Tian Chee said: "In addition, Fukushima Jun, you will go to Tianjin this time, and the government will have a very important task to you."

Fukushima Anmasa frowned. He was a soldier. According to Japanese laws, he was commanded by the military headquarters and did not directly obey the government. Therefore, the government assigned tasks to itself, which was suspected of dividing the military headquarters' power. Therefore, he asked: "Tian Jun, has the government made a decision on the negotiation principles proposed by overseas Chinese?"

Tian Chee said: "This is not yet."

Fukushima Anmasato said unhappily: "The domestic politicians are too slow to be efficient. They are still three days away from the time specified by overseas Chinese. Moreover, Russia and Germany have already shown their attitudes, why have we not come up with a clear result yet."

Although Fukushima An is engaged in intelligence work, he is also an active-duty soldier. The conflict between Japanese soldiers and government officials is not a secret. The military headquarters that made a disciplinary decision to Fukushima Anma, so although Fukushima Anma was a little aggrieved, he endured it, but was not polite to the government. However, although the Japanese embassies and consulates in Hokkaido are all government officials, Fukushima Anma was about to collect intelligence in China, so they were inseparable from the support of embassies and consulates in various places, and the embassies and consulates themselves are intelligence stations. Therefore, Fukushima Anma was familiar with the staff of the embassies and consulates in Japan.

Taki didn't care about Fukushima Anmae's attack on the government. In Japan, it would be strange if the soldiers did not accuse the government. He shook his head and said, "Fukushima, I think it is correct to do this in China. At this time, we, Japan, shouldn't easily express our attitude."

Fukushima Anmasa snorted and said, "Why?"

Tian Chee said: "Kun Fukushima, you should understand that although we have been in the reform for more than 30 years and have made great progress in national strength. Just five years ago, we defeated the Qing Dynasty and received a lot of compensation and Taiwan, Japan is just one country after all. Our current national strength is still very weak compared to European countries and cannot compete with European countries. The Three Kingdoms’ interference in Liao incident five years ago has not forgotten it."

Fukuda Anmasato's face turned accentuatedly and said, "Of course I won't forget it. This is a shame for our Japan."

It turned out that after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan and the Qing court negotiated in Maguan. In the initial agreement, Japan forced the Qing court to pay 100 million taels of silver and ced the Liaodong Peninsula and Taiwan. However, Japan's victory aroused the vigilance of other countries, worried that Japan would gain too much benefits in China, which would harm the interests of other countries in China. So Russia initiated by Germany and France, and interfered with Japan's demand for the ceasing of the Liaodong Peninsula, and even threatened with force. At that time, Japan naturally had no ability to go to war with Russia, Germany and France at the same time, so it could only make concessions, saying that the Qing court could be exempted from ceding the Liaodong Peninsula, but the additional compensation of 0 million taels of silver was used as a redemption fee. However, although it did not obtain the Liaodong Peninsula, Japan still obtained 100 million taels of silver and Taiwan from the Qing court, and controlled North Korea, and the benefits were still huge.

On the other hand, the "Three Kingdoms' Interference to Return to Liao" made the defeated Qing court see hope, that is, to restrain the opponent by using barbarians to control barbarians. However, because the Qing court lacked corresponding knowledge and research on international relations at that time, it did not know the real situation and response measures of weak countries in international exchanges. On the surface, it was Russia, Germany and France who were helping China and dealing with Japan; but in fact, Russia, Germany and France took this opportunity to expand in China, which resulted in the further loss of the sovereignty and national interests of the Qing court.

First, in 1896, Russian Tsar Nicholas II was crowned. The Qing court sent Li Hongzhang to Russia to attend the ceremony and signed the Sino-Russia Secret Agreement with Russia. Russia allowed Russia to build a railway that passed through Northeast China and reached Vladivostok, known in history as the "Middle East Railway", which was a section of the Russian Siberian Railway. Russian forces also infiltrated into Northeast China through this railway, and also extended their power into North Korea. In 1898, they leased Lushun to obtain an unfreezing port in the Far East. This laid the groundwork for Russia to take advantage of the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance's coalition forces invading China.

In 1897, Germany dispatched its Far East fleet to occupy Jiaozhou Bay (Qingdao), forcing the Qing government to sign a loan leasing treaty the following year and allowed Germany to build the Jiaoji Railway, taking the opportunity to make Shandong a sphere of influence in Germany.

France leased Zhanjiang from the Qing court in 1898, and later incorporated the area into its French Indochina colony. It also gained the power to build the Guangxi Railway.

Britain was not willing to remain silent. In 1898, it forced the Qing court to rent Weihai and Hong Kong New Territories, gaining great benefits in both north and south of China, and also obtained loan rights to the railways inside and outside the Yuguan to Fengtian.

As a result, although the Liaodong Peninsula was preserved, the Qing court lost Qingdao, Lushun, Weihai and Zhanjiang in a row just three years after the end of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and allowed foreign forces to enter the Northeast, Shandong, Guangxi and other regions. The three countries' interference in returning Liao did not actually bring any benefits to the Qing court.

