After the end of the civil war on Honshu Island in the Kyoto offensive and defensive battle, the intensity of the war finally decreased, although the four strong feudal clans in the southwest did not give up the additional territory in order to gain enough chips, but the coalition forces that lost a large number of troops were left with only the strength to defend, and the main force of the Tokugawa shogunate suffered greater losses than the southwest coalition army, if it were not for the main force of the new army to support the façade, I am afraid it would have collapsed long ago!

Without the Han Empire's army taking the lead, it was naturally unable to maintain the offensive!

As for the strongest Han Empire army, because it had no foundation on the island of Honshu in Japan, it annexed and occupied a large number of unfamiliar territories in an instant, and ruled over many Japanese nationals who were not interested in the Han Empire.

As soon as the landing force of the Han Empire was dispersed in the occupied area, even if there were many Japanese tycoons who took refuge in the day, it also made the strength of the Mondora Tiger Wolf Marine Corps, which was the main force, thin, so the Japanese civil war gradually turned into a small-scale battle!

The four powerful feudal clans in the southwest were busy begging, the Han Empire was busy digesting, and the Tokugawa shogunate was busy regaining the authority of the past, and for a while, it seemed that the dawn of peace had come again!

Of course, these are all superficial illusions!

Because the first step of the four strong clans in the southwest was seriously frustrated!

Wang Gang, the commander of the expeditionary force of the Han Empire, and Paprov, who played a pivotal role, responded to the so-called surrender conditions of the four powerful feudal lords in the southwest at the first time!

The four powerful clans in the southwest may have felt that they still had a lot of strength to spare, and the Tokugawa shogunate was almost broken by this civil war, so the conditions for begging for surrender were only to maintain the pre-war situation and pay reparations to the victorious side......

The tariffs mentioned in Article 21 were handed over to the Han Empire, and there was no mention of the cession of port cities such as Nagasaki, and the four powerful feudal clans in the southwest......

You must know that most of the port cities ceded in Article 21 proposed by the Han Empire were directly cut from the sphere of influence of the four powerful feudal lords in the southwest, and the tariff right was a major pillar of the financial revenue of the four powerful feudal lords in the southwest!

This is also one of the reasons why the Maori family governor united with the four strong clans so smoothly in the first place!

It's just that Wang Gang and Paprov's attitude is very resolute, but the Tokugawa shogunate really doesn't want to fight!

After more than three years of Japan's War of Resistance and the Japanese Civil War, the Tokugawa Shogunate, a behemoth that once owned a quarter of the military strength of the entire Japanese country, has now become an empty shell, a large number of Samurai who were loyal to the Tokugawa family died on the battlefield, and the young and strong labor force belonging to the Tokugawa Shogunate also became cheap ashigaru cannon fodder, and died meaninglessly in the meat grinder of both sides. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Not to mention the destructive power of the protracted war on the entire Japanese national regional construction and production!

The wealth accumulated by the Tokugawa family over the years is exhausted, and if it continues to fight, the Tokugawa shogunate will have to go into debt!

Therefore, as soon as the four powerful feudal clans in the southwest showed a signal of begging to surrender, the Tokugawa family immediately agreed, and began to continuously match the Han Empire, hoping to turn the war into a jade silk......

After all, Japan has been affected by the war, and the number of people who have been indirectly killed or injured has already exceeded the million mark, and anyone in power in Japan with a little vision and conscience knows that the civil war can no longer continue!

It's a pity that Wang Gang and Paprov, the parties in the Han Empire, don't care about the lives or deaths of the Japanese, so they don't care about the large number of Japanese people who died in chaos and famine because of the perennial military rebellion......

In Zhao Dutian's previous life, during the Second World War period, which already had a universal humanitarian spirit, the Japanese invading army still wantonly slaughtered Chinese for their own interests, not to mention that this other world was still stuck in a backward era when there was not much humanistic spirit and nationalism just germinating?

In the end, the Tokugawa family finally couldn't bear the Han Empire's insistence on the strategy of war, because they could no longer afford to continue to maintain a large number of military salaries on the front line.

Moreover, these ashigaru are all young and strong laborers, and if you leave the field for one more, the year's harvest will be less, and the income of the Tokugawa family will be reduced!

This is an important reason why the Tokugawa family is getting poorer and poorer!

In the eyes of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Han Empire had already gained so many territories and actually subdued the Japanese opposition, so it was completely possible to stop and return to the pre-war state!

Judging from the current strength of the Han Empire, even if the powerful feudal lords of Japan tried to train the new army after the war, they could not threaten the dominance of the Han Empire against Japan due to their own strength!

The standing army of 3 divisions controlled by the Han people alone is enough to deter Xiaoxiao!

Therefore, the Tokugawa family did not understand, let alone imagined, that Japan was nothing at all in the eyes of the Han Empire, just as a pedal for the invasion of the Manchu Empire!

Moreover, the 3 Japanese standing divisions are not used to suppress Japan's civil strife, in the plan of the Imperial General Staff, the servant army of Japan, that is the first choice of cannon fodder!

In the period when the Indians were young and vigorous, the population of Japan could undoubtedly fill the shortcomings of the Han Empire at this time!

In order to achieve this goal, the Han Empire naturally could not allow Japan to have a local force such as the four powerful feudal clans in the southwest!

The most important thing is that the Japanese servant army of 3 divisions cannot meet the needs of the Han Empire's future war, and the formation of the redundant Japanese servant army will inevitably require a large amount of financial support.

Not only that, but the silver mines in the hands of the four powerful feudal clans in the southwest are also the target of the Han Empire!

Of course, neither Wang Gang nor Paprov would have informed the Tokugawa shogunate of these reasons, even if the Tokugawa family had withdrawn from the war as a condition, they would not!

In fact, the Tokugawa shogunate did the same, and the Tokugawa clan began to gradually dismiss their armies after the four powerful feudal clans in the southwest revealed their intention to cease the war, and a large number of ashigaru were disbanded, and they returned to their hometown fields to do their 'own work' on the long-abandoned farmland!

Although on the surface, the Tokugawa shogunate had not yet declared the end of the counterinsurgency war, but the main army of the shogunate, except for the 5,000 new army that served as the family's standing private army, all the soldiers were sent home in an organized manner!

Of course, the shogunate army also retracted into the family domain and disengaged from the daimyo feudal lords controlled by the Southwest Coalition Army!

As for the question of the Han Empire, the Tokugawa family's reply was very simple - no money! (To be continued.) )