Years of the Republic of China 1913

Fujita Ichiro was very frustrated. The first time he came into contact with Fang Zida, the other party's rejection of the Japanese side's conditions was not unexpected. What was unexpected was Fang Zida's tough attitude.

When he received the order from the base camp, Fujita Ichiro was not optimistic about his role as the "special envoy" from the very beginning. The local war between China and Japan broke out in mid-November, and it has been almost a month. The progress on the front line is not optimistic. , with the stalemate and continuation of the war situation, the voice of opposition to this war in Japan is also growing louder. The new cabinet minister Masaichi Terauchi has conflicts with the previous minister Shigenobu Okuma, especially Shigenobu Okuma tried to recommend Kato before he took office. Gao Ming took over as Prime Minister, but under the secret push of opposition political veterans Shan County Youpeng and Xiyuan Temple, Temple Nei Zhengyi only took six days to complete the formation of the cabinet and succeeded him as the cabinet minister.

After Terauchi Masaki came to power, his job was to rectify the bad economy in the country and try to reverse domestic conflicts. However, he ignored the war with China that Okuma acquiesced in the end of his trustworthy period and secretly promoted. This is his brilliance. If winning the war will bring great benefits to his governance, if the war continues and no progress is made, he can also put all the blame on Okuma Shigenobu.As for whether the war will fail or not, this Masaki Temple has never thought about it. In his opinion, it is still very sure to use the strength of Japan to deal with the weak China.

After the war started on November 11, all the news from the front was good, especially the Japanese army in the Northeast battlefield was so powerful that it wiped out an entire Chinese division overnight, and quickly pushed the front line to China's last second line of defense.On the Qingdao battlefield, although the powerful Japanese Second Fleet is not as beautiful as the army's, its advantages are obvious. After receiving the news, Terauchi Masaki secretly rejoiced, thinking about whether to express his dissatisfaction in public. War speeches to show that this cabinet attaches great importance to war, so that the credit will not fall into his hands at that time.

But before he had time to implement the plan, bad news came one after another in the following days.The advancing Japanese army actually stopped at the front line of Buyun Mountain. It was impossible to break through the opponent's position with all its efforts. The battle between the two sides changed from a raid to a battle of attrition. Less than the squadron.The squadron that could resist tenaciously still brought great losses to the Japanese army.Terauchi Masaki, who served as the governor of North Korea, is familiar with the terrain near Fengtian, and he understands the troubles brought by the severe cold in Northeast China to the war. He cannot defeat his opponent in the short term. Fu continued to increase troops to the northeast.The balance of power between the two sides on the front line has gradually changed.Unless the cabinet agrees to expand the war, mobilize the country for war, and involve North Korea in the war, it will be difficult to win the war.

Compared with the difficult Northeast battlefield, the Qingdao battlefield.That is, the news from the Jiaodong battlefield made the Japanese cabinet even more uproarious. Not only did the powerful Japanese Second Fleet fail to achieve any results in the Qingdao area, it even fell into a trap, trapping the two divisions that landed , Both the army and the navy suffered huge losses.Now the [-]th and [-]th divisions are surrounded by squadrons.Although the Second Fleet still has a division and some mobile forces of the Marine Corps, it has lost the initiative on the battlefield as a whole.Fleet Commander Yatsushiro Rokuro's internal report to the Navy Headquarters was even more sad that it was impossible to complete the planned plan for the Qingdao campaign, and suggested canceling the combat plan and the Chinese peace talks to save the fate of the [-]th and [-]th divisions.

Of course, this is only an internal report from Yatsushiro Rokuro to the Navy Headquarters. Of course, the Navy will not be so stupid as to tell the truth at the cabinet meeting.Instead, he first jumped out and hit the army back, vigorously accusing the army of not attacking according to the scheduled plan, and launching an attack on the Northeast battlefield without authorization in advance in order to grab credit.The navy was not notified, thus giving the squadron time to prepare, which made the Second Fleet fall into the trap of the Chinese who were ready to fight.

In this regard, the navy and the army are arguing endlessly. For the navy, the army's current record in the Northeast is far better than that of the navy.From this point of view, the army has more confidence than the navy.What's more, the lost landing troops now belong to the army divisions, and it is precisely because of the stupid command of the fleet commander Yatsushiro Rokuro that there are such consequences. It is not bad for the army not to settle accounts with your navy.Your navy turned the blame on our army?As for the army's early attack, so what?Just a few hours ahead.Could it be that the Chinese have the ability to make all the preparations in such a short period of time and set a good trap for the Second Fleet?It's ridiculous to say this.

