In the early morning of April 2, Lin Fei was hugging Ruan Fubaojiao and falling asleep soundly, Ruan Fubaojiao's body was warm, in early April, when it was warm and cold, it was very comfortable to sleep with her arms in her arms, if it was in Dayu City, which had a hot climate, it would be very comfortable to sleep with Ling Xue in her arms, Ling Xue's body was always cold.

Suddenly, there was a sharp knock on the door, and the voice of the attendant Jin Ming said outside the door: "Your Majesty wake up, something is wrong." ”

Lin Fei let go of Ruan Fu Baojiao, put on his clothes and opened the door, only to see Jin Ming said with a panicked face: "Your Majesty is not good, two hours ago, the Japanese and South Korean coalition forces suddenly crossed the Yalu River from Tonghua County and went straight to the direction of Jilin. ”

At this time, the three northeastern provinces of the Qing Dynasty were not called "provinces", but "generals", which were very different from the inland provinces, and Jilin Province was called the Jilin generals, and the highest officials were Jilin generals, not Jilin governors. Jilin is a city, the residence of the Jilin generals, and the political and economic center of Jilin.

Lin Fei asked, "Where did you get this news from?" ”

"It was sent back by our agents in South Korea, and Qingguo has not received any news at this time."

Lin Fei sneered, "Japan really made the first move, it's good, it seems that it is not far from Russia to send troops, okay, let's treat this matter as if we don't know, let's go back to sleep." ”

In the turn of the day, the Qing country was still the same as usual, there was no invasion at all, the common people got up as usual to buy vegetables and cook, the communication of the Qing country in this era was extremely underdeveloped, because the Qing court was extremely repulsive to telegraph and telephone, and the Qing court did not know about things, how could the common people know.

Lin Fei didn't tell him about it, he just treated it as if he didn't know, and then secretly observed the movements of all parties.

At ten o'clock in the morning, his subordinates reported to Lin Fei: "Jilin has sent back an urgent document of 800 miles, and the Qing court has already known about this matter. ”

At eleven o'clock in the morning, his subordinates came to report again: "Emperor Guangxu urgently recruited the Minister of Military Aircraft into the palace to discuss countermeasures. As for how Emperor Guangxu and the ministers of military aircraft discussed this matter, it was impossible for Lin Fei's agents to know.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Russian Embassy in China issued a statement: "Strongly condemns the acts of aggression of the Japanese Empire and the Korean Empire, and demands that the Japanese Empire and the Korean Empire immediately withdraw their troops." ”

Thousands of miles away, in London, England, the Russian delegates formally proposed to the Council of the League of Nations to stop the aggression of the Japanese and Korean empires at once, but Britain, which secretly supported Japan, rejected the proposal, and the Russian and British delegates quarreled immediately.

France, which supported Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, which supported Russia, also joined the war group, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries also joined the British and French camps, and Sa Zhenbing, the representative of the Chinese Empire, watched from the sidelines.

At 4 p.m., South Korea issued a statement claiming that it had sent troops in response to the killing of South Korean border residents on March 20 and to protect them from being victimized.

On 20 March, a group of South Korean peasants forcibly entered Wudaogou Village in Tonghua County to carry out spring plowing on the villagers' farmland.

The climate of Jilin is cold, and spring plowing is generally carried out at the end of April and early May, and spring ploughing is carried out on March 20, which is completely nonsense.

But the people of the Qing country can't ignore it, this is our land, why are you farming on it, so the people of the Qing country came to stop it, but the Koreans were unreasonable and injured the people of the Qing country.

The people of the Northeast are fierce, not to mention the barbaric occupation of the Koreans, they even dare to beat people, they are angry, and they call the old and young masters of ten miles and eight villages, and it is said that there are also old ladies and big tiger girls in the Northeast who came, gathered four or five hundred people, beat those Koreans on the spot, and after the beating, they also ripped off their pants, let them parade the streets with their bare butts, and tossed for a night, and then let them go.

The people of Northeast China did not take it lightly, and the violent beating killed several people, but South Korea and Japan could find the truth, and they vigorously demanded that the Qing State apologize and order the Qing government to severely punish the border people who made trouble.

Although the Qing court treated Westerners like rats and cats, it still dared to put on a big country like South Korea, and the Qing envoy argued on the basis of reason, and made the Korean envoy Liu Chengxuan speechless, but he did not expect that South Korea and Japan would use this incident as an excuse to join forces and jointly invade the Qing country.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Russia issued a statement that the Russian Empire would not watch Japan and South Korea invade the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, and the Russian Empire officially issued an ultimatum to the Japanese Empire and the Korean Empire, and if the Japanese and Korean coalition forces did not all retreat to the south of the Yalu River within 24 hours, the Far East Army of the Russian Empire would deal a devastating blow to the Japanese and Korean coalition forces.

At half past five in the afternoon, the United States Government issued a statement saying that the United States of America hoped that Russia and Japan would exercise restraint and that the United States was willing to mediate the matter between the two sides.

