Chapter 350 Invite the Japanese Army again

On June 17, 1890, Yutoto Yama County was looking at a book at his prime minister's residence. To be precise, this was his own "work", "Soldiers' Admonition".

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The "Soldiers' Imperial Execution" issued in the name of the Emperor clearly stipulates that Japanese soldiers should "fulfil their loyalty", "correct etiquette", "respecting courage and strength", "respecting frugality", and "relying frugality". The core of them is "fulfilling loyalty" and "respecting courage and courage". The samurai virtues that should be possessed by the soldiers' spirit should be raised to the height of sacred sense of responsibility, that is, "responsibility is heavier than Mount Tai, and death is less than a feather", requiring soldiers to have the "limited" concept of loyalty to the emperor with death.

It can be said that the provisions in these three books created the later Japanese "Imperial Army", and its spiritual concepts have always dominated the "Imperial Army" until 1945. But why did these three books come? There is actually a reason, or it is because of some reason that Yama County Youto has the opportunity to throw out these things.

It was more than ten years ago, in 1871 after the Meiji Restoration, Emperor Meiji supported Emperor Meiji to overthrow Satsuma, Nagashu, and Tosa Sanfan of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Emperor Meiji carried out the reform of "abolition of vassals and establishment of prefectures" based on this force. These "moral soldiers" were later renamed "Gui".

Due to the constant rebellions in various places in the early stage of the Meiji Restoration, these "virtual soldiers" were busy suppressing the rebellion of the vassal lords and gentry in various places, which took some effort. However, although they suppressed everywhere, the "virtual soldiers" still failed to play a great deterrent role. In 1877 (the tenth year of Meiji), a large-scale rebellion called the "Southwest War" came. The biggest hero of the Meiji Restoration who was bombarded by internal strife, the army general, and the former guard general, came the governor of the guards.

, that is, the former leader of the "Imperial Army" Takamori Saigo (the brother of the Japanese Navy Minister Saigo Congdo as mentioned above), led 13,000 soldiers from seven brigades to the north from Kagoshima under the banner of "I have something to say to the government", and joined forces with the Kyushu gentry to form a unit of more than 30,000 people, surrounding Kumamoto. He also spoke out and wanted to fight all the way to Osaka and Tokyo.

The Meiji government was very busy at that time and quickly sent troops to suppress it. First, he sent a civil servant named Prince Chiren as the governor of the expedition, and then found two military generals, one was Yutoto Yama Prefecture, who was then a lieutenant general of the army, and the other was Junyi Kawamura, who asked these two to help the prince join the army. The three brought a large number of veterans and new soldiers, as well as soldiers who were not soldiers to "deal with the thieves."

Why is there a group of soldiers who are not soldiers? Because of the lack of military force in the conquest, the Meiji government also brought the police officers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (called "Penal" at the time) to the front line and went to the front line to fight their lives.

As a result, the battle lasted for seven months. In the end, the official army won, and the leader of the bandit army Takamoto Saigo committed suicide. However, the official army should indeed win. First, the rebel army was the so-called "bandit army", and morally lost; secondly, the rebel army's slogan was not clear, what does "If you have something to say to the government" mean? Since there is something to say, why do you still want to attack Osaka and Tokyo? Is this a manifestation of what is there? Third, the weapons of the official army are much stronger than the bandit army, and they use French wild mountain cannons and rifles, but the bandit army does not; in the end, the money is only 700,000 yuan in military expenditure, while the official army used 41.6 million yuan. Therefore, the bandit army has no chance of winning at all.

But the Japanese government is still very unhappy. Why? Because the strength of the two sides is so great that the battle lasted for 7 months, everyone thought it was abnormal! So, after a meeting, everyone came up with a clue: the civil servants took charge of the commander power. The civil servants are not military generals, and they don’t know the principle of “the generals are outside, and the king’s orders are not accepted”. They have to ask for instructions and report on everything, delaying the fighter’s plane. Another thing is that the level of the staff is too poor, and they can’t even tell a good move, but they also use some bad horse legs.

