458 Banquet Fight
Xiang Ying and the others never thought that the little surname and samurai of the Shimazu family would be so cunning, and they actually used a few bottles of sake to cover the words in the stomach of the sailor, but even if they knew it, they didn't have the energy to care about it now, and the negotiation had reached a critical moment at this time.
On the tatami mat, Tadashi Shimazu sat on the main seat, while his father Shimazu Hisamitsu sat on his left hand as the 'regent', and two old acquaintances of the Ryukyus, Kurigen Kayama and Inoue Takenaka, also accompanied him during the banquet.
After all, the Shimazu family is a 400-year-old daimyo, and the style and strength of the retainers are also very strong, and from the discovery of the Ryukyu battleship to Xiang Ying's entry into the palace, the tatami mats have been filled with exquisite Japanese cuisine.
Fresh abalone is served after it is boiled, a long bundle of tempura made from bamboo prawns is still steaming, and boxy Japanese tofu, tuna sashimi, and even rare puffer fish are sliced...... A variety of dishes fill the low table, and you can't fault anything other than the small portions.
The intelligence work of the Shimazu family is very good, and as soon as these four young people came ashore, a ninja reported the true identities of these college students to Shimazu Tadayoshi.
As soon as the head of the Shimazu family heard this, Xiao Letian's closest personal bodyguard was the nephew of Xiang Shaolong, who was known as the unparalleled national art, as well as Jin Changsen's own grandson, Lin Yuanmiao's youngest son, and Cai Mao's youngest daughter, these are all the children of the Ryukyu real power faction.
Hearing the identity of these children, the head of the Shimazu family immediately ordered the banquet level to be raised, and when Xiang Ying and the others sat down, the new cuisine had already begun to be served.
"Distinguished guests have come from afar, a small banquet is not a tribute, please use it, please use it..." The smile on Shimazu Tadayoshi's face was extremely bright, and he toasted the young man with a shallow wine cup in his hand.
"My lord, we are ...... this time" Xiang Ying was in the mood to drink, and hurriedly opened his mouth to get into the topic, but Shimazu Hisamitsu, who was sitting opposite, said with a smile, "Don't worry, don't worry, why do the guests from afar also want to drink a glass of wine to wash the dust, please drink this cup ......"
Kayama Kuri Yuan, Shimazu Hisamitsu, and Takenaka Inoue all raised their glasses to toast the young people, and they didn't give Xiang Ying a chance to speak at all, and the young people still had no experience and could only follow along with one glass after another.
After three cups, Shimazu Tadayoshi nodded, the little surname behind him clapped his hands gently, and the screens were opened, and a few geisha and third-line artists came from outside.
Ahh
The performance of the Japanese geisha revealed a faint sense of sadism from beginning to end, the slow rhythm and the rigid face were not at all against the temper of the young man, and the voice of the third line was like crying, and Lin Zhen's fists clenched after listening to it for more than ten minutes.
It was Cai Bixuan who was sitting under Lin Zhen, she knew that Lin Zhen's temper was very hot, this was a precursor to an outbreak, she quickly picked up the wine cup and touched it on his hand, "Brother Lin, little sister toasts you......" and then gave him a calm look.
Lin Zhen took a deep breath, raised his head and drank a glass of sake, which can be regarded as suppressing the anger in his heart. But when he saw the fat golden man next to him, this guy's nose was crooked, and the dead fat man was actually beating the geisha?
Jin Sanshun has the most typical advantages of fat people, that is, he has a wide heart and a fat body, no matter how big things are, he can keep them in his heart, and then giggle at you, but Xiang Ying understands that this guy is very shrewd, and many big things can be done without showing the mountain or leaking.
Look at Xiang Ying again, after all, this guy came out of a private school, and when he was a child, he didn't let the teacher beat his palms with bamboo boards, so his calming kung fu was very good, but at this time, he was the most calm.
The four of them all looked in the eyes of the ministers of the Shimazu family, and gradually a look of admiration appeared on their faces, this is only ten years old, how can they be so calm, and they will be able to pay it back when they are older?
At this moment, the paper screen behind Shimazu Tadayoshi was opened, and a small surname walked in and whispered a few words in the ear of the head of the house, and then Shimazu Tadayoshi stood up and bowed slightly to the guest, "Distinguished guest, later, I will deal with some miscellaneous matters......"
When Shimazu Tadayoshi walked to the corridor outside, Xiao Xiao said with a nervous face, "I have already taken information from the mouths of the soldiers downstairs, this group of Chinese is here to ask for help, they want gunpowder..."
Shimazu Tadayoshi's face suddenly changed: "What about the warships? How can they have Western warships?"
Xiao Xiao's face turned white, and he trembled his lips and said, "Yes...... It was captured from the French, this group of college students is really powerful, two French cruisers, one was blown up and one was sunk, and one was captured, it was terrible......"
Hiss...... Shimazu Tadayoshi gasped, and Teng Teng regressed four or five times in a row, and his back suddenly hit the railing.
"How could it be? How could this be? I have taken a closer look at this battleship, it is not weaker than the battleship that bombarded Shimonoseki back then, how can they succeed? What kind of students are these..."
"What about the battle in the Ryukyus? What about the battle on the main island of the Ryukyus? What did he say......" Shimazu Tadayoshi asked
"It's still in the hands of Chinese, and now only one village has been lost, and the rest of the place has not lost an inch of land..."The little surname licked his lips, "This information should be ninety percent credible, and the news sent back by our merchants and ninjas is basically consistent......"
