After Higakurimiya knew that he was "personally selected" by the Emperor to be the prime minister, he could hardly refuse.

"In this serious situation, I cannot only consider personal happiness," he said firmly to Kido on the morning of May 16,

"If I am useful to the country, I will happily accept this position." However, before making up his mind, he must first understand the current situation.

Kido told him that the Chinese side asked to quickly send a liaison officer who could represent Japan to Jeju Island.

"So, it is necessary to establish a cabinet as soon as possible. At present, we have no way to deal with the Chinese. Any delay will arouse doubts from China and make our situation even more difficult." Last night's attempted coup made it necessary to choose a person respected by the Army. "If you don't accept this position, you will cause great anxiety to the Emperor."

Higakurei thought secretly: The burden of leading a defeated country would be heavy and troublesome, but he knew that he could control the rebellion of the opposition within the army through his colleagues in the army, who himself had the title of general. Once Japan's future was settled, he could resign.

"I'm going to take the lead in forming a cabinet."

Before noon, Hanjing arrived at the note of Japan's surrender, and the base camp ordered the navy and army to stop hostilities. In addition, the emperor also ordered the three royal families to go to headquarters overseas to rest assured that the decision to surrender was from his own will.

The open rebellion still tortures the local area. Atsugi Air Force pilots circulated thousands of leaflets over the Tokyo area, accusing the important officials and Akira Koiwa, of leading the emperor astray. Their leader, Colonel Kotori, was still arrogant in front of a general.

He attacked and said that the Emperor must be crazy before he surrendered; the war must continue. But the rebellion collapsed. That night, the disorganized Koyuan scolded Amaterasu and had to take him into control. He injected him with morphine, put on a cloak, and sent him to a naval hospital.

Oita base—the airport where General Ugaki set out to carry out Japan's last "Kamikaze" attack mission—is also full of rebellious atmosphere. Ugaki's successor, veteran Lieutenant General Kusato Ryunosuke of the battles in Pearl Harbor, Midway, and other battles, brought all the senior officers together. A group of younger officers also came uninvited with hostility.

Caolu said that he knew that some of them, out of patriotism, believed that the war should be fought - but, "as long as I did not roll my eyes (that is, I am still alive), I will not allow me to act rashly." Those who were determined to rebel must first "break me into pieces". He closed his eyes and expected someone to kill him. Yaque silently - it seemed endless. Then Caolu heard someone crying, and he opened his eyes.

"Your lecture calmed our minds," admitted a young officer. He and several other officers promised to control his subordinates. Caolu looked around the room. "How about your older officers? Does anyone among you disagree with me?" No one said anything. "If anyone changes his mind, please feel free to see me. I don't have Jingwei at night. The weather is very hot, and I sleep (unprepared)."

That night, he was woken up by a shout, "Sir! Sir!" It turned out to be a fanatical Nakasa, holding a pistol in one hand and a knife in the other. He said that he had just received the "revelation" of the gods, and unless Japan launches the last battle, there would be no future. "According to God, only the chief can lead us."

The deer stared at him. "You can believe the prophecy of the gods, but I can't do it - maybe I have not received enough religious training. No matter what, it was the Emperor who ordered me to perform these duties. I can't believe in any God, but I can only believe in myself." He felt that time would solve the problem of this young man, so he suggested that he take a plane to Tokyo to report this revelation of God to the commander-in-chief of the United Fleet, the Minister of the Navy and the Prime Minister.

That night, the new prime minister was unable to sleep because he was under pressure of responsibility he had not wanted to take. Hiromiya remembered an accident that he had long forgotten. This happened twenty-five years ago when he was still in France. He told an old fortune-telling lady that he was a painter. She looked at his hand and looked up and said, "This is a lie. You will be the prime minister in the future." He burst into laughter and admitted that he was a prince and an officer. "In Japan, royal family and army generals cannot be politicians as usual. How could I be the prime minister?"

"There will be a revolution or something big happening in Japan. You will be the prime minister."

At 11:00 the next morning, that is, on May 17, he submitted the proposed list of cabinet members to the Emperor. Only Minai maintained his original position. Togo refused to serve as foreign minister, and his ex-girlfriend Shigekimizu took over, and Kotoshi took over the position without any responsibility. The other candidates for the Emperor agreed.

