At half past two o'clock in the afternoon of February 28, the fifth peace talks between the Qing and Japanese sides were held at Chunfan Tower.

With the simile of the Qing royal family to make a contract, the following negotiations are already a matter of course.

Under Li Hongzhang's 'striving', the East made appropriate concessions, and the Qing and Japanese sides reached a unified identity.

After all the terms were negotiated, the two parties agreed to officially sign the contract on the first day of the third lunar month.

And Ito Hirobumi also agreed to Li Hongzhang's request, the First Army of Zhili immediately withdrew from Zhili, and all the Japanese troops in Ludong left Ludong, or entered Weihaiwei Port.

On the same day, the telegram was sent back to China, and the whole country was in an uproar, and they cursed Li Hongzhang for betraying the country.

Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Liangjiang, who received the telegram, hurriedly sent a telegram to the governor of Taiwan, Yamen, and the British and French consulates in Taipei also received a telegram from Zizhulin in Tianjin.

The news then spread through the streets of Taipei.

Taipei immediately sounded the gong to strike the city, and the gentry and people crowded into the governor's yamen, crying and screaming. ’

In the First Army of the Japanese Army in Zhili, after receiving the telegram, there was a lot of cheers everywhere.

The soldiers began to pack their bags overnight, preparing to bypass the northern suburbs of Jinmen and take a boat back to Beitang Wharf.

The telegram reached Dalian Bay that night, and immediately the Japanese soldiers everywhere were crying and shouting excitedly, singing "Jun's Generation" one after another, praising the great victory of the Oriental Empire.

After the Lushun Telegraph Bureau received a telegram from the General Military Office of the Dagu Fort, the Lushun Regiment also began to carry out the general mobilization before the war.

On March 1, Li Hongzhang and Ito Hirobumi signed a contract:

1. China recognizes that the DPRK is truly completely independent and self-reliant.

2. China cedes the Liaodong Peninsula, the entire island of Taiwan and all its affiliated islands to the East.

3. China will hand over about 20,000 taels of Kuping silver to Toyo as compensation for military expenses; The payment shall be divided into eight installments, and after the first indemnity is paid, the unpaid amount shall be increased by 5 per 100 per annum.

4. Oriental subjects may be engaged in the manufacture of various crafts in the cities and towns of China's treaty ports, and they may import all kinds of machinery as they please, and shall pay only the prescribed import duties.

5. Shashi, Chongqing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou will be opened as commercial ports, and Japanese ships can sail into the above ports along the interior to carry passengers and goods.

In addition, the signing of the "Other Treaty" stipulates that:

The troops of the Oriental State stationed in Weihaiwei shall not exceed one brigade and regiment, and all the expenses for temporary garrisoning shall be paid by China at the expiration of each anniversary from the date of ratification of this treaty, and a quarter shall be paid, and the treasury shall be 500,000 taels of silver.

In Weihaiwei, the coast of Liugong Island and Weikou Bay in Weihai should be within five miles of the Oriental Kingdom and about forty miles from China, and the area where the Oriental army was stationed.

In the places where the Oriental Army is stationed, any crime related to military affairs shall be judged and handled by the military affairs officer of the Oriental State.

On the same day, the Qing court called the Taiwan government:

'Cutting the table is a last resort. Although Taiwan is heavier, it is lighter than the Beijing Division. If the enemy takes advantage of the victory and attacks directly, the Beijing division is in danger. In addition, Taiwan is isolated overseas and cannot be defended for a long time. ’

'Delivery of Taiwan, limited to two months, the remaining 20 days. Whoever the people will cross within, hear; Within two years, the in-house ferryman, as an Oriental, changed his clothes. ’

All officials and troops sent by the Qing Dynasty were required to leave Taiwan immediately, and if the Taiwanese people did not leave the country within two years, they would be deemed to have voluntarily given up their status as Qing people.

When the telegram arrived in Taiwan, the Taiwanese suddenly heard about it, and if they heard the thunder at midnight, they were frightened and colorless, and they rushed to tell each other, gathered in the city, and wept day and night, and the cry reached the four fields. ’

The Taiwanese people were extremely angry with the Oriental, and deeply resentful and disappointed with the Qing court.

Subsequently, when a large number of officials and troops left Taiwan, Qiu Fengjia, a former director of the Ministry of Works, an official registered in Taiwan, and Daolin Chaodong, an alternate secretary, Chen Rulin, a secretary in the cabinet, and Liu Yongfu, the chief soldier, ——。

Write a blood letter to express "swear not to obey the Japanese".

and questioned the imperial court: "The queen mother, the emperor and all the courtiers, if you don't take advantage of this to delete the land cution, you will abandon our Taiwanese people with peace of mind." The people of Taiwan are gone, and the court is unpopular, how can it rule the world? ”

Qiu Fengjia and others angrily formed a ten-battalion volunteer army and swore to fight the Japanese army to the end.

Taiwan's governor Tang Jingsong telegraphed to Premier Yamen, saying: "The people of Taiwan are willing to defend the dangerous area and shield the Nanyang,—— this is because the people of Taiwan do not accept the Japanese and have independent powers, and their rejection of the Japanese has nothing to do with the Qing Dynasty." ”

'Its rejection has nothing to do with the Qing Dynasty! ’

——This sentence became the Taiwan government to break away from the Qing Dynasty and form the 'Great Qing Dynasty Taiwan Democratic State' to protect itself and fight against the East alone.

