Chapter 136 Arms Increase

Junyi Kawamura arrived at Tianjin Port on April 29th. After arriving in Tianjin, he went straight to Tianjin Government Office and surrendered. After Li Ciming heard the translation and explained, he was very surprised and did not rudely. He first asked someone to detain him, and then informed the governor of Zhili Sushun.

Su Shun was also stunned. On April 20th, the emperor was furious to seek Junyi Kawamura and was willing to send warships to Japan to carry out plunder. However, unexpectedly, Junyi Kawamura was alone and personally led to China to surrender. He ordered people to send this message to Beijing by telegram and request an order to seize it. In addition, many staff members were summoned to ask for advice in the Governor General's Headquarters. "Tell me, Junyi Kawamura surrenders himself like this, how should I deal with it next?"

"If it is said that the Qing Navy is directly exiled to Japan and arrested and questioned the initiator of the assassination case of the prince. This is another matter; someone from Chuancun came to surrender," Qian Dingming, the chief inspector of Zhili, was the first. "According to the twelve years after Xianfeng, the emperor re-issued the Qing law firm, all those who took the initiative to lead the crime will be reduced. Moreover, as a foreigner, the prince's assassination was caused by it, but after all, it was not his own command. If he really killed it with one knife, I'm afraid that it would be biased to see it for outsiders."

"Mr. Qian said that the students also agreed." This is the Qingke Wang Xiangqi recruited by Sushun after the twelve years of Xianfeng, and he also made a comment. "But in my opinion, it is not biased, but tyrannical."

Sushun Wang Xiangqi is a famous scholar. She often speaks unrestrainedly among the chaubin-Guan-Kuang-Ku, but he still can't tolerate this attack on the slightest part of his words. "What are you saying? If it weren't for this farce performed by Junyi Kawamura at the reception, would Taikuda and others dare to do such a disrespectful thing? Of course, he was not instructed by himself, but if it comes to guilt, would this person be the first culprit, called tyranny?"

Wang Xiangqi smiled slightly and did not take the words of Lord Ju Ting to heart, "Sir, please forgive me for your students. This time, the emperor intends to take action against Junyi Kawamura to avenge the fifth master, but he can't take advantage of the little one. Taking the opportunity to expose his anger towards the small country of Japan is where the holy heart lies."

Sushun rolled his eyes so much that he was so angry that Wang Xiangqi's words were bold. They were well-known in the Zhili Governor's Office. They had said and persuaded him, but they were ineffective. He was determined to say goodbye to him. Although this person's words were extremely bold, the subsequent development was always in line with his expectations. There were very few people around him, so he was always tolerant and kind. This time he couldn't help it. "According to what you said, the emperor would not hesitate to call the navy of two provinces and one place just to exude a breath in his heart? Then you should tell me, where did the emperor's disgust for Japan come from? So we must meet each other?"

No one can answer such a question. Wang Xiangqi smiled with a god, "You have been by the emperor for many years, but you haven't let the students do it?"

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"Forget it, forget it." Long Rulin responded from the side and eased the increasingly tense atmosphere between the guest and the host. "Sir, let's transfer Kawamura Junyi to the capital. At that time, the emperor and the military affairs department will discuss the next step. It has nothing to do with the adults. Why do you have to worry about this?"

If he doesn't want to do so, Sushun has some respect for this Kawamura Junyi. If he doesn't take the initiative to surrender, what will happen to him and other Japanese citizens will be, then thousands of cannons will be fired and blood will flow, and not many creatures will be miserable. In this matter, his behavior is quite a bit like an ancient minister. "Then, what do you think Kawamura Junyi will do after entering Beijing?"

"Can you still be like this? Let's go to the streets with Taikuoda and others."

"Can't you save me?" I don't jump.

"Sir, are you confused?" Wang Xiangqi was silent for a while, and once again said rudely, "Don't say that you can't save me, even everyone in the world can be forgiven. You must write a letter to tell me about the matter, and you can kill me."

“This is?”

"The court cannot do things in a bad way"

Wang Xiangqi's loud words made Sushun forget his rudeness just now. Indeed, the court did not hesitate to use troops for Kusuo Kawamura. Regardless of whether the emperor was doing something for King Dun or asking for troops to invade Japan, the impact of this matter was extremely bad. If he had only the courage of his blood and energy, he would spare him and never die. What if someone would follow suit in the future? That would leave a very bad example for others: no one hurts the Chinese, and there is no need to be afraid of the threat from the Chinese. People will not die, worry?