Originally, it would have been fine if it were just like this, and Yama Prefecture would not have created a book called "Three-piece Japanese Soldier" because of this. The key is that something happened again when the Meiji government was learning the lessons of the president. And this time it was not a rebellion, but a mutiny!

In 1878, the night of August 23, Meiji 2011, Tokyo Takebashi Guard Artillery Battalion. Captains Utsunomiya Shigetomi and Fukasawa Miyoshi heard a burst of rapid footsteps in their sleep. Before they could open their eyes, the cold sword had cut off their throats. Then, more than 200 Guard artillery and the army set off a fire in the barracks, reflecting the sky of Tokyo red.

This group of troops was very organized and disciplined. It was burning here. There were 90 soldiers dragging cannons to the heroes of the Meiji Restoration. The Minister of the Tibetan Affairs Minister Okuma Shigeon set a few times. Then, perhaps because he felt that he was not satisfied with just beating the ministers, the soldiers dragged cannons to approach Akasaka, the temporary palace at that time.

However, Yama Prefecture Aritoto, who had been promoted to the Minister of the Army, had already led his soldiers to come after hearing the sound of cannons. Soon, he arrested the mutiny soldiers who were honest and sincerely hoped that His Majesty the Emperor could make the decision for him and took the initiative to surrender as soon as he saw the government soldiers.

However, these soldiers could not understand Yama County's anger. The Army Minister did not give them a chance at all and directly ordered the 55 people who led the lead to be shot and made public. Others were severely punished as they joined in the fun.

However, as the Emperor's "Guards" army, why did these soldiers rebel? Moreover, these were artillery. In the mid-to-late 19th century, artillery, especially guards artillery, had a different status from that of the Second Artillery officers and soldiers in later generations, and even higher. Why did they launch a mutiny?

After all, it’s all because of one word: money!

The cause of this rebellion was that the gap between the rich and the poor in the Japanese army was too serious. At that time, the killing Utsunomiya had a monthly salary of 100 yen, while the lowest artillery only received 2 yen and 30 yen. Judging from the price level at that time, the salary of a lower artillery was not as much as that of a migrant worker. Can you not rebel? Don’t believe it? If you don’t believe it, you will only get 200 yuan a month for the second artillery soldiers more than a hundred years later.

The Takebashi incident caused Yama Prefecture Akito and then Secretary of Internal Affairs, but it was actually Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito. They found that the soldiers found through the recruitment system were different from the original private soldiers and would rebel. The political situation at that time was particularly tense, and the parliamentary system would be implemented in two years. Takamoto Saigo was already dead, but there were still many supporters. The little Saigo also knew that the rebellion by force would not work, so they changed their careers and started politics. What kind of freedom and civil rights would be advocated in the parliament. In this way, what if the parliament was controlled by these groups of liberals and commanded the army to fight back?

So, Aritoto Yama Prefecture came up with an idea. He proposed to give the command of the army out of the parliament and government and hand it over to the emperor directly... In doing so, the reason he stated to Emperor Meiji, Hirofumi Ito and others was that domestic politics could not influence the army.

In this way, on December 5, 1878, the General Staff Bureau, which was originally just a bureau of the Army Province, came out of the General Staff Office and established the General Staff Office. The General Staff Office was directly under the Emperor, so that the Emperor did not have to consult the Minister of Taizheng (equivalent to the later Prime Minister), the Army and the Navy Office. As long as the General Staff Office helped, he could directly take charge of the army.

In addition to institutional changes, in order to control the thoughts of soldiers, Yama Prefecture Akito has created three books including "Soldiers' Admonition", requiring Japanese soldiers to be absolutely loyal, absolutely brave, and absolutely obedient.

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It can be said that the establishment of the General Staff means the separation of military and political orders. To be more serious, it means the separation of politics and military. But in this world, whether it is peacetime national defense or wartime operations, it requires consistency between political and strategic strategies. In this sense, the General Staff is simply a kind of counter-involvement. This is also the biggest reason why those opponents attacked it.

