Li Junhua looked at his younger brother: "Will there be any impact?"

"No, what impact can Britain and France have on us?" Li Junwei said with a smile, and the overall situation of the Eastern Alliance Conference has been decided.

With the confrontation between the South Asian countries and Japan, the internal conflicts intensified. It is no longer about whether to vote to expel Japan from the Eastern Alliance system, but whether Japan can still attend this meeting.

The reason is very simple. At the beginning, Japan was full of hope, and the various vassals sent representatives to come. At first, they came to Shinkyo, and later they arrived one after another, with no less than 120 Japanese delegations.

After the attacks of various countries in the Southeast Asian countries, some of the Japanese delegations were for two factions, one was the shogunate, and the ministers in Kyoto. These people insisted on economic obedience to politics, and Japan could only join the Eastern Alliance with one vote. The other was the Western Daming Alliance, which insisted on at least one country and two votes, because Western Daming had established a customs alliance more than 20 years ago. This customs alliance and the territory under the shogunate rule belonged to two completely different economic systems.

Everything was as Li Junwei hoped that Japan eventually withdrew from the Oriental Alliance Conference.

This is a huge loss for Japan. Japan has lost a huge market and raw material market like Nanyang. You should know that at the beginning of the establishment of the Eastern Alliance economic system, it was indeed to promote mineral exports from various countries in Nanyang and bridge the trade deficit with the empire.

However, with the development of this economic system, cooperation has deepened and began to lower and tariffs have been cancelled or even unified. By that time, the existence of tariffs alone will make Japanese goods uncompetitive in these areas.

Japan introduced it because the Western Customs Alliance and the Shogunate each made a different claim, but in the end it failed to reach an agreement. So the two sides withdrew from the meeting and returned to the country and decided that the emperor would rule. Of course, the emperor did not have this power, so the Eastern Alliance would be closed forever for Japan.

What Li Junwei did not expect was that the shogunate and the Daming Alliance had different opinions during the Eastern Alliance Conference, which made the relationship between the two sides further deteriorated. Although there was no risk of a war breaking out for the time being, many disputes had occurred between the two sides, and even many political assassinations broke out.

As for who should be responsible for the failure to join the Eastern Alliance, there was almost a consensus within Japan that the shogunate should be responsible for it.

This is obviously a propaganda by the Reform Commission and the Western Daming, but this conclusion is based on facts. Because after the Nanzhang prince raised the issue of responsibility for a great power at the Eastern Alliance Conference, the representatives of the shogunate were furious and said in front of representatives of various countries that Nanzhang was a barbarian.

This is an extremely rude behavior. All countries in the South China Sea are dissatisfied with it. They all believe that because of the strength of the empire and the Celestial Empire, they are gentle and equal to all countries. Why do you, a little Japanese, call us barbarians?

A small thing is just a manifestation, and was promoted by the Reform Movement as a loss of etiquette and guilty of Nanyang, which led to the failure of joining the alliance. This style of splashing dirty water is extremely useful.

And Kido Fumio's actions confirmed this.

In July of the 44th year of the Empire, Nagasaki.

As the Shimazu lord unveiled the red silk on the plaque, the four words "Manda Yashu" appeared in front of everyone. On the most prosperous street of Nagasaki Castle, applause and cheers rushed to the sky.

This is the current influence of Kido Fumiso. He was once just a Japanese literati in a wandering empire. Later, because he understood China, he was hired by the shogunate and founded the Restoration Club, but it was unknown. However, the year before yesterday, he was funded by Shimazu and Choshu and authorized by the Emperor, Kido Fumiso led a so-called overseas inspection team to travel to Europe for inspection. Kido Fumiso was very popular.

In this era, because of the strength of the empire, the yellow races were already looked up to in Europe. Fumiso Kido appeared in Europe and conquered many European nobles with his talent and demeanor. Because European countries generally hope to trade with Japan, Fumiso Kido, the so-called "Japanese envoy", was even more popular.

‘The East is not only China, but also Japan.’ ‘Mr. Kido brought Japan.’

These are commonly used titles in some British and French newspapers. After the news spread in Japan through translation and processing, Fumio Kido became a hero in Japan.

