Japan, Maguan.

Located at the southwest end of the island of Honshu, Maguan is a large port. The Strait of Maguan is named after Maguan. The Strait of Maguan has been a must-fight for Japanese military strategists since ancient times. After the Qing Navy captured the Strait of Maguan, it stationed heavily in Maguan to control the Strait of Maguan. It is precisely because of this that Maguan was spared and was not burned by the New Six Army.

Although the Maguan port city was preserved, it was rare to see a Japanese. With the subsequent troops entering one after another, it had become a large military camp.

Xiao Mingliang and a group of officers visited Maguan inside and outside, but never found Chunfan Building, which made him very depressed. Maguan Chunfan Building was a negotiation location that Yi Zhizuo named, but there was no such place at all.

There was indeed no Chunfan Building when I was waiting for the reward. Xiao Mingliang glanced at Guo Zhongmu and said, "Can Chunfan Building be a historical site?"

"There is no such monument." Guo Zhongmou said affirmatively: "I have asked someone to investigate in detail that there is no monument like Chunchunfan Building."

"This is strange. The shopkeeper has never been to Japan, so how did he know about Chunfan Building?" Xiao Mingliang said to himself: "I can't repay the shopkeeper. Is there such a place?"

"This is not a difficult task." Guo Zhongmou smiled and said, "Choose a place suitable for negotiation and make a plaque of Chunfan Building."

"That's all." Xiao Mingliang nodded and said, "Give power to Fukuoka, and they rushed to make a plaque of Chunfan Building. Remember, if you want Japanese texts, you will be exposed if you write them in Chinese."

Three days later, the Japanese negotiating team led by the old shogun Sakai Tadaruto and the Japanese negotiating team led by Masashi Ye arrived in Maguan. The fleet docked at the port. The warships anchored at the port and the Qing officers and soldiers on the shore with uniform and straight military postures and well-equipped firearms, all of whom were trembling with fear, lowered their eyebrows and lowered their hands, and were extremely respectful.

Along the way, they heard too many tragic situations of the Changzhou vassal state. Wherever the Qing army passed, it was even more than locusts crossing the border. All cities, towns and villages were burned down, and the casualties of the military and civilians were extremely heavy. The entire Changzhou vassal population was not ten. Such a fierce war was unheard of for the Japanese. Now that they entered the Qing army camp, they could not help but tremble.

Yi Zhizu arrived at Maguan two days later and moved directly into Chunfan Building, a large hotel in the back mountains and sea. Xiao Mingliang chose this place not only because of its beautiful scenery and wide view, but also because its terrain is high and conducive to comprehensive protection. The imperial envoy Shao Hengyu, who was enthroned by Japan, was assassinated and died. He did not dare to be cautious. If Yi Zhizu was assassinated in Japan, he would have no choice but to be redeemed.

Yi Zhizu only heard of the name of Chunfan Building but had never visited it. But he couldn't help but wonder about the layout of a hotel. He remembered very clearly that this Chunfan Building was not a hotel but a tavern. After looking for an opportunity without anyone, he asked Xiao Mingliang, "The plaque of this Chunfan Building seems to be newly built?"

After hearing this, Xiao Mingliang did not dare to hide it anymore and hurriedly said, "I will not hide it from the principal. The students searched all over the city, but there was no trace of Chunfan Tower. In desperation, they had to make their own decisions..."

Could it be that Chunfan Tower is not available at all? Yi Zhizu didn't care much and waved his hand, "It's not bad, I know the temporary adjustment."

Seeing that he had no intention of pursuing it, Xiao Mingliang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Principal, the student had contacted the old masters of the two team leaders of Japan. The demise of the Changzhou vassal shocked them a lot..."

Yang Xiuqing's New Sixth Army burned, killed and plundered in the Changzhou vassal state, and heard all the hearings. After hearing this, he lit a cigarette, walked slowly to the window and opened the window, looking at the narrow Strait of Maguan. After a while, he asked, "Do you know why the commander-in-chief of the Japanese commander-in-chief did not use Yan Yangtian?"

Xiao Mingliang felt nervous and hurriedly said, "Student is stupid."

"In the battle of the Japanese, the killing was too heavy, he was not suitable, he cherished his feathers too much." Yi Zhizu's voice was a little low, but when Xiao Mingliang heard it, he felt a sense of depression. This was not a good thing. Cherishing feathers and cherishing reputation was the fault of civil servants. What Yuanqi's new army has always implemented is "soldiers take obeying orders as their duty" and "all actions are obedient to commands."

He was shocked and stood at attention and said loudly: "The student is the gun in the principal's hand. He pointed at it and hit it. He absolutely obeyed the orders without any ambiguity."

