Chapter 254 The Father of New Japan
In response to the changes in the situation in Japan, the imperial envoy sent by the court was extremely high in specifications. The royal and government delegation led by the former Governor of Luzon, the current left minister of the Ministry of Rites and the co-minister of the Lifan Academy, Tang Shaoyi, arrived in Tokyo on the flagship Pangu, the local fleet of the Imperial Royal Navy. On the one hand, it brought condolences from His Majesty the Emperor, and gave some condolences to the young neurotic patient who was about to succeed the throne, Prince Kazuhito, who is still the prince of the prince, and completed some issues in the procedural process.
On the other hand, he was able to understand the prosperity behind this major political incident, which was almost completely out of control. Shortly after the incident, Yuan Shikai quickly made an analysis note as the former Governor of the East China Sea who was familiar with Japanese affairs. The most important thing was to ask the court to be fully guarded against the one-sided situation that Japan might have occurred.
When Meiji was there, Japan had an advantage in any case, and the people also had a backbone in their hearts. Japan, which was in trouble with internal and external affairs, had been with such a banner under extremely bad circumstances for so many years, but now this backbone has fallen. The prince of the king, Kazuhito, has not completed the transformation from personality to divine nature like his father. In front of the general who was extremely charming in Tianhai, he was almost a low-powered person.
Such a situation can easily lead to two changes. One is that the Ashima Kingdom actually completed the conquest of Japan's image, thus establishing a political system that is called the general's constitutional constitution with the shogunate general as an idol, and ultimately unifies the two islands of Japan.
On the other hand, the Japanese government has completed the transformation to empty the royal power, completely put the king on the shelf, implemented a thorough constitutional monarchy, and made peace with the Tianhai Kingdom. Yuan Shikai was not very worried about this, because the Prime Minister of Okuma Shige Nobuna was completely under his control before. Although the situation is different now, for him, as long as he is willing, Okuma Shige Nobuna can be held back in his hands at any time.
Therefore, after I had several letters with him, I finally decided to let Tang Shaoyi go to Japan in person. Considering that the initiative of the situation in the Philippines was not in my mind, Yuan Shikai was also urgently recalled. At present, there is an unusual background behind the assassination of Meiji. The situation in Japan took such a major turning point after Yuan Shikai was transferred, which fully demonstrates that although Japan is already in control in the overall situation, there are still many variables and is not completely reassuring.
For example, when Meiji died in this incident, there will be some possibilities that cannot be assured about Japan's future direction. So the final analysis is to take advantage of this opportunity to completely filter out Japanese affairs and establish a highly detailed response system, rather than just a big framework strategy like in the past.
When Yuan Shikai was still on the way, I planned to add a separate Japanese Aoshi Affairs Bureau under the Lifanyuan system, and Yuan Shikai served as the director for a period of time. During this period, a certain number of specialized talents for Japan were cultivated. Due to its particularity, Japan cannot fundamentally treat it as an ordinary vassal state.
On the other hand, based on the achievements in the past, we must strengthen the penetration of all strata of Japanese society. In addition to the existing Tianhai Kingdom system, we must also establish our own system.
The Chinese Association has a good power in Tokyo, but it is basically impossible to cover the areas outside Tokyo. Moreover, they are mainly responsible for the spy on the middle and lower levels of intelligence and affairs at the civil level of Japan. They cannot play a role in covering the upper and lower levels of Japan. On this basis, it is also necessary to cultivate a force that is completely obedient to oneself at the political level of Japan.
Grouping a party is an option, but it still needs to be discussed who will be the leader and what kind of force it is based on.
After this incident, since Okuma Shigetsuno's Japanese constitutional party came to power, it has been very different from the previous attitude of completely following Yuan Shikai's lead. On the one hand, it is because Yuan Shikai's transfer, and on the other hand, it is because the party itself is too large and difficult to control.
Another completely foreign political force is Jugaschweiri, rescued from the Russian exile, which has other wonderful uses. It is not the time to activate this power for the time being, so he can only keep staying in Hokkaido instead of blindly bringing him to the island of the continent.
Therefore, when Yuan Shikai comes back, the leader of this puppet political party must be decided, and support them with a certain amount of strength, and quickly form strength in the Japanese political circle.
