"For Asia, or for the world, October 14, 1892, seems to be a fateful day. When the hour hand of the history of the pen and the court www.biquge.info pointed to this day, the Russo-Japanese War, which had attracted the attention of the world, came to an end on this day with the whistle of the "Tango Maru" in Hiroshima Port.

When this day came, no one knew what Marquis Ito Hirobumi had in mind when he went to Russia, but all this meant the end of the war and, of course, the end of the Japanese Empire. For any Japanese person, they never imagined that one day the country of the rising sun would go down like the sunset in the West, but fate had already been decided.

After the protracted war, Japan existed only in people's memory, and it cannot but be said that Japan, which had tried to survive by "enlightenment" and "total westernization," became the first country in East Asia to perish, and this cannot but be said to be the biggest joke in the history of the modern Orient.

And the joke is so cruel - what did the fall of the empire and the death of millions of people get back? Just a "Surrender Agreement" with tears. When the agreement was signed, the dream of the so-called "Meiji Restoration Masters" in some people was realized, and Japan finally realized their wish - "secession from Asia and entry into Europe", and Japan became a province of the Russian Empire, and those "Orientals" of the Nicholas Viceroyalty could finally say with arrogance, "How is our country?" and even looked at other Asian peoples with a condescending eye, ignoring the fact that they were only third-class slaves.

If history could be reversed, I think every Japanese in exile in China would want to pay homage to Hirobumi Ito, a former marquis of the Japanese Empire. The marquis of Chōnga, the future Russian Empire, asked. Would he have thought about it just a month later. When the tricolor of the Russian Empire flew over Tokyo, when the Governor of the Russian Viceroyalty Nikolai took office in the former imperial palace, did His Excellency the Marquis in St. Petersburg shed tears for the fate of Japan? ”

"Oriental Mission" - Sunset Kuwabara Kakuzo

In one of the carriages on the Sanyo Main Line to Kobe-Hiroshima, Yasujiro Mori, the personal secretary of Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito, noticed that the prime minister seemed to be forever resolute and iron-clad. Like many desperate people, he leaned back on the couch and stared out the window, his once-black hair gray.

"Oops! It's over...... How difficult it is for a small country to rise! But the smaller the country, the more arrogant it will be...... Shan County, they should be satisfied now, right...... If Japan had accepted the ultimatum, it would have survived with humiliation, but now? …… It's all over, and Japan has no chance...... Those Western countries would not offend Lucia for the sake of Japan, and the same is true of Poland? …… Really. Why couldn't we do everything we can to stop them in the first place? Japan has no money, no arms. Without a ship, what to take to resist Lu Guo...... Hey, in the final analysis, you still have a glimmer of hope in your heart, hoping that there will be a miracle, but you have forgotten that Japan's family background before the Enlightenment and Restoration was too thin, even if we have worked hard until now, we have not yet reached a draw with Lu Guo, do you think that even if you stalemate on the battlefield, you can win the opportunity for diplomatic mediation, so that even if you are forced to cede territory, the world will have a place for Japan, what a delusional guy...... It's not because of the county county, the responsibility is your own...... Ay...... It's so tiring! ”

On the train, Ito Hirobumi, staring out the window in distraction, said to himself, even if there were thousands of reasons now, he had admitted a reality -- he also had a great deal of responsibility for the present of Japan, because he himself had longed for a miracle, and it was this irrationality that ruined Japan.

After realizing this, Ito Hirobumi's will seemed to change, and from that moment on, Mori Taijiro found that the spiritual pillar that once supported Ito Hirobumi seemed to collapse all at once, or that he was completely desperate.

Today at the meeting at the base camp, in the face of defeat on the battlefield. Representatives of the army and navy have already agreed to Hirobumi Ito's peace plan, and the so-called "ten million jade pieces" have become a joke, and the war can no longer be carried out!

