When this news about Taiwan's military expansion was announced again, it was immediately "obtained" by Akashi Motojiro, the section chief of the second Taiwan Section of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, and he immediately handed it over to the top Japanese military. It was even more frightening.

"Your Majesty, Taiwan is ready to further expand its military. Their army will probably expand to 20 divisions, about 300,000 people. And the navy will form three major fleets, namely the Taiwan Strait Fleet, the Java Sea Fleet, and the Banda Fleet. Sea Fleet. And if there is no accident, the total tonnage of these three fleets will reach about 270,000 tons. This fleet has become the top five fleets in the world, even surpassing the Germans, and has already followed closely behind the Russians. The back of the person's buttocks." Akashi Genjiro said.

The reason why Wang Guorui asked Akashi Genjiro to tell the Japanese side the news was because the news could not be hidden from anyone. Such a large-scale military expansion must be known to many people. After all, such a huge plan requires the cooperation of both the military and the government, and the action is definitely not small. In this way, I am afraid that they will all be exposed, so since they can't hide it, they should be used as a favor for Akashi Genjiro, and let him report to the Japanese side, and then let the Japanese side make preparations. At present, Wang Guorui has no plans to attack Japan. After all, the domestic problems have not been resolved. If he is busy attacking Japan, it may be difficult. What's more, Japan doesn't have any resources to obtain, which is why Wang Guorui doesn't want to deal with Japan for the time being. After all, if you go directly to clean up Japan, the final result must be that your own side is not worth the loss. Only when the strength becomes stronger in the future, it will be easy to clean up Japan.

On the contrary, enough information can add a lot of political capital to Akashi Genjiro, and then allow him to be continuously promoted. Grasp more power, so that you can be a traitor to a greater extent. At this stage, it is not yet an opportunity to use Akashi Genjiro, the ace undercover. At this time, not only can't use this hole card casually, but it is necessary to maintain this hole card so that he can continue to rise continuously, so that he can guarantee that once he uses it in the future. It can also have fatal effects. It would be very dangerous to abuse an undercover agent casually, and each use would increase the risk of exposure, so Wang Guorui would not abuse it casually. On the contrary, it is necessary to use some information that is not harmful, so that he can obtain a steady stream of promotion and development.

Japan is actually not surprised by Taiwan's military expansion. It would be strange if Taiwan did not expand its military! After all, Taiwan has already occupied Borneo, so it wants to maintain such a huge territory in the future. If you don't expand your army, you won't be able to sustain it at all. And Japan is also collecting information on Taiwan's military expansion. After all, if they don't find out clearly, they may have trouble sleeping and eating. But they didn't expect that Akashi Genjiro would send back a shocking piece of information. This piece of information was too terrifying.

Because of Taiwan's military expansion, it is understandable for Japan to expand its army. However, even Taiwan's navy will be expanded, and even three major fleets will be formed in the future. Among them, the Taiwan Strait Fleet and the Java Sea Fleet are very powerful, and the strength of any fleet is no less than that of the United Fleet back then. Now that Japan's combined fleet is recovering, they originally thought that Taiwan's economic strength could not support such a huge expansion of warships. Although the Japanese combined fleet has recovered a lot in the past two years. Even more than the United Fleet in the past. But in the face of Taiwan's Sovereign-class battleship, this made Japan very afraid. Don't dare to provoke.

But they think that Taiwan should not expand its navy. After all, Taiwan's current navy is already strong enough, let alone expanding the navy. But now they find that this situation is completely wrong. Not only has Taiwan expanded its navy, but it has expanded so arrogantly. From the very beginning, it started with the goal of forming three major fleets. Both of the two fleets are more powerful than the United Fleet back then, so they all felt a wave of fear. Because if Taiwan has such a powerful fleet, can Japan still maintain it?

"Are you sure this information is true? If Taiwan really has such a powerful fleet, then our empire..." Emperor Meiji gasped and asked.

Emperor Meiji certainly knew what was going on. When Japan invaded Taiwan, it was defeated by Taiwan and almost wiped out. But if it weren't for Taiwan, there would be no navy. Then maybe Taiwan will counterattack Japan. But now if Taiwan has a strong navy, what would they think? If Taiwan has a powerful navy, will they turn to Japan for revenge? At that time, what will happen to them? If you compare your heart with your heart, then Emperor Meiji will never let Japan go. And it is precisely because of this idea that Japan is even more frightened. Therefore, it is impossible for Emperor Meiji not to worry about this issue even if he is known as the emperor of ZTE in Japan.

