So the people, escorted by the army, left through the side gate of the wharf, where a carriage approached, and the members of the negotiating group got into the carriage one by one, escorted by the army, and went home.

What was prepared for Ito Hirobumi was a luxurious four-person carriage, and after Ito Hirobumi got on the car, Saionji Gongwang and Inukai Yi also got on the car and wanted to send Ito Hirobumi all the way home.

The carriage left the dock, and seeing that no one found it to follow, Saionji Gongwang and Inuyang Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and told Ito Hirobumi that on the day of the signing, there was a great riot in Tokyo, and about 100,000 people gathered in front of Japan's ** secret, denounced the Japanese cabinet for incompetence, loss of power and humiliation of the country, and opposed the signing of a treaty with East China**, demanding to continue the fight and so on. The gathering soon developed into a riot, robbery, arson, burning and other atrocities, and the Japanese sent the army and police to suppress it. As a result, more than 700 buildings were damaged, more than 300 of which were severely damaged, 358 people were killed, 1,552 were injured, another 2,167 people were arrested, and seven police officers were killed in the riots. Tokyo imposed martial law for three days.

Although the riots in Tokyo were controlled by the Japanese, the people soon targeted the members of the negotiating group, believing that they had betrayed Japan and East China. A treaty was signed to humiliate the country, and Ito Hirobumi was naturally the first to bear the brunt, so someone began to organize a siege of Ito Hirobumi's residence, but fortunately, the Japanese police arrived at the right time to protect Ito Hirobumi's residence, and at the same time, the inner cabinet sent troops to disperse the crowd that organized the siege of Ito Hirobumi's residence, which was considered to have not caused casualties among Ito Hirobumi's family, but the residence and facilities were damaged to a certain extent.

Ito Hirofumi listened to it and breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the family members were not harmed, it was a blessing, and at the same time, he was relieved about the domestic arrangement, so it seems that at least Japan has not completely given up on itself, maybe he can avoid Li Hongzhang's end.

After the signing of the contract, Japan's ** also changed, first Prime Minister Katsura Taro announced his resignation, and then War Minister Terauchi Masaki, Army Chief of Staff Yama Prefecture Aritomo, Navy Minister Ito Yuhiro, and Navy Commander Yamamoto Gonbei also resigned almost at the same time, and all the senior military officials also left at this time.

In fact, this is also expected, after all, Japan lost so badly this time, although Japan's first bite was the success of East China's sneak attack and stole Japan's victory, but defeat is defeat, and someone must always be responsible for the defeat, so the prime minister and the military naturally became the target of public criticism, and they could only resign to apologize.

Although Ito Hirobumi had an agreement with Yamaguchi Aritomo, after Katsura Taro's resignation, the Matoyokai led by Ito Hirobumi still supported people from the Yamaguchi Aritomo faction to become prime minister, but first, there was no suitable candidate to take over as prime minister among the Yamaguchi Aritomo faction at present; second, Japan was a mess now, and it was obviously a thankless task to become prime minister at this time, so Yamaguchi Aritomo suggested that the Masayoyokai should temporarily take over as prime minister, with a transition period of three years, and then someone from his own faction would serve as prime minister. However, since Ito Hirobumi was negotiating in Shanghai at that time and had not yet returned to Japan, Saionji Gongwang and Inukai Yi could only put this suggestion of Yama Prefecture Aritomo on hold for the time being, and wait for Ito Hirobumi to come back to discuss.

Ito Hirobumi listened, and couldn't help but be happy, this is good news, although the current Japan is indeed a mess, but there is danger is organic, to get the opportunity to govern, means to gain power, not only to expand the influence of the political friends in the Japanese political arena, but also to promote the new members of the political friendship association, such as Ito Hirobumi is now optimistic about Miyamoto Naoto, you can take this opportunity to promote him to an important position.

Although Japan is a mess now, it is just right to grasp more power, and Bi Jing is now an extraordinary period, and he can also take advantage of Japan's defeat to suppress the military's power. In the past few years, in order to prepare for war against Russia, Japan's military expenditure every year has been 30 percent of its fiscal revenue, and at its highest point it was even close to 40 percent, and the average was basically about 35 percent, which is quite an astonishing proportionIt is impossible to survive this crisis.

Of course, this is another problem, in the political friendship association, who will be the prime minister, Ito Hirobumi himself is definitely not good, first, Ito Hirobumi has already formed a cabinet three times, and he does not plan to be prime minister again, he just wants to be behind the scenes; second, Bi Jing signed the [Shanghai Treaty] on behalf of Japan, and it is difficult to convince the public to be the prime minister at this time, and he looked at the two people opposite, and said: "Saionji-kun, then you will be the prime minister." ”

Saionji Gongwang is one of the merits of the Meiji Restoration, and he is the second person in the political friendship association after Ito Hirobumi, Ito Hirobumi also intends to cultivate Saionji Gongwang and come forward to take power on his behalf, just as Aritomo Yamaguchi pushed Katsura Taro to the fore and manipulated himself behind the scenes, now is this opportunity.

