Chapter 56: Warrior

The deputy island minister arrived in Tianjin on the 25th day of the first lunar month. He was not as good as entering the city. He ordered his entourage to the Sankou Minister of Commerce to present the list of personnel brought by Japan to China and the gift list for the Chinese emperor. He immediately set off from Tianjin and rushed to Beijing.

In the middle of December of the previous year, the two countries initially agreed on the draft text of the treaty. Sanjo Shimi led the delegation back to the country, presented the agreement to the emperor, and submitted it to the cabinet for review. Japan had no objection to the two countries' trade and opening their own ports to allow exchanges between the other countries. Only with the matter of Ryukyu, the cabinet was particularly dissatisfied with the text of the draft: "Ryukyu has been a vassal state of Japan since Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Now Sanjojun went west to negotiate and ended up with a fundamentally abandoning the Ryukyu Islands? As the Minister of the Taizheng, do you not recognize the important role of the Ryukyu Islands in Japan?" Katsuhiba, who was then the Minister of Navy, roared loudly, "Your Majesty, our Japanese Navy must not sit idly by and watch the Ryukyu Islands no longer belong to the Japanese nationals, such an unacceptable loss. I ask Your Majesty to send troops to protect Japan's overseas territory from losses."

Mimi Sanjo had expected such a voice, and shook her head with a sneer, "Hiss Minister of the Navy, I hope you can calmly think about it. With the strength of the Japanese Navy today, how can you compete with the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty? All you have is the Izumo-class gunboat and cranes whose ship has not yet been paid, with the maximum tonnage of only 3,600. How can you compete with the Yuanzi-class ironclad ship of the Qing Dynasty?"

"That's not all. As far as I know, the Qing Dynasty was building the Nanyang Navy. With Li Hongzhang as the minister, I ordered four more advanced Shanyi iron-clad ships from the British shipyard at one time. They were still designed by Emperor Xianfeng himself. Although I don't know the specific details, I can also imagine that whether it is power or firepower, they are new ships that are more powerful than Yuanyi. By the day the fleet is completed, Taiwan, Ryukyu, Vietnam, Myanmar and even Guam are all within the scope of the Nanyang Navy's patrol. Your Majesty, all these can show that the Chinese emperor's desire to expand is in full swing. I can only work hard to govern and hope for the future. At this moment, I must not have a dispute with the Qing Dynasty."

Although Emperor Meiji felt that Katsukai's words were more smooth and his own voice, the three Mitsumi words were more about the country's plan. If he offended the Qing Dynasty for the Ryukyu incident at this moment, the consequences caused by Japan could not bear. "Then, according to the Minister of Taizheng. I... agree to the contract as all the items contained."

Using seals on the text of the draft means that the Japanese government agrees that the text after the negotiation has legal effect. What we need to do next is to bring the text back to China and the other party will do the same, which will become the criterion for future negotiations between the two countries. However, before departure, there is another thing to do, which is to choose a beautiful woman in Japan to send it to the Qing Dynasty according to the requirements of the Chinese emperor to fill in the harem of His Majesty the Emperor. This is not an easy task, nor is that Japan does not have a good beauty, but that it is a very troublesome thing to be good at both being beautiful and able to speak fluent Chinese.

After searching for a month, I finally found seven girls. One of them was the wife of the Navy Minister Katsuhashi, whose wife was Ashikaga, one of the powerful vassals of the Honshu, and her wife was named Sorako. Her wife was only sixteen years old this year. Her father was one of the strong vassals of Japan. She admired Chinese civilization for a long time. Shortly after her daughter was born, she hired Chinese talents to teach writing in China. For more than ten years, Miss Gongzi has excellent poetry and paintings, and she can speak Chinese that is not very fluent. This is not the fault of the lady. She is actually the so-called sinologist who teaches his culture, and she may not be able to go there.

