Today's weather in Tianjin seems to be very bad, one will be sunny and the other will be cloudy, which makes Ono and the entire Japanese legation feel very depressed.

The base camp never dreamed that it would meet a thick-skinned person who was thicker than his own country. I still found some excuse to attack Liaoyang, but no one directly gave an excuse and did not receive the armistice order.

It seems that I can only endure this breath. Several people deeply realized in their hearts that now they can only hope that Li Hongzhang must get better. Otherwise, there would be no way to stop the negotiations.

Tokyo, the base camp of Japan. Emperor Meiji looked at the black heads below, smashed the telegram in his hand in anger, and began to roar loudly: "What are you doing, what are the Korean guards doing, stupid, pig's head, in less than a day, the Qing army advanced more than 100 kilometers in Korea." ”

Ito Hirobumi cautiously glanced at Emperor Meiji, whose face was the color of pig liver, and explained in horror: "Your Majesty, you can't completely blame the commander of North Korea for this matter, everyone in the world knows that Qing is a country that stresses honesty and is an honest country, who but who will know that this Liu Jun is so shameless, he will attack suddenly, plus the main force of a division of North Korea is in Seoul, and Pyongyang to the border of Qing is only 6,000 people, this is to defend such a long front, this is ......"

It's better not to mention Liu Jun, as soon as Liu Jun is mentioned, Meiji is angry in his heart, long before the Battle of Lushun, the elites of these empires told themselves that it was only a matter of two or three days to defeat Lushun, and then how to take Lushun, but now. A few months passed, not only did he not take Lushun, but he let Liu Jun rush back to North Korea. This is nothing short of a disgrace to the empire. Now Ito Hirofumi actually mentioned Liu Jun again. This made Meiji jump all at once.

With a snap, Meiji slapped the conference table, spitting saliva and interrupting Ito Hirobumi at once: "Enough." ”

In a word, Ito Hirofumi was so frightened that his face was colorless, and he hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to speak.

Meiji looked at the group of fools, took a deep breath, and closed his eyes, hoping to suppress his anger.

After all, now that Liu Jun's troops have 40,000 people attacking North Korea, now is not the time for Gai to get angry, but to think about how to make up for it. Bringing Qing back to the negotiating table is the important thing.

"Now that the Qing State has begun to avoid negotiations, how can you deal with it and let the Qing State negotiate?" Meiji looked at the ministers below.

This question, Ito Hirobumi and several others have already studied, and now seeing Meiji asking, he hurriedly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, we have studied and believe that if you want the Qing Kingdom to submit, you must attack from two directions" Speaking of this, he walked the Gulou area, came to the map, pointed to the area of Liaoyang and said: "Now that the first division and the fifteenth division of our First Army have taken Liaoyang, originally we let these two divisions cover the Shandong campaign, but now that we have seen it, we need to revise it, Shengjing is the ancestral tomb of the Qing emperor, If we approach Shengjing, then the Qing Dynasty will definitely meet our conditions. And "Ito Hirobumi looked at the name, and then pointed to Weihai in Shandong again: "Now our army has taken Weihai, and two divisions have been assembled in Weihai." The Qing army's troops were mainly concentrated in the northeast, and if we went all the way north and made a posture of coercing Beijing, then we would also achieve this goal. ”

That's a good way to do it. In Meiji's view, this plan was possible. Nodding, Meiji agreed.

"But? , now our treasury is probably not able to support a simultaneous offensive in both directions. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said hesitantly.

Ito Hirobumi returned to his position with a slight smile: "Today we have reached an agreement with Britain to borrow 50 million pounds, I think, this is absolutely able to support until we finish this war, and then we can pay the compensation of the Qing country."

"North Korea and Liu Jun do this? You must know that they have already hit North Korea. If they attack Pyongyang, "the Minister of the Interior asked a sharp question.

"Don't care about North Korea for the time being, what does Liu Jun say that he is also a courtier of the Qing State, only if the Qing State surrenders, then he decides to obey the dispatch of the Qing Emperor and then withdraw from North Korea." Hirofumi Ito, who thinks he is a China expert, swears.

He never dreamed that Liu Jun was not only thick-skinned, but also would not listen to the imperial court. He will pay a heavy price for it.

"Okay, tell the soldiers in front of you that the survival of the empire is here." Meiji excitedly raised his fist.

In Tianjin, Li Hongzhang has been cold for two days with the Japanese delegation, and this face can be regarded as snatching back, but he is still a little uncomfortable in his heart, the Japanese army actually pulled down Liaoyang, not to mention, but also to fight a basket, saying that his own people will do it first. But fortunately, Liu Jun mentioned that he saved face.

If it weren't for Liu Jun, he really didn't know how to deal with it.

As soon as he finished writing a pair of handwriting, before he had time to appreciate it, he saw Yang Shixiang walking in anxiously. And two telegrams were handed out.

