Chapter 12 Chapter 5 The Secret of the Black Dragon Society

However, when World War I broke out, the Japanese invaded Qingdao and exchanged fire with the Germans.In Japan, the headquarters of the Black Dragon Association, chaired by the leader Uchida Ryohei, held a secret working meeting.After the meeting, the Black Dragon Society submitted the "Suggestions on Solving China" to the Japanese government, which stated: We must take this opportunity to change the Chinese republic into a constitutional monarchy, and make it basically the same as our Japanese constitutional monarchy. This is the fundamental essence of reforming the Chinese government.

Why do the Japanese want China's political system to be the same as Japan's?If it's the same, what good will it do them? This answer was not written in the "Suggestions on Solving China", but in the "Memorandum of the Black Dragon Society".Internal name: We should cause the Chinese revolutionaries, the socialists and other frustrated elements to cause a commotion throughout the country.The whole country will be in chaos, and the Yuan government will collapse as a result.At that time, we will choose one of the most powerful and famous people among the 400 million Chinese people, and help him form a new government and unify the whole of China... Now is the most appropriate time for us to instigate the Chinese revolutionaries and frustrated elements to revolt .The reason these people are currently unable to take active action is because they do not have sufficient funds.If the imperial government can take advantage of this fact, give them loans, and instigate them to rise up at the same time, great commotion and chaos will surely spread throughout China.We can come out and intervene and adjust the relationship easily... We should accommodate the Chinese Revolutionary Party, the Royalist Party and other figures who are dissatisfied with the Chinese government to disturb the whole of China.The whole country was disturbed, and the result was the overthrow of the Yuan government.

I see. The Japanese actually don't care what kind of political system China is. They only think about how to kill Yuan Shikai and overthrow Yuan Shikai's regime. So, why did the Japanese insist on overthrowing Yuan Shikai?Did Yuan Shikai recruit them, or did he provoke them? This has to be traced back, that is, the child has no mother, and it is a long story.As early as when Yuan Shikai joined the army as a young man and wrote swords in North Korea, he became the most troublesome figure for the Japanese.In fact, Yuan Shikai isolated the Japanese soldiers on the Korean peninsula for twelve years with his own power.The Japanese admit that if Yuan Shikai hadn't added chaos, the Sino-Japanese War would have been advanced twelve years, and Japan would not have faced so many troubles in dealing with China.

Therefore, the Japanese dispatched 10,000 Japanese soldiers and nine cannons aimed at Yuan Shikai, which drove Yuan Shikai out of North Korea. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Japanese navy wiped out Beiyang, and China completely lost its maritime defense power.But Yuan Shikai didn't expect Yuan Shikai to run out again. He trained troops at a small station and became China's first modern military force. This made the Japanese gnash their teeth, but there was nothing they could do. Not long after, the Revolution of 1911 broke out, and Yuan Shikai entered the power center.He knows Japan better than anyone else, and he knows that Japan has the heart to annex China, so he implemented a foreign policy that is pro-British and American and far away from Japan, which made the Japanese even more suffocated.

In order to get rid of Yuan Shikai's government, Japan's Mitsui Company Senge personally stepped in, appointed Cen Chunxuan as the generalissimo, assembled the anti-Yuan forces in the south, and instigated a vigorous war in China, but in the end, the war did not make any sense. , but fell to the truth. Therefore, the Japanese Black Dragon Association considered and tried to find a way to fool China into implementing the imperial system.Once Yuan Shikai took the road of the system of God, then the Chinese war instigated by Senge would be justified.This one.Second, if Yuan Shikai's imperial system is successfully implemented, it proves that Yuan Shikai does have the power to manipulate China, and the Japanese will rest their minds. In the future, they will have a good relationship with Yuan Shikai in a down-to-earth manner, at least to avoid Japan's future disasters.

There is also a third factor. If Yuan Shikai proclaims himself emperor, the reactionary forces will inevitably rise, and China will probably fall into chaos. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Japan may be able to make another profit. Encouraging Yuan Shikai to proclaim himself emperor, Japan has a lot of benefits but no harm, so why not do it? So the Japanese government and even the underworld all took action to strongly demand that China change its political system. Both Germany and Japan demanded that Yuan Shikai become emperor, which inevitably made Yuan Shikai wonder: what do these two guys want to do?

When he was confused, the British Minister Zhu Erdian came to Yuan Shikai to set up a battle.