In the dark Hakodate Strait, a ship with drums and drums approached, and the street near the sea suddenly fell silent, and the noise receded like a tide.

Torches and lanterns illuminated the ship, and as it drew nearer, one could now see the drummers on the deck beating the taiko drums, the heavy beats of the drums, sometimes excited, sometimes low, and booming.

"It's the toshogu drums! It's the shogun's Toshogu drums!"

Toshogu Shrine is actually a shrine dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and due to the construction and promotion of the shogunate for 200 years, Toshogu Shrine has now become the most influential shrine in Japan, and it is also the most prosperous, and it is really an incredible thing to hear the sacrificial taiko drum of Toshogu Shrine here.

When the ship approached the pier, people saw a strong drummer wearing only a pair of crotch pants in the cold wind, and a beautiful shrine goddess dressed in a white robe, and the flag of Toshogu Shrine fluttered on the bow of the ship.

All the samurai bowed down one after another, and they reverently bowed their heads to the gods, and muttered to themselves praying for the longevity of their martial arts.

Long Ye and Sister Wu also rode over from the inner city, and the two of them didn't know what tricks the shogunate was going to do, could it be that the shogunate wanted to participate in this war in an official capacity?

But Long Ye thought crookedly, and it was not only the beautiful goddess official who walked down from the boat, but also an old acquaintance, that is, a disciple of Xiao Lotian in Japan, Ito Hirofumi.

Ito Hirofumi was holding a piece of cloth in his hand, and he couldn't see anything clearly, he walked up to the dragon master and said loudly, "The second lady personally embroidered the military flag for the general in Junfu City, and enshrined and prayed in Longhua Temple and Tosho Palace.

Boom, the warriors present were in an uproar, this is a big pomp, a military flag to be embroidered by the wife of Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea, but also in Longhua Temple and Dongzhao Palace to worship and pray for blessings, no wonder this screening is so strict, just by virtue of this military flag you can imagine the importance of this war.

Those guys who gave up halfway, those stupid people who shouted that it was unfair to go home, go and regret it, this is a rare opportunity in a hundred years......!

Long Ye's brain flashed and he suddenly understood Hu Niu's strategy, but he didn't expect this crazy girl who was a tiger in Taihang Mountain to be able to understand what politics was in just a few years, and she was worthy of being the prime minister's wife.

Long Ye had a secret meeting with Xiao Letian before leaving, and that time Xiao Lotian told him the truth, why did this Far Eastern War need to accept a large number of Japanese samurai? This was actually Xiao Letian's psychological warfare against Japanese bushido.

Perhaps we can say that it is more warm, this is a grooming work like Dayu's water control, and it is Xiao Letian's surgical transformation of Japanese bushido.

What exactly is bushido? Xiao Lotian has explained more than once that bushido is not complicated at all, and there is no need to mythologize him. Bushido, like Confucianism and Taoism in China, is a kind of rule, a channel for talents to strive upward, and a kind of rule.

Chinese rely on reading to change their destiny, poor children pick up books as long as you are smart and hard-working, you may change your destiny and become a superior person, then Confucianism is your upward path in life.

What is Bushido? Like Confucianism and Taoism, it is impossible for the low-class people in Japan to change their fate by studying, because there is no imperial examination system in Japan, and Japan has relied on war for thousands of years to change their status, and the low-class people in extreme poverty must follow the path of samurai if they want a better life.

The most obvious example is Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the son of an destitute peasant nicknamed Fujiyoshiro and nicknamed Monkey. Later, by chance, he became a shoe-carrying subordinate of Oda Nobunaga, and was later selected as an ashigaru soldier because of his cleverness, and finally changed his fate little by little through his own efforts and became Sekihaku to unify Japan.

This is the dream of the Japanese, and countless warriors are inspired by such dreams to go to the battlefield, just as Chinese scholars will also be inspired by the various stories titled on the gold list, and they will also deeply resonate with Fan Jinzhongju's ecstasy, and the truth is exactly the same.

People's desires are there, do you want to block them? That's impossible, only learn to use grooming to solve the problem.

If Xiao Lotian ignores the desire of the huge Japanese folk samurai class to change their fate, then this will be like a dammed lake that will collapse sooner or later.

People's desires can't be stopped, even if Xiao Letian can block the desires of the Japanese when he is alive, and they can't turn over when they are pressed, then what can he do? This kind of desire will exist for hundreds or even thousands of years, how many years can you Xiao Lotian live?

Even if the First Sino-Japanese War is gone, will there be a Yiwei War? Will there be a Dingyou War? Will there be a Jiachen War? There will definitely be, because the more fierce the desire is, the stronger the backlash will be in the future.

Therefore, Xiao Letian wants to open the gate to release water, and he wants to open the mouth on the high Yansai Lake and build his own water conservancy project. Don't you low-ranking Japanese samurai want to get ahead? Come to my canal, I'll give you a chance!

Do you want the most advanced weapons? Do you like the best training? The most important thing is that I have the courage to take you to fight with the Europeans, and the military exploits for you are all real, are you willing or not!

Reality has already given the answer, Long Ye's trip to Japan, the overall fanaticism of the samurai class has proved that Xiao Letian's strategy is extremely hard-working.

The story of Noheita and Hyotaro inspired them, and it had become the consensus of the samurai to fight with the prime minister, and the high desire dam lake had become Xiao Lotian's power plant, and channeling this force to the place where he wanted it to appear was the longest way to solve the Japanese problem.

Now, as soon as one of the second lady's battle flags, a battle flag blessed by the power of Buddhism and Shintoism, appeared, it became the catalyst for the whole plan, and it completely ignited the frenzy in the hearts of the Japanese warriors like adding fuel to the fire.

Opportunity for meritorious service, fair treatment, superior equipment, and even spiritual satisfaction! What more do you want? O fanatical warriors, offer your loyalty, and you will eventually burn like pieces of coal that have been sleeping for billions of years.

With a whirl, the big flag with black characters on a white background was waving in the wind, and in the firelight, the five big characters of 'Far Eastern Volunteers' fluttered in the wind, and at that moment the drums of the shrine suddenly went crazy, and Long Ye held the flag with one hand and shouted, "Long live the Prime Minister!"

The crowd suddenly went into a frenzy, "Onboard, onboard, onboard......"