Youpeng of Shan County immediately said categorically: "Of course, it is absolutely natural for your country to recover these lands, and when the time comes, our country can issue a statement to return these lands to your country, even if the Tsarist Russia wants to find trouble, it can only find our country, and it has nothing to do with your country!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei sighed in his heart, there are friends in Shanxian County, and he really deserves to be a military and political master who was once in the same position as Ito Hirobumi in Japan, this guy's political mind is really good, and this kind of political means can be thought of, so that China will occupy the South Russian steppe, Siberia and the Far East without any trouble at all, and wait until Tsarist Russia is overthrown by Soviet Russia, when the time comes, the east of the Ural Mountains and the west of Siberia will be left to Tsarist Russia, and let Tsarist Russia fight against Soviet Russia, this is definitely a clever move!

Xiao Zhenlei praised: "Mr. Yama County is worthy of being able to compete with Hirobumi Ito, and only Mr. Yama Yama can think of this kind of excuse!" ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Zhenlei's tone and topic changed: "So what are the requirements of the Japanese side?" ”

As soon as you heard that there was a play, you friends in Shan County immediately became more respectful to Xiao Zhenlei, and after thinking about it, he said carefully: "Your Excellency, my country can accept the other six of the negotiation conditions proposed by your country before, in addition to the second and third articles, my country will fully cooperate with the president's complete strategic concept, and after our country surrenders, my country hopes that the president can release all our prisoners of war!" ”

After Youpeng finished speaking, Shan County Youpeng looked at Xiao Zhenlei cautiously, for him like this, among the eight conditions proposed by Huaguo, except for the second and third conditions, the other conditions are nothing. Even the cession of Kyushu Island and the indemnity of one billion Chinese dollars are trivial, and he can not care. He was really unwilling to do the second and third points, and the second one was that Japan was not allowed to have an army, but only a self-defense force. The size, establishment, equipment, and command of the Self-Defense Forces are under the guidance of senior advisers sent by the Chinese state, and they are not allowed to secretly develop the armed forces at any time in the future, and those who violate the relevant regulations will be severely punished. The third is to allow China to station troops in Japan and set up military bases in Yokosuka and Hokkaido. In view of the fact that Japan's security and defense have been taken over by China, Japan must bear the cost of its troops and fleet stationed in Japan every year.

Yamaguchi Aritomo knows very well that if Japan agrees to the second and third articles, then Japan will not have its own real armament for a long time, and even the self-defense forces that China allows Japan to set up will be under China's supervision. Moreover, the Chinese garrison in Japan also needs Japan's money to support them, which is simply treating Japan as a big wrong. Without its own armament, it can only be slaughtered by others, how can you stand it in Shanxian County?

After Xiao Zhenlei listened, he looked at Youpeng in Shanxian and spoke after a minute: "Why can't Japan agree to the second and third articles?" Does Japan want to develop its army again to wage war on the surrounding areas? Mr. Yamachi, you must know that it is very dangerous to start a war, and Japan itself is short of resources, so you still want to start a war? Why do you Japanese government and opposition always have such unrealistic ideas? ”

A friend in Shanxian County saw Xiao Zhenlei say this, and hurriedly explained: "No, no, no." Your Excellency, Japan will never start another war against the surrounding region, absolutely not, after this time. Japan will not be able to pose a threat to its neighbors within a hundred years, and please rest assured that the President will be able to do so. ”

Xiao Zhenlei shook his head and said, "After all, Mr. Shanxian." In the end, you Japan still want to turn the tables, and you can't turn the tables without the army. Right? Why do you want to develop an army to attack neighboring countries? Have you not thought of giving up on the development of the army and handing over regional security to us? Are you in Japan concentrating on economic development? Isn't it good to develop the economy wholeheartedly? I believe that as long as you Japan is willing to work hard, you will soon be able to shake off the wounds of the war, develop the domestic economy, and get rid of the current economic crisis. ”

Xiyuan Temple Gongwang said anxiously: "But ??????."

Xiao Zhenlei waved his hand and interrupted: "That's enough, haven't you found that each of these clauses is actually a kind of protection for you Japan?" In addition, I would like to add that in addition to those eight conditions, Japan must also serve China as its suzerain, and Japan will become a member of the Chinese tributary system, and Japan can retain the emperor and the imperial family, and the selection of the emperor in the future will be designated by the previous emperor and then approved and appointed by the Chinese government before it can be considered legal, otherwise it will be regarded as a rebellion, and the emperor can no longer interfere in Japan's military and political affairs. Isn't your Japan constitutional? Since it's constitutional, it's better to be thorough, Mr. Yamasan, what do you think? ”

“??????” The faces of Youpeng and Gongwang of Xiyuan Temple in Shan County were very ugly, and the two of them opened their mouths, but they didn't dare to refute, and they didn't know what to say.

