At the end of the chamber is also three rows from high to low, the top middle of the position sits a gray-haired man in a white dress, and on the wall behind him hangs a huge transparent glass chrysanthemum, the chrysanthemum is the symbol of the Japanese imperial family, the man in the white dress is very dissatisfied with the noisy parliamentary scene, and is scanning the noisy parliamentarians in the field with angry eyes, but unfortunately almost no one pays attention to him now, After the parliamentarian shouted for the prime minister to come out and explain the reason for the increase in military spending, everyone's eyes turned to the row of seats near the ground at the bottom of the man in the white dress, and there was only one man sitting in that row, and he heard the parliamentarian's request, slowly stood up, raised his head, and obviously, this one was the prime minister of Japan, Hirobumi Ito. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hirobumi Ito was born in the eleventh year of Tenpo, Japan, to a poor peasant family in Fanshan Village, Choshu. His father was adopted as an adopted son by the Ito family, a low-ranking samurai, and was chosen as his heir, so he took the surname Ito. The young name is Junfu, and the number is spring mu. In his early years, he studied at Matsushita Murajuku, which was founded by Yoshida Shoin, and was secretly taken to England to learn modern naval technology with Inoue Shin. During his stay in Britain, he learned that British warships were bombarding the Satsuma Domain, so he returned to Japan, and when he returned to Japan, he found that the Choshu Domain had also been bombarded, and he joined the army of the Choshu Domain, opposing the rule of the shogunate and advocating "opening the country and forging ahead". After the success of the Meiji Restoration, he was in charge of foreign affairs under the leadership of Takayoshi Kido, Ritsu Okubo, and Michichi Hosoda. He has served as a negotiator and judge of the Foreign Affairs Bureau, governor of Hyogo Prefecture, judge of the accounting authority, and Daisuke Daisuke of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Daisuke of the Ministry of Industry. In December 1885, at his suggestion, he abolished the Taisei system and introduced the cabinet system, and became the first prime minister and minister of the Imperial Household, a position he has held for six years.

Ito Hirobumi's eyes are big, different from other Japanese small eyes, and his eyes are very bright, with a short beard, his lips are tightly pursed, his expression is firm, his figure is thin, and he is wearing a well-fitting tuxedo, he slowly walked out of his position, walked to the middle, and waved the booklet in his hand, "Your Excellency, if we don't have the world's fastest warship and the world's fastest firing naval gun, the Imperial Japanese Navy will not be able to compete with the Qing Kingdom's Beiyang Fleet!" We need more military spending to provide the Admiralty so that our fleet strength can quickly catch up with the Qing Beiyang Fleet! ”

"It's impossible!" A congressman slapped the table and stood up, his attitude angry, "All our financial expenditures have been determined through the House of Parliament in the 16th year of the Meiji era, and it has been determined that the army and navy account for as much as 27 percent of the national budget in fiscal expenditures!" Doesn't it prove that our subjects, our emperor's subjects, have such a high budget for the country, not only the Qing Dynasty, but also the Western countries? And our people have been working hard to donate before! ”

In November of the 15th year of the Meiji era (1882), the Secretary of the Navy, Junyoshi Kawamura, proposed an eight-year shipbuilding plan, which was expected to invest 26 million yen in eight years from the 16th year of the Meiji era (1883) to build 32 large and small ships and torpedo boats. Since the budget for the Japanese army and navy was already as high as 27 percent of the national budget at that time, it would require an increase of 4.02 million yen a year to expand the navy. In order to suppress public opinion and enforce this shipbuilding plan, Iwakura proposed that "taxes should be raised resolutely to expand naval spending." In response to this, Emperor Meiji issued an edict to the local governors in November 1882 on the need to expand armaments, and in December he issued the following edict to the secretaries of the central provinces: "In view of the current situation in the country, the preparation of the army and navy is a matter of last resort. In accordance with the Emperor's decree, Taisei Minister Minoru Sanjo instructed the Secretary of the Treasury to take measures to increase the tax revenue from the brewing and tobacco industries to 24 million yen for the construction of naval vessels.

The Japanese government, which was financially short at the time, could not pay for this huge amount of money even if it issued public bonds. Emperor Meiji took the lead in allocating 300,000 yen from the imperial family funds to pay for the construction of ships, and on March 14, 1887, the 20th year of the Meiji era, he issued the following edict: "I believe that in the affairs of the founding of the country, the strengthening of coastal defense should not be relaxed for a single day. However, it was not immediately possible to allocate a large amount of money from the treasury for coastal defense, so I was deeply disturbed. It has been decided to withdraw 300,000 yen from the Inner Treasury and to support it, hoping that the ministers will understand their intentions. Since the emperor took the lead in donating, Ito Hirobumi immediately summoned local officials to deliver an agitative speech at the Rokumeikan, asking local people with lofty ideals to follow the emperor's "example" and donate money for coastal defense. All Chinese and wealthy people across the country were "moved" by this, and within six months, they donated 2.03 million yen, setting off a wave of expansion of the navy. Isn't that money enough?

Ito Hirofumi was not angry, he just said, "The military expenditures of various countries are impossible to show according to the real expenditures, I don't know about the West, Germany, and Britain, but the Qing country, we know very clearly, their military spending is by no means less than ours, the Qing country has a huge land area, they also need to support more than one million land forces, as well as the Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet, these costs are very amazing, according to the information of our intelligence department, their military spending accounts for more than 35% of the financial expenditure!" ”

The parliamentarians, who had been listening quietly, let out a buzzing exclamation, "It's Qingguo in the end!" "Yes, only the Qing Kingdom has such strong financial resources!"

"But according to outside information, the Qing State has given up the practice of enhancing the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Fleet, and they have stopped buying European warships!" Another stern-looking councillor stood up and said loudly, "Is it appropriate for us to buy expensive warships in such a situation?" ”

"Incompetent government, incompetent cabinet!" The other man quickly spoke loudly again, he stood up, his face flushed, and pointed angrily at his white-gloved fingers, pointing at the cabinet members sitting behind Ito Hirobumi, "It's all you incompetent officials who have turned the government into an incompetent waste that only asks for parliamentary appropriations!" ”

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