A Dream in Jinling Chapter 381 Some Undercurrents (4)

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Scarlet Village felt his heart beating violently, and this beating even affected his feelings, making him suddenly think of his wife and daughter when he faced a great enemy. If the Hokkaido Army can find him, can't they find his wife and daughter?

Thinking of this, Scarlet Village felt that his heart began to beat faster, and his interest became more unstable. After a few moments, he realized that he had lost his temper and used his time-tested concentration to adjust his mentality to a fighting state, and Scarlet Village even began to wonder which guy had betrayed him. Then Scarlet Village was sure that he was old, and that he was no longer the executioner who could fully focus on the battle and still calmly make the most accurate judgment in a moment of lightning.

Two hours later, Sanosuke Harada, the deputy minister of Japan's public security department, who had met with Sakimura, went to visit Toshizo Hijikata, commander-in-chief of the Hokkaido Army. Hijikata is 54 years old, and although his figure is not out of shape as a sword hero, he still has an aura that can make people feel strong pressure. But when it comes to the Restorationists who fought in the era of the Downfall, Hijikata Suizo's demeanor is very calm, and even shows some nostalgic expressions. Lighting a cigarette, Hijikata Suizo said slowly: "That executioner, really alive and well." ”

"I don't know if he'll leave right away." Sanosuke Harada sat on the sofa opposite Hijikata, without the slightest respect for his boss that ordinary Japanese people have.

Hijikata doesn't care, Harada Sanosuke is already a rough man, and the Hokkaido Army has studied the formation of China's army in its entirety. Influenced by the concept of equality between officers and soldiers of the squadron for 30 years, coupled with its weak strength, the Hokkaido Army was unable to maintain the traditional Japanese system. As long as it is not deliberately provocative, the commander will not question the normal actions of his subordinates.

And Harada's question made Hijikata feel a little interesting, and he asked, "Do you know who gave the news?" ”

Harada Sanosuke shook his head, "It's a submission, so it's not easy to check." But I always feel that since those people can do it the first time, there will be a second time. The Meiji gang didn't seem to be monolithic. That scarlet village is so pitiful. ”

For the evaluation of his subordinates, Hijikata Suizo really didn't mean to evaluate. This Harada Sanosuke is really a guy who makes everyone speechless, and when he was in Shinsengumi, he slashed a spy to death, and then sighed contentedly, "I'm so happy." Then he was reprimanded by Yui Kondo. Now he evaluates the betrayed opponent as pitiful, and this state of mind is the same as a child who only pursues his own happiness.

Knowing Harada's temper, Hijikata Suizo went straight to the point, "The Chinese side asked if we had a chance to negotiate peace with the Meiji side and solve the problem by peaceful means as much as possible. The parliament also believes that it is best to settle the matter peacefully, and if the war continues like this, I am afraid that it will take several years to fight and die. ”

"But will that Scarlet Village bring the news back?" Sanosuke Harada is not fully confident in Hijikata's expectations.

"It was propaganda that he could come back alive. And that guy wasn't here to assassinate, and according to the results of our discussion, he wasn't in the category of what needed to be killed. Hijikata explained.

"Listen to you, it seems that you are afraid that I will kill him?" Sanosuke Harada asked with a bit of teasing.

"I'm worried that you're going to him to compete in martial arts." Hijikata Suizo said it straightforwardly.

After hearing this, Sanosuke Harada showed an expression of "I knew you were going to ask that", and he smiled: "Don't you want to compete with him?" ”

Told that he was on his mind, Hijikata Suizo raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the door, and said to Harada Sanosuke: "Go to work!" ”

At this time, Scarlet Village saw his wife and daughter at his old residence, and when he confronted Harada Sanosuke, Scarlet Village was most worried about the two of them and not about himself. As a result, Harada Sanosuke did not make a move with Sakimura, but only told Sù Sakimura that according to the new policy of the Hokkaido Army, the affairs of the shogunate era were not within the scope of investigation, so Scarlet Village could stay in Tokyo, provided that he had to apply for a Zhang Liangmin certificate. He also told Sù Scarlet Village that it was easy for him to cause trouble to others if he lived in someone else's house, so he should go back to his own house to see it first. Then they retreated.

