"Your Majesty, please issue an edict. Ben Buyang and Hijikata Suisan report to the capital. Net. "
Yamagata Aritomo said in a serious tone, as if this was his original intention.
Hearing such a suggestion, many people thought of the word "God's Retribution." "God's Retribution" was an assassination trick used by the reformers to target important members of the shogunate. It had once caused chaos in the shogunate, but it was just chaos. The Shinsengumi of Hokkaido's upper echelon, such as Hayashi, were the main force responsible for eliminating the reformers. Whether it was the "Ikedaya" incident by the Shinsengumi, or the assassination of Hayashi, including Sakamoto Ryoma. Now the guys in Hokkaido used "counter-revolutionary terror" to suppress "revolutionary terror", and it was quite successful.
Confucius said, "The initiator of evil will have no descendants." God's Retribution quickly became a means for the Japanese reformers to clean up their political enemies. Okubo Toshimichi, one of the three heroes of Meiji, was killed by God's Retribution. "Heresy" was always more hateful than heathens. The reformers were even more ruthless when they killed the reformers. Hardcore supporters of the shogunate like Kondo Isami did not die in Honshu, but were killed by the people in Hokkaido.
At present, there were many people in the three islands of Japan who wanted to carry out God's Retribution against the leaders of Hokkaido. These people did not have the ability to stir up trouble in Hokkaido, but it did not mean that they would stop in Honshu.
After listening to such a suggestion that was very beneficial to God's Retribution, the senior officials of the Meiji government did not say a word. Even though a few of them were obviously excited, they held back and did not say a word. This was something that could not be helped. Yamamoto Quanhei, the Minister of the Navy of Japan, was as still as a Buddha at the Imperial Conference. The foundation of the attack on Hokkaido was not the Six Armies, but the Navy. Everyone knew this, but no one mentioned this problem. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan was not closed. The demonstration of the Chinese Navy in Europe caused a huge shock in the European countries. Naturally, Japan also knew this news. As a close neighbor of China, Japan also watched the warships of the Chinese Navy from afar. Next … there was nothing to talk about.
Asking Japan's more than 2,000 tons of warships to confront China's more than 20,000 tons of warships, even the Japanese would not give such an order.
? In the naval battle, a Japanese cannon shell of the largest caliber hit the weakest part of a Chinese warship, causing a chain of explosions, causing the sinking of a giant Chinese warship.
The upper echelons of the Japanese Navy were quite clear-headed. They had no interest in getting involved in this boring Japanese-style fantasy game. According to intelligence, none of Japan's cannons had the ability to penetrate the armor of China's main warships. As long as any of the Chinese Navy's main cannons hit a Japanese warship, the Japanese warship would immediately lose its combat effectiveness.
Emperor Meiji did not speak immediately. He knew a lot about the situation in Hokkaido. After much discussion, there were only two best methods left. One was to fight recklessly. The Marines would open the way and the 6th Army would board the 6th Army. Right now, Hokkaido's population was around 600 million. If he wanted to use force to deal with Hokkaido, he would need at least 60 million troops. The senior officials in the Meiji government were all aware of the situation in the Meiji government, so they set up 60 million troops and trained and armed them. The Meiji government had already gone bankrupt before the war even started. Even if they had to pay the price of financial bankruptcy, they would only be able to maintain the 60 million troops for a short period of about six months. Once the time limit was over, no matter whether they won or lost, the Meiji government would definitely be finished.
If they couldn't fight their way through, they could only hope that Hokkaido would go south. The Meiji government would annihilate a large number of Hokkaido's troops. After exhausting Hokkaido's troops and equipment, they would launch a counterattack. But there was a problem. If China sent troops to mediate, the Navy would block the Tsugaru Strait, and the Meiji government's army would not be able to go north. All the following plans would be in vain.
Compared with these unreliable options, God's Retribution was really the most feasible option. Emperor Meiji was thinking about what would happen if God's Retribution was implemented. He finally asked, "How many warships did the Hokkaido Navy buy from China?"
"Four!" Yamamoto Quanwei immediately replied. China's cruisers, which had made great contributions in the battle to expel the British Navy from the Western Pacific Ocean, had been retired from the Chinese Navy. The Hokkaido Navy got four of them. After modern modifications, these old ships still had the strength to completely suppress the Meiji government Navy.
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Yamamoto Quanwei's tone contained some complicated emotions. The feeling of helplessness was above the envy. Even if this navy could be ranked among the top navies in the world, their real opponent was probably only the Chinese Navy. The feeling of helplessness was on top of envy. Even if the Navy could be ranked in the world, their real opponent was probably only the Chinese Navy. In the face of the powerful Chinese Navy, the role of this Japanese navy was probably only to add some trouble to the Chinese Navy. Comparing the strength of the two sides, the Japanese navy was not even a threat.
After listening to this additional explanation, Emperor Meiji wisely chose to remain silent. If the holy power of the Emperor could be exchanged for the recovery of the situation in Hokkaido, he might consider it. In the current situation, there was no possibility of such a result. Before the Meiji government obtained the sea control of the Western Pacific Ocean, or at least the sea control of the Tsugaru Strait, any effort would be in vain in front of the Chinese Navy.
