After observing for nearly an hour, except for a lot of problems, Fukushima Yasumasa did not feel that there was really anything to gain, and no matter how much he looked at it, he could not see anything, although Fukushima Yasumasa was disappointed, but he had to leave the forward position and return to the Japanese station.

But after walking not far, I saw a few Japanese soldiers in front of me escorting three Qing people, and they also advanced in the direction of the station, and the Japanese soldiers hit the Qing people with the butts of their guns from time to time, urging them to go quickly, and they kept scolding in their mouths.

Fukushima Yasumasa's heart moved, and he immediately ordered his guards to go over and see who they had caught? The guards rushed forward, stopped the Japanese soldiers, asked a few questions, and immediately rushed back to Fukushima Yasumasa's side, saying: "Sir, they said that these Qing people who were captured ran out of Dagukou and were caught by them. ”

After listening to the guards' words, Fukushima Yasumasa suddenly perked up and said, "Escort them to my room, and I will interrogate them personally." ”

In fact, these Qing people did not run out of Dagukou, but wanted to go back to Dagukou, it turned out that they were the first people to leave Dagukou after crossing the army to capture Dagukou.

But after a few people went around outside, they found that the village where they lived had been destroyed by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and their families did not know whether they were alive or dead, and after hanging outside for a few days, they could not survive at all, so they remembered that they had crossed the army and said that it was not good to stay outside, and they could go back again, so they planned to turn back to Dagukou again, but they ran into the Japanese army, and some people were killed in the evasion, and the three of them were caught by the soldiers. When the Japanese soldiers asked, they didn't dare to hide it, and honestly confessed their experiences.

After the three people who were caught were brought to his office, Fukushima Yasumasa didn't even bother to eat dinner, so he began to interrogate them, and as a result, it took more than five hours to interrogate the three people separately and individually, and each of them was interrogated at least twice, corroborating and comparing the confessions of the three people, and basically hollowing out everything that the three people knew.

However, these three people did not stay in Dagukou for a long time, and after being released, they only stayed in Dagukou for one day before leaving, so they don't know much about the situation of the traverser, only know that this group of people claims to be overseas Chinese, and Zheng He's subordinates who stayed overseas when Zheng He went to the West seven times in the Ming Dynasty, and Zheng Chenggong's old department also fled overseas after the loss of Taiwan, these groups of Chinese gathered together overseas and established a country, and now they want to return to China, so they returned to China with a few warships.

After listening to their speeches, Fukushima Yasumasa first felt absurd, of course he knew that there were indeed many Chinese living overseas, but in the image of Fukushima Yasumasa, overseas Chinese seemed to be extremely vulnerable, and could only survive in the gap between the colonizers and the natives, and every few decades, they would be purged by the local colonists and aborigines, not only the hard-earned wealth was looted, but also most of the people were killed, and then slowly recuperated, and after recovering their vitality, they often came again to cleanse, and so on。 Even if there are overseas Chinese who have established a country, it is often short-lived, and it is quickly wiped out by the colonizers and natives, such as the Republic of Lanfang; so are these overseas Chinese really building a country overseas? Moreover, they are now able to build their own warships, and you must know that Japan can only build small warships of less than 3,000 tons.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Fukushima Yasumasa feels that this is not completely unreasonable, because these overseas Chinese he knows are all living in Nanyang, and these overseas Chinese may not be from Nanyang, Fukushima Yasumasa certainly knows the concept of the world, overseas is not just Nanyang. In addition, Fukushima Yasumasa is also familiar with Chinese history, and knows that when Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, he reached as far as the Red Sea in eastern Africa and the Middle East, and it is said that he also reached the Americas and the west coast of Africa, so his people may not have stayed in the South Seas to establish a state, but perhaps on an island in the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, or even the Atlantic Ocean.

And the ancient Chinese navigation technology is quite sophisticated, Zheng He's fleet not to mention, that is, Zheng Chenggong was also born in a family of seafarers, his father Zheng Zhilong almost cut off the maritime trade in East Asia at that time, and even the Dutch, who were known as the sea coachmen at that time, were not its opponents, and it was with the strong naval power that the Zheng group was able to confront the Qing court for decades with the power of an island in Taiwan, and compared with Europe at the same time, it was not inferior。

If it is really a country established overseas by the descendants of Zheng He and Zheng Chenggong's subordinates, it is very likely that they will not stop sailing, and if this development continues, it may not be impossible to build their own steel warships, and Japan has also implemented a policy of closing the sea and closing the country for nearly 300 years, and only began to open the country until nearly 30 years ago, so it is not actually comparable.

