Back at the State Guest House, Youpeng and Gongwang of Xiyuan Temple looked extremely tired, and in front of Xiao Zhenlei, the pressure they were under was too great, and they had to fight with the spirit of 120,000. Although the two of them were mentally depressed, they still had to discuss Xiao Zhenlei's request.

Gongwang of Xiyuan Temple took a sip of tea and asked: "Lord Shan County, what do you think of Xiao Zhenlei's request that China cannot have an army and allow China to garrison troops in China, and that China must pay military expenses, and in addition, let China join China's East Asian tributary system?" ”

Youpeng of Shan County had a gloomy face, slapped the table and said in a deep voice: "Are you willing to accept such extremely unreasonable terms?" In many years, our country has severed the tributary relationship with the Qing State, and developed from an equal relationship to a treaty relationship, and even our country's status is still above the Qing State, and now I have made my country a member of their tributary system, of course I don't want to, but what can I do if I don't want to? At least I can't think of any way to not agree to the terms proposed by Hua Guo without making Hua Guo angry! ”

Xiyuan Temple listened to the silence for a moment and asked, "Then can you use marriage to resolve this crisis?" For example, we asked His Majesty the Emperor to find a royal princess to marry Xiao Zhenlei, so as to ease Sino-Japanese relations and let Xiao Zhenlei take the initiative to make concessions in this matter? ”

The light in Shan County's eyes flickered a few times before shaking his head and said: "Not to mention that His Majesty the Emperor does not have an adult princess, even if there is, even if my country takes the initiative to propose marriage, then whether Xiao Zhenlei agrees or not has to be said, even if he agrees, will he give in on this matter?" After all, the current state of China is a republic rather than an empire. Marriage doesn't play a big role, this road doesn't work! ”

Xiyuan Temple looked at the eyes of the public. Suddenly thought of another way, "Lord Shan County." What if our country now voluntarily surrenders openly? After all, after our country took the initiative to surrender publicly, the Entente side will know, and if China does it against us again at this time, the Entente side can interfere! ”

Youpeng in Shanxian thought about it and shook his head and said: "No, this method will not work, even if we take the initiative to surrender, or even surrender unconditionally, but it still depends on the attitude of the Chinese side, whether they accept the surrender of our country?" Even if our country surrenders unconditionally. And they also accepted it, but the fate of our country is still in the hands of China, when their army is stationed in our country, we have no ability to fight back, life and death are in their hands, even if they do not destroy our country, they can support some puppets to rule Japan, in order to achieve their goals, and we will only anger China even more if we do this. This is not something we can afford to bear! ”

The Duke of Xiyuan Temple couldn't help but be a little decadent and said, "Can we only agree to such extremely harsh terms from them?" ”

Shan Shan Youpeng took a deep breath and said, "Does Xiyuan Temple-kun think these terms are harsh? Actually, I wasn't surprised. If China had the strength to annex the Qing during the First Sino-Japanese War, I would definitely do my best to promote this matter, but unfortunately my country did not have that strength back then. Now that feng shui is turning, and Hua Guo is blessed by heaven, they have the upper hand. Naturally, we have the right to dispose of us, before the country. There is no reason to say it, and no one has a harsher condition. If there are conditions, it is better to annex the other party, Xiyuan Temple-kun, do you know what the consequences will be if our country does not agree to the conditions he proposed? Can you guess it? ”

The expression on the face of the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang froze when he heard this, and he asked in disbelief: "Could it be that Xiao Zhenlei really wants to destroy my Japan?" ”

Yama County Youpeng said: "It's not that there is no possibility, if it were me, I would send troops into the Japanese mainland to kill all the Japanese, Japan's population is much smaller than that of China, Japan's territory is too small, if we let us develop, sooner or later we have to march to the land, keeping Japan can only leave a disaster, and now is not the era of cold weapons, it is the era of hot weapons, how many people can be killed in a day with a machine gun, do you know?" Therefore, if we want Japan to survive, we can only achieve our goal by pretending to be pitiful in front of China, so that China no longer thinks that we are a threat, and let China think that we can control us! ”

The expression on Gongwang of Xiyuan Temple changed continuously after listening to Youpeng's analysis of Shan County, and it was not until a few minutes later that he asked in an uncertain voice: "Then Lord Shan County, that means we must agree to the conditions proposed by the Chinese people?" You must know that once this matter spreads, you and I will become sinners in Japan through the ages, and in the history books of Japan in the future, the two of us will definitely be scolded to the point of incompleteness and beaten into the eighteenth layer of hell! ”

