Therefore, before this, Saigo Takamori will not easily set up an anti-flag and directly oppose the government unless it is a last resort. Saigo Takamori's so-called "worry about the direction of the aspirants, so he wants to give considerable education, hone the righteousness, in order to achieve success in the future", the expected "Dacheng" is such a Dacheng.

However, Japan's domestic situation did not develop according to Saigo Takamori's wishes.

After the end of the War, Japan adopted a centralized dictatorship. Okubo Ritsu was an important figure in maintaining and consolidating the new centralized system after the collapse. The goals he set for his political strategy were: 10 years of political training, 10 years of overhauling the internal armament, and 10 years of constitutional power. During Okubo's administration, his main task was to further sweep away conservative forces, maintain centralized power, and lay a good foundation for the implementation of constitutional government in the future. At the end of the Edo period, the great class situation in Japan was dominated by the emperor, the shogunate, the princes, the samurai, and the commoners, and the relationship between the various levels was complicated. During the Okubo training period, the structure to be established was: the emperor, the Taisei (central officials), local officials at all levels, and commoners. The Taizheng was appointed by the elite of the samurai who had made great contributions to the downfall of the Imperial Court, and the Taizheng appointed local officials at all levels, and the commoners were under the leadership of the local officials. In addition, the three classes of the shogunate, the princes, and the samurai at the end of the shogunate had to be cleared. Among them, the shogunate and the vassal forces were eliminated through the War of the Shogunate and the abolition of the feudal prefectures, respectively. Only the samurai class who behaved aggressively in the Curtain remained, with their privileges, their attempts to be independent of the judicial administration, and their conscious belief that they were superior to the common people, which would be an obstacle to the future of constitutional government. Therefore, the Meiji government led by Okubo Toshitsu took a strong approach to the samurai, and banned the privileges of the samurai in terms of political rights, economics, and consciousness.

Soon after the abolition of the feudal domain, the Meiji government reformed the hierarchical system, abolishing the titles of princes and ministers and changing them to "Hua", and all samurai at all levels were collectively referred to as "scholars", and all people in agriculture, industry, commerce, and religious circles were "commoners". Intermarriage between Chinese, nobles and commoners was permitted, and all were nominally equal. In addition, the reform of the military system and the introduction of conscription made civilian soldiers train and fight in the same way, and the samurai were deprived of their political privileges, which caused strong resentment among the samurai.

Not only were the samurai dissatisfied with the Meiji government controlled by Okubo Ritsu, but the common people also had a deep misunderstanding and dissatisfaction with many of the government's specific measures. The Meiji government stated in the conscription order: "All Japanese citizens have the obligation to defend the country, and the Westerners call it the 'blood tax', and it is said that the people should shed their blood and be loyal to the country." "But many civilians have never received the right to be a soldier and compulsory education. At that time, the samurai class still retained important economic privileges - they had hereditary or lifelong income, and the expenditure of this money was sometimes equivalent to one-third of the annual income of the Meiji government, and the nobility of the nobles was a great social financial burden. As a result, the Meiji government gradually abolished the samurai system by reducing household income, exchanging industrial funds for financial resources (cash plus public debt, similar to the "public-private partnership" in a later country), and exchanging currency for rice. However, there were many drawbacks in this process, because Japan was still at the end of the agricultural society, the commercial foundation was not yet perfect, and a large amount of public debt was left the hands of the samurai and transferred to the hands of usury merchants to become their original accumulated capital, and they became later capitalists, while a large number of low-ranking samurai went bankrupt. In addition to martial arts, the samurai had no other skills, and it was also very difficult and psychologically unbalanced to transform into farmers and small producers. Asking peasants to pay money as a tax to pay rice to the samurai was also very inconvenient for the peasants who had nowhere to exchange rice for money. In addition, Okubo Toshitsu supported Kawaji Toshira's idea that "the country is a family, the government is the parents, the people are the children, and the police are the nannies", and established a modern police and espionage system in Japan, and the law enforcement was too strict, and the Japanese samurai and civilians even considered this period to be darker than the high-pressure rule at the end of the Edo period.

Saigo Takamori had a great reputation in the government and the opposition as a model of samurai, and in the territory of Kagoshima under his control, he used the prefectural tax to train a large number of samurai who were dissatisfied with the current system. In the eyes of the Meiji government led by Okubo Toshimitsu, the outbreak of civil war was a matter of time, but it was clearly not what Saigo Takamori wanted.

Now Okubo Ritsu has tightened the ropes on Kagoshima, and for the Kagoshima clan, if they don't want to be restrained when they launch, they should strike first, but Saigo Takamori knows that if he strikes first, the Kagoshima clan will lose the moral high ground.

The dignity of a samurai, he could not give up!

And if you don't do anything, you will be in an extremely disadvantageous situation if you wait for the Meiji government to attack!

All the samurai were subordinates who had followed Saigo Takamori for many years, and they knew his intentions very well, so they all fell into silence after hearing Saigo Takamori chant such verses.

"Sir, Lin Jun has arrived." An attendant samurai reports to Saigo Takamoritsu.

Hearing Lin Yiqing's arrival, Saigo Takamori's eyes flashed with a strange bright color.

Not long after, Lin Yiqing walked in with a few naval cadets.

Seeing that all the samurai leaders were gathered here today, Lin Yiqingxiang understood something, he pretended to smile relaxedly, and said: "Mr. Nanzhou's poems are generous and tragic, heroic and strong, so that when we hear it, our hearts are stirred, and the ambition of rushing to the sky and clouds is born. ”

"Hanpeng is here, sit." Saigo Takamori just smiled when he heard Lin Yiqing's praise, he pointed to his side and motioned for Lin Yiqing to sit beside him, "What's the news in Tokyo lately?" ”

"Although he was dismissed from his post as a police officer, he privately trained a new batch of 'Tokyo Lions', numbering a total of fifty-two people, to sneak into Kagoshima and blow up the ammunition depot." Lin Yiqing replied calmly, "They have already set off now, and it is estimated that it will not take long to arrive." ”

Hearing Lin Yiqing's answer, all the warriors' faces changed color.

"How did Lin Jun get the news?" Toshiaki Kirino asked.

"This group of people are all dead soldiers, and Kawaro Toira has already asked them to have the consciousness of death, so many people have prepared for the aftermath before leaving, and some of them have no family, so they entrust the aftermath to a good geisha." Lin Yiqing smiled slightly and said, "And I have an inside line in the Tokyo Geisha, and after she learned the news, she quickly notified our people in Tokyo and sent the news back." I could have known in advance. ”

"Lin Jun actually has an inside line in the Tokyo Geisha?" Hearing Lin Yiqing's answer, Toshiaki Kirino, Kunikan Shinohara and others were all taken aback. ――――Dividing Line――――

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