The Meiji government's policy of establishing a centralized and unified state and carrying out bourgeois reforms in the political, economic, and cultural fields was soon opposed by feudal conservative forces, and many uprisings occurred.In the summer of 1872, Shimazu Hisamitsu, who had been dissatisfied with the return of the copyright and the abolition of the feudal domain, wrote to Emperor Meiji and put forward 14 proposals, openly challenging bourgeois reforms. oppose civilization and educational reform; oppose the imitation of the British and French reform system; oppose equality among the four peoples and intermarriage, etc.After that, he sent people to Beijing to conspire and demand the removal of Okubo and other officials.The government did not accept his proposal, and in December 1873, in order to ease discontent, Shimazu Hisamitsu was appointed as an adviser to the cabinet.But this compromise did not change Shimazu's opposition to government reform.In January 1874, he again opposed Okubo and others' policies and threatened the government by returning to Kagoshima.On July 23 of the same year, Shimazu Hisamitsu, who was then the Minister of Zuo, submitted a "letter of inquiry" to the ministers Sanjo and Iwakura, accusing the Meiji government of "changing the uniforms of the former kings to Western uniforms", "changing the calendar to Western calendars", and all government ministries "imitating the foreign system", adopting the "foreign style" of the school system and the military system, "serving as the secretary of the provincial government", and "reviving civil engineering that is not urgently needed", etc., and insisting on the restoration of uniforms, school systems, the military, taxes, and so on.Shimazu also threatened that if he did not accept the immediate, he would not be able to serve in his own position, and he would petition for his resignation and demand that Okubo be removed from his post.As for other personnel arrangements of the government, he demanded that Osumi be dismissed from his post quickly, recalled to Saigo and Itagaki, and reinstated to his post.He did not participate in politics until he was exempted from the Senate, so as to force the government.These anti-government demands were unacceptable not only by Okubo and others, but also by Sanjo and Iwakura, who were accommodating to Shimazu Hisamitsu.Okubo was born in Satsuma, and because Shimazu was the lord of the former domain, there was no open confrontation.However, Hizen Saga did not have any worries, and resolutely pointed out: "Unlike in the past, I am now a courtier.Why did a courtier go so rashly because of an old feudal lord?"
because of the counterattack of the revolutionary forces, the reactionary demands of Shimazu could not be realized.In the end, he was forced to retire.When Shimazu and other old feudal forces rebelled against the government, the old gentry, dissatisfied with the Meiji Restoration, openly launched a rebellion against the government.The first outbreak occurred in Saga, and on February 1, 1874, the Saga clan established the "Seihan Party" in December 1873 and the "Kokukoku Party" in January 1874.The two parties are led by former Senator Eto Shinpei from Saga and former Akita Prefecture Yoshiyoshi Reijima.In January 1874, Eto Kazushima was welcomed back to Saga from Tokyo and then from Akita.Indignant at the defeat of the Korean faction, the Korean Party advocated an immediate conquest of Korea and demanded that the Korean military be sent as an opportunity to establish national power.At that time, Eto wanted to use the power of the two parties to conquer Korea and worry about the country to bring the cabinet meeting back to the expedition to Korea.The Kuokuo Party, on the other hand, opposed the various reforms carried out by the government, and demanded the reactivation of the "elders of Zhongxing" Shimazu Hisamitsu, Saigo Takamori, and Eto Shinpei, to implement the feudal county system at home and conquer Korea and China externally.They gathered more than 3,000 warriors, mistakenly believing that Saigo would raise troops in Kagoshima and Itagaki would raise troops in Kochi, and that the warriors of Kyushu and Shikoku would echo each other, and it would be easy to succeed.On February 4, 1874, Eto robbed the Onogumi Bank, grabbed 200,000 yen in funds, and launched an armed rebellion.When news of the Saga Uprising reached Tokyo, the Imperial Governor ordered the Ministry of War to dispatch Jintai troops from Kumamoto, Tokyo, and Osaka to suppress it on the 4th and 7th.On February 10, the government sent Okubo to Kyushu.On the 18th, Saga Castle was occupied.From the 22nd to the 23rd, the rebellion was put down.After Eto and Shima escaped, they were arrested and beheaded in Kagoshima.In March 1876, the government issued an order to abolish the sword, and in August, it issued the Jinlu public bond, announcing the abolition of the suffocation system.As a result, the nobles became even more angry.In October 1876, more than 200 members of the Kumamoto former Shi clan organized the Shin Worship Party to propagate the idea of national quintessence, advocate the practice of Shinto politics, and oppose government reform.Attack on the county government and barracks on October 24, 1876; Killed the commander of the county order and the town platform.But the uprising was quickly suppressed by the Zhentai soldiers.Under the influence of the rebellion of the Worship God Party, 400 members of the former Akigetsu clan in Fukuoka Prefecture formed the Akitsuki Party, expressing their dissatisfaction with the government's handling of the Korean conquest issue, and clamoring for the expansion of national power, and on October 27, 1876, they launched a rebellion in cooperation with the Worship God Party.But it was also immediately suppressed.The news reached the mountain pass, and the old warriors then rebelled in October of the same year.Its leader was Hagiwara Kassei, who was appointed governor of Echigo in February 1869, a member of the government council in July, and Daisuke of the military department in December after Masajiro Omura.In September 1870, dissatisfied with the policies of the new government, Maehara resigned and returned to his hometown of Hagiyamaguchi Prefecture in Choshu.On October 27, 1876, more than 100 people led by the former Hara, based on the old feudal school "Meironkan", raised the banner of the "Martyrdom Army" and seized the weapons and ammunition of the Ogi smelter in an attempt to attack Yamaguchi.The government has to report and immediately send the army and navy to suppress it.On November 5, Ogiwara was arrested and executed in Shimane Prefecture, and on the 5th, the martyrdom army was defeated in Ogi.In October 1873, after the defeat of the Korean Rebellion, about 300 Satsuma-born soldiers, including Saigo Takamori and his cronies Guards Major Generals Kirino Toshiaki and Shinohara Kunikan, as well as 300 Satsuma police officers from the Imperial Palace, Murata Shinpachi, and the Ministry of Justice's Counselor and Security Department, resigned and returned to Kagoshima.In June 1874, under Saigo's leadership, a private school was established in Kagoshima City.In addition to the main school, there are 136 branches in Kagoshima City and various villages in the prefecture.The Kagoshima Prefectural Government is responsible for all private school expenses.It continued to grow in size, reaching 30,000 students one year after its establishment.The program of the private school set by Saigo is: "First, the Tao is the same as the righteous association, and the secret assembly is the essence of learning. ”The so-called morality is nothing more than loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness; The so-called respect for the king and compassion for the people means to be loyal to the monarch and rule the people.In Kagoshima Prefecture, taxes are hardly paid to the central government, and officials such as district chiefs and household heads below Oyama Tsunora are only nominally subject to the central government's regulations.District chiefs and household chiefs are all cadres from private schools, and most of the police officials are also occupied by the party of private schools; The entire administrative organization of the county was in the hands of the private school party.The district chiefs were all soldiers, and in the later rebellion, they were dispatched as captains.In this way, Kagoshima Prefecture effectively became an independent local warlord regime, with Saigo as the supreme authority.The head of the local administration directs the branch campuses in each locality.In this way, a military system was established with Saigo as the leader and could launch an uprising at any time.In order to restore the privileges of the feudal samurai, the old scholar class resolutely opposed the equality of the four people, the reform of land taxation, and the consolidation of ranks.When the government promulgated the regulations for the issuance of Jinlu bond certificates in August 1876, it greatly stimulated the old scholars.So Murata Shinpachi exclaimed, "With Saigo as prime minister, it is our task today to carry out his ambitions." ”4In late December 1876, Okubo sent more than 20 police officers from Kagoshima, including Nao Nakahara, to Kagoshima to conduct reconnaissance under the pretext of visiting relatives.Soon after, the private school party arrested Nakahara, interrogated him harshly, and forced him to confess that he had received a secret order to assassinate Saigo from the hands of the chief police officer Shikawa Lu Liliang.In late January 1877, in preparation for the Saigo Rebellion, the government ordered the weapons and ammunition from the Army Powder Depot in Kagoshima to be shipped to Osaka.When the members of the private school learned the news, they immediately attacked the army's powder magazine and the navy's shipyard, stealing weapons and ammunition.On February 2, the leaders of private schools such as Kirino and Shinohara supported Saigo and launched a rebellion.On February 15, 1877, Saigo led a rebel army to attack Kumamoto from Kagoshima under the banner of "New Deal Houtoku".The rebellion was echoed by the former Shishi clan, who arrived from all over Kyushu and other regions, and the rebels numbered at a peak of about 420,000 men.When Okubo learned that Saigo was going to rebel, he insisted that "the matter should be straightforward, upright, announce the guilt, and beat the drum to ask for it." ”On February 19, an edict was issued to conquest of the mob in Kagoshima Prefecture, appointing Prince Arisugawa Miyashihito as the governor of the conquest, and Vice Admiral Yama Yama Aritomo and Vice Admiral Kawamura Junyoshi as the conscript.On the 20th, the Governor of the Expedition set out from Tokyo with an army of 58,000 men and arrived in Fukuoka on the 26th.Eleven warships of the Navy were also involved in the war, and the Mitsubishi Steamship Company was tasked with military transport.The Saigo Army, which went north, surrounded Kumamoto Castle and could not be conquered for a long time.On March 2, the expeditionary forces occupied Taharasaka, north of Kumamoto.Prior to this, Lieutenant General Kiyotaka Kuroda had led a brigade from Nagasaki on March 14 and landed on March 19 in the area of Hinaku and Yatsushiro, attacking the rebels from the flank, leaving Saigo vulnerable to the enemy.On April 14, Kuroda's army broke through the siege and entered Kumamoto Castle, which had been besieged for 50 days.On April 15, the Xixiang Army began a full retreat.President Moe not only paid attention to, but also learned a lot about the geography and military information of the Japanese.President Moe doesn't know much about history, but the Meiji government won, and this is known, otherwise why is it still the Meiji government ruling the Japanese shogunate, and this kind of feudal and decadent rule cannot stop the progress of new reforms like the Meiji Restoration.In fact, China is the same, in the original history, the Guangxu period failed to change the law, and then the common people let the Qing court turn into ashes President Meng did not think of forcibly supporting Saigo Takamori's samurai army, but to help the samurai army, prolong the war, increase the degree of destruction of Japan, President Meng is willing."
President, is it time for a lunch break?"
asked Princess Katrina Kaf.President Meng stood up, drank all the grape juice, and suddenly smiled, "It's good to sleep every day and not have to work." ”Princess Katrina Kaefu and Lee Tae-hee looked at President Moe curiously.t1706231537: