December 13, Republic 2764 (1923), Hanjing.

"Oh, Hirohito wants Kita Ikki to take over as prime minister?" asked Moon Tokutsugu in surprise.

To tell the truth, he was devastated by this news. He never thought that Hirohito, who was in a hurry, would actually make such a decision.

"Well, it's true, Hirohito is also in a hurry. At present, the Japanese people are boiling with feelings, and if they are not handled well, they will be a big riot, and according to the current situation, it is estimated that the scale will exceed that of the rice riots of 1919. After all, last time I just couldn't eat enough, but now I'm directly dead. In addition, there is their mishandling of World War I veterans, and these disgruntled disabled veterans are also deeply dissatisfied with the government, and they are not the only ones. There are also organizations that were cracked down on and banned by the government during the rice riots in previous years, and they have also merged with the popular ideology this time......" replied Huo Jinsi, director of the National Intelligence Agency.

In other words, the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan has triggered all the social contradictions that Japan has accumulated in the past, and it seems that the Japanese government is in big trouble. Prime Minister Zhang Lizheng smiled: "I'm afraid the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet won't last long......"

Brother Yamamoto is indeed anxious now, and he and the bigwigs of the navy only thought at the beginning that the main thought of this cabinet was disaster relief and reconstruction, and who knew that people were not as good as heaven. The many social contradictions that have accumulated in the past have actually erupted because of this earthquake.

What particularly troubled the Yamamoto cabinet was the hundreds of thousands of veterans, disabled veterans and repatriated European laborers who participated in World War I. Japan, on this plane, made a lot of money in World War I, and it can be said that it made a lot of money compared to the original time and space. But everything has a price, and while Japan has earned a lot of money, technology, and territory, it has also paid a heavy price. Japan died in World War I, with 86 deaths. 20,000, and the number of disabled people is 231. 30 thousand.

Japan was an expedition in World War I, and the battlefields were all overseas, so most of these casualties were military officers and soldiers, except for some laborers. The dead are counted, but the mutilated ones are a big problem. At least minor injuries that can be included in the statistics are minor, and injuries that can be recovered in ten days or eight days are not counted in the statistics. Of the more than 2.3 million disabled, some have recovered their health, while hundreds of thousands have been seriously injured and disabled that are difficult to recover.

Many of these people have lost or partially lost their ability to work, and if they are from wealthy families, it is fine, but only a few of them come from this kind of background, and most of the officers and soldiers who are seriously injured and disabled are civilians from the bottom, and such a family is already living a difficult life, and in addition, they have to provide for a disabled person, and their subsequent life will be even more problematic.

In this era, the governments of most countries did not pay much attention to the resettlement of disabled soldiers, and Europe and the United States would still give them a little relief money every month, while Japan paid them a meager compensation when they were discharged from the army, and then the life and death of these people did not matter at all. There's no way, it's hard to give up good money, and the powerful don't care about the lives of the people.

Of course, Japan has always done this in the past, but the number of war casualties in the past was relatively small, and it was not a big problem to do so. And this war left more than 600,000 irreparable disabilities, which is a big problem. These people made trouble once because they couldn't survive, but because they were not organized and relatively scattered, they were quickly suppressed by the Japanese government.

But this time it was different, because the incompetence of the Kanto earthquake relief had aroused very serious public resentment, and some conscientious media took the opportunity to turn over this matter and the previous rice riots and hyped it up, intentionally or unintentionally linking these things, in short, targeting the Japanese government, the upper elites, and the imperial family, and exposing their dark old backgrounds.

Of course, these media are conscientious and have professional ethics, and the things they expose will definitely not be made out of nothing and groundless. Because there are countless filthy things in the upper echelons of Japan, there is no need to bother to make them up at all, as long as their old bottom is revealed, it is enough for them to drink a pot. Not to mention, these media have mastered the housekeeping skills of their later counterparts, such as "we promise that everything we say is true, but we do not guarantee that we tell the whole ...... of things", as well as the use of various contexts, the substitution of concepts, and the private goods mixed in the narrative, as well as all kinds of logical thinking guidance, which are lacking in their counterparts in this era.

Once these tricks are used, the effect of "pointing the deer as a horse" and "reversing black and white" is nothing, and good things can become bad things, not to mention the Japanese elites who are already black and shiny.

