Chapter 36 Chapter Thirty-Four

The detection rate of homicide cases caused by so-called internal struggles among extremists is much lower than that of ordinary cases.Although the Metropolitan Police Department has not released exact figures, the detection rate is only around 30% to 40%.Sometimes several of them intercepted on the road, or found out the other party's house, broke into the room and killed them.Every time they commit a crime, they often call the police with a "sanction statement" in the name of the organization.There are not only eyewitnesses but also evidence for such cases, but why is the detection rate so low?Even seriously injured victims are reluctant to give the police the name of the perpetrator.In this regard, there are sharp criticisms in the society, such as "the police stood by and watched the extremists' killing each other" and "the police planned their own destruction".

What if, as Saeki Masako said, the one who killed Doi was not a radical. The phone call "buried the traitor of the ruling class, the traitor of the liberation movement and the class enemy" is a clever disguise. They take advantage of the police's usual practice of not actively solving the case by taking advantage of the cannibalism among the radicals. Make this case go away. Nobuyuki Doi has an old mother and elder brother in Miyazaki Prefecture.They came from Kyushu, brought back Doi's body which had been dissected, and sent it to be cremated.Masako Saeki was the only one who came to the crematorium. Doi had no relatives or friends in Tokyo.

"It was not the radicals who killed Mr. Doi, it was planned by someone who had nothing to do with the radicals!" Saeki Masako said to Doi's brother with certainty. "What kind of people are you talking about who have nothing to do with it?" asked the farmer, blinking. "It's not clear yet. However, Mr. Doi's misfortune is related to the current political situation, that's for sure." "Political situation?" Although Doi's older brother reads newspapers, he has never been interested in politics. "Yes, politics killed Mr. Doi, that's absolutely true."

The elder brother who was born as a farmer seemed to be at a loss when he heard the myth that the aliens descended from the earth and killed his younger brother. Doi Nobuyuki's mother and elder brother went to the police station to meet with the head of the reconnaissance section.The old mother hung the urn wrapped in a white cloth around her neck, and Doi's brother asked Masako Saeki to go with her.The head of the reconnaissance section looked at Saeki Masako with a displeased expression. "Mr. Section Chief, has the murderer who killed Nobuyuki been found yet?" Doi's elder brother asked the Section Chief.

The head of the section looked at the urn hanging on the old mother's neck, reluctantly clasped his hands together to pay tribute, and then turned his face away and said: "Active reconnaissance." "Does the murderer have clues?" "No, we haven't reached that point yet. Cannibalism among extremists is troublesome." "Mr. Section Chief, the murderer is not an extremist. Mr. Doi used to be a CCP activist, and the murderer took advantage of it to publish that kind of false statement in the newspaper!" "Did you come here last time to tell the section chief about this? What's your relationship with Mr. Doi?" The section chief turned to her abruptly.

"I am Mr. Doi's stenographer, and I only have a working relationship. Mr. Doi's job is to write books and speeches for the constitutional party gentlemen." "This has been investigated." "I often work with Mr. Doi. If he is an extremist, they will definitely call or send someone to contact him, but there is no such thing as Mr. Doi. I am his stenographer and work beside him. I understand it best." "Is it?" "If Mr. Doi had been followed by the extremists, he would have been killed by them long ago. Because Mr. Doi's office is in the Adam Hotel, and he works there from morning till night!"

The head of the reconnaissance section turned his face away. "Anyway, we are investigating, and we want to catch the murderer as soon as possible." "Master!" The old woman stood in front of the head of the class and said pleadingly. "Hurry up and avenge Nobuyuki, please. Otherwise, this child is too pitiful." The old woman tapped the urn lightly, and the urn was making a sound. "Okay. Old lady, I will avenge your son." There has been no progress in the detection work. It has been a long time, and the newspapers have not published reports of the arrest of the murderer.

The "Insider" was delivered to the office of each member of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and it was stuck in the mailbox next to the door of the member's office.In the headline report of this day's "Insider Newspaper", the "Member Ranking List" was published, which read: The political situation is bleak, and the future is difficult to predict. Let’s imitate the sumo wrestler rank table and draw a "promotion map". This is well known, but other estimates are difficult to guarantee that there will be no mistakes. Please bear with me.

Toyokozuna's next Prime Minister Masaoshi Terasai Kanagawa native Nishi Yokozuna The next Speaker of the House of Representatives Kenzo Kubuya A native of Hokkaido Members and secretaries often don't read the "House News" in the mailbox and throw it in the wastebasket, but this time the "promotion map" has attracted many congressmen and secretaries. Toyokozuna's "next prime minister" Masaki Teranishi has been "clear" and has not attracted attention.Knowing that it is fictitious, but what is interesting is that there are members below the three main leaders of the party.The name of the congressman who gave special help to the "Yuan Nei Bao" is written in the upper position, which is his "reward". Therefore, by reading this form, one can know who has provided the "Yuan Nei Bao" how much money.

