Chapter 253: Cutting off the firewood from the bottom of the pot

Shibuya District, not far from Tokyo's coast, is a beautiful place. It is a major landscape in Tokyo and a square in front of Mule Tower, one of the symbols of the people. Under the dim lights, a large number of people are waiting for the sun to come in the cold sea breeze in the early winter.

This day is the anniversary of Mule Ridge Palace where Mule Ridge is located. It was eight years ago today. Inspired by the divine power of the former emperor, the king of Japan, Murohito, this female mule died in his post and moved the entire Japan. Therefore, after the military government came to power, in order to balance the people's dissatisfaction with the reduction of the power of the emperor, the originally lonely Mule Ridge Palace had to be promoted to the temple. This female mule was also named Mule Ridge, and this temple was called Mule Ridge Palace.

The Mule Tower was built on December 30, 1894, which is four months after Mule Ji's death. This day was also designated as the Lolita Festival. On this day of every year, Muren will come here to commemorate this mother mule, which symbolizes the spirit of self-improvement in the Yamato nation. This year is naturally no exception. Since the military government had to end up sadly under the dual pressure of internal and external forces, Muren has regained the major policies, Muren, who was originally a little nervous, has become more and more close to the people. How could he miss such an opportunity?

There was a young man with flat head in the crowd, obviously a soldier who had been a soldier. His body stood very straight, but he looked a little thin. He obviously had left the ranks and had a life. He would not be so thin in the king Wang Jun, who was the best-treated king. The sea breeze seemed to blow him down, his body was trembling, his hands were in his arms, and his cold eyes were staring at the closed palace gate of the Divine Palace.

His name is Anlu Dagui. He once served in the First Guard Division. He survived by chance in the war two years ago, but he did not escape the subsequent political storm. With the fall of Yuto Yama Prefecture, the power structure of the military headquarters changed almost overnight. The subsequent purge also affected the unlucky infantry gang shooting instructor. Because he was a fellow villager in Yamaguchi Prefecture with Yuto Yama Prefecture, he accidentally insulted the Emperor after drinking, only knew how to point the gun at his own people, and ignored the current situation of Japan's continuous regression in recent years.

What was waiting for him was naturally cleansed. Fortunately, his remarks made him lose his job and also gained the favor of several forces.

As the largest opposition party, the grassroots development personnel quickly found him. His dissatisfaction with the emperor was the premise for agreeing with the republic system of universal suffrage for the whole nation. They were obviously not a well-mannered party, but were attracted by other people's participation by almost entirely passion, and were relatively simple.

On the other hand, there are lurking personnel from the Makuba Resonance Society of the Tianhai Kingdom. Such a person remains to be seen. So after careful contact and gifts of some property, the other party hopes that he will go west to Kyoto at the right time, "There is the real Japan." The benefactor used this sentence as a farewell speech so temptingly.

He was also found by the Black Dragon Society, but as a cooperative organization of the ruling constitutional party, he would naturally not be polite to such people. Warnings and threats are indispensable, which made him feel scared.

Fortunately, after nearly a year of decadence and struggle, he met an old friend of the Comrades Association of Fenjin. Although he was an old friend, this organization was brand new. The establishment of the Comrades Association of Fenjin was completely secret and underground, and the purpose was not simple. As senior officers who had not been cleaned or were not easy to clean in the military, in order to cope with the increasingly cruel political environment, this Comrades Association with two programs of Fenjin and enterprising were established to protect themselves.

The person who found him was Nishihara Kamemi Nishihara, the highest person in charge of the Tokyo region. He had also seen the people who came with him. He was from the Universal Suffrage Tongmenghui. He asked him straight to the point of asking him whether he would be willing to give his life to improve his family's life and ideals.

Without choice, his answer is yes.

Now he is standing here, waiting for this opportunity to come.

After the situation in Japan changed drastically, from the huge hope of Yamamoto's fall to Mutsuhito's absolute hope of re-ruling Mutsuhito's re-ruling, the universal suffrage group turned a big turn that was impossible before within a year - joining forces with the class of dissatisfied with the military headquarters after the fall to jointly deal with Mutsuhito, who had become an obstacle to the advancement of Japan in their eyes.

