Chapter 172 East Asia’s Sick Husband

At this time, Tokyo was already a big city with a population of nearly 10 million. The Japanese have the habit of gathering in Tokyo. The country has a population of 40 million, with nearly 30 million remaining after the war. Nearly one-third of the people squeezed around Tokyo to make a living. It seems that the breath of the emperor floating in the air in Tokyo can bring them spiritual comfort.

There are two extremely ironic news in the newspaper: One is the huge neighbor in the west. Prince Chun Zaifeng received and commended the senior commander of the navy's combat against Japan in Weihai and issued rewards. Commentators believe that this move kicked off the great development of the Qing navy in the next 20 years. Compared with this, the Japanese navy can only maintain a coastal patrol fleet of one-thirty-trough tonnage in the Qing Dynasty, which makes people cry. Since the signing of the Shimonoseki Treaty, no one has come out to take responsibility. The general resignation of the cabinet that the people are looking forward to has not happened yet. Let the people not only ask, is such a government worthy of Hachihiro Ichiyu and a great Japanese in the world? Is His Majesty the Emperor who has made great sacrifices for his subjects? Now the Qing navy has tied Japan tightly like a chain. When will it be possible to realize His Majesty the Emperor's ambition to spread the world?

Another one is the high-profile news of the execution of criminals. The hero of the Yamato nation, Kazukoji, and the team leader of the Maguan Branch of the Shendao Pavilion, angrily carried out his own assassination operation after witnessing the arrogance of the Qing Dynasty's negotiating minister. Such a person, a person who sacrificed his life for the Yamato nation, was executed by the government. On the contrary, the traitor Hirayaro Togo who sold his naval interests in the naval battle was only punished for exile to Aomori Prefecture. Where is the justice of the legal principles? The editorial point out: With the sound of gunfire of Kazukoji, Kazukoji fell down, and the soul of the Yamato nation also fell down. Today, Yamato is just a sick man who survived the power of the Qing Dynasty. Yes, the sick man in East Asia.

With the punishment of Hirahachiro Togo, Mon Mori Mori was promoted. Now he has been promoted to the position of deputy director of the First Bureau of the Navy Command due to his report to Hirahachiro Togo. However, the torture of conscience has always tortured him, and it was his conscience discovery that at a critical moment, he helped Hirahachiro Togo, saving Hirata from the same fate as Kazukojiru Fukuo.

Of course, this is also because the Qi Dynasty was urged to assassinate the great rebellion, and Togo Heihachiro was far from receiving such attention.

Nearly tens of millions of people in Tokyo have already split into many classes after failing such a gamble that paid the price of national fortune. The dreams are shattered, the wealth is bankrupt and the world-weary; those who secretly decide to work hard and hope to cleanse the national humiliation in the future; those who follow the circumstances and plan to return to their hometowns to live a peaceful life basically formed three schools of thought. They have influenced the political circles and have also given rise to the establishment of several new parties in politics, advocate returning to the original party of the Eastern culture source; those who advocate lying on firewood and tasting gall, and seeking self-improvement; those who advocate finding a thigh internationally

The New Democratic Party, which firmly supports Emperor Meiji but requires government reform, came into being. The Japanese political structure formed a situation where the emperor was a basic point in the central government and four or five political parties around him compete for favor. At present, the New Democratic Party, which is holding the thigh, has the highest call for the new party. Of course, the New Democratic Party does not have a clear target. There are also mainstream thigh factions such as the British, French, Russian, German, etc. within the party. The number of American thigh factions is relatively small, forming a few thigh factions with the deafening Qing faction.

At this critical moment when Japan was officially going, the disputes between the political parties reflected the confusion of the country and the people had not yet discovered the right direction. However, on the morning of that day, when the sun had just penetrated the fog and shone on the streets of Tokyo, several martial arts halls in Tokyo had discovered it.