A similarly blatant deal is going on in the office of a certain congressman. The middle-aged reporter of the "Inner Court Newspaper" took the twenty "newspapers" that had just been printed to the secretary's room and gave them to the first secretary.There is a message with a large photo attached! Mr. Keipang Kishibe will join the Terasai Cabinet. Will he be the head of the Defense Agency? The "Inner Court" reporter asked the first secretary to talk about his impressions of the report.He smiled and said "it's okay", and told the reporter to "give two hundred copies to the electoral district", and then handed a sum of money to the reporter.

Masaki Teranishi suddenly resigned to be the next president! The news spread like lightning throughout Nagata Town.Journalists flocked to Sixi Mansion.This happened a week after Sixi returned from a secret investigation abroad. There are only two weeks left for Premier Gui to "cease the regime".A party convention to elect the president of the Constitutional Party will be held in two weeks.At that time, according to the agreement between Gui and Sixi: "President Sixi Zhengyi" was born.This routine activity had been decided long ago, but now there was a sudden change. Teranishi did not meet reporters at the mansion, but planned to meet reporters at Teranishi's office in Kioicho, near Nagatacho.As soon as Sixi came out of the mansion, Mrs. Wenzi always stood at the door to see her husband off, but this day she disappeared.When Sixi got into the car, the reporters flocked to the car, eagerly asking various questions, but Sixi avoided talking about it.He frowned and kept his mouth shut.The reporters gathered around and rushed to take pictures of Masaki Teranishi who walked into the car. The press conference begins.The packed room of journalists was thrilled by the lightning-fast changes in the political world.Sitting in front of the table in front of Tera Nishi were microphones of various shapes, and the flash of the camera kept flickering.After calming down a bit, Si Xi read the prepared manuscript, with a dry tone, his face was pale, with a troubled and depressed expression. "As a result of my discussions with my comrades, I decided to support the current President Gui at this election meeting. I believe that this is the best way to stabilize Japan's political situation at present and in the foreseeable future. In society, there are various opinions about me. This speculation is groundless. Terasishi faction unanimously decided to elect Katsura Shigenobu-kun as the next president." Of course, many reporters in the arena were not satisfied with this simple "statement".A reporter sitting at the front of the press box raised questions. ——What is the reason for suddenly resigning as the next president? "It has not been decided that I will be the next president.: This is something that can only be decided through the election of the party convention." ——I heard that Premier Gui and you have already made an agreement to abdicate the regime? "There is absolutely no such agreement between Mr. Gui and I. These are just speculations. In the democratic society, there is no such thing as the government's private abdication." Teranishi Masaki shook off the successive questions and left quickly. Because Masayoshi Teranishi resigned as prime minister before the party meeting came too suddenly, a strong political whirlwind was set off in Nagata Town.It shocked citizens not only in Nagata-cho, but across the country through TV news and newspapers.This incident fully embodies the warning that "the political situation is uncertain and the future is difficult to predict". The Constitution Party accounts for the vast majority of Congress, and the president of the party is the Prime Minister.Therefore, this emergency is not only a problem within the political party, but a major development affecting the political situation in Japan. Masayoshi Teranishi's speeches on other occasions will definitely not exceed the statement on the resignation of the Prime Minister read at the press conference.The backbone of the Sixi faction and the reporter on duty in the Sixi mansion did not reveal a word. Of course, there is speculation about its true cause.Most of them believed that "there was disharmony between Gui and Sixi", but they didn't know the reason.The two factions are not of one mind, because the interests of the factions restrict their unity and confrontation.The resignation of the regime is an open secret, why did Tera Nishi suddenly resign?The reason is still unclear.The second speculation is that this is a conspiracy of the third faction, Itakura Tuijie faction.In order to prevent Sixi from coming to power, the Itakura faction secretly united with the Gui faction and broke the "Sixi succession" agreement.This last observation seems to reveal something of the inside story.Although Gui Shigenobu verbally agreed to give up the political power to Masayoshi Teranishi, he was actually unwilling.At that time, due to the situation, he had to make a secret agreement with Teranishi, but Gui Shigenobu, who had already concentrated power in his own hands, really wanted to continue to be the prime minister, never give up power easily, and wanted to stay on the throne of power forever .The conspiracy theory of Itakura's resignation can be said to be a sharp view that sees through Premier Gui's true intentions, but it can't grasp any actual material for Itakura.In the Itakura faction, there is no strategist who is so good at conspiring. Some people also speculate that the reason for Terasei's concession is