Chapter 219 Guarantee

At the Tokushima wharf, several soldiers who served as guards were responsible for monitoring more than 100 soldiers to unload materials from the ship. These soldiers only served two meals a day, with only one dime of military vouchers a day. Their clothes were all black, and there was a white paint sign on their chest, a There is a word "His" written in the circle, and they all carry the goods with hard work.

Perhaps for me, in the shogunate era of the past few hundred years, they have adapted to the habit of living under the rule of one general after another. At this time, they quickly completed the identity transformation and began to serve for these occupying forces.

"Oh..."

The scene in front of him only made Sao Yokoyama sigh in his heart.

Originally, he imagined that Tokushima should be full of gunfire every day, saying that he resisted the [***] team one after another, but now it seems that the city has completely surrendered to these Chinese occupation forces.

"Pa, Pa... Ba Ka!"

There was a burst of scolding from the dock. It was the captains who were scolding those who didn't work hard, while the middle [***] people just held a gun on the side and looked at the scene in front of them with a smile. From time to time, some of them said that they were flattering to those [***] people, but in exchange for There was a burst of laughter, and then a soldier patted the flatterer, as if to encourage him.

Why is it like this?

He closed his eyes in pain. Sao Yokoyama didn't want to see the scene in front of him again. At this time, his eyes appeared when he drove the foreign minister of the village to hold negotiations in the morning. The scene he saw in the car, Tokushima Prefecture seemed to be still very prosperous, all lively. The soldiers of the Chinese army Groups of people are shopping in stores run by Chinese people with guns on their backs, and they can also see groups of officers and soldiers having fun in the city.

Chinese businessmen have opened many shops here, including pubs, teahouses, and even theaters. Those Chinese officers and soldiers always like to have fun there. On the street, they can also see homeless refugees wandering barefoot on the road, trembling on the roadside in groups of the roadside, and watching on the roadside. To the "relief station" of the Chinese people, many people lined up there to drink a bowl of porridge.

On the other side, many of them said that I was doing business with those Chinese soldiers. Chinese soldiers waved military vouchers to buy their family bronze Buddha statues, jewelry and samurai swords from those people, and those said that I used military vouchers to buy grain from Chinese grain merchants, and then sold them to ordinary people who only had Japanese yuan at a high price. In the end, they will exchange the Japanese yuan for military vouchers at the price of 10 to 1 from the Bank of China.

The misery of the lives of the people in the defeated country seems to be fully reflected here.

"I hope the conversation will end as soon as possible!"

Sao Yokoyama prayed in his heart that perhaps he could only rely on this negotiation to end their miserable life.

"Actually, it's not that you can't give in!"

After three days of negotiations, Liang Dunyan slowly said a sentence in the face of the personnel bureau, which was likely to fall into the negotiations.

His words only made Komura Shoutaro happy.

"Our conditions are very simple. Both basic conditions can be compensated for each other!"

In an instant, the original joy disappeared from Shoutaro Komura's heart. He understood what Liang Atsuhiko meant.

"Sir, please forgive my ignorance, and please explain the mutual compensation!"

"Either make appropriate compensation on the land or make up money!"

With that, Liang Dunyan proposed the so-called mutual compensation plan.

"If your country does not cede Kyushu, you can provide an additional 3 billion yuan to China as compensation!"

"What!"

As soon as Shoutaro Komura opened his eyes, he looked at the other party in disbelief. He negotiated 3 billion yuan by himself for three days, and only cut a total of 3 billion yuan. Now... "If your country is willing to cede Hokkaido, our political axe can accept 9 billion yuan in compensation!"

Liang Dunyan had a smile on his face and his tone was quite relaxed. In the past three days, according to the instructions of the Japanese military axe, the Japanese army stopped all attacks, and the navy seized this favorable opportunity and used merchant ships to sail into the Seto Inland Sea, providing 50,000 tons of supplies to the army, and also shipped two divisions, and dispatched military divisions. Lingbu is very confident. They believe that the dispatched army is now capable of attacking Honshu Island.

Therefore, if necessary, the army is willing to cooperate with the negotiations and launch an attack on the state. Of course, Liang Dunyan is more inclined to get what it should be achieved at the negotiating table. Negotiation has always been the least costly way.

"Your Excellency, can't you make any more concessions?"

Looking directly at Liang Dunyan, Shoutaro Komura saw him shaking his head. After a long silence, he said categorically.

"Your Excellency should understand that if I sign the contract and agree, even if the political axe approves it, the hatred between Japan and China will never be eliminated. China will not only get a friend, but also an enemy!"

Then Shoutaro Komura said again.

"Your Excellency is a diplomat. You should know that German Prime Minister Bismarck was once the best diplomat. He once led the German Empire to become strong, but where did he fail the most?"

In the face of Xiaocun's words, Liang Dunyan was just silent.