The four big characters "Making Friends with Martial Arts" are a line of small characters: The Chinese Martial Arts Association invites you. The first person to discover was the samurai Inasaka Yoshihide, a samurai in Fusang Pavilion. He only knew a few Chinese characters, so he quickly took them in and presented them to the owner of the Yamadao Qiantu. Then he found that there were dense small characters behind him, which meant that a Russian strongman would come to Japan by sea in half a month. It was rumored that he intended to fight from Japan and sweep the people who practice martial arts in the Far East to show the incompetence of the Far East. Because China and Japan are one neighboring country with a belt of water, the martial arts parties should also be self-reliant and help each other. The masters of the various museums were invited to meet at the newly opened Chinese Corps near the embassy area to discuss the major plans.

The major martial arts halls in Tokyo, such as the Divine Sword Hall and the Martial Arts Hall, have received such invitations, but no one knows what the Chinese guild is. I have never heard of such a guild before. Should I go there? Shandao Qiantu glanced at the date. The date of the consultation was scheduled for three days. Let’s send a disciple to see it first. Shandao Qiantu turned his attention to Inasaka Yoshinori Pioneer...

Tokyo, Chiyoda District, a long area covering an area of ​​about 100,000 square meters is the Yasukuni Shrine that was officially renamed in the 12th year of Meiji. Since the establishment of the Tokyo Soul Revenge Club in the second year of Meiji to commemorate more than 3,000 government officers and soldiers who died in the Restoration Civil War, the memorial significance here has always surpassed the 70,000 to 80,000 shrines in all large and small in Japan, and has become a place dedicated to commemorating soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country on the battlefield.

The army and naval soldiers who died in the three-month battle against the Qing Dynasty were too large and could not be named one by one. Before the information on the fallen people was summarized and sorted out, officials from the royal family sent to welcome two huge symbolic tablets, as well as the royal prince Komatsu, and went to the Yasukuni Shrine to worship.

This day was the anniversary of the end of the war. Under the statue of Yasukuni Shrine, Yijiro Omura, one of the former founders of the Imperial Army, swung his sword and rode his horse, many angry people gathered. The powerful Divine Sword Hall was carrying out a forced entrance to the hall for their hero Kazukoji Fukuo. Opposite them were dozens of Tokyo police officers with live ammunition. The sound of orderly running on the street came from afar, indicating that a large number of reinforcements were coming.

Therefore, the owner of the Shenjian Pavilion, Toyama, did not receive the letter of invitation on the same day. He was leading his disciples and Tokyo citizens who sympathized with them, facing the guns of the government.

"Come on, lift Fuzhu up and follow me. Fuzhu will not turn back if it doesn't enter the shrine!" Toyama, who is in his fifties, is wearing a retro samurai uniform, with gray hair combed back to the back of his head, and walked forward with his head raised with his hands behind his back, with a unique sense of charm.

"Enter the club! Join the club! Join the club!"

"I will never look back! I will never look back!" The warriors and civilians behind us shouted, glaring at the policeman who was wearing uniforms and holding instruments but showed fear on their faces.

As the distance got closer, the police who rushed to help quickly laid a new barrier behind the originally thin line of defense. At this time, Toyama had just arrived in front of the police and proudly raised his right hand and the team stopped.

"Mr. Police, please let us go." Toyama kept a contemptuous smile. After saying this, he turned around and pointed to the tablet of Kasukoji Yuki behind him, saying: "This is Ukitake who has suffered an unfair judgment for the Emperor and for the Great Japan. He is the pride of the Yamato nation. He is a real man!"

The police did not speak, and a hint of shame appeared on their faces. Several young policemen even shed tears.

"Go away from it, gentlemen." Toyama said gently: "The face of Japan is almost lost. Ukitake has earned us the last trace of manly dignity. Can't he deserve our memorial service?"

The police's defense line began to loosen. A person who looked like an official in the rear of the queue issued a stern command: "Warning!" The defense line seemed to be injected with a needle of a strong heart, and it became closer.

The situation was so stalemate. The winter sunshine still looked hot, and the statue of Omura Yijiro began to get a little hot, and the crowd below the statue was also covered with fine sweat on their foreheads.

