485 Britain, France, and Japan tie their hands
Xiyun asked in shock, "She's not dead yet!" ”
Li Hongzhang sighed lightly, "Although he didn't die, he was insulted." ”
Xiyun sighed and muttered to himself: "It's good if you're not dead, it's good if you're not dead......"
Lin Fei asked from the side: "Isn't that girl going to be escorted to the capital, why was she detained in the yamen of the governor of Liangjiang?" ”
"She was going to be escorted to the capital, but when the war broke out, no one cared about her affairs anymore, so she was detained in the Yamen of the governor of Nanjing."
Lin Fei thought for a while and asked, "Master Li, that girl is just a mustard girl, you are the governor of Zhili, the head of the Xinjiang ministers, and the scholar of Wenhua Palace, it can be said that under one person and above ten thousand people, how can you know her news?" ”
Li Hongzhang said with a smile: "During the Fuzhou incident, you once mentioned that girl to our officials, and I ordered my subordinates to investigate, and only then did I know the whereabouts of that girl. ”
Lin Fei's heart moved, and he pleaded: "Lord Li, I have a reluctant request, that girl is already pitiful enough, it is better to send her to my Huaxia, as for her rebellion, she has been tortured so much, and it should be redeemed." ”
Li Hongzhang laughed out loud and happily agreed, "Okay, when I return to Nanjing, I will immediately send my men to send her to Taiwan." ”
Lin Fei smiled and thanked him, and then the two sides changed the topic, because it was a private banquet, so they talked about things that had nothing to do with government affairs, Li Hongzhang visited the Chinese Empire for three days, and then returned to the Qing State, the news of the surrender of the Qing State surprised Britain, France and Japan, and the ministers of the three countries sent official letters to ask Emperor Guangxu why he reneged on the covenant?
Emperor Guangxu's reply was also tough: "Huaxia has already threatened the Jingshi, do I have to wait for the Huaxia Empire to burn down the Forbidden City?" One sentence pointed out the burning of the Old Summer Palace by the British and French forces that year, which made the British and French ministers not embarrassed.
On 23 April, Japan's Meiji Emperor finally couldn't take it anymore and instructed Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu to consult with Lin Fei again on the armistice.
On 24 April, Mutsu and Lin Fei held talks again on the armistice, during which Mutsu Munemitsu first said: "With regard to the three-point armistice conditions proposed by your country, our side has carefully studied them, and we firmly disagree with Article 3, and we can agree to the other two articles. ”
The three-point armistice conditions proposed by Lin Fei were: first, Japan compensated the Chinese Empire with 200 million taels of silver; second, to recognize the independence of the Ryukyus; Third, Japan amended its constitution to promise never to use force against foreign countries, abolish the Royal Army and Navy, and change its name to the Self-Defense Forces.
Lin Fei didn't expect Japan to agree to Article 3, and this kind of clause could not be agreed to by Japan under the condition of not occupying Japan, so Lin Fei smiled and said: "Okay, I agree to remove Article 3 from the armistice clause." ”
Mutsu Somitsu sighed lightly and said, "Then let's sign an armistice treaty." ”
Therefore, on April 25, Lin Fei and Japanese Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu signed the "Formal Armistice Agreement between the Chinese Empire and the Japanese Empire", which stipulated that the Japanese government would compensate the Chinese Empire for its military expenses of 200 million taels of silver; The Japanese government recognized the independence of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
The signing of this treaty marked the official end of the Sino-Japanese war since the Taiwan War, in which more than 1 million Japanese civilians were killed, and the Chinese nation and the Yamato nation have since formed a deep hatred, which has had a far-reaching impact on the international situation in the future.
In Japan, elementary school students will be told that the Chinese nation is the biggest enemy of the Yamato nation, pay attention, it is the Chinese nation, not the Chinese empire, which lays the groundwork for the racial decisive battle between the Chinese nation and the Yamato nation in the future!
This treaty was also the largest unequal treaty signed by Japan since the Meiji Restoration, and it cost Japan the entire Ryukyu Islands, the front of the Chinese Empire, closer to the Japanese mainland.
In order to develop its military strength, Japan stepped up its plundering of Korea on the one hand, and accelerated its invasion of the northeast of the Qing Dynasty on the other hand, and Britain and the United States provided large amounts of aid to Japan in order to resist the forces of the Chinese Empire and the Russian Empire in the Far East.
