In Tainan Prefecture, many carrier pigeons flew out from Tainan, and these carrier pigeons began to fly towards the mainland.

"Hey, it's a pity that the radio hasn't been able to be used on a large scale, otherwise I would have used the radio directly to power it up this time!" Wang Guorui said helplessly.

Although radio has been invented in the world now, and Wang Guorui can also get radio equipment from the red alert system. But that price is darker than Bao Zheng's face. The price of this red alert system is determined by chronology, and the shorter the time it takes for some high-tech weapons to be invented, the more expensive the relative price will be. The wireless telegraph has just been invented, so the price of a wireless telegraph in the red alarm system is almost comparable to more than 30 cannons, so Wang Guorui can't afford it.

Moreover, the wireless telegraph has just been invented, and there are not many in the world, and if you use radio, you will not be able to let the whole world know about it. The only cable telegraph in Taiwan is in Taipei, but now that Taipei is in the hands of the Japanese army, Wang Guorui cannot use Taipei's cable telegraph. So on the whole, it is also a pigeon. Taiwan and the mainland have always been connected, and the fastest way to get in touch is through guò carrier pigeons. Wang Guorui tied a lot of carrier pigeons to the corresponding letters, and then let them fly back to the mainland by themselves.

"Hopefully, this time we will shock the world!" Wang Guorui said.

A few days later, in the pigeon station of the Governor's Mansion of Fujian and Zhejiang on the mainland, I began to receive a letter.

"Taiwan's victory!" "Taiwan's victory!" "Taiwan's Great Victory" ......

The Manchu officials who were in charge of receiving the carrier pigeons couldn't help but start chanting, obviously unable to hide his excitement. And related news. Once back on the mainland, the speed of transmission is even faster. A lot of telegraph lines had been established on the mainland, so the Governor's Office of Fujian and Zhejiang received the news. It immediately spread to the whole country, faster than the carrier pigeons from Taiwan.

"Taiwan's victory!" "Taiwan's victory!" ……

In the Li Mansion in Tianjin, Li Hongzhang, who had been dismissed from his post because of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, was listening to his third son, Li Jingmai, tell him about Taiwan's great victory.

"Father, Taiwan's great victory! Taiwan's local military and civilian Tongguò continued to fight, successfully annihilating most of the Japanese Guards Division, leaving only a few thousand remnants of the Japanese Guards Division defeated and retreating to Taipei. And he did not hesitate to use the people of Taipei as hostages to resist the attack of Taiwan's military and civilians. Taiwan's great victory, Taiwan's military and civilians can wipe out the Japanese army in Taipei at any time. Li Jingmai said excitedly.

Li Jingmai is only nineteen years old now, and he is still a very young person. The blood in my heart has not yet cooled. So now that he heard about Taiwan's victory, he felt even more excited. And of course, he knew that his father Li Hongzhang was removed from his post because of the Shimonoseki Treaty, and ceded Taiwan to make his father and eldest brother disgraced, so now Taiwan has won the war. Li Jingmai was very happy.

And Li Hongzhang looked at this battle report. With a bitter face, he said, "Jingmai! You are really not suitable to be an official, Taiwan's victory may not be a good thing for us! ”

"What?" Li Jingmai was puzzled.

"Master, we are surrounded by a large group of scholars outside the house!" Immediately, a servant of the Li family shouted.

Outside the door of Li's house, a large group of so-called scholars came to Li Hongzhang's house, and then they surrounded Li Hongzhang's house.

"In the same year, I am Kang Youwei. A few months ago, students went to school. That's what I first proposed. At that time, I first advocated that I should not be able to sign a contract with the Japanese in the Qing Dynasty, and I could not cede land and pay compensation. It has to be fought to the death. However, the imperial court was actually controlled by a group of unconscious officials, and they actually ignored the will of the people in the world to resist the Japanese, and stubbornly wanted to compromise with the Japanese and betray the country. And the Japanese are not terrible, as long as the Qing army and the people can unite, it will be easy to eliminate the Japanese invaders. However, some stupid officials just ignored the will of the Qing army and the people to resist the Japanese and feared the Japanese like tigers for their own selfish interests, and actually took the initiative to sign a traitorous treaty, which is really extremely hateful. ”

And now Taiwan, under the leadership of Wang Guorui, a small county magistrate, can actually annihilate the Japanese Guards Division, which is enough to show that the Japanese are just a group of useless things, but they can just bluff. A small Taiwan, in the case of gathering some militia green battalions, can annihilate the Japanese Imperial Forest Army. That's enough to show that the pirates are not terrible, but just a group of paper tigers. Therefore, this qiē shows that I led everyone to the emperor at the beginning, and that should have been. And our court must change the law, and then understand the faint officials above the court, so that we can revive our Qing Dynasty! ”

"In the same year, a few months ago, that is, Li Hongzhang personally signed the traitorous treaty, ceding Taiwan to the paper tiger-like pirates, which is really a heinous crime. We are here to denounce him today, Li Hongzhang is a sinner of our Qing Dynasty through the ages! ”

And Kang Youwei's speech made everyone feel the same way. Because Taiwan is a small territory and there are no strong troops, it can actually defeat a wing of the Japanese army, and the Qing Dynasty, which has 40,000 people on the entire mainland, is defeating Japan not the same as beating up a grandson? And these people are all sick with their brains, they all see the surface, but they don't pay attention to the reality at all, they just believe in themselves. These guys don't know anything about military affairs at all, and they think that the Qing Dynasty should be able to clean up Japan. They just saw that Taiwan had a small territory and few people, and they could defeat the Japanese army, so shouldn't the entire Qing Dynasty be even more so?

