Chapter 486: Judgment Without Death

To be sure, being Japan's prime minister after World War I was an extremely dangerous and tragic affair. As long as it is not someone from the Army who is in power, basically politicians are either forced to resign or assassinated.

In 1918, Prime Minister Masashi Terauchi, who was a soldier, resigned. The politician Yuan Jing came to power, but he was assassinated just over three years ago. Subsequently, the cabinet was succeeded by the Qing Dynasty, the treasurer and Tibetan prime minister, and only seven months the cabinet collapsed because of opposition to the increase in fiscal spending for the expansion of the army.

It is estimated that he felt that it was not a soldier who could not mix, so Japan replaced Navy Marshal Yuzaburo Kato as the prime minister. It's a pity that this girl's blessing is thin, and she has been in office for more than a year with colorectal cancer.

The Navy looks at it, it can't be done! So the Yamamoto Gonbei, who had served as the prime minister, was launched to form a cabinet again, and then the sad Yamamoto Gonbei encountered the unfortunate Guanzhong earthquake. It lasted for a few months, and it collapsed in less than half a year.

At this time, maybe the Japanese think it's better to let politicians come, after all, people are professionals, aren't they?! As a result, Keigo Kiyoura, who had served as a judicial officer, a member of the House of Lords, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, and the Speaker of the Privy Council, was pushed out.

Then, in what is said to be "the era of Taisho democracy", the prime minister resigned again after five months.

This time, the various chaebols couldn't stand it, and Takaaki Kato, the son-in-law of the Mitsubishi chaebol and a diplomat, became the prime minister. No one dared to assassinate him, and he insisted on weakening the military department. It's a pity that Ya's life is not hard enough, and she will return to heaven again in less than two years.

Politicians say we're the professionals! As a result, Reijiro Wakatsuki, who had served as the director of the main tax bureau, vice minister of the treasury, and minister of the treasury, was pushed out again. Well...... This time he finally held on a little longer, and resigned after more than a year.

The army is jumping up and down again, and you can't get your people on top! Our people have to be on top, too! As a result, Yoshiichi Tanaka, who was not a man on either side of the military and government, was pushed out, and more than a year later, like his predecessor, he resigned.

Yuyuki Hamaguchi, president of the Constitutional Democratic Party, stood up and resolutely stood up to the black hole! Then, more than a year later, the man was shot and knocked to the ground. The sad wound was infected, and finally hung up miserably.

At this time. Reijiro Wakatsuki was pushed out again. This dude has fallen in just eight months this time. Persistence is not even the last time. And his successor is the dog Yangyi who has just been killed.

From 1918 to 1932, Japan had 11 prime ministers in just 14 years. The maximum term of office is more than three years. Minimum months. In 14 years, three prime ministers were assassinated, and two died of illness. The rest were forced to fall.

It can be said that the Japanese prime minister after World War I was an unlucky job. If you are not hard enough under your hands, they will drive you away. Those who are hard enough under their hands will be killed by the position of prime minister. It's hard enough under your hands, and your life is hard enough......

Never mind! The Japanese military department will kill you!

The assassination of Inuyangyi has since been known as the "August 13" incident.

On the fourth day of the assassination. On August 17, Inu's funeral was held in the hall of the official residence. The ceremony was attended by many people, and Hirohito also sent his own envoy to show his condolences. After the funeral, Inukai's remains were buried at the Aoyama Cemetery in Minato-ku, Tokyo.

Then, the trial of the eleven non-commissioned officers who shot and killed the dog Yangyi also began to enter the procedure! However, it is strange that the two other groups that attacked the residence of Minister of the Interior Nobuaki Makino and the headquarters of the ruling party's Constitutional Political Friends Association were not tried in any way. No one asked, and no one even mentioned it.

Before the trial, a petition signed in the blood of 350,000 people was sent to the court, and the petition was initiated and signed by people from all over Japan who sympathized with the murderer. Ask the court for leniency!

In addition to the petition, the court received another petition sent by eleven young people from Niigata Prefecture. They asked to die in place of eleven officers. And at the same time attach eleven fingers to show their heartfelt feelings!

And all this news was passed through the prison guards to Yagi and them, and Yagi and others who got the news knew it! This is the strength of that main officer, if it weren't for the whole of Japan, even His Majesty the Emperor would not have been able to do such a thing at once!

At the same time, these news were also learned of Japan's political veterans from the Meiji to Taisho periods, before the war, the court nobleman from the Qinghua family, the second son of Tokudaiji Gongjun, and the current head of the Xiyuan Temple family after the Saionji Shiji - Xionji Gongwang!

For the public hope of Xiyuan Temple, the Japanese military department hates it to the core! But there is nothing to be done, this old guy has not only served as prime minister, but also the patriarch of the three dynasties from the Meiji and Taisho to the present in the Hirohito period! He is also the veteran of the founding of the Constitutional Political Friendship Association!

Saionji gave Ritsumeikan University the signature Fujiwara Konobo, Fujiwara is the Saionji family's surname "Fujiwara", and he has held a close relationship with the imperial family for more than a thousand years. You must know that most of the queens of the emperors of the past dynasties were born in the Fujiwara clan. This also gave him great influence on the royal family, so that the military department did not dare to do anything to him.

