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According to the ideas of Japanese Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma and Emperor Meiji, Japan could rise rapidly and peacefully after only ten to twenty years of economic development, so when they were defeated in 1898, they demanded that the Japanese people endure humiliation and accept China's almost harsh conditions to garrison Japan. From 1898 to 1904, Japan had a slow economic development because of the huge amount of money it had to pay every year, but it also achieved small successes, especially in the raw silk industry, becoming the second largest exporter of raw silk after China. Song Xiaofei also knew that once Japan was full-fledged, China would have to pay a huge price if it wanted to completely conquer Japan, so he asked Feng Guozhang to print a large amount of money in Japan and mess up Japan.

Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan used silver as its currency. During the Meiji Restoration, that is, in 1871, the currency system was reformed, and the gold standard banknote yen was used as the only currency in the country, mainly paper money gold 1 yen, paper money 10 yen, and paper money gold 100 yen. The banknote gold one yuan and the banknote gold ten yuan are printed with the statue of the god power queen, and the banknote gold one hundred yuan is printed with the image of the Meiji Emperor of Japan. On the pretext of learning the printing technology of Japanese banknotes, Feng Guozhang led his troops to detain five printing presses of the Japanese banknote printing factory that printed 100 yen, and then started working day and night to print Japanese banknotes, pay the 100,000 new troops stationed in Japan, and transport the purchased gold back to China through warships. By the autumn of 1904, the yen had depreciated to one-thousandth of its original value, and 100 yen was only enough to buy a box of matches. The Japanese government later issued a large new banknote of 10,000 yen, but it failed to stop inflation, and in the end people had to barter, and the entire Japanese economy collapsed, and a large number of farmers and workers went bankrupt.

By 1904, Emperor Meiji was over fifty years old. His health also deteriorated, suffering from diabetes, his health was further deteriorated by his busy state schedule, and he also developed kidney disease. He gradually felt that life was not interesting. I gradually lost the heart to take care of domestic affairs.

At this time, because a large number of Japanese peasants and workers lived miserably. The Japanese Socialist Party, with the great goal of "common production and common prosperity," rose rapidly, and in just six months, its membership grew from more than 20,000 to 500,000. Among them, the young radicals Kobayashi Tosaiji and Kato Kato Kaichi and other angry youths began to plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor Meiji.

Twenty-three-year-old Kobayashi Toshiji, a native of Kobe and born into a family of fishermen, has always been bold and strong-willed, sewing two military bombs into his underwear and leaving a letter to his young wife that reads, "Husband leaves home." I don't want to live", and left for Tokyo without saying goodbye.

When he arrived in Tokyo, Kobayashi Tasaiji stayed at the Nishikicho Hotel, near the Imperial Palace, under the name of Taro Asayama.

In the hostel. After many days of reconnaissance around the Japanese Imperial Palace, Kobayashi finally selected the vicinity of the police station outside the Sakurada Gate of the Imperial Palace as the sniper location. One is because Emperor Hirohito often enters and exits through this gate, and the other is because the road outside Sakurada Gate is winding, and there is a large turn at the police station, so the emperor's motorcade must slow down when passing by, so that it is easy to drop bombs and snipe.

But it is not easy for ordinary people to get close to the police station outside the Imperial Palace, Sakurada Gate, because according to the rules of the Imperial Palace, ordinary people can only go there on January 2 and April 29 every year. And in normal times, if you think of it, you must have a certificate of nobility.

Kobayashi Dosaiji had no choice but to find Kato Kaichi, a party member who was a nobleman, to help. In the name of taking a friend to visit the Imperial Palace, Kato Kato asked a Japanese aristocratic lady who had been in a relationship with him to make a certificate for Kobayashi Takiji. The name of Taro Asayama is used on the certificate.

On that day, a cold wind was blowing on the streets of Tokyo, and the goose-yellow leaves of the ginkgo trees on the roadside were falling with the wind. After attending a memorial ceremony, Emperor Meiji led a large group of people back to the palace. At this time, Kobayashi Doseiji had successfully arrived near Sakurada Gate, clutching the bomb in his crotch, ready to wait for the opportunity to strike.

