Chapter 233: Indemnity and Land Cession (II)

To Katsu's comfort, after his strong arguments, the Chinese side agreed to give Japan a symbolic 5 million yuan as the moving expenses for Hokkaido residents. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 However, since the moving expenses have been paid, it is natural that people will be left behind, except for women under the age of 30, who can stay, and the rest of the Japanese on the island will be moved south back to Honshu Island.

As a result, Japan's infiltration and development of Hokkaido in the past few hundred years ended up being a wedding dress for others, but there are two other key points in order to completely cut off Japan's ambitions for the mainland.

First of all, Tsushima Island, which is located in the middle of the Tsushima Strait and is prepared for Japan to cede to Korea as compensation, if Korea is a springboard for Japan's aggression against China, then Tsushima is a springboard for Japan's aggression against Korea, and its strategic significance is self-evident......

Moreover, the assignment of Tsushima to North Korea also has the effect of provoking relations between Japan and North Korea, and why the US imperialists in later generations were able to control Japan and South Korea to the death, in addition to their own strong strength and direct garrison troops in Japan and South Korea, the fact that Japan and South Korea are not getting along is also an important reason......

However, after carefully studying the Mohist writings, Sheng Haizhou still put forward a strong reason: since the Datong Party advocates mutual benefit and opposes unilateral favors, and Li Hui often says that he wants to "exchange at an equal price" and "there is no free lunch in the world", then why should he stand up for North Korea in vain? Sheng Haizhou believes that Japan's land reparations are a loss to China, not to the DPRK, and that Japan would rather give Tsushima to China than to North Korea, which has to rely on China's help even to restore the country.

"This reason is somewhat interesting, but Tsushima Island must be given to North Korea, otherwise how can you watch Japan and North Korea play palace fighting!" , Li Hui was a little impressed by Sheng Haizhou after he found out, but Datongism was created by him, how could he lift a stone to shoot himself in the foot, and with a little use of his brain, there was a solution, "It doesn't matter if we come to get it, can't we exchange territory with North Korea afterwards?" Anyway, my purpose is just to let North Korea get Tsushima Island and bury a thorn in the gap between Japan and North Korea. As for helping North Korea get justice? Do you think I really care? ”

In addition to exchanging Tsushima Island for Jeju Island (about the same size, it is also close to China. Considering that North Korea really has nothing to scrape now, and it is close to China, Li Hui's idea is to let North Korea cut a piece of territory as a reward, and he is not greedy, as long as the northern mountains of North Korea are located.

This territory was obtained from China by fraud in ancient times, which meets the standard of "since ancient times", and at the same time, it can completely grasp the natural dangers of Changbai Mountain, and cut off the "delusion of Baektu Mountain" that all Korean dynasties have wanted to expand northward; Then there is this mountainous area, where more than 90% of the mineral resources on the Korean Peninsula are concentrated, and the potential economic benefits are not small; What's more, this mountainous area is sparsely populated and relatively easy to digest, which is also the basic principle of Li Hui's foreign expansion, and the land that is not easy to digest will never be wanted unless it is of great value and worth spending a huge price to clean up the original residents and fill in the pits with a large number of immigrants. There's it!

Li Hui thought that such a request was reasonable, but the remnants of the Korean Donghak Party, which he had been willing to support, refused to agree, but was still under the control of the Japanese Joseon royal family and hurriedly agreed after learning about it, which made him feel as if he had suddenly become a big villain......

"I suddenly feel that I have become an opposition ...... suppressing the masses of the people", Li Hui couldn't help laughing at himself, but since he is the leader of China, he must put China's interests first, what about the strict discipline of the Dongxue Party and the popularity of the people? Anyway, it's just a dog, and obedience is the most important thing......

As a result, the Chinese Daedong Party quickly changed its attitude and turned to support the corrupt and incompetent Korean royal family, and at the same time demanded that the Japanese army in Korea increase the intensity of conscription and suppression.

As a result of the ravages of the Japanese army over the past year, the Korean people have suffered an unprecedented catastrophe, and in addition to the incalculable heavy economic losses, the number of military and civilian casualties is also very staggering. According to later statistics from the North Korean government, in this short year, the population of North Korea decreased by as much as three to four million, which is almost equivalent to 20 percent of the total population of North Korea before the First Sino-Japanese War......

Although not all of these dead were killed directly by the Japanese army, and a significant number of them died of famine and disease, there is no doubt that they would not have died if Japan had not started the Sino-Japanese War. Since then, the North Koreans have hated Japan, and this is exactly what Li Hui wants......

However, Sheng Haizhou's goal was also achieved, and he not only completely figured out Li Hui's "interests first, country first." He was also inspired by this cooperation to obtain preferential treatment for Japan in the reduction of part of the reparations, and he also proposed a new proposal for the Ryukyus.

The continental shelf near the Ryukyu Islands is rich in oil resources, and the location and port conditions of the Ryukyu Islands are also suitable for building a naval base, but such a small country would not dare to blow up its hair in any case, and there is not much difference between annexation and vassalization. Considering that the Ryukyu royal family is still there, and the population density on the Ryukyu Islands is not small, Li Hui initially planned to restore the Ryukyus.

Who knew that in exchange for the Chinese side to make concessions on other conditions, the Japanese government actually secretly executed all the Ryukyu royal family under its control, and at the same time arrested a large number of Ryukyu natives and returned home on the grounds of withdrawing from the Japanese. The Japanese government was so cooperative, and it would be too hypocritical for China to leave the Ryukyus alone, so this small country that had been on the sides of China and Japan for hundreds of years was soon incorporated into China's territory and soon became one of the most important military bases of the Chinese navy.

In the end, the Chinese side set the total amount of compensation at 300 million yuan (almost equivalent to 250 million taels of silver), extended the repayment period to 25 years, and reduced the annual interest rate from 5% to 4%.

However, on other terms, the Chinese side has shown extreme stubbornness, and the Japanese side seems to have concerns, with the result that except for the relatively virtual form of land cession and the change of the emperor to the king that were negotiated together with the issue of reparations, the negotiations on other aspects have not been smooth, especially the punishment of war criminals and the demolition of shrines, which have not made any progress for more than 10 days. (To be continued.) )