The Lonely Minister Has No Way to Save Himself
by Wang Long
About This Novel
Li Hongzhang and Ito Hirobumi, one is China's first minister and the other is Japan's first prime minister, have equal status and the same era. However, faced with the same "changes unprecedented in a thousand years", the Westernization Movement and the Meiji Restoration had very different endings, one sad and the other happy. One of them, Li and Yi, suffered infamy and died in depression, while the other achieved great success and achieved unparalleled achievements. With such a disparity in results, could it really be that the southern orange and the northern orange are a result of acclimatization? Or is it really just as Li Hongzhang complained that "the monarchs, ministers, court and wild people are not united in their hearts"? His life and death were very different. After the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War of 1895-1895, in April 1895, Li Hongzhang, the chief minister of the Chinese Empire, went to Shimonoseki, a small country in Japan, to beg for peace in vain. During the peace talks, Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito visited.
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