I'm playing whack-a-mole in Siberia

Chapter 457: One dad or a group of dads?
Amur and Japan have a long-standing dispute over the Hokkaido fishing grounds. After the combined fleet was annihilated, the Hokkaido fishing grounds have been completely occupied by Amur fishermen.

Not only the fishing grounds of Hokkaido were recovered by Amur, but also the Kuril Islands.

In 1875, Japan and Russia signed the "Exchange Treaty between Huatai and the Northern Kuril Islands" in St. Petersburg. Japan exchanged the sovereignty of Sakhalin Island for the sovereignty of the Kuril Islands, fishing rights in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, and surrounding Russian ports. Ten years of free use.

During the Russo-Japanese War, Japan invaded Sakhalin Island and obtained the southern part of Sakhalin Island through the Treaty of Portsmouth, achieving a great victory.

Now, when George regained Sakhalin Island, he also took back the Thousand Islands, which is natural and natural.

When Komura Jutaro and Werther signed the Treaty of Portsmouth, Goryeo was not involved, giving George an excuse to restart the war.

This time, Jutaro Komura was wiser and agreed to return the southern part of Sakhalin Island to the Russian Empire and at the same time asked the Far East Military District to withdraw its troops from the Kuril Islands.

"Have you not understood the situation? Are you still qualified to make demands?"

Mikhail is aggressive and brings the Russian tradition into full play.

how to say--

Now even if Gray is pointed at and scolded by Mikhail, Britain will not fall out with the Russian Empire because of this matter.

Shiga Ichiro's face was full of bitterness, and he couldn't even squeeze out a smile.

During the Opium War, the British leased Xiangjiang for 99 years. If the Qing Empire did not agree, they would continue to fight.

After the expiration of 99, if the Siberian Fleet is willing to lease, Japan cannot refuse.

It would be okay if it was just a threat.

"My friend, it's nice to see you again. You look well."

This is clearly an attempt to use negotiations to buy time for adjustments to deployment.

Now Mikhail has the advantage over me. He did not ask Japan to cede Nagasaki to the Russian Empire, which is considered very restrained.

This is not over yet.

Who is not a great power?

But what if it’s true!

While Mikhail was negotiating, George was still mobilizing troops and moving the Far East Russian troops in batches to Busan, across the sea from Nagasaki.

Mikhail also has confidence.

The Siberian fleet is practicing landing operations.

This condition aroused strong opposition from Jutaro Komura and Gray.

The tradition of the Russian Empire is to rely on three points regardless of reason.

Barbarians -

It is impossible for Britain to mobilize 45 troops from its colonies around the world to help Japan fight a completely hopeless war.

"Not as good as it looks-"

Kassaf advised Ichiro Shiga to be more open-minded.

In Nagasaki, Kassaf and Shiga Ichiro had frequent contacts, and they were quite close.

Both emotionally and rationally, Kassaf should express his gratitude to Ichiro Shiga.

The Siberian Fleet is in the Nagasaki Concession, which is the land of the Shiga family.

Mikhail didn't give Gray any face.

In the evening, representatives from various countries showed off their magical powers. Dewey asked Mikhail and Gray asked Jutaro Komura to do their work respectively.

Although Mikhail did not ask Japan to cede Nagasaki to the Russian Empire, Mikhail asked Japan to lease Nagasaki to the Siberian Fleet for 99 years.

The Goryeo army is replenishing its troops and recuperating.

"you shut up!"

Kassav, who once served as the president of the Vladivostok Chamber of Commerce in Nagasaki, hosted a banquet at his home for Ichiro Shiga, a member of the Japanese negotiating team.

What Gray is now worried about is whether George will restart the incident once the Russian troops in the Far East are adjusted.

The first day of negotiations went nowhere.

Mikhail pointed the finger directly at Gray.

The British were too late, and George would not give the British time to mobilize their troops.

What's the matter, it won't work here in the Russian Empire.

“No matter how hard life gets, life goes on.”

Kassaf's home is next to Peter the Great Bay. When Ichiro Shiga went to the banquet, he carefully prepared gifts for Kassaf.

After the Russo-Japanese War began, Kassaf also received help from Ichiro Shiga when he left Japan.

Kassav gave Shiga a big hug.

What's wrong with the British Foreign Secretary? Others are afraid of Grey, but Mikhail is not!
How can you be the foreign minister if you can't even stand this anger?
When Britain was strong, it was a provocation for British beggars to be looked at twice in other countries.

You can't get along with them.

"Remember your identity! You are the mediator, you are not qualified to speak here!"

Ichiro Shiga smiled bitterly. It turned out that the so-called rise of the empire was just a dream after all.

The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War and the Xinchou War gave the Japanese an illusion, as if Japan had really left Asia and joined Europe and became part of the great powers.

The reality is so cruel. It is better to give someone a cold water on your face when your dream is about to come true. It would be better not to give it any hope from the beginning.

“I’m so happy that we can drink and sing together in Nagasaki again in the near future.”

