The servant turned off the lamp lightly, and the sky outside began to turn white, and the kotoshi of Saionji Temple, dressed in cotton clothes, was prostrate on the table and snored like thunder, his elbow pressed on the edict of Emperor Taisho officially appointing him to form a cabinet.

Unrest, assassinations, negotiations, deals, and alliances. In the parallel world, the "beautiful Taisho era" disappeared before it began. Japan, which had survived the first harsh winter after the war, did not improve, but instead became more serious due to the political turmoil that had worsened its social problems, but with the advent of this edict, it seemed to usher in the dawn. The democrats of the Constitutional Council cheered, and the Navy seemed to see hope for additional appropriations, but only the War Department was grim-faced, and it was said that the Young Zhuang faction headed by Tanaka Yoshiichi was ready for impeachment.

These are all major tests for the incoming Saionji cabinet, and the defeat has sharply intensified many problems within Japan's Chapter 369 Intensification, such as how to balance the land-sea struggle, the aggressive Sino-naval armament plan, the industrial development after the shortage of resources, the asymmetry between land, food, and population, the soaring prices after the currency depreciation, and the search for new markets, repairing relations with allies, and the Taiwan issue in five years. In particular, how to deal with the feudal faction that has lost its suppression after Youpeng fell ill in Shan County has become a top priority.

The servant didn't care about any of this, he just wanted his master to get a good night's sleep, and he had worked too hard during this time. But when he had packed up the house, closed the door lightly, and was about to leave, the sound of running came from behind: "Earl, Your Excellency! ”

The shouts shattered the dream of leading Japan out of the quagmire, and the Saionji Gongwang opened his eyes and hurriedly stood up, his voice hoarse and a little angry after staying up all night: "Who is it?" Yelling? ”

"Your Excellency, Ryukyu has been attacked!"

"Nonsense!"

Xiyuan Temple Gongwang was obviously in a daze, not realizing what was happening at all, only feeling that the word attack should not appear now. But the secretary ruthlessly woke him up: "Your Excellency, this is true! In the middle of the night last night, Furuinya and Nase on Anmi Oshima were attacked, and several raw silk factories and mulberry gardens were destroyed! Chapter 369 The machinery and equipment of the Lhasa Phosphate Rock Company on Dongdachong Island were all blown up! The whereabouts of all the workers and technicians are unknown! ”

"It can't be!"

Saionji Gongwang was stunned by the news, and he didn't even answer the telegram in the secretary's hand, and he was too familiar with the situation in Anmi Oshima and Okidaito Island! The high-grade raw silk produced by the former is one of the most important sources of foreign exchange earnings in Japan at present, after Yang Qiu engaged in a silk export group and joined forces with the Cleveland consortium of the United States, the inferior raw silk market on the main island of Japan has been completely suppressed, and only the high-quality raw silk of Anmi Island can survive in the cracks. The Okidaito Island is more important to Japan, which is rich in phosphate rock resources, and is the most important source of explosives raw materials for the Japanese Army, and the army and navy broke out in serious conflicts over the phosphate ore there, and finally after the Prime Minister's Office coordinated and guaranteed that the navy could get the guarantee of purchasing saltpeter ore from Chile, the army feudal lord was able to start the construction of the Lhasa Phosphate Rock Company for the production of Shimose gunpowder!!

But now the raw silk industry on Anmi Oshima has been destroyed! The Lhasa Phosphate Rock Company on Chongdadong Island was simply completely destroyed even with machines and people!

"Who did it? Isn't there a little harbinger? ”

"The Navy has sent warships to investigate, and judging from the news fed back by telegram, many propaganda leaflets of the local Okinawan Restoration Organization were found at the scene of the attack, and we suspect one." "Stupid!" Before the secretary could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the angry Xiyuan Temple Gongwang, how could it be that those short-sighted and low-level people who had been strangled countless times did it? This is clearly the elite small force of the Zhina people.

But no matter who did it, the consequences of the incident were too terrible for him and Japan, and thinking of this, Saionji Temple sat slowly and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"Hold back! This is the consequence of the constant retreat of the Empire! ”

At the War Department in Tokyo, Minamijiro was almost on the verge of climbing onto his desk. Almost everyone in the Tokyo Army circle knows that this guy is typical of not learning and not knowing, and he will only welcome the horse if he has no opinion on everything, and he is an opportunistic faction who sees the wind and rudder and used to take refuge in Katsura Taro, and if Katsura Taro can't do it, he will come to meet Tanaka Yoshiichi and claim to be his loyal servant. Although this person is extremely disdainful, this time everyone agrees with him.

