During the Tongzhi Dynasty, Japan did not establish an embassy in Beijing like Britain, France and other countries, because before the Second Opium War, the Qing Dynasty fully implemented the system of the suzerain kingdoms.

The Qing Dynasty is the center of the world, and other countries are all vassals. As long as you come to see us, then let’s work in the Lifan Academy. What is the Lifan Academy? It is to manage the vassal states. Anyway, in the eyes of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, all other countries are the lowest vassal states, and the center of the world of the Celestial Kingdom is always the Qing Dynasty.

As a result, the two Opium Wars gave the Qing Dynasty two loud slaps, a fire in the Old Summer Palace, and a life of Xianfeng in the summer resort, which made the Qing Dynasty bow its head completely. It was from that time on, Britain, France, Russia and the United States began to establish an embassy in Dongjiaomin Lane and send permanent ambassadors.

Later, according to the agreement, other European countries began to establish embassies one after another, but they were later than the four countries that participated in the Second Opium War.

An important prerequisite for establishing an embassy is to recognize equality between countries, because in diplomatic rules, although the embassy is built on your land, it is equivalent to the territory of other countries and has absolute diplomatic immunity.

Moreover, the ambassador had the right to apply to meet with the emperor of the empire and discuss the relationship between the two countries. Obviously, the Qing Dynasty and the Confucian ministers were unwilling to accept this kind of equality, but the army could not defeat the imperial powers, so they could only accept it with a pinch of their noses.

Of course, in the hearts of the Qing Dynasty and Confucian ministers, this power to establish an embassy could only be given to the strong, and no European power could defeat it, so they could only accept it with their noses. However, like Japan, the Qing Dynasty would never give the power to establish an embassy.

At this time, the traditional Lifanyuan was still dealing with diplomatic affairs between the Qing Dynasty and Japan. Where is this place? It is actually the place of the Beijing Hotel today, next to Wangfujing.

The distance from Taixue to Lifan Academy is not close. More than a hundred Tai students stared at the strong wind and shouted messy slogans and rushed south.

Originally, these students thought that when they raised their arms and called out, the people were naturally excited. At that time, they would first abide by the Lifan Academy, regardless of whether there was any result or not, and encourage the people who love to watch the fun.

With only the more common people, these students can turn around and walk westward, head straight to Tiananmen Square, and incite the people to knock on the emperor, and not force the court to declare war, that would not be the end.

Even the little Japanese dares to bully him. It’s really hard for uncles to tolerate him, but the aunt just can’t.

The students were all full of confidence because just over three months ago, someone had already done the same thing. The group of Eight Banners waste actually gathered together and surrounded Prince Gong's General Affairs Office. That night, Dengshikou was crowded with people.

In the end, the Lifan Court also compromised. No one dared to disobey the Regulations of the Capital from then on. Isn’t this the credit for forcing the palace?

So today the students are following the example. Since you dare to force the palace, of course we dare to do it too. Moreover, we are for the dignity of the Qing Dynasty, and the truth is greater than heaven.

Today is a good day. A well-informed insider has long told everyone about the arrangements for the matter on Jingshan. The princes, ministers and two empress dowagers in the court have gathered together. This is the best time to force the palace.

"Declare war...Declare war, the small country of Juer, Japan, dares to infringe on the dignity of the Qing Dynasty...Bao, how can you sip sand..."

"The fellow villagers of Sijiu City, go to Lifanyuan together... Let's ask the masters, what's going on with the emperor... Ouch." With a snap, the wutong leaves flying from somewhere were slapped on his face.

At first, people were encouraged to go out to watch the fun, but when they looked up at the dark sky, there were increasingly whirlwinds, everyone shrank their necks again.

"This group of students wants to write a book, why don't you choose a good day? If the hot and cold weather is exciting, it will be awesome... Go home and watch the fun tomorrow..."

The students of the Taishou do not understand that the demonstrations must pay attention to the atmosphere and aura, especially when the first group of people is kicked, only if they are forced into the first group of people will be allowed to have the second group of people. Finally, after the mass fanaticism, even if the whole world is full of swords, this group of people will not leave.

But today's weather has scared away the first group of people who are eager to try. The smaller the number of people, the more people feel that this group of students is like clowns. In the end, except for some half-in-law who are not afraid of trouble, following them all over the streets, there are really not many people following them.

Otherwise, I would say that I am not afraid of no good things, but I am afraid of no good people. No matter how fanatical the people are, at least they are still kind by nature, and they will not harm others with peace of mind. However, those half-in-law who asked Xiao Letian to cut off their thumbs have long become a major cancer in the capital after a year of idleness and idleness.

They eat the Eight Banners Imperial Grain all day long and cheat the streets. They are absolutely indispensable wherever there is fun, and they will definitely make things uncontrollable.

After Lifan Academy, more than 100 students were swept by more than 200 and half of the idle people, and less than 100 people were left to be the real people who love to be lively.

The soldiers at the gate of Lifanyuan quickly closed the door when they saw this attitude, and shouted, "The adults are not here, there is no one here, there is no one..."

"Bah, no one, no one, you are nothing..." Just as the group of half-indiscrete men were about to rush in, three figures flashed out from the alley near Lifanyuan, and just showed their heads and turned around and ran away.

"Who is sneaky." A group of idle men raised their feet and chased after him. "Look, it's Japanese. I know these clothes, they are the clothes worn by Japanese..."

The ones who were besieged were Shintaro and his entourage. This guy was actually not a Japanese official at all. His real identity was a Japanese businessman. Since the diplomatic relations between Japan and the Qing Dynasty were not close, they lived their own lives across the sea, and the limited connections were all achieved by merchants.

Sometimes when the Tokugawa shogunate had any diplomatic matters that needed to communicate with the Qing Dynasty, he temporarily accepted a businessman as a temporary small official, went back to send the letter, and then brought the Qing Dynasty receipt back to the country, and the task was completed.

Anyway, both countries pursue a policy of closing the country to the outside world, and there is no less intersection between them. Sometimes they cannot send a diplomat a year.

Today, this is because Xiao Letian brought Emperor Tongzhi to Japan suddenly. In order to avoid misunderstandings, he urgently accepted Shintaro as the contact officer.

Because the assassination of Emperor Tongzhi suddenly occurred, Shintaro, who had originally planned to live for more than ten days, could not leave Beijing. I don’t know how long he would stay, so Shintaro did not dare to stay in a hotel, so he rented a house in the alley south of Rifanyuan and prepared to stay in Beijing.

But no one expected that Beijing, known as the country of etiquette, would become Shintaro's death place.
Chapter completed!