At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Japanese Prime Minister Gonbei Yamamoto received a telegram from Hiroshi Hidaka, and he was so frightened that he did not expect such a major incident to occur in Nagasaki.

Before this visit, he told him not to have an accident, but it turned out to be an accident, and it was a big thing that could not be controlled, thinking of this, Yamamoto Gonbei couldn't help but greet all the women in the family of Higao Zhuang. But now that it's happened, it's too late to say anything, and it's up to us to see how it is resolved.

At this time, the U.S. ambassador to Japan came to visit, and Yamamoto Gonbei had no choice but to bite the bullet and meet with the U.S. ambassador.

In fact, the request made by the US ambassador to Yamamoto Gonbei was similar to that of Spare, that is, to release the arrested, treat the wounded, severely punish the perpetrators, compensate for losses, etc., and Yamamoto Gonbei could not say anything else at this time, but could only ask the US ambassador for some time to allow himself to deal with it, and this request was of course not excessive, so the US ambassador gave 48 hours before ending the visit.

After sending off the U.S. ambassador, Gonbei Yamamoto immediately summoned cabinet members to discuss how to resolve the Nagasaki incident.

However, the ministers of the cabinet also had different opinions, and both Tibetan Minister Takahashi and Foreign Minister Lin Dong advocated that the matter should be calmed down, the captured American soldiers should be released as soon as possible, and the fleets of the United States and East China should be allowed to leave, so as to avoid further incidents, and now Japan can no longer withstand the toss; however, Minister Kato Takaaki believes that letting the fleets of the United States and East China leave at this time will only allow the anger of the people to be transferred to the cabinet, and it is better to leave the United States and East China for the time being If it is really the responsibility of the Japanese side, it will also apologize to the United States and East China, but if it is the fault of the United States and East China, Japan cannot lose its national body, and only publish the evidence to the public, believing that the international community has its own public opinion.

War Minister Katsura Taro advocated that Japan must not back down at this time, and must take a tough stance against the United States and East China, and severely punish the arrested American soldiers. In fact, when the cabinet received the telegram from Hiroshi Hidaka, the Japanese Army General Staff had already learned of the incident.

It turned out that after Gonbei Yamamoto became prime minister, the Japanese army has always been obsessed with it, always holding back to find the fault of the navy, driving Gonbei Yamamoto from the position of prime minister and regaining the throne of prime minister, so a large number of intelligence personnel were stationed in Nagasaki, and as soon as there was any trouble, they immediately reported to the army staff, because Nagasaki is the base camp of the Japanese navy, and it is easy to seize the handle of the navy here. After learning of the Nagasaki incident, the army thought that this was a good time to bring down the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet, so at this cabinet meeting, Katsura Taro deliberately pointed the finger at the navy.

But the Navy is not a vegetarian either, and Navy Minister Ito Yuxiang immediately stood up to defend the Navy, saying that the Nagasaki incident was just an accident and not the Navy's fault, and then accused Katsura Taro of still ignoring the overall situation and only seeking personal interests at this critical moment. And this exposed the old background of the army, Katsura Taro was also a little embarrassed and angry, so he turned his lips on the other, and all of a sudden the contradictions between the Japanese Navy and Army broke out again, and the more the two talked, the more fierce they became, and they quarreled at the cabinet meeting.

At this time, some people put forward a suggestion, thinking that it was better to take the opportunity of the Nagasaki incident to blame all the fault on the United States and East China, and then detain the warships of the two countries and keep them for Japan's use, so that Japan can get 20 warships at once, of which 16 are battleships, and its strength can rise to the third place in the world in one fell swoop, far surpassing the navy of East China, and Japan will not have to swallow its anger against East China. After losing the round-the-world fleet, the US Navy was powerless to compete with Japan, and could only endure this breath.

After listening to this suggestion, Gonbei Yamamoto almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, is this a fight for national affairs as a gang? Not to mention the current United States and East China** Most of the fleet sailed out of the harbor and anchored outside the port, even if it was parked in the harbor, it was not something that Japan said would be detained, it was 16 battleships, even in the narrow waters of the harbor, it also had extremely strong combat effectiveness, even if Japan won the victory with the firepower in the harbor, but at least nearly half of the warships could break through successfully, and the other half of the remaining in the harbor would be mostly sunk, and Japan would eventually be able to capture 3, 4 warships is the best result, and the captured warships must have been seriously damaged, and it is impossible to repair them without 1 or 2 years. At that time, even if the U.S. Navy did not have the ability to come to Japan to trouble, but the navy of East China was not an opponent that the Japanese Navy could contend with, according to the information obtained by Japan, East China had repaired 6 battleships captured in the Far East War, even if two were decommissioned, but now the number of battleships has reached 12, what can Japan do to confront East China.