Higashi-Ochong Island is the only remaining lifeblood of the Japanese Army! Without the thousand-year-old phosphate rock on the surface, is it possible to let the entire army dig up guano? Or bulldoze the ice and snow layer of Nanhua Taidao, which has accumulated for 10,000 years? The raw silk factory can still be built after it is gone, and the mulberry garden can grow again after two or three years of destruction, but the machinery and equipment of the phosphate mining company are all specially purchased and ordered from Germany, and it cannot be rebuilt in a short time! And these are all the consequences of retreating from China, if it weren't for the fact that those traitors have retreated one after another, if it weren't for the fact that they welcomed the humiliating Minhachijo who had signed a disgrace in Europe and completely withdrew from the mainland, how could the people of China dare to be so rampant? How could the army be reduced to the point where it could not even find an entry point for a counterattack! What is even more infuriating is that they still delusionally think that the army that sacrificed their country will be sent to Europe to be cannon fodder for foreigners and ghosts, which is a poisonous plan to weaken the army in disguise and benefit the navy!

"We have been betrayed! Let's go see the elder of the mountain pavilion and let him come out to preside over the situation! If this continues, Kudanzaka will be full of unjust souls who have died of resignation. Nanjiro instigated these officers who were already on the verge of eruption with all his might, and his speech aroused all the anger that had accumulated after the withdrawal of the army from Manchuria, and the lid of the crater was completely torn down at once!

When the Saionji Gongwang met with the emperor to report the situation and drove out of the palace, he immediately felt a terrible atmosphere in the air, and the endless crowd of protesters blocked the car in the middle of the road, and although the gendarmes tried their best to stop it, all kinds of slogans without exception demanded that the government severely punish the Ryukyus and punish those behind the scenes. "National thief! You national thieves! You enjoy food and wine in Tokyo, but you don't see us fighting in the mud and blood! We don't need good wine, we don't need good food, we are willing to fight the people of China to the end for the sake of the empire! Win the fortune of the empire! But you betrayed us! Betrayed the 100,000 loyal souls who died for it! Traitor! Oh my! A veteran in an old blood-stained military uniform, who had escaped from the Battle of Qingdao with a broken arm, smashed his egg on the glass of the car, which immediately attracted countless applause, and the rotten eggs and rotten vegetable skins smashed into the car like a dense bullet.

A ronin wearing only a thin kimono and a white cloth strip with the words "national soul" tied to his head held a bright sword in one hand and a large flag in the other, and two lines of large characters were written on the banner in blood: "Japan is not a second-rate Asia, and the national thief must be destroyed and the national soul must be restored." When the sedan approached slowly under the guidance of the gendarmerie, the ronin actually pointed at the sedan with a knife, shouted "Long live the emperor", and then suddenly stripped off his clothes and slashed into his abdomen with a sharp knife. Ganglie did not frighten the onlookers, but caused a wail of sorrow all around, and many of the gendarmerie and police in charge of the guard were also in tears, widening the gap and smashing more debris into the car.

The moment the blood surged, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang felt as if a poisonous snake had crawled on his back! The five-colored spitting letters, the poisonous fangs, and the cold air exudes! What to do? What to do? He seemed to be calm and completely out of mind, the terrible volcano was finally about to erupt, and now who had the ability to suppress it? Tough on China? Easier said than done! There is no evidence at all, only a bunch of leaflets of the Ryukyu complex **, with which even Europe and the United States believe in the Ryukyu . Nor will they allow war, or even provoke conflict. Not to mention one. Does Japan still have the strength to go to war? As for the navy, they probably won't do it at all, and they probably want the army to die again, otherwise how would they offer to send the army to Europe as cannon fodder in exchange for funds to build a batch of new warships.

One by one, the dead knots made Xiyuan Temple look like a moth that fell into a spider's web, and the more he struggled, the more he couldn't find a way out.

On April 1, 195, on the day that Saionji Gongwang went out of the mountain to form a pavilion, two incidents in the Ryukyus completely disrupted Japan. In the crowd, looking at the miserable white face of Xiyuan Temple behind the car window, Chen Haohui was secretly happy, losing Takahashi is Qing Dynasty is like a broken arm! But that's not the end of it. After smiling slightly, he quickly disappeared into the crowd with the young Yoshiko Kawashima in his arms.

Five days later, the news of the Saionji Cabinet protesting to Britain, France, and the United States against China's support for the Ryukyu Restoration and wanton destruction of Japanese property reached Shanghai, causing quite a commotion.

In the British General Assembly on the Bund, the melodious melodies of light songs and dances make it impossible to feel that the owner of this building is engaged in a war that is vital to the life and death of the country. Scotch whisky, Russian caviar, Bordeaux wine and Danish desserts. The turban-clad Indian waiter can deliver any delicacy to you whenever you want.

In the corner of the hall, the two Shanghai tycoons were talking and laughing, their eyes fixed on a graceful-rotating body in the center of the ballroom, especially the round and plump buttocks that were wrapped in a cheongsam and writhing back and forth, making the nostrils steam. One of them couldn't bear to take the opportunity to inquire: "Boss Huang, I heard that you have made a fortune recently?" ”

"Small business, went to Guizhou to get some tobacco to sell to foreigners, who let now.. Hehe, everything is lacking in the heat. ”

"The tobacco business? Aren't you a tobacco maker? ”

"Boss Yang, don't talk nonsense, I don't do this thing." The chubby Boss Huang hurriedly waved his hand and lowered his voice: "If you do this now, you will lose your head, unless you hide in the concession for the rest of your life and don't go out, that "Yang Killing Star" still don't mess with it!" ”

"Yes, yes, let's rest for a few years, anyway, I don't bother to sell some straw paper to foreigners now." The thin Boss Yang sniffed, looked at the plump and delicate body and leaned against the French minister, the breath in his nose suddenly became a little rougher, and finally got back to the point: "Boss Huang? That one. Is that the celebrity? Why haven't you seen it? ”

Boss Huang didn't know either, shook his head and said greedily: "Boss Yang, it looks like you're going to have an event again tonight." ”

"Hehe, each other, women, that's what it means to get your hands on it." Boss Yang was proud a few times, and when he saw the woman shuttling between the British and French ministers, he was very upright and smiling, and he was even more itchy: "The little bitch is coquettish enough!" This time, you must get your hands on it for a few more days. ”

"Beware of the misfortune that comes out of your mouth!" The two were laughing lewdly and discussing how to get the woman, when a middle-aged man next to him walked slowly with a wine glass. Seeing the two men's faces change, who doesn't know this person in Shanghai now? Zhu Ziyao, the owner of the new shipyard, heard that the method can be connected with the government, so the factory has expanded several times in the past two years, and there are hundreds of foreigners below. So in front of such a real tycoon, how dare the two of them put on a score, and hurriedly nodded and put away their lewd smile: "It turned out to be Boss Zhu, what?" Do you like it too? ”

"Humph!" Zhu Ziyao was reluctant to surrender his identity and make friends with this kind of person, but seeing that the two of them did not have any major evil deeds in normal times, and they were both figures in the Shanghai industrial and commercial circles who did not look up and looked down, he reminded: "The female boss of Huachen Petroleum Company. Is that what you can mess with? ”

"Huachen turned out to be Miss Lu!"

"Look at my dog's eyes. By the way, there is still something to do, so let's go first. ”

"Wait, I've got something going on too." When the two tycoons heard the name Huachen, they were immediately frightened, and now who in the national business community does not know that the backstage boss of Huachen Petroleum Company is Yang Qiu "Yang Killing Star"! Who doesn't know that he has an inexplicable relationship with that beautiful female boss, and even the British and French ghosts have to weigh this woman!

Lu Bicheng didn't know that there was criticism behind him, the corners of his lips curled with a curved arc, and quietly avoided the salty pig hand of the French Minister Kant, and secretly scolded the old pervert in his heart, but said with a smile on his face: "Lord Minister, I don't know if you are interested in a business?" Kant withdrew his hand and smiled politely: "Miss Lu has found the wrong person, I am not a businessman." ”

Lu Bilian put away the golden sandalwood fan, took a few steps closer as if she was talking and laughing, and endured the unpleasant smell of cologne to her ears: "Aren't the 300,000 workers and ministers interested?" Kant was stunned when he heard this, but fortunately he had been tested for a long time and stabilized his mind, looking at this radiant and brilliant woman, secretly thinking about the meaning behind this sentence. Could it be that Yang Qiu agreed to export much-needed labor to France? After clinking glasses lightly with her under the cover of the wine glass, he lowered his voice and asked, "Can I understand that this is what His Excellency Vice President Yang meant?" ”

"What do you say?" After several years of training in the shopping mall, Lu Bilian has long been accustomed to dealing with these treacherous foreigners, and she has also learned to use women's talents to fight for all interests, so she looked at Kant with white eyes, as if she was coquettish and angry, and said in a glutinous and sweet voice: "I want to buy two pieces of land in Najd to explore oil, is there a way for Your Excellency the Minister?" ”

"Najd? Persian Gulf? ”

"You know, my company is an oil company, and I heard that there is oil there, so I want to try my luck."

Kant frowned, that place in the Persian Gulf is a traditional British power, and some oil fields have indeed been discovered in recent years, but the scale is not large. If Yang Qiu wants to go, it is possible, after all, China lacks oil at home, and as he begins to expand his navy, oil will be the biggest constraint. He was certainly reluctant to agree to this favor, but the 300,000 laborers made it very difficult for France to refuse, and asked: "This matter is very difficult, I'm afraid. One. ”

"500,000 labourers, if you provide 100,000 entry-level jobs, 20 francs per person per month?"

Even people like Kant swallowed their saliva when they heard the numbers, 500,000 laborers! What a help it would be if it poured into France! As for 100,000 entry-level jobs and a monthly salary of 20 francs, it is not too high at all, but the question is: "Miss Lui, can you represent the vice president?" Lu Bicheng looked at him and suddenly laughed, the bulge under the cheongsam shook and shook, and even Kant was almost dazzled, not to mention the men around him who were already attracted to him. But she had long been accustomed to this kind of malicious gaze, and walked past Kant shoulders, and deliberately paused as she stood side by side: "Minister, have you heard of labor permits?" And one. There are so many people, you have to send people to manage and protect them, don't you say? ”

Kant's body shook violently。!!!