Since Japan succumbed, Yu Ningshuang and Liu Daming didn't have to kill anymore, so they led the fleet back to Dayu City, and the tribal alliance returned to Taiwan, although they killed more than a million Japanese, but Yu Ningshuang still felt that killing was not enjoyable, she complained to Lin Fei: "I only killed a million, I was going to kill 10 million!" ”
Lin Fei laughed, "We still have to fight with the Japanese, and when the time comes, you will be killed." ”
Yu Ningshuang smiled, and then said, "By the way, I have to go back to Taiwan this time, and I can only come back after a while." ”
Lin Fei was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why do you want to go back to Taiwan and stay for a while?" ”
Yu Ningshuang smiled mysteriously, "This is a secret, I can't tell you until later." After Yu Ningshuang finished speaking, Lin Fei looked at her back and smiled helplessly.
Japan's submission shook Britain and France, and on April 27, Britain took the lead in holding armistice negotiations with the Chinese Empire, and after several rounds of talks, finally on May 9, the "Armistice Agreement between the Chinese Empire and the British Empire" was signed, which stated that the British Empire recognized the entire Borneo, Sulawesi, Java and Sumatra as the territory of the Chinese Empire, and the British Empire paid a ransom of 5 million pounds sterling to ransom the British captured by the Chinese Empire.
In this agreement, Britain gave up its territory in Borneo, and the entire Borneo was taken by Lin Fei as his own, as well as Sumatra, originally Britain insisted on defending Sumatra, but the Acehnese people in the north of Sumatra, with the support of Lin Fei, the armed struggle became more and more fierce, and Britain did not want to keep the hot potato of Sumatra Island anymore, so it recognized Sumatra Island as the territory of the Chinese Empire.
Lin Fei originally wanted to grab more benefits from Britain, for example, to let Britain cede Singapore and compensate more money, but it was impossible, because with Lin Fei's current strength, he could not defeat the heavily guarded Singapore, and Lin Fei did not have the strength to attack the British colonies of Burma and India, which dealt a heavy blow to the British, so Lin Fei could only accept it when he saw it.
Britain's move shocked France, France did not have much vested interests in the South Seas, they helped Britain, just hoping to get a piece of the feast of interests after the destruction of China, since the British have now withdrawn, France has no reason to hold on.
So on May 7, France signed an armistice agreement with the Chinese Empire, and the French Republic officially recognized Borneo and other places as the territory of the Chinese Empire.
Britain and France signed an armistice agreement with China, which made the Netherlands very angry, after all, those areas are the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands once recovered the island of Java and Sulawesi, although the Dutch were angry, but there was no way, with the national strength of the Netherlands, they had absolutely no way to go on an expedition and confront the Chinese Empire.
In desperation, the Dutch government signed an armistice agreement with the Chinese Empire on 20 May, recognizing Borneo and other places as Chinese territory.
Among the countries that declared war, there was also Spain, which was the most aggrieved and helpless, because it was the first to be "bullied" by Lin Fei, but Spain saw that Britain and France had signed an armistice agreement with the Chinese Empire, and also signed an armistice agreement with the Chinese Empire on June 4, officially recognizing Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao as the territory of the Chinese Empire.
At this point, the Nanyang World War, or the First World War, officially ended, which began on November 28, 1896, with the declaration of war by the Qing Dynasty, and finally on June 4, 1897, Spain signed an armistice, which lasted 189 days.
At the beginning of the war, the British and French forces were in an absolute advantage, they relied on the advantage of sea supremacy, wantonly attacked the Chinese cities, and after conquering the cities, they launched genocide and massacres, Java Island, Sulawesi, and South Borneo fell one after another, and the Chinese Empire was once on the verge of extinction.
The turning point of the war was the Battle of the Sulu Sea, in which Lin Fei dispatched submarine forces to annihilate the British and French battleship fleets in one fell swoop, and Britain and France lost their sea supremacy.
After this sea battle, Lin Fei counterattacked with all his strength, regained lost territory one after another, and sent an expeditionary fleet to attack the Japanese mainland.
Although the Chinese Empire achieved the final victory, the contradictions with Britain, France, the Qing and Japan were deepened, especially those armistice agreements, each of which was full of bloody conquest and plunder, and people of insight saw these treaties and sighed from the bottom of their hearts, this is not peace, but a ten-year truce! An even bigger war will inevitably sweep the South Seas within ten years!
After the signing of the armistice treaties, various countries fulfilled the treaties one after another, starting with the Qing state, which released all the arrested pro-Chinese people, mainly some literati, who spoke for the Chinese empire during the war, believing that the Qing should not be in collusion with Britain, France and Japan.
Among these people, the most important person is naturally Huang Feihong.
Huang Feihong came to Dayu City accompanied by his apprentice Huang Jiudong, Huang Feihong completely recognized the face of the Qing court this time, and vowed not to return to the Qing court, Lin Fei arranged two positions for Huang Feihong, one is the chief instructor of the special forces, responsible for teaching the sniper team, frogman commando, and blood phoenix special forces fighting skills, and the other is the director of the State General Administration of Sports.