The Imperial Conference was adjourned without any result. When a group of ministers faced each other in private, Oyama Iwai could not help but complain to Yamamoto Youtomo, "How can you make such a request to His Majesty?!"
This kind of accusation was very harsh. The Japanese never cared about conspiracies. If the conspiracy succeeded, the perpetrator would probably be generally respected. However, to drag the Emperor into this matter, it seemed that Yamamoto Youtomo was too bold. Oyama Iwai asked this question because he loved Yamamoto Youtomo.
Yamamoto Youtomo looked calm. He calmly replied, "When we went north, how many people did propaganda for the imperial army? Now if the traitors of Hokkaido go south, how many people will publicize for them? "
This question stunned Oyama Iwai. Even the senior officials behind him who were ready to follow up and blame Yamamoto Youtomo were speechless.
"Land is a means of production, a tool for workers to obtain food through production. Under the old system, the land became a tool for landlords to abuse their power. After a year of hard work, the people themselves can only eat a few meals of rice … "
"Some people say that if the land is not privatized, the people will not treat the land well. This is all nonsense. Treating the land well, using it reasonably, and developing it are within the scope of science. No matter how good the wish is, if it is not scientific and cannot be used in accordance with the law of nature, the land will not be served well. Those high and mighty people monopolize the technology and do not allow the people to research and learn science and technology by themselves. Their lies … "
"Where does a happy life come from? It depends on labor to create it! … "
These propaganda from Hokkaido gradually spread in the three islands of Japan. If Hokkaido only talked about the ownership of land, the Meiji government could naturally effectively let the perception of private ownership overwhelm the perception of public ownership. However, the propaganda in Hokkaido did not involve much land ownership. Instead, it promoted the means of production, productivity, and production relations to the people of the three islands of Japan. The Meiji government found that they began to show signs of defeat in the battle of public opinion.
Understanding public ownership from the standpoint of private ownership, it was a question of the ownership of land to individuals or the ownership of land to the state. Looking at this problem from the standpoint of public ownership, there was no problem of land ownership at all. Land was just a means of production. What everyone had to consider was how to manage the means of production and how to distribute the final products produced by the land.
The Nihonese loved to go to extremes. Facing the harsh environment, the group of men, women, and children in Hokkaido simply went down the road of darkness. With the theoretical basis of China, the theoretical construction of Hokkaido had been greatly advanced.
In the end, the people who owned the land got the food, or the workers got the food?
Was it one of the options or the only option to require the workers to speak, learn, and use science?
After more than a dozen parliamentary discussions, the Hokkaido government finally formulated a set of systems and laws based on this theory. And it was clearly announced. Even such a simple thing, the Meiji government immediately felt heavy pressure.
The intellectuals of the three islands of Japan discussed this set of things and praised the teaching, learning, and application of science. Using science as the standard meant that the high wall of birth and bloodline was completely broken. The judgment of anyone became an examination of their own ability.
The farmers of the three islands of Japan discussed this set of things. They supported the workers to exchange labor for the fruits of labor. Since the private ownership was so strong that the farmers could not resist, they simply overturned it. The system of labor in exchange for payment was undoubtedly a paradise for the Japanese farmers.
The existence of Hokkaido not only gave the shogunate remnants, landless farmers, poor people, and people who pursued a free life a shelter. Now, Hokkaido began to dig the foundation of the existence of the Meiji government. People everywhere were talking about Hokkaido, not the pink Hokkaido in the pornographic books, but Hokkaido as a new way of life.
Leaflets against the Meiji government, the landlords, the establishment of a parliament, and the implementation of the state ownership of land were popular in Tokyo, Osaka, Kagoshima, in all Japanese cities, in the army, and in the countryside.
The Meiji government was able to overthrow the shogunate not only by force, but also by a new set of ideas. This set of ideas began to spread throughout Japan long before the anti-shogunate faction began to attack the shogunate. In the process of overthrowing the shogunate, many local people carried out propaganda for the Meiji army. Now the remnants of the Red Newspaper Team gathered in Hokkaido, before they were completely betrayed and killed by the Meiji government, they entered Kanto to open the way for the new government army and propagated the policy of rent reduction to the farmers. The government army's advance in the Kanto area was strongly supported by the farmers.
The story of the Red Newspaper Team was also made known to the whole of Japan with the political offensive of Hokkaido. Too many people could prove the propaganda of the Red Newspaper Team. And this time, the Red Newspaper Team shouted to the Japanese farmers as the official of Hokkaido. "Only 30% of the agricultural tax, we can do it!"
More than a decade ago, the Meiji army overthrew the shogunate by relying on the anti-shogunate forces from all over the country. A considerable part of the upper class of the Meiji government who lived through that era was still alive. Now, not only was the Meiji government facing a situation similar to that of the shogunate, but the Meiji government was now showing signs of repaying the sins they had committed.
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