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Katsura Taro is the current Prime Minister of Japan. Japan's longest-serving prime minister, like Aritomo Yamagu, opposed the political party and advocated feudal rule, but later formed his own party. This period is known as the "Katsura Period" because Katsura Taro and Saionji Gongwang took turns to form a cabinet. Emperor Taisho suffered from encephalopathy since childhood, and his condition was sometimes good and bad, and he was incapable of governing the country, so he was completely at the mercy of Katsura Taro, who was called "the man who hid behind the dragon's sleeve".

According to the original trajectory, he would have been overthrown on February 20, 1913, and Yamamoto would take over as prime minister, but that had changed, and he only came to power in March.

At present, the political friends association and some members of the Constitutional Kuomintang in Japanese political circles have carried out the campaign to protect the constitution under the slogan of "upholding the constitution and bringing down the lords." The reason is that Katsura Taro's assumption of power has harmed the interests of the navy, and the navy is unwilling to hand over a new candidate, and Minoru Saito has agreed to stay in office on the condition of increasing the navy's expansion fee by 6 million yen.

In order to resist the pressure of the Constitutional Protection Movement, Katsura Taro figured out that Guò would form a new party to pass the parliament, and after coming to power, he announced his plan to form a new party, but only more than half of the members of the Constitutional Kuomintang who said that he would join Katsura Taro's new party, making his plan basically aborted.

After coming to power, Katsura Taro was impeached by 234 members of parliament led by Yukio Ozaki, and he was strongly criticized for "the Prime Minister and Duke Katsura Taro, who should be in a heavy position, but he has repeatedly annoyed the Holy Edict, disturbed the differences between the palace and the government, abused power for personal gain, and formed a private party", and his pressure increased dramatically.

Katsura Taro had been thinking about what to use to alleviate internal contradictions and pressures, and the ambassador's telegram made his eyes light up, and this matter could just be used to divert domestic attention, and he could also use this time to slowly clean up the parliamentarians of the Constitutional Protectorate.

The ministers were summoned by Katsura Taro to discuss this matter, and if they did not discuss, they would not be able to divert the contradictions in the country, and his own position would not be guaranteed.

Yusaku Uehara, the Minister of War, was not left out in the cold with the fall of the Saionji cabinet, and the plan for the establishment of additional divisions in North Korea had already been completed, so he did not resign as in later history.

War Minister Yusaku Uehara and Navy Foreign Minister Minoru Saito were urgently summoned to the Prime Minister's Office by the Prime Minister, and although they did not know what it was, they quickly arrived at the Prime Minister's Office at the urging of the military police.

After entering the conference room of the Prime Minister's Office, the cadres sat on the floor according to their positions, and Prime Minister Katsura Taro sat in front of them and faced them.

Finance Minister Reijiro Wakatsuki, War Minister Yusaku Uehara, Navy Foreign Minister Minoru Saito, and others sat in the front row of the crowd and sat face to face with Prime Minister Katsura Taro, and they looked at Prime Minister Na Yan with a very strange expression.

After seeing everyone sit down, Katsura Taro stretched out his hands and patted them, and then several secretaries sitting on the edge handed them a copy of the text.

At first, everyone panicked when they saw Katsura Taro clapping their hands, because they thought Katsura Taro was trying to kill them, so they all looked around, and when they saw that the secretaries were holding a copy of the document to them, they breathed a sigh of relief.

After getting Wen Jiàn, they couldn't wait to look at it, and after watching it for a while, everyone's faces changed, everyone's faces were different, Uehara Yusaku's expression was very excited, Saito was actually frowning and thinking about something, Wakatsuki Reijiro stared at Wen Jiàn and didn't move, and the others were very excited and worried, but none of the people present made a sound.

They couldn't believe that the Shina would want to cooperate with them, and the content of the cooperation was also very tempting, if it was really the same as what the Shina people said, then they might use more territory.

They know a little bit about the shape of Asia now, Asians Asian, well said.

"I'm sure everyone has read it, this is a good opportunity for the empire, whether to cooperate with China is a big question, what do you think?" Prime Minister Katsura Taro asked sternly.

War Minister Yusaku Uehara said excitedly: "This is a good opportunity, if we can take Huatai Island (Sakhalin Island) and other places before China, we can carry out a more comprehensive encirclement of the three eastern provinces of China, so that we can not only obtain land, but also facilitate the implementation of the mainland plan."

The vast majority of the Russian army's troops in Far Eastern Siberia are now fighting against the armies of Outer Mongolia and China, and if China goes to war with them, the forces in the Huatai Island area will not be the opponent of the Imperial warriors at all, and if they can, they can also capture Puchaotide (Vladivostok), so that the Empire can remove a major threat. ”

"The empire is not ready for war with Russia, even if China can hold back most of Russia's army, but don't forget that the Trans-Siberian Railway has been basically completed, and Russia can transport a large number of troops to the Huatai region through the Guò railway.

Putting aside how long China can hold Russia back, just because Russia is a member of the Entente, we have to consider the key points, the empire sent troops to the Huatai region, God knows if Nikolai, that madman, will declare war with two countries at the same time, if war is declared at the same time, Britain and other countries will inevitably blockade the empire in order to preserve Russia's strength against Germany.

There is also the fact that the alliance between the Empire and Britain has only just begun, and the Empire cannot afford to lose Britain as an ally. If China goes to war with the frontal bone, it may have the help of Germany and other allies, but the empire does not have this advantage, and it is better to let China and Russia lose both. Finance Minister Reijiro Wakatsuki analyzed in an orderly manner.

