On the day of the mutiny, the Imperial Daoist faction occupied major newspapers, telegraph offices, and other news organizations, announced the implementation of public opinion control, and continuously released information favorable to the outside world. Under the pressure of the gun, the journalists had to write articles in praise of the royal and militarists.

Despite this, the non-governmental forces, chaebols, landlords, and high-ranking officials who soon received the news immediately reacted and published comments on the resistance to the mutiny through the newspapers in other places, and expressed their resolute opposition to the military coming to power.

It was only after Emperor Taisho and the US minister to Japan issued one after another declarations of support for the military that the voices of the opposition forces were stagnant, especially after the troops stationed in various places left for the vicinity of major cities, and the local forces were coerced by the military force and reluctantly announced their support for the mutiny and the military coming to power.

Katsura Taro and others, who were taken to the Prime Minister's Office by Hideki Tojo, met with the mutiny leader Natoshi Osako, as well as some high-ranking and middle-level generals in the military. In particular, the head of the 1st Division, Prince Kanin Miyaehito, who stood on the side of Daeko Shomin, could see the attitude of the imperial family. In addition, Lieutenant General Hisunao Oshima of the Guards Division, Senior General Hasegawa Yoshimichi, Lieutenant General Masatoshi Matsunaga, and Lieutenant General Katsuka Tsukamoto, who survived the Manchurian battlefield, were all powerful factions in the army.

"What do you want me to do?" Katsura Taro asked angrily in the face of everyone.

The generals took the lead and bowed deeply to Katsura Taro, Katsura Taro's reputation is too great, and he has a large number of subordinates and cronies within the army, and even these people are considered students and subordinates of Katsura Taro.

"The Great Japanese Empire could no longer afford to lose, and we needed to concentrate all our forces in the trough, but most of our strength had been consumed in infighting. The struggle for power will only delay the pace of Japan's rise, and only by relying on our soldiers to cut through the chaos with a quick knife can the whole of Japan be united. Prime Minister, we have no choice but to do this, and please forgive us for our recklessness. If the Prime Minister approves it, I will apologize for my own crimes! Oh Sho Min said.

How can Katsura Taro let Osako Shomin cut himself! This veteran general was four years older than himself, and although his position was not as high as his own, his prestige in the army was not much worse. And now that the overall situation has been decided, if you want to make a comeback, you have to make peace with these people. The kind of self-cut thing is to deceive the middle and lower class soldiers, samurai, and the people, and the upper class people are more desperate than anyone else!

"You have worked hard, and I am in a high position, but I don't see it clearly as you can, and I feel guilty. I am not worthy of the post of Prime Minister, and I would like you to consider it again. Katsura Taro pretended to refuse.

"The position of prime minister must be an adult, and we are all reckless soldiers, and without the leadership of the prime minister, it is inevitable that we will go wrong on the road ahead. Please accept it for the sake of the future of the Japanese Empire! ”

It was just a political bargain, and Katsura Taro was able to bend and stretch out, and reluctantly agreed to become the prime minister of the new government. It was only later that the cabinet members and key positions in the government were held by the army, and from then on, Japan completely entered the era of military rule, which also marked the formation of Japanese fascism.

Aoki Nobujun, the think tank of the Imperial Road faction and the military advisor of Omako Natoshi, stayed in command of the Army Intelligence Department during the mutiny, and with the cooperation of Sakanishi Rihachiro, Sato Annosuke and other capable men, the mutiny was carried out completely according to his own arrangement and nothing went wrong. In addition, many young people, such as Kenji Dohihara and others, have also emerged. The Army Intelligence Department will be the sharpest eye of the Japanese Empire, finding all the secrets of the enemy country, especially China.

"You've done a great job. After this incident, Rihachiro-kun Sakanishi will go to Huaguo to preside over the intelligence work there, and the focus of the intelligence department's work in the future will also shift to Huaguo. I would also like to ask you to cheer up and do your best for the revival of the Japanese Empire. ”

After some advice, Aoki Xuanjun walked out of the intelligence department, surrounded by three guards, but now the overall situation has been decided. Nobujun Aoki was also very relaxed. Slightly proud, he stood in front of the car at the entrance of the intelligence department and stared into the distance, the warm sunlight made his eyes very comfortable.

Suddenly, he saw a flash of light appear on the roof of the opposite building, and then a bullet accurately hit the center of Aoki's eyebrows, breaking the skull and churning the brain into a pulp before coming out of the back of the head, bringing out a large area of blood and brain. Splashed the faces of the two guards behind him.

