Chapter 197 War Dividend

Liu Shuying walked into the hall and Yao Xi scolded, "The grand year of the dog day, give us a female tiger. I'm afraid our eldest brother's life will be difficult."

Guo Erbar shook his head: "Brother Yao, what are you talking about? This lady is a fake lady. May she really dare to care about our teacher?"

"I think this tigress just wants to take care of our teacher!" Yao Xi sighed, "Our eldest brother is a diamond king. The women are crying and shouting to be his wife. If only Jin Shu's girl is alive. If our eldest brother marries Jin Shu, we as younger brothers will also enjoy happiness. If the eldest brother doesn't notice it for a moment and marries a female tiger to enter the door, our life will be sad."

Liu Shuying entered the hall, lit a incense, inserted it in front of the shrine, and then knelt on the futon and looked left and right, but saw the old Taoist priest standing aside and waiting carefully. Liu Shuying pulled down her face: "People say, women's heart undersea needle, you stand beside me, how can I talk to the great god?"

The old Taoist priest hurriedly withdrew from the hall and stood far away at the door of the temple.

Liu Shuying then kowtowed three heads respectfully at the statue, put her hands together, and prayed in a low voice: "The little woman Liu Shuying begged the god to bless my husband Zhou Charter for a safe journey and bless the little woman to make the fake. The little woman did not ask to be his wife. The little woman heard that there was someone in his heart. The little woman dares not be jealous of the person in his heart. She just wants to be able to make a partial house. However, the partial room should not be too biased. It's better to be the second. If the second can't do it, it's the third. If the third can't do it, it's the fourth, at least in the top five..."

As Yao Xi expected, Liu Shuying really came up with the idea of being Zhou Charter's aunt.

Cui Daoyi and Zhou Charter sat under a plum tree and gossiped. Cui Daoyi arched his hand and said, "Congratulations to the Prime Minister for getting a good couple."

Zhou Charter laughed and said, "The Taoist priest is a sincere person, and Zhou will not lie. This lady is a fake wife. It is a little inconvenient for Zhou to return to China to do business, so he pretends to be a businessman and acts slightly. This is also a last resort. Please ask the Taoist priest to keep his mouth shut."

Cui Dao smiled and said, "Don't worry, my lord. I said, I heard that there is a girl hidden in the heart of the prime minister, and other girls don't pay attention to it. How can there be a wife so soon? I take the liberty to ask, who is the girl in the adult's heart? It's really blessed to be blessed to be favored by the adults.

Zhou Charter sighed: "But she is not blessed! Speaking of which, I'm not blessed!"

Zhou Charter said, taking out the fairy from his chest. He hung the fairy around his neck and hid it against his chest. That feeling is like holding Jin Shu all the time.

Cui Dao took the fairy and held it in his hand for a moment. "Oh," he said, "I seem to have seen this girl somewhere."

Zhou Charter sighed, "The Taoist priest should not have seen her. She has passed away." Zhou Charter briefly explained Jin Shu's life.

Cui Dao sighed, "It turned out to be Mr. Jin's daughter. She was really beautiful... I remembered last month. Among the group of embarrassing people who came to Xuanwuguan with Master Kongming, there was the woman dressed as a man, who looked very similar to the little statue of the fairy.

"The Taoist priest is mistaken, isn't he?"

Cui Dao looked at the fairy carefully and shook his head and said, "Maybe I've read it wrong, but the woman dressed as a man is indeed a bit like this little statue, but the man's face is covered with carbon ash and he can't see it clearly."

Zhou Charter's heart thumped and then shook his head: "There are many people with similar looks in the world."

"Yes," Cui Dao nod: "Adults are affectionate and righteous, and never forget Jin Shu. However, in decades of life, adults still have to plan more for themselves."

Zhou Charter was speechless.

People say that time can forget everything, but Zhou Charter seems to never forget Jin Shu.

After a while, Liu Yingshu finished praying and left the hall. Zhou Charter put the fairy A close to her body and said goodbye to Cui. The group came out of the Xuanwu Temple and headed north.

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Since the war, the situation between the Qing Dynasty and Japan has been staggered. The Japanese army has set foot on the mainland of the Qing Dynasty and occupied the vast area of the Liaodong Peninsula. The joint fleet shined in Bohai Bay, and the sword pointed straight to the Shandong Peninsula. In North Korea, the Japanese army suffered a failure and retreated from the Linjin River, and the Qing army controlled half of North Korea.

Overall, the Japanese army burned the war to the mainland of the Qing Dynasty and still occupied the dominance of the war. Ordinary people in Japan did not know that the mixed brigade was completely destroyed in northern North Korea. The government interpreted the retreat of the Japanese army in North Korea as taking the initiative to withdraw and concentrate its troops to launch an attack on the mainland of the Qing Dynasty. The Japanese people were overjoyed, the people enthusiastically donated money, and the young and middle-aged people enthusiastically signed up to join the army.

And the Western powers also have an almost identical understanding of the outcome of this war - Japan will win. The victory of the Qing army in North Korea could not make up for the defeat of the Qing Dynasty on all fronts.

