Why did you sign treaty of shimonoseki?

The Qing Dynasty was defeated by the Japanese in the Sino-Japanese War!

1894, the East Learning Party incident occurred in North Korea, and the Qing Dynasty sent troops into North Korea at the request of North Korea, and informed Japan of relevant actions according to the Sino-Japanese Tianjin Treaty. After the incident subsided, Japan refused to withdraw its troops, and later raided the Qing army stationed in North Korea. The Qing court was forced to declare war on Japan. Because that year was the Sino-Japanese War, it was also called the Sino-Japanese War. Later, China defeated the Qing court and made peace with the Japanese.

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1894165438+1October 26th, that is, shortly after the second Japanese army under the command of General ōyama Iwao landed in Jiuliancheng Scenic Resort Scenic Area of Liaodong Peninsula, Li Hongzhang sent Gustav Vondetlin, the tax department of Tianjin Customs, to Kobe, trying to meet with Ito Bowen for peace talks, but was rejected. The following year, 65438+1October 3 1, two plenipotentiary ambassadors of China, Zhang, minister of the Prime Minister's Office, and Shao Youlian, governor of Hunan Province, arrived at the Japanese base camp in Hiroshima and held talks with Ito Bowen and Lu Aozongguang. The next day, the Japanese side interrupted the negotiations on the grounds that China's letter of plenipotentiary was not perfect.

1March, 895 19 Li Hongzhang arrived at Maguan Port (now Shimonoseki City, Benshankou Prefecture) with a power of attorney, and then held peace talks with Japanese plenipotentiary Ito Bowen in Chunfan Building, a famous puffer fish hall in Maguan. The draft put forward by Japan in the first round of negotiations includes three main requirements:

China compensated the Japanese military for 320 million kuping silver;

Cede the main island of Taiwan Province Province, Penghu Islands and Liaodong Peninsula south of latitude 4 1 degree;

Seven trading ports in Shashi, Chongqing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shuntian, Xiangtan and Wuzhou are open to Japan.

On March 24th, Li Hongzhang was on his way to Chunfan Building in a sedan chair. He was shot to the left by the assassin Toyoda Shoichiro, and his robe was stained with blood. He fainted on the spot. For a time, the scene was in chaos, pedestrians fled everywhere, and the assassin sneaked away while hiding in the crowd and hid in a shop on the side of the road. The accompanying doctor immediately gave first aid to Li Hongzhang. Fortunately, the bullet missed the key, and Li Hongzhang recovered quickly. Ito Bowen is worried about the criticism of world public opinion. At the same time, I was afraid that Li Hongzhang would return to China, and the Sino-Japanese peace talks would freeze, which would lead to forced mediation or interference by Britain, Russia, Germany, France and other powers, so I lowered my demand and reduced the compensation to 220 million kuping silver. Reduce the ceded area of Liaodong Peninsula (from the line of 4 1 degree north latitude to the line of Yalujiangkou-Anping Estuary-Fenghuang-Haicheng-Yingkou-Liaohekou); Subtract the three trading ports of Shuntian, Xiangtan and Wuzhou. In this case, on April 1895 (the 28th year of Meiji) and March 30th, the 21st year of Guangxu, at 0: 40am local time in Japan, the plenipotentiaries of China and Japan signed the treaty of shimonoseki.

After signing the treaty of shimonoseki, Li Hongzhang sighed with emotion: "Japan will eventually become a disaster!" When Li Hongzhang went to Japan for negotiations, the Japanese side knew the connection between Guangxu and Li Hongzhang like the back of its hand, and the bottom line of the compensation of 200 million taels of silver paid by Guangxu to Li Hongzhang was also clear, so it refused to make concessions in the negotiations and finally gained the maximum benefit. [ 1]

Legend has it that Li Hongzhang once said that "Taiwan's birds are silent, flowers are not fragrant, men are heartless, women are meaningless, and it is not a pity to cede them out", [2] or "Taiwan's birds are silent, flowers are not fragrant, men are heartless, women are meaningless, and the land of boils can be cut". [3] However, some related studies and commentators pointed out that according to all the current visible historical archives, Li Hongzhang's record of making this comment was not found [4][5]. On the contrary, when Li Hongzhang was negotiating with Japanese Prime Minister Ito Bowen in treaty of shimonoseki, he declared that "Taiwan Province Province has been established and cannot be granted to other countries" [6] and "If China is ordered to do so, the revenge of Yong Cheng will spread to the future generations of the two countries" [7][8][9] and so on.