Just when Song Xiaofei was busy with the affairs of the Army Officer Academy, Ito Hirobumi, who was about to become the prime minister, and Saigo Congmichi, the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, led a powerful diplomatic corps to Tianjin to find Li Hongzhang to seek "justice", and said that he felt that he had suffered great grievances in the civilized political and political d'état in Korea, and said that after returning to China from the Minister of Bamboo Zoe Shinichiro, the minister of the DPRK, in order to shirk responsibility, he said that he was under the edict of the Korean king Li Xi to lead the troops to attack King Qin, but was attacked by Song Xiaofei and the Huai army, and the embassy was also burned down, with heavy casualties. They wanted to seek compensation from China for the loss of one million taels of silver, and Takezoe Shinichiro brought the "killer group" to assassinate Song Xiaofei, and also mixed in the diplomatic team and secretly came to Tianjin.

Song Xiaofei was a witness to the coup d'état in North Korea, and he only ran a military academy part-time, and he also held the post of "Minister of Trade and Trade of Korea". Diplomatic negotiations are a war without gunpowder, important surnames sometimes go beyond the real battlefield, and the core interests of a country are related to the core interests of a country, so Song Xiaofei resolutely decided to meet this Ito Hirobumi and Saigo Congdao. Song Xiaofei knew that at this time, he was no longer at ease to live on the island, and if he wanted to win the hegemony of Asia, the claws of external expansion were ready to move, and he could not hide it.

It is said that the venue of the negotiations is a small three-story red western-style building in the south of Tianjin, Ito Hirofumi is not tall, the front door of his head is also very bright, he has a mustache, wears a black tuxedo, and the people behind him Saigo Congdao and others are also all dressed in suits and leather shoes, looking very polite and polite. However, as soon as he sat down at the negotiating table, Ito Hirobumi attacked Li Hongzhang with great vigour: "This visit to your country is mainly for two things, let's first talk about the stationing of troops in the DPRK, a few years ago, the embassy was burned down by the Korean mob, and the embassy was stationed in the DPRK for protection as a last resort, and the country only stationed 1,000 troops in Korea, but now the Qing Dynasty has stationed 3,000 troops. ”

Ito Hirobumi said this very nicely, both sides have withdrawn their troops and will live in peace forever, in fact, harboring evil intentions, China is the suzerainty of Korea, and it is a matter of course to station troops in Korea, and the stationing of troops in Korea is in the name of protecting the embassy, and once there is no riot in Korea, it is said that the troops should be withdrawn. His current proposal for both countries to withdraw their troops is effectively tantamount to asking China to give up its suzerainty over Korea.

Li Hongzhang is an old and spicy negotiator, of course he will not fall for Ito Hirobumi, he deliberately pretended to be surprised, and asked Song Xiaofei who was sitting next to him unhurriedly: "Do you say that my country still has troops stationed in North Korea?" Why didn't the old man know about this? ”

Song Xiaofei said: "A few years ago, Dayuanjun led troops to rebel, and the former ambassador to North Korea, Hanafang Yoshishi, set fire to the embassy himself. Later, in the name of counterinsurgency, he sent 1,000 troops to Korea, but he stayed in Seoul and never returned. ”

When Ito Hirobumi heard this, he hurriedly said: "At that time, Hanafang Yoshishi and General Wu Changqing of your country signed a garrison agreement. ”

Li Hongzhang said: "China is the suzerainty of North Korea, and the old man has the final say in North Korea's affairs. The agreement signed by Wu Changqing and Yueben was not approved by the old man and was invalid! Besides, the rebellion in North Korea was quelled by our army at that time, and Dayuanjun is still being detained in Tianjin by the old man, so there is no reason to station troops in North Korea anymore, so there is no need to talk about it! ”

