The Japanese government has done its best to get the mediation of the great powers, hoping that the Lanfang Kingdom will stop attacking Japan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Japanese government has shown great grievances everywhere, claiming that this is a complete misunderstanding, and that the Japanese government has no intention of being an enemy of the Lanfang Kingdom at all, even if it has been hit hard by the Lanfang Kingdom, it has not declared war on the Lanfang Kingdom so far, and this is entirely because Japan is a peace-loving country, although it has been wronged, it still hopes to explain things clearly, and the Lanfang Kingdom will turn hostility into a jade silk, and set an example for the stability of Asia.

The greatest hope of the Japanese is that the British will come forward to mediate, after all, there is still an alliance with the British. The Japanese ambassador to London asked for a meeting with the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, and hoped that the British Empire would intervene to mediate the misunderstanding between Japan and the Kingdom of Lanfang for the sake of world peace.

Britain did not want Japan to be defeated, and wanted to use Japan to contain Russia's expansion in the Far East, and in the future, it would be even more necessary for Japan to contain the expansion of the Lanfang Kingdom, after all, the British Empire was too far away from the Far East, and there must be an obedient dog like Japan in the Far East; Besides, the strength shown by the Lanfang Kingdom really scared the British, and the dispatch of 9 new battleships and 9 battlecruisers at one time means that the world's navies are concentrated, and they are not the opponents of the Lanfang Kingdom's navy, and they must be suppressed in order to ensure the balance in Asia.

However, in order to make the Japanese honest and obedient in the future, Sir Edward Gray still reprimanded the Japanese ambassador severely, at the beginning of the war, he did not communicate with Britain, obviously felt that his wings were hard, and he did not put the British Empire in his eyes.

The Japanese ambassador could only bow vigorously and explain.

Sir Edward Grey reprimanded Wan Houhou, what should be done is still to be done, must mediate, let the Lanfang Kingdom stop attacking Japan, otherwise Japan will be beaten too badly, and it will lose its use value, because it is still unclear the attitude of the Lanfang Kingdom, Sir Edward Gray did not say anything to death, but said that he would try his best to mediate.

U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Lute explained to the Japanese ambassador to the U.S. that it was not possible to participate in mediation because he had previously issued a telegram in support of the kingdom of Lanfang because he did not know the truth.

The Japanese ambassador thought to himself, if he doesn't know the truth, he can casually publish a telegram in support of the Lanfang Kingdom? Liars! It must be determined that the Lanfang Kingdom paid what price was paid for the United States to announce the telegram. It seems that it is not easy to do without paying a certain price. So I asked again how I could get the U.S. government to intervene.

The U.S. government originally hoped to let the Lanfang Kingdom and the Japanese Empire fight to lose both, but did not take into account that the Lanfang Kingdom had hidden such a powerful naval strength, and continuously used sneak attack methods, causing Japan to suffer heavy losses, breaking the balance of power between the two sides, and directly threatening the security of the Philippine colony, and relying on Japan to contain the Lanfang Kingdom in the future, so mediation is necessary, it depends on how much the Japanese government can pay, otherwise, I don't mind the Lanfang Kingdom teaching the Japanese a hard lesson, to educate him on how to be a man in the future.

For Russia and Germany, it's purely to see the hilarious.

Originally, Russia was worried that the Lanfang Kingdom would send troops to Korea and the northeast of the Qing Dynasty to threaten the interests of its empire in the northeast, but he didn't expect them to blockade Japan, so Russia was relieved, he didn't want a stronger force than Japan to appear by his side, he was happy that Japan had been taught a lesson, so that the Japanese could also taste the taste of being attacked, how could they help mediate?

As for the Germans, they felt that the Far East was not chaotic enough, that it had not really involved Britain's energy, that it had not yet sent more troops or warships to Asia, and that Britain mediated was actually trying to save Japan and continue to contribute to the British in the future, which was not something Germany wanted to see.

