On June 6, 1895, Prince Gong Yixin and Governor of Zhili Li Hongzhang arrived at the British Legation in Beijing early in the morning with nearly 100 attachés.

British Minister O'Gener personally invited the two to a conference room in the legation, and the Japanese representatives were already waiting for Li Hongzhang and Yi Xin in the conference room, and there were also four ministers from France, Germany, the United States, and Russia in the conference room.

"Li Sang! We meet again! Komura Shoutaro, the former Japanese minister to the Qing Dynasty, greeted Li Hongzhang with a smile on his face.

Li Hongzhang snorted coldly: "I hope the envoy of the small village will not be as aggressive as last time!" Otherwise, the village minister may come again in vain! Hmph—"

Seeing that he could achieve a big victory, he was ordered to negotiate peace, which made Lao Li feel very unhappy.

Immediately Yi Xin, Li Hongzhang and Komura Shoutaro began negotiations, the two sides had no objection to the Japanese proposal that the Qing Dynasty recognized Japan as the suzerainty of Korea, but only argued on the amount of compensation for Japan's military expenses by the Qing Dynasty, and finally the Japanese representative Komura Shoutaro made a big concession, and the two sides agreed that the Qing Dynasty would compensate Japan with 3 million taels of silver as military expenses!

This made Li Hongzhang mutter, when did the Japanese talk so well? I wonder how the Japanese returned the huge loans of the British after the war? Li Hongzhang was a little curious.

Then the two sides signed the "Qing-Japanese Armistice Treaty" under the witness of the ministers of the five countries, which stipulated that from now on, the Qing Dynasty and Japan ended the state of war, and all the Japanese Northern Route Army under Beijing and the Japanese army besieging Funing City retreated to Qinhuangdao in Zhili Province, and then returned to Japan by British transport ship!

The Qing Dynasty recognized Japan as the suzerainty of Korea, and from then on Korean affairs belonged to Japan's internal affairs, and the Qing Dynasty had no right to intervene.

The Qing Dynasty compensated the Japanese military with 3 million taels of silver, and both sides released each other's prisoners of war.

As for the Japanese Southern Route Army, which had fled to Russia at this time, Japan is negotiating with Russia to charter Russian transport ships to transport the remaining 38,000 Southern Route Army back to the mainland.

After the treaty was signed, the Japanese army began to retreat under the city of Beijing, and began to retreat, marching to Qinhuangdao, preparing to board a ship at Qinhuangdao and return to Japan.

Prince Gong Yixin and Governor of Zhili Li Hongzhang saw that they had not paid any price, and finally sent the Japanese away, and hurried to report the good news to the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu in Xingtai City, Zhili Province! Please return to the Forbidden City in Beijing with the Queen Mother and the Emperor!

Lin Daxin, who was in Shengjing City that night, received the news that the imperial court had signed the "Qing-Japan Armistice Treaty" with Japan, Lin Daxin sighed, although the "Qing-Japan Armistice Treaty" was a hundred times stronger than the historical "Shimonoseki Treaty" for the Qing Dynasty, but this was the total annihilation of the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Japanese Army's Southern Route Army was pursued by the Dingbei Army and fled to Russia, the Northern Route Army could not be attacked for a long time under the city of Beijing, ammunition and supplies were almost exhausted, and Japan was about to lose the entire war. Isn't this the same as in the French war in previous years, where the Qing Dynasty won on the battlefield and then lost at the negotiating table!

The entire Qing Dynasty paid so many prices, so many soldiers died on the battlefield, but in exchange for an undefeated defeat, which also made Lin Daxin let go of the last illusion about the Qing Dynasty in his heart and began to prepare for the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty.

The war between the Qing Dynasty and Japan, which lasted for nearly a year, came to an end, and later this war was called the First Sino-Japanese War in history, and it also became the First Sino-Japanese War!

Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi in Tokyo, Japan, sighed when he received the "Qing-Japan Armistice Treaty." Originally, Japan would not have been able to sign this treaty even if it had been killed, and Japan had borrowed tens of millions of pounds from Britain and mortgaged everything that Japan could mortgage, and if it could not obtain a huge amount of compensation from the Qing Dynasty, the entire Japanese finances would collapse, and it would have to bear huge debts.

The reason why Japan was able to agree to sign the "Qing-Japanese Armistice Treaty" began with Lin Daxin leading the naval fleet of the Naval Academy to shell Tokyo.

Most of the houses in the Japanese city of Tokyo were made of wooden planks, and the shelling of the fleet of the Naval Academy caused most of the city to burn, and even the imperial palace where the emperor lived was destroyed more than half.

After the fire, the servants of the Imperial Palace of Japan have been cleaning up half of the burned Imperial Palace in the city of Tokyo. A few days ago, the servants who were tidying up the ruins of the Imperial Palace suddenly discovered an underground entrance under a burned palace, and quickly reported it to Emperor Meiji.

Emperor Meiji, who got the news, was moved, it couldn't be the place he had been looking for! So Emperor Meiji hurriedly led people to the entrance of the underground and sent the palace guards to check it out, and the result was that Emperor Meiji was overjoyed, and as he expected, there was a dungeon below, filled with countless gold, silver and treasures.

It turns out that this is the legendary Tokugawa Shogunate treasure, which is the first year of Japan's Mangen in the 19th century, that is, in 1860, when it was at the end of the reign of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan, the world's gold and silver to huàn ratio was 1:15, and Japan was only 1:3, and there was a large outflow of zài gold in Japan. In order to stop this negative phenomenon and to accumulate assets for the benefit of armaments, the supreme consul of the shogunate, Ii Naobu, devised a plan to bury gold in a highly secret manner in the name of storing military expenses.