This is a political action, and another action is in the royal family. The one who is about to appear on the stage will be the Emperor Taisho in history. This person is born with hereditary physiological and personality defects. He should also be used well in this regard. In the name of curing diseases, he will be taken from Japan for a while and then move some action. For him, the current situation has made him lose the power of his father when he was in power. The characteristics of his arrogance and admiration for a strong culture in his personality can be used and control over the government starting from him. It is also easier for me. It is much easier to guide a person than to guide a government.
With the royal family and political parties, this action can completely control the upper class of Japan. In the lower class, it is necessary to strengthen the scope of activities of the Chinese guild hall, not only geographically, but also expand in terms of work content. It cannot be limited to the control of the power of Japanese local gangs, but also to shoulder the responsibility of protecting the safety of the Ministry of Education and Chemical and cooperate in the assassination mission against dead and hard-working elements. Although these people are famous for being a hero, they are often suspected of being a woman's hero, not the kind of hero needed by the state.
For the headed martial arts master, just offer it as a god. The specific actions can be handed over to the General Staff Department to select personnel to control the actions. The Chinese Association should take the allowance from the General Staff Department and should do its business for the General Staff Department.
In short, in the situation in Japan, Yuan Shikai's Lifan Academy had no strong department, so the General Staff had to cooperate with him, so that he would have to be literary and military, and to do things in this way, he could give a thunderous blow to the situation in Japan and make ambitious people afraid.
Since there has been such a big change there, it is naturally time to shuffle the cards.
The Prince of Prince Jiaren of Minggong, who was in Beijing, went back with Tang Shaoyi. Following the order, Tang Shaoyi had already used a lot of scheming on him along the way.
As soon as he arrived in Tokyo, Tang Shaoyi personally escorted Jiaren into the Japanese palace and moved into the palace as an angel, which immediately brought the Japanese political focus back to the palace.
The second action was to urgently take it back to the palace from the home of Lieutenant General Nakamura Junyoshi, who was just born in 2001 and named it by the late Meiji King. He read the imperial edict in public the next day, and made Prince Kazuhito Akimiya the King of Japan and Prince Hirohito Dimiya the King of Japan.
The new king immediately spoke out thanking the angel for his escort and condolences, and formulated the funeral of King Meiji, and finally announced the year's name Taisho.
Afterwards, Tang Shaoyi's conduct was still in the palace. On the third day, he attended the funeral of the Meiji King for many days, and attended the start-up ceremony of the Meiji Shrine in Shibuya with the government's Shigetsuki Okuma and King Taisho.
Next, his task was to frequently meet important politicians, meet important Chinese representatives in Japan, and attend some ceremonies. In five days, he should write a report for my reference to Yuan Shikai, who is about to arrive in Beijing, when making decisions.
The funeral was attended by Matsuhira Shino himself. Although the two countries still had sporadic battles, both sides lived under the same vassal system, and Japan had no reason to refuse. What's more, this person's role in Japan now is not just the opposite.
When the four islands of Japan were shrinking to the Honsou Island, the Japanese would of course seek the opportunity to become a phoenix nirvana. In their eyes, the rise of the Tianhai Kingdom is probably an opportunity.
Politics is always like this. There are no eternal enemies or eternal friends. I remember that when Matsuhira Shino hated King Meiji to the core, the Japanese government also regarded him as a traitor and rebellious son. Now we are still together.
After Yuan Shikai arrived at Luhe Post, he directly received the order to enter the palace. After two consecutive days of discussion, Yuan Shikai was officially ordered to take charge of Japanese affairs outside his post. He immediately went to Weiying Mansion, and his next stop would be Tokyo. During his long-term career as the governor of the East China Sea, he established his authority by his means. Even if he did nothing, he was also a deterrent to some Japanese people.
The key point is the issue of strategic layout. There is not much time and Japan can no longer involve too much energy. An effective control and response plan can save a lot of manpower and material resources to do other important things, rather than taking care of each other every now.
Of course, it is actually irrelevant to the overall situation this time. But in that case, there may be several troublesome and small problems in the future. So I decided that it would be better to have short pain than long pain, so I asked Yuan Shikai to come back urgently and spend a year and a half to handle the matter, so that I would avoid any further surprises in the future.
It is inevitable that a large-scale killing will be the same as a vassal, otherwise it will be listed as a country of conquest. This is my reassurance for Yuan Shikai. With such an intention, he will have fewer concerns when doing things, and the effect will be optimal.