This time, the alliance failed, and Kido Fumio expressed his attitude by moving his Mida yoshi from Edo to Nagasaki - the shogunate should be responsible for the failure of the alliance.

The new Mida charity school is the private property of the Shimadzu lord and is extremely large in scale. However, there are particularly many young people coming to listen to the class today, so it is impossible to sit down. The Shimadzu lord just exchanged a few greetings with Fumiso Kido and left. Just when everyone thought that today was just the opening ceremony of the Mida lord and there was no formal course, Fumiso Kido announced an open class.

The open class was in the flowerbed of the Shinkaku School. Young people sat cross-legged on the grass and surrounded Fumiso Kido in the middle. Fumiso Kido's teaching aid was a globe, which was said to have been given to him by the French Academy of Sciences. The copper globe was only more than one person tall.

"Everyone, do you know where Japan is?" Fumio Kido asked, looking at the energetic young man in front of him.

Some people know, and some people don’t know. Fumio Kido pointed to Kyushu, Shikoku and Honshu Mishima and said, “This is Japan, almost all of Japan. Here is China.”

When pointing to China, Fumisaki Kido had to rotate the globe, because the empire of this era was definitely an empire that the sun never set, and young people watched Fumisaki Kido divided most of the land on this planet into it.

Kido continued: "And in this world, there are not only two major powers, Japan and China, but also Britain, France, Austria, Russia..."

Kido marked the positions of these countries on the globe one by one. A young man sitting in the front row raised his hand and asked, "Mr. Kido, are these countries you are talking about just the one to the west of this land? It seems...it seems that they are not as big as China's."

"It's not even one-fifth of China's." Fumio Kido corrected.

"It is worthy of being the supreme country of the Celestial Empire."

"Shangbang means strength."

Many people sighed, and Fumiyo Kido said, "But do you know? Eighty years ago, China was only one-tenth of the size it is now. In just eighty years, China has expanded ten times more. Eighty years, it is just a little older than the old.

This is China, the darling of this era, standing on the tide of this era. Just imagine, if we Japan walked out eighty years ago, how big would Japan be now?"

As soon as these words were spoken, there was an uproar.

"It was said to be eighty years, but most of the land was included in the rule in the last forty years. Forty years ago, there were 80 million people in China, and 25 million people in Japan. If we started doing the same thing forty years ago, we should at least have a continent now.

But we didn't, just because forty years ago, they were unified and we were divided. Our power was consumed in the internal strife." Fumiso Kido continued.

"What a pity."

"I wish I could have been born eighty years earlier."

A group of young people felt guilty and regretful, Kido Fumio asked: "Do you know, in today's world, which country is the most afraid of China?"

"Japan?" someone said first.

Fumiso Kido did not answer, but was refuted: "The country of division is a person who is ill and dying. What can I be afraid of?"

"Japan is close to China, separated by water, and is a grass under the trees that can be pulled out easily. In my opinion, the countries in Thailand are far away in the sky. If they rise up, they can make waves and stand with China."

"Sometimes ago, I saw British and French ships by port, just like Chinese ships, they were all armored ships, maybe they were British and French."

When Kido Fumiyoshi heard this, he nodded: "Good, now, in the world, Britain and France are the most afraid of China. Can you tell me how big British and France are? England, the country is not as big as ours. France is the largest country in Thailand and its population is not as large as ours."

"If so, why are you afraid of China?"

"Constitutional politics, both countries have been constitutional, domestically unified, culture and education are promoted, and overseas conquered the oceans." Fumito Kido's voice became heavier, and he said: "Imagine if I could do it, wouldn't it be the second most powerful person in the world?

But this is not the case in Japan. This time, I visited Taixi. The country's strength and advanced technology have far surpassed Japan. Many of these countries have learned from China. Why did Japan fail to get the moon before being close to China? It is just because our country is a divided country, and there is no law to protect the common people, nor is there a righteous leader.

For decades, the shogunate only seeks its own survival, and the various vassals only seek wealth, but never seeks knowledge in the world. The Japanese are just Japanese people, not as good as English and French people, and are people in the world."

