Japan requested the restoration of the Tianjin Consulate. After discussion by the Interim Executive Committee, it finally decided to agree to the Japanese request, allowing the former members of the Japanese Consulate in Tianjin to return to Tianjin, and still use the original Japanese Consulate in Tianjin, but at the same time, it also required that the Japanese side not to make any requests from the concessions, and must respect the laws formulated by time travelers. The Japanese side naturally agreed.

In fact, at the discussion meeting, many people opposed Japan's restoration of the Tianjin Consulate. The reason was very simple. In the old time and space, few people had a good impression of Japan. Therefore, except for animation and romance action movies, some angry young people opposed everything related to Japan without thinking.

However, the five Standing Committee members and executive members are not all angry young people after all, and there is still a view of the overall situation. Although Japan had won the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 at this time, and obtained compensation of 100 million taels of silver from the Qing court through the Treaty of Shimonoseki and seized Taiwan Island, in this time and space, the country that poses the greatest threat to China and hurts the most is not Japan, but Russia.

When the time travelers want to divide the Eight-Nation Alliance, Japan is also a direction that can be broken through, because Japan's interests in Tianjin are limited, and there is basically no benefit in Shandong, the next target of the time travelers.

In addition, an important source of information for time travelers now is Qiaoting, deciphering telegrams from various countries. This is also an important reason why time travelers allow consulates from various countries to still exist in Tianjin. However, Tianjin now lacks Japanese consulates, so time travelers cannot obtain Japanese intelligence. If the Japanese consulate reopens, it will undoubtedly make up for this flaw for time travelers.

Fukushima An arrived in Tianjin on the last day of the reply date set by the time traveler, and the countries did not make collective replies to the negotiation principles proposed by the time traveler. Only Russia and Germany had previously expressed their opinions on their own countries that they did not accept the negotiation principles of the time traveler.

However, on the next day, the situation changed. The Eight-Nation Alliance stationed in Beijing sent troops to capture Xuanhua Prefecture, Zhangjiakou and other places.

The Qing court, who was temporarily living in Taiyuan, was shocked. It turned out that the Eight-Nation Alliance, which had been defeated by overseas Chinese, was severely damaged and had no more energy to launch an attack. Some people even asked Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu to send troops to recover Beijing. As a result, they were all shocked. Only then did they realize that although the Eight-Nation Alliance suffered heavy losses by overseas Chinese, they still had considerable combat effectiveness.

Although Xuanhua Prefecture and Zhangjiakou are still quite far from Taiyuan, Empress Dowager Cixi, who has become a frightened bird, could not stay there. On the same day, she ordered a stalker to travel westward and to Xi'an. At the same time, she also sent a telegram to Li Hongzhang, asking Li Hongzhang to try every means to negotiate peace with various countries, and all the conditions proposed by various countries could be agreed upon. Although Guangxu asked Cixi to stay in Taiyuan and preside over the negotiations with various countries, Empress Dowager Cixi naturally would not let Guangxu leave his control and forced Guangxu to set off with him.

After receiving the telegram from the court, Li Hongzhang was relieved and felt a little gloating. You think that foreigners would be able to deal with it after a few defeats. Now you know that foreigners are powerful. If you want to negotiate with foreigners, you have to rely on me, Li Hongzhang. At the same time, you are a little worried. I wonder how this group of overseas Chinese will deal with the attack of the Eight-Nation Alliance? Will they send troops to attack Beijing or stay in Tianjin?

It turned out that this attack by the Eight-Nation Alliance was repeated negotiations by various countries, and at the same time, the decision was made by the commanders of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Due to the continuous military defeats of the Eight-Nation Alliance some time ago, all countries were very passive. Although most countries had the idea of ​​negotiating with overseas Chinese and ending the war, negotiations based on the conditions proposed by overseas Chinese obviously did not benefit. If you want to grab more benefits at the negotiating table, you must make some achievements in the military.

The Eight-Nation Alliance must not have enough strength to attack Tianjin, but it is still more than enough to fight the Qing court. This can create pressure on the Qing court and let them know that the Eight-Nation Alliance is not easy to deal with. In addition, it can put pressure on overseas Chinese through the Qing court. Therefore, various countries decided to defend, allowing the Eight-Nation Alliance stationed in Beijing to launch a battle in Xuanhua and Zhangjiakou to win the initiative for themselves.

However, countries are not worried about the excessive reactions of overseas Chinese, and will launch a battle to attack Beijing. Although countries do not know the history of overseas Chinese, through the intelligence analysis collected in Tianjin in the previous stage, the naval strength of this group of overseas Chinese is obviously higher than that of the army. They have six or seven large surface warships, powerful firepower and accurate shooting, so they have achieved several brilliant victories at sea in succession, such as the complete annihilation of the Eight-Nation Alliance Fleet in Dagukou and defeating the German fleet.

