Chapter 179
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When the news that the 6th Division had been annihilated and that the 27th Division and the 106th Division had been besieged by the Chinese army had returned to Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito was furious! In the afternoon of the same day, he went to the Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to the heroic spirits of the 6th Division, and Prime Minister Fumiro Konoe and a number of cabinet members had to accompany him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
During the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Yasukuni Shrine was completely destroyed, but it was later rebuilt.
Shinto and Buddhism are the two major religions in Japan, and the Japanese are pragmatic through and through, and they tend to follow a variety of religions, and whatever is said to bless them, they are all inclusive. Many people believe in foreign Buddhism as well as in native Shintoism.
Shinto worships nature and ancestors, and for them, everything from firewood, rice, oil, and salt to houses and cars is dominated by gods. There are more than 100,000 shrines in total, scattered throughout Japan's cities and villages, and it is a Japanese habit to ask God and Buddha. The country sent troops to fight, of course, the gods were required to worship the Buddha, and the common people also ran to the shrine at two ends in three days, and usually had a headache, brain fever, insomnia, constipation, and inevitably went to the shrine to pray.
Religion in Japan is very secular, and the clergy are good professions in Japan, and they can live a luxurious life of the upper class. Even Buddhism, when it came to Japan, quickly became secular, Buddhism advocated not killing, but Buddhism in Japan advocated eating fish and birds, and monks could also get married and have children.
Among the more than 100,000 shrines in Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine is the most important national shrine because it was built by the order of His Majesty the Emperor himself, and the Emperor is Japan's "living god," that is, "the true god who manifests the human body." The shrine he ordered to be built is far more significant than ordinary shrines.
The reason why Emperor Hirohito came to the shrine was to let the high-ranking officials of the cabinet feel the great achievements of the imperial army in the past, and to be ashamed and courageous! In addition, Emperor Hirohito also longed for the gods who died in battle to bless him in the underworld, so that his great Emperor Majesty could achieve greater martial arts.
Although the entire 6th Division was lost, Wuhan, Emperor Hirohito still wanted it!
There is a tall torii gate on the front of the shrine, and two thick pillars support a beam, which looks like a huge gallows, which is the torii gate of the shrine, similar to the torii of Shina. Engraved with the four characters "Yasukuni Shrine" of Doudai, this torii gate is cast in bronze, 23 meters high and 34 meters wide, making it the first torii gate in Japan.
The torii gate stood abruptly over the clearing, like a huge gallows, and on the thick pillars next to the torii was a rope woven with straw, and it looked like a terrible noose.
There are tens of thousands of large and small shrines all over Japan, and if you see this gallows-like torii, there must be a shrine behind it, and that shrine is the world of ghosts.
The eaves of the main hall in front of it resemble a huge tiger basin with a large mouth, and a cloth curtain printed with the emperor's sixteen-petal chrysanthemum emblem is covered in front of the big mouth, and the cloth curtain is lifted, only the black hole in the mouth is seen, as if the ghost is filled inside, and some delicate hemp ropes are decorated on the side of the main hall, as if it is like a rope for hanging.
Emperor Hirohito and his cabinet members washed their hands with water at the entrance, only to see the Yasukuni cherry blossoms in the shrine blooming in the wind, huddled together, just like the heroic spirits of those dead soldiers, accompanied by the Yasukuni cherry blossoms, and there are hundreds of purebred Yasukuni white pigeons in the shrine.
This purebred white pigeon can only be picked out from ten thousand white pigeons, and these white doves are as white and immaculate as the soul of a warrior.
In the eyes of Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine is a place where the souls of samurai who have sacrificed their lives for the emperor are brought together, and they will bless future generations with the longevity of their martial arts.
After Emperor Hirohito and his entourage went to the outer hall of the shrine to pay their respects, they came out and encountered a small group of soldiers singing and singing the "Song of the Yasukuni Shrine" issued by the military headquarters.
