1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

In fact, the mastermind behind this matter overestimated the thinking of these lower-class Japanese people.

From the moment G11 picked up the iron rod and bent it with ease, half the crowd had already knelt on the ground, their heads buried in the dirt. When G11 pulled out a dagger and stabbed his own arm with all his might, yet his skin remained unscathed, the majority of those standing also knelt.

By the time G11 had thrown the iron rod and dagger to the ground, a metallic clang had emanated. Only two or three people were left standing, trembling with fear and hesitation. Seeing that some were still "unconvinced," Tanabe Ino wanted to say something, but the "Goddess" gently waved her hand.

"Those who disbelieve, turn away; our Lord protects only the believers."

Before he finished speaking, the remaining two or three people all knelt down.

No one believed a human could display such power, especially since G11's stature was considered small even for a Japanese person. Then again, an elite tactical humanoid from 150 years from now would be no different from a god to any modern human. If she could also demonstrate the ability to "not eat, drink, excrete, age, or even be invulnerable to bullets," then her status as a "god" would be even more certain. But what is a "god"?

God is the great being that controls the life and death of ordinary mortals like us.

In a hopeless life, no one is willing to give up easily even if there is only a glimmer of hope. Please God!

Worship Buddha!

Kneel demon spirit!

Tianbiandao knelt down with the others, patting the ground with his head, and said, "Please, Lady Goddess, grant me the oracle!"

A group of people took the initiative to shout: "Goddess, please give us the oracle!"

"..."

G11 looked at the crowd of heads before him and said pretentiously, "God said, 'Let there be light,' and darkness will come out of its own accord." "God said, 'Let there be fire,' and the wood will burn on its own accord." "God said, 'Love the world,' and the world should love itself and help one another..."

Alas?

Why does this oracle sound strange? It's different from what I've heard before.

Forget it, it was the goddess who said it, so it must be correct.

Everyone prostrated themselves on the ground, quietly listening to the goddess' instructions. They then repeated and swore to join the strangely named "People's Almighty Church." Fujiwara Kanezane, observing the ceremony from a nearby dilapidated shack, shook his head.

“It’s still too rough.”

"What? Kanezane-kun?"

"I think this script is still too crude. It's fine for deceiving a small number of people, but once the scale expands, there will be more doubts. I'll have to think about the process and other things later... and change the name, it's still a bit sensitive." "Yes."

Saga Hiro secretly took note and asked:

"So, in terms of publicity, will we still start with humanitarian issues?"

"Well, autonomy, mutual assistance, friendship, perseverance, compassion, empathy... In any case, never mention terms like communism or socialism. If someone mentions them, I'll even oppose them..." Fujiwara Kanezane thought for a moment and then gave another instruction:

"Remember those few who were the last to kneel down. Depending on the situation, try to reach out to them and slowly convey your true thoughts to them." "Why them?"

“Only those who don’t follow blindly are worthy of development.”

"understood."

Fire ignited in Saga Hiro's eyes, and Fujiwara Kanezane smiled softly.

The Japanese Communist Party must be established, after all, it has already called itself the "cancer of the earth"!

However, Fujiwara no Kanezane would never be like Ozaki Hidemi and others who carelessly set up "Proletarian Research Institute", "Japan-China Alliance", "Komsomolets", "Japanese Communist Party" and so on.

Given Japan's current political climate, the JCP's poor level of struggle, and its poor mass base, this approach is no different from simply shoving your head into a police gun and seeking death. Therefore, they must cover up, cover up, and cover up again, even if it means incorporating elements that shouldn't be part of communism.

Regardless of whether the cover is a "gang" or a "cult," as long as it's covered in this layer, the likelihood of being noticed by the police will be much lower. "Liberation Cult" is not something that can't be done!

What's more, the gangs are monsters supported by the Japanese government, army and police. They are controlled by them and can fill the gaps in grassroots administration. Cults or religions are deliberately indulged by the Japanese government because they hope that the people can use these things to numb their nerves so that they are not easily rebellious. In this case, this is an opportunity.

Only by firmly grasping the hearts of these grassroots people, relying on them closely and slowly guiding them and changing them, can Japan's revolution have a slight chance of success. Not to mention the distant past, the vast majority of soldiers in the Japanese army came from poor families.

