ILSITM Chapter 60

After entering the Royal Palace, we discovered that it was much larger than we had imagined.

The people inside the palace, upon seeing us, did not scatter and flee; instead, they stood where they were, appearing utterly respectful.

We gathered all the personnel in the Royal Palace into the palace square. Apart from the guards, royal family members, and royal staff, Emperor Showa was nowhere to be seen.

“Someone has jumped over the wall into the moat!”

While I was leading a portion of the guerilla fighters, carefully searching the vast Royal Palace, I suddenly heard a guerilla fighter in the distance shouting loudly.

We ran towards the place where the guerilla fighter was shouting.

We saw that one of the guerilla fighters running at the front was already on top of the palace wall.

Then, we heard a “splash” sound, and that guerilla fighter disappeared from the top of the wall, jumping into the moat.

I ordered several more guerilla fighters to climb up the palace wall to investigate.

“Commander, the Deputy Commander is down there! He has already caught the person who was escaping from the palace. We’ll go down to help him,” several guerilla fighters perched on the wall reported to me, and then, with a leap, they jumped into the moat.

What we did not expect was that the person who was escaping was actually Emperor Showa (Hirohito).

After we had him change into a different set of clothes, we began “chatting” with him in the Pine Chamber of the main hall of the palace.

In the Pine Chamber, there was an oval conference table.

On one side sat the officers of our farm guerilla force, and on the other side sat Emperor Showa and his royal family members.

The Japanese Emperor is a “descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu.” Because they are a divine clan, they have no human surname, no right to vote or be elected, and are not governed by Japanese household registration laws. Instead, their daily lives are regulated by a specially formulated “Imperial Household Law.”

For the past few centuries, the names of male members of the royal family have ended with the character “Benevolence” (Ren), and the names of female members have ended with the character “son” (Ko).

The Japanese Imperial Family has a history of over 2600 years, dating back to 660 BC, when Emperor Jimmu was the first Emperor of Japan.

In the “Pine Chamber,” Emperor Showa talked at length about the long history of the Japanese Imperial Family and the Royal Palace, but he remained silent about the war of aggression against China that he had orchestrated.

Emperor Showa, whose personal name was Hirohito, was the 124th Emperor of the Japanese Empire. “Showa” was the era name he used after ascending the throne.

From a young age, he was instilled with militaristic ideas, and his personality was eccentric and perverse.

The political commissar of the general team (Wen Rourou’s father) was good at ideological and political work, so I asked him to promote the propositions of the Marxist political party to Emperor Showa, but he was unresponsive and stubbornly refused to listen.

“We are sitting here with you now, and you are still the Emperor. If you insist on going your own way, we will treat you as a prisoner of war,” the Deputy Commander said, his tone becoming stern as he could no longer bear it.

Emperor Showa stretched his neck and said, “A scholar can be killed, but not humiliated! You can kill me or cut me up as you please!”

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, I said, “Emperor Showa is tolerant, resilient, and has a strong sense of moral restraint. Undoubtedly, he is a good husband. He and Empress Kojun (Nagako) have been married for nearly ten years without having a son. Many ministers, eager to continue the Imperial line, were anxious to find concubines for him, but he insisted on his own views, practiced monogamy, and never touched another woman. He said that he only has one woman in his life, and that is his elementary school classmate, Nagako. Later, Nagako gave birth to two princes in succession.”

I glanced at Empress Kojun (Nagako), who was sitting next to Emperor Showa, and she was somewhat moved.

Then, I looked at Emperor Showa’s two princes and four princesses and said, “Emperor Showa is also a good father. He reformed the inner palace, dismissing as many female officials and servants as possible. He reformed the method of raising the Crown Prince, feeding him himself, instead of sending the children to the countryside to be raised shortly after birth, as was done in the past.”

“Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun have a deep and loving relationship. One is interested in marine biology, and the other likes painting. Both have made achievements in their respective fields. They are truly talented and beautiful!”, I praised Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun again.

After I said these words, I looked at Emperor Showa again, and his previous hostile and disdainful gaze towards us had also become much softer.

As the saying goes, know your enemy and know yourself, and you will never be defeated.

Before coming to the island nation, I had done my homework and knew that this Emperor Showa would yield to softness but not to hardness. On the negotiating table, we must not confront him head-on.

Seeing that Emperor Showa had already softened, I continued, “War is useless and causes a hundred harms. How many people have lost their families because of war, wives and children separated, displaced, and homeless, causing them to have a huge sense of despair about life. Especially children who have experienced war, their childhood happiness is ruthlessly taken away. For children who grow up in war, their childhood memories are filled with ruthless gunfire and bombs, and they only have fear for this world. More than 30 countries and regions, and 1.5 billion people, were involved in the First World War, and the number of casualties on both sides of the battlefield reached more than 30 million. The Second World War involved 61 countries and regions, and more than 2 billion people. More than 100 million soldiers participated in the war, and about 90 million soldiers and civilians were killed or injured, and more than 30 million people were displaced. There is no completely victorious side in war, and war is a disaster for all sides.”

The set of data I gave, and the feelings I expressed from the bottom of my heart, made Emperor Showa look at me with new respect, and he nodded at me.

Seeing that the time was ripe, I said, “This afternoon, we will invite reporters from many countries to hold a press conference, demanding that you immediately stop your aggression against our country and withdraw the troops stationed in our country back home.”

In the afternoon, under the witness of news media from various countries, and under strong public opinion pressure, Emperor Showa finally signed a ceasefire agreement with the guerilla representatives led by me.

I filmed the scene with my mobile phone.

All the videos I filmed after I traveled into the dream of Wen Rourou’s father are saved in my mobile phone. I still don’t know if these videos I filmed in the dream will “disappear without a trace” after I wake up.

Last time, after I woke up from Wen Rourou’s father’s dream, I directly traveled back to Jiudong City. Because I was in a hurry to catch a plane back to San Tong City, I forgot to verify the mobile phone videos. This time, I will definitely not forget.

After Emperor Showa signed the ceasefire agreement, I thought we had changed history and become heroes of the ages, but what we did not know until many years later was that this war of aggression lasted a full fourteen years, from September 18, 1931, to September 2, 1945.

Why did the war not end even after we signed a ceasefire agreement with Emperor Showa? I think it may be related to a shipwreck we encountered.

The weather is unpredictable, and fortune and misfortune can happen to people overnight.

On our way back to China, we encountered a large typhoon at sea, and almost all of the ten thousand guerilla fighters were buried in the seabed. Only a few guerilla fighters were lucky enough to survive.

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