After coming out of the cabin where Sakamoto Ryoma rested, Xiao Letian was in a much better mood. He did not give Ito Hirobumi any constructive suggestions. He just described a nightmare to the two future Japanese civilian leaders.
In that nightmare, Japan defeated the Qing Dynasty, occupied North Korea, and even defeated Tsarist Russia. The Japanese navy even defeated the powerful Western fleet on the ocean. In the end, they realized their dream of thousands of years and entered the world. Lord of the Central Plains.
Unfortunately, fate is fair, and a series of victories also comes at a price. The civil and military conquests in the court intensified, and all influential politicians who did not obey the military were assassinated.
The fanatical mutineers even disdained the emperor's orders. Warlordism dominated Japan's political situation. Even the emperor could no longer control the situation at that time.
The civil and political power was wiped out, and the arrogant warlords provoked wars again and again. They did not care whether the occupied areas behind them were digested. They had obviously eaten a large bucket of rice mixed with stones, but they did not want to heal them. , and continue to eat.
The greedy monster has controlled the hearts of the entire Japanese nation. The short-sighted national characteristics of this nation are clearly visible. They only seek momentary glory and do not consider eternal peace at all.
No one dares to question Xiao Letian's judgment, because this is not his dream, but a real strategic deduction on the map. Every argument is supported by a large number of arguments.
Although Emperor Tongzhi emotionally believed that it was impossible for Japan to defeat the Qing Dynasty, these words came from the master's mouth. He had to believe it even if he didn't believe it, because the master had gradually become deified in his heart.
The final outcome of the strategic deduction made Ryoma-kun and Ito-kun break into cold sweat. The powerful Western fleet blocked every port in Japan, the army landed on the island, and all the troops were disbanded. The army leaders were tried.
Japanese women have become the playthings of the occupiers, while Japanese men have all become slaves of the enemy, living humbly for a mouthful of food.
The samurai class was completely abolished, and even the swords were confiscated and smelted into scrap metal. At that time, the whole of Japan would be completely demilitarized. There would be no civil and military disputes at that time, because the warrior class would be completely dominated by the occupiers. Obliterate, the only army is symbolic, Japan's security completely depends on the protection of others.
Don't think that your civilian power will rise in this way. You must know that politicians without the support of a strong military are nothing. No matter where they go, they are just groveling dogs.
"So, the more fiercely you fight between civil and military forces, the more miserable both sides will die in the end. This is just a lose-lose situation... No, no, no, this is a lose-lose ending."
"Of course, your Japanese craftsmanship will save you in the end. This nation will do very well in business in the end. When the time comes, your hands will cramp up when making money. I think there will be a day..."
After Xiao Letian finished speaking, he walked away. When he walked to the deck, Xiao Letian said mockingly, "I almost let it slip just now. If I let the matter about the two atomic bombs slip away, the credibility of the deduction would be very low." Greatly reduced..."
"But judging from their expressions, this deception seems to be effective. It just needs to make them aware of the crisis. I'm not a good person. It's hard for Japan to have anything to do with me. But it can bridge the rift between Japan's civil and military forces." If you tear it a little bigger, you will have achieved your goal..."
Xiao Letian has been secretly planning the Japanese strategy for a long time. A unified and powerful Japan is definitely not in his interest, and no one wants to create a threat to himself.
However, it is also not in Xiao Letian's interest to make Japan even poorer and more miserable, because poverty leads to change. When this group of lunatics really can't survive, they will eat all the delicious food of the Western powers. .
It is already very difficult to deal with France. If Britain and Russia are seduced again, then Xiao Letian, no matter how capable he is, may not be able to do anything.
Strategies will always be effective when the strength is about the same. Under absolute strength, any strategy will be empty.
Therefore, Xiao Letian's plan for Japan is to formulate three different countermeasures from three aspects: military, political and business.
Regarding the army, that is, Japan's huge samurai class, Xiao Letian's strategy is to divide and absorb the essence. This division is easy to understand. It allows the four fallen feudal lords and the shogunate to coexist. As long as there is no civil war, it is best to continue to maintain the status quo and hate each other.
After differentiation, there is absorption. Through repeated actual battles, Xiao Letian found that the Japanese Ba Dao team is really easy to use. As long as they recognize you as the lord, then you can receive absolute loyalty, as long as you can afford it. A fair reward.
In actual combat time and time again, whenever Xiao Letian needs a hand-to-hand assault, the first thing he thinks of is these sword-drawing team members, and the price for hiring them is also very simple: a reward of land.
Of course, this kind of reward is not a real reward, but a virtual reward. For example, Suzuki enjoys 50 stones. The stones here are not Chinese stones, but calculated according to Japanese stones. Japanese stones are equivalent to 1.8 Chinese stones, which is roughly converted to one stone. Equivalent to 150kg upwards.
