The head-on conflict between the elder of the Meiji era, Saionji Gongwang, and the Taisho Emperor immediately caused a shock inside and outside the Japanese government and the opposition, and the Saionji Gongwang was a member of the imperial family and should be on the side of the emperor, but now he betrayed the Taisho Emperor, and there was a lot of discussion inside and outside the Japanese government and the opposition. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ever since Emperor Taisho naively intervened in the power struggle between the Choshu Domain, the Sho Friendship Association, and the Satsuma Domain, and did not know how to achieve political balance, the Japanese political arena and the Imperial Court were already in chaos. In fact, in dealing with this kind of struggle for power among ministers, the most important thing the emperor should do is to maintain the balance of the scales, rather than putting his chips on which side.

Emperor Taisho had just succeeded to the throne for a year and had not yet been able to convince the elders, but in the process of succeeding to the throne, Emperor Taisho mistakenly believed that many ministers supported his succession as a personal allegiance to him, and took his own weight too seriously, thus ignoring the political aspirations of others, which led to an embarrassing end.

The naïve Taisho Emperor then did something even more naïve, he convened an imperial court meeting and threatened the elders and courtiers that he would resign as emperor and quit. Because he was angry with the Saionji Temple and gave up the throne of the emperor, Emperor Taisho's behavior was not only crazy, but also made the imperial family feel very shameless. As a result, for the sake of the imperial family's face, Saionji Konobu was forced to resign as president of the Seiyokai Association, but his insistence that the emperor was a man, not a god, and that imperial power must be controlled by the constitution did not change.

The dispute within the Imperial Court soon extended beyond the Imperial Court, and on May 15, demonstrations and riots against the Cabinet took place among students and intellectuals in Tokyo, Osaka, and other places. Their slogans were "Down with the Lords" and "Embrace Constitutionalism", which were intended to overthrow the feudal patriarchs and introduce a party cabinet system, and their supporters were bankers and industrial capitalists who wanted to wrest power from the nobility and warlords. Buyers and sellers are first concerned about the return on investment, and no one wants to pay for the loss of money. Wouldn't the over-expansion of armaments, and the failure of military adventures, not the investors who invested huge sums of money lose all their money? No one will do a loss-making deal.

The struggle between the political parties and the feudal lords, led by the Political Friends Association and the Kuomintang, gradually expanded to a large-scale nationwide popular movement led by intellectuals and students, and the workers and peasants soon joined the movement.

On May 16, the first pro-constitution convention was held in Tokyo, where it proposed to "resolutely reject compromise and eradicate the clans with a view to upholding constitutionalism." Emperor Taisho and Katsura Taro were immediately in an embarrassing position of extreme isolation, and with the exception of the army centered on the Choshu domain, which had benefited directly from the expansion policy, it was on the side of the emperor, and various other forces were on the side of Saionji Koto.

However, in the face of the growing power of the Constitutional Protectors, Katsura Taro did not give in, and he decided to establish a party to seize power in the Diet, believing that he should continue to fight for the support of Emperor Taisho. So Katsura Taro personally went out to organize a new party and appointed himself as the leader of the party in an attempt to tide over the parliamentary crisis.

At the 30th session of the Diet held on May 18, 1912, Katsura Taro adjourned the session three times in the face of opposition from the members of the Diet, and at the same time, in the name of the Emperor, issued an edict in the name of the emperor to the president of the Seionji Temple, "Save the time." The so-called Kuang Salvation Time was to ask the Saiyuan Temple to dissolve the parliament. Katsura Taro's actions thoroughly angered opposition parties such as the Seisai Friends Association, and Yukio Ozaki, who supported constitutional government, proposed a motion to impeach the cabinet in the Diet, denouncing the Katsura cabinet for "using the emperor as a shield and the edict as a cannonball to attack political opponents." The people were also outraged that they had upset the differences between the palace and the palace and deviated from the common principles of constitutional politics. After the people surrounded the National Assembly, the government dispatched more than 2,000 police officers to suppress it, resulting in bloodshed. Social unrest spread to Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka, Kobe, Hyogo, and other places.

House Speaker Ikuzo Ooka immediately dissuaded Katsura Taro, saying, "If the Diet is dissolved, civil strife will occur." As the situation deteriorated further, Katsura Taro saw that the general trend had turned, and Emperor Taisho did not know whether he was sulking at himself or with someone else's, and refused to meet with any ministers, so Katsura Taro lost the emperor's support and had to be forced to resign.

After joining forces to defeat Katsura Taro, Saionji and Yamamoto Gonbei immediately began to divide the spoils politically, because Saionji Gongwang openly angered the emperor, so it was impossible for him to enter the cabinet again, otherwise with Emperor Taisho's irritable and nervous personality, he would have to pull out a knife and cut people.

Emperor Saionji and other elders recommended the non-partisan Prime Minister Yamamoto Gonbei to form a cabinet to Taisho, and the Taisho Emperor was exhausted and lost his majesty, and he once again threatened to abdicate under impulse, showing the fragile side of his character. However, in the face of the persecution of many ministers and elders, Emperor Taisho had to make concessions, but when he was at the imperial court, he rolled a telescope with paper and looked at each minister angrily, causing many courtiers to be embarrassed. In the end, whether it was a mood or a threat to abdicate, Emperor Taisho had to make a series of arrangements and concessions in terms of national policies and personnel arrangements, with Yamamoto Gonbei, a naval veteran from the Satsuma Domain, as prime minister, and the Tsunatsu Friendship Association regaining control of the parliament and respecting the constitution.

The first thing Yamamoto did after taking over as prime minister was to restart Sino-Japanese peace talks, and Yamamoto was very disdainful of Katsura Taro's war without political purposes, believing that the army was always a bun with his head down. Yamamoto Gonbei's strategy is obviously much higher than that of Katsura Taro, and now the conflict between Japan and China seems to be a glory for Japan, but in fact it has fallen into the trap of Anglo-American law. The reason why Japan is so openly blackmailing China but secretly supporting and instigating it is precisely because they see that Japan is recovering, and European countries are full of contradictions at this time, Germany, Austria and Italy have formed the Allies, Britain, France and Russia have formed the Axis powers, and European countries hope that Asia will be in chaos at this time, and if they come to Asia once, they will need Europe's support even more.

Yamamoto Gonbei proposed to the parliament the concept of "ending the war and restoring national strength", which was immediately supported by everyone, and Yamamoto Gonbei proposed by the way that even if Katsura Taro made a mistake, Japan should not bear this mistake, and all the expenses of the war should be paid by China, so he believed that the end of the war should be negotiated after the occupation of Yangzhou.