What is the most important thing for an island country that wants to become a powerful country?

Britain gave the answer - Navy!

As for the world, there are two typical island countries, one is Britain after Trafalgar, and the other is Japan after Tsubasa! Unlike Britain's rise through the Industrial Revolution, Japan's rise is first of all the rise of the Japanese navy. //,qb5,\\ After defeating the Qing Dynasty Beiyang Navy, the Russian Far East Fleet and the Baltic Fleet in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese Navy has attracted worldwide attention and become a first-class navy, and Japan has also joined the Fortune of the Great Powers.

From the history of the emergence, development and expansion of this navy, one of the trajectories it has sailed was exactly the trajectories that Japan had sailed. "No navy means no Japan!" Over the years, the Japanese have long been used to this thinking. Since the Japanese-Singapore War, the navy has always been the foundation of Japan and the pride of the Japanese.

Even after the Siemens incident, although "I think of the Navy, I think of the Hon Bingwei, and I think of the kickbacks when I think of Yamamoto!", the Navy's kickbacks really made the Japanese citizens who were sluggish and disappointed to develop the navy, they were still proud of the Japanese Empire's world-class navy.

The early morning of Tokyo on October is no different from other Japanese cities. The rising sun in late autumn tear opens the hazy sky yesterday, and the rising sun spreads in Tokyo to bring a hint of late autumn warmth.

But today, Tokyo is different from usual. The newspaper boys shaking copper bells are running. The copper bells echo over the city, accompanied by the copper bells and the screams of the newspaper boys. It was a heart-wrenching shout. The people who were about to go to work stopped at this time. They bought newspapers in horror, and then stopped on the street to look at the newspapers.

"The First Fleet of the Empire was annihilated by the Chinese plane!"

The front page of the newspaper was in bold text, and the bold text was pierced into people's eyes like a mourning book. People conveyed the news in horror, disbelief, doubt, panic, and all kinds of emotions were reflected on their faces.

Is this true?

Everyone asked so.

The news in Tokyo was one day late. Although Shigeshino Okuma made the choice to "keep confidential" at the first time, the news still reached Japan. The news was from Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Fengtian, Dalian and other places in China. Almost every Japanese newspaper with reporters stationed in China received a telegram from reporters, and each trading company also received a telegram from an agency stationed in China, with only one content - the First Fleet was defeated! They received news from the news announcements of the Chinese government, Lianyungang Radio Station and Chinese newspapers.

Although the Japanese newspaper industry has had close ties with the government since its birth and the Japanese government has always grasped the consistency of the general direction of the news industry, there were still uncontrolled tabloids who broke the news that afternoon. At first, people thought it was a rumor, but today, the three largest newspapers in Japan all issued news with the same content.

Defeated!

People looked at the newspaper in their hands in horror, but they still couldn't believe it was true, the navy! The most proud of their world-class navy was defeated!

This is not the panic of the whole country facing the Luguo Expeditionary Fleet before the 38th Meiji Battle of Tsushima!

It is definitely not the envy and jealousy of the Great White Fleet when it comes to visit!

Not to mention the navy that no one in Britain can challenge!

But he was defeated by the Chinese!

An opponent who was defeated by them, a country without a naval force, actually defeated the Japanese navy in a naval battle, and it was the latest Japanese fleet!

"Kingang", "Hairui", "Hanoi"... These warships that once made the Japanese proud had sank into the cold Yellow Sea at this time, and the fleet that once made the Japanese feel at ease was defeated!

Suddenly, howling sounded out on the streets of Tokyo, and people cried in horror. They couldn't believe it was true at all. They were more willing to believe it was fake news!

Go to the Navy Province!

On the street, I don’t know who shouted first! The shouting immediately received a response from the citizens. The people on the street completely changed their itinerary. The public officials who were supposed to go to work did not take the tram, and even the vendors who were doing business closed the store. For a moment, people rushed towards the Navy Province located in Xiaguan, Chiyoda District.

"Go to the Navy Province!"

"Go to the Navy Province to ask what's going on!"

Amid the screams of people, pedestrians gathered on the streets, gathered from alleys to the streets, from the streets to the main roads, hundreds of thousands of Japanese people walked from dozens of streets toward the Navy Province of Xiaguan. The police who should have maintained order also gave up their duties, and their faces were full of doubts and fear, and the police walked with the crowd.

