Chapter 457 One Dad or a Group of Dads
Amur and Japan have had a long-standing dispute over the Hokkaido fisheries. After the combined fleet was annihilated, the Hokkaido fisheries have been completely occupied by Amur fishermen.
It was not only the Hokkaido fisheries that were recovered by Amur, but also the Kuril Islands.
In 1875, Japan and Russia signed the "Exchange Treaty between Huatai and the Northern Kuril Islands" in St. Petersburg. Japan exchanged the sovereignty of Sakhalin Island for the sovereignty of the Kuril Islands and fishing in the Sea of Okhotsk. rights, as well as ten years of free use of surrounding Russian ports.
During the Russo-Japanese War, Japan invaded Sakhalin Island and obtained the southern part of Sakhalin Island through the Treaty of Portsmouth, achieving a great victory.
Now, when George regained Sakhalin Island, he also took back the Thousand Islands, which is natural and natural.
When Komura Jutaro and Werther signed the Treaty of Portsmouth, it did not involve Goryeo, giving George an excuse to restart the war.
This time, Jutaro Komura was wiser and agreed to return the southern part of Sakhalin Island to the Russian Empire and at the same time requested the Far East Military District to withdraw its troops from the Kuril Islands.
"Have you not understood the situation? Are you still qualified to make demands?"
Mikhail is aggressive and brings the Russian tradition into full play.
How to say it——
The tradition of the Russian Empire is to rely on three points regardless of reason.
Now Mikhail has the advantage over me. He has not asked Japan to cede Nagasaki to the Russian Empire, which is considered very restrained.
Although Mikhail did not ask Japan to cede Nagasaki to the Russian Empire, Mikhail asked Japan to lease Nagasaki to the Siberian Fleet for 99 years.
This is not over yet.
After the expiration of 1999, if the Siberian Fleet is willing to lease, Japan cannot refuse.
This condition aroused strong opposition from Jutaro Komura and Gray.
“Shut up!”
Mikhail pointed the finger directly at Gray.
"Remember your identity! You are the mediator, you are not qualified to speak here!"
Mikhail didn't give Gray any face.
What’s wrong with the British Foreign Secretary? Others are afraid of Gray, but Mikhail is not!
How can you be the foreign minister if you can't even stand this anger?
When Britain was strong, it was a provocation for British beggars to be looked at twice in other countries.
Now even if Gray is pointed at and scolded by Mikhail, Britain will not fall out with the Russian Empire because of this matter.
Barbarians——
You can’t be like them.
Mikhail also has confidence.
The Opium War Britain leased Xiangjiang for 99 years. If the Qing Empire did not agree, it would continue to fight.
What's the matter, it won't work here in the Russian Empire.
Who is not a great power?
While Mikhail was negotiating, George was still mobilizing troops and moving Russian troops in the Far East in batches to Busan, across the sea from Nagasaki.
The Goryeo army is replenishing its troops and recuperating.
The Siberian Fleet is practicing landing operations.
This is clearly an attempt to use negotiations to gain time for adjustment of deployment.
What Gray is worried about now is whether George will restart the incident once the Russian troops in the Far East have adjusted.
It would be okay if it was just a threat.
What if it is true!
It is impossible for Britain to mobilize 450,000 troops from its colonies around the world to help Japan fight a completely hopeless war.
The British were too late, George would not give the British time to mobilize their troops.
The first day of negotiations went nowhere.
In the evening, representatives from various countries showed off their magical powers. Dewey asked Mikhail and Gray asked Jutaro Komura to do their work respectively.
Kasav, who once served as the president of the Vladivostok Chamber of Commerce in Nagasaki, hosted a banquet at his home for Ichiro Shiga, a member of the Japanese negotiating team.
The Siberian Fleet is in the Nagasaki Concession, which is the land of the Shiga family.
In Nagasaki, Kassav and Ichiro Shiga had many contacts, and they were quite close.
After the Russo-Japanese War began, Kassaf also received help from Ichiro Shiga when he left Japan.
Both in terms of emotion and reason, Kassaf should express his gratitude to Ichiro Shiga.
Kassaf’s home is next to Peter the Great Bay. When Ichiro Shiga went to the banquet, he carefully prepared gifts for Kassaf.
"My friend, it's nice to see you again, you look good."
Kasav gave Ichiro Shiga a big hug.
"It's not as good as it looks -"
Shiga Ichiro's face was full of bitterness, and he couldn't squeeze out a smile.
“No matter how difficult life is, life must go on.”
Kasav advised Ichiro Shiga to be more open-minded.
Shiga Ichiro smiled bitterly, it turned out that the so-called rise of the empire was just a dream after all.
The Sino-Japanese War and the Xinchou War gave the Japanese an illusion, as if Japan had really left Asia and joined Europe and became part of the great powers.
Reality is so cruel. It is better not to give hope at all from the beginning than to be slapped with cold water when your dream is about to come true.
“I’m really happy that in the near future, we can drink and sing together in Nagasaki again.”