But relatively speaking, the army of overseas Chinese is weaker than the navy. On the one hand, the number of overseas Chinese is only more than 1,000. Although the overall quality is not bad, the number is too small after all. On the other hand, overseas Chinese recruiting troops in Tianjin is also showing from another perspective that overseas Chinese are weaker.

The attack on Tianjin failed, and the Eight-Nation Alliance retreated to Beijing. There are still more than 13,000 troops and a large number of defensive offensives have been built around Beijing. Therefore, the officers of the coalition have sufficient confidence to defend Beijing. They even hope that overseas Chinese will really attack Beijing. Fortunately, the momentum of attacking overseas Chinese in the defensive war was also angered for themselves. However, the fact that the Chinese outside Shanghai have occupied Tianjin for nearly two months and have no intention of continuing to attack Beijing. It is estimated that overseas Chinese also know that it is difficult to conquer Beijing with their own army strength. If overseas Chinese take over Beijing in one go, countries may have to accept the negotiation principles of overseas Chinese.

It is precisely because of this factor that countries finally decided to respond to the negotiation principles proposed by overseas Chinese with a tough attitude, so that overseas Chinese can know that don’t think that you can be proud after winning a few battles. We still have certain strength. If you want to make peace in negotiations, you must give in at the negotiating table and make concessions.

After the response attitudes of various countries are proposed, the next step depends on how overseas Chinese respond.

Fukushima Anmasa certainly knew the responses of various countries to overseas Chinese, and he also believed that the response methods of various countries were indeed very appropriate. On the one hand, overseas Chinese were not sure enough to attack Beijing; on the other hand, let the Qing court do the work of overseas Chinese, so countries could not be out of the matter. Although overseas Chinese did not take the Qing court seriously, they were just a famous discussion on returning to China, so they could not completely ignore the attitude of the Qing court. Fukushima Anmasa was considering what appropriate time to submit the negotiation conditions of various countries to overseas Chinese.

However, no one expected that the responses of overseas Chinese came very quickly. After only one day, overseas Chinese issued a public statement in the name of the Interim Executive Committee, first of all, strongly accusing the Eight-Nation Alliance of attacking Xuanhua and Zhangjiakou of the imperialist military operations, indicating that this was a destruction of peace. The Ming countries had no sincerity to negotiate and resolve the war, but were just using negotiations to delay time and prepare for the next step of military operations. This once again showed that the fundamental reason for this war was the hegemonic mentality of various countries, not the Boxer Rebellion in China. At the same time, it was announced that the negotiations with various countries would be temporarily suspended, and the power to carry out all counterattacks in the next step will be retained. All things that happened thereafter will be responsible for the consequences of each country.

Honestly, the verbs and firm attitude of this statement are indeed somewhat beyond the expectations of various countries. They thought that even if overseas Chinese were dissatisfied with the actions of the Eight-Nation Alliance, they would negotiate with various countries in private. After all, overseas Chinese and other countries now have several channels of communication to communicate effectively, but they did not expect that overseas Chinese would respond to the toughness of various countries with a super tough attitude and actively terminate the ongoing negotiations with various countries, which is equivalent to announcing that the two sides will continue to go to war.

Some countries are naturally very excited about this. For example, Russia and Germany originally wanted to continue the war, but Britain, France, the United States and other countries were very disappointed. In fact, they did not want the war to continue, but they just wanted to use a tough attitude to force overseas Chinese to make concessions so that they could gain more benefits at the negotiating table. Therefore, they also regretted it at this time. If they had known this, they would not have used such intense means.

In fact, if it is in Europe, it will be impossible to do so when the two sides have officially started negotiations and contacts, and one side launches military operations unless one side has an absolute advantage. And countries like Time Travelers that have an absolute advantage in military affairs will never accept this result.

However, in the subconscious of various countries, they still regard overseas Chinese as the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, although time travelers have now gained an absolute military advantage, countries are still unwilling to face this reality, which has led to the complete shattering of the negotiations between the two sides.

However, it is useless to regret it. Now no one can take the initiative to retreat, so he can only see the true seal on the battlefield. However, in a short period of time, countries obviously cannot provide effective support to the Eight-Nation Alliance. After all, the support of two or three thousand people and tens of thousands of bullets is not very meaningful. Since the Eight-Nation Alliance is confident in defending Beijing, it can only trust the confidence of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Therefore, countries can only generate electricity to Beijing and ask the Eight-Nation Alliance to prepare for a battle to defend Beijing.

And Anmasa Fukushima in Tianjin was also very depressed because at this time, he would go to overseas Chinese and submit the negotiation conditions for various countries to make it boring. Now he can only wait and see what changes are.
Chapter completed!