Saionji Gongwang was about to speak, when the carriage had already arrived in front of Ito Hirobumi's residence, Ito Hirobumi said: "Get off the bus first, the prime minister's matter, and we will discuss it in detail tomorrow, but Saionji-kun, you can think about it tonight." ”

After getting out of the car, I saw that the surrounding area of the house was covered with dozens of police officers dressed in black, and the outer walls of the house were mottled with many uncleaned stains, and there were still traces of smashing on the windows, gates, and colonnades, which made Ito Hirobumi frown, and you can imagine what a fierce scene it was at that time.

At this time, the porter opened, Ito Hirobumi's wife Meizi with children, went out to welcome Ito Hirobumi's return, Ito Hirobumi has a total of 4 sons and 3 daughters, all of whom are adults, and the youngest daughter is 18 years old, after experiencing such a big turmoil, relatives meet, naturally there is another feeling, the two younger daughters first threw themselves into Ito Hirobumi's arms, crying, although Mrs. Mei and several sons want to try their best to maintain etiquette, but they can't help but wipe the corners of their eyes.

Fortunately, Ito Hirobumi is also a person with great self-control, and he quickly controlled his emotions, asked his wife to comfort his daughter, and asked his son to arrange for a servant to carry the luggage off the carriage, and then beckoned Saionji Gongwang and Inuyang Yi into the house for tea.

However, both Saionji Gongwang and Inuyang Yi also knew that their family must have a lot to say, so they also politely declined with great interest and said goodbye to Ito Hirobumi and went home.

Although the war has stopped, the situation in Japan is still fraught with danger, so Ito Hirobumi only rested at home for one night and began to devote himself to a new job the next day. First of all, he negotiated with Yama Prefecture Youtomo, agreed that the political friendship association would form a cabinet transition, clean up the mess in Japan, and after three years, the position of prime minister would be relinquished to people with friends in Yama Prefecture, but he demanded that in these three years, military spending should be reduced to less than 20% of fiscal revenue, although this proportion is extremely high, but compared with previous years, it can be regarded as a big concession.

Yamaguchi also knew that Japan's finances were basically collapsing now, and military spending had to be reduced, but at the same time, the military expenditure was reduced to 20% of fiscal revenue in the first two years and increased to 25% in the third year.

After the two bigwigs reached an agreement, Ito Hirobumi also immediately began to prepare for the formation of a cabinet and nominated Saionji Gongwang as the prime minister, and this proposal was also successfully approved in the political friendship association, so Saionji Gongwang took over from Katsura Taro and became the prime minister of Japan.

In fact, although the senior military officials resigned en masse, their successors had already been determined, because the officials of the Japanese Navy and Army were determined internally and did not need to be approved in the cabinet, and the appointment of the prime minister was just a formality.

The Minister of War was appointed by Kawakami Caoroku, and the chief of staff was taken over by Kodama Gentaro, but now Kodama Gentaro is still on the Korean Peninsula, organizing the withdrawal of Japanese troops, although now East China has lifted the naval blockade, but because after Japan's defeat, there has also been some unstable situation on the Korean Peninsula, so Kodama Gentaro did not dare to be careless, and also deployed a certain army on the Korean Peninsula to suppress the agitation of South Korea, so he did not return to Japan, and was temporarily represented by Hasegawa Yoshimichi.

In terms of the navy, the Minister of the Navy was served by Minoru Saito, the Minister of Military Orders was appointed by Goro Ijiin, and the commander of the Combined Fleet was appointed by Hidaka Chengyuo, who was originally before the start of the Russo-Japanese War, Hidaka Chengnoshi and Togo Heihachiro were both candidates for the commander of the Combined Fleet, and the then Minister of Military Orders, Yamamoto Gonbei, chose Togo Heihachiro as the commander of the Combined Fleet on the grounds of Togo Heihachiro's good luck, and Hidaka Chengnoru chose to retire. As a result, although Heihachiro Togo commanded the navy and annihilated the Russian Pacific Fleet, he was buried at the bottom of the sea in the Battle of Tsushima, and Hidaka Seinoshi was asked by the Navy Command Department to resume military service and rebuild the combined fleet.

In addition to the personnel of the military, the members of the previous Katsura Taro cabinet were basically all retained, but Inuyang Yi was appointed as the minister of education, culture and sports, Bi Jing is now an extraordinary period, and Saionji Gongwang is the first time to become the prime minister, so it is still mainly stable.

Japan's ** changes are not turbulent, and they will soon settle down, and the next thing is to close the construction matter, that is, to negotiate loans with Britain, France, the United States and Germany as soon as possible, because then Japan will not only have to pay reparations to East China, but also obtain funds for recovery and reconstruction.