1890 King of Southeast Asia

"Did the Japanese accept the conditions?" Liu Ming looked at Lin Anmin in surprise, and the dried fish in his hand fell.

His orange cat "Panda" saw the dried fish falling on the ground, and pounced on it like a hungry "tiger", and ran to the side with the dried fish in his mouth.

"Yes. The Japanese contacted us through the British Foreign Office, saying that they were willing to accept the surrender conditions and surrender to us, but they hoped that we would be lenient in terms of specific compensation." Lin Anmin nodded and glanced at the orange cat who ran to the window to eat dried fish in the breeze.

"It shouldn't be, what happened in Japan during this period? Who contacted us?" Liu Ming touched his head and felt a little surprised.

Liu Ming's understanding of Japan mainly comes from later history books and various videos or materials related to modern history.

Although it is generally scattered, due to special historical reasons, these videos or materials analyze various aspects of Japan very thoroughly.

The most important point is that since the various regulations promulgated in the Meiji era and the Constitution of the Empire of Japan, Japan's political, economic, cultural and other fields have inevitably moved towards militarism, with the emperor as its core.

Liu Yiming proposed the emperor's abdication, the abolition of the rights and special status of the nobility, etc., mainly to embarrass Japan.

Because if Japan agrees to this condition, it is equivalent to agreeing to destroy the entire existing government structure, which is equivalent to asking the government to agree to abolish the government.

Liu Yiming never thought that Japan would agree to this kind of thing, unless it really hurts.

But can't Japan bear it? Why can't it even bear this? Isn't it just starving a few people to death?

"The current Japanese Prime Minister, Terauchi, Masayoshi contacted the British ambassador to Japan, and the news was conveyed by the British Foreign Office to our embassy in the UK."

"I heard that the Japanese emperor has issued an abdication edict. By the way, there was a small-scale rebellion in the Kyoto area some time ago. It is said that it affected the emperor's palace. Maybe the emperor was scared."

Lin Anmin thought about it and said uncertainly.

Because the news of the martial law in Kyoto could not be transmitted, the news in other areas was also slow to be transmitted. After Terauchi and Britain "reached an agreement", Britain was very active in contacting China, so the news was transmitted faster than the intelligence system of the Chinese Empire.

The intelligence system is a very rigorous system. Just like the rebellion mentioned by Lin Anmin, due to martial law and power outages, there was no specific news from Kyoto, and other regions were not clear about the specific situation.

So Jiang Wang only knew that a rebellion had occurred in Kyoto. He didn't know the scale, process, and results of this rebellion, so he could only ask people to investigate and verify it as soon as possible.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a point-to-point communication. If there is no procedure to delay time, it is still very fast.

"The abdication edict has been issued? It's a bit strange!" Liu Yiming was surprised again.

Liu Yiming has always regarded Japan as a threat. After all, no one can guess what Japan wants to do and what it will do.

Everyone thought that the Japanese would not go to war when the economy was developing rapidly, the national strength was recovering, and military preparations were not yet completed. On July 7, it went to war.

Then due to insufficient preparation, Japan fell into a quagmire, and the supplies were rapidly consumed, but it was still unable to win.

At this time, rational people should sit down and find ways to solve the problem of supplies or war. What did the Japanese choose? Open a new battlefield.

First go north, get beaten and then go south. After a circle, they successfully offended everyone who could reach them.

So Liu Ming has been staring at Japan. After all, even if you are better than him, you don’t know if he will go crazy and suddenly disgust you.

Liu Ming’s idea is to take the opportunity to cut off all possibilities of Japan’s advancement. After two years of blockade, it should basically be exhausted.

Then take the opportunity to go ashore, but don’t fight a large-scale war, but support some local dissatisfied forces to make them chaotic. The Chinese only need to occupy a few ports and watch them fight on their own.

Security wars are not a small problem for most countries. The two superpowers have fallen twice in the same place and the same pit. At this time, China does not have that kind of size.

"Let's leave it at that for now. Call Xu Hui, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Navy tonight and have a meeting to discuss their surrender."

"I always feel that this matter is a bit strange. I'll ask Jiang Wang to check whether Japan is playing word games and pretending to abdicate."

Liu Ming didn't know the specific situation at the moment, so he decided to look at the intelligence and speculation given by the intelligence agencies first.

To be honest, Liu Ming didn't believe that this country with the theory of bloodline engraved in its bones could surrender so easily.

(Hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation, burning and disease: Can't you see our death?)

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May 8, Europe, Western Front, Verdun Front.

In just a few days, Pétain only had the hastily built third line of defense and the Verdun fortress group.