Kassaf is not a member of the negotiating team and has no knowledge of the progress of the negotiations.

"I'm afraid those days are gone forever—"

Shiga Ichiro was extremely conflicted. Russians are certainly not good people.

Are the British good people?
In the past, the Japanese lived a miserable life and enjoyed their misery, but at least they could survive.

In order to curb the expansion of the Russian Empire in East Asia, Britain provoked Japan's ambitions and armed Japan. This led to a series of wars since the Sino-Japanese War.

So it’s not a good thing!

Kassav doesn't hesitate.

If flies don't bite, why doesn't Britain arm Goryeo?

If Japan had stayed on its own terms, it would not have been provoked by Britain at all.

Since you have chosen to be Britain's loser, you must accept the current results and be willing to admit defeat.

Learn from the Russian Empire. A defeat is a defeat. You cannot be like a certain ally of the Russian Empire who is complacent about winning without victory.

"Aren't you good students from the Qing Empire——"

One word from Kassav made Ichiro Shiga change his face.

Before Ichiro Shiga could refute, he was silenced by Kasav's next words.

"——Learn how the Qing Empire used barbarians to control barbarians!"

The Qing Empire's use of barbarians to fight barbarians was not counterattack. The Qing Empire did not have that ability.

The Qing Empire's use of barbarians to "control" barbarians was a check and balance. Otherwise, like India, the Qing Empire would inevitably become a colony of a certain country.

The question in Japan now is whether it wants one father, two fathers, or even many fathers.

Although these words may not sound pleasant, good medicine is bitter in the mouth and good for the disease, and good advice is hard on the ears but good for action. Whether we want a colony or a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society does not need to be considered at all.

Specific to Shiga Ichiro's interests, it seems that there is no need to consider whether he will become a taboo for the British or a tool of governance for the great powers.

Shiga Ichiro couldn't sit still immediately, and there was grass growing in his heart.

Dewey came to Mikhail not to discuss Japan, but to discuss cooperation with the Philippines and the East Indies.

Through the Spanish-American War, the United States captured the Philippines from Spain and officially replaced Spain as part of the East Asian powers.

The Philippines has been ruled by Spain for 300 years, and there has been no improvement in either economy or military. In the eyes of Americans, this is entirely due to the incompetence of the Spanish. If the United States is allowed to rule the Philippines, then the Philippines can at least become the next Lion City.

If you don't become a householder, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are.

After the United States took over the Philippines, it realized how big a trap the Philippines was.

No matter how much mud is stirred, it cannot stick to the wall.

The Philippines is rich in products, so Filipinos do not need to work hard to survive.

Just living, no quality at all.

The purpose of the United States in seizing the Philippines was definitely not to rescue the Filipinos from the clutches of Spanish colonial rule, but for profit.

The Spanish-American War broke out in 1898 and ended that year. In October, the United States and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris, and Spain sold the Philippines to the United States.

More than seven years have passed since October 1898. Compared with the Philippines under Spanish rule, the Philippines under American rule has not changed at all——

This is not true either.

During the Spanish-American War, the United States offered the independence of the Philippines in exchange for help from the Filipinos. This was done by Dewey himself.

After the Spanish-American War, the Americans broke their promises and established a colonial government to rule the Philippines.

The Philippines, like Japan, was poured a basin of ice water back into reality when its dream was about to come true.

So now in the Philippines, rebels are rising one after another, the US military is exhausted, and more and more expenditures are being spent on suppression.

As the center of American colonial rule in the Philippines, although the situation in Manila is slightly better, the Filipinos also have ways to cause headaches for the Americans.

During the Spanish-American War, the Spanish fleet was completely wiped out, and two of the ships sank in the Manila port, posing a certain threat to ships entering and exiting. This matter was also handled by Dewey.

The Philippine colonial government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fish out the two ships and clear the waterway.

The two ships have not yet been fished out.

The East Indies became George's private domain after the United States acquired the Philippines.

Now the East Indies are prospering under George's rule, but the Philippines has made no progress, so Dewey sincerely asked Mikhail for advice.

"Expect Filipinos to build the Philippines? Are you drunk?"

Mikhail laughed loudly, the same is Angsa, why are you red necks so naive.

"The people who built the railway in East India were Japanese, and the people who supervised the work of the Japanese were Koreans. That's why it was so efficient."

Mikhail didn't mention the East Indians, because all of them died in the indigenous war.

Dewey was eye-opening to the Russian Empire’s version of the war on barbarians.

"Our rule in East India also faces many threats. If these threats are not eliminated, then we will not be able to focus all our energy on construction."

Mikhail's words successfully aroused Dewey's thoughts.

There is no need to name who is the threat in Asia. Both Mikhail and Dewey know it well.

The Philippines has no industrial capacity.

So where did the Philippine rebels get their weapons?

It couldn't have grown on its own in the tropical rainforest.

On this issue, Mikhail has something to say.

During the indigenous war in Kalimantan, British standard weapons were discovered.

(End of this chapter)