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Chapter 839 The Showa Discord

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    With the Chinese Senate officially approving Zhang Zuolin as concurrently serving as President of the country and Zhang Hanqing as concurrently serving as Vice President of the State, and all passing the names of the People¡¯s Party in the government and the Military Commission, China, a strong and united country, is standing on top of Asia with a new attitude.

    And Japan, across the sea, also carried out a transfer of power at the same time.  The changes on both sides are eye-catching.

    December 25, 1926 - the same day that Emperor Taisho died, Hirohito ascended the throne as the Emperor of Japan with three artifacts presented by Shikibu officials. He changed the name of Showa to the Yuan Dynasty based on the sentence "The common people are enlightened and all nations are harmonious" in "The Book of Documents".  It marked the end of Japan's Taisho era, and also made the "clown" king that has troubled Japanese politics for many years become history.

    The most famous Emperor Showa in modern Japan was born on April 29, 1901. He was one year younger than Zhang Hanqing¡¯s stand-in Zhang Xueliang, so he was considered a younger brother.  Shortly after his birth, he was sent to the residence of Vice Admiral Count Kawamura Junyoshi in accordance with the royal family's practice, and Kawamura was responsible for his education.

    At the age of 7, he entered the Imperial Academy to receive formal education. The dean of the Academy was Army General Nogi Nogi Nogi who later died for Emperor Meiji.  At the age of 13, after graduating from the elementary school of Gakushuin, he was promoted to the Donggiya Institute of Learning to continue his studies.  There is no luxurious garden or comfortable life here. Hirohito gets up at 6 o'clock every morning, and then prays, runs, and studies.

    He studied ethics, Mandarin, Chinese, history, geography, mathematics, natural history, physics and chemistry, French, calligraphy, legal system, economics, martial arts, equestrianism, etc. at the Institute of Learning.  During this period of study, with the intervention of the court ministers, Hirohito became engaged to Ryoko, a low-level aristocratic woman from Satsuma Domain.

    Since Yoshiko's father is Prince Higashi Kunihiko, who belongs to the Satsuma Domain, and he is a strong contender for power with Yamagata Aritomo, the elder of the Choshu Domain, the marriage was firmly opposed by Yamagata Aritomo. He used the excuse of Ryoko's mother's family.  He has a history of color blindness and caused a so-called "color blindness storm" in an attempt to prevent the marriage of Hirohito and Ryoko.

    In response to the objections of Yamagata Aritomo, the potential national relative Prince Azumaru joined forces with the Black Dragon Society and other underworld forces, and threatened to kill the whole family, so that Ryoko became Hirohito's queen.  Even so, when Hirohito held his wedding with Ryoko on January 26, 1924, another bomb was thrown by a Korean at the wedding, but it did not explode.

    This is not over yet.  After Ryoko married Hirohito, they gave birth to 4 daughters.  This aroused dissatisfaction among some politicians and fascist young soldiers, who believed that this was proof of Hirohito's lack of masculinity. Therefore, they tried every means to put pressure on the emperor, forcing him to take concubines, and even asked him to undergo in vitro fertilization experiments.

    The young soldiers were also preparing to launch a coup to support Hirohito's younger brother to succeed. It was not until December 23, 1933, when Ryoko gave birth to Akihito, that this farce came to an end.

    On March 3, 1921, Hirohito visited Europe in the name of the Crown Prince.  He traveled to Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy, and experienced first-hand the free life outside the palace.  The constraints in Japan, especially those from senior figures such as Aritomo Yamagata, made him feel the need to cultivate a group of fans of his own.

    On October 27, in a hot spring hotel in "Baden-Baden" in southern Germany, Crown Prince Hirohito finally found his ideal person - Nagata Tetsuzan.

    Nagata Tetsuzan was the leader of the controlling faction in the Japanese warlord group. He was known as the number one brain in the Japanese military. He was smarter than Kanji Ishihara, Japan's number one military strategist, and Ishihara was not even an order of magnitude worse than him.

    Of course, Hirohito would not bet on a mere lieutenant colonel. Of course, the eloquent and talented Nagata Tetsuzan's idea still deeply affected him, so that he took a firm step in the subsequent conflict with China.  Explore the "northward" path.

    Two years ago, Nagata Tieshan met Ishihara Wanji and Zhang Hanqing, but it was not pleasant.

    The Chinese people may remember the Anti-Japanese War most strongly from some "big-name" Class-A war criminals, such as Hideki Tojo, Seishiro Itagaki, Kenji Hara, etc., or Neji Okamura, Hisao Tani, who directly controlled the Nanjing Massacre, etc.  .  As everyone knows, the real driving force behind the scenes is Nagata.

    Among Japan¡¯s ¡°talented¡± careerists in China, one must mention Nagata Tetsuzan and his Futaba Society.

    It is the destiny of history for such talents to join the army.

    The Nagata family has been practicing medicine for generations. His father worked as the director of a small hospital in his hometown of Suwa County and raised nine children. He had many index fingers and lived a hard life. He died of illness in middle age due to overwork. On his deathbed, he said to him: "Tetsuyama! You  You must be an excellent soldier".

    The Meiji government at that time strictly enforced centralization and sought to enrich the country and strengthen the military. The people's tax burden was extremely heavy and people generally lived in poverty. When the children in the countryside reached the middle school level, they could no longer study in liberal arts schools, so they had to go to school.  Go to a military school with free tuition and a promising future to seek development.  In addition, just after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, the slogan "conquer Manchuria and Mongolia and fly to the mainland" was very tempting to young people who were looking forward to the future.

    &nnbsp; Zhang Hanqing does not care about the change of Japanese government - Japanese politics is a famous revolving door. Whoever comes to power cannot theoretically change its essence. The key point is the veterans behind the scenes who play a decisive role.  This conclusion holds true from pre-war to post-war and into the twenty-first century.

    However, in 1926, a new personnel change in the Japanese military attracted his attention. The protagonist was Lieutenant Colonel Nagata Tetsuzan, who was regarded as inconspicuous by Chinese and foreign observers at the time except Zhang Hanqing. His position was the mobilization of the newly established Maintenance Bureau of the Ministry of War.  Section chief, another inconspicuous position is the director of the Army Ministry of the "National General Mobilization Organ Preparation Committee".

    This committee is in the same vein as the national mobilization plan promoted by Zhang Hanqing. They are invariably similar, which shows that the heroes have similar views.  Chinese and Japanese historians later disputed who copied whom.  However, the one that has done the best is undoubtedly China. This is something that both China and Japan have no doubt about.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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