"So we're betting on the legend?" asked Kami Taiyuan.

"Well, let's bet on her first, since her surname is Artoria, it proves that she has at least passed the test of the Lake of Tranquility, and no matter what, it is impossible to lose before the final. Takagi thought for a moment and said.

"Then will she meet Yanagi-kun in advance? Yanagi-kun came from the qualifiers, and it is possible that he will be randomly assigned to that area. ”

"No, since Liu Shengjun has just entered the Sword Hero Guild to participate in this martial soul duel, there must be a promoter of the royal organization behind him, even if he is from the qualifiers, he will definitely be included in the potential seeded players, and in the division, he will not be in the same zone as a seeded player like Artoria. ”

"Okay, do we have to bet on anything but Artoria?"

"No, no one else is absolutely sure, since we are not opening a gambling game, there is no need to intervene too much in a gambling game without the ability to control it. ”

"Okay. ”

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"Zhongping-kun, according to the intelligence, this time the European side is led by the legendary Artoria, a total of nine Golden Knight level masters have signed up to see the Martial Soul Duel, it seems that the comer is not good!"

In a very ordinary office, Hasegawa Nakahei listened to the reports of his subordinates. He is forty-two years old this year, and as time passes year by year, he doesn't know when his ambitions will have the opportunity to be realized.

Hasegawa Nakahei was not originally surnamed Hasegawa, but Hayashi.

Eight years ago, Tokyo cracked down on the underworld organization, his big Berlin Zuozhen died in a car accident inexplicably, at that time he had entered the police system under the name of Hasegawa Nakahei, and the family originally wanted him to go back to inherit the position of president of the Sanlin Association, but Hasegawa Nakahei was very soberly aware that no matter how big the underworld is, it cannot be recognized by the mainstream of society, and he finally climbed out of the mud pit and will never jump into it again,

Therefore, he recommended his friend Takagi Qiang to serve as the president of the Sanlin Society, to say that the Sanlin Society was originally a Takagi family, the Kobayashi family and the Lin family together to establish the three Extreme Way organizations, although for more than 100 years, the three families have their own ups and downs, but relying on the samurai spirit of helping each other, it has been standing, so the descendants of the three families are actually brothers and sisters.

Since three years ago, with the intelligence support and financial support of the Sanlin Society, he climbed to the throne of deputy director of the National Security Bureau, and has been reminding himself that the deputy director of the Security Bureau is not an ideal position, and he must jump out of the circle of the Security Bureau as soon as possible!

After all, a position like the National Security Agency is never suitable for him to come to the forefront, and instead of helping, he will be a drag on him to display his political ambitions.

The Hasegawa family was not short of money, and he did not enter the bureaucracy for money.

When he entered the bureaucracy, he didn't want to enter the system of the National Security Bureau, but he did a good job in the police system, so he was naturally valued by the top and transferred to the national security system.

Since childhood, Hasegawa Nakahei has had great ambitions and hopes to change the state of Japan through his own efforts, and in his opinion, Japan is a country with major defects from its congenital nature.

Japan's small size, lack of resources, and natural disasters make it difficult for Japan to become a world-class power. In addition, when other countries build a large-scale laboratory, as long as they find a piece of land with a safe and stable geological environment, they will start planning and construction.

In this hellish place in Japan, there is no such land at all! Can you imagine an experiment that requires a high degree of stability and an earthquake is halfway through! Nima really feels this kind of feeling only Japanese scientists!

Therefore, in terms of scientific research, the development of architecture in Japan is one of the fastest growing disciplines in the world, and there is no way, if this discipline does not develop, it will not even dare to build high-rise buildings, let alone advanced laboratories.

In Hasegawa Nakahei's view, Japan's development prospects, in fact, only three directions, one is to completely obey the Celestial Empire, as part of the Celestial Empire's strategy, to share the dividends of the Celestial Empire's development, but there is a potential danger in this, after all, Japan is not a province of the Celestial Empire, and the sharing of dividends will definitely rank behind the Celestial Empire's own people, and no one wants to experience the taste of second-class citizens.

Then, the second direction is Japan's own independent development, Japan is currently in a very favorable situation, the Asian economic circle and the Americas, the European economic circle exchanges mainly rely on shipping, in the next few decades, this exchange mode is unlikely to change, then, Japan as an island country, the geographical location is unique, as long as the relationship with other countries is maintained, in the economic aspect will be able to develop smoothly.

In other words, Japan cannot be completely subordinate to the Celestial Empire, and it is better to maintain a neutral state that leans towards the Celestial Empire, which is the most beneficial choice for Japan.

In Hasegawa's view, this is not the future of Japan, and Japan's biggest disadvantage is that there are many people, little land, and a harsh environment. However, Japan's biggest advantage is that it has a large educated population and an average level of education that is among the highest in the world!