Li Hongzhang took a look, and the smile that was originally sunny suddenly became gloomy, and he found that Liu Jun was not in the study, so he said lightly: "Go and Liu Jun will find it for me." ”

The telegram was sent from the northeast and Shandong, and Song Qing in the northeast reported that after the Japanese army captured Liaoyang, everything was very quiet, but yesterday, the Japanese army began to move, and the troops began to go out of the city, presumably to attack Shengjing. Shandong's telegram told her that except for one brigade of the two Japanese divisions in Weihai, the rest of the troops began to advance northward, and now it was not far from Yantai, and asked Li Hongzhang to send reinforcements.

Liu Jun has been staying in the Governor's Mansion for the past two days, and when he saw Li Hongzhang looking for him, he hurriedly got up from the bed and followed behind Yang Shixiang.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Li Hongzhang walking back and forth in the study with his hands behind his back, and he still held a telegram in his hand.

"Old man, what's wrong, what's the matter with calling us over in such a hurry?" Liu Junle asked.

As soon as he saw that it was Liu Jun, Li Hongzhang sighed, handed the telegram in his hand to Liu Jun, and said, "I'm afraid we have to start negotiations with the Japanese." ”

Liu Jun didn't understand what Li Hongzhang meant, but took the telegram from Li Hongzhang's hand suspiciously.

"I don't understand why negotiations should suddenly resume." Liu Jun showed a puzzled look on his face and put the telegram in his hand on the table next to him.

Li Hongzhang looked at Liu Jun suspiciously: "You really didn't see it?" ”

"Nope." Liu Jun's face was serious, but his heart was already happy. He had already seen what the Japanese army was going to do, but it just didn't break it.

Taking a deep breath, Li Hongzhang said with some sorrow: The Japanese army in the northeast is going to attack Shengjing, and Shandong, I'm afraid it's going to capture Beijing. ”

"What?" Liu Jun pretended to show a panicked look: "Old man, if this Japanese army is like this, then the armistice agreement has become nonsense, and I think we might as well talk while fighting." ”

Li Hongzhang nodded, he also meant the same.

After thinking for a while, Li Hongzhang said: "In this way, you go back to Lushun, and then rush to North Korea, try to organize a campaign, and take Pyongyang." So that the Japanese army can retreat. And here, I will deal with the Japanese army. ”

"Okay," Liu Jun nodded, and then feared that Li Hongzhang would regret it, so he immediately added: "Tomorrow I will be Lushun, and then go to Sinuiju immediately." ”

"Okay, tomorrow you will be Lushun, and I will start negotiations with the Japanese tomorrow.

"Okay" Liu Jun nodded, a smile on his face. But he thought for a while, rubbed his hands, and said a little embarrassed: "Old man, I've been short of money for this time, you see." ”

At a glance, Li Hongzhang knew that Liu Jun was asking for money and guns, and waved his hand: "Go find Yang Shixiang." ”

He has already gotten Zhong Lin's news, in the past few days, Duan Qirui and he have cooperated with each other, and have persuaded ten people and robbed twelve people, and now these people have been sent to the Qiaoli warship, for fear of long nights and dreams, today Zhong Lin asked Liu Jun when he would start to return, but he didn't expect that Li Hongzhang would let him go back to Lushun, which is simply a cold winter when someone sends blankets. Great good thing.

The city of Tianjin at dawn is extremely silent. Apart from a few dog barks, there was no other sound.

With a creak, the Tianjin City Gate was slowly opening, logically speaking, it was not the time for the Tianjin City Gate to open, but the city guard officer saw the military uniform and the sign in his hand that called the door, and opened the gate without hesitation, so that these fast horses left Tianjin City and slowly closed the city gate.

At the Tianjin wharf, several fast horses galloped to the dock before stopping.

Did Liu Jun turn over, Zhong Lin rushed over and smiled: "Head, that brand is so good, it actually opened the door as soon as it lit up." ”

", you don't even look at whose brand it is." Liu Jun raised the sign in his hand with a smug face.

Originally, Li Hongzhang was going to send Liu Jun out of the city with great fanfare tomorrow, but when he came back, he thought that if Liu Jun blatantly went out of the city, it would inevitably arouse the awareness of the Japanese army, and then react, so he temporarily let Liu Jun leave in the middle of the night, and personally handed over the token of the Tianjin Governor's Mansion to Liu Jun.

You know, without a token, even if it is the king of heaven, the city gate will not open.

And Liu Jun also knew the importance of this matter, so he agreed to Li Hongzhang's arrangement, and then came to the hotel after leaving the governor's mansion to wake up Zhong Lin, Duan Qirui and a few others, and then called open the city gate.

Seeing where Zhong Lin was still staring, Liu Jun hurriedly put the token in his pocket: "What do you see, are the robbers and the arms sent by Clint on board?" ”

"Head, it's all on the bridge." Zhong Lin pointed to the Hashidate cruiser moored in front of him.

"Okay." Liu Jun nodded, then looked back at Tianjin City, which was still at night, took a deep breath, and then waved his hand: "Get on the boat and go back to Lushun." ”