‘Bang!’

A porcelain cup was broken on the ground, and Emperor Meiji pointed at the middle-aged man crawling in front of him and roared: "You have lost all the face of the Japanese royal family! Why do you still have the face to come back! Why don't you have the caesarean section immediately!"

"Your Majesty, the reason why I survived is for the great Japanese Empire! For this reason, I will give up the glory of the royal family and leave the last chance for my great Japanese Empire!"

The middle-aged man crawled on the ground was Prince Sadaki Fushimiya who was secretly sent back to Japan by the Guards.

"All nonsense! What's for the empire? For the empire, you should kill yourself! You are obviously greedy for life and fear death!"

Fushimigu said calmly: "Yes, I can kill myself and become a virtuous person. If Your Majesty hopes, I can immediately have a caesarean section in front of you. But, what?"

Then what?

"Then, the empire continued the war with China; then, Russia occupied Hokkaido; then, the British intervened, and with the support of the British, the Chinese army landed in the state; then, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and China dismembered the empire?"

The words Fushimimiya said in a plain tone, and Meiji was speechless. "You...!"

"The conspiracy of the great powers will not succeed! The Chinese army cannot reach the territory of the empire!"

The imperial meeting held due to the return of Fushimiji Palace could not be the only two emperors Meiji and Prince Sakai. In fact, Prince Sakai's brothers, Prince Noha Kitashirakawamiya, Kuroda Kiyoshi, Saigo Congdo, Matsukata Matsukata Matsuki Kyoto, and Inoue Kin, as well as some core generals of the army, such as Obogoto, Kawamura Junyi, etc., were also participants. The ones who continued to shout were Kawamura Junyi in the base camp.

Fushimimiya stood up straight: "Oh, does anyone think that the current empire can deal with the joint military operations of the five countries?"

Hell!

Not to mention the five-state alliance, even any of them is not something that Japan can resist. Now, all the people attending the meeting know that China has joined hands with Britain to use force to force Japan to surrender in advance in order to deal with the possible expansion of Russia. As for Russia and France, isn’t the current military operations in Hokkaido already telling the problem? Moreover, Japanese officials also know that the Germans are rushing to land, and they may have arrived in India now.

"The 7th Division has resisted the Russian attack..."

"Oh? Then did Kuroda-kun deliberately ignore that the French and Russians occupied Hakodate and Muroran respectively? Indeed, the Russians seemed unable to continue to advance into Hokkaido for the time being, and the Seventh Division did gain a certain defensive advantage, but you should also know that the Russian fleet had left Muroran and headed for Vladivostok. On the merchant ships accompanying the fleet, there were weapons and equipment enough to arm 50,000 elite troops. Even if the Russians had a short population in the Far East, they would recruit 20,000 troops within three months. By that time, can the Seventh Division still defend Hokkaido?"

"The empire can recruit soldiers from the state and then transport them to Hokkaido!"

"Is that right? But how many troops in the empire still have? Five divisions and eight divisions? After splitting the last veterans of the Guard Division to form the first, second and third guard divisions, do we still have elite troops with training and well-equipped equipment?"

When Fushimiguchi said this, Meiji took a look at Prince Nokyu. Prince Sadaki had just returned to Japan and could not have known the recent changes in the Japanese army in such detail. Then the news that the Guard Division was divided into three was clearly told by the former division commander of the division, Prince Nokyu Kitashirakawa Miya.

"In order to form the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Divisions, we have split the veterans of the First and Fourth Divisions once. The newly formed divisions in the local area are probably all composed of reserves and new recruits who have never been trained, right? How much combat power can they have and whether they can withstand the army of the five countries? Don't you know in your heart?"

"Besides, even if we want to transport the army to Hokkaido, how can we transport it? Build a bridge in the Tsuguchi Strait? But don't forget that Hakodate is also in the hands of the enemy!" Fushimiji threw the joke that Yamamoto Hokage made Kawagami Kawagami Kawamura Junyoshi's joke that Yamamoto Kobe was just talking to Junyoshi Kawamura who had just spoken.

"I can tell you that in North Korea, the Qing army has gathered 100,000 six infantry divisions. At the same time, it also armed two Korean divisions and is arming the third, fourth and fifth Korean divisions. These armies are stronger in terms of training, weapons, tactics, and morale than our army. Once the British fleet is in place, the Sino-British Joint Fleet will launch an attack on our states. At that time, there will be Russia, France, China, and Britain in the north, and how will the empire resist?"

"The empire has 40 million subjects, and they cannot conquer us. We can organize a million or three million king-sustaining troops..." Some people are still dissatisfied, but this is already a very obvious statement of indignation.

