In January 1934, the British tough posture, as well as the fierce resistance of the Chinese military and civilians, especially the high-profile return of the Australian Overseas Chinese Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army with outrageously luxurious equipment, forced the Japanese to accept the mediation of the League of Nations and agree to withdraw the troops to the other side of Shanhaiguan.

In this way, the morale of the National Salvation Army had just returned to China, but they found that there was no war to fight, so they got on the ship and returned to Australia.

However, in places like the League of Nations, the law of the jungle is basically pursued, and the strong go sideways, and the weak are not as good as dogs. The Ming Empire was originally a little influential in the League of Nations, but the last Yingzhou War of Independence was not fought, and its influence plummeted. Originally, the international status of the Ming Empire was stronger than that of the Ottomans, now......

Therefore, although the League of Nations allowed Japan to withdraw its troops, this was only to protect the interests of Britain and the United States and other powers in China, which were larger than Japan, and had little to do with the Ming Empire.

Although Japan was forced to withdraw its troops, it also received compensation commensurate with their war results: the Ming Empire agreed to give Japanese goods tariff preferences in the same amount as the tariff preferences received by the Great Powers in China; The Ming Empire agreed to open up the power to invest in and set up factories to Japan, and agreed to open the power to invest in the construction of railways to Japan; The Ming Empire agreed that the Ming Navy would henceforth withdraw from Bohai Bay, and that only the most basic coastal inspection power would be retained in Bohai Bay.

On this basis, Japan asked the Ming Empire to open the right of inland navigation, which was resolutely rejected by the Ming Empire government at first, but then the Japanese and the foreign powers reached an agreement in secret consultations, requiring the Ming Empire to open the right of inland navigation to all countries involved in mediation - at this time, the Ming Empire, the navy had already existed in name only, the debts raised for the construction of the navy had not been repaid, the domestic finances were empty, the economy was decaying, and it was completely unable to resist the joint fraud of the great powers, so it could only agree to this condition, but only added a restriction, It is required that the tonnage of armed ships sent into inland rivers by all countries should not exceed 500 tons, and the artillery carried by them should not exceed 50 millimeters. This request seemed to save a little face for the Ming Empire, and the Great Powers seemed to be happy to leave a fig leaf for the Ming Empire.

Just as the last Treaty of Xinchou marked the complete semi-colonization of China, the armistice agreement reached between the Ming Empire government and Japan under the mediation of the League of Nations also completely marked the complete loss of the Ming Empire's status as a great power in this time and space, and it was reduced to a fat meat to be slaughtered in name only, just like the Ottoman Turkey.

However, compared to the Qing Empire in the previous time and space, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty did a much better job than the wild boar skins.

After the signing of this unequal treaty known as the Jiaxu Treaty, a huge patriotic march broke out within the Ming Empire, and the progressives from all walks of life who originally pinned their hopes on the "Ming Zhongxing" under the leadership of the imperial court, and the young talents who originally pinned their hopes on industry to save the country, each woke up like a dream.

Against this backdrop, a pamphlet called "My View of the Revival of Germany" began to circulate among quietly angry progressives, describing in an enthusiastic and easy-to-understand tone the victory of the German Republic over the German Empire, which had more gods and more war queens in the civil war, accompanied by photographs proclaiming that "the united workers, peasants, and soldiers will be unstoppable", and the pamphlet is the score and Chinese translation of "The Internationale" at its very least.

Interestingly, the lyrics written by Lin Youde were originally copied from the Chinese version of the Internationale from another time and space, and after the German translation was Chinese here, the changes in the text were so great that even Lin Youde himself did not expect.

However, this did not prevent the song from being widely circulated among the progressives in China, and more and more intellectuals, under the influence of the pamphlet, began to tend to "when it is impossible to gain the support of the gods and warriors, only by extensively mobilizing the most ordinary producers and establishing an unbreakable alliance of workers, peasants and soldiers can the revolution gain a glimmer of life."

On January 30, 1934, on the shore of Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing, China, the first non-official NERV pan-humanist research group in China was officially announced, and the first decision made by the group was to send people to Germany to contact NERV and ask Lin Youde for help.

The university professors and progressive students who organized this group probably did not expect that the guys they had always thought were imperial court spies were actually observers of the Chinese branch of the NERV, and they were following Lin Youde's instructions to observe these spontaneously formed pan-humanist groups.

Their mission was to find a young librarian who would not reveal the existence of the NERV China branch until he was found and recruited.

Of course, Lin Youde did not explain the intention of his order to these grassroots executives - it was useless to explain anyway.

And Lin Youde was still a little curious, wanting to see how far his compatriots could go in this time and space. They went through a lot of hardships to get rid of the crisis of national survival in the last plane, and finally made the country one of the great powers, so they should be able to do the same thing in this plane.

