"What about the Shadow Guards? Did you get any message? Trying to lift his spirits, Jigong rose to his last hope and asked the waiter, who was also his own intelligence officer.

Although the task was not completed, Jigong still hoped that at least the Shadow Guards could come back unharmed, but after gathering so much information, Jigong, who had always been almost fanatical and superstitious about the Shadow Guards, began to worry about the safety of the Shadow Guards for the first time in his heart: as the last guarantee of the Japanese imperial family, the cornerstone and foundation of the emperor's rule over Japan, in the hearts of successive emperors, the Shadow Guards must not allow any mistakes Unceremoniously said that the power of the Shadow Guards has been weakened, This means that the emperor's position is under great threat.

"I'm sorry, my lord, no," the head of the waiter, the intelligence officer, lowered, "but we've got a not-so-good news, I'm afraid...... I'm afraid ......"

Speaking of this, the waiter seemed to have thought of something terrible, his face was so disgraced that he didn't dare to speak again.

"What's the matter? Say"

The waiter's expression made Jigong's heart sink more and more, although he already felt that what the intelligence officer said might not be a good thing, but Xiao Jigong, who inherited the "fine tradition" of Little Japan's heart of not seeing the Yellow River, still rose up to the last trace of extravagant hope in his heart, and drank to the waiter with a black face, praying that he could hear a good news.

"It's Your Highness," the waiter sighed lightly in his heart and told the news he had heard, "According to the information we received, at the first time Alice and them were assassinated, it seems that 10 people were caught by the golden eagle raised by the Zhang family, and it is said that Alice thinks that these people are murderers. In the subsequent search of the local garrison, some corresponding equipment was also found, so we believe that ...... Think...... The Shadow Guards may be in an extremely dangerous situation. ”

Although he no longer thought that the Shadow Guards could survive, and it was very likely that the 10 people who were captured were the members of the Shadow Guards who went on a mission this time, at this time, the waiter did not dare to say such words anyway, and in desperation, he had to choose words like "The Shadow Guards are in an extremely dangerous situation" to prevaricate the Jigong.

But Jigong is not a fool, how can he not understand the meaning of this waiter's words? A heart sank quickly.

At the beginning, under his own insistence, the Shadow Guards who secretly infiltrated the territory of China to carry out the mission were exactly 10 people, and the Alice Group also caught ten people, and in the subsequent search, they also searched for the corresponding weapons and equipment...... What did these words mean, how could Jigong not understand?

This is to say, if the Shadow Guards are absolutely fierce and auspicious, if they are not beaten, they can't even find the north, how can the Shadow Guards, which have always been the pride of the Great Japanese Empire, flee in a hurry without even being able to take their own equipment with them? There are only more than 100 people in the Shadow Guard, and there are ten fewer at once, and the Shadow Guard, as the last force of the country directly under the Emperor, how can I explain to His Majesty the Emperor?

The number of people is not the key, the key is that the members of these shadow guards are all descendants of various ancient families in Japan, and they are equivalent to offending ten of Japan's oldest aristocratic families at the same time, which is what makes the step-palace feel the most desperate.

Jigong understands very well that even if Emperor Akihito wants to favor himself, but in order to give an explanation to these ten nobles, His Majesty the Emperor must also make some substantive expressions to himself, otherwise he will not be able to give an account to the top and bottom: Everyone handed over the outstanding sons of this family to the great Emperor, Your Majesty, so that you can carefully teach the children of our family, not let you send our family children to death. Why send the elite of our family?

With this layer of consideration, the sad guide of the Jigong knew that this time, he was hanging, and it would be fine if these members of the Shadow Guard could come back, but if he couldn't come back, his dream of being the Prince Regent would end here, and then he could find a corner where no one paid attention to wash and sleep.

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Akihito's mood at this moment is indeed very bad, very bad.

Jigong is a royal child he values very much, it's funny to say, because there is no direct male ancestry, only two princesses, it may be that the successive emperors of Japan have done all the bad things, and the emperor has broken his roots in this generation, which attaches great importance to the Japanese imperial family of blood, Akihito is almost the biggest sinner of the Japanese imperial family,

But the bad thing is that probably the previous Japanese emperors never thought that they would cut off their children and grandchildren, and in the inheritance rules of the imperial family, there was no provision for this situation, resulting in the Japanese imperial family actually having a female emperor after a thousand years~~

Regulated by a woman? After decades of competition with the Japanese Imperial Family, the nobles and the Imperial Family finally made a compromise: the Emperor's daughter would continue to take over the throne, but the actual control would have to be assumed by a man in the Imperial Family.