"With what? The bullets produced by Japanese factories are not even enough for the training of recruits, and after the Battle of the Kanto Conference, the soldiers who were hastily conscripted were hastily sent to the battlefield without any training at all, and now, for this war, Japan has spent the last yen, how to conduct the war? ”

Yes, Japan no longer has the ability to carry on the war, in fact, after the fiasco of the "Battle of Kwantung", Japan, which has lost its main force, should take advantage of the opportunity when the main force of the Lu army was injured to decisively surrender and completely defeat the Lu people before they regroup!

But at that time, Youpeng and others in Shan County still had a glimmer of hope, more precisely, they were unwilling to face failure and unwilling to bear the responsibility for failure.

But now?

When the Lu Guojun launched another attack, and those hastily recruited soldiers and improvised divisions could not stop them at all, at the decision-making meeting of the base camp, everyone finally agreed to face the facts and agreed to negotiate, but now the problem is that Japan has lost the ability to negotiate.

But this is exactly what Ito Hirobumi needs, and it is time for Japan to end the war when Japan loses the last bit of negotiating capital, and to seek the right conditions for Japan and the emperor. After reaching an agreement at the headquarters and reporting to the emperor, Ito expressed his desire to end the war through the British, American, and German ministers in Tokyo.

Unlike the "Kanto War" when he hoped that various countries would mediate, this time Ito Hirobumi did not even talk about Japan's bottom line, but only told them that for the sake of the well-being of Japan and Lucia, it was time for the war to end, and everyone could feel his despair from his words - Japan was going to surrender!

On the same day, Britain, France, the United States, and Germany announced a joint mediation in the war between Japan and Germany in order to promote the speedy realization of peace. Now intervening is actually making friends with the victors. The winner has been decided. As for the losers, they have also chosen to face defeat without any diplomatic risks, all they need is to show the world that they exist.

When Russia, which had long been overwhelmed by the huge war expenses, was overjoyed when it learned that Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito would personally negotiate the surrender of St. Petersburg, he immediately accepted it, and even agreed to implement an on-the-spot truce at the front line during the negotiations to save valuable financial resources. The war has severely overdrawn Russia's wealth and saddled it with a foreign debt of more than a billion rubles.

Even this armistice was needed by Japan.

Armistice! This is exactly what Aritomo and others in Yamaguchi hope to achieve with the help of Hirobumi Ito, they need a truce for a while, they need to re-recruit the army, they need to buy weapons again, if it really doesn't work, Japan will continue to fight, but it will take time, it will take time to organize all this.

Ay!

What a bunch of arrogant guys, even if the negotiations broke down. Will Japan still have the strength to fight? Really...... They simply don't know all this, and they don't even know. Now for Japan, it is imperative to end this war at all costs. Rather than falling into madness like a gambler who loses everything, the cost of that madness is devastating, which is exactly what Ito needs to avoid.

But what will be the cost of avoiding all this?

"Your Excellency, you need to rest...... After all, there is still a long way to go by sea......"

As the train entered Hiroshima Station, Hirobumi Ito struggled to get up from the train in the face of the secretary's dissuasion, but his body shook slightly.

"Hey, go ahead, maybe, this is the last time I'll see the sea in Japan!"

For Hirobumi Ito, who is about to leave Kobe, he is very aware of the fate of Japan, and he is also aware of his own fate, and he even believes that after the agreement is signed, he will most likely never be able to return to Japan, and before leaving Japan, he will see the Japanese sea again.

After getting off the train, Hirobumi Ito, knowing that he could not return to Japan, did not go to the hotel, but insisted on taking a horse-drawn carriage to the beach as soon as possible. Maybe it was because of the bumps, maybe it was because he was too tired, and soon Ito Hirobumi fell asleep in the carriage, and then he was groggy and half-asleep there.

"Your Excellency, we have arrived!"

With the support of Yasujiro Mori, Ito Hirobumi insisted on sitting up, wrapped in his cloak, and looked out from the large window of the Western-style carriage, with the sea on his left and the mountains on his right.

