Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

History is always so strikingly similar.

After the great sea battle, the Sakura Kingdom occupied the Liaozhou Peninsula. With the intervention of various countries, the Sakura Kingdom could only return the Liaozhou Peninsula to Daxia.

But this kind of refund is not free. For this reason, Daxia gave the Sakura Empire [-] million imperial silver dollars as compensation.

Now, Daxia occupied Kyushu Island and gave Kyushu Island to Tokugawa Qingxi to establish the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Sakura Country is willing to use [-] million to redeem Kyushu Island.

Moreover, during this process, Meiji did not ask Daxia to deal with Tokugawa Qingxi.

The meaning of this is to tell Lin Yi, I will give you [-] million, and you will leave Tokugawa alone, at least not on the surface.

In this case, the Sakura Kingdom, which has sovereignty over Kyushu Island, has reason to launch an attack on the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Although this sovereignty is nominal, it at least gives Meiji an excuse, right?

Meiji's request played right into Lin Yi's wish.

In his original idea, he needed to let Tokugawa Keki and Meiji fight after the war.

After all, if they don't fight, how can they weaken Sakura Country's war potential? If they don't fight, how can the empire make money from it?

Therefore, Lin Yi immediately agreed to Meiji's request in his heart.

However, Lin Yi still sent someone to Nagasaki to tell Tokugawa Qingxi, telling him that even if the empire signed a contract with Sakura Country, it would silently support him behind the scenes.

After receiving Daxia's guarantee, and since Tokugawa Yingxi was not satisfied with being trapped on a Kyushu island, he also agreed to Daxia's arrangement.

Don't you just fight it yourself? Who is afraid of whom?

Now Tokugawa Keki has assembled a team of [-] people, although a large part of these [-] people are in the hands of Koizumi Jiro, although a large part of these [-] people are new recruits.

But Meiji has good cards in hand?

According to the contract, Meiji could only have [-] to [-] people after the war.

The total force is not much more than our own.

At the same time, Tokugawa Yingxi also thought about it. Once the war started, he would defend Kyushu Island.

He didn't believe it. Meiji didn't even have a battleship. How could he devote all his troops to Kyushu Island?

And he himself, with Daxia on his back, could get a steady stream of weapon support, he didn't believe that he couldn't defeat Meiji.

After thinking about these key points, Tokugawa Kexi happily signed the "Xiafu Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance".

The mutual assistance treaty stipulated that Daxia provided support to the Tokugawa Shogunate, including but not limited to food and weapons.

At the same time, Tokugawa took a fancy to the combat effectiveness of Lin Yi's army and hoped that Lin Yi could send a team of instructors to help him train new recruits.

Lin Yi was a little reluctant at first, but then he thought about it. With the current strength of the Tokugawa Shogunate, without his support, it would definitely not last half a year.

Once the Tokugawa shogunate was defeated by Meiji, all the empire's investment in Kyushu Island would be in vain.

Therefore, Lin Yi could only help Tokugawa celebrate.

But how to help, then there is a problem.

First, the Tokugawa Shogunate needed to purchase all military supplies from Daxia. This was done in order to be able to control the ambitions of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Once it is discovered that something is wrong with the Tokugawa shogunate, Daxia can directly cut off Tokugawa Qingxi's logistical supplies.

A group of soldiers with only guns and no bullets, no matter how powerful they are, what's the use? Are you going to fight yourself with a samurai sword?

The second point is that Lin Yi not only wants to provoke a fight between Tokugawa Keiki and Meiji, but also a conflict between Koizumi Jiro and Tokugawa Keiki.

In Lin Yi's view, Koizumi Jiro is more controlling than Tokugawa Kei.

The third point, and the most critical point, is that Lin Yi only intends to provide firearms to Tokugawa Qingxi, but does not allow Tokugawa Qingxi to own battleships. Not to mention future weapons of war such as aircraft and tanks.