Under the impetus and fanning of the flames by these media, the effect is completely different. Now it is not only a problem of ineffective disaster relief, but the earthquake is just a fuse, and the resentment that has been accumulated in the Japanese people for many years has been completely triggered, and the opposition forces that have been suppressed before have taken the stage one after another and began to become active. This was completely different from the situation in the original plane, when there were no hundreds of thousands of disabled veterans.

"According to our information, the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet is already planning to resign...... Huo Jinsi said.

"However, even if this is the case, it is really unexpected to come up with the idea of letting Kita Yihui form a cabinet. Mr. Wen, who was scorched by Lei and was tender on the outside, rubbed his temples and couldn't help sighing: "It seems that I am still too normal, and I still can't understand the thinking of the Japanese......"

Zhang Lizheng said with a smile: "However, now Hirohito's idea cannot be realized at all, and Kita Yihui's "Outline for Japanese Transformation" directly targets those big chaebols. Those chaebols would never agree to let Kita Yihui come to power, unless Hirohito and the chaebol publicly turned their faces, but I don't think he has the courage to do so. You know, it's not just people from Kita Ikki who have come into contact with those princes......"

"Hirohito's unlucky boy is really pitiful, if he doesn't fall to the bottom and ease the class contradictions, there is a danger of revolution breaking out. But if he doesn't defend the interests of the chaebol and the upper echelons, he won't be able to sit in this position......" Wen Deji shook his head and sighed.

Actually, how to say it. It is not impossible to solve these problems that Japan is facing, as long as the upper strata give up some interests and let the lower strata have a little soup to drink, they will be solved. However, the Japanese elite have always been accustomed to eating alone, so how can they be willing to give up half of their profits to the people? As for whether this will lead to a revolution, they don't care, these people are not stupid, but they are typical profiteering and intellectual.

This is like in the late Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen asked the magnates to donate money to solve the financial crisis and form troops to deal with the rebel army, but the magnates were all good at giving up their money, and Chongzhen only managed to get hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. As a result, after Li Zicheng broke Beijing, he tortured these guys, and tens of millions of taels were clamped out with a single stick. So, it's called the butt affecting IQ. When we read history books, we often see that there are always some people who will do things that will seem funny to future generations, not because they are really idiots, but simply because they are blinded by interests and lower their IQ.

"Mr. Wen, Kita Yihui has also asked us for assistance, and the Youth Japan Association has been hoarding supplies all these years, and they are not short of medicines and supplies. They need more weapons and ammunition now, and they've got a lot of that group of disabled veterans, many of whom are elite ...... who have seen blood," said Foreign Minister Cavour.

"I think that this assistance must be given to them, especially the ammunition. The Japanese army now has very strict control over weapons and ammunition, because of the mutiny, and now the Japanese army has very strict control over soldiers' weapons, and they do not fire bullets in peacetime. ”

Wen Desi nodded and said with a smile: "Hehe, I can't imagine that Japan even came up with the means to control the new army at the end of the Qing Dynasty, which shows that the anger at the bottom of Japan is already very high now." The required ammunition are given to them, and it is necessary to invest. ”

"Mr. Wen, there is one more thing. Soviet Russia is preparing to reorganize the state system, and they are preparing to establish the [Soviet Socialist Union] at the end of the month......"

"Oh, the Soviet Union has finally appeared......" Wen Deji smiled disapprovingly. "Which countries are they this time?"

"Four, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia," replied, "and in addition to the small countries of Adygea, Kalmykia, Karelia, Komy, Tatarstan, and Udmurtia, which were separated from Russia, there are a total of twelve union republics......

"I really don't understand the idea of Red Russia, a good unified country has to be divided into so many small countries, do they think that if they do it like this, it will seem that there are many people?" Wen Desi said speechlessly. "Forget it, it's none of our business, they can divide it if they want to. ”

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South Pacific, north of Linge Island (New Guinea Island).

While Mr. Wen and his confidants were discussing the world situation, a fleet of the Chinese Navy was conducting an unprecedented test on the ocean.

In the eyes of the Chinese Navy at this time, the scale of this fleet is not large at the moment, there is only one battleship, the Yongguo seaplane carrier and several light cruisers and destroyers. There were also several large torpedo boats.

