Chapter 491: A Worried Threesome
In the imperial palace in Tokyo, Japan, Japanese Prime Minister Saionji Kotobo cried and wiped tears to Emperor Meiji and said that his teacher was assassinated and died, and Emperor Meiji reacted at once, and the teacher of Saionji Konobo was not Ito Hirobumi!
Emperor Meiji's face suddenly changed, and he shouted in shock: "What? Your teacher? Isn't that Ito-kun? Could it be that Ito-kun was assassinated and killed? No way! No way! Didn't Ito-kun just leave the palace? Why did you die? β
Saionji Gongwang said with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty the Emperor, my teacher was assassinated at the door of his house after he left the palace, and our foreign minister of Japan, Mutsu Okun, was also assassinated at the door of his house. β
Emperor Meiji shouted even more in horror: "Mutsu-kun was also assassinated!" This...... This...... Who did this? β
The prince of Xiyuan Temple said helplessly with tears: "Emperor, if there is no accident, it should be Lin Daxin's subordinates." β
Emperor Meiji immediately asked, "Did Lin Daxin send someone to do it?" Is there any evidence for this? β
Xiyuan Temple Gongwang nodded and said: "A large number of 7.6 mm caliber bullet casings were left at the two assassination sites, which are unique to the Type 96 pistols and Type 96 submachine guns equipped by the Dingbei Army, and now only Lin Daxin has a reason to send people to assassinate the high-ranking ministers of our Great Japanese Empire." β
Xiyuan Temple Gongwang hesitated for a moment, but still reported to Emperor Meiji the plan planned by the Japanese intelligence department to kidnap Feng Ru, the aircraft designer and seize the aircraft design drawings, and then the news that the Japanese intelligence organization in the entire Lin Daxin territory had been completely destroyed.
After hearing this, Emperor Meiji relieved his feelings and said with a wry smile: "It seems that this is the retaliation of the intelligence department under Lin Daxin's command against us. I didn't expect that the intelligence network that we had worked so hard to operate for many years would also be ruined in one fell swoop, alas--Xiyuan Temple-kun. The protection of the ministers must be strengthened, before I leave the Tokyo Imperial Palace with my family. The protection force here should also be strengthened, we have assassinated Lin Daxin before, and if we don't get him, we will let people assassinate me. β
"Your Majesty the Emperor, I have asked the War Department to strengthen the number of guards around the ministers, there are nearly a thousand royal guards here in the Imperial Palace, and the troops of the 1st Wing of the Guards Division are stationed outside the Imperial Palace, and there will definitely be no problems with the security here in the Imperial Palace, please rest assured." Xiyuan Temple Gongwang has calmed down a lot at this time.
Emperor Meiji asked again, "Saionji-kun, have you caught the murderers of Ito-kun and Mutsu-kun?" β
The Duke of Xiyuan Temple shook his head and said, "These assassins are well-trained. Not a single body of the Assassins was left at the scene of the assassination, and they had already planned an escape route in advance, and after the successful assassination, they were soon lost, and the minister had ordered martial law throughout Tokyo to hunt down the Assassins. β
Emperor Meiji said with some sighs: "Alas, Saionji-kun, you should mourn, Ito-kun's departure is definitely a great loss to our great Japanese Empire. I am also very sad. In addition, you must also pay attention to your own safety, I have lost your teacher, and I cannot lose you anymore. β
The prince of Xiyuan Temple couldn't help but reddened his eyes and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor also mourns, the teacher will bless our Great Japanese Empire in heaven to tide over this difficulty." β
Emperor Meiji nodded silently. My depressed mood these days was just a little better, but I received the news that Ito Hirobumi and Mutsu Munemitsu were killed, and it was almost certain that Lin Daxin's intelligence department was under him. I really can't stop myself.
Saionji then told Emperor Meiji about the matter he and Ito Hirobumi had discussed in the carriage, and Emperor Meiji thought about it for a moment and said, "Saionji-kun." You can do it, but in the end, Lin Daxin agreed to negotiate. He will not let us Japan go lightly, and the expansion of the army, the formation of the Self-Defense Forces, and the relocation of factories and subjects in coastal cities should not be delayed. β
Xiyuan Temple Gongwang nodded, "Your Majesty the Emperor, rest assured, these things will be carried out from today, and we are not sure when Lin Daxin will launch an attack on our Japanese mainland, so the ministers will try to speed up the process of these things." β
After that, Saionji Gongwang left the palace, there were too many things waiting for Saionji Gongwang to deal with, and Emperor Meiji was not in the mood to show his majesty anymore, so he returned to the dormitory and let the imperial concubine Yuan Xiangzi put on his clothes and left, and then Emperor Meiji himself began to continue the sighing sigh of the previous days in the dormitory.
The officers and men of the Guards Division, the First Division, the Second Division, the 30th Division, and the 31st Division stationed in Tokyo, Japan, began to arrest suspicious people throughout Tokyo, and after two days of large-scale search, they finally arrested several hundred people, but none of the real agents of the Military Intelligence Bureau were caught.
