Chapter 142: Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe’s Smile
Japanese Homeland, Prime Minister’s Mansion of Fumimaro Konoe.
“Baka! Marine Corps Commander Denshichi Okawauchi was assassinated on the busiest and most prosperous street?”
“Who is so bold? It seems that the Navy side will probably boil over this time, and I also need to enter the Imperial Palace to see His Majesty!”
“Think about it, being Prime Minister is really not easy! Things like these troubles are really too many, no wonder the Prime Ministers in the Homeland change so quickly!”
“Damn it, but I also need to discuss this matter with the Navy side, hoping they won’t privately cause any more troublesome incidents for me. Even if they want to retaliate against those audacious assassins, they must first investigate the identity of the other party before discussing retaliation measures!”
After Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe received the news that Commander Denshichi Okawauchi had been assassinated by troops of assassins of unknown origin,
he was also instantly shocked, then irritably said.
For him, he had never dreamed that the perfectly fine Commander Denshichi Okawauchi would suddenly be assassinated on a bustling and prosperous street, and that his guard team and driver were also assassinated together.
For this kind of premeditated assassination deployment,
Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe felt it was an act to provoke their Imperial Army,
so he was also extremely furious, and also worried about the Navy side’s reckless retaliatory actions.
Especially that kind of combat action where they completely don’t greet him and privately dispatch troops for retaliation, which made him immediately worried just thinking about it.
So in the end, Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe still first called the high-level figures on the Navy side one by one to communicate and exchange, probing their thoughts.
Chief of Naval Operations Taniguchi Hisashi, Chief of Staff Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko, Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, and Chief of Naval Operations Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu and other Navy high-level figures also quickly received the call from Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe,
and soon started chatting about the big news that the Japanese Army high-level figures had just received about Commander Denshichi Okawauchi being assassinated.
Regarding the thoughts of the Navy high-level figures, Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe came to a conclusion that everyone’s first thought was shock and disbelief.
Then, it was anger, and the desire to immediately retaliate back.
“Soka! Luckily I first communicated with those guys on the Navy side, indeed they were all preparing to retaliate back immediately!”
“This won’t do! It seems I need to immediately enter the palace to meet His Majesty, otherwise if the Navy side causes some big trouble for me later, that would be disastrous!”
“At the very least, I first report their matters to His Majesty, then what happens after that has little to do with me!”
“Whatever the Navy side wants to do for retaliation, let them be!”
After Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe called the various Japanese Navy high-level figures,
he also immediately let out a big sigh of relief,
then, without hesitation, decided to immediately enter the Imperial Palace to see Hirohito.
So soon, Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe hurriedly got into a car, under the protection of his guard team, headed to the gate of the Imperial Palace, preparing to enter the Imperial Palace alone.
As for what Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe said to Hirohito inside the Imperial Palace, no one knows,
but when he came out from the Imperial Palace, his mood became cheerful, even with a very obvious smile on his face, radiant.
Just as if the death of Marine Corps Commander Denshichi Okawauchi had nothing to do with him at all.
