Chapter 112 Declaration of War
After Sun Wen left, Qin Ge also fell into thinking whether the constitutional monarchy is suitable for China? Will the republic be better? Will there be civil strife if I come to the republic?
Qin Ge thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out what kind of system is good. "Forget it, why do you think so much? China has been a feudal society for thousands of years. It is always good to have an emperor that makes the people have some beliefs."
On the fourth day after the signing of the Shimonoseki Treaty, Russia had persuaded France and Germany to come forward and would jointly report to Japan two days later, demanding that Japan give up the Liaodong Peninsula. In the eyes of the Russians, Japan was simply ignorant of life and death. It actually dared to steal the food that polar bears like, but these Chinese people were really too careless. If they had known, they would have dispatched Vladivostok garrison to get North Korea and Liaodong.
It is really not easy to find a Chinese who speaks Japanese in Hawaii, but after all, I found one.
Pei Ji is 28 years old this year. His father Pei Xinlan is a businessman in South China and is very enlightened. When Pei Ji smiled, he sent him abroad to study. When Pei Ji became an adult, he began to travel around the world. He learned less than ten languages. It is hard for Qin Ge to imagine how he learned this. As a science student, he was a scumbag in English.
On that day, Pei Ji was wearing formal clothes and a letter, accompanied by two officers to the Japanese Embassy in Hawaii. After meeting the newly appointed Japanese Minister Ichi Ichi, Pei Ji opened the folder with a serious expression and read to Ichi Ichi in fluent Japanese: "Japan is extremely barbaric. He massacred more than 20,000 unarmed civilians in Lushun. This move is contrary to civilization and seriously violates the international law customized by the civilized world..."
Pei Ji first read out a series of words condemning Japan's massacre of civilians in Lushun. Shindajing was stunned when he heard this, not knowing what Pei Ji was doing to read these.
"...I am very sad about the massacre of Lushun. Although I live in Hawaii now, I am also a descendant of Yanhuang. I am deeply angry at the actions of the Japanese army. The Japanese army is so cruel that it will surely lead Japan to militarism in the future and will disrupt the situation in the Pacific. As a country in the Pacific, Hawaii must not cause the situation in the Pacific. I, Qin Ge, Minister of Defense of the Hawaii Palace, declare war on Japan on behalf of Hawaii! April 21, 1895 AD. Queen Lirio Kalani, Minister of Defense of Hawaii, Qin Ge, Minister of Defense of Hawaii."
"Declare war on Japan, declare war on Japan..." Only these words echoed in Shinda Ichi's mind.
Ichi Shinda had just come from Hawaii to the country and knew very well about the situation in China. A few days ago, he received news that the Qing Dynasty had already sought peace and had signed a peace treaty. Before Pei Ji arrived, everyone in the embassy was celebrating.
Pei Jike didn't care about the stunned Ichi Ichi. He took out the declaration of war written by Qin Ge from the folder and handed it to Nichi Ichi Ichi. At the same time, he said: "By the way, the Hawaiian fleet has arrived near Japan now, and will launch an attack on the Japanese port on time at 12 noon tomorrow." After saying that, Nichi Ichi Ichi, who was stunned, turned around and left with the two officers.
After leaving the Japanese Embassy, one of the officers patted Pei Ji on the shoulder and smiled: "Haha, you are a good boy. You are very handsome, how about you? Do you want to work under our commander?"
"What, can I do?" When I first found Pei Ji, I just said that I was hired temporarily, but I didn't expect that I would be invited at this time. Pei Ji came to Hawaii more than a year ago. When he saw that the quality of the Chinese army in Hawaii was that he was like he wanted to join, but unfortunately, Hawaii has not recruited soldiers, and his health was not very good.
Another officer said: "Of course, the young master likes you educated people the most."
Although Qin Ge had some civilian officials at this time, there were no one who performed well.
After being stunned, Shindai immediately ran towards the telegraph room on Oahu.
"Quick! Send me a report to Japan!" Shinda Ichi took out a lot of dollars and almost threw it at the telegrapher.
The telegrapher looked at the US dollar in Shinta's hand and his eyes were shining. He knew that he would definitely make a big profit today, but he still asked with great professional ethics: "Sir, please send me a message first."
At this time, the telegram can only be sent in European languages, Chinese and Japanese, and they can't be sent directly. They are usually sent in English first. The telegrapher needs to translate the English into the Chinese language before handing it to the person receiving the telegram.
"Oh oh oh, I'll write it right away, I'll write it right away! Please give me a piece of paper, thank you!" After the telegrapher handed over the paper, he took out his own pen and started writing. The ambassador to the outside world has the responsibilities of a diplomat, and Iichi Shinda's English is still good.
The telegrapher took the message handed to him by Shinda Iichi and began to press the electric key.
After Iichi Shinda left the telegraph room, the other telegraphers began to come around and asked: "What did the Japanese just sent? He actually gave so much money!"
"Oh, as a telegrapher, you know the rules." Telegrapher will not disclose other people's telegraph content. This is a basic professional ethics.
"Oh, in addition to handing over to the company, you earned two months' salary today. You must treat you today!"
"Yes, you must treat me."
"no problem."
Hawaii declared war on Japan, and soon the whole world knew about it. The Japanese government was already in chaos at this time. At this time, the Treaty of Shimonoseki had just been signed. The Qing Dynasty had not paid one or two taels of silver, and many people in China could only drink porridge every day. Now that Hawaii declared war, what would Japan use to fight?
After the meeting, the Japanese cabinet decided to borrow money from the great powers. Anyway, the Qing Dynasty would have to pay more than 200 million taels of silver, so I was not afraid of not paying it back. I believe that the great powers would be happy to borrow money from Japan.
After receiving the news that Hawaii declared war on Japan, Russia immediately came to Germany and France to discuss it. At the suggestion of Germany and France, it decided to wait and see.
When countries heard the news that Hawaii declared war on Japan, they responded in a different way. Britain believed that warships should be sent to protect Japan, otherwise the plan to build Japan against Russia would be ruined, and their previous efforts would be in vain. However, it was strongly opposed by the Third Minister of Maritime Affairs Fisher, who clearly pointed out that Britain would have no power to fight back against the Hawaiian fleet in Hong Kong. Although the British Empire's navy was well-trained, the gap in equipment was difficult to make up. Fisher gave an example and said, "We are like an excellent soldier with a smoothbore gun, while Hawaii is like a new recruit with a continuous rifle. Although we are excellent soldiers, we must be the ones who were defeated in the end."
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Insurance, it burned again, the lead wire is so fake, it was replaced with copper wire today, if it burns, I will be gone
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Chapter completed!