Chapter 44, "Light Red Japan" and the Birth of "Orb"
Since we want to establish a new political power, the first step is to establish the state system, otherwise there will be no discussion at all.
In this regard, no matter which party it is, there is no doubt about the continuation of the emperor system. According to the tradition and culture of the Japanese nation, the theory of kokutai theory has penetrated into the national thinking since the Meiji period. Even the most radical Japanese Communists have to admit that it is not a wise move to rashly abolish the emperor system at the present time.
Therefore, the state system of the new government of socialist Japan was quickly established as a constitutional system under the emperor and was unanimously approved.
But then a new question arises: Who will be the emperor?
——In the nuclear explosion and poison gas war in Tokyo last October, the entire royal family was basically wiped out, and now only a few distant branches are left. Among them, the Army proposed a candidate who seemed to be quite suitable: the Imperial Army boss, the eldest son of the former Commander-in-Chief of the Home Defense Force, Prince Higashikurinomiya Minuhiko, the grandson of Emperor Meiji, and the staff officer of the Hiroshima Army Regional Force, Higashikuriniya King Shenghou.
Not only is King Higashikata Seihou in his prime and closely related to the royal family, but he is also in Hiroshima right now, so there is no need to bother looking for him. In addition, his parents and brothers were all killed by U.S. atomic bombs, and they had a grudge against the U.S. military for extermination. There was basically no possibility of treason and surrender to the enemy.
But the Navy was firmly opposed. The reason was very simple. They were from the Army, and the Navy was unwilling to let the Army overwhelm them! But someone had to be the emperor after all, so the navy proposed an even more embarrassing candidate - Prince Terumiya Narikonai, the wife of Prince Higashikurugiya Morihou!
——Due to the long-standing tradition of incest in the Japanese royal family since ancient times, the wife of Prince Higashikaru no Morihou, Prince Terumiya Narikouchi, was the eldest daughter of the late emperor, the first child between Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun. On the eve of the nuclear explosion in Tokyo, she happened to give birth to her and Prince Shenghou's first child, Prince Nobuhiko Higashikaru. After confinement, she took the baby to Hiroshima to visit relatives. As a result, the family of three escaped. A calamity...
This proposal immediately shocked the crowd. The Army stated that it was against the law to allow a woman to inherit the throne, but the Navy also argued with plausibility: First of all, Prince Terumiya Narikouchi was more closely related to the late emperor than Prince Tokyuari Palace Shenghou. Recently, if Emperor Showa’s spirit in heaven is known under Izumi , and should also hope that their children can inherit the throne-even if it is a daughter; secondly, everyone meets to establish the country to remove the old and establish the new, and the past royal succession law that discriminates against women should naturally be abolished; finally, in socialist thought, there seems to be This is the one that liberates women!
After a brief period of consternation, the Japanese Communist Party also strongly agreed with the proposal to support Prince Terumiya Narikouchi as the female emperor. Under the circumstances that the emperor system had to be retained, the Japanese Communist Party was most worried about the new emperor in the future. Counterattack and regain power. And if a female emperor is introduced, in Japan, a country where men are superior to women, the new emperor will naturally lack prestige due to gender, making it even more difficult to restore the old system...
Seeing that the proposal to support Prince Terumiya Narikouchi as the female emperor has already received support from most people, it seems that the feeling is similar between making Prince Tokyo no Morihou the emperor and making his wife the emperor. Even the emperor There was no need to change the candidate for the crown prince, so the army had no choice but to hold its nose and acquiesce.
What happened next was very logical: Prince Terumiya Narikouchi was invited to announce to this confused young lady that she had become the new emperor, and the reign title was "Guangfu", in order to clearly restore the country and honor the emperor. The purpose and concept of resisting foreigners... As for the structure of the government under the emperor, there is no time for any inventions and inventions at the moment. We can only continue to use the old system first, and then slowly modify it according to the actual situation.
Then, after the new emperor's enthronement was announced via radio, the famous ancient capitals of Kyoto, Nara, Tokyo and Osaka have now become enemy territory. Even Hiroshima is not safe. If the naval battle fails, there is a risk of falling. . Therefore, for the sake of safety, we unanimously urge the "Queen of the Restoration" to move to Oki Island in the Sea of Japan, so that if she falls into a desperate situation, she can cross the sea and flee to the Soviet Far East.
In response to this, the "Queen of Restoration" smiled bitterly and laughed at herself, saying that she was such a useless emperor that she was about to be exiled to Oki Island just after she ascended the throne...