Kasav is not a member of the negotiating team and does not know the progress of the negotiations.
“Those days may be gone forever——”
Shiga Ichiro was extremely conflicted. Russians are certainly not good people.
Is Britain a good person?
In the past, the Japanese lived a miserable life and took pleasure in their misery, but at least they could survive.
In order to curb the expansion of the Russian Empire in East Asia, Britain provoked Japan's ambitions and armed Japan. This led to a series of wars since the Sino-Japanese War.
So it’s not a good thing!
Kasav is not entangled.
If flies don’t bite seamless eggs, why didn’t Britain arm Goryeo?
If Japan keeps to itself, it will not be provoked by Britain at all.
Since you have chosen to be Britain’s loser, you must accept the current results and be willing to admit defeat.
Learn from the Russian Empire. A defeat is a defeat. You cannot be like a certain ally of the Russian Empire who is complacent after winning.
“Aren’t you good students of the Qing Empire——”
Kasav’s words made Ichiro Shiga change his face.
Before Ichiro Shiga had time to refute, he was blocked by Kasav's next sentence.
“——Learn how the Qing Empire used barbarians to control barbarians!”
The Qing Empire's use of barbarians to fight barbarians was not counterattack. The Qing Empire did not have that ability.
The Qing Empire's use of barbarians to "control" barbarians was a check and balance. Otherwise, like India, the Qing Empire would inevitably become a colony of a certain country.
The problem in Japan now is whether it wants one father, two fathers, or even many fathers.
Although this may not sound pleasant, good medicine is bitter in the mouth and good for the disease, and good advice is hard on the ears but good for action. Whether we want a colony or a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society does not need to be considered at all.
As for Shiga Ichiro's specific interests, it seems that there is no need to consider whether he will become a taboo for Britain or a tool of governance for the great powers.
Shiga Ichiro couldn't sit still immediately, and there was grass growing in his heart.
Dewey went to Mikhail not to discuss Japan, but to discuss cooperation between the Philippines and the East Indies.
Through the Spanish-American War, the United States captured the Philippines from Spain, officially replacing Spain and becoming part of the East Asian powers.
The Philippines has been ruled by Spain for 300 years, and there has been no improvement either economically or militarily. In the eyes of the Americans, this is entirely due to the incompetence of the Spanish. If the United States were to rule the Philippines, then the Philippines would at least become the next country under the rule of Spain. A Lion City.
If you are not a householder, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are.
After the United States took over the Philippines, it realized how big a trap the Philippines was.
No matter how much mud is stirred up, it cannot stick to the wall.
The Philippines is rich in products, so Filipinos do not need to work hard to survive.
Just living, no quality at all.
The purpose of the United States in seizing the Philippines is definitely not to rescue the Filipinos from the clutches of Spanish colonial rule, but for profit.
The Spanish-American War broke out in 1898 and ended that year. In October, the United States and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris, and Spain sold the Philippines to the United States.
From October 1898 to the present, more than 7 years have passed. Compared with the Philippines under Spanish rule, the Philippines under American rule has not changed at all——
This is not correct either. .
During the Spanish-American War, the United States offered the independence of the Philippines in exchange for help from the Filipinos. This was done by Dewey himself.
After the Spanish-American War, the Americans broke their promises and established a colonial government to rule the Philippines.
The Philippines, like Japan, was poured a basin of ice water back into reality when its dream was about to come true.
So now in the Philippines, rebels are rising one after another, the US military is exhausted, and more and more expenditures are being spent on suppression.
As the center of American colonial rule in the Philippines, Manila's situation is slightly better, but the Filipinos also have ways to cause headaches for the Americans.
During the Spanish-American War, the Spanish fleet was completely wiped out, and two of the ships sank in the Manila port, posing a certain threat to ships entering and exiting. This matter was also handled by Dewey.
The Philippine colonial government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fish out these two ships and clean up the waterway.
The two ships have not yet been fished out.
East India became George's private territory after the United States acquired the Philippines.
Now that East India is prospering under George's rule, the Philippines has made no progress, so Dewey sincerely asked Mikhail for advice.
"Expect Filipinos to build the Philippines? Are you drunk too much?"
Mikhail laughed loudly, the same is Angsa, why are you red necks so naive.
"The people who built the railway in East India were Japanese, and the people who supervised the work of the Japanese were Koreans, that's why it was so efficient."
Mikhail didn't mention the East Indians, but he died in the indigenous war. Light.
Dewey was eye-opening to the Russian Empire’s version of the war on foreigners.
“Our rule in East India also faces many threats. If these threats are not eliminated, then we will not be able to focus all our energy on construction.”
Mikhail’s words, Success aroused Dewey's thoughts.
There is no need to name who is the threat in Asia. Both Mikhail and Dewey know it well.
The Philippines has no industrial capacity.
So where did the weapons of the Philippine rebels come from?
It couldn’t have grown on its own in the tropical rainforest.
On this issue, Mikhail has something to say.
During the indigenous war in Kalimantan, British standard weapons were discovered.
(End of this chapter)