{PS. This is the zuihou chapter of the third volume of "Long Live the Dictatorship", which is watched by everyone in xiexie.} There are people who praise me in this volume, and there are many people who scold me, and there are even those who send text messages to scold me for being perverted, the prodigal son remembers it, let's see in the fourth volume! (rolls his eyes)

Starting tomorrow, please read the fourth volume of Down with Japanese Imperialism! 》}

On June 22, 1883, Ding Yuntong reorganized the war command organization.

The original military emergency response team had four members, Zuo Zongtang, Peng Yulin, Liu Kunyi, and Zeng Jize, and Liu Kunyi also replaced Guo Songtao and concurrently served as the head of the organization. Now Ding Yuntong has let Wang Wenshao serve as the head of the organization, and Liu Kunyi will go to the northeast to be in charge of the logistics army full-time, and at the same time Zhang Zhidong and Hu Xueyan will also be transferred to the emergency team.

Among these six members, Zuo Zongtang is old, but his political views have always been tough, he can create an atmosphere of the main battle, and sometimes he can make some suggestions.

Peng Yulin has a strong operational ability for specific military affairs, is diligent, hard-working, and hard-working, which Ding Yuntong also admires, originally wanted him to go to the northeast to take charge of logistics, but when he saw that his body was already weak, he had to give up.

Liu Kunyi, on the contrary, not only has strong work ability, but also has a strong body, which is enough to take on the logistics task.

War and diplomacy are inextricably linked, and Zeng Jize can play a role in this, and Ding Yuntong has already sent him to Europe to deal with future wartime diplomacy.

As for Zhang Zhidong and Hu Xueyan, the former is also a member of the leading group for industrialization, which is because Ding Yuntong considered the need to achieve a balance between war and industrialization, so he let Zhang Zhidong hold two positions at the same time. The latter was responsible for balancing the balance of revenues and expenditures, and his advice was indispensable for the war effort.

At this time, two things began to bother Ding Yuntong:

First, the number of Jewish immigrants in Funsali has grown too slowly, and now there are only seven or eight thousand at most, which really disappoints Ding Yuntong. The more Jewish immigrants came, the more people would come to China to make a living, which meant that they would bring a lot of jishu and money to China. And Ding Yuntong Jihua is to raise Fengshali as a pigsty, the more Jews, the more wealth, the more fat the pigs are, there will be a massacre in the future, the golden carnival, the whole world celebrates, the Chinese people kill pigs and slaughter sheep to run to the well-off.

But now this is not angry, and only in the Year of the Monkey can you eat blood sausage! Ding Yuntong was quite depressed, it seemed that it was a wilderness after all, and it was not attractive enough. By this time, the great migration from Eastern Europe had begun, and millions of people were fleeing to the new Shijie, and their destination was the fast-growing, fiery United States.

What to do? The good meat was robbed and he couldn't stand idly by, so Ding Yuntong decided to take action.

He sent Liang Cheng, an official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to the United States immediately, ostensibly as a counselor at the embassy, but in fact responsible for inciting anti-Semitism in the United States, and at the same time sent a telegram to Chen Lanbin, the minister to the United States, to cooperate with his work. In fact, with the influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe, American society has begun to dislike and wary of Jews, and the Chinese side just needs to fan the flames. It's as simple as bribing a few newspapers to publish anti-Semitic articles, or finding celebrities to publish anti-Semitic books, or creating or spreading well-known rumors, such as the Presbyterian Minutes of Zion. As long as there is an anti-Semitic wave in the United States, the appeal to Jewish immigrants will be greatly reduced.

The second thing is that the Zionist Union, through Tang Shaoyi, officially proposed to form an armed Liliang in Phongsali. He even offered to help China defend the region north of the Mekong River from Siam's attack, on a high-sounding reason: if Siam succeeded, Phongsali would not be safe.

Of course, Ding Yuntong knew that it would be sooner or later, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly, knowing that at this time, there were only a few thousand Jewish immigrants in the entire Funsali area. Ding Yuntong originally thought that it would be at least two or three years later, or until there was a conflict between Jewish immigrants and local Lao natives.