There was no time to do some superficial skills. After Yuan Shikai arrived at Weiying Prefecture, he immediately summoned officials at battalion level and above stationed in six towns in Xinxiang Province in the name of the imperial envoy. The 75,000 troops of Xinxiang Island also entered a state of alert, and could provide tough guarantees for any decisions that Yuan Shikai might make at any time.
On the same day, the Governor of the East China Sea Zuo Baogui also admonished the middle and upper-level officials of the five towns in Xinshu Province in Xinshu Province, asking them to be prepared for combat at any time to prepare for any possible problems.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense. The Japanese government and the Kyoto shogunate both handed over the letter of protest - of course, it was passed through the Rifanyuan system. Yuan Shikai accepted it one by one, and then returned the letter of protest from both sides. He immediately rushed to Tokyo, and did not stop there for a moment. He immediately arrived directly from land to Akagi Mountain north of Tokyo. The next morning, he inspected the soldiers and horses in the military camp at the foot of Akagi Mountain and conducted a three-day closure exercise. He himself spent three days in the military camp in Akagi Mountain.
These three days, Japanese politicians spent endless panic. Yuan Shikai showed an unprecedented tough style, and behind this, there was obviously the emperor's approval. So the news that the emperor scolded Yuan Shikai for rashly sending troops to Japan some time ago was untenable.
Those who should reflect will reflect, and those who want to resist will resist stubbornly.
On the fourth day, after Yuan Shikai heard that he could meet foreign tourists, there were endless convoys of officials from all walks of life from Tokyo to Akagi Mountain, who moved from Tokyo to Akagi Mountain to Akagi Mountain like a rush to Akagi Mountain.
Important figures include the leader of the constitutional party and the government Prime Minister Tomoto Okuma; the president of the republican general election, Matsumoto, and the frustrated principal of the Temple of Nagano, the royal family sent a private group represented by Prince Masako Nagano to arrive at Akagi Mountain and met Yuan Shikai.
Tang Shaoyi was not idle in Tokyo. The people from the Chinese Association received new tasks from him. Two young men sent by the General Staff, Mauri and Zeng Li, took over the leadership of the Chinese Association from Huo Yuanjia and Huang Feihong in the name of the royal representative. The veterans such as Huo Huang were awarded different titles of the Martial Master and the Martial Master, and were taken back to the local area, preparing to be appointed as the newly established consulting veteran of the Sports Department.
Four days later, Yuan Shikai returned to Tokyo and officially issued an edict to the Japanese king, Taisho, who issued an edict to the authority of the Japanese king, and praised it with a warm voice, proclaiming it as his strongest backing. King Taisho was naturally grateful. Yuan Shikai was also supported by the senior generals of the king in the military headed by Nomu Xidian.
The Army Department issued a statement on the same day, declaring that it would never give up on the investigation of the suspicious cause of King Meiji's death.
After these steps, King Taisho Kan Kan inherited the position left by his father and slightly established his own majesty.
The next steps were much easier. Yuan Shikai arranged his men gradually established their own forces in the upper, middle and lower classes of Japan, and successfully established a government or army in the minds of the Japanese people. Someone in the government or army wanted to conspire to overthrow the royal family, relying on the support of the angel Yuan, and King Taisho successfully ascended the throne. After the conditions were ripe, Yuan Shikai weighed the pros and consented again and again, and finally chose a person with a deep army background named Kae Taro as the support object.
Kashitaro is a good friend of Yama Prefecture and is also one of the spokespersons of Yama Prefecture's interests in the army system. He is just a little bit outside, not as prominent as in the Temple and Yamamoto Kyotoei. He was also cleaned up in the political purge against Yama Prefecture. He is currently at home and advocates the political system of the vassal family. Kashitaro, who advocates the political system of the vassal family, is connected to the Tianhai Kingdom system, but there are conflicts due to inconsistent interests and purposes. Yuan Shikai also met this person before through the Tianhai Kingdom system. This person has certain strength, but if he breaks away from China's support, he will never turn over. Therefore, after Yuan Shikai arrived in Tokyo this time, he chose him.
After digital negotiations, Katsurao was willing to come forward to form a party and accepted the support of the Japanese Affairs Bureau of the Rifanyuan under Yuan Shikai. His party formation quickly received the response from the comrades in the Temple, which was a good start in the Japanese political arena.
Katsura was fifty-five years old. His political ideal, which had been completely shattered after the purge, was ignited by Yuan Shikai again. At the founding meeting of his vassal club, facing the party members who supported him, he expressed his gratitude to Yuan Shikai in public, and praised Yuan Shikai as the one who saved Japan in his words, and presented Yuan Shikai with honor to "New Japan, the father of the new vassal system" to Yuan Shikai, and received a warm response from the party members.
