Chapter 390: Naito's Death!
You, Jiro Naito, took money from our Satsuma Domain before, how did you speak for the Nagasu Domain this time?
Did you kid take their money? Say! How much did those bastards from the Cheung Chau clan give you?!
Attacking Taiwan was a proposal from the Satsuma Domain, so Naito's opposition this time naturally caused a strong backlash from the Satsuma Domain.
Even if Naito said his reasons, even if he really didn't take anyone's money this time, but in the parliament, there are constant voices of questioning, and even abuse.
Jiro Naito really didn't expect this to happen, because from his personal thoughts, he didn't do anything wrong!
It's really true, because Japan wants to rise normally, according to what he thinks, we just go to the United Kingdom, everyone's conditions, all aspects are similar, according to the development of the maritime country, this is very good. Naito is indeed a businessman, but when he was abroad, he saw a lot of things that the Japanese people couldn't see, and after becoming prime minister, he didn't just argue about the constitutional monarchy, he also studied a lot of things.
To be honest, the reason why he received money from the Satsuma Domain before, he Naito felt that this was a passing, anyway, I didn't agree to join the coalition, I didn't agree to fight the Qing country, so it was good to collect some money, don't you take it for nothing. But now, this collection of money has become a black spot for him, this black spot......
Naito is very smart, he is also a veteran player in the political arena, not the businessman he used to be, so Naito went to meet the emperor!
At this time, Emperor Meiji's political status was not high, but it was also very high.
It's so contradictory. Why is it not tall and still tall?
To talk about this. It was Naito who did it with the people of the Nagasu Domain and the Satsuma Domain!
In simple terms. The emperor really has no real power in terms of actual political power, and he himself is like a hollow cabbage, unable to control anything. However, this emperor is very high in name, very high, and it can be said that the emperor is not alone in Japan. It's a god, at least a figure who seems to be a god.
That's so strange, since it's a god, why isn't it high?
God, you are all gods, then go and communicate with God, we mortal affairs, we can handle it ourselves, so it's fine.
If I want to talk about this, it is because of the reform of the constitutional monarchy. This reform requires the emperor to do this, like Queen Victoria of England. The old lady was like a mascot, she didn't really care about anything.
And the reason why this was possible was that in Japan at that time, it was really simple and couldn't be simpler!
Let's just talk about the rules that have always been the rule, the emperor's voice, that's called the crane song, hey, yes, listen, is this a human movement?
And then the real duty of the emperor is actually mainly the high priest in Shinto!
Yes, he was supposed to deal with the gods, he did this, so now that we have sublimated you, you can concentrate on this work.
The so-called sublimation means that the supreme ruler of Japan is His Majesty the Emperor, and then the Balababara ...... It's like making a god, and you regard the emperor as a god, so if you are an immortal, then you should do your very promising job as an immortal.
At that time, this reform was easily completed, and the emperor was very happy, you know, he had no real power before, and there was no law that stated that the emperor was the supreme ruler, so the Meiji emperor happily became a god.
But now, Naito is the prime minister, and he is actually the most powerful person, so now that he has an accident, he naturally has to find someone who has more power than him, and this person is the emperor. That is, Naito hopes that the emperor can stand up and speak for him and give an endorsement, although the emperor has no real power, but as soon as the emperor comes out to speak, then Naito's crisis will be solved.
"Okay, I got it."
"Aha!"
The meeting with the emperor was still very smooth, and Naito Jiro felt that the emperor would endorse him.
As a result, it went to parliament the next day......
"Jiro Naito! As Prime Minister, how can you be so mediocre? I didn't go to the coalition army to fight against the Qing State before, so that's fine, but how can you still accept bribes? ……”
I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it at all! Emperor Meiji, a young man, directly blamed Jiro Naito, the prime minister!
You know, from the perspective of the operation of power, this is completely wrong, because the status of the emperor is actually the guy who stamped it, you are all immortals, don't get involved in our human affairs, you just agree to what you are given.
But now, the wings of this fairy are still hard!
"......" Naito didn't have anything to do at that time, because after all, he was the emperor, the supreme ruler, what could you do?
Naito is not an idiot, he has a way, you just use public opinion!
Naito, this guy is rich and powerful, but now there is a little problem in politics, it's nothing, your emperor came out to directly accuse the prime minister, this is not right, it does not meet the requirements of the constitutional monarchy, so the major newspapers in Japan began to talk about it.
"His Majesty the Emperor should still concentrate on the sacrifice!"