Akihito, who has no direct male children, has the intention of supporting the step-palace to become the prince of the Japanese royal family, and in the future, the banner and optimus prime of the Japanese royal family will rely on the step-palace to take responsibility. The step-palace, which has always been excellent, has become a talent carefully cultivated by Akihito.

It is precisely because of this, considering that Jigong can only serve the public on the premise of having enough merit, although he does not agree with Jigong's plan of action in his heart, but out of consideration for helping Jigong establish prestige, Akihito gritted his teeth and sent 10 members of the Shadow Guard to help Jigong establish prestige.

Originally, everything was planned and expected by Akihito, and after he abdicated, his daughter became the female emperor to keep her glory and wealth, and the Japanese imperial family could also guarantee the control of various aristocratic families in Japan, but who would have thought that such a thing would happen? These 10 elite shadow guards from Japan's major aristocratic families not only did not complete their tasks, but all of them fell in a foreign country?

Jimiya's future in Japan is already predictably bleak.

Sure enough, people are not as good as heaven.

But that's not the most important thing for Japan, and after receiving the intelligence brief from China, Akihito has already begun to think about how to deal with the stormy retaliation from Alice

Even, Akihito has a faint feeling in his heart that the sudden turmoil in the Japanese stock market, which has been stretched to this day a few days ago and still does not see any upward trend, is absolutely inseparable from the Alice Group. Although he doesn't have any evidence to prove it, decades of ups and downs have given Akihito an unusually keen eye for this kind of thing.

At the same time, Akihito understands how much impact the Shadow Guard's quiet infiltration of China will have on the Chinese high-level leaders, and they may give in and make concessions on other issues, but they will definitely be more tough than ever on their own vital security issues

At that time, in order to put pressure on Japan, the Chinese will definitely resort to various ways to force themselves to submit. As an export-oriented country, how to deal with economic pressure from China, Japan's third-largest partner, has become one of the key issues that Akihito must now consider.

Headache, at this moment, Akihito felt that he had a splitting headache

Don't think that the Japanese prime minister is the real head of Japan, as early as more than 40 years ago, the Japanese imperial family has quietly grasped Japan's power again, but most of the people in the world do not know, and the top level of the US government who knows about it is just turning a blind eye to this matter.

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At a time when Akihito was just beginning to worry about pressure from China, the spokesman of the Chinese State Council announced at a rational press conference that the price of agricultural products exported to Japan would be increased by 20 percent because of a series of problems such as rising raw material prices and promoting peasant incomes, and at the same time the Japanese government would be asked to lower the prices of a series of industrial products exported to China.

The old men were indeed angry, of course, more afraid. And if the damned Japanese do something similar again, and against themselves, then what should they do? Therefore, this time we should take an unprecedented tough way to tell the Japanese that this time you have annoyed Lao Tzu, and there is no suitable reason, Lao Tzu and you are absolutely not finished

Of course, this dumb riddle between China and the Japanese is naturally incomprehensible to others, and when they can't understand it, everyone makes all kinds of speculations, especially the media around the world who are talking nonsense, fanning the flames, and fearing that the world will not be chaotic

One by one, their eyes widened to see what kind of response the Japanese would make under such an unreasonable price increase action by the Chinese. Protest? Retaliate accordingly? As soon as the Japanese reacted, they immediately made an overwhelming report on this incident, anyway, no matter who is black or white, let's make money first. ,

But to the incredibleness of the media around the world, this sudden price increase by the Chinese is shameless enough, but the Japanese did not even have a symbolic protest, but directly accepted it, and even openly stated in the media that the Japanese government deeply agrees with the Chinese's move to promote peasant income.

Japan's move is almost to directly use a loudspeaker to shout all over the world: "You Chinese raise prices, increase prices, no matter how you raise prices, we have no opinion, even if you continue to raise prices again, we have no opinion." ”

It's a day, what's going on, everyone can't understand how this trick has changed, especially the major media who were originally full of strength and ready to do a big job, and they were suddenly suffocated half to death

This is just like a man, who was teased by a superb beauty for a long time, and was about to be burned with a gun on the horse, when suddenly the beauty shyly told the macho man, my aunt is here, what do you think about this?

What to do? The media who are angry and almost bleed, desperately scolding the Japanese in the back for not tossing desperately and not fighting with the Chinese, how can we have something to write? There is nothing to write, where do our winnings come from? Where does our fame come from? Where does our extra money come from? Damn the Japanese, don't you like to jump the most on weekdays, why do the Chinese not give you face this time, but you don't jump up? The critical moment is soft, and you don't have eggs?

