The situation in Temple Street is getting more and more serious, but President Wang Hengyue is not too worried. Because he knows very well that as long as he continues to maintain such a tough attitude, the Japanese government, which is suffering from internal and external troubles, will soon bow to him!

〖Japan〗The domestic situation in our country has not calmed down for a day since the "Misāo Rebellion" broke out.

The rice riots in Toyama Prefecture attracted many reporters to come to cover them. On August 7, "Takaoka Shimbun" exclaimed: "The riots of poor people in Toishuiqiao and Ka11 Town have ignited a terrifying social smoke.

"!" "Toyama Daily News" published an article on the same day: "The riots remind people of the food-grabbing riots that occurred in the Russian capital in March last year." "Asahi Shimbun" and "Tokyo Daily News" cited "Vietnam-Chinese Host Fu Riots" as the title.

topic, reporting on the rice riot in Toyama Prefecture.

The news spread, and rice riots broke out across the country at the same time in Kyoto and Nagoya. A large number of hungry and angry citizens rushed to the rice shops in groups, smashed the houses and grabbed rice, and fought with the police who came to suppress them.

Police scuffled. In Nagoya, more than 20,000 workers, students, citizens, and shop assistants gathered in Tsurumai Park and loudly denounced the rising rice prices. Then large groups of people rushed to the city and took action under the cover of darkness. In Kyoto, Yanagihara's

Burakumin took the lead and attacked the rice store, which was the most resented by the residents. After hearing the news, a large number of citizens came to join the agitation. The streets and alleys in the city were plastered with slogans "White rice is 30 yuan per liter", forcing the rice store to sell rice at a reduced price. From then on,

, the rice riot spread in large and medium-sized cities.

On August 11, the opposition Kuomintang held a Dajun citizens' meeting at the Dajun Club to elect people's representatives to negotiate with the governor to lower the price of rice. Regardless of the outcome of the negotiations, many audience members took to the streets and attacked rice shops along the way. The shopkeepers were scared to death.

They immediately agreed to sell the rice at NT$25 per liter. Financial companies such as Sumitomo, Fujita, and Kuhara were also afraid that their stores would be smashed or robbed, so they urgently negotiated and each invested NT$200,000 as a fund for selling reduced-price rice.

Once the anger of the citizens was aroused, some concessions could no longer stop the people's resistance. On the night of the 13th, hundreds of thousands of citizens rushed to the streets. Many women, shouting loudly, rushed to the forefront. Rice stores, police stations, and guard booths

They all became targets of attack. In Dajun City, people were shouting, fires were blazing, and black smoke was rising into the sky. The municipal authorities panicked and mobilized 20 squadrons of soldiers to suppress them.

Kobe City, which is adjacent to Otoshi, was also involved in the whirlpool of rice riots on the 11th. On the night of the 12th, workers at Mitsubishi Shipyard rioted in the factory. At the same time, chaos broke out in Kobe City, with groups of people on Sakaemachi Street shouting:

Shouting, they rushed to the main store of Suzumoto Shoten in 4-chome. Someone shouted: "Burn the vampires!"

"Burn down the merchant's lair!"

Someone then found some tinder and lit it and threw it into the store. After a while, fire broke out into the sky and the Suzuki main store was turned into a field of rubble.

In Ling 11 Ling 11 Park, a large group of people with black crows and crows held a meeting. Everyone wore white cloth belts on their heads, danced with Japanese swords, and shouted in unison: "Down with the temple cabinet!" "Kill all the rich people who have no conscience!"

"Conquer the evil spirit of society!" On the night of the 13th, Tokyo residents also took action. They gathered in Hibiya Park to hold a citizens' meeting to denounce Terauchi who had no regard for the life and death of the people. After the meeting, people rushed to the streets and took violent actions.

By the 16th, rice riots broke out in large, medium and small cities across the country, shaking the whole country.

After the 17th, the uprising swept through local small towns and remote rural areas. The anger of poor farmers, sharecroppers, craftsmen, and day laborers erupted together. The normally domineering landlords, loan sharks, and pawnshop owners were as panicked as if they were on a hot pot.

The ants either gave up or fled away, terrified. They secretly cursed the incompetence of the temple and hoped that the government would send troops to suppress the temple and settle the scores after the autumn.

On the same day, miners from the Okiyama Coal Mine in Yamaguchi Prefecture and the Minechi Coal Mine in Fukuoka Prefecture, across the sea, stood out, holding catalpas and waving flags, and surrounded the mine owner's house. The miners roared in unison: "Lower the coal mine."

Price of rice!" "Increase wages!" "Improve working conditions!" demanded the mine owners to immediately agree to these demands. The mine owners adopted the shameless tactic of "a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water". They stayed behind closed doors and at the same time ordered the security team to load up their guns and prepare to shoot:

"Whoever dares to break into the courtyard will be shot to death!" How can the miners take this situation seriously? Working in the mines every day and risking death to mine coal not only tempers the muscles and bones, but also develops a violent character that is not afraid of death.

Besides, the guy in his hand was not a vegetarian. He let out an earth-shattering roar, swung the iron catalpa and beat him in. The mine owner's house was smashed into pieces. The coal mine guard was busy protecting the mine owner and his family and fled.

, breathlessly reported the crime to the county.

When the county officials heard the news, they were also anxious and immediately contacted the garrison: "Send out troops and resolutely suppress it!"

On the 18th, a large number of troops broke into the mining area. As soon as the officer gave the order, the soldiers fired their guns randomly. The miners hid in the work sheds, found the explosives for mining, tied them into small explosive packets, lit the fuses and threw them "Oh"

Get out!

