In the aftermath of the earthquake, countless people are dying every day in the Tokyo area, where countless people die every day due to the lack of supplies for disaster relief.

The palace was dark.

Emperor Taisho of Japan looked at the telegram in his hand, and kneeling in front of the emperor were acting Prime Minister Yasuya Uchida and Aritomo and Heihachiro Togo, veterans of the Japanese Navy and Army.

"Can't the Army fail to make a difference? What good is it for the empire to provoke China? As a result, civilians in the occupied areas of the empire were slaughtered by Koreans, and hundreds of people died in the Tokyo earthquake without help. Crown Prince Hirohito's shrill voice continued to echo in the empty palace, and since the last time he listened to Emperor Taisho's analysis of the comparison of Chinese and Japanese strength, he was unusually dissatisfied with the crazy and arrogant army that did not know its own strength and the state of Japan's national strength.

"Enough!" Emperor Taisho put down the telegram in his hand and stopped Hirohito's rebuke. glanced at Yasuya Uchida, Aritomo Yamagu, and Heihachiro Togo, and sighed: "Judging from the telegram of Hichiyi, although Duan Qirui is still keen on power, he also has a deep problem with the empire, and it is already good not to fall into the empire at this juncture, and it is impossible to let him help the empire." ”

Yasuya Uchida knelt on the ground and said sadly: "Your Majesty, the ministers are incompetent. ”

Emperor Taisho sighed and said, "It's not a matter of your ability. The glory that you have achieved for the empire is enough to prove your ability, this is the difference in strength, the innate gap, the branch is too big, the population is too large, once they eliminate internal strife and unite with the outside world, their overall comprehensive strength is far from being comparable to the empire. Obviously, the support is dragging out time, and not dragging on for a day can damage the vitality of the empire, until the empire is dragged to the point of no return. ”

Yama County Youpeng naturally understood what Emperor Taisho meant, and said anxiously: "Your Majesty, that person is too deceitful. ”

Taisho said lightly: "They have their requirements, and we have our countermeasures." Shan Shan Jun, pick a few generals who made mistakes, and temporarily promote them to the military rank to solve this problem. The empire really can't afford to drag it out. "Japan is really exhausted, China can drag it, but Japan can't afford it. Not to mention China's blockade of Japan, that is, China's continuous relocation of Koreans to Japan and the retaliation of Korean soldiers and civilians against Japan have caused Japan heavy losses.

Youpeng in Shan County said anxiously: "Your Majesty"

Emperor Taisho sighed and said, "No need to say any more, remember this lesson and shame, and take it as a warning." The fact that China no longer recognizes the existence of Korea and treats the Koreans as ethnic Japanese Koreans is clearly intended to allow the empire and the Koreans to kill each other and destroy the empire even more. The empire must quickly end the war with China, and then clean up the Koreans, otherwise the country will not exist, what is the point of losing face? ”

Togo Heihachiro said: "Your Majesty is wise! ”

"You!" There are friends in Yama County who look angrily at Togo Heihachiro, the Liaodong Peninsula is under the jurisdiction of the Kwantung Army, which belongs to the army battle sequence, and it is naturally the army that is humiliated. For Togo Heihachiro's fall into the well, this made him extremely annoyed. But after all, in front of the emperor, Yama Prefecture Youpeng still did not have a seizure, he did not take Emperor Taisho in his eyes before, it was because of his outstanding achievements, but now the Japanese army has been beaten to the ground and lost support, so naturally he does not dare to make a mistake in front of the emperor.

"That's it!" Emperor Taisho stopped in time and sighed: "This time the empire is a complete defeat, and the navy and army have suffered unprecedented heavy losses. If we don't have unity within ourselves, then Japan will really make history. Let this matter be settled, end the war as soon as possible. ”

Yasuya Uchida said hesitantly: "Your Majesty, but it may not be that there will be another incident on the Chinese side because of this." ”

Emperor Taisho said coldly: "Even if it is a temporarily promoted officer, it is also an officer of my Imperial Japan, can it still be managed by the promotion of imperial officers?" Rest assured, the great powers will not allow China to do whatever it wants. ”

After learning of Duan Qirui's attitude towards Japan, Japan no longer had hope, and under the pressure of Emperor Taisho, Japan chose to give in.

The news of Japan's submission was an unparalleled blow to the morale of the Japanese people, and every day people committed suicide in despair, and everyone felt that the future was bleak, just as the Sino-Japanese War had dealt a blow to the morale of the Manchus.

Shigeru Honjo was temporarily promoted to general to be the commander of the Kwantung Army and sent to Port Arthur, the whole person was so depressed that he couldn't even remember how he handed over the command knife, and only one question echoed in his mind: Why me? Why me?

