Lin Fei decided to use Korea's territorial claims against the Qing to provoke war between Japan and Russia.

However, to Lin Fei's disappointment, the Russian side did not know that South Korea had made territorial claims against the Qing State, because at this time, the means of transportation and communication in the northeast of the Qing State were extremely backward, and the Russian troops in the Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok areas did not know about the Qing State at all.

And the territorial dispute between South Korea and the Qing State did not cause any big waves in Europe, so Lin Fei first had to make a big fuss about this matter and attract the attention of Russia.

On 1 March 1899, Lin Fei ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send a note to the Qing Empire and the Korean Empire, in which Lin Fei said that he did not want to see a war break out between the Qing Empire and the Korean Empire over a territorial dispute, which would affect the peace and stability of the whole of Asia, and hoped that the Qing Empire and the Korean Empire would hold talks under the organization of the Chinese Empire to properly resolve the territorial dispute.

Lin Fei thought that the Qing State and South Korea would readily agree, and then send personnel to negotiate, but he never expected that the Qing State and South Korea would ignore Lin Fei's note at all, and the Guangxu Emperor even denounced the diplomatic envoy of the Chinese Empire to his face: "Lin Fei is the thing that affects the peace and stability of the whole of Asia." ”

Lin Fei saw that Qing Guo and South Korea refused to talk one after another, so he sneered and instructed the agents hidden in Beijing to create some trouble for Qing Guo, and then blame South Korea.

Lin Fei's agents in Beijing received instructions and immediately dispatched personnel to set fire to the yamen of the military headquarters in Beijing, and then declared: "This incident was done by the Koreans, and the purpose was to force the Qing to return to Korean territory." ”

Emperor Guangxu was furious when he heard about this incident, and sent a diplomatic envoy to the Japanese embassy to ask the Japanese side to explain that South Korea was actually a puppet country manipulated by Japan, just like Vietnam was to China, so Emperor Guangxu saw the provocation of the Koreans, and directly asked people to find the master of the Koreans.

The Japanese side was also confused, they investigated, and found that this incident was not done by someone they sent, but they couldn't imagine that Lin Fei instructed someone to do it, so they decided that this incident was done by a hot-blooded young man from South Korea.

The Japanese side was very excited, and there were hot-blooded young people doing this, and it seemed that the people were very sympathetic to the occupation of the Qing territory, so Japan decided to speed up the annexation of the northeast of the Qing country.

Since Lin Fei had already sent a diplomatic note hoping for negotiations, the Japanese side could not help but be afraid of Lin Fei's attitude, and Japan decided to let South Korea send people to participate in the negotiations organized by Lin Fei, so as to test Lin Fei's attitude through negotiations.

On 10 March, Japan sent a note to Lin Fei, agreeing to participate in the talks organized by Lin Fei.

The Qing State also has its own small abacus, the Guangxu Emperor and the Empress Dowager Cixi have seen Japan's ambition to annex the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, the three northeastern provinces are the "land of dragon prosperity" for the Qing court, they will never allow the Japanese to encroach on the northeast, so the Qing country also intends to participate in the talks organized by Lin Fei, hoping to take this opportunity to use Lin Fei to balance Japan.

The Qing State, Japan-controlled Korea, and Huaxia were about to sit at the same negotiating table, but unfortunately, neither the Qing State nor Japan could guess Lin Fei's true intention -- to provoke Japan and Russia to go to war.

Lin Fei set the negotiation site in Tianjin's Chinese Concession, during the Nanyang World War, Lin Feiqi attacked Tianjin, forcing the Qing State to sign a surrender agreement, after that, Lin Fei's troops did not leave Tianjin, and set aside a large area in Tianjin, as a concession, the area is about twice the total size of the British and French concessions.

Later, Lin Fei and the Qing State signed the "Huaqing Concession Agreement", officially turning this land into Chinese territory.

This meeting was of great significance, so Lin Fei decided to go to Tianjin in person, of course, Lin Fei would not negotiate in person, but let Nguyen Phuc Bao Jiao serve as the negotiation envoy.

Nguyen Phuc Bao Jiao is very talented in this regard, enough to be competent for the negotiation task, and let Nguyen Phuc Bao Jiao serve as the negotiation envoy, there is a more important meaning, that is, to promote the equality of men and women, and show the world the achievements of equality between men and women in China.

In terms of equality between men and women, the Chinese Empire has been at the forefront of the world, and the contribution of equality between men and women to the country's economy is considerable, because once women obtain the same status as men, they double the number of workers and consumers in a country, which undoubtedly greatly stimulates economic development.

On 16 March, Lin Fei took Ruan Phuc Baojiao and his subordinates to Tianjin, where they stayed in the barracks of the Tianjin Guards, an elite unit under Lin Fei's command, which not only undertook the heavy task of defending the Tianjin Concession, but also undertook the secret mission of a surprise attack on Beijing during wartime.

Lin Fei came to the barracks and first secretly met with Chiyo Shizuka, and after the beheading of the Qing court began to be carried out, Chiyo Shizuka secretly came to Beijing to buy the Qing eunuchs, and as for Meixiang, she was first handed over to the servant woman to take care of.

Chiyo Shizuka reported to Lin Fei about the bribery of eunuchs, and now the bribery situation is not smooth, eunuchs with too low status can't reach Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi at all, it's useless to buy, and eunuchs with high status can't be bought.

Lin Fei warned Chiyo Shizuka, don't worry, this matter is by no means something that can be done overnight, take your time.

