Super dictator.

The capital, the Forbidden City.

Guangxu summoned the central ministers to discuss the draft of the Japanese contract in Qianqing Palace.

Prince Li Shiduo, Prince Gong Guiziliu, Minister of Military Aircraft Sun Yuwen, Xu Yongyi, Li Hongzao and Weng Tonghe are all listed.

Weng Tonghe Yang looked at the terms of the contract copied in his hand, and said with great shame: "Japan's military expenses are too extravagant, and they want 2 million taels of silver. Shengjing is the hinterland of China. China must not let it go, let alone Taiwan, otherwise Jiang , Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong are all lost, and the Nanyang provinces are in danger."

Weng Tonghe refuted the terms of the Japanese contract one by one, but none of them could be accepted by him.

However, Weng Tonghe’s inability to accept it does not mean that other people cannot accept it. Prince Li Shiduo and Prince Qing Yikuang sang together and said: “Taiwan is an island in the sea and has no rich products. Taiwan."

Li Hongzao coughed heavily, glared at the two of them, then turned to Guangxu and said: "The emperor guards the land for the ancestors, and he must not let others use size, let alone promise a big Taiwan. The two princes think that they can settle the matter with him temporarily. But they don't know what the opposite is. Provoking troubles. Once a precedent is set, countries will inevitably take advantage of it to provoke and follow suit."

The two princes wanted to say more, Guangxu waved his hand to signal them to shut up, and looked at Prince Gong who was sitting on the side.

Prince Gong is sick, but the current government cannot allow him to recuperate at home.

Prince Gong has been old for a long time, and has no ideas. One side is the land of his ancestors, and the other side is aggressive from the Japanese side. He can't tell how ugly he is. Is this still the former Devil Six?

However, Sun Yuwen, Minister of Military Aircraft, said helplessly: "In my opinion, 'peace' must be used, and the word 'war' cannot be mentioned. Now the Japanese can directly send troops to Tianjin and enter Zhili directly. If the war continues, the city of Beijing will They don’t belong to us, so what about Taiwan and Liaodong?”

Prince Gong nodded slightly.

Guangxu didn't say anything, he was very hesitant, the courtiers all said that the public was right, and the mother-in-law said that the woman was right, he didn't know who to listen to.

At this time, a eunuch came in with a large pile of memorials. It turned out that the content of the terms of the Japanese contract had been exposed, and all the ministers submitted the memorials one after another.

Guangxu couldn't make a decision, so he picked up the memorials from the ministers.

Among them, the Ministry of Household Affairs told Hong Liangpin: "In recent years, the income has not been able to make ends meet, and the previous foreign debts have not been repaid, let alone increase the foreign debts. Please call Li Hongzhang back to Beijing as soon as possible, and don't favor peace negotiations."

Wen Tingshi, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, said: "Chaousu, it is a special punishment to win the land, and it is a great shame to cede the land and beg for peace. Once Turkey opened this example, they took advantage of it, and the division was uncontrollable. Although the wars in Persia and Afghanistan have suffered repeated setbacks, they have not ceded land and begged for peace, and they are still able to be a country.

The Ministry of Officials played to Chu Chengbo, the servant: "The situation in the southeast is on the sea and not on the land. Although Taiwan is an island, it is shielded by several provinces in the hinterland. If it is kept out of the way, it will not be preserved. It will steal the world's creatures and disintegrate from compassion. The hearts of the people will be broken. Go, who will be in charge of the country, please call Li Hongzhang to return to China soon."

These are all requests for Li Hongzhang to return to China to fight again. Of course, some people think that Li Hongzhang should continue the peace talks and try to change the terms of the peace talks.

Guangxu's heart became more and more chaotic, and he suddenly violently pushed the memorial to the ground, and wept bitterly: "Neither is war, nor is peace, what can I do?"

Li Hongzao, Weng Tonghe and others all knelt down on the ground and said sadly: "Your Majesty will be humiliated by your incompetence."

For a while, in the palace of Qianqing, the monarchs and ministers cried with their heads in their arms.

Soon, the Military Aircraft Department sent a telegram to Li Hongzhang: "The Japanese are greedy for Taiwan's minerals, or maybe the Japanese use the mining for profit, but the people of the land still belong to me."

