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As a result of their conversation, a conference was held between the Japanese Minister and his two leading officials, Sugimura and Okamoto. It was further resolved that this opportunity should be availed of for taking the life of the Queen, who exercised overwhelming influence in the Court." The whole thing was to be done according to system.
The Regent was made to bind himself down to the Japanese. A series of pledges was drawn up by Sugimura, and handed to the Regent, saying that this was what Miura expected of him. He, his son and his grandson "gladly assented" to the conditions and he wrote a letter guaranteeing his good faith.
Time after time she checked both the Japanese Minister and the Regent. The Japanese Secretary of Legation, Fukashi Sugimura, had long since lost patience with the Queen and urged on Miura that the best thing was to get rid of her. Why should one woman be allowed to stand between them and their purpose? Every day she was interfering more and more in the affairs of state.
Miura Goro and Fukashi Sugimura consequently determined to carry out the plot on the night of that very day." The Legation drew up a detailed program of what was to happen, and orders were issued to various people.
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