At this time, the atmosphere in Tokyo was extremely depressed. On the side of the road, Westerners looked at these Japanese with complex expressions in surprise.

"What's wrong?"

"What happened?"

The Westerners couldn't help but ask the people around them, but they saw people on the roadside throwing away the objects in their hands one by one, and even the vendors threw away their goods and ran to Chaoxiaguan with the crowd.

"Japan's first fleet was defeated by the Chinese!"

What?

When William Tom, the former naval officer, heard the news, the teacup even fell from his hands. As a naval officer who had lived in Japan for nearly ten years, he knew clearly that since the Japanese-Singapore War, the Chinese navy was not worth mentioning at all compared to the Japanese navy. How could they sink the "great joint fleet"?

Great United Fleet!

Even for the Westerners, the joint fleet that defeats the strong can be described as great as the weak. In fact, after the Battle of Tsuma, it was the Westerners who first called the commander of the joint fleet Dongxiang "the greatest naval general since Nelson", and the joint fleet was also called "a great fleet" by them.

And now, this great fleet has been defeated!

"No! This is impossible!"

Toms instinctively shook his head and denied that as a businessman, he might not have paid attention to this news, but for him who regarded Marshal Togo as his idol, he left the office in panic and walked towards the Navy Province with the crowds surging outside the door, he also hoped to confirm the authenticity of the news.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the street in front of the Navy Provincial Building, designed by British designer Josia Condell, completed in 1894, was filled with hundreds of thousands of people eager to learn the news. The gates of the Navy Provincial Department were closed, and the police and naval soldiers looked at these citizens in horror. For them, this scene was even more timid than the impact caused by the "Siemens Incident" last year.

However, this time, people did not open the door like the last time, but kept shouting loudly to the Navy Province through the British black-painted iron fence wall.

"Please tell us the truth!"

"What's wrong with the First Fleet!"

"Please tell us that the First Fleet was not defeated!"

"Please tell us, this is a rumor!"

For these Japanese who were struggling to bear heavy taxes that other countries could not bear and established world-class navies, they instinctively hoped to know that the news was fake and that the incident was not true. It was just a rumor made up by the despicable Chinese.

How could the First Fleet with so many new warships be defeated?

How could the Chinese without a navy sink a warship?

A toy-like plane may sink a warship!

They imagined themselves in their hearts with a self-righteous wishful thinking, and they shouted, waiting, waiting for the gates of the Navy province to open, and then a general told them the answers they wished to know.

"Who, who can go out and tell the people this news?"

The Director of the Personnel Bureau of the Navy Department, Muai Yaichi, asked everyone in the office that the current Navy Ministry is in a group of leaders. Navy Minister Yayoro went to the Prime Minister's residence, and Navy Deputy Kantaro Suzuki was said to have taken sick leave yesterday.

The ministers and the second-rank officials are not in the Navy Province. Faced with this situation, it is really a depressing thing. However, after the "Siemens incident" several months ago, officials in the Navy Province were not surprised by this. Last time, the minister "disappeared". The daughter of the Navy's father, Mutaro Yamamoto, who married the daughter of "the Prince of the Caibu", also took sick leave.

Half a year ago, Yamamoto's cabinet fell due to the Navy corruption case, namely the Siemens incident, and almost all the leaders and officers of the Navy Central were replaced. Now most of the leaders and officers of the Navy Province have just arrived in the Navy Province. Who should preside over this matter?

At this time, people quietly turned their attention to Akiyama Matsuyuki, who had just served as the director of the Navy Provincial Military Affairs Bureau half a year ago. The first hero of the Battle of Mahma, was drafted by him when the joint fleet was disbanded after the victory of the Japanese Sea Battle. He was famous all over the world for "Akiyama Literature". In addition, Marshal Togo said that "wisdom is like a tide and magic tricks are wonderful", so he has always enjoyed a lot of prestige among the people. He was named by Congress to participate in the investigation committee during the Navy's corruption case. Now perhaps only he is the most suitable candidate for explanation.

When everyone's eyes were turned to him, a bitter smile appeared on Akiyama's slightly fat face. He knew what it meant to go out to explain to the public, but after a bitter smile, he spoke with a sigh.

"Let me explain to the people!"

