Sunlight pours in through the windows, illuminating the room.

On a large chair, in front of a purple square table, a teenager was telling the story of the Far East in his clear, slightly magnetic voice. As the boy's words continued, the smile on Ito's face gradually faded, and he glanced at the boy, and his black pupils showed a look of approval or surprise.

As the teenager said. For Japan, Russia is no longer an adversary that can be put on hold; This ferocious and tyrannical polar bear has become an immediate and serious threat to Japan's core interests.

In 1894, Japan provoked a foreign war of aggression against Korea and Mites; After more than half a year of bloody fighting and the lives of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, the Japanese locust army finally defeated the Huai soldiers and horses of the Beiyang Domain on land, and seized the land of Korea and most of the Liaodong Peninsula, which they had coveted for a long time. However, just as Japan was about to enjoy the fruits of victory, the Russians came uninvited and directly intervened in the outcome of the war, which had nothing to do with them. Russia, in alliance with Germany and France, backed by its own strong army and navy, forcibly seized and forced Japan to give up the Liaodong Peninsula that it had taken great pains to seize, although Ito Hirobumi and Mutsu Munemitsu keenly judged the situation and dealt with it correctly, and extorted an additional 30 million taels of silver from Mites Qing; But such a little bit is less than 5 million pounds, where can it compare to the splendid rivers and mountains in the land of Liaodong? In 1895, the intervention of the Three Kingdoms was brought back to Liao, which was cited as a great shame by the whole country of Japan; The Japanese people, who have been deeply brainwashed, hate Russia, the culprit of wanton bullying, even more to the core, and they only hate that they can't cramp and skin all the Russians and kill them with flesh.

If that's all it takes, who can not have some historical grievances between countries? Even the German-Austrian Iron Alliance, which is now integrated in attack and defense, has been fighting for more than a hundred years, wanting to kill the other side as soon as possible. However, as long as there are enough common interests, the two sides can reconcile in an instant. After the German-Austrian war, due to common economic and strategic interests, the two sides quickly abandoned their hatred and came together; Germany, which was also one of the main culprits in forcing Japan to return Liaodong, has now also sent its own country's crown prince to Japan, ready to provide assistance to Japan. It can be seen from this that there is no indissoluble hatred between countries, but Japan and Russia have grievances in the past and have enmity in the past, and there are no external conditions for easing relations at all!

In 1896, with the signing of the Sino-Russian Secret Treaty, Tsar Nicholas II, who had just been crowned monarch of all Russia, began to step up his Far East strategy of annexing Northeast China and turning it into Yellow Russia. Sleeper pads of the Trans-Siberian Railway, fortress artillery group in Vladivostok...... Russia, which has crossed the threshold of industrialized countries with one foot, and with the terror of more than 130 million people, has exploded into a vastness and ferocity that is unique to a fighting nation. Since Russia's "Yellow Russia" territory and Japan's base camp expansion goals almost completely overlapped, Japan's Far East expansion strategy was already extremely hostile to Russia. And now, Russia has gone so far as to extend its hand to the Korean region, which makes Japan completely unbearable.

For Japan, Korea, which they annexed just three years ago, is not only a frontier peek into China's northeastern land, but also the most important source of food for its expansion strategy. With the deepening and development of the Meiji Restoration, Japan has embarked on the road of militarism of foreign expansion, which will inevitably make human resources excessively tilted towards the military industry. When a large number of men of working age are called into the army, there will be less manpower for agricultural work in the country, which will cause serious harm to domestic agriculture. At present, a considerable part of the subsistence rations of the Japanese people are plundered from Korea, and it can be said that Korea is the source of life for Japan's foreign expansion. If Russia seized Korea, everything that Japan had worked so hard to gain in the Sino-Japanese War would be in vain; At that time, Russia had already arrived at Japan's doorstep, and the situation facing Japan was even worse than before the First Sino-Japanese War! The infiltration of Korea by Russia's powerful forces is tantamount to directly violating Japan's bottom line, and it is strange that the Japanese can endure it!

In addition to this, the attitude of the British people is also a very important factor. 10 years ago, in order to launch a war against Mites, Japan urgently needed a large number of loans and warships; And to get these things, the radiant British Empire is undoubtedly the best choice. But there's never a free lunch. While Japan received these much-needed goods from the British, it also became a pawn of Britain in the Far East, and the role of this pawn was to help Britain fight Russia in the Far East. Japan is now heavily dependent on Britain both economically and militarily, and if Japan dares to defy Britain's will on Britain's core interests, then Britain's anger is simply unbearable for Japan at the moment!

