Ten hours later, Emperor Guangxu went ashore in Tianjin Port, and as soon as he went ashore, he heard that Lin Fei had laid down Liugong Island and asked the Qing State to hand over the mastermind behind the assassination, and the mastermind behind the assassination was Emperor Guangxu himself, how could Emperor Guangxu hand him over.

Emperor Guangxu had no choice but to find a column to stop, but Britain, France, Germany, and Russia were all in the midst of a war, who had time to take care of the affairs of the Qing Kingdom, thinking about it, there was only the United States.

Emperor Guangxu hurriedly sent a request for mediation to the American ambassador, and the American ambassador readily agreed, but after agreeing, he asked the Qing State to set up leases for the United States in the five cities of Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Fuzhou, each of which had an area of about 5,000 mu, more than 10 times that of the British and French concessions.

The Qing court often did this kind of thing, and did not care about it, so it agreed to the request of the Americans, and it was these American concessions that laid the groundwork for the future Sino-US Pacific War.

The U.S. ambassador quickly sent a telegram to Lin Fei, expressing the idea of mediation, but Lin Fei flatly refused, and said that there was no room for mediation in this matter, and that Emperor Guangxu must hand over the mastermind behind the scenes, otherwise our Huaxia will never return Liugong Island, and now there are still ten hours before the 24-hour ultimatum, and what to do, please Qing Guo consider for himself.

In the Forbidden City, Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi were sitting on pins and needles, they all knew that Liugong Island was an important naval base, the gateway to defend the Beijing Division, at this time Port Arthur had been occupied by the Japanese for a long time, if Liugong Island was lost again, there would be no naval base around the Beijing Division.

Emperor Guangxu and the Empress Dowager Cixi discussed for a while, and decided to find a scapegoat to calm Lin Fei's anger, the Guangxu Emperor and the Empress Dowager Cixi searched and searched, and finally found one, this lamb is Ye Zuqi who was captured by Lin Fei, anyway, Ye Zuqi has been caught by Lin Fei, and it is not a big deal to discard him, you can't discard Emperor Guangxu, Li Hongzhang or Yuan Shikai.

So, fifteen hours after Lin Fei's ultimatum was issued, the Qing court sent a message to Lin Fei: "The entire Liugong Island incident was completely planned by Ye Zuqi, and now that Ye Zuqi is in the hands of Huaxia, I hereby escort all Ye Zuqi's family to Huaxia and hand them over to Emperor Fei for disposal, hoping that Emperor Fei will return Liugong Island." ”

Seeing that the Qing court was like this, Lin Fei instructed his subordinates to agree that the Qing State would escort Ye Zuqi's family to Huaxia, and after Huaxia received Ye Zuqi's family, he would immediately withdraw from Liugong Island and return Liugong Island to the Qing State.

Lin Fei's subordinates immediately exploded when they heard this order, and Liu Daming said angrily: "Old Lin, the Qing court is obviously prevaricating us, and the mastermind behind the scenes is definitely not Ye Zuqi, fools know it." ”

Lin Fei smiled mysteriously, "I did this to paralyze the Qing court and prepare for the complete overthrow of the Qing court in the future." ”

Liu Daming argued: "But Liugong Island is a very important naval base, should we just return this base to the Qing court?" ”

"Of course not, before we leave, we must leave some precious memories for the Qing Kingdom, and order people to demolish all the batteries on Liugong Island, and there is no need to use explosives when demolishing, just push the cannon down the mountain, it is enough to be shattered."

"After the fort was demolished, the ammunition depot was blown up for me, the coal storage depot was burned for me, we can't use the ammunition of the Qing Kingdom, it's too low-end, we don't need coal, and now our warships have been changed to burn oil, keep the grain warehouse for me, and we will kill back to Liugong Island in the future, these grains are ours."

As soon as Lin Fei's order came out, the Huaxia army immediately wreaked havoc in the Liugong Island Naval Base of the Qing State, they not only blew up the ammunition depot, burned the coal storage depot, and even burned the barracks of the Qing army, so angry that Lin Fei slapped the table and scolded: "These stupid people, why are you burning the barracks, we can still live in those barracks in the future." "But the barracks have burned, and it is useless to regret and be angry.

After another two days, the Qing Kingdom sent Ye Zuqi's family to receive it, and it was Liu Daming who went to receive it, and when he finished receiving it, Liu Daming told Lin Fei: "Ye Zuqi's two daughters are quite beautiful, you have Yanfu, hehe......"

Lin Fei glared at Liu Daming fiercely, ignored him, and Liu Daming left with a smile.

Lin Fei asked Ye Zuqi to meet with his family, before Lin Fei told Ye Zuqi that the Qing court regarded you as a scapegoat, Ye Zuqi not only did not get angry, but said happily: "That's right, the whole thing was planned by me alone, and it has nothing to do with others, if you want to kill me, kill me." Ye Zuqi was willing to be a scapegoat for the Qing court.

When Ye Zuqi saw that the Qing court didn't even let go of his family, and sent it to Lin Fei together, he was stunned on the spot, Ye Zuqi knew that he was going to die, he thought that the Qing court would take care of his family, but he didn't expect the Qing court to send all his family members to Lin Fei, not to mention the old father, old mother and old wife, two daughters who are like flowers and jade, fell into the hands of the snitch, this ...... This is a great disgrace.

