In this negotiation, the Chinese side occupies the absolute initiative, because it is the Japanese who take the initiative to seek peace, then the Japanese side must sacrifice some interests in order to make the negotiations successful, no matter whether the Japanese are delaying time or really feeling that they cannot continue to fight, before the negotiations, it is first necessary to establish what demands one side has, and what procedures should be negotiated in the negotiations to be considered appropriate, and so on.

After some discussion with his staff, Xiao Zhenlei finally determined that the conditions put forward by the Chinese side in this negotiation were as follows: First, Japan should surrender to China, write a letter of surrender, and the emperor will issue an edict of surrender and notify the world.

Second, since then, Japan has not been allowed to have an armed force, but only a Self-Defense Force, and the size, establishment, and equipment of the Self-Defense Force can only be established with the approval and permission of the Chinese State, and the training and command of the Self-Defense Force will be guided by the Chinese State's senior advisers, and the armed forces will not be secretly developed at any time in the future, and those who violate the relevant regulations will be severely punished.

Third, China was allowed to station troops in Japan and set up military bases in Yokosuka and Hokkaido. In view of the fact that Japan's security has been taken over by China, Japan must bear the cost of its troops and fleet stationed in Japan every year.

Fourth, Japan immediately withdrew its troops from the Liaodong Peninsula, Wan Dao, Penghu Islands, the Ryukyu Islands, and the Korean Peninsula, and the Chinese side recovered sovereignty over the Liaodong Peninsula, Wan Dao, Penghu Islands, the Ryukyu Islands, and the Korean Peninsula.

Fifth, Japan withdrew its troops from the Far East and Siberia and handed over all the land it occupied to the Chinese side to take over, and could not make contact with the Tsarist side without permission.

Sixth, Japan will pay 1 billion Chinese dollars in compensation to China (the detailed payment deadline will be discussed separately).

Seventh. Japan ceded Kyushu Island to China, and thereafter the sovereignty of Kyushu Island belonged to China. No more controversy.

Eighth, Sakhalin Island, which Japan occupied during the Russo-Japanese War, was originally part of the territory of China. After the Japanese withdrawal, it was recovered by Huaguo.

The above eight points are the results of Xiao Zhenlei's discussion with the staff group, and these negotiation conditions still need to be discussed with the cabinet, so Xiao Zhenlei sent someone to find Song Shijie.

After Song Shijie came, he looked at the negotiation conditions given to him by Xiao Zhenlei and said, "President, are these conditions too harsh?" If the Japanese agree, I am afraid that they will not be able to turn around in a hundred years, and it is impossible for the Japanese side to agree! ”

Xiao Zhenlei shook his head and said: "Old Song, it seems that you are still not very good at diplomacy, negotiating, you just have to ask for a price and pay back the money on the spot!" Sometimes you have to be more careful than buying vegetables in the vegetable market or buying clothes in clothing stores to ensure your own interests. You have to know that at this level of negotiation, a little concession is a huge loss of benefits! ”

Song Shijie thought about it and nodded: "Okay, then what about our specific bottom line?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei said: "This is the bottom line!" Japan agrees or not, we have such conditions, if they don't agree, we have to agree, otherwise we will beat them up, and if they survive to the end, then let them die. Worse than the French! Old Song, in this era, especially in international affairs, we must not be soft-hearted and soft-hearted towards enemy countries. It's cruelty to our people, think about how Japan treated us back then? Let's pay compensation, let's cut the land, do we dare to say a word? Now it's our turn to take charge of the fate of the Japanese. This is the power of the victorious country, otherwise it can only destroy the country. Who would have the audacity to rather destroy the country than accede to these conditions? ”

Song Shijie stood up and said, "I understand, that's when we sent diplomats to talk." Let them send someone! ”

Xiao Zhenlei said: "Of course we let them come, and we don't owe them, are we still begging them?" After the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, Li Hongzhang also went to Japan, and now it is Japan's turn to send people to us! ”

"Understood, I'll arrange it!"

