Historically, there have been countless practices of rebellion, but most of these people who hold high the anti-flag want to plan in the secret room, after the point in the night, and do not dare to raise an army without making preparations for a few years. Even if Qaddafi, known as "Cardazo", rebelled, it was a little planned. However, the "Gongshan Temple Uprising" we are talking about today is definitely a ridiculous act in the history of rebellion, because the protagonist of this rebellion, Takasugi Jinsaku, decided to rebel only after he had a temporary intention and drank two or two more drinks, and the most absurd thing is that he actually succeeded in this matter.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" >, Choshu Domain, which does not die</h1>
If we want to make things clear, we have to start from the beginning, and the time must go back to Japan in the late 19th century. At that time, Japan was in turmoil, and the Shogunate faction and the shogunate faction did not like each other, because they could not drive away the foreigners, so the two sides decided to curse each other. Therefore, at that time, Japan was cut and slashed, and life was full of swords and lights.
Either the Shogi faction cut down foreigners, or the Shogi faction cut down senior shogunate officials, or the Shogi faction was cut to the ground by the newly selected chengguan of the group, the assistant police of the Huimi group, and the satsuma clan and the satsuma clan and the satsugy clan. In short, at that time, Japan was an era when white knives entered and red knives came out, and social security was equal to nothing.
In this social environment, the Choshu Domain was undoubtedly the most radical and the most dynamic social group in Japan at that time. The characteristic of the Choshu Domain is the brain axis, which usually does not do things but the head, and it is also the first to raise troops to fight against foreigners. Although later generations gave the Choshu clan a song of merit and praise, the main reason why they raised troops to fight the foreigners was that the shogunate signed a treaty with the foreigners and opened the port for trade, so the Choshu clan that was originally engaged in smuggling business could not continue, so they decided to drive out the foreigners and cut off the official trade between the shogunate and the foreigners.
Of course, the foreigners are not the power of the chicken without hands, so this Choshu clan is also asking for a hammer, and the foreigners beat a bird egg essence. Choshu Clan pondered that this Yi must not be able to leave, then I can't deal with foreigners, I can always deal with the shogunate, right? Therefore, while fighting the Shogun War with the foreigners, the Choshu Clan also staged an "August 18 coup" in 1863, which resulted in a failed coup and a collective expulsion from Kyoto.
In 1864, the group first planned to send ronin to Kyoto to set fire to the throne, trying to take advantage of the chaos to rob Emperor Hyomyō, but was cracked by the new selection group, followed by the famous "Ikedaya Incident", and then in the same year made a forbidden change, and finally was hammered to the ground by the Satsuma and Aizu clans.
The Choshu clan lost soldiers and broke the general, and the emperor of the day was angry and smoked, after all, the huge Kyoto was almost burned into the excavation field by the Choshu clan, and who was not angry. At the first order of the Emperor, he made this Choshu domain a thief of the enemy state, and asked the shogunate to lead an army of 150,000 to pacify the Choshu domain. At this time, after the losses of the Choshu Domain after two Shimonoseki Wars and the Forbidden Gate Change, it was now in a state of dissatisfaction with tens of thousands of soldiers, and it was defined as a "thief of the enemy country", so how could it defeat the 150,000 troops sent by the imperial court? It can be said that if you want not to be destroyed, you can only surrender to the imperial court and the shogunate.
At that time, the Choshu Domain was divided into the "righteous faction" who resolutely resisted the rebellion and the "secular faction" who advocated surrender. The "secularists" were more ruthless, first killing many of the top leaders of the "righteous faction" and then negotiating peace with the shogunate representing the imperial court. It was said that it was a peace, but it was actually a surrender, but at that time, the Choshu Domain still signed a "Satsuma Treaty" with satsuma domain, which also had the ambition to overthrow the shogunate, which was considered to preserve the foundation of the Choshu domain. But now that the "secularists" have successfully come to power, this "righteous faction" has no choice but to mix, the "secularists" want their heads, and the Maori relatives who originally supported them in the Choshu domain are also under house arrest, so they can only run away one after another, lest they be arrested and killed.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" >2, Shinsaku Takasugi's ambition</h1>
If it is said that the people of the "righteous faction" just ran away and did not come back, it is estimated that this Choshu clan will have nothing to make trouble, but there is such a "righteous faction" big man who ran back to the Choshu clan in January 1865 after a gap of two months, and this is our protagonist today, the former captain of the "Strange Army", the Takasugi Shinsaku who patted his head and decided to rebel and seize power. So why did Takasugi Jinsaku return to choshu domain? The reason is also particularly funny, because Takasugi Shinsaku has spent all the travel expenses that Kido Takayoshi gave him, and it is all used to drink flower wine, and if he does not come back, he will starve to death in the street.
But what is the use of Takasugi Shinsaku coming back, he is now a most wanted criminal in the shogunate, and if he is discovered by the "secularists", it is estimated that this head will be gone. However, this Takasugi Jinsaku was also bold, and when he returned, he found yamagata Aritomo, the current leader of the "Strange Army", and said that he wanted to rebel and regain the power of the Choshu Domain.
According to Takasugi Jinsaku's meaning, this mountain county has a good friend and a good villain, how can you fight with yourself, and the worst has to give some sponsorship fees, right? Anyway, there are friends in this mountain county who are now timid and sparing themselves, and as soon as they heard that Takasugi Jinzuo was going to do something, he drove Takasugi Jinzuo out without saying a word.
