Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~

"What? That's impossible! Ito Hirobumi screamed in shock after reading the telegram. Even in the atmosphere of blind optimism in Japan after the Battle of Toshima, Ito Hirobumi never ruled out the possibility of defeat in the decisive battle at sea and prepared a plan to deal with it, but he never expected that the result of this decisive battle at sea would be a one-sided defeat!

If the navy loses like this, the security of Japan's coastal waters will be lost, not to mention the supply lines of the army that invaded North Korea, how can this war be fought?

However, if the war is truceed now, no matter how much the Qing government tries to make money, it will at most only symbolically pay hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, so who will pay for Japan's losses and expenses in this war?

As prime minister, Ito is well aware of how many internal contradictions Japan has accumulated in the process of reforming the law and reforming the law, and once the good expectations of foreign aggression and expansion come to naught, Japan's huge volcano is very likely to suddenly erupt and destroy the achievements made in the past 30 years of the Meiji Restoration

If Li Hui heard Ito Hirobumi's voice at this time, he would definitely laugh at him and scare himself, in the history of the Russo-Japanese War, Japan owed a lot of debt to the West, and in the end, it didn't survive by brutally exploiting the people, and he didn't see a large-scale uprising in Japan!

However, at this time, the Japanese high-level has not practiced such a thing after all, and even if they are as wise as Ito Hirobumi, they do not know that the servility of the lower classes of the Japanese people will be so great, and even if they are so poor that they are forced to sell their sons and daughters, or even let their wives and daughters sell meat, they do not dare to expose and rebel against the government.

Besides, Ito Hirobumi is not one of those brainless juniors in the future, and even if he thought of this possibility, he could not really be crazy enough to make a decision on the premise that "the people can squeeze indefinitely", so it is not surprising that this naval defeat will shock him and lose his temper

Even Hirobumi Ito, who has always been calm and reasonable, could hardly accept the bad news of a fiasco in the decisive battle at sea, let alone others.

Among them, Prince Arisugawa Chihito, the chief of staff of the army, who insisted on working in the position of chief of staff of the base camp despite a serious illness, even spurted blood on the spot, and within two days of his condition deteriorated, he hung up, which was three months earlier than in history.

At present, the contradictions between the Japanese army and navy are far less difficult to bridge than they were later, and at least they will not hinder the overall situation; not to mention that after such a disastrous defeat of the navy, the Japanese army units that entered the DPRK were cut off from logistics and reinforcements, and the situation can be imagined.

After the Japanese army base camp learned the details of the Battle of Daidonggou, the Hiei, who escaped without permission during the battle, immediately became the target of public criticism, and the Meiji Emperor Muhito in the palace was even more furious, and under his direct intervention, the captain of the Hiei, Sakurai Riyuki, was soon sentenced to death, and even his family, and even his superiors who had promoted him before were also unlucky, and those who were imprisoned were imprisoned, dismissed from office, and even some people were "punished by heaven".

The other surviving generals who had hoped to seek revenge on the Beiyang Naval Division in the future, such as the captain of the Akitsu Chau, Hikonojo Uemura, were dismissed from their posts because of Emperor Meiji's dissatisfaction with their "cowardice".

On the contrary, the captain of the Naniwa, who ordered the ramming of the Jinyuan but was sunk in seconds, was widely admired for the sake of contrast, and was infinitely elevated for the purpose of boosting morale and people's hearts, and was almost revered as the glory of the navy's soul, in stark contrast to those "deserters" and "cowards".

With such a lesson from the past, no one in the Japanese navy dared to escape from the battle, and the fighting spirit was restored a lot, but this also led the Japanese navy to embark on the wrong path of advocating "brave pigs", so that they easily did not dare to retreat in every naval battle after that, and as a result, they were often sunk because they were too seriously injured to get rid of the pursuit.

What had an even greater impact was that after the few remaining outstanding generals of the Japanese Navy, such as Hikonojo Uemura, who had sufficient experience and ability, were forced to leave, the Japanese Navy became more and more dwindling, which inevitably had a huge negative impact on the strength of the Japanese Navy.

However, even if Muhito was dizzy, he still remembered that the navy was the most dependent on advanced weapons, so no matter how unhappy he was, he still asked the cabinet to urgently allocate additional naval funds for the purchase of new ships to restore the strength of the navy as soon as possible.

However, it would take at least several months for the warships to arrive and form combat effectiveness, so the Japanese government decided to pretend to negotiate peace with the Qing government first to buy as much time as possible, so that at the same time, it could temporarily tie the hands and feet of the Beiyang naval division, so that the Japanese government could safely send supplies to the invading Japanese army to stabilize the morale of the army.

Based on the understanding of Li Hongzhang by Ito Hirobumi and other high-level Japanese officials, as long as the British can be invited to "supervise," even if Lao Li knows that the peace talks are only a delaying tactic, he will never dare to send the Beiyang Naval Division out to block the shipping route and take the initiative to sabotage the armistice.

It's a pity that Britain is not Japan's father after all, even if it agrees to help, it can't go too far, and if it dies, it will be able to buy an extra month, otherwise even if Dadonggou loses so badly, Ito Hirobumi and others will not shake their confidence in the victory of the war.

Due to the might displayed by the two ironclad giant ships in Dingzhen in the Battle of Dadonggou, the Japanese Navy has completely fallen to the line of "giant ships and artillery", hoping to buy new battleships or armored cruisers instead of the "high-quality and cheap" protective cruisers that were more favored in the past.

However, after the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Western powers, including Britain, imposed an arms embargo on both sides of the war.

Therefore, until the end of this war, Japan can only buy from other countries, well, that is, from a few countries in South America, and there are only a few new warships that may be sold, where is there room for picking?

The British adviser to the Japanese Navy gave him a very good-sounding suggestion, believing that the Japanese Government could first sign a peace treaty with the Qing government, have the West lift the arms ban, and wait until the two improved Junquan-class battleships ordered before resuming the war against China.

However, the Japanese government was worried that the signing of the peace treaty, which did not yield any benefits, would greatly disappoint the people at home and cause unpredictable dangers, so it only pretended to negotiate peace with the Qing government, but never dared to actually sign it, so the proposal of the naval adviser could only be shelved

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