Yi Zhizu turned around and looked at him, saying, "I recruited Yang Xiuqing's tribe and ordered his tribe to be the vanguard to conquer the vanguard, to indulge his tribe to burn, kill, and loot. This time, the vanguard will not only destroy the country, but also destroy its tribe. If you are unbearable, I can change the commander in the last battle."

After hearing that he even said the words of changing the coach at the last minute, Xiao Mingliang felt nervous and quickly said loudly: "If you don't control the soldiers, the students will definitely not let down the principal's high expectations."

He nodded slightly, Yi Zhizu changed his mind, "Can the assassination of Shao Hengyu, an imperial envoy who went to the Japanese enthronement, be investigated clearly?"

"Return to the principal." Xiao Mingliang hurriedly said: "The five warships escorting the imperial envoy to Kyoto have returned and are now anchored in Maguan..."

It seems that this matter is complicated enough, and Yishi said without thinking: "Call them here and invite Yizeng over by the way."

Soon, Yi Huan and Yi Zeng entered the room. Yi Zhizu was not polite and said straight: "I want to know the details of the assassination case of the imperial envoy. You must have heard of it and listen to it again with me."

After hearing this, Yihuan smiled and said, "I knew that the King of Zhennan was coming, so I was not in a hurry to report to the court..."

Yi Zhizu glanced at him and said, "The court does not seem to care about this matter."

"It's not that I don't care." Yihuan said quickly: "It's a big deal. If you don't understand the whole story, it's hard for the court to make a decision, right?"

Xiao Mingliang had long expected that Yi Zhizu would inevitably ask about this matter as soon as possible, so he had already asked Akton and Zhang Fugui to wait outside. As soon as Yi Huan finished speaking, he heard the two of them reporting loudly outside. After coming in, he saw the situation in the room. Akton couldn't help but feel nervous, but Zhang Fugui was a little excited because he saw Yi Zhizu.

After the two of them were saluted, Xiao Mingliang made a brief introduction. Yi Zhizu nodded to the two and said warmly: "No need to be restricted, let's talk about the situation at that time in detail."

Seeing Yi's contentment and gentle attitude, Akdun relaxed a little. He immediately explained the situation of that night in detail, and Zhang Fugui made some supplements.

After listening to it, Yi Zhizu pondered for a while and said, "Dudujin Port's night attack, the Japanese not only wanted to assassinate the imperial envoy, but also wanted to burn the escort fleet and capture all the escort officers and soldiers in one go?"

Akton nodded and said, "The prince clearly understands it, that's true."

"Someone leaked the itinerary, so the Japanese were ambushing in the port of Duodoujin." Yi Zhizu said and looked at Xiao Mingliang, "Can this be investigated?"

"Return to the principal." Xiao Mingliang hurriedly said: "The Beiyang Navy is responsible for escorting the imperial envoy, and the students did not ask about the itinerary."

Yi Zenghe said first: "That's true. The itinerary for the escort fleet was discussed and formulated by the Mass General and the Satoshiba of Japan, and it has not been leaked."

"Prince." Zhang Fugui said quickly: "We didn't know the specific itinerary in advance. The Japanese people must prepare at least two days in advance so meticulously."

Yi Zhizu said: "Shenghaizhou is dead?"

"Yes." Akdun hurriedly said: "Sheng Haizhou died in the room where the imperial envoy lived..."

"And..." Zhang Fugui added: "The assassins in Japan are very skilled. We suffered 63 casualties," and finally failed to recover the head of the imperial envoy. In the end, they had to set fire to the mountain."

"You go down first." Yi Zhizu said slowly. After waiting for the two of them to leave, he glanced at the few people and said: "It seems that the only one who leaked the itinerary is the Japanese. If Sheng Haizhou dies, it is probably difficult to find out in a short period of time." After a pause, he continued: "This matter will inevitably be reported by newspapers of all sizes in China, and correct public opinion guidance is needed."

Yi Huan naturally understood the meaning of this sentence and immediately said, "Don't worry, King Zhennan, I will report to the court truthfully."

"It's so good." Yi Zhizu said first. Although he had sent a telegram to hit Empress Dowager Ci'an, Yi Zhizu was still a little worried. He asked and reminded him in person to avoid any accidents. If Yi Xin and Sushun wanted to seize military power, he was naturally willing to help him. After all, this was more conducive to promoting the smooth implementation of constitutionalism in the court.

Yi Zeng glanced at Yi Huan, hesitated for a while before saying, "There is something I don't know if it's said or not."

"You are also my old subordinate." Yi Zhizu smiled and said, "If you have anything to say or not, just say it directly."

Yi Zeng stayed in the Nanyang Navy for a long time. At that time, Yi Zhizu was the admiral of the Nanyang Navy and was indeed considered an old subordinate. After hearing this, he smiled and said, "Then the subordinates will be arrogant." After pausing, he continued: "When the New Sixth Army attacked Satsuma and Changzhou, they wanted to massacre civilians. The scale was so large that it was outrageous. Once it was transmitted back to the country, it would definitely seriously affect the reputation of the Japanese army and may also hinder the reputation of the prince..."

"Hang up the map of Asia." After giving a command, Yi Zhizu said slowly: "For the reason, the two vassals of Satsuma Changzhou formed a surprise army composed of civilians. According to the report of the New Sixth Army, the surprise army was massacred."

Seeing that he was so protective of his shortcomings, Yi Huan couldn't help but secretly complain that there was no difference between the strange army and the civilians? He was the general who was policing the world with the imperial court. He didn't want to bear the reputation of "man slaughtering". However, he didn't want to break up with Yi Zhizu, which made Yi Zeng speak.

After pondering for a moment, he smiled and said, "Don't Zhennan King care about his reputation at all? Bai Qi was just killing 400,000 surrendered soldiers and was notorious for a 'man slaughter'..."

Yi Zhizu glanced at him and said sarcastically: "Your Aixin Jueluo family is really worse than the previous generation. Where did the ruthlessness of the Three Massacres of Jiading in the tenth day of Yangzhou that year?"

After hearing this, Yi Huan's face suddenly turned red, but it was impossible to argue. Fortunately, the map had already hung up, Yi was lazy to pay attention to him, got up and walked to the map and pointed: "Now is the ocean era, and Western countries are rushing to develop their navy first.

Let’s take a look, from Alaska in North America to Kamchatka Peninsula in Asia, to Japan, Ryukyu, Taiwan, Luzon, Java, Siam, Myanmar, all other places have been included in the territory of our Qing Dynasty.

If Western countries want to be unfavorable to our Qing Dynasty in the future, Japan will undoubtedly be the best springboard. Now Japan has clearly realized the harm of closing the country, and intends to overthrow the shogunate and follow the example of the Western countries, develop industry, and open up to the outside world. If it succeeds, Western countries will inevitably flock to actively support it.

In order to prevent this situation, we must now firmly control Japan. Japan is very close to Beijing and Tianjin. If Japan falls into the hands of Western countries, or if Japan itself rises rapidly, it will pose a huge threat to Beijing and Tianjin, and its harm is far greater than that of Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia."

Yi Zeng pondered for a while before saying, "What's the difference between Japan and North Korea?"

"Good question!" Yi Zhizu looked at him with approval and said, "What is the difference between Japan and North Korea? Let me tell you, more than half of the people in Japan are literate, and even nearly 20% of women are literate."

After hearing this, Yi Huan and Yi Zeng couldn't help but look at each other, while Xiao Mingliang was ashamed of his head. He instantly realized why Yi Zhizuo wanted to destroy his country and destroy his clan. With such a high literacy rate, it was difficult to assimilate and integrate. If you want to occupy Japan for a long time, you must destroy his clan!

"The interests of the country and nation are above everything else!" Yi Zhizu said in a deep voice: "What is the bad reputation of carrying a 'man slaughter'? You shouldn't expect the Japanese to erect monuments for you, right?"

The next morning, the negotiations with Japan officially began. However, Yi Zhizu did not participate, but let Yi Huan, the nominal general of the Japanese-puffing team leader negotiate with the other party. Of course, Yi Huan was just a puppet, and Zhao Liewen was the one who really led the negotiations.

After the two sides exchanged greetings, they sat at the negotiating table. Zhao Liewen did not respond to nonsense and sent a copy of the negotiation draft that had been prepared. After reading the draft, all the negotiators in Japan were ashamed, and Yihuan and others were also frightened.

The conditions proposed in the draft are very harsh, and it can even be said to be extremely harsh, exceeding everyone's expectations. The conditions proposed in the draft are very simple. Just three points, cede Shikoku Island, Changshu, Satsuma, Himema, and Fukuoka, and compensate the war military's military expenses for 300 million taels of silver. Japanese diplomacy must be dominated by the Qing Dynasty.

Tadatoshi Sakai took out his handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead, saying with difficulty: "This condition is not that our country is unwilling to accept, but that it is unacceptable. If 30% of the territory is ceded, 300 million taels of silver will be compensated, even if it is given all, it will not be compensated. As for diplomacy, it is acceptable."
Chapter completed!