And. This old thing has been recommending the prime minister to the emperor since 1913 when Prime Minister Gonbei Yamamoto was in power. Basically, the pass rate of his recommendation is extremely high! And he also has his own people in the military department, especially in the naval part. Even the financial community still has a lot of in-laws.

Those radicals in the military department, although crazy, are not fools! They knew that if they moved this old thing, the tsunami would definitely not be something they could afford. So they secretly scolded Saionji as a "cosmopolitan". But in fact, there is nothing to be done about this old thing.

By virtue of the in-law relationship between the palace and the financial world, although Xiyuan Temple is not in office, it can still adjust the palace, state affairs, and military departments as a veteran.

The idle palace that cleaned up the dog Yangyi didn't have time to be happy in the military department's own office. I received a note from the Constitutional Friends Association. This was handed over by someone from Xiyuan Temple, and when he looked at it, the face of the idle palace immediately became extremely ugly!

After gritting his teeth for a while, he finally said in a deep voice to the messenger in front of the table: "Please tell Lord Xiyuan Temple that I completely agree with him on this matter." So I asked him to preside over it......"

The person who came bowed lightly to the courtyard of the idle palace and said softly: "Your Royal Highness, I will tell your lordship." Please don't worry......"

After saying that, the visitor quietly exited the office. When this person finally left, Xiangong Yuan slammed his teacup on the ground with a fierce "Ping Chang~"!

"Road wolf!! Damn old ghost, why don't you die!! Xian Gongyuan looked at the table with a hideous face, and roared in a low voice: "After living for so long, why do you care about so many things?!" I knew I should have let Yagi and them kill you too!! ”

Gasping for breath, Xiangongyuan sat on the chair all of a sudden! There was a cold light in his eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

On the third day after Inuyangyi's burial, the trial of these eleven people began!

The people who participated in the trial were: Chief Judge of the Naval Yokosuka Town Shofu Military Judge Council, Navy Commander Takasushiro of the Navy, Chief Judge of the Military Judge Council of the First Division of the Army, and Takuma Muramura of Army Artillery.

The judge was Ichiro Kiyose, the chief judge of the Tokyo District Court. The defense lawyers are: Ichiro Kiyose, Hayashi Yilang and Hanai Tadashi.

"We're removing moths for the Empire! Those politicians, ignoring the interests of the empire, vainly signed those agreements with the damned Chinese pigs, resulting in the complete loss of the interests of our empire! The Middle East Road, which was exchanged for the blood of several generations of imperial warriors, and Manchuria, which the Kwantung Army had worked hard to obtain, was lost! ”

In the courtroom, Yagi said impassionedly to the judge who judged him: "Look at the investment and loans that Britain and the United States have given to Manchuria now!" Those originally belonged to the Empire, but now they were all given to the executioner! That damn butcher! The mortal enemy of the Great Japanese Empire! ”

Yagi said as he spoke, and the reporters in the courtroom were recording "Sha ~ Sha ~ Sha ......". Seeing this, Yagi was even more excited! "Bang la la~" pulled the chain beast on his body and roared.

"For the Empire! For His Majesty the Emperor! We will not die!! May our blood evoke the blood of my subjects! Forget-me-not Imperial warriors sacrifice in Manmeng! Long live the Empire!! Long live His Majesty the Emperor!! ”

After listening to the words of Yagi and others, the judge in the court was silent for a while and announced a temporary adjournment. The reporters left the courtroom in a hurry, and the next day all the Japanese newspapers published news of the trial.

"Eleven Warriors, Die for the Empire!" "350,000 signatures in blood, beg for forgiveness!" "The Eleven Warriors of Niigata are willing to die in lieu of death, and cut off their will!" Brave! 》…… And so on all these reports appeared in the Japanese newspapers, and the entire Japanese people fell into a kind of frenzy! Many people marched outside the courtroom to petition for the court to sentence these eleven warriors lightly!

Three days later, the court reconvened. The announced results are indeed "lenient"! Not even a single of these people was sentenced to death, the most serious of which was Takazaburo Tachibana, who was prosecuted for violating the criminal law for the prohibition of explosives, homicide and attempted homicide, and organized murder, and was finally sentenced to life imprisonment.

Lieutenant Taku Mikami, a crew member of the cruiser Myoko, was indicted for rebellion and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Lieutenant Kiyoshi Koga, indicted for rebellion and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Zhou Ming Okawa, prosecuted for rebellion and sentenced to 5 years in prison.

The rest were sentenced to three to five years in prison. Subsequently, the trial was declared closed.

Kazuo Furujima, who had been in the courtroom, watched the hearts of those soldiers who were celebrating with their crowns gradually cold, he finally knew! That old friend of mine died of a premeditated murder! But alas, no one cares about this.

Even the newspapers did not mention the news of Inuyangyi, and it seemed that the prime minister had been forgotten like this. Such a country...... Kazuhiro Furushima's heart was desolate......

After the trial, on August 26, it was announced that the so-called "national unity" cabinet headed by Navy Vice Admiral Minoru Saito would be established.