The third line of defense had only a shallow trench, and the wooden board reinforcement work and drainage facilities had not been completed. The barbed wire outside was also interspersed in the east and west. These signs all showed how hasty their preparations were.

The northern part of the third line of defense, a battle line about 5 kilometers long, was guarded by a regiment of the Verdun Fortress garrison.

The attackers were the German 92nd Infantry Regiment, or the 92nd Brunswick Infantry Regiment, from the Brunswick region in the eastern part of Lower Saxony in the Kingdom of Saxony of the German Empire.

Unlike other empires or other German Empire armies, some German armies belong to the states, not the German Empire.

For example, the 92nd Brunswick Infantry Regiment, which is part of the 6th Army of the Kingdom of Saxony, is armed and trained by the Kingdom of Saxony, but its equipment is roughly the same as that of the German Army.

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The German Empire is actually a confederation empire, with 22 states and large and small free cities, as well as a direct territory: Alsace-Lorraine.

The laws of the German Empire stipulate that the King of the German Empire enjoys the title of Emperor of the German Empire, and the name of the Emperor of the German Empire comes from the product of Bismarck's compromise in the North German Confederation era - the "Emperor's Declaration".

Before the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the Emperor of the German Empire was called the Hereditary Chairman of the North German Confederation. After the war, Bismarck was eager to continue to promote this confederation system to safeguard the interests of Prussia.

However, this behavior was not accepted by the Prussian nationalists. Under various public pressures, Bismarck and William I had to accept the title of Emperor of the German Empire.

It sounds like Bismarck and William I were ignorant of the importance of promotion, but that was not the case.

The German Emperor was not the German Emperor. The Emperor of the Empire was concurrently held by the King of Prussia. In fact, it was a relatively close confederation empire, or a dual empire.

The most obvious thing is that the three states of Bavaria, Württemberg and Saxony had their own armies, and the other armies were Prussian armies.

The German Empire Army was not loyal to the parliament or the constitution, but to the emperor or the king, and there was more than one target of loyalty.

This was a historical legacy caused by Prussia's unclear goals.

From the rise of Prussia to the era of the North German Confederation, in the eyes of Bismarck and William I, they were not unifying Germany, but expanding Prussia.

Including the Austro-Prussian War with the Austrian Empire, Prussia's goal was to expand into the Great Prussian Kingdom, not to establish a small Germany.

It was not until after the Franco-Prussian War that Prussia was pushed onto the fast track and was pushed to the position of the German Emperor by the people of many states. This position was not easy to do, but unfortunately William I could not refuse.

This seat also caused problems.

Although all states cooperated with the imperial government in daily management, the imperial industry developed rapidly and the national strength was growing.

However, this deformed system itself led to an imbalance of government power, first of all the army.

During the Bismarck period, the Prussian officer corps could still be suppressed, but by the time of William II, especially after the death of Bismarck, the emperor and the government could no longer suppress the officer corps.

The Sixth Army Department of the Imperial Government was just a decoration for the Prussian officer corps. The Sixth Army Department could not interfere with the Sixth Army without going through the Prussian officer corps.

Even more outrageous was the General Staff. In theory, the General Staff was the secretariat for the emperor to command the army and help the emperor command the army.

But in fact, after the war began, the army had been out of the emperor's control. First of all, William II had no idea what the Chief of Staff Moltke the Younger was doing.

William II could replace Moltke the Younger, Falkenhayn, and many other chiefs of staff, but he could not replace the Prussian officer corps.

Later, when the war was about to end, it was the Prussian officer corps that chose to give up the war without notifying the emperor before that.

In the subsequent negotiations, the chief of staff pushed all negotiation matters to the government and strictly prohibited the participation of the general staff and senior military officials.

His theory was: "If someone surrendered, it was definitely not the military leader."

The Prussian officer corps declared to the outside world that it was various reasons that led to the government's decision to stop the war, which made the soldiers more convinced that they did not lose on the battlefield, but were stabbed in the back by various other reasons.

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The commander of the 92nd Infantry Regiment was called Seeckt, who was nervously crawling in a trench less than two kilometers away from the French army.

This trench was built by the French army.

"Sir, relax, take it, we are safe." A lieutenant colonel came in shaking his head, and saw Seckt crawling on the edge of the trench, and said frivolously.

"I feel like I can't see anything if I take him with me." Seckt sat up and picked up the gas mask beside him.

"Lieutenant Colonel, why did the higher-ups agree to use this devilish weapon? This..." Seckt was a little uncomfortable.

"Please be careful with your words, Colonel, it can make us win, isn't that enough?"

"The wind direction has finally changed, please tell your soldiers to put on gas masks and launch the attack in an hour!"

Before the lieutenant colonel had time to argue, he suddenly felt the wind direction change and ran back in a hurry.

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