On January 11, 1902, the Japanese Expatriate Detachment supported by Helangyabo landed in Tainan. The former Japanese Yamada Federation stationed in Tainan turned against the side of the Restoration Army after the captain of the corps, Helangyabo's propaganda agency was in charge of this.
Calling an uprising.
Then the Chinese naval fleet sailed into the sea outside Keelung and shelled the Keelung fort. Then a mixed association of the Nanyang Army landed on the beach where the Japanese landed. Under such a north-south attack, the commander of the Japanese defenders in Taiwan announced his obedience to Taiwan Governor Otaro Genha.
Leader, put down your weapons.
On the same day, according to Lin Youde's instructions, Gentaro Kotaro announced the establishment of the Taiwan Interim Management Committee to perform all administrative matters and accept supervision from the Imperial Navy Department.
Lin Youde's lightning recovery of Taiwan made many people unable to sit still.
**
Beijing, Summer Palace.
"Lin Youde is lawless and ignores the court! When a war with the foreigners, the court should declare war first. Lin Youde has ignored the court twice and started the war without authorization..."
"But he won." Yuan Shikai spoke slowly and interrupted Zaize's words, which made the young Manchu nobles very dissatisfied.
In the past, Yuan Shikai would never do this, but now after the Sino-Russian War, the political structure of the Qing Dynasty has undergone fundamental changes. Yuan Shikai occupied a large tract of territory in the Northeast and completely solved the supply problem of the Beiyang Army. The Qing Dynasty
He could no longer limit his power through means such as military pay, money and food. Coupled with the threat of the revolutionary army occupants in Shandong and the fear of Lin Youde overseas, Yuan Shikai, who had heavy troops in his hand, suddenly had his position in the court.
As stable as Mount Tai.
So he already has the confidence to interrupt the speech of the young Manchu upstart.
"Lao Buddha," Yuan Shikai sat openly on a chair like other iron hat kings and said to the Queen Mother-in-law who was sitting upright in the middle of the hall, "Lin Youde just won at this time, and his reputation in the country is high. Even if he has tens of millions of things wrong, now
It is impossible to cure his sins at this point in time."
Cixi's body was already declining at this time. After Yuan Shikai finished speaking, she looked like she was about to speak, but she coughed for almost half a minute and gave all the maids and eunuchs waiting next to her to death. Then she said slowly in a weak voice:
"Then, what do you think should be done?"
"I think that the court should take advantage of the situation to declare war on Japan at this time."
"No!" Zai Ze immediately opposed loudly, "Russia has European countries eyeing it and cannot mobilize the whole country to start a war with our Qing Dynasty. We are still narrowly winning. If we start a war with Japan now, Japan will surely mobilize the whole country to start a great war with our Qing Dynasty.
Qing is the enemy, and there are still chaos in our country. Lao Fu, this battle cannot be started!"
Yuan Shikai smiled without hiding his contempt at all.
"The Japanese Navy has only two battleships left, one of which is an old ship ordered before the Sino-Japanese War. Because they are afraid of Lord Lin's naval fleet, they are afraid that they will not go to war again. Without the cover of the navy, how can Japan do its best to the whole country?
Come and have a decisive battle on land with our Qing Dynasty?"
Yuan Shikai's words made Zai Ze look unhappy. Although there are many stubborn and old antiques among the Manchu bureaucrats, there are also many brainy people. How could a guy like Zai Ze not know that Japan lost the navy and lost it in the mainland.
The forces that threaten the Qing Dynasty? But once this declares war with Japan, the Japanese army that will definitely attack North Korea. Yuan Shikai's Beiyang army is closest to him, and then he himself served as the Prime Minister of the Qing Empire in North Korea and the traditional ruling force of North Korea
There are many personal friends - although these people were suppressed by the Japanese colonial authorities and pro-Japanese factions, the centipede will not be dead, and as long as there is external force, it will not be a problem.
Therefore, once war is declared with Japan, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang army will almost be a foregone conclusion to attack North Korea, and the power of the Yuan faction will definitely increase further...