"Ah, Yasukuni Shrine, glorious shrine
Our great king also salutes you;
Thou art a god, and thou art blessed, and a thousand trees stand tall and glorious,
100 million people, pray for you, the palace of national protection, the Yasukuni Shrine. ”
The singing led the people around them, and they also sang together with solemn faces.
Emperor Hirohito pointed to these people and said to the cabinet members:
"Luckily! I still have these brave soldiers! ”
The appearance of Emperor Hirohito made the singing soldiers collectively fall into madness! It turned out that this was a group of troops who were about to leave for Shanghai, and before they set out for the war, they came to the Yasukuni Shrine to hold a swearing-in ceremony like their predecessors, hoping that everyone could meet at the Yasukuni Shrine later.
After singing, these stout soldiers shouted loudly in front of Emperor Hirohito: "Long live the Emperor!" Outside the Great Japanese Empire! Let's meet at the Yasukuni Shrine! Then they left in a neat procession.
After these soldiers left, Emperor Hirohito turned his head to Seishiro Sakagaki, the landing minister, and said coldly: "Since the last century, we in Japan have been oppressed by the Western powers. Westerners, with their advanced technology and developed industry, invaded Japan from the sea and exerted powerful oppression on Japan. Fortunately, under the leadership of the heroic and sacred Emperor Meiji, the empire embarked on the road of the Meiji Restoration, and it took only thirty years to go through the path taken by the Western powers in three hundred years, which is enough to prove that our Yamato nation is the greatest nation in the world.
"However, while the Westerners oppressed and humiliated us, they also taught us the most vivid lesson, so that we learned to advance and retreat with Western civilization and treat China and Korea in the same way as Westerners.
"From now on, this kind of approach will be of great help to us in Japan. In the Sino-Japanese War, we received Taiwan from China and a huge amount of war reparations. In the Russo-Japanese War, we gained all the rights and interests of Russia in China and finally gained a foothold in Manchuria.
"Land Phase! It was you who told me that the current branch is like a dilapidated house that is airy on all sides, and if you push it violently, it will collapse. The empire will soon realize the great dream that the Yamato nation has had for hundreds of years, that is, to occupy the continent and then use the continent as a springboard to dominate all of Asia. But now? It's just a small Wuhan, and you can't even get it back for me! “
"Now that the 6th Division has been destroyed, and the 106th Division cannot be destroyed anymore, do you want to let all the Kumamoto soldiers die?"
As Emperor Hirohito said, the 6th Division was composed of Kumamoto, and the 106th Division was a third-class division composed of soldiers from the 6th Division.
Such a fiasco is not the "martial arts" that Emperor Hirohito has been pursuing for many years!
In Japan, in fact, the authority of the emperor has not always been supreme, from Emperor Jimmu to Hirohito's generation, there have been 124 emperors, during this period, although the emperors of Japan have been passed down from generation to generation, but from 1185 onwards, the history of Japan began a long 700 years of samurai politics, during these 700 years, the emperor was in power, completely under the orders of the shogunate. The emperor of this period of time, just like a popular Japanese poem at that time said: "The phoenix was born in the last days, and he was depressed and miserable, and he sacrificed himself to attract wildfires and was driven away without a nest." ”
Fortunately, successive shoguns did not think of abolishing the emperor, because they could use the traditional authority of the emperor to serve themselves. After 700 years of rule, the shoguns felt that their rule had been deeply rooted and secured, and they finally loosened their grip on the emperor.
But the first plan of China's "Thirty-six Strategies" is to hide from the sky and cross the sea, and this clever plan says: if you prepare for the week, you will not slack off, and if you are common, you will not doubt it. The Imperial Family and the small court endured seven hundred years of powerlessness, just like antiques that were harmless to society, but that did not mean that they were willing to endure it forever, they were always on the lookout for opportunities, and the shoguns "did not doubt" opportunities.
