"Have the Japanese accepted the conditions?" Liu Yiming looked at Lin Anmin in surprise and dropped all the dried fish in his hands.

His orange cat "Panda" saw a small dried fish falling on the ground, a hungry "tiger" pounced on it, and ran to the side with the dried fish in his mouth.

"Yes. The Japanese contacted us through the British Foreign Office and said they were willing to accept the surrender conditions and surrender to us. They just hope that we can be more liberal in terms of specific compensation." Lin Anmin nodded, took a look and ran to us.

An orange cat eating small dried fish by the window while the wind blows.

"It shouldn't be. What happened in Japan during this time? Who contacted us?" Liu Yiming touched his head, feeling a little surprised.

Liu Yiming's understanding of Japan mainly comes from later history books and various videos or materials related to modern history.

Although generally scattered, due to special historical reasons, these videos or materials analyze various aspects of Japan very thoroughly.

The most important point among them is that since the various regulations and the "Constitution of the Empire of Japan" promulgated in the Meiji era, Japan's politics, economy, culture and other fields have inevitably moved towards militarism, the core of which is the emperor.

Liu Yiming proposed the emperor's abdication and the abolition of noble rights and special status, mainly to embarrass Japan.

Because if Japan agrees to this condition, it is equivalent to agreeing to destroy the entire existing government structure, which is equivalent to asking the government to agree to abolish the government.

Liu Yiming never thought that Japan would agree to this kind of thing, unless it really hurt.

But can’t Japan tolerate it? Why can’t it even tolerate this? Isn’t it just starving to death?

"The current Prime Minister of Japan, Masaki Terauchi, contacted the British Ambassador to Japan, and the news was conveyed by the British Foreign Office to the Chinese Embassy in the UK."

"I heard that the Emperor of Japan has issued an edict to abdicate. By the way, there was a small-scale rebellion in the Kyoto area some time ago. I heard that it affected the Emperor's Palace. Maybe the Emperor was frightened."

Lin Anmin thought for a while and said uncertainly.

Because news about the military control status in the Kyoto area could not be transmitted, news from other regions was also transmitted slowly. After Terauchi and the British "reached an agreement", the British were very active in contacting China, so the news was transmitted faster than the Chinese imperial intelligence system.

The intelligence system is a very rigorous system. Just like Lin Anmin said about the rebellion, due to military control and power outages, no specific news came out in Kyoto, and other areas did not know the specific situation.

So Jiang Wang only knew that there was a rebellion in Kyoto. He didn't know the scale, process, and results of this rebellion, so he could only have people investigate and confirm it as soon as possible.

The communication between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is point-to-point. If there are no procedures that delay time, it will be very fast.

"The abdication edict has been issued? It's a bit strange!" Liu Yiming was surprised again.

1 Liu Yiming has always regarded Japan as a threat. After all, no one can guess what Japan wants to do or what it will do.

Everyone believed that the Japanese would not go to war when their economy was developing rapidly, their national strength was recovering, and their military preparations had not yet been completed. On July 7, they went to war.

Then due to lack of preparation, Japan fell into a quagmire, and supplies were consumed rapidly, but it was still unable to win victory.

At this time, rational people should sit down and think of ways to solve material or war problems. What did the Japanese choose? Open a new battlefield.

First go north, get beaten once, then go south, circle down, and successfully offend everyone who can reach it.

So Liu Yiming has always been keeping an eye on Japan. After all, even if you are better than him, you don't know if he will go crazy and suddenly feel disgusted with you.

Liu Yiming's idea is to take this opportunity to cut off all possibilities for Japan's progress. After two years of blockade, the country will basically run out of fuel.

Then they will take the opportunity to go ashore, but instead of fighting a large-scale war, they will support some local dissatisfied forces and let them cause chaos. The Chinese only need to occupy a few ports and watch them fight on their own.

Public security wars are no small problem for most countries. Both superpowers fell twice in the same place and in the same pit. At this time, China did not have that kind of size.

"That's it for now. We'll call Xu Hui, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Navy tonight, and we'll have a meeting together to discuss their surrender."

"I always find this matter a bit strange. I will ask Jiang Wang to check whether Japan is playing word games and pretending to abdicate."

Liu Yiming didn't know the specific situation for a while, so he decided to take a look at the information and speculations given by the intelligence agencies.

To be honest, Liu Yiming didn't believe that a country with bloodlines engraved in its bones could surrender so easily.

(Hundreds of thousands of people starved to death, burned to death, and died of illness: You can’t even see our death?)

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May 8, Europe, Western Front, Verdun Front.

In just a few days, Pétain was left with only the hastily constructed third line of defense and the Verdun fortress group.