This battleship was the former Italian Navy's Andrea Doria Super Dreadnought, which was originally the pride of the Italian Navy and was captured by the Chinese Navy in the Battle of the Strait of Kythira. However, after the Chinese Navy got this battleship, it did not include it in the first line, but regarded it as a technical verification ship. The United Empire, which was captured with it, was even more unfortunate, because the design was too bad and the foundation was too poor, and the Chinese Navy did not look down on it at all, so it was invited out of the front line and made into a training ship.

Andrea Doria was not officially included in the official establishment at first, so it had no official ship name until then, except for the "232" (the United Reich was "233", and 201-206 were the first six second-hand pre-dreadnoughts, followed by the order of service). So its official name on official documents is "232 ship". However, it has the nickname "Ellie" among naval officers and shipyard employees.

The nickname "Ellie" is so loud that even though it now has an official ship name, "Woman's Beauty", everyone still likes to call it "Ellie". Well, according to some irresponsible rumors, even the official name of the ship "Women's Hao" was influenced by nicknames, so it was named "Women's Hao", the first well-documented female military commander in Chinese history.

Although this statement cannot be confirmed, there is some truth to it. The name "Woman" also conforms to the naming convention formulated by General Wen that "battleships are named after ancient sages, famous military strategists and generals", but apart from it, all other battleships of the Chinese Navy are named after male characters.

Ellie has had very little time at sea in recent years, and most of the time she is either lying in dock or at the outfitting dock. There's no way, who made it a technology verification ship, anyway, in the past few years, as soon as there is something new, I will put it on it.

Today, it is necessary to conduct a new round of testing of "Ellie", and the choice of this sea area is also purposeful, because this is not a dense shipping area, except for fishing boats, there are basically no civilian vessels, and there are ships and planes around to clear the field, everyone can do experiments with peace of mind.

The members of the experimental team were concentrated on the Yongguo seaplane carrier at this time, this seaplane carrier with a displacement of 20,000 tons was also transformed the year before last, its superstructure was moved to the front of the hull, and the back was a stepped aircraft deck, the lowest part of the rear part was used to recover large seaplanes, and the middle part of the deck was used to park small seaplanes.

According to the restrictions of the Washington Treaty, seaplane carriers are special auxiliary ships, which are not limited by tonnage and quantity, but there are restrictions on weapons and speed, the most important thing is that they cannot have a direct deck, nor can they have more than 2 water aircraft catapults, nor can they have the function of landing ordinary carrier-based aircraft. But as we all know, the treaty is used to exploit loopholes. China will naturally not be so stupid, just play according to the rules. The Yongguo is actually modified according to the standards of an aircraft carrier, although it is now only a seaplane carrier, but once needed, it can be converted into a medium-sized regular aircraft carrier with a direct deck in 2 months.

On the bridge of the Yongguo, Li Ang, the new director of the Naval Equipment Bureau, read the information in his hand again, couldn't help but have black lines on his head, and couldn't help but ask the representative of the manufacturer next to him: "Mr. Xu, how many units have you installed on Aili?"

Xu Wei stroked his glasses and said, "Ellie's power system is the same as our previous capital ships, which are all-electric four-axle propulsion. Its main engine is 12 RC-04-28 gas turbines, which then drive 12 generators with power, and then send out electricity to drive 4 electric motors. ”

"What? 12 RC-04-28 gas turbines......" Leon was embarrassed. The RC-04-28 gas turbine is the latest type of marine large gas turbine and the most powerful. Its single power is 28 megawatts, and Ellie actually installed 12 units, that is, its total power reached 336 megawatts (about 450,000 horsepower). It's crazy!

"Yes, Bureau Li, according to our test, if Ellie is fully activated, the speed can reach 40 knots!" Xu Wei said with a smile.

"Verse 40...... Battleship...... Oh my God, what do you want to do?" Li Ang was a little dizzy: "I just took over the Equipment Bureau, and you will give me such a big gift package!"

Comrade Leon now has one more star in his epaulette, uh, a major general. According to the regulations on job rotation, he was to be transferred from the front line of the fleet to a naval organ for a period of time, and then to a general staff department for a period of time. Last month, he was transferred to the Naval Armament Bureau. The first major event of Li Juzao taking office was to come and see this magic change Ellie.