"Your Majesty, I think our Empire of Japan should continue to expand its navy, otherwise we will not be able to continue to fight against Taiwan. Even at that time, we will have to face the result of being oppressed by the Chinese people again." Ito Yuheng said .

And Yohiro Ito, the head of the naval command, immediately knew that this was an opportunity to expand the navy. Although Taiwan had a sufficient navy in the past, it did not choose to attack Japan, but this time Taiwan has such a powerful navy, so Japan has to bite the bullet and follow. If Japan can't bite the bullet and follow, it may be very dangerous. Japan itself is narrow-minded, and naturally thinks that Taiwan is also so narrow-minded, and with such a powerful navy, it will inevitably retaliate against them. Therefore, they must also expand their navy, otherwise they will all die without a place to bury them.

"But His Majesty the Emperor, our domestic economy is already in great danger. If we continue to expand our navy, we're afraid..." an official said.

And everyone was silent again, because this time Japan had a very tragic life. They fought the Sino-Japanese War of 1899-1999, but they didn't grab a piece of territory, instead they paid a lot of money to get in. Although the mainland Chinese government has signed a compensation agreement, you should never underestimate the cunning of those mainland government bureaucrats. Although those mainland bureaucrats are bad in every way, they are good in one thing. It's like squeezing toothpaste. If Japan really defeated China, then they must be very happy to pay compensation. But now that Japan has lost a battle, those officials in mainland China will definitely not be willing to pay compensation. Japan was defeated by Taiwan, and the mainland also took the opportunity to delay the delivery of Japan's compensation. And no matter how forced by Japan, those mainland officials would not rush, and gave Japan bit by bit like squeezing toothpaste. The indemnity payment, which was already due for delivery, was somehow delayed by some things.

But Japan was very toothache about this, and they wanted to threaten the mainland government several times to send troops again. But in terms of resisting Japan, the mainland and Taiwan have reached an agreement, that is, if Japan dares to continue to invade China, then Taiwan will not sit idly by. Now the mainland and Taiwan are both struggling and cooperating to some extent, and they are of one mind in resisting the invaders. And Japan is also afraid of stimulating Taiwan, so they dare not actually send troops. In this case, Japan's threat is very limited.

Therefore, in this situation where Japan is already a toothless tiger, the officials in the Manchu and Qing mainland also tried their best to delay and refused to give Japan enough compensation. Anyway, those Manchu officials are so cunning, what can you do with him? As for the next step, Japan will naturally not be able to achieve economic development because it does not have a large amount of capital injection. But now they are also very difficult, and many people have begun to complain to the government. The enthusiasm of all the people to serve the country by saving money and food has been defeated. They were able to do this before because they all hoped to gain benefits, but now they fought a war. Although they claimed to be victorious, they didn't get anything. This made many people think it was a failure.

So this feeling of being splashed with cold water is really uncomfortable, which makes them feel very depressed~lightnovelpub.net~So the enthusiasm of the Japanese people can't be improved, and now they are all Concerned about people's livelihood issues. However, Japan has no money to use to develop people's livelihood, and the people's life is still very difficult, which is enough to make those people complain about the Japanese government.

"Ito? What do you say?" Emperor Meiji asked.

As the prime minister, Hiroshi Ito immediately said: "Your Majesty, I think it's better to ask the western countries what they are going to do? In the current era, we in the east can no longer do whatever we want. We have to ask about everything we do. Ask foreigners what they think. If Taiwan is too powerful, this will definitely not be in the interests of foreigners.”

"The Prime Minister's words are the words of a seasoned man who wants to seek the country! Yes, if Taiwan is too powerful, this will definitely not be in the interests of those Westerners. If Taiwan is too powerful, then I am afraid that it is also necessary for Westerners. A huge threat. Therefore, I think foreigners will not sit idly by, we might as well ask foreigners to give us some money or loans, and then develop our navy." Emperor Meiji said.

Soon, Japan hurriedly sent this information to Britain, and the British began to be shocked.

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