Downing Street, London, UK.￥f,

Compared with other countries, public opinion here is controlled by the British government, and some reports that are not conducive to the UK are naturally not allowed to be published.

In particular, the news of the British Navy's disastrous defeat in the Battle of the Solomon Islands was blocked.

However, the demonstration suddenly came to the Prime Minister's Office without any signs. The thrust behind this is self-evident. Even in the 21st century, there are shadows of hostile countries behind any demonstration.

The British learned the news so quickly, which was obviously a masterpiece of SHIELD in China.

"Benjamin is abusing his country and the people, and he will step down immediately!" The political enemies of the ruling faction were shouting and taking the opportunity to drive the ruling faction off the ruling faction.

"Everyone from the Admiralty Department should go ****!" The angry young men roared, feeding the dogs with patriotic passion.

"Give me the child back! You executioners!" The parents were crying, hoping that their children would come back alive.

In secret, the Chinese Empire agent was the first to throw eggs and stones and smash them into the doors and windows of the Prime Minister's Mansion. This caused a chain effect and was out of control. All the London citizens who were marching were immediately angry and followed them to "cannon" and bombarded the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Benjamin hadn't been in three days. He learned about the defeat in the Battle of the Solomon Islands earlier than the Chinese Empire, because there were more than 100 British naval warships that fled early, most of these warships ran back to Australia and Singapore. The telegram was informed to the British authorities that night.

Upon learning of the British Navy's crushing defeat, Benjamin turned white overnight and it was no longer important to lose the election. It was inevitable that he would resign, but his political career was over and his later years were not guaranteed.

The members of the parliament have been in the meeting and have been held for three days and three nights. They must make a decision as soon as possible whether to continue fighting or seek peace.

This is a difficult decision. The British Empire and the Chinese Empire fight every five years. Now they have fought five times. In addition to the first time they won the battle with the Qing Dynasty, they lost all four of them. Should they be shameless and take the initiative to make peace? This is an unspeakable question.

You know. In the past, there were excuses in the British Empire, such as not exerting all their strength, such as being too far away to keep up with the supply, and being attacked during the Battle of Huangyan Island, if you fight with a dignified battle, the Chinese Empire will definitely lose.

However, this time there was no excuse. The British Empire dispatched almost all of its maritime forces, but was defeated and was beaten out.

Benjamin had the urge to commit suicide, but the members of the parliament did not allow him to commit suicide. He had to come out as a scapegoat to accept the whipping and insults of the British people.

The increasingly fierce demonstrations outside forced the parliament to make a quick decision, allowing Benjamin to resign and apologize to the people, attracting hatred from the people.

The election is approaching, and since the British Navy has lost the war, it is natural for the Benjamin government, who launched this war, to step down.

So, Benjamin publicly apologized to the British people the next day, and then dissolved the cabinet formed by the liberals, and resigned himself.

The general election will be held in advance in accordance with the secret agreement reached by the liberals and conservatives in the parliament.

There is no doubt that conservatives criticized liberals for provoking the Sino-British war and causing a crushing defeat. Amid the abuse of British nationals, liberals failed one after another and no people voted for liberals, which led to conservatives winning all local elections. Finally, Salisbury was launched as the prime minister candidate.

Salisbury told the British people that he would end the war immediately, improve relations with the Chinese Empire, and improve the living standards of the British people. His election issues quickly received support from the British people.

Since it was during the war, the British general election was very fast this time, and all the procedures were completed in just five days. Salisbury became the new British prime minister, and the conservatives formed a cabinet to take power.

This is unique efficiency, even the British themselves feel incredible.

However, the British could no longer bear it. At this time, the price of British prices surged, and the violation of banknotes seriously disrupted the British monetary system and made the British people miserable. The navy's disastrous defeat caused panic among the British people, worried that the Chinese Empire would attack the British mainland in the next second. Families with children serving in the British Navy demanded that the war must be ended as soon as possible and that their children would come back alive.

In this atmosphere of war-weariness and terror, the newly established Saul government immediately adjusted through France and issued a request for summoning to the Chinese Empire.

However, this time the Chinese Empire did not respond immediately, which made the British suddenly nervous.

In the previous Sino-British wars, as long as Britain requested a sum, the Chinese Empire basically responded quickly and agreed to end the war peacefully. At that time, the Chinese Empire's military strength was much weaker than that of Britain, especially the huge gap in maritime power. The Chinese Empire urgently needed time to carry out economic construction and could not be interrupted. Once the British navy came in full swing and harassed the major coastal cities and industrial areas of the Chinese Empire, it would be the most terrible consequence for the Chinese Empire. Therefore, when the British took the initiative to seek peace, the Chinese Empire immediately agreed.