Honjo would never have dreamed that if it weren't for Invincible who ventured into this era with an expedition vehicle hundreds of years later, it wouldn't be long before he became the commander of the Kwantung Army and presided over the launch of the 918 Incident. It can be said that the base car, senior cloning technicians, and 3,000 cloned tiger ben brought by Wu Di completely changed the situation in East Asia and changed the world.

The next day, Honjo committed suicide in a prisoner camp

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Japan's submission has caused an international uproar, its international status has plummeted, and even many people in the Western world cannot understand how such a powerful country as Japan has ended up so miserably in the blink of an eye. Then politicians in the West also breathed a sigh of relief, because China no longer had an excuse to delay the negotiations.

Negotiations on the Shanghai concession have finally begun, and China and Japan have finally sat down at the negotiating table.

Inside the Provisional Presidential Palace in Nanjing.

Li Bufan, Wu Di, Yang Yongtai, Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng are also negotiating the talks.

"Two billion?" Duan Qirui frowned and said, "The Japanese are just afraid that they won't be able to come up with this money." ”

Li Bufan sneered: "Japan made a war windfall in the world war, and borrowed a large amount of money to restore production in the Western world, and two billion yuan could not be taken out, so it was no problem for them to directly take out half of it at one time." ”

Wu Di also said with some dissatisfaction: "But boss, this negotiation is a sky-high asking price to repay the money on the spot, your opening is two billion, and you will not pay less, I am afraid that the negotiation will not be so smooth." Even Britain, France and the United States will put pressure on our foreign negotiators to reduce the reparations. ”

Li Bufan said lightly: "At this price, there can't be a penny, who is willing to bargain with Little Japan." If the Japanese don't want to, then keep fighting. ”

Duan Qirui frowned and said, "Extraordinary, didn't you say before that you would delay time?" How can such a fixed price be delayed? ”

Li Bufan sighed: "I can only think of other ways to delay, after all, the patience of the great powers is limited, there is no need to delay this issue for too long." I think we can stall for time in electing the president and buy time for us to prepare. ”

Xu Shuzheng frowned and said, "Presidential election? How to procrastinate? ”

Li Bufan sneered: "That's not simple. I don't think there's a problem with giving outsiders a gesture that I don't want to step down, deliberately delaying the election, or some other method, and delaying it for some time. Besides, isn't the West about democracy? We can also meet to discuss the answer to the Western powers' interests in China. ”

Wu Di nodded and said, "Indeed." When the time comes, we will be the main faction and the main faction, and it will be no problem to delay time. Not long after the world war, the great powers are war-weary, and as long as we do not directly touch their interests, I don't think they will turn against us for the time being. ”

Xu Shuzheng sneered: "What if they use the threat of force? "You must know that the great powers have adopted this method more than once against the former Manchu Qing and the Republic of China, and the effect is good, and the most important thing is that the great powers have joined forces vertically and horizontally, and China is really unable to resist because of the limitation of national strength.

Wu Di sneered: "This time and that time. Before the outbreak of the world war, the strength of the great powers was indeed strong, and even now we have to retreat from the great powers at that time. But after the world war, which almost drained the blood of an entire generation of young people in Europe, can they still have that kind of determination and strength? The most important thing is that they die so many people? We dare to plan a war with the Western world, the purpose is to consume the men of the Western world through this war, even if it is with the blood of our entire generation, to achieve this goal, then the decline of the Western world will become inevitable. Are we just fighting them? No, we're not at war, we're fighting with them. Our purpose is simple and direct, and our national strength cannot be compared with the industrialization of the West in a short period of time, so we will fight with them for population and casualty bearing. The number of people is our greatest advantage. ”

Li Bufan said lightly: "That's right. The British fought in the World War with six million people, which was almost all of them who could be pulled into the battlefield, of which the death rate reached 22%, half of them were wounded, and France was even worse, after all, the largest battles took place almost in the north of France, not only young soldiers, but also civilians were killed and wounded. However, there were war-weary deserters on the battlefields of Europe, and it is conceivable how many people were willing to let them die in the East? I'm almost certain that as long as we can withstand their first wave of attacks, then the final victory will be ours. ”

Duan Qirui smiled bitterly: "What I'm worried about now is what if the Japanese don't agree to our request? If this negotiation can't be negotiated, how can it be talked about in the future? ”

Wu Di laughed and said, "Do you want to delay time?" Then it's up to who can afford it. ”

Shanghai Concession Negotiation Conference Room.

"The war reparations are two billion, and half of them must be paid directly before our army withdraws from Japan. At the same time, Japan recovered the Korean Peninsula and the Ryukyu Islands, as well as the territories of Ezo State, which were originally part of China. There is no room for bargaining, Japan will sign a contract if it agrees, and continue to fight if it does not agree! Tang Shaoyi's voice stirred in the negotiation room.

The Japanese negotiator Inukai Takeshi and the British, French, and American mediators Smith, Hollande, and Conger were dumbfounded.

Bargaining is not allowed, is this still negotiation?

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