Pax Japan

First Global War
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During the 18th century the Japanese empire grew by leaps and bounds it even conquered the colonies of it’s ex ally the Dutch when their homeland was conquered and they running to their new homeland in Africa. With their own empire and that of the Dutch combined the shadow of Japanese empire spread all over the pacific as well as the Indian Ocean. The result of the massive empire was not only favorable in terms of wealth but it’s effect were also negative for example it brought the empire in conflict with various European powers such as the French, the English and the reinvigorated Spanish empire But the conflict was not only limited to European powers but various regional powers such as the Thai, the mughals and the Chinese, etc but these powers either to politically divided or militarily weak were never able to become a threat to the Japanese empire.

Nothing is as peachy as it always looks at first glance and the same was true with Japan. who with it’s militarily and economic growth at a neck breaking speed for more than two centuries had become the power of the east even greater than the Ming empire of china or the Moghul empire of India but there was one thing which was similar between these three empires and that was no empire based on exploitation of the people can ever have a secure core and thus Japan who had to face various revolts all over the conquered territories such as Karnataka, Korea ,Philippines ,etc except for these revolts there had been created a even greater threat to the authority of the imperial diet from within and the threat was a Increasing hatred of the colonists toward the imperial diet which took massive revenues from them each year and used these revenues to field their massive armies and navies but even so the colonies themselves had little or no say how either these funds were spent or how the empire was run and this was a source of frustration in the colonies and a potential powder keg waiting of go of which the imperial diet had chosen to overlook even after many imperial governors had testified to this very facts.These feelings were at their highest in the richest and most populated colony of the empire CALIFORNIA. Where the population had long been corrupted by the English concept of democracy. a degenerate system in which a mere peasant could dare to think himself equal to those who by birth and talent were his superior. it was the fear of this ideology taking root among the population and causing a revolt in the colony and also the fear of a English invasion from New Lancaster from the north that compelled the imperial diet to send it’s most decorated solder Gen.hidiyashu the butcher of Seoul to keep the status quo in place within the borders of the colony.

In the beginning Hidiyashu’s reign over California remained peaceful and the solders under him spent most of their time in the barracks except for the occasional raid against the Indian tribes which raided Japanese farms on the border region but all this changed on 05-June-1750 when it was declared by an imperial decree that the tax on tea being imported to California would be increased by 50% as to pay for the modernization of the imperial capital Kyoto .upon hearing this news the heads of all the trading clans in California were quite displeased for tea was the main import of the colony after gunpowder but unlike gunpowder tea brought the clans vast riches because both the English and the Indians loved tea and paid handsomely for it. Any normal person here would only see only hopelessness for the loss of such fortunes but these men were different they sow an opportunity to increase their own power and took hold of it with both hands.

These men knowing their own strength was too insignificant to actually force the General Hidiyashu to even consider their demand choose to ally themselves with 2 most powerful factions in New Kyoto the capital of California. The first of these factions was the Democrat society a secret organization having a strong militant arm and the second faction was a Kengi a Buddhist monk who had a powerful following in new Kyoto.

On acquiring the support of these two factions a massive rally numbering some 10,000 people was taken out on 09-june-1750 in the dead of night before castle Kyoto the residence of Gen.Hidiyashu .The general fearing the rally to be a attempt by the population to storm the castle ordered the solders on duty to open fire upon the rally. The firing lasted only 10 minutes but resulted in the death of nearly 300 people including the monk Kengi .upon seeing Kengi killed the people took the castle by sheer numbers and killed anyone they could find inside but they were unable to locate General Hidiyashu for he had escaped the castle using a secret tunnel built into the castle but he didn’t escape without any loss for his family members his wife and their two year old son were caught and killed by the crazed mob.

The next day the people of new Kyoto awoke to the sounds of cannon balls and rockets exploding amongst their houses and temples. The source of all this destruction was the 15th imperial naval squadron under the command of the general Hidiyashu which was punishing the citizens of this vile city for the crime of rebellion against the emperor.

Even though the buildings of new Kyoto were made of bricks and motor rather than wood and paper as the case was on the home islands they gave little protection against the relentless bombardment which continued to be visited upon them by general Hidiyashu. After 3 hours of bombardment most of the lay destroyed either by the bombardment or by the fire it caused. One may never know how many died in that dark day except that they numbered in the thousands and not a single tear has ever been shed in their name. Upon seeing the destruction the general had visited upon them in those hellish 3 hours the elders of the city got together to discuss the demand made by general Hidiyashu. Most wanted to surrender and give up the traitors that the general wanted but some of the elders still wanted to fight but before old men could make up their minds the members of the democrat society lead by a man named Kengi took action into their own hands and in doing started the bloodiest war in human history.

Kengi and his men using fishing boats in the middle night were able to reach and take over the naval squadron without much loss of life. After taking the ships kenji and his men tied a cannon ball to general Hidiyashu’s leg and threw him over board. The ext day the republic of California was declared amidst the ruins of new Kyoto

Though the people of California had defeated the tyrant sent to rule over them from far away Japan but still they faced many difficulties in keeping their new found freedom. the first among these problems was Prime minister Fukuzawa Yukichi the absolute ruler of Japan who refused to accept the loss of California and still continued  to claim dominion over it and thus he  sent 2 mighty fleets over the next three years to crush this fledgling  nation  before it had any real chance to mature but it seemed that the gods of luck favored this young republic  and as a result California was speared the ravages of  both the murderous  fleets  sent against her for one fleet was destroyed by a mighty storm  as soon as it left it’s home port of Hawaii and the  other one  had to be rerouted to Taiwan even before it left it’s port so as to keep the Chinese navy away from that imperial possession.

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Like all people living in Empire of Japan Prime Minister Fukuzawa Yukichi feared inability of the empire to bring California back into the hold of the empire would be seen as a sign of weakness by the savages who lived on it’s boundaries and lusted after it’s wealth and he was right to assume so for many men lusted after the wealth of empire and wanted to make it their own .one such man was Hugo Cortez 3rd the governor general of Mexico and the humble servant of his most glorious emperor James 3rd emperor of Spain.