On July 7, 1905, the White House in Washington, D.C., shortly after Independence Day, saw its ambitions swell as the United States took advantage of the leadership of the internal combustion engine revolution and the electric revolution to become the world's largest industrial nation. Theodore Roosevelt, after assuming the presidency of the United States, proposed the "Monroe Doctrine", warning other powers not to enter the Americas, but lacked the ability to intervene outside the Americas.

After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the United States adjusted its foreign policy in a timely manner, actively participated in this international affair, and tried to enhance its influence in international politics. We all know that a country's economic strength is the basis of its national strength, but it does not fully represent a country's influence in the world, and an economic power is not necessarily a world power. At this time, the United States was only an upstart in Britain and was not qualified to participate in the game of international politics, so it is not difficult to understand President Roosevelt's eagerness to expand American influence.

So when U.S. Ambassador to Japan Conger sent back a secret telegram about the Sino-Japanese War, President Roosevelt was overjoyed. The secret telegram indicated that Japanese Prime Minister Saionji hoped that the United States would play a key role in mediating the wars between Japan and China and Russo-Japanese.

Roosevelt immediately gathered his team of staff to discuss a mediation plan. For example, after the midterm elections, Eli Hutrut, the new secretary of state in Roosevelt's staff team, is the spokesperson of the Rockefeller consortium, Heintz, the chief of staff, is the spokesperson of the Morgan consortium, and other secretaries of finance and war ministers have the endorsement power of the major consortiums.

Mediating the war is not only in the interests of the United States, but is also eagerly expected by the spokesmen of the consortium, and this is an excellent opportunity for the United States to expand its influence in the Far East. It could not only curb Japan's expansion in the Far East, but also take the opportunity to enter the northeastern region of China and share benefits with Russia. Moreover, post-war Japan will definitely need a lot of materials and wealth to rebuild, and this is also a good opportunity for the consortium to reap the benefits. In addition, China, the largest trading partner of the United States in the Far East, has gone to that country for one-fifth of its exports in recent years, and it can be said that it is the best friend of the consortium.

In particular, the San Francisco Consortium, a consortium in the western part of the United States that has just emerged in recent years, has been actively promoting the expansion of US exports to China. And let the relationship between the two countries develop further.

The San Francisco consortium, with Ambrera as the main body, is engaged in steel smelting, mineral mining, manufacturing, shipbuilding, and daily necessities processing, and has dominated the economy of the West Coast of the United States in a few years, and has successfully become one of the largest American conglomerates. Since the steel industry has long been controlled by other consortia, the San Francisco consortium mostly buys finished steel such as steel rails from the east, and most of them are sold to China, which is also the main source of income for the San Francisco consortium's rapid rise.

It is worth mentioning that in early 1903, the governor and legislature of California, controlled by the San Francisco consortium, proposed to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act, which set off a huge propaganda campaign in the United States. The Chinese Exclusion Act was signed in 1882. This bill represents a peak of shame for the Chinese nation, which cannot be completely eradicated even after hundreds of years. Historically, the U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously in 2012 to legislate the "Chinese Exclusion Act" "regret", that is, "regret", how can the white supremacy United States apologize to the Chinese? Even the strength of the country in 2012!

In 1902, Theodore Roosevelt tried to push for the Chinese Exclusion Act to be made permanent, but failed because of the strong opposition of the San Francisco consortium. Later, with the rise of China, a large number of Chinese people who had survived in the United States returned to China under the organized arrangement of the Chinese state. Moreover, the importance of China in the United States is becoming more and more prominent, and Americans who value interests will certainly not give up such huge interests because of a bill. As a result, the movement to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act promoted in 1903 was finally victorious, and the ultra-white supremacist Theodore Roosevelt was forced to sign a presidential decree.

Of course, the so-called San Francisco Consortium was founded by the gene people sent to the United States by Lu Liang at the beginning, with the purpose of purchasing American resources and industrial products in the most convenient way and making up for the lack of domestic industrial capacity. Lu Liang's goal was achieved, but the repeal of that bill did not mean that the status of the Chinese people had improved. Chinese people are still bullied abroad, just like their own country. So if you want to change this situation, it can only be changed by the state through one battle after another!!

Lu Liang will not forgive this super-arrogant country just because the United States has repealed the bill, and all, all those who have done harm to China will have to pay the price. Lu Liang vowed that in his lifetime, he would do his best not to let go of even one such person or such a country.

On July 8, 11905, Lü Liang met with U.S. Ambassador to China Rockhill at the Presidential Palace in Wuhan, and on behalf of the U.S. Government and President Roosevelt, Shishan proposed war mediation to Japan, China, and Russia, asking all countries to take peace in the Far East as their own responsibility, give up the terrible war, and be at the negotiating table to peacefully resolve the contradictions existing in various countries.

Of course, secretly Ambassador Ishiyama also showed Lu Liang the sincerity of Japan's desire to mediate - the suicide of the leader of the Black Dragon Society and the expulsion of Sun Ge and others. In addition, in St. Petersburg and Tokyo, there were busy figures of Americans, and at such a critical moment, the European powers collectively lost their voices and were grabbed by the nouveau riche Americans.

From the Boer War in South Africa to the Burma Freedom Uprising, the British were exhausted in order to extinguish the war, and the war in Burma has been going on for more than a year now, and in the dry season, the British army not only did not gain a battlefield advantage, but was expanded by the Burmese Free Army, and its power expanded rapidly, seeing that the rainy season was coming again, tens of thousands of British troops were trapped in the Burmese jungle and could not move.

As for France, a traditional power, it had no worse evil intentions toward China than Britain, and the heavy troops deployed by China in the border areas of Guangxi and Yunnan posed a great threat to French Indochina, and France still held a grudge against the Yunnan-Vietnam railway. There was strong opposition to China's participation in the Russo-Japanese War and its landing in Japan, but it did not have the strength to intervene militarily, so it could only verbally support it.

Germany was eager to see Britain and France deflated in the Far East, and it had always supported Russia in a war with Japan in order to reduce the pressure on Germany in Europe.

On July 9, the Battle of Kagoshima Makuen ended, the Japanese army lost more than 170,000 people, of which more than 90,000 were killed and wounded, and the rest were captured. However, with the flight of the 14th Division and the lack of command, the remaining Japanese soldiers in the encirclement finally lost the courage to continue to die and surrendered to the Chinese army on a large scale.

After successfully escaping the encirclement, the 14th Division fled to Fukuoka Prefecture, and after a few days of rest, it was reduced to zero, and the large-scale Japanese military presence on Kyushu Island disappeared, which meant that the Japanese upper echelons abandoned the defense of Kyushu. The Chinese Kyushu Group Army won the final victory in the Battle of Kyushu, and the tactics formulated by the General Staff at the beginning to attract the enemy to concentrate and strategically encircle them achieved the greatest results. Of course, this is also related to the desire of the Japanese upper echelons to end the war through negotiations.

In this battle, the Chinese army suffered more than 3,500 casualties, which was the largest number of casualties among the Chinese army since all wars, and this was still the casualty that occurred when it did not fight with the Japanese standing army and had extremely strong firepower, air superiority, armor superiority, and so on.

On July 15, 1905, the Chinese army took control of the counties of Kyushu Island, including Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Fukuoka, Saga, and Nagasaki, and then launched the "scraping the ground" operation that was deeply hated by the Japanese in later generations, that is, all the industrial facilities and machinery on Kyushu Island were transported away.

Lu Liang is not greedy for the industrial facilities of Kyushu Island, he can't look down on it at all, but wants to completely erase the traces of industrialization on Kyushu Island. Of course, in this process, there will be many Japanese armed civilians who oppose it, and some units do not strictly implement military orders and snatch grain, livestock and other materials from Japanese civilians and farmers, so resistance rises one after another. Through the leadership of the 14th Division, which was reduced to zero, the combat level of the guerrillas was constantly raised.

Just by looking at the place names, you can see that Kumamoto, Fukuoka, and Saga are all areas with strong folk customs, the base camp of the Satsuma domain, and the main force of the Shogunate movement. As a result, the conflict between civilians and the army intensified, and a number of guerrilla units were formed to attack the logistics and transportation lines of the Chinese army, and the Chinese army also fell into the same predicament as the British army. The military operation continued until the Chinese army withdrew from Kyushu, leaving only the weeping people of Kyushu. (To be continued.) )