There has always been a saying in Japan that Emperor Taisho, who was still reigning in 1923, was sick since childhood, suffered from meningitis and sequelae, and at the age of 40, he suffered from cerebral thrombosis and turned into a mental illness. When the illness hits, the emperor often behaves in a ridiculous manner before the public. For example, when watching a military exercise, he would suddenly run down the review stand, open the soldier's backpack and rummage through it. Once, when he attended the opening ceremony of the National Assembly, on a whim, he giggled while rolling the speech into a cylinder, putting it on his eyes, and shining a random picture at the foreign envoys. The political elders felt that they could no longer let him show off his appearance and lose face for the Japanese, so in 1921 it was decided that Prince Hirohito would be regent. In his later years, Emperor Taisho was already in a state of insanity.

But there is also a saying that Taisho's body is actually quite healthy. But he fought fiercely with the various factions in Japan, and all factions were united in their desire to reduce the enormous power that Meiji possessed. Therefore, many of Taisho's "bad deeds" are actually the result of Taisho's struggle with the gate valve.

From the perspective of historical materialism, the struggle is eternal. Just like the action and reaction forces, the two seemingly contradictory sides cannot exist unilaterally, just as it is absolutely impossible for an isolated and static thing to exist unilaterally. Therefore, no matter what kind of person Taisho was, in the struggle with the powerful ministers, the defeat of Taisho was finally announced with the crown prince as the regent.

"Your Highness! Hello! At the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, 39-year-old Okamura Ninji bowed to the 22-year-old Prince Regent Hirohito very seriously.

Hirohito wore a formal dress, not a suit, but a military-like dress that Japan imitated European royal families. The 22-year-old Japanese rarely have a fat man, plus the royal family has good training, the clothes are very gorgeous, and the hair is still the kind of short hair that is almost close to the scalp of a soldier, Hirohito looks very energetic. Hirohito likes the army very much, and when he was a child and a teenager, the principal of Hirohito's school was Nogi Noshinori and Togo Heihachiro, which also gave this young man a unique enthusiasm and "confidence" for the military.

"Okamura-kun, would you rather stand in the house, or would you rather follow me around?" Hirohito asked Okamura Ninji with a smile.

"It's all at Your Highness's orders." Okamura Ninji said gratefully. Standing in the house meant being a guard for the entire garden party, and walking around meant being Hirohito's attendant. Theoretically, the latter seems to be effective in improving Okamura's status, but Okamura doesn't want to be Hirohito's attendant too much, and sometimes revealing his relationship with the upper echelons will only create more enemies.

Prince Hirohito looked at the thin-faced Okamura Ninji and suddenly smiled, "Okamura-kun, you still go with me, there are some things I want to ask you." ”

This kind of treatment is considered the gentleest, and both the guards and the attendants will cause trouble for Okamura Ninji. As a valued person, Hirohito didn't want to create too much unnecessary trouble for Okamura Ninji.

When it comes to political struggle, Hirohito, although young, is not a completely inexperienced fledgling. In 1918, when Hirohito, who was already 17 years old, entered his youth, his marriage was also brought up as a matter of course. Ryoko Kumiya was designated as the crown princess and planned to get married this year. However, Yama Prefecture Youpeng, a veteran figure who leaned towards the government and the opposition at that time, opposed the marriage on the grounds that Ryoko's mother was color blind, believing that Ryoko's family inheritance was not good. As a result, the commotion of this marriage lasted for a year and a half, and as a result, Hirohito decided to take Yoshiko as his wife, but Aritomo Yama was forced to go down because of this incident. In Japan, as long as power is involved, trivial things will become the key to determining the rise and fall of some big people, and Hirohito completely understands this with his own marriage as a practice.

It was also because of this incident that Okamura Ninji and others decided to support Hirohito, and if they wanted to take out Japan's entrenched Choshu Domain, they could only rely on the power of the future emperor. This is also the reason why Okamura Ninji, Nagata Tetsuyama and others vowed to support Hirohito, who is now the regent prince, to officially ascend to the throne.

Of course, the conversation between Hirohito and Okamura Ninji in the garden attracted the attention of many people, but such a meeting was more open than a secret conversation. As long as no one is listening closely, the action itself is enough to make the guys who are in charge of Japan's fate have a lot of associations. Who has a greater positive or negative effect on Okamura Ninji depends on the meaning of Amaterasu.

"Okamura-kun, what do you think about the problem of the brigade?" Hirohito's question is actually quite simple. As a disciple of Nogi Noshinori, the hero of the Battle of Arthur, and Togo Heihachiro of the Russo-Japanese Naval War, Hirohito believed that he could never be said to be ignorant of military affairs. So many discussions in the cabinet were not satisfactory for the Prince Regent.

"Your Highness, now is not the time to start a war with China." Okamura Ninji immediately replied seriously. Whoever wants to be stupid, let those guys be stupid. What can't be done is what can't be done, and that's just a fact for Okamura Ninji and those behind him.

"But the attitude of Admiral Tanaka is strange." Hirohito also did not believe that Japan had the strength to compete with China for the region at the moment, and although he was not satisfied, the crown prince was not an overly persistent fellow.

"General Tanaka's attitude is more for himself, hasn't His Highness heard the news that General Tanaka is preparing to enter politics?" When it was time to slam Yoshiichi Tanaka behind the black bricks, Okamura Ninji knew very well what to say.

"Tanaka is going to enter politics?" This news is really the first time Hirohito has heard of this, he frowned slightly, and he was really suspicious in his heart.

"At least that's what I've got." Okamura Ninji said seriously. The most popular thing in Japan is party politics right now, and there are already many rumors in the War Department that Tanaka Yoshiichi is ready to give up the title of marshal and enter politics and gain power to dominate Japan through party politics. Although it is likely that Yoshiichi Tanaka really wanted to destroy party politics through party struggle, in Okamura's view, this is pure nonsense.

After thinking for a while, Hirohito's once frowning brow suddenly relaxed, and he smiled: "Then I can only wait and see." ”

The black bricks of the temple have been built, and Okamura Ninji will no longer continue to add fuel to the fire.

After talking for a while, Hirohito smiled and said, "Okamura-kun, I believe in your loyalty. ”

"Thank you, Your Highness." Okamura Ninji immediately replied, knowing that this conversation was over.

For the rest of the time, Okamura Ninji was guarding outside the gate of the garden party as a standing stake. Whether it is the person in charge of the guard or those high-ranking Japanese officials look at Okamura Ninji with unfriendly eyes, but Okamura Ninji doesn't care, and wants to continue to climb up in Japan, this situation can never happen only once or twice, and must swim across the boundless sea of malice to reach the other side of victory, Okamura Ninji is very clear about this.

At this time, envoys from various countries had already arrived at the garden party, including the Chinese ambassador to Japan. Many people have noticed Okamura Ninji, who was poked in the group of guards at the door, this thin Japanese Osa was not wearing the uniform of the Praetorian Guard, so the lonely figure was particularly eye-catching. The ambassadors were all shrewd people, and this unusual appearance made Okamura Ninji have to be noticed, but no one reacted to this in the slightest way from usual. Although many people keep Okamura Ninji's appearance in their hearts.

Unless someone wants to deliberately create something to talk about, everyone will tacitly say something tentative to each other, and then say something ambiguous to the other inquirers. At around 11 o'clock, the Prince Regent, Crown Prince Hirohito, gave the traditional welcome speech, and then the ambassadors began to talk to each other according to their needs.

It didn't take long for the conversation to reach noon, and the envoys of various countries were entertained. As the guests and hosts were rejoicing, a violent, sudden tremor came from the depths of the earth. "There was an earthquake!" The thought immediately popped into everyone's minds. In Japan, where earthquakes are frequent, it is common for the earth to shake, but this time it was so violent that I had never seen it before. Everyone was jolting from side to side as if they were in a small boat on the sea, and some of the guests who were not in good health even slipped and fell to the ground without sitting still for a while. Then the whole ground shook like a bad horse, and there was a violent crash between the beams and windows, and everyone's faces changed. If it weren't for the fact that these people were envoys from various countries, the sturdy guys among them would have started to run out of the door to escape the earthquake.

