Liu Ying smiled when she saw Lin Fei and said, "Your Majesty, you have won a big battle, I want to congratulate you." ”

Lin Fei couldn't help but laugh and said, "Look at what you said, as if you are not my subordinate." I'm looking forward to you, hurry up and tell me about the current situation of the Japanese army, as well as the future defense deployment of the Japanese army. ”

Liu Ying looked surprised, gave a thumbs up, and said: "Your Majesty is really like a god, I came this time, I did report these things, there are more things, I don't know where to start, so let's talk about the Qing court's table first." ”

"The table of the Qing court?" Lin Fei was stunned suddenly, "What can the Qing court say?" Did the Qing court send people to trouble me, did they also contact the Japanese? ”

Liu Ying nodded lightly and said: "On October 10, the Qing court entrusted the director of the Tianjin Customs and Excise Department, the German Cui Delin, to go to Liaodong and send a note to the commander of the Japanese First Division occupying the Liaodong Peninsula, Yamachi Motoji, ordering him to withdraw his troops within three months, and submitting a diplomatic letter to Yamachi Genji, officially informing the Japanese government that he would not pay any 'Liaodong fee'. ”

In this era, the Qing State did not have the autonomy of taxation, and even the customs were controlled by foreigners, and the heads of customs, including the director of the tax department, were all held by foreigners, and Cui Delin was one of them. Speaking of this Cui Delin, he was also relatively famous in the First Sino-Japanese War, and at the beginning he was entrusted by the Qing government to go to Japan to sue for peace on behalf of the Qing government.

In the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese First Division invaded and occupied the Liaodong Peninsula, in the very beginning of the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", Japan asked the Qing government to cede the Liaodong Peninsula, this move caused strong dissatisfaction in Russia, France and Germany, in their eyes, the Qing State is a beautiful and weak woman, they all want to go to her bed, how can they tolerate Japan to occupy her alone?

Therefore, Russia, France and Germany put forward the most solemn protest, and the Japanese government did not dare to offend the three major powers at the same time, so it asked the Qing government to pay 30 million taels of silver for the "return of Liaodong", which canceled the clause in the Treaty of Shimonoseki regarding the cession of Liaodong and withdrew the garrison of the Liaodong Peninsula.

It was not until October 20, 1895 that Li Hongzhang discussed the matter of "repaying Liaotu" with Lin Dong, then Japanese ambassador to the Qing Dynasty, in Beijing, and it was not until November 1895 that the Qing court signed the "New Treaty of Liaoning" with Japan on the payment of Liaonan, and as for the withdrawal of Japanese troops, it was a later matter, so the Japanese army was still entrenched in the Liaodong Peninsula at this time.

Now Lin Fei has hit the Japanese hard, the Qing court actually took this opportunity to ask the Japanese to withdraw their troops, Lin Fei heard this matter and his heart moved, Liu Ying continued: "This is just one of the Qing court's cousins, according to Japan's secret agent report in Beijing, the Qing court's prime minister Li Hongzhang, minister of national affairs, has secretly contacted the German and French ministers to discuss the termination of the "Russian-French four-li loan contract", and the Qing court's table is these two things. ”

The "Russian-French Four-Cent Loan Contract" is a contract signed between the Qing court and the Russian and French banks in St. Petersburg, Russia in July 1895, the purpose of the contract is to borrow money from Russia and France to pay a huge indemnity to Japan, in this contract, the Qing court borrowed 400 million francs, equivalent to 100 million taels of silver, with the Qing customs duties as collateral.

Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "In this way, does the Qing court intend to pay the indemnity of 200 million taels of silver in the Treaty of Shimonoseki?" ”

Liu Ying nodded and said, "According to the information sent back by the Japanese secret agents, this is the case. ”

Liu Ying's face was happy after saying this, and he said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it is really a great joy that our compatriots' hard-earned money has been preserved." ”

Lin Fei didn't have a trace of a smile on his face, just a soft "um", Liu Ying was very strange, and asked, "Your Majesty, you seem to be unhappy?" Isn't that a happy event? Why aren't you happy? ”

Lin Fei sighed lightly and said, "It's nothing, you go on, after talking about the Qing court's expression, let's talk about the Japanese." ”

In fact, Lin Fei was mixed with joy when he heard the news, and the good thing was that, first of all, the Qing court no longer paid a huge indemnity of 230 million taels of silver, and the hard-earned money of his compatriots was preserved; Secondly, the reparations from the Treaty of Shimonoseki allowed Japan to quickly complete the accumulation of capital and rank among the advanced capitalist countries, you know, 230 million taels of silver was 4.6 times the amount of Japan's fiscal expenditure in 1894...

Japan used 84 percent of this reparation money to expand its military strength, and the rest of it was to build schools and heavy industry factories, and the schools and factories provided personnel and material support for the expansion of its military strength. Now that Japan has not received this reparation, it will undoubtedly be at a disadvantage in the struggle for hegemony with the Chinese Empire in the future.

