"Isn't there any movement from Kita Yihui?" Nagata Tetsuyama asked with some confusion. They had expected Kita Kazuki to do his best to incite the soldiers when a large number of angry soldiers returned to Japan. Unexpectedly, Bei Yihui did not do this, on the contrary, the organization under his command went to more grassroots rural areas and other places.

"They seem to want to fight the doctrine of universal suffrage, saying that they want to fight for the 50 percent tax for the countryside." Okamura Ninji did not act as proactively as Nagata Tetsuyama, but planned and moved. Therefore, Okamura Ninji made special efforts in intelligence gathering.

"Fifty percent tax?" Nagata Tieshan frowned at first when he heard this, and then couldn't help laughing, "He actually wants to implement a fifty percent tax through elections?" ”

In the Chinese information provided by Okamura Ninji, the People's Party only collected 30% of the agricultural tax, which made Nagata Tetsuyama dare to believe it for a long time. Kita Ikki wants to reduce the tax revenue in the countryside to 50% through the parliament, which sounds like a big joke no matter how you hear it.

Okamura Ninji didn't laugh, he wasn't interested at all in whether Japan could only levy a fifty percent agricultural tax. Originally, Nagata Tetsuyama and Okamura Ninji both thought that Kita Kazuki, as the spiritual leader of the Imperial Sect, was likely to take the lead. They are all waiting for Bei Yihui to make the first move, at least to let the Imperial Dao faction make trouble first. No matter what Bei Yihui thinks, it seems that this plan will not be realized for the time being. If the Imperial Sect does not move, it will be even more inconvenient for the Ruling faction to do so.

In the past, Japan's unification faction and the imperial faction had a common stance, that is, to adopt a tough attitude toward China. Whether it is the general battle of the ruling faction or the seven lives of the imperial faction, if it is only used to defend Japan, there is no need to consider adopting such a drastic method. After carefully understanding the course of the Taiwan campaign, even Nagata Tieshan felt that he had to give up this position.

China's huge superiority in army and air force weapons is something that Nagata Tetsuyama doesn't even know how to compensate. According to the information gathered on the battlefield, the Chinese aircraft that participated in the war were mentioned as several times larger than the largest aircraft that Japan could build. The Air Force is not an army, and the army can pretend to be an infantry even if it finds a peasant who has not been trained at all and puts a rifle in his hand. However, the Air Force had to rely entirely on the strength of science and technology, and after reading the data on the Chinese Air Force planes brought by Nagata Tieshan, the person in charge of the Army Aviation Research and Development Organization repeatedly asked whether this was an airplane or an airship. After confirming that it was indeed an airplane, the face of the person in charge turned green. He made it clear that Japan simply could not afford to develop an aircraft of this size. And then he talked about all kinds of air force data as if he had fallen into an evil spirit.

Nagata Tetsuyama was not interested in the term air force development, and he understood through this incident that Japan would not have to think about being able to create a force to counter the Chinese air force in a few years. After the well-trained army went to the battlefield, it was killed by Chinese planes without even seeing the faces of the Chinese, so what is the point of training the army? Nagata Tetsuyama is not the old guys in the military department, he has a very clear attitude towards the war, and when he can't win, he can't fight.

However, the actual situation in Japan is that for several decades the propaganda of the Japanese military department has always claimed that in the later period of the Tokugawa shogunate, which was plagued by internal and external troubles, because patriots and soldiers did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives and abandon everything they had to save the country, they were finally able to overthrow the old shogunate, implement the Meiji Restoration, establish a stable system of the country, and then develop industries and resist foreign aggression with the national policy of enriching the country and strengthening the army, and it took only 45 years for Japan to become a first-class power in the world.

Now, after less than 20 years of "fighting" as a first-class power, Japan has been defeated by China, which was once an old and weak empire, and can only defend Japan itself. The uproar caused by this great contrast is sure to deal a complete blow to the position of the military in Japan.

Even when they finally realized the need for "anti-feudalism," Nagata Tetsuyama and others still believed that what was needed was "anti-feudalism" led by the unified Japanese military department, rather than that the military department itself would be reduced to a small role. From the very beginning of Tanaka Yoshishi, the Japanese Army has always wanted to eliminate other political parties and completely control the cabinet, but now the army and navy have been defeated, and the possibility of controlling the cabinet is constantly decreasing.

The Imperial Daoist faction was originally a radical foreign war faction, but after a series of defeats, it now turned to the internal demand that the domestic "traitors" be eliminated first, and the unification faction wanted to make a profit. However, Kita Yihui supported the "fifty percent tax" and seemed to lead the struggle to the parliamentary struggle, which surprised the unification faction.

"I'm afraid it's the People's Party behind it!" Okamura thought about it again and again, and finally put forward his opinion. The People's Party (KP) has taken the path of encircling the cities from the countryside, and before it can gain sufficient strength, the People's Party has given up its nest in Shanghai and developed in the rural areas of Anhui, and Okamura knows this very well. Now Kita Ikki is saying that he wants to promote the "fifty percent tax", and in terms of the scope of his action, it has been transferred to rural Japan. The Japanese countryside has always been a very troublesome place for the Japanese ruling class, and the rice riots originated in the countryside, and the social contradictions are quite acute. According to the theory of the BJP, there is a lot to be done here.

After listening to Okamura Ninji's explanation, Nagata Tetsuyama also felt that it made sense. But if Kita Ikki does this, the unification faction will have no way to deal with it. Do you want to go to the countryside with Bei Yihui and them to "compete for the masses"? The strongholds of the Dominist faction are all in the cities, and there is no such intention at all.

"Now no matter what, someone has to come out and push the situation!" Nagata Tetsuyama said.