Katsuhiba was so angry that he was strong in Japan, so he forced his government officials and civilians to withdraw from the Ryukyu Islands that had been under custody for many years. There were also villains like Sanjo Shimi who were willing to search for beauties in China and contribute to the Qing Dynasty. Finally, he even beat his wife and sister to the head. He was willing to resist, but His Majesty the Emperor's order could not be changed. He had to curse Sanjo Shimi and other people in his heart, and sent someone to pack his wife and sister and prepare to board the ship to get on the road.

Miss Ashikari Koko was also crying. She went to a foreign country and had a long way to go. She didn't know how the people she met and was like. The words, the scripts and the five thousand-year civilization passed down from China were filled with xiong, but at this moment, there was no place to use it. This is not all. It was because she set off on a boat in the cold winter, probably because of the wind and cold that these seven beauties who were collected from China fell ill.

The sea route was dangerous, and finally abandoned the boat and landed on the shore. The man was fine. Several girls had been tossed by illness and discomfort in the boat and the face was gone. The deputy island-souzi, who was brought to China, came to the girls' rooms to take a look, and shook his head and said, "The face is green. How can I send it to the Chinese emperor?"

"Sir, don't worry, just take a few days off in the Guanyi Office."

"How can this work?" said Deputy Shima Hoshimon, "Look, it's time for the Chinese emperor to send someone in less than two days."

"Why?"

Deputy Shima Hoshimon looked at Yutoto Yama Prefecture, who was traveling with him, and knew that he did not know the Chinese rules. In addition to the envoys, in addition to the entourage, the purpose of this came here was to bring the gifts he brought. Although there were seven girls collected, only five were reported to the gift list. The wealth, age and other items of these five ladies must be listed on the gift list. Due to the Chinese emperor's nature of a good fishy nature, I am afraid that someone would immediately send me to tell me that Miss Gongzi and others would accept them into the palace. As for what would happen later, anyone could imagine.

When the Qing Dynasty sent someone to come, they would be disappointed when they saw it. The five girls looked haggard and almost lost their human form. At that time, the emperor would not be satisfied. After receiving guidance from Sushun, the emperor would definitely not be satisfied. Even if the errand he had handled was all destroyed in his hands. How should it be solved?

The deputy Shimashima Senshin thought about it and decided to ask Su Su to follow the words before the Chinese pressed the ceremony to the emperor. There was no need to ask for him, just asking him to delay for a few days. So he sent his escort to the General Administration to apply for the conversion of official documents, and took his servants all the way to Su Shun Mansion.

I came here and lost my time, Sushun was not at home. Fortunately, the deputy island minister spoke funny and generous. He often had contacts with Sushun's mansion and was familiar with his servants. After asking, he found out that the Lord was busy with the marriage of Niuhulu for the eldest prince Zaili. He didn't have much time to stay in the mansion within a day. If the noble envoy had something to meet, he could leave a word first, and wait until the Lord returned to the mansion in the evening and report it to him.

Therefore, the deputy island minister asked the servants in the mansion to pass on their own, saying that he came to China twice by His Majesty the Emperor, in order to enhance the mutual exchange of interests between the two state affairs and the Qing Dynasty's General Office and increase understanding. Before he had done his official duties, he thought about coming to China last year, and was very grateful to him. He came to visit him very much. With Sushun's shrewdness, as long as he heard this, he would definitely realize the hidden truth. How could there be no serious matter? Do this kind of reason for visiting him first?

Sure enough, when Sushun returned to his home, his subordinates finished his words. Although Sushun was so tired, he could hear that the deputy Shima Hoshi must have something to do. He immediately ordered someone to take his own film to Guanyi, where the Japanese envoy lives, and brought the deputy Shima Hoshi to the mansion. It was late at night, and Sushun was cheering up and heard the deputy Shima Hoshi say the purpose of his visit, and finally said, "I'm not hiding it from the old man. This time I came to China from China and have two other girls, which are specially designed to collect for adults, thinking that the adults can entertain the old man, but my country's territory is small and the talent may not be able to attract the old man's eyes."

"This is what you did? You came just right. The emperor hasn't been worried about this matter recently, and the Sacred Heart is worried about the marriage of the eldest prince. I think it's okay to delay it for a few days." Sushun said, "However, in my opinion, the best way is to dismiss the names of several Japanese beauties from the ceremony list."

