Japanese Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu heard that Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi Kenyì sent someone to start peace talks with Lin Daxin, and ended the war as much as possible, he sighed secretly in his heart, and set foot in the Northeast, the Far East, Mongolia, and Siberia, and wiped out the Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy, and laid a 10,000-year-old foundation for the Great Japanese Empire. The Tohoku Navy continued to attack the Japanese mainland, and the situation was even worse at that time.

Seeing that Emperor Meiji did not speak, Mutsu Munemitsu thought about the wording and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, the current situation is what we do not want to see, the loss of 20 divisions of the Northern Dispatch Army in China has suddenly turned the Japanese Empire into a crisis, because without sea dominance, it is impossible for us to provide large-scale support to the 15 divisions of South Korea, but the Northern Army can liberate a considerable part of its troops." If the Jeongbuk Army concentrates its forces on attacking South Korea again, not to mention whether South Korea can lose or not, it will definitely be even worse for the Japanese Empire if it loses those 15 army divisions again. The minister thinks that Ito-kun's method is a good way to solve the current predicament, His Majesty the Emperor, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, today's end heralds a new beginning tomorrow, as long as our great Japanese empire endures humiliation, it will definitely take revenge in the future! ”

Emperor Meiji listened to the words of his two confidants and said with a wry smile: "Ito-kun, Lu [Oku-kun, is there really no way?" I'm really unwilling! For the sake of this war, we, the Great Japanese Empire, invested so much money, but it ended in a crushing defeat. Let me face the 42 million people of the Great Japanese Empire! ”

Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito sighed and said, "If we continue to persevere, maybe Lin Daxin will send the Northeast Navy to continue attacking the four islands of the Japanese mainland." That would be an absolute disaster! ”

Emperor Meiji frowned and said, "There are 12 standing army divisions on the mainland, including the Guards Division, plus more than 2 million army reserves. Can't we hold our Japanese soil? Even if the Combined Fleet suffered heavy losses, but in our main ports of Japan, strong batteries were built and equipped with many large-caliber coastal defense guns, and it was not so easy for the Dingbei Army to land on our Japanese mainland, right? ”

Ito Hirofumi said in a somewhat depressed voice: "Your Majesty the Emperor, there are too many places suitable for landing on our four islands in Japan, and if the Dingbei Army wants to land on our Japanese mainland, it can completely bypass the coastal defense artillery we built. Although the army has more than 2 million army reserves, this time the intelligence department came back with news. The number of prisoners of the Northern Dispatch Army in China reached 110,000, most of whom were replenishments of the Army Reserve, so it can be seen that their combat effectiveness is really worrying. ”

Emperor Meiji didn't speak for a long time after that, although he was unwilling, but reason told him that this war really could not continue. Gritting his teeth, Emperor Meiji said with difficulty: "Ito-kun, Mutsu-kun, the matter of peace talks is handed over to you, and we must ensure that our Great Japanese Empire loses less." ”

The greedy Lin Daxin has become famous in the world. If he wanted to end this war with Lin Daxin this time, Emperor Meiji knew that it was very likely that he would have to bleed profusely. But whoever let himself provoke others first, and now he can't beat others. Emperor Meiji had the feeling that he was going to vomit blood.

Hirobumi Ito and Mutsu Munemitsu finally relented when they heard that Emperor Meiji had finally relented and agreed to send someone to hold peace talks with Hayashi Daxin. They all breathed a sigh of relief, if Emperor Meiji insisted on going his own way and insisted on continuing to fight, the consequences would really not be acceptable to Japan.

If the Dingbei Army attacked the four islands of the Japanese mainland, Hokkaido Island would not have much of a problem, there was no industry there, and there were not many Japanese, even if the entire Hokkaido Island was captured, the losses to Japan would not be large.

But if Japan's Honshu Island, Kyushu Island or Shikoku Island are landed by the Dingbei Army, then the industry developed by Japan over the years will definitely be destroyed by the war, and the blow to Japan is too great, the last war Lin Daxin with the fleet did not land, and bombarded some cities along the coast of Japan, which brought immeasurable losses to Japan, if it were not for the support of the Tokugawa Shogunate's treasures, Japan's industry would have to go back many years at once, if the Dingbei Army really landed on the Japanese mainland, Just thinking about it makes people shudder.

Not to mention, Lin Daxin really has the idea of landing on the Japanese mainland, and has asked Wu Peifu of the General Staff to contact the navy to formulate a combat plan for landing on the Japanese mainland, hoping to force the Japanese to surrender as much as possible, of course, Lin Daxin also has the idea of destroying the industry of Japan's restless neighbor, I will blow up your Japanese factories, and see how you play with me in the future!