However, many of the maids in the garden party did not have the calmness of the ambassadors and Japanese bigwigs, and they couldn't help but scream. Amid the screams of women and the whispered exclamations of men, the ground shook uncontrollably. It didn't take long for calm to gradually return. Every guest's face turned pale, they had never felt such a strong earthquake.

Before the shaking earth and the clanging of chopsticks had completely calmed down, Hirohito staggered to the garden outside the temple, regardless of etiquette. He saw a picture of a landslide. The newly completed 12-story Tokyo Tower is "cut in two like matchsticks"; Countless tall buildings crumbled in an instant. All of a sudden, Tokyo seemed low and empty.

The Akasaka Imperial Palace was extremely earthquake-resistant and did not collapse. However, many biographers later wrote that in the courtyard of the palace with constant aftershocks, Hirohito's expression was blank and "dazed". This is not a description but an account, and Japan's Prince Regent, Crown Prince Hirohito, is as stunned as the words suggest, as if he were just a victim of an earthquake.

Okamura Ninji recovered from the horror of the earthquake very quickly, and he stood at the door because he acted as a guard. The whole scene of the earthquake can be seen more clearly, and there is a large open area outside the Akasaka Imperial Palace, and you can see Tokyo almost unobstructed. It was really hellish sight. Reinforced concrete, brick and wood, pure wood, traditional Japanese wooden structures with window paper, all kinds of buildings jump and twist in an instant. If the traditional Japanese house is simply staggered, the new buildings begin to crack in the shaking, and then they break or crumble in a dreamy way. Okamura saw Tokyo spread out as if it were made of cards, and the scattered pieces of paper formed a bizarre appearance in various forms.

Then suddenly a series of silvery white water columns rose from the ground, like a beautiful fountain high into the sky. The rainbow of the debut is transformed in the scattered water mist.

Okamura Ninji was not deceived by this beautiful vision, he knew that it was the result of a rupture of a water pipe underground. However, the water pipes buried in the ground have been so completely damaged, how devastating this earthquake really was.

"Protect Your Highness!" This was Okamura's first thought after regaining his basic sanity. He was the first to react in a group of stunned guards, and with a big stride, Okamura Ninji rushed into the hall where the meeting was being held. Then I saw the back of Hirohito, the Japanese regent, who was standing in place.

Seeing that Hirohito was safe and sound, the big stone in Okamura Ninji's heart fell down suddenly, but seeing Hirohito standing stupidly in a straight military-style dress without saying a word, Okamura Ninji only felt quite disappointed in his heart.

Whether he is a qualified soldier or not, it is useless to just look at whether he is wearing a military uniform or not. Whether you have experienced the test of blood and fire, whether you have experienced the pain and suffering of your heart during the war, you can see clearly from the temperament that a person embodies. People who have really passed the test of life and death have something that can only be felt by those who have passed the same test, and if I have to describe it, it is to "look forward" all the time. Anyone on the battlefield who can't look forward will be finished. Even if they just brushed shoulders with death a second ago, the real warriors will not deliberately think about the thrill of that second. Because if you don't look forward, if you don't break through the next second of death head-on, then death is only a matter of time.

Okamura Ninji has also met some high-ranking cadres of the People's Party, and they all have more or less a unique temperament after passing through death, which is the strength tempered by bitterness and suffering. Okamura himself has experienced such a test in northeastern China. So he doesn't care about anything vain at all, his transformation of his appearance is only because of the needs of others, and for Okamura Ninji, he doesn't care about what his appearance looks like at all.

And Prince Hirohito clearly lacks these things. The upbringing of the great nobles made his demeanor look quite stylish. But that's about it. At this time, what the Prince Regent needs to do is not to be in a daze, but to issue an order immediately. Even if it's not a disaster relief, it's better to calm down the order in the Akasaka Palace and see if anyone is hurt.