Emperor Guangge, who had been very high-spirited in recent days, was full of panic on his face at this time, he glared at him, and said loudly to Lin Ziping, who was kneeling on the ground in front of him: "Didn't you say that the Tang people would not interfere in our war?" Why did the Tang people intervene and still stand on the side of the shogunate! ”

Lin Ziping also had beads of sweat on his face, and the change in the situation seemed to have always been so sudden, including the sudden attack of the Shogunate Army, which defeated the Shogunate Army, including the Tang Army, which only took three days to assemble, and within a week, it was from Okuyu to Kanto, and the situation in Japan could change dramatically in almost a few days. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Your Majesty the Emperor, our people originally made contact with the Tang people, and the Tang people also made a promise that they would not interfere in our country's political situation, who knew that they actually betrayed their promises."

This is a complete lie, Lin Ziping did send someone to Ou Yu to contact Tai Yihua, the governor of Ao Yu. However, the envoy sent by Lin Ziping did not even meet a heavyweight official of the Ou Overseas Government, let alone get an official promise from Datang not to intervene in the situation in Japan. Lin Ziping was also afraid of the emperor's anger, and he was even more worried that the Sachang Alliance would stop their downfall movement because of the Tang people, so he told such a lie. In his opinion, Tang Ren should not rush to intervene, but what he thinks is obviously wrong.

The strength of the Tang Dynasty is simply a huge bug in this era, and the war that ordinary countries think will consume huge amounts is nothing in the eyes of the Tang people. Moreover, Datang also has a good operating mechanism, which can quickly transform the results of a war, obtain multiple resources, various investments, and even assets directly plundered by the war, plus Datang's mature economic business model. So much so that although the Tang Dynasty spent tens of millions of Tang yuan in each war. However, it can also pay for itself in the short term. The long-term benefits are not measurable.

The Ministry of National Defense has to set up about 50 million Tang Yuan every year for mobile funds for possible wars. This year, the Vietnam War was also fought, and although there were a lot of troop movements, it also cost 16 million Tang Yuan before and after, and the scale of the war in Japan may be greater than that of the war in Vietnam, but it can be stopped with an investment of almost 20 or 30 million.

Whether it's Vietnam or Japan. Datang can't make a quick return on investment, and now these two countries are still relatively poor, unlike the war in Mexico, Datang just relied on looting the wealth of the Spaniards, and also offset most of its own investment. Coupled with some mines and plantations that were quickly taken over, Datang can be said to have made a lot of money in the war. Vietnam has been fighting for more than ten years, and the whole country is in vain, and there is no wealth to be looted, and Japan is a typical country of poor ghosts. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan began to develop outward. A group of lower-ranking officers went on a rampage and invaded Taiwan. However, after determining that it could not occupy Taiwan completely, the Japanese government chose to make peace with the Qing government. At that time, the Qing government wanted to solve the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and was unwilling to make extraneous branches, so it took 500,000 taels of silver and exposed the matter. As a result, the Japanese took 500,000 taels of silver, and their eyes were red. This group of poor and frightened Japanese did not expect that they would casually send troops to cause some trouble, and actually took so much silver, which further stimulated their ambition of foreign aggression.

This shows how poor Japan really is.

During the previous period when Tanuma Yoshiji was in power with the shogunate, Tanuma Yoshiji spent a lot of money in order to develop industry and commerce and strengthen the shogunate's military, which also seriously affected the shogunate's finances and gave Matsudaira Toshinobu, who opposed Tanuma Yoshiji, a pretext. Matsudaira issued a series of policies such as the Thrift Decree, which also meant to restore the financial health of the shogunate, but his thinking was limited to things such as Tianfu, and he hated business, and the shogunate's financial situation did not fundamentally improve.

Even if Japan is poor, the Tang people know that if the country is given a chance, it can still burst out with quite terrifying power. The Republic of China and the modern public are almost very instinctively wary of Japan, and in the eyes of many people, it is an acceptable thing to stumble and shackle Japan, trap Japan, and invest a huge amount. Of course, a figure like Bai Nan, who is full of confidence and a big vision, can also see that mastering Japan has a lot of benefits for Datang.

Now Japan has a population of more than 20 million, even if the Tang Dynasty adds the population of other nationalities in various overseas territories, that is, it is about this number, and the Japanese are also a relatively good source of labor and soldiers, after mastering the Ou Yu, the Yamato Corps formed by the Tang Dynasty is also a very useful force.

Bai Nam also consciously hopes to control the degree of development of Japan in the future, and will still maintain a social economy based on agriculture like Vietnam, appropriately develop some industries, and use Japan as a good dumping ground for local goods of the Tang Dynasty.

At this time, the Japanese Emperor Guangge was already very panicked, the strength of the Tang army was greater than all of them imagined, the Tang army bypassed Nagoya, after defeating the Sacho alliance army in Sekigahara, it had already come to the shore of Lake Biwa, and broke through the defense line of the fallen shogunate army in Kusatsu, where the emperor was located, had been completely exposed to the front of the Yamato Corps of the Tang army that was advancing lightly.

Although the Sacho League later captured Osaka, which was guarded by the shogunate army, the shogunate army also captured Nagoya, which was guarded by the Sacho League, a day later with the support of the Tang army, which arrived later. The main force of the new army of the Sacho Alliance suffered considerable losses, and of course, the shogunate army had lost more than 30,000 troops in more than a month since the start of the war, and it was betrayed by many feudal clans.

Although the shogunate army felt that the losses were great, the Sacho alliance was at the end of the road, the Tang army would attack Kyoto in a few days, and the shogunate army only had 7,000 troops stationed in Kyoto, and most of the daimyo of Kansai and actually adopted a sideline and neutral attitude, and would not give much support to the Sacho Alliance, and even the Tosa Domain, which had originally promised to send troops, retreated at this time.

The two feudal domains of Satsuma and Choshu were extremely decadent, and there seemed to be no good way at this time, and there was little point in continuing to fight, so Sacho was ready to choose to negotiate peace with the shogunate, and then seek a chance to exit with dignity. And the emperor himself may also abdicate and pay for this farce.

But just when the curtain fell and the side was completely desperate, a piece of news shocked everyone. (To be continued.) )