Among the noisy crowd, the nervous breathing of the military and police in the back row seemed to be clear. However, a disciple of the costume of the Divine Sword Hall squeezed in outside the crowd, presented a letter to Toyama Takashi, and said a few words with his ears.

But seeing Toyama frowned, he opened the letter and saw an angry expression on his face. He rolled the paper into a ball with his right hand, spread his hands, and threw the paper at the police angrily, roaring: "Look! The shame of Japan!"

He turned his head and glared at someone, shouting sternly: "Speak out loud, what kind of plaque has you received in the Divine Sword Hall, Tokyo's Divine Sword Hall!"

"East...the sick man in East Asia..." the visitor said stammeringly.

"Shameful thing!" Toyama just turned around and looked at the police leader, and looked back with his right hand, then held the disciple in his hand and raised it in the air and said, "Speak loudly, what are the people of Japan!"

"Sick man from East Asia..."

"Speak loudly!" With Toyama's roar, the disciple used his strength to shout: "Sick man from East Asia!"

The crowd was stunned and recalled this very strange word in a daze. Toyama Takashi sneered, threw the disciple underground, and roared a long cry to the sky and said with a sad voice: "The great Japanese is like a servant being humiliated. Do you still want to stop such a warrior!"

The military and police lined down their heads, and Toyama slowly stepped forward, reached out to take the Spirit Stall behind him and held it in both hands, and walked forward step by step.

The intimidating momentum made the military and police make a way out, ignoring the shouts of the commander behind him.

In the Yasukuni Shrine, there was finally a spiritual position called Fuzhu Keiko Liu.

In a garden-style building in the western suburbs, Prince Su Shanqi is reviewing a list of 70 people. It is a top-secret list submitted by Song Qing, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. In fact, this garden is the office of the Qing Military Intelligence Bureau he was responsible for. On the outside, it looks like this garden is no different from the private gardens of other princes and nobles in the capital. However, as long as you are careful enough, you can find that there are often hurried carriages here, and sometimes you can see some short-haired and delicate men entering and leaving. There are the most advanced telegrams, radio transceivers, and a telephone line that leads directly to the Emperor's Bedroom and the Military Department's Office in the Forbidden City. This is the imperial intelligence center.

Japan's Zhenwu Operation was directly commanded by the Military Intelligence Bureau. The purpose of this operation was to destroy the confidence of some Japanese people and stimulate the self-esteem of another Japanese, thereby splitting Japanese society and causing a general outbreak of dissatisfaction with the government to facilitate the cooperation of Tianhai Kingdom's action plan - Shino Matsuhei asked the Qing Dynasty to strengthen its crackdown on the Japanese government, thus making their propaganda plan more effective.

Of course, this plan is only part of Shanqi's work, and the other part's attention is focused on the southern border of the empire. Since Annan became a French colony, countries such as Siam Nanzhang, west of Annan have felt the pressure of colonization. After enduring the pressure transmitted by the Western British, the Siams did not want to suffer the fate of being attacked on both sides - this is likely to lead to the loss of their sovereignty of this ancient country. Since the original sect leader in the north showed an upward trend, it would be much easier to accept under the protection of such a big country.

Therefore, at the request of the King of Siam, Song Qing submitted a report to me, so there was a southern Dragon Power Plan. These seventy people would be sent to Siam, and the Siams would provide them with identity cover, establish a base in the Nanzhang between Annan and Siam, train special personnel, and enter the territory of Annan for secret activities. This operation will be jointly responsible by Shanqi and Song Qing.

Song Qing was old and had poor energy. Fortunately, Feng Zicai and Liu Yongfu helped him, so these three veterans could not help but deal with the situation in the south. Especially Feng Zicai, who had a glorious record that broke the French in the past, and the French in the south were still quite afraid of him.

This is my determination after thinking about the Southern Affairs. Since the French and Russian Alliance, it is obvious that the Allies before World War I had basically taken shape, so I cannot directly conflict with the French. I can only use this secret action to make the French Annan start to decay from the inside. If I have good luck, cultivate the pro-middle-level Vietnamese class to arm it, which can make the French frustrated in Annan and even draw troops from the domestically to deal with it. In this way, he can temporarily stop embezzling the Indochina Peninsula to make up for the regret that I cannot use force to fight against him.

