Chapter 102: Sparks

"Violence is the easiest way to deal with problems, but violence can never solve problems, his greatest effort is to cover up the problem, but the problem is still a problem after all, and the problem that is eventually covered up by violence will erupt again and again, and in the end, the problem covered up by violence can only be solved by violence, and this solution is called revolution!"

"The Wave of Asian Independence - What is Revolution?", 100 Years of the Empire

Groups of young people, most of them wearing black school uniforms, holding small flags and banners in their hands, with the words "The dignity of the empire is lost, refuse to defend the national system", "Jihad war, defend dignity, and abolish the treaty", and even directly wrote the words "declare war on China", these students who gathered in Tokyo from all over Japan began to launch large-scale protests and demonstrations in Tokyo since yesterday.

And when they marched, the citizens of Tokyo set up porridge shacks and tea stalls on the roadside to provide food and lodging to these "patriots" free of charge, and many Tokyo citizens gave up their houses for the students to live in free of charge, just like after the end of the Russo-Japanese War.

At the front of the march were a group of young men with white sunburst cloth strips on their heads, while around the procession were policemen in black police uniforms, who did not even bother to look at the youths, some of whom even gave thumbs up to the students, and even some policemen joined the procession.

China asks the emperor to go to China to apologize!

The news spread like a thunderclap in Japan, and every Japanese person was shocked when they heard the news, and then almost all of them were filled with anger in their hearts, and every Japanese person felt that they had been severely humiliated, and then large-scale demonstrations and protests began to be staged throughout Japan.

Tens of thousands of young people began to travel to Tokyo by train, and two days later tens of thousands of students walked to the Diet dressed in good clothes, holding Japanese flags and portraits of the emperor. The Socialists, led by Kita Ichiki and others, submitted a petition to the Diet, demanding the rejection of the rude demands of the Chinese, the complete abrogation of the Sino-Japanese security treaty, the expulsion of Chinese troops stationed in Japan, the introduction of an eight-hour work week, and the "grant" of complete political rights to the people of the empire.

Their demands were outright refused, and the officials in charge of receiving them even responded with extremely rude language, calling them a bunch of "thugs".

Flame!

The flaming flames were ignited in the Diet the day after the Tokyo March, and thousands of indignant young students, without receiving a direct answer, stormed the Diet and beat the "traitors," and then burned the Diet with kerosene.

"Go to the Prime Minister's Mansion and let Prime Minister Okuma come forward to explain!"

On the road in front of the Prime Minister's Residence, army soldiers armed with guns are divided into dozens of teams to block the road, and there are several heavy machine guns on the road, which are responsible for ensuring the safety of the Prime Minister's Residence.

"Your Excellency, they are heading towards the Prime Minister's residence!"

A military officer ran up to a Morita Shunichi Shaozo and saluted.

"Immediately notify the Mansion and ask for further orders!"

Shunichi Morita, who had already heard the shouting, hurriedly ordered the herald that he had received an order to stop the demonstration from spreading to the prime minister's residence.

But a few minutes later, the herald hurried back.

"Your Excellency, the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister is not in the official residence, he has already taken a boat to China!"

What the!

The sudden news only stunned Morita Shunichi Shaozo, and at this time, the black-pressed demonstrator crowd was pressing towards them step by step, and the soldiers with guns looked back at him. …,

"Immediately order them to disperse, the march is forbidden here!"

Morita Shunichi Shaozo ordered loudly.

"Spread out, immediately back ......"

Rows of soldiers shouted at the marching crowd, but the crowd would not be willing, and they walked forward step by step, shouting the same slogan as before.

At this time, as the planner of the parade, Kita Yihui quietly withdrew from the front to the center, sweating in his palms, looking at those soldiers who were a little nervous, but he couldn't stop praying in his heart.

"You're going to shoot!"

Seeing that the procession was rushing over, Shunichi Morita shouted urgently.

"Stop them! Shoot into the air! ”

The gunshots rang out, and the soldiers led by Shunichi Morita fired two shots into the air before, but at this time, the people in front could not stop at all due to the crowd behind them, and when the people in front tried to retreat in the warning shots, they were pushed and hit the soldiers.

When the soldiers of the first row were scattered, the soldiers of the second row took their rifles, did not need to aim at all, and fired directly at the crowd of marchers, and at the same time as they fired, the machine gunners also fired.

The piercing sound of gunfire echoed through the streets, the bullets were pushed out of the chamber by gunpowder and pierced through the chests of the demonstrators, a scorching bullet, constantly firing and waving, like raindrops of bullets swept through the streets, cutting the lives of the demonstrators, the original wave of the march was finally dispersed, the tide of the wave was interrupted, and the crimson blood splashed on the paving stones of the street.

Under the gunfire of the soldiers, the dead let out the last sorrow of their lives, the wounded let out a painful moan, and the continuous gunshots covered all this, at this time, all this in front of him, in the eyes of Morita Shunichi, seemed to slow down, he was surprised to see that the people who were originally standing were under the impact of the bullets, slowly falling backwards, blood splashing in front of their chests......

"Stop shooting...... Stop shooting ......"

After the initial astonishment, Morita shouted over and over again, and he rushed forward, pushing away the soldiers' rifles and kicking the machine gunners down, and finally, the brief shot stopped by Morita Shunichi as if he had gone mad.

In front of the soldiers, a bloody road has already been formed, and there are corpses crowded on the road, and among the corpses, several bloody sun flags are weakly inserted between the corpses, and the painful cries of the wounded are clearly transmitted to the ears of the soldiers at this time, and the soldiers who originally shot almost instinctively finally reacted, they looked at each other, then looked at the weapons in their hands, and then listened to the incessant moans, looking at the street in front of them like a slaughterhouse, everyone's faces showed guilt, Several of the Heavy even closed their eyes in pain, but when they did, the groans of pain reached their ears, making their hands tremble.

"Butcher!"

Suddenly, a shout came from the end of the street, and the young men who had been dispersed by the bullets shouted at the army on the other side of the street with red eyes.

"Murderer!"

"China's lackey!"

Roars of the kind came from the voices of the youths, but to their surprise no one got up again and walked towards the line of the soldiers, and no one even dared to come forward to rescue the wounded, and the brutality of the soldiers frightened everyone, and no one dared to try again, despite the anger in their chests.

"Violence can intimidate for a while, but it can't intimidate everyone!"

At this time, on the second floor of a restaurant on the side of the road, after the initial rejoicing, Kita Yihui looked at the street and the pool of blood between the soldiers and the people, and said to Okawa Shuming beside him, at the moment when the gunshots rang out, he knew that the fire of revolution was ignited in Japan, and this flame was ignited by the guns and bullets of the soldiers, and now, the people may be temporarily suppressed, but this is just a drill, a pre-revolutionary preparatory class, and ......... in the future,

"Well, my comrades, today we have witnessed the atrocities of the imperialist lackeys, and now, for them, ......"

Holding the pillar of smoke rising into the sky in the distance, Kita Yihui said in an extremely indignant tone.

"Can we still have any hope? No, the current government, the current officials, have become the lackeys of the Chinese invaders, and they do not hesitate to shoot at their own people in order to protect their wealth and power...... This is our justice, this is our country! ”

After two successive emphasis, Kita Yihui, who had a look of grief and indignation, shouted loudly again.

"Comrades, now we can break any illusions about them, Japan wants to survive, Japan wants to stand on its own feet, not only to defeat the Chinese imperialists, but also to defeat those imperialist lackeys in our own country!"

"The Emperor doesn't know!"

A soft murmur came from behind, and Kita Yihui, who heard the voice, glanced at the person who spoke, and after remembering his appearance, he said calmly.

"The emperor doesn't know, the emperor doesn't know, but the emperor sits back and watches these guys take charge of the power of Japan, and the emperor allows these traitors to destroy Japan and betray Japan, comrades, for us, now that the revolution has begun, we must use our own way to win this revolution, and in the same way, only the revolution can save Japan!"

Saving Japan is an extremely heavy proposition, a proposition that not everyone can bear, but Kita Ikki can bear all this, and in his eyes, perhaps this is his fate, just as the emperor of China once said to reporters.

"Every generation has its destiny!"

And Kita Ikki believes that his destiny is to save Japan and lead the Japanese people to save Japan! A sense of mission, looking at the pool of blood on the street from the window, and the corpses, an unprecedented sense of mission lingered in his chest, and there was nothing else in his eyes, nothing but ...... Well, the future of Japan!

Nanjing, compared to the boiling of Tokyo, at this time Nanjing can faintly see the joy of the New Year, and some posters can still be seen on the streets.

"Shelling Japan!"

"Blood debt and blood payment!"

The posters and slogans did not seem to have much impact on the city, and the police officers at the police stations were relieved that the expected mass protests were under control, and that the marchers lacked a core group, apparently as a result of the arrests of a large number of republicans.

"It's long overdue to arrest those troublemakers!"

The relieved police, especially the chiefs of the local police stations, are muttering in private that everything is always like this, there is a bad side to things, and there is a good side to things, at least now, what they see is the good side of things, and those "local troublemakers" in their eyes can finally no longer come out to make trouble, they are either arrested, or they openly break away from the republican faction, turn from republicanism to constitutionalism, and even worse, maybe they are too stimulated and turn into royalists.

With the cracking of the case, the arrest of the people involved and the mastermind behind the scenes, and the arrest of a number of Japanese officials, the Wuchang Xiaonian terrorist attack is eliminating its impact little by little, if there is anything dissatisfied, I am afraid that the government only asked its emperor to come to apologize, and failed to shell Japan, but in general, well! "The state still handled the matter with a lot of face."

"Face ......"

Looking at the article of a certain celebrity in the newspaper, Chen Moran snorted coldly, face, those people actually saw face in their eyes! Is...... Shaking his head and sighing deeply, Chen Moran's tone was still a little angry. …,

"If not...... You have to blow up Tokyo! ”

What else?

Overall situation!

After making that decision, Chen Moran was finally able to understand the dilemma of "considering the overall situation", for the sake of the overall situation, he needed to give up the idea of revenge, but God knows how much he longed in his heart to be able to bombard Tokyo and be able to wash Tokyo in blood, but in the end, he still chose to give up.

The shelling will not produce any effect, except for killing people to vent anger, China has nothing to gain, and the only thing China has gained is the hostility of the Japanese to China and the reunification of the Japanese people and government, which is extremely unfavorable for China, especially now that it is pursuing another plan step by step.

If that plan had been implemented, Japan would not have been able to pose a threat to China for a long time to come, and if it was hostile to that country, it would export revolution to that country!

In the end, the revolution will change everything, and when there is a revolution in Japan under the influence of Russia, then Japan will pay the price for all its atrocities and crimes, and not just a few thousand people, tens of thousands of people, but the whole country, the whole nation, they will have to pay the price for the original sin.

But what other than a revolution that swept the country from the bottom up, what could make Japan pay the real price? At least in Chen Moran's consciousness, apart from the revolution, there is really no event that can make the whole of Japan pay a heavy price.

It is precisely for this reason that after careful consideration, Chen Moran chose such a method that would cause a certain amount of confusion to Japan, and the reason why this method can bring chaos to Japan is that Japan can make appropriate adjustments within this condition to satisfy China, and after the plan is implemented, the Japanese government and the people will fall into a rupture, and the break between the government and the people is often the prelude to the beginning of the revolution.

"I will definitely contribute to the revolution in Japan!"

Thinking of everything he had worked so hard to manage, a slight wry smile appeared on Chen Moran's face, it was impossible for him to be proud before he succeeded, and now it was just time to add bricks.

"We should think of another way to see if we can add more fire!"

With a wicked smile on his face, Chen Moran thought about the plan provided by the Intelligence Bureau to "let the Russian revolutionaries influence the Japanese army", which was to use the Russian revolutionaries to instigate the Japanese army through the hands of the agents of the Intelligence Bureau, and to make the Japanese Expeditionary Force change through ideological changes.

But this plan still has some shortcomings, it seems...... In the Japanese army, some cores are still missing! As the emperor of China, Chen Moran did not want that painstakingly managed army to be used by Soviet Russia in the end, thus threatening China.

Thinking of this, Chen Moran began to look at some of the information provided by the Intelligence Bureau, which was the information of those revolutionaries in Japan.

"Your Majesty, the Director of the Intelligence Bureau, Marquis Zhang Jing, asks to see you!"

"Let him in!" A few minutes later, Zhang Jing walked in, with a smile on his face, entered His Majesty's office, and after bowing deeply, he said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, the demonstrations in Tokyo burned the Japanese Diet!"

"A bunch of thugs! Not surprisingly! ”

In eight words, Chen Moran summed up, the Japanese are just a group of thugs, and the Hibiya Burning and Beating Incident proves all that, and it is completely expected that this kind of thing will happen now, otherwise the troops stationed in Japan would not have been ordered to enter the whole army on alert.

"Your Majesty is like a god, and it is beyond the reach of ministers!"

Patting a sycophant, Zhang Jing continued to report.

"After the procession burned the Diet, he went to the Prime Minister's official residence......"

"Didn't Shigenobu Okuma leave Tokyo by boat at midnight last year?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, but the guard in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion did not receive any other instructions, and they still carried out the orders given by Okuma before leaving, and the Japanese soldiers opened fire when the procession tried to break through the cordon!"

"Shot!"

The brush in his hand fell onto the paper suddenly, and Chen Moran looked at Zhang Jing in surprise, and the doubts on his face seemed to want Zhang Jing to make it clear.

"Back to Your Majesty, the Japanese soldiers fired warning shots at the demonstrators in front of the Prime Minister's residence, and after they did not stop, they opened fire on the demonstrators according to the order, and according to the information currently available, more than 1,000 demonstrators were killed, trampled to death, and squeezed to death, and about 2,000 were injured......

At this point, Zhang Jing raised his voice slightly.

"Your Majesty, according to the information obtained by the previous intelligence bureau, this parade was organized behind the scenes, and even some intelligence shows that Kita Ikki, who planned the parade, even hoped to gain the support of the people through the government's crackdown, judging from what happened in Tokyo, Kita Ikki succeeded!"

It worked!

Chen Moran didn't notice the name, but only noticed the last three words: "Success!" Isn't that a success? With this happening, do you still need to add fuel to Japan's fire?

No! You should add more fire to make this fire burn even brighter!