Beiyang 1917

"Honno Ichiro! Who stopped the military from falling out with the Chinese? The Chinese took advantage of the chaos to take back the Middle East Railway. Who suppressed the Japanese Kanto-Military Division and stood by and did not intervene? The Fengtian Warlord Zhang Zuolin He fought fiercely with us before, who refused to support him to fight for autonomy with the Duan cabinet? Isn't it all the judgment of the situation made by your Ministry of Foreign Affairs?!"

Kenichi Oshima continued to yell at Ichiro Moto. It was far from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan who felt aggrieved this year. The position of the Japanese Army in China seemed extremely embarrassing. Zhang Zuolin invited the Kwantung Army to help him deal with the Jilin Warlord Meng Enyuan was originally the best opportunity to expand and intervene in Manchurian affairs.

As a result, Zhang Zuolin was frightened by Duan Zhengfu and the Ministry of the Army, and retreated timidly. At this time, many pro-ri generals in the Feng Faction suggested that Lao Zhang and Zhong Yang should turn against each other. The premise must be the full support of Japan. Nima, the result The Ministry of War's plan to support the Feng faction's announcement of riots in the three northeastern provinces was rejected by the cabinet!

The reason for Ichiro Motono is also very simple. Japan and China are now members of the Allied Powers. Enough for an army of 50 people for three years.

At this moment, if Japan turns against China, the first one may not win the battle. After all, there are less than 20 standing divisions. As a result of the chess deduction, as long as the United States does not give up its support for Duan Zhengfu of China and Wang Geng, the war supervisor who came back from the United States.

Once the war breaks out, maybe China will speed up the unified pace to fight against Japan, and depending on the firepower and armed forces of the participating troops, the standing divisions of the Japanese Army may not be able to gain the upper hand. Peace, dealt a major blow to the Chinese participating army, forcing Duan Qirui to sit down and negotiate peace.

There is no such opportunity, it must be when the participating army first started training and arming, and after Duan Zhengfu took Henan and subdued Cao Kun and Yan Xishan, and reached a joint compromise with Feng Guozhang, this opportunity will be gone no return.

When the participating army grows to 10 divisions, Japan's war chess deduction is no longer how to intervene and interfere in China's domestic situation, but how to ensure that Japan's immediate interests in China will not be lost, especially in China's recovery In the case of Outer Mongolia and Middle East Road.

Who would have imagined that Wang Geng and his participating army would develop so fast? With his efforts to manage the fragmented situation within China, this model participating army has already taken control of ten provinces north of the Yellow River. , and the Chinese are also drilling high-yield oil, and have oil as a strategic energy source.

Now Japan has to look at the face of China, the Japanese navy is the number one in Asia, but now I dare not say that the army is the number one in Asia, not to mention that Wang Geng has built an air force with nearly 500 A fighter plane is not worth mentioning on the European battlefield, but it is the only force in the Far East!

"Oshima-kun! It is my decision to give up interfering in China's internal affairs in Manchuria! There is no need to mention this matter again!" Prime Minister Terauchi Masaki slammed down the table and shouted.

In all fairness, it has not been a day or two since this guy in Siuchi has been criticized for being weak in diplomacy in China. The public opinion in Japan has accused it of the appeasement policy of the Siuchi cabinet that made China rise in a short period of time and in Asia and the Far East. In his eyes, he has become a rising star that can at least keep pace with Japan.

The guy in the temple is also suffering and can't tell. Japan's diplomacy has always been a state of struggling to survive among the big powers. As an island country with limited resources and land, the maritime strategy and the mainland strategy have always been contradictory. With regard to the relationship between the shield and the shield, we all know that Japan's future must be expanded through the ocean. Great Britain is the best example, but Japan is always half-hearted about the territory of its huge Asian neighbors.

The Japanese Exposure War in 1905 allowed Japan to obtain more than half of Tsarist Russia's interests in China, but the price paid was quite astonishing. The courage to fight to the death with the old Maozi has not increased, but has decreased. If the old Maozi hadn't misconducted his command, or if Tsar Nicholas II's brain was flooded,

If this war continues, the Japanese people will starve to death, and the Japanese army and navy supported by tightening their belts will count as the first among Asian countries, but compared with Tsarist Russia, they are nothing!