Fifty kilograms is more than 8,000 kilograms of grain. Of course, in order to take into account the Japanese habit of eating rice, these more than 8,000 kilograms are settled in rice.
What is a false reward? That is, every soldier cannot actually see his land. All land is managed uniformly by the government. Anyway, in the end, it will be enough to give you so much food. You have the land in name, but the management rights do not belong to you. hands.
Xiao Letian is not stupid. He will never grant land in China to the Japanese. On the one hand, it is difficult to manage, and on the other hand, it is emotionally unjustifiable.
Although it is a false reward, this has already surprised the Japanese Bato team members. People who have never been to Japan cannot understand how solidified the class is in that country. It is extremely difficult for the people at the bottom to move forward. It is extremely difficult for the wild samurai to become a regular person. It is basically impossible to be a samurai. Even if there is a war, the most you can do is give a few strings of small coins.
Being able to own fixed land and receive stable food and wages every year is a privilege that upper-class samurai can have in Japan. If Japan cannot provide it, Xiao Letian can provide it, so Xiao Letian becomes one of these people. The lord of the Bato team, and Japan did not have the concept of a modern country at that time. As long as they recognize you as their lord, they will give you absolute loyalty.
Xiao Letian firmly believes that as long as he can distinguish rewards and punishments, and can provide generous treatment that cannot be given in Japan, especially the treatment passed down from generation to generation, more and more elite warriors will come to him in the future.
Spending money is not important. He doesn't care about this small amount of money. The key is to serve as an example. As long as the samurai across Japan see that this is the place where the highest-level elites should come. As long as he can give preferential treatment that even the shogunate cannot give, then The hearts of the Japanese samurai class were not unified.
Very good, very good, what I want is that you are not united, and what I want is that you think before and after. It is estimated that by then, even the samurai of the Tokugawa family will be full of complaints. He is obviously a high-ranking person in the hands of the daimyo. Samurai, but the treatment they received in the end was not as high as that of the wild samurai who defected to Ryukyu. How could those people be convinced?
Once people's hearts are unbalanced, storms will naturally arise.
Among the three aspects of military, political, and reward, the military sector has already been divided into methods, and the rest is political, that is, the civil service group.
Japan's civil servant group is really too weak. Since the emergence of the shogunate, the civil servants have become vassals of the samurai family. In the past, the ministers under the emperor were considered the best among civil servants, but after the Taira Kiyomori era, Japan's civil servants also began to become military generals.
The counselors under various daimyo, and even many daimyo themselves, were mainly literary. Especially during the Warring States Period, Japanese wise men had completely become part of the samurai family.
The already weak civil service force can no longer be divided and disintegrated at this time. Xiao Letian has to spend a lot of effort to support young talents such as Sakamoto Ryoma and Ito Hirobumi. He must support them in all aspects.
Financial assistance, intelligence bureau assistance, and even the team members can be dispatched to protect their safety. Of course, the most important thing is that these civil servants, starting from Ryoma-kun and Ito-kun, must accept Xiao Letian's ideological education.
Well, that's right. As long as they are civil servants recognized by Xiao Letian, they can get all-round protection and support. If they are not of the same mind as Xiao Letian, there is no need to directly take action and just let them fend for themselves.
I believe that it won’t be long before the civil servants of the pro-Xiao faction will control most of the government. As long as the support behind Xiao Letian continues, they will have the strength to compete with the Wu family. This plan is very feasible and will definitely see results within ten years. .
As for what kind of political system Japan will have in the future, Xiao Letian doesn't care, because he knows that no matter what kind of political system, people have to execute the instructions one by one, and all Xiao Letian has to do is control those people.
Seeking truth rather than being pragmatic, this is Xiao Letian's motto. Actual control is always better than using a name as a vase. If you control more than 60% of the officials in a government, no matter what kind of system the government has, You have to give Xiao Letian the green light at all times.
There are plans for both military and political affairs, and Xiao Letian plays a less honorable role in them. So in the final business, Xiao Letian is going to be a great philanthropist.
Japan is really too poor. It is precisely because it cannot survive that it urgently needs reform and even aggression. This has nothing to do with moral justice. This is the basic right of every nation, the right to survival.
Is there anyone in the world who doesn’t long for a better life? How could they not be envious when they see the Chinese people in the Central Plains enjoying fine wine and delicacies every day, while their own people are chewing tree bark and eating grass roots?
When this kind of envy and jealousy develops to the point of hatred, they will naturally come to steal and rob, and war will naturally be inevitable.
Don't talk about big principles. What people want is to set up a pot to cook rice, not to set up a pot to cook the truth. Even if what you say is ridiculous, even if what you say is poor, but look at your own pot, and then look at you. In the end, people have to grab the family's pot with all their sleeves.
Without solving this core problem, everything is empty talk.
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Sigh... I'm very tired, my heart is tired, and I don't want to say anything anymore. Let's just figure it out.
