Xiao Lotian nodded when he heard this: "But Takasugi Jinsaku, who has visited Shanghai, your strange team fights very beautifully, can you get used to the new foreign guns?"

Takasugi Jinsaku is only 28 years old now, although he is brave and enterprising, but he is definitely not a mature political family, when he heard the praise of Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea, he immediately choked his head and said, "Thank you for the righteous act of Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea, if there is no foreign gun funding from the Prime Minister, I am afraid that the strange army will not be able to win if the whole army is wiped out, and the subordinates will remember it from the ......bottom of their hearts."

Xiao Lotian looked at Takasugi Jinsaku and sighed secretly in his heart, if history had not changed, this young man would have died of illness this year, and Sakamoto Ryoma was assassinated within a few months of his death.

Within a year, two heroes died, Japan's Meiji Restoration lost two real strategists, and also lost two political officials who knew how to advance and retreat, and finally the entire Japanese political situation was controlled by those fanatical soldiers and the emperor who did not know how to restrain, and all the strategic gains after the Meiji Restoration ended up leaving one Ryukyu, and the rest were all lost.

"Takasugi-kun, the waves of East Asia have just begun, you must take care of your body!" Just when Takasugi Jinsaku was inexplicably moved, Xiao Letian's eyes looked at Youpeng in Yama County again.

Yama Prefecture Youpeng, known as the founder of Japanese warlordism, the first strongman in Japanese politics after Ito Hirobumi, although now he is just running errands with Sakamoto Ryoma and others, but Yama Prefecture Aritomo has one of the biggest advantages is longevity, and among the earliest group of real power figures of the Shogunate faction, he has the longest number of years to live.

Youpeng in Shanxian did not die until 1922, when it was already the eleventh year of the Republic of China. This powerful soldier fought through the two Battle of Choshu, the Meiji Restoration, the Boshin War, and the Southwest War, which changed the original intention of the Restoration, and helped the emperor complete the first centralization of power in Japanese history.

He participated in the First Sino-Japanese War, and he was still present during the Russo-Japanese Northeast War, and by the time the Boxer Rebellion and the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered Beijing, Yama Prefecture Youtomo was already the Japanese field marshal and prime minister.

After the assassination of Ito Hirobumi in 1909, there was no one in Japanese politics to restrain Tai, and the power of the Choshu clan in the army reached its peak.

"You are a warlord leader, you can be regarded as letting me find you, don't worry, I will stare at you to death, now you are still useful, when you become a thorn in my side, I don't mind disposing of you with my own hands......" Thinking of this, Xiao Letian suddenly stretched out his hand to Emperor Tongzhi, who was sitting upright, and the little emperor grabbed the Western war knife in front of him and handed it to Xiao Letian.

"There are friends in Shanxian!" Xiao Lotian yelled.

"Hai ......" the young Shan County Jun shouted and took a step forward, respectfully kneeling and bowing to Xiao Letian. Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea in Europa's counterattack has deeply shocked Youpeng in Shanxian County, this natural warlord has a heartfelt worship of the strong, and the whole person trembled when he saw the command knife.

"Shan County-kun, I heard that you were extremely brave in this battle of Changzhou, and Ogura Castle was captured by you?" asked Xiao Letian.

"Hai...... The duty of a samurai is to fight, and hundreds of thousands of lives are killed, and they dare not work hard!"

The 29-year-old Yama County is still sharp and angular, far from reaching the political consciousness of the Japanese warlord pioneers of later generations, and he is not an opponent at all against Xiao Letian, an old fox who has been a man in two lives.

"Yama-kun, this is the command knife I captured from a Prussian nobleman in the European battlefield, and I am now giving it to you, hoping that one day you can be like me, defeat the Westerners, and let Asia be colonized......"

Since ancient times, cooperation must have a common program, Xiao Letian wants to unite the hearts of the people of the Fallen Curtain faction, and if he wants them to listen to his orders, he must start from this moment to put on the same big hat for both sides, that is, to fight Yi.

Respecting the king has always been the core idea of the Japanese Restoration, but the way of the Restoration has changed in the whole trend of thought.

People such as Takeichi Hanheita of the Tosa Kenwang Party were representatives of the early Shoyi faction, and the Japanese Shimonoseki Incident in the Choshu Domain, which opened fire on foreign merchant ships, was also the ultimate expression of this kind of thinking.

In fact, this idea of respecting the king is the same as the idea of many literati in the Qing Dynasty today, who do not want to change themselves, so they are enthusiastic about beating foreigners out and restoring the old order and dignity of their own country.

But it is a pity that this kind of rebellion was quickly suppressed under the strong ships and artillery of the West, and the Takeshi Banping was too seppuku, and Shimonoseki was subdued by the artillery bombardment of Britain, France, the United States, and the Netherlands, and the Choshu Domain did not even dare to repair the bombed forts.

At this point, the Emperor Zongyi faction declined, but the Shogunate faction rose, Takasugi Shinsaku, Sakamoto Ryoma, Yama Prefecture Aritomo, Okubo and others all realized that in the face of powerful Western forces, Japan must learn to bow its head, and strive to change itself first and accept new things.

