The Great Zhou Republic, Nanzhili, Xuzhou. On the tenth day of the first lunar month of the twelfth year of the Republic.

Because when last winter arrived, the Senate of the Republic and the government came south, the vitality of this magnificent fortress-type city was restored.

The streets of Xuzhou have become as bustling as before the flood comes. Businessmen and people who have moved from Kaifeng Prefecture or Tianjin are surging shoulder to shoulder on the streets. The Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has not yet arrived, and it is theoretically considered a New Year festival. Therefore, people walking on the streets are wearing decent clothes, with more or less festive celebrations on their faces.

Occasionally, horses passed by on the streets. The knights on the horses had red flags on their backs, and they were arrogant and arrogant. The horses had bells hanging around their necks, and they jingled and sang, attracting attention when they walked around. Everyone knew that this was the urgent handing of the military commander of the Great Zhoudu City Army, who were passing important news. Those who rode on the horse were all serving knights, and they had manors at home!

These horses were driven all the way from Kyoto Shopping City, Haizhou, and all brought news from Hailu.

This is also the reason why the Senate of the Republic and the government went south to Xuzhou in winter. The sea surface outside Tianjin will freeze in winter. The head of the Great Zhou Republic living in Tianjin will not be able to obtain timely information from overseas for more than a month. This is really not a good thing for a world empire that is rising and planning a war against Japan.

So after repeated weighing, Wu Yijiu and Wu Haogu made a decision to open the Xuzhou second capital, Xuhai area, which is classified as Southern Zhili in winter, naturally means the southern capital!

Although this land was flooded due to the flood, it temporarily lost its former prosperity. However, revitalizing Xu Hai is still the unshakable national policy of the Great Zhou Republic.

Because the Xuhai area is still the most ideal capital of industry and commerce in the Great Zhou Republic.

The area is open, the water transportation is developed, and it is close to the Central Plains and has rich coal, iron and salt resources. Especially the coal mines in Xuzhou, the iron ore are almost next to each other and can be connected by canals, and the cost of mining is not high.

Once the era of industrialization comes, Xuzhou will be comparable to that of Ruer District!

Therefore, the Great Zhou Republic is now going to turn Xuzhou into Dongdu, so that all the wealthy merchants and tycoons in the world know their determination to revitalize Xu Hai.

As for the cost of the Senate of the Republic and the government going south, it is not very high. After all, the Republic does not have the same pomp as the empire. Moreover, there is also a sea-transportation route between Tianjin and Xuzhou. Large amounts of materials can be transported by water. Those traveling by land are just a convoy of vehicles, which is about 1,000 miles away, and it takes seven or eight days to complete.

If the "stone highway" between Tianjin and Xuzhou is completed in the future, it will not be a problem to travel more than 200 miles a day for a four-wheeled carriage, and you can reach it in four days after walking 1,000 miles.

At the same time, a water canal channel from Xuzhou to Yunzhou, then crosses the Yellow River from Yunzhou, and then goes north to Tianjin, is also under renovation.

Among them, Xuzhou-Yunzhou section will borrow the river channel flowing south from the Yellow River. A huge water conservancy hub project will be built near Liangshanpo in Yunzhou. As the main valve for managing the Yellow River and the canal.

At the same time, the rivers in the middle reaches of the Yellow River will be fully sorted out. The rivers turning from Puyang to Daming Prefecture will be abandoned and the original old road that flows eastward will be opened. The old road that flows eastward will pass through the water conservancy hub next to Liangshanpo. The Liangshanpo and Tongji River (Tongji River) can be used to travel floods according to the conditions every year. In theory, it is enough to ensure that no major floods occur in the Xuhaihuai area!

Such a huge water control project can only be implemented by two countries, the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty, that have already crossed the threshold of capitalism.

There is no need to think about the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in history...

The government and the Senate went south every winter, which was also conducive to negotiating nearby Huang, Huai and Yun governance projects in the Eastern Song Dynasty.

However, what was delivered by the Dujun Jiji today was news from Japan.

"Sir, my brother has not been able to enter Kyoto, but he has found a way to capture Japan!"

In Xuzhou City, Wu Yijiu handed a military newspaper to his father Wu Haogu in a building belonging to the Senate.

Wu Haogu is now the president of the Senate Military and Diplomatic Branch and has the right to obtain confidential military newspapers.

He took the military newspaper handed over by his son and looked down.

Wu Yiyong reported on his visit to Japan in the military newspaper. He was unable to enter Kyoto, but he met the representative of the Shirakawa Emperor Rinzheng, monk Peace Tadimoto in Namba.

During the talks, Ping Zhongsheng also rejected Wu Yiyong's request to lead a delegation to the Northeast front to observe.

The reason is that the road is blocked by heavy snow!

The climate in the northeast and Hokuland areas of Japan is cold in winter, and there is plenty of snow. The snow can often reach several meters, and even low houses can be buried, making it impossible to pass through.

In cold places in Northeast Japan, the snow season and the subsequent snow melting season often last for several months. If Wu Yiyong wants to go to Northeast China, he must wait until the summer of the next year (the summer of the Republic of China 12).

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Therefore, Wu Yiyong's plan to attack Japan was to first attract the East Warrior Order, which had strong combat effectiveness in Japan, to the near Heian Kyoto or the farther Kyushu Island.

Then transport two divisions of infantry through fleets and land around the Kanto coast in winter. Then quickly block the Tokaido Channel. The snow in winter will prevent the main force of the East Warrior Order from returning to Kanto from Hokuriku and Zhongshan Road to help Kanto.

In this way, the invading Zhou army had a two- or three-month time difference, and could suppress and win over the rich warriors who remained in Kanto, while strengthening the blockade of the roads from Hokuriku, Jiaxin, and East China Sea to Kanto.

After successfully blocking the passage from the Western Kingdom to Kanto, the Zhou army invaded Japan had time to calmly clean up the samurai group left in Kanto. Eliminate it, or win over it, and turn it into Zhou's government troops in Japan and part of the knight system!

To quote Wu Yiyong's original words in his report, it is to first realize the Martial Revolution and the Martial Republic in eastern Japan!

Therefore, after pacifying Kanto, Wu Yiyong's next attack target was not to attack from the sea and capture the Gyeonggi region of Japan at any time, but to the Northeast region where the Bohai people were attacking.

As for the reason, Wu Yiyong also explained it in the military newspaper. Because he believed that the current ruling of Japan's ancestral halls and ministers were just a group of waste, and they were not able to do anything, and they were not able to lead a war with the Great Zhou Republic.

So it is more beneficial to keep them blindly commanding the Japanese samurai warriors than to eliminate them immediately!

In addition, Wu Yiyong also suggested that a political strategy of inducing surrender to Heian Kyo's Japanese court should be adopted. Using the canonization of the Japanese king as bait, negotiations were held with Heian Kyo's court.

Use negotiations to dismantle the fighting spirit of the Japanese court. Once the Japanese court is willing to give up the eastern country in exchange for the "protection" of the Great Zhou Republic, the Great Zhou Republic can gain a long-term foothold in the eastern part of Honshu Island, Japan. It is a matter of time before it completely annexes Japan.

Even if the Japanese court saw through the conspiracy of the Great Zhou, they were unable to counterattack the eastern country. After all, the Gyeonggi region of Japan and the Kyushu Island in the west were all deterred by the troops stationed in the Hirado Island.

Therefore, the Japanese army could still calmly use the "Japanese court" as its opponent, while eroding the remaining territory of Japan, while carrying out military colonization in Japan's eastern region. At the same time, it also tried to transform the surrendered Japanese low-level samurai into knights and palace soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

After patiently working for five or six years, Japan has almost become a part of the Great Zhou Republic since ancient times...

"Five to six years... can the military expenditure be dealt with?" Wu Haogu carefully read Wu Yiyong's military newspaper, then looked at Wu Yijiu and asked, "If we want to pacify the entire Japan, two divisions are not enough. Why do we have to prepare seven or eight divisions?"

Seven to eight divisions, about 100,000 people, and five years of attack... Even the soldiers recruited can be used to pay military salaries in Kanto, and military rations can also be collected in Kanto area.

However, equipment, rewards, pensions, officer salaries, and the expenses of buying Japanese samurai will still be expensive.

In recent years, the Great Zhou Republic has not had enough money to enforce the government...

"You can deal with it!" Wu Yijiu smiled, "It's just to issue more debts... and this war is not enough to not fight this war! The battle of the Central Plains has left many good men on both sides of the Yellow River without land and family business. We don't have the imperial examination here, so if we want to turn over, we have to fight! If we don't fight, these restless people will have to fight with us. Instead of spending their efforts to suppress it internally, it's better to use troops from outside. Recruiting 100,000 Erlangs in the Central Plains to fight Japan in the east, and then win. One hundred thousand soldiers can always be placed, and the Central Plains can be much more peaceful."

This is the disadvantage of not having the imperial examination system and suppressing annexation... The people below will not have a safe and steady upward path, and they will make trouble in all kinds of troubles. The country must use military merits to appease the brave and powerful people among the people.

To put it unpleasantly, it is really a way to kill and eliminate internal troubles and win the enemy.

Therefore, when there is no imperial examination, or the imperial examination component is extremely low, the Central Plains dynasty will never be stable, either foreign wars or internal struggles.

Although the Great Zhou Republic is not a dynasty, it also needs to find a way out for the brave men among the more than 40 million people.

From this perspective, the cost of attacking Japan is not a big deal.
Chapter completed!