Scarlet Village is not stupid, he thinks this is too weird, so he runs all the way to his small house in Tokyo, and only sees his wife and children in the house. Now there is no value in talking nonsense, Scarlet Village's trip is really completely exposed, he will either obediently pick up his tail and sneak back to Osaka, or he will pick up his tail and live a good life in Tokyo. After comparing the two sides, Scarlet Village decided that it was better to go back to Osaka honestly.

Before leaving, he didn't fall down, but went to the place where the public was going to find Harada Sanosuke. Harada Sanosuke didn't play a score, and calmly invited Scarlet Village to come in and chat. "Scarlet Village, I don't know if those people in Kansai have ever thought about peace. If they've thought about it, you might as well convince them. We're probably evenly matched, but behind those in Kansai is Britain and China is behind us. Once Britain was fully defeated by China, China could mobilize their fleet to launch an attack on the navy in Kansai. I don't know how long Kansai will be able to survive without the navy. Taking advantage of this opportunity to make peace talks, wouldn't everyone be relieved? ”

"On the terms of your peace talks?" Scarlet Village was not frightened, and he did not lose his calm.

"Emperor Meiji is going to abdicate, Kansai is going to be reformed, and the people of the Kansai government are going to be relieved of their posts, and the army is going to accept our reorganization. Of course, we will protect their personal and property safety. And once we vet them, they still have a chance to be hired by the government. Harada Sanosuke took out the Hokkaido Army's request for peace.

He didn't even have to go back to discuss it, but he knew that this was impossible, and that Emperor Meiji had finally taken back the throne and abdicated him, so that he could honestly recover to the point of no power, and it was better to kill him. Most of the other senior officials of the Meiji government refused to give up their power, and when they still had the army, they had no choice but to fight to the death. As for the land ......reform, the noodle shop proprietress made it clear that the landlords were fighting with their lives against the Hokkaido government. In Kansai, there were also many landlords or landlord families who fled to the Meiji government, and their hatred for the Hokkaido Army was higher than the sky and deeper than the sea. The Meiji Army also counted on inflicting heavy losses on the Hokkaido Army with this army.

Scarlet Village thought quietly for a while, and finally found that only a person from a poor background like him would think that the Hokkaido Army's mention was not bad. If Scarlet Village takes his wife and children back to his hometown to farm, he can apply for land from the government according to the regulations. And for those who already had a lot of land, the revolution of the Hokkaido Army was an evil policy of completely dispossessing these people's property.

As a poor man, Shimura's simple class stance naturally leaned towards the poor, and the purpose of his departure from his master was to overthrow the shogunate and establish a Japan that was more beneficial to the poor. However, the development of events did not satisfy Shinomura, and although the shogunate was overthrown, the happy life of the Japanese people was far from coming. However, this is not a reason for Scarlet Village to immediately defect to the Hokkaido Army, so Scarlet Village took a copy of the text given by Sanosuke Harada and prepared to go home.

Just as he was going out, he saw a middle-aged man walking briskly outside, and even if he couldn't see each other around the corner, both of them heard each other's footsteps and immediately stopped. When the two walked around the corner at the right speed and saw each other, they both looked at each other seriously. This is really a guy worth checking out.

