On this day 114 years ago, on December 18, 1911 (October 28, 1911), the North-South Armistice Negotiated. On December 18, 1911, Tang Shaoyi, a representative of the Qing court, and Wu Tingfang, a representative of the revolutionary army, held their first meeting in Shanghai. On November 27, after the Qing army captured Hanyang, the Wuhan military government was in chaos. Yuan Shikai believed that the time was ripe for peace talks, so he asked the British envoy Zhu Erdian to order the British Consul of Hankou to come forward and propose peace negotiations between the North and the South. The Hubei military government agreed. On December 7, the Qing court appointed Yuan Shikai as the minister of plenipotentiary for peace negotiation, and Yuan Shikai sent Tang Shaoyi as the plenipotentiary representative to go south. The two sides agreed to hold negotiations in Shanghai. On the 20th, Tang Shaoyi and Wu Tingfang signed five draft treaties, the main contents of which were: hold a national assembly to determine the republican system of government; give preferential treatment to