At the very least, Lin intends to wait and see what happens until he is ready to return to Asia – well, that's not accurate, because Lin's tentacles have reached out to Asia, and to a certain extent, they have stirred up the situation in Asia.

Of course, if the situation gets worse, Lin Youde will definitely do the thing of donating money and materials to organize the Volunteer Army as before.

While there is turmoil in China, the Japanese government and the opposition are also restless.

Although Japan gained great benefits, in the eyes of many radicals, Minoru Saito's cabinet betrayed the interests of the Japanese Empire to the foreign powers, and many people denounced Minoru Saito as a traitor to Japan and strongly demanded the resignation of Saito, who was born in the navy.

At the same time, the Japanese government had to contend with severe economic problems, and in January 1934, the effects of the war caused the country's inflation rate to reach a new high.

At the same time, Japan's financial markets are also in serious crisis. After the victory on Jeju Island, many people believed that the war would continue and military orders would increase, so they bought a large amount of shares of heavy industrial companies related to the military industry, causing the stocks of these companies to rise, and as a result, the war ended so quickly, and the stock price also dived. In the futures market, speculators believed that the Japanese army was likely to occupy a large area of raw materials, and believed that the prices of wheat and soybeans and other products would be reduced, so they shorted the futures of this commodity one after another, and as a result, the Japanese army retreated to the starting point under the intervention of the League of Nations, and the prices of these products did not fall as expected by speculators.

The financial turmoil led to the mass bankruptcy of Japanese speculators, and the large loans they had previously borrowed from banks became bad and dead. And this news was stabbed in front of the public by practitioners who kindly reminded their relatives and friends, so a large number of ordinary people flocked to the bank with their passbooks and deposit notes.

A reporter from the Japan News Agency described the commotion as follows: "The last time I saw people crowding in front of banks like this waiting to withdraw money was after the Great Kanto Earthquake. The difference is that at that time, everyone took out enough money to use it for a long time, but now everyone may not take long even if they take out all their savings. ”

The economic turmoil led directly to the outbreak of social movements, and the long-dormant left-wing political parties in Japan began to emerge one after another, taking advantage of the turmoil to begin to plan large-scale strikes and demonstrations.

And Tegaoke also immediately took action and began to arrest these progressives on a large scale.

The relentless arrests also heightened tensions, and the "Sayuri Yoshinaga Incident" on 5 February pushed everything to the worst.

Sayuri Yoshinaga, the famous stage actress, is a progressive, and when Sayuri's lover is suddenly arrested outside the theater, the famous actress stands in front of the secret police in front of a large crowd waiting to enter the show.

She pointed at the policeman's nose and scolded the lackeys, shouting, "Open your eyes and see what society has become," and "Anyone with a conscience should know that what you are doing is wrong."

Then the youngest special high-tech secret police officer involved in the operation opened fire.

As Sayuri falls, an angry crowd rushes to the police, and the February riots in Tokyo, which shocks the world, begin.

After a week of unrest, the Japanese government ordered the mobilization of Senhime's troops to suppress the uprising of the people.

At the same time, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs openly criticized Germany, claiming that it was "the Chinese instigator Lin Youde and his henchmen under the protection of Germany" who instigated the **** in Tokyo, and then Japan declared that "pan-humanism" was a dangerous and illegal idea within the territory of the Japanese Empire, and it was strictly forbidden for anyone to spread this idea in any place and in any form.

"Japan is the kingdom of the gods of the eternal line founded by Emperor Jimmu," Emperor Hirohito declared in a speech to the people, "It is the Pure Land of the Far East under the protection of the gods of Takamagahara, so it is the land of projectiles that will continue to give birth to gods with the blood of the gods." ”

However, the emperor's speech could not change the poor economic situation in Japan - not to mention that this emperor was actually only a side line left over from the conquest of Japan by the mainland power on the other side of the sea, and the emperor's family, which really inherited the blood of the so-called Wandai lineage, had been forcibly immigrated to the mainland hundreds of years ago, and after many generations of mixed blood, they had long since become ordinary local nobles.

The current Emperor Hirohito was just a banner and a vase carried by the so-called Restorationists at the beginning. Although Hirohito's grandfather won everyone's respect for his outstanding personal ability, and brought together Japan, which was still called Yingsu at the time, his father is no longer good, and the current Hirohito himself is just a mediocre person who has the heart to govern the country but has no corresponding talent.

The dire economic situation, as well as the growing revolutionary movement in the country, kept Japan's top officials in a state of fidgeting throughout February.

Peculiarly, none of them intend to follow Lin Youde's example and readjust the domestic distribution.

Perhaps, this is the so-called class limitation.

At the same time that the emperor was holding a meeting of the Imperial Council for several days, another group of young people also held meetings for several days under the nose of Tegaoko, risking being shot.

There are less than fifteen days left before they appear on the stage of history.