130 years ago today, on February 13, 1895 (January 19, 1895 lunar calendar), the Qing government sent Li Hongzhang to Japan to negotiate peace in the Sino-Japanese War. Li Hongzhang On February 13, 1895, the Qing government appointed Li Hongzhang as the "first-class minister with full powers" to negotiate peace in Japan. After the Sino-Japanese War in Pyongyang, the Yellow Sea, Lushun, and Northeast China, the Qing government was eager to make peace and agreed to the Japanese request to send Li Hongzhang, who was "one-minded peace", to negotiate peace. On March 14, Li Hongzhang and his son Li Jingfang, the American consultant Kosda, left Tianjin for Japan. On the 20th, they started negotiations with Japanese Prime Minister Hirowen Ito and Foreign Minister Lu Ao Zongguang at the Spring Fan Building in Maguan, Japan. On the 30th, the two sides concluded an armistice agreement. On April 17, the Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed.