"I'm sorry, Minister Kade, my rank is too low to make such a promise, and the Senjima Islands are not as simple as a few islands, and they are related to the safety of the Miyako Strait and maritime issues, so I can't give you an answer now, but I have to report to the government." said the Japanese diplomat.

As Kader said, Japan could indeed not get the Southern Ryukyu Islands first, because Japan had not sworn sovereignty before, but had compromised with the Far Eastern Empire and engaged in a nondescript dichotomy.

This has led Japan to psychologically believe that the Ryukyu Islands can be traded, rather than insisting that they are its own territory.

Therefore, the Japanese diplomats were quite moved by Kade's proposal, but now that the matter is getting bigger, it is not very easy to solve, is it possible to really fight a war for the South Ryukyu Islands and East Africa!

After all, East Africa's previous conflicts with Britain and Portugal were so serious that Japan empathized and would never be as calm as East Africa.

Of course, East Africa is backed by Germany, especially Austria-Hungary, which is an important factor that cannot be avoided, and this is also what makes the Japanese envious and jealous.

The three major German countries are like three brothers, of course, only Germany is more orthodox, but it is only more orthodox, after all, Prussia was not originally part of Germany, less than 30% of the Germans in Austria-Hungary, and East Africa is also very excessive, even if all whites are counted as Germans, it is only 50%, but considering the full Germanization of East Africa, and more than seventy percent of the school-age population intermarry, East Africa claims to be a German state than Austria-Hungary is more convincing.

East Africa is more like the Austrian Empire before it, and the Austrian Empire under the auspices of the Austrians had no sense of disobedience to the affairs of the HRE, and this is more or less the case in East Africa, and East Africa has cut off the hidden danger of future national independence.

All in all, none of the three German states is essentially representative of Germany, everyone is a mixture of other peoples, East Africa is the most excessive, directly mixed races, but now everyone considers themselves German, and it is the culture and aristocratic groups that maintain the relationship between the three countries.

The most important of these is the aristocratic group, and the relationship between the rulers is the main reason for maintaining German culture in East Africa, for example, the largest ethnic group in the United States was German, but the United States is indeed a native English-speaking country.

"Okay, but I hope your government will give a quick answer, after all, my personal time is precious, and I don't want to waste my tongue on this kind of thing." Carder said.

In Carder's view, Japan does not have to fight to the death for the South Ryukyu Islands and East Africa, and even if East Africa does not intervene, isn't there still the Far East? It will never be the turn of the Japanese to take advantage of this.

After all, at this time, the Far Eastern Empire was still easy to speak in the Far East, and Japan's ability to become a great power in its previous life mainly depended on two wars, one was the First Sino-Japanese Naval War and the other was the Russo-Japanese War.

At present, although Japan is jumping up and down in the Far East and plotting against the Ryukyu Islands, the Korean Peninsula, and the Far Eastern Empire, it has not been able to show any achievements.

This is not the case in East Africa, where many of the countries that have fought against it have perished, and some people may say that Africans are not good at fighting, but East Africa can occupy such a large area of territory, and the ability to organize war is definitely in line with people's stereotypes of Germans.

In addition, East Africa defeated the Transvaal Republic and the Kingdom of Portugal, which were also white regimes, so the strength of East Africa is at least a military power in the eyes of other countries.

Therefore, the East African people have a sense of psychological superiority over Japan, which is inseparable from the influence of the centrism of European civilization in this era, plus Japan itself is very strong, and there is also the ideal of "breaking away from Asia and joining Europe", Japan has its own strong filter for all Western countries, and Japan is still relatively blind in the face of East Africa or all white countries, just like many people in the West in later generations who are brainless and arrogant and believe in American-style liberal democracy.

Freedom is freedom, but there is absolutely no freedom without money, democracy is the United States after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union is indeed very democratic, this is indeed the case in the system, but people have selfish desires and blind obedience, so that Soviet-style democracy is difficult to continue, unless the Soviet Union is a saint, selfless, it is obviously impossible.

And the 19th century was the era of white people, white people are fragrant even when they fart, and the black smoke in the big chimney of the industrial age, the Japanese can't help but take a few more puffs, so countries like East Africa, especially those that have important ties with the two world powers, not to mention that they are respected because of their strength, at least they will not be excluded overseas.

Therefore, in the eyes of Japanese officials, Minister Kade is extremely arrogant, but this arrogance is not considered rudeness by the Japanese, but is taken for granted, which is a manifestation of self-confidence in their own strength.

"Of course, we don't want a real conflict with East Africa, and we hope that the two countries will take a step back and find a solution that is acceptable to all and put aside the dispute."

Kader: "Preferably. ”

Soon, the Japanese government began to discuss the Southern Ryukyu Islands, which are also known as the Sakishima Islands.

"The islands of Xiandao must not be ceded out, East Africa is not the Far Eastern Empire, if we give up to East Africa now, it will not be easy to get it back in the future."

"Eida Shoji, I understand your feelings, but the current situation is that the enemy is strong and I am weak, we must face up to the difference in strength between the two sides, and the islands of Xiandao are not worth our gamble with the fortune of the country."

"Senator Yamamoto is right, the East African Navy is one of the top ten most powerful navies in the world, and I am afraid that we may not be able to win by concentrating the strength of the whole country, and it is not worth it to use the fate of the Imperial Navy to take ownership of the Senjima Islands." said the people from the Navy Department.

The Japanese Navy did not want to fight the East African Navy, because the East African Navy was very strong on paper, and it was not confident in defeating the East African Navy.

And what if you win? This is the issue that the Japanese Navy attaches the most importance to, even if Japan can win, but there is a 100 percent probability of a disastrous victory, and most of the East African Navy is in the Indian Ocean, and the East African Navy in the South Ryukyu Islands is now annihilated, and it will not be able to cause much damage to East Africa.

The East African Navy has a strong ability to resist pressure, but the Japanese Navy does not, because the Japanese Navy has a competitor, that is, the Japanese Army, and if the Japanese Navy suffers huge losses, won't the army's group of "red deer" have to ride on their heads and for the next ten years, and this is the most unacceptable thing for the Japanese Navy.

The spokesman of the army department saw through the Navy's mind and provoked: "It seems that some people only know how to take the money of the imperial taxpayers and enjoy coffee and Western food, but they cannot guarantee the interests of the empire. ”

"Tsuruo Ichiro, this is slander, the Imperial Navy's funds are pitiful, you look at our ships, they are two generations behind East Africa, this is the reason why the Empire is unable to deal with East Africa in the Sakishima Islands now, is it the same as the high fever Morita with fishing boats and East African consumption? And without our navy, your army will only be in the nest, and it is still up to our navy to expand the territory, so in my opinion, your army is the most useless department, and you should reduce military spending and supply a few more warships to the empire. ”

(End of chapter)