(Oki Island is a famous place of exile in ancient Japan. Several ancient emperors were exiled here by the shogunate after their "imperial rebellion" failed.)
In addition, the meeting also decided to distribute ten kilograms of rice to ordinary civilians in Hiroshima, and a bottle of beer to navy and army soldiers to celebrate the new emperor's accession to the throne.
After these trivial matters are arranged, the next thing that needs to be decided is the candidate for prime minister. On this issue, the Army still disagreed with the candidate recommended by the Navy, and the Navy disagreed with the candidate recommended by the Army. Finally, someone proposed that Konoe Fumima be the prime minister again. Neither the Navy nor the Army objected to this proposal. Civilians There were many who agreed, but neither the Japanese Communist Party nor the Soviet Union agreed - the Japanese Communist Party stated that it would be the ruling party this time no matter what, otherwise the revolution would be in vain. Representatives of the Soviet Union and the "Comintern" also supported the move.
Therefore, after ensuring that Lord Fumima Konoe would be assigned a suitable position, the Japanese Communist Party got the Prime Minister's seat as they wished... and then immediately started fighting over internal distribution issues - the Japanese Communist Party is now in a state of fragmentation. , there were several party chairmen alone, and they were about to come to power without even negotiating how to re-merge and reorganize... Soon, the leaders of small groups with only two or three big cats and kittens were very self-aware. Withdrew from the competition. Although Professor Hajime Kawakami, the famous red ideological theorist and academic leader, is highly respected, he is too aloof and somewhat ungrounded, and he has not received much support. Although Isao Nakanishi and Hidemi Ozaki made great achievements in Nanyang, their qualifications were too young to overwhelm the elders of the party. In the end, the only contenders for the Prime Minister's seat were Koichi Tokuda, the founder of the Japanese Communist Party, and Sanzo Nosaka, the leader of the "Anti-War Alliance" in the Yan'an prisoner of war camp.
Among the two candidates, Tokuda Kiichi, the founder of the party, is obviously more prestigious and has a large number of supporters behind him. But this guy is from Ryukyu (the name Qiuichi means "Number One in Ryukyu"), and there seems to be a subtle distance between him and the "Japanese" in the true traditional sense, which makes people outside the party slightly suspicious of this - Dongfang The nation is not the Europeans who have become accustomed to having foreign nobles as their kings. Moreover, he had been arrested as a political prisoner before and spent twenty years in a Tokyo prison. Although everyone admired his sacrifice and perseverance, they also felt that Tokuda Kiichi had been out of society for so long. Time, it is not easy to live a normal life. How can you still be the prime minister of a country?
The final mediation plan was to follow the example of the two parties running for president in the United States and separate the positions of party chairman and prime minister. Nosaka Sanzo became prime minister and held real power within the party and the government. Tokuda Kiichi served as the party chairman in name only and made a guest appearance as a human rubber stamp... However, as compensation, if Ryukyu can be recovered in the future, Tokuda Kiichi can be considered to be the supreme leader of the Ryukyu Soviet Republic, and then use it as the supreme leader of the Ryukyu Soviet Republic. The form of a republic was incorporated into the territory of Japan. In this way, this guy can be regarded as returning to his hometown in glory...
——But what no one knows is that Comrade Nosaka Sanzo was actually a latent agent trained by the Soviet intelligence service as early as when he joined the party... There are rumors that Gorbachev is an American agent. This statement It is difficult to confirm whether it is true or false. But Nosaka Sanzo's identity as a Soviet agent is certain. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, this secret was exposed, and the Japanese Communist Party specifically expelled Nosaka Sanzo, who was already 100 years old at the time, from the party...
Now that the candidate for prime minister has been determined, the next step is to arrange a position for Konoe Fumima. Since he has no organizational relationship with the Japanese Communist Party, it is obviously inappropriate for him to join the cabinet. However, because of his family background, he can be allowed to serve as regent, a position that is both noble and without much real power - if an Imperial Council is to be held in the future. , just let him attend on behalf of the Empress, and there is no need to trouble the Empress to come to the base camp from a safe refuge.
——The so-called "Seguan" is the political system of Japan's Heian period. Specifically, it refers to the fact that the Fujiwara clan used the status of a foreign relative to monopolize power from the royal family. "Sheguan" is the collective name of Regent and Guan Bai. When the emperor was young, the minister of Taisheng acted as the administrative official and was called the regent. After the emperor took charge of the government in his old age, the regent was renamed Guan Bai to assist the emperor in taking charge of political affairs. Similar to the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, relatives served as generals (the most famous one was He Jin, the last general).