Although China is backward and uncivilized, there are too many people and the territory is too large. Unless there is a full-scale war, there is no chance for Japan to win. Once China and Japan go to war, will the United States agree?Can Britain and France support it?

Wang Geng, the Chinese supervisor of negotiations between the five countries, has threatened by blatantly saying that if he fails to reach an agreement with the Allied Powers or China's interests are not respected by the big powers, he dares to persuade Duan Qirui to find a way to establish an alliance between Germany, Austria, Russia and China. !

You know that this fellow is blackmailing you, but you really can’t believe it. Since the Soviet Union and Russia can renounce all unequal treaties with China in the Tsarist Russia era, how can it be impossible for the Chinese and Soviet Russia to join hands?It is necessary to review Japan's external expansion strategy. China's military power has expanded to the point where it can compete with Japan in a short period of time.

"The Prime Minister is right. It is meaningless to entangle what has happened now. It is better to discuss the next move of the Japanese army in the Far East. Is it necessary to send troops to Vladivostok? If not, just withdraw to the country to rest!" The foreign minister obviously It is a front with his own prime minister.

"Baga! The blood of the imperial army must not be shed in vain! I suggest that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs negotiate with the Chinese government again, and ask the Chinese and Japanese military forces to jointly implement intervention operations in the Far East and Siberia!" The Minister of Army threw the ball The kick was returned to the Minister of Foreign Affairs!

"Honno-kun, what Oshima said, is it possible? If we just follow the ass of the Chinese army, the Chinese will get all the benefits!" Prime Minister Terauchi Masaki frowned. Ask your own foreign secretary!

"Well... it's not impossible. Lin Quanzhu, the Minister to China, and Wang Geng, the war supervisor, can still talk, but the position of the Chinese government is very clear. In the south of the Grabiqi River and the Outer Xing'an Mountains From the east to the sea, it is the territory that China wants to take back from Russia, and on this point, a consensus has been reached in the closed-door consultations on the situation in Russia between the ministers of China, Japan, the United States, Britain and France, so it will be very difficult to handle!"

The Minister of Foreign Affairs took out his handkerchief and wiped his sweat. Obviously, this difficult problem was not easy to solve.

"Is it possible or not? Is it possible to hesitate like a cabinet minister?" The temple is obviously a little anxious, this problem is getting too difficult now, and the Far East and Siberia are all tasteless to Japan if it goes on like this!

"Lin Quanzhu once probed Wang Geng's tone. That guy doesn't seem to be limited to the area east of Lake Baikal and south of the Outer Xing'an Mountains. When he talked with Lin Quanzhu in private, he said that we see it from the perspective of Japan. It's not far enough, and if he were Japan's Minister of War, he must have planned to take all of Russia's Asian part!" Moto Ichiro said while recalling the secret telegram sent back by Lin Quansuke.

"That Wang Geng is an idiot's dream! That Lin Quanzhu is fooling you!" Minister of the Army Oshima said sourly. Japan's vision is really not that far away. This Wang Geng dared to make his idea go to the Eurasian dividing line. Doesn't that have to hit the Ural Mountains?How far is it from Japan?Besides, the Trans-Siberian Railway will be in the hands of the Chinese at that time, how can Japan reach out?

"Mr. Benye, the Ural Mountains are so far away, and Japan's national strength is not enough. If it can really expand the territory of the empire so far, Japan will not be an island country at all! This is the dream of many generations of Japanese people, but how is it possible? Realized? Although Japan won the Japanese Exposure War, everyone knows that with Japan's strength, it is far from being able to shake a behemoth like Tsarist Russia!"

Si Nei Zhengyi squinted his eyes, looking forward to and melancholy at the prospect Wang Geng described for Japan.

"Lin Quanzhu also answered that Wang Geng in the same way, but that Wang Geng said that we are dead-brained and always thinking about eating alone and working alone, so that we will feel powerless. He said that if China and Japan can join hands, Japan will fully develop the navy and dominate the ocean. , China is building the trump card of the army, and now China has oil, when China and Japan join hands, the right to speak on the world political stage will far exceed that of Britain and France!"

Minister of Foreign Affairs Motono said cautiously, while watching the reactions of Terauchi and Oshima, he was afraid that he might accidentally become a traitor who betrayed the interests of the empire.