Shan County Youpeng's somewhat old face twitched and trembled continuously, it was obvious that his heart was extremely unsettled, and after a long time, he sighed: "You and I really can't afford this responsibility, and this matter must be approved by His Majesty the Emperor." The world may not understand what we are suffering about today and will not see the situation we are in Japan now, but I am sure that there will be people who will understand why we have to do this in the first place! Just like Li Hongzhang back then, if he didn't go to Japan to negotiate peace and sign the treaty, would the Manchu dynasty he loyally defended be able to continue? Will the Qing Dynasty still be able to develop peacefully for more than ten years? With the situation at that time, if Japan continued to fight with the Qing State, the other powers would definitely jump into the pie, and then the huge Qing Kingdom would be carved up by the great powers! ”

Xiyuan Temple Gongwang heard the words as if his father and mother had died, and his eyes looked at Youpeng in Shanxian County suddenly brought a strong resentment, if it wasn't Youpeng in Shanxian County who pulled him over this time, he didn't have to bear this responsibility with Youpeng in Shanxian County at all, and his tone of voice couldn't help but bring some resentment: "Boss, of course I know what you said, but how many people in this world are people who understand?" The people will only see that in the future, our country and Japan will be bullied by China, just one billion Chinese dollars of indemnity and the cession of Kyushu Island are enough to make us ruined, once we sign our name on a certain treaty, the two of us are destined to be nailed to the frame of shame, not to mention to allow China to station troops in our country, and we are not allowed to have an army, and what is even more odious is to want us Japan to become the little brother of China, so that the two of us will really be doomed! ”

Shan Shan Youpeng said lightly: "That's why I said that I have to get the approval of His Majesty the Emperor, with the approval of His Majesty the Emperor, His Majesty can share some firepower for us, just relying on the two of us old guys can't afford to bear such a big responsibility." What else do you want? Don't say yes? Okay, now the two of us will go back to Japan, and let everyone in Japan fight to the death with kitchen knives and hoes, and then everyone in Japan will be destroyed, all the corpses will be burned by the Chinese, and the Japanese archipelago will also be occupied by the Chinese, and then the countries of the world will at most strongly condemn China, and then it will be fine, everyone can live as they should be, as if this had never happened, is this what you want? ”

These words are plain and unremarkable, but its power is not small, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang shuddered after hearing these words, his face instantly turned gray, he followed the words of Youpeng in Shan County in his mind to imagine the scene of China's invasion of Japan, everywhere ruins and broken walls, corpses everywhere, blood infected the earth, boundless! There is not a single living Japanese person in the whole of Japan, they are all dead, all of them are dead, and this kind of scene is terrible.

After five or six minutes, the Duke of Xiyuan Temple seemed to be twenty years old, his face was dead, he raised his eyes to look at Youpeng in Shanxian County, but found that Youpeng in Shanxian County looked calm and indifferent, and couldn't help asking: "Lord Shanxian, I am curious, why can you be so calm, if we agree to Xiao Zhenlei's conditions, our Japan will be enslaved by China from now on, aren't you sad, angry and sad at all?" ”

Youpeng of Shanxian said calmly: "Because I have already expected this situation, it is much better to be enslaved than to be destroyed, don't the Chinese people have a saying that 'it is better to die than to live'?" At the beginning of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is said that "the general trend of the world, divided for a long time, will be united, and will be divided for a long time", China cannot be strong all the time, we cannot be enslaved by China forever, besides, we just don't have an army, we don't have political power, we can still trade with other countries, in fact, I think this is very good, just like Xiao Zhenlei said, we will hand over our defense to China, and give them some money to help us take care of our home, while we Japan concentrate on economic development, and we can also specialize in scientific research, When the sky falls, there is Huaguo on top, we can do nothing, how good! Saionji-kun, we are already old, and our next generation is still young, we can't be rash, what good is it for us Japan to be tough now? We must give full play to our strengths, endure, endure, endure, if it doesn't work for ten years, we will endure it for 20 years, if it doesn't work for 20 years, we will endure it for 100 years, and if it doesn't work for 100 years, we will endure for 1,000 years. Huaguo has always been stronger than us in the past, but in modern times we have surpassed them, although we are defeated now, but this also proves that we have a chance to defeat Huaguo, and endurance is our victory in the end."

The Duke of Xiyuan Temple was silent for a long time and sighed: "Okay, since this is the case, then send a telegram to His Majesty the Emperor and report this matter to His Majesty, I believe that His Majesty must have a correct decision!" ”

Youpeng of Shan County nodded and shouted, "Come on!" (To be continued......)