In Hasegawa's view, Japan's future lies in research and education.

In his view, the patent law currently prevalent in the world has changed from protecting the interests of scientific developers to preventing the progress of other developers, and the so-called patent trap is a direct manifestation of this obstacle.

The patent trap is that some companies apply for patents but do not publish them, nor do they produce products, and these patents are applied for specifically to prevent competitors from developing new products.

As long as the adversary develops a new product and puts it on the market, even if the adversary's new product contains countless unique technologies, only the appearance infringes on the patent mine, then it will be caught in patent litigation.

Regardless of the success or failure of the lawsuit, at least during the litigation period, the product will not be able to be successfully put on the market, and often this litigation period will be maliciously dragged for a long time, until the initial investment of the product cannot generate profits, but a large number of loans will have to be repaid, until the company that develops new products is dragged down.

In this era, capital has overwhelmed technology and become an obstacle to the development of science and technology. Nakahei Hasegawa believes that if he has the opportunity to become Japan's prime minister, then the first thing is to develop education and scientific research, change the patent law, and no longer allow large enterprises to suppress the development of new technologies through their market monopoly position and financial and human advantages.

There may be a long way to go, but if you don't work hard, how do you know that you can't achieve it?

But if he wants to climb to the point where he has the opportunity to display his ambitions, at least to the level of the deputy commander, this is still far away for him.

But, now he has a chance!

Since the security department he is in charge of is responsible for the preservation of the martial soul finals, he has the opportunity to contact the royal family, so if the security work he is responsible for can be successfully completed in this martial soul duel, and through the power in his hands, he will escort the royal family and obtain excellent profits, he is likely to be appreciated by the royal family.

With the support of the royal family, coupled with the covert layout in the bureaucracy, among the electorate, and in the corporate consortium over the years, you can jump out of the bureaucracy and join the politician system through campaigning, so as to stand out in a short period of time.

Now he has a candidate - Yanagi Yuanhe, the best thing is that this person was unknown in the kendo world before, and he almost jumped out suddenly, through the news of the Sword Hao Association and the news obtained from his own private channels, Yanagi Yuanhe has a great chance to get the Martial Spirit Cup.

Then, there is a lot of room for operation, and if the operation is good, this time the royal family can even exceed the profit of the Martial Spirit Cup by more than five times in previous years.

As a direct contributor, Hasegawa Nakahei believes that he can get the attention and cultivation of the royal family, after all, the royal family has also wanted to weaken the influence of major consortia over the years, so it has also probed a lot of tentacles and penetrated into the government, this kind of thing can be hidden from others, but it can't be hidden from Hasegawa Nakahei, who is the deputy director of the National Security Bureau.

His political ambitions and the expectations of the royal family should be the same, which is to weaken the monopoly consortium while strengthening the entire Japanese state.

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"Ladies and gentlemen, this time the Martial Soul will not just get a Martial Soul Cup to complete the goal, the last time the Teutonic Horn was destroyed by Japan's Oshima Megumi. ”

"This time, we want to teach the Japanese a lesson, if the top four in this martial soul duel are all our European nobles, see what kind of face Japan has to call the martial soul duel the world's number one samurai competition. ”

"Your Majesty, please take it down in person, and when you get the Martial Soul Cup, the Pope will come to congratulate you personally. "Of course, Ferru Bridge knows the historical grievances between the knight Artoria and the Holy See, but in this era, let alone the second brother, the life of the nobles is worse than that of the Holy See, so over the years, the relationship between the Holy See and the nobles is quite close, including the British royal family!

The Holy See still has believers to give, and the nobles of various countries have long been just famous, better to be idol stars, and almost just have nothing to do with the news to make them happy for a long time.

Therefore, now the contradiction between the Holy See and the Artoria family has faded, of course, there are some diehards in the Holy See who still hold grudges, but the Artoria family is a British royal family, and of course there is not much real power left, but in terms of influence, it is not necessarily worse than the Holy See, especially in the British Isles, which is very prestigious, and it is much more than the Holy See.

And the Prince Selection Conference (Husband Selection Conference) of each generation of the Queen of England is so grand that it is even more than the martial soul decision.

It's a pity that the queen can't choose a husband every year, at most once every ten years, and every time it is held, it can't be held on the grounds that the queen is divorced and wants to choose a new husband, which can only be said to be a change of throne, and it will be passed on to the name of the next queen (if it is frequent, the Elizabeth/Artoria family will not have so many heirs.) ）。

In this way, the income of the British royal family is far worse than that of the Japanese royal family, which has held martial arts duels every year for ten years.

