Chapter 175: The Yamamoto Cabinet Falls
Yamamoto's cabinet urgently contacted Britain and asked them to help find someone, on the grounds that this person had stolen important information about Fuso. They also spent a huge price to get the thief's appearance and name from Herman, so that Herman made a lot of money.
The British government was very pleased to receive Fuso's request, and the information that was able to get the Fuso cabinet to send a message in person was not ordinary, and the Britons who wanted to obtain this information took this matter very seriously and sent a large number of police to investigate this person.
Just when Britain was looking around, the newspapers in Europe suddenly published the article, which not only contained Fuso, but also the news that Britain, Germany, the Chinese Empire and other countries were taking kickbacks on military purchases, which instantly detonated the whole thing.
Britain did not expect such a thing to happen, and in order to suppress the matter, it hastened to issue a statement saying that those on the list would be tried as soon as it was verified, and the country did not need such moths.
Germany and China, like Britain, were the first to make such a statement, and only the Fuso government had not yet expressed its opinion.
For eating kickbacks, there will be a deposit in almost every industry, and the vast majority of businessmen understand this, but this can only be done in secret, and you can't see the light, and you will die when you see the light!
Yamamoto Gonbei didn't expect that there was no room for recovery in the matter, and it was exposed as soon as the investigation was clear, and he once thought that it was his actions with Britain that angered this person, and he wanted to block foreign newspapers from entering Fuso, but it was useless, he wanted to do this, and no one else was allowed.
This article was soon published in the Fuso newspaper, and immediately caused a major earthquake.
The Fuso opposition party pointed the finger at Prime Minister Gonbei Yamamoto and Minister of the Navy Minoru Saito, and rebuked the corruption of the Yamamoto cabinet, which instantly escalated the matter to corruption. Even the responsibility for the failure of the naval fleet is attributed to the fact that the navy eats kickbacks, and the quality and power of the warships are directed.
The Diet was divided into several opinions because of this chaos, but in the end, there were always two opinions, one was to ask His Excellency Yamamoto to come to power, and the other was to think that as long as the naval officials who took kickbacks were punished, Yamamoto Gonbei and Minoru Saito had done so, but they were not the main ones.
After all, the opinions of the former occupy the overwhelming majority because of the resolute support of the army and opposition parties, while the latter is basically a navy or a force that is in good alliance with the navy, and cannot withstand the former.
The Fuso newspaper was frantically hyped up by various forces, making the people "think of the navy and think of Yamamoto Gonbei, and think of kickbacks when they think of Yamamoto", and the scandal of the navy detonated the people's dissatisfaction with the Yamamoto cabinet, and the angry people flocked to the Diet and the Ministry of the Navy, demanding that Yamamoto come to power and severely punish the criminals.
There were more and more people, and the more than 4,000 police officers in Dongjing were unable to maintain order, and the people frantically stormed the police defense line desperately, so the army dispatched a brigade of the third wing to help maintain order to calm down the situation.
The Yamamoto cabinet and the top officials of the Ministry of the Navy collectively appeared to apologize to the public, acknowledging the facts published in the newspapers, and the Navy has set up an inquiry committee, which will soon make the facts of the investigation public, hoping that the people will give them time.
The angry people didn't care about this at all, and under the instigation of someone with a heart, they demanded that Yamamoto come to power.
A few days later, Gonbei Yamamoto, who could not withstand the pressure, resigned en masse with the cabinet of Tianya, and the Minister of the Navy, Minoru Saito, also gave up the position of minister, and the reputation of the Navy was almost lost in this incident.
Because of the general resignation of the Yamamoto cabinet, Kiyoura Keigo was entrusted with the right to form a cabinet, and initially he wanted Saionji Konobu and Tokugawa Ieda to form a cabinet, but the two refused, and Kiyoura became a high-profile candidate. As a result, in the process of forming a cabinet, when the candidates for the prime minister of the navy were decided, the navy put forward a request to increase the budget for building ships and submarines to deal with the Huaxia Navy, and Qingpu was helpless and had to give up the formation of the cabinet.
At this time, Ito Hirobumi recommended Shigenobu Okuma and Itatsune to take over as prime minister, and as a result, Shigenobu Okuma won the support of the Constitutional Comrades Association, the Constitutional Party of the People's Republic of China, and the Chunzheng Church, which were not factions of the Political Friends Association, and occupied a total of 165 seats in the Diet.
This is known as the "Siemens Incident", which, for various reasons, is several months ahead of the original history.
Immediately after coming to power, Shigenobu Okuma continued to expand the size of the army in order to intensify military attacks on the three eastern provinces, and in order to appease the navy, he promised to promote an increase in the navy's military spending, and the political reorganization of the political friendship association was approved by the senators.
After Minoru Saito stepped down as Minister of the Navy, he was appointed by Rokuro Yashiro, and after taking office, in order to restore the credibility of the Navy, he had to persuade the Navy veterans Yoshinoru Inoue and Heihachiro Togo to integrate Gonbei Yamamoto and Minoru Saito into the reserve, which was a bolt from the blue for the Navy.