On 17 March, Liang Qichao, an envoy of the Qing Dynasty, and Liu Chengxuan, an envoy from the Republic of Korea, came to the Huaxia Hotel, and the talks officially began.

Liang Qichao was very polite at the beginning of the talks, and only demanded that South Korea apologize for the incident of burning the Yamen of the Ministry of War, while Yoo Seung-hyun was aggressive and directly proposed that the entire northeast territory was Korean territory, and the Qing Dynasty must return it.

Although Lin Fei was not present at the venue in person, he had been listening to the conversation in the venue through the bugging, and suddenly heard Liu Chengxuan throw out such a sentence, and couldn't help but be surprised, what a South Korea, how did our Northeast become yours.

Liang Qichao was also stunned, if it weren't for the diplomat's bearing that made him not rude, he would have flipped the table a long time ago.

Liang Qichao suppressed his anger, "Mr. Liu Chengxuan, what you said is unreasonable, the three northeastern provinces are the land of Longxing of my Qing Empire, how did they become the territory of your Korea?" ”

Yoo Seung-hyun was unhurried and said: "Our Korean ancestors once established a Goguryeo Dynasty, and the territory of this Goguryeo Dynasty covers the entire territory of the Northeast, so why is it wrong for us to return to the territory of our ancestors now?" ”

It is ridiculous that Goguryeo, a historically ethnic minority regime in China that ruled over the northeastern Qing and part of the Korean Peninsula, was regarded as its ancestor by South Korea and used it to make territorial claims. In fact, during the heyday of Goguryeo, the ruling area did not cover the entire territory of the Northeast, and now Yoo Seung-hyun wants the entire Northeast when he opens his mouth, which is really ashamed.

Liang Qichao snorted coldly, "If Mr. Liu Chengxuan has to use this logic to negotiate, then okay, let's talk about the Han Dynasty, during the Han Dynasty, your entire Korea was under the rule of the Han Dynasty, so can we also let your entire Korea be under our Qing Dynasty rule now?" ”

Liu Chengxuan rolled his eyes and smiled disdainfully: "Of course you can, but the Han Dynasty is the regime of the Han people, and now that you Han people have been conquered by the Manchus, why are you embarrassed to ask for the land of the Han people?" ”

"You ......" Liang Qichao was so angry that his face was flushed, his whole body trembled, and he snorted coldly and stopped talking.

Liu Chengxuan peeked at Ruan Fu Baojiao, Liu Chengxuan said this completely at the behest of the Japanese, in order to test the attitude of the Chinese Empire, so Liu Chengxuan wanted to see how Ruan Fu Baojiao reacted, only to see Ruan Fu Baojiao sitting there with a proud face, without saying a word.

As soon as Liu Chengxuan saw Ruan Fubaojiao's arrogant appearance, he felt awe in his heart, he couldn't imagine how such an arrogant Ruan Fubaojiao was inferior in front of Lin Fei.

Ruan Fu Baojiao's face did not change at all, and she couldn't see any attitude, Liu Chengxuan's heart beat a drum, what kind of idea are Lin Fei and the Huaxia Empire fighting?

It turned out that Lin Fei had told Ruan Fu Baojiao before that no matter what the envoys of the Qing Kingdom and Korea said, you should ignore it and not make any comments, so Ruan Fu Baojiao didn't say a word.

Liu Chengxuan and Liang Qichao stopped talking, and Ruan Phuc Bao Jiao said: "South Korea has put forward territorial claims to the northeast of the Qing State, and the Qing State is resolutely opposed to it, and a deadlock situation has been formed, I'm afraid we can't talk about it anymore, so let's adjourn the meeting for the time being and wait until tomorrow for the second round of talks." ”

The three parties left the scene one after another, Liu Chengxuan and Liang Qichao immediately asked to see Ruan Fu Baojiao alone, Lin Fei knew very well that Liu Chengxuan wanted to test his attitude, Liang Qichao wanted to win him over to balance South Korea, Lin Fei didn't want them to know his attitude, so he instructed Ruan Fu Baojiao to see no one.

Liu Chengxuan and Liang Qichao didn't hear the thoughts of the Huaxia Empire, and their hearts were full of thoughts.

Lin Fei then instructed the newspapers controlled by the Chinese Empire to issue a large number of extras, and there was only one news on the outboard -- Korea had made territorial claims to the entire northeastern territory of the Qing State.

Lin Fei also asked the newspaper editor to catch the wind, saying that South Korea had increased its troops on the border between the two countries and was ready to cross the border at any time to restore the territory of the Goguryeo era.

Lin Fei asked the newspaper to print and distribute the Russian version in addition to the Chinese version of the number, and let the newspaper boy take it to the door of the Russian embassy to sell it, so that the group of Russian woolly bears knew about it.

As soon as the issue was issued, the Russian ambassador got the news, and the Russian ambassador immediately sent a special envoy to see Lin Fei, after all, Russia was an ally of the Chinese Empire, and Lin Fei was still counting on Russia to contain Britain and France in Europe, so Lin Fei readily agreed to meet with the Russian envoy.

The Russian envoy didn't talk nonsense when he saw Lin Fei, and got straight to the point, "Emperor Fei, you must not allow South Korea to occupy the entire northeast." ”

Lin Fei pretended to be embarrassed, "I can't help this, it depends on the outcome of the negotiations between South Korea and the Qing Kingdom." ”