And in terms of taking 10,000 steps back, even if Japan can get these 16 battleships in its entirety in the end, what is the use, because it has completely offended the two powerful forces of East China and the United States. At the beginning, the expeditionary fleet had 22 battleships, and it was not still defeated by East China, and although the US Navy suffered a setback in a short time, with the strong industrial manufacturing capacity of the United States, it would take 5 or 6 years at most, and it would be able to build a fleet of the same size again, and Japan's reputation in the world was also completely ruined, and it was impossible for that country to come to help Japan. So this advice is child's play.

As a result, in the afternoon of this day, there was no solution to be discussed, so Yamamoto Gonbei had to announce the dismissal of the meeting, and discuss it again tomorrow, fortunately, there is still time, and Yamamoto Gonbei is not too much, and he can also think about it this night, or gather his henchmen and staff to discuss.

But what Yamamoto didn't expect was that in the same night, things changed dramatically, making the situation more complicated and worse.

It turned out that in the early morning of the next day, several major newspapers in Tokyo published in advance to report on the Nagasaki incident, and the content of the report not only reversed black and white, but also pointed the finger at East China**. It is said that the soldiers of East China ** committed murder in the streets of Nagasaki, beat passers-by, robbed shops, and killed innocent people, and have killed more than 10 Japanese, and the perpetrators have now fled back to the warship to hide, while the navy stationed in Nagasaki is afraid of East China, and does not dare to go on the ship to arrest people, and now the warship of East China is about to leave Nagasaki, and I am afraid that this blood debt will never have a chance to be recovered.

Of course, all this news was released by the War Department, and it turned out that after yesterday's cabinet meeting, Katsura Taro went back and immediately gathered the main personnel of the army to his home to discuss how to use the opportunity of the Nagasaki incident to oust Yamamoto Gonbei from power.

And if you want to make a big deal out of it, the best way is naturally to stab it in the media, and as soon as the media spreads it, everyone knows about it, and finally arouses public indignation, then the matter will naturally be big. However, some people have pointed out that this can indeed make things bigger, but in this way, the relations between Japan and the United States will be completely finished, because the image of the United States in Japan will inevitably plummet, and it will even be hated, and now Japan's vitality has not yet recovered, and it still needs the support and help of the United States, not to mention that most of the US fleet is now sailing out of the port and stationed outside the port, and once the two sides really turn their faces, these 16 battleships will indeed be enough for Japan to drink a pot.

Although the goal of the War Department is to oust Gonbei Yamamoto from power, the ultimate goal is to come to power on its own, and if the situation is not brought out of order, will it not dig a hole for itself! Even if the Army wins the prime minister's throne again, I am afraid that it will not be able to sit for long, and the people in the War Department still understand this point.

So some people suggested that it is better to point the spearhead at East China, anyway, the current folk image of East China in Japan is not good, so as long as the Nagasaki incident is said to have been done by East China, it will definitely be able to arouse huge public resentment, and in this way, the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet will also completely lose the support of the people, and the only way to resign and step down is to go, and at the same time not to damage the relationship with the United States, and so that the people will point all the contradictions to East China Naturally, no one cares about the truth of the matter, and then the captured Americans are released, which will not cause any public resentment, so it can be said that this is a plan to kill birds with one stone.

After hearing this, Katsura Taro also thought that this was a good move, and that the truth of the matter did not matter, as long as it was beneficial to the Army, so the War Department also immediately took action, and announced the news of the work of the War Department to several major newspapers in Tokyo overnight. After the newspaper received the news, it was like a treasure, because this revelation was too fierce, the news value was extremely great, and the Japanese news in this era still had a certain degree of freedom, and most newspapers were big newspapers and had their own backstage, not to mention that there was no taboo on this news.

Of course, some newspapers that favored the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet chose to be cautious and decided to wait until the truth was ascertained, but most newspapers did not investigate the truth at all, because after all, the sooner the better, so they rushed to work overnight, and the newspapers that had been arranged were immediately revised or added, while the newspapers that were not published the next day issued special issues, and at the same time the new newspapers were sold earlier.

So in the early morning of the next day, after the Nagasaki Incident, which had undergone a makeover, along with the major newspapers in Tokyo, it was fully exposed to the whole society of Japan.