The Republic of Heroes

Japan, which faces Siberia across the sea, is experiencing unprecedented turmoil since the Meiji Restoration. The common people's desire for rice has turned into anger through violence, and then this anger spreads quickly across the country like a plague. Riots, robberies, murders, Armed conflicts are everywhere.In view of the urgency of the situation, the cabinet had to declare martial law and ordered the army to march into the city to arrest those who gathered to riot.

In Tokyo, Masaki Terauchi hurried to the Emperor’s Imperial Palace. In the past few days, there have been rumors that Miyake Miyake’s 24th Regiment and Hashimoto Ryuichi’s naval fleet have suffered a disastrous defeat in Siberia.But this is a groundless rumor after all, but today Emperor Taisho called him into the palace to formally inquire about the matter, which is very intriguing.

Calculated according to the time, Major General Miyake should have occupied Vladivostok at this time, and Hashimoto's Hanoi should also return to the home port of Yokosuka to rest according to the opportunity, but the news has not come out for a long time, and now rumors are full of rumors inside and outside the palace, and the position of the cabinet is already in jeopardy .

At the imperial meeting, the Minister of the Navy Kato Yusaburo slapped the table excitedly. He produced direct evidence to prove that the vanguard of the expedition to Siberia had been wiped out. Major Admiral Miyake and Hashimoto Dazuo had been deeply involved in the life and death of their opponents, and what was more serious was Hanoi. The battleship No. [-] was also damaged in Vladivostok, the specific circumstances are unknown.

All this news was brought back by the Japanese sailors rescued by the fishing boat. At first, only a few ministers of the Navy knew about it. support.The fall of the Hanoi is even more incredible and incomprehensible. How can the Chinese not even have a gunboat to fight a giant steel ship with a displacement of more than [-] tons?

Even if they cooperated with the Russians, it was impossible for them to achieve such a record. In the end, everyone came to the unanimous conclusion that these sailors probably fled the battle and fabricated such a big lie in order to avoid taking responsibility.

As the days passed, the sailors who fled back one after another brought back the same news, so he couldn't help not paying attention to this matter, and the Minister of the Navy, Yusaburo Kato, personally interrogated it.

In the end, it is basically certain that the Japanese army did suffer a disastrous defeat in Siberia.According to Kato Yusaburo's original intention, this matter must be kept secret during the extremely unstable period of national turmoil, but Emperor Taisho learned about it through some channels and sent someone to inquire, so he had to tell the truth.

"The cabinet should take full responsibility for this matter. Without sufficient preparation, it hastily dispatched troops to Siberia, which eventually led to a disastrous defeat!" Stacks of interrogation transcripts were thrown in front of Zhengyi in the temple.He randomly picked it up, glanced roughly, the sweat on his face rolled down, and he understood that if the information recorded in the transcript was true, then he and his cabinet were finished.

Temple Masaki looked at Emperor Taisho as if asking for help.Emperor Taisho seemed to be absent-minded, his extremely neatly trimmed horns and beard were covered with thick vaseline, his appearance seemed a bit funny, but at this moment he was a demigod figure who decided the life and death of his subjects.And Emperor Taisho turned a blind eye to his eyes for help, which seemed to show his attitude. The prime minister had lost his trust.

"Your Majesty, I have failed your trust and expectations..."

If you said such things to the emperor, then it should be a logical resignation, but Emperor Taisho spoke at this moment and interrupted the speech in the temple.

"I know that it is not easy for you to govern the country. After the Meiji Revolution, the empire has never been defeated. Now the country is troubled by internal and external troubles. I hope that you will work together to overcome the crisis..."

Speaking of this, Emperor Taisho trembled and supported the tatami with his hands, and seemed to be in great pain. Several important ministers were nervous, worried about the emperor's health, and pretended not to see him out of protecting his self-esteem. The temple sighed secretly : Your Majesty is getting sick more and more frequently, the country is in a difficult time, can he survive it?

As early as the opening of the Diet in the spring, His Majesty the Emperor fell ill in public, behaved abnormally, smirked again and again, and even rolled up the speech script into a telescope to take random photos at the envoys of various countries, which made the senior ministers feel that Japan had lost face.

"Ha—you old men, come to play horse riding with me... I just got a good horse, and I'm afraid you have never seen it in your life?" Emperor Taisho suddenly spoke sharply and didn't know what to say.

Yoshihito Tanaka, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, shook his head and smiled wryly. If news spread that the Emperor of the Empire of Japan was mentally ill, people all over the world would really make fun of him.

The faces of the important ministers were also extremely ugly. Kato Yusaburo was determined this time to recover the face for the navy. Because of the negligence of the cabinet, the fleet suffered a disastrous defeat. No matter what, he had to shoulder the responsibility in the temple.

And although Yoshiichi Tanaka and Terauchi Masaochi are both vassals of Changzhou, this time he did not stand on the side of the Prime Minister of the temple. He already had a clear premonition that the ship in the temple would soon sink, the riots of the people, and the disastrous defeat of the war , will become a deep shame since he entered politics.

Kato Yusaburo continued to throw blockbusters regardless of the emperor's illness.

"According to the latest reliable information, Major General Miyake and Dazuo Hashimoto were captured by a newly rising small warlord in China. It is said that this person is less than 25 years old and his surname is Wu Ming Xiaoliang. Major General Miyake was defeated by him for the second time this year. .”

The ministers present at the meeting immediately burst into buzzing. At first they just guessed from the transcripts of the two commanders whether they were dead or not.Now Kato Yusaburo broke out that they were captured alive. This is indeed a great shame to the imperial government, the army and the navy.

Emperor Taisho seemed to have regained his sanity after intermittent madness, but he looked extremely weak and crumbling. He murmured: "Wu Xiaoliang, Wu Xiaoliang, he will be the most powerful enemy of the empire in the next 30 years!"

Yoshiichi Tanaka said in surprise that he had never heard of this person. He only knew that a new political star named Wu Peifu had risen among the Chinese warlords, but he didn't know whether this Wu Xiaoliang was related to that Wu Peifu.

"It seems that the empire's intelligence department in China needs to be reorganized vigorously. There is no news about such important information. Your Excellency, your gentle policy towards China has now proved to be completely unworkable. The people of China What you are doing is provoking the empire, and I suggest that the empire should immediately declare war on China!"

As the same Changzhou feudal lord, it turned out that the old thief Tian Zhong was the first to jump out to dismantle the situation. The temple held back his breath: "The most urgent thing is to stabilize the domestic situation first, and it is not appropriate to declare war abroad at this time..."