Temple was shaking hands with Matsumoto, and the other hand from the West gradually stretched out. The Makuhara Resonance Association also joined forces with the above-mentioned two forces at this moment. The first common goal of the three parties was Mutsuhito.

The first ray of sunshine in the morning penetrates the cold fog and visits Tokyo.

Amid the excitement and noise, the gate of the temple opened. The first thing that caught people's eyes was the bronze mule statue in the courtyard. The tall statue was the unyielding look of the mule. Below it, two rows of palace palms dressed in traditional costumes and officials, following the Omiyaji and Nie and Nie who were standing in front of the two rows, slowly walked out of the temple. The sorrowing music dispersed left and right, forming a passage. The west opposite the passage was in the direction of the official road. At some point, the royal guard team had already stood full, and King Muruhito's carriage had already advanced to the far end of the road.

Anlu's big turtle's body was trembling more and more violently. His behavior was not very conspicuous in the sea breeze, because this can also be understood as a manifestation of fanaticism. The guards' eyes swept over and found no abnormalities.

An Lu's palms in his arms began to sweat, soaking the coarse cloth wrapped around the handle of the pistol. In his vision, everything seemed to disappear, only the solemn car drove slowly and approached, and stopped about fifty steps in front of him.

As an excellent shooting instructor of the infantry corps, he is very good at shooting long and short guns. Although short guns are much less sure than rifles, at such a distance, it is almost no different from pushing a pistol on the forehead. He is 100% sure that anyone he wants to kill with one shot.

His target appeared in front of him after two Shaomijiji lifted the curtains. The target beckoned to the crowd affectionately, and the crowd's waving arms blocked his sight. The target accepted Omijiji's salute and prayer and bent down to help the extremely high-ranking clergyman, causing him to lose the advantageous shooting angle. The target and Omijiji slowly entered the passage and entered the temple, and he needed to move his position.

These are actually excuses. What makes him unable to shoot is obviously the goal that almost runs through his entire life is God's education and belief. How can man become an enemy of God?

At this moment, a cough sounded behind him, followed by a sentence that made him make up his mind: "Big Japan, Great Japan, your destiny is in the hands of this person, together with his own destiny."

The sporadic light rain began to fall gradually. The cold air was gone. He was stunned. Suddenly, as if he was crazy, he walked into the team of old men and women who were shouting, chasing Muruen's footsteps and crowded towards the gate of the temple. In the crowd, he quietly pulled his hand to the appropriate position and could raise his hand to complete his task at any time.

Through the gate, he could see Muren's back in the courtyard, looking up at the mule girl, perhaps admiring something, and the follower next to him held up a black cloth umbrella for him.

"Bang!" Anlu Big Turtle raised his hand, and then he suddenly heard a crisp gunshot. He could clearly and clearly identify the emitted object of the gunshot. It was Murata's 13-year-old infantry gun with a caliber of 11 mm and a maximum range of 2,400 meters. Before he could turn around in confusion, he was pushed to the ground by the angry crowd.

Ten minutes later, Anlu, a former outstanding infantry shooting instructor of the Great Japanese Empire, ended his thirty-eight-year-old life under his fist.

Before this, King Muren was a half-god and half-human. The king's fatality was caused by a rifle bullet on the back of his head. The bullet penetrated directly from his mouth and nose, and a muffled sound of impact was formed on the base of the Mule Girl statue.

The emperor or king who had ruled Japan for 34 years turned his head incredibly and smashed it straight towards the statue. If he still felt it when he lay down, he could see two drops of water falling from Mule's eyes.

Major events were formed, and King Muren did not spend the penultimate day in 1901, so he could not find any reason to go to Beijing to attend the vassal ceremony.

The martial law in Tokyo lasted for a whole month. Since it was found that the cause of Muruen's death was a rifle bullet, the death of Anlu Datus did not stop the harsh investigation. The troops of the Gyeonggi, especially those who have not yet replaced the new 8mm caliber rifle of Murata, which is the personnel who originally belonged to the Yama Prefecture-based direct troops, were frequently heard.

The incident finally ended with the arrival of the New Year. This confused case will never be investigated since then. Some people suspect that it is Chinese, but the Chinese lack this motivation. Some people suspect that it is Shino Matsuhira. They have motives, but their style of conduct is not like this. They have always sent dead soldiers and distributed large numbers of flyers. Such actions are not their usual behavior.