Li Hongzhang waited for a long time for this telegram, anxious in his heart, and quickly replied: "The Japanese coveted Taiwan for a long time, and it seems that they can only settle the matter with mining profits."

On the same day, China and Japan held another peace talk in Chunfan Building.

This time, Ito Hirobumi took out the terms revised by the Japanese side and handed them over to Li Hongzhang.

Some content has been slightly modified on the terms: Japan originally asked China to pay 2 million taels of compensation, but this time it was changed to 15 billion taels; in terms of land cession, the claim for Taiwan remains unchanged, and the land of Liaodong has changed slightly. Originally, the Japanese asked for Haicheng, Liaoyang, and Gai. Where equality is still in the hands of the Chinese army, it is only required to cut it according to the current actual ceasefire line.

With a bitter face, Li Hongzhang said in a mournful voice, "The amount of compensation is too large, please reduce it further."

Ito Hirobumi waved his hand impatiently, and said, "It's difficult to reduce it."

"Why force people to be too prosperous so that they can't take on the responsibility?" Li Hongzhang asked a rare and forceful rhetorical question.

Ito Hirobumi took a sip of tea slowly, and asked indifferently: "If you can't take it, is it because you don't agree?"

Li Hongzhang softened immediately, and said in a low voice: "No, I sincerely came to talk about peace, but things are really impossible. Our country is now living on foreign debts, and there is still money to pay compensation. I hope your country will understand. "

Li Hongzhang's pitiful appearance will only arouse the arrogance of the Japanese side. Ito Hirobumi said disdainfully: "That is your country's own business. Besides, China has hundreds of millions of people, rich resources, and national emergencies. Everyone contributes a little. That’s all together.”

Li Hongzhang saw that Hirobumi Ito was determined not to give in, so he had to talk about the issue of land cession.

"Britain and France once occupied Chinese cities, but they did not ask for an inch of land to be ceded. If your country did so, it would make the countries of Thailand and the West laugh. Taiwan, your country has not yet been occupied, so why force it?"

Ito Hirobumi smiled and asked: "This is a matter of negotiating and negotiating a treaty. Regardless of whether the troops arrive or not, the Heilongjiang and Jilin areas of your country are not handed over to Russia in this way?"

Ito's words made Li Hongzhang simply unable to continue.

After a long silence, Li Hongzhang said: "Please reduce the compensation by another 5000 million taels. Taiwan can't let it go."

"From this point of view, you and my two countries can only meet each other in battle. Our country has already made preparations for the expedition in Hiroshima. There are 60 transport ships ready to unmoor and set sail at any time. Last night, 20 transport ships pulled anchor and headed to Tianjin, which is not far away. Far away, it is inconvenient to take action during the truce. Once the time comes, I will never hesitate. For today's matter, I can only hope that Zhongtang will give a clear answer: yes or no." Ito Hirobumi fixed his eyes on Li Hongzhang and asked aggressively.

Hearing his threats, Li Hongzhang had no choice but to ask for a delay and give him an answer in five days. Ito was only willing to give Li Hongzhang three days.

Li Hongzhang, who returned to his residence, quickly sent the new terms to the Prime Minister's Office and asked the Prime Minister's Office for their opinions.

Not long after, the Zongli Yamen called back: Every point of interest is one point.If there is no negotiable change, then follow the previous purpose and make an agreement with it.

It seems that the country is still ready to give in. Li Hongzhang originally wanted to seek peace. Seeing this, he was relieved.

The telegrams from the Chinese side had to pass through the hands of the Japanese. When the Japanese saw this telegram, they were secretly delighted.

Gaiping City.

When Song Qing, Wei Jichen and the others learned of the terms of the Japanese side's agreement, they were all furious.

Wei Jichen, in particular, was angry and depressed at the same time. The Chinese army still had the strength to fight again, and he had won so many battles. The Japanese dared to open their mouths so loudly. Although the compensation was reduced, it was far from enough.

Especially once Taiwan is cut off, I don't know when it will be taken back.

