Chapter 30: Toei Ninja

In Haikou's "Far East Station," Nishikawa Yamamoto, the leader of the "Xihai Chamber of Commerce," a secret Japanese organization in Hainan, was planning an assassination plan.

The target of this assassination plan is Chen Zhong, the little prince of Hainan Palace.

This secret organization was disguised in the form of a chamber of commerce, and was essentially an espionage organization for Japan's colonial expansion.

The "Saikai Chamber of Commerce" is a branch of the Japanese Black Dragon Society. The "Black Dragon Society" is a Japanese militarist organization founded in 1901.

On February 23, 1901, Mitsuru Toyama and Ryohei Uchida organized the establishment of the Black Dragon Society in Tokyo on the basis of the former Genyosha, with the purpose of seeking the Heilongjiang River valley as Japanese territory, and its name came from Heilongjiang.

After the Qing Dynasty and the Meiji government of Japan signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki on April 17, 1895, ceding the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan, Russia, Germany, and France forced Japan to return Liaodong to China under the pretext of providing "friendly advice" for their own interests in China.

On April 23, 1895, the governments of Russia, Germany, and France sent the following notice to the Government of Japan:

"Today, our country will not only endanger the capital of China (Beijing), but also make the independence of Korea nominal and hinder the maintenance of peace in the Far East, so I hereby advise your country to confirm that it will renounce the occupation of the Liaodong Peninsula."

The three countries demanded that Japan return Liaodong to China, and gave a reply within 15 days; The three countries are even preparing to send a naval fleet to the northeast.

On October 19, 1895, Japan reached an agreement with the three powers: Japan would return Liaodong to China, and the Qing court would pay 30 million taels of silver as compensation. On November 16, the Qing court redeemed Liaodong.

The diplomatic victories of Russia, Germany, and France have aroused the ambitions of the world's major powers to realize their imperialist ambitions in China.

In 1896, Russia made a contribution to forcing Japan to repay the Liao, and signed a secret treaty between China and Russia with the Qing government. Later, the secret treaty was leaked, and the great powers vied to force the Qing Dynasty to carve out spheres of influence, concessions, and leased lands.

In 1898, Russia leased the ports of Lushun and Dalian; Germany forcibly occupied Jiaozhou Bay.

Japan, a new empire that had just emerged, was subjected to such diplomatic humiliation. For this reason, Japan has always harbored a grudge, sought to "lie down and taste its guts," vigorously advocated the development of its military industry, and looked forward to an opportunity for revenge.

In 1904, Japan regrouped and attacked the Russian navy at Arthur, causing the Russo-Japanese War.

It was in this historical context that the Black Dragon Society was founded.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, based on the Russian-French alliance, Germany co-opted Russia, and France also wanted to achieve more interests in East Asia.

After obtaining Indochina, France began to covet Taiwan, so the French fleet docked in the South China Sea area has always been a threat to the Japanese army in Taiwan.

In this situation, the Black Dragon Society wanted to establish its own power in Hainan, so it established the West Sea Chamber of Commerce, a branch of the Black Dragon Society in the South China Sea.

Recently, Japan has been at war with Russia in the northeast, and the activities of the Black Dragon Society in the South China Sea have become more frequent.

Yamamoto Nishikawa, who has been dormant for nearly four years, is well aware of all the forces in Hainan.

The Xihai Chamber of Commerce originally planned to support Chen Chuwang in the Hainan Palace, but Yamamoto Xichuan sent people to contact Chen Chuwang in the name of the Black Dragon Society many times, but Chen Chuwang sternly refused. Because, they didn't know that Chen Chuwang was a traverser.

Of course, Chen Chuwang knew the history of the Black Dragon Society in this era, how could he cooperate with these Japanese militarist gangsters!

Therefore, after being rejected many times by the Hainan Palace, Yamamoto Nishikawa shifted his attention to Zhou Zhiguang, who had ambitions for Hainan.

It happened that Zhou Zhiguang wanted to take advantage of the serious illness of the king of Hainan to expand his power and further gain the leadership of Hainan.

However, Chen Zhong's expedition to Guangxi this time greatly appreciated the Hainan military, and the forces of all parties in Hainan, who were still waiting, gradually leaned towards the side of the little prince.

Chen Chuwang, the king of Hainan, married the Zhang family at this time, so that the future of Hainan will basically be firmly controlled by the little prince Chen Zhong.

Zhou Zhiguang, who was poor in donkey skills, was very happy to see that the Japanese Saihai Chamber of Commerce in Hainan had thrown an olive branch.

Yamamoto Nishikawa promised to help Zhou Zhiguang get the throne of Hainan king, but there was one condition, Zhou Zhiguang had to agree, after he completely controlled Hainan, Hainan must provide the most convenient passage for Japan, and establish a military port in Hainan, and the Fourth Fleet of the Japanese Combined Fleet should be permanently stationed in Hainan port.

Zhou Zhiguang can't take care of so much anymore, he wants to be able to realize this wish in his lifetime. However, Zhou Zhiguang didn't know that this step of his really pushed himself into the abyss!

This time, the little prince got married, and Yamamoto Nishikawa and Zhou Zhiguang conspired to assassinate Chen Zhong on the way to pick him up, and the killer used was the ninja killer of the Iga family under Yamamoto Nishikawa. These Iga ninjas are the most famous ninja genre in Japan.

Ninja, in Japan, was originally just a term for "ninjutsu practitioners", and some of the "ninjutsu practitioners" of their own factions themselves have many disciples.

Ninjas are further divided into upper ninja, middle ninja, and lower ninja. "Shangnin", also known as "Wisdom Tank Ninja", specializes in planning the overall combat steps. "Middle ninja" is the commander of the actual battle, and of course, ninjutsu must also be transcendent. "Shimoshinobi", also known as "physical ninja", is equivalent to a special operations unit, and is an actual ninja who fights on the front line. There is a clear hierarchical relationship between the three.

These "ninjutsu practitioners" themselves or their disciples privately used the "ninjutsu" they had learned to cultivate an "exclusive private army" owned by themselves, and began to manage in the form of a corporatized and militarized business philosophy, sometimes receiving money to become professional killer mercenaries, and sometimes being hired by government units and departments to carry out tasks behind enemy lines.

Later, because the government units analyzed and evaluated from the perspective of return on investment and investment risk, it was found that the strategic value, mission efficiency and loyalty of ninjas were higher than those of ordinary spies and killers, so the "ninja" gradually attracted the attention of government units in the later period, and therefore began to have an exclusive ninja force belonging to the government.

"Ninjas", like "spies", are organizations that belong to the "special operations level". But the difference between ninjas is that in addition to the basic training of general spies, the most different thing about ninjas is that there is one more training in "ninjutsu".

A ninja is the ultimate warrior cultivated by a unit with a special combat level of ninjutsu techniques. The form of the mission is more complex, more simple, and higher than that of ordinary spies. This is called "ninja".

For this wedding in the palace, Yamamoto Nishikawa ordered Keiji Matsui to install three ninjas in the palace's welcoming guards in advance, and on the way, twenty more ninja-level killers were arranged to cooperate with them. Preparing to pick up relatives on the way back, Li Ying and Wai jointly assassinated the little prince.