What would happen if the People's Almighty Church improved their families' lives and even became their solid support?

How many soldiers would follow their superiors' orders and shoot their families and members of the "People's Almighty Church"?

Fujiwara Kanezane believes that this is the right path and the best way to play in Japan's current environment.

To think that the Japanese Communist Party, relying solely on intellectuals and parliamentary struggles, while remaining isolated from the struggles of the grassroots workers and peasants, could seize power was pure fantasy. As for whether to cooperate with the Japanese Communist Party once the group had grown in size, Fujiwara no Kanezane considered it and immediately rejected it.

As mentioned earlier, because the JCP's upper, middle, and lower levels were filled with naive petty-bourgeois intellectuals and spies from the Special High Technology Department, even collaboration was extremely dangerous. Let me give you two more examples.

1. All the important confidential documents of the Japanese Communist Party were originally kept by a university professor. Later, when the professor's school was involved in a student movement, he felt that it was not safe.

Then he randomly moved to a miner's house;

Then, the miner was arrested by the police for singing "The Internationale" on the street. The police successfully found all the documents in his rice jar...

2. As an illegal, repeatedly suppressed underground political party, the Japanese Communist Party's leadership ordered the names, addresses, and other personal information of all members to be recorded in a single roster. Although written in code, the code was so poor that it took only two days for the Army General Staff to decipher it completely.

Therefore, during the "March 3.15th Raid," many Japanese Communist Party members who had escaped arrest were arrested one by one by the Metropolitan Police Department based on this list. Do you think they learned their lesson?

No.

Soon, they once again created a new roster, only to fall into the hands of the enemy once again, and finally be completely wiped out once again...

Not to mention those high-ranking Japanese Communist Party officials who surrendered immediately after being captured.

Forget it, I won't say more. Talking too much makes people laugh, and laughing too much is disrespectful to the comrades who sacrificed their lives. To cooperate with such a Japanese Communist Party is undoubtedly to wait for too long.

It is better to be independent and play on your own, and the core cannot be placed in Japan.

If Japan's communist revolution and the Japanese Communist Party are always confined to this corner of Japan, they are doomed to fail... Fujiwara Kanezane looked at the "goddess" G11 who was still shouting "It's boring! Try again" on the stage, and disappeared into the darkness with his agents and others.

102 Hachiman Daibosatsu King goes to the Osaka Division!

It is obvious that Kato and others did not take Fujiwara no Kanezane's warning seriously; or rather, they had already been targeted and it was too late to take it seriously. On March 24, Nakanishi Ko was arrested for participating in the activities of the "Proletarian Research Institute";

On March 25, Ozaki Hidemi, who participated in the same event, was arrested because no one warned him.

The only thing to be thankful for is that, according to the information we learned, just as in history, the Metropolitan Police Department was not yet aware of the two men's membership in the Japanese Communist Party, and only thought they were "socialist sympathizers" and did not torture them severely.

After all, Japan still needs intellectuals to work, and most of the current intellectuals are (at least) sympathetic to communism or socialism. If everyone is arrested, beaten, and killed, the government will come to a standstill.

We have to consider the feelings of these social elites, right?

what?

Cause actual harm to us? Hahaha... stop kidding.

There's an old Chinese saying that goes, "A scholar's rebellion will take three years to succeed." "This group of people..."

After receiving the information, Fujiwara no Kanezane shook his head and tossed it aside, rejecting Saga Hiro's suggestion to "find a way to rescue them." They weren't going to die anyway, so it might as well teach these idiots who excelled at "plotting out loud" a lesson.

Then, Koichi Saionji came again.

"What the hell are you even doing here?"

Fujiwara no Kaneki now looked at Saionji Koichi with a displeased expression.

Fortunately, those two men played dumb after being arrested. Furthermore, because the Saionji family was so prestigious, they had always had connections with people from all walks of life. Otherwise, this guy would have been implicated long ago. Thinking of the sudden arrest of his new friend and Fujiwara no Kanezane's accurate prediction two days ago, Saionji Koichi said sheepishly:

"Kaneshi, I'm here to request..."

"Rescue them, right? Don't even think about it, I won't do anything." "Uh, but they..."

"Okay, as long as they don't act like some idiot who yells 'Long Live Communism' in prison even though the police don't know he's a communist, then it should be fine."...Oh..."

