Both things will inevitably have a huge impact on Japan, the French in Shanghai and the Chinese diplomatic contacts, originally Tanabe Taichi repeatedly wanted to find out about the news of diplomatic contacts between China and France in the Prime Minister Yamen, but has been unable to enter, now such news is released, of course, first of all, the Chinese in order to insidiously split the quasi-alliance between Japan and France and the rumors, the French are not necessarily for their own own interests to begin to negotiate with China to end the war, in Tanabe's view, This possibility is very small, maybe it is just a way to confuse the Chinese, but people at home do not understand the diplomatic situation, many people are not clear, they will only feel that they have suffered a shameless betrayal by France, Japan finally made up its mind to be the enemy of the nearby giant China, and at this time, the French themselves actually went to peace talks?

The corners of Taichi Tanabe's eyes twitched constantly, even if his eyes were closed, his anger and despair could not be stopped, the Milky Way Maru cargo ship lost contact, he had a bad premonition in his heart, can cause trouble on the East China Sea Thousands of miles of sea territory, except for the Chinese Beiyang Naval Division, there will never be a second fleet! At first, he thought that at most, the Chinese would interfere with the advance of the Galaxy Maru, after all, this matter is an economic problem, and presumably the Chinese will not have any big tricks. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info But apparently he was too naïve, Chinese showed his sharp teeth, and bit the Galaxy Pill down, it can be expected that in the near future, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will inevitably be severely reprimanded.

The conservative forces in Tokyo have always maintained an attitude of opposition to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' decision to unite with the French against China, and the conservative forces believe that the Qing State is indeed the first first-class goal across the rise of the Japanese Empire, but it is far from the point of falling out with the Qing State, not to mention that the Vietnam War has no benefit for Japan, not to mention the sniper Hu Xueyan silk business in order to participate in the economy, which is absolutely not beneficial to the domestic textile industry and people's livelihood. Now that something like this is happening, there will definitely be a bigger storm waiting for Japan's foreign affairs relationship.

Generally speaking, the foreign minister is responsible for stepping down for this matter, and Taiichi Tanabe shook his head helplessly, "Let's protest first, and then wait for domestic orders." ”

"If the Japanese think that I won't interfere in anything other than the military and use it to support the front, then they are still too young." Empress Dowager Cixi smiled and said, "Why did they export silk that they didn't have enough to the French?" If I just come to slap the Chinese in the face, I will not have the slightest opinion, but think about how to do the domestic silk business better, but obviously, they want to stand with the French, the French use the Italian silk harvest to fight Hu Xueyan, Hu Xueyan's silk exports are affected, then the southeast economy will have big problems, if the ticket number continues to fall, then next, even if Vietnam wins everywhere, it will not be able to make up for the losses here, so well, don't blame me for being so fierce, sinking the Galaxy Maru, oops," The Empress Dowager Cixi sighed regretfully, "It would be nice if the silk could be seized and taken away, at least there would be some money to be made here, and there would always be a value of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, right?" It's a pity that I lost it in the sea. ”

Guo Songtao smiled and said, "Xisheng Shengming, then how to reply to the Japanese next?" ”

"Since the Japanese know our attitude, then they must also be a little more restrained, I sank the Galaxy Pill to warn the Japanese, don't try to unite with the French in the south to short China's economy, silk I laughed at the Sea Dragon King, and then, if there is still silk transported across the East China Sea, all of them will be sunk, this news I have already ordered the Beiyang Naval Division, and the rest of the cargo ships are not allowed to go," the Empress Dowager Cixi raised her chin and said proudly, so that she could bully the enemy worse than herself, it felt really refreshing," During my stay in Shanghai, foreign ships sailed at the behest of the Beiyang Naval Division, and those who did not obey the instructions were all detained. As for the explanation, "The Empress Dowager Cixi stroked the eight treasures embroidered with gold silk on the Fuji clothes, "Prime Minister Yamen, the foreign affairs you are in charge of were originally intended to carry the black pot to the imperial court, as the saying goes, don't hit the smiling people, the Beiyang Navy Division has done cruel things, so you should send someone to talk well, apologize, or mean to deal with a few sailor soldiers who accidentally fired a cannon, it should also be, as for losing money?" Then advise them not to overthink it. ”

"Weichen understands," Guo Songtao nodded in response, "I also want to ask Xisheng's will: what to talk about with the French, how to talk about it?" ”

"Anything can be discussed, if they want to talk, they will talk about it, I won't be soft anyway," the Empress Dowager Cixi said indifferently, "Presumably they won't be soft, but they think we will be soft," she seemed to be saying a few tongue twisters, but Guo Songtao understood that this was nothing more than a two-way delay, "The French think we will stop because of Langshan's victory?" Originally, it was possible to talk about it, but we made such a big battle and made a lot of trouble, this is not my style, let's talk about it, and see if the French are sincere. I don't care about the Japanese, and now in East Asian affairs, it's not their turn to talk to me, so you just send it away. ”

The Japanese do not have the strength to challenge the Chinese at all, or rather, they will not come head-on, and this is not mistaken, then all the actions of the Japanese can be regarded as a bluff.

"All the Beiyang Naval Divisions have been dispatched, does it mean that they may go south to participate in the war against France?" The carriage of the Japanese embassy drove out of the prime minister's yamen again, and the military attache Hashimoto said vigilantly, "If the Beiyang Naval Division makes a move to the south, it will be easy for the French to stop military operations, and the Beiyang Naval Division is now invincible in East Asia, and the French will continue to fight on land at most, so the scale of the war will be very limited, so the peace talks between China and France in Shanghai may have any practical effect, in this case......" Hashimoto Military Attache did not say anything more in the second half of the sentence, But Taichi Tanabe knew what he wanted to say.

"In that case, our empire may not be able to gain any benefits from this incident, right? That's what you're trying to say, Hashimoto-kun. (To be continued.) )