And according to the results of the interrogation, the appearance of this group of people is indeed very similar to the Qing people, they all have black eyes, black hair, and yellow skin, but they have not shaved their hair and kept braids, which Fukushima Yasumasa can certainly understand, because whether it is Zheng He or Zheng Chenggong, they are both descendants of the Ming Dynasty, so they naturally do not shave their hair and keep braids. The accent of this group of people is definitely Chinese, they can not only speak the official dialect, but also can speak the dialects of Tianjin, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Nanyue and other places, which other East Asians cannot learn, and the military pretense of this group of people is almost the same as the Fukushima observation, which proves that they are not lying, and also shows that this group of overseas Chinese is at least more civilized than the Qing State.

Ordering the guards to take the captured people down and imprison them, Fukushima Yasumasa felt that he was hungry, so he asked someone to get him two rai and a bottle of sake, and thought about the results of the interrogation while eating.

If the result of the interrogation is true, this group of people is indeed a certain group of Chinese who founded a country overseas, then why did they want to return to China at this time? What did they do for more than 200 years after the fall of the Ming Kingdom?

Of course, Fukushima Yasumasa knows that whether it is Zheng He or Zheng Chenggong, they are all officials of the Ming State, and the Chun State ruled by the Manchus who replaced the Ming State is strictly speaking, it is a hostile relationship, of course, now the Ming Kingdom has been destroyed for more than 250 years, and the Manchus have steadily ruled the land of China, so it is unlikely that this group of overseas Chinese will want to overthrow the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Kingdom, they are likely to just want to find a foothold on the land of China, Fukushima Yasuma understands that Chinese have a very strong plot of returning to their roots。 Then it is understandable that this group of people did not return to China until now, and it should be related to the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Thinking about it this way, Fukushima Yasumasa has roughly deduced a clear vein: when the Ming Kingdom fell to the country, there were indeed a group of Chinese living abroad, because at that time, the land of China was already ruled by Manchu, and they were implementing the policy of shaving their hair and keeping braids. Unable to return to China, these overseas Chinese had to establish a Chinese state on an overseas island. However, unlike the Manchu Qing Dynasty's seclusion, this group of overseas Chinese inherited the Ming Dynasty's developed navigation technology, and further developed it, and now they are able to build ironclad warships. And now is the time when the Manchu Qing Dynasty is at its weakest, so this group of overseas Chinese decided to return to China, if they really have a similar level of technology as the West, it is not difficult to get a foothold from the current Qing State.

Although such an explanation sounds very bizarre, it can indeed be justified, so this possibility is not non-existent, and the question now is where and how large is the country established by these overseas Chinese, how many people are there now, how strong is the strength, how is the level of science and technology developing, and whether the army that is now capturing Dagukou is their full strength or just the vanguard force, and whether there is a follow-up fleet behind them.

In addition, what was their attitude towards the Manchus, whether they planned to accept the rule of the Manchus, or whether they planned to establish their own state on the land of China and fight against the Manchus, and if the latter, whether Japan would take advantage of this opportunity to use this group of overseas Chinese to obtain greater benefits in the Qing Dynasty.

Fukushima Yasumasa knew that there were now many Qing reformers and revolutionaries who had established their own associations and gang organizations in Japan, including the famous Royalist Association founded by Kang Youwei and the Xingzhong Society founded by Sun Yat-sen, and they were all actively recruiting Tongjue and developing believers. The government has given them political and economic support, both explicitly and implicitly, and some Japanese politicians still have good personal relations with them.

However, Fukushima Yasumasa certainly knows that the purpose of the Japanese government in doing this is not to help China achieve reform and become rich and strong, but to make a political investment, using these royalists and revolutionary parties to contain and blackmail the Qing country, or to fund these royalists and revolutionary parties to deal with the Qing country, in short, to let Japan get the maximum benefit from it.

Of course, Fukushima Yasumasa agrees with the Japanese government's approach, because Japan's territory is small, its resources are scarce, and its development potential is limited, while China has a vast land and abundant resources, so if Japan wants to become a real power, it must obtain land and resources from China.

It's just that although the Qing State is corrupt and incompetent, China's territory is too large, there are too many people, and the European and American powers have huge interests in China, so it is not easy for Japan to obtain the capital to rise from China. After the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan originally planned to coerce the Qing Dynasty to cede the Liaodong Peninsula and Taiwan, but Russia, France, and Germany jointly intervened and forced Japan to abandon the Liaodong Peninsula.

So using the Chinese to expand Japan's interests in China is a high move, so can this group of overseas Chinese also be used? Fukushima Yasumasa thinks that it might as well give it a try.

Of course, it is necessary to prove the truth of the origin of these self-proclaimed overseas Chinese, and now Fukushima Yasumasa cannot be confirmed, and can only wait for the arrival of the Eight-Nation Coalition in Beijing, and then you can ask Britain and France and other countries, because they are all seafaring powers, and they have colonies all over the world, and they may be able to provide some relevant clues.

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