Almost on the ninth day of June, on the day when the DPRK withdrew from the internal and external yamen, the sign of the Korean unified supervision office outside the internal and external yamen was hung up, that is, on that day, all foreign affairs of the DPRK were handled by the unified supervision office.

Originally, the countries intended to bypass the unified supervision office, to be precise, Tang Haoran directly negotiated with the Qing State, and more precisely, the Beiyang Minister started negotiations in Tianjin, but although the Beiyang Minister said good words and comfort, in the matter of negotiations, he directly took out the precedent that the Japanese forced the Qing State to admit that "Korean affairs are handled by the Minister in Korea", and kicked the negotiations back to Seoul from Tianjin.

As early as 13 June, before the Japanese began negotiations with the Unified Prison Office in Seoul on the Korean issue, Russia, the most difficult fortress to conquer, agreed to withdraw from the Legation in Seoul under the concession of the Unified Prison Office, and only retained the consulates in Incheon, Busan, and Wonsan. But with the intervention of Britain, it can only temporarily accommodate its ambitions for North Korea.

As for the United States, although it has been agitating for Korea to become independent for several years, after Tang Haoran himself sent a telegram to the US president, explaining in detail the suzerainty of the East, and saying that on the premise of maintaining the interests of the United States in the "US-DPRK Trade Treaty", and because Britain supports China's suzerainty over Korea, the United States also agreed to withdraw its minister to the DPRK and only retain its consul in Incheon.

As for Britain, Germany, France, and other countries, they had already recognized China's suzerainty over Korea, but after learning that China had no intention of withdrawing the "Xuanhui warship" from Korea and sending warships to pick up the "deposed king" back to China, and realizing China's determination to further strengthen its suzerainty over Korea, they immediately made a decision to approve of China's move, and immediately withdrew their envoy to the DPRK after obtaining a guarantee of their interests, and only retained the consulate in the treaty port.

As Tang Haoran initially expected, even Russia was reluctant to fight for the Korean issue, and the reason for this judgment was actually because of the knowledge of history - in the Far East in 1890, the British tended to maintain the balance of power between various countries, and he would do his best to maintain order in the Far East, while Russia was limited by the lack of projection power, and its expansion in Asia was only lip service, and as for the United States, it had not yet completed the sharp transformation of the empire.

Among all the Western countries, none of them has a close relationship with Korean interests to the point where it has to fight a war, and even Japan, which has a close relationship with Korean interests, has not yet reached this point, otherwise it would not have withdrawn the Incheon Japanese warships to Busan immediately after the Beiyang Naval Division sent two additional warships to Incheon in the name of receiving the "deposed king of Korea."

Although the Japanese realized that their strength was insufficient and that they were far from being able to force the Qing to make concessions, this did not mean that the negotiations would end quickly, and compared with the three-day negotiations with Russia, the negotiations with Japan had been going on for a whole week, and the two sides were going back and forth at the negotiating table, and no one would take the initiative to make concessions.

Negotiation!

Negotiations have been going on, and since the ninth day of June, Tang Shaoyi, who has already become the head of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Korean Unified Supervision Office, has no choice but to find that all his energy is completely entangled by the Japanese, so that he does not even have the energy to deal with the withdrawal of foreign legations from Seoul.

Although some progress has been made in the negotiations over the past few days, such as the recognition of old debt arrears to Japan and the agreement of Japan on the interests of the treaty port concessions in Incheon, Pusan, and Wonsan.

At the same time, the abolition of the "grain prevention order" allowed Japanese businessmen to enter the DPRK to purchase rice, bean goods, and other merchants, thus ending the year-long "grain prevention order", which was the most fundamental concession made by the Unified Supervision Office, and the reason for this concession was extremely simple -- since the opening of the port in Korea, Japan-North Korea trade has been based on Japan dumping Western and foreign goods in Korea, while Korea exports a large amount of grain and raw materials to Japan, and North Korea's grain exports are due to the development of Japanese industry and commerce. Factory owners are more willing to supply workers with cheaper Korean rice, and cheap Korean rice is also very popular with urban civilians in Japan, which is even the most important interest in Japan's interests in North Korea, at least for the time being.

However, the negotiations in the last two days did not revolve around the DPRK, but in a certain way, they were to make up for the "troubles" left by the Qing government five years ago -- the "Special Article of the Qing-Japanese Tianjin Conference." When the negotiations dragged on for a long time, Tang Haoran, who had just been "dismissed from his post and retained" as the Korean superintendent, had to go out in person to quickly end the dispute of interests with Japan.

"According to the three articles of the "Special Article of the Tianjin Conference", in order to maintain the friendship between the Qing and Japan, neither country is stationed in Korea, and this is also the reason why the two countries withdrew their troops from Korea at the beginning.

Although most of the questions concerning the interests of the DPRK had received satisfactory answers, according to Tokyo's instructions, he had to reconfirm the "Special Article of the Tianjin Conference," and the secretary of the legation, Zheng Yongbang, translated the minister's words into Chinese on the side, and occasionally he would turn his gaze to Tang Haoran, thinking of the praise of his younger brother in his letter and the popularity of his writings in Japan. I am afraid that under this prime minister, Japan will no longer be able to get much advantage from North Korea.

