"Kun Kobayashi, the military headquarters ordered you to return home immediately and have other tasks to temporarily stop all actions against overseas Chinese."

"What? Nakamura, did we give up Shanghai because of the difficulty? In order to deal with overseas Chinese, we have lost 16 people, and these people cannot be sacrificed in vain."

"Kun Kobayashi, the plan you planned to attack the Shanghai office of overseas Chinese has passed your responsibilities and fortunately it has not been implemented yet, otherwise it will cause serious diplomatic consequences to Japan and put Japan in a very passive state in international affairs. Therefore, you should feel lucky now."

"Please give me another chance. This time I will definitely do it very secretly and will never implicate the Japanese government."

"No need, your transfer order has been sent. You can go back to Japan to report the situation to the military headquarters. I have prepared all the relevant information, and you will have a new task, which is to go to Northeast China to collect intelligence. If you can, you may also go to Russia."

"What, let me leave China? Nakamura, you should understand that overseas Chinese are the biggest threat to Japan. We must cut them off or hurt them before they can show them. Otherwise, after they gain a foothold in China, it will inevitably be detrimental to Japan."

"Kobayashi, I can understand your feelings, but you think this matter too simply. It will only destroy the Shanghai office of overseas Chinese, and will not provoke all wars between overseas Chinese and European and American countries. Negotiations between overseas Chinese and European and American countries are imperative, because for now, this is a thing that is beneficial to both of them. It can either be easily destroyed or even if you catch a few of them, it will be useless. Moreover, you have underestimated the strength of overseas Chinese. This time, the strongholds found by overseas Chinese are very telling. And now we have been exposed. After this time, nearly half of the personnel in Shanghai have been lost, and it is impossible to attack the Shanghai office of overseas Chinese. You must accept this fact."

"The idiots in Europe and the United States are hard to see. Are overseas Chinese the biggest threat? Now they are taking advantage of the situation to grow overseas Chinese, and they will regret it in the future."

"This is also impossible. In fact, there is no one in Europe and the United States who cannot see the threat of overseas Chinese, but there are always a few people who can see the future. Most people only see immediate benefits. Overseas Chinese obviously see this, so they make concessions to European and American countries in business, give them some small profits, and win some time for themselves."

"Does we just watch overseas Chinese gain a foothold, then spread it out, and finally squeeze Japan's living space?"

"Of course we can't sit still. It's just that although overseas Chinese have not yet grown into a giant, they have already begun to take shape. It's not something that a few of us can fight against. Therefore, if you want to deal with overseas Chinese, there are only two ways to deal with overseas Chinese. One is to try your best to mobilize European and American countries to let them see the threat of overseas Chinese, so as to deal with overseas Chinese with us. The second is to strengthen ourselves. If you want to deal with overseas Chinese, we must control Japan so that we can mobilize all Japan's strength to deal with overseas Chinese. Can you expect the fools in the military to deal with overseas Chinese?"

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"Nakamura, your opinion is right. If we can't control Japan, we can't do anything."

"It's great that you can think like this. This time we go to Manzhou, China, is our first step in controlling Japan, because Japan's next step will definitely be Manzhou, China, and Miyamoto also plans to showcase in North Korea and Manzhou. He will fully support your work. Of course, you must also do your best to help him showcase in Northeast China. This is a good thing for us."

"Didn't Miyamoto open a factory in Japan? Why do you want to go to Manchuria? Even if you are in a foreign exhibition, Ryukyu, and Taiwan's environment is better? We Japan has absolute control there."

"The domestic economy, society, and various resources have been controlled by several large consortiums and clans, and there is no room for development for the lower-level personnel. Moreover, most of the resources of Ryukyu and Taiwan are basically occupied by consortiums and clans. Only in places like North Korea and Manzhou, where Japan has not yet fully controlled, domestic consortiums will not invest here, but will receive support from the government. Therefore, only in these places can we have room for development and expansion."

"Well! These damn maggots are only concerned about their own interests and have no idea about Japan at all. If they cannot clean up and manage the consortium well, it will be difficult for Japan to have another development."

"We have to wait until we have mastered Japan before we can talk about it. And according to my estimate, after stabilizing the situation in Shandong, overseas Chinese will also turn their attention to the Northeast, so we will meet overseas Chinese in the Northeast. At that time, we will still fight with overseas Chinese. Taking advantage of the fact that overseas Chinese have not yet made plans in Manzhou, China, we will take the lead and open up the situation first."

"I understand, Nakamura, I will go back to Japan immediately, and then I will go to Manchuria immediately."

