Chapter 045 Nationals and Subjects

Li Hongzhang is smooth, but if something goes wrong in his backyard, he will never be soft.

Li Hongzhang said in a low voice, "Tianjin Wubei School is the highest military institution in the Qing Dynasty and the hope for the future of the Qing Dynasty. Students should be strict and treated equally, and there should be no room for a half-point gap. Zhou Charter's military achievements have been extremely poor, and should have been included in the elimination list for a long time. However, as a martial arts school, Jin, cheated for personal gain, and tampered with the achievements of Zhou Charter, causing such a inferior student to stay in the school, misleading the country and the army! Revoke the position of Jin School, remove the Jin Hualing, report to the court, and hand it over to the Ministry of Criminal Justice!"

Na Jin has never falsified the achievements of the Zhou Charter. In fact, the achievements of the Zhou Charter have been kept in the dark so far. The falsification of achievements is those supervisors and instructors, especially Feng Guozhang.

However, in addition to the crime, Na Jin became the main culprit for tampering with his achievements.

Both sides answered and dragged Jin down the lobby.

Li Hongzhang did not order the wanted Zhou Charter.

In Li Hongzhang's eyes, Zhou Charter is just a pawn of the Qing school. As long as he grasps the Jin*, a small Zhou Charter can't become a climate.

Moreover, Li Hongzhang had no time to Zhou Charter, a small inferior student, and he soon forgot Zhou Charter. Even the Jin he hated, he couldn't take care of it.

Li Hongzhang just arrested Na Jin and put him in prison, and he received a report. Yuan Shikai ran back from North Korea in disgrace.

Li Hongzhang had to put down the matter of Jin, hurriedly left Tianjin Wubei School with Weng Tongyu and rushed back to the capital to listen to Yuan Shikai's debriefing.

The news brought by Yuan Shikai is frustrating.

The violence launched by Dongxue in North Korea. The chaos intensified, and the North Korean army was vulnerable. The peasant army captured Quanzhou, and the soldiers pointed straight at the capital. The North Korean court had no choice but to reach a State-wide peace agreement with the peasant army and agreed to implement reforms.

The peasant army withdrew from the whole state. However, on the pretext of the reform promised by the Korean court in the Jeonju peace conference, the Japanese raised a large number of troops to North Korea and demanded that North Korea implement internal reform under the guardianship of the Japanese. The Japanese ambassador to North Korea proposed five twenty-27 reform proposals to North Korea, openly demanding that North Korea and the Qing Dynasty break away from the clan relationship and become an independent country. !

North Korea is the last vassal state of the Qing Dynasty and the closest vassal state of the Qing Dynasty. Its patriarchal status originated from the Ming Dynasty and has a history of nearly 500 years.

When the Qing Dynasty loses North Korea, its international status will plummet. The so-called independence of North Korea is actually pushing North Korea into the arms of the Japanese. North Korea is either a subordinate of the Qing Dynasty or a subordinate of Japan. It is impossible for it to obtain so-called "independence" at all!

Therefore, even Japan knows that the Qing Dynasty will never allow North Korea to become independent!

As Japanese Foreign Minister Lu Ao Zongguang said, "The so-called internal affairs reform of North Korea may only have a false reputation, and the Qing government will definitely reject Japan's proposal. In this way, the responsibility for hindering North Korea's national progress lies in the Qing Dynasty, and the break between Japan and the Qing Dynasty will be justifiable."

The situation in North Korea is deteriorating day by day, but the Qing court is still wavering between war and peace.

Although the sand table drill on the martial arts hall of Tianjin Wubei School made Li Hongzhang lose face, it also calmed Weng Tongqi's mind a lot. At least, Weng Tongqi found that Dongyang people were not as vulnerable as they thought!

Weng Tongqi was silent, but the voice of the main battle inside and outside the court was higher than the wave.

It is no wonder that the Japanese demanded the independence of North Korea, which touched the core interests of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty was forced to the edge of the cliff. Whether it is the Westerners or the Qing school, whether it is conservatives or the newists, there is no choice but to fight. What's more, it is generally believed that the Japanese are vulnerable, and they are completely overpowerful to cause trouble in North Korea.

