Chapter 44: The Birth of "Light Red Japan" and "Orb".

Since we want to establish a new political power, the first step is to establish a national system, otherwise it will be impossible to talk about it at all. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In this regard, there is no doubt about the continuation of the emperor system, regardless of the forces. In accordance with the traditions and culture of the Japanese nation, even the most radical Japanese communists have to admit that it is not wise to abolish the emperor system rashly at present.

As a result, the new government of socialist Japan was soon established as a constitutional system under the emperor and was unanimously approved.

But then a new question arises: who will be the emperor?

In the Tokyo nuclear explosion and poison gas war last October, the entire imperial family was largely wiped out, and now there are only a few side branches left. Among them, the army proposed a seemingly suitable candidate: the head of the Imperial Army, the eldest son of the former commander-in-chief of the Native Defense Force, King Minoru Higashikurenomiya, the grandson of Emperor Meiji, and a staff officer of the local army of Hiroshima, King Morihou of Higashikurenomiya.

Not only is this king of Higashikurenomiya Shenghou in his prime and close to the royal family, but he is now in Hiroshima, so there is no need to bother looking for it. In addition, his parents and brothers both died in the atomic bombs of the U.S. military, and he has a grudge against the U.S. military, so there is basically no possibility of treason and defection to the enemy.

But the Navy is resolutely against it, for the simple reason that this is the people of the Army, and the Navy is unwilling to let the Army crush it! But this emperor has to be someone after all, so the navy proposed a more embarrassing candidate - the wife of King Shenghou of Higashikure Palace, Prince Teruiya Narikonai!

- Due to the long-term tradition of intermarriage between Japanese imperial families since ancient times, the wife of King Shenghou of Higashikurenomiya, Prince Naruchi of Terumiya, was the eldest princess of the former emperor and the first child between Emperor Showa and Empress Xiangjun. On the eve of the Tokyo nuclear bombing, she happened to give birth to her and King Shenghou's first child, King Nobuhiko Higashikurenomiya, and after confinement, she took the baby to Hiroshima to visit relatives, but the family of three escaped as a result......

The army said that it was against the law to let women inherit the throne, but the navy was also rejoicing: first, compared to King Shenghou of Higashikurenomiya, Prince Terumiya Nariko was closer to the previous emperor, and if Emperor Showa's spirit in heaven was known in Izumi, he should also hope that his children could inherit the throne - even if it was a daughter; Secondly, the purpose of the meeting to establish the country is to get rid of the old and cloth the new, and the royal succession law that discriminated against women in the past should naturally be abolished; Finally, in socialist thought, there seems to be a section on the emancipation of women!

After a brief period of astonishment, the Japanese Communist Party also strongly agreed with the proposal to support Prince Narunomiya Nariko as the female emperor - in the case of having to retain the imperial system, the Japanese Communist Party was most worried that the new emperor would counterattack and regain power in the future. However, if a female emperor is introduced, the new emperor will naturally lack prestige due to the gender relationship in Japan, and it will be even more difficult to restore the old system......

Looking at the proposal to support Prince Nariko Narumi to serve as the female emperor, it has been supported by most people, thinking about making King Shenghou of Higashikure Palace the emperor and letting his wife be the emperor, it seems that it is almost the same, and there is no need to change the candidate for the crown prince, so the army has to pinch its nose and acquiesce.

The next thing is very logical: Prince Nariko Terumiya was invited to announce to this ignorant young lady that she had become the new emperor, and the proposed era name was "Liberation", so as to clarify the purpose and concept of restoring the country and respecting the emperor...... As for the composition of the government under the emperor, there is no time for any invention for the time being, so we can only use the old system first, and then slowly revise it according to the actual situation.

Then, after the ascension of the new emperor was announced on the radio, Kyoto, Nara, Tokyo, and Osaka, which were ancient capitals, were now enemy territory, and even Hiroshima was not very safe, and there was a risk of falling if the naval battle was lost. Therefore, for the sake of safety, the congregation unanimously urged the "Empress of Liberation" to move to Oki Island in the Sea of Japan, so that in case of desperation, she could escape to the Soviet Far East.

In this regard, the "Empress of Recovery" smiled bitterly and laughed at herself, saying that she was really worthy of the emperor, and she was about to be exiled to Oki Island just after ascending the throne......