This understanding was even accepted by the people of the Qing Dynasty. Contrary to the rising mood of the Japanese people, in Shandong, from governors to ordinary people, there is a pessimism and war-weariness, and the tragedy of Lushun has further exacerbated the people's panic. In Weihai, the people have already fled. Jinan has three police officers a day, and commercial activities have stopped completely. If there is a slight wind blowing, it will cause the whole city. In the panic, the people rushed out of the gate with the old and the young. As a result, before the Japanese army came, there were many casualties caused by trampling.

In Hiroshima, Japan, a new expeditionary force was formed and ready to go.

This is the Japanese Third Army. The government announced to the public the mission of the Third Army - to cross the sea to Shandong to reinforce the Second Army.

However, on the combat map of the base camp, the arrow of the Third Army refers to Taiwan, the island in the southeastern part of the Qing Dynasty!

For Japan, defeating the Qing Dynasty is not the goal of Japan's war. War is not the purpose. The so-called victory is not how many enemies have been destroyed and how many land they have occupied. The ultimate goal of war is to obtain the resources needed for survival.

Japan has never thought of subverting the Qing court, a conservative and rotten China. The government is in line with Japan's interests, and Japan's idea coincides with the ideas of the Western powers.

So, when the war was about to become clear, the base camp began to think about how to enjoy the dividends of the war.

Japan has firmly controlled Liaodong, and Shandong is also at your fingertips. However, as a maritime country, Japan prefers to obtain Taiwan, a vast island, which is not only rich in products and suitable for climate, but also guards the South China Sea. It is a natural fortress for Japan to enter the South China Sea and west into the Indian Ocean.

Taiwan is more in line with Japan's strategic interests than Shandong and Liaodong!

The Third Army gathered in Hiroshima and pointed to Taiwan. However, the base camp is cautious about sending troops to Taiwan. The Japanese government knows that it is not only Japan that covet Taiwan, but also the Western powers stare at Taiwan.

Historically, the Dutch once controlled Taiwan. In the 19th century, the French also caught Taiwan, but they were strongly resisted by the local people and did not succeed. If the Japanese forcibly capture Taiwan, the Western powers are likely to react strongly and may even stand on the side of the Qing Dynasty to fight against Japan. Anyway, Japan, which has just embarked on the road of becoming a powerful country, does not yet have the confidence to win against the Western powers.

For Taiwan, the base camp has formulated a strategy of political solution first, supplemented by means of war

The best result is that the Japanese troops came to Beijing and forced the Qing Dynasty to sign the alliance under the city and cede Taiwan to Japan, thus completing Taiwan's peaceful transition. In this way, the Western powers have nothing to say.

If this plan fails, the base camp will consider sending a third army to attack Taiwan by force.

In order to ensure a political solution to Taiwan, Japan must control the war within a controllable range, not only to defeat the Qing Dynasty, but also to avoid the collapse of the Qing Dynasty's court due to defeat. This is a delicate technical work that requires front-line commanders to deeply understand the intention of the base camp and thoroughly implement it in combat operations.

For Dashanyan, the commander of the Second Army, who is about to launch the Shandong Campaign, it is quite difficult to accurately grasp the intention of the base camp. The war machine is a fierce beast that is difficult to control. Once this fierce beast comes out of the cage, the driver can only let it go. Just like Lushun, when the first division under the Second Army attacked Lushun, Dashanyan, as the commander, attacked the Japanese army. OK, there is nothing we can do.

In Seoul, it is relatively easier for the commander of the First Army. In fact, North Korea entered a state of truce. For whatever reason, the Japanese army acquiesced to Zhou Charter's occupation of northern North Korea. Nozu Michitsu completely gave up his intention to advance north, and the means of war withdrew from the scope of consideration, and politics prevailed.

Nozu Daoguan took an tacit attitude towards Pyongyang. He ordered to reduce the Japanese troops stationed in the Linjin River and withdraw the main force to the front line of the Han River.

The two sides of the war have a tacit understanding. After the Japanese army reduced the garrison of the Linjin River, Zhou Charter ordered the 5th Regiment stationed in the Linjin River to retreat 30 kilometers.

In this way, the two sides announced that the Korean battlefield has entered a state of silence.

In this case, there was a peaceful scene in North Korea, especially in the north of North Korea controlled by Zhang Jun. The people lived and worked peacefully, and the war seemed to have disappeared.

When the Japanese army marched north, most North Korean officials were unwilling to cooperate with the Japanese. They either fled the Yalu River with the Qing army or claimed that they could not be sick, and North Korea's local administration was paralyzed. Now, with the gradual stabilization of the situation in the north, Zhou Charter, as the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty in North Korea, recruited local officials and Confucian students as local officials. Most of the Koreans originally tended to the Qing Dynasty. Many opposition officials came out of the mountain to accept the appointment of Zhou Charter. The local administration has gradually recovered, and the security situation is getting better and better. .

Zhou Charter went all the way north, but the wind was calm. Liu Yingshu put on the airs of her wife all the way and shouted at Yao Xi, Guo Erjian and Zhao Zhenglun, as if she were a hostess.