Saionji Koichi had no confidence to question Fujiwara no Kanezane's judgment and decision, nor did he dare to question it. In just two months, his and Fujiwara no Kanezane's status had changed drastically. Now, with Fujiwara no Kanezane about to be crowned king, he still...

"Master, someone has come from the palace to deliver an imperial decree."

噢?

I'm coming.

"To preserve the eternal throne of Heaven's unbroken lineage, the Emperor of the Great Japanese Empire declares..."

After listening to the full text of the imperial edict, Fujiwara no Kanezane sent the eunuch away and looked at the imperial edict written entirely in Chinese characters, and fell into deep thought. What the hell is going on?

Why was Ishishimizu Hachimangu Shrine given to me? I originally thought it would be Kashima Jingu or Katori Jingu!

The reason why Fujiwara no Kanezane was confused had a lot to do with the gods enshrined in "Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine" and its past history.

Firstly, unlike the "Takehitsuchi-no-kami" enshrined at Kashima Jingu Shrine and the "Kimizu-no-kami" enshrined at Katori Jingu Shrine, Hachimangu Shrine, as the name suggests, enshrines "Hachiman-no-kami." Putting aside the so-called "divine power" represented by the deity itself, the point is, this deity is the patron saint of the "Genji" clan!

Incidentally, the reason why the word "神" is not included is because this palace is not closely related to the Japanese imperial family. Secondly, this "Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine" has always been the place where the Japanese court would pray before suppressing rebellions;

In Japanese history, who were the people who managed to complete the cycle of "starting a rebellion → holding a prayer ceremony at the court → sending troops to suppress the rebellion → bringing the head back to Hachimangu Shrine for offering sacrifices and thanksgiving"? For example, Fujiwara no Hirotsugu, Fujiwara no Tsunade, Fujiwara no Sumitomo, Fujiwara no Nakamaro, Fujiwara no Tanetsugu, Fujiwara no...

Ahem, I can’t continue.

Don't ask, the answer is that the Fujiwara clan has too many people and their branches are too far-reaching, so the higher-ups can't control them. After all, "Fushimi Palace's stallions are Fujiwara clan's sows"!

Anyway, it has nothing to do with the Fujiwara family.

Finally, Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine is one of Japan's three great shrines (the others are Ise Grand Shrine and Kasuga Taisha Shrine), hosting the annual "Minami Matsuri" festival. Its status is truly revered. In other words, Hirohito, the bastard, gifted Fujiwara no Kanezane a shrine of such high status, one whose deity wasn't even from the Fujiwara clan, and whose purpose was, in a sense, to "suppress the Fujiwara clan"... Ugh, that old bastard...

Although Saionji Koichi studied in Europe and was Westernized in many ways, he was still a member of the Fujiwara no Kita clan, the Kanin school of nobility. He immediately noticed something was wrong: "Huh? Why is it this palace?"

"Haha, what else could be the reason?"

Fujiwara no Kanezane quickly understood Hirohito's considerations and threw the imperial edict aside with a sneer: "It's just the emperor's mindset."

The reason is actually easy to think of.

First, Hachimangu Shrine was of high status, and granting it to Fujiwara no Kanezane was undoubtedly a favor and reward for his merits, which no one could find fault with. Second, Hachimangu Shrine's historical status and the deity it enshrines determined that Fujiwara no Kanezane would not have liked or exploited the power of this shrine.

Thirdly, in a sense, the granting of the main shrine to the Fujiwara clan was an "insult" to the Minamoto clan, which could have led to greater discord and further divisions within the upper class of Japanese nobility. Finally, this method of conferring titles was a justifiable and implicit suppression of the Fujiwara clan, which was clearly on the verge of re-emergence and re-entering the political arena.

Because, let's put aside the large number of "Yulin Family";

Of the 17 top noble families, the "Five Regents, Nine Imperial Courts, and Three Ministers," all of the "Five Regents" were from the Fujiwara clan, two of the "Three Ministers," and seven of the "Nine Imperial Courts." As for the Kuga, Hirohata, and Nakain families, who nominally descended from the "Genji" clan, through centuries of intermarriage, who would dare to say they had no connection to the Fujiwara clan?

