At the imperial meeting on the 9th, the Ming Dynasty set the general tone of the joint Japanese extinguishing the Qing Dynasty. {}However, there are two main things that need to be determined. As for the Japanese side, it has now been determined that it is only possible to unite, and as for how to unite, how to divide the fruits, how to divide the land, and the ownership of the Liaodong Peninsula are all big problems.

What's even worse is that there is also the Soviet side. Now Daming has not had any contact with the Soviet Union on this matter. Japan claimed that it had no contact with the Soviet Union either. I don't know if it's true or not, but it's probably true. But one thing is certain: as long as this kind of big bargain is thrown away tomorrow or tomorrow, the Soviet Union will rush over and participate in it.

In the middle of the 16th century, the Qing army entered the customs, the Northern Qing Empire was established, and almost at the same time, the influence of Tsarist Russia also expanded to the Heilongjiang Valley. Since then, Russia and the Qing have been neighbors for more than two centuries. Except for the Kangxi period, when the Qing Dynasty was the strongest, Tsarist Russia was "knocked in the waist" by a strong knot and signed the "Treaty of Nebuchu", the rest of the time Tsarist Russia continued to successfully rub oil from the Qing State. Especially in the mid-to-late 19th century, Tsarist Russia feasted on the limbs of the Northern Qing Dynasty like cutting steaks, and acquired a total of more than 1.5 million square kilometers of land before and after.

Even at the beginning of the 20th century, the Northern Qing Dynasty became strong again through the Restoration, but the main focus was on the south, and Russia did not feel much of a real threat. Nowadays, the Soviet Union often "pickpockets" land from the Northern Qing Dynasty - in the dead of night, the border Red Army soldiers ran out of the barracks, drove to the border line, dug up the boundary monuments, threw them on the car and drove a few kilometers south, and then re-buried them. The border between the two countries is a vast steppe or the Great Gobi, and the occasional movement of boundary monuments for several kilometers is not noticeable. In this way, it adds up, and a lot of land can be pickpocketed over time.

And now that Japan and Ming have joined forces, the huge Qing Empire, which has existed for nearly 300 years, is "swishing" on the map, and the Soviet Union will definitely not be able to accept it if it is replaced by two new neighbors, Ming and Japan. If nothing else is said, let's just say that the matter of digging boundary monuments and stealing land at night, the generals of the border guards of the Northern Qing Dynasty can turn a blind eye, and it is better to have more than one thing, and if they are replaced by the Ming Dynasty and Japan, can their border guards still turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye, and it is better to have more than one thing?

What's even worse is that the Northern Qing Dynasty and the Soviet Union have similar "attractions" to the common people, both of them are dark and terrifying enough, and neither can move freely. There are no large-scale smuggling on the border between the two countries, and they are safe with each other. However, if the border is replaced by Ming and Japan, then no matter which country, it will have a fatal attraction to the Soviet people. At that time, not only peasants, but also urban citizens, officers and men of military units, and even leaders of party and government organs will risk their lives to smuggle people.

At that point, the Soviet Union's control of the long eastern frontier would become a national problem. The cost of blockade and management will be dozens or hundreds of times that of now, and it will become astronomical. Moreover, in the past, it was to guard against neighboring countries, but now it has to be mainly on its side.

Another important factor is that the Qing was a declining empire that was rotten, inefficient, and scattered, and the threat was decreasing. Tomorrow and Japan, on the other hand, are the rising stars of East Asia, and their momentum is unstoppable. The domestic system is advanced, the people love the royal family and the country, and the internal cohesion and efficiency are amazingly high. This is something that the whole world can see. The threat to the Soviet Far East from these two new neighbors will grow greater.

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To sum up the above factors, both Japan and the Ming Dynasty agreed to appease the Soviet Union first and give it benefits. If this polar bear is not fed first, don't say that the "aftermath" is endless, and it will not be able to get over it now.

On the morning of the 1o, secret talks between the two countries began tomorrow and Japan. The representatives of the Japanese side are two "China experts": Toshiaki Oyama, Japan's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Ming Dynasty, and Kenji Dohihara, the military attache in the Ming Dynasty. The representative of the Ming side is He Ziguang, the foreign minister of the Ming Dynasty, and a "Japan expert": Princess Liaoyang. Of course, there is also Xiang Xiaoqiang.

