This method of categorical governance of the people, the familiar fan, and the political discourse system of "turning the outside" and "turning the inside" derived from it, are all based on the degree and boundaries of traditional Chinese indoctrination and etiquette, and have nothing to do with the boundaries. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Therefore, in the eyes of the Qing court, it is not inappropriate to describe the "Fandi" in eastern Taiwan as "unreturned to the king" and "outside the life of Fanhua", and it can be regarded as a "successful negotiation" worthy of reference.

But the U.S. consul Li Xiande could not "forgive." He could not understand the Qing court officials' "view of the world" at all, and could only understand "(Fandi) has not been returned to the king" as the quibble of the Qing court magistrates: "Fandi is not China's territory, so China is not responsible for the killing of American sailors." In Li Xiande's view, this way of shirking responsibility is simply unreasonable.

The "Wanderer" incident finally ended with Li Xiande and the local Taiwanese Tufan signing an agreement not to kill the American sailors.

As everyone knows, Li Xiande, who had strongly demanded that the Qing court recognize the sovereignty over Taiwan's "Fandi," immediately began to concoct the "theory that Taiwan's Fandi has no owner," and entered Taiwan many times to collect all kinds of information as needed. After his plan was not supported by the US government, he was hired by the Japanese government instead!

In his first memorandum to the Japanese government, Li Xiande described his "theory that Taiwan has no land": "If the Chinese government discovered the island itself, it can also be said that the Chinese government itself abandoned the island. The Qing government imposed political education on some of the islanders, so it stands to reason that the Qing government should also govern the other part, but the Qing government could not produce effective evidence in fact. ”

Japan, which has long been influenced by Chinese culture, apparently understood the Qing court's concept of "Tianxia", and once upon a time, it was also part of this "Tianxia" - during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the missionary Xavier tried to naturalize Japan with Christianity, but was refused, and the Japanese reasoned: "If Christianity is indeed the true religion, then the wise Chinese will definitely know it and accept it." This made Matteo Ricci, who came to the East later, deeply realize that in order to naturalize the East, he must first naturalize China.

Japan, which was well aware of China's traditional "view of the world", was fully Westernized after the Meiji Restoration. This status thus became a huge advantage in front of the Qing court: while they understood the modern diplomatic concept of the West, they were also well aware of the loopholes in the traditional "diplomatic concept" of the Qing court and the various conflicts with the modern diplomatic concept of the West. How to use this advantage to profit from the Qing court became the top priority of the Meiji government's work after the Restoration. The "conquest of Korea" and the seizure of the Ryukyus were very popular in Japan in the early 70s of the 19th century. Taiwan, naturally, is not immune!

Lin Yizhe counted the next day, he came back on January 22, 1873, and in February, the Japanese government appointed Vice Island Tanetomi as plenipotentiary ambassador to China, in the name of exchanging the "Sino-Japanese Reconciliation Regulations" with the Chinese side, and the Qing court was anxious at this time because of the etiquette of foreign envoys, out of some naïve political goodwill, Vice Island Tanechen was allowed to meet with the Tongzhi Emperor with the envoys of various countries, and was treated by the Qing court with exceptional courtesy, not only did not kneel and bow, They didn't even bow five times like the ministers of various countries.

The intention of the Qing court was nothing more than that Japan and China belonged to the same East, and that they should be close to each other in order to oppose the Western powers; Moreover, if Japan is within the "world," elevating the status of Japanese envoys as an audience is tantamount to belittling the status of envoys from Western countries. But as everyone knows, after the Meiji era, Japan has long since left the "world" and integrated into the world. The trip of the vice-island minister was even more with the secret intention of obtaining political justification for Japan's annexation of the Ryukyus and the occupation of Taiwan!

Lin Yizhe knew that now he reminded the court that it should be too late in time, but whether the court could listen to it or not, he said it in two sentences.

The current government and opposition of the Great Qing Dynasty are accustomed to the old ways, and without enough external stimulation, they can't move at all!

"The most important thing now is to know the details, keep the people safe, and not to tell the truth to the outside world." Lin Yizhe said.

"In order to order Taiwan's Wu Dao (Wu Dating, a sub-patrol of Taiwan's military station) and Yang Zhen (Yang Zaiyuan, the chief soldier of Taiwan's town) to quickly find out the truth and report back, it has been more than a month, and no news has been heard." Li Henian sighed, "I don't know what happened." ”

Lin Yizhe vaguely felt that something might be wrong, and he quickly searched for the historical events that happened during this period in his mind, but after thinking about it for a while, he still couldn't think of anything similar to the "Wanderer" incident or the "Taifan killing Ryumin" incident during this period of time.

Although Lin Yizhe is a time-traveler who is familiar with the major historical events of modern China, he does not know everything that happened in history.

However, it is only one year before Japan's first invasion of Taiwan, the "Saigo Rampage"!

Lin Yizhe's uneasy feeling in his heart became heavier and heavier.

Over the years, he has been doing his best to run the shipyard, trying his best to promote cooperation with France, improving the shipbuilding capacity of the shipmaster, and pulling relations with the British to get a cruiser back, just to deal with this crisis!

"What Brother Kunyu said is that the most important thing now is to find the Japanese people safely and send them back, if someone dies, and the countries take the opportunity to watch, it will be troublesome." Wen Yu said.

