These days, both sides benefit greatly from private exchanges outside of negotiations.

And at this moment, Ito Hirobumi's mind, courage and responsibility can be called a masterpiece of the previous generation!

After the signing of the treaty, the two sides exchanged the text of the treaty and held a brief press conference, and the members of the Japanese mission left in a hurry.

The signing of this treaty, known as the "Tianjin Treaty" (also known as the "Tianjin Treaty", "Qian-Japan Tianjin Treaty", "Korean Incident Treaty" or "Tianjin Treaty"), announced the official end of the "Qian-Japanese Jiashen War".

The main contents of the Tianjin Treaty are:

(1) It is the duty of the suzerainty (protectorate) to send troops to protect Korea and suppress the rebellious party that launched a coup d'état, and Japan must recognize Korea as a subject state of the country and must no longer station troops in Korea.

(2) The Japanese army suffered a great deal of harm in Korea, so it compensated the Qianguo 2 million pounds sterling (about 8 million taels of silver in the Qianguo) for military expenses, which should be paid within the year without delay.

(3) Japanese nationals in Korea shall be protected by the garrison troops of the Cadre Country, and like other foreigners in Korea, Japan shall not send troops; if there is any chaos in Korea in the future, and the Japanese will be harmed, they will also be protected by the cadres, and the Japanese troops will not be allowed to enter the DPRK.

(4) If Japan and the DPRK conclude any further treaty, it must be carried out with the approval of the Qianguo countries.

(5) Japan shall separately pay the DPRK 1,000,000 taels of silver for the damage to the victims' families and the houses of the palace and the ships, which shall be paid in full within the year without delay.

(6) From the date of the conclusion of the treaty, the two sides shall strike their troops, end all hostilities, release the Japanese prisoners, withdraw the ships in Japan, and order the Satsuma warships to withdraw.

Lin Yiqing noticed the hurried departure of the Japanese mission, and he knew where two of them were going, and a smile appeared on his lips.

After passing through the long mountain tunnel, you will enter the boundary of Beijing. It was white under the night sky. The train stopped in front of the signal post.

A girl dressed as a Bo man stood up from the seat opposite and opened the glass window in front of Ito's seat. A blast of cold air swept in. The girl leaned out of the window and cried out as if calling into the distance:

"Mr. Steward, Mr. Steward!"

A man with a scarf wrapped around his nose and a hat pulled to his ear walked slowly through the snow with a lantern in his hand.

Hirobumi Ito thought to himself: Is it already so cold? He looked out the window and saw the wooden houses used as temporary dormitories for the personnel of the Qianguo Railway, scattered at the foot of the mountain, giving people a feeling of cold silence. The snow over there has long been swallowed up by darkness.

"Mr. Steward, it's me. You're good! ”

"Ouch, isn't this Miss Bossil! Coming home? It's a cold day again. ”

"I heard that my brother came here to work, and I want to thank you for taking care of me."

"In a place like this, sooner or later it's going to be very lonely. Young age, blame the pitiful! ”

"He's still a child, please ask the steward to guide him often, please."

"Okay. He's done a great job, and he'll be busy in the future. Last year, there was also heavy snowfall, and there were often avalanches, and as soon as the train broke down, the villagers were busy bringing water and food to the passengers. ”

"Mr. Steward, you seem to be wearing a lot of clothes, and my brother has written to say that he is not wearing a winter coat and vest yet."

"I'm wearing all four! Those hairy boys drank vigorously on a cold day, and now they all have a cold, and they are lying there crookedly. The steward shook the lantern in his hand towards the dormitory.

"Did my brother drink too?"

"Not really."

"Mr. Steward, this is going home?"

"I'm injured and I have to go to the doctor every day, alas."