The third line of defense only had one shallow trench, and the board reinforcement work and drainage facility construction had not yet been completed. The barbed wire fence outside was also divided into one section in the east and one section in the west. These signs all showed the hasty preparations.

The northern part of the third line of defense is a front section about 5 kilometers long. Stationed here is a regiment of the Verdun Fortress garrison.

The attacker was the German 92nd Infantry Regiment, or the 92nd Brunswick Infantry Regiment, which came from the Brunswick area in eastern Lower Saxony, Kingdom of Saxony in the German Empire.

Unlike other empires or other German imperial armies, some of Germany's armies belong to states rather than the German Empire.

For example, the 92nd Braunschweig Infantry Regiment is part of the 6th Army of the Kingdom of Saxony. It is armed and trained by the Kingdom of Saxony, but its equipment is generally the same as that of the German army.

…

The German Empire was actually a confederal empire, with 212 states, large and small free cities, and one direct territory: Alsace-Lorraine.

The laws of the German Empire stipulate that the king of the German Empire enjoys the title of Emperor of the German Empire, and the name of the Emperor of the German Empire comes from the "Emperor's Declaration", a product of the Bismarck Compromise during the era of the North German Confederation.

The emperor of the German Empire, before the end of the Franco-Prussian War, was named hereditary chairman of the North German Confederation. After the war, Bismarck was eager to continue to implement this confederal system to safeguard Prussia's interests.

However, this behavior was not accepted by the Prussian nationalists. Under the pressure of various public opinions, Bismarck and William I had to accept the title of Emperor of the German Empire.

It sounds like Bismarck and William were ignorant of praise, but in fact they were not.

The Emperor of the German Empire was not the German Emperor. The Imperial Emperor was concurrently served by the King of Prussia. In fact, it was a relatively close confederal empire, or a dual empire.

The most obvious one is that the three states of Bavaria, Württemberg, and the Kingdom of Saxony have their own armies, and the other armies are the Prussian army.

The German Imperial Army was not loyal to the Parliament or the Constitution, but was loyal to the Emperor or King, and had more than one target of loyalty.

This is a historical problem caused by Prussia's unclear goals.

From the rise of Prussia to the era of the North German Confederation, in the eyes of Bismarck and William I, they were not unifying Germany, but expanding Prussia.

Including the Austro-Prussian War with the Austrian Empire, Prussia's goal was to expand into the Kingdom of Greater Prussia, not to establish a small Germany.

It was not until after the Franco-Prussian War that Prussia was put on the fast track and pushed by the people of many states to the position of emperor of the German Empire. This position was not easy to fill, but it was a pity that William I could not refuse.

This was the first time I sat down and something went wrong.

Although all states cooperated with the imperial government in daily management, the empire's industry developed rapidly and its national power was booming.

But this abnormal system itself leads to an imbalance in government power, starting with the military.

During the time of Bismarck, the Prussian officer corps could still be suppressed, but by the time of William II, especially after Bismer's death, the emperor and the government could no longer suppress the officer corps.

The Imperial Government's 6th Army Headquarters was just a decoration for the Prussian Officer Corps. The 6th Army Headquarters could not interfere with the 6th Army without going through the Prussian Officer Corps.

What's even more outrageous is the General Staff. In theory, the General Staff is the secretarial agency of the emperor who directs the army, helping the emperor command the army.

But in fact, after the war began, the army was already out of the emperor's control. First of all, William II had no idea what Chief of General Staff Mao Qi was doing.

William II could replace Moltke, Falkenhayn, many chiefs of general staff or other leaders, but he could not replace the Prussian officer corps.

So later, when the war was about to end, it was the Prussian officer corps that chose to give up the war without notifying the emperor before doing so.

In subsequent negotiations, the Chief of General Staff delegated all negotiating matters to the government, strictly prohibiting the participation of the General Staff Headquarters and senior military officials.

His theory: "If anyone surrendered, it was not the military leaders."

The Prussian officer corps claimed that various reasons led to the government's decision to stop the war, which further convinced the soldiers that they had not lost on the battlefield, but had been stabbed in the back for various other reasons.

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The commander of the 92nd Infantry Regiment, named Sekter, was nervously crawling in a trench less than two kilometers away from the French army.

This trench was built by the French army.

"Sir, relax, take it with you, we are safe." A lieutenant colonel walked in shaking his head and said in a frivolous tone when he saw Sekter crawling on the edge of the trench.

"I feel like I can't see anything with him." Sekter sat up and picked up the gas mask placed beside him.

"Lieutenant Colonel, why did the superiors agree to use this devil's weapon? This..." Sekter felt a little uncomfortable.

"Please watch your words, Mr. Colonel. Isn't it enough for us to win?"

"The wind direction has finally changed. Please tell your soldiers to put on gas masks and launch the attack in one hour!"
Chapter completed!