Germany, Wilhelm II looked at the translated Chinese Imperial Daily and pondered, he knew that Siemens's article did not have a list of Huaxia at all, he didn't know what the intention of the Chinese Empire was, so many officers and officials were affected, something big must have happened.
In addition, he was very suspicious that there was a shadow of Huaxia in the Siemens incident, otherwise these lists would not appear out of thin air, and he became more and more unable to see through Huaxia, especially the young emperor.
"Has there been any big thing happening in China recently?" Wilhelm II asked the intelligence service with a finger and gently tapping on the armrest of the chair.
"There have been no major incidents in Huaxia recently, but our people occasionally found that Commander Huang Cheng, who was stationed in Huaxia Nanhai Province, returned to Nanhai Province halfway to the imperial capital of Huaxia, we suspect that something will happen in Nanhai Province, and our subordinates have already sent people there to investigate, and there will be results soon!"
Wilhelm II suddenly stood up and walked to the side of the wall where the world map was hung and looked closely at the Huaxia Nanhai Province above, and after looking at it for a while, he said: "There will definitely be a war in the Indian Ocean region, it is really beyond my strength, Yingfa is playing with fire, but I like this, hahaha!" ”
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In the Central Garden of the Imperial Capital of China, Qin Yu took a piece of information about the fall of Fuso's Yamamoto cabinet and muttered: "The United States supports Fusang, then I will advance the Siemens incident, and those political parties in Fusang are not ordinarily fast." Mess up, the more messy the better! ”
It turned out that the Siemens incident was forced to change the trajectory of history under the intervention of Qin Yu, and it was advanced by a few months, and the Fuso Yamamoto cabinet was not given time to deal with it at all.
There is indeed a list of Huaxia on that document, more than Fusang, but these are all temporarily added by Qin Yu, and they are all Huang Cheng's secret subordinates or cooperative relationships that the shadow has investigated clearly, and he took the opportunity to catch them all.
Huang Cheng absconded back to Nanhai Province all the way without danger, and when he saw the list in the Imperial Daily, he knew that his affairs had already been discovered by the empire, otherwise it would not all be related to him, no more than one and one not more, and in one fell swoop, he had exhausted the power he had arranged in the internal army of the empire, so ruthless!
At this time, Huang Cheng felt that he had no way out, either to fight for an emperor's road, or to immediately bow his head and admit his mistakes, but he had done too many things to be sorry for the empire, so he could only choose the former. Now his grasp of his success has dropped from sixty percent to less than thirty percent, because he understands Qin Yu too well, and he must have been ready to deal with himself a long time ago.
After Huang Cheng came back, he still received good news that Mi Guo had sent someone to contact him.
Tomille was the person sent by the United States to negotiate with Huang Cheng, and Tomiller had been holding important positions in the United States colony Luzon before, but now he was sent here, and he was still a little dissatisfied.
"Commander Huang, it seems that you have encountered something difficult and need my help? I heard you're running a great program, can I participate? "Tomille has the straight-ahead nature of a Westerner, and he doesn't like those twists and turns, because he's too tired.
Huang Cheng had already learned from the Fusang people that Mi Guo didn't know where he got the news that he was going to carry out the 'Ripping Plan', and wanted to get involved, but Huang Cheng wished that Mi Guo would come to the door by himself.
"It's really difficult, I need a lot of weapons and ammunition, and I'll be carrying out my plan soon!"
Huang Cheng's words expressed his needs to Tomele, and also told him that he would act soon, and if you want to join, you can do your best.
Sure enough, Tomille was a little anxious after hearing this, "Your Excellency Commander, our country is the most powerful industrial country in the world, and the most important thing is ammunition and weapons and equipment, we can support you for free. ”
Huang Cheng didn't expect that Mi Guo would want to reach out to the Indian Ocean, but he didn't mind that one more country was here, anyway, he agreed to give one to Fusang, and he didn't care which one it was, after all, he didn't even have a warship.
"It's okay to rent, but it's not going to be cheap in terms of price, as long as my plan is successful." Huang Cheng's words are also very true, although he doesn't pay much attention to those islands, it doesn't prevent him from selling them for a good price.
Tomille was overjoyed when he heard this, they had money in the country, so he didn't open his mouth if he was afraid, "No problem, we have the money, you give me a list of weapons, and I will do my best to get the weapons." ”
After Tomille left, Huang Chengcai had the heart to summon his henchmen to discuss the incident, and when he returned from the escape, he met Tomille directly, and there was no time to check the situation of the army.
After the henchmen arrived, Huang Cheng also said the reason why he came back so soon, "The empire has already found out about us, if I didn't run fast this time, I probably wouldn't be able to return here, has anyone been here?" ”
"No, after the commander left, everything was fine here, and the local natives also promised us that they would send a large number of young and middle-aged people to join the army. More than seventy percent of the officers and soldiers in the army have joined us, and some of the weapons of Yingfa and other countries have also arrived, and the supplies are also complete. ”
"Very good, you will all be my great heroes in the future, and there will definitely be no less marquis rewards, I Huang Cheng said to do it!" Huang Cheng said very arrogantly.
"Hooray! Commander Huang is !! ”