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The North-South peace talks behind the scenes Chapter 722

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    "The China Flying Squadron shamelessly attacked our Kwantung garrison, causing our Kwantung garrison to suffer heavy losses unprepared!"

    When at nine twenty-nine (time difference), the telegram from Lushun changed hands and was sent to the Prime Minister's Office.  [Text first published last night. Prime Minister Kei Hara, who had just returned from a tour of the Shikoku region and was exhausted and wanted to sleep a little longer, was almost awakened from his sleep.

    Ever since his new Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi ordered his confidant Masaki Jinzaburo to go to Kanto Prefecture and concocted the Huanggutun incident, the democratically elected Prime Minister Hara Kei, known as the second Okuma Shigenobu, has been worried about whether the army will  Suddenly triggering any dangerous moves, because he knows the Army too well.  Although he urgently visited the domestic army and navy veterans, he also sent special envoys to Kanto Prefecture and North Korea.  However, the current situation in Japan is already very dangerous.

    The newly appointed Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi is undoubtedly a very dangerous and fanatical expansionist figure. Based on Prime Minister Keihara's understanding of him, only in Japan, this new Prime Minister with a tough attitude towards expansion has obtained the Guards and many army establishments.  of crowds.  A large number of radical young officers who advocated external expansion and declared war on China gathered around him under the banner of "supporting the emperor". At present, they have formed a semi-open and huge force that even the elders would frown upon.  .  They had secretly assembled a large amount of supplies, weapons and ammunition at the seaport. When he decided to investigate, they claimed that it was just a routine operation to supplement the expanded overseas garrison, and the number was not large.  That's huge as the Prime Minister claims.

    The Army has always advocated expanding northward to the mainland, planning to first plot Manchuria and Mongolia and then invade the entire China.  In the past few years, the navy has gained too much profits from the East Indies colonies in its southward strategy.  All levels of the entire Japanese Empire have benefited from the navy's southward strategy. Therefore, the navy's influence and prestige in Japan have gradually increased, and it is about to rival the army.

    This change has long made the army forces dissatisfied. If they want to overwhelm the naval faction again, they can only continue to implement the mainland policy and seize the Manchuria and Mongolia areas controlled by China.  Prime Minister Hara Kei has seen a shadow from the recent change in the attitude of the Army. Behind the Army's tame appearance, those soldiers, especially those young officers who are eager to make contributions, are still looking forward to a huge conflict, a brand-new "Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War"  war'.  According to their plan, only through war and relying on the bravery of the Empire of Japan's powerful army to defeat China's newly established student army, can Japan regain the initiative in China and regain its fallen hegemony in East Asia.  Then further compete for hegemony in the Far East.

    Prime Minister Kei Hara doesn¡¯t like the coming of war, at least he doesn¡¯t want the Sino-Japanese war to come now.  He knew very well that in the past few years, although Japan had shared a large amount of war dividends from the European War, the expansion of its army and navy had also placed a heavy burden on Japan.  Moreover, Japan also has to bear the defense of Taiwan, North Korea, Kanto State, the East Indies Colonies, Siberia, and domestic areas at the same time, so the military burden is not small.

    Moreover, the domestic political situation is in a panic, and civilian dissatisfaction with the plutocrats and the government is accumulating little by little. The turmoil of the rice riots has not yet been accepted. The activist revolutionaries demand to imitate China and Soviet Russia in launching a bottom-up revolution to overthrow Japan.  The government is heavily influenced by the military and plutocrats; the army and navy are fighting over military spending; and the power struggle between the top generals loyal to the veterans and the young officers who are united around the prime minister is getting increasingly fierce.

    In terms of economy, due to the large-scale expansion of the army, the finances that had been partially improved still used most of the funds to meet the army's never-satisfied expansion needs.  There is no financial foundation to begin with.  It takes a long time to accumulate enough funds to support a long-term war.  In terms of diplomacy, this is not the time to launch a war against China.  The whole world does not want to start a large-scale war in Asia at this time!

    So he has been praying, hoping that the radical soldiers can be patient, at least until the domestic economy improves and the people complain less, and the government properly handles the liaison with the great powers and obtains their acquiescence and support.  .  Then all they need is an excuse, and they can fight them however they like.

    "It's a pity that he was wrong. He didn't expect that Prime Minister Lu and those young officers were so ambitious.  He heard that both Kanto Prefecture and North Korea have established some kind of research association. It is said that most of the members are young soldiers stationed in the two places.  He felt bad originally and wanted to warn Xiang Lu.  Unexpectedly, before he could react, Prime Minister Lu had already taken action and concocted a Huanggutun incident, clearly provoking a country that had become more confident and hostile to Japan after the revolution.

    The distressed Prime Minister Hara Jing can only silently pray every day that the trouble they cause will not be too big, and China also sincerely hopes for peace and can swallow the trouble.??In this tone, he chose to back down and tolerate the friction caused by Prime Minister Lu's provocation.  The relationship between China and Japan can last until a period suitable for war.  In order to suppress the ideas of radical groups in the Army.  He had to seek to unite with the senators and some people in the navy who were opposed to the army's radicals, and use their power to influence public opinion and control the army.