"A few days ago, Youqin (Fujian Governor Wang Kaitai's words) planned to leave for the past, but he has been sick since last year and has not improved, and it seems to be serious again these days." Li Henian looked at Lin Yizhe and said, "According to the laws of the imperial court, the governor of Fujian must patrol Taiwan for half a year. This year's sub-tour of Taiwan affairs is only afraid that it will fall on Brother Kunyu. ”

"Yes! At that time, Brother Kunyu will have to work hard. Wen Yu also said on the side.

When Lin Yizhe heard Li Henian talk about the matter of "patrolling Taiwan", he immediately understood why he and Wen Yu were talking about this to him. I couldn't help but curse "two old foxes" in my heart.

The two of them went around in such a big circle, in fact, they just wanted to move themselves to patrol Taiwan! Because if he, the governor of Fujian, does not take office, and Wang Kaitai's illness is not good, one of the two old foxes must come to the past.

The governor of Fujian sounds loud, but in fact he is not very easy to do.

Although Li Henian and Wen Yu can't say that they are arranging themselves now, it is obvious that they are also giving themselves a problem.

"It's hard to say that it's hard work." Lin Yizhe agreed, "That's without further ado, I'll leave for a little preparation, and I'll deal with this matter first." ”

Seeing Lin Yizhe so brave in doing things, Li Henian and Wen Yu were not only surprised, but also moved in their hearts.

"Brother Kunyu has just come back from abroad, it is very tiring, when he rests for a while and then goes to perform his duties, the queen mother has a month of vacation, so there is no need to worry. In this matter, I will urge Taidao Town to quickly find out the report. Li Henian reminded Lin Yizhe: "There are a lot of things in Taiwan, Youqin has been there for half a year last year, and he is familiar with the situation. ”

"Exactly. Youqin and Shen Gong are also familiar with each other, Brother Kunyu might as well go over and have a look. Wen Yu also said.

Lin Yizhe agreed, he talked with Li Henian Wenyu for a while, gave gifts such as Western specialties he brought, and then said goodbye and went straight to the governor's office to visit Wang Kaitai who was sick.

At this time, Wang Kaitai was already bedridden, and Lin Yizhe was led by Mrs. Wang into the back hall and saw Wang Kaitai, who was described as haggard.

Wang Kaitai is a native of Baoying, Jiangsu, born in Jinshi, and has served as the editor of the Hanlin Academy, the compilation and revision of the National History Museum, and the attendant of the Hanlin Academy. In 1863, he joined the shogunate of Li Hongzhang and became a general of the Huai Army, assisting Li Hongzhang in quelling the Taiping Rebellion. Tongzhi served as Zhejiang's envoy for five years, and Tongzhi served as Guangdong's political envoy for six years. Tongzhi served as the governor of Fujian for nine years. When he was a magistrate, he built water conservancy projects in various places, built schools, banned bad habits such as fighting with weapons and drowning women, and did a lot of good deeds, and he was quite politically popular. After serving as the governor of Fujian, he had a close relationship with Shen Baozhen, who served as the Minister of Shipping, and he, like Shen Baozhen, was also a man who was willing to do things. This time, because of miasma in Taiwan and overwork, he fell ill and had to leave Taiwan and go back to Fuzhou to recuperate.

Seeing Lin Yizhe come to visit him, Wang Kaitai was very happy. Wang Kaitai had previously learned of Lin Yizhe's appointment to care for the governor of Fujian, and knew that someone would help him share the heavy duties, and he could rest and recuperate for some time with peace of mind, and he was very happy. Although he was seriously ill, when Lin Yizhe asked about Taiwan, he still gave a detailed explanation.

"Dare to ask the prince, what are the details of the killing of the Ryukyu fishermen by the people of the Taiwan Peony Society in the tenth year of Tongzhi?" After getting a general understanding of the general situation in various parts of Taiwan, Lin Yizhe turned the topic to the things he was most concerned about.

"It's been a long time, and there should be a document from the year in the department, Kunyu might as well go and take a look." Wang Kaitai said, "That is the incident when the fleet from Miyakojima in the Ryukyus Kingdom to Shuri, the capital of the Ryukyus, to pay the annual tribute encountered a typhoon on the way back and drifted to the junction of the Coats Buddhist Society, the Peony Society, and the Bamboo Society in southeastern Taiwan. At that time, there were 69 people on board, of which 3 drowned, 54 were killed by Fanmin, and 12 survivors were rescued by the government and sent to Fuzhou and returned to China by boat. ”

"Did something similar happen before?" Lin Yizhe asked.

"The incident of the Ryukyu people drifting to Taiwan and being killed by the people is not only this case, but there have also been many times before, and it is usually the imperial court that rescues and protects them according to the rules, and the Ryukyus issue a message of gratitude afterwards, and other responsibilities will not be pursued." Wang Kaitai replied, he understood why Lin Yizhe asked this, so he said, "This time, the people of Fanmin detain the Japanese, I am afraid that they are also the people of Liu, not the Japanese, because the Japanese do not regard Ryukyu as our subject state, call it the internal domain of Japan, regard the people of Ryukyu as Japanese, and they are afraid that they have to protect the people of Liu, and there is a sign that they want to take advantage of this to make a living." Kunyu can't be careless. ”