Fuck, are you the only ones who can sabotage the peace talks?I can do it too, Wei Jichen's blood is surging, he has always believed that as long as he persists in fighting the Japanese, he will win one day, why bother to cede the territory and pay huge sums of money at the same time.

Since your Qing government does not have the guts to continue fighting, let me force you to continue fighting the Japanese.

Wei Jichen's depression for many days broke out at the same time. His character was originally filled with passion and impulsiveness. Otherwise, in modern times, he would not have killed someone in a fit of anger because of his sister.

Having made up his mind, Wei Jichen retreated to his room again, asked Wang Huaiqing to watch the door, and explained again that he was sick and didn't want to see anyone.

That night, he sneaked out of the window alone.

Riding on a prepared horse, Wei Jichen went straight to Fuzhou City.

That's right, Wei Jichen is going to assassinate the Japanese guard Nishi Kanjiro in Fuzhou City, and provoke the war between the two countries again.

Wei Jichen had learned a lot of Japanese with Matsuda Yeren. After dressing up a bit, he put on a Japanese military uniform, which looked almost the same as the Japanese, except that he was a little taller.

Weapons and the like, Wei Jichen put them in the space.

During the cease-fire period, the Japanese patrol team was not as strict as it was during the war, but it was not very slack either. Wei Jichen got off his horse not far from Fuzhou City, and with his extraordinary skills, he avoided several waves of Japanese sentinels. Team.

When he got to the bottom of the city wall, Wei Jichen estimated the time to be around three o'clock in the morning, so he stopped being negligent, as time was running out, and if he wanted to assassinate, he had to act immediately.

Take out two iron hooks from the space, these things were seized from Japanese ninjas, unexpectedly they can be used now.

Which situation did Wei Jichen not encounter in the training base?Which military skills have not been learned, of course some skills are not very proficient, but it is more than enough to climb a city wall.

Wei Jichen first listened for a while, and found no movement on the city wall, then he threw the iron hook forcefully, hooked it to the edge of the city wall, and then climbed up along the rope.

In less than a minute, Wei Jichen had already boarded the city wall.

Then quickly fell into the city, the map of Fuzhou City has been firmly memorized in Wei Jichen's mind, according to Wei Jichen's estimation, Xikuan Erlang will almost certainly set up the temporary command post in the original Fuzhou government office .

On the street leading to the government office, a Japanese patrol happened to pass by here, and one of the Japanese suddenly raised his gun and shouted, "Who is it?"

Seeing that his whereabouts were discovered, Wei Jichen swaggered out of the darkness. His face was full of anger, and he cursed in Japanese: "Baga, are you blind? Didn't you see it was me?"

In Fuzhou City, apart from the troops of the First Division stationed there, there was also a part of the mixed detachment of Japanese Colonel Yoshiki Hishishima who had just been transported from Japan and was originally planning to attack Penghu.

So don't say that the soldiers don't know some officers, even the Japanese officers don't necessarily know each other.

"Your Excellency, Second Lieutenant!" Seeing Wei Jichen's military uniform, the Japanese stopped and saluted solemnly.

Wei Jichen nodded in satisfaction, and the Japanese who spoke first said again: "Your Excellency, Second Lieutenant, please show your ID."

Damn, I need documents.

Wei Jichen was taken aback for a moment, but immediately pretended to be furious, rushed to the front of the soldier, and slapped him hard on the face without saying a word.

It only slapped the Japanese who asked the question, and turned around several times in the same place.

"Baga, a little private, you dare to ask me to show my ID, so get out of here." Wei Jichen looked furious.

"Hi Yi, hi Yi!" Several Japanese soldiers hurriedly apologized submissively, fearing that Wei Jichen would lose his temper again, they turned around and left.

From a distance, the words of reproach from the Japanese came.

"Xiaocheng, you are really ignorant. It's so late, that officer must have gone somewhere to have fun. You want him to show his ID, so put his face there."

"That's right, I heard that there are many flower girls in the city who hide in their houses and don't go out, or else, let's go and try."

Then there was a burst of obscene laughter, which made Wei Jichen furious. If there was not something important to do, Wei Jichen almost wanted to catch up and let them go downstairs to have fun.