Although Lin Youde overseas is fearful, his base is far away from the capital. Yuan Shikai is a tiger close to him. From the perspective of Zaize and others, how can he sit and watch his power continue to expand?
Zai Ze was about to continue to express his objection, but Yuan Shikai took the lead in using a killer move: "When the war is not declared at this time, who can guarantee that Lin Youde will not swallow North Korea without bloodshed like he did?"
The young young men looked at each other in a row, and finally their eyes turned to the Iron Hat Kings who seemed to have made up their minds to watch the young people work hard. But no one among the Iron Hat Kings had the intention to stand out, and the huge hall fell into silence for a moment.
Finally, Cixi ended the argument with an extremely tired voice: "Declare war. Lord Yuan, you are the Minister of the Army and have fought with the Japanese in Korea. The war will be left to you."
**
Tokyo, Imperial Palace.
The atmosphere of the imperial meeting became the same as the funeral.
Emperor Ji stopped hanging down the curtain and sat directly in front of all the big guys, looking at everyone's face with sharp eyes.
At this time, a young man opened the sliding door of the conference room, and behind the door, an officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel knelt directly on the wooden corridor.
"His Royal Highness, the foreign institutions of the Four Kingdoms Society have been empty, and their subordinates are not in good condition for supervision. They deserve to be punished for death!"
Princess stared at the trembling lieutenant colonel outside the door and finally sighed: "I already know, you go down."
"but!"
"Okay, enough. Instead of blaming yourself here, it's better to think about how to be loyal to the country in the next crisis."
As he said that, Emperor Ji made a gesture, so the little surname who had been on standby at the door bowed to Emperor Ji, then closed the door, blocking the Japanese soldier who was still kneeling in the corridor with shame.
Emperor Ji glanced back and forth at the room, and finally, her eyes fell on a slightly plump lieutenant general.
"Lieutenant General Ogawa, I heard that an epidemic suddenly occurred in the Fourth Division?"
A layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on Lieutenant General Ogawa's forehead, and he replied tremblingly: "Yes, yes, the weather has been unstable recently, which has caused serious colds in the army to catch a rampant cold and there are many diseases."
Before he could finish his words, someone in the military camp muttered, "Hmph, Osaka native."
Emperor Ji didn't speak, but just stared at the Osaka people for a while, and turned his eyes to something else without any indication.
This time she looked at the god-lord Fujiwara Hime of Kasuga.
"Hi Fujiwara, what do Kasugama's opinion on the dangers of the imperial kingdom?"
"We should fight to the end with the Chinese people." Fujiwara Himeyoshi replied in a verbal manner.
"However, I received news that Kasugata sent a war wizard to confront Suwata's team near the naval arsenal in Gugang."
"Suwa Dashe and Satsuma, the two vassals of Shinshu, have been sending a wizard team to protect the safety of the factory in order to prevent Suwa Dashe from destroying the arsenal."
"Hey? Is that true?" The petite Suwa Hime suddenly spoke, "Your inference has a fatal flaw. His Highness Fujiwara Hime, that is, the navy is gone, what's the point of bombing a factory? I
I feel that Nara's vendors plan to open the city without blood, so I sent people to grab the factory and prepare to offer it to the new master. So I sent our elite Izumo to stop it."
"you!"
"Enough!" The Emperor's words contained obvious anger, "The enemy is in front of you, you are still in the mood to fight in the internal strife!"
Facing the scolding of Emperor Ji, everyone remained silent.
In fact, at this time, all the bigwigs at the imperial meeting were not ulterior motives. The defeat of the fleet was just a cause of the incitement. The seeds of the collapse of the Japanese Empire were planted as early as when the late emperor was poisoned. It has been so many years.
The momentum of the building has finally broken through the ground.
"It's all today." Emperor Ji shook her head exhausted, "I'm already tired."
**
Let me correct it first. Kuzu Hime should be a blind girl. I forgot this setting, so after she appeared recently, she wrote otl according to her vision...
It's too troublesome to change a little bit, so everyone will just watch it.