In the subsequent shogunate era, although the imperial court had lost its power, the system of regents still existed in theory and was followed until the Meiji Restoration.
The "Regent family" refers to the five highest-ranking ministerial families who are qualified to serve as regents and Guanbai, and the Konoe family is one of them. By analogy, because the female emperor, like the infant emperor, does not seem to be suitable for directly handling state affairs, it is normal to establish a regent as an agent.
Next, as a supplement to the regular army, the Red Guards raised by the Japanese Communist Party in various places are still retained. Like the resistance forces organized by other civil society organizations, they are classified as "volunteers" and will be organized and resettled after the war is won...
——After all this wrangling, a "Light Red Japan" wartime government team was finally created:
Empress: The eldest princess of Emperor Showa, Prince Terumiya Narikouchi.
Imperial Husband: King Shenghou of Dongjiure Palace
Regent: Konoe Fumima
Prime Minister: Nosaka Sanzo
Chairman of the ruling Japanese Communist Party: Tokuda Kouichi
Prime Minister: Umezu Yoshijiro
Marine phase: Takeo Kurita
Chief of Army Staff: Okamura Neiji
Chief of Naval Command: Ozawa Jisaburo
Army Education Director, the future General Political Commissar: Zhongxi Gong
Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet: Narumi Inoue
Deputy Chief of Army Staff: Tadamichi Kuribayashi
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There are also several cabinet members below, who can be considered important members in peacetime. But now that the country is in a war system, the highest power belongs to the wartime headquarters, which is to implement the system of "guns commanding the government". Therefore, the real powerful people who really dominate the government are basically the above...
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On the whole, the new government that emerged after the Itsukushima Conference is a hodgepodge of four different governments. It cannot be said to be true socialism, nor true militarism, nor capitalist liberalization. To put it simply, , that is, the Japanese Communist Party and the old army formed an alliance to fight side by side under the banner of expelling the barbarians and saving the country, leaving the remaining issues to be resolved after the war. Let’s call the forces represented by this government “Light Red Japan”!
Therefore, after Wang Qiu carefully studied the structure of this government, he found that it neither looked like the Soviet Union nor any socialist country. Instead, it felt like Nazi Germany! And it still retains the emperor's Nazi Germany - the Japanese Communist Party corresponds to the Nazi Party, the Red Guard corresponds to the SS, the empress and regent correspond to the Kaiser, the navy and army generals of the old empire correspond to the Junkers officer corps, and Nosaka Sanzo, the Soviet agent, is Hitler ……
No matter how you look at it, a wave of purges will break out immediately after the success of the revolution.
But despite this, this is still a great progress for Japan.
As a small and backward country in East Asia, Japan's ability to complete institutional changes and technological accumulation in a very short period of time, and to evolve from a semi-colony to an imperialist power, largely depends on the support of the large chaebols headed by Mitsui and Mitsubishi. They concentrated their efforts on big things and promoted the rapid industrialization of the country while making fortunes. In order to crush the counterattack of the conservative forces, they even used force to protect them.
But the problem is that after the 20th century, the positive significance of the plutocratic system in promoting social progress has become weaker and weaker, and the class conflicts it has caused have become more and more intense. In fact, since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, Japan has fallen into a strange circle: the country has been constantly advocating war, trying its best to make a big pie, claiming that it will let the people live a good life through external plunder. In order to be able to launch a war, it is necessary to strengthen military armaments and collect military expenditures from the people. When the war was over and the wealth was plundered, it was all wiped out by the upper-class plutocratic families, and the lower-class civilians could not even get a sip of soup. On the contrary, they still have to endure the pain of war and industrialization - after the Meiji Restoration, the government's taxes on the lower class civilians were even higher than during the shogunate period.
For such a situation, civilians will definitely have grievances, but the plutocrats who are hard-pressed to give up their wealth refuse to provide benefits to appease them. They just continue to spread the pie and propagate that they must continue to carry out foreign wars and plunder in order to make their lives easier. Then, the plundered wealth continues to be swallowed up by the upper class, falling into an endless cycle of death.
After the world economic crisis in 1929, people of insight in Japan generally felt vaguely that there seemed to be a big problem with their national system, and that if it was not changed, it would lead to a catastrophe. The so-called battle between the imperial faction and the ruling faction in the Army is actually a battle between the reform faction and the establishment faction. However, although the Emperor's Dao Sect held public opinion and was very powerful, they did not find a real path to reform. They only placed their hope in the emperor's holy judgment and the plutocrats' conscience discovery. This is basically the same situation in "Water Margin" in which Song Jiang rebelled against the court but not against the emperor. One set, of course, has basically no possibility of success.
