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On the surface, the Southwest War was nothing more than a short-lived Japanese civil war, and it did not have a direct impact on international politics at that time, but the Southwest War was like an undercurrent, profoundly affecting the political trend of East Asia and the future development of the world situation.

In this war, not only Japan's national strength was greatly damaged, but Russia, which had always had territorial ambitions in the Far East, was also greatly weakened.

Because of the war in Japan, Russia's troops in the Far East were exhausted, and the Trans-Eurasian Trans-Siberian Railway was not built at that time, and it was very difficult for Russia to transfer troops to the Far East by land, and the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea were subject to the British, and the troops that could be transported by sea were very limited, so in the later stage of the war, the Russian army stopped large-scale campaign operations in order to preserve its strength when victory was within reach, and the Japanese government army was the main force, ending the war. After the end of the war, according to the secret treaty signed by Russia and Japan, Russia demanded all the land and islands of Hokkaido from Japan as a "reward" for helping Japan put down the rebellion, but after the contents of the secret treaty were exposed, it was fiercely opposed by the British and Qian, coupled with the continuous resistance of the people in Hokkaido, and finally had to return half of the territory of Hokkaido to Japan a few years later.

For Qianguo, another great power in East Asia, the outbreak of the civil war in Japan has restored a good external environment for the development of this ancient country without interference. Since the Qianguo entered modern times, it has experienced two anti-smoking wars and the Shengping Heavenly Rebellion. The national strength has been greatly damaged. The north-western and north-eastern frontiers were constantly under threat from Russia. In addition, the stubborn conservative forces formed in the country for thousands of years made the pace of development of the Qianguo extremely slow, and the subsequent Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion and the occupation of Xinjiang by Agubai made the situation even worse, which made the Qianguo government exhausted to deal with it, and at the same time the Qianguo had to face the threat from Japan from the sea, and after Japan annexed the Ryukyus, it had always had ambitions for Korea and eyed Mosswan. Although he was defeated by the navy and army led by Lin Yizhe, the number of new navy and army of the Qianguo was limited, and it was impossible to defeat Japan in one fell swoop. The Southwest War greatly weakened Japan, which was equivalent to indirectly removing the Japanese threat. And Russia was also weakened in this war, and the forces in the Far East were greatly reduced, so that the Qianguo was pacified after Xinjiang. He took this opportunity to negotiate with Russia on the Ili issue and won the support of Britain, France, and other countries. Successfully recovered the territories in Ili and the North-Western Frontier region that had been secretly occupied by the Russians. After the situation in the frontier was stabilized, Qianguo was able to begin real development, and in a sense, Qianguo was the biggest beneficiary of Japan's Southwest War.

The beneficiaries of the Southwestern War were also Britain and France. Since the Crimean War, Britain has been on high vigilance against Russia's expansion, after the outbreak of the Southwest War, the Japanese government is not conducive to quelling the rebellion, borrowing troops from Russia, Britain sensed Russia's attempt to Japan, united with the Satsuma and France to resist, in order to prevent Russia from taking advantage of the Japanese civil war to expand, Britain and the Navy's country have chosen to secretly support the Satsuma Army to confront the Russian army, and after the defeat of the Satsuma Army, Britain and the Navy's country secretly connived at the Satsuma people to flee to the Ryukyus. After the contents of the "Secret Treaty between Japan and Russia" were exposed, Britain joined forces with France and the Qianguo to oppose it, and even did not hesitate to threaten war; due to the decline of Russia's military strength in the Far East, it was difficult to replenish it for a while, and it was unable to confront Britain, France, and Qian, and finally forced Russia to spit out the flesh that had reached its mouth and swallowed only a few bones.

As a result of these struggles, Britain's influence in East Asia was greatly consolidated, and France was able to take advantage of the opportunity to expand its influence in Southeast Asia. Because of the relationship between Britain and France and Qian, the three countries formed a relationship similar to an alliance, and the emergence of this alliance indirectly contributed to the emergence of the German-Russian alliance (that is, the "Later Three Emperors Alliance"). The emergence of these two alliances laid the groundwork for the outbreak of World War I.

