The Japanese did not dare to take the initiative to provoke a war, and even the navy did not go to the Chinese ports to hang around, but they were always on standby at Incheon and other ports in North Korea, and they could set out at any time to blockade Lushun, and once the war began, Lushun would inevitably be the first line again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Second, Japan began to increase its garrison in China, not only increasing its troops to 300,000 troops in Dalian, but then adding 100,000 troops to Tianjin.

The increase in troops in Dalian was aimed at Yang Chao's increase in troops to Lushun to 200,000, while the increase in troops in Tianjin made Yuan Shikai depressed and concentrated the newly formed 500,000 Beiyang Army in Beijing, not daring to go south to collect the revolutionary army.

Yang Chao began to continue recruiting troops on the grounds that Japan was expanding its armaments and defending the Northeast, and this time he was not recruiting the Northeast Army, and the Northeast recruited 1 million troops had reached a limit, and there would be no one to cultivate the fields after recruitment, and Yang Chao began to recruit troops in other places this time.

Notices were posted everywhere the railway reached, recruiting soldiers, with a monthly salary of 20 taels of silver, at this time China was still a poor agricultural excesse, and there was a great surplus of labor, and there were not 10 million but 8 million idle young and middle-aged people in Sichuan, Huguang, and the recruitment notices were spread out and recruits gathered.

This is also the reason why as soon as the revolutionary party rebels, it is easy to recruit soldiers, there are too many people!

The Russians also announced that they would expand the army to 2 million people, and the total strength of Japan had just reached 2 million, and the maximum number of people who could be sent to China was 1.5 million, which made the Japanese feel that there was no chance of victory, and announced the second mobilization to expand the army strength to 3 million people, of which 2 million would be sent to the Heilongjiang area, 500,000 to Dalian, and Japan itself only retained 500,000 defenders.

At the same time, Japan accelerated the construction of naval warships, and at this time they strongly felt that only a strong navy could give them a sense of security.

24 battleships, 48 cruisers, a total of 1 million tons of shipbuilding plan, Japan's shipbuilding industry simply did not have the ability to build, Japan had to ask the British to help them build half of them, in order to get these warships as soon as possible.

However, as a result, Japan was unable to build even civilian ships, and at the same time it was under heavy economic pressure, and Japan really could not afford the economic pressure.

The economic crisis in the past few years has come and gone, not to mention, China's economic boycott that began last year has suddenly put Japan into a deep economic crisis, and there is no chance of dumping, which was basically dumping in China, but this time after China closed the door, they really did not have any chance, and the textile industry and cement industry were closed down on a large scale and laid off employees.

Female workers in the textile industry who are barely employed have reached the point where they cannot support themselves, and those who have family subsidies are good to pay off, and female workers who do not have family subsidies and even need to support their families can only take a meager salary during the day, carry out hard work, and have to go into a tavern at night to accompany the wine.

And a larger number of girls were deceived into going on the boat, and they were sent to Nanyang to be Sister Nanyang one by one. In this part of Nanyang, there are a large number of Chinese laborers, who are generally single, working in local mines and plantations, which leads to an extremely exaggerated ratio of men and women in the local area. This has provided a huge market for the Japanese sex industry, and the Japanese government has long organized the sending of young girls to these places to sell meat to earn foreign exchange to finance the industry. Therefore, Japanese newspapers refer to this as a combination of the world's laborers (China) and the world's sellers (Japan).

There was already encouragement and even guidance from the government, and the best of them were Mitsui and other chaebols who had a close relationship with the government, and their cargo ships were full of boatloads of girls, and when they arrived in the locality, they brought back a shipload of resources.

The Japanese held on like this, waiting for the judgment of China and Russia, and they were a little impatient to wait, and they couldn't wait to beg the two countries to hurry up and beat them.

The fact that the two countries do not fight them, and they themselves do not dare to make the first move, is really inconsistent with the sneak attack tactics they are used to, but this is the status quo of diplomacy.

After Yang Chao won over the United States, he confronted Japan, and the reason was to prevent the Japanese from jumping off the wall in a hurry; if there was no Sino-US and German alliance according to the current situation, the Japanese would have attacked China a long time ago.

After winning over the United States, it confronted Japan, attracted Russia, involved France, and asked Britain to suppress Japan.

With British suppression, Japan will not dare to do anything.

Because it is really possible for the United States to do it.

Originally, when there was only an alliance between China and the United States and Germany, the Americans were still careful and warned China not to unilaterally provoke, but when the Chinese provoked successfully and Russia joined in, the Americans' liver and courage were strong, and at this time they felt that joining the war was not a good thing.