Later, the Tokugawa shogunate buried not only gold, but also a large amount of silver and treasures.

This burial plan continued until the end of the 60s of the 19th century, when the Tokugawa shogunate was finally overthrown by the shogunate faction and the Edo period ended. In July 1868, the Shogunate sent various princes to lead troops to besiege the Imperial Palace and disarm the Tokugawa Shogunate's ** guards. Surrounded by the young Emperor Meiji, they convened an imperial council and declared that the emperor would be in charge of all power, and the new government would change the name of Edo to Tokyo.

After Emperor Meiji came to power, he sent people to find the place where the Tokugawa shogunate buried its gold treasures, but the intellectuals who knew the treasures of the Tokugawa shogunate had committed suicide when the Tokugawa shogunate was overthrown, and the treasures of the Tokugawa shogunate became a mystery.

Unaware that the treasures of the Tokugawa shogunate were in the Imperial Palace, the excited Emperor Meiji immediately sent someone to count the gold, silver, and treasures in the underground palace. At the end of the count, Emperor Meiji shed tears of joy and shouted, "God bless Japan!" ”

It was rumored that there were at least 4 million taels of gold in the treasures of the Tokugawa shogunate, but it turned out that the amount of gold, silver, and treasures in the dungeon far exceeded that!

The Japanese found a total of 25 million taels of gold in the underground palace, equivalent to more than 760 tons of gold. Found 30 million taels of silver and a large number of treasures, the treasures contained a large number of various gems, and the treasures of the Tokugawa shogunate in the entire underground palace were worth more than hundreds of millions of pounds!

At this time, only a small part of the treasure of the Tokugawa shogunate could repay the loans of the British, and the remaining treasure was enough to put Japan on the track of rapid development.

Emperor Meiji convened the people of the base camp to discuss, and all the Japanese high-ranking people agreed that they should do everything possible to end the war, which had no hope of victory.

These treasures were then used to re-develop Japan's navy and army, and then re-establish a powerful combined fleet and a strong Japanese army, and then relaunch the war against the Qing Dynasty.

In this way, Japan took the initiative to put forward the conditions of an armistice that were not too excessive for the Qing Dynasty, and tried to end the war with the Qing Dynasty and begin its own development.

Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito entered the Imperial Palace, met with Emperor Meiji and said, "His Majesty the Emperor! The empire has signed the 'Qing-Japanese Armistice Treaty' with the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty recognized our Great Japan as the suzerainty of Korea and compensated us with 3 million taels of silver for military expenses! ”

Emperor Meiji was in a very good mood since he got the treasure of the Tokugawa shogunate, and said with a smile: "This result is already very good!" Now our task in Great Japan is to develop armaments as much as possible, in order to prepare for the complete defeat of the Great Qing Dynasty in the next war with the Great Qing Dynasty! ”

Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi also nodded and said: "I believe that under the leadership of the Emperor, our Great Japan will definitely be able to completely defeat the ignorant Qing Dynasty people in the next war with the Qing Dynasty!" ”

Emperor Meiji continued: "Order the new commander of the Combined Fleet, Heihachiro Togo, to draw up a plan for the re-emergence of the Combined Fleet!" Ito-kun, you have to contact foreign countries to purchase shipyard equipment, re-establish Kure Port Shipyard and Yokosuka Shipyard, and make 2 shipyards bigger! At the same time, after discussing the reconstruction plan of the combined fleet with Heihachiro Togo, Ito-kun and Heihachiro Togo placed orders with European and American countries to build powerful warships to supplement the losses of the combined fleet! ”

Hirobumi Ito nodded and said, "Hi! His Majesty the Emperor! ”

Emperor Meiji continued: "After the Northern Route Army in the Great Qing Dynasty and the Southern Route Army in Russia returned home, all the damaged divisions and regiments were replenished, and the 16 divisions of the army became standing divisions, and with the addition of our Guards Division, our Great Japanese Army has maintained the scale of 17 standing divisions from then on!" Ito-kun, you can order equipment from European and American countries, expand our arsenal, and produce advanced rifles and cannons, as well as other advanced weapons for the army! ”

After the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu in Xingtai City, Zhili Province received the "Qing-Japanese Armistice Treaty", Emperor Guangxu sighed and said to Cixi: "Dear father! Now that the treaty has been signed, should we set off and return to Beijing? ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi looked at Emperor Guangxu sighing, and said in a slow voice: "Your Majesty! The mourning family knows that you are not willing to sign a treaty with Japan like this! You want to sign a treaty that the Qing Dynasty won! ”

Emperor Guangxu nodded and said, "Yes! Dear Daddy! Our Dingbei Army has defeated the Japanese Southern Route Army outside the Guan, and the Japanese army under the city of Beijing has also fallen into a dilemma after a long attack! As long as we hold on a little longer, wait for the Dingbei Army to wave its troops into the pass, and flank the Japanese troops under Beijing before and after, our Qing Dynasty will definitely be able to win a big victory! ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi shook her head and said: "Lin Daxin's person is extremely rampant, he is not a loyal minister of our Qing Dynasty, if you give an order to let him wave his troops into the customs, it will not only be difficult for him to clean up the Japanese troops under Beijing City, but even let him clean up our Beijing City!" ”

Emperor Guangxu exclaimed: "No! Lin Daxin has so much courage? Isn't that a rebellion? ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi sneered and said, "What does he dare not rebel against!" The elite of our Qing Dynasty was consumed in the war with the Japanese, and now the troops that our Qing Dynasty can fight are left with his Dingbei Army. If he leads his troops to the city of Beijing, will the remaining remnants of our city of Beijing be able to withstand the defeat of the Dingbei army, which even the Japanese have defeated? ”