On the contrary, the ruling faction that occupied the upper echelons of the Japanese Army during World War II was backed by the large chaebols headed by Mitsui and Mitsubishi, and they were inextricably linked to each other. Unless there is a civil war, the Emperor's dream of "national reform" has no chance of success.
Since the emperor was also on the side of the ruling faction, even if there was a serious civil war in Japan at that time, the Imperial faction would still not be able to win.
But now, the Japanese Civil War has broken out, and the emperor as a spiritual totem is finished. The major chaebols have become the lackeys of the US military, and are completely on the opposite side of the people, the army, and the royal family. In the past, the ruling faction relied on everything to suppress the Imperial faction. , all of them no longer exist. If you want to survive, you can only change your ways - for example, when the new government takes office as the Army Chief of Staff, The commander-in-chief, Okamura Neiji, was the core backbone of the ruling faction at the beginning, but if he does not actively turn to the left now, his orderlies will use their swords to kill this "traitor who betrayed the emperor"... His Majesty the Showa Emperor You were so favored back then, but now that the Emperor is killed, if you don’t want to loyally avenge the Emperor, but instead want to take refuge in the regicide, are you still considered a human being?
In short, despite all kinds of bumps and bruises, all kinds of unrecognizability, and all kinds of differences, a "Light Red Japan" was finally born successfully.
However, the establishment of this new government only solved the problem of justice and identity among the various resistance forces in the archipelago.
——Given the small geographical space of the Japanese archipelago, the poor products, and the tragic situation of being beaten to pieces, even if the Soviet Union is behind the blood transfusion, it cannot support a hundred troops while maintaining high-intensity land operations. The 10,000-ton fleet is in long-term operations.
The Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet must rely on the rich resources in the Nanyang occupied areas in order to continue fighting with the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
So, under what name should the Japanese navy rule this vast new territory stretching from the Mariana Islands in the north to Australia in the south? It has become an urgent problem that needs to be solved. In view of the socialist nature of the new regime, it is directly Declaring it a colony is obviously not feasible, and annexing it as a territory seems inappropriate for the time being, because it will destroy the red camp’s anti-colonial and national liberation brand...
In the end, this area was temporarily legally assumed to be a trusteeship of the United Nations that had not yet been formally established. The specific status was left to be negotiated in the future. Since it was a trusteeship, it naturally had to have a management agency, and its official name would preferably be Be vague and avoid governmental overtones.
For this reason, after some hard thinking and heated debates with the congregation, we actually came up with a very wonderful name for the management organization:
"...Prepare to establish an 'Oceania Regulatory Board' with a chairman. After public recommendation, Admiral Horikichi, the president of Nanyang Heavy Industries, was appointed to take office. He will be responsible for overseeing all military and political affairs in the Nanyang base area and acting on behalf of the government. The English name of the committee is Oceania Regulatory Board. , abbreviated as ORB, transliterated as Orb... Damn! This really brings out the Orb country in "Gundam SEED"!
After the meeting, looking at the Orb badge and flag brought by Wang Qiu, Senior Ma Tong couldn't help but exclaimed.
"...Art is all derived from reality. The prototype of Orb in "Gundam SEED" was originally the Pacific occupation zone of the Japanese Empire!"
Wang Qiu shrugged, "...In the old empire era, although the Japanese navy and army had never dealt with it, they were unanimous on one issue, that is, they all wanted to get rid of the image of Japan as an "island country", but where to go? The change is that each has its own idea: the navy is determined to build a "maritime country" and make the navy a "ocean-going navy", while the army is bent on building a "continental country" and makes the army a "continental navy". Army".
In our world, the pre-war Japanese used two hands, neither of which was strong enough, and they lost everything in the end. They failed to create a maritime nation and an ocean-going navy, nor a continental nation and a continental army. In the end, they were still a country. An island country is still a semi-colony garrisoned by foreign troops. In today's time and space, the Japanese Army has still failed to conquer mainland countries - unless they consider Australia a real continent. But there is a glimmer of hope for success in building an ocean country...perhaps this 'Oceania Management Committee' will really become a new Japan named Orb in the future! ”
"... Anyway, no matter what, we have finally settled a major matter, and now it’s time to deal with our business!"
Ma Tong curled his lips and said, "...Are you angry with them about printing money? The relevant departments here are already very hungry!" "...Don't worry, arrangements have been made! In order to ensure legality, the first A batch of banknotes is ready to be printed by the Empress herself..."