Through Roosevelt's introduction, or it can also be called drunken bragging, Wang Yongan gradually learned some of the contents of Roosevelt's think tank. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Roosevelt's people included economic, military, diplomatic, internal, historical, cultural, scientific and technological talents, and even religious studies that Wang Yongan never cared about. These elites were very practical and far-sighted in all respects, and Roosevelt himself admitted that in a country with a relatively mature political system like the United States, such a think tank could help Roosevelt save a lot of things and avoid many detours.

Wang Yongan was particularly envious of Roosevelt's think tank, and gradually realized that like the United States, behind every big man there was a force of maybe dozens or even hundreds of people. On the other hand, in today's China, many people's success is accidental, such as him, such as Zhang Xun, such as the revolutionary party, but every failure is inevitable. Compared with the United States, China at this time is more suitable for adventurers to survive, but adventurers often mean danger, which is also a shock factor that causes national instability.

Wang Yongan reflected on himself, because he did not have such an elite think tank around him to assist him, everything was relying on his own mind and wisdom to fight against the enemies that appeared, and indeed all this success may be more proud, but such success is too tiring.

When he woke up from a hangover the next day, he woke up and found that it was already noon, Wang Yongan had a splitting headache, and even if Xiao Xiaoyue sent a sobering soup, he couldn't stop his headache. Because there was a banquet held by the Japanese royal family in the evening, Wang Yongan had to lie down and rest, and rested until dark, when his health improved, and then he had to take a car to the palace to attend the banquet.

This time, Japan's state banquet not only invited foreign guests, but also many powerful factions in China also came to celebrate the enthronement of Emperor Taisho. He was very curious about the Japanese political circles, and made a special observation, which made him feel that there was something special about the fact that the Japanese elders seemed to have become the protagonists of the banquet, but the imperial family had become a supporting role.

Originally, there were nine patriarchs in Japan, namely Hirobumi Ito, Kiyotaka Kuroda, Aritomo Yamaguchi, Masayoshi Matsukata, Shin Inoue, Saigo Yomichi, Oyama Iwa, Katsura Taro, and Saionji Konobo.

However, the second prime minister, Kiyotaka Kuroda, a veteran of the Satsuma clan, died of liver cancer eleven years ago. The following year, after winning the First Sino-Japanese War, Saigo Norimichi, a veteran of the Satsuma Domain, who had served as Japan's Minister of the Navy and served as Japan's first naval marshal, died of illness. Three years ago, Ito Hirobumi, who was born in the Choshu domain, was assassinated in Harbin by the North Korean Assassin Ahn Shigeun.

Therefore, there are only six of the nine elders now, and among them, Inoue Xin and Dashan Yan are not very good, while Matsukata Masayoshi's body is very good and full of energy. Prime Minister Saionji Gongwang is also in good shape, and he seems to have become the protagonist of the meeting.

Although there are only six elders left of the nine elders, there are also three factions in it, namely the Satsuma Domain, the Choshu Domain and the royalist faction, the main forces of the Satsuma Domain are in the army, there are Matsukata Masashi and Oyama Iwa, and the main forces of the Choshu Domain are in the navy, there are Inoue Shin, Yama Prefecture Aritomo, and Katsura Taro, but Saionji Gongwang is different from them, Saionji Gongwang is the only patriarch who is not from the Satsuma Domain and the Choshu Domain, and what he represents behind him is the domestic capital power and the imperial family, in other words, The patriarchs will more or less do something harmful to the royal family for their own power, but the public hope of Xiyuan Temple will not. It was precisely because of the special status of Saionji Gongwang that Emperor Meiji found an excuse to remove his predecessor Prime Minister Katsura Taro, and when he was about to ascend to heaven, he appointed Saionji Gongwang as prime minister, and entrusted Saionji Gongwang to smoothly assist Yoshihito as emperor.

In addition to the royal family's support for Saionji Gongwang, Japan's Mitsui Foundation, Mitsubishi Foundation, Bank of Japan Foundation and other major consortia also support him behind the scenes, and Japan's political parties naturally also support Saionji Gongwang, after all, the other elders represent precisely the military forces, and the most disliked thing by businessmen and politicians is the military, which will not be reasonable. But the biggest shortcoming of Saionji Gongwang is that he does not have the support of the military, and he can only force the military to make compromises through economic means.

Wang Yongan saw how heroic the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang was now, but he also knew that the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang had a political career that had been up and down in Japan, of course, Wang Yongan knew the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang best about the longevity of this gentleman. Compared with other Japanese veterans who hung up in their sixties, Saionji Gongwang actually lived to 1940 and lived to be 91 years old.

After the banquet, Wang Yongan quietly left with someone, but was unexpectedly stopped by someone, who said that he represented the privy chief of Youpeng in Shanxian County. Yamaguchi Aritomo was one of the elders of Japan, but he was an army general from the Choshu domain, and then took the initiative to participate in politics, and some people in the army, such as Miura Wulou, who firmly advocated that military personnel should not participate in politics, was a political enemy, and he served as prime minister twice, and after retiring from the prime minister's success, he became the chairman of the Privy Council.

The so-called Japanese Privy Council is different from the Privy Council in Chinese history, the Privy Council in ancient China was the highest military body, while the Japanese Privy Council was an advisory body to the emperor, and the speaker was also called the Privy Minister. Under the management of Aritomo Yamagu, the Privy Council gradually became one of the highest authorities in Japan, and the Prime Minister's cabinet became the two major political groups under the Japanese emperor. In the event of a confrontation between the Privy Council and the Cabinet, the Privy Council was generally resolved through negotiation, but after the death of Yamaguchi Aritomo, the Privy Council gradually declined, and was eventually replaced by a new Royalist faction, and was abolished after the Second World War.

Wang Yongan didn't understand what the Privy Council Privy Council was looking for him to do, he suspected that Shan County Youpeng wanted to find a spokesperson in China, and the spokesperson in history was Zhang Zuolin, but Zhang Zuolin, a native of Liaoning, did not trust the Japanese in his bones, and only used the Japanese to consolidate the power in his hands.

It can be seen from this that it is very dangerous to cooperate with the Japanese, and to live longer by opposing the Japanese. Thinking of this, Wang Yongan made up his mind not to cooperate with Youpeng in Shanxian County.

The car was not to the Privy Council, but to the home of Shan Shan Youpeng, Wang Yongan was very surprised, Shan Shan Youpeng was wearing traditional Japanese clothes, kneeling on the floor, Wang Yongan had to learn his posture and sit down.

Youpeng of Shan County was very satisfied with Wang Yongan's respect at this time, and said: "Jingyunjun, I heard that you grew up in Japan, what is your impression of Japan?" ”

Wang Yongan said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "I'm telling the truth, I have been discriminated against more than respected in Japan over the years. ”

Shan County Youpeng shook his head and said: "No, if the people of Tun Shang Tun are not respected, I think no one will be more respected than him, right?" ”

Wang Yongan was taken aback.