"Huh? That's too bad. ”

The steward, who was covered with a sheepskin robe, turned around in the cold weather, as if he wanted to end the chatter quickly, and said, "All right, take care of the girl on the road." ”

"Mr. Steward, hasn't my brother come out yet?" The girl named Bossil searched the snow with her eyes, "Please take care of my brother, please." ”

Her voice was beautiful and almost mournful. The loud voice echoed in the snowy night for a long time.

The train was moving, and she hadn't retracted her upper body from the window yet. Waiting for the train to catch up with the stationmaster who was walking on the side of the railway, she shouted again:

"Mr. Steward, please tell my brother and tell him to come home on his next vacation!"

"Okay! Rest assured! The steward said yes loudly.

Bossile closed the window and covered his frost-red cheeks with his hands.

From the conversation just now, Ito Hirobumi was able to tell that the younger brother of this Bo girl named Bosil had been working at the railway signal that was about to be covered in snow since this winter. When Hirobumi Ito learned about this, he became more and more interested in her.

In his impression, the Bo people were not able to engage in these jobs.

The current Qianguo is really quietly changing.

However, the "girl" mentioned here is just what Hirobumi Ito thinks. Who the man next to her was, Ito Hirofumi naturally didn't know. The two behaved a lot like husband and wife, and the man was obviously sick. When accompanying patients, it is easy to ignore the boundaries between men and women, and the more attentive they are, the more they look like husband and wife. When a woman cares for a man older than her own like a mother, she will inevitably be seen as husband and wife from afar.

Ito Hirobumi looked at her alone, and based on his experience with women, he could infer that she was a girl based on her demeanor. Maybe it was because he stared at this girl with an overly curious gaze, so he added a lot of sentimentality to himself.

It was three hours ago. Ito Hirobumi was bored and stared at the index finger of his left hand in a daze. Because only this finger could make him feel clearly the woman he was about to meet.

The only survivor of the Satsuma Shimazu family.

Strangely, the more anxious he was to see her, the clearer her image became, although he had not seen her, and had only seen her hand-painted portrait in the reports of intelligence officers.

Thinking about it, Ito Hirobumi couldn't help but put his finger to his nose and sniffed it. When he unconsciously used this finger to scratch the windowpane, somehow, a woman's eyes were clearly reflected on it. He was so startled that he almost cried out. Probably because his heart flew into the distance. When he looked intently, there was nothing. Reflected in the glass window is the image of the woman seated opposite. It was dark outside, and the lights in the carriage were on. In this way, the window pane becomes a mirror. However, due to the heating, the glass was covered with a layer of water vapor, and the mirror didn't actually exist until he rubbed his fingers on the glass.

Only one eye of the girl was reflected in the glass, but she looked even more beautiful.

Hirobumi Ito put his face close to the car window, pretending to be watching the twilight scenery with travel sorrow, and rubbed the window glass with his palm.

The girl leaned slightly and looked down at the man lying in front of her with all her attention. Her cautious movements, her unblinking serious gaze, all showed her sincere feelings. The man lay his head by the window, resting his bent legs beside the girl. This is a third-class carriage. Their seats are not directly opposite Ito, but diagonally opposite. So only half of the face of the man lying on his side was reflected on the windowpane.

The girl sat diagonally across from him, and Ito could see her directly, but when they first got into the car, he was surprised by her charming beauty, and he couldn't help but lower his gaze. At this moment, Ito Hirobumi saw the man's sallow hand tightly gripping the girl's hand, and he was embarrassed to look at the other side again.

"Ito-kun, what do you think of that girl?" Shigenobu Okuma noticed Hirobumi Ito's gaze and asked with a smile.

He couldn't know more about Hirobumi Ito's temperament.

Hirobumi Ito's penchant for beauty is known to many people. Although he is famous for his achievements in the Restoration, he is also ranked alongside Toyotomi Hideyoshi because of his lust. Most of the women he dated were geisha, and his wife, Umeko, was also a geisha.

Most people have the impression of General Aritomo Yamaguchi, who served as Secretary of the Japanese Army, as "cold and thorough", "the founder of the faction", and "the enemy of the people", while the impression of Ito Hirobumi is that although he has a strong desire for power and fame and fortune, he is still a little childish at least on the surface. Hirobumi Ito's construction of buildings such as the Canglang Pavilion resembles a local government office building, and there is no artistic atmosphere. A foreigner once described him as follows: "This man loved wine, women and tobacco, and he never hid it, saying to those around him: 'I expect nothing from you.'" When I have a headache all day long about state affairs, it is probably better for the innocent and beautiful geisha's jade hand to relieve my heart than to ask you to pour me a glass of wine and serve me to change my clothes at dinner. It is also said that "Ito Gong regarded women as flowers at temple fairs."

Hirobumi Ito is indifferent to money, but he is obsessed with women. And Ito basically doesn't ask about the beauty and ugliness of women, as long as he has a whim, the other party will become the target of his hunting.

Before Ito Hirobumi got married, he used to have a fiancée named Sumiko. It is said that he was the younger sister of his classmate when he was in private school, and he fell in love with Sumiko at the same time as another classmate, and eventually he won Sumiko's heart, and his parents took Sumiko home when they found out about their relationship. Later, when Ito Hirobumi was engaged in the restoration business, he often went to taverns with those aspirants and befriended geisha. In the process, he became acquainted with his original wife, Meizi, who was born in the Qinglou in Xiaguan. Soon he and Chengzi broke off the marriage contract, and personally acted as a matchmaker and married Chengzi to someone else.

After the Meiji Restoration, Hirobumi Ito often played as a prostitute in Shimbashi, Tokyo. Later, in order to avoid people's eyes, he asked the pet artist Akura to open a tea house "Fugui Building" in Yokohama. Fuguilou became a secret place for the Meiji nouveau riche. After Ito Hirobumi took power, he continued to have romances, and once pursued the geisha Erira Kayo. Era Kayo is a famous gardener, who used to be the concubine of the prince of Saionji Temple, and later followed Kido Takayo. After Kido's death, Hirobumi Ito pursued Era, but in the end Era married Genemon Mitsui of the Mitsui zaibatsu.

Although Meizi is his only main room, there is no shortage of other women around him. Ito Hirobumi has a commendable record in both domestic and foreign affairs, but his relationship with women is really unflattering.

"Okuma-kun, she's beautiful, did you notice the way the man looked at her?" Hirobumi Ito smiled and said.

The man in the mirror, only when he looked at the girl's chest, did his face look serene and calm. The emaciated body, though weak, carries with it an atmosphere of blissful harmony. The man put the scarf under his head, went around his nose, and tightly covered his mouth before covering his cheeks upwards. It's like a way to protect your face. But the scarf sometimes comes loose and sometimes covers the nose. At the moment when the man's eyes were about to move but did not move, the girl used gentle movements to re-wrap the scarf. The two innocently repeated the same action, which made Ito Hirobumi look a little anxious. In addition, the hem of the coat that wraps around the man's feet is loosened and pulled down from time to time. The girl immediately noticed this and re-wrapped him. It all seemed very natural. That gesture almost made one think that they had forgotten the distance and walked towards the boundless distance. Because of this, Ito Hirobumi did not feel bitter when he saw this sorrow, as if he had seen a phantom in a dream. Probably because they were conjured up in an illusory mirror.

The view of dusk moves behind the mirror. In other words, the virtual image reflected in the mirror and the real object behind the mirror are shaking. There is no connection between the characters and the background. Moreover, the figure is a transparent illusion, and the scenery is a hazy undercurrent in the night haze, and the two dissolve together, depicting a world of symbolism beyond the human world. Especially when the lights in the mountains and fields were reflected on the girl's face, the indescribable beauty made Ito Hirobumi's heart almost tremble.

Above the distant mountain tops, there is still a faint afterglow of the sunset. The silhouette of the scenery seen through the window glass has receded into the distance, but it has not disappeared, but it has been eclipsed. Although the train continued to run forward, it seemed to him that the ordinary posture of the mountain field seemed more ordinary. Since nothing caught his eye very much, there seemed to be a huge emotional torrent in his heart. This is naturally due to the fact that the girl's face appears in the mirror. Only the part of the figure reflected on the windowpane obscures the twilight outside the window, but the scenery is constantly moving around the girl's silhouette, making it seem that the girl's face is also transparent. Is it really transparent? It's a delusion. For the twilight that passed from behind the girl's face seemed to flow through the front of her face. I looked at it, but I was confused. The carriage is also not too bright. The reflection on the window pane is not as clear as a real mirror. The reflection is gone. This made Ito Hirobumi look into his mind, and he gradually forgot about the existence of the mirror, and only felt that the girl seemed to be floating in the passing twilight.

At this moment, the girl's face flashed with light. The clarity of the image in the mirror does not diminish the lights outside the window. The lights did not erase the image. The light flashed across her face, but it didn't illuminate her face. It was a cold light from afar, dimly illuminating the surroundings of her eyes. The moment her eyes overlapped with the lights, she was like a bewitching and beautiful firefly flying in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Naturally, the girl didn't notice that others were observing her like this. Her heart was all about the patient, even if she turned her face to Hirobumi Ito, she would not see her figure reflected in the windowpane, let alone pay attention to the man looking out the window.

Ito Hirobumi peeked at Bosile for a long time, not thinking that it would be rude to her to do so, he was probably attracted by the illusory power of the twilight scene in the mirror. Perhaps Hirobumi Ito showed a little too serious when he saw her calling the station steward, and since then he has developed an unusual interest in her.

By the time the train passed through the signal station, it was already dark outside the window. As soon as the scenery flowing on the windowpane disappeared, the mirror lost its attraction completely, and although Bosile's beautiful face was still reflected in the window, and the expression was still so gentle, Ito found in her that she seemed to be particularly indifferent to others, and he did not want to wipe the blurred mirror.

After about half an hour, he didn't expect Bosil and the others to get off at the same station as Ito Hirobumi, that is, Taohuayu Station, which made him feel as if something else was going to happen to him, so he turned his head away. A chill rushed from the platform, and he was immediately ashamed of his indecent behavior on the train, and walked in front of the locomotive without looking back.

The man grabbed Bosile's shoulders and was about to cross the tracks when the station attendant raised his hand from the opposite side to stop him.

In the blink of an eye, a long line of trucks appeared out of the darkness, blocking them.

The innkeeper who came to solicit customers put on a strict winter coat, covered his ears, and wore long leather boots, like a ghost. A woman stood by the window of the waiting room, looking out over the tracks, wearing a blue cloak and a turban.

Since the heating from the car has not completely dissipated from Ito, Ito has not yet felt the real cold outside. It was the first time he had encountered winter in the north of this Qianguo, and he was frightened by the dress of the locals as soon as he came up.

Hirobumi Ito talked to the shopkeeper in a skillful official dialect.

"Is it cold enough to wear this?"

"Well, it's already a complete winter attire. The first night after the snow clears was particularly cold. It could drop below freezing tonight. ”

"Is it freezing?"

Hirobumi Ito, Shigenobu Okuma, and the entourage looked at the popular icicles in front of the eaves and got into the carriage with the innkeeper. Under the cover of snowy nights, the low roofs of every house seem to be lower and lower, as if the whole village and town are quietly immersed in a bottomless abyss.

"No wonder, no matter what your hands touch, they feel very cold."

"Last year, when it was the coldest time, there were people who froze to death."

"Where's the snow?"

"Snow, usually seven or eight feet thick, I'm afraid it's one foot or two or three feet when it's big."

"The snow is still to come?"

"yes, it's the back of the road. This snow had fallen a few days ago, and it was only a foot thick, and it had melted almost. ”

"Can it melt away?"

"Yes, but maybe there will be another big one." (To be continued.) )