The next day, Chen Guifen received the emperor's imperial edict and was promoted to the first-class guard commander and also served as the second-class guard commander, which was the last security barrier around Emperor Tongzhi.

On the day of receiving the order, Chen Guifen led his second-class guards to hand over the work with Zhu Dezhang.

All afternoon, Chen Guifen was in the Yangxin Hall and did not step out of the hall with Eunuch Wang until evening.

For some reason, when everyone under his command saw Chen Guifen coming out, they always felt that they had completely changed their previous ones.

There was always a domineering aura that only appeared when expanding territory appeared on his face. People asked him, but they laughed it off.

Tongzhi has been in a very good mood these two days. First of all, there is no need to consider his safety anymore. He has ordered Eunuch Wang to be responsible for his imperial meals.

When Chen Guifen was going to capture Hong Man, she was ready to offend Cixi and Li Lianying, but she didn't expect to be promoted because of this.

When he learned that it was the emperor who spoke to the empress dowager himself, he gradually developed a good impression of the emperor.

One afternoon in the Palace of Yangxin, Tongzhi also told him that he did not want to be a puppet and needed his help, so that he could know his ambitions and was not willing to be so cowardly.

If a soldier is a bear, a general is a crane. If the master has no talent, he will not have the fighting spirit.

Since the emperor wants to revive the Qing Dynasty, as a minister, he must sacrifice his life and shed his blood.

According to historical records, the Tongzhi period became the "Tongzhi Revival" in history because during this period, China was basically in a stable period, and the Westernization Movement initiated by Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang had developed in all aspects.

I thought I had some time to plan my next move, but something happened that completely disrupted the original plan.

In the Qianqing Palace, Tongzhi sat on the main hall, with civil and military ministers standing below, but there were two scepters in the middle.

Sitting on the left was a middle-aged man who thought he was yellow-skinned. He had a small beard in his middle place, and he was holding a samurai sword in his hand, pointing the tip of the knife, looking high above.

On the right, there was also a tall British man sitting crossing his legs, crossing his chest with his hands in his arms, casually swaying everyone present, with contempt in his eyes.

The middle-aged man with yellow skin is the Japanese special envoy, Toku Polytong, who was ordered to deal with Taiwan W matters.

The one on the right is the British ambassador to China, and Japan should participate in the coordination of the matter.

Tongzhi still knew the whole story with the advice of Eunuch Wang.

In February 1874, the Japanese government established the "Taiwan Foreign Local Affairs Bureau" and appointed Shigeon Okuma as its chief, established a military base invading Taiwan in Nagasaki, and sent Lieutenant General Saigo to lead 3,000 troops to attack Taiwan.

On March 23, the Japanese invading army forcibly landed in Langqiao and was bravely counterattacked by the people of the Gaoshan people. The Japanese army burned, killed and looted Langqiao and set up a governor's office in Guishan with the intention of occupancy for a long time.

The Qing government sent Fujian Shipbuilding Minister Shen Baozhen to Taiwan to deploy defense, mobilizing more than 10,000 troops to Taiwan.

Zhou Jun, who was still a modern security guard at that time, had not been reborn in Tongzhi and did not know much about these things, but he knew that it was from that time that Taiwan W was gradually occupied by Japan.

Tongzhi looked at the two people in front of him coldly. As a veteran, he was his enemy to anyone who invaded his country.

"You have occupied my territory, and you dare to speak loudly here?" After hearing the conditions of the Japanese envoy, Tong Zhiqi remakes the chair.

"Emperor, if it weren't for your ignorant people who slaughtered my people for no reason, my great Japanese Empire was just protecting its own people. Wouldn't it be necessary to ask for some compensation?" Tokuro Polytong snorted coldly and said contemptuously, uncovering ridicule in his words.

"I have sent someone to apologize about this matter and compensate and appease the victims, but it is not an excuse for you to invade our country." Tongzhi argued.

"Are the people of our great Japanese Empire so dead in vain?" Too Jiu Baolitong didn't even raise his eyelids, and his tone increased by three points: "We have sent troops to Taiwan, and we will protect the safety of our people."

“Absolutely not allowed.”

"It's useless for your objection to this, it's our Emperor's order."

"Either fight or get out." Tongzhi stood up and shouted at the Japanese envoy.

"Okay, we are ready for the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty." Polytong seemed to have not expected this situation to be the case. He was stunned for a moment and suddenly smiled.

"Dear Emperor, Japan is an ally of my British Empire in Asia. If there is a war between the two countries, our Royal Navy will never sit idly by." The British envoy, Vitoma, who had not spoken, stood up, bowed to Tongzhi, and said in poor Chinese.

"You..." Tongzhi was about to continue talking, but was suddenly interrupted by Cixi, who was sitting behind the curtain.

"Please don't be angry with the ministers of the two countries. There is still room for negotiation on this matter. Our Qing Dynasty can negotiate with your country to resolve it." Cixi's loli voice came from behind.

"The Qing Dynasty is not the emperor in charge? Can you, a woman, make the decision?" When Polytong heard the voice, a trace of obscene gaze floated across her eyes, meaningfully looking at the person behind her eyes.

"I was young. I had been instructed by the late emperor. I could discuss it with the ministers in the court and make a decision." Cixi said slowly, not angry about being despised.

"Mother Huang, you..." Tongzhi did not expect that Cixi would make a decision for herself in front of everyone, and she did not even expect to agree to such unreasonable requests.

"Your Majesty, please don't be impulsive. Now is not the time. You can bend and stretch." Eunuch Wang whispered to Tongzhi's ear.

After being told by the prince, Tongzhi also woke up from his anger. Now he was the only one with Chen Guifen and had no strength to compete with Cixi. Even as the emperor, the ministers in the court did not have the power to do so.

Tongzhi closed his eyes and tried his best to calm himself down, but his ups and downs exposed his inner anger.

Three days later, the Qing court sent Prince Gong Yixin as the plenipotentiary representative to negotiate with Japan.

On the other five days, the Qing Dynasty and Japan signed the "China-Japan Beijing Special Article", which issued 100,000 taels of silver as pension silver and compensated 400,000 taels of silver as military expenditure for Japan in Taiwan. In addition, it was recognized that Japan's dispatch of troops to Taiwan was a "righteous act of protecting the people."

It was this "righteous act of protecting the people" that laid the root of disaster for Japan's official troops to invade Taiwan in the future.

In the Palace of Peaceful Heart, when the signed treaty came into Tongzhi's ears, Tongzhi punched the pillar heavily, his eyes turned red, and he raised his head and shouted: "It is a shame to the country, a weak country has no diplomacy, I'm sorry to my Qing people."

As a person in the 21st century, Tongzhi is not as sad as it appears, but he must act like this so that the people below know that he is powerless.

What happened in the Ganqing Palace also touched him a lot.

Japan has gradually become a hidden danger. European and American countries have experienced the industrial revolution and their modernization is far beyond that of the Qing Dynasty.

It seems that we must take the military power into our own hands as soon as possible before we can achieve our great achievements.

During this period, Eunuch Wang and Chen Guifen were always by Tongzhi's side, and their hearts were extremely uneasy.

I was from the Qing Dynasty, but I was bullied by a small country and apologized for losing money.

Seeing the emperor's grief, he became more determined to follow the emperor's footsteps. Only he was the only way out for the Qing Dynasty.

The multiple-choice questions for the exam were broken, and I had to take the exam on Saturday!

Thank you very much for the tickets. Feng Lin also said that he did it, but he almost didn’t collect much today, but this is also my motivation. I will write it carefully. I hope everyone can support it!

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!