Great time travel

Chapter 44, "Light Red Japan" and the Birth of "Orb"
Since a new regime is to be established, the first step is to establish a state system, otherwise there will be no way to talk about it later.

In this regard, no matter which side it is, there is no doubt about the continuation of the emperor system.According to the tradition and culture of the Japanese nation, even the most radical members of the Japanese Communist Party have to admit that it is not wise to abolish the emperor system hastily since the Meiji era.

Therefore, the state system of the new socialist Japanese government was quickly established as a constitutional system under the emperor, and it was approved by a unanimous vote.

But then there was a new question: Who should be the emperor?

——During the Tokyo nuclear explosion and poison gas war in October last year, the entire imperial family was basically wiped out, and now only some collateral branches are left.Among them, the army proposed a seemingly suitable candidate: the boss of the Imperial Army, the eldest son of the former commander-in-chief of the Home Defense Forces, the eldest son of King Higashikunimiya, the grandson of Emperor Meiji, and the staff officer of the local army of the Hiroshima Army. King Sheng Hou.

Not only is this King Shenghou of the Higashikuni Palace in his prime of life, he is close to the royal family by blood, but he is currently in Hiroshima, so there is no need to bother looking for it.In addition, his parents and brothers were all killed by the U.S. atomic bomb, and he had a family feud with the U.S. military, so there is basically no possibility of treason and defection to the enemy.

But the navy firmly opposed it. The reason was simple. They were from the army, and the navy didn't want the army to overwhelm it!But after all, someone has to be the emperor, so the navy proposed an even more embarrassing candidate—the wife of King Sheng Hou of Dongkun Palace, Prince Teruomiya Naruko!

——Due to the long-standing tradition of inbreeding in the Japanese royal family since ancient times, the wife of King Morihou of Higashikuni Palace, Prince Terumiya Naruko, is the first child of the late emperor's eldest princess, Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun.On the eve of the Tokyo nuclear bombing, she happened to give birth to her and King Shenghou's first child, King Nobuhiko Higashikurimiya. After confinement, she took her baby to Hiroshima to visit relatives, but the family of three escaped catastrophe...

This proposal immediately overwhelmed everyone. The army stated that it is against the law for women to inherit the throne, but the navy also has plausible arguments: first of all, compared to King Shenghou of Dongkuer Palace, Prince Terugong Chengzi is more related to the late emperor. Recently, if Emperor Showa’s spirit in heaven is known in Quanxia, ​​he should also hope that his children can inherit the throne—even if it is a daughter; secondly, everyone’s meeting to build a country is to get rid of the old and build a new one. Abolition; Finally, in socialist thought, there seems to be a clause about emancipating women!

After a short period of astonishment, the Japanese Communist Party also strongly agreed with the proposal to support Prince Terumiya Naruko as the empress—under the circumstances that the emperor system had to be retained, the Japanese Communist Party was most worried about the future of the new emperor. Counter-offensive reckless, 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, and it will be even more difficult to restore the old system...

Looking at the proposal to support Prince Teruomiya Naruko as the empress, it has already received the support of most people. Thinking about making Higashikuni Gong Shenghou the emperor and his wife the emperor, it seems that the feeling is similar. Even the empress There was no need to change the candidate for the prince, so the army had no choice but to hold its nose and acquiesce.

The next thing is very logical: please come to Prince Terumiya Naruko, and announce to this ignorant young lady that she has become the new emperor, and the proposed year name is "Guangfu", so as to clearly restore the country and respect the emperor. The purpose and concept of expelling barbarians... As for the composition of the government under the emperor, there is no time to make any inventions and creations. We can only use the old system first, and then slowly modify it according to the actual situation.

Then, after the enthronement of the new emperor was announced on the radio, the ancient capitals of Kyoto, Nara, Tokyo, and Osaka have all been reduced to enemy territory, and even Hiroshima is not safe, and there is a risk of falling if the naval battle fails .Therefore, for the sake of safety, all the participants unanimously urged the "Queen of Restoration" to move to Oki Island in the Sea of ​​Japan, so that in case of desperate situation, they could also cross the sea and flee to the Soviet Far East.

Regarding this, the "Empress of Restoration" smiled wryly and laughed at herself. The emperor himself is really useless, and he will be exiled to Oki Island just after he ascended the throne...