Thinking of this, Junyi Kawamura must die

Sure enough, among the Qing Dynasty officials, there were many people begging for Kusuyoshi Kawamura. The first one was the second prince who changed his name to Gan Ying to the General Administration. "Ama," when he went to the palace as usual to pray for good morning to the emperor, Zai Ying said, "God has the virtue of being a good person. Now the fifth uncle's body is gradually improving, and Taikuoda and others are questioned by the Ministry of Justice to get the truth of the love and the crime. When the downtown area is being punished in the future, it is considered a crime to be punished. As the Japanese military department, Junyi Kawamura is a Japanese military department. Although there are certainly some cases in this matter, he thought that if the person's crime is not to die, why should the Emperor Ama kill him?"

"As you say this, can I do this?"

"I dare not, but Zhou Yi said that the great virtues of heaven and earth are called life..."

"You rarely quote the scriptures with me. The great virtues of heaven and earth are called life. What they refer to are the lords of Jie and Zhou who kill innocent people and harm the people on a regular basis. Scholars have no way to persuade them, so they write some so-called classical texts of historians as words of advice. Do you think what points do I have to persuade them in these years?"

"...Don't dare." Under the high pressure of his father, the second prince had to choose to give in.

"Even if Junyi Kawamura has the courage to die without hesitation to protect the people of the whole country, in my opinion, this cannot offset the provocation of his venue, and it also inspires Saito and other thugs to stab your fifth uncle." The emperor said to him loudly, "Think about it, if I was in Japan, what if I was stabbed by someone? Your fifth uncle Daitian was on a visit, and assassination was the same as assassination of me. I only pursued Junyi Kawamura's crime, and it was still a good life; otherwise, sending warships to a small country in Japan, firing tens of thousands of cannons will make him burn together."

"Emperor... what Ama said is," Zaiying said nothing about a fallacy that he said was speechless. If he continued to argue, he would lose his duty as a minister. The son of man had to meet respectfully.

After teaching the lesson, I summoned the Military Affairs Office. In addition to the trial and conviction process after Kawamura Junyi surrendered himself, there is another thing, "Kawamura Junyi was sent from Tianjin to the Ministry of Justice, and I have ordered someone to detain him. What I want to do next, I wonder if I should raise compensation to Japan? I have drafted a memorial and asked the emperor to read it."

The emperor has read it in a hurry, mainly for the injury of Yi Qiong, and proposed compensation to the Japanese side. The total amount of silver was 1.3 million taels; in addition, he also asked His Majesty the Emperor to write an apology letter, as the final attitude of the Japanese official towards this matter. "There are too few princes in one country, and they need to be recuperated for a hundred days to recover as before. What is one million and hundreds of thousands taels enough? Double, double it."

Yi understood that the Japanese could even give up Kawamura Junyi, and the amount of silver that would be in the future would not have the courage to bargain with China too much, and there would be no more. At the moment, he received the order, "Yes."

"Kunyoshi Kawamura, is the Ministry of Justice cited by the law?"

This was asked by Zhao Guang, so he stepped forward and replied that he would be executed by Lingchi in accordance with the scheming of rebellion. "The cited law originally had a "sharp sacrifice", but Yi Qiong did not die, so this one was naturally omitted.

"Takuroda and Saito's mobs, you might as well cite this example; Kawamura Junyi will change it to a one-sword punishment."

"Yes." Zhao Guang replied, "The emperor is kind-hearted and has mercy on the outside world. I think that although Junyi Kawamura is an untamed wilderness, he should also be grateful for his holy virtue underground."

The emperor refused to comment and said to Yi, "Lao Liu, I heard from Jean that there is a man named Qiao Songnian who sang with you in poetry and wine? Isn't it?"

Yi complained in his heart and nodded helplessly, "Yes. Qiao Songnian's courtesy name is He Qi, and he is also a native of Qingliu. In the 15th year of Xianfeng, he served as an Anhui Censor. Later, he was transferred to the Hanlin Academy and became a bachelor's degree. Qiao Songnian's family background was rich, and although he had been a high-ranking official, he did not take off his pants, lived a pampering habit, and lived in simplicity. Sometimes he had disrespectful words, but he also had some."

Yi Qi's assassination became a sensational news, and folk rumors were rumored, and there were all unpleasant ones. Some people said that Yi Qi's assassination was in Japan for many days, and the first stop at Kobe, he fell in love with the little boss of a Japanese restaurant. Unexpectedly, this woman was the lover of a Japanese official, and the two were jealous about it. The senior official was fighting for China's prince, and instructed people to assassinate - it was also a scene of arguing for the beauty that was staged in Japan.

Beijing is at the foot of the emperor. Fortunately, a new drama with similar content was even compiled in the theaters in Tianjin and Shanghai. It was obviously absurd and ridiculous talk. However, there were ministers in the court who believed it to be true. Among them was Qiao Songnian. He wrote a poem saying, "The official seals were clearly in the same way as the song hall, but they were not as good as the song hall." King Dun was assassinated, and he was slandered again. There was still a case that was too much for the unfair things in the world? What Yi said about his disrespectful words refer to this matter.

"Just be fine." The emperor's voice was cold and he gritted his teeth hard, "Tell Qiao Songnian that he should be spitting maggots and being despicable."

"Yes, after I go down, I will definitely discipline myself."

A few days later, the imperial edict issued that from May 15 to May 21, the Ministry of Justice Tikuo sent eight executioners, and took a full six days to execute 170 members of the Hokage Party, including Taikuota, Saito, Saotou, and Saotou. Some people said that the revenge of the Dun Wang family was very cool, and they customized dozens of knives and hooks, and handed them over to the executioner for execution.

Lingchi was severely punished, and it was rare for decades to see. Some people said that only "eight cuts" were just a bit like cutting, while others said that they would use "fish scales to cut" and cut them thinly. The tortures suffered by these Japanese people were in between. They used a custom hook to tie the flesh and pull it up, cut it with a quick knife, hook it, and cut it. It was only after the beginning of the year to the present.

On the first day, Caishikou was surrounded by people watching the fun. The execution of Lingchi, which had not been seen for many years, has been reappeared today. The ones who were dealt with were foreigners. How could this excitement be passed? Zhu Guangdi and Zheng Dunjin, who were imprisoned, were nervous, afraid that an accident would occur. Fortunately, the execution started in the morning until noon, as calm as usual - from that day onwards, nine out of ten people watched the punishment - nothing else, the scene was too tragic, the Japanese cried and howled, making Caishikou and Hell Shura Hall. The bloody smell could be heard at three or five streets here.

Junyi Kawamura is the most lucky one. He cut his body with one knife and two pieces of the body. He asked the cobbler to sew the head. After cremation, he handed over to the Japanese Embassy, ​​Yujiro Omura, who transported the bone colony back to his country and handed over it to his family to place it in the cemetery.

Because of the compensation for the assassination of Yi-Yi-Yi, the Japanese suffered another huge amount of money, but the damage was small. After hearing the tragic experience of the Chinese people on the execution ground, Emperor Meiji cried bitterly, "It's all my faults, all my incompetence."

"Your Majesty, please don't do this. It is precisely because of the blood of these patriots that the stability of the imperial kingdom can be exchanged for it. If Your Majesty is hurt and pity for it, wouldn't their sacrifice be wasted?" Don't jump.

"The Chinese bully the country and kill my patriots on the grounds that I don't have a powerful navy. I swear here that even if I exhaust all my efforts, I will build a powerful navy and impose China on my humiliation in the future, ten times or hundreds of times."

"Your Majesty is wise. As long as your Majesty has such ambition, it will take less than twenty years. No, ten years to build an invincible navy to fight the Qing Dynasty on the sea. Let's see if it is the Qing navy's number one in the world, or is it the long-term military fortune of our imperial country?"

After the Meiji three years, Japan's economic power gradually increased, from the GDP of only 34 million (stone, round) per year at the beginning of the opening of the country, to 62 million (stone, round) in the third year of Meiji three years. The military expenditure, affected by this incident, exceeded double digits for the first time, reaching 11. This military expenditure of more than 6 million, of which 45 were used as naval funds. The Japanese government expects to have a huge maritime power of no less than 16 ironclad ships, thirteen first-class, twenty-one second-class gunboats and several torpedo ships through customization, purchase modification and lease to the United Kingdom, France and the United States in three years.

Beyond the Navy is the army. According to the joint proposal of the Army Major General Notsu Shinho and the three important officials, Japan issued a new code within half a year. This is a new text that echoes the "Standard Army Organization Law" that has been in name only, and is named "Reading Method".

The "Reading Law" records the terms that soldiers should abide by, and also determines the degree of punishment for those who violate these regulations. The most serious thing is the cowardly behavior on the battlefield, which will be severely punished immediately; secondly, the formation of a clique will be severely punished; dissatisfied with superiors, gambling, borrowing, etc., must be punished.

In the fifth year of Meiji, the military system reform was carried out, and the country was divided into six military-controlled areas. Each district was set up to gradually expand the number of troops to the required number. The configuration of these six military-controlled areas was as follows: the first area, the town of Tokyo, the town of Tokyo, the town of Sakura, and Niigata; the second area, the town of Sendai, the town of Sendai, the town of Aomori, the third area, the town of Nagoya, the town of Kanazawa, the town of Osaka, the town of Osaka, the town of Otsu, and Himeji; the fifth area, the town of Hiroshima, the town of Hiroshima, the town of Hiroshima, the town of Marukoka; the sixth area, the town of Kumamoto, the town of Kumamoto, and the town of Osaka.

In the above six towns, divisions were established (this is the highest system of the Japanese Army). The division was composed as follows: the first division commander, the rank of lieutenant general, and the commander headquarters was under the command. The two brigade commands were directly under the command, the cavalry brigade, the artillery brigade, the engineering brigade and the baggage brigade.

Among them, under the brigade headquarters are two infantry corpses, and then three brigades and four squadrons; the cavalry brigade has three cavalry squadrons; the artillery brigade is composed of two field artillery brigades (two squadrons) and one mountain artillery brigades (two squadrons). The engineering brigade is composed of eight engineering squadrons; the logistics brigade is composed of two logistics squadrons. The total number of a division organized in this way is 9,199 people and 1,172 horses.

Japanese artillery was field artillery, and mountain artillery was used together. At first, I wanted to use German Kruper guns, but because of the small amount of steel production, I imitated the cannons made by Italy using bronze. In the artillery factory in Osaka, field artillery and mountain artillery with a caliber of 7.5 cm were made. After the twelve years of Meiji, these cannons were used to equip artillery troops across the country. Among them, the maximum range of field cannons was five dry meters, and the maximum range of mountain cannons was three thousand meters.

In January of this year, the guards were reorganized into two infantry gangs, one cavalry gangs, two artillery gangs, one engineer gangs, and one baggage gangs. On the 23rd, the infantry gangs were awarded the military flag to the infantry gangs. This was the beginning of the military flags of the gangs. Later, the infantry gangs of each town were also reorganized into gangs and awarded military flags.

In the fifth year of Meiji, two major events happened in Japan. One was to change the Tokyo Soul Conjuring Club to the Yasukuni Shrine, which was listed as the official currency club. The shrine was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Army and Navy, and the Army spent 7,750 yen of sacrifices every year. After his death, he became the honor of the Yasukuni God, which greatly increased the morale of the Army.

Another thing is the formulation of martial law orders. According to this law, the commander of the army, division commander, brigade commander, fortress commander, etc., in order to guard and maintain order in this regard during wartime or incidents, have the right to declare martial law in accordance with laws and regulations in order to ensure the vigilance of this aspect and maintain order. According to the law, under martial law, the army has great control over the political authority of the people. However, because the focus of the army has been shifted to the defense of foreign countries at this time for training, martial law has not been declared due to the incident, and the army rarely dispatched. Most of the troops dispatched to supplement the shortcomings of the police are mostly responsible for the military police.

In the sixth year of Meiji (1874), the first batch of ship gunboats purchased from the UK crossed the vast sea and sailed to Yokosuka Port in Japan. Among them were three first-class gunboats, iron wooden striking ships with a displacement of 4,500 tons, total length: 92 meters, width: 8.5 meters, draft: 2.2 meters; qualifying: 204 people. Boiler: 2 Type 19 coal-fired boilers, main engine: 2 Type 19 steam turbines, power: 6,200 axes, propulsion: 2 axes and 2 slurries; speed: 15.5 knots, endurance: 3,000 nautical miles and 10 knots. Main gun: 4 130 mm L42 naval guns, torpedo: 2 five-unit 550 mm torpedo launchers (20 lightnings).

There is also a naval war supply ship that the Japanese had ingeniously thought of, named as the solar term, which is named after the solar term such as heavy snow, light snow, and small cold. The hull of this level is very huge, far better than ironclad ships used for naval battles and gunboats of other levels. The empty load displacement is: 10,540 tons, full load displacement: 29,850 tons; total length: 131.7 meters, width: 29.2 meters, empty load draft: 7.4 meters, full load draft: 9.2 meters; total length: 131.7 meters, width: 29.2 meters, empty load draft: 7.4 meters, full load draft: 9.2 meters;

; Qualification: 612 people. The ship is equipped with 4 Type 71 coal-fired boilers, with a main engine of 2 steam turbines, power: 15,000 axes and horsepower, propulsion: 2 axes and 2 slurries; speed: 14 knots, endurance: 14,000 nautical miles and 12 knots. When fully loaded, it can load 10,500 tons of ammunition, 4,500 tons of fresh water, 2,000 tons of food, 1,850 tons of spare parts, and 460 tons of other ones. In such an era, it can definitely be regarded as a maritime giant.

Chapter 136 Arms Increase

Chapter 136 Arms Increase
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