On the 29th, Japanese Minister Hanaya Yoshikari boarded a British ship and hurried back to Nagasaki. Then, he hurried back to Kyoto on a boat to meet with Foreign Secretary Inoue Kin.

"What's going on in the North Korean mutiny?"

"It was caused by the old North Korean army's wages." The flower house said simply, "Because Queen Min wanted to further expand the 'extra-skilled army' and was reluctant to save money from her expenses, she threw her ideas on the old army. She planned to withdraw the old army, so she had never paid the old army. The soldiers were angry, so she caused a mutiny."

Since the signing of the Treaty of Jianghua with Japan in 1876 and was forced to open Hong Kong, various social conflicts in North Korea have rapidly intensified. In order to ease social conflicts, the Min Group in power expressed its intention to "entire and self-improvement" and follow the "Western Affairs Movement" being implemented by the Qing Dynasty to carry out a certain degree of reform. They set up Tongli Machinery Offices in accordance with the model of the Zongli Yamen in the Qing Dynasty, and sent missions to China and Japan to visit and study.

But in fact, these measures of opening up and reforming the Min group to the outside world are just means to maintain power and crack down on the opposition. They were drunk and had never thought of implementing real reforms for the future of North Korea.

In order to consolidate his power, he vigorously rejected dissidents, and appointed nepotism from the central government to the local government and supported his confidants. Min Qianho, Min Taiho, Lee Sakyong and others all steal the authority and become corrupt, and local officials even made clever names and levies to impose heavy taxes.

In 1881, North Korea established a new army - the Nephew of Queen Min. This army was run by Min Yongyi, the nephew of Queen Min, and the Japanese were hired as instructors. This army, established under the threat of the Japanese, with the fundamental purpose of excluding the Qing Dynasty, became the darling and reliance of Queen Min's group because it was run by Queen Min's nephew.

In July 1881, Japanese military officer Horimoto Reizao sent a letter to Min Qianho and Shen Shunze, the backbone of the Min Group, to explain the need to establish a new army and the new military system. He also stated that in the two months since the establishment of the other technical army, "the team has been slightly improved, and the rotation has gradually become satisfactory, which is a little enough to show its feelings." He suggested that "the teachers of various subjects should be connected to our country to set up a military school and establish a foundation first, and either priests or train soldiers to expand more, and today's actions will not be empty."

At Horimoto's suggestion, the Min Queen Group planned to further increase the number of individual military personnel, select "non-commissioned officers" from the children of the Beijing squad, and go to the Toyama Military Academy in Japan for military education and training as a reserve force for individual military officers.

Whether strengthening the military or sending personnel to Japan to study, it requires a lot of capital investment. However, the Queen Min group is unwilling to sacrifice vested interests. Instead, it has been exploiting the people more severely, thus making the lives of ordinary people in North Korea more painful, class contradictions are unprecedentedly sharp, and signs of commotion have appeared.

At the same time, the status of the old-style North Korean army is also rapidly declining, in sharp contrast to other technical troops.

The military equipment of the special military was advanced, neatly dressed, and had a generous military salary; while the treatment of the old-style army was very bad, and they were owed military salary for 13 months. Not only that, the Queen Min group also decided to expand the special military army and reduce the old army, and reduce the training supervisor of the Beijing Army, the Dragon and Tiger Camp, the Imperial Guard Camp, the Imperial Guard Hall, and the General Rong Hall into the Wuwei and the Imperial Guards, and half of the old-style soldiers were forced to disarm.

Under such circumstances, the contradiction between the other military and the old-style military is becoming increasingly acute.

In front of Inoue Kin, the Flower House said it in an invigorating manner, and at the same time, it advocated the use of troops against North Korea.

After listening to the report from the flower room, Inoue Xin asked: "How are the other personnel in the embassy now?"

The flower room said in a deep voice: "Seven people died when the Xiadujian Bianji Army was attacked, and six people died in the process of leaving Seoul, a total of thirteen people were broken."

After obtaining all the information, Inoue Kin said immediately: "You are waiting here, I will report to the Emperor immediately."

Emperor Meiji immediately summoned the Minister of Taisho Mishi, the Right Minister Iron Kuroda Kiyoshi, the Cabinet Advisor Kuroda Kiyotsuki, and the Senate Aritomo Yama Prefecture and others to discuss countermeasures.

Kuroda Kiyotaka and Yama Prefecture Aritomo were both radical war factions. After hearing the North Korean incident, they immediately suggested sending troops to control North Korea. However, the right minister Yan Cang Junshi analyzed the strategic relationship between China, Japan and Russia in detail, and believed that he was not yet rich in his current state and should act in a low-key manner, disguising himself as the victim, gaining sympathy for international public opinion, so as to gain more broad support.

At this time, Japanese people also learned about the North Korean killing of Japanese embassy staff through news and newspapers. They were excited and demanded that they declare war on North Korea immediately. Suddenly, there were clouds of war over Japan.

Seoul.

At first, the North Korean government faced the situation of reincarnation and did not pay enough attention to it. It treated this mutiny as a general accident. When the riot spread, only allowed the general of Wuwei Li Jingxia to come forward again to disband.

Unexpectedly, Lee Jingxia was bombarded by the rebels and the civilians. Then, all the troops sent by Queen Min to suppress the mutiny turned against each other, and finally put Queen Min's group in a state of encampment. All the troops and regimes in Seoul were paralyzed within one day.

North Korea's Gaozong Li Hee was panicked in the face of this emergency and was forced to urgently summon Daewon to the palace to accompany him, and announced his return to power in Daewon to save the situation.

Li Ying finally got what he wanted and took power for the second time with the support of the uprising soldiers and citizens.

The first thing Daewon-jun did after he came to power was to clean up the chaos in the palace.

At this time, thousands of soldiers and citizens poured into the palace, searching for Queen Min, hunting and killing officials, and instantly became bloody and chaotic.

Daewon Jun ordered the soldiers to withdraw from the palace, but the soldiers said: "Min Min has not been caught yet. If she is not caught, we will never withdraw our troops!"

In order to appease the soldiers and people of the rebels, Daewon Jun pretended to have died in the chaos of the army. At the same time, he issued a decree to pardon the soldiers and citizens of the rebels; released officials and scholars such as Zheng Xiande, Li Wansun, and Kim Pingmo who were imprisoned for opposing the opening of the country; he also announced the restoration of the Fifth Battalion Army and the Three Military Offices, abolished the other technical army, and distributed the military pay owed to the soldiers.

After getting what he wanted, the uprising soldiers and citizens then put down their weapons and retreated from Changdeokgung Palace.

Later, Dayuanjun appointed his confidant and conservative scholars and officials such as Shen Yingchao, and allowed his eldest son Li Zaimian to serve as an important position such as Wuwei General, Hu Cao Jushi, and Xuanhui Hall, to control military power and finance.

In addition to personnel arrangements, Daewon-jun immediately began to implement reforms to alleviate social crises.

He ordered the grain and rice from counties near the capital to be transported to the capital as the salary rice for the soldiers and the food for the people. After that, he ordered that it was strictly prohibited to privately mint currency to safeguard the interests of the country; the Dujia system was abolished, and it was emphasized that everyone must pay taxes; local properties were transported directly to Seoul to prevent local tyrants from gaining illegal benefits from it.

With the implementation of one measure by Li Shiying, the Renwu mutiny temporarily subsided.

Although the Renwu mutiny subsided, the political events it caused did not completely end.

On August 5, in view of domestic public opinion, the Meiji government issued a martial law order and issued a conscription order on the 8th to actively prepare for war.

However, Japan was not yet full of strength at this time, and he did not dare to start a war easily. Subsequently, at the instruction of the Emperor, Inoue Kin explained the various conditions of the Japanese government and its strategies for dealing with North Korea in a "confidential order" and handed it over to the Hanyaoshi. Hanyaoshi led a part of the army to North Korea to contact the Daeongjun regime in order to coerce it to sign an unequal treaty. Inoue Kin himself was in charge of Shimaguan remote control, and there was also an agent of the Army, Qingshan Prefecture, and a large army was on standby.

