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Chapter 2: Karma Arises Like Birth [Act 3] Disillusionment (1)

"Red deer! (i.e., Baguette, Japanese: bastard)", in a loud drink, a fine Jingdezhen fine porcelain wine glass was slammed on the brown-red carpet, and a strong but not cold smell of wine suddenly appeared in the air.

In order to ask for help from the Japanese Embassy in Germany, Hikaru Tajiri did not dare to stop all the way, and it was already late at night when he arrived in Berlin. Fortunately, despite the chaos of war in Europe and Asia, the embassy is still brightly lit. After Tajiri recounted what happened to the University of Munich one by one, the chubby middle-aged man in front of him was furious and raised his hand to break the porcelain cup in his hand.

When he arrived, many Japanese geisha wearing open-necked kimonos and playing the shamisen blurted out in fright and hurriedly knelt down to clean up. Tajiri Hikari was also doused with wine, so he had to bow frequently, not daring to look at the man in front of him at all.

The man, Yoshio Kato, was originally the political counselor of the Minister to China, Nichiyi[11], who participated in the infamous revision of the Sino-Japanese 'Twenty-One Articles'[12] and successfully forced Yuan Shikai, who was eager for the 'emperor's dream', to accept clauses 1 to 4. Shigeru Yoshida, a helpless friend and consul general of Japan in Tianjin at the time, was deeply influenced by the Japanese political magnate Nobuaki Makino [13], and his "pro-British and American" ideology was extremely strong, which aroused the resolute opposition of the officers of the Young Zhuang faction, and finally failed to join the cabinet of Hirota Hiroki three years ago. As a result, not only was he demoted, but he also succumbed to become the military attache of Ambassador to Germany Hiroshi Oshima, and his heart was depressed as you can imagine. At this moment, I learned that the great Japanese Empire had such an unscrupulous waste, and the anger in my heart was naturally overwhelming!

Yoshio Kato's ten fingers tightly clasped the armrest of the boxwood Taishi chair, eager to break it alive! He forced Tajiri Mitsuya's knife face, gritted his teeth and said, "You repeat it to me truthfully, is it that the daughter of the pig Hayashi Masado gave you a slap in the face in public and made you ugly in the Munich University test!?" If you have half a lie--" He quickly pulled out a Southern Type 14 pistol from his suit and pointed it straight at the door of Uedajiri's head, "I will kill you twice on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, who has lost the sacred dignity of my Great Japanese Empire!" ”

Tajiri Mitsuya's face was as earthy as he was, and he didn't care about wiping off the wine, only revealing two ugly buckteeth: "Kato-sama, how dare I deceive you?" But I can't help it, after all, that person Lin Jingru has two friends with different backgrounds: one is Christine Mathilde Schuzer, the daughter of the current mayor of Munich-"

"Mayor Shuze's daughter? You actually messed with her!? Before the words fell, Yoshio Kato was furious, and without saying anything, he raised his foot and kicked on Mitsuya Tajiri's two buckteeth, kicking him to the ground, "Eight grids!" You're blind! The Germanic woman was not only the daughter of the mayor of Munich, but her cousin was also a colonel of the Wehrmacht,[14] and it is said that this person had made many military exploits and was highly regarded by Heinz Wilhelm Guderian and other important ministers of the Wehrmacht; Her boyfriend, who is a high-ranking officer in the intelligence department, spies on our every move all the time! Now that Duyi has an 'agreement' with our Great Japanese Empire for an offensive and defensive alliance[15] Are you acting so recklessly, not afraid that they will learn about it and damage the great cause of our empire's expansion!? ”

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Tajiri Mitsu also hurriedly got up, knelt in front of Kato Yoshio and solemnly kowtowed, and burst into tears: "And the other is Xu Pingjun, it is said that her maternal grandfather was one of the veterans of the League who overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and her father was a senior officer of the Nationalist Government, not only won the trust of high-level officials such as Mrs. Jiang Song and Jiang Fangzhen [16], but also had a good relationship with Hans von Seckt and other former senior military officials stationed in China. And this, you see-" He knelt on the ground, unfastened the cufflink of his right wrist, and stretched out his bruised wrist, intending to use the so-called 'shame of the Great Japanese Empire' to provoke Yoshio Kato again and avenge him!

Unexpectedly, Yoshio Kato only glanced at his wrist coldly, then put away the Southern Type 14 pistol in his hand and slapped it a few times. After a while, there was a sound of clogs, and a maid dressed in a blue and white embroidered cherry blossom brocade kimono bowed forward with a medicine box to medicine and bandage Tajiri Mitsuya's wrist.

Faced with Tajiri Hikariya's puzzled look, Yoshio Kato just raised his eyebrows and smiled. He was born in a samurai family in Kagoshima, and he has been proficient in martial arts since he was a child, and he knows best that this seemingly ordinary bruise is actually not trivial, but it is caused by the other party's clever use of the veins of his arms and wrists, which makes the blood flow here unsmooth. Even if Tajiri Hikari also walked the dog * * luck, the woman only applied a small punishment, and only let the blood coagulate for a short time. If she increases her strength, Mitsuya Tajiri's entire arm will be completely useless!