"This minister is not a diplomat of another country, nor is he going to another country, but as a minister of China to the prime minister of a small state, he should bring his guard to show the majesty of the country, and he does not need to obey the rules of the legations of various countries!"

Tang Haoran straightforwardly took out the dignity of "Heavenly Empire", and then turned the conversation around, staring at Shirt Village Jun and asking rhetorically.

As for this training of troops, which violates the principle of "do not send personnel to coach in Korea", the soldiers trained by this minister are Chinese soldiers, not coaches of the Korean army, and since it is not contrary to this, and in the previous negotiations, your envoy threatened that the prime minister of Korea would not do his best to protect the feudal domain, so he had to train the guards in Seoul for the coming day! ”

Although his expression was strict, Tang Haoran secretly smiled in his heart, just a half-tone diplomat like Tsumura Jun, still negotiating here? Doesn't he know that the strength of a diplomat lies in the strength of the country? The Japanese diplomats of this era also grasped the weakness of the Manchu Qing in order to succeed one by one, if it were not for their own intendency to continue to entangle on the Korean issue, I am afraid that ...... Even the concession was recovered. Of course, this is also the nagging in the bottom of my heart, after all, I am also bluffing now, and the Manchu Qing will never support me to help North Korea recover its national power.

"So, Your Excellency, if the matter of Korea is resolved in the future, will the Minister send the guards?"

Zheng Yongbang's interjection on the side made Shirt Village's brows frown slightly, and Tang Haoran's brows were also frowned, looking at Zheng Yongbang's heart, he couldn't help but feel a burst of dissatisfaction, this ...... Guy, it's too fast!

Seeing that Shangguan was in a dilemma for a while, Tang Shaoyi hurriedly explained on the side.

"The Minister's Guard, which is not a legation or an agreed army, does not need to be restricted by the special rules of the meeting!"

"Definitely!"

With a cold smile, Zheng Yongbang shook his head and retorted.

"Your minister has now been dismissed from his post and retained in his post, since he is no longer a minister, and he is not a minister stationed in the DPRK, why do you need to maintain a guard of nearly 4,000 people?"

Compared with the brute force of the shirt, Zheng Yongbang is undoubtedly more suitable for this negotiation, when Tang Haoran was playing word games with him there, he immediately refuted it, and without waiting for Tang Shaoyi to refute, he said in a more pretentious manner.

"However, considering the prestige of the Commander's Mansion, I think that the Lordship ordered that no more than 500 guards should be maintained in the Commander's Mansion, and that the rest of the people should be dismissed immediately......"

Although he was deeply dissatisfied with Zheng Yongbang's transgression, the ugliness in the faces of the two Tang adults made him feel a burst of happiness in his heart.

Tang Haoran, who was bitten by Zheng Yongbang, was not annoyed, but after thinking for a while, he greeted the smile of the shirt village and responded in an extremely calm tone.

"Well, yes, but it will take some time to dismiss the guards, and I will need six months!"

The reason why he agreed to dismiss the guards was not because Tang Haoran would give up the armament he had built up with great difficulty, but because he thought of another thing - in the "Gengzi Change" ten years later, Li Hongzhang endured great grief and insults, talked with great pain and humiliation for a year, and finally signed the "Xinchou Treaty" with the foreign powers, but the treaty stipulated that no Chinese troops were allowed to be stationed within 20 kilometers of the concessions of various countries in Tianjin.

After Li Hongzhang's death, he recommended Yuan Shikai to succeed him as the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, Liu Kun and others also recommended Lao Yuan, and the Western powers also asked Lao Yuan to take up this position, and under the expectations of the public, Yuan Shikai became the minister of Beiyang, but according to the provisions of the treaty, no Chinese troops were allowed to be stationed within 20 kilometers of foreign leased land. As early as three months before he was stationed in Tianjin, Yuan Shikai imitated the "Tianjin Metropolitan Yamen" and Japan's patrol police methods, hired Japanese police officers as advisers, and in his small station, the Beiyang Army, 3,000 veterans who were about to be discharged were trained and trained, and when Yuan Shikai took back Tianjin from the hands of the "Metropolitan Yamen," 3,000 Chinese policemen marched into the urban area of Tianjin. China's first police station appeared in Tianjin, with two sub-bureaus in the south and north, each with 1,500 policemen.

Since Yuan Shikai can set up a police officer and replace the army with a policeman, why can't he himself? What's more, in this way, there is another advantage - taking the opportunity to control the police power of the DPRK, as for the army, the armed police can also be set up in the future.

Tang Haoran's concession was completely beyond Zheng Yongbang's expectations, that is, when Zheng Yongbang and Shirt Village Jun were surprised, Tang Haoran put forward his conditions.

"But the dismissal of this guard always makes it difficult for the official to sleep, so ......"

The corners of his lips lifted slightly, and Tang Haoran said his conditions.

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