In 1917, the news of the alliance between the United States and China profoundly shook the Japanese upper echelons. As early as January 1917, the United States had already decided to join the Entente, and in order to be able to pull China on American ships, intensive contacts were held between the two countries. The United States waited three months, and on April 9, it reached a one-year treaty with China on the "U.S.-China Defense Alliance." The treaty stipulates that in the event of a military attack by a third country, either country is obliged to send troops to help the other country and to jointly declare war on the attacking country. When one party joins an international military organization, the other is also obliged to join.

There is no doubt that the People's Party is an enemy of Japan. The United States and Japan are countries vying for dominance in the Pacific, and this conflict has been going on for nearly 20 years. In the Spanish-American War, the United States seized the Spanish colony of the Philippines, and since then it has officially intervened in the western Pacific, and the contradictions between the United States and Japan have become more and more intensified. It is absolutely impossible for the Japanese to forget the fact that the Great White Fleet of the United States passed through the port of Yokohama in 1908 on its global tour.

Japan's resounding victory in the Russo-Russian War in 1905 further expanded its influence in the Far East and the Pacific, where Japan's aggressive expansion posed a serious threat to U.S. interests. At this time, most of the main forces of the US Navy were concentrated in the Atlantic, and the fleet deployed in Asia was very weak and could not compete with Japan at all, so Roosevelt, who had always been bold and ostentatious, had no choice but to adopt a policy of retreat to avoid an open conflict with Japan in Asia.

With the formation of a confrontation between the United States and Japan in the Pacific region, the hostility between the two sides has become more and more serious. In 1906, the San Francisco School Board in California announced that it would segregate all Japanese students. When the news reached Japan, the Japanese public regarded it as a great shame and a great disgrace, and immediately set off a fierce anti-US demonstration to slander the Americans, and the Japanese Government also strongly demanded that the US Government give an explanation for this. Japanese public opinion even shouted: "The whole world knows that the poorly equipped US Army and Navy are no match for our highly combat-ready Army and Navy." Japan's Mainichi Shimbun roared: "It's easy to break America's stubborn dreams when our great admirals appear on the other side of the Pacific...... Why don't we insist on sending warships? Seeing that the conflict between the two sides was about to erupt, Roosevelt immediately persuaded the San Francisco School Board to revoke the anti-Japanese regulations, and the situation was eased.

President Roosevelt did not want to solve the problem by means of war, and if the American fleet crossed the Pacific Ocean to strike at Japan, the result would most likely be the end of the Russian Navy. So he sent the "Great White Fleet," whose hulls were all painted white, to a world tour.

Japan has adopted an attitude of "quietly observing and drawing conclusions" with regard to the "Great White Fleet." As early as when the "Great White Fleet" docked at the US port of San Francisco, the Japanese Government mobilized thousands of Japanese students in San Francisco to welcome them and sing the US national anthem in English as a sign of friendship. At the same time, Japanese officials stationed in the United States also invited the US fleet to visit Yokohama in order to further ascertain the details of the Americans.

On October 18, 1908, a fleet of 14,000 officers and men, consisting of 16 elite battleships and 7 small mine-striking ships (the predecessor of the destroyers) of the U.S. Navy, entered Yokohama, an important port of foreign visits.

When the "Great White Fleet" arrived in Yokohama, a famous Japanese military port, almost all the Japanese were amazed by the large line-up of the US Navy. Japan is starting to take this opponent seriously. American officers and soldiers "received the most friendly welcome not only by the emperor and his staff, but also by the entire country," and the celebration lasted for a whole week. In the midst of the carnival, Japan's then 61-year-old Admiral Heihachiro Togo even allowed visiting U.S. officers to throw him off the carpet into the air.

Of course, Japan could not really "welcome" its adversary in the Pacific, but could not take a posture after feeling the pressure of the powerful US Navy. Contrary to the unanimous "anti-American" public opinion in Japan before the future of the fleet, a Japanese diplomat said: "The voyage of the American fleet did not cause unhappiness and fear in Japan, and this is a guarantee of peace." The Japanese government has also changed its arrogant posture and agreed to maintain the status quo in the Pacific and respect the "open door" policy of the United States. For this reason, Roosevelt proudly declared that this circumnavigation of the world was a diplomatic "big stick policy" and a "major contribution to the cause of peace."