"Damn..."Shimazu Tadayoshi slammed his fist on the railing, "How can it be so strong? Why are not even Westerners their opponents? How can this Xiao Lotian be so powerful......
At that moment, there was a sudden commotion in the castle tower, followed by the sound of a thud toppling the table, and there seemed to be a fight inside.
Shimazu Tadayoshi hurriedly rushed in, only to see that Kayama Kurigen had pulled out the sword, and on the opposite side was the young Lin Zhen, with a revolver in his hand on the old general's head, and the two sides were already deadlocked.
"Baga... Are you crazy, how dare you draw a sword against your distinguished guest......" Shimazu Tadayoshi scolded.
"Lord, these college students are too deceitful...... "The blue tendons on the forehead of Huashan Li Yuanqi were distorted.
It turned out that after Shimazu Tadayoshi went out, the Shimazu ministers who accompanied the guests began to take turns toasting the young people, the first round was Shimazu Hisamitsu, as the father of the head of the family, toasting these children had to give face, but when Kayama Kurigen came to toast, there was an accident.
Xiang Ying drank it, Jin Sanshun also drank it, it was Lin Zhen's turn to drink, but he didn't expect this fiery temper to put the wine cup on the table and said, "Yamamoto Qing has already been disemboweled, you Huashan Liyuan still has a face to live in the world, what about your samurai glory? Let the dog eat ......"
"Ahh Baga ......, "The birch mountain chestnut was like thunder, and he overturned the table with one hand, "Death to those who insult me..."
The Ryukyu fiasco was the pain of Kayama Kurigen's life, Yamamoto Kiyoshi was his most proud protégé but died in the Ryukyus, and countless warriors and soldiers of the Shimazu family also died in the Ryukyus, and the Ryukyus, which had been in control for more than 200 years, were out of the hands of the Shimazu family from that day.
Kashiyama Liyuan really wanted to die, if it weren't for Sakamoto Ryoma's hard persuasion, he would have been disemboweled, and today a milky college student dared to poke his scar like this, even if he was well-cultivated, he couldn't stand it.
"Baga...... Die..."Taidao was raised high and the next second was a tiger slash, and Inoue Takenaka and Shimazu Hisamitsu next to him screamed in fright, "Don't ......"
In the end, the knife still didn't go down, because as soon as Kashiyama Kuri Yuan raised the knife above his head, a black hole hole in the barrel of the gun was on his forehead.
"Move, if you have a kind, you move... Let's see if it's the bullet that's faster or your knife is faster... What kind of era is this, and you still can't play with knives at every turn? A bunch of wastes who have been eliminated by the times, want to show off their power and go to your domestic untouchables..."
Lin Zhen was in a very bad mood today, his mouth became more and more damaged, and his hands kept getting stronger, and the muzzle of the gun was rhythmically poked at the head of Huashan Liyuan.
"Baga... My lord, I can't serve you anymore...... Broken jade, broken jade..."
In the midst of Kayama Kurigen's frantic shouting, Shimazu Tadayoshi ran back and cursed, and then kicked Kayama Kurigen to the side, but also rescued him from the threat of gunpoint.
At this time, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps and noise outside the screen door, and then the paper screen was torn and broken, and the six sailors leaned back against each other, and on the opposite side was a circle of Japanese samurai with swords forming a circle to threaten forward.
"Roar...... Ha... Roar ...... Hah..."The Japanese samurai roared like a beast in his throat, and the sword glistened with cold light.
Lin Zhen saw that the sailors didn't have a single gun in their hands, and they all pointed their daggers and ribs at the enemy, and even one of them even held a wooden stick in his hand.
"My lord, Liu Laoliu, this bastard drank too much, and the weapons were fucking robbed by the Japanese, they are going to make dumplings... It's going to be black and eat black......"
Shimazu Tadayoshi let his back be soaked with sweat at that time, "Stop, everyone, do you want to rebel? Get out of here... Return all your weapons......"
The samurai stationed outside didn't know what had just happened, they only acted rashly when they heard the fighting in the house just now, and these sailors were also hot-tempered, and as soon as the two groups of people rushed to get there, they started fighting.
Lin Zhen shook his hand and shouted, "Okay, you are entertaining guests on the surface, but secretly ambushing armored soldiers? It's so shameless, are you going to declare war on the Ryukyus? You dare to declare war on the prime minister?"
Listening to Lin Zhen's roar, Shimazu Tadashi's face turned white, and he just wanted to say that he was alive, but Xiang Ying spoke: "Hehe, Lin Zhen, what nonsense are you talking about? People often say that the Shimazu family has no dark master for four hundred years, how can they be so unwise?"
"We are here to talk about business, and if we can't do business, how can we kill people if we don't talk about it now? Besides, we still have a hundred cannons on the sea, and I don't believe that we can't be reasonable within the range of this cannon?"
Xiang Ying's sneer made the corners of the eyes of all the Japanese present twitch, these words are too red, and there is naturally a reason to talk about within the range of the cannon, but it is only the truth of the owner of the cannon.
"Hey...... Stand down, there's something we can talk about...... Hurry up and change a batch of wine and food, how can you eat leftover vegetables?"
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