Therefore, whether it is for the sake of its own fundamental interests or the wishes of the British boss, it is necessary for Japan to go toe-to-toe with Russia in the affairs of the Far East, and even to use the means of war to solve the problem in the face of tension. Germany also hoped that Russia would have a heavy hemorrhage in the confrontation with Britain and Japan, so as to minimize its threat to European steamrollers on land. Although the two sides have very different starting points, the ultimate goal is surprisingly identical; Under the common interests, it has become an inevitable trend for both sides to stand in the same trench.

As for why Germany sought Japan rather than the more economically related Mites as the object of support against Russia, the reason for this is simple; At present, in the Far East, Japan is the only one that has the ability to confront Russia. Despite its small size, poor resources, and a population of only one-third that of Russia; However, its decrees are clear and unified, and the more than 40 million people across the country, under the influence of Japan's unique culture such as loyalty to the emperor and the spirit of bushido, can destroy their homes and relieve difficulties for the great cause of the empire, and have an extremely solid cohesion and strong explosive power. As for the mite clearing, it was automatically ignored by the German side. Because of its performance in the First Sino-Japanese War, it has made the world completely see through the decay and decay of the mite Qing: a huge country with a population of 450 million has to rely on 50,000 soldiers under the command of a feudal town to protect its security, and the rest of the army is all a bunch of pigs and dogs; This kind of ridiculous anecdote in the world has appeared in such a grand manner. If such a country can resist the European steamroller Russia, it will undoubtedly be more absurd than a pink sow flying in the sky!

Hearing Qingying say these words, Ito's face was a little solemn, and he took a deep breath, and for the first time there was a serious look in his eyes.

Prior to this, Ito Hirobumi didn't think that this young crown prince who had come from afar could have any in-depth insights into the pattern of the world. Therefore, he decided to leave aside the German ambassador to Japan and visit this young man he had never met first, in order to grab enough benefits from him. In Ito Hirofumi's view, he has been in the political arena for more than 30 years, and he has already experienced a lot of battles; And the other party is this kind of young man who grew up with a golden spoon, and he doesn't even have a milky hairy child, this is simply a piece of meat sent to him by Amaterasu's manifestation! With his own scheming and skills, he is not ready to deal with the five scum of this pattern Tusenpo, but it is not easy to capture?

But what he didn't expect was that this young man had obviously made enough preparations before coming, and he had a very clear understanding of the pattern of the Far East, and he was not as blind and stupid as he imagined. Originally, he was also going to take advantage of Qing Ying's young and ignorant attributes to wait for the price and sell, and politely excuse himself under the pretext that "Russia is too strong to be the enemy", and wait until Qing Ying came up with a more generous condition, and then promised to help Germany resist Russia with a posture of "reluctantly". And now, it seems, I don't need to do that. Because Qing Ying had already made it clear to him in his words that the essence of the dispute between Japan and Russia came from the foreign expansion strategy implemented by the two countries; If neither of the two families takes the initiative to withdraw, then there will be a war between the two sides for the northeast of the Qing country in the future. And this kind of national strategy of expanding to the northeast of Mites is impossible for both sides to give up the implementation! With the support of Germany, Japan would fight Russia; Without the support of Germany, Japan would have to fight Russia for its own interests!

Qingying said bluntly: "Mr. Ito, as the leading political elder of the Japanese Empire, you must have seen the current situation of your country much more thoroughly than I do. What kind of country is Russia? They came out to rob, and if they robbed less, they would be regarded as a loss, and Yellow Russia and ice-free ports were the goals they had been yearning for for 40 consecutive years, and no matter from which point of view, it was impossible for the Russians to stop encroaching on the northeast of the Qing Dynasty and Korea. My young man Nikolai was assassinated in a terror in your country a few years ago, and almost died; From his personal point of view, it will certainly be a matter of national hatred and personal enmity, and he will strive to compete with your country on the Far East issue. Therefore, for your country, my German aid is nothing short of a benevolent favor from God; In return, your country must show enough sincerity. If the sincerity of your country does not satisfy us, I will not mind returning to China by ship at once; Because for Germany, supporting your country against Russia is not a must-do. ”

PS: This week's collection situation is so bleak ╮(╯_╰)╭ Let's support it a lot.,It's not easy for the author to code words.