Chapter 559: Aftermath
The signing of the "Manchu-Korean Friendship Treaty" marked that Korea officially became the source of raw materials and the dumping place of industrial products in North Manchuria, and it was also the exclusive territory of North Manchuria. Pi Runmin eagerly announced the treaty to the world, declaring North Manchuria's control over Korea. Although Korea is still a subject state of the Qing Dynasty, North Manchuria has also become the big brother of North Korea, and in the future, North Korea will continue its policy of seclusion, only developing the Qing Dynasty and North Manchuria, and anyone who wants to fight the idea of North Korea will have to bear the double blow of Goxinga and Emperor Tongzhi.
It doesn't matter if the Koreans worship a father and a big brother, although they lost the port of Busan, they got a large area of fertile land. Moreover, they have not yet seen how sovereignty has been damaged, and they have seen the railways and fresh industrial products invested in North Manchuria, and it will be more convenient to go to various parts of North Manchurian to work in the future. The wealth was rolling in, so whether it was a dignitary or a rural commoner, they all felt that it was a good choice to throw themselves into Manchuria.
Russia is naturally very unhappy that Goxinga has taken control of the Korean Peninsula, but they themselves have just been beaten to death, and they have no right to speak in the Far East, and they can only be unhappy at home. The British were also worried about the further expansion of North Manchuria, but they could not afford to go to Goxinga for the sake of a poor North Korea, so they could only continue to think of bad tricks at home to see if they could find another stunned person to come out. The French were a little interested in North Korea, but they were still busy suppressing Prussia in Europe, and they couldn't afford to provoke the Far Eastern overlord Goxinga, so they had to wait for the autumn queen to settle accounts.
The United States, which has been ordered to go to the side by Northern Manchurian several times, has no leisure to pay attention to the Far East now. Alaska, which they had been talking to the Russians for many years, was robbed by Goshinga, and they didn't have time to pay attention to it, let alone North Korea. The Americans are already very annoyed by their own people beating their own people, and the Yin Shang Mutual Aid Alliance on the West Coast is a headache for them. Moreover, there have been rumors recently that the Indians want to build an Eastern Commercial Republic, and the Americans, who are a mess in their own homes, naturally do not bother to meddle with other people's affairs.
The Qing court has no opinions, they all have the rights of Guoxing'a in Korea, and Korea is still a subject country of the Qing Dynasty, what other opinions can they have. The most critical thing is that as soon as Bo Ritu made a move, Aguba was beaten back to Xinjiang, allowing North Korea to successfully recover Gansu. The imperial court, which had to beg Goxinga to do things, could only pretend to be deaf and dumb for Goxinga's invasion of North Korea.
The biggest victim of Gohinga's invasion of Korea was neither the Qing Dynasty nor the Great Powers, but the island nation of Japan, which was trying to renovate. The Japanese archipelago is small and poor, and it has been closed off from the rest of the country for more than 200 years, and now the poor are about to lose their scum. Trade with Korea has always been an important source of revenue for Japan, and the Tsushima Strait is one of Japan's lifelines.
After Emperor Meiji ascended the throne a few years ago, he announced that the royal government would be revived, and as a result, he played a bag on the matter of trade with Korea. In Japan's announcement to Korea, words such as "皇" and "敕" appeared in the document announcing the "royal government" to Korea, which could only be used by Chinese emperors, but this angered the Koreans who valued etiquette and religion. In order to maintain Confucian law and show their loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, the Joseon monarch decisively severed all ties with Japan. As soon as the trade between Korea was cut off, poor Japan was ruined, and the finances, which were already on the verge of bankruptcy, were completely declared to be in good shape. The stubborn Japanese could only rely on smuggling to hold on, and they were ready to send troops to teach the Koreans a lesson as soon as the war at home was over.
As soon as the "Manchu-Korean Friendship Treaty" came out, everything was ruined by the Japanese. First of all, the port of Pusan became Manchurian territory, and the Manchurians began to build a military port in Busan, which was equivalent to sealing the Tsushima Strait, and the Japanese did not even have to do smuggling, which made Japan's finances even worse. The second is that the conquest of Korea has basically failed, and the Japanese are thinking that they will conquer all of Asia in the future, but they know very well that within one or two decades, they will definitely not be able to defeat the little overlord of East Asia, Guoxinga. Korea has become a forbidden place for Goxinga, and the Japanese will have nothing to play, not only will their important financial resources be cut off, but they will also have no springboard for attacking the mainland in the future.
Whether or not they can steal Korea and then fight a decisive battle with Manchuria outside the Kansai is not the focus of the Japanese at the moment, but how to solve the financial problem is the key for them. The War of the Fall of the Curtain lasted for more than half a year, and Japan, which had a thin family foundation, was on the verge of bankruptcy. Now that Korea is no longer a financial route, how to continue the war that follows is the main point that the Meiji government will consider. Although Tokugawa Keiki, who resembled the spy and sold all the belongings of the shogunate for 200 years, the Tohoku feudal clans did not stop. Matsudaira Rongho has entangled more than 20 feudal states, and he has to fight to the death with the government army in the Ou area, and there is no money, so this battle is not easy to fight!
In his early years, Goxinga cultivated a large number of arms dealers led by Ma San and Great Peter, and they did not ignore the aggressive Japanese, as early as the Tokugawa Ieshige era, they began to make arms into Japan with their lives. In this battle of Toba Fushimi, the government army equipped with British equipment suffered a lot in the hands of the shogunate army equipped with Manchurian equipment, and although it was won in the end, the losses of the Chosu, Satsuma and other feudal domains were not small. Although Matsudaira Rongbo's Aizu Domain did not rely on the harbor, he somehow got on the line with the Manchurians, and the Manchurians took great care of him. With the current Manchurian equipment of the Aizu Army, and even machine guns and Jinki-style artillery, it is not easy for the government army to deal with the alliance of the Ou-Etsu domains led by the Aizu domain.
Minoru Sanjo, Iwakura Gushi and other important ministers of the Meiji era, sent Okubo Ritsu to Changchun, ready to communicate with Pi Runmin. It would be better to meet with Goxinga and demand that Goxinga stop arms exports to the traitors and open up trade with Japan. It's a pity that Okubo Ritsu didn't have a chance to enter Changchun at all, he was treated extremely unfairly in Dalian, not to mention Pi Runmin, he didn't even see a cabinet official, and Zheng Qifeng, who was in Dalian, didn't see him. A petty officer of the customs sent him away, and his attitude was very bad. Because of the fact that Japanese fishermen had come to the aid of the Russian army during the Manchurian-Russian War, North Manchuria refused all official exchanges with the Japanese government. As for Okubo Ritsu's request, the North Manchurian side didn't even look at it, and directly rejected all of them.
When the Japanese monarch and ministers were angry with the arrogance of the North Manchurian government and used a small notebook to record the black account of Guoxing, an even more terrifying person entered Japan. Asano Munehide, who had just been awarded the rank of major general in North Manchuria, returned to his hometown and returned to his hometown of Nihonmatsu Domain, preparing to take a group of cronies to take the family to Manchuria to enjoy happiness. Emperor Meiji didn't know how harmful this number one Japanese traitor was, otherwise he would have sent someone to kill this traitor as soon as possible.