On August 10, Zhili Governor General Office.

Xue Fuchen, who was beaten to the end because of Cixi's death, returned to Beiyang and was still a staff member in the Governor's Office. At this time, he hurriedly ran to Zhang Shusheng with a telegram in his hand.

Seeing Xue Fuchen's anxious expression, who had always been calm, Zhang Shusheng immediately said, "But is there any news there?"

"Not bad. As expected by the lord, the Japanese really refused to give up. Li Shuchang urgently sent a telegram, and Japan had already sent troops to Korea. In the telegram, Shizuzhai suggested that the court send troops immediately."

Zhang Shusheng slapped the table: "The order was sent to Ding Ruchang, and his colleagues, Zhong and North Korean officials stranded in China, Yu Yunzhong, took three warships, Weiyuan, Chaoyong and Yangwei, to investigate the incident and understand the enemy situation. Also, tell him that the court has not issued an order yet, and if they encounter an enemy ship, they will avoid it for the time being."

Xue Fuchen took the order and left. Zhang Shusheng immediately reported the news that Japan was preparing to send troops to North Korea to the Military Affairs Office and the Zongli Yamen, and applied to send troops to North Korea.

Upon learning about the news of Japan's military dispatch, the ministers in the court, who had no choice but to agree to Zhang Shusheng's military dispatch plan when they saw that Japan had no plans to negotiate with the court.

On the 11th, the Zongli Yamen reported that according to Zhang Shusheng's letter, there are more than 700 Japanese sailors and 700 troops, and they are rushing to North Korea. Our country seems to be willing to send troops to observe the changes.

At this time, Guangxu became firm under the pressure of Japanese troops to send troops. He issued an order to Zhang Shusheng and the Military Affairs Office, and the Zongli Yamen said: "Since the Japanese are aggressive and peace is no longer possible, we should do our best to prepare for war. The Beiyang Navy immediately went north to North Korea, and at the same time strictly ordered Zhili, Shandong, Fengtian, Jilin and other provinces to immediately organize the Yong camp and be ready to send troops from the sea and on both sides of the road. If the Beiyang Navy is not enough to dispatch, the Nanyang Navy will go north to support it; if the military ships are not enough to dispatch, the Venture Merchants Bureau will transfer the troops to transport troops."

However, Ding Ruchang received the order from Zhang Shusheng that day, but because he was just going to investigate rather than fighting, and there was a saying that "don't take the enemy" was rumbling. On August 11, the Beiyang Navy set out and staggered all the way. On the afternoon of the 12th, Ding Ruchang and others arrived in Incheon, but at this time, the Japanese warship "King Kong" and others had already arrived first.

On August 12, Hanya Yishi, together with Army Major General Takashima Honosuke and Rear General Inri Kyung-bang, led 1,500 soldiers to the Incheon Port, North Korea, and went to Seoul to "indict" and prepared to coerce the Daewon-jun regime to sign an unequal treaty.

Looking at the Japanese ships in Incheon Port, Ding Ruchang turned around and discussed with ****zhong: "Now that the Japanese have blocked Incheon Port, if our army forces us to enter, it will inevitably have a conflict with the Japanese army. It is better to go back for now, and follow the imperial decree and make plans."

****Zhong thought about it and then said, "It's not appropriate. Lord Zhongtang sent us to spy on the truth. If he didn't even go up the shore, he would return in a hurry. I'm afraid it's difficult to explain. Why not let Yu Yunzhong and I stay in North Korea and further investigate the enemy situation, and the military gate will return to the country to ask for reinforcements."

When Ding Ruchang saw ****zhong asking for his own request to stay, he was right in his mind and immediately drove the boat out of Incheon and landed in Masanpu. After leaving two hundred sailors to protect the two, Ding Ruchang set off and left.

Because the Japanese had arrived in North Korea, Ding Ruchang's way back was much faster. On the morning of August 13, after returning home, Ding Ruchang brought a report to the Japanese warship blockade of Incheon Port and **** Zhong strongly advocated sending troops to North Korea: "Take the thunder and take the lead directly to win the rebellion."
Chapter completed!