Xiao Zhenlei looked at the reactions of these two people, and said with a smile: "Since the two gentlemen are the special envoys of Emperor Taisho, you don't have to rush to agree or refuse, so let's go back to the guest house first, you can think about it first, if you feel that you can't be the master, you can ask Emperor Taizheng for instructions, this matter is not in a hurry!" ”

Shan County Youpeng and Xiyuan Temple Gongwang really didn't think about it, what they wanted before was to agree to the conditions proposed by the Chinese side, except for the second and third articles, but they didn't expect Xiao Zhenlei to not give in an inch, not only did not give in a step, but also added an article, to let Japan join the East Asian tributary system of China. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Japan was still a member of the tributary system of the Qing Dynasty, and after the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan stopped paying tribute to China, and now Xiao Zhenlei proposed that Japan join the tributary system of China again, which made Yama County Youpeng and Xiyuan Temple Gongwang very resistant.

The reason for the resistance is, of course, because they do not want Japan to be placed under the hierarchy of the Chinese tributary system, if Japan joins the East Asian tributary system of the Chinese state, then Japan will become a vassal state of the Chinese state in the future, and the tributary every year is only a trivial matter, and the most important thing is the loss of independent diplomatic rights.

Seeing that Xiao Zhenlei was going to send off guests, Youpeng and Gongwang of Xiyuan Temple in Shan County couldn't stay any longer, so they could only get up and say goodbye, saying that they would think about it after returning to the guest house.

Sending the two away, Xiao Zhenlei lit a cigarette and smoked together, he really wanted to restore the tributary system, although in the Qing Dynasty, due to the invasion of Western powers, the tributary system of China in East Asia has completely collapsed, but this does not mean that the tributary system is backward than other major international relations models.

During this period, there were several main modes of international relations, one was the tributary system, the second was the treaty system, and the third was the colonial system. Let's talk about the tributary system first, there was a tributary system during the Han Dynasty, and in the period of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that Annam, Champong, Goryeo, Siam, Ryukyu, Sumatra, Java, Huanheng, Baihua, Sanfuqi, Boni, and other Western and Nanyang countries were "non-levying countries", which actually established the actual scope of control of Hua. He also established the tributary principle of "thick and thin". Eventually, the tributary system was established, which became the prevailing system of international relations in the Eastern world. In this system, the Central Plains regime of the Chinese State became the center of the unitary state, and the tributary states recognized this central position, constituting the outer vassals of the Central Plains regime.

Xiao Zhenlei wants to restore the tributary system, but he scoffs at the principle of "thick and thin", why do those small countries send a little bit of local products, and my country has to send a large number of gold, silver and jewelry to the outside world? No one's money is blown by the wind, and with this money, I might as well improve the living standards of the people in China! Xiao Zhenlei is extremely contemptuous of the previous Central Plains Emperor's behavior of dying to save face and suffering crimes, slapping a swollen face and becoming fat, you must know that the money you send out is not your own, it is the hard-earned taxes paid by the common people.

The role of the tributary system was enormous, and under this system, the whole of East Asia formed an East Asian cultural circle with Chinese characters, Confucianism, and Buddhism as the core. In the cultural circle, the distinction between culture and Huayi is emphasized. In the Edo period of Japan, there was a theory of the so-called Huayi metamorphosis, and the Lee Joseon regarded itself as "Chinese" and regarded the Qing Dynasty as a barbarian. The Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam also regarded itself as "Hua" and others as "Yi".

The treaty system is to maintain international relations between countries by signing some treaties through guò, since it is a treaty system, then these treaties signed have equal treaties and unequal treaties, whoever has a big fist, the treaty will be beneficial to whom, and the main international relations in Europe during this period are the treaty system.

The colonial system is easier to understand, it is the dominant system of interaction between European powers and other weaker peoples, such as France and Vietnam, Britain and India, Burma, Malay, the Netherlands and Indonesia, etc., all of which are colonial system relations.

The previous tributary system actually did not have much binding force on the member states in the system, those vassal states have their own independent sovereignty and diplomatic rights, tributary is just a means of expressing submission, after the tributary can not be regarded as an enemy by the Central Plains Dynasty, when you don't want to pay tribute, you can not pay tribute, this binding force is too weak, this is not what Xiao Zhenlei wants, he wants to establish a new tributary system, the member countries in the tributary system can enjoy a certain right to negotiate with foreign trade, but there is no political right, China will garrison troops in all member states of the tributary system, member countries cannot have troops, and their nationals must serve in the military for China, (to be continued......