Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Zhao He was obviously stunned when he heard Lin Yi's words, and then he murmured: "Brother, why do you want us to think about this reason?"

When Lin Yi heard what Zhao Xi said, he didn't understand it at first, but after he calmed down a little, he understood what Zhao Xi meant.

They are the superiors, they just need to make a decision. As for how to do it, that is what the people below need to consider.

To put it simply, Lin Yi or Zhao Xu only need to make a decision whether to sign the alliance contract and for how long.

As for how to negotiate and how to get Hans to agree to only sign a ten-year contract with Da Xia, that was Gu Xianzhi's business.

After thinking about this clearly, Lin Yi directly asked Zhao Xi to generate electricity for his father.

Tell Zhao Xu that the military alliance contract can only be signed for ten years at most. Changes will occur in the Western world in one year, dragging the empire into the quagmire of war.

After Zhao Xu received the news from Lin Yi, he also gave Lin Yi a clear reply.

Lin Yi then put the matter behind him.

After all, it is better to leave things like diplomatic negotiations to professionals.

Time passes day by day, and May is here in a blink of an eye.

The factory packaging project in Nagasaki has reached the final stage.

The previously dismantled equipment has been transported back to Jinghai Port in batches.

Jinghai is also stepping up its efforts to build factory buildings to house these equipment.

The operations of the First Army on Kyushu Island were very smooth. The two to three hundred thousand Sakura Kingdom soldiers stationed on Kyushu Island were no match for Daxia at all.

In addition, the supply line was cut off, and it can be said that the Sakura Kingdom defenders on Kyushu Island became weaker and weaker. In the end, they either hid in the mountains and fought guerrillas with Daxia.

Or surrender.

Speaking of the ability of Sakura Kingdom soldiers to surrender, two people must be mentioned, one is Koizumi Jiro, and the other is Tokugawa Yoshiki.

Koizumi Jiro, as a native of the Sakura Country and the model of the Sakura Country supported by Lin Yi, obtained Lin Yi's permission to recruit those defeated troops to enrich his national defense army.

For this reason, Koizumi Jiro offered a military salary of 3 imperial silver dollars a month.

Although these military salaries are not comparable to the 5 Imperial Silver Dollars per month of the First Legion, they are definitely higher than the previous military salaries of Sakura Kingdom soldiers.

In the Sakura Empire, an ordinary soldier's monthly military salary is only 1.5 to 2 imperial silver dollars.

Again, no one will have trouble with money, especially those soldiers who surrendered, most of whom are new recruits.

For them, who does it mean to sacrifice one's life for someone else?

What's more, the price given by Jiro Koizumi is indeed high!

Moreover, Koizumi Jiro was born as a businessman. He understood one thing better than other Sakura Kingdom officers, that is, if he wanted his subordinates to remain loyal to him, he would have to leave a mouthful of soup for the other party when he ate meat.

What he wanted was great power, especially after learning that Lin Yi wanted him to involve Tokugawa Qingxi, he knew that if he suppressed Tokugawa Qingxi with his low status, then he would be better than Tokugawa Kexi knows how to give better.

(Koizumi Jiro’s father was a merchant hawker, and Tokugawa Keiki was the fifteenth shogun. Although Tokugawa Keiki has stepped down, his status is not comparable to that of Koizumi Jiro.)

Therefore, among his National Guard Army, it is prohibited to withhold military pay, and the military pay of the National Guard Army must be paid in full every month to ensure that it is paid on time.

It is precisely because of this that Koizumi Jiro was able to quickly expand the National Defense Army under him to more than 9 people within two months, with the strength of four divisions.

Although, these four divisions can only guarantee one gun and 30 rounds of ammunition.

An artillery division only has ten 75-caliber mountain cannons, and there is not a single machine gun.

But even so, Koizumi Jiro still felt majestic and like a big shot.

As for Tokugawa Qingxi, to be honest, Lin Yi didn't know what method he used to successfully escape from Kan'ei Temple Daciyuan.

You must know that Kan'ei-ji Daiji-in served as a place of retirement after the return of Tokugawa Keiki. Meiji's surveillance of Kan'ei-ji Dai-ji-in can be said to be the ultimate.

There is an elite regiment guarding the area around the Kan'ei Temple Daiciyuan all year round.

Said to be a guard, but actually monitored.

But even under such conditions, Tokugawa Yingxi, an old man in his sixties, was able to escape smoothly, and even said that he had brought the elite of that regiment with him.

Lin Yi also had to express his admiration.

But after admiration, I became deeply wary.

This old man, even though he has been out of power for decades, still has such great appeal. Even the team that was guarding him could be won over by him.

Although secretly Lin Yi was wary of Tokugawa Qingxi, on the surface he still showed a very welcoming attitude towards Tokugawa Qingxi's arrival on Kyushu Island.

When Tokugawa celebrated his arrival on Kyushu Island, he couldn't wait to announce the reconstruction of the Tokugawa shogunate.

At the same time, he said that the Tokugawa shogunate could be rebuilt thanks to the help of Daxia, and called on the former Sakura Kingdom soldiers on Kyushu Island to lay down their weapons and surrender to the nearby Daxia army.

Lin Yi immediately recognized the legal status of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Sakura Country on behalf of Daxia.

At the same time, it was stated that in order for the Tokugawa Shogunate to have sufficient self-protection capabilities, Daxia would become a protectorate of the Tokugawa Shogunate and was willing to help the Tokugawa Shogunate train its own army to ensure that the new Tokugawa Shogunate could survive.

The number of the shogunate army will be set at [-].

Among them, there were [-] national defense troops and [-] shogunate troops. However, whether it is the Protectorate Army or the Shogunate Army, the nominal supreme commander is Tokugawa Yoshiki.

But as for the actual controller, it’s a matter of opinion.

At the same time, in view of the current tension within Sakura Country, Daxia will station [-] troops in the area controlled by the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Immediately afterwards, the day after the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate was announced, Tokugawa Kei suddenly announced that the ancient country's name would be restored to Fuso.

At the same time, Tokugawa celebrated the arrival of a child from nowhere, claiming that the child had the bloodline of Tianhuang, and elected the child to become the new Fuso Kingdom Tianhuang, with the honorific name Baiyu Tianhuang.

When Lin Yi saw Tokugawa Qingxi performing such an operation, he was filled with admiration.

Sure enough, in terms of being able to play, it has to be Sakura.

However, Tokugawa Keki's extreme operation was not without any effect.

At least a large part of the Sakura troops who were hiding in the mountains and forests and wanted to fight guerrillas with Daxia walked out of the mountains and chose to surrender to the Tokugawa shogunate.

It is worth explaining here that most of these Sakura soldiers who later surrendered were veterans. The combat effectiveness is far from comparable to the new recruits in the hands of Jiro Koizumi.

At the same time, the person these people chose to surrender was Tokugawa Qingxi, or Baiyu Tianhuang. Not Jiro Koizumi or Daxia.

In their words, they recognized Bai Yu Tianhuang's legitimacy and wanted to pacify the Sakura Kingdom for Bai Yu Tianhuang.

Lin Yi sneered at this.

Sure enough, they are a bunch of arrogant and stubborn dogs. They were obviously beaten to the last breath by Daxia and Koizumi Jiro's national defense army, but they still had to find an excuse to make themselves look more glamorous.

However, Lin Yi just kept these words in his heart. After all, Lin Yi planned to take advantage of them in the future.