That night, the Japanese negotiating team packed their luggage and early the next morning, they took the passenger ship, left Shanghai and returned to Japan.

After boarding the boat, Hirofumi Ito locked himself in the room and didn't come out, even eating food in the room. Everyone else knew that Hirofumi Ito was in a bad mood, so he didn't bother him. Ito Hirofumi didn't send someone to call Naotao Miyamoto to his room. The two of them sat down. Hirofumi Ito said, "Miyomo, I have been thinking about what Qin Zheng said these two days, what do you think?"

During the negotiations, although Naotao Miyamoto participated in the negotiation process throughout the negotiations, he basically did not express any opinions during the negotiations, but only followed the whole process. Of course, as his identity, it is normal not to speak. In the private discussions of the Japanese negotiating team, he rarely spoke, and even if he spoke, he did not have any wonderful suggestions. Of course, Hirofumi Ito was not disappointed with him. The overall situation of Bijing was like this, and it was not something that could be saved by a certain person. In fact, Naotao Miyamoto was also afraid that

He was wrong with his words. He knew that the time traveler of East China was traveling with several modern warships. There must be advanced surveillance and eavesdropping equipment in the old time and space. Every move and every word and action of the entire Japanese negotiating team were under the control of the other party. If he was not careful, he showed his strength and let the East China ** know that he was also a time traveler. The other party would definitely try his best to get rid of himself, so he must not be careless. It was not until the Japanese negotiating team boarded the ship and left that he relaxed.

Seeing Hirobu Ito ask, Naotaku Miyamoto smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, I really want to tell you that Qin Zheng's words are wrong, but if I ask me to tell the truth, I will only let you down. What Qin Zheng said is indeed true. China has a vast territory, a large population, and rich resources, and is far above Japan. In addition to the corruption of the Qing Dynasty, there is another important reason why Japan was in charge of the 12-year-old Sino-Japanese War. After 30 years of reform, Japan had entered the ranks of civilized countries and established its own preliminary industrial system, becoming an industrialized country. Although the Qing Dynasty also carried out the Westernization Movement for nearly 30 years, the depth and breadth of the change cannot be compared with the Meiji Vishin in Japan. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty was essentially an authoritarian and backward agricultural country.

In fact, it was a preliminary industrialized country war against an agricultural country. The most obvious difference was that the weapons used by both sides at that time were basically fully self-produced in terms of army weapons. Although there were a small amount of imported ones, the self-produced weapons could also be replaced, but the performance was a little worse. The Qing Dynasty had 70% of its weapons and ammunition, and once the import channels were cut off, it was unsustainable. In the navy, although the main warships of both sides were purchased from foreign countries, the Hashitachi, one of the Japanese Three Scenic ships, and the Akizushi, one of the main battleships, were all built in Japan, and shells could be produced by themselves. The Badayuan of the Beiyang Navy was purchased from foreign countries. Not only did it not have the ability to build warships, but it could only produce solid bombs by itself. Even blasting bombs needed to be purchased from foreign countries. It was not surprising that Japan could win."

Hirobuki Ito nodded and said, "This is what Qin Zheng said, Japan is one step ahead."

Naotaku Miyamoto said: "Yes, it's a pity that this step has been caught up by East China. Although the industrialization level of East China is not as good as Japan in overall, it has initially formed a system. The weapons, ammunition, warships and warships of this Far East War can basically be produced by themselves. Moreover, in this war, they not only obtained a large amount of land and population, but also had huge compensation. Therefore, after the war, their overall level will inevitably have a leap forward. It will take less than 10 years for East China to unify China. At that time, the entire Chinese manpower and material resources will be owned by them. Japan cannot achieve a leading advantage. Although it is cruel to say this, it is the fact."

Hirobuki Ito said: "According to your opinion, we still have a chance before East China** unifies China."

Miyamoto Naotaku smiled bitterly: "Theory is this, but Japan consumes a huge amount of foreign debt in this war and owes a lot of foreign debt. It will be impossible for it to catch up with the development of East China* within 10 years. If the Puttsmouth negotiations could be signed, Japan might have a chance."

Hirobu Ito could only smile bitterly and speechlessly. Puttsmouth negotiated East China with only 50 million pounds of compensation, and did not land in Japan. If Japan agreed at that time, the loss could be reduced by at least half, but it was just that the world could not buy regret medicine.

After a long silence, Hirofumi Ito said: "After the war is over, Britain, France, the United States and other countries will help Japan restore its national strength. Do you think it is possible to restore Japan in advance?"

Naotaku Miyamoto said: "It is true that Britain, France, the United States and other parliament support Japan, but they are all for their own interests, not for Japan, so they will not support Japan infinitely. If I are Britain, France, the United States and other countries, Japan only needs to restore to a sufficient level to restrain East China **, and Japan does not need to completely defeat East China **. The situation that is most beneficial to them is the situation that Japan and East China ** are restrained. And neither side dominates in East Asia is the result they want to see. And if there is greater interests, Britain, France, the United States and other countries will buy Japan without hesitation."