But this time it was different. The economic construction of the Chinese Empire had already formed a scale. The British navy was blocked from the Pacific Ocean outside Guam and could not get close to the local industrial zone of the Chinese Empire. There was no need to worry about the domestic economic development being interrupted by the war. Major coastal cities and industrial zones did not have to worry about being attacked and destroyed by the British navy. Although the battle between Western Xinjiang, Ryukyu and Sakhalin Island was going on, it was also the principle that the Chinese Empire Industrial Zone, the Chinese Empire Shen Ce Army was enough to block the enemies on the land, so there was no worry.

Under such circumstances, the Chinese Empire will naturally not rush to end the war. Anyway, if we compete for national strength, the total economic output of the Chinese Empire overwhelms Britain, industrial production capacity overwhelms Britain, and the navy won the victory of the Battle of the Solomon Islands. The Pacific battlefield will be dominated by the Chinese Empire. Everything will be unfavorable to Britain. The longer the delay, the heavier the losses of Britain, and the Chinese Empire will get more benefits.

At this time, news of the British Navy's defeat in the Battle of the Solomon Islands had already spread all over the world. The British warships that were beaten by the Imperial Chinese Navy returned to Australia. After Singapore and India, the panic of defeat was spread to the local British army, causing the local British army to fall into panic.

The Chinese Empire then announced the entry of a strategic counterattack operation in a high-profile manner, which scared the British troops in these places and seriously shook the morale of the army.

On April 5, 3976, Jianyuan (May 9, 1876), the Imperial Navy Pacific Fleet returned to Guam with the power of victory after rest and replenishment.

A British naval cruise fleet that covered British ground operations in the waters near Guam fled without fighting and abandoned 30,000 British troops.

At the same time, 20,000 troops from the overseas war zone of the Chinese Empire transferred from Alaska were also invested in the Battle of Guam. After three days of fierce fighting, more than half of the British army was killed or injured. When they learned that the British navy was defeated, Guam was isolated and there was no help. The British commander was forced to surrender.

The 192-day Battle of Guam was declared over. Britain successively invested 270,000 troops, losing 130,000 people, of which more than 15,000 were captured; the Chinese Empire Shen Ce Army successively invested in two towns, four land brigades, and the Guam Apula Coast Guard. The total force was close to 50,000, injured 11,000 people, and killed 2,116 people.

After the Battle of Guam, Chen Shaoyi repaired the undersea cables in Guam, contacted the Imperial General Staff, and received the next combat order.

On April 9, 3976, Chen Shaoyi led the main force of the Pacific Fleet to return to Australia. The fleet was divided into two groups, one from north to south, along the Coral Sea, Solomon Sea and Tasman Sea in eastern Australia. The seventh captures the Australian capital, Brisbane for the ninth capture, and Melbourne for the first time. The other route attacks Darwin and Pas along the western waters of Australia, and successively attacks important Australian cities such as Darwin and Pas for the first time. These cities were attacked by the Imperial Chinese Navy for the first time. The British Navy that fled back here was already scared and fled without a fight.

So the Chinese Navy completely controlled the waters around Australia. Soon, forty thousand Chinese Imperial Divine Army on Guam were sent to the Australian continent, and the Australian Battle began in full swing.

At this time, Australia was already in panic. After learning that the British Empire's Navy was defeated, a large number of Australian British people began to prepare to escape. When the Chinese Empire's Shen Ce Army landed in Australia again, the Australians who were already abused were wrapped in their last property and ran away with their families.

There are still more than 100,000 troops in Australia, and the troops that have retreated from the front line of the island to rest. There are also newly recruited new recruits. They have no way out and continue to fight against the Shen Ce Army of the Chinese Empire, but more defeats are more defeated and fewer wins.

Australia is too big. The 40,000 Chinese Empire Shen Ce Army can only occupy important cities, so it is difficult to completely destroy the Australian army for a while. We can only ask for help from the Imperial War Department and ask for more troops to come to help the war.

Edo, the capital of Japan, has been banned by the Chinese Empire from changing Edo to Tokyo, and everyone has held grudges from the Japanese Emperor, thinking that this is the greatest humiliation and wants to fight against the Chinese Empire to the end.

With the full support of Britain, Japan's economy developed rapidly, the navy and army grew unprecedentedly, becoming the tyrant of the British. After the Sino-British War broke out again, it actively cooperated in combat.

After half a year of battle, the Japanese army has captured half of Sakhalin Island, one-third of the Ryukyu Islands, and almost the entire Korean Peninsula.

