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For a prime minister who is about to leave office and has publicly announced that he will not run for the next prime minister, life should be quite comfortable. No one went to deliberately confront Takahashi Shiqing, and no one bothered Takahashi Shiqing because of urgent state affairs. Anyway, the most urgent thing in Japan right now is the selection of the next prime minister.

Takahashi also had no intention of retiring from politics, and various forces, including the Imperial Palace, the War Department, the Navy Department, and the Parliament, all sent messages to Takahashi Shiqing, hoping that Takahashi would become the Minister of Finance after Kiyoshi stepped down as prime minister. Theoretically, Takahashi would just have to wait for him to bow down and go to the Ministry of Finance to continue doing what he does best.

However, things are not so simple, Takahashi is Kiyoshi wants to spend the last few days of his prime minister's term easily, and political things are still coming in a row.

Takahashi is the biggest difference between Kiyoshi and other politicians is their way of solving problems, and the current mainstream thinking in Japan has a strong characteristic, that is, solving domestic problems abroad. Since several countries around Japan are truly great powers, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, and even the United States, which is desperately trying to penetrate the western Pacific, each country is stronger than Japan. In addition to Britain, China, Russia, and the United States are all hostile to Japan. Most politicians in Japan believe that Japan must expand in order to be stable, and that Japan must seize every opportunity to do so.

Therefore, Takahashi himself is a minority in Japanese politics, and it is not that he does not support expansion, but that expansion should be subordinated to the pace of Japan's resolution of internal problems, rather than that all activities in Japan should be subordinated to the needs of expansion.

So several things that were put in front of Japanese Prime Minister Takahashi were full of controversy. The first thing is about the question of Kolchak's eastward direction. Despite the lack of coordination, the Entente had an agreement on attacking Russia. Winston Churchill, who served as British War Secretary during the siege of Soviet Russia, claimed after the operation that he was the organizer of the "Fourteen Nation Attack" on the Soviet Republic.

China and the United States could not pee on Churchill's and Britain's orders at all, but Japan did not dare to do so. After Kolchak was defeated west of the Ural Mountains and was driven across the Ural Mountains to the vast and wild east of Russia, he did not decide to establish a base on the spot, but continued all the way east, according to the British "advice" to join Japan, and strive to make a comeback.

After more than half a year's march, more than a million of Kolchak's men had actually arrived in the Pacific region, and Kolchak's envoys asked Japan to promise to Britain and help Kolchak gain a foothold in the Far East.

Japan is very embarrassed by this. After the Russian Revolution, Japan, of course, wanted to make a fortune in the Far East. Hopefully, this thing will always be too vulnerable, first of all, they are caught in a protracted law and order war in Korea, and the War Department's frenzied plundering in Korea has led to fierce resistance from the Koreans, and the Korean guerrillas have violently attacked Japanese mines in northern Korea, slashed railroads, blown up bridges, and attacked and destroyed scattered Japanese strongholds. This left most of Japan's forces to deal with Korea.

And the Chinese waved their army north, all the way to the vicinity of Nebuchu, occupying a vast land. These Chinese-occupied areas were completely dependent on rail transportation, and the Japanese navy's naval guns could not even threaten the Chinese. The Japanese War Ministry did not want a big war with China in these northern regions at all, so Japan simply seized the northern part of Vladivostok.

Even this harvest is not exclusive to Japan. The U.S. Navy, in the name of the Allied Allies, also landed north of Vladivostok, and China and the United States blocked Japan's northward road.

Therefore, both the Japanese War Department and the Admiralty have found Takahashi to hold a meeting and prepare to discuss this "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

In this situation, Takahashi doesn't care about anything. The War Department shouted the loudest, and Takahashi was the head of the Qing Dynasty poured a bucket of cold water on them, "Although I don't understand military affairs, as far as the attempts I know are concerned, instead of landing on the Far East coast and fighting a war with China, which has the advantage of rail transportation, it is better to directly cross the Sino-Japanese border line of the Yalu River and start a war with China to save money." ”

Hearing this, the War Department was silent. Theoretically, this is the best thing to do. China's advance into the Far East relied entirely on the northeast, which they had already captured, as a base. There is no better way to seize the Far East than to seize Northeast China. The only problem was that the Japanese War Department was simply not capable of doing this.

The Japanese Admiralty did not want to bring humiliation upon itself, the Navy was able to seize at most a few ports, and it was simply not capable of carrying out the plan to seize the Far East on its own.

Seeing that the military department finally gave in, Takahashi Shiqing did not continue to be a hero on his tongue. "The most important thing now is to find out what happened to Kolchak as soon as possible," he said. ”