The biggest suspicion is naturally Yama Prefecture's Sect Yu Ni. Masato Tanaka and Yamamoto Kyotoe were also faced with the widest suspicion. Even Nogi Nobu, who was in charge of military affairs, could no longer care about his past friendship and expanded the scope of the investigation to general-level officials.

The former head of the Imperial Army Non-commissioned Officer School, the former head of the Temple of the Temple of the world, and the highest commander of the Gyeonggi garrison for more than ten years, Yamamoto Kobee has almost no longer gained a foothold in Tokyo.

There was not much movement in the cabinet. Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma, the leader of the constitutionalist faction, maintained his usual low-key style since he came to power. After making a speech hoping to find the murderer as soon as possible, he never expressed any opinions on the incident again.

He is busy revitalizing the economy, and financial pressure is a problem that every Japanese has the responsibility to solve.

But no one knew that on that night, he burned a letter sent from Kyoto. This was very common. Every Japanese official burned many letters from Kyoto almost every month. The letters of Tianhai Kingdom persuaded surrender were as uneasy as psoriasis. There were such letters in the mailbox, and it was neither right to see nor not to see. This was the trouble of every Japanese official, so no one took this seriously.

No one likes a strong king, whether it is a constitutionalist or a shogunate, which is a very simple truth. It's just that almost no one will imagine how such a thing happens.

Even Yuan Shikai, who has always been the most comfortable in Japanese affairs, did not expect it.

This is an extremely secretive act, and it has to be secret. For the parties involved, to save Japan's fate, the current confrontation must be ended. Matsuhira wants fame and honor, while the government wants administrative power to govern the country, and they have no differences.

What's more, they are all receiving assistance from the Chinese system.

As Masato Tanuchi and Mutahi Yamamoto were transferred from Tokyo and sent to Nagano, the situation on Honsou Island began to show an unstable change.

This is just a precursor.

When Yuan Shikai received the news of Mu Ren's assassination, he was discussing some matters at the end of the year with his staff. Luzon Province was first established, and the most important thing now is to prevent accidents. At the end of the year, the most unsuccessful incidents were made. His Foreign Secretary Guo Yanqing had just met with a private representative of the German Pacific Governor Vachina on his behalf. The Germans said that they would play a good role in Sino-Dutch relations.

Between Indonesia's Dutch and Luzon province, two other major island communities in the Philippines, these places are now in the hands of the British.

This is a bad phenomenon for both China, Germany and the Netherlands. The British have controlled the gateway between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. If the situation is opened in Indonesia, plus Australia to the south, the valves between the entire Indian Ocean and the Pacific will be completely closed by the British.

This is not a status quo that an aspiring country can allow, and the British controlled the entire Mediterranean and the entire Indian Ocean. They should be satisfied, but they obviously did not.

So the rumors that a British intends to occupy Pontianak in the western part of Kalimantan have quickly spread among Dutch colonial officials. It won't take long for these officials to ask the Germans for help, because some warships with the Rice Flag occasionally appear in the Java Sea, and the intentions of these people seem to be self-evident.

For Yuan Shikai, what he wanted to assure the Germans was the position of the Port of Manila in the possible armed conflicts in the future. Neutrality and openness were his minimum guarantee.

Of course, the entire British Empire was not here at this time. They were busy with the throne ceremony of Edward VII and Queen Victoria's death, which caused the country to fall into a state of sadness for a long time. In the past six months, except for the battleship Victoria launched a sea trial and shocked the German naval service with some data beyond estimates, nothing particularly important happened in this country.

This country has ruled the earth for too long, and the huge advantage allows them to occasionally neglect something.

But the United States is different. At the end of the year, Americans fell into a big debate that almost swept the entire political and economic circles. Whether the discriminatory bill against Chinese should be banned has no longer become a topic. The core of the question lies in how to face a country like China.

One faction believes that if Chinese immigrants continue to expand in Hawaii, then the Hawaiian territory will sooner or later be separated from the United States. China's unscrupulous exile of heavy prisoners to the Hawaiian Islands is a provocation to the United States of America. The government should no longer purchase their government bonds every year, and should protest against them and sign a Hawaiian status treaty with them. The great empire on the other side has no right to send the scum of their population to the territory of the United States of America.