The three MIA action teams in Tokyo City immediately disbanded after assassinating Ito Hirobumi and Mutsu Munemitsu, and each returned to their residence in Tokyo City to continue to play their own roles, they are all agents who have been lurking in Japan for a long time, they all have their own legitimate occupations and identities, and they even marry wives and children in Japan, and they don't know each other's true identities in Japan, and it is only this operation that they were ordered to gather together, in Tokyo, which has a population of nearly 1.8 million. Finding out these MIA agents who speak Japanese with a fluent Tokyo accent and have legitimate jobs and families is really embarrassing for the Japanese.
But this is not the end, in the days to come, from time to time there will be Japanese military and political high-level assassination, and not limited to Tokyo, the scope of the assassination has been extended to the whole of Japan, although the Japanese Army has increased the protection of these high-ranking officials, but the assassination incident still occurs from time to time, so that the entire Japanese high-level people are a little rumored to be soldiers, and the tracking of those agents of the Military Intelligence Bureau has had no effect, which makes the Japanese busy with the expansion of the army. The formation of the Self-Defense Forces and the relocation of factories and subjects in coastal cities also had to invest a lot of energy in tracking down the agents of the Military Intelligence Agency, and the Saionji Gongwang grew a lot of gray hair for this.
After Lin Daxin learned that Hirobumi Ito and Mutsu Munemitsu were killed by the Japanese agents of the Military Intelligence Bureau, he severely praised Li Kun, the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and at the same time affirmed the elimination of Japanese spies on the territory under his command by the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Secret Bureau.
was able to destroy the organization of the Japanese intelligence department in Lin Daxin's territory in one fell swoop, thanks to the captured spy leader Aoki Xuanchun, the spy leader who almost single-handedly established Japan's intelligence system in the Qing Dynasty, under the various punishments of the Military Intelligence Bureau, he wanted to live and die, and finally honestly revealed the entire intelligence organization and inventory under his control, not only explained the organization of Japanese spies on Lin Daxin's territory, but also gave a clear explanation of the spy organizations on the territory controlled by the Qing court.
Under Lin Daxin's instructions, the Military Intelligence Bureau not only wiped out all the Japanese spies on its own territory, but even sent a team to eliminate the Japanese spies on the territory of the Qing Dynasty. Lin Daxin is not nosy, although he is not ready to completely overthrow the Manchu rule in China, but he also regards the provinces controlled by the Qing court as his own bag, and now he is just clearing the stubborn diseases in advance.
In the Xinuan Pavilion of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Empress Dowager Cixi brought the Guangxu Emperor and Prince Gong Yixin over, although now the balance of the entire war has been completely tilted towards the Qing Dynasty and Lin Daxin, but the Empress Dowager Cixi did not have any smile on her face, and the faces of the Guangxu Emperor and Prince Gong Yixin also showed worry.
The Empress Dowager Cixi said with a worried face: "Your Majesty, Prince Gong, have you received the latest battle report?" β
Emperor Guangxu and Prince Gong Yixin both nodded, Prince Gong Yixin said: "Lafayette, the latest battle report, Fuzhou City has been taken by our imperial army and the Dingbei Army together, the British Army and the French Army in Fuzhou City surrendered voluntarily, and more than 90,000 Japanese troops in the city were all annihilated, and Lin Daxin sent a part of the army to occupy all the foreign concessions in Shanghai. The troops of the Dingbei Army in Hong Kong also entered the territory of Guangdong Province and began to pursue the troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Guangdong Province. β
Empress Dowager Cixi sighed and said, "I heard that in the Russians, Lin Daxin's Dingbei Army annihilated millions of Eight-Nation Alliance troops at once? β
Emperor Guangxu nodded and said: "Dear father, there are not 1 million, but there must be 8 or 900,000 Eight-Nation Alliance troops who were annihilated by the Dingbei Army in the war that just ended, plus the Northeast Navy under Lin Daxin won the victory in the naval battle of the Taiwan Strait. β
The Empress Dowager Cixi sighed and said, "Yes, unstoppable!" I didn't expect that this war that made the mourning family worry was completely different from what the mourning family imagined, but in the face of the unstoppable Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy, what should our court do in the future? β
Emperor Guangxu said with a sad face: "TongguΓ² This war, I understand it, if Lin Daxin wants to usurp the throne, our court doesn't even have a way, the million army of the imperial court may not even be able to resist a field army of the Dingbei Army under Lin Daxin, this is still a million army of one million based on the new army established by our court at a huge cost, alas, I feel disheartened when I think of this." β
Prince Gong Yixin said with a wry smile: "What's even more sad is that the hearts of the millions of troops in our court are not aligned, Li Hongzhang's Beiyang Army and Huai Army, the imperial court doesn't have to think about it, Li Hongzhang can't wait to dedicate these troops to Lin Daxin, those new armies in the southern provinces, may not be able to be used at critical moments, the current imperial court is really internal and external troubles!" (To be continued......)
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