Big Boss Yang's connection quickly ended. After getting the unanimous consent of Britain and Germany, the guy returned to Tokyo and arrogantly summoned Mutsu Munemitsu, and then read out the new draft of the Tokyo Treaty to him.
“First, Japan unconditionally withdraws its troops from North Korea and pledges not to engage in any form of aggression against North Korea. In addition, Japan sends a member of the royal family at the prince level to North Korea to apologize to the royal family and people, and publicly pays homage to Concubine Min’s mausoleum to compensate the North Korean people.
Economic and moral damages shall be one million pounds, or its equivalent in other national currencies, excluding Japanese yen.
Second, the Japanese government publicly apologized to the family of the murdered Ms. Sun Ze and compensated her for mental losses of 100,000 pounds.
Third, the Japanese royal family must send a member of the royal family to the Vatican to publicly apologize to His Majesty the Pope for the Shimabara religious mystery massacre and the killing of the saint Shiro Inaba. In addition, he must pay tribute to Shiro Shiro and his martyrdom in Shimabara Castle.
Congregants build monuments.
Fourth, compensation of 20 million pounds for the military expenses of the twelve-nation coalition forces participating in the punitive actions against Japan, except Russia, must be paid before the withdrawal.
Fifth, lease the main part of Kyushu Island south of the 32:7 parallel north latitude, including all attached peninsulas, to Germany for a term of ninety-nine years, of which the Kagoshima lease term is one hundred and ninety-nine years, with a rent of one year per year.
Thousand marks.
Sixth, cede all the islands south of the thirty-nine parallel north latitude to Ryukyu as compensation for the barbaric imprisonment of King Shangtai and the crown prince for more than ten years.
Seventh, restore consular jurisdiction.
Your country has no power to negotiate on any of these seven articles. You can only say yes or no. If you do not agree to any of them, then the coalition forces will cooperate with the Russian army to continue this war until Japan is destroyed." Yang Feng stood up with an arrogant look on his face.
Looking down at Luo Zongguang, he said.
Mutsu Munemitsu glanced at this shameless devil with sorrow and indignation, but he also knew that the Japanese government was really not qualified to negotiate now. The second batch of Russian troops had landed, and Hirosaki was in danger. And the Russian troops in Akita were marching towards Daisen. They
The target is obviously Morioka. If you take Morioka, you can go directly south to Sendai. Now Japan has reached a critical juncture of life and death. The troops stationed in Korea are blocked by the Qing army from the north and the south. The only way to retreat is Wonsan Port.
But the Russian fleet will easily sink them in the sea. The remaining warships of the United Fleet are still blocked in Busan Port by the British Far East Fleet in the name of mediating the Eight-Power Allied Forces' war to punish Japan. Of course, even if they come out, they will not be able to fight against the Russian fleet.
The only way to solve the crisis now is to send this group of bandits away as soon as possible, and then go all out to expel the other bandit. In fact, Ito Hirobumi had already told him helplessly before coming, no matter what Yang Feng asked. Now the only choice is to agree
This is a choice.
But if he agreed, Japan would also be finished. After twenty years of hard work, everything was brought back to its original state. He was really unwilling to accept it. When he thought of this, Mutsu Munemitsu couldn't help but want to bite the devil in front of him. Everything was ruined.
This guy did it, but now the whole of Japan has to continue to endure his humiliation.
As if feeling the overwhelming resentment emanating from him, Boss Yang quickly pulled a black bodyguard to his side. Then he pressed his little heart and continued arrogantly: "Your Excellency, Foreign Minister, in fact,
You should understand very well that you have no other choice. Accepting these conditions is equivalent to cutting off a limb, but if you do not accept these conditions, you will not even be able to save your life. I think you should also be very clear about the attitude of the Russians towards the conquered lands during their expansion.
, what they did in the Far East was to drive the Chinese directly into the river and drown them collectively. If they occupied Japan and to be honest, if half of your 40 million people could be left, then I, Yang Feng, would definitely admit that I was blind.
Besides, Kyushu is just a lease, and it will be returned to you when the time comes. Moreover, the Germans are completely different from Russia in terms of character, and your people will not be treated too harshly. I even think this is a good thing for you. Let
You have an additional bridge to connect with Europe.
The cession of Tanegashima and other islands is even less worth mentioning. To put it bluntly, this world is about strength. If you defeat Russia and develop in a few years to surpass China in strength, then you can even seize Ryukyu or even Taiwan.
If you go, it can only be said that you have the ability. On the contrary, if these islands are in your hands, if they are not ceded to Ryukyu today, they may have to be ceded to others tomorrow. You see, the world is actually very simple. Don't take some treaties and so on so seriously.
As for the compensation of 20 million pounds, I know that your country will definitely not be able to pay it out at once, but it can be a loan. I can tell you clearly that these terms were negotiated between us and the British. Why do we only need half of Kyushu? Because that half
One is reserved for the British. This is the condition for the British to lend you money.
By signing this treaty, you will not only be able to escape to defend your motherland, but you will also get external help again. For example, for the tens of thousands of your elites in North Korea, we can guarantee your safe withdrawal, otherwise you will have to rely on your own
, don’t ever count on this. Of course, the premise is that you have to cease war with China. I do not represent the Chinese government, including the generals under me, nor do they represent the Chinese government, but this should not be difficult for you to do.
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In addition, don’t you lack weapons? We can sell them to you, but of course you need to pay. If you don’t have money, countries such as Britain, Germany and the United States can provide you with certain loans. Of course, you need to exchange them for suitable things. These are
It’s not what we need to worry about now.”
At this time, Mutsu finally understood that together with you gangsters, they wanted to get the benefits, and then hid aside to watch the fun, and let us go and kill the Russians in a bloody river, but even if he understood this, he had nothing else
Choice, Nikolai's current goal is obviously to destroy Japan. If he wants to keep his country, he must cooperate with these bandits.
After he took the draft treaty back, the Japanese cabinet finally passed it with difficulty after some discussions. Then Mutsu Munemitsu signed the Tokyo Treaty on behalf of the Japanese government. Representatives of the coalition forces besides Russia also signed one after another. Although this
This behavior was protested by the Russians, but it was obviously useless. Besides, they didn't care about it now. The Russians never relied on treaties to get things, they relied on their own fists.
Immediately afterwards, the Japanese government and the British government signed a loan agreement, in exchange for leasing the remaining part of Kyushu Island to the United Kingdom, in exchange for the British government providing a loan of 30 million pounds, using Japan's customs duties as collateral, with an annual interest rate of 4% and a rolling interest rate.
Li, of the 30 million, 20 million are compensation to the coalition forces, and the other 10 million are military expenditures to purchase weapons to resist Russian aggression.
In fact, the Japanese want to borrow 50 million, but unfortunately the British are not willing to take on this business. If Japan loses the war and Russia is destroyed, it is obvious that the Russians will not repay this loan for them. What is left on Kyushu Island
That half is worth 30 million. As for Japan's performance in the future, if they play well, it will not be too late to invest more. But for this, no matter the British, Japanese or even Yang Feng
I am confident enough. The bravery of the Japanese has been noticed by all countries in this war. To be honest, they can do things like charging with explosives. There are not many people in the world who can reach this level. Give them
Equipped with similar weapons, they should still be able to protect their homeland. It's just more dead people. You have to remember that they have a population of 40 million.
What's left is an armistice between China and Japan. This has nothing to do with Yang Feng. They can solve it themselves. With the British and Germans suppressing it together, Cixi probably won't want to continue the war.
The most important thing for Yang Feng now is to divide the spoils.
Although twenty million pounds is a lot of money, it is not much for several companies. Fortunately, excluding the Russians has already gone a long way. The two achievements promised to Li Hongzhang are four million. According to the current price of silver, it is almost two.
More than ten million taels of silver, this was a truly huge sum of money. As for how he would divide it among Yuan Shikai, Xu Bangdao, and Jiang Zikang, that was not Yang Feng's concern.
The Germans got six million pounds alone, and Yang Feng also got six million pounds, but he needed to share it with Song Qing. Of the remaining four million pounds, North Korea and the Ryukyu family would be able to kill them with only 100,000 pounds, and give Sweden and Turkey 400,000 pounds.
Of the remaining three million, the United States was the first to send troops and officially participated in the battle, so it got one million. Others who came to make soy sauce and never even fired cannons got the two million. To them, these are just
It's already pretty good, but you have to know that even if all their warships are added together, they may not be worth two million pounds, especially when two poor men like the Netherlands and Spain actually get wooden cruisers.
After the compensation was divided, there was still robbery income. At this time, Xue Fucheng and the German logistics personnel who stayed behind had already calculated the income from looting in various places in Japan. Among them, Yang Feng's income from Osaka belonged entirely to Yang Feng, which was worth almost three million pounds.
, the income in Sendai is about 1 million pounds, but part of it needs to be allocated to Song Qing, and the other is the income of the coalition forces in Tokyo, which is 6 million pounds. It is not that Osaka is not as rich as Tokyo, mainly because of the looting in Tokyo
They are more careful, especially those from the Imperial Palace of Japan, the Ministry of Finance, and major banks.
As for the sum in other cities, it is almost 3 million pounds. However, military expenditures need to be deducted from the 9 million pounds, and 5 million were deducted at once. All 5 million of these 5 million were made by Zhang Zhidong and the local businessmen in Taiwan.
The remaining four million will be distributed according to the proportion of the compensation, so everyone is happy. For a time, Boss Yang’s reputation for justice and Bo Yuntian is world-famous. (To be continued...)