Shanxian Youpeng himself knew all this very well. However, he always insisted that he was right. As for the reason, it was because doing so was a "reverse act".

At that time, the Japanese government was upset to consolidate the foundation of ruling. He heard the news of rebellion almost every day, and he was already worried. The most feared thing was that the rebel forces colluded with the government troops. Now the army itself said that it was not involved in politics, which was a desperate need. Even if someone saw it, so what? Even if it was poison, as long as it could quench thirst, it would not be necessary to drink it, which is the so-called "drinking poison to quench thirst."

Of course, all this cannot be considered poison to the initiator of Yama County. He is very satisfied with the systems he founded. As a soldier, he should stay away from politics and listen to those messy politicians all day long to make a fuss? It is enough to do a good job of a soldier. So what is the responsibility of a soldier? Of course, it is to protect the "lifeline" of the empire and expand the empire's "interest line".

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"Damn Chinese."

Putting down the thin book in his hand, Yuto Yama Prefecture couldn't help but curse. As a militarist, he was very superstitious about force and firmly believed that only force could solve the difficulties Japan is facing now: its territory is small, its population is too large, its living space is insufficient, its resources are not available... and so on. And for this reason, he specially created two lines: the lifeline and the interestline.

The lifeline, that is, Japan's border line, naturally needs no further explanation. In the view of Yutoshi Yama Prefecture, it is Manchuria and North Korea. Only by occupying Manchuria and North Korea can Japan get out of the dilemma of the island country and gain real development.

Originally, he had already had ambitions for China more than ten years ago, and the plan to invade China had already begun to be formulated several years ago, which is the "Qing Dynasty Expedition Plan". But he did not expect that his goal had been targeted before he could take action. The Chinese in Tangzhou actually pulled the Americans to reach into the Northeast, and the extremely overwhelming Qing government did not know whether it was a return to the scene. He even arranged an army that came down from the imperialist battlefield there. At the same time, he also placed Yuan Shikai, who was tough on Japan when he was in North Korea, as the commander of the army... Although this was to prevent Tsarist Russia in the Chinese, it also hindered the Japanese Empire's route.

This is not counting. The leak of "The Qing Dynasty's Expedition Case" a few days ago was a huge blow to him. It was the top secret hidden in the General Staff Headquarters, and it was actually caught by Tangzhou... What does this mean? It shows that the people of Tangzhou had already installed people in Japan a long time ago, otherwise, how could they reach into the General Staff Headquarters?

Thinking of the frequent appearance of the fleet in Tangzhou in the Aleutian Islands, Yama County Akito was almost certain that the group of aggressive Chinese had long regarded Japan as their target.

This is simply a joke. The mantis stalks the cicada, and the oriole is behind? I looked at the Manchu and Meng in the Qing Dynasty and sharpened my sword and wanted to attack, but I didn't expect that others had already set my sights on me...

The current situation is very difficult. Youpeng of Shanxian knows very well what kind of force Tangzhou is. On the surface, it is a local autonomous government and even has hostile relations with the US government. But in fact, the relationship between the two is far from that simple. He can fight against Tangzhou or even defeat it, but once the war begins, Americans may become the backing of the other party at any time. Moreover, Tangzhou is so easy to defeat? The economic income of a state is greater than that of them. Just using money can make them bleed.

"Report!"

Headache, headache, or headache. Tangzhou is a hedgehog, and it is a very aggressive hedgehog. That's not all, there is a tiger beside him... The more you think about it, the more you become more irritable, and at this moment, a knock on the door sounded outside the door.

"Come in." Yupeng of Shanxian gave up thinking for the time being, sorted out his clothes, and said in a deep voice.

"His Excellency Prime Minister, Seattle's telegram!" The Prime Minister's secretary walked in.

"Huh? Seattle?" Just as I thought of Tangzhou, news came from Seattle? Is this too evil? Youpeng of Shanxian couldn't help but be stunned.

"It's Seattle, Your Excellency Prime Minister... This is Lord Hirofumi Ito's telegram!" said the secretary again.

