The country does not like it.”), but at the same time as making concessions, it also throws a “hook” on the terms of the Sino-Japanese trade revamp in the negotiation, demanding that it be “all in one” like the Western powers. It can be seen that the "War Wolf Note" issue has a great impact. Li_Hung_Chang_in_1896 Li Hongzhang｜Photo Credit: Russell & Sons - Mrs. Archibald Little @Wiki Public Domain Of course, before the formal negotiations, Japan and China have had private communications. Japan sent the secret envoy, Dazang, the secretary, Takeshi Shinichiro, as an "idler" to Tianjin to have two rounds of three secret talks with Li Hongzhang. The first round was on
December 7, 1879, and the whatsapp database second round was on March 26 and April 3, 1880. In the last meeting, Takeshio Shinichiro proposed a "two-point plan", in which the Miyako Islands and Yaeyama Islands (South Island) in the south belong to China, and the northern and central islands belong to Japan. Li Hongzhang threw out the three-point plan suggested by Grant. Japan cannot accept it, and doubts whether this was fabricated by He Ruzhang (it shows the depth of Japan's hostility to He Ruzhang). With two rounds of secret
talks to lay the foundation and a basic consensus reached, the two sides began formal negotiations. The Chinese representative was the negotiating team headed by the Prime Minister's Yamen Minister Shen Guifang (He Ruzhang was completely marginalized), and the Japanese side was solely in charge of the Japanese Minister in China. . In the second negotiation (August 24, 1880), Japan formally proposed "additional treaty" and "sub-island" proposal, which is the "sub-island change theory". By the sixth negotiation (October 7), the two sides had basically reached an agreement.