The man walked around the corner and went straight to Harada's Sanosuke's office, closed the door as soon as he entered, and then said in a low voice, "Director, we got the news." The British searched for a candidate to assassinate the Chinese emperor in Kansai. ”

Harada Sanosuke was stunned when he arrived, and the person who came was the new captain of the Red Newspaper team. As an organization that worked hard to overthrow the shogunate, the Red Newspaper Team joined forces with these shogunate-born organizations after the establishment of the republic in the Ezo Republic and the implementation of land nationalization. The Republic of Ezo didn't want to waste such a well-known name as the Red Newspaper Corps, so it kept the name and turned this organization into an organization similar to the nature of the enemy area's armed engineering team. As the war progressed, this organization included the function of spying on the enemy's intelligence, and belonged to a mixture of semi-open and semi-secret work.

"Are you sure?" Harada Sanosuke was very surprised, it was not unusual for the British to want to assassinate the Chinese emperor, and it was not unusual for the Meiji government to be hostile to China, and the convergence of the two sides in the matter of assassinating the Chinese emperor was quite in line with the concept.

What Harada Sanosuke cares about is that if this news can be confirmed, it will be solid. At that time, the Hokkaido Army was able to go to China and negotiate with the Chinese government with this information. If the Chinese authorities had not intended to intervene directly in the Japanese Civil War, the Hokkaido Army could not have thought of any reason for China to refuse to participate in the war when the life of their emperor was threatened. China's mighty navy can easily crush the navy of the Meiji government, which has always dominated Asia, and is now fighting the whites thousands of miles away in North America, and has been successful for nearly a year. The Japanese who served as servants made a lot of money from it.

Of course, Sanosuke Harada also had to consider whether the executioner Shinomura was also involved in this conspiracy. However, after thinking about it, he felt that it was unlikely, if Scarlet Village agreed to participate in the assassination operation, he should have prepared for the assassination of the Chinese emperor now, instead of stupidly taking his wife and children to Tokyo for a "trip".

Thinking of this, Harada Sanosuke liked and disappointed at the same time, he liked that the opportunity to officially compete with Shimmura was not destroyed, and he was disappointed that the Red Newspaper team did not know how long it would take to grasp the accurate actions of the Chinese emperor. He said to the leader of the Red Newspaper Corps: "Inquire into the matter well, and if you have the chance, kidnap the British, who may be presiding over it." The Japanese are hard to find, but are the British still hard to find? ”

With the rise of China, as China seized the colonies of foreigners piece by piece, there were fewer and fewer foreigners in Japan. After losing their colonies in Asia, the Portuguese and Spaniards disappeared. The French can't even enter the Indian Ocean now, let alone the Pacific Ocean. The Russians were completely driven out of the Pacific Ocean, and not so long ago the Americans officially lost all their lands on the Pacific coast. The number of foreigners in Japan is about one-twentieth of what it was in its heyday. These people are still basically concentrated in Kansai, and it is really easy to accurately locate these people.

In the first half of December, the Red Newspaper team's spies in Osaka were to accurately collect and sort out the news of these people. By 15 December, the arrest had begun. Most of the British in Osaka had official ties to the Meiji government, so they were arrested as much as possible. Overnight, the Britons disappeared. It was the second day of Scarlet's return to Osaka.

Scarlet Village could have come back earlier, but he felt that since he had arrived in the Kanto region of Hokkaido's military control, he simply had to take a look. So I simply went back to my hometown, and when I went home, I saw that the village and town were dragging the landlord through the streets, and the people were looking at it with a look of joy and anxiety. Scarlet Village can understand that these people have always been the leading figures in the local area, people who can directly collude with the government, etc., and they are also the main force that oppresses the people. Now the government of the Hokkaido Army and the poor people of Japan are standing together to fight against the master, and even if the poor people dare not jump out, there is no reason to oppose the new government. If you show too much local consciousness and are charged with "anti-thief" by the government, you will immediately be killed. Not long ago, the government had already done this once.

Scarlet Village's wife's face was already very bad looking, and Scarlet Village felt that his wife was holding his hand and trembled slightly. After parading through the streets, a few young people with red cloth on their heads began to count the crimes of the landlords at the venue.

This time, it was not only the wife of Scarlet Village who was frightened, but also the daughter of Scarlet Village. When he returned, the heads of the landlord and the landlord's lackeys had been cut off and hung high on the bamboo poles in front of the public trial table. Scarlet Village thought he would be a little sad, but he found that he wasn't sad at all. It's not like there hasn't been such a trial before, but it's all the poor ghosts who are judged by the government and the old men. At the end of the trial, the heads of poor ghosts were hung high on bamboo poles or stakes. I have seen countless activities like this, and the first time I saw the activities of killing the old man and cutting off the old man's head, Scarlet Village really has no other feelings except for inexplicable emotion.

It was because of this event that he returned to Tokyo only a few days late. I ate two more beef noodles from a noodle restaurant in Tokyo, and entrusted the proprietress to rent out the house in Tokyo, and then the village took his wife and children on the boat from Tokyo to Kansai.

It was December 19 when Scarlet Village received a notice from Aritomo Yamaprefecture that he could help find the Kanto spies hiding in Kyoto. It was the fourth day after the mass disappearance of the British.

On December 20, the Hokkaido government formally invited the Chinese consul in Tokyo to an interrogation meeting. The British, who had been tortured by so much torture and no longer dared to speak decisively, explained with bruises on their faces a series of actions after they were ordered to find and assassinate the Chinese emperor Wei Ze.

Of course, the Chinese consul did not dare to shirk such a matter, and on the same day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent the news to the Military Commission. The Military Commission immediately began to argue whether to let the fleet, which was about to arrive in Japan at this time, return. It was a fleet of four battleships, and on the flagship there was a specially adapted cabin in which Emperor Wei Zexi lived in it. The destination of this fleet is North America, and few people know that the purpose of this fleet is to go to North America for long-distance training, and only a very few people who know the destination of this fleet know that Emperor Wei Ze Xià is on a warship.

The Emperor's purpose was to visit North America in China, not only to pay his respects to the local government officials and people, but also to the troops fighting in North America.

Scarlet Village's wife's face was already very bad looking, and Scarlet Village felt that his wife was holding his hand and trembled slightly. After parading through the streets, a few young people with red cloth on their heads began to count the crimes of the landlords at the venue.

This time, it was not only the wife of Scarlet Village who was frightened, but also the daughter of Scarlet Village. When he returned, the heads of the landlord and the landlord's lackeys had been cut off and hung high on the bamboo poles in front of the public trial table. Scarlet Village thought he would be a little sad, but he found that he wasn't sad at all. It's not like there hasn't been such a trial before, but it's all the poor ghosts who are judged by the government and the old men. At the end of the trial, the heads of poor ghosts were hung high on bamboo poles or stakes. I have seen countless activities like this, and the first time I saw the activities of killing the old man and cutting off the old man's head, Scarlet Village really has no other feelings except for inexplicable emotion.

It was because of this event that he returned to Tokyo only a few days late. I ate two more beef noodles from a noodle restaurant in Tokyo, and entrusted the proprietress to rent out the house in Tokyo, and then the village took his wife and children on the boat from Tokyo to Kansai.

It was December 19 when Scarlet Village received a notice from Aritomo Yamaprefecture that he could help find the Kanto spies hiding in Kyoto. It was the fourth day after the mass disappearance of the British.

On December 20, the Hokkaido government formally invited the Chinese consul in Tokyo to an interrogation meeting. The British, who had been tortured by so much torture and no longer dared to speak decisively, explained with bruises on their faces a series of actions after they were ordered to find and assassinate the Chinese emperor Wei Ze.

Of course, the Chinese consul did not dare to shirk such a matter, and on the same day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent the news to the Military Commission. The Military Commission immediately began to argue whether to let the fleet, which was about to arrive in Japan at this time, return. It was a fleet of four battleships, and on the flagship there was a specially adapted cabin in which Emperor Wei Zexi lived in it.