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"Great Japan, Great Japan must participate in this dramatic change in Southeast Asia. We must not stand aside and become a helpless spectator!"

"Participate, how to participate, do you want to plunge the Great Japanese Nation into an irretrievable situation?

Great Japan, we can’t afford to gamble anymore!”

Inside Rokumeikan today, several men wearing Monfuku haori were spitting at each other and arguing with red faces.

Inukai Tsuyoshi, who had just turned thirty, waved his fist and shouted, "The Great Japanese Nation is now dead and lifeless. Is this still the new government that overthrew the shogunate and tried to reform it?

Now those feudal lords have become pimps who only know how to lie on women's bellies and collect money. What's the difference between them and the Tokugawa shogunate?!"

Inukai Tsuyoshi, who supported Sun Yat-sen in launching the revolution and purchased arms for him in the original time and space, became a staunch supporter of the Asia Alliance Theory in this time and space.

He is dissatisfied with the conservative and rigid approach of the current Japanese cabinet and the dull state of Japanese society. He wants to get Japan involved in the Sino-French War and get a share of the pie in order to seek a breakthrough.

After the end of the Sino-Japanese joint war against Russia, the Japanese nominally obtained half of Sakhalin Island and recovered the Northern Kuril Islands centered on Defu Island, seemingly achieving great results.

But in fact, Japan paid a high "ransom fee" in secret and also paid the price of almost complete destruction of its naval fleet.

For Japan, which is in a stage of rapid development, this is not a good result in any way.

After acquiring the icy and snowy Sakhalin Island, the Japanese government had to send more personnel and allocate funds for development, which greatly delayed Japan's post-war recovery.

After all, what Japan needed at that time was capital, raw materials, and markets, not uninhabited land.

In other words, the result is different from the original time and space where Japan desperately gambled everything, first occupied Korea, then defeated the Qing Dynasty, and obtained 2 million taels of silver in compensation.

In this time and space, Japan's two gambles, fighting against Yuan Shikai in Korea and joining forces with the Beiyang Fleet to fight against the Russian Far East Fleet in the Whale Sea, can both be considered failures.

And failure will naturally bring backlash.

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Prices soared, food was scarce, industry and commerce declined, foreign exchange was lacking, and financing was difficult.

From the people to the government, there is a feeling of desolation.

Japan lost the ability to independently wage wars abroad, and they could no longer plunder resources by invading other countries.

This is fatal for a resource-poor island country like Japan.

Therefore, they were forced to choose an extremely slow path of industrialization, relying on exploiting domestic farmers and handicraftsmen to collect surplus labor and then invest in industry.

Of course, capital accumulation cannot be achieved simply by exploiting the people in the country.

After the war against Russia, the cabinet of Aritomo Yamagata fell and Navy Minister Kiyotaka Kuroda was elected prime minister.

Japan's new Prime Minister has set his sights on the Ussuri River Autonomous Region, which is not far from them.

After Outer Manchuria was designated as an autonomous region, commercial activities experienced a boom. People from Zhili and Shandong, people from the Korean Peninsula, and even some people from the three northeastern provinces flocked in. In addition, a large number of Japanese, and a small number of British, German, and Americans came here to make a living.

The vast majority of these people are men.

This has led to Japan becoming the second largest source of funds for industrialization and the largest source of foreign exchange earnings.

Remittances from Japanese expatriates in the Far Eastern Autonomous Region.

Calling it "remittances from Japanese expatriates" is just a more respectable way of saying it. In fact, this money is all earned by Japanese women from selling their bodies for prostitution.

Japan embarked on the path of relying on women to save the country 40 years ahead of schedule.

The new prime minister is exploiting both the Japanese people at home and abroad. The Japanese people are under increasing pressure, and in the past two years since the war, there has been increasing opposition in Japan.

However, the feudal lords in the Japanese cabinet relied on their prestige in the army and navy to temporarily suppress domestic opposition voices, and in this deformed way, allowed the small ship of Japan to sail slowly.

But everyone knows that this won't last long.

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So, faced with this situation, some young members of the Japanese Constitutional Party want to make changes.

It coincided with the Sino-French War. The French army was defeated and the news of the loss of Kawachi Castle shocked the whole of Japan. Liberal and civil rights activists who were not satisfied with the status quo filled Rokumeikan every day, shouting slogans to seek a way out for Japan and demanding that Prime Minister Kuroda Kiyotaka make changes!

The so-called constitutional party was a political party established by the liberal and civil rights faction within the Japanese Diet in response to the boiling public discontent in post-war Japan in order to overthrow the feudal politics.

The party leader was Okuma Shigenobu, a heavyweight of the liberal civil rights faction who had served as foreign minister in the cabinet of Hirobumi Ito and as minister of justice in the cabinet of Aritomo Yamagata.

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Inukai Tsuyoshi wanted Japan to have a share of the spoils in the Sino-French War.

Therefore, he was extremely dissatisfied with the feudal government that was watching the Sino-French war without making any statement.

"President, we can't be idle any longer. The Prime Minister must either agree to the United China..." Inukai Tsuyoshi raised his head, looked directly at the hesitant Okuma Shigenobu, and said firmly:

"Or, overthrow the cabinet!"

All we can say is that "gambling" is a nature hidden in the blood of the Japanese.

When the Japanese upper echelons experienced two failed gambles against North Korea and Russia, they were forced to lie low and lick their wounds.

However, the radical young people at the bottom don’t think so.