"It is to squeeze France too much, which eventually led to Germany and France becoming the enemy of the country. Now, this condition of your country is undoubtedly to force the Japanese to the point of hating your country for generations..."

"Sir, we can only adhere to this principle for things that are not guaranteed!"

Although the meaning of the words has not been clear, Shoutaro Komura still understands his meaning. Liang Dunyan's meaning is obvious. The most fundamental reason why China adheres to these two conditions is that it is that it is worried that Japan will become China's enemies. That's why they insist on these two peace aimed at destroying Japan. Conditions.

"Isn't there a better choice? "Your Excellency?"

After understanding the ultimate intention of China's political axe, Shoutaro Komura quickly asked that he realized that perhaps the breakthrough in this negotiation was in this place.

With a smile on his face, Liang Dunyan became extremely serious.

"The foreign minister of the village, there is a sentence..."

He pondered and observed a trace of expectation in the look of Shoutaro Komura, and then he continued.

"In fact, the final decision lies in Japan, not China!"

Seeing that Shoutaro Komura seemed to be a little puzzled, Liang Atsuhiko explained it again.

"As you said at the beginning of the negotiations, the friendship between China and the two countries has lasted for thousands of years. Although there have been unpleasant but undeniable historical friendships in the past ten years, in this era of strong meat and strong food, China's political axe believes that we would rather..."

Although the words were not enough, Liang Atsuhiko had already said the meaning so clearly that Shoutaro Komura even began to appreciate Lord Liang's frankness and frankness.

"We..."

Almost without thinking, as if he was afraid that he would change his mind, Shoutaro Komura immediately spit out an idea.

"I was willing to sign an alliance treaty with China and abolish the alliance treaty with Britain! Please believe that I would like to be a friend of China, not an enemy!"

Shaking his head, Liang Dunyan said with regret.

"The alliance treaty doesn't matter!"

Within no time for Shoutaro Komura to explain, Liang Atsuhiko said bluntly.

"Treaty can be torn up at any time. Those treaties without guarantees are, in fact, just a piece of paper! Just like what you just said, abolish the treaty of alliance with Britain!"

At this time, the village wants to twitch its own mouth. How could he propose this? It's too stupid.

"A treaty without guarantees?"

Shoutaro Komura, who has made a big mistake, pondered in his heart the meaning of Liang Dunyan's words. What kind of guarantee will this guarantee be?

What kind of guarantee can reassure the Chinese people and give up the requirement of ceding a large amount of land and compensation for huge military expenses? The village knows very well that for the Japanese, except for North Korea and Ryukyu, the political axe and the national pressure do not want to cede any territory. As for the compensation, not to mention 12 billion, it is 1.2 billion, which can't be taken out.

But the question is, how can we satisfy the Chinese people and what kind of security do the Chinese people need?

Guarantee... In the cabinet conference room of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo, Taro Katsura and others also said these two words, and everyone looked extremely serious. In their opinion, this is the most real real surname progress made by the village three days after the start of the negotiations.

"Children's jade, can you guess what kind of protection the Chinese people need?"

Turning his head to look at the extremely haggard child jade, Katsura Taro smiled bitterly at him.

"If we can figure out what kind of security the Chinese people need, maybe we can end the war, and we don't even need to cede land to pay compensation..."

"Impossible!"

As Kodama Gentaro spoke, he kept coughing, "If I'm not mistaken, we still need to cede some land to China outside North Korea and Ryukyu. These two places can be regarded as return, but the Chinese people definitely need to make some appropriate requests to cede land outside the guarantee. Only in this way can they achieve their goals.

"Well, they need some glorious compensation!"

Masayoshi Terauchi said sarcastically.

"After all, they still need something to make an apology to the people. They still have to give land and compensation, but it's just a matter of more and less..."

A glance at Kodama Gentaro and Prime Minister Katsura, he said again.

"Now, it seems that North Korea and Ryukyu are Chinese!"

"At least we have to face the reality, don't we? Do you think it is possible for the Chinese to regard the two places as cede?

"Well, North Korea is not the territory of Japan, but what about Ryukyu? That's the territory of Japan!"

"Yes, it's Japanese, but don't forget that Ryukyu used to be a vassal state of the Chinese people, and it was the place we occupied for decades! Therefore, the Chinese will regard it as a return rather than a cession.

Seeing that everyone quarreled again, Katsura Taro leaned forward.

"Okay, don't quarrel anymore. We are now asking for the future of Japan! Instead of having a meaningless quarrel, if the quarrel can save Japan, then let's keep arguing, even if it will be a quarrel until next year!"

"Now, the most important question is, what do Chinese people need?"

Inoue, one of the three elders who participated in the cabinet meeting, shook his head.

"I don't think it should be an easy condition for the Chinese to be willing to exchange land ceding and compensation."