On the roof of the building opposite, Jiang Maosheng, a sniper from the Japanese station of the Investigation Bureau, left the sniper rifle and the bullet casings next to him, and then bent down and quickly left, arriving at the back door downstairs from the prepared retreat route and getting into the car that had been prepared long ago. Three minutes into the retreat, soldiers from the Army Intelligence Department had just run into the middle of the street and were about to enter the sniper building from the front to search for snipers. The plan that Gen had made in advance was not bad, and the most exciting thing was that the sniper Jiang Maosheng hit an accurate shot from a hundred and fifty meters away, and did not give Aoki a second chance.

"One shot kills, worthy of being a super sniper known as the 'Grim Reaper'." Qiaokou, who personally escorted Jiang Maosheng and drove the car, couldn't help but admire.

Jiang Maosheng in the back seat did not feel any nervousness after the assassination, and his expressionless face was as if he had just stepped on an ant: "It's nothing, the sniper conditions are excellent, and most snipers in China can do it." ”

"Would you like to have a drink at my bar before you go home?" Hashiguchi, who had completed the task, was in a good mood and asked jokingly.

"Is there too much time? Will it be discovered? Was the order violated? Jiang Maosheng asked three questions in succession, which made the driver Qiaokou depressed, the most powerful sniper in China not only has marksmanship like death, but also his way of thinking is moving closer to death. Well, they're trained as killing machines.

After the end of the Second Northern Expedition, Jiang Maosheng was promoted to major and entered the newly established sniper school to teach those rookies. Two months later, Jiang Maosheng received an order, and then set off from Sichuan, where the sniper school was located, down the Yangtze River, arrived in Shanghai, connected with the agents of the Investigation Bureau, and then arrived in Japan on a transport ship bound for Kagoshima.

After that, he departed from Kagoshima by submarine and secretly landed outside Tokyo Bay, where he received a briefing on the specific mission. For Jiang Maosheng, it is not difficult to snipe at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, but the difficult thing is to find the sniper location and then wait for the target to appear by luck. The longer Aoki Xuanchun stayed in the Intelligence Department building, the greater the chance that Jiang Maosheng lying on the top floor would be found, but fortunately, Aoki Xuanchun not only walked out of the building on the day of the mutiny, but also had good visual conditions and a light breeze, and the target stayed in front of the car for a few seconds.

By the time the soldiers of the 2nd Division stationed in Pukou began to search the whole city, Jiang Maosheng had already arrived at the sea area agreed with the submarine and successfully returned to China three days later.

The firearm found at the scene was the most common Thirty-Year-old rifle in Japan, and the cartridge casings were left in place, and the real murderer could not be found on these alone. However, the Imperial Sect put the murderer on the chaebol, and prepared to teach a lesson to the chaebol forces who were dissatisfied with the mutiny. These zaibatsu are the underground emperors of Japan, but if they can't unite with the imperial faction, they will be sent to hell.

After the assassination of Aoki Nobu-chun, the army intelligence department was leaderless, and Osako and others began to choose a successor from within the intelligence department. There are two people who have rich intelligence work experience and are familiar with Chinese issues, namely Aoki Nobuzu's deputy Sakanishi Rihachiro and Sato Annosuke, but Sato Annosuke is best at intelligence analysis, and in the end, Sakanishi Rihachiro won and took charge of the Japanese Army Intelligence Department, and in fact was in charge of all the intelligence collection and analysis work in Japan.

On March 1, 1907, the U.S. government and the Japanese government signed the Japan-U.S. Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance, which came into force on April 1 of the same year and was valid for 30 years. The treaty, signed by Japanese Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Katsura Taro and U.S. Secretary of State Wright at the White House in Washington, marked the emergence of Japan and the United States as de facto military allies.

The treaty covered loans to Japan, aid to military equipment, industry, railways, education, and other aspects. The three tranches of the loan totaled $150 million for the purchase of large military equipment such as US combat vehicles, warships, artillery, and aircraft. By 1910, Japan had been supplied with two battleships, five cruisers, and 15 destroyers, 450 tanks and other armored vehicles, 2,700 artillery pieces, and 350 aircraft.

The most important thing is that the United States has provided Japan with free aid to build 150 industrial projects, which is the first time in history that Japan has fully industrialized a traditional agricultural country (Japan has only completed the initial industrialization, agriculture still occupies the majority, and the industrial level is very low). These 150 projects involve iron and steel, coal, smelting, power generation, shipbuilding, aviation, building materials, machinery and electronics, chemical industry, textiles, communication tools, transportation, weapons, and so on.

By the end of the first phase of aid in 1910, Japan had become the fifth largest industrial nation after the United States, China, Germany, and Great Britain, and on a par with France.

The treaty also included the Agreement on Tokyo, Yokosuka, and Yokohama and the Agreement on the Presence of U.S. Forces in Japan, in which both sides made it clear that if one side was attacked, the other side would be obliged to join the fighting in the treaty countries. After the treaty, the contradictions between the United States and China became public, and the competition between the two sides for the Pacific region became one of the focus of the world. (To be continued.) )