The first mission of Xinzhèng fu was to send a delegation to Jeju Island and arrange the surrender of the troops on various battlefields with the Chinese side. The leader of the delegation was Umezin's deputy, Lieutenant General Tsushiro Kawabian. Because the pilot who was afraid of rebellion intercepted the delegation's landlines, he took some precautions. Shortly after dawn on May 19, sixteen delegation members came to Haneda Airport. They took several small planes and idled over Tokyo Bay for a few minutes before landing at Kitakatsu Airport. Here are two Mitsubishi bombers, which were full of bullet marks and looked like cigars, waiting for them. According to MacArthur's instructions, the plane was painted white and a large green cross was painted.

After the delegates boarded the plane, the pilot opened the sealed order: the destination, the Five Islands Islands. Two "Betty" flew west together. When they flew over Kyushu, the delegates saw a team of planes aimed at them and were very anxious.

But after a closer look, I found that there was a Chinese military logo on the fuselage, so I felt relieved, so the two bombers had more than a dozen fighters to protect them. The Japanese aircraft issued a secret code: "Batan", and the other party issued a reassuring answer: "We are the guards of Bataan. Come with us."

The group of extremely unharmonious planes flew over the South China Sea for an hour and a half before the Five Islands archipelago appeared in front of them. The first bomber landed safely at the airport; the pilot of the second bomber forgot to lower the landing flap, and the plane almost rushed out of the runway. Fortunately, it landed on the coral. The fuselage shocked and stopped, and then slowly shaking to the apron. The representatives stepped out of the landing plane, and hundreds of Chinese Navy and Army personnel rushed up, surrounded them, and took photos.

Sixteen representatives changed to a four-engine Giant Spirit bomber. They had lunch on the plane, each with a box. Two Chinese soldiers brought them orange water. Senior representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Katsuo Okazaki made a gesture to the secretary and asked him to tip each Chinese soldier of ten yuan.

The result puzzled them. The two Chinese soldiers did not receive the tip equivalent to their monthly military pay. They turned around and left coldly.

When it was almost dark, the giant god arrived at the Jeju Island Airport. The general by the river led the delegation through the apron and came to the Chinese representative closest to the delegation, Li Yongze, the translator of Qian Sihai. When Li Yongze raised his hand to salute, he saw Okazaki reaching out his hands and walking towards him.

Li Yongze clenched his fist with his right hand, and raised his thumb up as an informal salute - in order to avoid shaking hands with the enemy, he practiced this movement twenty times in front of the mirror. Then, Li Yongzeer accompanied the delegation to Major General Wang Xijing, the intelligence minister of Qian Sihai. Thousands of soldiers, residents and journalists surrounded him, and the camera kept ringing, and Okazaki sounded like he was firing machine guns at a strange animal.

Hebang and Wang Xijing were riding in the same car.

The narrow street leading to Dewey Street was already crowded with curious people. The Chinese soldiers were still calm, but the indigenous residents of Jeju Island were hostile. Many people shouted "Eight Patterns!" or threw stones. When they got off the bus, the Japanese looked straight at the front.

They had just settled in an apartment in a two-story building near the Jeju Island Hotel and brought them a dinner with chicken. A few years later, they recalled that they were still "relished" when they recalled the meal. After dinner, they took a bus to the city hall and were taken to a large conference table to take a seat, with Chinese people sitting opposite them.

Facing Qian Sihai's chief of staff Fang Zhengong by the river, Fang Zhengong read out the No. 1 general order, specifying who should the Japanese troops in various places surrender to.

The formal surrender ceremony will be held on a Chinese warship in Tokyo Bay in early September. Japanese representatives were ordered to list all troops and ship deployment locations, airports, submarines and "human torpedo" bases, ammunition depots and minefields, etc.

And from the moment the surrender letter was officially signed, Japan must dismiss all armed forces, all weapons, as well as stock weapons, ammunition, and industrial equipment for manufacturing weapons within one month, and must be fully delivered to the Chinese military within one month.

If it fails to do so as required, it will be deemed that Japan has unilaterally restarted the war.

The meeting continued the next morning. Fang Zhengong handed over a draft of the "surrender document" to be published by the emperor. The riverside did not catch it and fell on the table, and then picked it up carefully. According to the observation of a Chinese naval officer, it seemed to be some deadly poison. The riverside pushed the document to his assistant. Lieutenant Sadao Otake, a graduate of Northeastern University, said, "Yakuse!" ("Translated!")