Only Li Hongzhang knows that once the war starts, North Korea will be lost, and there is still a glimmer of life without war.

Li Hongzhang's "life" is to seek the intervention of the great powers to force the Japanese to retreat from North Korea.

This hope is very slim.

The North Korean authorities delayed Kim Yu-kyun's body, and international public opinion completely turned to Japan. The international situation is beneficial to Japan.

However, Li Hongzhang knows that in the minds of the great powers, morality cannot replace interests.

At least, the Japanese action in North Korea will touch the interests of the Russians!

Japan's rise in the Far East has made the Russians doubt. In fact, Russians are happy to see a North Korea with Japan. If Japan controls North Korea alone, it will pose a huge threat to Russia's interests in the Far East and Manchuria.

And Britain, France and Germany don't want to see a Japan that will become bigger by itself!

Therefore, when the Japanese proposed a reform plan similar to the ultimatum to the Korean court, Li Hongzhang did not order a comprehensive increase of troops to North Korea, but ran to the consulates of various countries all day long for political mediation.

Li Hongzhang's run has finally achieved some results, and the Russian government sent a tough note to Japan: "The civil strife in North Korea has subsided. Japan should comply with the requirements of the North Korean government and accept the plan of withdrawing troops from Qing and Japan at the same time, otherwise Japan will bear a great responsibility!"

After the Russian note was issued, the Qing court ordered all the troops that had been sent into North Korea to be stationed on the front line of the Yalu River and not to enter North Korea to avoid conflict with the Japanese army.

At this time, the Qing army in North Korea was less than 3,000 and stationed in the remote Asan. The Japanese army entered North Korea with 8,000 troops and was stationed in the capital of North Korea.

The Qing army is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of both quantity and location.

Li Hongzhang is so anxious that he can't take care of that Jin.

Jin is a circuitous master, but his brother Natong is an exquisite figure. He is not only Weng Tonghe's cronies, but also has a lot of friendship with the palace ministers of the current dynasty, and even speaks to the old Buddha.

It didn't take long for Natong to bring out the Jin activity. For the rest of his life after the Jin disaster, he knew that he was not an official. From then on, he was idle at home and recited poems all day long. If he didn't ask politics, he would be at peace.

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Zhou Charter rushed all the way north to Fengtian, where the army was stationed. He wore the Beiyang sailor's uniform and held Liu Bu Toad's warrant, and he was unimpeded all the way.

Along the way, troops stationed from all over the country kept heading north, and the roads were crowded and dusty. The people along the way looked blank and looked at those hurried soldiers with numb expressions. They didn't know where the war was going to be.

Zhou Charter looked at the people with numb expressions and sighed in his heart.

In the minds of the people, it doesn't matter where to fight or with whom.

War is the emperor's business. The emperor fights with whoever he wants to fight. If he wins, the emperor wins. If he loses, the emperor loses. Whether he loses or wins, it has nothing to do with the ordinary people. As long as the war does not hit the common people, they can eat when they should eat, sleep when they should, and hand over grain when they should. Anyway, no matter who becomes the emperor, don't the people have to pay food?

The people of the Qing Dynasty only have the concept of subjects, not the concept of citizens!

In Japan, Emperor Meiji issued a war mobilization order, and the whole country was furious. Both government officials and civilians were all involved in a vigorous pre-war mobilization. The opposition party stopped its attack on the ruling party, and the people's donations were enthusiastic. Even prostitutes saved over the years. Donated to the country.

Liu Bu Toad asked Zhou Charter to fight with Zuo Valu. Zhou Charter knew that there would be no return - he knew that the Qing Dynasty would be defeated in the First Sino-Japanese War!

However, Zhou Charter still ran to North Korea without hesitation.

Zhou Charter thinks of Grandpa and Grandpa's Hanyang!

"Fight the devil! If you can't beat the devils, don't go to the ancestral grave!"

Zhou Charter did not have Grandpa's Hanyang, but he had a 1988 committee rifle that was the same as Hanyang.

In the dark, God is doomed!

He is finally going to fight with the devils!

It's not for the Qing Dynasty, but for grandpa!

Zhou Charter does not recognize himself as a subject of the Qing Dynasty from the bottom of his heart!

He is a Chinese citizen!