"Yamamoto, you know what? When I was young, I had a dream, it was so beautiful...... In our dreams, Japan has become a great power like Britain, and the whole world respects us, and no one dares to despise us......"

This is the dream of a rich country and a strong army, a dream that almost every Japanese man with lofty ideals has had, and once upon a time, it was also the dream of Hirobumi Ito, his pursuit. And now, that dream has been shattered, and there is no hope at all – and soon, Japan will become part of the memory of history.

"When I was negotiating with Li Hongzhang in Tianjin, I saw the Qing State and saw Li Hongzhang, and I knew that even if the Qing State had Li Hongzhang, the future Qing State would be hopeless......

Thinking of the negotiations with Li Hongzhang in Tianjin and the contempt for the Qing State, in his opinion, Japan at that time was full of hope, Japan was following a correct path, and Japan in the future must be stronger than China, but now it seems? It's a joke.

"Now what is really incorrigible is the arrogance of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi after the end of Japan's Warring States Period, once arrogantly wanted to be the emperor of China, but the result? but suffered a crushing defeat to North Korea...... The Japanese are always so arrogant, and after learning some Western fur, they think that they are squeezed into a strong country and can bully the Qing country like the Western powers...... Kiyokook just had to smile and watch all this, Japan was just jumping there like a clown...... Arrogance, it is our hubris that has ruined Japan! ”

After this exclamation, Ito Hirobumi looked at Yasujiro Mori beside him and said.

"Sentai, I'll bear all the blame, you don't have to go to Luguo, you ......"

"Your Excellency......"

Before Taijiro Mori finished speaking, Ito Hirobumi shook his head and interrupted him:

"This is not for you, but for Japan, this time I went to St. Petersburg, not to negotiate, but to sign a surrender agreement! When the time comes, everyone who participates in the negotiations will be regarded as a sinner of Japan, and it is impossible to be forgiven. ”

As the words fell, Ito Hirobumi looked across the sea, and on the other side of the sea there was another country, a big East Asian country that had silently guarded East Asia for thousands of years and taught civilization to Japan and Korea without reservation. How can Japan make such selfless defense of its country an enemy?

Japan has betrayed Chinese civilization, and the current demise is precisely the punishment of Japan, although it is too painful, but after all, it can still wake up the Japanese, and even this demise will be like a slap in the face, so that Japan will wake up and wake up from arrogance.

"Sentai, now the situation in East Asia has changed, especially the Qing State, after Tang Ziran raised troops and became the governor of the Northeast, the Qing State is about to undergo earth-shaking changes......"

Although he is in Japan, he worries about the future of Japan every day, but it does not mean that Ito Hirobumi does not care about China's affairs, he witnessed the rise of Tang Haoran, and also witnessed the drastic changes in the Qing Kingdom, in the face of the drastic changes in the Qing Kingdom, after learning that Li Hongzhang and other local governors fully grasped power, he realized that the Qing State is about to usher in an unprecedented future, and the conservative forces that hinder the local governors will be completely eliminated, and the future Qing Kingdom will undergo earth-shaking changes, and this is exactly what Ito Hirobumi wants to see, It is precisely because of this that he is willing to go to Lucia in the name of a "traitor" - because of the changes of the Qing Dynasty, even if Japan is destroyed, there is still a glimmer of hope for Japan.

"Perhaps, in more than ten years, the whole world will be amazed at the strength of the Qing State, you know, the Qing Kingdom is too big...... Well, though, maybe it's going to be a change of dynasty, after all...... The Han people have long been disgusted with the rule of the Manchus, and now the ministers are the same, you are going to Tianjin, now compared to me, Li Hongzhang needs a person of insight like Mori Taijun, and the future of Japan ...... In the hands of China! ”

I hope that one day, Japan will be able to stand again in the East.

Hirobumi Ito, who was silently gazing at the sea, seemed to see that the wind and clouds were still brewing on the land of East Asia......

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