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After the delegation arrived in Shanghai, it was responsible for holding an exhibition and the concert personnel immediately began preparations. Qin Zheng and Li Sanjie took the negotiators to hold talks with various countries. Although all countries had agreed to negotiate with the time travelers alone, this was limited to compensation for the captives and some private transactions. Some terms of the general principles were negotiated with the time travelers and the countries. In addition, the signed treaties were signed under the common names of the time travelers and the countries. Of course, no Russia has participated yet.

Of course, before the talks officially began, British Consul Huo Bilan once again assured Qin Zheng on behalf of various countries to ensure the safety of delegation members; while Japanese Consul Joe Odashi's Qin Zheng conveyed the goodwill of the Japanese government, saying that Japan hoped to establish good relations with overseas Chinese and jointly respond to threats, etc. However, the matter of Japanese intelligence bases was not mentioned.

The talks officially began. Since the two sides had already explored each other many times, they had basically figured out the conditions and bottom lines between each other, and they had the intention to reach an agreement, the negotiations went very smoothly. The two sides had only had some discussions on the wording and sentence making of individual terms.

Three days later, the two sides officially reached a 5-point agreement:

1. Stop war completely, end the state of war, restore peace in China, and stop hostility;

2. All countries confirm that they give up all powers in the Tianjin Concession Area, Weihaiwei and Jiaozhou Bay area, and recognize the administrative, military, judicial, taxation, customs and other powers of overseas Chinese over the Tianjin Concession Area, Weihaiwei and Jiaozhou Bay area; overseas Chinese promise to ensure the diplomatic authority of consulates in these regions, the personal and property safety of expatriates, and the legal residence and business power;

3. All treaties signed by various countries and the Qing court are invalid in the ruling areas of overseas Chinese. All countries will renegotiate with overseas Chinese to sign relevant treaties and determine the principles of diplomatic relations between each other;

4. Overseas Chinese promise to open up to the outside world in their own ruling areas, in accordance with the principles of peaceful coexistence, equality and mutual benefit. All countries have the power to do business, live, open factories, build roads, railways, construction projects, education and other rights in the ruling areas of overseas Chinese. Overseas Chinese promise to improve the corresponding regulations as soon as possible to ensure the legitimate interests of all countries;

5 The issue of compensation for war and repatriation of prisoners will be decided separately by overseas Chinese and other countries to exist as an annex to this treaty;

These five clauses basically confirm that countries actually treat the Time Travel Group as a single force, and the Tianjin Concession Area, Weihaiwei, and Jiaozhou Bay areas are also regarded as the Territory of the Time Travel Group, and there is nothing to do with the ruling court. However, in the subsequent negotiations with various countries, Li Hongzhang did not mention this at all, and pretended not to know it at all.

After another 4 days of negotiation, Li Hongzhang also reached terms of the agreement with representatives of various countries:

1. The Qing and other countries confirmed that in this war in China, both sides were responsible for each other. Therefore, after stopping the war, and after restoring peace, they no longer held each other responsible for each other's responsibility, stopped hostile acts, and restored diplomatic relations before 19oo;

2. The Qing Dynasty will respect international norms, ensure diplomatic relations between various countries and the Qing Dynasty, ensure the safety of diplomatic personnel stationed in Qing Dynasty and the corresponding diplomatic power;

3. The Qing Dynasty promised not to live, incite incidents of hatred against various countries, strictly demanded local governments to protect the personal safety of residents and missionaries of various countries; all countries also promised to urge their residents and missionaries to respect the laws and customs of the Qing Dynasty;

4. The Qing Dynasty promised to further open up the domestic market, improve trading conditions, and clear river channels;

5. For the damage caused by the embassies and churches of various countries, the seven countries in Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Ogilvy and the United States will be compensated at a total of 250,000 taels of silver per country, totaling 1.75 million taels of silver. In addition, there will be no other compensation;

6. The German Minister Clinder was killed. The Qing Dynasty promised to send the princes and ministers to Germany as envoys, to apologize to the German Emperor and Clinder's family on behalf of the Qing Dynasty, and to pay 150,000 taels of silver as a pension to Clinder's family;

7. The murder of the Japanese embassy secretary Bin Sugiyama. The Qing Dynasty promised to send the Minister of the Secretariat to Japan as the envoy, to apologize to the Japanese Emperor and Sugiyama's family on behalf of the Secretariat, and to pay 10,000 taels of silver as a pension to Sugiyama's family;

8. The silver compensation paid in the above three articles will be delivered before December 31, 19o1. After the delivery of the silver compensation is completed, the troops will be withdrawn from the Qing Dynasty.
Chapter completed!