Chapter 181: Sino-Japanese Armistice Treaty

100,000 Navy? Two million Army? Five million reserve samurai who can be formed into an army at once?

That's a whole army of seven million!

Oh, my God! Is this to destroy Japan?

The ministers of Britain, France, the United States and Germany on the side felt that they were trembling all over, and they knew very well that even all the armies of Britain, France, the United States and Germany did not add up to seven million.

Moreover, Cui Jingluo also said just now that China still has a population of 450 million, which is already the total population of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Japan and other countries. Million? Million? Or forty million? Million? Even if you hold a sword and a bow and arrow, I'm afraid that there is only one way for Japan to perish!

While the ministers of Britain, France, the United States, and Germany trembled tremblingly, the Japanese prime minister and various negotiators were also chilling all over.

Only when we really face a big country with a population of four or five billion and an army of seven or eight million can we truly appreciate our own insignificance.

Katsura Taro withered in an instant, although he knew that it was impossible for China to really form a 7 million army to land in Japan, but he didn't dare to bet, and he couldn't afford to gamble, because not to mention the 7 million Chinese army landing in Japan, even if 700,000 Chinese troops landed in Japan now, Japan would only have to die!

However, in order to reduce Japan's losses, Katsura Taro still said: "The conditions in your country are too harsh, and our country really can't afford it. ”

Cui Jingluo's face was calm, and he said: "If your country is unwilling to give it, it doesn't matter, we will pick it up ourselves, I heard that there are many factories in the industrial zone in the Seto Inland Sea area of your country." There are also a lot of banks, and there are many big consortia, and we will take away those machines, deposits, and consortium assets, oh, by the way, your royal family has been inherited for more than a thousand years, and I heard that there are a lot of gold and treasures in reserve, how can we be willing to take it in person, just like the Anglo-French army invaded the Chinese imperial palace more than 40 years ago! ”

Cui Jingluo said lightly and glanced at the British and French ministers on the side, which made the two of them feel cold. It's like falling into an ice cave!

Threat. Naked & Naked Threat!

But will Japan be able to resist?

Now China is a knife, and Japan is meat on the chopping board!

Katsura Taro gritted his teeth and said, "Your country is asking for too much compensation. Japan can't come up with so much money! ”

Can't come up with that much money? Hey. Never mind. Take the rest!

Cui Jing slightly refused lightly: "That's a pity, this is already my country's bottom line, if your country really can't take it." Then wait for the Chinese fleet to bomb the coast of Japan, and wait for the two million Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army to land in Pusan and land on Japan! ”

Katsura Taro's face changed suddenly, and today's negotiations ended unhappily under such circumstances.

In the next three days, China and Japan launched rounds of arguments at the negotiation table, but in any case, when it came to reparations, Cui Jingluo was stubborn and did not relax, anyway, it is that sentence, if you don't want to give, I will take it myself!

After another two days, Cui Jingluo, under Wang Jundao's signal, felt that the time was about the same, and finally relented about the negotiated reparations, but he also clung to the bottom line of 1.5 billion pounds, and made it conditional that Japan must return Taiwan, the Penghu Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands.

In the end, Japan promised to pay 1.5 billion pounds in reparations and returned Taiwan, the Penghu Islands, the Ryukyu Islands and other lands.

After several years of cholera and war, it would be good if Japan could come up with 15 million pounds, let alone 1.5 billion pounds.

In order to reduce the amount of reparations, at Cui Jinglue's suggestion, Japan agreed to cede Tsushima, the Goto Islands, Kagoshima, Yakushima, and its affiliated islands to China, and finally received only 1.2 billion pounds in compensation.

As for the more than 80,000 Japanese troops captured by China in the past year or so, and the more than 20,000 Japanese navy prisoners taken prisoner in the Korean Strait naval battle, Cui Jingluo offered a redemption price of 1,000 pounds per soldier and 1,500 pounds per officer.

When it comes to the final price, it is 700 pounds sterling for Japan to redeem a soldier and 1,200 pounds to redeem an officer, and as for the captured Japanese warships, they are naturally not among the negotiations.

On November 16, the Chinese representative Cui Jingluo and the Japanese representative Katsura Taro signed the "Sino-Japanese Armistice Treaty" in Beijing.

The main contents of the treaty are:

First, China and Japan ceased war, and Japan apologized for its previous military acts of invading China and killing Chinese people.

Second, Japan compensated China for war reparations and national losses of £1.2 billion.

Third, Japan will return Taiwan and its affiliated islands, the Penghu Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands to China and permanently recognize them as China's inherent territory.

Fourth, Japan ceded Tsushima, the Goto Islands, Kagoshima, Yakushima and its affiliated islands to China and permanently recognized them as China's inherent territory.

Fifth, China and Japan are bounded by the 38th parallel in Korea, with the south being in the sphere of influence of Japan and North Korea, and the north being China, and Japan must permanently recognize the north of the 38th parallel as China's inherent territory, and Japan is not allowed to station troops within 100 miles south of the 38th parallel, and Japan's troops in Korea must not exceed 200,000.

Sixth, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, Kobe, Nagoya, and Yokohama will be opened up as permanent treaty ports.

Seventh, since the signing of the treaty, China and Japan have stopped all war actions!

Eighth, if Japan violates the contents of the treaty, China has the right to defend its rights by all means, including military action.