"Is this what my sir?"

Su Shun gave him a blank look, "My emperor is thin after all. If you know, collect beauties from Japan, fill the harem, spread them out, and discuss them all over the common people, what will it look like?" He said, "Instead of this, it is better to leave it to the emperor in the future. When the emperor has seen the good people in his country, the emperor will be happy. Wouldn't it be much more complete than the current situation?"

"Yeshima Hoshi nodded repeatedly, "I understand. Since that's the case, I will follow the words of the old man."

The deputy island minister followed the plan and ordered someone to list a separate gift list and submit it to the General Administration Office. At the same time, he invited a doctor in Beijing to treat several girls. This was no problem.

In early February, the two countries officially signed the "Beijing Treaty". In addition to the content in the draft text, China allowed Japan to send envoys to Beijing, thinking that when the two countries negotiated otherwise, they could achieve flexible and flexible effects.

During this period, the court had the most busy jobs, one was Sushun. There was no need to say more. However, the prince and the princess got married within one month were enough to make his job so busy that they even had time to return home. The two Japanese beauties presented to him by the Deputy Shima Seiko were placed in the private room opened in the Houku Garden in Su Mansion, but he had never seen them.

The other one was Yi. He did not expect that Zahash could be so fast. On the sixth day of the second month, the first group of martial arts masters who were invited to the city of Beijing. This time, there were three people who were invited, the leader, Lu Baode, a native of Henan, who was skilled in boxing and brave, and he was once a martial artist. In the late Daoguang period, a royal family member, died of life, and was considered a death sentence. Fortunately, the new king ascended the throne, and was amnesty for the world, and changed to punishment. When he was released, he could no longer be an official, so he changed his career to become a stud. In Beijing, he was known as the number one in boxing and palms; the second one was Zhang Xingde, nicknamed Shuangdao Zhang, a disciple of Shaolin, who was also brave and powerful for a while; the third one was Feng Tietou, whose real name was Feng Yunchang, a Beijinger, who was a businessman who sold tofu, but because he practiced his kung fu, especially the most famous for Tietou, everyone called it this.

I don’t know how Zhasha met these three people, so he introduced them to the royal palace. After meeting, the three people knelt down, "The grass people met the prince, the prince is a thousand years old."

"All of them are powerful people, and I have been acclaiming for a long time." Yi looked like a respectful and polite person, went up in person, and helped a few people up, "Come on, please sit down and talk," he said, "This time the court has some useful things, I hope you will give me some advice."

"The prince's words are not dared to be the people of the grass." Lu Baode, the leader, said, "We are in the wild world, and have been deeply favored by the emperor for generations. It is our honor to have the opportunity to contribute to the court. The people on the side dare not say it. Brother Zahash told us, "The prince is interested in competing with the little Japanese? Please rest assured, I think there is something new about the little Japanese? Put it in the hands of the grass and others, and it takes less than three or five rounds to take your life."

Yi frowned deeply. Lu Baode's words were ridiculous and his face was abominable. He said that he would take the other party's life in three or five rounds? How could this be done? Thinking of this in his heart, his face became calm, "Brother Lu, this is not possible. According to the emperor, this competition is the two countries that compete with each other and make friends through martial arts. Therefore, there is a little room for each other to compete in the arena. If it is said that people's lives are injured, it is even more strictly prohibited."

Lu Baode was stunned. Although he was a martial arts master, he didn't even dare to say a serious word in front of a prince like Yi. He bowed honestly, "Yes, the prince's teachings have been recorded."

Yi really didn't like the aura of these three people in the world, but when using people, he had to perfunctory. Zhash said at the right time, "Prince, why not ask the prince to move to the garden to see the martial arts of the three heroes?"

This was something Yi was happy to see, and smiled reservedly, "I am about to appreciate the martial arts skills of my Qing heroes." He took the lead and served him by his servants. He arrived at the martial arts field in Houhuā Garden. Yi himself was not good at martial arts, but the prince Zai Cheng liked it. The mansion often invited some people who traveled to the world to practice their skills and practiced their fists and feet a few times. Zai Cheng either learned or watched, and he was always happy. In the martial arts field, he had all the swords, guns, sticks, and stone locks.

