Signed the "Beijing Special Article"

On October 31, 1874, the Prime Minister of the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese Minister of Internal Affairs Okubo signed the "Beijing Special Article".

There are 3 articles in the "China-Japan Beijing Special Article" and one "meeting voucher". The main contents include: admitting that Japan sent troops to invade Taiwan was "for the sake of protecting the people, and China does not think it was wrong"; China paid 100,000 taels of pension money to the families of the victims; when Japan withdrew its troops, China was willing to keep all its Buddhist cultivation, building houses, etc. in Taiwan for its own use and paid 400,000 taels of silver. The "China-Japan Beijing Special Article" did not succeed Japan's plot to separate and occupy Taiwan, a territory of China, but it was after all the product of the Qing government's humiliating compromise with Japan.

Later, the Japanese government distorted the "Beijing Special Agreement" and stated that Taiwan residents "had recklessly harmed Japanese subjects" and that Japan's sending troops was a "righteous act to protect the people." The Qing government had recognized that Ryukyu were Japanese subjects and Ryukyu people were Japanese subjects. The Qing government pointed out that Ryukyu was a vassal state of China, and the "people" referred to in the Beijing Special Agreement were only the people of Oda County (now Okayama County) who drifted to Taiwan in 1873 and were killed by natives, excluding the Ryukyu people who were killed in 1871.