Lin Yiqing took the letter and opened it, looked at it for a while, and a smile bloomed on his face.

"It's a big deal!"

In this letter, Li Shaoquan told Lin Yiqing that the important position of the secretary of the household department of the Qianguo State had now been taken over by Yan Danchu, who was inclined to the Westernization faction, and that Weng Shuping, the head of the household department who was originally in charge of the household department, had been dismissed from his post.

Thinking that Weng Shuping would never know the real reason for his resignation in his dreams, Lin Yiqing couldn't help but laugh secretly.

"Teacher, the news from Tokyo is that, as you expected, the government is going to take action against us." Hidehiko Sato didn't know the content of the letter, but after Lin Yiqing read the letter, he reported another piece of news to him.

"Got it, come with me to Mr. Nanzhou." Lin Yiqing nodded and said calmly.

"Yes!"

Just as Lin Yiqing was heading to Saigo Takamori's residence with several backbone of the naval cadets, the samurai leaders of Kagoshima had already gathered there.

"Mr. Nanzhou, the government is already forcing us to do it, we can't hesitate any longer!" After being silent for a long time, Shinohara Kunigan said loudly.

Just yesterday, he had already received news that the government forces had strengthened Kumamoto Castle, and the defenders of Kumamoto Castle had reached an unprecedented 5,000 men.

Because the Meiji government's reforms under the auspices of Okubo Ritsu touched the interests of too many people, and Okubo Toshitsu forcibly pursued his own policies with iron bowl high-pressure methods, a rebellion broke out in Saga in Kyushu first, that is, the "Saga Rebellion" led by Eto Shinpei in the seventh year of the Meiji era. In fact, Eto Shinpei himself was not a representative of the old forces, but a meritorious and important figure who established the foundation of Japan's modern legal system. Many of his political views were even ahead of many "imperial officials" of that era. However, the group he relied on could only be the gentry who had the strength and the heart to overthrow the government. At the same time, the scholars also used the prestige of Eto Shinpei to achieve their own goals. They gathered more than 3,000 soldiers and mistakenly believed that Saigo Takamori would raise troops in Kagoshima in response, so they started an incident, but they were quickly arrested and beheaded. The success of this crackdown has clearly strengthened the determination of the Okubo government to continue its policy. Therefore, in the ninth year of the Meiji era, the Okubo government officially issued the "Abolition of the Sword Order" and announced the abolition of the samurai Yuroku. The gentry were even more dissatisfied. More than 200 members of the Kumamoto former Shi clan in Kyushu organized the "Worship God Party" (also known as the "Kamikaze Company"), preached Shinto politics, attacked the county government and barracks, and even directly rushed into Kumamoto Zhentai and killed the prefectural commander and the commander of the Zhentai for the "Kamikaze Company Rebellion", but the uprising was quickly suppressed by the reorganized Zhentai soldiers. At the same time, under the influence of the "Kamikaze Company", 400 members of the Fukuoka Shi clan in Kyushu formed the "Akizuki Party" in response, and the Ogi (Yamaguchi) clan in northern Honshu also responded en masse, which was the "Autumn Moon Rebellion" and the "Ogi Rebellion". These two uprisings were also quickly suppressed by Okubo Ritsu.

Although Saigo Takamori did not participate in these small rebellions, Okubo believed that as long as the domestic situation continued to deteriorate, Saigo Takamori would definitely move from time to time. It was because of his suppression of these small rebellions that he greatly strengthened his precautions against the Kagoshima clan.

Kumamoto Zhentai was an important fortress for government forces. In the fourth year of the Meiji era, the Japanese government set up two towns, Higashiyamado and Saikaido. Later, four towns were set up, including Tokyo, Osaka, Sendai, and Kumamoto, each with about 2,000 troops, as the main military force to suppress each region. At the beginning, the Zhentai soldiers were all selected, and the old feudal soldiers were reorganized into government troops. Kumamoto Towndai was mainly used to guard Kyushu, and the first Kumamoto Towntai commander was Saigo Takamori's brave general, the famous Kirino Toshiaki. Later, the Japanese government abolished the four towns and established the six towns, and Kumamoto was still one of the important towns. After the establishment of Xinzhentai, the Japanese government changed to recruit civilian troops as the main force, and the strength of the army was still more than 2,000 people. Kumamoto Castle has been used as a town station since ancient times. Kumamoto Castle is one of the three most famous castles along with Osaka and Nagoya. It took seven years to build a stronghold established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's general, Kato Kiyomasa, and served as an important fortress to guard and suppress the expansion of the princes of Kyushu, especially the Satsuma Shimazu family, until the end of the shogunate. Today, Kumamoto's Zhentai soldiers are composed of civilians, and during the "Kamikaze Rebellion", Kumamoto was easily captured, and although the counteroffensive of the Zhentai soldiers later worked, it still left the impression of an empty force. In the face of the Kagoshima samurai, Okubo did not hesitate to increase the strength and armament of Kumamoto Castle, not only increasing the strength of Kumamoto Castle to 5,000 people, but also sending more than 1,000 police forces to Kumamoto Castle, and adding more than 20 new artillery, and the military and police forces and navy north of Kyushu were also put on alert.

After receiving this news, the samurai of Kagoshima thought that the government was going to start soon, and that war was inevitable, so they came to Saigo Takamori early in the morning to ask for their lives.

"Morning Meng's grace meets the night and burns the pit, and life is like a gloom. Even if you don't return to the sun, if you don't have luck, you can push sincerity. Luoyang's confidants are all ghosts, and the Nanyu prisoners are alone. Life and death are not suspicious of talent, and I am willing to leave my soul to protect the imperial city. Saigo Takamori put down his glass and chanted a poem.

Everyone savored the poem, and the room became silent again for a while.

It has been five years since Saigo Takamori went to Kagoshima to live in seclusion. During these five years, he has been cultivating samurai and accumulating strength in Kagoshima by running a private school. But why is he hesitating now?

In fact, Saigo Takamori's heart was not willing to break with the Meiji government and fight a civil war, but Okubo Ritsu and others persecuted too much (in response to Lin Yiqing's sentence "The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty"), so he had to prepare to resist in advance.

And he built a private school to strengthen the power of the Kagoshima clan because he understood that sooner or later Japan would have to expand abroad, then there would definitely be a conflict with Russia, and since Russia was the closest to Japan and the most ambitious country among the great powers, this conflict would be very fierce. At that time, the Japanese government army, composed of civilians, will not be able to resist the Russian army in any case, and Japan will face another crisis. The government would once again have to rely on the samurai to defend themselves against foreign aggression and clear the way from within, so that the samurai he trained would be the backbone of the country's salvation!

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