However, Japan has always regarded the return of the Liaodong Peninsula by the Three Kingdoms as a shame. At the same time, it has a clear understanding of international affairs and understands that its next opponent is Russia. So while aiming to build up its military and prepare for war, it has also repaired its relations with China. When China carried out the Hidefurt Reform in 1998, Hirofumi Ito even served as a reform consultant to the Qing court.

Tian Chee said: "But you must also admit that Japan at that time had no other way except to accept the conditions for returning Liao, otherwise we would not be able to save the victory of the Japanese-Qing War."

Fukushima Anmasato was silent for a while before turning his head, saying, "Tian Jun, you have to be right. At that time, Japan did not have the strength to fight against Russia, France and Germany. Even if it was alone, it would not be possible to fight against one country."

Tian Chee said lightly: "Then Fukushima Jun believes that after the five years of the Japanese-Qing War, will Japan have the strength to fight against any of Russia, France and Germany?"

Fukushima Anmao thought about it, shook his head, and said, "It's still not, but France and Germany are both in Europe and are very far away from Japan. Therefore, if we are fighting in the Far East, we don't have to be afraid of them, but Russia..." At this point, Anmao Maimao smiled bitterly and did not go any further.

Tian Jie continued his words and said, "But Russia is right next to us, so Russia is our biggest enemy at present. Moreover, Russia is not comparable to the Qing Dynasty, but is an extremely powerful opponent. At the same time, we must learn from the lessons of the intervention of the Three Kingdoms to return Liaoning. When confronting Russia, we must not only not establish other opponents, but also win the support of more countries to fight against Russia. In recent years, the government has been showing goodwill to Britain, France, Germany, the United States and other countries, and actively repairing relations with the Qing Dynasty. This is the reason." The government does not express its views on the negotiation principles of overseas Chinese. On the one hand, it respects the attitudes of other countries, and on the other hand, it should not easily deteriorate its relations with the Qing Dynasty.

After hearing Tian Jie's words, Fukushima Anmasa suddenly realized that although Fukushima Anmasa was a good at intelligence, he was a soldier after all and was not very clear about the complex relationship between international politics. In recent years, he has also criticized the government's foreign policy for being too weak, especially for European countries and the Qing Dynasty. Now he realized that the government was enduring humiliation.

So Anmasa Fukushima said, "Then, I go to Tianjin this time, what tasks do the government needs me to complete." Anmasa Fukushima is a soldier and does not directly obey the government. However, although the military and government in Japan have always been dissatisfied with each other, the current Japanese military headquarters is not the only one who is smart, and is not comparable to those who later say "Loyalty to the Emperor and serve the country for seven lifetimes". Moreover, all actions are the national interests of Japan, and they can understand the difficulties of the government, so they take the initiative to ask about the government's requirements.

Tian Chee was also very satisfied with Anmasa Fukushima's attitude and said, "Fukushima, the government hopes that you will complete three tasks. The first is to collect as much information as possible from overseas Chinese to understand their situation, because in the future, overseas Chinese are likely to be our Japan opponents, so we must not underestimate them; the second is to test whether overseas Chinese can be used to deal with Russia. Even if overseas Chinese cannot be used to deal with Russia with us, they will also try to foster their relationship with Russia. At the lowest limit, overseas Chinese and Russians cannot be brought closer."

In fact, these two are also tasks that Fukushima Anmasa's own plan to complete in Tianjin. The first one is not needed, because in the long run, if Japan wants to develop, it must do its best to plunder all resources and wealth from China. Therefore, as long as it is all information about China, whether it is useful or not, it will be collected first. Although Fukushima Anmasa does not know much about international political relations, he also knows that the enemy's enemy is his own friend, and establishing more enemies for the enemy is to increase his strength for himself.

Since this is also the government's task requirement, it's just a killing of two birds with one stone. So Fukushima calmed down and said, "Okay, I will try my best to complete these two tasks, so what is the third task?"

Tian Chee said: "The third item is to convey the negotiation requirements of various countries to overseas Chinese, and do your best to promote negotiations between overseas Chinese and various countries."

Fukushima Anmasa was stunned and said, "It's not Russia, Germany has already stated that it will not negotiate with overseas Chinese?"

Tian Qi smiled and said, "That is that negotiations cannot be conducted based on the negotiation principles of overseas Chinese, but if overseas Chinese accept the negotiation principles proposed by our countries, then you can negotiate. Your task is to serve overseas Chinese as much as possible and accept the negotiation conditions proposed by our countries."

Fukushima Atsushima: "What are the conditions?"

Tian Chee said: "There are mainly six things: one is that the responsibility for this war is the Qing Dynasty; the second is that the Qing Dynasty compensates the losses of each country; the third is that all countries are allowed to station troops from Dagu to Beijing to facilitate the protection of the interests of each country; the fourth is that all countries are allowed to establish embassy guards; the fifth is that all countries are punished for criminals designated by ministers of each country; the sixth is that the Tianjin concession must be restored."

Fukushima Anmasa frowned and said, "Tian Jun, please forgive me for such conditions. I am afraid that overseas Chinese will not agree."
Chapter completed!