There was a "boom" explosion and the officers and soldiers were so frightened that they quickly fell down and were no longer as aggressive as when they first arrived.

When the officers saw that the miners were having trouble subduing the riot with "homemade grenades", they ordered machine guns to be set up to shoot wildly.

"Da da da"

Bullets rained down on the work sheds. The mud walls of the wooden houses could not withstand the machine gun fire. Many miners were shot and fell in a pool of blood. In the Ube branch of the Chongshan mine alone, 13 miners were killed and 16

People were seriously injured.

"Brothers, stick to it to the end!"

"Fight them!"

The tragic shouts of the miners were finally drowned in the crazy roar of the machine guns.

Other coal miners in Yamaguchi Prefecture and Kitakyushu ignored the military's shooting and suppressed them, and then riots broke out.

Thick smoke was billowing everywhere, gunshots were fired, and fighting was like a civil war. By September 1

On the 2nd, the riot of Miike coal miners was suppressed, and the Misao uprising that lasted for more than 5 days ended. The uprising involved 1 province, 3 prefectures and 37 counties, with millions of participants. More than 570,000 troops were dispatched.

, went to 3 prefectures and 23 counties to carry out bloody suppression. 25,000 people were arrested, 71 of whom were sentenced to more than 10 years in prison, and 2 were sentenced to death.

Due to the lack of unified leadership, the misa movement was carried out spontaneously and was bound to fail.

However, this uprising after all showed the huge power of Japanese people's resistance. Catalyzed by this large-scale mass movement, democratic groups and progressive forces at all levels became increasingly active. 1

In December 1918, students from Tokyo University founded the New People's Association. In February of the following year, students from Waseda University formed the People's League. In September 1919, teachers and students of the school established the Builders' Alliance, seeking the truth and demanding the establishment of a reasonable new society.

Society. At the same time, workers' groups such as the General Federation of Labor, women's groups New Women's Association, and Burakumin groups such as the Horizontal Society also launched new struggles.

In October 1919, Katayama Qian, Suzuki Masahiro, and Yamamoto Sukeyuki founded the "Japan Progressive Group Party" in Japan!

While the Japanese ruling group stepped up its suppression, it also began to change generals. August 1918

On March 31st, a friend from Laoshan County summoned Prime Minister Masaki Terauchi and reprimanded him: "The cabinet is incompetent and you cannot escape the blame. What are you going to do?"

There was a look of panic in the temple: "The press is urging me to step down. For the sake of domestic peace in the empire, I have to apologize and resign."

"Hee" Shan Xian nodded and said: "How come the bureaucratic cabinet is so incompetent? Who will be the prime minister in the next cabinet?"

Shanxian couldn't help but frown and fell into deep thought.

"Mr. Shanxian, I would like to ask you for leave and take the first step." After all, the temple was born in the military and had an impatient temper. Seeing that Shanxian had been silent for a long time, he couldn't help interrupting Shanxian's meditation.

"Huh?" Shanxian suddenly woke up and said, "You haven't left yet? Well, it's time to go, it's long past time. I am inconvenient, so I won't send you far away."

The look inside the temple was dejected and they withdrew.

Although Terauchi Masatoshi suppressed the rice uprising, he failed to retain the position of prime minister. Four days after the Meiji Coal Mine Riot in Kaho County, Fukuoka Prefecture was quelled, on September 21, 1918, Terauchi was forced to step down and was replaced by Masatomo.

President Kei Hara organized a new cabinet in which most cabinet ministers came from political parties.

At the cabinet handover ceremony, Temple, a tall, bald man wearing a military uniform, glared at Hara Jing, who looked gentle and elegant and wore a long dress. He felt both contempt and helplessness.

Hara Kei was born into a high-ranking samurai family of the Southern Domain, and his father Hara Nao is recorded as an elder of the domain. By the time Hara Kei came of age, his family was in decline due to the Meiji Restoration. He gradually rose to prominence through personal struggle. 18?

After dropping out of the Ministry of Justice Law School in 8 years, he became a journalist. In 1882, he was promoted by Foreign Minister Kaoru Inoue and served as consul in Tianjin and acting minister to France. In 1900, he joined Ito Hirobumi's Seiyukai and became a rising star in politics. In 1914

He was elected president of the Seiyokai Association. When he succeeded Terauchi as prime minister, he earned the title of "civilian prime minister" because he did not have a Chinese title.

However, the fate of the new prime minister was unlucky. Just after the First World War, an economic crisis broke out in Japan. From the end of 1q18 to the beginning of 1919, prices and stock prices plummeted, and foreign trade reversed.

From April to May 1919, the adjusted economy had just begun to pick up: March 15 of the following year

On the same day, another major economic crisis broke out. The workers' and peasants' movement developed greatly. The young students' movement, the wave of women's demands to participate in politics, and the Burakumin liberation movement were all extremely active!

Abroad, on March 1, 1919, the "March 1st Movement" broke out in North Korea demanding independence: In Beijing, China, students in Beijing took to the streets to protest against Japan's occupation of Shandong: those who had no time to visit during the war

The great powers demanded to return to China, which was almost monopolized by Japan. The conflicts between Japan, the United States, and Japan and Britain became acute, and Japan found itself in an unprecedentedly isolated situation internationally.

Faced with this severe situation, the Hara Kei cabinet implemented the "four major political platforms", namely "improving education", "rectifying transportation", "enhancing national defense" and "rewarding industry" in order to get out of the predicament.

Some tinkering reforms were also carried out, such as expanding the right to vote and changing arbitrary colonial rule.

This angered those vicious right-wing forces, and they were ready to remove Yuan Jing, the "thorn in their side"!
Chapter completed!