"Ito-kun?" Yama Prefecture Aritoto couldn't help but straighten his body. Although he is now the prime minister, and he is actually the first prime minister since Japan's implementation of the parliamentary system, he was quite arrogant in front of Ito Hiromoto a few days ago, but Ito Hiromoto's status in Japanese politics is still far higher than him. Moreover, he has never been popular with people, and he has basically no friends in politics, and even has few interests. Not long ago, he was not seen by Ito Hiromoto. Although he has barely turned around now, he still dared not look down on Ito Hiromoto. Otherwise, Ito Hiromoto would not react so much when he was invited by Tangzhou, as if he was stimulated. Ito Hiromoto did not want to act, but rather that ito Hiromoto threatened him too much.

"What did he say?"

"Mr. Ito said in a telegram that the Qing ** team, who was employed by the US government to go to the Philippines to wipe out the local rebels, suffered heavy losses in the local Mindanao Island and has basically lost its combat effectiveness. Its leader Liu Yongfu hopes to withdraw from the battle. However, the US Army currently needs to focus on Cuba and is temporarily unable to send a large number of reinforcements to the Philippines, so they hope to find another mercenary." The secretary replied.

"What does this matter to us?" asked Shan County Youpeng in confusion.

"Mr. Ito said that the Tangzhou government is entrusted by the US government and intends to seek our help!"

"Um?"

"Is this your purpose?"

Seattle, Theodore Roosevelt and Guo Jinzhang have been together for a long time recently. Guo Jinzhang did not avoid him. Many major events were discussed with others in front of him. While Roosevelt was quite satisfied, his mind became increasingly moving towards the direction of sluggishness. Tangzhou clearly showed a sense of containment of Japan very early, and even the Coast Guard fleet that had just been established was sent to Alaska and frequently appeared in the Aleutian Islands, making a look of drooling towards the Kuril Islands in northern Japan. But now, Guo Jinzhang actually sent a request to the Japanese government through Ito Hiroman, hoping that the other party could send troops to Mindanao to help the war for the United States... What was this guy's idea? He wasn't afraid that the Japanese would take the opportunity to walk out of those small islands?

"That's right, this is my purpose." Guo Jinzhang smiled. He found that he liked to stay with the US president in the original time and space. Although he didn't know if Theodore Roosevelt could become the US president again in this time and space, and was one of the greatest presidents, and put his avatar with Washington, Lincoln and others and was carved onto the mountain, but in front of this guy, he could always find a sense of satisfaction, satisfaction of being a teacher, and... satisfaction of fooling people.

"There must be a reason, right? Haven't you been very alert to Japan?" Roosevelt asked in confusion. He didn't know that his performance was Guo Jinzhang's favorite.

"It's not that it's that it's real hostility. I'm full of hostility towards Japan. Because Japan has stepped into the palace of militarism with one foot, just waiting for the opportunity to reveal its minions." Guo Jinzhang said.

"Then you give them this opportunity?" Roosevelt asked.

"Instead of letting the enemy hide and rush out for no reason, it is better to set up a battlefield for them to consume their own strength. Isn't this great?" Guo Jinzhang smiled.

"But I think the Japanese are not that stupid. Moreover, Hirobuki Ito has performed very smart these days. They may not be fooled by you. Especially your purpose is still so obvious." Roosevelt shook his head.

"You are wrong, Theodore." Guo Jinzhang smiled and said, "You don't understand Japan's desire for people's land. If Tsarist Russia's desire for land is one hundred degrees, then I can tell you that Japan is one thousand degrees! Yutoshi Yama Prefecture will not miss this opportunity, and he will not be killed even if he is killed."

"Why are you sure?"

"Haifumi Ito is a smart man, and an amazing politician. If he thinks it is not possible, then he will not pay attention to me when he receives my request. But what did he do? He couldn't help but send a telegram to the country. A rational and smart person has done this. How could a militarist like Atsuto Yama Prefecture give up this opportunity? The Japanese have been holding it in those small islands for too long, and they are eager to come out and take a breath..."

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