After hearing this, everyone also agreed, after all, their relationship with Britain was very important, and even said that the future development of the empire would have to rely strictly on Britain.

"Yes, we can't just take the cunning Shina people for what they say, maybe they will bite the empire back in the end, after all, the atmosphere in the empire is not very friendly now. The warships ordered by the empire in Britain are still under construction, and if they are at odds with Britain and other countries, the empire's warships may not be able to come back, and it is very disadvantageous to build warships by themselves according to the current situation of the empire, after all, since the founding of China, our resources have become less and less, hateful China.

Although the Russian navy in the Far East has weakened since the last war, it is difficult to guarantee that the madman will not sail their fleet in Europe to the Far East, and at this time the imperial navy cannot go to war with the Russian navy, otherwise it will become an opportunity for the Chinese navy to take advantage of the opportunity. Foreign Minister Minoru Saito speculated that Katsura Taro would take advantage of this incident to divert domestic conflicts and escape the attack of the Constitutional Protectors to retain his power, and as Katsura Taro's opponent, he could only oppose Shina's cooperation.

"In any case, the empire is not ready to go to war with Russia, and besides, the climate in the Russian Far East is so cold, it will definitely be a difficult battle.

If we can send troops to Manchuria at a time when China and Russia are about to fight, it is very likely that we will take the opportunity to take it, and then neither China nor Russia will have too much effort to seize Manchuria with us. If we capture Manchuria, we will be able to complete our continental plan ahead of schedule, and then we will be able to take the northern part of China in one fell swoop if we take advantage of the emptiness in the rear of China.

If we had Manchuria and northern China as colonies, the empire would have a large amount of free labor and resources, and would be able to stand on its own even without the support of Britain and other countries. A representative of the imperial family said that the representative was actually Katsura Taro's man.

After hearing this, the foreign minister of the navy knew that this was Katsura Taro's person, and he retorted: "Hmph, attack Manchuria? Are you an idiot for the 300,000 troops stationed near the Liao River? Still attacking the Shina Pass, do you want to plunge the empire into a quagmire?

China has just been founded, and the cohesion of the people is very great, and if you attack now, you will definitely be opposed by the whole country, and even the empire's property in China will be confiscated by China, so everything the empire has done before will be in vain.

Another point is that although the navy of China is not as strong as the navy of the empire, the empire will have to pay a huge price if it wants to completely annihilate the navy of China, and this price is likely to greatly reduce the naval strength of the empire, which is not conducive to the future plans of the empire. ”

Even many of the people present objected to the words of the representatives of the imperial family, and they knew that if they went to war with China now, it would probably be a full-scale war, after all, now was not the time for the stupid Qing government to govern, and it would be bad if China abandoned Outer Mongolia to concentrate on fighting the empire in order to fight the empire.

With such a large population, China really resisted the empire to the end, even if they didn't have a navy, the empire would be able to lose Yan zhòng or even fail, according to their original plan, it was to slowly plan Manchuria, and then support the Manchu people or let someone Sun in Taiwan establish a government, so that they could secretly control China.

"The First Five-Year Plan of China has allowed all countries to invest a lot of money and material resources there, and countries will not let the empire attack China on a large scale, after all, their interests in China are very large, not only the Entente and the Central Powers, but also the United States opposite us.

China may have planned to use this to deal with the empire a long time ago, otherwise it would not have carried out such large-scale construction just after the founding of the country, and all the major projects were basically left to all countries to do, probably because they were afraid that the empire would attack them.

There is also a very close relationship between China and Germany, but the German concubine is a German, and even the army in China has a lot of retired German instructors, and attacking China will inevitably be opposed by Germany and other countries. "Finance Minister Reijiro Wakatsuki was very worried that this was a conspiracy in Shina.

At this time, Prime Minister Katsura Taro, who had been listening to everyone's opinions, said, "What you say has a point, and no matter what you say, it is an opportunity." Russia's strength in the Far East is a serious obstacle to the Empire's advance, and we can cooperate with China to deal with Russia first, and then the Empire can carry out its continental policy with peace of mind.

As for the relations between Russia and Britain, we can pretend to be the Chinese army to occupy the Huatai region and the Puchao Tide (Vladivostok), and then reveal our identity after the arrival of the Chinese army, which does not specify the declaration of war on Russia.

The words of China are too much involved, and if we want to occupy Manchuria, not only will we not be prepared, but we will not even have any reason to start a war, so we will give up our illusions about China for the time being.

We must break this cage, there is a Russian empire in the Far East that does not dare to carry out a continental project with all its might, the whole of Asia is imperial, and the vast and fertile land beckons to us.

So I think it's an opportunity to cooperate with Shina, so I'm going to ask the Emperor for advice right now, and if His Majesty agrees, I'll do what I want. ”

After hearing this, the foreign minister of the Navy and a group of people from the Constitutional Protector faction changed their faces, and it was better to ask for the emperor's opinion than your Katsura Taro's opinion, and it seems that this cooperation is a sure thing.

As soon as they wanted to refute, Katsura Taro directly interrupted them in the name of asking to see the emperor, and left quickly, leaving only a cadre of ministers here in a daze.

The Constitutional Protectors are very nervous now, they don't dare to rashly let Katsura Taro step down in this kind of matter related to national affairs, the soldiers of the army and navy will definitely agree to this plan, if they let Katsura Taro step down, it is very likely that they will lose the support of the military department, and even give Katsura Taro an excuse to kill them.

None of them are ready for Katsura Taro now, so they are also dizzy by this matter now, and they can only passively guard against Katsura Taro's suppression.