[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 949: The Supreme Authority of the Base Camp (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The people in power in the base camp knew that if the contradictions between the navy and the army were not resolved first, or if they were temporarily compromised, the next use of force against the outside world would be nothing more than empty words. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Fortunately, everyone agrees on the premise of using force against foreign countries, and the rest is just a small disagreement caused by different arms of the army, and it is not a big problem.

From an operational point of view, the navy's war preparations are mainly aimed at maintaining only a certain number of troops and sufficient strategic materials at the bases, so it is relatively easy to withdraw the combat readiness that was once prepared, so the navy has a tendency to regard war preparations as relatively simple.

The army's preparation is to first mobilize a large number of troops, and then assemble them near the intended battlefield and deploy them.

At the same time, it is necessary to closely monitor the enemy's movements, so as to draw up a detailed battle plan, which is an extremely cumbersome process. In addition, it requires the support of His Majesty the Emperor and the entire public, which is far more complicated and laborious than the navy. Therefore, in terms of procedures, it is necessary to first determine the national policy and then obtain the consent of the government.

In addition, based on historical experience, the Army is very worried about the possibility that the Navy may withdraw from the Navy at the last moment of a diplomatic rupture without making up its mind to go to war. Therefore, the Army advocates that it should now make up its mind to fight a war against the United States and Britain, and that war preparations and diplomatic work should be carried out at the same time under this determination, and that it should be determined to go to war once diplomatic negotiations break down.

On 27 and 28 September, under the auspices of the base camp, the directors of the army and navy held successive meetings to discuss the issue of the determination to go to war. After three days of hard work, the army and navy departments in the base camp have reached complete unanimity, and on whether or not to continue negotiations with the United States, the navy and army have unanimously agreed that they can continue to engage with the United States.

At the same time, the navy and army also demanded that the government immediately start preparations for the expansion of the war, and ensure that the Japanese Empire would wage war against Britain, the United States, France, and the Netherlands "as a last resort."

And also provided the government with a list of required materials, requiring the government to prepare all the materials on the list by the end of May next year! (To be continued.)

The government did not dare to slack off on the opinions put forward by the navy and army, and Konoe Fumima immediately called a meeting of all the important ministers to study and discuss the matter.

It is not to blame Konoe Fumima for not being assertive, it is entirely because in Japan at this time, the headquarters of the military department is the highest organ of power of the state, although on the surface both the Ministry of War and the Ministry of the Navy are a department of the government, but in fact the power of these two departments is terrifying, nominally demanding the dispatch and orders of the cabinet government, in fact, they can suppress the government and encourage the emperor to remove the cabinet.

The base camp is the military command hub of Japan's foreign wars, and it is the most important military institution independent of the government and parliament, and directly responsible to the emperor.

The Japanese Army was modeled after Prussia, the predecessor of Germany, so during the Meiji period, Japan imitated Prussia to establish an army staff directly under the emperor's authority in charge of military orders, and the navy also divided the corresponding military command organs. The power of military orders was separated, and only the military and political powers were vested in the cabinet.

The promulgation of the Constitution of the Empire of Japan in 1889 established in the form of law this new military-government relationship. The Constitution stipulates that the Emperor has the power to command the Commander-in-Chief and gives the Chief Military Commander the "power to play the command", that is, all matters related to military orders can be directly reported to the Emperor without going through the Cabinet, and the Emperor will make a decision. This was the "principle of commander-in-chief's independence" that prevailed in Japan before the war.

From a legal point of view, only the emperor can govern the military department, but the modern imperial system is characterized by the "separation of the court and the government", and the emperor is not in charge of the government, and even if disputes are decided at the imperial council, most of them only listen to them and do not answer. Therefore, the army and navy were nominally directly under the emperor's authority, but in reality they were not restrained. Self-centered, in the divine aura of the emperor's authority. The military department became the "core of power" of the Meiji constitution.

But what really makes the Japanese military department the center of waging war and the giant power of kidnapping the government depends on one person, a person who is not a soldier. This person is none other than former Japanese Prime Minister Hirota Hiroki, who should be no stranger to this person, who was convicted as one of the 28 Class A war criminals after the war.