"So sir, how do you be a person of the world and how can you make Japan stand in the world?" A voice sounded from the pavilion beside him. Those who could sit there were all samurai classes. Everyone followed the sound, but they saw that the man was blocked by a curtain and could not see his face clearly. But when they saw the house patterns on the curtain, they knew that it was from Shimazu.

Fumiso Kido immediately said: "If Japan does not want to sink into the world, it will greatly boost its foundation, promote the meeting, and establish constitutionalism. Only when Japan is unified can it have the opportunity to enter the first line. If there is no unity, it will be accumulating wealth and bursting of technology, it will be just a moon in the water."

In front of a group of young people, Fumisa Kido talked freely, and the general trend of the world seemed to be in his heart. Fumisa Kido's class was talked from morning to evening, and hundreds of people were fascinated by them. These people had different origins. Some were young vassals, some were merchants, and some were students. There was no doubt that they were the most progressive group in Japan.

When the sun sets, Kido Fumizuki's class is about to end. Young people feel that they are still not satisfied. Many people ask when they will come to class again. Kido Fumizuki said that Mida charity school does not charge, but if you have the intention to study, you can come and listen.

After seeing off a large number of young students, a group of people came out of the pavilion. A young man looked at Fumiso Kido and asked, "Mr. Kido, you said that Japan can only have hope if it is unified. May I ask, who is the unified person?"

Fumiso Kido knew that this was a direct descendant of Shimazu clan and said, "The only emperor in Japan can take on this important task."

"Then how do we deal with our own affairs?"

"The various vassals and shogunate should return the major policies to the emperor, but it does not mean that the various vassals withdraw from politics and lose power. Japan should follow the example of Taixi and raise the vassals to assist the emperor and govern the whole country." Fumito Kido said in a humble and arrogant manner.

The Shimazu family's children smiled, owed their bodies slightly, and left with a smile.

When Kido Fumiso was about to rest, he saw a person appearing at the door. The man was wearing a samurai sword and looked like he was about thirty years old, but except for the samurai sword, he did not look like he was dressed in other samurai swords. Kido Fumiso remembered that this person was just next to the Shimazu family's son.

"What do you call this adult?"

The man saluted respectfully and said in Chinese: "I am Wu Xiong Longyong."

"It turns out to be Takeo-Ho. This is the first time you and I have met." Fumio Kido directly invited Takeo-Ho Takanaga into the room. The reason is very simple. Takeo-Ho Takanaga is also a member of the Reform Club and is a leader in the Reform Club.

Takeo Takanaga was born in Kagoshima Castle and was a retainer of the Shimazu family. He was smart and martial and loyal since childhood. He was attracted by the Shimazu family lord at the age of fourteen and learned Chinese in Nagasaki. At that time, the Western Daming Alliance had just failed in the Japanese civil war. The Shimazu family wanted to reform the army. Takeo Takanaga's father was an officer in the new army.

However, the Shimazu lord believed that the Shimazu vassal army could not have only advanced weapons, but also needed advanced tactics and scientific military academy, so he secretly obtained a Chinese identity for Takanaga. Takanaga himself was skilled in Chinese. Under the cover of his identity, he was admitted to the Imperial Army School and went to study in Nishizu and met many European nobles. In terms of his understanding of the army, Takanaga, although Takanaga was young, he was definitely the first person.

Takeo Takayama also participated in the Spanish War of Succession and the Great Northern War. Of course, they participated as volunteers. It was also during the war that he quietly left. Others thought he was dead, but he returned to Japan.

"Sir, I feel very guilty when I listen to your class today. I have been studying abroad for more than 20 years, but I have not made any progress." Wu Xionglongyong said ashamed.

"Wrong!" said Fumio Kido, "Tao-jun, the Chinese military power is in your heart now. In the future, our unification of Japan is the stage for you to make a difference. Come on, please sit down and let's have a good chat."

"What do you want to know, sir?"

"Let's talk about the Shimazu family. The Japanese affairs are influenced by foreign countries and internal variables. Over the years, the two vassals of Choshu and Shimazu have been ahead and grasping the internal information of the two vassals is a big helper for our Restoration Club."
Chapter completed!