Yuan Shikai's strategy of supporting the king to establish upper-class power, cultivating political parties to establish middle-class power, and comprehensively developing the gang forces of the Chinese Guild Hall to control the lower-class society, finally made preliminary progress.
All these three lines have now been concluded to the Japanese Affairs Bureau of the Rifan Court.
Yuan Shikai surprisingly did not see the general of Tianhai Kingdom in Tokyo because the day before Yuan Shikai arrived, Matsuhira Shio had already returned to Kyoto. I don’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional. This day was also the day when the No. 101 and 102 towns boarded the ship to return to the country in Kobe.
Yuan Shikai spoke four or five times in public in Japan, but he never mentioned this general. This is a clear signal. As Matsuhira's gradually rises, he became more and more a little more and more.
Yuan Shikai was busy in Japan for more than ten days and was about to return to China to attend the New Year's banquet when a new situation occurred.
Gradually, rumors began to spread in Tokyo and Nagano, saying that the reason why the Chinese army rented Akagiyama as a garrison was to facilitate attacks on Kyoto, and on the other hand, they also wanted to secretly dig up the huge amount of gold hidden in Akagiyama before the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate.
The rumors are colorful and obscene, saying that farmers in the Akaze Mountain area saw what the Chinese army was digging in the mountains every day, and a large number of boxes were transported away every once in a while, and soldiers from the Tokugawa Shogunate era came out to testify, etc. There are also rumors that Yuan Shikai rushed to Akaze Mountain before he stayed in Tokyo because there was a Chinese soldier who fled with Jin. For a while, there were many different opinions and rumors. Yuan Shikai's image of supporting the royal family was immediately in crisis.
Of course, this is a rumor. Rumors stop at the wise, but there are often many fools in the world. For Yuan Shikai, it can be said that he was always the only one who plotted against others, but no one else plotted against him. Unexpectedly, this time he was attacked in this way and destroyed the image advantages he had worked hard to establish some time ago. What's worse is that the rumors also attacked several of his systems, including the newly established vassal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Massal Mass
This rumor is actually based on some evidence. In the first year of Manyan, that is, in 1860, the world gold price rose sharply, and the exchange rate for silver was 1:15, while the exchange rate in Japan was only 1:3. Therefore, the large amount of gold in Japan was outflowed. At that time, the "big elder" Ii Ii Naosuke began to launch the Akagiyama gold hiding plan. After the anti-shog faction stabbed him to death, the plan was continued by his subordinates, Lin Daito and Oguri Uenosuke. So until the fall of the shogunate, there were many people in Japan who knew about this gold hiding plan.
The shogunate's financial strength is well known. In the shogunate period, the sesame and mung bean yamen in Edo Nanki Town, the shogunate, all had a huge amount of gold. However, during the Meiji Restoration, the shogunate's huge economic strength was unknown, so Akagiyama was even more suspicious of the target.
This rumor is just right, and the attack is reasonable and well-founded, which also makes Yuan Shikai quite uncomfortable. Those who can fabricate this rumor must be someone who has to use iron-blooded means to deal with it. After Yuan Shikai first heard the rumor, he made up his mind and immediately asked the Chinese Guild Hall to mobilize all the affiliated Japanese local gang forces to start looking for the head of the rumor.
At the same time, he also began to formally refute the rumors, firstly, inviting pro-China political leaders to visit the military camp, secondly, the military camps will be opened to the public in a short period of time from time to time, and open some areas around for the Japanese to do business. These are all methods to respond to rumors directly.
On the other hand, he also began to contact the shogunate general Tokugawa Keiki who was still living in Tokyo, but it is still a secret at the moment. Because it is very simple, there is no evidence that the Matsuhira family has bad intentions. If they openly contact Tokugawa Keiki, they will have other ideas, and it will be inconvenient to create extraneous problems.
A few days later, the people from the Chinese Association reported that the rumors were spread by the Black Dragon Society.
Facing Major Mori and Captain Zeng Li who were rewarded, Yuan Shikai did not speak for a long time after verifying it. His face turned slightly red. He punched the table, and then he calmly ordered: "I am the Minister Jun Ling, and order Okuma Shigeshino to come to see me immediately!"
Chapter completed!