    It is a pity that as a civilian prime minister, and he does not have close military power in his hands, his actions to suppress the army will only be used by Tanaka Giichi and other expansionists as an excuse to incite and lure young soldiers to join them in order to abandon the army.  Prime Minister Hara Kei seems too cowardly and incompetent to them.  The young officers of the army were increasingly disobeying his orders.  It also makes the Prime Minister feel more and more exhausted.  In the end, he was almost desperate, waiting for the crisis that would come sooner or later.  His only hope.  Even though the scale of this crisis is limited, it is still within his control!

    ¡°This country may not be suitable for sane people to survive now.  The four words "the whole country is crazy" mean that this country is already facing a fiscal deficit. It is indeed inappropriate to start a war with China, which in a sense is still a behemoth at this time!

    "It's a pity that time is not under his control."  On April 20, when a telegram from the Liaodong Peninsula was sent to the Prime Minister's Office, the current situation in Japan that Prime Minister Hara Kei had worked so hard to manage was gone.

    Because at around 6:35 in the morning China time, the Chinese air force attacked the Third Division stationed on the Liaodong Peninsula and the Port Arthur military port. Not only did the Third Division suffer heavy losses unprepared, but it also stopped at Hanoi and Setjin where Port Arthur was resting.  The USS battleship was also sunk on the spot during the sneak attack, and the Izumo armored cruiser also suffered heavy damage and fell silent shortly after the sneak attack group evacuated.

    In this battle, several arsenals in Japan's Liaodong Peninsula were bombed, three main battleships and armored cruisers were silenced, more than a dozen battleships suffered damage of varying sizes, the Lushun military port facilities were severely damaged, and the Lushun Fortress suffered a certain degree of damage.  It is conservatively estimated that more than 1,700 Japanese soldiers stationed on the Liaodong Peninsula were killed on the spot during the sneak attack, and countless others were injured.  Moreover, they also lost all the flight forces deployed on the Liaodong Peninsula.

    Bad news came one after another. Not long after the telegram from Liaodong came, the North Korean Governor-General also received a telegram. The Chinese sneak attack fleet also attacked the Japanese positions stationed on the south bank of the Yalu River. A series of positions on the south bank of the Yalu River in Japan were destroyed.  After a devastating blow and had to retreat to the rear, the Chinese took the opportunity to launch a cross-river battle. More than 20 years later, the Chinese Army once again landed on the Korean Peninsula.

    It is a pity that as a civilian prime minister, and he does not have close military power in his hands, his actions to suppress the army will only be used by Tanaka Giichi and other expansionists as an excuse to incite and lure young soldiers to join them in order to abandon the army.  Prime Minister Hara Kei seems too cowardly and incompetent to them.  The young officers of the army were increasingly disobeying his orders.  It also makes the Prime Minister feel more and more exhausted.  In the end, he was almost desperate, waiting for the crisis that would come sooner or later.  His only hope.  Even though the scale of this crisis is limited, it is still within his control!

    ¡°This country may not be suitable for sane people to survive now.  The four words "the whole country is crazy" mean that this country is already facing a fiscal deficit. It is indeed inappropriate to start a war with China, which in a sense is still a behemoth at this time!

    "It's a pity that time is not under his control."  On April 20, when a telegram from the Liaodong Peninsula was sent to the Prime Minister's Office, the current situation in Japan that Prime Minister Hara Kei had worked so hard to manage was gone.

    Because at around 6:35 in the morning China time, the Chinese air force attacked the Third Division stationed on the Liaodong Peninsula and the Port Arthur military port. Not only did the Third Division suffer heavy losses unprepared, but they also stopped at Hanoi and Resetin where Port Arthur was resting.  The USS battleship was also sunk on the spot during the sneak attack, and the Izumo armored cruiser also suffered heavy damage and fell silent shortly after the sneak attack group evacuated.

    In this battle, several arsenals on the Liaodong Peninsula of Japan were bombed, three main battleships and armored cruisers were silenced, more than a dozen battleships suffered damage of varying sizes, the Lushun military port facilities were severely damaged, and the Lushun Fortress suffered a certain degree of damage.  It is conservatively estimated that more than 1,700 Japanese soldiers stationed on the Liaodong Peninsula were killed on the spot during the sneak attack, and countless others were injured.  Moreover, they also lost all the flight forces deployed on the Liaodong Peninsula.

    Bad news came one after another. Not long after the telegram from Liaodong came, the North Korean Governor-General also received a telegram. The Chinese sneak attack fleet also attacked the Japanese positions stationed on the south bank of the Yalu River. A series of positions on the south bank of the Yalu River in Japan were destroyed.  After a devastating blow and having to retreat to the rear, the Chinese took the opportunity to launch a cross-river battle. More than 20 years later, the Chinese Army once again landed on the Korean Peninsula.

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