Ye Zuqi begged Lin Fei: "It's enough to kill me, don't kill my family, let alone insult my daughter." ”

Lin Feile asked hehehe: "You still want to die when you see your family?" ”

Ye Zuqi hesitated, Lin Fei laughed, "When you fought with the Japanese back then, you were also heroic and dutiful, and you were also a strong anti-Japanese general, I won't kill you, I heard that you went to study in the United Kingdom, and you are classmates with Sa Zhenbing, so you can go to the Naval Academy to teach." ”

Ye Zuqi sighed lightly and agreed, so Lin Fei arranged for someone to send Ye Zuqi to Yanhuang City.

On December 22, Lin Fei saw that the matter of Liugong Island had ended, so he led the fleet back to Dayu City, what Lin Fei did not expect was that Lin Fei's return of Liugong Island did not make the Qing court relax its vigilance against him, on December 27, Emperor Guangxu issued an edict again to strengthen the defense of various places, and the Yangtze River defense line, the Huai River defense line and the Yellow River defense line were strengthened again.

On 28 December, Emperor Guangxu promulgated an edict on strengthening coastal defenses, ordering coastal capitals and counties to strictly prevent thieves from infiltrating from the coast and burning and killing the people.

The Qing Dynasty was gradually strengthening its defenses, but Lin Fei had a major problem, that is, there was a problem with Diesel's internal combustion engine improvement plan, and the internal combustion engine with a power of 80 kilowatts could not be delivered until February 1900, and the delivery of trucks and tanks powered by this internal combustion engine had to be postponed until May 1900.

Lin Fei had no choice but to let Diesel lead his team to hurry up and develop, and what made Lin Fei even more worried was Ling Xue and the "Zero Snow Project", originally the Zero Snow Project was to prepare for future technology development, and the battle to overthrow the Qing court was not needed, but Ling Xue was very anxious and had to get the computer out before overthrowing the Qing court.

But if you want to make a computer, it is by no means an overnight thing, the United Kingdom and the United States in Lin Fei's era also gathered a large number of mathematicians and engineers to get it, Ling Xue was stuck by a lot of technical problems, no progress, Lin Fei just didn't understand computer technology, and couldn't help Ling Xue.

For the sake of the Zero Snow Project, Ling Xue didn't think about tea and food, and she didn't sleep endlessly, and her whole person lost a lot of weight, so tired that she even fell asleep when she was entangled with Lin Fei......

As the year 1900 began, the air between Qing and China became more and more tense, and some American military experts even began to write articles discussing the possibility and final outcome of a war between Qing and China.

According to the analysis of American military experts, Lin Fei's Chinese Empire has been buying resources from the Qing State since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the resources and population of the Nanyang Islands are simply not enough to support Lin Fei's great empire, so Lin Fei is destined to overthrow the Qing court and take the entire Qing State.

After the Nanyang World War, the Qing State agreed to the "Lin Fei Four", and gave Lin Fei all the financial power and transportation power of the richest province in the south, and Lin Fei after more than two years of painstaking operation, let the Dafu Bank squeeze all the silver banks, ticket numbers, and silver numbers in the southern provinces, and Lin Fei had already controlled the financial power in the south of the Qing State at this time.

In this case, it was only a matter of time before Lin Fei would overthrow the Qing court and attack the Qing court.

American military experts also compared the war potential of the Qing and Chinese states.

Land area, Qing Dynasty: 11.56 million square kilometers; Huaxia: 3.78 million square kilometers.

Population, Qing Dynasty: 410 million; Huaxia: About 40 million people.

Number of troops, Qing State: about two million people; Huaxia: About 300,000 people.

U.S. military experts believe that judging from these three comparisons, Lin Fei's Huaxia will suffer a complete defeat, and if you compare other figures, the results will be very different.

steel production, China, more than 2 million tons, ranked 10th in the world; Qingguo: About 2,000 tons, ranking too low and not counted.

Iron production, China, more than 6 million tons, ranked 11th in the world; Qingguo: About 30,000 tons, ranking too low and not counted.

The output of non-ferrous metals such as aluminum alloy, Huaxia, exceeds 30,000 tons, ranking first in the world; Qingguo: Almost zero.

Oil production, Huaxia, more than 700,000 tons, ranked first in the world; Qingguo: Almost zero.

American military experts believe that from an industrial point of view, the Qing State will be completely defeated, and in the upcoming war, the only way for the Qing State to win is to use up to 10 million square kilometers of land to block the Chinese army layer by layer, causing huge casualties to the Chinese army, shaking Lin Fei's determination to fight, and forcing Lin Fei to terminate the war.

On 4 January, the Guangxu Emperor officially issued an edict announcing that from now on, all banks in the Qing Kingdom would be nationalized, and the Dafu Banks in all parts of the Qing Dynasty would transfer all their business to the Daqing Bank within a period of one month, and the Daqing Bank would pay a certain amount of compensation to the Dafu Bank.