The emperor rode in a four-seater horse-drawn carriage. In order to prevent assassinations, the Japanese police not only arranged for a large number of police forces to hug each other, but also specially arranged a carriage with the same decoration and vigilance behind the emperor's carriage, which was called a "side car", which was ridden by the ministers of the Imperial Household and mainly played the role of camouflage and confusion.

According to Japanese tradition, people on both sides of the road are expected to kneel during the royal tour. The police guarding the emperor stood with their backs to the street, their eyes fixed on the crowd.

When Emperor Meiji's motorcade came to the turn in front of the police station outside Sakurada Gate, several carriages slowed down, and Kobayashi Toshiji, who was kneeling in the crowd of subjects, suddenly jumped up, smashed his homemade bombs, and threw all his strength at the emperor's carriage.

Unexpectedly, the carriage that came to the front was not the emperor's carriage. I heard a loud bang, and the broken fragments of the carriage were scattered everywhere, and the driver of the auxiliary car was killed instantly, and the people on the carriage were also seriously injured. Emperor Meiji, who was sitting in the carriage behind, escaped, but when he heard the explosion, he panicked and almost fell out of the car. Seeing this, the driving horse immediately whipped the horse and pulled the emperor straight to the Sakurada Gate.

Kobayashi Dosaiji, who failed to assassinate Emperor Meiji, was arrested on the spot and taken to the police station. He refused to answer the police's questioning, but kept asking if the emperor was dead, and was brutally tortured by the Japanese police. In the end, Kobayashi Dosaiji confessed to Kato Kaichi, and both were sentenced to death.

The Socialist Party of Japan immediately issued a statement through its party newspaper, the Red Banner, warning the government not to kill Kobayashi Toshiji and Kato Kato, otherwise a nationwide riot would be staged. However, the Japanese government believed that the assassination of the emperor was a crime that could not be punished and that the death penalty was unforgivable, so it hanged Kobayashi Dosaiji and Kato Kaichi alive, and did not allow the people to collect their bodies for them.

In addition, the Japanese government began to hunt down Socialists on a large scale, creating the bloody "918" mass arrests. More than 2,000 Socialist Party members across the country were arrested and persecuted. As a result, the Socialists in various localities rose up one after another, stirred up a revolution, and the sparks quickly set the prairie on fire.

Emperor Meiji saw that the Japanese people not only wanted to assassinate themselves, but also started a revolution, and now Japan was suppressed by China everywhere, and suddenly felt that life was bleak and there was no much meaning in living, so he began to refuse the treatment of the imperial doctor, and it didn't take long for Emperor Meiji to have a uremia attack and die of depression. He was 53 years old.

At 0:43 on October 20, 1904, the Japanese crown prince Yoshihito held an enthronement ceremony in the side hall of the Japanese Imperial Palace. He was Emperor Taisho, who was born on August 31, 1879. Because of the difficult birth, he gave birth without crying. Then he developed meningitis. This left him with serious sequelae. After Emperor Taisho ascended the throne. The revolutionary movement of the Socialist Party swept across the country and quickly occupied the entire island of Hokkaido. Emperor Taisho was worried, and his health deteriorated further, and he developed successive episodes of cerebral thrombosis. The disease caused him to stagger and have difficulty walking. His hands trembled, and his memory and ability to distinguish deteriorated significantly.

The Japanese Government requested that China send troops to suppress the movement of the Japanese Socialist Party, and Feng Guozhang sent a telegram to Song Xiaofei, who immediately notified Army Chief Duan Qirui, Army General Nie Shicheng, Navy Chief Liu Buyun, Navy Deputy Chief Deng Shichang, and others to the Presidential Palace to discuss countermeasures.

After taking a seat at the round table of the conference, Song Xiaofei showed Feng Guozhang's telegram to the generals present, and asked people to put a map of the whole territory of Japan on the table, pointing to the map with a baton and saying: "Everyone knows. Located on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, Japan is an arc-shaped island country extending from northeast to southwest, surrounded by the ocean, with a land area of more than 300,000 square kilometers. It mainly includes the four large islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and more than 6,800 other small islands. Now that the Japanese Socialists have occupied Hokkaido, the northeast of the Japanese island of Honshu is also in jeopardy. Japan is in danger of splitting in two. What do you think about this? ”

"Japan's political and cultural center is on the island of Honshu, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, Nagoya and other big cities are all in Honshu, and Hokkaido is home to some poor farmers and fishermen, whose main religions are Shinto and Buddhism. ”

Navy Chief Liu Buyun said: "President, Japan is surrounded by the sea, and our navy controls the sea power in East Asia. ”

Although China restricts the development of heavy industry in Japan, but in the past five or six years, the development of Japan's light industry has also shown great potential, Song Xiaofei no longer wants to let little Japan develop its economy peacefully, he listened to Liu Buyun's words, frowned, did not speak, Army General Nie Shicheng stood up at this time and said: "If the president is worried about the future rise of Japan, we will simply take the opportunity to destroy Japan now, and burn Japan to the ground with a war and never suffer in the future." ”

Song Xiaofei shook his head and said, "Based on national interests, I don't think we can destroy Japan." Japan's resources are too small, and destroying Japan will not be of much benefit to China, but Japan's population of 40 or 50 million will not be easy to control. Because Japan is not like Korea, Vietnam, and the Ryukyus, we have already emigrated millions of Han Chinese in the early years. ”

Duan Qirui's expression was serious, and he stood up to express his agreement with Song Xiaofei's opinion, and said, "The president has a point. Not to mention Feng Guozhang's 100,000 recruits, even if he sends a million troops to Japan, he may not be able to completely enslave tens of millions of Japanese. Moreover, even if it were to conquer Hokkaido, the new army would pay a heavy price. It's impossible for us to kill all the Japanese men, it's crazy, it's dehumanizing, and countries like England and the United States will interfere. Moreover, when a nation reaches a critical point of life and death, the potential for an explosion is often terrifying. ”

Song Xiaofei nodded, and after a while, he remembered the strategy of the United States to split Korea after World War II, and said: "I have a proposal, everyone thinks it is not feasible, let Feng Guozhang stand still, secretly support the Japanese Social Democratic Party, control Hokkaido and the northeast on the island of Honshu in Japan, and divide Japan into two." In this way, the Japanese will fight among themselves. ”

"Good!" Duan Qirui said, "I just had this intention. ”

Navy Chief Liu Buyun said: "Actually, I think Japan can be divided into three, such as Nagasaki and Maguan, which are already controlled by China, and can be assigned to China. China cannot completely occupy Japan, and Japan can cede the Kyushu region to China. ”

"It's not that this can't be considered." Song Xiaofei said that he thought to himself that this proposal was good, and that Kyushu could be designated as a special economic zone and vigorously develop the situation. The development of the gaming industry in Macau, these two regions can certainly provide China with a lot of tax revenue.

Deng Shichang said: "I'm not worried about anything else, but I'm afraid that the Japanese Socialist Party will develop the economy and become stronger, so what will happen to the reunification of Japan?" ”

Song Xiaofei laughed and said: "I'm not worried about this, I looked at the program of the Social Democratic Party, which is a radical political party, a group of farmers and fishermen engage in joint production, and it is good not to starve themselves to death." Moreover, the Socialist Party had assassinated the Emperor of Japan, and it was impossible to unify the whole country in Japan. If we don't support them, they probably won't even be able to hold Hokkaido. ”

The proposal to split Japan was approved by the majority of the people, and Song Xiaofei sent a telegram to Feng Guozhang, asking him to stand still and wait and see what happened. At that time, Japan's princess Prince Tonomiya Shokonai had given Song Xiaofei a white and chubby son, who was two years old, and Japan's Taisho Emperor was weak and could die at any time.