Yamamoto Gonbei (やまもとごんべえ, November 26, 1852 - December 8, 1933) was an important minister of Japan during the Meiji and Taisho periods, a famous naval general, the 16th and 22nd Prime Minister of Japan (Prime Minister of the Cabinet) ).
Born as a feudal lord. Graduated from the Naval Academy. During the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894 , he was the Adjutant to the Lord of the Navy, Director of Military Affairs and a member of the General Officers' Conference, responsible for operational guidance. From June 1898 to December 1905, he was re-elected as the Minister of the Navy in the Yamagata Cabinet and the Ito Cabinet. He presided over the naval armament expansion plan and participated in the preparation and launch of the Russo-Japanese War.
Like most Japanese navy officers at the time, Yamamoto Gonbei was a native of Kagoshima and a member of the Satsuma domain. At the age of eleven, he participated in the Anglo-Saxon War. He helped carry artillery shells at the Benten Fort. Also carrying the artillery shells was Togo Heihachiro. . The gunner was none other than Japan's earliest marshal Oyama Iwa (this fort It can be said to be priceless~~). The captain and deputy captain of the British fleet flagship Euryales were sent to meet the Dragon King by this fort.
Ashigaru other than samurai and people in between, that is to say, people who do not have "samurai" are included, so it is incorrect to simply think that "hanshi = samurai". In other words, feudal lords actually refer to all people with feudal status. However, feudal lords are often used to refer to people with "discipline".
In the early Edo period, more often referred to soldiers who served in the military; in the middle and late Edo period, more often it referred to officials.
By the way, the feudal lords during the Edo period did not call themselves "lords". For example, when a feudal lord of the Satsuma Domain reported his name, he would not say "(I am) a feudal lord of the Satsuma Domain so-and-so" but rather "(I am) a retainer of the Shimadzu family so-and-so".
It should be noted that for vassals whose names are based on their country names, such as Satsuma Domain and Choshu Domain , the domain name can be used universally; but for vassals that are not named after their country names, such as Kuwana Domain For that matter, it is not appropriate to use feudal lord as a general reference.
On February 5, 1904, Yamamoto Gonbei issued a naval attack order, which kicked off the Russo-Japanese War. When he was still a colonel, he was called the Minister of Kwonbei. He actually commanded the Japanese navy, ranging from the formulation of the Qing combat system, the establishment of the combined fleet, the proposal of the Sixty-sixth Fleet and the and the Eighty-eight Fleet, as well as the small things of old officers. His retirement, the promotion of the Hammock, the use of rapid-fire cannons to win the battleships Zhen and Ding, and the appointment of Yuhiro Ito and Heihachiro Togo as fleet commanders all clearly bear his personal characteristics.
Yamamoto Gonbei is not Yamamoto Isoroku's father. In fact, they are different in nature. Yamamoto Isoroku succeeded the Yamamoto family in 1916 and changed his surname to "Yamamoto". The original "Takano Isoroku" was renamed "Yamamoto Isoroku".
Oyama Iwa (おやまいわお, 天宝html October 10, 113 (November 12, 1842) - Taisho 5 (December 10, 1916)), Japanese politician, nine years of Meiji and Taisho periods One of the veterans, marshal army general, and one of the founders of the imperial army . The first Minister of War after the implementation of the Japanese cabinet system, rose from a Grand Duke to a first-class Duke. The second commander of the Japanese army in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of , occupied Weihaiwei . The commander-in-chief of the Japanese Manchuria Army during the Russo-Japanese War , defeated the dominant Russian army several times. Oyama Iwa actively participated in the Meiji Restoration movement in his early years, paid attention to absorbing new ideas from abroad, and played an important role in establishing the modern Japanese bourgeois army. He was one of the key figures in promoting modern Japan to dominate Asia and become a world military power.
He once studied Western artillery shooting techniques with Kuroda Kiyotaka under the shogunate Egawa Hideryu. The Boshin War led a new gun team to participate in the Battle of Toba Fushimi and fought in Aizu and other places. During the Sushi War, he designed the 120 mm mortar and the four-pound (Japanese-made) mountain cannon. is light and flexible, and has fierce firepower. These cannons were called "Yasuke Cannons" after him.
From 1870 to 1874, he went to Geneva in Europe to study military affairs. Visited during the Franco-Prussian War , and devoted himself to the modernization of the army after returning to China. In 1877, as the commander of the first and second brigade of the Rangers, he participated in the Southwest War and suppressed the samurai families who rebelled one after another.
He was in great pain as he was fighting his own brother. In his later years, when he was asked which battle had the greatest crisis, he replied: "There was no crisis after the Southwest War."