The fact that the Japanese military department can have such power today has an important relationship with this person, and Hirota Hiroki is not as simple as people know that he was born as an elite diplomat, he originally wanted to apply for the army non-commissioned officer school to become a professional soldier. After the First Sino-Japanese War, Russia, France and Germany jointly intervened, forcing Japan to redeem the Liaodong Peninsula at a price of 30 million taels of silver, which made Hirota Hiroki feel that being a diplomat was more beneficial to the country than simply dancing with a knife and a gun, so he applied for Tokyo Imperial University and became a career diplomat.

Although Hirota did not serve directly in the army, he maintained close ties with the army. According to information found after the war from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the 1903 year before the Russo-Japanese War. Hirota, who was still a student at Imperial University at the time, worked as an intelligence officer for the army to collect information on the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria under the guise of "study trips."

Originally, Hirota Hiroki's tuition fees during his studies at Imperial University were paid by the right-wing group Genyosha, and Mrs. Hirota was the daughter of a Genyosha cadre, so Hirota Hirota's performance after entering the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was a mixture of pro-military and ultra-right. When Shigenobu Okuma's cabinet proposed the infamous "21 Articles on China," Hirota was the head of the First Division of the International Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Hirota disagreed with the 21 Articles at the time, because in Hirota's view, the "right to dredge" the Yellow River should be added, so that the Japanese Empire's right of navigation in the Yellow River could be guaranteed. It facilitates the entry and exit of Japanese companies in the Central Plains of China.

Hirota's most lethal crimes after the war were the "Hirota Three Principles" when he was foreign minister in the Okada cabinet, and the reinstatement of the "military attaché system" that had been abolished by the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet in 1913 when he was prime minister, which gave the military ministry weapons to kidnap the government.

What is this "military attache system of the Minister of War on active duty", which has such a role, which can be for the Japanese military department to kidnap the government? As a matter of fact, this "military attache system of military ministers on active duty" is a system proposed by Hirota Hiroki to allow military personnel to take power and participate in politics.

In 1929, the economic crisis broke out, and Japan was struggling economically. Class contradictions were acute, and fascist forces took advantage of the opportunity to run rampant. They violently attacked bourgeois party politics, vigorously advocated fascist dictatorship and centralization, and created a series of assassinations, coups and other terrorist incidents, constituting a surging fascism of the army.

1936 "II. After the 26 Mutiny, the puppet regime Hirota Hiroki Cabinet was propped up to power, and the Hirota Cabinet established the policy of governance and reorganized the state institutions in accordance with the will of the Ministry of Military Affairs.

First of all, the Cabinet has been stipulated that the Minister of the Army and Navy must be a military officer on active duty or higher than Vice Admiral, thus strengthening the strength of the military department, making the cabinet an instrument of the military department, and strengthening the dictatorship of the people in the country. At the same time, the policy of foreign aggression was established, and the cabinet convened a meeting of the five ministers, namely, the premier, land, sea, foreign, and Tibetan ministers, to formulate a "national policy benchmark."

Its main objective was "in view of the situation inside and outside the empire, the fundamental national policy that the empire should determine was to rely on diplomacy and national defense, to ensure the position of the empire on the East Asian continent, and at the same time to develop towards the southern seas." This is a legal confirmation of Japan's policy of foreign aggression and expansion.

In the past, when the military department intervened in the government, it was often to express opinions on a certain policy or to cabinet members, but by the time of the Hirota cabinet, the military department could completely reorganize and control the government and implement its own program of governance, and the power and domestic and foreign policies of the state had been subordinated to the fascists of the military department. The military department took control of the government, initially put an end to the long-divided "dual government" situation, and reunited the long-divided state affairs and military power under the condition of subordination to the military department, and achieved a new fascist political unity.

Under this system, the Cabinet cannot be formed as long as the Ministry of War does not appoint active military personnel to serve as Minister of the Army and Navy. Ironically, the Hirota Hiroki cabinet collapsed because War Minister Toshiichi Terauchi insisted on resigning.

Although Hirota Hiroki stepped down, this system was completely retained and gradually strengthened, and by the time of Konoe Bunma, the Japanese military headquarters had completely kidnapped the government and become a puppet under the control of the military department, so the government dared to ignore the opinions put forward by the army and navy. (To be continued.) )