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In the cold night, Hu Yulin, who was locked up in the prison of the Criminal Department, suddenly had a cold war.

From the moment Hu Yulin moved into this cell, he had been feeling unwell.

Now that it was getting late, through the prison window, a lamp on the opposite side was revealed, with a long slanted wooden pole holding a lantern, facing Hu Yulin's side through the window. He felt a little uncomfortable, so he moved to the side, and so that he was almost facing the lamp. Hu Yulin didn't care much at first, but gradually realized that something was wrong, he looked out the window carefully, his face turned pale, and he turned around to say something to the jailer outside, but suddenly coughed violently involuntarily.

"Master Hu, do you have any heart problems? Haven't you heard of it before? The jailer outside listened to Hu Yulin's cough and said as if he was concerned.

"I'm choking on drinking water, it's out of the way......" Hu Yulin said as he coughed, his face flushed.

The jailer noticed Hu Yulin's strange appearance, he looked at Hu Yulin in the prison, and did not move his footsteps.

He doesn't have a good impression of Hu Yulin, so he won't express concern and worry about him, when this Lord Hu was in office, he was the money bag of Zuo Jigao, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu in the northwest, and the famous leader of Hui merchants, but now he has been imprisoned, and Lord Zuo is not rescued, they know that there must be a "story" in it, and they are far away, and they don't want to cause trouble for themselves.

Hu Yulin slowly recovered his strength, he looked at the lights flickering outside the window in the night breeze, and thought that the officials who held him might be as proficient in the art of feng shui as himself, and he couldn't help but shudder again.

Otherwise, how could he have simply ordered himself to be locked up in this dangerous cell?

"Master Hu, I've heard that you are a god operator, and you can calculate everything, right?" The jailer outside spoke.

"Do you believe in feng shui?" Hu Yulin asked casually.

"I can't believe it or not," the jailer laughed. "Once, a relative at home wanted to buy a new house. I went with a few brothers to see it. There was a feng shui gentleman at the time. I don't understand some reasoning, but I just listen, hehe. ”

"Then tell me what he said?" Hu Yulin wanted to relieve the disturbing feelings brought by the discovery just now, so he said to the jailer.

"That house was originally the outer house of a large family, and the one that was repaired was called a beautiful one, and there was a big garden. The scenery is very good, but there are some man-made rockeries and small bridges and flowing water, and when you see more, you feel tired, and the scenery of natural mountains and rivers is always different. "Mr. Feng Shui said that the house was far away from the city, it was too isolated, and the worst thing was that the layout of the houses there was against the principles of Feng Shui. It is said that the door rushes against the window, and the wind rushes in through the door. Then it erupts out of the window, and it is a game of scattered wealth. Not a livable house. But my relative liked the house, and didn't listen to my husband's advice and bought it. A year later, when his business was going well, it suddenly went down, and when we drank together, he couldn't stop complaining, regretting that he had not listened to the gentleman's advice. ”

"What the gentleman said is that wealth comes in through the door, but it comes out of the window, which is not conducive to gathering wealth." Hu Yulin nodded and said, "This gentleman still has some skills." ”

"Yes! My relative regretted it and wanted to go to the gentleman again and ask for more advice, but unfortunately he never met him again. The jailer said.

Hu Yulin came to the table, touched the wooden carving of the goshawk spreading its wings on the table, played with it for a while, and suddenly had an idea, so he placed the statue upright on the windowsill, so that the front of the goshawk was aimed at the lamp.

Seeing that Hu Yulin began to fiddle with the eagle again, the jailer couldn't help but be a little surprised.

After entering the prison, some relatives and friends came to visit him and asked him what he wanted, and after Hu Yulin asked for some necessary daily necessities, he specially emphasized that he must bring him this wooden carved goshawk, although his family did not understand, but they also complied.

After the wooden eagle was brought, Hu Yulin put it on the table and played with it from time to time. The jailer didn't understand what was going on, and he didn't ask, but later he heard the cell boss who knew a little about feng shui say that this was to use "goshawk wings" to break the "dilemma on all sides", which was a method of feng shui to change luck.