In addition, Lin Daxin is very interested in the sparsely populated island of Hokkaido, which is located in the northernmost part of Japan, accounting for one-fifth of the entire land area of Japan, but the population is only a little more than 1 million, and some of the original inhabitants of Hokkaido Island are Ainu, and the rest are pure Japanese.

In 1869, without any formal consultation, Ezo Island, inhabited by the Ainu people, was officially incorporated into the Japanese administration and renamed Hokkaido. The following year, Japan's household registration system was officially implemented in Hokkaido, and all Ainu became administratively Japanese from that time on. After that, the Japanese government not only confiscated Ainu land, but also allocated it to the newly relocated Japanese immigrants in order to encourage their pioneering work in Hokkaido.

The Japanese government has carried out various assimilations of the Ainu people, and the Ainu people's living habits have been officially banned for a long time, and they have become the old natives in the eyes of the Japanese, and they are forced to forcibly accept the Japanese living habits.

Lin Daxin took a circle on the location of Hokkaido Island on the map, if there is a chance, this big island can become his own trophy in this war, and he will help the Ainu people drive out the Japanese who oppress them as a liberator, so that the Ainu people can enjoy the warmth of the big family of the Chinese nation.

He is so great, Lin Daxin can't help but think happily, the Guanyin Bodhisattva who saves suffering is nothing more than that!

However, it will take some time to attack the Japanese mainland, and the next step is to first deal with the Japanese army in South Korea and wipe out the Japanese army on the mainland cleanly and thoroughly.

Lin Daxin and Wu Peifu had already made a general battle plan against the Japanese army in South Korea, because the Japanese army had built a large number of fortifications in South Korea for several years, and the terrain of Korea was mountainous, which made the Japanese army, like the Dingbei Army stationed in Yalu River Province, build many strong mountain fortifications with the help of mountains, so Lin Daxin and Wu Peifu's battle plan would not only launch an offensive against the Japanese army in South Korea from the border between Yalu River Province and South Korea.

He even prepared to take advantage of the superiority of the navy to launch an attack from behind the mountain fortifications built by the Japanese army, that is, to send the navy to cover the landing of the Dingbei Army from the south of South Korea in the area of Busan, and to carry out a north-south flank attack on the Japanese army in South Korea.

However, to Lin Daxin's surprise, a few days after the annihilation of the Japanese army in the north of China, the Japanese minister in the Qing Dynasty, Komura Shoutaro, invited the ministers of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany in the Qing Dynasty to mediate, and came to Shenyang City together to start an armistice negotiation with him.

This can't stand it, Lin Daxin thought that if he didn't attack the Japanese mainland, the Japanese would not negotiate, but he didn't expect that the Japanese army that had just annihilated hundreds of thousands of people, and the Japanese would come to him for peace talks.

Peace talks! However, he had to agree to my conditions, so Lin Daxin sent a group of negotiators headed by Wu Peifu and Japanese representatives headed by Komura Shoutaro, the Japanese minister to the Qing Dynasty, and under the mediation of the British envoys to the Qing Dynasty, the United States, and Germany, they launched difficult negotiations.

Why are they difficult negotiations? The main reason is that the armistice conditions proposed by Lin Daxin are too harsh, so that the Japanese minister in Daqing, Komura Shoutaro, looked at the armistice conditions given by Lin Daxin, and he was so angry that he did not faint.

Lin Daxin proposed that if Japan wanted to sign an armistice treaty on its own, it would have to cede South Korea, the Ryukyu Islands, and Hokkaido Islands to itself, and compensate Lin Daxin for his losses of 200 million pounds, which could be paid in annual installments, but with interest, or it could be paid in pounds with gold, silver, machinery, equipment, and crops.

All warships with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet must be compensated to the Northeast Navy as compensation, and the Japanese Navy's combined fleet may not possess warships with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons in the future. At present, all warships with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons under construction in Japanese shipyards must be stopped and the parts that have been built must be dismantled.

The Japanese Army must be limited to 100,000 men, and must not possess artillery pieces with a caliber of more than 100 mm, and must not possess tanks and airships.

In addition, it is necessary to set aside a concession for Lin Daxin in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, and Kochi in Japan, and allow Lin Daxin to send troops to garrison troops in the above five concessions, and the lease period is set at 199 years.

Lin Daxin's request for an armistice, not to mention that the Japanese minister in the Qing Dynasty, Komura Shoutaro, almost fainted when he saw it, even the envoys of Britain, the United States, and Germany in the Qing Dynasty couldn't help but feel that the conditions were too harsh, and if Japan agreed to this condition, it would not be far from the death of the country. (To be continued......) R1292