First, Feng Tietou showed off his martial arts skills. He also showed off his will. He picked up a blue brick from the ground, but he didn't see him using his skills. He waved the blue brick and smashed it hard on his forehead. With a bang, dust was made of dust, and the blue brick was smashed into two pieces. Judging from his appearance, he was unharmed.

Yi didn't understand martial arts and sincerely praised him, "Come on my face with such a hard head." He called Feng Tietou to his side and mopped his bare head with his hands a few times, "Does it hurt?"

"If you say it to the prince, it won't hurt."

"It's so good that there are such martial arts. How many people have come to the Japanese devils?" Yi smiled and said, "Who should be below?"

Feng Tietou just made a light move and was rewarded by the prince. Lu Baode and Zhang Xingde felt bad: But what's so strange about hitting the brick like a man bull? But then he thought, it would be better if Feng Tietou really could really show his extraordinary skills, wouldn't it be difficult for him to come to the two of them?

Lu Baode deliberately sold the trash, and even refused to tidy up his clothes. He just wore a long green cloth robe, walked a few steps into the field, turned around and saluted Yi, "Prince, Caomin is not as hard as Brother Feng, but Caomin can do it, but others are not as good as others."

"Oh? What kind of kung fu is it that man practices?"

"Your Majesty, the little man, keep a secret, you will know at a moment." As he said that, Lu Baode turned around and took a few steps, picked up two stone locks for practicing psychiatric power from the ground, carried the load in his hand, with a total of one or two hundred kilograms, and held the stone lock in his hand, and suddenly lowered his waist and ran towards the southern wall of the martial arts field. When he saw that he was about to run into it, Lu Baode lifted his body and jumped up, pedaled a few steps on the wall with his feet, and his body fell steadily on the wall, holding the stone lock and turned around and smiled, "Your Majesty, can this little trick be passed by Caomin?"

"Okay" Yi applauded like thunder, "Is this called light qi?" He turned his head and asked Zhash. After receiving a positive answer, he laughed so hard that he couldn't see his eyes. "Good light qi, good light qi really made me open my eyes."

The next one was Zhang Xingde, who was practicing martial arts. The first two were practicing fists and feet. When it was his turn, he changed to practicing weapons. He stood in the martial arts field and took out his double swords. He first bowed to Yi as usual, and turned around and practiced intently.

In Yi's opinion, this set of swordsmanship is not as good as the two of them in front of him, and even makes him feel that he is so. However, because of the fact that several people contribute to the country, they still pretend to be very enthusiastic and applaud, "Good Kung Fu, Good Swordsmanship."

After three martial arts masters invited from Beijing and outside, Yi was bold and bold. When the next day he reported the matter, he also told him about it. "... In my opinion, my brother's mind, the martial arts of these three people are also the best. When used against Japanese warriors, they will definitely be able to win the effect of thousands of troops to prevent the changes."

"Okay, okay..." The emperor agreed weakly. The kiss sounded perfunctory. "If you can find such a master, you will definitely look good in the ring competition in the future. Well, it will definitely look good."

Seeing the emperor's angry and weak look, Yi and his friends were surprised, "Emperor, if you feel uncomfortable, I will tell you that the Imperial Hospital..."

"What kind of hospital is said to be? Isn't it because Zai Li got married?" The emperor smiled helplessly, "I've been busy these days recently. As for the competition with the Japanese, I have thought about it recently, and it's better not to be extravagant. It's not a big deal if I win. If I lose, I'll make fun of the little Japanese. I'm not going to be the only one in the heavens. Should I hold it secretly?"

Yi was dissatisfied and said loudly, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for not agreeing with me. My Qing Dynasty is full of power, so why are you afraid of Japan's small country..."

"Okay, okay" the emperor raised his tone and rushed to interrupt Yi's comments. "If you always think that your force is reliable, I will not stop you. Just wait until you lose the battle, don't cry in front of me."

"I don't dare." @ws
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