After Song Shijie left, Xiao Zhenlei sighed in his heart, Song Shijie is still too young, has little experience in international affairs, and has insufficient understanding, and is still a little immature in the handling of domestic government affairs, but now there is no other way, if he is replaced, it will be a blow to Song Shijie, and he does not particularly trust others, you must know that the position of the prime minister of the cabinet is very important, so you can only let Song Shijie hone slowly.

In fact, Xiao Zhenlei can find out a few suitable candidates for the prime minister of the cabinet, Tang Shaoyi is more suitable, Zhang Jian is also scheming, and there are a few people in the staff group who can be qualified to be the prime minister of the cabinet, but whether it is Tang Shaoyi, Zhang Jian, or others in the staff group, they can't let him be completely at ease, if the prime minister of the cabinet sings against him, it will be a lot of fun, for the time being, let Song Shijie sit in this position and learn slowly, fortunately, Song Shijie also knows a lot of his shortcomings, Therefore, he studied very hard and seriously in the handling of government affairs.

Before the negotiations between the two countries officially began, a new situation arose in the north, the advance force of the Japanese was really powerful, the attack was very strong, just yesterday, the Japanese army captured Irkutsk, and the Russian army in Siberia and the Far East was completely annihilated

After the news came, under Xiao Zhenlei's instructions, the General Staff immediately ordered most of the main forces of the two divisions deployed in Mongolia, the two divisions in Rehe, and the three divisions in Dongsansheng to move closer to the border and cross the border to put military pressure on the Japanese army, so that the Japanese would not advance anymore.

In fact, at this time, Tsarist Russia basically had no troops in the area east of the Urral Mountains, and the troops were all transferred to the western front to defend against the Germans.

This made Xiao Zhenlei see an opportunity to intervene in Siberia, so he immediately asked people to contact the Russian minister to China, Kuminszi, who was worried about the deterioration of the situation in the north at this time, and immediately rushed to the presidential palace to meet Xiao Zhenlei after receiving the news.

Xiao Zhenlei was very enthusiastic when he saw Kuminsiqi and asked, "How is Mr. Minister doing during this time?" The weather in Kyoto is good, right? ”

"The weather in Jingshi is good, but it's just too hot!" Kuminsky said a word, and said with a wry smile: "President, if you have something to say, just say it, now the situation in my country is extremely bad, you can chat with me." I'm really not in that mood! ”

Well, this thing is a little too direct. Xiao Zhenlei couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, but quickly covered it up. He smiled and said, "Well, it's a good thing to come to you today!" ”

"A good thing, a good thing?" Kuminsky asked depressedly.

Xiao Zhenlei said: "That's the case, as far as I know, isn't your country now almost no military strength in the region east of the Ural Mountains?" If you send an invitation to your country to send troops into your country to help your country resist the Japanese, we can send troops to the east of the Ural Mountains to help defend it, and as an ally, we have this obligation! ”

"What?" Kumings listened to it. His face suddenly showed surprise, and he hurriedly said, "Your Excellency, is this true?" ”

"Of course, you think I have time to joke with you?" Xiao Zhenlei pretended to be displeased.

The reason why Kuminschi was so happy to hear Xiao Zhenlei's words was because it was very normal for allies to send troops into each other's territory to help fight in Europe, for example, in two world wars, Britain sent troops into France to fight, and the United States also did, so Kuminsky had no other thoughts about this kind of thing at all. I also didn't realize that Xiao Zhenlei was fighting Tsarist Russia's idea.

This is Western military thinking, but in Eastern military thinking, this is basically not allowed, not even allowing friendly troops to pass through one's own territory. Not to mention the fact that allies should send troops into their own territory to fight because they would not leave for fear that others would come in is not uncommon in the military history of the East.

Kumingschi was happy for a while. Putting away his excitement, he asked, "I wonder how many people Your Excellency can send into our country to help fight?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei took a puff of his cigar and asked, "How many troops does Mr. Minister hope my country can send?" ”

Kumingsqi thought about it when he heard this, and cautiously asked, "Six hundred thousand? ”

In fact, he calculated it in his heart. The Japanese already had 150,000 men in Siberia, and he thought that Hua Guo's 600,000 men should be able to defeat the Japanese. After all, it's a four-to-one ratio.