As for France, I feel that the Lanfang Kingdom is too strong, so strong that it does not dare to compete with it, and I used to hope that the Lanfang Kingdom would have a war with Japan, and the Lanfang Kingdom would not have the energy to find trouble with the Indian colonies, but now it seems that if the Lanfang Kingdom is freed up, it will be troublesome, and it is best to save Japan and join forces with Japan to defend the Lanfang Kingdom. The change in the thinking of the French made the British happy that they had finally found common ground with the French.

After receiving the telegram from their own countries, the ambassadors of various countries in Shangjing in the Kingdom of Lanfang also began to think of various countermeasures, all of which wanted to strive for more interests for their own countries.

Among the great powers with interests in the Far East, the most active were Britain and France; The United States maintains neutrality on the surface, but secretly it is still of the same mind as Britain and France, supports mediation, and does not kill Japan; Germany and Russia are dragging their feet and do not support mediation, hoping to beat Japan as badly as possible.

In particular, the Japanese ambassador also wanted the Lanfang Kingdom to compensate for Japan's losses and withdraw from the island of Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands as soon as possible.

The news that the great powers were preparing to interfere in mediation was reported to Zhang Wei, who, while discussing countermeasures with Li Zhaoshui and others, sent a telegram to Lu Weimin asking how to deal with it.

Lu Weimin quickly replied, now that the troops of Kyushu Island are empty, and the Kumamoto Division and the Kurume Division are all buried at the bottom of the sea, they can occupy Kyushu Island first, which is the biggest bargaining chip when negotiating; At the same time, only one 7th Division was left in Hokkaido to recuperate, and at that time this division had only 1,000 people left when it attacked Arthur, and it is estimated that it has not yet recovered its combat effectiveness, and it is also possible to take Hokkaido and South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands; It is up to His Majesty to decide whether to occupy Japan's territory first or to attack Korea first.

Zhang Wei sent a telegram to Zheng Daoyou and Hua Guoqiang, saying that if the foreign powers interfered, they would drag it out first, and a new battlefield would be opened up here as soon as possible.

After Hua Guoqiang received Zhang Wei's telegram, he first sent someone to find Streesmann, the German ambassador to Beijing, and the two had a brief meeting. Stressmann told Hua Guoqiang about the British ambassador's presiding over the talks and the Japanese government's request. Hua Guoqiang said with a smile: "This is not bad enough for him, he has not yet felt the power of the Lanfang Kingdom, you must know that the East Asia Pacific is small, and it can only accommodate a big country, and the Lanfang Kingdom and Japan will definitely not be able to coexist." ”

Strasmann was very satisfied with Hua Guoqiang's attitude, which was exactly what he and the German government wanted to see, and the more intense the war on the Asian side, the more it would attract the attention of the great powers and reduce the pressure on Germany. Mr. Straesmann also said he would do everything he could to sabotage their mediation plan.

On the 29th, the British ambassador could not find a reasonable mediation plan, so he went to visit Hua Guoqiang alone, hoping to touch the hole cards of the Lanfang Kingdom first.

Hua Guoqiang did not communicate too much with the British ambassador, but said that this war was completely provoked by the Japanese government, and they assassinated the Americans and blamed the Lanfang Kingdom, hoping that the Lanfang Kingdom would have a war with the United States, and they could profit from it, but we have evidence; It is not impossible to mediate, the Kingdom of Lanfang is a peace-loving country, and hopes that there will never be war in the world and that countries will always live in peace with each other; Now that Japan has provoked the matter, and it can't defeat the Lanfang Kingdom and wants to mediate, then let them show sincerity, let's see the attitude of the Japanese government, and then we can decide.

In the following days, the Lanfang Kingdom did not continue to bomb the Japanese mainland.

The attitude of the Lanfang Kingdom made the British Empire very satisfied, and it summoned the ambassadors of various countries to discuss the mediation plan.

It's just that they don't know yet, this is just a moment of calm before the storm comes, and the Lanfang Kingdom is preparing to give the kingdoms a bigger surprise. (To be continued.) )