(Oki Island was a famous place of exile in ancient Japan, where several ancient emperors were exiled by the shogunate after the failed rebellion.) ）

In addition, it was decided to distribute 10 kilograms of rice to ordinary civilians in Hiroshima and a bottle of beer to soldiers of the Navy and Army to celebrate the enthronement of the new emperor.

When these trivial matters are arranged, the next thing that needs to be decided is the prime minister. On this issue, it was still the Navy who recommended the candidate for the Army, and the Army did not agree with the candidate for the Army, and finally someone proposed that Konoe Funma be Prime Minister again, and the Navy and the Army did not object to this proposal, and many people in the private sector agreed, but neither the Japanese Communist Party nor the Soviet Union agreed-the Japanese Communist Party said that this time it would be the ruling party no matter what, otherwise the revolution would be in vain. And the representatives of the Soviet Union and the "Comintern" were also on the side.

Thus, after assuring that His Excellency Fumima Konoe would be assigned a suitable post, the Japanese Communist Party got its wish to obtain the prime minister's throne...... And then it immediately broke down because of the problem of internal distribution - the Japanese Communist Party is now in a state of fragmentation, and there are several party chairmen alone, and they have not even agreed on how to reunite and reorganize, and they are already about to come to power...... Soon, the leaders of the small groups, who only had two or three big cats and kittens, were very self-aware and withdrew from the competition. Although Professor Hajime Kawagami, a well-known theorist of red thought and leader of the academy, was highly respected, he was too high-minded, somewhat ungrounded, and did not receive much support. Although Nakanishi and Ozaki Hidemi made a career in Nanyang, after all, their qualifications were too shallow to suppress the elders of the party. In the end, the only contenders for the prime minister's throne were Tokuda Koichi, the founder of the Japanese Communist Party, and Sanzo Nosaka, the leader of the "Anti-War League" in the Yan'an prisoner of war camp.

Among the two candidates, Tokuda Koichi, the founder of the party, is obviously more prestigious, and he also has a large number of supporters behind him. But this guy is a Ryukyuan (the name of Qiuichi means "Ryukyu Daishi"), and there seems to be a delicate distance from the true traditional "Japanese", which makes people outside the party slightly suspicious of this - the Oriental people are not Europeans who have become accustomed to having foreign nobles as their own kings. Moreover, he was arrested as a political ♂ prisoner before and spent 20 years in prison in Tokyo, although everyone admired his sacrifice and perseverance, but at the same time, they also felt that this guy Tokuda Koichi had been out of society for so long, and it was not easy to live a normal life, how could he still be the prime minister of a country?

The final mediation plan is to separate the positions of party chairman and prime minister, following the example of the two parties running for president in the United States. Sanzo Nosaka served as prime minister and held real power within the party and government. Tokuda Koichi served as the party chairman in name only, and made a cameo appearance as a humanoid rubber stamp...... However, as compensation, if the Ryukyus can be recovered in the future, it can be considered to let Tokuda Kazuchi become the supreme leader of the Ryukyu Soviet Republic, and then incorporate it into the Japanese territory in the form of a union republic......

- But what no one knows is that this Comrade Nosaka Sanzo was actually a latent agent trained by Soviet intelligence as early as the beginning of joining the party...... There are rumors that Gorbachev ♂ was an American agent, and it is difficult to confirm whether this claim is true or false. But Nosaka's identity as a Soviet agent is certain. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, this secret was exposed, and the Japanese Communist Party expelled Nosaka Sanzo, who was 100 years old at the time, from the party......

Now that the candidate for prime minister has been decided, the next step is to arrange a position for Konoe Fumima. Since he had no organizational ties with the Japanese Communist Party, it was obviously inappropriate for him to be included in the cabinet, but because of his background as a regent, he could be appointed as regent, a position of honor and little real power—so that if the Imperial Council was to be held in the future, he would be able to attend in place of the Emperor, and he would no longer have to bother the Emperor to come to the base camp from the safety of his refuge.

INTERVIEWER The so-called "Seki" was a political system in Japan's Heian period. Specifically, it refers to the position of the Fujiwara clan as a foreign relative, and the monopoly of power by the imperial family. "Regent" is a combination of the regent and the white of the seki. When the emperor was young, the Imperial Minister was called regent on behalf of the Imperial Minister. After the emperor became older and became pro-government, the regent was renamed Sekihaku and assisted the emperor in taking charge of political affairs. Similar to the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, a relative served as a general (the most famous being the last great general, He Jin).

