Weng Tongyi and the other four people looked at the shredded paper on the ground, they were extremely embarrassed, the letter was torn up, how could they be presented, did they have to put these shredded pieces of paper together and stick them together? The four ministers of the Qing Dynasty, plus an emperor, actually wanted to lie on the ground to pick up pieces of paper and stick pieces of paper, if this was spread, wouldn't Lin Fei laugh off his big teeth?

Empress Dowager Cixi raised her eyelids, glanced at the scraps of paper on the ground, and coughed lightly, "It seems that the content of Lin Fei's letter made the emperor very angry." ”

Emperor Guangxu's face sank, "What is written in the letter is Lin Rei's armistice conditions, which is extremely absurd. ”

"Ridiculous, how ridiculous?"

Emperor Guangxu explained the four conditions again, and the more he said it, the more angry he became, but the Empress Dowager Cixi did not change her face, and when Emperor Guangxu finished speaking, she thought for a moment, and said slowly: "It turns out that these conditions are these, promise Lin Fei." ”

Emperor Guangxu was startled, knelt down in his dragon robe, kowtowed, and bowed, "Queen Mother, please think twice, Lin Wei wants us to cede Hainan Island, and also wants us to cede the suzerainty of Siam, Vietnam, Myanmar and other places, this is simply ...... It just doesn't make sense. ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi did not speak, but moved her gaze to the four military ministers, and said softly: "Didn't you persuade the emperor to agree to the conditions?" ”

Qian Yingpu was quite proud, crawled out on his knees, kowtowed and said, "Weichen has this intention. ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi nodded approvingly, "Very good, then you can tell the emperor the reason, the mourning family is tired, and I don't want to talk more." ”

Qian Yingpu hurriedly thanked him, knelt down in front of Emperor Guangxu, and said: "Qiqi Sheng, the first and second articles do not need to be repeated, they are no obstacle to my Qing Dynasty, and it doesn't hurt to agree, just say the third and fourth articles, although these two articles seem to be vicious, in fact, they are harmless to my Qing Dynasty, my Qing Dynasty is thousands of miles, the Heavenly Empire, that Hainan Island is just a mustard island, the barbarians do not obey the king, and they are lost like a leaf of big wood, and Taicang minus a mile." ”

"Shut up!" Emperor Guangxu categorically reprimanded, "Even if Hainan Island is a mustard island, after all, it is the land of the ancestors, if I give it to the family thief, after a hundred years, what face will I have to see the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty." ”

Qian Yingpu kowtowed, and said sadly: "Although Hainan is heavy, it can be compared to the Beijing Division, and Hainan is especially light!" When the Qing court ceded Taiwan, it also said the same reason.

Emperor Guangxu's expression was gloomy and speechless, Qian Yingpu continued: "Let's talk about the fourth article, the lands that Lin Rei said, Burma has belonged to Britain, Siam is a place where Britain and France are contending, Vietnam has belonged to France, Ryukyu has been destroyed by Japan, Korea has been invaded by Japan, Lin Rei wants suzerainty, it is useless, it is better to agree to him." ”

Emperor Guangxu was silent again, and the Empress Dowager Cixi said slowly: "Little Lizi, help the mourning family up, the chair of the emperor's heart palace is too hard, and it is uncomfortable to sit, let's go back to Chuxiu Palace." ”

Li Lianying hurriedly said "sigh", raised her arm, and stretched out to the Empress Dowager Cixi, who stretched out her hand, put it on his arm, and stood up.

Emperor Guangxu hurriedly knelt on the ground to see him off, and the Empress Dowager Cixi walked in front of Emperor Guangxu, didn't even look at Emperor Guangxu, and said directly: "This matter is so decided, promise Lin Fei's armistice conditions, specific agreement, let Li Hongzhang of Nanjing go to Dayu City in person, and deal with it as appropriate." ”

After the Empress Dowager Cixi finished speaking, she drifted away, and Emperor Guangxu watched the Empress Dowager Cixi walk away, clenched his fists fiercely, smashed them on the Shu brocade carved carpet, and said viciously in his heart: "Lin Fei, I swear to take revenge!" ”

The Qing court immediately sent a letter to Qi Lei in Tianjin, Qi Lei immediately sent the news back to Dayu City, Lin Fei saw that the Qing State agreed to his own armistice conditions and called "good", these four armistice agreements are too big for the interests of the Chinese Empire, the second article will not be said, this first article, let the world see the sincerity of the Chinese Empire to treat friends, so that more people can help the Chinese Empire.

Third, Lin Fei obtained the base of Hainan Island, the geographical location of Hainan Island is quite important, its north, across the Leizhou Strait is the Qing State, Leizhou Strait, also known as the Qiongzhou Strait, the narrowest place is only eighteen kilometers, eighteen kilometers away, the clipper sailed over in the blink of an eye, with Hainan Island as a base, it will be much more convenient to enter the Qing court in the future.

Hainan Island is also very close to Vietnam, and Lin Fei can directly deter the French in Vietnam by establishing a base on Hainan Island, and even wave his troops to land and take Vietnam when the time is right.

In the discussion of the Qing court, Nanhai Zhudao was ignored, these islands are extremely important, in Lin Fei's era, Vietnam and other countries and China competed for islands in the South China Sea, they forcibly occupied Chinese islands, stealing South China Sea oil, Lin Fei had nothing to do in his own time, but in this era, this humiliating scene will never appear again.