(Oki Island is a famous place of exile in ancient Japan. Several ancient emperors were exiled here by the shogunate after the failure of the "rebellion".)
In addition, the meeting also decided to distribute ten kilograms of rice to ordinary civilians in Hiroshima, and a bottle of beer to soldiers in the navy and army to celebrate the new emperor's ascension to the throne.

When these trivial matters are arranged, the next thing that needs to be decided is the candidate for the prime minister.On this issue, the army nominated by the navy disagreed with the candidate, and the navy disagreed with the candidate nominated by the army. In the end, someone proposed that Fumma Konoe be prime minister again. Neither the navy nor the army objected to this proposal. There were also quite a few people who agreed, but neither the Japanese Communist Party nor the Soviet Union agreed. The Japanese Communist Party stated that this time, it must be the ruling party no matter what, otherwise the revolution would be for nothing.The representatives of the Soviet Union and the "Commintern" also chimed in.

So, after assuring His Excellency Konoe Fummo to arrange a suitable position, the Japanese Communist Party got the prime minister's throne as it wished... and then immediately broke their heads because of the internal distribution problem-now the Japanese Communist Party is in a state of fragmentation , there are several party chairmen alone, and they are about to come to power without even discussing how to merge and reorganize... Soon, the leaders of those small groups with only two or three big cats and kittens are very self-aware Withdrew from the competition.Although Professor Hajime Kawagami, a famous red thought theorist and leader of the academic school, is highly respected, he is too high-minded, a little ungrounded, and has not received much support.Although Nakanishi Isao and Ozaki Hidemi have made some achievements in Nanyang, after all, their qualifications are too low to hold down the elders in the party.In the end, the only contenders for the throne of the Prime Minister were the founder of the Japanese Communist Party Kyuichi Tokuda and Sanzo Nosaka, the leader of the "Anti-War Alliance" in the Yan'an prisoner-of-war camp.

Among the two candidates, Tokuda Kyuichi, the founder of the party, is obviously more prestigious and has a large number of supporters behind him.But this guy is from the Ryukyu (the name Qiu Yi means "Ryukyu No. 20"), and there seems to be a slight distance from the "Japanese" in the true traditional sense, which makes people outside the party feel a little suspicious about it—Oriental Nations are not Europeans accustomed to having foreign nobles as their kings.Moreover, he was arrested as a political prisoner before and served [-] years in a Tokyo prison. Although everyone admires his sacrifice and unyielding, they also feel that this guy Tokuda Kyuichi has been out of society for such a long time , it is not easy to be able to live a normal life, how can you still be the prime minister of a country?

The final mediation plan is to follow the example of the two parties running for president in the United States and separate the duties of party chairman and prime minister.Nosaka Sanzo served as prime minister, holding real power in the party and the government.Tokuda Kyuichi served as the chairman of the party in name only, and cameo as a humanoid rubber stamp... However, as compensation, if Ryukyu can be recovered in the future, he can consider letting Tokuda Kyuichi become the supreme leader of the Ryukyu Soviet Republic, and then use The form of the Union Republic was merged into the territory of Japan. In this way, this guy can be regarded as returning to his hometown, returning to his hometown...

——But what no one knows is that Comrade Sanzo Nosaka was actually a latent agent trained by the Soviet intelligence agency as early as the beginning of joining the party... There are rumors that Gorbachev is an American agent. It's hard to tell if it's true or not.But Nosaka Sanzo's identity as a Soviet agent is a certainty.After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, this secret was exposed, and the Japanese Communist Party specifically expelled Nosaka Sanzo, who was already [-] years old at the time, from the party...

Now that the candidate for the Prime Minister has been determined, the next step is to arrange a position for Fumma Konoe.Since he has no organizational relationship with the Japanese Communist Party, it is obviously inappropriate for him to enter the cabinet, but because of his background in the Seguan family, he can be appointed as the regent, a position that is both honorable and has little real power - so if the imperial meeting is to be held in the future , just let him attend instead of the empress, and there is no need to worry about the empress rushing to the base camp from a safe refuge.

——The so-called "Shokan" is the political system of the Heian period in Japan.Specifically, it refers to the status of the Fujiwara clan's relatives to take over the royal family and monopolize power. "Sheguan" is the collective name of Regent and Guanbai.When the emperor was young, the minister of the Taizheng acted as the regent.After the emperor was old and took charge of the government, the regent was renamed Guanbai to assist the emperor in overseeing political affairs.Similar to the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, foreign relatives served as generals (the most famous is the last general He Jin).