Of course, to some extent, it was my move to give back to the friendly Emperor William II.

"Prince." The guard saluted Shanqi and reported: "Prince Chun arrived and said he was following the order to see the prince."

Shanqi was an enlightened prince. In his military system, he also quoted the common practice of kneeling in the army without kneeling. In addition to the emperor's arrival, he usually only needs to raise his hand to greet him. He put down the list and nodded and said, "Prince Chun, please come in." After that, he got up and tidyed up his clothes, preparing to welcome Zaifeng. He took two steps, thought about it, and turned around and put the list in his cuffs, shook his head, and smiled as if he was self-deprecating.

"I'm here to send two people to the prince. I'm going to make up the seventy-two Earthly Evils, so that the French can also taste our evil spirits." After Prince Xuanming Chung Zaifeng joined the Longwei Plan to study in Xiang, Shanqi could not hide it from Zaifeng anymore. After reading Shanqi's list and their resumes and information, Zaifeng expressed his meaning: "I have a chef under me, which is very capable. This is one. There is also Liangbi you have met. The emperor means that he can experience it."

"Cook?" Shanqi said in surprise. What can a chef have extraordinary power?

Zaifeng saw Shanqi's confusion and laughed: "Don't underestimate this cook. This kid is good at cooking and has a good memory. French people like to eat, and this guy is very useful. This kid is called Jingguan'er, and making bear's paws is awesome, but he is unwilling to be a chef. I have found someone to take the exam. He is not a mortal, he is a tough fight, and he is a night owl. He can't even meet at night..."

"That's not a thief." Shanqi closed his eyes and thought, "It's not only good at skill and talent, but there is something really useful. But why do you think of using him when you are the King Chun?"

A hint of cruelty flashed in Zaifeng's eyes, and he smiled and said, "Your king Su is a straightforward person, so I won't hide it from you. I also want to experience this child. When he comes back in the future, it will be of great use to him."

"What's the point?" Shanqi became alert, his eyes flashed, and he looked at Zaifeng.

Zaifeng was so panicked by him that he was confused for a while, and he said, "Your Majesty, where are you thinking? Well, you are all from a family and don't speak two families. That's it. What do you think of Li Zhongtang, King Su?"

"Li Zhongtang?" Shanqi thought, because he didn't understand what Zaifeng meant, and he carefully commented: "The important national ministers and the emperor's left and right hands must not be missing for a day."

"Take it down, Prince Su, just fool me." Zaifeng looked around and waved his hand to repel him, lowered his voice, "Since that's the case, after you say that the sixth uncle is not good enough, who in the court can do Western affairs is better than him? Why don't the emperor send him to do Western affairs now but send his second brother to do it? He was well-trained outside, why did the emperor summon him to the capital and become the prime minister, and let Wang Wenshao, an old minister who was supposed to be the prime minister, take the soldiers from Zhili? Since he was a left-hand man, why did the emperor value Zhang Zhidong, who had always been dissatisfied with him?"

Shanqi's mind moved. He had never thought about these problems before. A cold sweat broke out on his forehead and he coughed lightly, "Your King Chun has figured out these things yourself? But have you ever thought about it? The emperor scolded Master Weng, which is also a sign of trust in Li Hongzhang."

He stood up and shook his head and said, "These are not what we should say today. Okay, let's talk about this today. I'll ask the two people you recommend to see me tomorrow."

Zaifeng sat still and said with a smile: "Old man Weng is a waste, and he doesn't have the power to drive him away. But he is just a talker with a big talker. The emperor has better people, and Kang Youwei and other people are more effective than ten old man Weng." Seeing that Shanqi was still standing still, he pulled hard and said: "Sit down and think about it carefully. Let me tell you, what I just said has been reported to the emperor."

"Ah?" Shanqi couldn't help but sit down and asked in surprise: "How can the emperor approve it?"
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