"What's your name? Where are you from? Lin Yizhe asked. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

A look of confusion flashed in the eyes of this Japanese, and Lin Yizhe saw that he might not understand Chinese, so he turned his head to Tongshi, who stepped forward and translated Lin Yizhe's words into Japanese.

The Japanese shuddered for a while, and suddenly muttered a long list.

"Back to my lord, he said that his name is Inoue Hikonosuke, and the one just now is called Ryohei Yamada, they are all businessmen from Kagoshima Prefecture, and they came to Taiwan to do business."

Suddenly, Maruyama's whole body shook, and he pointed at him and let out a terrifying scream like tearing his throat!

"Neither of them is a businessman! They...... Be...... Ronin! ”

"Yaga!" Inoue jumped up violently and pounced on Maruyama like Yamada, who had just been knocked down, but was also smashed back by the butt of a rifle by the prepared Fubiao guards.

At this time, Yamada, who had just been knocked down, had woken up and saw the muzzle of the black hole pointed at himself and Inoue, and couldn't help but shrink back.

"I'm afraid that the two of you are not a merchant from Kagoshima Prefecture, but a samurai from the original Satsuma Domain!" Lin Yizhe sneered and said.

The general secretary translated Lin Yizhe's words into Japanese word for word, and when he heard the words of the general secretary, Inoue and Yamada's eyes invariably showed a fierce color.

And fear.

Despite trembling in fear, Maruyama struggled to make his voice heard. Although the voice was too much to speak.

"Your Excellency...... And they do...... It turned out to be ...... The samurai of the Satsuma Domain! …… They...... Now it's a pirate! ”

"How did a dignified samurai become a pirate?" Lin Yizhe asked with a sneer.

"Your Excellency, I don't know that since the feudal lords returned their copyrights and His Majesty the Emperor set up the Imperial Soldiers, these low-class samurai have lost their livelihoods, and they have run out to become pirates, specializing in killing people and stealing goods!" Maruyama saw that Inoue and Yamada were being held at the rifles of the Chinese soldiers and did not dare to move anymore, so he became a little more courageous and spoke much more easily.

Lin Yizhe looked at the fierce gaze in the eyes of the two Japanese samurai who had blood on their heads, and knew that what Maruyama said was not a lie.

In the early years of the Meiji era, Japan established a government with the emperor as the supreme center of power, but Japan had not yet completed the centralized power system, and the 274 feudal domains that had been inherited from the old dynasty still maintained independent military, finance, and territorial dominance, and the Meiji government's control over the country was extremely weak. At that time, the Meiji government itself did not have a direct armed force, and it relied only on the troops of the fallen feudal domains led by the Satsuma Shimazu domain and the Choshu Mori domain, and if the Sacho alliance and the Meiji government did not have the same interests, the government would have no troops to rely on and would collapse. At that time, the Meiji government was able to collect and allocate only 30 to 40 percent of the country's resources, but it had to bear all the expenses of the central government, so it was stretched thin and its ability to pay was very weak. At this time, Japan was still under the oppression of the intervention of European and American powers and unequal treaties, and the Meiji government inherited the shogunate's foreign debts and various reparations, which further increased the financial burden. Despite the Meiji Restoration, the overall political atmosphere in Japan remained the same as in the Shogunate period, except that the object of allegiance changed from the Shogunate to the Emperor's government. Moreover, the feudal domains regarded themselves as heroes of the Restoration, and constantly fought for power and profit in the new government.

The enlightened faction in the Japanese government, led by Takayoshi Kido, realized that in order to eliminate the hidden danger of division and division at home and to extricate itself from the crisis of oppression by foreign powers, it was necessary to build a new Japan that was different from the shogunate era and capable of "confronting all nations." Ito Hirobumi clearly pointed out that it was necessary to establish an absolutist centralized system in which "all government decrees and laws come from the imperial court," and the key to this was to abolish the feudal domains and eliminate the basis for "small powers." In terms of implementation, the gradual policy of reforming the feudal government first, and then "returning the copyrights" (i.e., each feudal domain dedicated its land and people to the imperial court and no longer kept it private for itself), and finally abolished the gradual policy of each feudal domain.

In accordance with this policy, the Meiji government issued a decree on the administration of the feudal domain, and then implemented the "return of copyrights"; At the same time, the four feudal domains of Satsuma, Choshu, Tosa, and Hizen were required to "contribute troops" to the imperial court and set up "imperial soldiers"; Later, the "abolition of feudal domains and counties" was implemented. In this series of processing processes, contradictions in Japanese society continue to accumulate.

As early as the Shogunate Movement, the Restorationists rebuked the shogunate's founding of the country as a rebellious act against the will of the emperor. However, in the Meiji government's reform policy, it was clearly stated: "Seek knowledge from the world and greatly revitalize the imperial foundation." In the eyes of the "Yiyi faction", the founding policy betrayed the previous path, and it was not only necessary to crusade against Yidi, but also to hold the government accountable. They resorted to assassinations to purge the government of the "founders". At the same time, the founding of the country, foreign trade, and unequal exchange caused a shortage of precious metals, which in turn caused prices to rise, causing people's living standards to decline. As a result, discontent spread throughout Japanese society, from the samurai to the peasants to the townspeople, against foreigners and the founding policy.