Hirobu Ito pondered for a while before nodding, saying, "You are right, but Japan has no other way?"

Miyamoto Naotaku said: "Of course there is a solution. First of all, we should try our best to provoke the conflict between Britain, France, the United States and other countries and the East China **, so that they can come forward to confront the East China ** directly. Japan must not rush to the front line of confrontation with China, but should hide behind Britain, France, the United States and other countries, and let them fight to the death. While ease the relationship with the East China **, we should use the East China ** to put pressure on Britain, France, the United States and other countries to force Britain, France, the United States and other countries to provide greater benefits to Japan to restore Japan's national strength. When necessary, we can even establish a certain good relationship with the East China **, and the United States as well as the bottom as possible. Because Japan's reversal to China is a result that Britain, France, the United States and other countries will never want to see. In order to hold Japan, Britain, France, the United States and other countries must provide more support for Japan. Only in this way can we get along in the cracks between the countries and take advantage of the momentum, this is the way for Japan to survive."

After hearing this, Hirobuki Ito nodded repeatedly and said, "Gao Ming, this is a very clever method."

Naotao Miyamoto said: "Sir has been awarded. This method is very simple, but it is not easy to operate. Whether it is East China, Britain, France, the United States, etc., it cannot be easily deceived. This requires extremely clever diplomatic skills and extremely meticulous operation."

Hirobuki Ito said: "That's always better than being helpless."

Miyamoto Naotao said: "That's true, but the most urgent thing is to solve it immediately."

Hirofumi Ito said: "What's the matter?"

Naotao Miyamoto said: "Japanese customs must be in the hands of Japan."

Hirofumi Ito couldn't help but smile bitterly again. Tariff autonomy has always been a part of his heart. After the founding of the black ship, Japan also signed a large number of unequal treaties with European powers. Foreign countries not only enjoy extra-government legal rights in Japan, but also control Japan's economic lifeline. After the fall of the curtain, Japan negotiated with Europe many times to demand the abolition of all unequal treaties, but the results were not great. It was not until 1899, after the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, that foreign countries' extra-government legal rights in Japan were abolished, and Japan's tariffs were still controlled by the UK, just like the Qing court.

Hirofumi Ito originally planned to negotiate with Britain after defeating Russia with the momentum of victory and regain tariff autonomy. This was the case in the old time and space. After winning the Russo-Japanese War, Japan started arduous negotiations with Britain, and it was not until 1911 that it officially regained tariff autonomy. But now Japan obviously does not have this condition. However, if it does not recover tariff autonomy, Japan cannot achieve complete autonomy. Let alone restore its national strength and continue to develop. Therefore, it can only try it with Naota Miyamoto's method of leveraging its power.

So on the return trip, Hirofumi Ito, Sutaro Komura, Naotaki Miyamoto and others conducted detailed negotiations to take back Japan's tariff autonomy if East China ** was used to put pressure on the UK.

Time passed without realizing it, and the ship sailed back to Japan and into Tokyo Bay.

Hirobu Ito stood on the side of the ship and looked at the dock. It saw that the dock was covered with soldiers, armed with guns and ammunition, and was ready for battle. Outside the dock, there were many figures, and a large number of flags and banners could be vaguely seen. But the soldiers stopped him and could not enter the dock. Hirobu Ito could only smile bitterly. Of course, these people would not be here to welcome him back, but they must be here to protest.

At this time, the members of the Japanese negotiating team were not very good-looking, but Hirobuki Ito was already mentally prepared for this. He was not surprised. Instead, he comforted others and did not have to take this matter to heart. One day they would understand the efforts of the Japanese negotiating team.

When the ship was docked, Hirofumi Ito led everyone down from the boat. There were also many people greeting him at the dock. The two led were Nishimotoji Komatsu and Inuyasushi, both members of the Massacre Association founded by Hirofumi Ito, and they were also the right-hand man of Hirofumi Ito. He was Nishimotoji Komatsu and one of the founders of the Meiji Restoration.

Seeing Hirofumi Ito get off the boat, the two of them immediately went up to meet him. Nishiyuanji Duke looked at him and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Hirofumi Ito sighed and said, "Shame, I am really ashamed of Japan."

Inuyasu said hurriedly: "Ito-kun, don't blame yourself. This is not your responsibility, on the contrary, you restored peace to Japan."

Several people were talking, and only heard the shouting of the crowd outside the pier reaching the dock. It turned out that the crowd protesting outside the pier already knew that Hirofumi Ito got off the boat. Although there were soldiers at the entrance of the pier and refused to stop the horse and could not enter, they could yell loudly. Although the sounds were not all neat, they could vaguely hear a few words:

Hirofumi Ito is a traitor.

Hirofumi Ito committed suicide and apologized.

Hirofumi Ito committed suicide by cesarean section.

………

Nishiroji Gongwang said, "You don't have to worry about it. Now people are angry and will calm down after a while. You will not forget your contributions to Japan. Japan now needs you."

Hirofumi Ito wanted to say something else, but an officer came over and said, "Several officials, hurry up and leave the dock. It will be bad if someone outside makes a problem."
Chapter completed!