Chapter 619: Rushing to declare war on Japan
The North Manchurian cabinet has always been uninterested in conquering Japan, and their recent theme is to develop the country and digest the huge war dividends obtained last time. And if there is time for external expansion, the cabinet also prefers to target South America, where there are abundant products and vast land, and the benefits can be greater.
The dead-eyed Guoxinga stared at Japan, the cabinet is completely incomprehensible, this small and poor broken place, it really has no value, wouldn't it be good to make them vassals like Korea or the Republic of Lanfang, why do you have to conquer them! Moreover, the Japanese are also very admiring of everything in Manchuria, how good it is to directly export culture, and then control the Japanese government, the cost is definitely much lower than starting a war. Even though Sunok's "Japan Observation Report" affirmed Japan's strategic significance, the cabinet was still not interested in Japan, and they still wanted to follow the North Korean model, which was much cheaper. But the mercenary spy incident has completely changed the thinking of the cabinet, and these dwarves are really wolf ambitions!
The attitude of the cabinet changed, and Guo Xing'a had always wanted to clean up Japan, and the overall strategy of North Manchukuo towards Japan was decided. At the end of the mercenary incident, Taiwan had just started a commotion, but North Manchuria did not react immediately, and Guo Xing'a insisted that his golden finger was one of them, and the consultation between the cabinet and the General Staff Headquarters was the second one. After everything was settled and calculated, Luan Yu rushed into the prime minister's yamen like a debtor, and then began to lash out at Okubo Litong like a wrongdoer.
"Don't do pointless disputes, let's talk about the business at hand!" Luan Yu used the mercenary incident to point to Okubo Ritsu, and then pulled the topic back.
"If your envoy is sincere, it is not impossible to be contemptible!" Okubo's face was ugly, he was thinking about his bottom line in his heart, but he also knew that the intervention of North Manchukuo would doom Japan to not take advantage, and he might even suffer a loss.
"Apologies, withdrawal of troops, reparations, withdrawal of puppet officials, etc., our side's demands are probably only four of these." Luan Yu didn't even bring a negotiation draft, he came empty-handed, and Okubo Litong suspected that his demands were made up.
"There is nothing wrong with withdrawing troops, but it is really unreasonable to apologize, my Japanese empire hangs the people for the crime, it is really a righteous act, how can there be an apology, and the reparations are even more nonsense, and it is the proper meaning of your country to provide compensation for the people who died in our country!" Okubo Ritsu had thought that Luan Yu was not good, but he didn't expect Luan Yu to be so ruthless, and directly turned over the results of his previous negotiations. Moreover, Okubo Ritsu misunderstood one thing, he thought that the puppet official that Luan Yu asked him to withdraw was a Japanese official in Taiwan, so he did not answer alone.
"I repeat, Ryukyu is my Chinese vassal, and it has nothing to do with you at all, and it is not your turn to hang the people and fight crimes, please don't be sentimental." Luan Yu still attaches great importance to details, especially some major matters involving principles, which he has to emphasize again and again.
"What about the withdrawal of the puppet officials? Please reply immediately! "Luan Yu is aggressive, of course this is very important to him, he doesn't want Okubo to fool him.
"All the explorers who went to Taiwan will return with the army!" Okubo Ritsu quickly calculated in his heart that if he withdrew his troops like this, Japan would be working in vain, but it was not easy to get benefits from Luan Yu.
"I'm talking about Ryukyu, Japan must recall all the invaders in Ryukyu, Ryukyu is a vassal of my Celestial Empire, how can you and other small states be reckless!" Luan Yu knew that Okubo Ritsu would definitely forget to think about the Ryukyus, but he had to explain this matter as soon as possible, and now there are many times when Okubo Ritsu is playing.
"What? It has been more than 200 years since the Ryukyus were subsumed into Japan, how can it be ......?" Okubo Ritsu jumped up directly, Taiwan did not get it, and did not take advantage of it, but lost the Ryukyus, how could the Japanese accept this kind of thing.
"There is nothing to talk about today's affairs, and I am not here to make some meaningless arguments with you, our demands have been made, and you can say it but with or without permission!" Luan Yu directly interrupted the angry Okubo Ritsu, and then directly announced his bottom line.
Luan Yu's previous performance can be described as rude and arrogant, but now it has directly become domineering, not only Okubo Ritsu opened his mouth wide and couldn't answer, but even the Qing officials who had been watching the excitement on the side were also a little overwhelmed. Although Okubo was treacherous, he had been polite and extremely humble for 40 days, and although the two sides were opponents at the negotiating table, there were still some Qing officials who praised Okubo as a humble gentleman. Luan Yu is his own person, but this own person is not liked. Luan Yu is arrogant, and he often shows people with a mean demeanor when he encounters trouble, which is really difficult for people to like him.
"Damn, it's more domineering than Su Liu!" People always like to sympathize with the weak, so some fools sympathize with the Japanese. And Luan Yu is still familiar to them, and Su Shun often shows people with this face, which makes people feel like they are stuck in their throats and extremely uncomfortable.
"Might is right!" Yi Xin's heart also flowed through a famous sentence that Guo Xing'a said to him, looking at the sweaty Okubo Ritsu, Yi Xin was very touched by this sentence.
