Beiyang reactionaries

Or rather understand the rules.

Everyone can sit down and talk about anything.Japanese cabinet politicians will also weigh the pros and cons and will not do too crazy things.But if you deal with the military government, it will be difficult.Those fanatical Japanese soldiers are crazy one by one, and it will be difficult to deal with them at that time.Those people's minds are not easy to guess.

Because many times those people’s thinking is different from ordinary people’s.

There has been a mutiny in Japan, and I don't know if the army is dissatisfied with the current cabinet and wants to replace the current cabinet.After ending the current cabinet, do Japanese soldiers want to establish a military government?It's a pity that this telegram is a bit short, and the specific situation has not been transmitted at all.

"Send a telegram to Tokyo and tell them not to go out. Nothing is more important than life. Let them contact our international student organization by phone and let our students stay in school. Don't run around at this time. Personal safety is the most important thing." Important. When the situation stabilizes, let them move again to see what happened. And count whether our citizens have been killed or injured. "

"Yes."

After Chen Bulei went out, Duan Xun said to Xu Yongchang: "Your military department, go and prepare. I want to go back to Beijing."

"Yes."

Originally, Duan Xun planned to go back after inspecting the three towns of Wuhan this time.After all, the current Wuchang construction, the three towns of Wuhan are important industrial bases comparable to Chongqing in China.

There are Hanyang Arsenal, Hanyeping Company, and most of the aircraft manufacturing plants and shipyards are here.Not only the state invested in the construction, but also many private shipyards.

Not to mention the large-scale construction of the automobile industry in Wuchang recently.

Duan Xun wanted to see this.

The auto industry is important.

Duan Xun hopes to develop his own truck industry and his own tractor industry.To build construction corps in the frontier in the future, a large number of trucks and tractors are needed.

Including the development of China's transportation industry, trucks are the top priority.If you don't want to use trucks, why build so many roads.

It's a pity that such a thing happened suddenly, Duan Xun really couldn't continue to be outside.Although Duan Xun has been in contact with Beijing, after all, it is not as efficient as Duan Xun's work in Beijing.

Now that something like this has happened in Japan, Duan Xun is not sure what Japan will do next.What changes should be made in Japan's diplomacy.If this mutiny changes Japan's previous diplomacy, if it wants to adopt militarism and fight with China, then it must be prepared as soon as possible.

Many cabinet plans are subject to change.

"Wen Bai (Zhang Zhizhong)."

"Prime Minister."

"You contact Nanjing immediately. I want to return to Nanjing and take the train back to Beijing. Let our security forces prepare and leave within two hours."

"Yes."

Duan Xun didn't dare to delay at all.

Originally, there was still a lot to discuss with the leaders of Anhui Province, but Duan Xun immediately informed them that he was leaving.Including the military leaders here, Duan Xun told them what to do.

Everyone in Anhui was shocked.

I don't know what happened to make Duan Xun leave in such a hurry. On August 1925, 8, at noon, Duan Xun's fleet turned around and headed for Nanjing.Because there was a mutiny in Japan, it is not clear what the mutiny was.

"Prime Minister."

"Any news?"

A few hours later, around seven o'clock in the evening, Chen Bulei came to Duan Xun's side.There are many people on Duan Xun's side, all of whom are high-ranking officials who followed Duan Xun this time.

The cabinet members alone include Duan Xun, Chief of the Police Department You Min, and Cabinet Secretary Liang Hongzhi.

Everyone is anxiously waiting for the situation in Japan.

"Yes."

Chen Bulei couldn't rest even for a moment in the past few hours.Because the telegraph room kept in touch with Beijing, Tokyo, and Shenyang, Chen Bulei was at the door.As soon as a new telegram came, he would take it in.

"How about it?"

"The people in our consulate have nothing to do, but there are [-] students who can't be contacted by the foreign students. It's just that Tokyo is under martial law on the streets, and our people can't go out. The Japanese soldiers mainly attacked the Prime Minister's Office, the Metropolitan Police Department, and the Minister's Office. , including the home of the Secretary of State for War was also attacked."

"The results of it?"

"Japanese Prime Minister Takaaki Kato was shot three times in the prime minister's office. Rescue was invalid and he was declared dead."

"Kato Takaaki is dead?"

"Yes."

Duan Xun didn't know what to say.

Kato Takaaki, as the opponent, still "admires" Ji Xun.Kato Takaaki is very capable, and his vision is even better.When the "British-Japanese Alliance" was established in the early years, Takaaki Kato contributed a lot.After he became prime minister this time, the first thing he did was to restore relations with the United Kingdom.Although it has not returned to the level of the "British-Japanese Alliance" back then, the relationship between the two countries has indeed improved a lot.There are also more and more various cooperation projects between the two countries, and politically they have begun to get closer again. The intention of cooperation is very obvious.

Including the relationship with the United States, it has also eased a lot.

In the past, the relationship between the United States and Japan was very poor.Especially in the years after the end of the First World War, in order to compete for the hegemony of the Far East, the two countries regarded each other as their greatest enemy.However, after Kato Takaaki took office, the relationship with the United States has greatly eased.Even when China and the United States signed the "Treaty of Commerce and Commerce" and Duan Xun began to introduce American forces to exclude Japan, Japan and the United States did not fall out.

Including the same with China.

Kato Takaaki has been negotiating with China, hoping to ease relations with China.Let Japanese goods return to the Chinese market and enable Japanese merchants to do business in China.

Kato Takaaki really understands the current situation in Japan, so he will never be arrogant.Therefore, it adopts a "peaceful" path in diplomacy, while internally it has always pursued party politics and parliamentary politics.Takaaki Kato has made great contributions to the development of party politics and parliamentary politics in Japan.

Such a person died?

In the short term, although many people in Japan are dissatisfied with him, they think he is too weak and not as tough as the previous government.But in fact, politicians like Takaaki Kato are good for Japan in the long run.

I didn't expect to die like this.

"anything else?"

"Japanese Foreign Minister Kijuro Kihara also died at his home. Japanese Army Minister Ugaki Kazunari was seriously injured and is currently being rescued in the hospital. Internal Minister Hamaguchi is lucky and is reporting to the Emperor of Japan. Those Japanese soldiers were also looking for him. But he couldn’t find it, and escaped. However, several staff members under him were killed by those soldiers. Some senior executives of Japanese consortiums were also killed.”

So many people died.

The cabinet members alone suffered such serious casualties.The death of so many politicians at once disrupted the current Japanese political policy.

"What's the situation in Tokyo now?"

"Still in confrontation. In order to suppress the rebellious soldiers, Tokyo is already under martial law, and the Guards Division has already entered the city. I heard that the rebellion is all a group of young officers, and the leaders are all around 30 years old. The highest rank It’s just a major. They shouted to get rid of Kato Takaaki’s cabinet, and get rid of the traitorous cabinet.”

Duan Xun closed his eyes and thought.

The specific situation in Japan, without more information in hand, Duan Xun can not judge.But one thing Duan Xun was certain of was that such a thing could never be created by just a few young officers.

There must be a pusher behind them.

I don't know who did it either.With such a big thing happening, Duan Xun can't guess how the Japanese political situation will change.With so many cabinet members dead or wounded, a new cabinet must be elected.

"Tell the cabinet?"