Among them, regarding the second article, that is, the war reparations, there is a subsidiary treaty: 1.2 billion pounds of reparations, Japan made a down payment of 600 million pounds, which can be replaced by the equivalent of gold, silver and other metal currencies, and the remaining 600 million pounds can be repaid by Japan in six years, with an interest of 6 percent.

After the signing of the Sino-Japanese armistice treaty, Japan immediately borrowed money from Britain, the United States, Germany, France, and other countries, and Britain, France, the United States, and Germany happily lent Japan a total of 400 million pounds, and the remaining 100 million pounds, Japan borrowed from Japan's major consortia.

Ten days later, Japan's down payment of 600 million pounds in war reparations had reached China.

And in the meantime. Japan also withdrew from Taiwan and its affiliated islands, the Penghu Islands, the Ryukyu Islands and other islands, and China immediately recovered Taiwan and its affiliated islands and the Penghu Islands, incorporated the Ryukyu Islands into its territory, and obtained Tsushima Island, Goto Island, Kagoshima, Yakushima and other islands that Japan ceded to China.

Most of the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in Korea also withdrew from Korea, leaving only 200,000 troops.

After learning that most of the Japanese army stationed in Korea had withdrawn to the mainland, Wang Jundao also ordered the withdrawal of most of the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army stationed in northern Korea, leaving only 130,000 troops garrisoned, including the 7th, 8th, 9th, 81st, 82nd, 83rd, 84th, 85th, 86th, and 87th divisions.

Then Wang Jundao ordered the northern part of Korea, that is, the area north of the 38th parallel, to be placed under the jurisdiction of Liaoning Province and Jilin Province respectively, of which Jiangjie, Dongsin, Jangjin, Hyesan, Cheongjin, Jince, Zucheon and other northern Korean areas belonged to Jilin Province. The rest include Longcheon, Xuanchuan, Pyongseong, Pyongyang, Haeju, Songdu, Wonsan, Gaoseong and other regions all belong to Liaoning Province.

After the signing of the Sino-Japanese Armistice Treaty. As the ministers of various countries gradually communicated with their own countries and publicized to their countries all kinds of China's great features, especially in terms of weapons and high-end technology, all countries have become aware of it. Today's China is far inferior to them in terms of basic industries. But in advanced weapons and high-end technology. Already far ahead of them.

As a result, the hostile attitudes of various countries towards China began to change imperceptibly, and the elders of various countries deliberated closely. Most of them decided to establish friendly relations with China in order to obtain advanced weapons technology and high-end science and technology from China.

Even Russia, which was originally at loggerheads with China, decided to cease war with China and coexist peacefully, but now more than 100,000 Russian soldiers have become Chinese prisoners, and even Russia's war minister is still in China's hands.

As a last resort, Russia also temporarily signed an armistice agreement with China, but this armistice agreement was a real armistice, not an unequal treaty like the armistice treaty with Japan.

Russia was willing to redeem its captured soldiers at a price equal to the Japanese price, and Wang Jundao readily agreed, but there were also conditions, that is, Russia must permanently recognize the Hanzhong region, the east and south of Lake Balkhash, the Mongolian region, and the area south of the Trans-Khingan Mountains as China's inherent territory.

Russia naturally knows that it is impossible to spit out the land occupied by China again, unless it is seized through war, but since the outbreak of the war between China and Russia, Russia has not only failed to win a single battle, but has also lost hundreds of thousands of troops, and even the fleet in the Pacific region has been wiped out, and the army has been replaced with Sinophobia in its eyes. I was afraid that if I couldn't defeat China at that time, I would throw away more land, so I naturally agreed to Wang Jundao's conditions.

The negotiations between the two countries did not take too long before an armistice was reached.

Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy, Austria and other countries are naturally not far behind, and in the case that China has completely risen, it is better to form friendly relations with China than to become enemies of China and suffer losses on both sides, and through transactions, try to obtain China's high-end weapons technology and high-end science and technology, so as to develop their own national defense and industry.

Among them, Germany was the most cheerful, first putting forward the conditions for the return of China's Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay areas, and then deciding to redeem the German officers and soldiers who were captured by Wang Jundao during the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China.

Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary and other countries were also willing to redeem their own soldiers who were captured by Wang Jundao during the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

As for wanting to obtain China's advanced weapons technology and high-end science and technology, Wang Jundao naturally will not suffer a loss, and has asked other countries to exchange basic industrial technology and industrial equipment and industrial machinery.

And Wang Jundao will not give them the most advanced technology, and decided to give them technology that is one or two grades lower than China's high-end technology, even so, these high-end technologies are still about four or five years more advanced than the most advanced technology of this era.

Countless pounds, dollars, or hard currencies such as gold and silver flowed into China through Wang Jundao's 'sale' captives, and with it, a large number of basic industrial technologies, industrial equipment, industrial machinery, etc., and Wang Jundao only paid for some technologies that could appear in this world in a few years.

In the process of Wang Jundao trading with Britain, France, the United States, Russia, Germany, Italy and Austria in exchange for a large amount of gold and silver, currency, as well as industrial basic technology, industrial equipment, and industrial machinery, Wang Jundao finally decided to build a country under the strong pleas of a cabinet and military bigwigs, and actively prepared for the establishment of the country! (To be continued......)