In 1872, the Oriental Empire began its invasion of the Chinese vassal state of Ryukyu, which was completely annexed seven years later and renamed Okinawa Prefecture.

In 1876, he opened the country of Korea by force, forced the Korean government to sign the Treaty of Ganghwa, and obtained a series of privileges such as consular jurisdiction.

In 1877, through the Southwest War, the entire island was unified.

In 1885, the cabinet system was introduced, and a dual constitutional monarchy was established to stabilize the political system.

In 1887, when the empire was a little full-fledged, it formulated the 'Qing State Conquest Strategy' and began to desperately strengthen the army and compete with the Qing State's 'Westernization Movement'.

The consequence of this strategic approach was that the empire had a plutocratic industry, in addition to its rapidly growing military power.

The people of the empire, for nearly two generations, were forced to pay taxes four times as much as the Qing Dynasty, endure a huge gap in industry and agriculture, and live in hell as if they were poor.

The men were hungry and skinny, and the malnourished soldiers stood in front of the tall Western instructors, like groups of skinny little monkeys!

For the survival of themselves and their families, young women have crossed the ocean to the Qing Dynasty and Nanyang to sell spring.

It is no exaggeration to say that half of the silver of the Imperial warships purchased was earned from the thighs and bellies of these women.

And the local women, many of whom are poor, do not even have pants, and work in the fields every day wrapped in sheets.

In order to buy 'Yoshino' back, I used to be hungry all day, and for a while I even saw fat pigs, and I was drooling greedily!

Right now

Except for the last paper treaty, the contest between the Qing and Japan at the military level, with the great victory of the empire, has basically been settled.

I can finally take a breather, and since the Battle of Toshima, I haven't had a breath!

Emperor Meiji took another long breath, and when he saw the humerus in the hall, all looking at him with all kinds of mixed emotions in their eyes, he laughed and said:

"Heroes of the Empire——, enjoy the wine, the food, and the women of the night; Let's celebrate the great victory of the Empire! ”

"Hooray!"

The whole hall shouted.

The Northeast Asian continent is sunny.

Yanjing, the Forbidden City's Heart Palace.

Guangxu sat on the dragon chair with a complicated expression, looking at the important ministers of the Qing Dynasty kneeling in the hall, his face was gloomy, and he was silent for a long time.

Three points of hatred, three points of shame and anger, and four points of trying to hide, even Guangxu himself will not admit the ease.

Knowing that the emperor is now on the verge of exploding at one o'clock, the ministers below naturally don't want to provoke the moldy head, and they all honestly kneel with a sore back and lower their heads.

The Japanese soldiers fell into the mountains and seas, broke Tangshan, and captured Weihaiwei, and a group of Qingliu ministers who were shouting to fight to the death before heard the eunuch read the electric performance of Wang Wenshao, the deputy minister of Beiyang, and now they finally closed their mouths.

In He Changying's original time and space, because at the time of the peace talks, the First Army of the Japanese Army was still far away in Yingkou, and the Second Army was also far away in Weihaiwei, so the ministers could 'love the Qing Dynasty' and shout a few words of "fight to the death" and "never negotiate peace" to brush up the situation.

However, now that the Japanese First Army is close at hand, it is not the time to sing high-pitched.

In case the emperor was excited and rejected the peace talks between the Japanese and the British, tens of thousands of Japanese troops might be coming, and the army would be in trouble with Yanjing.

This is a matter related to the life of his whole family, and he can no longer tolerate running with his mouth full of horses and bragging about his reputation.

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, the two countries have been at war, no matter whether they win or lose, it is nothing more than a series of talks, which is common practice. Now that the Japanese are menacing, and the reinforcements from all the provinces of our Great Qing Dynasty are on the way, the old minister foolishly thought that he might as well agree to come down first, sit down and talk,——"

Seeing that all the old foxes of all sizes lowered their heads and did not speak, the corners of Weng Tongyi's mouth smiled slightly arrogantly, and kowtowed to speak: "It's really impossible to talk about meeting each other again, at that time, the Jinmen coastal defense copper wall is ironclad, and the armies from all walks of life will besiege the first army of the Japanese people, and the Japanese will naturally admit defeat." ”

"The teacher said it well, the two countries have always fought and talked about each other!"