Another view is that the Hawaiian territory is not a state of the United States of America, and friendly Chinese friends do not mean to annex the place. It is not necessary to affect the current cooperative relationship between China and the United States in these small matters. You should know that the profits earned in China's construction and mining industry every year are enough to buy the Hawaiian island dozens of times. Moreover, at this critical moment when China and the United States are in negotiations on bank access, they should not stimulate the nerves of the Chinese for this small island.

Fortunately, this happened after Wu Tingfang returned to China, otherwise he would be entangled by the press.

However, Zeng Zheng, the Minister of Industry and Commerce, who is equivalent to the US Deputy Secretary of Industry, unfortunately fell into this circle.

After receiving instructions from the country that Hawaii could make concessions to the United States, he formally expressed his opinion to the United States that he was willing to negotiate with the United States on the issue of Chinese exile prisoners, and said that he did not know that Hawaii was a territory of the United States before, so he was willing to give twelve sincerity to make up for this regret.

As compensation, China is willing to expand the number of US banks accessed in negotiations from two to three, and also give three US construction companies access to the Chinese market.

Another concession is in agriculture. After rejecting the Americans' request to allow Americans to purchase land in China, an agreement to purchase American plants began to enter the negotiation agenda and allowed American agricultural service companies to enter China to engage in related business activities.

The condition for these concessions is that the United States must abolish Glylaw within one year and legislate in national treatment to ensure equal status between Chinese immigrants and American citizens - this is very important for whether Chinese people can enter some sensitive and leading industries.

While the political and economic circles are happy that the upcoming trade prosperity on both sides of the Pacific can give the United States a new stimulus of economic growth, a large number of immigrants from Europe began to build an organization in cities on the west coast of the Pacific.

Italian immigrants gradually showed extraordinary temperament and strength. Five or six years after the start of the immigration wave that began at the end of the last century, Italian immigration organizations in some cities have already gained the strength comparable to local police. They have money to afford guns and some can afford fights.

After Mr. Ferro on Sicily said that he had a Chinese brother, his family descendants in the United States began to assist the Chinese gang in their actions against the Irish people. After their cooperation, they also showed certain political wisdom. Both sides began to march into politics at the same time. In this year, there were already seven Italian state representatives and one Chinese on the entire East Coast.

If these political seeds are sown, there will always be a harvest.

These changes in the United States are mostly subtle, and various changes will gradually converge into torrents and gather into power.

In China, the changes are huge.

At the beginning of the new year of 1902, an edict issued to the subjects across the country officially announced the framework of the cabinet submitted by the cabinet that was reviewed by the emperor, and the authority of the cabinet prime minister was also agreed in the form of an imperial edict. Various service departments were established in the central government, and the imperial edict also stated that this framework situation will gradually expand to the local area according to the situation, and eventually form an administrative system where the whole people share power and services.

Of course, this change does not include the vassals, nor does it include two special areas within the country: Tibet and Mongolia.

Due to the special geographical characteristics and the power structure of these two places is also different from that of other regions, so the handling of these two regions will be made in a different way.

For Tibet, religious power far exceeds secular power, although the golden stew drawing system was set up since the Qianlong period and was strictly enforced.

So, for that place, at this stage, it is enough to ensure that they will not turn to foreign countries. Tibet and Nepal are two important barriers in this direction, and it is only a matter of effort every year. Although I can't accept the serf system there, it is purely unwise to have to free up your hands to do this.

Mongolia is now leading the Zazak prince with Prince Kalak and Prince Tumet, and moving in two directions. The Mongolian part, represented by Prince Kalak, which integrates into the mainland, slowly changes in the form of gradually promoting and evolving industrial civilization. The western Mongolian part of the northern desert, represented by Prince Tumetzak, plays the characteristics of their nomadic civilization, allowing them to gradually confront the Russian Cossacks in the north and gradually push northward, with the empire behind it, and the Baikal area in the north is the pasture I reserved for them.

In other regions, according to the economic development situation, local administrative systems will be gradually established. After decades of deduction, society will gradually move towards a benign direction.

No reform can be achieved overnight, so these initial steps cannot be correct forever. With time and practice, this system will become more and more perfect.
Chapter completed!