After receiving Qin Zheng's request, East China ** had no objection and immediately submitted the request to Japan through the United States and Germany, saying that Komura Sutaro's qualifications were insufficient, and Japan would at least send personnel with a status equivalent to Hirofumi Ito to serve as negotiator, otherwise East China ** would refuse to hold negotiations with Japan.

In fact, the requirements of East China ** are not excessive. Diplomacy emphasizes hierarchical reciprocity. Moreover, because East China ** is the victorious side, the level of negotiators sent by the Japanese side cannot be at least lower than East China ***, even if they are one level higher. In terms of position, Komura Sutaro and Li Sanjie have similar status, but Qin Zheng is the second-largest-powerful person in East China **. He represents East China ** negotiations, Japan should obviously also send higher-level personnel. Therefore, at present, only Kashitaro, Yama Prefecture Yuto, and Ito Hiromoto is qualified, but Kashitaro is the Japanese Prime Minister and Yama Prefecture Yuto is a soldier. Obviously, it is not suitable to serve as a negotiator. Only Ito Hiromoto is the most suitable candidate.

But Hirofumi Ito himself firmly refused to negotiate with the East China** on behalf of Japan, because Hirofumi Ito knew very well that this was definitely not a good job, and whoever did it was unlucky. If he went there, the final result would be a disgrace, and even a place to die without a burial place. Li Hongzhang was his lesson. After returning to China after signing the Shimonoseki Treaty, the Qing court all over the country claimed that Li Hongzhang was a traitor, so this job must not be taken.

Kanetaro and Yama Prefecture Akito could also understand Hirofumi Ito's mood. Hirofumi Ito insisted not to accept it, and the two had no choice but to negotiate with the East China ** and bite it tightly, that is, Hirofumi Ito does not have a public office now and is not suitable for serving as a negotiator. Komura Sutaro is the foreign minister, which is a position at the same level as the head, second only to the Prime Minister, equivalent to the Secretary of State of the United States, not an ordinary cabinet member, and is qualified enough.

After receiving the negotiation documents from Japan, Xia Bohai and others felt angry and funny. Unexpectedly, the Japanese actually used small means such as playing word games. Is it difficult to think that this would get away with it? In the Japanese cabinet, although the foreign minister also has the word "大天", it is not much different from other cabinet ministers, such as the Minister of Sankei and the Minister of the Certificate. To put it bluntly, he is a foreign minister. Although the US Secretary of State is also in charge of US foreign affairs, according to US law, the Secretary of State is the first minister in the ** cabinet, that is, the Chief Minister; and in charge of the National Seal, the president must submit his resignation to the Secretary of State; and some announcement documents for internal affairs must be signed by the President and the Secretary of State before they can take effect. Therefore, the US Secretary of State is the second only to the US president. But Japan writes articles on words, which is too underestimated the wisdom of these people in East China.

East China ** is too lazy to have a tangle with Japan, so I directly reply to Japan that a new candidate for negotiation must be determined in three days, otherwise East China ** will cancel the negotiations and resume the war.

Japan suddenly became nervous. Although the intimidation component of East China **'s statement was too large, it cannot be ignored. If the negotiations were cancelled for the issue of candidates, it was not a loss that Japan could bear. Moreover, the United States and Germany could not stand it. Bi Jing's demands of East China ** are not completely unreasonable. At least the negotiations must be equal. Komura Sutaro's qualifications are indeed a bit poor. Because Japan compared its foreign minister with the US Secretary of State, the Americans really couldn't stand it. Therefore, both countries made suggestions to Japan and would rather change individuals.

Actually, Katsurao doesn’t want to change people, but Hirofumi Ito will not work hard, so what can he do? He can’t tie Hirofumi Ito to Shanghai.

At this moment, Emperor Meiji finally took action and issued an edict to Hirofumi Ito, saying: In the past, the Qing Dynasty was defeated by Japan, and Li Hongzhang could still take into account the overall situation and go to the negotiations. Is Hirofumi Ito as good as Li Hongzhang?

It turns out that Emperor Meiji was quite dissatisfied with Hiromori Ito. He decided to negotiate with the East China ** and took the blame for you. Now when it comes to your "Haifumi Ito stepped forward, he pushed him and refused to stand up. That would be such a good thing. Besides, you, Hiromori Ito cannot ruin the negotiations just because Hiromori is unwilling to come forward. Therefore, Emperor Meiji decided to take action, pushing Hiromori Ito and forcing him to stand up, which would also give him a sigh of anger.

Sure enough, after receiving the emperor's edict, Hirofumi Ito could only sigh. At this time, if he had not yet taken over the negotiation errand, he could only commit suicide by committing suicide by cesarean section at home. Because he specifically mentioned Li Hongzhang in the emperor's edict, it also touched Hirofumi Ito. During the negotiations in Maguan, Li Hongzhang was shot and still had injuries to negotiate with Hirofumi Ito. Hirofumi Ito once told his deputy at the time that Mitsukoshi Mitsuzo, who had been with Li Hongzhang in a different place, he might not have been able to do better than Li Hongzhang.