Seven hundred years later, the opportunity for the Japanese emperor has finally arrived. Japan, like China, faced a once-in-a-millennium change in the 19th century: a closed country that was broken by Western powers. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the power of the lower samurai in Japanese society was combined with the nobility of the court, and Emperor Meiji finally carried out a restoration of the imperial government, and succeeded in seizing the world in one fell swoop. This time the emperor came back to life, and while greatly poisoning the lives of Asian countries, it also sought great benefits for the Japanese, and by the time of Emperor Hirohito, Japan had become one of the four great powers.
As the eldest grandson of Emperor Meiji, Emperor Hirohito certainly wanted him to become the greatest emperor in Japanese history, and this wish was to be fulfilled by his ministers!
It's time to give the lifeless cabinet some stimulus!
Japanese emperors have people who have no surname, because they consider themselves to be descendants of the gods, and they are extremely sacred, so there is no need to have a surname. Before the Meiji Restoration, the lower class people in Japan did not have surnames, but in the third year of the Meiji era, in order to learn from Westerners, the Japanese government stipulated that all ordinary people could have surnames, but the vast majority of Japanese were accustomed to obedience and did not dare to give themselves surnames. It was not until five years later, when the government made it mandatory for all citizens to have a surname, that the Japanese began to hastily prescribe surnames for themselves, such as those who lived at the foot of the mountain were surnamed Yamamoto or Yamashitta, and those who lived in Tanabe were surnamed Tanabe or Tanaka.
Japan's native religion, Shintoism, in which the emperor is dressed as the human incarnation of Amaterasu, is one of the biggest differences between Shinto and other religions. Buddhism has Shakyamuni, Islam has Allah, these religions do not say that there is a god in the world today, and Christianity is only hoping that Christ will be resurrected one day, only Japanese Shinto has a living god, that is to say, the emperor is a living god, a god in human form.
Since Japan is a kingdom of gods, the land of the rising sun, and the emperor is the only living god in the world, then Japan should rule over all the countries of the world, because all other countries should be slaves of God.
Therefore, the aggressiveness of the Japanese is deeply rooted in their religious worship and secular beliefs, and if they invade everywhere, it is because they are driven by the will of God in order to show the glory of God; If they are not aggressive, they are preparing for aggression.
To be able to sit on the throne of the emperor, Emperor Hirohito also survived step by step, this process is not easy!
On April 29, 1901, the cherry blossoms outside the city of Tokyo bloomed very brilliantly, the eldest grandson of the Meiji Emperor was born in the Aoyama residence, this is a moment that the whole country is looking forward to, when the news of the successful birth of the eldest grandson came out, the crowd rejoiced, the Japanese imperial family put up an incense case, to the ancestors and ancestors to report the birth of the eldest grandson, this little baby boy, was named Hirohito, "Hirohito" two dictionary out of the ancient Chinese books: the meaning of the country Yu Min'an. Hirohito's biological father, Crown Prince Kahito, was the eldest son of Emperor Meiji, a man with psychotic tendencies, who was destined to take over the class of Emperor Meiji, and Hirohito, the eldest grandson of the emperor, would also become emperor in the future.
On the 70th day of Hirohito's birth, he was sent out of the palace and given to a vice admiral, Count Kawamura, because Emperor Meiji deliberately wanted to educate this future emperor of Japan to be a man who was resolute, courageous, not selfish, and respectful of the opinions of others. Meiji was very cold to all the imperial grandchildren, and rarely came to see them except for birthdays. Every time he came to see Hirohito, Meiji always dressed up and asked Hirohito to bow to him in a proper manner, but he just nodded coldly and went back immediately. Emperor Meiji was very disappointed in his eldest son, and he felt that Kahito was a cowardly man who could not take on the heavy responsibility of leading Japan in full expansion, so he pinned his hopes on the emperor's eldest grandson, Hirohito, to cultivate a strong character in him.
In 1904, Emperor Meiji led Japan and Russia in the Russo-Japanese War and completely defeated Russia in the Far East.
In 1907, when Hirohito was only six years old, Emperor Meiji asked Hirobumi Ito to meet Hirohito, who knew that this was the most capable prime minister in Japanese history, and before receiving Hirobumi Ito, Meiji taught Hirohito:
"You have to be bold and ask him questions."
Hirohito said with a little trepidation:
"Prime Minister Ito is so majestic, I don't dare to ......."
"No, you dare, you are the future emperor, all subjects of the Great Japanese Empire have to serve the emperor and be absolutely loyal to the emperor, the emperor is the parent in our big family, so Ito is only your people, how can you not dare to ask questions about your own people?"
"This ......," Hirohito still cringed a little from despite Meiji's repeated encouragement.
"Then you can just treat him as your usual fish, or cat or dog." , Meiji's words were obviously a good idea, and when receiving Ito, Hirohito asked calmly and sophisticatedly:
"After the victory of our Great Japanese Empire in the Russo-Japanese War, who should we fight next?"
Ito Hirobumi and the elders present at the time were very surprised that this six-year-old child had such specific and ambitious considerations, and they were very happy: Our Yamato nation has such a strong master, and it will surely be able to travel thousands of miles.
In 1908, Hirohito began attending school, and Meiji appointed Hirohito's war hero, Admiral Nogi Noshinori, to be in charge of education. Hirohito was a thoughtful child, and he often asked Nogi strange questions, and once he asked Nogi:
"Why is Japan ruled by the Emperor?"
If an ordinary person asks this question, then he will commit a great crime of rebellion, and he will be thrown into prison immediately, Nogi faced Hirohito's question, and replied with sincere fear:
"Article 1 of the Constitution of the Empire of Japan stipulates that the Empire of Japan is ruled by the Emperor of the Empire of Japan; Article 3 stipulates that the emperor is sacrosanct; Article 4 stipulates that the Emperor is the head of state and has overall authority over the country. Therefore, His Majesty the Emperor rules Japan under the Constitution, the Emperor is the country, the Emperor is the law, and all Japanese people will always be unconditionally obedient to the Emperor and loyal to the Emperor. ”
After Nogi Noshinori answered this question seriously, he wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand, and he felt that answering this question was more nervous than fighting the Russo-Japanese War. But he didn't expect that Hirohito had another question next:
"But the Constitution also stipulates that any law promulgated by the Emperor is null and void without the approval of the Diet, so doesn't that mean that the Emperor's powers are subject to the Diet of the People's Republic of China?"
Nogi Noshinori didn't expect Hirohito, who was young, to have such a profound thought, he hesitated for a while, and replied: "That constitution was only written for Westerners, and it made Westerners think that our Japanese empire is also a constitutional monarchy and democratic country. As soon as our provision was announced, the British revoked their extraterritorial jurisdiction in Japan. ”
"Then why do you say it's just for Westerners? Isn't it useful to the Japanese? ”
Nogi Noshinori replied respectfully, and with some pride:
"Your Highness, is this Japanese Diet made up of Japanese?"
"Yes, of course it's made up of Japanese."
"Do the Japanese think that the emperor is sacrosanct?"
"Yes, Article 3 of the Constitution stipulates that the Emperor is sacrosanct!"
"Then how dare the Diet, which is composed of Japanese people, not approve the laws promulgated by the emperor?!"
"Oh, by the way, this one is so good, we can use it to deceive Westerners, but in fact it does not interfere with the power of the emperor at all."
"Your Highness is wise." Nogi Noshinori replied with his hand down.
At the age of nine, Hirohito began military training according to Meiji's arrangement, and officially served in the Japanese Army and Navy, Nogi Noshinori once took him to visit the Yokosuka Naval Base, Hirohito met with the commander of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Togo Heihachiro, Marshal Togo introduced to Hirohito the achievements of the total annihilation of the Russian fleet in the Tsushima Strait, and said to Hirohito earnestly:
"Your Highness, my Great Japanese Empire has the most powerful navy in the world, and in the future it can attack China and the South Seas for His Majesty the Emperor."
Hirohito looked at the majestic battleships of the Combined Fleet, and was eager to go to the coast of China to fight and expand the territory for Japan.
In 1912, Emperor Meiji became seriously ill and Hirohito was made crown prince. On the day of Emperor Meiji's funeral, Nogi Noshinori said to Hirohito very calmly:
"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, farewell, I want to follow Emperor Meiji."
Hirohito shook Nogi's old hand hard, looked at the gray sky in the distance, and said calmly:
"Mr. Nogi, you are the important minister of the first emperor, if you go with the first emperor, then he must be very happy."
When Nogi and his wife returned home, they bowed deeply to the portraits of their two sons, and according to the traditional ritual, Nogi's wife committed suicide first, but the old woman no longer had the strength to plunge the dagger into her throat, so Nogi gently stabbed the shiny dagger deep into the throat of the old wife, and then wiped the blood splashed on his wife's face with a white scarf.
Then, Nogi committed suicide by disemboweling himself with his sword, and as a professional soldier, his posture and movements were very standardized, so he quickly returned to the western heavens.
At that time, countless Japanese committed suicide for Meiji, and some even stabbed their entire families to death first, and then committed suicide, willing to die for Meiji.
Hirohito was deeply moved by Nogi's funeral, and although the people around him constantly instilled in him the concept that the emperor was a god, he had always felt the pain of his illness as a mortal, so he did not feel a god except when performing those Shinto religious ceremonies. After Nogi's suicide, he developed a strong emotional understanding that "the emperor is a god", "Even such an old hero with a gray face and beard willingly committed suicide for the emperor, what is it that the emperor is not a god?" ”
After Meiji's death, Hirohito's father, Yoshihito, succeeded him as emperor. Sure enough, Kahito has a weak physique, no decisiveness, and intermittent psychosis, and although he is the generalissimo of the army and navy, he knows nothing about military affairs and is not interested.
Japan's veterans and ministers were deeply worried: China had just carried out the Xinhai Revolution, the Qing Empire had fallen, China was in chaos, the Western powers were present in European affairs, and a world war was about to break out, but Japan did not have a brilliant emperor to lead. The Japanese were in danger of losing their way, and from 1912 to 1926, when Kahito was emperor, Japan did not make any major external expansion, and although the Japanese senators and cabinet were anxious to see Emperor Kahito as a cowardly emperor who did nothing, they could not go beyond the emperor and do more.
Under these circumstances, the power of the Japanese parliament and the prime minister has increased, the various political parties have become more powerful, and the Japanese public has become less and less interested in the emperor. After World War I, the imperial families of Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary completely collapsed, and the Japanese began to express doubts about the imperial system, and the royalists were very anxious.
Fortunately, there is also Hirohito, when Hirohito's father was in power, Hirohito was pinned on the greatest hopes by the royalists, and the Admiral Heihachiro Togo personally served as Hirohito's teacher, and in the courses taught, the most important was imperial studies, and he tried to teach Hirohito how to exercise the power of the emperor and how to play the role of a charismatic political leader; The second is military affairs, Hirohito has to study military strategy and tactics, to study maps, to understand various weapons, including the performance of strategic ships and bombers and how to use them in the battlefield, as well as other subjects such as physics, economics, law and national highways.
Interestingly, as a future leader, Hirohito, was not taught philosophy by these teachers. In the same way, all Japanese people are not interested in philosophy, perhaps because the Japanese have an emperor, they don't need to study boring abstract concepts anymore, the Japanese are happy, they have a clear, concrete belief in allegiance to the emperor, and in their eyes, philosophy is just an abstract thing that boring white people like to play with.
As a national hero of Japan, Heihachiro Togo was the most revered person by the Japanese other than the emperor, and he taught Hirohito his experience of the war in great detail:
"In 1904, the Meiji Emperor decided on a military strategy against Russia, which was very simple and powerful: we would go to war without declaring it, and strike first."
"Oh? Is that okay? Hirohito asked in surprise.
"Of course, this world is the winner who has the final say, if you win, everything is yours, if you lose, what's the point of declaring war or not?"
When Hirohito heard this, he nodded deeply yes.
"At that time, I led the destroyers to attack the Pacific Fleet directly in the Russian port of Cherbourg, and at once rushed into the enemy line and fired torpedoes. The result was a resounding victory, which made the Russians lose their fighting spirit for war. ”
"You mean to say that the purpose of our preemptive strike is to demoralize the enemy, right?"
"Yes, Japan is a small country that lacks resources, and the territory is small and has no depth, so we must rely on the first fierce blow to make the enemy surrender in frustration, so that we can win."
"Well, I think all Japanese students and soldiers must seriously study your set of theories, which is very important to us in Japan." Hirohito was so impressed that all Japanese military schools must teach Togo's tactics, and Yamamoto later learned the essence of this tactic and used it in the attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States.
Hirohito's teacher continued to instill knowledge in him, but he couldn't wait for the crown prince to take his father's throne as soon as possible, because Kahito had been suffering from mental illness for so long that the Japanese elders agreed that he could no longer lead the Japanese Empire.
The senators' visit to Hirohito was carefully arranged for him to visit England in 1921, and the performance of this shy and almost wooden young man in front of the British won him a great favor, and the British thought that he would lead Japan on a path of peaceful development. When the British Air Minister accompanied Hirohito to visit the airport, on a whim, he warmly invited him to take the latest British military aircraft, but this was an activity that the future emperor needed to absolutely prohibit, and Hirohito's entourage was immediately stunned and at a loss, and he was afraid that Hirohito would be embarrassed to refuse and agreed, if there was an accident, wouldn't Japan be leaderless again? Hirohito responded very calmly:
"Of course I was delighted to be able to fly on one of the best flights in the UK, but it's a shame I couldn't fly without that today."
There is no more perfect performance than this, through this visit, the senators believed that Hirohito had his own opinions on important matters, so after his return, he couldn't wait to let him be regent that year, essentially assuming the duties of the emperor, while his father was deposed aside, is the Japanese emperor really sacred? The emperor who is useful to Japan is sacred, and the emperor who is useless is just a superfluous stumbling block.
Hirohito's teacher of international law, Risakutaro, taught him this concept:
"War has always been legitimate, never illegal, and now international law is to serve national interests, war is used for self-defense, and the right of self-defense includes the protection of one's own nationals, life and property living in other countries, and the necessary expansion."
Seeing the fate of his father Yoshihito, Hirohito also felt that the so-called sanctity of the emperor was actually a bunch of nonsense, as long as the senators thought that the emperor did not meet the needs of Japan, then they would decisively throw the emperor aside like garbage, and then pick out another emperor from the imperial family. From this cruel fact, Hirohito realized that it was not so much that the emperor needed the right to rule the Japanese, but that the Japanese people needed an emperor to increase their cohesion, because all Japanese people have a nature of obedience, and without an emperor, they are just a swarm of headless locusts who do not know where to fly.
Hirohito was determined to play the role of a leader, even though he did not possess the heart and wisdom of a leader. Teachers of international law also taught:
"There will inevitably be conflict and competition between the white race and the yellow race, because the white race has completed their expansion and has a wide range of resources in the world, and Japan, as a rising power, has not left him many resources, so there is no other way but to fight for it from the hands of the white race."
Based on this theory, the army and navy under Hirohito revised the targets of the Great Japanese Empire, with the Soviet Union as the number one enemy, the United States as the second enemy for the first time, and Shina as the third enemy, and the Japanese navy and army began to use them as imaginary enemies to formulate future strategies.
At this time, Hirohito's marriage was also on the agenda, and the royal family chose Hirohito as the crown princess, although Hirohito was like most Japanese women, with a mediocre appearance, she had played with Hirohito since she was a child, and had a childhood sweetheart's feelings, so this choice was also logical.
In fact, compared to Shina women, Japanese women have small eyes and small figures, and they do not look very sexy, especially their thighs, which are very thick because they often sit on kneels and cross-legged on tatami mats, and most of them show O-shaped looped legs. The abdomen was narrower than the chest, from the back to the waist to the buttocks were straight, without any unevenness, and the whole body was disproportionately thin compared to the face, hands and feet, and there was no thickness at all, making people feel that this was not a flesh, but a wooden stick as thick as the top and bottom.
Despite these shortcomings, Japanese women are very good at turning decay into magic. Although their figures are very bad, they can hide this weakness with kimonos, and they can wrap their thick and deformed thighs just right, and they immediately become delicate and feminine beauties.
The art of kimono can not only cover up these defects to the greatest extent, but also bring out the beauty of Japanese women to the greatest extent. The most charming part of Japanese women is their necks, which are covered with white powder, beautiful necks, soft skin, and the largest gap deliberately left by the kimono, which women can take advantage of to compete for beauty.
And this beauty of the neck, especially when a woman kneels on a tatami mat, can best be seen by men. Therefore, it can be said that it is the Japanese culture that creates Japanese women, and Japanese women need Japanese kimonos to set off and highlight their beauty, which in turn strengthens Japanese kimono and tatami culture.
However, Ryoko's selection caused unease in Japanese political veteran Aritomo Yamagu, because it would make the Kutsumi family more powerful, and he found an important basis: the Kutsumi family suffered from the Seki hereditary disease, and as the mother of the future emperor, Ryoko could also carry the Seki gene. Yama Prefecture Youpeng organized a group of medical experts to conduct a thorough examination of Liangzi's whole body, but these medical experts did not dare to offend Yama Prefecture Youyue, let alone provoke the Japanese imperial family, so they came to an ambiguous conclusion that Liangzi had normal vision, but the probability of color blindness in offspring was 50 percent.
As soon as the Kutsumi family saw that the momentum was not good, they turned to the Black Dragon Society, a well-known underworld organization with close ties to the Japanese imperial family, and the leader of the Black Dragon Society, Toyama Mitsuru, sent samurai to break into the house of Marshal Aritomo in Yama Prefecture and bluntly threatened:
"If I could get your wife's life, I would be grateful."
Yamaguchi Yutomo was a soldier, and he was not afraid of this threat, so the two factions entered a stalemate, and seeing that a bloody storm was about to roll up in Tokyo, the empress finally manipulated the mentally ill emperor to say a crucial sentence:
"I've heard that scientists often make mistakes, too."
This put an end to the dispute between the two factions.
But this does not mean that Hirohito's marriage can be held smoothly. The Great Kanto Earthquake struck Japan, and much of Tokyo and Yokohama was razed to the ground. The Japanese believed that when Anotesu, when the reigning emperor was dissatisfied, the catfish under the Japanese archipelago would tumble, causing an earthquake, and although the Japanese government turned the problem to the Koreans and Shina in Japan in order to dispel this superstition among the people, and slaughtered the innocent 6,000 Koreans and 600 Shina, the Japanese imperial family thought that it was inappropriate to consummate the marriage immediately.
Ryoko's parents were very worried, and they finally got married to the Imperial Family, and they had a lot of dreams at night. They desperately bribed the Minister of the Interior, Nobuaki Makino, and the wedding could finally be held. At this time, a young Japanese man appeared, and almost made the wedding never happen.
The young man's name was Namba Daisuke, and although he was born into a family, he was very dissatisfied with the darkness of Japanese society. He thought about it and thought that only by assassinating Crown Prince Hirohito could he warn the privileged classes of Japan in order to reform Japanese society. Namba Daisuke prepared a modified cane gun in advance, waiting for Hirohito to attend the opening ceremony of the National Assembly must pass through the Torano Park, he quietly loaded the toilet in advance, mixed in the welcoming crowd, when Hirohito's motorcade slowly turned at the intersection, Namba suddenly rushed out, raised his gun and shot at Hirohito in the car, due to nervousness, the bullet did not hit Hirohito, the driver immediately picked up speed, dodged the continuous bullets fired by Namba, Namba was arrested on the spot, and was immediately executed.