"So what will be the conditions?"

A friend from Shanxian County asked in a low voice. Masayoshi Matsukata saw Inoue narrow his eyes and tried his best to figure out what he meant by saying so. Of course, for Inoue, he also has no clue at all. He didn't give any answer. He just looked at them with a strange light in his eyes.

"It must be a very harsh condition."

He said slowly.

"That must be the case,"

Taro Katsura quickly echoed.

At this time, the deep curiosity of Masayoshi Terauchi was aroused, although he did not want to show it.

"What kind of conditions will it be?"

Kodama Gentaro asked again, but he was more like asking himself than others.

Song Fang Zhengyi smiled at them, and then said softly.

"These Chinese people are really good at being dumb. They don't point out what kind of security they need, that is, let's guess, and what about us? Just like now, seeing that the Chinese people have made such a big concessions, although we don't know what security they need, we can't help guessing. Every time we guess the same thing, we will say that this doesn't work. Chinese people definitely don't just need this, because there is no exchange of surnames, so we will continue Continue to guess, in fact, in this process, our bottom line is constantly expanding, and it will be the Chinese who will really take advantage at that time.

Everyone was stunned and even surprised when they listened to Song Fang's words, because as Song Fang Zhengyi said, they had guessed one answer after another in their hearts, but each of them seemed to be unable to satisfy the Chinese, and in the process, the answers they guessed In fact, if the Chinese put forward any or even all of them, they will not object.

After a long silence, I only heard Kodama Gentaro say softly, word by word.

"Well... I think there is nothing more important than ending the war now!"

"So, we need to discuss it,"

He nodded, and Masayoshi Matsukata turned his eyes to Prime Minister Katsura Taro, who had been silent, and then said in a slow voice.

"Let's put forward our own ideas first. It's worth thinking about, isn't it?"

For several minutes, everyone was so silent that they couldn't speak. Who would put forward what first? Every condition seems to be making concessions for the Chinese... "I think it may be a concession, and the Chinese are likely to propose to us to open a concession in some cities in Japan!"

Finally, Katsura Taro opened his mouth first, but after spitting out this sentence, he was silent for a while, and then frowned again.

"But it's too unsible. At least the concession is far less than ceding land."

"Yes, we also have concessions in China, but as soon as we fight with the Chinese, all the concessions are occupied by Chinese troops. The concession alone cannot fill the appetite of the Chinese people at all!"

"It's true. If I put forward a condition, I'd rather have a piece of land!"

"Well, if the Chinese put forward this, is it acceptable?"

Everyone shook their heads hurriedly.

"This article is equivalent to an insult to the Japanese. We can't accept it at all. In that case, the people will feel..."

"So what if the Chinese want to open up a leased land?"

Masayoshi Matsukata asked, and at the same time, he was surprised why he mentioned this condition so easily.

"Well, that's right"

Taro Katsura nodded quickly.

"This condition is very inspiring, isn't it? What if the Chinese really propose to open up a lease? Then this condition is more stringent than the concession, but compared with the cession of land..."

"It's definitely easier, if..."

Inoue Xin was silent for a moment, turned around and looked at the silent Shanxian Youpeng and said.

"If there's nothing we can do, is this acceptable?"

In a word, it silences everyone. Compared with the concession, the leased land is undoubtedly more feasible, and it is even likely to be the guarantee that the Chinese people need. However, do you really want to make this suggestion to the Chinese people?

They all understand that the reason why Liang Dunyan ended the negotiations after making that huge concession and revealing that China needs "guarantee". In fact, he is telling Japan that China needs Japan to take the initiative to put forward some "guarantee conditions" so that he can persuade China's political axe, or China's political axe. It takes a walk like this.

"Even if we do not cede Kyushu and Shikoku Islands, there is no doubt that North Korea, Ryukyu and South Sakhalin cannot be preserved, but at least Tsushima Island and the naval base Sasebo will become the leased land of the Chinese people, and even Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands will become China's territory, from the current international Political practice has a high probability. After all, in addition to the need for security, China still needs to cede land.

Taro Katsura said in a slow voice that he was more willing to cede Hokkaido than cede Kyushu and Shikoku. For Japan, Hokkaido is a backward and barbaric place, but Kyushu and Shikoku are different.

"If this is the case, we should have the opportunity to take advantage of the balance between the great powers in the future to avoid the fate of completely becoming a Chinese territory, at least more appropriate than the current conditions!"

"These alone are not enough!"

Kodama Gentaro, who had been silent, suddenly said.

"It's definitely not enough to exchange Hokkaido for Kyushu and the four countries. Ten thousand steps back, the Chinese got Sasebo, which is a security guarantee, but they are definitely not satisfied, I personally think..."

After a moment of silence, Kodama Gentaro suddenly said.

"They are likely to ask for the right to station in Japan!"

(to be continued)