As soon as Hitoshi Aoki finished speaking, the other cabinet ministers and elders sitting below all blushed.
But these people have been trained for many years, and they quickly put this little guilt out of their minds.
Then these powerful people looked at Hitoshi Aoki with gloating eyes, thinking in their hearts, let's see what this kid is capable of.
The king sitting at the top had clearly seen the situation below, and he was very disappointed with the performance of the ministers.
At the same time, the thought of being alone arose in my heart. It seemed that the people around me were loyal to me. But these foreign ministers, like Aoki Hitoshi said, were selfish and could not fully serve themselves.
The king thought of this and made up his mind. Since you old guys have selfish motives and don't want to contribute, then I will use my own people.
So he happily said to Hitoshi Aoki who was kneeling below: "Ai Qing is indeed loyal and brave! In this case, I will now appoint you as Minister of Defense, with full responsibility for the defense of the country."
"Hey, I will definitely live up to His Majesty the King's trust. If you don't succeed, you will be benevolent."
And Itto Hirobumi, who was sitting below, was a little dissatisfied when he saw this situation. Didn't the king deprive the army and navy of their military power at once?
So Ito Hirobumi stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Hitoshi Aoki is responsible for the important task of defending the country. I agree with him. However, if he is fully responsible for the defense of the country, it has completely bypassed the army and navy. This is somewhat inappropriate.
I think it would be better if Jinshi Aoki, the Prime Minister of the Navy, and the Prime Minister of the Army form a joint staff, what is your Majesty's opinion?"
After listening to Hirobumi Ito's words, the king thought for a moment. What Hirobumi said was very reasonable. If he insists on going his own way and deprives the Ministry of War and Navy of their power, I am afraid that the ministers below will not agree.
And another problem is that Hitoshi Aoki has no combat experience. If he rashly commands the national army, he may be self-defeating in the end.
"What Itto-san said makes sense. In this case, Aoki Hitoshi, the Navy Minister, and the Army Minister will form a joint staff headquarters, with Aoki Hitoshi as the Chief of Staff, and the Army Minister and the Navy Minister as the Deputy Chief of Staff, to jointly command this Qing invasion.
"
After saying these words, the king didn't want to stay here anymore. Today's meeting made him very disappointed. At the same time, he saw clearly the true face of these senators.
After the king left, Hirobumi Itto looked at Hitoshi Aoki, who was still kneeling there, and then left the conference room without saying a word.
The remaining elders and cabinet members also left separately, and no one spoke to Hitoshi Aoki.
After all these people left, Hitoshi Aoki stood up. He was very disdainful of those old guys. On the surface, these people seemed to be loyal to the king, but in fact they had many evil ideas in their hearts.
In this way, Hitoshi Aoki became the chief of staff of the General Staff Headquarters. In terms of power, he can almost be said to control all the military power in the entire country.
But in reality, he is just a lonely man, and the leaders under the army don't take him seriously at all.
This situation was vividly reflected in the staff headquarters meeting on the second day.
In this meeting of the General Staff Headquarters, not only Hitoshi Aoki personally participated, but also the land minister Ozanyan and the marine minister Kazuyama Shiki.
In addition to the three giants, there are also some small heads from the War Department and the Navy Department.
Hitoshi Aoki was sitting in the middle, high-spirited. When he saw everyone had arrived, he immediately said: "Now, under the order of the king, I am fully responsible for external defense. I hope that you will unite sincerely and do your best to protect the country from invasion."
contribute."
After Hitoshi Aoki finished speaking, he did not hear the voices of agreement from the big and small bosses below.
When he looked down, he saw only these people, all of whom looked at their noses and mouths without saying a word, thinking that he was a transparent person.
Although Aoki Hitoshi had already guessed that there might be some obstacles for him to serve as the Minister of Defense this time, he did not expect that the people below him would actually look at him and openly despise him.
Hitoshi Aoki was angry in his heart, but he did not express it. Instead, he said to Army Xiang Oyamayan who was sitting aside: "Your Excellency, Minister of Army, the situation is very critical now. We should unite sincerely. I hope you can help me overcome this difficulty."
Dashanyan was silent for a long time after hearing this. Although he was not satisfied with the king appointing this young boy as his boss, it was really critical now.
Dashanyan still has some hope in his heart that he can use his own strength to force Liu Hai to the negotiating table and try to save some vitality for the country.
So Dashanyan said: "We at the Army Department will completely obey your orders."
Hitoshi Aoki, seeing Prime Minister Lu expressing his stance, moved his eyes to Navy Prime Minister Shiki Kawasaki, who was sitting on the other side.
But the Navy Minister sat there with his eyes closed and said nothing.
Hitoshi Aoki really has no choice now but to directly discuss with Army Minister Oyama Iwa how to deal with Liu Hai.