After saying that, he stood up and did not bow to everyone lightly as usual, but went directly to his office. In the office, he was silent for several minutes. Listening to the shouts of the people outside the window, the shouts became more and more excited, and finally he sighed again.

"Do something else for Japan!"

Then, he picked up the brush on the table and started writing seriously. After a minute, Akiyama Matsuyuki, who stood up, looked at the words he wrote again. He shook his head and sighed. He opened the drawer, took out a strip wrapped in white cloth from the drawer, unfolded the white cloth, and revealed a delicate short sword, gently stroked the yellow bamboo shell. He remembered his mother, this was the knife left by his mother. When he pulled out the knife, he looked at the short sword with a cold light, and his mother's words appeared in his mind again.

"Care to kill me!"

"If I kill you, I will commit suicide!"

When he was a child, Akiyama was very naughty and led his neighbors and children to play war games. He learned to make fireworks by himself in the book. Because his mother Shin-chan pulled out her knife and said this, Akiyama was restrained.

After separating the short knife from his waist, Akiyama Masayuki carefully sorted out his appearance, then stood up and walked out of the office.

"Please!"

After he left the office and walked out of the building along the corridor, several colleagues bowed to him, but he just walked steadily. In the navy, almost all the generals knew that after a Japanese-Lu War, Akiyama Matsu could not bear the mental pressure and became a strange man. After the end of the Tsuma Navy, the first four words of his summary report to the Military Command were: "God helps God bless", and then he became a little nervous, but no one would despise this Akiyama staff officer. In fact, everyone understood that he was also tired of the Japanese-Lu War, which was related to Japan's national destiny. There was a saying in Japan: "The Japanese-Lu War is going to go to Gentaro Gen, and the spirit of Akiyama Matsu."

Akiyama Matsuyuki was essentially a literati. He was fooled by his brother Akiyama. In fact, he was not suitable for such a battlefield full of killing. After the Japanese War, Akiyama Matsuyuki asked to retire and become a monk, but if he did that, he would be embarrassed, so Akiyama's request was never approved. The Japanese government not only refused to approve Akiyama's request, but also promoted Akiyama to a title. Half a year ago, he appointed him as the most important director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Navy Province, Lieutenant General. After Akiyama Matsuyuki, wearing a lieutenant general, walked out of the Navy Province building, the people in front of the building immediately calmed down.

"Look, a lieutenant general came out!"

"It's Akiyama's Chief Inspector!"

"Staff Officer Akiyama should give us an explanation!"

In Japan, people rarely call Akiyama Matsushita a general, but instead use the title of "Akiyama Staff" by Marshal Togo, which is actually a kind of praise and praise. For them, Akiyama Matsushita is the Akiyama Staff who helped Japan win the Japanese Sea War.

"Staff At Akiyama is here!"

When Akiyama Masayuki walked out of the gate, people took the initiative to make way for the place and looked at the people who looked at him with anticipation. Akiyama Masayuki sighed in his heart.

This time the navy really failed the people!

"Staff Officer Akiyama, please tell us that the First Fleet did not fail!"

"Yes! Staff Akiyama! Please tell us!"

“As long as you tell us, we believe it!”

Amid the people's shouts, Akiyama Masao bowed deeply to the people before saying.

"This time, the Navy really disappointed you, I'm really sorry!"

What!

Although Akiyama Matsuyuki's voice was not loud, his words still came. After the initial surprise, a burst of crying suddenly burst out from the voices of people on the street.

"Baga! It was the navy's corruption that destroyed the fleet!"

"That's right! If it weren't for the generals' corruption, the great joint fleet wouldn't have failed!"

As such remarks came out, the emotions of the crowd changed, anger suddenly replaced sadness, and boundless anger rushed away people's reason. People who had previously cast respectful eyes on Akiyama glared at the "Akiyama Staff Officer".

"The Navy apologizes!"

"Spit up apologize!"

Angry roars overwhelmed the waves, and some people wanted to rush towards Akiyama Matsushi. When the guards in front of the Navy saw this, they rushed forward to protect Lieutenant General Akiyama. The soldiers blocked the people with rifles and tried to escort Lieutenant General Akiyama to the yard, but at this time they saw Lieutenant General Akiyama's neuroticism attack, and he actually walked towards the people.

"You are a reporter!"
To be continued...