But when Li Hongzhang, an important minister of the court, actually ceded land and paid compensation to Japan, isn't this a brain pump? It's just a matter of ceding land and paying reparations to the Western powers, but even a "weak country" is riding on their heads and? As for those guys who preached the inevitable defeat of the anti-Japanese resistance before, they are now gray and unable to speak, because Taiwan, a real example, is right in front of us, as if Taiwan is so weak and can completely annihilate a Japanese army, then a country with such a large territory, shouldn't it be easy to fight Japan?

Many stupid scholars were also fooled by this line of thinking, and they came to Li Hongzhang's house to protest. Because it was Li Hongzhang who negotiated and ceded land indemnity at the beginning, and the previous Sino-Japanese War was also fought by Li Hongzhang's Huai Army and Beiyang Naval Division. In this case, Li Hongzhang has become everyone's punching bag. If Taiwan's anti-Japanese resistance failed, there would naturally be nothing to say, but now that Taiwan's anti-Japanese resistance has obviously been so good, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is so "weak", then Li Hongzhang was able to defeat so many "good cards" of the Qing Dynasty at the beginning, doesn't this show that Li Hongzhang is incompetent? Now that everyone has concentrated their grievances on Li Hongzhang, they naturally want to come to Li Hongzhang's bad luck.

And in the palace, the Empress Dowager Cixi was also shocked and asked: "Has Taiwan really won the war?" ”

"Queen Mother, it's true, Taiwan has really won a big battle. According to that battle report, the Japanese army had been squeezed in Taipei and could not move, and more than 20,000 Japanese Imperial Forest troops had been almost completely annihilated. And now Taiwan's anti-Japanese situation is very good, and it is possible to drive the Japanese army into the sea at any time! Now countless scholars have also gathered outside Li Hongzhang's house to denounce him. And it won't be long before a lot of people come to our palace, hoping that we can abolish the contract with the Japanese Kou! Li Lianying, the head of Ouchi, said.

And the Empress Dowager Cixi's face became very weird, I don't know whether she was angry or happy. And at this moment, even Li Lianying, who has been with Cixi for many years, doesn't know what the Empress Dowager Cixi thinks. The Empress Dowager Cixi was moody, especially this matter can be said to be a happy event or a bad thing.

The direction of this matter is impossible for anyone to predict. If Taiwan's Japanese army is completely annihilated by Taiwan's military and civilians, what will happen to Taiwan's ownership? It is to return to the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but this does not make sense from a legal point of view. The Manchus had already signed a treaty ceding Taiwan to Japan, so they could not reclaim it. But now Japan is so incompetent that even a small Taiwan can't eat, which makes the Empress Dowager Cixi speechless. If Japan eats Taiwan, that qiē will also pass. But now that Japan can't eat Taiwan, things are very complicated.

And now that Taiwan's resistance against Japan has been successful, it can be said to have a huge impact on the Manchu Qing Dynasty. At that time, the Empress Dowager Cixi and Li Hongzhang were the main peace faction, while the Guangxu Emperor and the imperial party headed by the emperor Weng Tongshu were the main battle faction. And the Empress Dowager Cixi also took the initiative to help the Japanese army brag, as if the Japanese army was invincible. The Empress Dowager Cixi successfully signed a contract with Japan and ceded Taiwan.

But now things are in trouble, and Taiwan actually has a brilliant victory in resisting Japan, so this will make the rear party a little embarrassed. At the beginning, he helped the Japanese army brag that the Japanese army was invincible, but now reality slapped them in the face. If a poor island in Taiwan can succeed in resisting Japan, then the entire mainland, with a population of 40,000 and millions of troops, will fail? If you say this to ordinary people, no one will believe it, they just think that it is the incompetence of the upper echelons of the court, so they will sign a traitorous treaty when they have a great chance of winning. The success of Taiwan's anti-Japanese resistance also set off the incompetence of those lords and factions, especially Li Hongzhang and his Huai Army, Beiyang Naval Division and other armies.

Therefore, the Empress Dowager Cixi's thoughts are also very complicated now. She didn't know whether she should be happy, or if she thought that Wang Guorui had indirectly tricked her.

"Wang Guorui!" The Empress Dowager Cixi muttered the name for a while, as if she wanted to keep it in her heart.

"Queen Mother, it's not good, it's not good, there are many scholars outside the palace, who have come to ask our court to abolish the contract with Japan, and then fight Japan again." A little eunuch shouted in panic. (To be continued......)