Therefore, the British royal family has been angry for a long time about the Japanese royal family's martial spirit.

"As our partners in the European region to participate in the competition together, we have the right to apply to the organizer to divide you into different competition areas, so as not to meet early and cause cannibalism. ”

"Whatever, then I'll choose the first division, you continue to discuss, I'm going to go to the streets, the first time I come to Japan, I have to taste the special food of the East!"

"God, God, God, don't go out alone, be sure to bring an interpreter and an attendant. ”

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"Yuan Hejun, is this the place where the Martial Spirit Duel is held? "Although Sakura Kobayashi can't go to the scene to watch Yanagi Yuanhe's game, it's good to be able to come here to see it, so I pulled Yanagi Yuanhe here today to go shopping.

Recently, the martial arts duel is about to officially begin, and both the contestants and the spectators who come to watch the battle are flocking to Japan from all over the world, bringing a large number of tourists and business opportunities to Tokyo.

Of course, the side effect is that it becomes crowded, Japan has a large population density, plus so many foreign populations, of course, it seems prosperous, and it is modest to say that it is prosperous, if you look down from the upper floor, you can only see people's heads, and you don't see the road.

Forty years ago, this kind of competition for signing life and death documents could only be seen in underworld betting, and the so-called black boxing refers to this kind of competition.

Of course, due to the illegality, black boxing does not make much money, at least compared to public competitions such as boxing, black boxers actually earn very little, but they have to fight for their lives.

There are few ways out for warriors in this era, and they have worked hard for ten years to develop a skill, but they found that they could only be security guards.

Therefore, for martial artists, martial arts are an important way to change their fate, of course, the United States and Europe followed suit, and each opened a similar martial arts competition, just to avoid forming a head-on competition with martial arts.

"Wow, Yuan and look, there are people performing flying knives there, let's go and see!" Maybe the street performers in other places usually sing and dance and recite poems, but in this sports park where martial arts are held, among the performers, the vast majority of them are dancing knives and guns.

What chest crushing boulders, flying forks around the body (these are the traditional performing arts of the Celestial Empire), swallowing knives and spitting fire (there are Indian styles, there are also Celestial Empire styles), people pulling cars (this is the traditional performance project of Russian Hercules) and so on, etc., etc., it is very lively.

"Eloen, the Kangtian Hotel is so wonderful, there are so many delicious foods, why don't we have such a hotel in the UK?" a young girl in a blue dress grumbled as she walked.

"Your Highness, please be cautious, if it is recorded by someone with a heart, it will become a scandal. ”

"God, we in the UK are the initiators of animal protectionism, and it is impossible for a hotel like the Kangtian Hotel to protect animals as a food. ”

"Haha, rest assured, Eloan, Frank, our voices can't be heard. I'm just complaining, but, according to our family tradition, how can we think of protecting animals? I remember that our Artoria family has always been good when it comes to eating well, so how can we think of protecting animals?"

"—————— seems to have been your grandfather, Prince Allenes, who was the first to come up with the concept of animal protectionism. ”

"Ah, grandpa is so annoying, didn't grandma object?" asked the girl in the blue dress dissatisfiedly.

"No, Her Majesty is very supportive of this proposal. ”

"It's a violation——, huh?" the girl suddenly looked up and looked sideways.

At the same time, Yanagi Motokazu, who was accompanying his fiancée to the high platform where he was performing the flying knife, suddenly turned his head and looked behind the side.

"What's the matter, Motowa?" found her fiancé walking beside her, suddenly stopped, and Sakura Kobayashi looked up and asked.

From the perspective of Sakura Kobayashi, looking up from below, the eyes of her fiancé Yanagi Motokazu narrowed into a slit, and in the gap, the green essence seemed to overflow from under the eyelids.

"God, what's wrong?" The girl who stopped suddenly surprised the two big men around her, but found that the girl's green eyes were bursting out with an unprecedented essence!

"It's nothing, Sakura-chan, I saw a very powerful person just now!" Yanagi Motokazu bowed his head and smiled at his fiancée, took his fiancée's arm, and continued to walk towards the stage where the throwing knife was performed.

"What do you see?"

"It's nothing, I saw an interesting person, haha, I didn't expect to come to Japan and have this kind of gain!" said the blonde girl happily.

"Who? do you need me to call him?" Eloan followed the blonde girl's gaze, and saw a crowd rubbing shoulders, who knows who was talking about it?

"No, since he appeared here, he must have also come to participate in the Martial Spirit Duel, so he will appear in front of me sooner or later. The blonde girl happily hummed a pentatonic English ditty and turned towards the high-class hotel where they were staying.

"His Majesty is so happy?"

"Last time, when I ate puffer fish, His Highness was so happy. ”

"I don't know who His Highness saw?"