Fourth, it seems to be useless, but it provides convenience for Lin Fei to send troops to Burma, Vietnam, Siam, and Korea in the future, and Lin Fei is bound to seize these places after defeating the Qing court.

The signing of these four armistice agreements can also have a certain shock effect on Britain, France and Japan, and the Qing State has already succumbed, so don't carry it.

Lin Fei immediately ordered his subordinates to arrange for Li Hongzhang to come to negotiate, during this time, Britain, France and Japan could not hold on, first of all, Britain, because the South Seas region contained a large number of British troops and financial resources, resulting in the emptiness of British power in other colonies, especially in Africa, the German Emperor Wilhelm II openly expressed his support for the Boers in South Africa.

The Boers are descendants of the Netherlands and have great interests in South Africa, and in order to dominate South Africa and the Boers are incompatible, Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered the German troops in German East Africa to go to the stations of the Boers in Africa to conduct joint military exercises with the Boers.

During the Second Opium War in 1860, they took advantage of the fact that the Qing court wanted to fight against the British and French forces on the one hand, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on the other, and forced the Qing court to sign the "Treaty of Beijing" and occupy more than 400,000 square kilometers of land east of the Ussuri River, which originally belonged to the Chinese nation.

The current Russians, taking advantage of the fact that Britain and the Chinese Empire are fighting in the South Seas, have brazenly increased their military strength in Afghanistan, Iran, and other places, all of which have the deepest contradictions between the interests of Britain and Russia.

The second is France, France's colonies are also greatly threatened, at this time, France, is the second largest colonial country after Britain, France's sphere of influence includes North Africa and West Africa in Africa, the Caribbean in North America, and its colonies in North Africa and West Africa are threatened by Germany.

It was not only Germany that threatened France, but the United States also took the opportunity to intervene in North America, and since the United States claimed sovereignty over Guam from the Chinese Empire, it has accelerated the pace of foreign expansion, and the Caribbean region is naturally the top priority.

Finally, Japan, among the six countries that declared war on China, Japan was the worst, because the Japanese mainland was within the range of China's attack, and Yu Ningshuang and Liu Daming led the tribal alliance army to haunt and kill wantonly along the coast of Japan.

They usually used this tactic, the tribal coalition first went ashore to kill for a while, and then the naval warships fired cloudburst bombs, and most of the Japanese buildings were made of wood, and often a single cloudburst bomb hit and a city burned down.

Japan's death toll soon soared to 800,000, and it was about to approach one million, the killing of the Chinese Empire on the coast caused an extremely heavy economic blow to Japan, the residents of the coastal areas moved inward, many ports were deserted, and even no one could see it, Japan is an island country, ports and shipping are very important to it, and now the ports are deserted, and the entire national economy is in danger of collapsing.

Although Britain, France and Japan couldn't hold on, but for the sake of face, none of them were willing to negotiate with Lin Fei to end the war, and now that the Qing Kingdom has succumbed, it is likely to be the first domino to fall.

On 16 April, Li Hongzhang led the negotiation delegation to Dayu City, Li Hongzhang's mood was extremely heavy, he couldn't help but think of the scene when the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" was signed two years ago, and now the "Lin Fei Four" is more vicious than the "Treaty of Shimonoseki"!

Li Hongzhang's subordinates have many capable people with lofty ideals, they are much more knowledgeable than the Manchu nobles, as soon as they see the "Lin Fei Four", they know what medicine is sold in Lin Fei's gourd, especially the second one, this is quietly controlling the financial lifeline of the Qing State, once the financial lifeline of the Qing State is controlled, Lin Fei can overthrow the Qing court at any time and replace it!

But Li Hongzhang had no choice, after all, he was just a pawn of Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi.

However, in Li Hongzhang's hands, there is still a chess piece, a chess piece that can change the entire world pattern!

At ten o'clock in the morning of April 17, Lin Fei and Li Hongzhang signed the "Armistice Agreement between the Chinese Empire and the Qing Empire" in Dayu City, the content of the treaty is "Lin Fei's Four Articles", this agreement is known as the "Dayu Treaty", which marks Lin Fei's official beginning of control of the Qing State, laying the groundwork for Lin Fei's entry into the Central Plains in the future.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Lin Fei set up a private banquet in the garden to entertain Li Hongzhang, at the banquet, Lin Fei generously introduced Ling Xue and Xiyun to Li Hongzhang, Li Hongzhang saw Xiyun, thought for a while, and asked: "Has Concubine Yun been caught by the Qing soldiers?" ”

Xiyun is now very proud of that experience, especially Lin Fei in order to save her, he did not hesitate to directly arrest Zhang Zhidong, an important minister of the Qing court, and also captured Fuzhou, which made her very happy, so she nodded excitedly.

Li Hongzhang then asked, "Then Concubine Yun, do you remember a girl?" ”

Xiyun was stunned for a moment and asked, "What girl?" ”

Li Hongzhang sighed and said: "That girl is a rebel, she is very skilled, and after being caught by the Qing soldiers, she was insulted and tortured......"

Xiyun instantly remembered the girl who was tortured by the wooden donkey, and hurriedly said, "I remember her, she ...... She's so pitiful, I'll never forget her for the rest of my life, Master Li, how do you know that girl? ”

Li Hongzhang said: "That girl is now in the prison of the Yamen, the governor of Liangjiang. ”