It is difficult to break down the Ryukyu issue clearly, the Chinese feudal Ryukyu has a long history, but there is a Ming and Qing Dynasty alternate in the middle, and the Qing Dynasty became the suzerainty of the Ryukyus seems to be really later than the Satsuma Domain invaded the Ryukyus. But today Luan Yu didn't think about wasting saliva with Okubo Ritsu at all, I said that what is mine is mine, everything is so simple. North Manchuria kicked John Bull in the south of the British Empire, and punched the woolly bear Russia in the north, so North Manchuria said that Ryukyu was the Qing Dynasty, then Ryukyu must be the Qing Dynasty, and Japan had no room for argument.
Northern Manchukuo is now helping the Qing Dynasty, which is naturally a good thing for the Qing monarchs, but Yi Xin still has a trace of worry in his heart, if Northern Manchukuo turns the gun one day, what can he do? Guo Xinga said that if you want to occupy North Korea, you will occupy North Korea, and if you want to swallow Ryukyu, you will swallow Ryukyu, if one day Guo Xinga wants to be the emperor of this world? What ability does the Qing have to resist Guoxinga? "The Westernization Movement still has to be carried out! Even if you can't defeat Guoxinga and take back the hometown of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty again, you can't let Guoxinga develop in Guannei anymore. Yi Xin secretly made up her mind.
"The Great Japanese Empire is not a fish to be slaughtered, and there is no reason to pay reparations or apologize, and the Ryukyus are even more vassal states of the Great Japanese Empire, and there is absolutely no possibility of ceding them. Looking at the world, the "Public Law of Nations" stipulates...... "Okubo Ritsu will not insist on it, and if he retreats, the next step for Northern Manchukuo will definitely be to invade the Japanese mainland."
"Needless to say, you just don't agree! It's enough for you to say you don't agree, and you don't have to say anything superfluous! Luan Yu rudely interrupted Okubo again.
"Your envoy is too arrogant! There is no justice in shaking the world! How could the British and French countries sit idly by and watch your country behave like a bully! Okubo also knew that Japan's family background was too low at the moment, so he counted on the Western powers.
"You don't have to say any more, one word of disagreement is enough!" Luan Yu didn't want to talk nonsense with Okubo at all, he was ready to directly announce the final answer, but at this time, the soldiers who didn't dare to stop him just now came in to report the news, and the North Korean envoy asked to see him outside the door.
The Korean envoys came at this time, which is a very ignorant behavior, and the dignitaries of the suzerainty are talking to outsiders! They came running around and guessing what was going on. Yi Xin had the intention to let the North Koreans go cool, but after looking at Luan Yu, who suddenly appeared, Yi Xin still gave up this plan, North Manchu has a huge right to speak in North Korea, maybe this North Korean envoy was arranged by Luan Yu to help him, so Yi Xin still agreed to let him in for Luan Yu's face. Luan Yu was also confused, he came to give Okubo an ultimatum by himself, and he didn't know where North Korea came from.
Choi Yi-hyun, the envoy of the DPRK, was a cadre under Concubine Min, and he was the first to deal with Li Yuying, the monarch of the courtyard. After Cui Yixuan entered the lobby, he first saluted the dignitaries of the Qing Dynasty very respectfully, and was even more thoughtful and outrageous to Luan Yu. After some extremely tedious bowing, Choi Yi-hyun turned his face to Okubo Ritsu, and then there was a storm.
After throwing off the words "crazy villain", "thief", "shameless" and so on, Choi Yi-hyun fished out the most dry benefits: "Recently, I heard that the Japanese slaves of Mishima were rampant, and they invaded the Ryukyus, a subject country of the Celestial Empire, and even took advantage of the Celestial Empire's leniency and tolerance to further encroach on Taiwan, which is really unbearable!" Our Korea has always been a vassal of the Celestial Empire, and it has been loyal for two hundred years, and in recent years, it has received the full assistance of the Celestial Empire and Northern Manchuria. Therefore, in accordance with the decree of the king of Korea, I will officially declare war on Japan by borrowing the treasure land of the Celestial Empire, so as to beg this ungrateful country and do my best for the Celestial Empire! ”
North Manchuria had gathered a large number of soldiers in the port of Busan, and the East China Sea Fleet was also rearming for war, so the Koreans naturally knew the news that North Manchuria was going to take action against Japan. In the event of a war anywhere in the world, North Korea has to stay away, but if it beats Japan, the North Koreans are duty-bound, and it is almost the same if the two sides do not say that they have a feud. What's more, this time there are two big brothers, Northern Manchu and Daqing, and the North Koreans will have no pressure. The people's hearts are available, and Concubine Min also has to show it in front of Guoxing'a, so she sent a messenger to join in the excitement. The original plan was to wait for North Manchuria and the Qing Dynasty to declare war first, and then Choi Yi-hyun followed up to gain momentum, but it was not thought that Choi Yi-hyun had no good time, and North Korea became the first country to declare war on Japan, robbing the limelight of the two big brothers.
"Huh! The king of Joseon is loyal and courageous, and he is really an example of the Qing Dynasty! "Yi Xin is very embarrassed, what is this called!
"Go back! I, North Manchuria, also officially declared war on Japan! Luan Yu was even more embarrassed, he almost declared war just now.
Choi Yi-hyun doesn't know what happened to the two eldest brothers, but Okubo Ritsu is already demented, Japan is in trouble this time, he really didn't expect that North Manchurian was not ready to talk at all, and people were just rushing to call.