed in 'Weihaiwei', so the total was 1.5 million taels of silver. Therefore, in the Treaty of Shimonoseki, China's real indemnity to Japan was not only 200 million taels of silver, but 231.5 million taels of silver!!

This was equivalent to three years of fiscal revenue for the Qing court at that time!!!!

Moreover, the Japanese are particularly reluctant to return the Liaodong Peninsula. Because the location of the Liaodong Peninsula is related to Japan's plan of aggression against Northeast China and the plan of aggression against the whole of China. However, due to Japan's First Sino-Japanese War, the domestic consumption brought by the war to small Japan was also very huge. Moreover, little Japan has a narrow territory, limited resources, and limited production capacity of its people, so it is not as vast as China, with its large territory and many people, and it can fight a protracted war.

At that time, Japan's domestic resources were on the verge of extinction, peasant uprisings were frequent, and the Japanese people were suffering greatly from the heavy burden of war. Russia, on the other hand, felt that Japan's occupation of the Liaodong Peninsula had harmed Russia's interests in the northeast and hindered Russia's plan to expand its forces in the northeast. As a result, Russia contacted Germany and France, and the three countries jointly pressured Japan to return the Liaodong Peninsula to the Qing court. At that time, for the sake of domestic stability and in order not to offend the old powers, Japan had no choice but to return the Liaodong Peninsula to the Qing court. Otherwise, with the greedy and perverted nature of little Japan, how could it be possible to spit out what it eats!

Back then, if the Qing court insisted on fighting with Japan. It was definitely not the Qing court that failed, but Japan, which was often poor in its own resources. Therefore, the fault of this war lies in the mediocrity of the Chinese rulers at that time, the mediocrity of Chinese officialdom, and the weakness of the Chinese rulers!!!!

As far as Japan is concerned, the huge indemnities received through the Treaty of Shimonoseki and strategic locations such as Taiwan not only promoted the further development of capitalism in the country, but also facilitated Japan's further aggression in the Far East, making Japan the only emerging capitalist power in Asia. In addition, for the sake of the original Japanese version of the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", Japan confronted Russia and the shame of the intervention of the three countries. On the other hand, it led to the formation of the "Anglo-Japanese Alliance" and began a new round of hegemony in East Asia.

In the case of North Korea, the Treaty of Shimonoseki legally marked the end of the thousand-year-old suzerain-vassal relationship between China and North Korea, and the collapse of the traditional Huayi order and tributary system in East Asia with the final blow. Korea nominally gained independence, but in reality it was controlled by Japan. After the Russian power entered Korea, the rivalry between Japan and Russia in Korea intensified, culminating in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904.

As far as the situation in the Far East is concerned, the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" has set off a frenzy of imperialist carving up China and intensified the struggle among the imperialist powers in the Far East

The Treaty of Shimonoseki was the most unequal treaty since the Treaty of Nanking. The imperialist countries invoked one-sided most-favored-nation status and obtained all the privileges granted to Japan by China under the Treaty of Shimonoseki, with the exception of land reparations. It has brought serious harm to modern Chinese society, greatly accelerated the process of semi-colonization of China, and deepened the national crisis.

The cession of Taiwan and other large territories has further undermined the integrity of China's sovereignty, stimulated the ambition of the great powers to carve up China, and further deepened the national crisis. Moreover, it has caused an irreparable estrangement between Taiwan and the mainland, which has been left behind to this day.

The huge amount of compensation has increased the burden on the Chinese people. At the same time, the development of Japanese militarism was accelerated. As a result, the Qing Dynasty borrowed heavily from foreign countries, which led to the control of China's economic lifebloodline.

The opening of treaty ports has enabled imperialist invading forces to penetrate deep into the Chinese mainland.

Allowing investment and setting up factories in China, other powers invoked the clause of "equal interests" and rushed to open factories in China, which seriously hindered the development of China's national capitalism. At the same time, it also reflects the process of the economic aggression of the great powers against China from the export of commodities to the export of capital.

The historical impact of the Treaty of Shimonoseki is extremely far-reaching, and it is closely related to the fall of the empire, the formation of the people's first lordship, and the Taiwan issue and the Diaoyu Dao issue, which China urgently needs to solve. The terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki were very harsh, and as far as the Qing government was concerned, such as compensation and financial losses, were extremely large. The military expenses for compensation amounted to 200 million taels, plus 30 million taels for ransom and 1.5 million taels for the Japanese garrison in Weihaiwei, totaling 231.5 million taels, equivalent to the Qing government's financial revenue for three years. In addition, the Japanese army also plundered a large number of ships, weapons, machinery, and grain from China, also worth 100 million taels. The huge indemnity payments forced the Qing government to borrow foreign debts to pay, and the foreign powers controlled China's economic lifeline through loans. The signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki was a major turning point in China's modern history, and for this ancient empire, the hegemon of East Asia was replaced by a small country, like a bolt from the blue.

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And, in addition to the reparations for the Great Powers. The 80 million taels of silver also included the distribution of Qing court officials, construction appropriations such as the 'Mawei Shipyard', as well as disaster relief after natural disasters**, water conservancy construction appropriations, and the annual extravagant consumption of the Manchu royal family, the army's military salaries, and the corruption of officials................ In this way, the 80 million taels of silver fell in a vast China, which was far from enough for the Qing court.

At present, the Manchu Qing still has 80 million taels of silver per year, and if after the signing of the "Xinchou Treaty", the great powers are afraid that the Qing court will not be able to pay the 450 million taels of silver, so they will completely control the customs and transportation of the Manchu Qing...........

At that time, it is still a suspense whether the Qing court will still have an annual income of 80 million taels of silver!!

And the Fang family's factory in Lexian County will bring the Fang family an income of three million taels of silver every year. Although, for the Qing court's annual income of 80 million taels of silver, it is far from enough. But the Fang family was only a rural family, and it only controlled a few small factories, while the Qing court controlled the entire country!!

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"Ah Fu, tell me carefully, what method did Mu'er use to make the Fang family's factory in Lexian County produce so much? Also, what is the total output of the Fang family's factory in Lexian in the past few months? At this moment, Fang Tianhao, who had completely let go of the shock in his heart, asked Laifu rationally.

After listening to Fang Tianhao's question, Laifu first scratched his head, and after thinking for a while, he explained to Fang Tianhao: "Master, I can't tell what method the young master uses. In short, it is a very strange method, after using that method, the number of workers in the Fang family's factory in Lexian County has not increased or decreased, and the enthusiasm of the workers in production is still the same as before. However, even under the condition that there is no change in the factory personnel, the output of the Fang family's factory in Lexian County has increased tenfold to the previous one!!!! ”

"As for the output of the factory in these months. Except for the first and second months, the workers were not proficient in the young master's new methods, so they only increased the original output by five or six times. But by the third month, the workers had already had some new methods of the skilled young master, and the output suddenly increased ten times as much as before!!! ”

Fang Tianhao listened to Laifu's vague explanation, and he also shook his head in confusion. Fang Tianhao didn't blame Laifu for not explaining it to him clearly, he knew that Laifu didn't understand what Fang Mu's new method was. Therefore, Fang Tianhao had to sigh helplessly, and said to Laifu: "Ah Fu, I have already ordered someone to call Mu'er, when Mu'er arrives here, let him explain it to us two old fools!" ”

There was some self-deprecation in Fang Tianhao's tone. For his son, he actually did what he couldn't do, so he felt like a hero was eating twilight. At the same time, there are also proud ingredients, for his son is so powerful, just using a 'small method', he has increased the output of the Fang family's factory in Lexian by ten times, and he is very proud. This couldn't help but make him sigh: "My son is amazing!" has his former demeanor! ”

Laifu obviously understood the pride on Fang Tianhao's face. At the same time, he had regarded Fang Mu as his son's blessing, and his face also showed a proud expression, and he was very happy that Fang Mu was so good at managing Fang's factory. I just wanted to open my mouth to praise Fang Mu for a few words.

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside Fang Tianhao's house.

"Boom! Boom! Boom~~~~~

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