In the subsequent shogunate era, although the imperial court had lost its power, the photo pass system still existed in theory, and it continued until the Meiji Restoration.

The "Sheguan family" refers to the five highest official families who are qualified to serve as regents and Guanbai, and the Jinwei family is one of them.By analogy, since the empress, like the baby emperor, seems unsuitable to directly handle state affairs, it is normal to have 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 armed forces organized by other non-governmental organizations, they are included in the category of "Volunteer Army" and wait for the victory of the war before deployment and placement...

——Through the whole process of wrangling, finally came up with such a "light red Japan" wartime government team:

Empress: The eldest princess of Emperor Showa, Prince Terumiya Nariko.

Imperial Husband: King Sheng Hou of Dongjiuer Palace
Regent: Konoe Bunma

Prime Minister: Sanzo Nosaka

Chairman of the ruling Japanese Communist Party: Tokuda Kyuichi
Prime Minister: Yoshijiro Umezu
Marine: Takeo Kurita

Chief of Army Staff: Neiji Okamura

Chief of Naval Command: Ozawa Jisaburo

Director of Army Education, the future General Political Commissar: Gong Xigong

Combined Fleet Commander: Narumi Inoue

Army Deputy Chief of Staff: Tadamichi Kuribayashi

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There are also a number of cabinet members below, who can be regarded as important members in peacetime.But now the country is in a war system, and the highest power belongs to the wartime headquarters, which is to implement the system of "guns commanding the government". Therefore, the real power faction that really dominates the government is basically the above-mentioned...

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On the whole, the new government that emerged after the Itsukushima Conference is a hodgepodge government with four different characteristics. It can neither be called true socialism nor true militarism, let alone capitalist liberalization. Simply put That is, the Japanese Communist Party and the old army formed an alliance to fight side by side under the banner of destroying 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 government structure, he found that it was neither like the Soviet Union nor any other socialist country, but it felt like Nazi Germany!Moreover, the Nazi Germany that still retains the emperor-the Japanese Communist Party corresponds to the Nazi Party, the Red Guard corresponds to the SS, the Empress and the Regent correspond to the Kaiser, the generals of the navy and army of the old empire correspond to the Junkers, and Sanzo Nosaka, a Soviet agent, is Hitler ...

No matter how you look at it, it is the rhythm of a wave of purges that will erupt 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 was able to complete institutional reform and technological accumulation in a very short period of time, soaring to the sky and evolving from a semi-colonial to an imperialist power. They concentrated their efforts on big things, and promoted the rapid industrialization of the country while making a fortune.In order to crush the counterattack of the conservative forces, they even used force to escort them.

But the problem is that after the [-]th century, the positive significance of the plutocratic system in promoting social progress has become weaker and weaker, and the resulting class conflicts have become more and more intense.In fact, since the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan has fallen into a vicious circle: the country has been constantly advocating war, desperately trying to make a big cake, and declaring that it will let the people live a better life through foreign plunder.In order to be able to start a war, it is necessary to strengthen the military and collect military expenses from the people.When the war was over and the wealth was plundered, it was all wiped out by the upper-level plutocratic families, and the lower-level civilians couldn't even get a sip of soup.On the contrary, they have to bear the pain of war and industrialization-after the Meiji Restoration, the government paid taxes to the bottom civilians, even higher than during the shogunate.

For such a situation, the common people will definitely have resentment, but the chaebol, who are hard to give up, refuse to give benefits to appease them. They just continue to paint big cakes and publicize that they must continue to carry out foreign wars and plunder, so as to make life easier.Then, the plundered wealth continued to be swallowed up by the upper class, falling into an endless loop.

After the world economic crisis in 1929, people of insight in Japan had generally vaguely felt that there seemed to be a big problem with their own national system, and that if it was not changed, it would lead to catastrophe.The Army's so-called dispute between the imperial faction and the ruling faction is actually a dispute between the reformist faction and the establishment faction.However, although the Huangdao faction is entwined with public opinion and has a strong momentum, it has not found a real reform path. It only hopes that the emperor's holy judgment and the plutocrats' conscience will find out. One set, naturally, there is basically no possibility of success.