However, what I said at that time was more like Hirobuki Ito's sympathy for the losers, which did not mean that Hirobuki Ito really thought he was not as good as Li Hongzhang. On the contrary, before the negotiations between Shimonoseki, Hirobuki Ito looked down on Li Hongzhang very much, believing that Li Hongzhang had grown old and could not keep up with the world trend at that time. Now Hirobuki Ito can truly understand Li Hongzhang's mood at that time, and suddenly found that he was really not as good as Li Hongzhang. The situation of the Qing Dynasty at that time was very similar to that of Japan now, but Li Hongzhang could ignore his personal reputation and certainly served as the negotiator of the Qing Dynasty. He did not have the courage, and was obviously much worse than Li Hongzhang.

After a night of consideration, Hirobuki Ito finally expressed that he was willing to serve as Japan's negotiator and went to Shanghai for negotiations. The whole of Japan was relieved, and Katsura hurried to the United States and Germany to send a message saying that Japan was willing to change the candidates for negotiations, so the negotiations should still proceed as usual.

Originally, Hirofumi Ito was responsible for the relevant matters of negotiations with East China **, and now he is the negotiator, which is even more legitimate. Hirofumi Ito first determined that Sutaro Komura was his deputy. Originally, Sutaro Komura was the representative of this negotiation, and now he has changed to Hirofumi Ito, who has a bigger beef position, so it is natural that Sutaro Komura becomes a deputy. And Sutaro Komura is not dissatisfied with this. After all, with Hirofumi Ito in front of him, he has much less pressure.

The second is to formulate a negotiation strategy. Although Japan is at a disadvantage in this negotiation and must pay compensation, this does not mean that there is no need for a negotiation strategy. Japan has not yet weakened enough to be slaughtered by East China. In that case, Japan might as well destroy its country directly. Moreover, East China is not without weaknesses. To be honest, East China should also hope to end the war relationship with Japan as soon as possible. There is still another Russia that has not yet resolved. Therefore, how much should Japan pay for this negotiation? Where is the bottom line? Will East China and East China make land requirements for Japan and whether Japan accepts it, it is necessary to have a clear goal before the negotiation.

According to Hiromitsu Ito’s previous negotiation experience, it is useless to play hard with the East China **, and to act arrogantly. The East China ** has never been afraid of threats, and has always been super tough against toughness. Moreover, Japan now does not have the qualifications to play toughness. Therefore, Hiromitsu Ito believes that in this negotiation, Japan should adopt a humble attitude to face the East China **, so ito should win the sympathy of the other party, and be open to Japan, and not be tough to anger the other party.

In addition, East China has always regarded itself as orthodox, and Japan should also make full use of this point and use moral character designs such as etiquette and gentleman style to kidnap East China **; secondly, the two countries have the same language and the same race, and they should form a brotherly country, and fool East China ***, and everything is aimed at reducing Japan's losses.

During this negotiation, Japan planned to bear the amount of compensation. Hiromori Ito believed that the compensation would definitely be greater than that of Britain and France, that is, it would definitely be higher than 60 million pounds. Therefore, Hiromori Ito sets Japan's compensation between 800 and 100 million pounds, which is more reasonable. If the East China ** insists on claiming that the compensation is higher than 100 million pounds, Japan can threaten the breakdown of the negotiations, and believe that the East China ** will make concessions at that time.

As a result of the land issue, first of all, the local areas in Japan must be abandoned, and all areas occupied by the East China ** must be taken back. Otherwise, Japan would rather fight to the death than surrender. Of course, it is not very likely that the East China ** will seek Japanese local areas, but it is very likely to target Japanese colonies. After all, when negotiating with Britain, France and the Netherlands, the East China ** was about to arrive at the huge colony of Kalimantan Island.

Japan now has three colonies, the Korean Peninsula, the Ryukyu Islands, and Taiwan, with a population of about 260,000 square kilometers and a population of about 25 million.

Hirofumi Ito’s opinion is that in principle, this negotiation is only for compensation and not for colonies, because Japan wants to reopen it, relying on the support of other countries alone is not enough. These three colonies are also needed to transfusions from Japan. In addition, although the local numbers of these three colonies are not large, they are all strategic places, because they have great strategic value to mainland China. Therefore, this negotiation must preserve these three colonies so that Japan has hope of a new rise. And in the future, it will have a certain advantage in strategic competition with East China **.

However, among these three colonies, Taiwan's situation is quite special, because Taiwan originally belonged to the territory directly under the Qing Dynasty, which is very different from the Korean Peninsula and the Ryukyu Islands. The East China ** has always regarded itself as safeguarding China's interests, so it is very likely to take advantage of this negotiation opportunity to ask Japan for its return to Taiwan. Given that the East China ** is in a strong position, Hirobuki Ito believes that if necessary, Japan can consider including Taiwan in the negotiation transaction, that is, transfer Taiwan to the East China ***. But it must not necessarily convert Taiwan into a good price, and the estimated price should be between 40-50 million pounds, so that Japan can almost pay nearly half of the compensation, which is also very cost-effective.
Chapter completed!