Originally, the Fujiwara Kita clan was the "leader" of these old nobles. The fact that everyone sent people to visit Fujiwara Kanezane when he was injured was a clear proof of this.

Now, Fujiwara no Kanezane's merits were so great that he was made a king. It was obvious that these old nobles would definitely move closer to him, forming a huge political force headed by Fujiwara no Kanezane. No emperor would be at ease with this and would try to divide, suppress, exploit, and sow discord among them to keep them under control.

In other words, enthroning Fujiwara no Kanezane as a king was itself a form of suppression of existing old-established aristocrats such as Saionji Kimmochi and Konoe Fumimaro.

Because of the rise of Fujiwara no Kanezane, their power would inevitably be divided.

Take the Saga family for example. They will definitely not just follow the orders of Saionji Kimmochi and Konoe Fumimaru from now on, right?

Because of this, the Fujiwara clan of the North has only produced a semi-political figure like Fujiwara no Kanezane, while his father, Fujiwara no Shinichi, has remained largely unused. True to form, Hirohito rose to power through political manipulation and palace intrigue...

Of course, all of Hirohito's assumptions were based on the fact that "Fujiwara no Kanezane was Fujiwara no Kanezane." As for Mark, he didn't care!

If I were happy, I would rob your palace and turn it into a public toilet. Why would I care about this bullshit shrine or not?

Besides, he didn't have much contact with the family other than Saionji. What did he care whether those noble lords who were destined to be treated like a fool were happy or not? Compared to the various political considerations behind being sealed in this shabby palace, he cared more about this shabby name:

"Will I then be known as... um... Iwashimizu Hachimangu Fujiwara no Kanezane?"

"Hachiman Daibosatsu-oh"... The case is solved, it turns out I am the Great Teacher.

"It's 'Ishimizu Hachimangu Kanezane-oh'. Generally, you're not called by your last name, and are often referred to simply as 'Hachimangu Kanezane-oh'." Saionji Koichi corrected him, then said in a complicated tone:

"Congratulations, Kanezane. Now, your status is higher than my grandfather's."

"An empty title is useless. It would be more reliable to send me an army." Then, Fujiwara no Kanezane was really sent to the army.

After the formalities of entering the palace to express gratitude, being officially crowned king, and receiving congratulations from the nobles were complete, the Japanese Army Ministry's Military Affairs Bureau suddenly issued an order: "... Fujiwara no Kanezane is transferred to the 4th Division as a major staff officer, with a deadline of April 15th..."

"..."

I glanced at you, why did you send me to the army? I glanced at you, why did you send me to the 4th Division? I glanced at you, why did you send me to be a staff officer? - a series of question marks.

What on earth was this old man Hirohito thinking? "Congratulations, Your Highness Kanezane."

Yamaoka Shigetoshi, Director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Army Ministry, who came in person to deliver the letter of appointment, said with a smile:

"The 4th Division is a well-known and powerful division in our country. You will definitely play a big role if you go there."

I always feel like this bastard is mocking me. But he probably isn't.

This kid Yamaoka probably doesn't have the courage.

Incidentally, the "Military Affairs Bureau," though seemingly insignificant on the surface, was actually a crucial department within the Army Ministry. This was because it controlled the personnel and organization of the entire Japanese Army, similar to the "Cadre Department" or "Personnel Department."

For important positions in the Japanese Army, from division commanders, brigade commanders, and regiment commanders, the Military Affairs Bureau has the right to nominate and recommend;

Under normal circumstances, the Vice Minister of the Army, the Minister of the Army, and even the Emperor would not easily reject the recommendation of the Director of the Military Affairs Bureau. This is because the real core personnel are arranged in advance, and for other ordinary positions, these senior officials cannot manage such details. Therefore, you can imagine how important the Director of the Military Affairs Bureau is.

This person...um...made the list.

"Hehe, thank you for coming here in person, Mr. Yamaoka."

"You're welcome, Your Highness. It's my humble honor to deliver the letter of appointment to a 'talented mentor' like you." "Talented mentor?"

"Hmm? Don't you know? Your reputation in the Northeast for knowing every officer's past like the back of your hand has reached me. Everyone is full of praise for you!"

...Hehe, not really...I just have a lot of respect for the warriors of the empire, so I made a point of remembering their achievements."