Although it has passed 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, the mansion of friends and friends in Shanxian County is still brightly lit, and it is in the main hall, the sound of cups and cups, guessing fist orders, singing and laughing is endless, in this quiet night, it spreads throughout the entire mansion, and the servants in the mansion are not allowed to rest at this time, can only stay up and sleep.

Gonbei Yamamoto finally led the entire cabinet to resign, and the next prime minister was naturally determined to be the head of the army department, which was a major victory, so this evening, Terauchi Masatsuki, Katsura Taro and other important figures of the army department had a drink at the residence of Aritomo in Yamaprefecture to celebrate the re-election of the prime minister's throne by the army department. Although Yamaguchi Aritomo does not hold public office now, like Ito Hirobumi, with the great prestige accumulated during the Meiji Restoration and the Sino-Japanese War, Yamagumi Aritomo still has a huge influence on the Japanese Army, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is not an exaggeration.

In the past few days, there have been large-scale gatherings of the people in many places in Japan to protest against the government, forming a huge tide of public opinion, and finally overwhelming the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet; on the one hand, it is of course that the Japanese people are dissatisfied with the weakness of the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet in handling the Nagasaki incident; on the other hand, it is also the intelligence personnel of the army stationed in various places who are constantly agitating, guiding, and manipulating public opinion, so that they deliberately lead the Nagasaki incident to the East China government, so that the people have a negative opinion on the East China government The hatred of the government sparked anger against the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet, and finally formed a huge public opinion, forcing Yamamoto Gonbei to step down, which was also regarded by the War Department as a stroke of genius in this game.

In order to make everyone happy, on the other hand, it is also to boost morale, after all, now that the prime minister has been recaptured, there are even more severe challenges ahead. So Youpeng in Shan County also specially invited a few geisha to the house to play and sing for everyone. Although everyone has been drinking for nearly 4 hours, they are all a little drunk, but the atmosphere is still warm. Because he is the temple of the country, he was full of red light, because he was the new prime minister in the army, so the temple was also very happy in his heart, after all, it was the glory of the glory of the ancestors to be the prime minister

At this time, Youpeng in Shanxian raised his glass and said: "Come, let's have a drink for the new prime minister, the temple king." ”

When everyone heard this, they all raised their glasses and saluted the internal political affairs of the temple. The temple was also so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, and he also raised his glass and thanked him repeatedly.

After this round of drinking, Shan County Youpeng said again: "Terauchi-kun, you are the prime minister this time, but you have a long way to go, because the navy, as well as the political friends association, I am afraid that they will not be willing to fail, and will inevitably find your mistakes and wait for the opportunity to regain the position of prime minister, so you must not be careless." ”

Terauchi Masatsui smiled and said, "Yamasan-kun, you can rest assured, I won't be so stupid as Yamamoto Gonbei and take the initiative to create opportunities for the enemy." This time, I will keep the position of prime minister no matter what, and I will not let the navy or political friends easily take it away. ”

Shan Shan Youpeng also nodded and said, "Very good, Terauchi-kun, we should do this, and don't give the Navy and the Political Friends Association any chance." ”

The former Prime Minister Katsura Taro on the side heard it a little unpleasantly, such a much-anticipated glory belonged to him in the past, but now it is the turn of Terauchi Masatsu, Katsura Taro is naturally a little unhappy in his heart, and said: "Terauchi-kun, this time the prime minister is not good, although our Japan is not in internal and external difficulties now, but it is indeed not much worse, so after you take office, this burden is really not light." ”

Although it is not appropriate to say these words at this time, what Katsura Taro said is also the truth, the situation in Japan is really not good now, and the temple has also drunk a few more cups, and he didn't think much about it for a while, and said: "Guijun, thank you for reminding me, this still needs a lot of help from all of you, everyone work together to go to the difficulty." ”

Before the words fell, I vaguely heard a few gunshots "bang".

Katsura Taro didn't drink much, and he was suddenly shocked, and said, "Did you hear it, gunshots, gunshots." ”

Before the temple could react, he said, "Gunshots, gunshots from there!"

At this time, some people heard it, some people didn't hear it, and while everyone was talking, they only heard "bang bang bang" and several gunshots in a row, and this time the gunshots were obviously much clearer, and everyone understood.

Youpeng's face changed drastically, and he said, "Quick, go out and see what's going on." ”

At this moment, a servant hurried in, his face pale, and said, "Master, mutiny, mutiny, mutiny." ”

At this time, everyone also heard the continuous gunshots, mixed with shouts such as "Respect the emperor and seek adultery", "Seven lives to serve the country", "Heaven punish the national thief", "Heaven punish, heaven punish, heaven punish...... ".