Almost at the same time, Toshiro Obata was also holding another meeting, "Now no matter what, you can't act rashly!" ”

When the Baden-Baden trio had just reached an alliance, they still had a group of like-minded youths. Four of them were known as China experts, Okamura Ninji was naturally in the first place, and the other three were Seishiro Itagaki, Dohihara, and Ryosuke Isoya. Toshiro Obata had already parted ways with the unification faction as an imperial faction, and all four Chinese experts had joined the unification faction. In fact, there is another one, and that is Ishihara Waner.

Ishihara was originally an officer stationed in Korea, but after the defeat in Korea, Ishihara changed his position, believing that Japan was no longer able to challenge China, so he instead advocated the completion of the Showa Restoration within Japan, and strongly advocated the elimination of the domestic chaebol and the reorganization of Japan. So Ishihara simply voted for the imperial faction supported by Toshiro Obata.

Listening to Toshiro Obata's point of view, Ishihara Wanji greatly agreed. After Taiwan's defeat in World War II, not only did it lose tens of thousands of troops, but the country's somewhat improved finances also fell into crisis again. In his remarks about the unification faction, not only did he not mention the issue of the military department, but instead pointed the finger at Prime Minister Takahashi Isaki, holding that Takahashi was the one who was most responsible for the defeat because of the lack of equipment caused by the reduction of military spending by the Qing Dynasty.

Ishihara is not a good man and a woman, but even he can't stand this kind of lie. The military department's claim is simply nonsense, and of course China wants to avenge the First Sino-Japanese War, but without the Admiralty's jumping up and down contacts with the Caucasian people trying to encircle China, China has no excuse to fight so aggressively. After Kobata Toshiro made it clear that Ishihara also felt that the unification faction's approach contained evil intentions.

As a minor aristocrat, Toshiro Obata was well aware of the corruption of the upper echelons of Japan. After uniting with Kita Kazuki, he realized the problem of class struggle, so at this time Toshiro Obata firmly opposed any rash actions of the Imperial Road.

Ishihara didn't want to give others a stir, but he didn't want the current upper echelons of the military department to continue to be entrenched in the position of leader. Ishihara asked, "Then just sit back and watch the situation change in the slightest?" ”

"It is impossible for the situation to remain untouched." Toshiro Obata replied, "This time, as before, there will be a large number of wounded soldiers retired. However, when these wounded soldiers return to the countryside, life must be difficult. Mr. Kita's 50% tax campaign is to use this retirement to put pressure on the government. If the peasants in the countryside could unite and put forward their own political demands, it would be of great benefit to the revolution! ”

"Peasantry?" Ishihara was stunned. Peasants are not a glorious place in a hierarchical country like Japan, they are the targets of oppression, bullying and exploitation, and they are also considered the most powerless group of people. When he heard that Kita Yihui was going to mobilize the peasants, he could not be surprised by Ishihara.

"Is Mr. North going to do it?" Ishihara asked tentatively. It was the most destructive way of organizing the peasants he could think of.

"Now that universal suffrage has been held, mobilizing farmers to push for changes in parliamentarians is also a way." Toshiro Obata replied.

Ishihara is not optimistic about universal suffrage at all, "Universal suffrage is bribery, and those people are openly buying and selling votes!" ”

The peasants knew nothing about politics, and in the harsh conditions of life, they tried to sell everything in their hands into money. Bribery in popular suffrage has become the norm and has become something completely different from the system of universal suffrage that was originally advertised as everyone has political power.

Toshishiro Obata himself knows how to fight, but he doesn't know how to do politics, so he can only choose to believe in Kita Ikki, "What Mr. Kita means is to let the people know that the votes in their hands can achieve political interests, and if there is no such way of struggle, there is no starting point for revolution." ”

Looking at Ishihara's face full of incredulity, Toshiro Obata emphasized: "Ishihara-kun, you should know very well that officers and soldiers in the Chinese army are equal. I remember you first telling me about it. ”

Of course, Ishihara knew that he originally told Toshiro Obata about this with the mentality of saying "strange talk". After so many years, Ishihara finally understood that equality between officers and soldiers was one of the basic guarantees for the strong combat effectiveness of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.

"Soldiers are the foundation of the Japanese army, and soldiers in the Chinese army who perform well also have the opportunity to enter military academies to receive education and then become generals. We in the Japanese army can't do this now, but we should pay attention to the lives of our soldiers. That's absolutely true. Toshiro Obata said seriously.

Ishihara occasionally saw the tragic situation of the soldiers after they retired, and he could still feel a sense of pity. When you can't see it, you forget about it. However, since Kita Yihui wanted to use retired soldiers to make a fuss, Ishihara had to take into account that Kita Yihui also had plans to try to expand his influence in the army. But I think of such things, but there is no need to say it. So Ishihara replied, "As the person in charge of veterans' affairs, I will also try my best to make better arrangements for soldiers." ”

The Imperial faction has changed direction, and the Ruling faction is also waiting for an opportunity. Despite the fact that a large number of soldiers were wounded, discharged or killed in battle, Takahashi used all his financial efforts to barely withstand the pressure. So the turmoil that could have been possible did not happen.

The high-ranking officials of the Japanese military department thought that they had prestige and appeal, and they did not consider the specific details. It's not that they don't want to think about it, it's that they don't dare to study it carefully. The top brass of the Japanese military may also have some people who understand, although they have not heard of Chen Keai's words: "It is easy to die first, but it is difficult to die later!" "But I also know that there is always silence before the storm. But what can the few who understand do? The situation is just like this, and the surface is not alarmed, and a huge storm is brewing in the future.