In fact, Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Taro is not completely sure about this interference in China, and his way of solving the problem is to create a new problem, and this new problem is to interfere in China's internal affairs. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info The Japanese think very interestingly, in their opinion, a difficult problem can be covered by another, and as long as people look away, then the first problem is already nothing. This is just like in World War II, in order to occupy Northeast China, we must declare war on China, in order to defeat China, we must occupy Southeast Asia, in order to occupy Southeast Asia, we must declare war on Britain, in order to declare war on Britain, we must provoke the United States, and in order to provoke the United States, we must ally with Germany......

Fortunately, before World War I, Japan, the battle between land and sea has not yet become white-hot, the climax of the Japanese Army Red Deer (bastard) Navy Red Deer was during World War II, taking the landing of naval aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft as an example, the Japanese Army airfield did not allow naval carrier-based aircraft to use the army airfield, and when the Army decided to go north to attack the Soviet Union, the Navy took the initiative to provoke the British and forced the Army to turn its energy to the Southeast Asian theater. (There is also a saying that the Battle of Nomenkan made the Japanese Army change to Sovietophobia, but it is undeniable that the Japanese Army made a decision, and the Navy was an important leg and secretly kicked it.) ）

After all, Katsura Taro's rival Gonbei Yamamoto was born in the navy and was deeply supported by the Japanese chaebol, and what Katsura Taro relied on was nothing more than the main battle faction in the army and navy and the radicals in the country. Even among Katsura Taro's supporters, because Yamamoto Gonbei, as the former No. 2 person in the Japanese Navy, gradually received more naval support, so only the army remained loyal to Katsura Taro.

In this military operation against Jiangbei, Katsura Taro actually promised the navy that after obtaining Nantong from Jiangsu, the Japanese Army and the Japanese Navy would face each other across the Yangtze River and better serve the Empire. Of course, if this was only a condition, Katsura Taro would not be able to get the full support of the Japanese Navy, and he privately promised to increase military spending for the Navy, and assured Yamamoto that he would support Yamamoto Gonbei as Prime Minister of Japan after his term of office ended.

Yamamoto Gonbei immediately found Saionji Gongwang and stated the matter to him, Saionji Gongwang was silent for a moment and then said to Yamamoto Gonbei: "Now the empire has no money for him to squander, the Russo-Japanese War has caused a serious deficit in our treasury, I am not against the war against China, but where does this money come from." ”

Gonbei Yamamoto said: "We cannot be sure whether the war against China will be good or bad, but it is an indisputable fact that the Japanese Empire has repeatedly fought wars against China and obtained a lot of money from it. Actually, if it weren't for the obstruction of the great powers, we would have done it against China a long time ago, and now that Katsura Taro can use this opportunity to blackmail China again, I think this is an opportunity. ”

"It must not turn into an all-out war." Xiyuan Temple Gongwang said worriedly.

"Absolutely not."

Of course, Katsura Taro will not let a local war evolve into a full-scale war, first, the current international situation does not allow it, and second, Japan has no money for him to fight a full-scale war, and now only the governor of Korea and the governor of Taiwan support him to do anything against China, he can only mobilize three divisions in Japan, he can lead a wing in Taiwan, and he can mobilize a division in Korea, but even the strength of four and a half divisions is nearly 100,000 people, and the cost of one-time transfer is huge. It was decided to form a wing with the Japanese militia in Shanghai and transfer a wing from Taiwan to forcibly seize the Langshan Port in Nantong by relying on naval artillery.

After the plan was completed, Katsura Taro immediately negotiated with Britain, France, Germany, Russia and other powers, hoping to get their support, and explained that he absolutely did not mean to occupy Nantong, but tightly intervened in Jiangbei to help Yuan Shikai eliminate the hateful nationalist Wang Yongan's forces. The elimination of Wang Yongan's forces has become the consensus of the imperialist powers in China, after all, Wang Yongan's business field has already competed with the business of the foreign powers in China, and if Wang Yongan continues to grow, then the companies he supports can use nationalism to talk about the business of the foreign powers.

The Chinese are patriotic, not only when the nation is in danger, but even if the motherland is prosperous and powerful in later generations, when South Korea builds the THAAD missile system against eastern China, the Chinese people can spontaneously organize a movement to boycott South Korea (except for brain-dead stick fans), which shows that the vast majority of Chinese people are nationalists.

Katsura Taro knew that Britain was the boss of the world today, and Britain had always believed that the Yangtze River valley and the area south of the Yangtze River were Britain's sphere of influence, so Britain would never allow the Japanese to develop their influence south of the Yangtze River and the Yangtze River valley. Katsura Taro solemnly stated that Japan will absolutely not endanger the interests of other countries in China, and he respects British forces in China. The lobbying of the British took the longest time, and it took a month and a half for the British to reluctantly accept, but they demanded that the Japanese standing division not be allowed to enter China, and that the Japanese could use the colonial army, reserve forces, and militia units to deter the Jiangbei Army by force, and teach the arrogant nationalist Wang Yongan some lessons, and it was best to bring down his government.

After the British supported Japan's actions, Katsura Taro could not wait to announce substantial sanctions against Kohoku, and then urgently communicated with the other powers, in which Germany and the United States clearly objected, and the two forces opposed it for only one reason, that is, to prevent Japan's influence in China from affecting their interests too much - in other words, they did not fear any bad consequences for China, or uphold justice, but simply because they feared that their own interests would be damaged.

Katsura Taro sent Foreign Minister (Foreign Minister) Takaaki Kato to communicate with all parties and throw out various interests, hoping that all countries in China would benefit, but now that the Qing government is about to fall, if the great powers do not take the opportunity to take some benefits, how can they be worthy of the status of politicians of various countries.

On the other hand, Katsura Taro summoned the Minister of the Army, Yasuyoshi Kigoshi, the Minister of the Navy, Minoru Saito, and the Chief of Staff of the General Staff, Yoshimichi Hasegawa, to discuss the action against China, and found Aritomo Yamagu, hoping that Yamakutomo would convince the emperor that the younger emperor, Emperor Taisho, had just ascended the throne, and it would be better if there was a war to celebrate his accession.

With regard to the Chinese side, Katsura Taro demanded that the Chinese staff in China continue to put pressure on the Qing government, the southern government, and the Jiangbei government, demanding that all parties punish the Jiangbei army extremely severely, and must compensate Japan for its losses, and especially demand that the Chinese side apologize for this. In the end, the Japanese side put forward an unacceptable demand: As the leader of the Jiangbei Army, Wang Yongan must personally go to Japan and kneel down to apologize to the families of the Japanese instructors.

Let's not talk about whether Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen can manage Wang Yongan, just let Wang Yongan go to Japan to kneel and apologize, he can't accept this humiliating request. It can be seen from this that the Japanese side does not really want to negotiate to solve the problem, but wants to provoke a dispute to humiliate its opponent.