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Shanyan stood on the commander bridge of the flagship "Sanli", and looked proudly at the distance and saw that the Taiwanese did not make effective defense. Dashanyan's thoughts couldn't help but return to the imperial meeting a month ago.

On the afternoon of 114, Tokyo, the highest command organization of the Great Japanese Empire during the war, the headquarters, was located. Emperor Meiji urgently convened a headquarters imperial meeting. At this meeting, the last battle situation will be evaluated and the last estimate of whether to send troops to Taiwan will be made. The conclusion will directly affect whether to send troops.

The base camp is composed of military officers from the army and naval army. Its main members include: Chief of the military officer and the military director General Araoshi, Chief of Staff, Prince Shizuki Sugaki (Chief of Staff), Chief of the Army Lieutenant General Kawakamiya (Chief of the Staff), Chief of the Army Lieutenant General Kawakami Kawakami (Deputy General Kuranosuke (Chief of the Navy Order), Secretary of the Army is General Oyama Iwa, and Secretary of the Navy is General Saigo Congdo.

The chief of staff at the base camp, the chief of staff-----Prince Arisugawa Shizuhito briefly described the content of the meeting, and handed over the right to speak to Ayao, who introduced the situation of the countries surrounding Japan.

"The enemies in front of our country are mainly China, Russia, others such as Britain, Germany, and France, all expressed some kindness to our country. The United States is the most friendly to our country, has provided loans several times, and has provided a lot of convenience to our international students."

"Russia is always hostile to our country. Since the death of the old Tsar, the new Tsar has been extremely hostile to our country and has repeatedly suppressed us since he came to power. The previous year even took advantage of the time when we fought with the Qing army and fought undeclaredly and invaded our country. It is a great shame and humiliation that our country has not suffered in a thousand years."

"After that, the Russians fought with the Northeast Republic and were defeated. Their strength was greatly weakened. Although they used their usual tricks to launch a sudden attack on me. However, under the strong attack of our army, the generals of the army have now completely withdrawn from East and West Siberia. Given the harsh natural environment in Siberia, before obtaining a suitable ending point, the Russians are unable to recover their strength a few years ago, and the threat to us can be said to be no longer possible."

Although everyone here knew this, they were still excited when they heard the words of Arato Essence. Even Emperor Meiji, who had always been silent, smiled, and a cheerful breeze flowed in the conference room.

"Let's talk about the Chinese region. Now China is divided into two sides. The Northern Federation is basically the Northeast Republic, and the Southern Federation is basically the spontaneous alliance of the Qing Dynasty in the South."

"The current military strength of the Northern Federation is about 200,000, and the southern part is about 15."

Chief Staff of the Army Lieutenant General Kawakami Kawakami interjected:

"Mr. Arago. I don't care about this. What I want to know is. How many mobile forces are there in the north and south?"

The Arakuyoshi looked at Dashanyan. Dashanyan was on the side and did not stop this impolite behavior. On the contrary, Dashanyan raised his ears and was about to listen to the Arakuyoshi's conclusion. The Arakuyoshi sighed and honestly answered Kawakami Kawakami's sixth place questions.

"The Northern Federation has only about 20,000 people, but not in the South."

When I heard this news, Oyama Yama's first reaction was that Aratoko was lying, and the second reaction was that Aratoko got the wrong information. Kawakami Kawakami Kawakami walked directly to Aratoko and said loudly: "Old man, have you all killed the spies you sent last time? So these things are here to fool us."

Looking at Kawakami's face without evolution, Arago's spirit felt a sense of anger and naturally cursed out: "Baga!"

This sentence triggered a fierce battle between the general of the Army, chief military officer and military director, and the chief military staff of the Army, and the Lieutenant General. In the end, the Lieutenant General defeated the Major General, and the Lieutenant General proudly pushed the Major General to the ground, as if he was ready to kick him.

Chiren, who had always had a gloomy face, couldn't help but shouted loudly: "Enough! You are actually noisy in front of the Emperor, do you think you are glorious, right?"

After receiving the signal from the prince, the two generals temporarily restored peace and shook hands reluctantly to prepare for the next war.

Ignoring the evil thoughts in the eyes of the two generals, Chiren turned his head and said to the Arakuta Essence

"Your Excellency Arago, you can say it now. I believe you have a way to prove yourself."

"The earliest army in the Northeast should start with the Pingkou Army. The earliest Pingkou Army was extremely elite and had defeated several of our brigades in succession, but the Pingkou Army also suffered great losses. It turned out that the organization of 15,000 people was only a few thousand people left. After the expansion, the Northeast Army organized the defeated troops of the Huai Army and some militia groups, reaching more than 50,000 people at most. Within a year after the founding of the Northeast, these troops reached hundreds of thousands, but there were only these 50,000 people fighting here. The Northeast Army relied on these 50,000 people to build a 120,000 main force."