Immediately, the gentry of Taipei flocked to the governor's yamen, and Qiu Fengjia and others presented the democratic presidential seal and national flag.

Tang Jingsong went out of the court, looked at Que Jiu and kowtowed, accepted the appointment in the north, and cried in.

The name of the year was changed to "Yongqing", which means that it will always be subordinate to the Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, Tang Jingsong sent electricity to the outside world, and Taiwan vowed not to surrender to the East and would fight a decisive battle with the East to the end.

When the news came out, the world powers were all admired, and Guangxu and Cixi, who were beaten with big faces, had to endure the pain in their faces and not squeak.

On the first day of the third lunar month, the Oriental army of Zhili began to pull out the camp and march east to Beitang.

At the same time, the Weihai Guards sent fast horses to various places to recall the Japanese army in Ludong.

The Japanese warship group that had already been prepared at the port of Sasebo lifted anchor and sailed out of the military port and headed for Bohai Bay.

To welcome back the 'glorious' First Army.

Throughout the Orient, there is a cheerful scene everywhere, singing and dancing.

And Li Hongzhang, who signed the contract and returned to the ship, ordered the steamer to set sail immediately without stopping for a moment, leaving this place where he was humiliated.

When sailing out of Maguan Port, Li Hongzhang said sadly and indignantly: "I will never set foot on an inch of land in the East again in this life!" ”

"Woo-"

The ship roared and gradually left the East in the night, leaving behind the joy and arrogant laughter of the Oriental people on the island.

On the second day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the Qing court sent a telegram to the Lushun army, saying that the land and water troops only needed to wait patiently in the military port, and the imperial court would mobilize troop carriers from Shanghai, Fujian, and Guangzhou, and then escort them by the Beiyang Navy Division to Leiden for temporary stationing.

- One of the purposes is to temporarily prevent the Lushun army from entering Zhili, and the second is to use this elite army that can fight against the Japanese army to monitor the Japanese garrison in Weihaiwei at Leiden.

On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, Taiwan's Tang Jingsong sent a telegram to Lushun, saying that Lushun had tens of thousands of elite soldiers and ships of the Beiyang Naval Division, and that it must not be easily 'abandoned' and cause regret for all generations.

Tang Jingsong proposed in the telegram that Taiwan and Lushun, the two 'abandoned lands' of the Qing Dynasty, should unite and continue to fight to the death against the Japanese to the end.

Seeing Taiwan's telegram, He Changying's heart couldn't help but feel inexplicably excited, this is what he has been waiting for, and the Taiwanese people's heart for the bloody nature of China really did not disappoint him.

That night, in the darkness of the night, the Qing Beiyang Naval Division 'Fulong' quietly sailed out of Port Arthur and went south to Keelung Port in Taiwan.

On the boat was Governor Lu Dong, Xu Bangdao, deputy commander of the new army, and Tang Shaoyi, He Changying's plenipotentiary envoy, who was going to discuss with Tang Jingsong about the joint anti-Japanese war.

On the same day, the Japanese warship group passed through Ludong Chengshanjiao, watched the dense Oriental ship group sail by, and released a carrier pigeon on the top of the Chengshanjiao lighthouse.

On the afternoon of March 4, the First Army of the Japanese Army arrived at the Beitang Wharf, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops were densely packed at the mouth of the Beiji Canal, flying flags like a forest.

And the Qing people of the entire Beitang have long heard of the cruelty of the East and fled from Beitang for refuge.

That night, the Japanese mixed ship group sailed into the Bohai Bay.

Mukden.

On March 2, after the Japanese army in Mukden received the telegram of signing the contract in the East, the entire Mukden garrison was jubilant.

Subsequently, the defenders of Fushun withdrew to Fengtian City, preparing to retreat south to Liaoyang, and then retreat to Xiuyan and Phoenix Zhucheng, waiting for the order to return to the East.

According to the terms of the Qing-Japanese contract, the Qing Dynasty will cede all the territory southeast of the line of Kuandian, Fenghuang and Xiuyan.

Correspondingly, the cities of Fengtian, Liaoyang, Haicheng, and Yingkou will also be returned to the Qing Dynasty.

March 5th, early in the morning.

"Hum—"

With the opening of the southern gate of Fengtian, nearly 1,500 Japanese soldiers marched out of the city and retreated south to Liaoyang.

The deputy brigade commander of the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Komatsuzaki Rikuma Osa, when he went out, glanced at the dense new tombs by the Hunhe River.

Nearly 1,000 corpses of Oriental soldiers were buried there, and about 700 of them were killed in battle, and the remaining 300 were intolerant of the cold of winter, and died of beriberi, gastroenteritis, and other diseases.

"It's a pity I can't get this forest!"

Komatsuzaki Rikuma rode on the war horse, although his mouth was full of regret, but his heart was more of a great joy that could not be exhausted.

Through this Qing-Japanese war, the Oriental Empire was truly 'developed'.

Thinking of the blood-boiling figure of 200 million taels, Komatsuzaki Rikuma felt flushed all over his face and his head was dizzy.

There are also Liaodong, Liaonan, and Taiwan Islands, these tens of thousands of square kilometers of territory, how many endless mineral treasures are buried under these territories!

And then

Komatsuzaki Rikuma heard a 'bang' of gunfire from a distance.