After these two incidents, the Japanese royal family urgently discussed that holding a grand fairytale wedding at this time could sweep away the bad luck brought by natural and man-made disasters to Japan, so Hirohito and Ryoko got married in a hurry.
On Christmas Day 1926, Emperor Taisho finally died, and the twenty-five-year-old Hirohito officially became the 124th Emperor. Heihachiro Togo uses the logic peculiar to the Japanese to explain "Peace" in this way:
"Yes, we are going to war, but the purpose of our war is peace, and through war, we finally achieve peace, that is, we have declared peace to the world."
After Hirohito's accession to the throne, he naturally became the supreme commander of the army, and could give orders directly to the army without consulting anyone. Half a year later, he ordered the army to send troops to Shandong in China twice, creating the tragic Jinan Incident.
From 1927 onwards, Hirohito's enthronement ceremony lasted for more than a year, and those who had been loyal to the emperor hundreds of years ago were picked up from the pile of old papers of history, and Hirohito generously awarded medals and knighthoods.
The whole population was mobilized, and the Japanese used their creativity and imagination to the fullest, and every time Hirohito traveled, Keno Tanaka would take his schoolboys, along with millions of other schoolchildren, to polish the railroad tracks that Hirohito was going to ride through, inch by inch, and spotlessly clean.
More than 1,000 years ago, Emperor Jimmu said in his edict: "Make the whole world our home and unify it." In Japanese, it is "Hachihong Ichiyu", which is the greatest dream of the emperors of all ages. Now, the situation in Manchuria is very good, and the capture of Manchuria is a key step in the realization of the "Eight Pillars and One Universe", and Hirohito is very relieved in his heart:
"The future belongs to me, and I must make greater achievements than Meiji Emperor, so let me complete the unfinished business of Meiji Emperor now.
"To realize any great dream, great sacrifices must be made, and in achieving the goals of the Great Japanese Empire, we must sacrifice the Zhina, the strong must rule the weak, only the inherently weak will consider this cruel, we must use war to destroy war, and use weapons to create peace."
Although he thought so in his heart, after the enthronement ceremony, Hirohito's edict to the world was only one set of words:
"I hope to maintain world peace forever for the benefit of all mankind."
Every time I think of this sentence now, Emperor Hirohito can't help but want to laugh a little!
Standing in front of the Yasukuni Shrine, Emperor Hirohito looked at the cabinet members trembling in front of him, and his desire for power was greatly satisfied at this moment.
He's already said it very decisively! Now it's his cabinet ministers' turn to make his demands come true!
The Constitution of the Empire of Japan, adopted in 1889, stipulates that the emperor is "one of the world's eternal and sacrosanct" emperors at the pinnacle of the power of the entire country. Secondly, it is the Privy Council formed by some patriarchs. Further down was the House of Lords, which consisted of royalty, Chinese, and a number of parliamentarians, and together with the House of Lords, the House of Representatives of the Imperial Parliament.
After that, it was the turn of the Cabinet. As a result, the Prime Minister is a clerk in Japan's power structure, not a decision-maker. It's a bit like the military aircraft department of the Qing Dynasty, and the prime minister is the foreman of the military aircraft. While the prime minister sounds powerful, the most important war minister in the cabinet can disobey his orders. If the Minister of War disagrees with the Prime Minister, he can threaten him with resignation, and if the Minister of War resigns, the entire Cabinet must collapse, so the Prime Minister's power depends more on the eyes of the Minister of War.
Now that Seishiro Sakagaki has been rebuked by the emperor for the war in Wuhan, it seems that the life of the Konoe cabinet will soon begin to become sad...... (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )