In the decade before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, the Qing Dynasty, Japan, and Korea maintained a harmonious neighborly relationship on the surface, secretly guarding each other.
In 1885, the Qing Dynasty sent Yuan Shikai to Korea, this time as "the Minister of Commerce and Commerce stationed in the Dprk Prime Minister", and his task was very clear, to control the political situation in Korea, strengthen the relationship between the clan and the clan, and prevent the dprk from having a tendency to independence and self-determination and the spying of Japan and Russia on Korea.
Russia's influence in Korea was far less powerful than that of Qing Ni
Japan supported the anti-government forces in North Korea, constantly creating incidents and looking for opportunities to send troops to Korea, and these things were often snuffed out by Yuan Shikai, who became a thorn in Japan's eyes and repeatedly sent assassins to assassinate Yuan.
In the past decade, there have been no idle people in North Korea, and dozens of civil unrest have broken out, but the North Korean government does not pay attention to the causes of civil unrest, but looks everywhere for "remnants of the Kaihua Party", especially Kim Yu-kyun, who led the Kaihua Party to launch the Koshin coup. He was a thorn in the flesh of the North Korean government, and during his exile in Japan, he constantly looked for opportunities to prepare for a counterattack on North Korea. North Korea sent one after another of the killers from Japan to China.
Japan was ready to fight against the Qing Dynasty
At this time, the top echelons of Donggakudo, an influential organization of the Korean people, were thinking about how to establish a country of equality and freedom, which the North Korean government called a "cult" and likened to the "Yellow Turban Rebellion" and the "White Lotus Sect." The Qing Dynasty and Japan also believed that Japan had tried to contact The Eastern School of Learning, but its slogans were "Punish Corrupt Officials" and "Rebuke the Foreigners", which embarrassed Japan.
The slogan of Dongxue Dao: Rebuke the Yang
East Asia kept quiet in this undercurrent, and what broke the silence was a gunshot from Shanghai. At 2 p.m. on March 28, 1894, Hong Jong-woo, a Korean student studying in France, successfully assassinated Kim Yu-kyun, the leader of the Korean Kai-Hwa Party, in a Japanese hotel in Shanghai, and because Hong Jong-woo claimed that he had "fulfilled the king's orders and eliminated adultery for the country," Qing officials reported the matter. Seven days later, officials sent by north Korea arrived in Shanghai and the body of Kim Yu-kyun was transported back to Korea by warships of the Beiyang Marine Division. During this period, Japan pre-retrieved the body of Jin Yujun because Jin Yujun had been under the pseudonym Shusaku Iwata during his exile in Japan, and the Japanese government had support plans for it. However, when the Japanese arrived in Shanghai, they found that Jin Yujun's body had reached Korea, and Japan blew it up on the spot, they thought that China and North Korea were insulting to Japan, and they felt that there was a reason to send troops, but after calming down, they found that the reason was not sufficient, and they could not send troops to other countries because of the death of a foreigner protected by Japan.
Dongxue Party rebel army
But what the Japanese did not expect was that in less than a month, the "Dongxue Party Uprising" broke out in North Korea, and the rebel army broke out like a bamboo and took three-fifths of the land of Korea. However, while Japan was waiting for Korean help, the rebels made peace with the Korean government, known in history as jeonju Peace. The Korean government agreed to the rebels' 12 reform programs, including abolishing the feudal hierarchy, abolishing harsh taxes and public and private debts, severely punishing those who smuggled with Japan, and distributing land equally.
The rebel army believed it, withdrew from Jeonju, and implemented a reform program in the area under its control, but all this was a delaying tactic of the Korean government, at the same time as the peace talks, the Qing Dynasty also received a request for help from Korea, 2,000 Qing soldiers were sent to Korea, the Opportunity that the Japanese had waited for many years finally came, and 10,000 Japanese troops came uninvited under the pretext of protecting the overseas Chinese...
And China lost its millennium vassal Korea forever during this year.