Takasugi Shinsaku really did not know that there were few "Zhiyi Zhishi" in the current Choshu Domain, who were either killed in the Heavenly Curse activities with the new selection group and the Huimi group, or were sent by the popular theory to cut melons and cut vegetables. What else is there to do? Moreover, there are "secularists" in power inside, and there are shogunates that can mobilize large armies outside, who dares to move in a disorderly manner? Takasugi Shinsaku saw that there was no support for his move, and he was ready to commit suicide by cutting his abdomen. So the goods first got a tombstone for themselves, with the words "The Strange Soldiers founded the governor, and Saikaiichi was born to make a tomb", and then released a message, saying that he would kill himself at Gongshan Temple on the night of January 13, and go down to accompany his teacher Yoshida Shoin.
As soon as the members of the "Strange Soldiers" heard that their boss was going to commit suicide, the good people all ran to watch, not to mention that the "Strange Soldiers" had gone to a lot, and even the "guerrillas" of Ishikawa Kogoro next door had also gone to many people, plus thirty people. Takasugi Shinsaku saw so many people and was not ready to die, so he directly poured "chicken soup for the soul" into this group of people, using Yoshida Shoin, who was executed by the shogunate, as an example, saying that we should stand up, we must be worthy of the teachings of Mr. Yoshida Shoin, and we must contribute to the overthrow of the shogunate and the Shogi movement!
The Choshu clan hated the Tokugawa shogunate for not a day or two, it began with the Sekigahara War in 1600, and the previous shogunate sent troops to attack the Choshu domain, and the subordinate samurai and ronin of the Choshu domain hated the shogunate to death. Usually, this group of people saw the shogunate and the "secular school" and their eyes were on fire, but now Takasugi Shinsaku flickered, and the mood came up on the spot. So these thirty red deer picked up short knives and bamboo sticks, and in the early morning of the 14th, they rebelled with Takasugi Jin, known in history as "Gongshan Temple Juyi", which is also the most absurd move in history.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > three, confused and successful</h1>
At that time, it was snowing heavily, and Takasugi took these thirty people to the Isaki Clubhouse at the bottom of the mountain, where the "Lux Team" led by Ito Hirobumi was stationed. Ito Hirobumi looked at Takasugi Shinsaku and thought that Takasugi Shinsaku had brought people to make friends, so he put this group of people in. However, Ito Hirobumi never expected that after this group of people came in, they began to take guns and ammunition, and after inquiring about it, they understood that this group of people was going to rebel? But now Ito Hirobumi had no way out, the weapons and ammunition were taken away, he was definitely going to be unlucky afterwards, and simply pulled the "Lux Team" and Takasugi Shinsaku to rebel together.
By this time, Takasugi's "rebel army" had grown to 84 men, and he took advantage of the heavy snow to occupy the Shinji Clubhouse, took out a large number of guns and ammunition, and then attacked the naval garrison of Choshu Domain in the early morning of the 14th, seizing three warships from the port. And Yamagata Youpeng also got the news at this moment, many of his men and Takasugi Jin rebelled, and now he said that he did not participate in who believed? Yamagata has a friend who sees that things have made a big fuss, and I have done the opposite! So he contacted Ishikawa Kogoro and several other captains, and then together they went to Takasugi Tonzaku.
The news of Takasugi's rebellion spread farther and farther, and as soon as the peasants and merchants in Shimonoseki heard that Takasugi Wasaku was going to fight the foreigners, it was really exciting, and they grabbed sticks and kitchen knives from their homes and followed. The number of peasants and merchants was about a few hundred, and with the addition of the troops brought by The Mountain County's friends, there were about seven hundred people together. Takasugi Jinsaku saw that there were not many people under his command, so he went straight to the "Jidi Castle", the political center of the Choshu Domain under the control of the "Secularists", and fought with the "Secularists" to fight for your life!
At this point, the most absurd scene appeared -- Takasugi Jinsaku pushed forward with great swagger on this side, and the "secularists" over there were not fools, sending an "army" of two thousand people to quell the rebellion, and the two sides directly fought at the "Ota Paint Hall". What the "secularists" did not know, however, was that it was not Takasugi's main force that they had crushed, but a miscellaneous army of peasants and merchants. And this "secularist school" also knows that Takasugi Jinsaku is not a rookie, and thinks that this must be Takasugi's strategy to lure the enemy, so they do not intend to risk pursuing, and directly go back to the camp to sleep.
So where is Takasugi Shinsaku? He led the people to the back, and all the people who rushed in front were the miscellaneous soldiers. It was not that Takasugi Jinsaku deliberately pit these people, but that these miscellaneous armies were running too fast, and when Takasugi Jinsaku rushed to the battlefield, the "secularists" all withdrew to their camps and went to sleep. Takasugi Shinsaku was also a ruthless man, and his heart was stunned to lead the main force of less than two hundred people under his command to attack the camp of the "Secular Theory School". The soldiers of the "secularist school" are sleeping, where do they think that someone will sneak attack? On the spot, he was defeated by Takasugi Jinsaku, and a small number of the two thousand officers and soldiers were killed, and most of them fled in all directions, which meant that Takasugi Jinsaku won effortlessly.
Takasugi Himself did not expect to be able to go so smoothly, but now that he is in the sky, the location, the people, and the people, then why not hurry into the "Di Di City" and the "Secular Sect" of Heavenly Curse? This Takasugi Jinsaku immediately made a decision, and rushed with his men to the road, and at noon the next day, he killed the "Di di castle", not only cutting melons and cutting vegetables for the "secularists", but also releasing the Maori relatives who were under house arrest. At this point, Takasugi Jinzuo's absurd "Gongshan Temple Juyi" ended in victory in such a vague way, and Takasugi Jinsaku himself successfully turned over the salted fish and became the core figure of the Choshu Domain in one fell swoop.
References: "The First Governor of the Strange Army, Shinsaku Takasugi", "Choshu War, Crossroads of the Shogunate's Collapse"