On the contrary, the ruling faction who occupied the upper echelon of the Japanese army during World War II stood behind the big chaebol headed by Mitsui and Mitsubishi, and they were inextricably linked with each other.Unless there is a civil war, the Huangdao faction's dream of "reform of the national system" has no possibility of success at all.

Since the emperor was also on the side of the ruling faction, even if there was a real Japanese civil war at that time, the imperial faction still could not win.

But now, the Japanese civil war broke out, the emperor as a spiritual totem is finished, and the big chaebols have become the dog legs of the US military, and they have completely come to the opposite side of the people, the army, and the royal family. , all have ceased to exist, and if they want to survive, they can only change course—for example, Okamura Neiji, who served as the Chief of Army Staff in the new government, was the core backbone of the ruling faction at the beginning, but if he does not actively turn to the left at this time , his orderly is about to brandish this "rebel who betrayed the emperor" to Tianzhu... How much His Majesty the Emperor Showa showed you, now that the Emperor is killed, if you don't want to avenge the Emperor loyally, you will instead rely on killing The thief of the king, is that still a person?
In short, despite all kinds of bumps and bumps, all kinds of unrecognizable faces, and all kinds of inconsistencies, a "light red Japan" was successfully born after all.

However, the establishment of this new government only solved the problem of the righteousness of the various resistance forces in the archipelago.

——Given the narrow geographical space of the Japanese archipelago, the lack of products, and the tragic situation of being beaten to pieces, even with the blood transfusion from the Soviet Union behind the scenes, while maintaining high-intensity land combat, it is still unable to support a hundred soldiers. The [-]-ton large fleet has been fighting for a long time.

The combined fleet of the Japanese Navy must rely on the rich resources in the Nanyang occupied area in order to continue fighting with the US Pacific Fleet.

Then, what kind of name should the Japanese navy use to rule this vast new territory extending from the Mariana Islands in the north to Australia in the south has become an urgent problem to be solved-in view of the socialist nature of the new regime, directly Declaring it a colony is obviously not feasible, and annexing it as a national territory does not seem appropriate for the time being, because it will smash the anti-colonial and national liberation brand of the red camp...

In the end, this area was tentatively legally assumed to be a trusteeship of the United Nations, which had not yet been formally established. The specific status was left to be negotiated in the future. Since it was a trusteeship, it would naturally have to have a management agency, and its official name would be better. Be vague and avoid government overtones.

For this reason, after much deliberation and heated debate, the participants actually came up with a very wonderful name for the management agency:

"...to set up an 'Oceania Management Committee' with one chairman. After the public recommendation, Admiral Hori Tikichi, the president of Nanyang Heavy Industries, took office. He will be responsible for all military and political affairs in the Nanyang base area and perform the duties of the government. The English name of this committee is Oceania Regulatory Board , abbreviated as ORB, transliterated as Orb...Damn! This really brought out the Orb country in "Gundam SEED"!"

After the meeting, looking at the Orb badge and flag brought by Wang Qiu, senior sister Ma Tong couldn't help but complain for a moment.

"...Art comes from reality. The prototype of Orb in "Gundam SEED" was originally the Pacific occupation area of ​​the Japanese Empire!"

Wang Qiu shrugged, "...In the era of the old empire, although the Japanese navy and army had never dealt with each other, they were unanimous on one issue, that is, they all wanted to get rid of Japan's image as an "island country", but where would they go? Changes have their own ideas: the navy is trying its best to become a "ocean country" and make the navy a "ocean navy", while the army is bent on building a "continental country" and making the army a "continental country". army".

In our world, the Japanese before the war grasped with both hands, neither of which was strong enough. In the end, they lost everything. The island country is still a semi-colony under the garrison of foreign troops.In this time and space, the Japanese army has failed to engage in a mainland country—unless they consider Australia a real continent.But there is a glimmer of hope for success in engaging in maritime countries... Perhaps, this 'Oceania Management Committee' will really become a new Japan named Orb in the future! "

"...Forget it, no matter what, it's a major matter that has been settled, and it's time to deal with our business!"

Ma Tong curled his lips and said, "...Did you get angry with them about printing money? The relevant departments here are already hungry and thirsty!"

"...Don't worry, the arrangements have already been made! In order to ensure legality, the first batch of banknotes is going to be printed by the Empress herself..."