"Liu Hai is leading the landing force this time. The number must be quite large. Moreover, our country is surrounded by sea and our defense force is very small. I wonder what your Excellency, Dashanyan, can do?"
After listening to this, Army Minister Oyamayan carefully considered the current situation. After silently analyzing the current strength of his side, he also scratched his head. Finally, he reluctantly said: "Now the only remaining military force in the country is the Imperial Guard Division.
It can be moved, but it cannot be dropped anywhere else."
Hitoshi Aoki was very loyal to the king, and Oyamayan's words just touched his mind, so Hitoshi Aoki nodded repeatedly.
Then Dashanyan continued: "If this is the case, we can only urgently summon the soldiers in the countryside and organize all these reserves. Since we don't know where Liu Hai will land specifically, these people can be divided into several groups to disperse them.
Everywhere on Honshu Island.”
Although Hitoshi Aoki said that he is now the Minister of Defense, he is really not good at military matters, but he also heard the loopholes in Oyama Iwa's arrangement.
"Your Excellency Dashanyan, if this is the case, by the time each group discovers the landing troops, I am afraid that the other party has already established a complete landing point. With the other party's advanced weapons, our reserves may not be enough to stop them."
After Oyamayan listened, he looked Aoki Hitoshi up and down. This person is still thinking about blocking the opponent from the country. He is simply too naive. Does he really want to use these mobs to resist Liu Hai's big attack?
caliber naval gun?
However, when the country was in crisis again, he still chose to explain to him, "Due to the lack of weapons and ammunition in our army, to be honest, we can't organize any decent counterattack at all. In addition, we don't know where the opponent will land.
We can first send a force to suppress the opponent at the landing point after landing, and then use our developed transportation system to assemble all military forces to launch a fierce attack on it, hoping to use the human sea tactic to drive the opponent into the sea.
go."
Upon hearing this, Hitoshi Aoki understood what Oyamayan meant. He wanted to use the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people to gain a chance to negotiate with Liu Hai.
What could Hitoshi Aoki do in this state? So he could only nodded silently, agreeing to Oyama Iwa's plan.
As for the subsequent implementation, Hitoshi Aoki could not get involved, and the plan ultimately fell on Oyama Iwa.
That night, Hirofumi Itto secretly came to Oyamayan's mansion and asked him about the content of this meeting of the General Staff Headquarters.
Dashanyan did not delay, and highlighted all the contents and details of this battle.
After hearing this, Itō Hirobumi was silent for a long time, and finally said: "If this is the case, Oyamayan, you will probably be purged after the war. By then, neither Liu Hai nor the king will tolerate you living anymore.
In the world."
Dashanyan smiled boldly, "I also know that I will become the king's scapegoat. Otherwise, who will be responsible for the death and injury of so many soldiers? And Liu Hai will definitely hold a grudge against me for ruining his plan, and he will not
Let me live in the world."
Itto Hirobumi was speechless looking at such a large mountain rock. Finally, he bowed deeply to the large mountain rock and left his mansion silently.
Starting from the second day, as the orders from the General Staff Headquarters were conveyed to all places, the whole country began to boil.
Domestic soldiers in the countryside began to gather in various cities. In addition to these soldiers in the countryside, many young people also began to spontaneously organize death squads, preparing to participate in blocking enemy landings.
And this time the government tried its best to move out all the weapons in stock, whether they were muzzleloaders or flintlock guns, and distributed them all into the hands of these people. If that was not enough, they used bamboo grass and tachi.
In this way, a huge counterattack force of more than 1 million people was organized, ready to enter the battlefield at any time.
On Liu Hai's side, since more than 100,000 people had to be transported, the few transport ships Liu Hai had were simply not enough. In order to solve the transportation problem, Liu Hai sent people to transport companies in Shanghai from various European countries for several days.
As a result, these transportation companies all rejected Liu Hai's request as if they had received some instructions.
Liu Hai was no longer the young boy he had been before. He immediately knew that the foreigners in these companies must have received instructions from the country, so they did not accept his deal.
Liu Hai was really numb at this point. Although he was planning to land in the enemy's country, there was no transport ship to transport the soldiers there, so there was nothing he could do.
Liu Hai's needle-nosed mind has already kept all these foreign companies in mind, and he is waiting to make them look good after this is over.
But the most important thing now is to get a transport ship. Liu Hai thought about it, and it seems that he has to ask for help from modern time and space. With the powerful transportation capacity of that time and space, not to mention 150,000 people, even 1.5 million people can easily transport 1.5 million people.
go.
Although I felt a little embarrassed to ask Zhang Tao for help every time I had difficulties, it was so important to the overall situation that Liu Hai didn't care about his own face.