In this case, the Tokugawa shogunate could only develop the army.

And no matter how powerful the army is, can it be more powerful than aircraft and tanks?

Lin Yi had already thought about it. When the war was over, he would seize a wave of imperial technology and try his best to climb the imperial technology tree.

After thinking about this, Lin Yicai agreed to Tokugawa Qingxi's request.

However, in the end, Lin Yi added to the contract that when necessary, the imperial officers could directly make an appointment with Tokugawa Qingxi and directly command the troops of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Tokugawa Qingxi, who was eager to gain all the power in the Sakura Kingdom, thought about it for half an hour before fully agreeing to Lin Yi's request.

To use Tokugawa Kei's original words, Daxia and him are like father and son. Without Daxia's support, he would still be just the last shogun trapped in Kan'ei Temple Daijiin.

Now, although the power of the shogunate is far from what it was before, he has now re-established the shogunate and has not let the shogunate end in his hands.

As for power, as the trust between the two parties deepens, Tokugawa Qingxi believes that one day Daxia will return the power of the shogunate to the shogunate.

Lin Yi just smiled when he heard Tokugawa Qingxi's remarks.

Just listen to some jokes, whoever believes them will be stupid.

The day after signing the "Xiafu Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance" with Tokugawa Yingxi, Lin Yi secretly met with Koizumi Jiro.

However, no one knows what Lin Yi and Jiro Koizumi talked about.

Anyway, after Koizumi Jiro walked out of Lin Yi's room, he couldn't hide the smile on his face.

However, whether it was the secret conversation between Lin Yi and Jiro Koizumi, or the signing of the "Xiafu Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance" between Lin Yi and Tokugawa Kexi, that was all in the future.

But now, after Lin Yi sent someone to inform Tokugawa of the celebration, he signed the "Xia Ying Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Understanding" with Hirota Renjie.

The treaty stipulated that, first, the Sakura Empire gave up its claim to sovereignty over Goryeo, Yiju Island, and Ryukyu.

Immediately release the Li family of Goryeo and the Shang family of Ryukyu and hand them over to Daxia. At the same time, they will compensate the two countries with five million imperial silver dollars.

Second, the Sakura Empire compensated the Great Xia Empire with a war compensation of 5 million imperial silver dollars, divided into five years, with an additional [-]% interest per year.

A total of [-] million imperial silver dollars need to be compensated to the Daxia Empire.

Third, Daxia did not recognize the Tokugawa Shogunate on Kyushu Island, saying that there was only one legal government on the Sakura Islands.

At the same time, the Sakura Empire declared the Tokugawa shogunate as rebels, and Tokugawa Qingxi and the pseudo-Tenhuang Baiyu were the leaders of the rebels.

At this point, the month-long peace talks ended, and Daxia and the Hirota cabinet formally signed a contract on May 1901, 5, in Shimonoseki, Honshu Island, Sakura Empire.

Historically known as the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" or "Treaty of Shimonoseki"

However, what is surprising is that on the night after the treaty was signed, Hirota Renjie announced his resignation as Prime Minister of the Cabinet, and then announced that he was unwell and needed to go to Daxia to recuperate.

Meiji Tianhuang had no choice but to accept his fate and choose Terauchi Seiichi, the prime minister, to take over the cabinet.

After Seiichi Terauchi, a representative of the hard-line faction, came to power, he said that the people of Sakura country respect the spirit of the contract very much.

Although the contract signed by Hirota Renjie is not very legal and is suspected of treason, the contract has been signed now, so the temple cabinet still intends to abide by the terms of the contract.

Lin Yi directly applauded Meiji, Hirota Renjie and Terauchi Seiichi's actions, and then shouted "Xiu'er."

Lin Yi did not express his opinion on this, but it is said that when talking privately with his prince's adjutant Zhao Xi, Lin Yi said, "Everyone in the empire has earned face. If Sakura wants to earn some face, she can do it by Let him go"