At the meeting, the two camps of the navy and the army became more and more noisy, and even almost fought.After finally persuading both parties to withdraw, Zhengyi in the temple also felt a big headache about this situation, so he could only suspend the meeting in the name of the prime minister, and went to the palace to ask the emperor to report the situation of the meeting upwards for imperial judgment.

Meningitis patient Emperor Taisho's mental illness has become more and more serious in recent years. It is said that since suffering from mental illness, the whole person has become more energetic.Compared with the previous years, this supreme being in the eyes of the Japanese subjects has a more erratic temper, and will make some unimaginable actions from time to time, which often makes ministers and even the public feel shocked and dumbfounded.

As for the military exercises a while ago, if the Taisho Emperor hadn't been too active, Lu Xiang Dashanyan would not have passed away so aggrieved.On the way back to Beijing, the enthusiastic Emperor Taisho also stopped by to inspect the Imperial Guard Division stationed outside Tokyo. He rummaged through the opponent's backpack, then clapped his hands happily and left like a normal person.

Such jokes have caused countless courtiers. In private, everyone has talked about the "god"'s mental problems, and they feel that no matter what kind of actions His Majesty the Emperor makes, it should not be too strange.

Such an emperor, can Terauchi Masaki expect him to make the right decision?The answer is of course no.Terauchi Masaki is not a fool, he is a wily guy. As a cabinet minister, although he is the political decision-maker in name, it is absolutely impossible to forcefully suppress the navy and army, relying on his influence alone.That being the case, it was Temple Masaki's plan to obtain an imperial order from Emperor Taisho for his own use.

As expected, after listening to Masaki's report in a daze, Emperor Taisho, who was wandering in the sky, seemed to be like a wooden sculpture without saying a word. He didn't come back to his senses until the servant reminded him.

"Your Majesty, the cabinet thinks that since the foreign war has reached such a level, it is impossible to complete the expected plan, so it can consider peace talks with China. I wonder what your Majesty's opinion is?"

"I have no objection...." The focus of Emperor Taisho's eyes was not on Terauchi Masaki at all, and he didn't know where he was looking.

"Your Majesty, how to deal with it, I ask His Majesty to make a decision."

"Let me decide? You can do whatever you say, just do it." Emperor Taisho waved his sleeves impatiently, and after leaving such a sentence, he couldn't wait to get up from the throne and left. When he left, he walked away from the temple Passing by, you can clearly hear him muttering that the flowers in the imperial garden are all withered, there are no flowers to admire, and you don’t even feel like writing poetry. These gardeners are all fools. It should be irrigated with boiling water.

It can be said that Terauchi Masaki's entry into the palace did not achieve any substantive results, but the last words of Emperor Taisho made him feel like a treasure.Didn't His Majesty the Emperor say that he can do whatever he is asked to do? In other words, it is equivalent to handing over the decision-making power to the cabinet. As the cabinet minister, he holds a chicken feather as an arrow, and this is enough.

After thinking about it, Terauchi Masaki decided to end the war, and he followed public opinion and shifted the responsibility to the previous cabinet. As for the acting commander-in-chief of the army on the front line, Uehara Yusaku unfortunately became the scapegoat.However, the navy and the army were arguing about how to end the war. After several days of discussion, all parties failed to reach an agreement. Solve the problem.After a series of compromises and discussions, they finally came up with a plan. This plan was the item that Ichiro Fujita brought to Fang Zida. Masaki Teraouchi wanted to use this item to fool the Chinese people first, and then consider the final solution after solving the immediate problem. How to take what measures.

The plan has been put forward, and someone must be the special envoy.At this time, the intelligence department recommended a person to Terauchi Masaki, and this person happened to be Ichiro Fujita, who was serving as an army liaison officer in the Second Fleet.When I learned about Ichiro Fujita's experience, and heard that Ichiro Fujita has good connections in the Chinese political circles and military upper echelons, and that it is feasible to meet directly with the new Chinese political star Fang Zida, this job fell to Ichiro Fujita without any doubt. Head, prompted his trip.

The first meeting failed, and Ichiro Fujita quickly sent the news back to China, and patiently waited for domestic orders.Unexpectedly, while he was waiting in the room of the Liuguo Hotel, a news came suddenly. The next day, the Jiaodong Squadron launched a fierce attack on the [-]th and [-]th Divisions in the encirclement, and it seemed that they were all wiped out in one breath. The intention of the Japanese army is that the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties in just one day, relying on the position to resist desperately, it still couldn't stop the squadron's attack.

After receiving the news, Fujita Ichiro turned pale in shock, and immediately transferred the information back to China, and at the same time asked the guards to meet Fang Zida urgently.When the guard agreed to report his request, Ichiro Fujita walked around the room like an ant on a hot pot, waiting for Fang Zida to meet him.