Now Japan's adversaries at sea are colluding with enemies on land with common strategic interests, and this cannot but make Japan feel a real panic. The two-year U.S.-China Defense Alliance treaty does not address renewal. The Japanese upper echelons continued to read and analyze the treaty again and again, trying to find any evidence that could prove that the treaty was aimed at Japan. Of course, this was not aimed at the treaty signed by Japan, and Japan naturally could not find any intention to do so.

The Americans, of course, did not care what the Japanese thought, and as soon as the world was announced to the world about this agreement tailored for World War I, the United States doubled in value. Britain and France, which had been trying to get China to join the Entente, immediately abandoned the People's Party and turned to the United States. The United States, of course, was complacent, declaring war on Germany on May 5 and joining the Entente. Under the U.S.-China Defense Alliance treaty, China immediately joined the Entente bloc and declared war on Germany.

When Japan learned the news, it finally breathed a sigh of relief. China and Japan went from being in a state of quasi-war to being allies in the same trenches. The war in Europe has been going on for three years, and no one knows how long this war will last. The Japanese side does not estimate that the war will not end within a year. At this time, the "US-China Defense Alliance" treaty had already passed its expiration date, and the United States naturally had no reason to intervene in the Sino-Japanese war, which would break out in the future.

Moreover, once the war in Europe is over, even if China and the United States have their hands freed, Japan and Britain will not be bound by the war. At that time, the situation in the Western Pacific was not necessarily more favorable to China. War may be inevitable, but as long as it can seize the advantages in the moment, Japan will not have no chance of winning.

One year after the end of the Sino-Japanese War, Takahashi was the Qing Cabinet that wantonly plundered Korea and Taiwan externally, and intensified the exploitation of the Japanese people internally. By exporting as much of every exportable commodity as possible to the Entente countries, the prices of goods purchased in the Far East fell despite the competition of the People's Party. Britain also has no intention of abandoning Japan, an important pawn, and among similar products, Britain still gives priority to Japanese goods, and Japan is quickly repaying its debts.

Takahashi understands economics, finance, and even some international politics. Naturally, the generals and colonels of the Foundation, the Gate, the War Department, and the Admiralty were extremely appreciative of Takahashi Yoshikiyo's policies. This policy, as well as the grasp of international strategic timing, allowed the Japanese ruling class to seize a great deal of monetary wealth. Not only banknotes, but Japan even got a lot of hard currency. Gold reserves have increased significantly.

What is causing Japan a headache at the moment is the huge contradictions accumulated by frenzied plunder. Compress all unnecessary expenses, and compress the interests of the lower classes. The upper echelons took advantage of Japan's policies to make a profit. In order to solve the rebellion of the people, the Japanese upper class moved a large number of landless peasants to the south and north of Korea. At the same time, it intensified its plundering of colonial Korea.

North Korea is a mining area, and every mining area is dying every day. The already scarce rations of the miners continued to be cut, and those who could not complete the mining were unable to get food that day. If you can't complete the mining amount for two days in a row, the miner will be whipped in public. Tired and hungry, wounded again, the miner soon died. In order to be able to complete the tasks assigned by the War Department, the Japanese mine owners had to take such measures frantically, using naked death threats to increase production.

When it was first implemented, it had a slight effect, and if it had not been for the resistance of North Korean patriots, it might have been able to maintain this effect. However, Korean patriots formed guerrilla groups, which took advantage of the terrain and attacked Japanese mining areas in the north. How could the Japanese War Department allow its own cash cow to suffer the slightest damage? They then organized their forces to carry out a "clean-up" policy around the mining area. All the surrounding North Korean villages were taken en masse, the men were sent to the mines, and the women were reduced to slaves to be bought and sold.

The Japanese and Korean Governor-General's Office was responsible for relocating Japanese who had moved to Korea to villages that had been swept away. The North Korea Railway Co., Ltd., which was reorganized from the Manchuria Railway Company, provided the lands of northern Korea to these landless Japanese people, and in addition to farming and paying taxes, these Japanese were organized by the "Korean Railway" for military training and assisted the army in guarding the Japanese mines. The Army got more security zones, more subordinate units. Production was stabilized again in the short term.

All the North Korean guerrillas who were arrested were brutally tortured. The vast majority of the captured partisans confessed, they pointed to the camps of the North Korean partisans. The Japanese then attacked the camps and quickly wiped out most of the Korean guerrillas.

The North Korean warriors were not intimidated, they were still fighting. After the War Department inevitably expanded the scope of Japanese mining areas in order to seize greater profits. The Korean guerrillas struck again, this time no longer with the aim of killing the Japanese and destroying the mines. The main purpose of each successful attack on the mine was to rescue the miners.

Most of these miners, who had lost everything, fled for their lives, and a few chose to join the Korean guerrillas. Most of the slaves who fled home failed to make it home, and were intercepted and executed by the Japanese. Even a small number of lucky people fled home only to find that their homes had been destroyed, leaving them completely homeless. Or not long after escaping back, he was arrested again, and it was not only the mine slave himself who suffered, but also the mine slave's entire family this time.

But this did not even make amends, and Japan's actions in the northern mining areas were finally exposed, as the North Koreans' own intelligence channels began to spread. People who were not opposed to North Korean aspirants in the first place are now beginning to support North Korean support, and those who originally chose to flee because of fear have also begun to lean towards North Korean aspirants.

And the Japanese gradually found that they had created a group of enemies for themselves who were not afraid of death. The miners who survived were in good health, especially with a strong desire to win. All the weak are already dead, and the Korean guerrillas, composed of such a group of members who only have a desire for revenge in their minds, burst out with amazing combat effectiveness.

As long as the partisans who came from the mines were fed, they could march in the mountains for days on end, and they would not let go of any fighting opportunities. To the horror of the Japanese War Department, the first Korean guerrillas to be caught would confess after a single torture. The current partisans, no matter how tortured they are, will never reveal anything. Some guerrillas were afraid that they would be captured, and some of the guerrillas could not help but confess, and even bit off their tongues after being captured.

Enraged, the Japanese War Department brutally murdered the tortured guerrillas and hung their bodies in the guerrillas-infested area. Intended to intimidate North Korean guerrillas. Later, the Japanese found that even capturing prisoners was quite a difficult thing to do. The North Korean guerrillas carried "glorious bullets" with them, and once they were captured, they did not hesitate to fire grenades and commit suicide.

In the north of Korea, North Korean guerrillas armed with Japanese-style weapons and eating food without signs on the packaging engaged in brutal battles against Japan's large army and the immigrant army under the command of "Han Tie". Although they have not yet become a climate, the Japanese army will no longer think that they can easily wipe out these people completely.

Compared to Japan's overall "booming" situation, these things are only minor problems. However, Japan was well aware that it was the People's Party that supported the Korean guerrillas, and that it was only a matter of time before a new war broke out between Japan and the People's Party. If during the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan could still rely on a large number of pro-Japanese Korean factions to fight the Qing army. In future wars, a large number of Koreans will enter the war without hesitation as the vanguard of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Therefore, Japan is very concerned about the movements of the People's Party government, which already controls half of China and is recognized by the vast majority of the world's major countries.

Regarding the upcoming First Plenary Session of the Third Central Committee of the People's Party, the Japanese are trying by all means to get the most important news. This plenary session will not only establish the leading collective of the People's Party's latest party, but also the leading collective of the People's Party government. It will also determine the structure of the People's Party government and determine the strategic direction of the People's Party in China in the future.

The movement of the People's Party is crucial for Japan.

Not only Japan, but also countries around the world, especially those in the midst of fierce wars, are extremely interested in what kind of system and policy China will adopt. As one of the top ten powers in the world in 1917, and as a new China that joined the world pattern as an equal, any decision made by this country will have an impact on the world.