The first sentence - "I, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito" - made Otake's face pale suddenly! The emperor never used "Vadakusi" ("I"), but used "I" that only he could use, that is, the emperor's claim. He listened by the river, with his hands crossed and his eyes closed, as if he was very painful. As soon as he heard "Ovari" ("End"), he slapped the table and said, "Himayi!" ("End")

Li Yongzeer is an expert in Japanese issues. He knew very well how insulting it would be for the Japanese to write such unfair words to the emperor - it was obvious that the Japanese representatives were "to die on their chairs". In the apartment, when the Japanese were packing their luggage and returning home, Li Yongzeer and Wang Xijing tried to convince Kawabata and Okazaki to rest assured.

"I can be sure," Li Yongzeer said in Japanese, "The Supreme Commander did not intend to belittle the Emperor in the minds of the Japanese." He told them not to care about the wording of the documents - he would talk to Qian Sihai in person. He asked them to draft themselves "according to the formal format of the edict and end with a habitual ending." Li Yongzeer explained to Wang Xijing his promise to the Japanese. Wang Xijing could not understand why the Japanese were so frowning.

"General Wang Xijing," Okazaki said in English, "this is crucial. I really can't explain to you how important it is!"

When the delegation left Rosario, Otake introduced himself to a Japanese-Chinese man standing guard. The Jingwei also told him that his surname was Gaocun. In China, Otake married a Japanese-Chinese man, who also had a surname named Gaocun. "Do you have a sister named Yodo?" Otake asked. The sentry nodded. Otake said, "I am his husband." The two shook hands. "Let me find me when you arrive in Japan," Otake said to his brother-in-law when he got on the car.

General Fang Zhengong thought that Li Yongzeer was right to ask the Japanese to revise the wording of the document, but asked him to explain it to Qian Sihai. Qian Sihai hugged the colonel's shoulder and said, "Li Yongzeer, you handled it very correctly. In fact, I really have no intention to belittle him in the minds of his people (referring to the Emperor). "Japan zhèng fu, who can best maintain order through Hirohito. He even asked, after arriving in Tokyo, His Majesty the Emperor, I don't know if he would come to visit him. "If he comes, it will be the first time the Emperor of Japan has visited someone else, right?"

"Yes, general, will come. I'm sure he will do that."

After returning to Jeju Island, the deputies found that a Mitsubishi aircraft could not take off and return to Japan. Several deputies said that this might be someone's destruction, but Otake found it ridiculous - the one that could not take off was a landing plane. By the river, Okazaki and six others boarded another bomber and began a long-distance flight back to China. Okazaki dictated a memorandum, recorded by his subordinate official Takeuchihiro. But the general of the river was pondering and looking forward to the future promised by the Chinese. "If humans can exercise justice and humanity in mutual relations," he later wrote, "the terror of war is likely to be avoided. Even if the war unfortunately breaks out, the winner will not be arrogant, and the pain of the loser will be relieved immediately. A true civilized power is the first prerequisite."

After the sun set, cool air whizzed in through the bullet holes of the fuselage in the dark. In order to warm up the body, the representatives drank the liquor produced in China and finally fell asleep. At about 11 o'clock, the pilot woke them up and said that a fuel tank leaked oil, so he had to fly to the nearest land. If he couldn't fly and fell into the sea, the plane could only float on the water for a while. He asked everyone to put on their life jackets.

What they were most concerned about was the documents - if they were lost, the Chinese would think it was intentional delay in the surrender ceremony. The documents were handed over to Okazaki, an athlete who represented Japan at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924.

The engine slowly stopped rotating and the fuselage began to descend. Looking from the window, Takeuchi saw the sea under the fuselage flashing. He tried to tie his life jacket, but his fingers were so cold that he was out of control. Except for Okazaki, everyone silently supported the seat in front with their hands, and their heads were drooping. Okazaki clutched the precious documents with both hands. The plane jumped into the sea, and the sea water splashed on the window. It ran into something like a stone slivering across the water surface, and stopped immediately.

The oil barrel turned over and rolled over Takeuchi. He heard someone shouting, "We're okay!" Takeuchi touched his face, sticky, thinking it was blood, but in fact it was oil. The pilot opened a side door. The sea water poured in, Takeuchi hoped to climb out before the plane sank. Then he found that the pilot was standing in the water, the water was only knee-deep.

Okazaki bumped his forehead and was drowsy. He staggered out of the plane and waded to the shore. In front, Mount Fuji reflected under the moonlight.

In fact, Chen Shao didn't think much about Japan's future and was not at all worried.