In politics, there are no permanent friends.

If in the future, the Jewish state is full-fledged and has a high overall quality, the Jewish army will become a great danger to China, and it is precisely because Ding Yuntong envisioned this that he chose Funsali, because this is an inland area, there is no precious outlet to the sea, and the future Jewish state will not be able to receive external assistance.

But now, China has no reason to refuse the establishment of an armed liliang, the army is a symbol of national sovereignty, and if China obstructs it, the Jews will immediately doubt China's sincerity, and China will not only not oppose it, but must vigorously support it.

But when it comes to allowing Jewish armed forces to participate in the defense, this is absolutely unacceptable. Because in the process, the Jews will gain valuable combat experience, and at the same time, they will also train a group of commanding officers, which is dangerous for China.

Ding Yuntong replied to Europe: China is very supportive of the establishment of Jewish armed forces, which is of great significance to the establishment of a Jewish state. But China will not rely on the help of the Jewish armed forces, because it will damage the self-esteem of the Chinese army.

On June 28, 1883, Ding Yuntong personally hosted a banquet at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse to entertain the visiting Japanese delegation.

The Japanese side also specially handed over a gift from Meiji Emperor Muhito to Ding Yuntong, an Akita dog, and Ding Yuntong gave a lark in return. His ensuing and goodwill surprised the Japanese delegation and completely subverted their previous perceptions. You must know that the last time the delegation visited, they were presented with a few nondescript "little gold figures", and the impression of the Chinese emperor was very bad, but this time it was very different, so I also had more confidence in the negotiations.

On July 1, China and Japan began formal talks.

At the outset, the Japanese side suggested that several Japanese citizens, including Mitsutomi Kamio, military attache of the Tianjin Consulate, and Koroku Kawakami, who had come to China for tourism, had disappeared in China, and hoped that the Chinese side would explain this.

Li Hongzhang's answer to this is that he doesn't know anything about it, and he doesn't know it at all. At the same time, when Xu Jingcheng, who accompanied him, asked about the identity and position of Kawakami Caoliu, the Japanese side could only reply vaguely.

Of course, the Japanese side is only a test and does not hold out much hope.

During the formal talks, the Japanese side was first proposed by Inoue Shin in the "38th Parallel." That is, China and Japan will divide Korea equally with the 38th parallel as the boundary.

Of course, this plan was unacceptable to the Chinese side, and Li Hongzhang rarely resolutely rejected it.

After several debates, on July 6, Ito Hirobumi put forward the "Ryukyu and South Korea Exchange Theory" in exchange for Japan's recognition of China's suzerainty over Korea in exchange for Japan's recognition of China's suzerainty over Korea.

This plan aroused Li Hongzhang's great interest, because once this plan was finalized, China would also be able to keep the Korean Peninsula, which should be satisfactory, and Li Hongzhang later made a positive evaluation of this plan in his report to Ding Yuntong.

Ding Yuntong was also very moved by this plan for a moment, to be honest, because after all, he controlled North Korea without war. And war, there is always a need to take risks.

However, after thinking about it, the contradictions between China and Japan will break out sooner or later, and there will be a war after all. In the future, whether the empire develops to the west or south, it will always be constrained. In the end, he still made up his mind to follow the established policy!

However, out of the consideration of delay, Ding Yuntong still asked Li Hongzhang to seriously talk with the Japanese side on this basis, and talk about it well, anyway, no matter what consensus is reached, as long as the time comes, Ding Yuntong will deny it completely. Of course, Li Hongzhang didn't understand Ding Yuntong's psychology, he sincerely wanted to implement this plan into a treaty.

Judging from Li Hongzhang's attitude, Ito Hirobumi and Inoue immediately judged that the Chinese side was satisfied with this, and there was still room for more, and they immediately raised their requirements in order to test China's bottom line.

Inoue immediately put forward the attached conditions, demanding that China's suzerainty be confirmed and that it should immediately withdraw its troops from Korea, and promised to explain to the Japanese side when sending troops to Korea in the future.

