In fact, Emperor Hua did not care much about occupying only the areas east of Fukuoka and Kurume, or the entire Kyushu Island. For small countries like Japan, cutting off Kyushu Island and preventing Kyushu Island from entering the entire Japanese administrative area is enough. China's industrial products have a channel to continuously import Japan into the Japanese industry, which is enough. Even in the primary stage, China's industrial system, with agricultural countries like Japan, trade without tariff barriers, is enough to wash Japan's marrow to ancient times.

The Meiji Restoration of the Japanese and the serfdom reform of Tsarist Russia began almost at the same time.

Russian serfdom was a top-down reform with capitalist nature implemented by the Russian Tsar when he saw Western Europe gradually becoming stronger. At this time, the Tsar was considered a big landlord class, and after the reform, he did not get rid of his identity as a big landlord, and was the big landlord bourgeoisie.

The Meiji Restoration is similar to that of the promoter of the Emperor Meiji, but in fact, the real planner of the reform was not the Emperor, but the vassals of the former Changzhou Satsuma vassals who were honored by the kings in the Iron-chen War, and the representative figures were the "Last Three Heroes".

The emperor is the spiritual and religious symbol of the Japanese landlord class (the administrative power has been undermined for hundreds of years), and the vassals are representative figures of the Japanese landlord class - samurai. Therefore, the leadership class of the Meiji Restoration was also the original landlord class. After the Meiji Restoration, they either became professional bureaucrats of the government (vassals), or became the highest religious and power symbol of the country (the emperor), or lost their land control in exchange for a large amount of wealth and became a chaebol (formerly Dainame, renamed the "Chinese" after the reform), and in essence they transformed from landlords into the big landlords and bourgeoisie.

The reason why Emperor Hua allowed the existence of the warrior army was to facilitate the consumption of the vital power of Kyushu Island, and on the other hand, it was to pave the way to re-carry out Tokugawa Kyoki. Saigo Takamori would definitely not be the leader of the puppet regime, but Tokugawa Kyoki is different.

Tokugawa Kyoki was born in the Mito family, one of the three Tokugawa Omiya families. His father was Tokugawa Yoshiko and his mother Tokugawa Yoshiko was Yoshiko of Qiaki's official family. Koki ranked seventh among many brothers.

In 1847 (4th year of Honghua), he inherited the Ichihashi family. On the issue of succession by the general's Ichihashi family, he was supported by the so-called Ichihashi faction and failed to compete with Ichihashi, who was elected by the Minami Ki faction such as Iii Naoki.

During the prison of An Zheng, he was punished by "seclusion" and "cautious" and I was pardoned after his death. Faced with the increasing decline, Qingxi originally hoped to use France to assist in westernization after inheritance (with a loan of US$6 million for French officers, purchase weapons and ships, and form a Japanese-French company to develop industrial and commercial trade), and re-emerge the Gongwu alliance to reform the Shimao.

After the reform of the Makuma in 1862 (2 years after the Fuji), he served as a general and implemented a policy of maintaining the power of the Makuma and combining the public and military forces.

After the death of the 14th General Iemoto in 1866 (2nd year of Qingying), Qingxi became the general.

With the advice and assistance of French Minister Roche, the European system was used to reform the Shogunate, and it was planned to establish a unified power structure centered on the Tokugawa clan.

Unexpectedly, in July 1866, the new French Foreign Minister Musti came to the government and no longer supported the diplomatic line of French Minister Luo Shuya's connection to the shogunate. Instead, he adopted the same front as Britain, tending to form a public political system to dissolve the shogunate. Keihi suddenly lost foreign aid, and in the end of 1866, Emperor Komei, who had always supported the union of the Gongwu and opposed the overthrow of the shogunate (so it was rumored that it was done by the anti-shogunate faction), which further disillusioned the dream of maintaining the legitimacy of the shogunate government.

As a result, in June 1867, Sakamoto Ryuma and Goto Yoshiro of Tosa clan established the "Eight Strategies on the Ship", advocating the shogunate to return the major policies and form a Daming Gongpin system led by the Emperor, and also obtained the agreement signed by the Satsuma clan, Tosa clan and Anyi clan to support it.

In September 1867, the Satsuma clan and the Choshu clan reached an agreement to send troops, and later joined the An Yi clan to form the Anti-Sutra Alliance; in October, representatives of the Three Feudals gathered in Kyoto, obtained the Emperor's secret decree to challenge the Foo, and decided to send troops.

In order to avoid a Japanese civil war, Keiki took the initiative to hold a ceremony to return the great power in Nijo Castle. On October 14, 1867, he returned the great power and gave the great power to the emperor.

The Emperor issued the "Royal Retro Order" to abolish the shogunate. Keiki hoped to use this as a bitter plan to ultimately retain strength under the new regime in order to win back dominance.

However, the Shogun Alliance did not trust the shogunate action and was determined to launch a coup under the name of "Robedience of the King" and establish a new government led by the Emperor.

Faced with the harsh demands of the imperial court and the anti-shog faction, Tokugawa led the shogunate army from Osaka to attack Kyoto, and fought a decisive battle of 5,000 government troops. In the end, the shogunate army was defeated in Tooba and Fushimi, and Keiki had to flee back to Edo.

