Chapter 156: True and False Emperors

After some bargaining, in the end, Tang Ning bought the improved technology of the rice cooker from Yabuki Shinzo at a seven-fold price, of course, the time must have been more than fifteen minutes, because when they signed the contract, someone had already come to visit Tang Ning, and it was a beautiful ** official, but he saw someone inside, so he could only wait outside, at this time Yabuki Shinzo knew that Tang Ning did not fool him, he did have something to do today.

But in fact, this is not a big deal, it is Downing's friend in the Propaganda Department, Major Zopel, today Downing invited him to inquire about one thing, recently during his time in the United States and Italy, there is a major event in Japan that has made a lot of noise, although it has little to do with Downing, but Downing, who is quite curious, still wants to inquire clearly, so he found this Zopel, who is known as knowing, to drink.

This is indeed very interesting, about Downing just went to the United States, General MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the US forces in Japan, received a very strange letter, the person who wrote the letter called himself "Emperor Kumazawa", claiming that he was the real emperor of Japan, the son of God, who was forced to live in the rivers and lakes by rebellious ministers and thieves, and as for the Showa Emperor, the family was stealing the throne. It is hoped that General MacArthur will come forward to administer justice so that he can return to the throne.

In fact, the letter was sent to the GHQ (Headquarters of the Occupation Forces in Japan) in November, but the petition was written in such a way that it took a month for the Japanese to translate it into an intelligible English version, containing a large amount of historical evidence and an explanation of the evolution of Japan's succession to the imperial throne. I still see Da Shuai, dizzy, and full of doubts.

This was indeed a great headache for our General MacArthur, and this Emperor Kumasawa spoke in a strict manner, and his account of the origin of his throne was clear and clear, and it did not seem to be a fake. The monarchical succession system in the East Many Orientals themselves are dizzy, not to mention that he is a foreigner? Apart from knowing that the emperor who cooperated with him today may be a fake, Mak Dashuai could not draw any conclusions.

But fortunately, Mai Dashuai's mind is still very clear, and he quickly grasped the point. First, send someone to the palace of the Japanese emperor to ask if there is any problem with the blood relationship of the emperor now, whether he is a descendant of God. Second. Send someone to Haosheng to inquire about this Emperor Kumazawa to see what kind of character he is.

But his questioning frightened the emperor. At this time, it is still uncertain whether Japan will retain the emperor system. The Allied Command wanted to take advantage of the emperor's prestige, but also worried that the emperor's non-human identity might become the core of Japan's re-establishment of centralized power, so Emperor Showa had to quickly sort out the materials of his ancestors and send them to the Grand Marshal's Mansion. At the same time, he hurriedly gathered his staff, thinking about what to do to redeem the trust of the commander.

The investigation of "Emperor Kumazawa" also came out very quickly. This person, whose real name is Kumazawa Hiromichi, now lives in Senju District, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, is 56 years old this year, and he used to run a grocery store for a living. After grocery stores went bankrupt due to the post-war economic bleakness, they became unemployed. And it seems that this person is not mentally ill when he is called the emperor, and since 1920 he has repeatedly written to Hideki Tojo, Fumima Konoe, Sadao Araki and other important Japanese ministers to demand the revocation of the throne, and he was not punished in any way at that time. At the time of the 226 mutiny, there were really some rebels who were ready to support this "Emperor Kumazawa"!

Especially when five dusty American reporters came to the rubble old town of Nagoya and interviewed the "Emperor Kumazawa" in his closed grocery store, it was confirmed that this was definitely not a neurotic. Because although the "Imperial Palace" is a little cold, the appearance of this down-and-out emperor is very rigorous. He wears a sixteen-petal chrysanthemum kimono that only the emperor of Japan can wear, and claims that he is the true heir to the emperor, and now lives in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, and the one who lives in the Tokyo Imperial Palace is an impostor.

The basis of his theory is to start from the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties of Japan more than 550 years ago, when the official start of the Northern and Southern Dynasties of Japan was 1336, when two emperors appeared in Japan, and the war officially began. Theoretically, however, the seeds of division had already been planted. In 1247, Emperor Fukakusa of Japan ascended the throne. This era belonged to the shogunate, and the emperor of Japan was actually an ornament. Later, Emperor Fukakusa was not in good health, so he passed the throne to his younger brother, called Emperor Kameyama.

The two brothers were peaceful, and they were also brothers and sisters at the time. The problem is that the ministers around Hou Shencao might as well think about it. They had never been at odds with Emperor Kameyama. So he insisted on supporting the sick seedling of Houshencao, and the division of the palace was formed.

Since then, two factions have formed in the Japanese court. One faction is the Hou Shencao family, called the Ming Yuan system, and the other faction is the Kameyama family, called the Dajue Temple system. The two factions took turns to be emperor. Things changed when it came to an emperor named Go-Daigo, and the general Ashikaga Honji forced Go-Daigo, the head of the Daikakuji Temple, to abdicate. A prince who supported the Ming Yuan system ascended the throne and was called Emperor Kogan.

Hou Daigo didn't do it anymore, and the emperor took turns to fall, but I'm not dead yet, why do you start the wheel (subtext?–?, don't you kill me with medicine?? So he fled south with the three major artifacts that symbolized the Japanese imperial power and became independent, called the Southern Dynasty. The princes of each region who supported the two sides formed their own forces and started a great scuffle, which was the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in Japan.

The "Emperor Kumazawa" said that Hirohito, who was sitting in the palace, was a descendant of the Northern Dynasty, and his ancestors were just a prince who was supported by military generals, and I was a direct descendant of the Emperor of the Southern Dynasty, and I was much more positive than him in terms of blood. Moreover, Emperor Kumazawa "had been prepared for a long time and took out a complicated genealogy map of the Japanese imperial family to show the American reporters, although it was dizzying, it was clear."

In the post-Kameyama era, the Southern Dynasty in Japanese history was forced to sacrifice three artifacts to submit to the Northern Dynasty because it could not withstand the attack of the Northern Dynasty. But this submission was conditional, that is, the agreement between the two unifications to be re-appointed as emperor presided over by the shogun Adachi Yoshimitsu at that time. Yoshimitsu Adachi? Yes, it's him, the confused general who is often teased in Brother Yixiu. Historically, Yoshimitsu Adachi was not only not easy to fool but also extremely shrewd, and this man had the demeanor of a modern statesman, who used the agreement to complete the unification of the north and the south, and monopolized the power, and then the agreement became a waste of paper. Discovering that he had been deceived, Emperor Go-Kameyama fled in anger and reorganized his forces to rebel against the Adachi shogunate, which was called the so-called "Go-Nan Dynasty". In 1441, the power of the Later Southern Dynasties was completely overthrown, and the last monarch, King Ziten, and his younger brother, King Zhongyi, were killed. (To be continued.) )