"Yes, we can organize millions of young people to resist aggression, but we always have to give them weapons, right? Where are our weapons? The Empire had calculated before launching the war that we could organize up to 240,000 troops, which is the bottom line to ensure the quality and equipment of the troops. If we break the bottom line, we can arm up to 360,000 people, but the 120,000 people behind will be difficult to ensure the quality and equipment of the soldiers. Now, we have invested eleven divisions in the war against China. In Kyushu and Hokkaido, about three divisions have been restrained or consumed. Except for the Guards Division, this is our limit. Even if five new divisions are recruited, we cannot ensure the quality and equipment of the soldiers, let alone further expand to one million?"

Everyone understands the truth, but no one wants to admit failure.

"So, you came back to help the Chinese people persuade them to surrender!" Meiji said.

"Yes! I came back and persuade Your Majesty that you gave up the war. But I did not do it for China, but for the Empire! The Empire is already on the verge of life and death. Now that I give up the war, there is still a glimmer of hope. If you continue to fight, you can only be broken and the country will be destroyed! Your Majesty!"

At this moment, among the veterans who had not spoken, Saigo Congdao said, "Where is hope?"

Fushimiya took a deep breath, calmed down his emotions, and said, "If the empire agrees to give up the war, then first, the Qing Dynasty will release all prisoners of war in North Korea and will secretly help us send troops to Hokkaido. If necessary, the Qing Dynasty's fleet can even help us attack Muroran!"

This sentence is undoubtedly a bombshell, and no matter how many veterans, the land, the navy generals, and even the Emperor Meiji were moved.

"Why!"

"The Russians occupied 1.5 million square kilometers of land in the Qing Dynasty thirty years ago. These lands were once held by the Emperor of the Saint Emperor, so the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty hated the Russians even more. In addition, the British did not want the Russians to obtain a frozen port."

"Are you sure?"

"Kitaro's 3rd Division still has more than half of its combat power, and in addition, the remnants of the fourth, eighth, ninth, tenth and 11th Divisions also have more than 10,000 people. These people are now gathered in Seoul. They are unified in command by Kitaro. As long as the Empire and the Qing Kingdom reach an agreement, the Qing Kingdom fleet that is already in Incheon Port can immediately transport them to Hokkaido. And the weapons are provided by the Qing Kingdom."

This is equivalent to 20,000 elite soldiers and a fleet in vain, and no one will be unmoved.

"What does the Qing Dynasty want!" Emperor Meiji finally asked the key question.

"War compensation. 50 million pounds!"

"This is impossible!"

All taxes in Japan in a year are only more than 80 million yen, which is about 10 million pounds. It will take five years for Japan to save enough without eating or drinking!

"In addition, the Qing Dynasty promised to do its best to prevent Russia from occupying the empire's territory in this war."

"What about Kyushu?"

"It is supervised by the Qing Dynasty until the empire pays off its debts."

"The Qing Dynasty did not cede land?" What Japan lacked the most was land. It was precisely because of this that it kept hoping to occupy the mainland. For the sake of land, they could sacrifice everything!

"Yes. The Qing people thought they had enough land, so they did not want to occupy Japan's land. But the premise was that we needed to bear war reparations."

“…There are too many war reparations…”

“So we need an opportunity to negotiate…”

The imperial meeting was held until late at night.

"Everyone, is there anything else to say?" In just one day, Emperor Meiji seemed to have been old for 10 years. The cause of conquering the Qing Dynasty and dominating East Asia has become a dream of yesterday. Even Japan is like a candle in the wind. The entire Yamato nation has fallen into the abyss, without any light at all.

"Talk with the Qing Dynasty and ask for help from Britain." Inoue Kin said, "Japan's only way to live now is to end the war with the Qing Dynasty immediately, transfer the fairly complete Third Division back, and ask for help from Britain. Although Britain is very dissatisfied with Japan's surrender to Russia, there is no eternal enemy but only eternal interests. In order to prevent Russia from obtaining a frozen port, the British must also make some moves."

"What is the attitude of the British?" asked Emperor Meiji.

"The British said they were very indignant of the Russians' behavior! But at the same time, Britain said that the empire must first quickly end the state of war. Otherwise, they intervened with force to avoid the Russians from gaining more benefits." Aoki Shuzo said helplessly.

In order to curb Russia as soon as possible, the British cabinet finally decided to enhance the strength of the Qing Dynasty as soon as possible in a short period of time to better deal with Russia in the Far East. "Since Japan has fallen, let his body become a nutrient for the rise of the Qing Dynasty. The British Empire needs an existence that can curb Russia's expansion in the Far East. In addition, we must pay attention to the cooperation between the Russian Navy and the French Navy, which not only affected Russia's pace in the Far East, but also had a fatal impact on the empire's maritime interests around the world." Prime Minister William Gladstone, who was re-elected at the cabinet meeting, said with great enthusiasm.
Chapter completed!