Korea, Liaodong fell one after another. The Japanese army is raising troops day and night to attack Shanhaiguan, and the Qing government and the opposition are shocked!

A few months ago, there was a big battle between the Qing and Japanese navies in the Inchon Sea in Korea, and the Beiyang Fleet originally watched its own fighting quite well, and the emperor and empress dowager of the Qing State thought that her side was going to win. As for the Korean war situation on land, defeat is defeat, and the Qing court did not take it seriously, not thinking that the war situation has been so corrupted that the Japanese have gone deep into the land of Longxing in the northeast.

In fact, at this time, the Japanese were already at the end of their crossbows, a large number of troops were short of supplies, and more than 60% of each 75-mm mountain gun of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Forward Army was damaged, and the remaining shells were only enough to fire 4 pieces per gun. In addition, the soldiers' winter clothes were also very scarce, and some of the Japanese soldiers in Shanhaiguan even caught fire in order to snatch the cotton boots of the corpses of the Qing soldiers.

It can be said that Japan at this time was also hesitating to negotiate peace with the Qing State, but these were not known to the Qing State.

Qing Kingdom, Forbidden City, Beijing

"Did you send the minister to Japan?"

After glancing at the important ministers of the court in front of him, Emperor Guangxu asked in a low voice.

"Tell the emperor, it's here!" Weng Tongsu, the head of the household department, stepped forward and replied, "However, the Japanese side has once again refused to negotiate with our country. ”

When Guangxu heard this, he turned his head to look at Weng Tongsu, "This ...... What does Japan want? ”

"Your Majesty!" Prince Qing Yixuan said with a little embarrassment, "The Japanese have now posted a letter of advice in various parts of the Northeast, and the ministers ...... I really don't know what to tell you...... Please take a look. ”

Guangxu glanced at Yixuan and didn't understand what else he didn't dare to say in public.

Taking the paper handed over by the eunuch, Guangxu unfolded it and looked at it-

Japan's Kaikai sincerely advises the heroes of China's eighteen provinces: "The sages have a saying: 'Virtue is ordained, merit is rewarded.'" He also said: 'Only fate is not normal, the good will get it, and the bad will be lost by the sages.' 'One of the barbarians outside the original Manchu clan, neither the virtue of the order, nor the merit of China, took advantage of Zhu Ming's declining luck, violently robbed, pretended to be for a while, and the opportunity was full of changes, and the world was skillfully manipulated. At that time, Haojie was invincible by force, and he swallowed hatred and hatred to this day, covering the so-called people who are victorious over the sky. Now is also the time when heaven will prevail over man...... The people of your country are of the same species, the same culture, and the same ethics as our Japanese nation, and they have a friendship of honor, and there is no hatred for them. I hope to forgive the sincerity of my disciples, never suspect the thoughts, observe the backs of heaven and man, and follow the general trend of the world, sing the righteousness of the Central Plains, entangle the strong men, the revolutionary army, in order to chase the Manchu Qing clan abroad, rise up the real heroes in the recklessness and support the great cause, and then reform the barnyard government, eliminate the people's harm, go to the false text and follow the will of Confucius and Mencius politics and religion, and verify and restore the rule of the three generations of emperors. I waited in vain. Fortunately, one of the Qing and others sang, and I should beg for righteousness in the palace. Therefore, the ship carried food and weapons, and made an appointment to go to the ribs. There is no time to lose, and the opportunity will not come back. The ancients did not say anything: if the sky does not take it, it will be blamed. Qing waited for the speed. Don't be laughed at by Mingzu! ”

The more Guangxu looked down, the more angry he felt in his heart, and at the same time he unconsciously felt a chill, and was about to open his mouth to scold, Guangxu suddenly felt dizzy, and his body almost fell.

"Your Majesty!" "Your Majesty! Please take care of your dragon's body! ”

Weng Tongsu and the others glared angrily, "Why are you showing this to the emperor?" ”

In the confusion, someone who didn't know why picked up the paper that had been thrown on the ground, opened his eyes to look at it, and immediately put it down after a few glances, and didn't dare to look at it again.

"Japan...... The Japanese are trying to dig up my ancestral grave in the Qing Dynasty~"

Guangxu couldn't stop trembling as he spoke, "Quick! Go and ask the countries to mediate! Let the Japanese Li Hongzhang tell the Japanese that as long as they agree to negotiate peace, I will ...... I did not hesitate to pay compensation and cede land. ”

Before the words were finished, the Guangxu people had already fainted!