The United States is so active in this matter, and its intention is very obvious, that is, to take advantage of this Russo-Japanese war to intervene in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty and seize the interests of the Qing Dynasty.

After the United States issued such a statement, Britain, France, and Germany were not far behind, and at 6 p.m., Britain, France, and Germany issued a joint statement that they were willing to form a joint mediation group to mediate for Russia and Japan.

In the face of the mediation requests of Western countries, Russia and Japan have only one attitude -- Lao Tzu does not need it, and everyone knows that Westerners take benefits in the name of mediation.

At seven o'clock in the afternoon, the Qing State finally issued a statement, which said that the Qing Empire was highly concerned about the imminent war between Russia and Japan, and if the two countries went to war, the Qing State would strictly maintain neutrality.

It is a great shame that Japan and Russia went to war on the soil of the Qing State, and that the Qing State should maintain strict neutrality.

At this time, among the world's powers, only Lin Fei's Huaxia Empire did not make any statement, and all countries in the world were waiting for Lin Fei's reaction.

Lin Fei is in a very delicate situation at this time, first of all, it is impossible for him to use force to force the armistice between Japan and Russia, in fact, with Lin Fei's strength, it is still very possible to do this, with Lin Fei's navy alone in Asia at this time, he only needs to send a few Dynasty-class battleships and Emperor-class cruisers to blockade Incheon Port, Incheon Port is the main artery connecting South Korea and Japan, and as soon as it is cut off here, the connection between Japan and South Korea will naturally be cut off.

As soon as the ties between Japan and South Korea are severed, Japan will inevitably cease fighting, and once Japan ceases war, Russia will have no excuse to continue its advance, and this war will not start at all.

Secondly, it was impossible for Lin Fei to issue a painless statement, because the people of the Qing Kingdom were looking at Lin Fei, and this undoubtedly disappointed those people who had great illusions about Lin Fei.

Lin Fei pondered for a long time and issued such a statement, in which he said that Emperor Fei had paid attention to the conflict between Japan and Russia in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, and that Emperor Fei hoped that the two sides would exercise restraint and resolve the national dispute through dialogue.

At the same time, Lin Fei expressed his hope that Japan and Russia would not regard innocent civilians as targets, that the Chinese Empire was willing to send troops to protect the Qing people, and that the Qing State would open the Shengjing border for China.

The Chinese Empire was also willing to take out the Qing refugees, and in this regard, the Chinese Empire hoped that the Japanese Empire would open the ports on the Qing-Korean border and Port Arthur, and allow the Chinese Empire's warships to enter and take the refugees out.

Port Arthur, the first military port in Asia, was occupied by Japan at this time, and after the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan occupied this military port and never left.

Of course, the Qing State and Japan did not dare to open their borders and ports, Lin Fei's troops were all tiger and wolf divisions, everyone knew it, if Lin Fei's troops were allowed to come in, who knew what would happen.

So the Qing State and Japan flatly refused, and now Lin Fei once again won the hearts of the people -- it was not that I, Lin Fei, did not send troops to the rescue, but that the Qing State and Japan did not agree to our rescue.

Lin Fei relied on such a strategy to gain the hearts of the people, but there was a problem in front of Lin Fei.

In the Russo-Japanese War in Lin Fei's era, Japan and Russia both slaughtered a large number of Qing people, after all, the Qing people in the northeast were Lin Fei's compatriots, and they would be Lin Fei's labor force in the future, Lin Fei would certainly not let the Japanese and Russian soldiers slaughter them, so Lin Fei secretly met with the Russian envoy Kabarovsky and the Japanese envoy Kodama Gentaro, and warned them not to use force against the Qing civilians, otherwise, I will make you pay a heavy price.

Kabarovsky was tougher, and when he heard Lin Fei's threatening words, he slapped the table on the spot, "Our Russian Empire is not threatened by anyone. ”

Lin Fei sneered, "Your soldiers, do you have a way to hit my airship?" Know that my airship has killed many people on the battlefield? ”

Kabarovsky wilted when he heard this, the Russian army really had no way to knock out Lin Fei's airship, he had to say that as long as the Qing people did not help Japan, the Russian army would not kill the Qing people.

On the Japanese side, Kodama Gentaro was much gentler than Kabarovsky, and Kodama Gentaro said very happily that as long as the Qing people did not help Russia, the Japanese army would not kill the Qing people.

Lin Fei then led Russia and Japan to sign the "Northeast War Humanitarian Convention", which stated that neither of the belligerents was allowed to use force against civilians.

Lin Fei's move won praise from all over the Qing Dynasty, and also won unanimous praise from the international community, especially the Middle East chiefs and small countries in South America.

On 3 April, Russia announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Japan, and then dispatched troops to take the Japanese army that was attacking Jilin.

The naval fleet stationed in Vladivostok also set off for Port Arthur to prepare for a decisive battle with the Japanese Navy, which at this time had recovered enough to fight the Russian Navy. (Welcome to join the Canghai readership group - 412216023, Canghai is looking forward to everyone joining)