The soil is piled up into mountains, and the wind and rain are prosperous. The water becomes an abyss, and the dragon is born. This sentence of the ancestor can be said to be a wise saying. This can be used both as an incentive and as a means.

Li Yi used the argument of this sentence as a means to inflate the Japanese. Since the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, Japan announced in 1868 that it would "break away from Asia and join Europe" and began to take the capitalist road, and its national strength has become stronger and stronger.

The success of Japan's restoration was mainly due to the fact that the Western powers concentrated their forces on invading China and the anti-aggression struggle of the Chinese people, which to a certain extent alleviated Japan's external pressure and enabled its domestic reforms to be smoothly realized with less external interference. Objectively, the Meiji Restoration provided a relatively relaxed international environment, which allowed many things to operate.

After twenty years of rapid development, by 1888 there were serious social contradictions in Japan. Because it is an island country, the domestic resources are scarce, the market is narrow, the trade deficit is huge, coupled with the struggle and resistance of the remnants of the feudal forces, as well as the sharp contradictions in social transformation, Japan's industrial revolution has been questioned and impacted, and Japanese goods and capital are in urgent need of export, but the huge foreign import trade of the Qing Dynasty is only not open to Japan, so that Japan's political bloc headed by the emperor is eager to seek a way out from foreign expansion.

Politicians led by Prime Minister and Imperial Household Minister Hirobumi Ito collectively set their sights on their neighbor, Big Brother Kiyokoku.

During this period, the world situation was delicate, and various countries were engaged in an arms race, and they were suspicious of each other and restrained each other, so Japan became an important pawn for them for a short time. Take a ferry to the Black Pavilion to see the new festival

The United States is a new country that entered the Qing Dynasty much later than Britain and France, and they hope that Japan can become their helper to occupy more of the Qing market, and in recent years, Japan has been very supportive of Japan both economically and militarily.

The British wanted to contain the Tsarist Russia's energy in the Far East and prevent them from having illusions about Europe, and in addition to the Kashmir issue, they gave Japan a huge loan of 50 million pounds.

For the sake of its interests in the Greater Far East, France gave great support to the Japanese navy and army, and they would rather give weapons to the Japanese navy and army than sell them to the Qing country with money waving everywhere and buying warships.

Although Wilhelm II of Germany had a good personal relationship with Li Yi, everything gave way in the face of national interests, and as a newly rising empire, they were also actively competing for the Far East market.

Although the strength of the navy and army has increased greatly, everyone can see that the internal contradictions of the Qing state have become irreconcilable. The beginning of the Qing civil strife was the time for them to invade the Qing Dynasty, and Japan became their vanguard.

In the Lion House restaurant in Tianjin, Nogi Noshinori, Togo Heihachiro, Oshima Yoshimasa, Takeda Hideyama, and Nishijima Sukeyoshi are talking. They entered the Daqing Navy Army Academy in July 1887, and five people, Nogi Noshinori, Oshima Yoshimasa, Takeda Hideyama, and Nishijima Sukeyoshi, entered the Tianjin Army Military Academy, and Togo Heihachi entered the Naval Academy.

"Coming to the Great Qing Kingdom to enter the Naval Academy is the most wrong thing I have done in my life!" Dongxiang Hei Ba Yan took a sip of the liquor and said sullenly: "If you say that there is a harvest, you just like the sorghum spirits here!" ”

"Nani?" A few people asked.

"The navy of the Qing State is at least ten years behind us, and their ships are very backward except for Dinghai and Dingyuan, even the naval guns equipped with the two ships of Zhenyuan and Dingyuan are also the cannons eliminated by Europe, and they are not aware of being pitted by Germany." Dongxiang Hei Hachiyo looked at Nogi Noshinori and the others and said seriously: "Gentlemen, I will return to China in the near future, and it is purely a waste of time here!" ”

Nogi Noshinori looked pensive, looked at the few people around him and decided: "We will return to China with Togo-kun, although we have learned a lot of useful knowledge at the Army Military Academy, but I don't think there is any need to continue to stay, in the future, we must at least apply what we have learned to practice." ”

"We also agree with Nogi-kun's decision!" Several others agreed.

"The situation of the Qing Kingdom is very favorable to us, our principal has been squeezed out very much recently, and our intelligence agency estimates that the principal is likely to be squeezed out of the capital, then the Qing Kingdom will definitely have civil strife, and our opportunity to fight the Japanese Empire is coming!" Hideyama Takeda also has another identity in Japan, that is, a section chief in the Japanese intelligence system.

"A large number of the expelled revolutionaries have received great support from our country, and the revolutionaries have also received large sums of money from the United States, and the intelligence system has learned that they will soon establish the government of the Republic of China in Sendai, our country. Their people also got the help of the Qing minister to assassinate Li Yi! ”

Early the next morning, Nogi Noshinori led a few people to the principal's office to bid farewell to Li Yi, "Your Excellency the principal, thank you for your cultivation of us in the past year!" Several people bowed deeply.

Li Yi showed a thick smile on the corner of his mouth, patted them on the shoulder and said, "You are all good students of mine, and you will definitely become excellent officers in Japan!" ”

Li Yi is really happy, it feels so good to pretend to be forced! Thinking about the soul of the Japanese Navy and Army being pat on the shoulder and lecture, this feeling is by no means indescribable.

"Hey!" Li Yi sighed, put on a worried face and said: "I am excluded by others, I can't stay in Tianjin, I also feel a little bit about my future, and I am also at a loss about the future of the country, the national chaos is just around the corner, but I am very happy that you have all successfully graduated!" ”

Takeda Xiushan's intelligence has been confirmed, so that several people are secretly happy in their hearts, although they all bow their heads, but the arrogant emotions in their hearts have swelled up, sooner or later one day to let the Qing people know the strength of the Japanese Empire, in the future, they will pat the Qing people on the shoulder and lecture, if they are not happy, they can also shout at the "Baga!" ”

Li Yi did not shy away from talking to them about his views on the international situation, and analyzed the root cause of the Qing civil strife to them, so that the hearts of several people swelled to the extreme, and they believed that as long as there were five years, the Japanese Empire could surpass the Qing in all aspects.

After sending them away, Li Yi also began to prepare to leave Tianjin, Li Yi had to go, had to make concessions, if Li Yi didn't go, then the civil war with the Qing court was definitely in sight, and now Li Yi's plan was still in the beginning stage, and it was definitely not the time to start a war with the Qing court, at least his plan for the world economic crisis must not turn against the Qing court before it ended.