Lin Fei was worried that if the Qing court did not pay the indemnity of the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" would be dissolved subsequently, so that Taiwan would still be the Qing court de jure speaking, and the struggle with the Qing court would not be avoided...

Lin Fei didn't say these words to Liu Ying, and Liu Ying didn't ask much, but continued: "Of course the Japanese are crazy, but now that they don't have a navy, their waists can't be stiffened, by the way, Your Majesty, you should only know the situation of the battleship that was sunk by you, and you don't know the situation of the warship that was damaged and fled, right?" ”

The Japanese Navy kept the battle damage of the battleship strictly secret, so Lin Fei didn't know what the battleship he had damaged had become, Lin Fei hurriedly said: "I really don't know, let's talk about it quickly." ”

Liu Ying said: "The Naniwa ship was too seriously injured and has sunk into the sea, just near Penghu Island, the Itsukushima ship and the Hashidate ship have been returned to the factory for overhaul, and it is estimated that it will not be repaired in six or seven months, and the only better thing is the Chiyoda ship, which can be repaired in five months, that is to say, in the next nearly half a year, Japan will not have a navy." ”

Lin Fei smiled proudly, and Liu Ying continued: "The Japanese have no navy and no strength to continue to attack the Qing court, so they want to keep Taiwan as much as possible, so they are actively preparing for the follow-up war in Taiwan. ”

What Liu Ying wanted to say had a lot to do with Lin Fei's next battle, so Lin Fei concentrated even more, Liu Ying said: "The Taiwan Governor's Office has re-examined the battle plan and decided to abandon the original offensive operation and change to a defensive operation. ”

Lin Fei took out a map and put it on the table, Liu Ying pointed at Miaoli and said: "Miaoli is here, looking at Taizhong in the south and Hsinchu in the north, it is a strategic point running through the north and south of Taiwan. Miaoli City is surrounded by mountains, there is only one big road in and out, the terrain is dangerous, it can be said that it is a husband, ten thousand people do not open. ”

"The Japanese attached great importance to Miaoli, and in the Battle of Changhua City, they saw the power of your artillery, because they believed that the strong city walls had no defensive value, so they gathered their heavy troops in Miaoli, wanting to take advantage of the mountain and natural dangers to defeat Your Majesty."

"Heavy build-up?" Lin Fei asked suspiciously, "Why is a heavy army assembled?" ”

Liu Ying said: "There are three main parts of the Japanese army's strength in Taiwan, the first is the main division that fights against your majesty, they are the main force of the Japanese army invading Taiwan, mainly the Guards Division and the Second Division, of which the Guards Division has been completely wiped out by you, and the second division has been disabled by you. ”

"The second is the troops directly under the Taiwan Governor's Office, including the gendarmerie, the reserve infantry wing, and so on, and the third is the troops under the jurisdiction of the Taiwan military station, which is similar to our garrison troops in various places."

"After arriving in Keelung, the commander of the Second Division, Nogi Noshinori, immediately stationed in Miaoli in accordance with the arrangement of Huashan Shiji, and in the following period of time, Huashan Shiki transferred elite troops from the troops directly under the Governor's Office and the troops under the military station to supplement the Second Mission, and the Second Division at this time was close to full strength, with a number of about 10,000 people."

"In addition to the soldiers, there are a large number of servants in the Japanese army, these people are equivalent to our former migrant workers, they are all Japanese, they have received a certain amount of military training in their spare time, and they will fight when they pick up a gun.

Lin Fei nodded and said: "The gathering of 15,000 troops to defend Miaoli is indeed a heavy army assembly, but I don't understand one thing, the Japanese army has always discriminated against non-combatants, and the baggage soldiers have been discriminated against, not to mention the servants, why did Huashan Shikiki organize the servants?" Why not ask for help from home? ”

Liu Ying smiled happily and said: "That's because Japan can't hold it at home, in order to fight this war, the Japanese have tightened their belts, and now there are no material and financial resources to support them in China, and the Japanese navy has been hit hard, and their transport ships dare not come to Taiwan blatantly." ”

Lin Fei smiled happily, and Liu Ying continued: "Your Majesty, that's all I have to report. Darksword asked me to ask you, where should he go after you defeated Japan? Will they return to the team or follow Shikinori Kayama to Japan? ”

Lin Fei thought for a while and asked, "Does the Darksword family have a deal in Japan?" ”

"Nope." Liu Ying replied, "But Darksword can transfer funds to Japan and open new deals in Japan." ”

Lin Fei's eyes lit up and said, "Very good, let the dark sword continue to lurk in Japan." ”

Liu Ying agreed, said goodbye and left, as soon as Liu Ying left, the attendant Jin Ming came in and reported: "Your Majesty, the Jade Ning Shuang Patriarch and the Tuhruna Patriarch have reconnoitred and returned. ”

Lin Fei sent Yu Ningshuang to reconnoiter the enemy situation in the platform, and sent Tukhru to reconnoiter the enemy situation in Miaoli, and when he heard them returning, he immediately ordered Jin Ming: "Hurry up and invite them in." ”

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