Chapter 27 Chapter 5

So Zeng Yijin flew to Nagao Nagao to study the Japanese constitution.It didn't take long for him to come back wheezing: Report to the President, I have studied it. Yuan Shikai asked anxiously: What is the conclusion? Zeng Yijin: President, according to the results of my research, Japan is unlikely to send troops due to the constraints of the Constitution, even if the "21" negotiations fail. Yuan Shikai: Impossible?How unlikely is it? Zeng Yijin: It is probably impossible to send troops. Yuan Shikai: Eighty percent, enough is enough.Damn it, he is a bad one-legged prime minister, yet he dares to make things difficult for me, Lao Yuan, isn't he worthy of a beating?

Call the one-legged Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma: The Chinese government refuses to pay attention to the "21". A few days after the call was sent, Lu Zhengxiang, the Minister in Japan, sent a confidential message: The Okuma cabinet got Yuan's reply, which shocked Yuan's boldness.But without the imperial meeting, he made this request himself, and Yuan Shi retaliated with a stick, making him extremely embarrassed.The emperor had no choice but to play the emperor, and the imperial meeting has been held... Yuan Shikai considered that if Okuma Shigenobu's "Twenty-One" was discussed at the imperial meeting, there would be a lot of talk and different opinions, and maybe the Japanese would fight in groups in front of the emperor.Maybe, the "Twenty-One" can't be passed at all.

If the Japanese Imperial Council rejected the "Twenty-one Points", wouldn't China have won without a fight? However, things are not that simple. As the saying goes, there is no turning back. At the Japanese imperial meeting, although everyone expressed strong dissatisfaction with Okuma's eating alone, since the "21" has been proposed, it cannot be said to be withdrawn. Just withdraw.Furthermore, the Japanese are also thinking: What if the Chinese are stupid and agree to the "21"?Isn't that beautiful? How about we fool the Chinese first?At the imperial meeting, the Japanese suggested so.

With this concept in mind, the "Twenty-One" was finally passed at the imperial meeting. The ball was kicked back again, this time it depends on how Yuan Shikai overcomes this difficulty. Yuan Shikai immediately recalled Lu Zhengxiang, the Minister in Japan.