In the Shogunate period, although the imperial court had lost its authority, the system of regency still existed in theory and continued until the Meiji Restoration.

The "Regent Family" refers to the five highest-ranking princess families who are qualified to serve as regent and Sekihaku, and the Konoe family is one of them. And so on, because the female emperor, like the young emperor, seems to be unsuitable to deal directly with state affairs, and it is normal to appoint a regent as a proxy.

Next, as a supplement to the regular army, the Red Guards that the Japanese Communist Party had set up in various places were still retained. Like other resistance groups organized by civil society, they are classified as "volunteers" and are redeployed and resettled after victory in the war......

- In the end, such a "light red Japan" wartime government team was finally created:

Female Emperor: The eldest princess of Emperor Showa, Prince Terugiya Narikonai.

Imperial Husband: King Shenghou of the East Kure Palace

Regent: Fumima Konoe

Prime Minister: Sanzo Nosaka

Chairman of the ruling Japanese Communist Party: Koichi Tokuda

Land Minister: Umezu Mijiro

Sea Phase: Keno Kurita

Chief of Army Staff: Ninji Okamura

Head of the Naval Command Department: Jizaburo Ozawa

Director of Education of the Army, that is, the future General Political Commissar: Nakanishi Gong

Commander of the Combined Fleet: Narumi Inoue

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army: Tadamichi Kuribayashi

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There are also a number of cabinet members below, who are also considered important members in peacetime. But now that the country is in a war system, the supreme power belongs to the wartime base camp, that is, the system of implementing the "gun commanding the government", so the real power faction that really dominates the government is basically the above......

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On the whole, the new government that emerged after the Itsukushima Conference was a hodgepodge of government that could neither be said to be true socialism, nor true militarism, nor capitalist liberalization. Let's call the forces represented by this government "light red Japan"!

Therefore, after carefully studying the composition of this government, Wang Qiu found that it did not look like the Soviet Union or any socialist country, but felt like Nazi Germany! Moreover, Nazi Germany retained the emperor - the Japanese Communist Party corresponded to the Nazi Party, the Red Guards corresponded to the SS, the Empress and the Regent corresponded to the Kaiser, the generals of the Old Imperial Navy and Army corresponded to the Junker officer corps, and the Soviet agent Nosaka Sanzo was Hitler......

No matter how you look at it, it is the rhythm of a wave of purges that will break out immediately after the success of the revolution.

But despite this, this is still a huge step forward for Japan.

As a small backward country in East Asia, Japan was able to complete structural reform and technological accumulation in a very short period of time, and to evolve from a semi-colony to an imperialist power. In order to crush the counterattack of the conservative forces, he even did not hesitate to use force to escort them.

However, the problem is that after the twentieth century, the positive role of the plutocracy in promoting social progress has become less and less, and the resulting class contradictions have become more and more intense. In fact, since the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan has fallen into a strange circle: the country has been constantly advocating war, desperately drawing a big pie, and claiming that it wants to make the people live a good life through foreign plunder. In order to be able to wage war, it is necessary to strengthen armaments and extort military funds from the common people. When the war was over and the plundering of wealth came, it was all eaten and wiped out by the chaebol families at the top, and the civilians at the bottom couldn't even get a mouthful of soup. Instead, they had to endure the pain of war and industrialization, and after the Meiji Restoration, the government paid even more taxes to the lower classes of the common people than during the shogunate.

For such a situation, the common people will definitely have resentment, but the chaebol who is hard to give up the money will not give welfare to appease, but continue to draw a big pie and propagate that they must continue to plunder foreign wars in order to make life better. Then, the plundered wealth continues to be swallowed up by the upper echelons, falling into an endless cycle of death.

In the aftermath of the 1929 world economic crisis, there was a vague sense among people of insight in Japan that something was wrong with their national system, and that if it was not reformed, it would lead to a catastrophe. The so-called struggle between the imperial faction and the unification faction in the army is actually a dispute between the reformists and the establishment faction. However, although the imperial faction was wrapped in public opinion and had a lot of momentum, it did not find a real path of reform, and only pinned its hopes on the emperor's holy judgment and the conscience of the chaebol to find that it was simply the set of Song Jiang in "Water Margin" who was against the court and not against the emperor, and naturally there was basically no possibility of success.

