The negotiations with Yuben dragged on for another half a month, and Li Shengguo raised the amount of compensation he was willing to pay to 10 million taels, while Nakano Saburo had no choice but to reduce the amount to 8,000 customs taels.

The price of the two sides is still very different, and the British and American political axes believe that the compensation of 1,000 customs taels is already very fair, and they gradually lose their patience, and they begin to realize that the ideal compensation of the empire cannot be obtained at the negotiating table, and only by winning a battle can the Fujian autonomous political axe succumb to it.

On August 16, he withdrew from the talks, expressed his dissatisfaction in a note to Britain and the United States, and threatened to start a new war in Asia.

Britain and the United States saw that they were determined to start a war, and immediately warned them, but this could not change the determination of the political axe, and when the political axe was about to make a decision, Li Shengguo suddenly offered to compensate 30 million customs taels.

This decision immediately changed the situation, and he thought that the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe was really afraid, and returned to the negotiating table, and Nakano Saburo couldn't help but be angry. Since the Fujian Autonomous Government is afraid, will the compensation of 80 million customs taels be far away?

The quarrel between the two sides unfolded again, Li Shengguo stubbornly bit the bottom line of 30 million customs taels, and Nakano Saburo also bit the bottom line of 80 million customs taels and refused to let go.

Seeing that there was no progress after the negotiations began, he began to urge Nakano Saburo to act quickly, and Nakano Saburo replied: The negotiators of the Shina people are very difficult, but the Great Empire will soon achieve its goal.

In the past few days, when Li Shengguo was negotiating, he often had snot and used a large basket of paper, and finally on the third day, Li Shengguo suddenly couldn't hold it anymore and announced that the negotiations were suspended for three days.

In fact, Li Shengguo didn't have any, but he couldn't eat spicy, and when he ate spicy, he had a snot flow, so he had some chili pepper in his mouth and pretended to be very decent, and others thought he was really sick when they saw it.

While Li Shengguo was delaying time, Xia Jun launched a new round of army expansion.

The second and third divisions of Fujian will be added to this expansion, and these two divisions will be composed of second-line troops composed of militia, and these two divisions will be mainly used to assist the first division in defending against a landing battle that may be carried out at any time.

At the same time, two temporary divisions and regiments of the Fourth and Fifth Divisions were added to fight in Fujian at any time and expand their territory.

The second and third divisions temporarily belong to the establishment of the second-line troops, so the establishment is not complete, the size of a division is more than 10,000 people, and the equipment is not so complete, but machine guns and snipers are equipped, all infantry weapons are replaced with M1 Garand, and individual equipment is on par with the first division.

The 4th and 5th Provisional Divisions were temporary units that would be disbanded after the war, with only one machine-gun platoon per division. However, because it was necessary to attack the city, each division was equipped with a cannon company, which could blast through the city wall, and there was only one squad of artillery in the artillery company, and the others were all temporarily pulled.

In addition, the armed forces departments in various localities organized the militias that had not been conscripted into more than 100 battalions, and Xia Jun also issued another 100,000 Mauser rifles to the armed forces, and the rifle factories distributed freshly made Mauser rifles every day.

The U.S. political axe is the only party in this negotiation that knows that the Fujian autonomous political axe is insincere, but they will not tell the political axe, they know that the Fujian autonomous political axe is preparing to meet the capital, not only sold Xia Jun a Chuntian rifle production line, but also gave him a discount to export smokeless gunpowder for the manufacture of bullets, the raw materials for the manufacture of bullets only need smokeless gunpowder, and the others are not needed, and the bullets manufactured by the Jian'an Arsenal are made of steel shells.

The whole of Fujian was suddenly filled with the smell of gunpowder, and the militia training on the ground became more frequent, and the training was concentrated on the scale of a company.

In mid-August, the strength of the four divisions had been assembled, and weapons had been issued, these militias were trained, not without foundation, but it was impossible to say that they were elite, but these militiamen had good marksmanship, thanks to the abundant supply of bullets, and bayonets could also fight.

With such a strong smell of gunpowder, the political axe was quickly detected by the spy of the spies, and the political axe suddenly discovered that the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe was ready to launch a national war.

With four newly formed divisions, a mysterious main division, and militia everywhere, it is said that the political axe is in a dilemma for a while.

If a local war is launched, it is estimated that it is useless to send one or two divisions to this political axe, but if more divisions are sent, how much will be invested? How much will be lost? What will be the return?

Within a month, Xia Jun expanded his military strength to 50,000 men, and at the same time, the number of militia continued to expand.

At present, planting one season of grain is equivalent to planting two seasons, and there is so much grain that if there is a full-scale war, Xia Jun can even consume Xiao Yueben in Fujian.

The agent found that the equipment of the local militia was not as good as the equipment, most of them were Mauser rifles, and some Chuntian rifles.

Why does the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe have so many firearms?

He was obviously very surprised, and naturally immediately thought of the Americans, who thought that it was the American political axe that aided the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe firearms.

What made Yue Ben feel even more uneasy was that the number of militia in Fujian was increasing day by day, and according to the information discovered by a spy agent, the militia of Fujian's autonomous political axe will be expanded to 200 battalions within one month and 300 battalions within two months, forming a scale of 150,000 militia.

With the four infantry divisions of the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe, plus the mysterious Fujian First Division, and 150,000 militiamen, it was not so easy for the two divisions to win the victory, although the confidence of the Fujian Axe is still there, but it is not ruled out that they will fall into a quagmire.

After all, the terrain of Fujian is relatively special, and fighting there is conducive to defense, and at the same time, he does not think that taking Fujian will bring them any benefits.

Although the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe has made a high-yield crop, it is said that the political axe has stolen hundreds of kilograms of seeds through spies, and these seeds are growing luxuriantly! It is said that the agricultural take-off of this empire is imminent. Obviously, he didn't know that these seeds could only be planted for one season, and if the seeds of the second season were not cultivated, they would not even be able to germinate.

Let the Fujian Autonomous Political Axe Indemnity become the best result of the political axe, and then focus on the negotiation table again.

The negotiation in Xiamen did not go as smoothly as Saburo Nakano expected, and Li Shengguo either fell ill today, or tomorrow he was pulling conditions everywhere on the price of the book.

It was said that the Fujian Autonomous Government would compensate 80 million customs taels, but it would have to be paid off in 50 years, and the Fujian Autonomous Government had no money, so it was necessary to allocate an interest-free loan for its development, and then pay it back when there was money.

What kind of strong logic is this?

Pay in fifty years, the daylilies are cold, and then there is a need to allocate funds for their development?

Nakano Saburo naturally didn't agree, and as soon as he didn't agree, Li Shengguo restored the price to the level of 30 million customs taels, and Nakano Saburo didn't agree......

The time dragged on until the end of August, and at this time, the special agents discovered that the Fujian Autonomous Government had begun to build fortifications along the coast, not only along the coast, but also in the inland mountainous areas, forming two lines of defense.

The first line of defense is the place where the coastal areas may be landed, and where construction teams are present to build fortifications. Fortifications in the mountainous areas of the interior are easier to build, and fortifications are being built in all passes with steep terrain.

At this time, Fujian had completely turned into a powder keg, the government was building fortifications, the people were participating in military training, and every village was issuing weapons.

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The third update!

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