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Riots caused by the rice rush are still in full swing throughout Japan. Countless people, countless slogans were wrapped up in this riot, and the scale was constantly expanding in geometric shapes. By January 23, 1920, the total number of people who participated in the riots had reached 12 million, accounting for almost a quarter of the Japanese population! There have been thousands of clashes between the military and police and the rioters! Every day, a large number of demonstrators are arrested, blood is shed every day, and many local government buildings in cities and counties are burned down, and the whole of Japan is paralyzed.

At this critical moment, he boasted that he could lead the country to become the second Meiji Emperor, no! Crown Prince Hirohito, an even greater monarch than Emperor Meiji, can't wait to show what he's capable of. On the one hand, he donated 100,000 yen on behalf of the imperial family to purchase food to quell the turmoil, and at the same time, in the name of Emperor Taisho, he issued an edict to the Tanaka caretaker cabinet, asking them to contact Britain and the United States to request mediation, and reach an armistice agreement with the Republic of China as soon as possible, preparing to withdraw their fists and learn the early Meiji method of cultivation and rest, so as not to be used by Yang Qiu and cause greater losses.

Although the imperial family's statement calmed some anger, it did not mention the result of lowering the price of rice and punishing profiteers, which made Koji Komatsu and many others unwilling, so they continued to trek through mountains and rivers to Tokyo to find so-called justice. In the early morning of the 24th, the relatively calm Tokyo area finally attracted the first major riot, and more than 100,000 Japanese nationals from, Kanto, Nagano and other places who had come to find fairness arrived at Chofu, which was on the outskirts of Tokyo, and confronted the military and police who had blocked the Komagawa River earlier, and local clashes broke out. Their arrival finally ignited the fire buried deep in Tokyo. Tens of thousands of citizens took part in the strikes and riots that took place on the same day, and the machines came to a halt. The rice shop was smashed open, and some people rushed to the transport ship to remove all kinds of food and supplies that were supposed to be transported to North Korea. Military police whistled and arrested mobs all over the streets. And now what they fear most is that the mob from all over the world will rush across the Koma River into the city of Tokyo, and in that case it will be a disaster!

The people were dissatisfied, and the radicals and military officers saw it as a lifelong humiliation! In particular, the fact that the rioters held up portraits of Cheng Cheng of the Kuomintang and chanted the "Cheng Cheng Act" made them vent all their anger on the Korean residents and rioters in Japan, and maliciously blamed all the blame on these people, believing that they were lackeys of Yang Qiu and the Chinese National Socialist Party. He is a traitor who disgraces Japan and disgraces Japan and the Army! It is precisely this atmosphere that has caused some people in this people, which has always been very eccentric and full of radical ideas, to sit still. Just like the earliest Warring States period in China, they always hope to sell themselves through various means, attract the attention of the public and the monarch, and then spread for generations, even at the expense of their compatriots.

Daisaku Kawamoto was one such officer.

Bands of heavily armed soldiers arrived at Komae to separate the rioters from the heart of Tokyo. Machine guns and cannons were also mercilessly aimed at Koji Komatsu and others. The soldiers whispered while on guard, and many of them deliberately raised the muzzle of their guns a little too high, fearing that they would miss their guns and hurt their compatriots. But there are also some people with cold faces and unceremonious bullets, as if they will kill and slaughter these "imperial tumors" as soon as they have an order.

Daisaku Kawamoto came here on horseback with blood-red eyes, and Junnobu Aoki, who regarded Junnobu Aoki as his lifelong idol, had long regarded the riot that destroyed and led to defeat as a national disgrace! In particular, I saw more than 100,000 people holding portraits of Cheng Cheng and shouting for the Cheng Cheng Act and lowering the price of rice. I almost didn't pull out my gun and kill it into the crowd. What is this? More than 50 years of struggle since the beginning of the Meiji Restoration. The money consumption in the calculation of 100 million, the lives of more than 300,000 young soldiers! It was ruined by a few grains of rice! What is even more infuriating is that they also hold portraits of their enemies and use enemy slogans in a vain attempt to force the empire to back down.

Now that the Tanaka cabinet has begun to ask the white ghost animals to mediate, and the imperial family is under pressure to agree to a compromise, where will the faces of these officers be placed? "This is a trick of Yang Qiu! Look at the mobs and traitors, they are already dazed, they are helping the enemy destroy the foundations of the Imperial Japanese Army. Kawamoto rushed into the officers' rest house and shouted. There are quite a few radical officers here who have similar views. These army officers who boasted of being the saviors of Asia after the Russo-Japanese War could not bear it anymore for a long time. They were not reconciled to the defeat of the last war. But the outbreak of war in Europe and the reality of the country made it impossible to suppress their anger. This time, it was hard to find an opportunity, although the previous war situation was not smooth, but the Wehrmacht was only breaking through along the narrow strip from Sinuiju to Pyongyang, and most of the northern part was still in Japanese hands. Therefore, they thought that as long as the follow-up troops arrived, they had every chance to regain their advantage, and they could even recapture Manchuria.

