Updated: 2012-09-10

Wang Yi's wedding was also a big deal in Northeast China. After Li Yuzhen went to the guest room to rest, he returned to the room to discuss the marriage with Chen Yazhi and others. The girls were a little shy at first, but later they thought that it was a big event in their life after all, and they could not be reserved now, so they expressed their opinions. One by one, one by one, Wang Yi felt a little overwhelmed. He originally thought it was troublesome, but later he thought, let them go!

When Wang Yi was upset, someone was even more upset than him.

Emperor Meiji has been unable to sleep or eat these days. Although he still looks calm in front of his ministers, his inner anxiety has also made his temper a little irritable. Standing in front of the mirror, he looked at his tongue. The thick tongue coating showed that his stomach was extremely hot. No wonder he always drank water recently, but he was still thirsty.

"I was in my early thirties and had white hair, and even wrinkles appeared in the corners of my eyes." Emperor Meiji clenched his fists slightly in the sleeves of his hands. Although he was the emperor, his life was full of helplessness. Of course, his biggest source of trouble now was the Northeast Autonomous Region, Wang Yi, a powerful opponent he had never thought of.

"King, all the ministers have arrived." The attendant bowed and said.

Emperor Meiji waved his hand, and the waiter stepped out, and the room became quiet again. Emperor Meiji knelt under the rising sun, his eyes closed slightly, and took a deep breath to feel the warmth of the warm sunshine. In front of him was the lush tranquility of the Japanese-style courtyard. The long bamboo slumber brought clear spring water from the mountain. After coming to the courtyard, it fell into Tianshui, filling and flowing out. The bamboo knocked on the stones, and drove in the quiet, and there was stillness in the movement, so that there was a little bit of cicada noise and the forest was quiet, and the birds sang in the mountains. (Tianshui was also called monks. It was originally a farm tool that used a certain amount of flowing water to transfer the balance between the two ends of the bamboo tube, and then a section of the bamboo tube hit the stone to make a sound, which was used to disturb the birds and wild boars falling into the fields. But later, a landscape design was gradually formed in the Japanese garden, and the sound of the bamboo was transformed into a manifestation of purifying the mind through the two pure symbols of bamboo and water, bringing a bit of Zen. This thing is very common in Japanese dramas and comics, and it also exists in the Celestial Empire.)

After more than ten minutes, Emperor Meiji's heart finally calmed down.

The officials who came to attend the meeting today were probably influenced and oppressed by the Northeast Autonomous Region. Except for the Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito, the personnel affairs in the cabinet have been different from history. The biggest change is that the Minister of Foreign Affairs changed from the original Inoue Kin to Shigeon Okuma in advance. The Minister of Rural Affairs and Commerce changed from Tanika Castle to Kiyotsuki Kuroda.

Yama Prefecture Aritoto is the Minister of Internal Affairs, with the rank of lieutenant general of the army, and controls the General Staff Headquarters that the government and the Japanese Parliament have no right to interfere. He is only responsible to the Emperor himself, calling for the spirit of Bushido, and is the representative of Japanese militarism. Minister Dawei, that is, Minister of Finance, is Masayoshi Matsukata. Minister of Army is Oyama Iwa, Minister of Navy is Saigo Condo. Minister of Justice is Yeyo Yamada, Minister of Culture is Mori Yoshinori, Minister of Dunnoshi, an old acquaintance of Tang Shaoyi in Beijing, who is responsible for postal affairs. There are two more important official positions, one is Mitsuka Tanaka, the Registrar of the Cabinet, and the other is the Chief of the Legal Affairs Bureau, Yamao Yumi.

A large group of people sat there. It was obviously impossible for them to have no intrigue between them, but today they were very harmonious. The reason was that the enemy was in front of him. Radical party members of the Qianyang Society planned to attack the territory of the Northeast Autonomous Region, namely Hokkaido. The Northeast Autonomous Region and Japan turned against each other, not only overturned the previous treaty signed by the two sides that Hokkaido will not be stationed for the time being, but also the North Sea Fleet, which belongs to the Northeast local fleet, began to conduct large-scale live-fire exercises at sea. The target of the attack exercise was to launch indiscriminate shelling through Japanese ships in the Tsingu Strait between Japan and Hokkaido to retaliate against Japan's invasion of the Essai.

"What do you think of this?" Emperor Meiji asked in a low voice. There was no expression on his face, but his eyelids were drooping, making people unable to understand what he was thinking.

Everyone fell into silence, and no one answered for a moment.

After a long time, Emperor Meiji suddenly raised his eyebrows, then slapped the table in front of him and said angrily: "Everyone is talking!" The gentle mentality he had specially cultivated through meditation before coming was gone, and all the cabinet members present were sitting upright. When they heard the emperor's angry voice, they lowered their heads, very much like a group of lambs to be slaughtered.

Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito had to speak at this time, but when he was about to speak, Foreign Minister Shigenobu Okuma unexpectedly spoke first.

"Wang, we have received the latest news about the Northeast Autonomous Region at present." This quickly attracted everyone's attention.

Let me mention Shige Nobuo Okuma, who is very fame and fortune. Previously, because the Liberal Party and the Implementation Party were opposed to each other, among which the left-wing Liberal Party caused the Fukushima incident, Takada incident, Gunma incident, and Kaboshan incident, which caused the government to take increasingly serious repressive measures. In 1884, the Liberal Party was ordered to dissolve, and although the Implementation Party was not dissolved, in December of the same year, Shige Nobuo Okuma and Toshikazu Kono, the vice president of the Implementation Party, announced their withdrawal from the party at the same time. Later, due to the deep pressure brought by the Northeast, Japan began the historical process of political reform ahead of schedule, promulgated a new constitution, and Hirofumi Ito formed a cabinet. Shige Nobuo Okuma entered the cabinet because he had removed his political background. Otherwise, before 1898, any member of the political party was prohibited from joining the cabinet.

"The Northeast Insurance Team suddenly launched a large-scale offensive against Russia two days ago. In just one day, the two Russian divisions were eliminated. The war between the two sides is currently fierce."

Everyone looked at each other in a little puzzled way, not understanding the purpose of Okuma Shigeon's current statement. It was Yama Prefecture Aritomo reacted and said, "Is it possible that the Northeast used the tension with us to make the Russians make a wrong judgment?"

Shigeon Okuma nodded.

Seeing the Minister of Foreign Affairs' statement, the atmosphere of the meeting seemed a little relaxed, but Emperor Meiji frowned slightly.

"So, Northeast's previous tough statements to us are likely to be an excuse for them to let the Russians relax their vigilance?" Masayoshi Matsukata asked. "They have no plans to go to war with us?" As the finance minister, his most concerned about the empire's finances. In the current situation, Japan simply cannot afford the full war with Northeast.

Hirobuki Ito finally spoke at this time and said, "We all know the nature of the Northeastern people. Although we are just an excuse for them to hide their raids against Russia, this does not mean that we are safe. Everyone, look, they have now publicly stationed troops in Hokkaido and blocked the Tsuguku Strait."

ps: Recently, due to the renovation and overhaul of the factory, my home has been frequently out of power and water. Yesterday was another day, and this chapter made up for yesterday.


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