Guangxu listened to Weng Tongyi's recital, and suddenly saw the clouds, and said with a sneer: "When hundreds of thousands of troops from all walks of life gather in Yanjing, and the fast guns and cannons of the West arrive, we must kill these little Japanese soldiers cleanly!" ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

The hall was full of sycophants, and everyone's thoughts suddenly put down, and they planned to go back and tell their family and friends that they should stop being in a hurry to secretly pack up the gold and silver tickets and jewelry, and prepare to escape from the capital at any time.

A group of Qingliu secretly exchanged glances with each other, and decided to wait until the Japanese withdrew their troops to Ninghe in the future, and immediately wrote a bloody book, 'Fight to the death, and never surrender to the Japanese', and then scold Li Hongzhang and his ilk traitors to brush up their reputation.

"Since the peace negotiation was first proposed by the Japanese Yi, in my opinion, it should be the Japanese who took the initiative to send an envoy to the Qing Dynasty."

As soon as Emperor Guangxu was excited, his brain was a little dizzy, and he could hear the ministers below looking at each other, and no one dared to respond.

Saying that the anti-dialogue is not only easy to provoke the emperor, but also spread to the people of the world to know, and it is inevitable that they will be pointed at the backbone and scolded "national thief" and "no bones" and other obscenities.

If you don't do it, it will become 'Li Hongzhang's second'.

- Why bother?

Seeing that the ministers below were silent, and a wisp of green qi surged onto Guangxu's face, he was just about to take advantage of the situation to make a big deal about the emperor's temper that he had endured for a long time, when he saw Nie Eighteen cowering and hiding outside the door.

"Get in! What's the matter? ”

Guangxu didn't have to think about it to know that the old witch was going to meddle indiscriminately again, and the fire in his heart burned even more vigorously.

"Your Majesty, Lafayette has a message."

Nie Eighteen's face showed uncontrollable indignation.

"Say!"

Emperor Guangxu tried his best to be patient.

"Lafayette said that since the Japanese are willing to negotiate peace—"

Hearing the two harsh words of 'Yihe', Guangxu's face suddenly turned red with shame.

"——, and other peace delegations in Shanghai should go to the East to negotiate peace as soon as possible."

The ministers of civil and military affairs in the hall were all relieved in their hearts, and they were glad to think in their hearts, it was still Lafayette who was clear and reasonable!

At this time, since hearing the news of Nenghe, all the civil and military ministers seemed to have forgotten that in the wilderness and snow of Jizhou, Dong Fuxiang's 10,000-strong army was waiting for the first army of Youpeng in Shanxian County.

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Zhili, Yutian County.

"Bang, bang—"

"Baga, all dead, dead!"

After the Japanese First Army suddenly arrived in Yutian County near noon, the peaceful county town immediately became a purgatory.

Fires broke out everywhere in the city, and thick smoke rose into the sky.

The sound of gunfire, the howls of rage, the cries of women, rolled through the city.

Youpeng and a group of generals of the First Army sat in the largest restaurant in the city eating and drinking, and it seemed that they could not hear or see that the Japanese army under them was doing evil.

"Iron-blooded soldiers, if they can't be shaped by a lot of harsh training, then killing and violating can also arouse their bloody nature and fighting spirit in a short period of time!"

Youpeng in Shanxian took a sip of spicy wine, and was satisfied to see that at the corner of the street not far from the attic, a Japanese recruit stabbed to death an unarmed Qing citizen with a bayonet, and laughed.

Then he ordered: "Today, all the troops will sweep the villages around Yutian to their heart's content; Tomorrow morning, the whole army will pull out the camp, and on the morning of the 14th, it must arrive at Jizhou City, defeat this Gan army, and the Imperial Army will go all the way to Tongzhou, and there will be no obstacles! ”