He excitedly waved his fist at the officers and soldiers: "If this continues, the Imperial Army will run out of food in Korea, and if we fail, will the future of the Imperial Army depend on the Navy?" They will only compromise and will only lick the ass of white ghost animals! We should help His Majesty the Emperor to teach those mobs a hard lesson. It's useless for you to stand here, you should act and drive them back! Rush home and lock up again! After he said excitedly, he rushed to the other side of the bridge alone, trying to drive away the mob in his eyes and not to endanger the country anymore.

Qiaotou is crowded with tens of thousands of ordinary Japanese people who have come from Aichi Prefecture to find justice, and they have come here just to find justice, and they have demanded the enactment of the Chengcheng Act in Japan and the reduction of the price of rice. They shouted slogans and watched Daisaku Kawamoto approach, completely unaware of what was about to happen.

"Fuck off! You non-nationals! Traitor, traitor to the Empire! If we go back now, we won't pursue it, and if we don't leave, we'll kill you all." Daisaku Kawamoto's impulsive words made several young people very angry, and these young people, who looked like students, also unceremoniously ridiculed each other: "What kind of officer are you?" Are you still protecting our soldiers? Look at these people, they work hard every day but can't afford even a liter of rice, and many of them have been without food for days! Is that how you treat your own people? ”

"National? Yaga, you don't deserve it! You are just pawns of the enemies of the Empire, look at the portraits in your hands, they are all enemies of the Empire! Enemy! It is the enemy who snatched away Manchuria, Mongolia, Taiwan and North Korea! Kawamoto was so angry that his face was red, and he suddenly grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground, rushed to a middle-aged man, and forcibly grabbed the dirt and stuffed it into his mouth: "Isn't there nothing to eat?" Then taste the taste of the land! For the sake of your future and for the glory of the Japanese Empire, we eat grass roots and broken leaves every day, why can we eat it, but you can't eat it. ”

"Let him go, you madman! We're going to accuse you and take you to court-martial. Several young students rushed up to snatch the middle-aged man and got into a scuffle with Daisaku Kawamoto. Seeing this, the soldiers waiting on the other side of the bridge immediately rushed to help, and the butts of their rifles flew sideways in the crowd, and blood flowed for a long time. The scolding, dissatisfaction and poverty of the people could no longer stand it, and they rushed to scuffle with the soldiers. A student holding a portrait of Cheng Cheng rushed up and punched the soldier, who was so angry that he pulled the bolt and shot him in the chest.

Syllable!

A crisp gunshot rang out, and yellow-orange-orange bullet casings jumped out with the pull of the bolt. As with all demonstrations and protests that turned into armed conflicts, the gunfire kicked off the bloodiest prelude to the most violent riots. Because at the same time as the gunshots were fired, dozens of Koreans living in Japan came out of nowhere. "Hit the chaebol, lower the price of rice, long live His Majesty the Emperor!" These Koreans, who had lived for decades, mingled with the Japanese people and were completely indistinguishable, and finally deliberately shouted the slogan "Long live His Majesty the Emperor" to confuse the Japanese army, and then opened heavy fire on the soldiers with shoddy short guns.

As happened to Himeji, many unsuspecting soldiers were killed in the crackling gunfire, and the blood of the robe and the so-called pride of the army made the officers' eyes completely red, they did not expect that these mobs would dare to shoot and kill people at the "feet of the Son of Heaven", and they raised their guns to shoot one after another.

The North Koreans who fired the guns had been prepared for all this for a long time, and after killing their target, they blended into the crowd and ran wildly. Because there were so many people, many innocent people were killed when the army opened fire. This scene suddenly turned Chobu into the most terrible place of chaos, countless people screamed to dodge bullets, trampled on each other, and the soldiers were desperate to catch people but were hit by the crowd, and finally had to continue to shoot and disperse. As a result of this vicious circle, many frightened people rushed to the cordon in the direction of downtown Tokyo, which frightened the officers and soldiers on standby, and if they rushed into Tokyo, Japan would really be doomed!

No one knew who gave the order to open fire in the end, and the blood was completely unstoppable when a Haggais heavy machine gun fired into the crowd in an attempt to stop the onslaught. Seven Haggaeth heavy machine guns, which were supposed to be used on the battlefield, fired at the same time, opening the curtain of death! The bullets rushed into the crowd at a rate of gray hairs per minute, and the dense and chaotic formation brought the tyranny of the machine guns to the extreme, and many bullets even penetrated four or five times in a row before finally stopping.

The soldiers also fired, and in the end even the cannon fired a few shots! Blood flew wildly, limbs were broken, countless bodies spurted blood and fell on the brown earth, and a layer of corpses floated on the not wide Komagawa River, and the blood even stained the river red.

On January 24, 1920, the most tragic scene of the rice riots in Japan appeared, hundreds of thousands of people rushed to Tokyo from all over Japan to find justice, trying to ask the emperor to come forward to crack down on the black-hearted chaebol, and the ordinary Japanese people who formulated the "Japanese Chengcheng Act" were brutally suppressed and slaughtered by the army, and in just half an hour of killing, more than 4,000 people were killed, more than 20,000 people were injured, and more than 1,000 people were missing.

On the morning of the third day, the Wall Street Journal even published the news under the headline "Holocaust," and the whole world was in an uproar.

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