Li Hongzhang is now acting quite hard at this time because the three giant ironclad warships Dingyuan, Zhenyuan and Jiyuan have arrived at the port of Tianjin, and he has just dealt with the French, and this sentence "There is no need to talk about this matter anymore" made Ito Hirofumi half angry. However, this matter is indeed a loss, North Korea is now very stable, said that there is no reason to garrison troops again, Ito Hirobumi began to talk about the second thing, he took out the Korean king Li Xi's "Minister of the Emperor to defend me" edict, pointed at Song Xiaofei, and said to Li Hongzhang angrily: "Then let's talk about last year's matter, last year the king of Korea sent an edict to Minister Zhu Tian to lead troops into the palace Qin Wang, your soldiers couldn't help but say, attack the palace, kill the soldiers, Lord Zhongtang should arrest the officer who led the army and ask for the guilt, instead of letting him sit at the negotiating table to negotiate with us." ”

Li Hongzhang took the edict and glanced at it, stroked his gray beard, didn't say anything, and handed it to Song Xiaofei.

Song Xiaofei looked at the seven words "Minister Ben came to defend me" and said: "This edict was written by Kim Yujun, Park Yongxiao and other rebellious parties under duress, and it doesn't count."

Hirobumi Ito said, "How do you know that this edict was written under duress? This was written by the king of North Korea himself, and if you don't believe it, you can ask experts from a third country to identify the handwriting. ”

Song Xiaofei smiled contemptuously and said, "Lord Ito, this blind man can see that under normal circumstances, would the words of the King of Korea be written so crookedly?" And I don't know if you've noticed, this edict is not even stamped with the imperial seal. ”

Ito Hirobumi was red-faced when he was said to be angry, and he angrily glanced at Shinichiro Takezoe beside him, he knew that Takezoe was lying. At this time, Song Xiaofei took a copy of the message of the king of North Korea, Li Xi, and showed it to Ito Hirobumi: "Lord Ito, if you want to know what is happening in Korea, you can look at the message of the king of North Korea stamped with the imperial seal, which also states that the edict in your hand is an edict written when the rebellious ministers were coerced, and these rebellious ministers and thieves have now been ambushed." Moreover, he led the troops into the palace of the Joseon Dynasty with a humble position, and it was also said that the soldiers fired first! ”

After speaking, Song Xiaofei took out a name card with bullet holes and said: "This is the name card of the officer I sent into the palace to contact the soldiers, and the bullet hole on it was shot by the army, and it also injured our envoy who entered the palace." ”

Ito Hirobumi didn't expect Song Xiaofei to be prepared, he kept one hand, and even brought the name card with bullet holes on the battlefield, so angry that his mustache was upturned, slapped the table, and stood up from his seat, Li Hongzhang also stood up at this time, raised his clenched fists again, and opened his eyes angrily at Ito Hirobumi: "You said that your country's original garrison in Korea was unreasonable, and you even went into the palace to help the traitor coerce the king of Korea, it is a mistake on top of a mistake, and it is not an exaggeration for our side to drive it away." You even shot first, is it tolerable! ”

Li Hongzhang has always been known for his gentleness and courtesy on diplomatic occasions, and he only blushed with the French minister to China before the Sino-French war. ”

Li Hongzhang said: "Since the other side fired first, whether it is a North Korean soldier or a native soldier, how can the [***] team not shoot back?" ”

Ito Hirobun came to China with full confidence to ask for compensation, and when it comes to now, he is falling behind everywhere, and even he is embarrassed to speak. Song Xiaofei took the opportunity to raise the Ryukyu question at this time: "Lord Ito, you have nothing to say. Let's talk about the issue of the Ryukyu Kingdom now, because in the past 10 years, you have actually regarded China's forbearance as weakness, provoking Taiwan first, Ryukyu second, and Korea three and four times, and now swallowing Ryukyu and imprisoning Ryukyu King Shōtai in Tokyo. ”

When Ito Hirobumi heard Song Xiaofei talk about the Ryukyu issue, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he knew that if he continued to talk, he would say that "stealing chickens and rice would not make it easier", so he took out a white handkerchief and wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, saying, "I am a little dizzy today, I have to go back to rest first, and then we will continue to talk another day." ”

As soon as Ito Hirobumi left the negotiation building, before he got into the carriage, he called Takezoe Shinichiro over and whispered: "I think you were right before, if you keep the Korean Minister of International Trade in front of you, you will have no future in Asia." Tell the Assassins, do it tonight! ”;