that during his recent visit, he concluded a secret contract with a certain country for a huge amount of commodity loans and export of complete sets of equipment, but commodity loans are also loans in the name of international export of complete sets of equipment. Either way, a contract between governments is required.Therefore, once Teranishi becomes prime minister, its opponents will expand the matter into a case of dereliction of duty. This situation has been revealed in the newspapers. Maybe Teranishi felt that the situation was unfavorable, so he had to give up his appointment as prime minister.Others said that the Gui faction used it as a weapon to threaten Sixi and make him give up his appointment as the current president. But no one thought that Teranishi's voluntary resignation as president was related to the murder of a trivial ghostwriter Nobuyuki Doi.Doi was originally an activist of the "All Together Fighting" at the University of Tokyo, and the "extreme faction group" had notified the police that he was "executed as a class rebel." The person who broke into Nobuyuki Doi's apartment and stole Fumiko Teranishi's letter was not a member of a terrorist group manipulated by Denroku Mihara, the backbone of the Teranishi faction.The various factions of the Constitutional Party are mixed with so-called "hidden elements from other factions".They pry into each other's secrets.In the Gui faction, there are also generals from the same police system as Sanyuan Chuanliu. Through the special intelligence network, they have mastered Sanyuan's activities and preemptively obtained the materials before the Sanyuan operation. For a politician like Masayoshi Teranishi, issues such as dereliction of duty do not pose a great threat to him, and he can try to get rid of it, but the "personal morality issue" involving Mrs. Teranishi is not so simple.Because, when the prime minister attends official ceremony activities and receives foreign heads of state, he should accompany his wife by convention.But if there are all kinds of "gossip" about the wife, it is very inappropriate.Perhaps, the "faith" held by the Gui faction was used as evidence to frighten Masayoshi Teronishi away. ——No one guessed that there was such an unspeakable secret hidden behind Masayoshi Teranishi's abandonment of "assuming the post of Prime Minister for this term". It's a sunny day in mid-December.A sightseeing bus came. "Everyone, this is 1-chome, Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku. The white main hall in front of you is the well-known Diet Building, which was rebuilt in Showa 10 (1935). The building area is about 12,500 square meters, covering a total area of The area is about 52,500 square meters, the height is about 21 meters, and the central tower is as high as 65 meters. On the left of the building complex is the House of Representatives, and on the right is the Senate, and the Congress is in session." The white gloves worn by the tour guide girl are swinging. "Next to the House of Representatives are the bureaus of the Congress and the meeting room of the House of Representatives. On the left side of the road is the House of Representatives Affairs Bureau. To the south is the Congressional Press Hall, and to the left is the Prime Minister's Office." Speaking of this, the girl tour guide raised her voice. "The front is the prime minister's official residence. The current owner of this official residence is Prime Minister Gui Shigenobu. He works in this official residence and also receives ambassadors from various countries here." "Behind the chamber are the House of Representatives Members' First Hall, the Second Hall and the Senate Members' Hall, where the offices of the members are arranged." The girl tour guide changed her hand holding the microphone. "Everyone! The height of this highland is 30 meters. There are slopes in all directions. To the north are Miyake-Zaka, Nisu-Zaka, and Huyu-Zaka. In the east, there is Shiomiba. …Now Kasumigaseki has become Guanting Street. Please look! Below are the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Science and Technology, on the left are the Ministry of Transport, Construction and Autonomous Province, on the other side of the road are the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and on the left is the roof opposite the Imperial Palace On the top is the tower, which is the Metropolitan Police Department. On the right under the slope, there are the Central Union Government Office, the Ministry of Finance, the Accounting and Inspection Office, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.” "As you all have seen, the town of Nagata above the high ground has become the center of the legislative body, and Kasumigaseki below the high ground has become the center of the administrative body. With the combination of the two, this area has become the nerve center of Japanese politics. Thus It seems that it would be more appropriate to change Xiomizaka to 'Political Mizaka'!...Everyone is tired, please visit below." The sightseeing bus kicked up the fine dust of the end of the year onto the roots of ginkgo trees on the side of the road and drove away. It's almost the end of the year now.Although the larks haven't called yet, and the snails haven't climbed the branches yet—but it reminds people of Browning's famous poem "Spring Morning" translated by Toshi Ueda.Although what greeted their eyes was the winter scene of the Nagata-cho generation, it was like spring, a scene of peace in the world. (full text)

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