Just as the delegation from East China left Shanghai by boat, the Japanese delegation led by Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito also approached Qingdao on a steamer. The two sides have colluded with each other several times through the Japanese Consulate in Qingdao to basically determine the tone and matters of the visit, and on the whole the visit has been carried out smoothly, and of course this is also due to the fact that the Japanese side has lowered its posture very low and has not deliberately set up any obstacles. As a result, Ito Hirobumi immediately decided to visit East China** to restore normal relations between the two sides.

Standing on the side of the ship and looking in the direction of Qingdao, Ito Hirobumi saw that there were already undulating buildings on the coastline, and there were many masts in the harbor, and ships shuttling back and forth, making it look like a modern port city. Ito Hirofumi is also full of feelings in his heart, and East China's ** occupation of Qingdao has only been 6 or 7 years, and it has been a complete makeover of Kajima.

Although before this, Qingdao was leased by Germany, but the German time in Qingdao is not long, before and after only 2 years, although Germany has also carried out some construction in Qingdao, but Qingdao can have the current state, basically can be regarded as the credit of East China, and it can be seen that the patriarchs have the ability to govern the country.

And once East China unifies the whole of China, combining the governing ability of the patriarchs with China's huge manpower and material resources, there will still be a foothold for Japan there at that time. Thinking of this, Ito Hirobumi couldn't help but remember that before leaving Japan, he had a conversation with Miyamoto Naoto, Miyamoto Naoto once said that the tragedy of Japan is that it is too far from heaven and too close to China, so if Japan wants to rise, it can only take advantage of China's weakness, otherwise there will be no chance at all.

In the past few days, Ito Hirobumi has been thinking about Miyamoto Naoto's words on the ship, and I have to admit that although this passage is very cruel, it does tell the truth, before the establishment of East China, Japan was able to step on the rise of the Qing court, in fact, because of the weakness of the Qing court, and once China embarked on the right path and began to become rich and powerful, Japan basically had no chance to get ahead, after all, China's territory, manpower, and material resources far exceeded Japan. And now East China has not yet unified the whole of China, but the actual control of land and population has far exceeded Japan, it can be said that simply to fight with national strength, Japan is not the opponent of East China at all, the only chance is that now East China has not completed the unification, in the future East China ** to complete the national unification, will inevitably contain a lot of energy, and how Japan uses this only window period, still need to recognize the study, after all, this is Japan's last chance.

Just when Ito Hirobumi was thinking about it, I saw a secretary come over, hand Ito Hirobumi a folder, and say, "Prime Minister, a telegram from Tokyo." ”

Ito Hirobumi opened the folder and looked, it turned out to be a telegram introducing the situation in Japan, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe and other big cities have been against ** popular demonstrations, even riots, from Tokyo, the cabinet, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other ** agencies have protest crowds gathered, and throw stones, debris, etc., and clashes with the police to maintain order, resulting in a number of bloodshed, so far, 11 people have been killed in the conflict, more than 150 people have been arrested.

Even Ito's residence was besieged by the protesters, but fortunately, the police arrived in time to disperse the crowd, and Ito's family was not harmed, and under the arrangement of the cabinet, Ito's family has been moved to a safe place and placed in a safe place, and additional police protection has been dispatched, so Ito Hirobumi can rest assured.

After reading the telegram, Ito Hirobumi also sighed, although before deciding to visit East China**, Ito Hirobumi also expected that his resolution would be opposed by domestic public opinion, but this time the protest public opinion was so strong, it still made Ito Hirobumi a little unexpected.

It turned out that Ito Hirobumi's visit to East China ** was very different from the situation of the last armistice negotiations, the last time the People's Army had landed in Japan, the flames of war burned to the Japanese mainland, and at that time Japan had been fighting for more than 2 years, the domestic information was almost completely exhausted, and the people's lives were extremely poor.

And now that stability has been restored in Japan, although the quality of life has not yet returned to before the Far East War, there is no threat of war, and after the end of the Far East War, in order to shake off the blame, Japan has tried its best to shape East China ** into Japan's uncommon enemy, creating a spirit of unity and hatred for the enemy, so the hatred of East China politics has been implanted in the hearts of every Japanese. And now that Japan is going to give in to East China, it will certainly arouse widespread public outrage.

Although the cabinet members can understand Ito Hirobumi's resolution, middle and lower-level officials and officers do not have such a high degree of judgment, and it is impossible for Japan to explain the true purpose of Ito Hirobumi's resolution too clearly, so they can only take coercive measures, after all, Japan is still a society with a relatively thick sense of hierarchy. Although the coercive means of ** suppressed the middle and lower-level officials, the voice of the officers in the **, but could not suppress the anger and dissatisfaction in their hearts, they could not speak out in the **, they could only pour out to the public opinion, coupled with the propaganda of the newspaper media, so the Japanese people quickly aroused the dissatisfaction with Ito Hirobumi's visit to East China.

When Ito Hirobumi boarded the ship from Tokyo, tens of thousands of people gathered on the pier to protest, and even broke through the police to prevent Ito Hirobumi and his party from boarding the ship, so that Ito Hirobumi had to take a motorboat from another pier to board the ship at sea. But Ito Hirobumi did not expect that after a few days, public opinion in Japan not only did not subside, but intensified. But now Ito Hirobumi is ready to fly, has to send, because he can't turn the bow of the ship back, not to mention this visit to East China, it is also a great deal for Japan, although it is indeed humiliating, but it is a small unbearable and chaotic plan, for the long-term interests of Japan, this visit must be carried out to the end, and can only succeed, not fail. I only hope that this visit to East China will force Britain to return the tariff rights to Japan, and it will not be in vain to bear the burden of humiliation this time, and at the same time it will be able to save its own prestige.

Although they were able to see the land on the ship, when the ship actually docked, it was more than 2 hours later, and when Ito Hirobumi and his party got off the ship, Qin Zheng from East China came forward to greet them at the dock. Although the main purpose of Ito Hirobumi's visit to East China this time is to apologize for the participation of Japanese army intelligence officers in the attack on the resettlement camp for disaster victims, after all, it is an official visit to East China, and Ito Hirobumi is the Prime Minister of Japan, so East China ** still cannot be lazy in etiquette, and there is no need to deliberately snub Ito Hirobumi and his party in these inconsequential matters, it makes no sense to do so.

It's not the first time Qin Zheng and Ito Hirobumi have met, because during the Shanghai negotiations almost a year ago, the two were their own substitutes, and they were more familiar with each other, so they didn't need to introduce too much.

After the meeting, Ito Hirofumi was still as respectful as he was during the negotiations in Shanghai, and first bowed deeply to Qin Zheng and said, "Speaker Qin, it has always been good. ”

Qin Zheng also bowed back and said, "Prime Minister Ito, hello." On behalf of East China**, I would like to welcome you and wish you a successful visit. ”

Hirobumi Ito hurriedly said: "Thank you for your hospitality, and I hope that this visit of mine can strengthen the understanding and mutual trust between Japan and East China, so as to establish friendly and cooperative relations between the two sides, and make Japan and East China truly become friendly neighbors." ”

Qin Zheng nodded and said, "As long as we both work together, I believe this goal is achievable." ”

After the polite words were finished, Qin Zheng placed Ito Hirofumi down. The next day, according to the agenda of the visit, Ito Hirobumi first held talks with Xia Bohai, and during the talks, Ito Hirobumi, on behalf of Japan, formally apologized to the Japanese army intelligence officers for participating in the attack on the disaster resettlement camp, and severely punished the perpetrators, and also compensated Huadong** 300,000 yen.

At the same time, Ito Hirobumi also said that this incident was the result of the private actions of Japan's army intelligence personnel, and did not represent Japan's attitude, of course, Japan's supervision of the War Department was not strict, and it should also bear heavy responsibility, so in the future, Japan will strengthen the supervision of the War Department and ensure that similar things will not happen again. Then Ito Hirofumi also stood up and bowed deeply to Xia Bohai to apologize.

It should be said that Ito Hirobumi's statement has been very in place, not only officially admitting his mistakes, admitting that Japan is the party at fault, but also compensation, although 300,000 yen is not much, but the actual terrorist attack was not successful, and there is actually no loss in East China, Guan Jian is still the attitude of Japan, after all, in the old time and space, Japan was known for not admitting mistakes when it was killed, so it is indeed very good to have such a result now.

Since Japan has expressed a low profile, Xia Bohai certainly can't go too far, so in his speech, he first affirmed the attitude of the Japanese side, and then counted the exchanges and contacts between China and China in history, such as Jianzhen's eastward crossing, sending Tang envoys, etc., of course, also avoided the hostile moments between China and Japan in history, and finally wished that East China and Japan could move towards peace and become friendly neighbors from now on.

And Ito Hirobumi also immediately responded to Xia Bohai's speech, saying that his visit to East China this time is for friendship and peace, and he hopes that in the next visit, this goal can be realized, so that Japan and East China can establish friendly and cooperative relations between countries. On the whole, the atmosphere of the talks was friendly, the relations were harmonious, and they were quite successful.