They wanted to participate in the war against France, join forces with Yuan Shikai, and open a southward route for Japan.

"Overthrow the cabinet?"

Okuma Shigenobu suddenly widened his eyes and looked at the young junior in front of him.

"Do you know what you're talking about! Inukai-kun, those are the elders who made great contributions in overthrowing the shogunate. Should we overthrow their cabinet?"

Inukai Tsuyoshi clenched his fists and replied indignantly, "Those fools in high positions have completely disgraced the patriots of the late shogunate. If Lords Sakamoto Ryoma and Saigo Takamori were alive again, they would definitely denounce their inaction!"

After hearing this, Okuma Shigeki had to admit in his heart that Inukai Tsuyoshi was right.

But, can we always do the right thing?

The reason why the feudal lords were called feudal lords was because they had close ties with the military.

Can ordinary people really shake them?

"President Okuma, Great Japan needs us to stand up!" Next to Inukai Tsuyoshi, a young Japanese man placed his right hand on his chest and said passionately:

"Without the attack of the American black ships, how could Japan open its eyes to the world?

How could the shogunate have been overthrown without the successive reformists?

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If you, the clique politicians, want to take our lives, then let the military and police do it.

The shogunate could not kill all the anti-shogunate patriots, and the feudal lords could not kill all the freedom fighters!

Either Lianhua or the cabinet will fall!"

This person's name is Miyazaki Toranosuke.

In the original time and space, Miyazaki Toranosuke was one of the first foreign members of Sun Yat-sen's Tongmenghui. He even participated in the Huizhou Uprising and made great contributions to the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty.

In this time and space, he, like Inukai Tsuyoshi, also became a supporter of the United Asia faction, and he was more radical than Inukai Tsuyoshi.

After seeing Yuan Shikai overthrow the Qing Dynasty and establish a republican government, he believed that if Japan wanted to save itself, it could only send "envoys to China" again to have a chance of survival!

"This..." Okuma Shigenobu closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

After the fall of the Yamagata Aritomo cabinet, he lost his position as Minister of Justice, and the newly appointed Prime Minister Kuroda Kiyotaka had no intention of inviting Okuma Shigenobu to serve as a cabinet minister again.

Liberals and civil rights groups have actually distanced themselves from the government's decision-making level.

This was something Okuma Shigenobu did not want to see. He firmly believed that only by accepting these Western ideas could Japan go further and avoid repeating the failure of the shogunate.

Just as Yuan Shikai gave up being emperor and only became president.

A free republican China is far more powerful than a feudal imperial China.

The Sino-French War is a ready-made example!

Okuma Shigenobu had no intention of overthrowing the emperor or establishing a republican system, but he was also unwilling to allow Japan to continue to be in the hands of the feudal lords and embark on a path of no return.

It seems that overthrowing the cabinet has to be put on the agenda.

"Go ahead and do it, you lords. You will have to pay the price for your arrogance."

"Hi Yi!"

After receiving the order to overthrow the cabinet, Inukai Tsuyoshi and Miyazaki Toranosuke quickly left Rokumeikan and began to take action.

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In today's Japan, there are already many people who are dissatisfied with the feudal cabinet; they just lack an opportunity and channel to speak out.

The news of the Sino-French War and France's defeat greatly stimulated the Japanese, who were in dire straits, and provided a natural opportunity for Japanese students and ronin to march.

The decision within the Constitutional Council to overthrow the cabinet also gave him an excellent channel to express his views.

So, on the fifth day after the end of the Battle of Kawachi and the seventh day after the decision to overthrow the cabinet at Rokumeikan was made, Japanese civilians, students, ronin, and even some retired soldiers were incited.

They chanted slogans of "Family clans retreat" and demanded that the current Japanese Prime Minister Kuroda Kiyotaka lead the cabinet to resign.

At the same time, the Constitutional Party in the House of Representatives of Japan also joined forces with other liberal civil rights forces to launch a motion of no confidence against Kuroda Kiyotaka.

As more and more young Japanese people were aroused, some old accounts of the industrial development policies during the early days of the Meiji Restoration were also brought up.

Under the guidance of some people, some people began to point the finger at these feudal lords, saying that they colluded with the consortium to embezzle Japan's state-owned assets.

The country was in a difficult situation, and it was time for big conglomerates like Mitsui and Mitsubishi to step up and take responsibility and share the country's worries, but they repeatedly laid off employees and sold off factory assets.

Mitsui, which once started out in textiles and mining, is now most famous for its industry of luring Japanese country girls to the Ussuri Autonomous Region to become transnational pimps!

Newspapers in Tokyo were filled with photos of Japanese girls in kimonos posing seductively, taken by Japanese reporters in Vladivostok.

The voices accusing the government of inaction are growing stronger.

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Against this backdrop, Kuroda Kiyotaka stood at the window of the Prime Minister's residence and clearly saw the young people and fanatical ronin who filled the streets demanding the overthrow of the cabinet and participation in the war.

From time to time, there were officers in military uniforms mixed in. Just by looking at these people, the new Prime Minister Kuroda Kiyotaka could understand who launched this appeal against the cabinet.

"These bastards are gambling with the future of the empire!"

Kuroda Kiyotaka couldn't help but be angry, because he knew that those who launched the march to overthrow the cabinet knew better than he did that it was extremely difficult for Japan to maintain the status quo.

After paying tens of millions of yen and sacrificing almost the entire Combined Fleet, Japan achieved a naval victory that shocked the world, but it did not bring any short-term benefits.