Finally, under the navy's lobbying of the sea boat, Keiki agreed to surrender. In May 1868, Tokugawa Kyoki handed over Edo and re-entrusted it to Shizuoka, and was granted 700,000 stone land. The Tokugawa shogunate's rule in Edo ended in 265. When the Tokugawa clan was punished in 1868, it was decided that Ta'an Katsunosuke (Tokugawa Ieta) would inherit the So Family and grant him 700,000 stone to Junfu. In July, Keiki moved to Junfu.

As the last general of the shogunate, Tokugawa Keiki took the initiative to return the great power. He was not the "monarch of the country to be destroyed" in the general sense and was deeply sympathized by the Japanese people. At least, at this time when the Emperor of China was located, the "Bushido Spirit" had not yet sprouted in the army, nor did he sprout in the entire society.

Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty was emperor for seventeen years, but the Ming Dynasty was destroyed in the late Wanli period and in the Tianqi period.

Puyi has been the emperor for three years. Will anyone say that he is blamed for the demise of the Qing Dynasty?

He only had one year's general. Like all the last rulers, Qingxi also wanted to reform. But it was too late to take over.

Regarding the enemy, when he came to power, Sa Chang had become a climate. Internally, it was too late for the Gongwu fusion he advocated because Emperor Komei was dead. The Anti-Sutra received the orders of Emperor Meiji, which was reasonable.

Foreign, France and Britain both think that the shogunate is more beneficial.

Therefore, the return of the great power was already the best solution that Tokugawa Keiki as a general at that time: try to reduce bloodshed and transfer forces, avoid the Japanese civil war. He retained his strength and obtained certain public opinion support, so the king Zheng was retro.

The great power is not necessarily selfless. After all, there is the attempted restoration war of Wang Zhengjiu. He must have selfish intentions, but in terms of effect, Japan has experienced less wars and entered the next era.

This is what Emperor Hua did not allow. Emperor Hua did not allow the Japanese to enter the state of zombie military country. Once he entered the track of the zombie military country, this small country would be in a state of stagnation. Of course, even if Emperor Hua used so many methods, it would be impossible to avoid Japan's zombie path in the end. However, before that, infinitely weakening this zombie was the best way for Emperor Hua and the Chinese.

After the Reformation, there were actually many local battles, and Tokugawa Kyoki was not the most noisy one.

During the Battle of Toba Fushimi, Tokugawa Keiki did not show his military talent that was against the will of heaven. The public morality and motivation of politicians cannot be evaluated in detail, and it is too subtle and complicated.

From the perspective of effect, the return of the great power and the failed Wang Zheng were relatively good choices for Japan at that time.

Tokugawa Keiki did not fight to the death, but avoided the bloodshed of Japan, which was considered a contribution.

Compared to Ieyasu's repeated battles against Osaka, he has been less troubled.

There are many people in the doomsday power who handed over the regime. Tokugawa Keiki is the most demanding external conditions and relatively open-minded, so the ending is better. He is also very cooperative with the new era. This is a better result for a doomsday power person.

If anyone else puts it on him, it may not be better - at most, in the new era, we will just fight for more rights and interests for the shogunate faction.

As for private morality, he is a very unconcerned person who cares about politics. He is a very trendy person who has received a very formal education since childhood and is quite upright.

In short, Tokugawa Kyoki's various conditions are in line with all the conditions, and it is an irreplaceable candidate. This is why Li Hongzhang proposed that either Tokugawa Kyoki comes to Kyushu Island and the Chinese army could retreat to the west of Fukuoka and Kurume, or the Japanese government would ced the entire Kyushu Island to China as compensation for the war against Japan invasion of Korea.

Li Hongzhang had reached a consensus with Emperor Hua and obtained the approval of Emperor Hua, but in the subsequent process, Emperor Hua was given full power to Li Hongzhang and Xuan Jianzhang. This time, the battle against Xiaguan City was mainly because Emperor Hua temporarily sent a telegram to cooperate with Emperor Hua's diplomacy in Europe.

After Xuan Jianzhang captured Xiaguan City, the First Regiment of the First Brigade of the Chinese Army's First Field Division was stationed in Xiaguan City, and the Second Regiment of the First Brigade of the Chinese Army's First Field Division was stationed in Kitakyushu City. The two regiments were in a junction with each other. While Saigo's convening troops outside Xiaguan City, he quickly asked Kyoto, Japan to add troops and food and grass to prepare for a counterattack. The second wave of war between the two sides was about to break out.

"How is your situation?" Li Hongzhang personally called Xuan Jianzhang's intercom. The two of them were in Xiaguan City and the other was in Nagasaki City, but they seemed to be around.

Xuan Jianzhang and Li Hongzhang are already using radio intercoms, and China is at the forefront of the entire era in electronic communications.

"It's great. The army's renovation has ended, and the ammunition is enough to support a high-density battle." Xuan Jianzhang replied.

"Don't take it lightly. I heard that the British and French are already helping Japan transport arms from Europe? Is it?" Li Hongzhang reminded.

China has a single person in charge of the Statistics Bureau of Japan, but Xuan Jianzhang of the military knew faster and more detailed than Li Hongzhang, so Li Hongzhang was not very sure.

Xuan Jianzhang nodded and said, "Yes, I heard that a large number of arms were transported, and it seems that the British lent money to them again."

Without naval support, it was just like this. Li Hongzhang was silent for a few seconds and asked, "Then are you sure to win again?"
Chapter completed!