When Xiao Zhenlei heard this number, he knew that Kumingsiqi was still looking at Huaguo from the previous eyes, and because the current army of Huaguo was about the same as the combat effectiveness of the Qing Dynasty army, he was not angry, and said: "Mr. Minister, you also know that our country has only seen it for a few years, and its industrial base and production capacity are very limited. ”

Kuminschi nodded involuntarily when he heard this, it is true, after all, fighting a war is not a joke, playing with his mouth, and the ammunition is produced by the arsenal, not out of thin air. After all, Huaguo has only been founded for a few years, and no matter how fast it develops, its heritage is limited.

Xiao Zhenlei continued: "Therefore, we can only send a maximum of 200,000 people in the early stage, but Your Excellency the Minister can rest assured that if it is not enough, we can continue to increase our forces until the momentum of the Japanese offensive is contained!" After the entry of our army, your country can completely allow us to hand over the defense of the area east of the Urral Mountains to our country, and I can guarantee that Japan will not be able to defeat the Urral vein, and your country can go all out to deal with the Germans in the west, sir, now is the time to fight hard, if you don't fight hard, Tsarist Russia will be defeated by the Germans, are you right? ”

After hearing these words, Kuminschi felt that the shape was even more serious, and he had to admit that Xiao Zhenlei's words were very reasonable and convincing, yes, now is the time to fight hard, and when the Germans stab Tsarist Russia in the heart, Tsarist Russia can't do it even if it wants to fight back desperately!

After a few turns in his mind, Kuminsky said to Xiao Zhenlei: "Your Excellency, on behalf of the Russian Empire, I would like to express my gratitude to the President and your country, and I will immediately telegraph to my Emperor Xià after I go back, I believe that my country will soon send an invitation letter asking your country to send troops, and on your side, I hope that your country can send troops as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to curb the offensive momentum of the Japanese!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei said with a smile: "Your Excellency, your Excellency, rest assured, the army of our ten divisions, 260,000 people are ready to go, waiting for an invitation letter from your country, as soon as the invitation letter from your country arrives, our country will send troops immediately!" ”

Kuminszi had been in China long enough to know some of its customs and traditions, and he knew that the Chinese authorities would not send troops into the territory of another country unless it was requested, even by allies.

He hurriedly said, "Okay, okay! ”

Now there is not much time left for the uprising of the Russian revolutionaries, and the reason why Xiao Zhenlei wants this invitation is that he can lie in the east of the Ural Mountains in the future, and after the Russian revolutionaries overthrow the Russian government, he will definitely send troops to march into Siberia, and at that time he can order the troops to be stationed in the Ural Mountains, defend against the Russian Revolutionary Army with natural geographical advantages, and go east of the Ural Mountains to the Bering Strait. From the northern shore of the Caspian Sea to the Arctic Ocean, the territory of China is not far behind, if not as large as the area of the Mongol Empire at its peak.

Sure enough, within two days, Kuminsky came to see Xiao Zhenlei with a telegram, this telegram was sent by Tsar Nicholas II to Xiao Zhenlei, to the effect that China was asked to send troops into Tsarist Russia to help the Tsarist authorities in the war, this was just a telegram, Kuminsky said that the official letter would be sent from St. Petersburg later, asking Xiao Zhenlei to send troops first anyway.

Xiao Zhenlei put away the telegram and immediately called to convene a meeting of the Supreme Military Council, and after discussion, the next morning, 80,000 troops of the Third Army set out from the Sino-Russian border in Xinjiang to the west into the territory of Tsarist Russia, and advanced directly in the direction of the Ural Mountains. The third army is a pack horse rear troops, soldiers can be cavalry on horseback, infantry can be dismounted, logistics troops are also equipped with a large number of mules and horses, and the marching speed is much faster than that of pure infantry troops.

At the same time, two divisions deployed in Mongolia were approaching Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude, two divisions deployed in Rehe were approaching Chita across the border, and three divisions deployed in the three eastern provinces were approaching Boli (Khabarovsk), Shuangchengzi (Ussuriysk), and Vladivostok through the Heilongjiang River.

After the Chinese army entered the territory of Tsarist Russia, it did not attack the Japanese army, but put on a posture of surveillance and defense, which made the Japanese extremely wonder, what kind of trouble did China want? (To be continued......)