Wang Guorui also had to accept Li Hongzhang, because Li Hongzhang sacrificed one of his son's arms in exchange for Wang Guorui's promise that Taiwan would not be independent and that the country would be established. If you think about it from another perspective, if you have a son, can you sacrifice one of your son's arms and the future of politics in exchange for someone else's promise that the country will not be divided? And Wang Guorui asked himself, he may not know if he can do it, this is not at all Wang Guorui can know. However, Li Hongzhang chose to let Wang Guorui cut off one of his son's arms in exchange for Wang Guorui's promise that Taiwan would not be divided, and I have to say that Li Hongzhang still has a bit of patriotism. Therefore, Wang Guorui is not good at continuing to bully an old man.

"On the Taiwan side, because of your mainland's cession of Taiwan this time, we have suffered huge losses. Not only financially, but also in terms of personnel, and even all kinds of emotional losses, these continents must compensate us. We have paid a lot of things to resist Japan, and we can't just pay for nothing, right? Wang Guorui said.

And Li Hongzhang immediately asked: "How much compensation do you want?" ”

"Ten million taels of silver!" Wang Guorui said.

Li Hongzhang couldn't help but feel a heartache, because 10 million taels of silver was about one-tenth of the Manchu Qing's current annual financial revenue. Although it seems that the Manchu court can have an income of almost hundreds of millions of taels of silver every year, their various army maintenance and the flag salary of the Eight Banners have directly gone to almost 30 million taels. In the following various expenditures, the fiscal not only did not have a surplus, but instead ran a fiscal deficit. However, now the Taiwan side is demanding compensation of 10 million taels of silver, which is obviously making matters worse.

"The Japanese have only given you two million taels, and they have given it in the name of the soldiers' food expenses!" Li Hongzhang said.

Li Hongzhang was very helpless in his heart, and the compensation given by the Japanese to Taiwan was only two million taels of silver, which was obviously not enough for Taiwan's losses at all. However, Taiwan actually demanded that the Manchu central government give them 10 million taels of silver. This is clearly blackmail.

"We can't attack the Woko, so we can't get much out of the Woko. But, the court, you know! Wang Guorui hinted.

Of course, Li Hongzhang understands that Wang Guorui is pinching soft persimmons. Taiwan does not have a navy and cannot threaten the Japanese mainland. In addition, Japan doesn't have much money, so you can't extort much. And the Manchu Qing is different, the Manchu Qing is a soft persimmon, but also a fat pig, this kind of soft persimmon fat pig does not take the opportunity to extort, then I am really sorry for myself. Li Hongzhang also knew that Wang Guorui was bullying himself, but what could he do?

This time, Li Hongzhang has been ordered to death by Cixi, whether it is soft grinding or hard bubbles, it is to take back Taiwan. This time, the imperial court finally had the opportunity to take back Taiwan. If Taiwan is allowed to stand on its own, it will really be shameless for the imperial court. And if the imperial court can take back Taiwan, it will be able to greatly boost the morale of the army, and at that time, the main and factional parties of the Hou Party will also be able to benefit.

Now in the imperial court, the imperial party represents the reformists, and then the party represents the conservatives. The reason why the imperialist party criticized the latter party was that the Japanese army was so "weak" that the latter party actually abandoned Taiwan, which was the biggest killer feature of the imperial party. And because Wang Guorui resisted Japan, it caused a lot of butterfly effects, which made those people in the imperial party feel the opportunity. And many people saw that the Japanese army was so "weak". They are also very dissatisfied with the compromise of the post-party. After all, the vast majority of low-level officials could not see the specific situation clearly, and many enthusiastic young people also began to support the imperial party.

Those young men. Either they are really hot-blooded, or they want to take advantage of this criticism of the party to reap the benefits and earn political capital. In any case, the pressure on the post-party is now strong enough, and they urgently need to "peacefully" recover Taiwan, so that if they can recover Taiwan relatively peacefully. That's all the credit of the post-party. At that time, the Hou Party could completely brag about recovering Taiwan "without spending a single soldier", and at that time, the Hou Party could relieve a lot of pressure.

Li Hongzhang also had this idea, so he could not let Taiwan have a chance to become independent. Now Taiwan's Wang Guorui actually took advantage of the weakness of the Manchu court, and then extorted wealth, so that Li Hongzhang had no temper at all. Who made the current Manchu court weak. It was impossible to send a large army to Taiwan to quell Wang Guorui's "rebellion". Moreover, the Hou Party also needed to take back Taiwan to earn political capital, so Li Hongzhang had to compromise.