Xiang Xiaoqiang is not a diplomat, so it is said that this kind of political negotiation should have nothing to do with him. However, in the past year, several important diplomatic negotiations of the Ming Dynasty have been presided over by Xiang Xiaoqiang. The results were all very good. Especially this time, Princess Liaoyang participated, and Princess Liaoyang has the deepest relationship with Japan, and the royal family and cabinet cannot be completely assured. And Xiang Xiaoqiang's loyalty to Daming is not said, it is obvious to all. In addition, Princess Liaoyang is "Xiang Xiaoqiang's person", so she let Xiang Xiaoqiang "look at her".

The place of negotiation is in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is an extremely sensitive place, "the more dangerous the place, the safer".

Unlike the last secret talks between the Ming and Qing dynasties, this time the Japanese representative was an official diplomat, and his every move was watched by spies from various countries. Secretly arranged to negotiate in a certain villa, but it seems to be a ghost. And it is normal for Japanese diplomats to run to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, but it is not easy to be noticed. There is always a large number of cars with diplomatic license plates parked in the parking lot of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and cars from foreign embassies and legations are also often present. The car of the Japanese embassy parked there was also inconspicuous.

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This time, both sides were quite sincere, and the atmosphere of the negotiations was very harmonious. The big ones are also going well.

The guiding ideology of the Ming Dynasty is:

First, the Liaodong Peninsula and the Liaoxi Corridor must be in our own hands. This is the gateway to Beijing, Tianjin and Shandong, and it cannot be discussed.

Second, the northwest Huijiang and the western end of Outer Mongolia can be completely thrown to the Soviet Union. There is not even a railway, even if the Ming Dynasty unified China, it is beyond the reach of the whip there, and it belongs to the "enclave". For the USSR, it was not an enclave. It can be connected with Siberia, the union republic of Kazakhstan. Such a large piece of meat was enough in exchange for the Soviet Union's tolerance of the Ming Dynasty's expansion in Northeast Asia.

Third, in the negotiations, the concept of the "Liaodong Peninsula" should be expanded to the northeast as much as possible, and at the same time, the land of Outer Mongolia in the north should be exchanged for the land of Manchuria in the northeast. It is better to get the whole of Mukden Province, or even a part of the land of Jilin Province.

Because Outer Mongolia is poorer than Manchuria, it must be doubled in size. For example, if the Ming Dynasty occupies an extra square kilometer in Manchuria, it will supply Japan with three square kilometers in Outer Mongolia. According to the thinking of the Ming Cabinet, Japan has been in a state of extreme lack of land for a long time, and it is difficult to resist the temptation of "area".

In doing so, firstly, Daming's own land is large enough, and it no longer blindly pursues "area", but would rather get some "quality" land. The second is that the Ming Dynasty wants to move more of Japan's territory to the north of itself, forming a "barrier" between the Ming Dynasty and Russia, in Shen Rongxuan's words, this is a "red wall". If the Soviet Union attacked south in East Asia, it would be faced with Japanese territory first. The key point of the Ming Dynasty is in the east, even if the Soviet Union gets back to Xinjiang and attacks the Ming Dynasty from Central Asia, the threat is not great.

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"Now is the question of the border residents...... "Foreign Minister He Ziguang wore reading glasses and read the document slowly, "Mr. Ambassador, I propose...... The ownership of the residents of the land east of Shanhaiguan and occupied by both sides can be freely decided by the local residents. For half a year after the formation of the new border between the two sides, the inhabitants of both sides remained of undetermined nationality...... After half a year, it is up to them to decide which party's nationality to join, that is...... Which side to settle on. …… Mr. Ambassador, what is your attitude? ”

Toshiaki Oyama also took off his reading glasses, wiped them with a handkerchief, and nodded:

"We couldn't agree more...... However, half a year seems to be too long for this period, can it be shortened...... Like, how about three months? ”

He Ziguang whispered a few words to Xiang Xiaoqiang, and then nodded:

"Yes. …… Okay, here's the question of the demarcation of the border of the Liaodong Peninsula......"

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