Especially at a time when the Japanese are frantically engaged in naval competition, if a country like Japan becomes a naval power, the Americans will have a great sense of crisis, especially when they see Japan's greed for Russian territory, and the Americans can't help but think about what it would be like if the Japanese landed in the United States.

As soon as Russia joined, the Sino-American and German alliance had completely suppressed Japan in terms of land forces, and the French behind it were ambiguous, and in the end they still chose limited support for Russia, and almost the whole world was fighting Japan, and the Americans felt too sorry for the world if they didn't fight.

So the Americans really want to fight.

But the British lobbied them, the British Empire still has to give face, so the Americans said that as long as Japan does not take the initiative to start a war, they will not participate in the war, the Americans are still afraid in the final analysis, as long as Japan does not take the initiative to attack, they can bear the help of not participating in the war, but if Japan attacks first, the United States can still not fight under the condition of international obligations, it will be too useless.

And if you want to fight, now is the best opportunity, if you don't fight now, will you wait for the 24 dreadnoughts built by the British for Japan to be delivered?

It was in this situation that Britain demanded that Japan exercise restraint and absolutely not fire the first shot.

At that time, Japan will not fight, China will not fight, it is reasonable for the Chinese not to fight, they are used to it, what makes the world puzzling is that the Russians can even restrain themselves, why is this?

Because France decided to give limited support to Russia after weighing it, how can it be called limited, that is, it will not send troops, but only borrow money and help the Russians build ships.

That's why the Russians, who have mobilized a million troops to Siberia, are stationing their troops because they are rebuilding their navy!

At that time, when negotiating with Yang Chao, the Russians wanted to start as soon as possible, because they couldn't wait to wash away their shame and regain their lost territory.

But Yang Chao asked Stolypin, you beat Japan on land, and then what?

Stolypin thought about it and found that it was useless to defeat the Japanese Mao on land.

Therefore, Yang Chao suggested that Stolypin rebuild the Russian navy, and that it would take two years for China and Russia to expand their respective navies to a more powerful than the Japanese navy, and then it would be of substantial significance to defeat Japan.

At the same time, Yang Chao told Stolypin that once Japan was defeated, it would be impossible for China to agree with the Russians to take away the Chinese territory of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers, which meant that Russia would lose Vladivostok, so Russia could only get the Russians' access to the sea when the navy defeated Japan, just like when Peter the Great's navy defeated Sweden.

Yang Chao promised Stolypin that he would wait two years to rebuild his navy, and in the future, after defeating Japan, Yang Chao would support the Russians in ceding an enclave in Japan, such as Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island, or support Russia in leasing an ice-free port on the territory of 'independent' Korea, such as Inchon or Busan.

After careful consideration, Stolypin understood that any victory on land would be meaningless if the navy could not destroy the Japanese navy. So he decided to patiently assemble a navy, just as Peter the Great, after being defeated by Sweden, patiently assembled the largest fleet, and finally defeated Sweden to capture St. Petersburg.

Previously, the Russians would send a huge army to Irkutsk, not to prepare for an attack, but to prevent a Japanese sneak attack, to prevent the Japanese army from advancing into Russia and Europe before the navy was built, and in order to prevent a Japanese sneak attack, they even began to move troops in the ice and snow.

This decision was supported by their ally, France, who, although they did not like Russia to go to war with Japan, was still unwilling to give up Russia, and they found that if they abandoned Russia this time, Russia might fall to Germany through the Sino-American alliance.

Once Russia fell to Germany, not only would France's diplomatic efforts over the years be in vain, but France could not afford to participate in the war to help the German army.

So the French decided to take out a loan to help Russia build 30 battleships as the main force, and with a huge fleet of 100 cruisers, to rebuild the Russian Pacific Fleet, which was wiped out by Japan in the Russo-Japanese War.

This shipbuilding plan is also quite large, but it is still far from the shipbuilding plan of Britain and Germany, and even the naval competition between China and Japan is not as good, after all, Japan has to build 48 dreadnoughts. But if you add China's 24 battleships, China and Russia will have an absolute advantage.

Two years, it only takes two years, Russia can defeat Japan, recover all the land that was robbed by Japan, it can hit Japan itself, and it can also cede Japanese territory, and Russia can afford to wait.

But can Japan afford to wait?

Japan can't afford to wait.

The economic crisis and the unemployment of the workers made the common people finally turn the finger at the chaebols, who were still extravagant, and a large number of poor workers formed organizations and began to fight against the chaebols.

The economic crisis has turned into a social crisis! (To be continued.) )