"Ten million taels, I'll give it!" Li Hongzhang gritted his teeth and said.

Li Hongzhang then added: "This money is compensated to the people of Taiwan, not to you, you have to know!" ”

Li Hongzhang's meaning is to compensate the local government of Taiwan with this 10 million taels of silver, and then he can easily get it back when the time comes. After all, in Li Hongzhang's eyes, if the Taiwan problem is solved, isn't this money just poured from the left hand to the right hand, so that it can be taken back at any time? Therefore, he can't let Wang Guorui get this money into his pocket, so that as long as it is in the accounts in the government yamen, the central government can get it back at any time. This is Li Hongzhang's idea, which is really stupid and naïve.

"Of course, this money is compensated to the people of Taiwan, you can rest assured!" Wang Guorui said.

Next, Wang Guorui took out a copy of the text and said; "This is our plan for the establishment of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region next, you can take a look! If you agree, then sign, if you don't, then look at it! ”

After Li Hongzhang opened the draft of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region, he carefully read a few articles, and immediately became furious. This is because the Taiwan Special Administrative Region is simply an independent kingdom, and there is no sincerity in returning to the motherland at all.

Li Hongzhang saw that the plan of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region has independent legislative, executive, judicial and other powers, and also has an independent army, and even has local diplomatic rights. The draft of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region was completely copied by Wang Guorui in conjunction with the Basic Laws of the three special administrative regions of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. And the method of this special administrative region is actually simply absurd for the people of the Manchu era, because the ancient people paid attention to great unification, whether it was land or political power, they all paid attention to great unification. However, the plan of this special administrative region is simply a challenge to the psychological bottom line of the mainland government of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. If this plan is really followed, then Taiwan will have its own army, its own diplomatic rights one level lower, and be able to have independent personnel rights.

From then on, the Manchu central court could not issue any coercive orders to Taiwan, but could only do so in a deliberative tone. It is not even possible to send any officials, military, or personnel from various government-controlled institutions to Taiwan to exercise their rights, and Taiwan's officials are elected by themselves. The governor of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region was also elected by Taiwan itself, and then the Manchu central court officially took office after the last nominal approval. In this way, the Manchu court was tantamount to being unable to manage Taiwan, so that Taiwan was at most a nominal Qing territory, and there was no other meaning.

The draft of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region is completely a plan for open separation. If Li Hongzhang signs the draft of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region, then I am afraid that Taiwan will be a reasonable and legitimate separatist side, and the so-called "great righteousness" of the Manchu central court will be completely gone. If there is any advantage occupied by the central court of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is none other than the aspect of "righteousness". Since ancient times, the central court has occupied this "great righteousness" to survive, and because of the great righteousness, those local princes will look down on them.

However, once the draft of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region is signed, it will be equivalent to the fact that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has completely lost its righteousness, and the implementation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's orders that Taiwan can give due consideration to in the future does not necessarily have to be carried out 100 percent unconditionally. Moreover, Taiwan has its own right to choose officials, that is, it is not subject to the control of the central court, and if Taiwan does not obey orders, the central court has no way. Such a draft of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region is simply a challenge to the psychological bottom line of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Because the situation in the Manchu Qing Dynasty is also very bad now, and the governors in various parts of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are not very honest, if those governors see Taiwan like this, will they also demand the establishment of so-called local special administrative regions, then the country will probably be torn apart.

"That's a problem!" Wang Guorui also began to think.

If this special administrative region treaty is signed, will those governors in the mainland also take the opportunity to call for the establishment of a special administrative region? The governors on the mainland were independent kingdoms one by one, and it was already difficult for the Manchu central government to control them. Once the plan for this special administrative region was made public, the governors of the Manchu internal mainland also began to tear their faces with the central government. Now the governors of the mainland can still maintain no division, because they do not have the strength, and they have every "opportunity". If the draft of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region is made public, perhaps the mainland governors will also take the opportunity to demand that the Manchu Central Committee set up various special administrative regions with various clear purposes, and then the country will also face a situation of splitting. Although there is a secret split at present, as long as the contradictions between the central and local governments are not made public, there will be no problem for foreigners.

Once there are many special administrative regions under various names in the mainland, foreigners will also know that China has fallen into a state of division. The reason why foreigners do not dare to enter China in large numbers is because China still maintains a superficial unity. If China begins to openly split, the foreigners will completely turn China into a colony. Therefore, the plan of this special administrative region is indeed not suitable for public signing. (To be continued......)