"The prime minister is in charge of government affairs, the emperor is in charge of sacrifices, and this is how a modern country should be!"
"We can't accept an emperor under a constitutional system who dictates to the executive!"
This artillery fire is really fierce, but ......
"His Majesty the Emperor accuses his courtiers of taking bribes, what's wrong with that?" This was said by Takayoshi Kido, who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time.
"His Majesty the Emperor has seen a thousand miles! Since he can communicate with God, then he represents God's will! Prime Minister Naito's mistake is wrong! This was said by Ritsu Okubo, who was the secretary of the Treasury at the time.
"Naito's small amount! Not a gentleman! Not a samurai! That is, a businessman! I, Saigo Takamori, disdain to be in the company of it! "Don't say this, Saigo Takamori, the one who had a particularly smelly foot.
But be careful, Kido Takayoshi and Okubo Toshitsu are both from the Nagasu domain, while Saigo Takamori is from the Satsuma domain. Now these two sides are fighting!
Let's be honest. Why these two feudal clans are fighting. And they all agreed that Japan wanted to abolish the feudal domain, you said they all had a common goal, so why fight? One goes out to sea to fish, the other farms, this can't stand at all, fighting chicken feathers? But they're fighting, and Naito can't even understand it, but now.
It's because the fuck it's against yourself. The two feudal domains have been temporarily united!
Naito is so angry, he is not easy to use public opinion offensive, so let's just avoid the limelight for the time being.
Naito wanted to be instigated, but he didn't expect that after he jumped up public opinion, it expanded all of a sudden, and public opinion changed its tone!
"The Great Japanese Empire should be led by His Majesty the Emperor!" The man who said this is called Fukuzawa Yukichi, this guy is quite famous now, and he himself is a teacher. But now I write an article when I have nothing to do, and it's pretty good. can scratch the itch of Japanese nationalism, and he was actually in the United States of America before, but there is no war over there, this guy has run back.
Yukichi Fukuzawa has a lot of fans, especially among the people, so as soon as he said this, he called for the emperor to come out and grasp the real power, which immediately caused a lot of responses, and the people's voices were getting higher and higher.
If you want to talk about this, the reason is also very easy to explain, because you didn't say it, the emperor is the supreme ruler of Japan, and the Japanese people used to listen to the general, and then the general returned to power? Isn't that supposed to be listening to the emperor? Why are you prime ministers, and what ministers are up to?
Yes, the Japanese people don't know about this at all.
To tell the truth, the constitutional monarchy, as far as this whole really sings the leading role, that is, the bourgeoisie!
The bourgeoisie was in the first place, so they came up with nationalism, which worked very well in Europe, and the religion was all over the place, and the small countries were also trying to become independent every minute. But this thing was moved to Japan by people like Naito, Kido Takayo, and Okubo Ritsu, who didn't change much, and that would be interesting.
One of the biggest differences is that the emperor of Japan, he is a god, he himself is mythologized, those monarchs in Europe are more or less separated from religion, but this one in Japan is one!
In addition, it was the shogunate era before, and this 'return to power' was indeed a victory of the bourgeois revolution, but where could the common people see this?
If you want to talk about the voice of the people, this matter can be completely ignored in the Japanese political arena, because the common people are a fart? When did this part of Japan have the right of the common people to speak? Let's just say that before, those mud legs didn't even have their own surnames, wasn't this what we gave them after the Meiji Restoration?
Yes, there was no surname before, but during the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese people went to a learned person to ask for a surname, so what is the surname? So, what Panasonic and Inoue ...... Anyway, all kinds of exact directions came out.
But now, the people's hearts are available!
Both the Changzhou and Satsuma domains saw this, so they began to use the voices of the lower classes to create a big momentum, but this momentum had a flaw, that is, the Meiji Emperor needed to come out.
It should be said that come down, go down a little from the altar, and you can be the supreme ruler!
At this point, Naito felt a little bad, because the Western constitutional monarchy he saw was not like this, and the imperial family could not directly take care of things, even if he didn't have too much political wisdom, he could see that there was going to be a problem.
So, he came out and shouted again.
"Your Majesty the Emperor! Please concentrate on serving Amaterasu......"
In this shout, Naito also expressed his intention to reconcile with the Nagasu Domain and the Satsuma Domain, but it was not ......
"Jiro Naito!"
"What are you going to do?"
"Needless to say! Kill! ”
"Ahhh......h
At home, Jiro Naito was assassinated, and one of the people who did it was called Yuhiro Ito and the other was Heihachiro Togo...... (To be continued......)
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