Hu Yulin's mood eased with his actions, his gaze crossed the goshawk and landed on the slanted neck of the street lamp, and he no longer felt as uncomfortable as before.

This wooden eagle allowed him to crack the feng shui killing game of this cell!

The lamp outside, when viewed from inside the cell, looked like a snake with its body upright but its neck bent. Moreover, it absorbs the evil qi around it, so it causes more harm to people.

The so-called "outside the form and inside", the lamp looked like a snake, so Hu Yulin placed an eagle on the windowsill to restrain it. In Feng Shui, it is called "calling for imagery".

Thinking that the opponent's killing had been broken, Hu Yulin couldn't help but feel a little proud.

It is too subtle and difficult to speculate with common sense. Once, when he went out on errands, he wanted to rent a house to settle down, and one house was called a murderous house, and no one dared to live in it. Hu Yulin went to check curiously, and found that the opposite side of the house was the government office, and there was a pair of stone lions at the door of the government office, which was very powerful, making the people who lived on the opposite side feel very evil, and the people who lived there were easy to be rushed by the evil spirit. Hu Yulin likes feng shui, and he is embarrassed to say that the local prefect moved the stone lion, so he hung a bag of beef jerky in the direction of the window, and the owner of the house asked the reason for it, Hu Yulin laughed and said that the lion was raised as a dog, and it would be good to "raise it". Later, the house was inhabited again, and it was really fine.

At this time, Hu Yulin suddenly remembered his old boss Zuo Jigao, who was far away in the northwest.

Like many literati of this era, Hu Yulin likes to read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which originated from "Three Kingdoms" but was well-known in Chinese folk literature after being edited by Luo Guanzhong's brilliant pen, full of wisdom and strategy, and is really instructive to read. Aren't many of the famous people in it in complex relationships, friends or foes? For example, Lu Bu and Liu Bei are barely friends, even if they are not iron buddies, the relationship should be passable, otherwise, how dare he defect to Liu Bei in Xuzhou when he is embarrassed? But such a friend took Xuzhou and drove Liu Bei to Xiaopei to live. Liu Bei and Cao Cao are enemies, right? But when he was panicking like a lost dog, after all, it was Cao Cao who took him in and gave him a knighthood in the imperial court, and he was fortunate to have a relationship with Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, so he justifiably became the "imperial uncle......

Zuo Jigao's history seems to be not difficult to find clues from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"!

Those who want to achieve great things do not have eternal friends. There are no eternal enemies either!

Zuo Jigao knew the predicament he was in. I don't think you will die without help, right?

Hu Yulin sighed. Thinking of ending up like this for Zuo Jigao, I couldn't help but feel remorse in my heart. His eyes turned to the window again, and when he saw the wooden eagle, he believed in feng shui as if he had gained strength from the wooden eagle, and his spirit became better again.

"Dare to ask this little brother, recently ...... Have you heard anything about it? ”

Hu Yulin found that the jailer on duty today was easier to talk to, so he tried to talk to him.

"Yo! Master Hu, you ask me! I'm just a little prison. The circle is here all day long, and I can't do it, how can I know any news! The jailer laughed, "I, I don't know much literacy, and I usually know how to read some pictorial magazines, where can I give you a letter!" ”

"This little brother, I don't want to find out any news from you, I just want to know over there in Xinjiang. What's going on today? ”

"Ouch! I've heard a little bit about this, and it's only about the war in Japan these days. It seems that the Russians are trapped in Japan. I can't get out, and in order to keep safe, I plan to return Ili to us. The jailer laughed, "But don't be surprised, I'm not very literate, and I can't speak well, and I know that I know something, and I can't explain it to you." As he spoke, he took out a thick stack of paper from his clothes, "Well, these are the 'Dian Shi Zhai Pictorials', with words and pictures on them, and they are very detailed about this, so you can read it yourself, and I don't need to bother to tell you about it." Do you think so? ”

"What? "Dian Shi Zhai Pictorial"? Hu Yulin couldn't help but be stunned.