If the founding of the country only stimulated the scholars on a spiritual level, then the conscription system and the punishment of rank and rank caused a serious crisis in the survival of the scholars from the material aspect. After the abolition of the feudal domains and the establishment of prefectures, the Meiji government began the reform of "unifying military power and military affairs", forming a town, reorganizing the government standing army, and disbanding the feudal armies. A large number of feudal soldiers were forced to retire and return home in the process, and the number of sergeants was greatly reduced, and the way out for the sergeants became narrower and narrower. In November of Meiji 5 (December 1872), the government issued the "Conscription Edict" and "Conscription Edict", which deprived the nobles of their proud privileges of serving as soldiers, and aroused the dissatisfaction of the nobles.

The Meiji government, which had been inherited from generation to generation, was one of the fundamental privileges of the gentry, and although the Meiji government had an idea at the beginning of its establishment, it had to be cautious about the fundamental livelihood of the gentry. In the old shogunate era, "ieroku" was associated with "bongko", which was to fulfill feudal obligations to the lord and undertake certain work, while ieroku was the right given by the lord to this, and the two were interdependent. The family is inherited from generation to generation, and the job position is also inherited from generation to generation. However, after the abolition of the feudal domain and the establishment of the county, the old feudal government ceased to exist, and the scholars naturally lost the object of their official service, and at this time, a situation was formed in which they unilaterally received the family but did not bear the obligation. In addition, although the scumbags have been cut, they still account for 20 to 30 percent of the Japanese government's annual expenditure, which is the largest part of government expenditure, making the government obviously ineffective. There was a great deal of disagreement within the government about the fact that he had spent nearly 20 million yen a year in vain, and he demanded that he be punished from the perspective of "equality between the four people" and improving finances. In August of the 9th year of the Meiji era, the Meiji government categorically implemented the "Kinroku Public Bond" system, completely abolishing the Shiren family. Although the nobles received a sum of compensation, most of them, especially the lower classes, went bankrupt due to poor management and ended up destitute in the labor market. The gentry have lost all material privileges, they are in desperate need of a way to make ends meet, and some of them are unwilling to sell their labor in the company of civilians, so the only way left is to transfer the crisis overseas. One of the main reasons for the Meiji government's military expansion was to channel the resentment and dissatisfaction of the nobles overseas!

And it is precisely in this context that there will be a series of foreign expansion concepts such as Japan's "annexation of the Ryukyus", "development of Ezo", "conquest of Korea" and "conquest of Taiwan"!

Looking at the two hideous-looking samurai of the former Satsuma Domain in Japan in front of him, Hayashi Yoshizhe suddenly remembered the "Southwest War" that had not yet taken place in Japan!

The rebellion that took place in Kagoshima, Japan, in 1877, was largely due to the fact that the Japanese samurai embarked on the road of rebellion because the last road of overseas expansion was blocked and there was no way out!

At that time, in order to solve the crisis of the scholars, Saigo Takamori, one of the "Three Masters of the Restoration" in Japan, put forward the "Theory of Conquering Korea". As early as the Edo period, some Japanese scholars began to distort history, claiming that Korea had always been subservient to Japan, and therefore Japan could take it away. By the end of the Shogunate, there were proposals in Japan to send troops overseas to gain capital for confrontation with the great powers, and Korea was naturally the first target. Within the Japanese government, the "Korean Expeditionary faction" headed by Saigo Takamori and the "Internal Governance faction" led by Okubo Ritsu (who was also one of the "Three Heroes" of the Meiji Restoration) were formed. The difference was that the Saigo faction demanded that the envoys be sent immediately in order to obtain a pretext for war; Okubo believed that sending envoys meant that the war would start immediately, but Japan was still weak and the results of the Restoration had not yet been consolidated, so it was not the time to go to war. The Xixiang faction mainly focused on the current problem of the scholars, and wanted to use foreign wars to divert domestic contradictions; The Okubo faction, on the other hand, took a long-term view and sought gradual expansion to avoid interference from third countries.

In the 6th year of the Meiji era (October 23, 1873), the Emperor announced in an edict that he had adopted the opinion of the Acting Imperial Minister, Iwakura Goshi, and overturned Saigo's conquest of Korea. On the same day, the "Five Senators of the Expedition to Korea" led by Saigo went to the field. The Meiji government's gradual abolition of the privileges of the gentry clan caused discontent among the gentry, and the foreign war was temporarily vetoed, and the way to transfer the crisis overseas was also blocked, and the only way for the gentry to vent their dissatisfaction was to oppose the Meiji government. And the descent of Saigo and the Guards officers gave the dissatisfied soldiers a spiritual leader and an actual combat commander, and allowed the grassroots and high-level of the uneven soldiers to be combined, which is the origin of the "Southwest War"!

Can you take advantage of this war, which took place four years later?

Lin Yizhe suddenly had a bold idea in his heart, he looked at Inoue and Yamada, and said with a pleasant face: "Are you two guilty?" ”