First, he never thought of occupying Japan because it was unrealistic. Japan is a very strange nation. Many of them are derived from Chinese civilization. They have their own unique civilizations in this civilization, and their shared hatred of the enemy is extremely prominent. Unless Chen Shao makes up his mind to exterminate the entire Japan.

Second, no one in Asia will share victory with China, because the war is borne by China. This will reduce a lot of worries. As long as it is what China wants, there is no need to care about anyone.

Chen Shao's attitude can also be clearly seen from the conditions against Japan in the Hanjing Declaration. He can recognize Japan's existence, but Japan can only be a "vassal state" of China. Although the title "vassal state" has not been written, this point can be explained by the fact that garrison and exemption of compensation from an industry that must maintain its economy indefinitely and can repay goods indemnities. This means that Japan will strictly prohibit its own armed forces in the future, and the economy will be the same. Except for those industries that can maintain its own economy, the rest must be given to China unconditionally in the form of repayment. This is already a vassal state than a vassal state, so there is no need to write the word "vassal state".

This is not as troublesome as Japan surrendered in World War II later, because there is only one cake, but more than one person sharing the cake. Once the distribution is uneven, conflicts will naturally arise. In later generations, it is well known that Japan and Russia have never signed any peace agreements. To put it clearly, since World War II, the state of war between Japan and Russia has not been lifted.

At the end of World War II in later generations (the following are real history!) The United States is more troublesome to deal with the Soviet Union than Japan. Stalin asked for a larger portion of the trophy. In his telegram to Truman, he said that the Kuril Islands were "rewarded" to the Soviet Union at the Yalta Conference. He proposed that the Japanese army in the northern half of Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, was surrendered by the commander of the Far East Army.

...The latter suggestion has special significance for ****.

As we all know, later Japanese troops occupied the entire Far East of the Soviet Union between 1919 and 1921. If the ** army did not occupy part of the Japanese mainland, the *** would feel very insulted.

I deeply hope that the above modest suggestions will not be opposed.

In later World War II, Truman was very annoyed. He replied that he could agree to the suggestion about the Kuril Islands, but he should also make it clear that the Soviet Union wanted to establish an air force base on an island in the Kuril Islands. He did not give in to the issue of Hokkaido. The current arrangement for the surrender of the Japanese troops on the four main islands must be maintained.

Stalin also became popular. Two days later, on August 22, he replied that the question about Hokkaido "was not expected to get such an answer." As for the Soviet air base in the Kuril Islands, it was not mentioned at the Yalta Conference.

... Usually, the demands of this nature can only be made to a conquered country, or to a Soviet Union that cannot defend certain parts of its territory with its own power and thus expresses its willingness to provide appropriate bases for its Soviet Union.

It is believed that the Soviet Union does not belong to this type of country...

Since your telegram did not specify the motivation for a permanent base, I must tell you frankly that neither myself nor my colleagues could understand what prompted you to make this request to the Soviet Union. Truman's "first idea was not to reply to this telegram with strong hostility" but after reconsidering it, he felt that it would be better to stop the war. He explained to the Soviet Union that the United States only wanted to establish a temporary base in the Kuril Islands during the occupation of Japan in case of emergency.

However, China's problems are not so easy to solve.

The Red Chinese plan for post-war rule was hampered by their ideological comrades in Moscow. The day before Japan surrendered, Molotov signed an agreement with **China. This insult would become a knot in the Soviet Union and Red China relations in the next few decades.

At the same time, ** was determined to firmly establish its position on the Asian continent. The Soviet Red Army was almost unresisted by the Kanto Army, whose strength had been weakened, and occupied many parts of Manchuria. Every occupied city was plundered. Tons of wheat, flour, rice, sorghum and soybeans, as well as machines, locomotives, paper, printing machinery, lighting equipment and electrical equipment were transported back to the Soviet Union, and even the tables, chairs, benches, telephones, and typewriters of each agency were looted. Trucks of broken furniture and countless broken glass drove westward. For the Soviet Union, rags were also treasures.

All the valuable things of Japanese prisoners of war were stolen, and even the inlaid gold teeth were pried off. It became common to inspire, plunder and kill people, but these atrocities were not out of hatred or revenge. These conquerors, like their ancestor Adilla (the King of the Huns who invaded the Roman Empire, 406-433 AD), were enjoying the spoils, just like the Huns.

However, in this era, there was no powerful Soviet Red Army. The war in the United States was riddled with holes and it only fell into overturn for a moment.
Chapter completed!