"Master Hu hasn't even heard of "Dianshizhai Pictorial"? Hehe, too, you are always an important minister of the imperial court, and you are doing military affairs, how can you have the leisure to watch these. The jailer said, and sent a stack of "Dianshizhai Pictorial" in his hand to Hu Yulin's hand, "Take a good look at it!" The painting written on it is clear! ”

"Then thank you, little brother!" Hu Yulin said gratefully.

When he wasn't here, he usually read the newspaper news, but he mainly paid attention to the stories of some talented and beautiful people and news about business dynamics, and didn't pay attention to anything else, but since he was in prison and cut off contact with the outside world, he missed the benefits of newspapers.

"Great!" As he spoke, the jailer took out a few pictorials from his arms and stuffed them into Hu Yulin's hands.

Hu Yulin thanked him repeatedly, took the pictorial, and couldn't wait to look at it.

"Don't break it! I'm going to keep it for my wife and children! The jailer saw Hu Yulin's stiff movements and reminded him.

Hu Yulin agreed repeatedly, and then looked through the pictorial.

The title of the first pictorial is "The Battle of the Japanese Army", the picture shows a large group of Japanese soldiers rushing out of the mountains and forests with rifles with bayonets, the Satsuma samurai are holding high their katana and shouting to meet the attack, on a hillside, several Satsuma gunners are manipulating a cannon to shoot at the Japanese army, on the sea, there are several steam warships with black smoke from their chimneys shelling each other, the warships with the Satsuma flag are very tall and mighty, the muzzles of the cannons are spewing fire, and the Japanese warships with the sun flag are tilted, the smoke is billowing on the deck, and the flames are rising, The defeat is on display. In the blank space of the screen, there is also a large text description.

Hu Yulin took a pictorial and looked at it, the title of the picture on this pictorial is called "Saigo's Defeat", the picture shows the scene of the Satsuma Army and the Japanese army fighting in the jungle, the warring sides shoot each other with rifles, everywhere is the smoke of gunpowder and the figure of fierce battle, in the middle of the picture, Saigo Takamori wearing a Western-style military uniform has been shot and fell to the ground, he strokes the chest that is bleeding with one hand, holds a pistol in the other, and there are two soldiers with rifles and a samurai with a long knife beside him, Just as they were trying to stop the swarming Japanese soldiers, several Japanese soldiers were shooting with rifles in their hands, and several other Japanese soldiers, some with long knives in their hands, some with bayonet rifles in their hands, were rushing towards them, as if they were going to cut off Saigo's head. Behind Saigo Takamori, a woman is jumping off a cliff, and the whole picture is vividly painted in white strokes, and the scene of fierce battles is about to come out, making people feel like they are seeing the battlefield in person.

The third picture Hu Yulin saw was called "Exiled Samin". On the screen, one after another merchant ships loaded with men, women and children left the port and ran to the sea, and the smoke billowing from the shore in the distance showed that there was still a fierce battle, and the corpses of men and women were floating on the sea.

Hu Yulin was not very interested in the news of the Japanese Southwest War, he turned a few more pages of pictorials, and finally saw the news about his old boss Zuo Jigao.

This pictorial depicts "Carrying the Coffin on the Expedition", and on the picture, a mule cart (why a mule?) Pulling a huge coffin, the coffin is surrounded by a lot of armor and musket soldiers, behind them the clan flag is unfurled, under a "left" word flag, painted riding a war horse and a military uniform Zuo Ji Gao, the painting of Zuo Ji Gao a swaggering demeanor, is looking at the city marked with the word "Hami" in the distance, next to the caption is written that after Zuo Ji Gao recovered Xinjiang, in order to negotiate with Russia to recover the Ili envoys, moved the camp to Hami, and carried the coffin into the city, in order to show the intention of swearing to recover the country.

Seeing that the old boss still likes to engage in eye-catching big scenes so much, Hu Yulin's face couldn't help but show a wry smile. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)

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