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

"Quick, call the Imperial Doctor!"

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South Seas, Republic of Seris

"Führer, the Japanese have begun to attack Penghu! According to your order, our submarine forces have sunk all the Japanese convoys! The small number of troops that landed on it were also annihilated by our marines! ”

"In addition, the whole of the Dongxue Party has once again sent us a letter asking for help. Jin Mingde also said that the Dongxue Party members are about to be unable to hold on! ”

Hearing this, Chen Zeyu suddenly turned around, his narrow eyes suddenly opened, and landed on the map behind him like a blade.

Slapping the East Asian region on the map, Chen Zeyu said word by word, "Give orders to the army and navy headquarters respectively, and the second step of the tsunami plan will begin!" ”

"Yes! Monarch! ——”

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On January 22, 1895, the Seris War Department suddenly issued a wartime summoning order to 12 of the 15 divisions of the military subdivisions across the country, which stipulated that all troops receiving the summoning order must arrive at the Sizhejiang Military Subdivision before 7 a.m. on the 28th of that month.

On January 29th, the first army unit of the Republic of Seris began to load ships from the port of Sizhejiang, aiming for the north!

On 2 February, when the army units of the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Integrated Division of Seris, with the cooperation of the navy, captured Japan's Jeju Island, the Qing and Japanese sides also formally signed a peace treaty on the far north of Japan's Shimonoseki, which is known as the "Japan-Shin Shimonoseki Treaty" on this day.

The full text of the "Treaty of Shimonoseki," signed by Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito and Li Hongzhang of the Qing Dynasty, is as follows.

First, from now on, the Qing government recognized Korea as an independent state, and the Qing government promised not to interfere in Korea's state affairs again.

Second, all Japanese army units retreated from the Liaodong Peninsula of the Qing State.

Third, the Qing Dynasty opened up Guangzhou, Suzhou, and Hangzhou to Japan as commercial ports.

Fourth, the Qing Dynasty ceded the island of Taiwan and all its affiliated islands and the Penghu Islands to the Japanese Empire.

Fifth, the Qing government will compensate Japan in five installments with a total of 140 million taels of silver as military expenses. The first batch of 60 million taels of silver will be paid before April of the 20th year of Guangxu, and the balance will be paid in four installments from the second year, 20 million taels per year.

Signing of the agreement: (Qing Dynasty: Li Hongzhang, Japan: Ito Hirobumi) Date of signing: February 2, 1895.

After the news came out, the Qing people immediately became angry, condemning the treason of the Qing court and advocating the continuation of the war of resistance.

The local people in Taiwan who were involved were even more indignant and held strikes one after another, some of them flocked to the governor's office, and some wrote to the Qing court to protest against the cession of Taiwan, resolutely expressing that "I hope everyone will die in battle and lose Taiwan, and will never give up Taiwan." Tan Haoqiang, the county governor of Tainan County, actively expanded the "Xiang Yong" and said that he would lead his subordinates to defend Taiwan, which immediately aroused the response of the people, and Liu Yongfu, Tang Jingsong and others all joined in with their own troops!

History has changed, but some things still seem to be impossible. With the help of Seris, the Qing Dynasty's Beiyang Fleet had already fought like that with the Japanese, but after a major battle, they were ordered by their imperial court not to go to sea.

Later, Chen Zeyu arranged for the Dongxue Party to support Korea in China, thinking that he could cause some trouble to the Japanese in the rear, and the situation of the Qing State should be better. I didn't expect that in the end, it was still in vain, and history was unwilling to give the Manchus any more time after all!

The winner of all things in the world survives! Those who are inferior and do not want to make progress will eventually be eliminated by history!

Chen Zeyu couldn't help but shake his head when he looked at the articles of the Nissin Shimonoseki Treaty published in the Seris newspaper at hand.

Wu Xiatong, his wife beside him, poked her head over and asked, "Hanyin, what are you looking at?" ”

"The peace treaty signed between the Qing and the Japanese." Chen Zeyu gave his wife a smile.

Wu Xiatong was puzzled, "Does this have anything to do with us?" ”

"Not now, but soon, because this treaty will soon be a piece of waste paper."

Chen Zeyu touched the puppy lying on his lap, this guy didn't know when he ran up from under his nose.

After holding it to the side and getting up from the sofa, Chen Zeyu took the special line phone on the side of the table and said to the operator, "Pick up the Ministry of Defense ...... for me."