Of course, if this kind of thing is their turn, whether they themselves dare to be so eggless as they themselves clamored for is another matter.

The question of whether there are eggs or not will not be discussed for the time being, it is in this way that the Japanese government tells the Chinese high-level that this incident is indeed our fault, and we promise not to take it as an example, and we will reach a settlement in this way this time, what do you think?

What do you think? Of course, it's not very good, in the eyes of the old men, this practice of the Japanese belongs to the typical thief thinking: I came to steal your things, and if I stole it, I will naturally earn it, but what if I don't steal it and get caught? Just excuse me if you apologize, you don't see I stole your stuff, did I?

How can there be such a cheap thing? It's not like it's not like it, if the cost of "stealing" is so low, then I can come to your house every day to steal things? So, give us an explanation that satisfies us, otherwise this matter will definitely not be over

However, no matter how the high-level Chinese and Japanese governments argue, these are none of Zhang Lan's business, and now Zhang Lan and Alice are busy with another matter. Someone asked, just let the Japanese go? Of course, it is impossible that they did not intend to let the Japanese go in the first place, and this time the Japanese tossed but just drew another stroke on their unlucky schedule.

Zhang Lan and Alice have been busy with a new business recently. Probably to make some compensation for Alice's fright this time, the last time I negotiated with the military about letting Alice Group help the military design an aircraft carrier aircraft catapult, it was basically difficult to get it in half a year, but I didn't know if it was a blessing in disguise, after such a thing, the high-level bigwigs spoke directly, saying "There is no need to worry about such a trivial matter, as long as our maritime aircraft carrier combat force is rapidly developed, it will be stronger than anything else", It is precisely because of such a sentence that the issue of aircraft carrier catapults was quickly resolved.

Not only that, but it also brought about a new business: negotiations with the Alice Group on the various types of aircraft used on the aircraft carrier.

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The military has been coveting Alice Group's aircraft technology for a long time, but alas, Alice Group itself understands that these things are definitely their own treasures. That's not even a thought, anyway, with the outstanding performance of its own products, Alice Group has never had to worry about the sales of its products.

In essence, an aircraft carrier is a complex of a military aircraft factory, a hangar, and an aircraft repair plant, and how to effectively improve the overall performance of the aircraft on the ship has become an issue that the military of any country must consider when developing its own aircraft carrier forces. ,

In addition to carrier-based fighters, aircraft carriers will also carry many fighters for other purposes, such as anti-submarine aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft, early warning aircraft, material/personnel multi-functional transport aircraft, attack aircraft and other multi-purpose aircraft. Even the United States, which has the deepest pockets, uses helicopters as much as possible, although its aircraft carriers have specialized electronic warfare aircraft, early warning aircraft, and attack aircraft.

Helicopters are able to take off and land vertically, which is of course very good, but then the problem is the speed and poor range of the helicopter. With a maximum flight speed of about 300 kilometers per hour and a straight range of up to 7 or 800 kilometers, the helicopter can only undertake combat or non-combat auxiliary work more often.

But such "inferior" performance, in terms of material consumption compared with fighter aircraft or transport aircraft and other aircraft, but not so inferior, strictly speaking, the current helicopter is a very low efficiency ratio of weapons and equipment, the reason why countries are still vigorously developing and using helicopters, the fundamental reason is that before finding a suitable replacement for helicopters, the inherent advantages of helicopters, people can not ignore their existence and special role.

But when the Americans' V-22 "Osprey" tiltrotor and a series of tiltrotor of the Alice Group appeared, this new aircraft that combines the dual characteristics of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft instantly has the possibility of replacing traditional helicopters, and some people even believe that the emergence of a new model of tiltrotor means that it is possible for tiltrotor to replace traditional helicopters.

In terms of flight performance, the things and actions that traditional helicopters can do, such as hovering in the air, flying left in a straight line, flying right in a straight line, vertical lifting, inverted flight and other unique flight actions of helicopters, can be perfectly completed by tiltrotors;

In terms of range and flight speed, the helicopter can not be compared with the tiltrotor machine, all of which use the three-stage forward-swept wing + the power arrangement scheme of the rotor fan of the Alice Group, with a cruising speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour and a maximum range of more than 3400 kilometers, so that all helicopters are faceless, even if the American V-22 "Osprey" tiltrotor using a propeller engine, it can also hit the maximum speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour;

In terms of maneuverability, because the flight speed is faster, there are more aerodynamic parts than helicopters, and the tiltrotor has better maneuverability.