Since all the main naval fleets of the Chinese Empire were transferred to the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet experienced the pleasure of no tigers and monkeys in the mountains as kings. Because the Chinese Empire lacked strong naval support, it could only adopt a defensive posture on Sakhalin, Ryukyu Islands and the Korean Peninsula.

When the result of the Battle of the Solomon Islands reached Edo, Meiji's friend was shocked and hurriedly convened a meeting of imperial edicts to discuss countermeasures.

In the conference room, the Meiji government's friends were all stunned. They all understood what would happen after the British Navy's defeat.

"Before the Chinese Empire's Navy has not returned, the war will be ended immediately, recalled the navy and army, and prepared to defend its own efforts to resist the military invasion of the Chinese Empire." Okupo Rito said first.

"No, we finally captured North Korea, and the Ryukyu Islands and Sakhalin Island are about to be occupied by our army. If we retreat at this time, will all the previous efforts be wasted?" Takayun Kido immediately opposed.

Everyone knows that fighting a war will cost huge amounts of military spending and many people will die. But if you win, you can get huge compensation for the war and even the principal and interest will be recovered.

War is like gamblers who want to win money. Some gamblers keep losing money, but when they think that they can recover their capital and profit in the end, gamblers will continue to bet.

This is the mentality of Japan now. They have invested too much and are thinking about defeating the Chinese Empire once and getting back all the capital and profits.

For this war, the Meiji government has invested huge military expenditures. If it cannot win the Chinese Empire and get the benefits of war, it will suffer heavy losses.

"If you continue to fight, the loss will be greater. The hero must cut off his arm!" Okupori advised.

"How can a hero cut off his arm? What do you think of the hundreds of thousands of imperial soldiers on the front line? But this is a huge loss!" Takayun Kido said unwillingly.

Meiji was in a dilemma. He knew that the military expenditure of the Tripitaka Province in the past six months had already been spent on more than 100 million yen, which was almost twice the fiscal revenue of the whole year in 1875. If the war was given up at this time, it would be a waste of the past six months and the fiscal revenue of two years was lost. But if it continued to fight, it would not be confident that it would win the Chinese Empire. After all, the British navy was defeated, and Britain would probably not be able to continue to fight, and it would be even more impossible to support Japan. Therefore, Japan was left to face the Chinese Empire alone, which was obviously inevitable.

"The Chinese Empire Navy has even defeated the British Navy. Our Japanese Navy can't defeat them at all. At least we can't defeat them now, so we'd better withdraw it!"

Meiji made the decision, but the Japanese army did not buy it. They asked the navy to withdraw, and the army wanted to defend the occupied areas of the Korean Peninsula, Ryukyu and Sakhalin Island to the death.

In the end, after coordination, the Japanese military decided to withdraw troops from Sakhalin Island and Ryukyu Islands one after another to avoid head-on battle with the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire and only retain the Japanese troops on the Korean Peninsula.

The Japanese army believed that as long as they withdrew from Sakhalin Island and Ryukyu Islands and compensated the Chinese Empire for a little money, they could end the war, and then Japan's losses could be recovered from the Korean Peninsula.

But this idea is naive, and the Japanese have always been naive. As they voluntarily withdraw troops from Sakhalin and Ryukyu Islands and request peace talks from the Chinese Empire, they were rejected by the Chinese Empire.

"What? The Japanese want to have a peace talk? Go and eat his Xiang! Now it's our turn to beat them. How can we not abuse them Xiang!"

Zhang Peilun, the Minister of the Rifan Academy, directly rejected the request of the Japanese envoy.

The unwilling Japanese envoy once again invited France and the US ambassador to mediate, expressing his willingness to accept the conditions for compensation and compensate the losses of the Chinese Empire's Divine Army.

Afterwards, after Zhang Peilun came back from meeting with Li Weiguo, he issued a tyrant clause.

"Exit Sakhalin Island, Ryukyu Islands and Korean Peninsula, compensate 200 million taels of silver for military expenses, ceding Tsuma Island and Hokkaido Island to the Chinese Empire, opening Edo, Nagasaki and other places as trading ports, allowing citizens of the Chinese Empire to open factories in Japan, the Chinese Empire enjoys (one-sided) most-favored-nation treatment, enjoy the right to consular judgment, and lease Yokosuka Port to the Chinese Empire for 99 years..."

The Japanese envoy immediately knelt down. This clause is too cripple. It can be understood later. It is barely acceptable to take up Tsushima Island, but Hokkaido Island is equivalent to one-third of Japan's territory, so it is impossible to cede. Also, why is the military compensation of 200 million taels of silver? The Chinese Empire no longer used silver as currency. What the hell is this 200 million taels of silver?
Chapter completed!