The matter was a little unfamiliar with the ministers of the base camp. For a moment, only the voice of Arakuyo's spirit echoed in the hall.

"In the war with Russia, although these 120,000 people were not injured, the Russians were not so delicious after all, and the Northeast Army suffered more than 4 casualties. Among them, the army left behind in Anshan Fortress Group had the most casualties, with more than 20,000 troops almost completely killed or injured. Zhao Gang was even forced to cancel the number of a certain division. In other words, after the battle against Russia, the Northeast Army had only more than 80,000 regular troops."

"After that, although it was expanded again on the basis of these more than 8 people, the combat effectiveness of the troops had declined. It can be seen in the battle against the Qing army that the iron army, which was invincible and invincible in the past, disappeared. Instead, it was a Northeast army that had surpassed the equipment and greatly retreated in other aspects. It attacked Shanhaiguan for nearly a month and a half, and the number of casualties reached 50,000. Please note that the attacking Second Army was actually expanded from the original Third Army. More than 30,000 out of the 100,000 people were the original backbone, and at least half of the losses were lost this time. The strength of the Northeast Army was also greatly weakened. According to our analysis, although Zhao Gang claimed that his army had 300,000 experience, there would not exceed 60,000 soldiers."

Kawakami Shoji said in a low voice: "Those who know a little military know that a unit has collapsed after more than 30% of casualties. 10 Northeast Army has suffered 50,000 casualties and has not collapsed yet. I don't know what the Northeast Army has done!"

Arato Essence pretended not to hear:

Kawakami Kawakami continued to fire poisonous arrows

"Since the Northeast Army has only 60,000 troops, our army of more than 100,000 can still attack, seize the Northeast ammunition and grain as supplies, and fight to the south!" Kawakami Kawakami six big shots interjected carelessly. This time, Dashanyan had to pull him, reminding him not to be too presumptuous.

Arato's eloquence looked at Kawakami Kawakami's sixty-one and continued:

"The current situation is that 15 out of the 300,000 people in the north remain in the north, the other 10 are scattered in northern provinces, and 5 are distributed along the Yangtze River, preparing to go to war with the south. Once war with the south, the north will be unable to take care of it. Our Japanese opportunity will come."

Prince Chiren quickly got into the topic: "Everyone, the most important question now is whether to send troops to Taiwan. Please express your opinions on this."

"I think Taiwan's terrain is complex and the climate is very harsh. Our army fought many people back then, but in the end it failed."

The military officer, the chief army general, Okazawa, was worried and said slowly to the prince.

Kawakami Kawakami immediately pushed him back: "What are you saying! We have more than 100,000 troops, and Taiwan only has a few militias. It's winter now, and Taiwan is a good time. It's not easy to flatten it at that time? The question is, what can we get? There is nothing valuable on that island, and I don't want my soldiers to bleed for this."

Arato's spirit looked at Kawakami Shoji with some contempt, and was very happy to have the opportunity to mock Kawakami Shoji with June 1st

"The first income is to plunder land. All unowned land and incomplete procedures are collected into the official position, and private land is subject to heavy taxes. In this way, due to the lack of income and income, the owners dare not apply for ownership, and the land falls into our hands "justified".

"Through this policy, we will get nearly half of the land, as well as most of the forest land. The value of these land is about 16,000 taels of silver. Of course, these real estates will not actively produce wealth. Through rentals, we can get an income of 600 taels of silver every year."

"The second item is to invade Taiwan, in order to plunder Taiwan's rice in large quantities and realize its colonial rule economic model of "agricultural Taiwan, industrial Japan", we started by establishing the "agricultural experimental institute" to comprehensively transform the traditional farming methods and production conditions in Taiwan, such as introducing excellent varieties, increasing fertilizer application, expanding irrigation area, and even relying on local government officials, police and baojia systems to force Taiwanese farmers to grow rice and plant windbreak forests. In addition, agricultural and forestry products such as pineapple, banana, camphor, sugar produced in Taiwan were also plundered to Japan by Japanese colonial rulers, or sold to European and American countries. This income is 16 million taels per year."

"Implement a monopoly, through the implementation of a monopoly sale of daily necessities such as salt, tobacco, alcohol, matches, and also implement a monopoly sale of opium that is prohibited from smoking in Japan in Taiwan. Implement a monopoly management of daily industrial products such as tobacco, alcohol, matches, kerosene, etc., which can bring 1,200 taels of silver annually."

"If it is just a simple income, these are nothing. The most important thing is that Taiwan's colony, as a source of raw materials and dumping market, can effectively alleviate my country's economic crisis and play a virtuous cycle for my country's economic development."
Chapter completed!