With the authorization of the emperor and the financial support of Hirobumi Ito, Gentaro Kodama can carry out his jihua.

Beginning on July 3, the 12th Division of the Japanese Army, commanded by Rear Admiral Haruno Okubo, left the Tohoku by sea and, escorted by the "Self-Defense Fleet," headed for Ise Bay in the Gyeonggi region. At the same time, Kodama Gentaro also set off for Kyoto to directly command the 14th Division.

The so-called "self-defense fleet" is based on the Naniwa and Tsukushi as the core, plus some gunboats of the remaining garrison fleet, including Chiyodagata, Mt. Fuji, Swift Whale, Kiyoki, Tsukijo, Fengxiang, Kotetsu, Ryuchamp, Manzhu, and Senzhu, which is already the only remaining capital of the Japanese Navy. In order to prevent China from being wiped out, it directly named it the "Self-Defense Fleet", indicating that it has no hostility towards its neighbors.

From the beginning of July to the end of July, Kodama Gentaro led the troops of two divisions, both soft and hard, and wantonly wiped out the Gyeonggi area. The rebels in these areas, though numerous, are scattered and fragmented, and sometimes clash with each other. As a result, government forces can be divided and disintegrated, and each can be broken.

By July 26, Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya and other places had basically been pacified, and then the government army began to push all the way to the southwest, and in just half a month, thousands of people were killed, more than 100,000 people were scattered, and the entire China region (Japanese place name) has been restored to order.

The speed of the development of the situation greatly exceeded Ding Yuntong's expectations, and he has been closely watching, although it is too early, but he feels that the dawn of the end of the Japanese civil war has appeared. Moreover, after the government order was issued, the following responded to all the calls, and after the military order was issued, the soldiers fought hard and acted resolutely, which showed that the cohesion of the government was still there, the hope was still there, and Japan's vitality was still there.

This has also aroused Ding Yuntong's vigilance, although he can watch from the sidelines at present, as long as Japan can tide over this difficulty, the speed of recovery will definitely exceed imagination, and when the time comes, it may be another fierce enemy, so the time for the next attack on Japan will be greatly advanced. At the same time, it is also necessary to make some preparations for the future colonization and annexation of Japan.

A few years ago, Ding Yuntong asked Xue Fucheng to find a group of fifteen or sixteen-year-old children and send them to Japan by Hu Zhen to learn Japanese culture, language and customs, and learn how to integrate into Japanese society. As for weishenme, he should be fifteen or sixteen years old, because if he is too young, his feelings for China have not yet been fully established, and he will be easily assimilated by the Japanese.

This jihua has far-reaching considerations, in the future, if China wants to colonize or control Japan, it must have a group of suitable agents, these children disguised as Japanese, as long as they have financial support, they can enter the political circles in the future and become China's most haode undercover agent in Japan.

Ding Yuntong felt that it was time to take action, and he ordered Xue Fucheng to select some young people with outstanding performance and try to send them to Japanese government agencies, starting as civil servants at the grassroots level. Moreover, it is the era of civil war, and it is difficult to implement various audit and inspection mechanisms, which is just right for these Chinese undercover agents to wash their identities.

They have the backing of China's resources, and as long as their abilities are truly outstanding, they may not be able to rise through the ranks quickly and become high-ranking officials of the Japanese government in the future.

Imagine that one day, Japan's prime minister is an undercover agent of China, what kind of scenario will it be, and what kind of traitorous treaties cannot be signed?

At the same time, Ding Yuntong also ordered Xue Fucheng to carefully collect information from the Japanese government to see which people could be bribed by China in the future, and even within the imperial family, as long as there was a prince or the like who could become a "Japanese traitor", it would be too valuable for China.

The current policy toward Japan should enter a period of covert cultivation, at least on the surface, China is only a bystander. On the Burmese side, Britain has found that there is a competitor, its policy will inevitably change, and the two sides will enter a period of confrontation.

Since the south couldn't do anything for the time being, Ding Yuntong's eyes began to turn to other directions. The first is the West, which, as early as the beginning of his crossing, constantly sent some officials to Central Asia, so that the situation in the Central Asian countries was already well understood.

Ding Yuntong coveted Central Asia, first of all, because it has abundant sunshine and is a very haode cotton planting area, which can provide a large amount of cheap cotton, which is extremely beneficial to the development of the textile industry.

Second, this is a land corridor to the Gulf region, and China is the only way to go to the Middle East and Europe.

From the Ural Mountains of Russia to the south, there is a vast Kazakh steppe, inhabited by three tribes, the Great Yuz, the Middle Yuz, and the Little Yuz, which have been successively forced to be incorporated into Russia from the 18th century to the present, but have always maintained a certain degree of local autonomy.

To the south, in the Aral Sea, the Syr Darya, and the Ferghana Basin, there are the three khanates of Bukhara, Kokand, and Khiva.

The three khanates were all Muslim states, including Kokand, which was annexed by Russia in 1876, but the nobility of Kokand always wanted to restore the country, and the people at the bottom endured the cruel exploitation of Russia and were full of rebellion.

The state of Bukhara was founded by the descendants of Genghis Khan, and at this time, like the Khiva state, had become a protectorate of Russia, and dared not speak out against Russia's tyranny and domineering.

Further south across the Karakum Desert is the Tribal Armament of Turkmenistan, which has the best and most capable cavalry in Shijie. From the late 70s to the early 80s of the 19th century, the Turkmen hussars were once overwhelmed by the Cossacks, and their individual strength far exceeded that of any European power.

However, Russia, backed by its powerful resources and national strength, gradually encroached and eventually occupied the important town of Ashgabat, forcing the Turkmen tribes to submit.

Russia's control over all of Central Asia was so brutal that the slightest expression of discontent on the part of the indigenous population would be met with bloody repression. If the body of a killed Russian is found somewhere, the nearby village will be burned to the ground. Even more terrifying is economic squeeze. As a result of the colonial policy of the Russian authorities, taxes in the Ferghana region increased by as much as 15 times.

Moreover, Russia has established cotton-growing areas here, even in Khiva and other vassal states, resulting in a massive reduction in arable land, a sharp reduction in grain production, and many poor people starved to death.

Religiously, all Muslim ethnic groups in Central Asia are discriminated against as "aliens" who believe in "pagan religions." The Russian colonial authorities wantonly destroyed their national culture, closed their schools, and forcibly pursued a policy of "Russification".

The whole of Central Asia is full of ethnic hatred for Russia, and Ding Yuntong believes that in the event of a war between China and Russia in the future, the Chinese army will become the "liberators" of the whole of Central Asia, and all ethnic groups and tribes will welcome it.

At present, however, China does not yet have the strength to fight a decisive battle with Russia, and will not consider a direct confrontation with Russia until the initial success of industrialization and the rapid expansion of the Guards Army.

The situation is very similar to that in Myanmar, where you can kick each other under the table, but you can't tear your face on the countertop.

Ding Yuntong sent a message to Huang Zunxian, ordering him to lead a delegation with a large number of goods, weapons and ammunition, and go to Samarkand, the capital of Bukhara, in the name of business, to support the search for agents in advance.

He felt that it was time to establish a substantial influence in Central Asia.

Ding then considered Tibet and Mongolia, to which he had previously sent Yuan Xu and Zhang Yinheng, respectively. In fact, these two regions are still in a state of local separation, and there is no doubt that the domestic princes should be settled before large-scale expansion outward.

Before the conflict with Britain and Russia, the domestic problems must be completely resolved, and they cannot be given a bargaining chip to contain themselves, time is running out, Ding Yuntong made up his mind to attack in these two directions at the same time.