This request made Li Hongzhang very difficult, and if the dispatch of troops was restricted, China's suzerainty would not be complete. But the emperor's attitude made Li Hongzhang elusive, and he did not raise any objections.

This greatly encouraged Ito and others, and they immediately put forward additional conditions again: if there is a civil unrest or other emergency in Korea, and China sends troops to North Korea, Japan also has the right to send troops to North Korea.

Unsurprisingly, this request was quickly dismissed, as it would amount to Japan's suzerainty over Korea.

Ito Hirobumi felt that he had touched the bottom line of the Chinese side, and immediately retracted cunningly, retreating to the next best thing, giving up Japan's right to send troops, but claiming that out of order to protect the security of the embassy, he demanded that a Japanese embassy guard be stationed in Seoul.

As soon as this demand was met, the Japanese side immediately demanded that guards be stationed at the Busan consulate as well. Li Hongzhang saw the Japanese side entangled back and forth at this time, and after reporting it, he refused very impatiently.

However, after Ito and others abandoned the Busan Guard, they put forward a new proposition, claiming that the embassy guards in Seoul also shoulder the responsibility of protecting Japanese nationals, and the size should be no less than 500 to 800 people, which made Li Hongzhang very annoyed, such a scale can launch a military coup at any time, and he immediately and resolutely rejected it.

From the beginning of July to the beginning of August, the two sides went back and forth on the details of the North Korean issue, and Li Hongzhang also tossed back and forth. Only then did he realize that these mild-mannered Japanese were in fact well-mannered hooligans, without the slightest shame, playing word games little by little, ostensibly acknowledging China's suzerainty, but in fact refusing to relax at all towards Korea.

In the past, he was too quick to loosen his mouth and promised not to mention the Ryukyu issue again, but now he feels that it is a little difficult to start anew. Li Hongzhang had a feeling of being toyed with.

Ito, on the other hand, was overjoyed, and after some negotiations, the Ryukyu issue seemed to have been resolved, and economic interests were confirmed, while China's suzerainty was dismembered by the specific terms of the Japanese side, and only a nominal suzerainty remained. Inoue admired this very much.

They were smug there, but Ding Yuntong looked secretly funny: as long as the treaty is not officially signed, everything is just empty talk. Even if I promise to give up Beijing to you, so what? Besides, even if the treaty is signed, I don't care what kind of treaty I want to beat you, if you tear it up, then these are all dead letters, and you don't even need to wipe your ass.

Before World War II, Hitler signed a piece of paper pledging not to start a war, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain took this piece of paper and declared at the London airport that he had saved Europe and saved Shijie. As a result, they all became a laughing stock, and who would condemn Hitler for not believing his word? will only laugh at Chamberlain for being stupid and naïve.

While watching the good show in Beijing, Ding Yuntong sternly supervised Liu Kunyi's logistical organization work, and more than 150,000 migrant workers had already assembled along the Yalu River in advance.

Zhao Bingjun's Ministry of Internal Affairs received an order to begin a dragnet operation against Japanese spies.

The Propaganda Department has secretly prepared for the outbreak of war to launch an overwhelming propaganda campaign on an unprecedented scale in all parts of the country's urban and rural areas to incite a nationalist frenzy.

The Guards were already sitting in a fully enclosed train, secretly transporting to the northeast.

The navy is also ready, and the "Portuguese fleet", consisting of six of the latest warships, has also arrived in Singapore.

Tang Shaoyi is negotiating with a Jewish consortium for a large loan.

Yuan Shikai received a secret order and was ready to sacrifice the "big killing weapon" that forced Japan to go crazy.

And Zhan Tianyou, who is in Pyongyang, has also received orders. At this time, the railway had been repaired to Pyongseong, and there were still dozens of miles away from Pyongyang, and according to Ding Yuntong's previous jihua, when the war started, the railway must have been built at least to Pyongyang. Therefore, Ding Yuntong demanded: speed up the construction progress at all costs!

All the machines are running at high speed, just waiting for the moment of zuihou.