As a person who has basically experienced the "downfall" era, he knows very well the meaning of the word "Tianzhu".

The era of the "Shogunate" was an era of complete imbalance of order, and various Shogunate factions, Restorationists, and Shogunate factions appeared one after another, and each faction believed that they represented justice and could take the lives of others in the name of justice, so various assassinations emerged one after another, whether it was a high-ranking official of the Shogunate or a bigwig of the Restoration, all fell under the knife of the assassins.

No one knows when it started, but after successfully assassinating the target, he would leave a blank piece of paper with the words "Heavenly Punishment" written in cinnabar, indicating that he was acting on behalf of the heavens. This ceremony was soon imitated by other parties, so that the white paper with the word "Heavenly Punishment" written on cinnabar flew all over the sky, bringing bursts of bloody rain one after another, and those who fell in the pool of blood were all famous people.

During the fall of the curtain, there were friends in Shan County who saw the fall of the curtain and the cadres in the Restoration camp more than once were killed by the enemy assassins, leaving a blank paper with the words "Tianzhu" written in cinnabar, but at that time, Youpeng in Shan County was not conspicuous in the downfall and the Restoration camp, but the two words "Tianzhu" left a very deep impression on Youpeng in Shanxian County, but it was definitely not a good memory. And now that I hear the call of "Heavenly Punishment", it is difficult to imagine that history is about to reappear again.

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It turned out that during this period of time, Yamamoto Gonbei was ready to resign, so he did not take any appeasement attitude towards the surging public opinion at all, but let it go, and the result was naturally that the people's resentment became bigger and bigger, and the army's intelligence personnel continued to add fuel to the fire in order to force Yamamoto Gonbei to resign as soon as possible, and in addition, Yamamoto Gonbei made a lot of compromises to the United States in order to end the Nagasaki incident as soon as possible.

In fact, in addition to the fact that the Japanese government has been agitating public opinion among the people and the intelligence personnel of the army are fueling the flames, there is another important reason, the people's lives are suffering, and they have long been full of resentment, and this time they are just taking this opportunity to erupt.

The Far East War has caused great damage to Japan's social economy, although it has been over for a year and a half, but it is still far from returning to the pre-war standard of living, most of the people can only be exempted from intense days, but the Japanese consortium, high-ranking officials can still live a life of spending all day and drinking, poor and extravagant, social contradictions seriously intensify the antagonism, so the resentment of the government is great among the people, but the Japanese are very obedient, and at the same time, the government also intends to take the East China government The government was erected as a target, which can be regarded as dispersing some of the people's grievances, and maintaining stability. But the resentment has not been completely resolved after all, and it will erupt as soon as there is an appropriate opportunity.

At this time, there was a night attack on the fleet of the East China Government, although it was not successful, but the people involved in this incident were regarded as heroes and righteous men by the people, which also inspired some people to be bold and reckless. Therefore, when some ultra-radical organizations and middle- and lower-class officers and soldiers communicate in private, they all believe that the upper class of Japanese society has become completely corrupted, that the officials are weak and incompetent externally, but that they are cruelly oppressing the people internally, and that the chaebol is insatiable and completely fails to meet the expectations of the emperor, and even deceives and sets up the emperor.

Inspired by the glorious deeds of these heroes and righteous men, some people decided to stand up and kill these misguided officials and chaebols for the country, clean up the emperor's side, and finally return power to the emperor. And take the opportunity of gathering crowds to protest to gather like-minded people. Originally, the people who were dissatisfied with the Japanese government were huge, and there were many people with impulsive personalities and extreme thoughts, so they soon recruited more than 1,500 people, including 3 or 400 soldiers, and most of the rest were members of radical associations, and a small number of them were members of society, including social nomads, idle people, etc., as well as poor and destitute poor people.

The leader was naturally the leader of the radical community, as well as a small number of middle- and lower-ranking officers, so he planned a course of action and a list of 35 people to be killed, and the first was Ito Hirobumi, and the second was Yamaguchi Aritomo.

Ito Hirobumi was a representative who signed a treaty with the East China Government after the Far East War, and later visited the East China Government and took the initiative to invite the fleet of the East China Government to visit Japan.

There is no obvious traitor to the country, but he is also a high-ranking Japanese official, and in the eyes of radicals, this is the original sin, so he is listed second.

And the rest of the people on the list are either high-ranking officials of the government, or chaebol giants, in short, all of them are well-known.

At the same time, in order to show the righteousness of their actions, these people named this operation "Operation Tianzhu" based on the story of the Reverse Era, and made a large number of white pieces of paper with the word "Tianzhu" written on cinnabar. And on this night, they began to act, and they split up to run towards various targets.