On the contrary, behind the group of people who occupied the upper echelons of the Japanese Army during World War II stood the big chaebols headed by Mitsui and Mitsubishi, and they were inextricably linked with each other. Unless there is a civil war, there is no possibility of success in the dream of the Imperial Dao faction's "reform of the national system".

Since the emperor was also on the side of the ruling faction, even if there was a real Japanese civil war at that time, the imperial faction would still not be able to win.

But now, the Japanese Civil War has broken out, the emperor as a spiritual totem is finished, and the major chaebols have become the doglegs of the US military, and have completely gone to the opposite side of the people, the army and the royal family. The traitor who betrayed the emperor "punished the heavens...... His Majesty the Emperor Showa was so kind to you back then, and now that the emperor has been killed, if you don't want to avenge the emperor's loyalty, but still want to take refuge in the thief who killed the emperor, is that still a person?

In short, despite all the bumps, all kinds of unrecognizable, and all kinds of dissimilarities, a "light red Japan" was finally born.

However, the establishment of this new government only solved the problem of the righteous name of the various resistance forces on the islands.

-- Given the small geographical space of the Japanese archipelago, the scarcity of natural resources, and the tragic situation in which it has been beaten to pieces, even with the Soviet Union transfused behind its back, it will not be able to support a megaton fleet for long-term operations while maintaining high-intensity land operations.

The Japanese Combined Fleet must rely on the abundant resources of the South Sea Occupation Zone in order to continue its fight with the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

In what name should the Japanese navy rule over this vast new territory, stretching from the Mariana Islands in the north to Australia in the south, has become a question that needs to be solved urgently—given the socialist nature of the new regime, it is obviously not feasible to declare it a colony directly, and it does not seem appropriate to annex it for the time being, because it will smash the anti-colonial and national liberation brand of the red camp......

Eventually, the area was legally assumed to be a trusteeship of the United Nations, which had not yet been formally established, and the specific status was to be agreed upon at a later date, and since it was a trusteeship, it was natural that there would be a governing body, the official name of which would ideally be vague to avoid being overtones of government.

For this reason, after much deliberation and heated arguments, the congregation came up with a very wonderful name for the governing body:

“…… Preparations were made for the establishment of the 'Oceania Management Committee', with a chairman, and after the public recommendation, the president of Nanyang Heavy Industries, Admiral Horiyoshi, took office to take up his post and be responsible for overseeing all military and political affairs in the Nanyang base area and acting as the government. The English name of the committee is OceaniaRegulatoryboard, abbreviated as orb, transliterated as Orb...... Depend on! This really brought out the Obok country in "Gundam Seed"! ”

After the meeting, looking at the Aobu badge and flag brought by Wang Qiu, Senior Sister Ma Tong couldn't help but complain for a while.

“…… Art is all derived from reality, and the prototype of Orb in "Gundam SEED" was originally the Pacific occupation zone of the Japanese Empire! ”

Wang Qiu shrugged his shoulders, "...... In the old imperial era, although the Japanese navy and army had always been at odds with each other, they were united on one issue, that is, they all wanted to get rid of Japan's image as an "island country," but each had its own idea of what to do in the past: The navy was trying to develop a "maritime state" and make the navy an "ocean-going navy," while the army was bent on developing a "continental country" and the army wanted to become a "continental army."

In our world, the Japanese before the war were both hands-on, neither of which was hard enough, and in the end they lost a clean slate, and they were not able to build a maritime country and an ocean-going navy, nor a continental country and a continental army, and in the end they were still an island country and a semi-colony garrisoned by foreign troops. At this point in time, the Japanese Army has failed to engage in mainland countries - unless they regard Australia as a real continent. But there is a glimmer of hope for success in developing a maritime state...... Perhaps, this 'Oceania Management Committee' will really become a new Japan called Aubu in the future. ”

“…… Anyway, after all, a big deal has been settled, and it's time to deal with our business! ”

Ma Tong pursed his lips and said, "...... Is the matter of printing money angry with them? The relevant departments on our side are already hungry and thirsty! ”

“…… Rest assured, it's already arranged! In order to ensure legitimacy, the first batch of banknotes was prepared for the female emperor to personally operate the printing ......"