Obviously, the woman was either skilled in martial arts or proficient in Chinese medicine. However, combined with the information previously provided by the 'special high class'[17], it is not surprising that Lin Jingru did learn some acupuncture knowledge when she was studying at St. John's University School of Medicine in Shanghai. Thinking of this, Yoshio Kato rubbed the blue and white porcelain wine bottle on the table, and smiled deeply between his eyebrows: "Do you hope that the Great Japanese Empire will use your humiliation in Duyi as an excuse to immediately increase its troops in China, create '918' again, and give that woman some color?" ”

"Your Excellency is wise, it is true!" Tajiri Hikaru also saw that Yoshio Kato guessed his intentions, and nodded with joy like a chicken pecking rice. didn't want the words to fall, Yoshio Kato threw the wine bottle and smashed it straight into his knife face, and the porcelain bottle shattered and splashed, making Tajiri Hikaru also covered with blood, and he was drenched in pain by the spicy wine!

Yoshio Kato pointed at the tip of his nose and scolded: "In my opinion, you waste is actually more stupid than those people!" Do you really think that to take China completely, all you need to do is place a few guns on the forward positions? Don't you know how many great Japanese Imperial Army troops will be killed or wounded in a battle, and how many diplomatic disputes will we face? Do you really regard politics as child's play, and human life as grass mustard!? ”

Compared with pedantic scholars like Mitsuya Tajiri, Yoshio Kato, a senior diplomat, is much more rational and thoughtful. He is well aware that this matter seems to be a trivial quarrel, but in fact it is an extremely difficult political dispute: one is the puppet regime that maintains Japanese colonial rule; One is Germany, which has formed an alliance with Japan's military and political affairs, and the other is the Nationalist Government, which is currently friendly with Germany. If he was not careful, wouldn't he have been seized by the Cheung Chau faction that advocated the "Three Kingdoms Axis" and ridiculed the 'pro-British and American' Satsuma faction, including him, for being weak and powerless? What makes the world laugh at Japan, which has annexed most of China's territory?

Mitsuko Tajiri was also dumbfounded, secretly thinking that if the authorities did not coerce China by force and fiercely vent their evil anger for him, what was the point of his visit to the embassy this time? had no choice but to take revenge now, so he had to swallow this resentment alive and pleaded repeatedly. But Yoshio Kato leaned back on the Taishi's chair and didn't respond for a while.

Just when Hikaru Tajiri also felt that there was little hope, Yoshio Kato looked at him expressionlessly, and said indifferently: "Waste! For the sake of your barely being considered the 'elite' of my Great Japanese Empire, I will give you an explanation. With that, he got up, didn't look at Mitsuya Tajiri again, and knocked on the office of Hiroshi Oshima, the ambassador to Germany.

Exegesis:

[11] Nichichiyi: Japanese diplomat, successively served as Japanese envoy to Chile, Argentina and other countries. In 1900, he served as the first counselor of the embassy in China, and participated in the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance and the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion. In 1914, when he was serving as the Japanese minister to China, he actively instigated Yuan Shikai to become emperor, and was called back to China in November to plan the invasion of China. On January 18, 1915, on behalf of the Japanese government, he submitted to Yuan Shikai the "Twenty-one Articles" aimed at destroying China. On May 25, as a plenipotentiary representative, he signed the "21 Articles" with Lu Zhengxiang, and died of illness soon after. Historical data refer to Baidu Encyclopedia.

[12] In the "Twenty-one Articles", Yuan Shikai hoped that the intervention of the European and American powers would fail, and he was afraid of offending Japan, and the emperor could not do it, so he submitted a reply at 11 p.m. on May 9, 1915, under the pretext that China was unable to resist foreign aggression, accepting all the demands except for the fifth article, and signing the so-called "Sino-Japanese Treaty" and "Exchange of Letters" in Beiping on May 25. The whole country is extremely sad and indignant, and the boycott of Japanese products has been set off in various places, and the National Education Federation has set May 9 as the National Shame Memorial Day. On December 12, Yuan Shikai announced the restoration of the fù imperial system and changed the following year to the first year of "Hongxian", which was the sensationalizing "Hongxian restoration".

[13] Nobuaki Makino (the second son of Okubo Toshitsu, one of Japan's "Three Heroes of the Restoration", successively served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Interior, Privy Adviser and other important positions, was an important minister of the Japanese emperor, and was also the leader of the "pro-British and American" faction in Japanese politics before World War II.

[14] Duyiguo: Due to the transliteration, Japan and Korea call Germany "Duyi", and China "Germany".

[15] 'Agreement' (i.e., the International Agreement on Production, same as [9]

[16] Jiang Fangzhen: The word is 100 miles, a native of Kipshi Town, Haining Prefecture, Hangzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province in the late Qing Dynasty. A modern Chinese military theorist and army general, he was praised by later generations as "a generation of military gods" and was the earliest proposer of "On Protracted War". His daughter Jiang Ying is a famous musician and the wife of Qian Xuesen, the father of Chinese missiles. Historical materials refer to Wikipedia, Jiang Fuxuan, and Xue Guangqian's "The Complete Works of Mr. Jiang Baili Volume VI". Taipei: Biographical Literature Publishing House. 1971 etc.

[17] Special High Class: A Japanese espionage organization headed by Kenji Dohihara, established in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, under the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs. During Japan's war of aggression against China, this organization was set up in the "Japanese Consulate Police Stations" in various parts of China occupied by the Japanese army, which recruited a large number of spies and was responsible for the activities of spies and espionage in the invasion of China. Historical data refer to Baidu Encyclopedia.