Pushing the emperor to the throne, removing the decadent shogunate, and finally westernizing the country, was the idea of the shogunate.

In fact, the entire Meiji Restoration in Japan challenged Western civilization, and the ultimate injustice of the Japanese rulers in that period was to become the leader of Asia and replace the historical position of the Central Plains civilization.

From the Russo-Japanese War in Northeast China, the First World War, to the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II, and the eventual unconditional surrender, this nation has dreamed of rebellion for 80 years.

In the end, the Americans shattered Japan's dream of rebellion, and the country completely bowed to Western civilization psychologically, became a vassal of the United States, and carried out a very thorough process of breaking away from Asia and joining Europe.

Xiao Letian put the command knife snatched from Viscount Alan in the hand of Shan Shan Youpeng, looking at the warlord leader who was trembling with excitement, Xiao Letian knew that his words had worked, the Fallen Curtain faction was still the Fallen Curtain faction in history, and their hostility to the Western powers was from the bottom of his heart.

"Work hard, Shanxian Jun, maybe one day you will become a general by my side, commanding 100,000 soldiers and horses to dominate the world, it's not impossible!" Xiao Lotian set another nail in his heart.

Just when Youpeng in Shan County was showing his loyalty to Xiao Letian, suddenly a very complicated gaze shot at Xiao Letian among the people kneeling below, and a thick disbelief and stubbornness made Xiao Letian keenly capture it.

"Ryoma-kun, who is the young man sitting at the back, his eyes are so heroic, stand up and let me see!"

Without waiting for Ryoma Sakamoto to introduce, a group of short young men walked quickly to the middle of the tatami mat, and his mouth was very fluent in English, "Respected Prime Minister, Ito Hirobumi in Shimochoshu Domain, graduated from the University of London in the United Kingdom, returned to Japan after the Shimonoseki incident, and heard that the Prime Minister was intimidating Europa, and his heart was inexplicably excited.

Xiao Lotian sighed in his heart, "Damn, Ito Hirobumi! Japan's first prime minister, the leader of the Wenji faction, and a Wenchen can suppress the entire Japanese warlord system, and when he was alive, Yama Prefecture Youpeng didn't dare to jump at all, and all the factions in the army and navy surrendered to his obscenity......

Although he led Japan to win the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, Xiao Lotian was very disgusted with him psychologically, but he could not help but be convinced, this was a big bull man.

The First Sino-Japanese War was won by him, and the Russo-Japanese War was also won by him, and even when he changed the law, he also visited the city of Beijing, proposed reforms to Kang Youwei and Emperor Guangxu, and actively rescued Huang Zunxian and Liang Qichao after the failure of the reform.

Xiao Letian has a very complicated mood about this short man, because Ito Hirofumi is a rare strategist in the Wise Restoration, and to put it bluntly, he is a politician who knows how to advance and retreat.

His diplomatic strategy for East Asia was very clear, which was to hold the actual interests of the Sino-Japanese War, to manage Korea and Taiwan deeply, and to refuse to encroach on Chinese mainland.

Noshi once said that Ito Hirobumi once had a so-called political will, and in his plan, Japan must learn to calm down, and the newly acquired territory must be digested for a hundred years before it can continue to raise troops.

Japan is too thin, eat two pieces of fat in one go, you must stabilize your mentality, don't be greedy, digest the meat in your stomach into energy, make yourself stronger, and then consider getting new benefits.

Blindly marching into the interior of the Central Plains, or even going to war with the Western world in a hot mind, this is an unwise move, and it is very likely that you will not get new fat, and you will have to vomit out the two pieces in your stomach.

Less than forty years after his death, his successors vomited all the fat they had eaten after the Meiji Restoration, leaving a Ryukyu that the Americans had kept because of their own little calculations.

If Japan had fully followed Ito Hirobumi's diplomatic strategy to hold on to the victorious fruits of the Meiji Restoration, and had not launched a war of aggression but had only adopted a defensive national policy to survive World War II, perhaps Asia would have already been under the control of the Japanese.

"Ito-kun...... How old are you this year?" Xiao Letian asked coldly.

Ito Hirobumi was stunned for a moment, and then said, "I was born in 1841 in the Western calendar, and I am exactly 26 years old this year......

"Ahem...... Xiao Letian coughed twice, and said in his heart that he was so young, he was still an age that could be fought for, I won't kill him for the time being, just keep it and see.

Thinking of this, Xiao Letian turned his head and explained a few words to Long Ye, Long Ye nodded and walked out quickly, and soon a shabby notebook with a cowhide cover was brought in by Long Ye like a baby.

Xiao Lotian stretched out his hand to Ito Hirobumi and said, "Come, you are a few steps closer...... This notebook is a diary entry from my expedition to Europe last year, and it contains a lot of my judgment on the situation in Europe, and you see there are many photos here to support it!"

"When you come back from studying in the UK, you will definitely be able to understand it, take it, count it as a gift from me, and hope that you will become a real Japanese strategist and not a short-sighted politician......"

After saying a word, there was a gasp in the room, and everyone didn't expect Xiao Letian to have such great expectations for Ito Hirofumi? Is this the mantle of imparting? Is this the selection of disciples to enter the room?