"Don't the British have enough ammunition for themselves?" Yama Youpeng said sarcastically to Tom.

Of course, Tom could not appear as the British Secret Intelligence Service, his identity at this time was a well-known "businessman", and after listening to the ridicule of Youpeng in Shanxian County, Tom himself also had a feeling of ridicule. The war in southern Africa had already begun preliminarily, and the British side feared a surprise attack by China, and a large amount of weapons and ammunition were prepared. In order to transport so many weapons, equipment and personnel to South Africa, Britain really did not have a ship to deliver goods to Japan. Japan has nothing to buy in the UK, and it is no longer profitable to travel thousands of miles to Japan. The British ships were not interested in the first place, and now they are even less interested.

So Tom wasn't upset by Yama County's sarcasm, he just had a feeling of interest. Japan has nothing to do, and if the Meiji government is quickly defeated now, Tom will be able to go back to his homeland and at least do more meaningful work.

Thinking about it, Tom replied as best he could: "Next year, we can send a ship to Japan." ”

"Next year? Hmph, will you come and collect our corpses next year? Shan County Youpeng said mockingly.

Tom was stunned for a moment, he was very surprised by the statement of Yama Prefecture Youpeng, could it be that the Meiji government could not hold it at this time? So Tom hurriedly said, "Mr. Yamagu, I don't think China will intervene in the Japanese civil war. Allowing the Hokkaido Army to annex the Western Bureau did not benefit China in the slightest. After the reunification of Japan, it will immediately choose to get rid of China's control......"

Youpeng listened quietly, with that expression of not caring. When Tom saw Shan County like this, he also felt a little embarrassed, and even felt that his approach might have gone too far. In the end, he also felt that he had nothing to say, so he simply chose to leave. When Tom left, Shan Youpeng said to the people in the other house: "Scarlet Village, what do you think of what the British said?" ”

"Mr. Shan County, are you regretting your decision to choose Britain over China?" The paper door opened, and a young man with red hair and a cross scar on his face walked out. Japan's paper door is not high, the average person has to bend down and bow his head when he enters the door, this swagger, waist pole straight, walked in from the paper door to the county Youpeng next to him, and sat down calmly.

"Scarlet Village, you're always so venomous." Shan County Youpeng said with a wry smile. A bitter smile is a bitter smile, and Youpeng in Shan County did not refute it. Now many people in the Meiji government have begun to reflect that if they had not stubbornly believed that China was not as strong as Britain and insisted on following a pro-British and anti-Chinese line, the situation would have been completely different now.

"Didn't the Meiji government send people to negotiate peace with China?" Scarlet Village looked at the maple leaves in the yard, picked up the teacup, and then began to ask. After saying that, he began to taste the tea in the teacup.

Yama Prefecture Aritomo couldn't help but shake his head slightly, people always have habits, and the current Meiji government just thinks that there is no way to seek peace from China. In Japanese tradition, peace is the change of sho. What method will the people below use to play in the future, that is the problem below, at least the people in Shan County have no chance to continue playing. Even if they were not beheaded, they were deposed and confined or had no future. Shan County Youpeng has been in a position all his life, and let him fall into such a fate, he would rather command the troops to die on the battlefield.

Scarlet Village saw that Shan County was silent, and after putting down the teacup, he said: "Mr. Shan County, I am a child of a poor peasant family, if it weren't for the war, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to sit with you. So I want to tell you that I personally support the policy of state ownership of land. ”

This sentence poked into Youpeng's heart in Shanxian County, and he subconsciously frowned, and his face showed a helpless and painful expression. The leaders of the Hokkaido Army were once defeated under the Meiji Army, and after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, these people lost their power, and they could not win the war from any point of view in terms of manpower, troops, finance, and force.

China's support for Hokkaido is indeed important, but Hokkaido is not resting on China's aid, they rely on the land state policy, and gradually attract a large number of poor people to defect. And it has come to the present point where it is on a par with the Meiji Army and divides Japan equally. Due to the existence of Lake Biwa and the shape of Japan's territory, as long as there is no special imbalance in the navy, a balance of power between the east and the west can easily be formed. The Hokkaido Army in the east has Hokkaido, a coal-iron base, and the Meiji Army, located in Kansai, has a coal-iron compound center in Kyushu, so it is true that in the short term, it is impossible to see who is strong and who is weak.

What made Yama Prefecture Aritomo very uneasy was that more and more people began to support the Hokkaido Army after learning about the land state ownership system, and during the decisive battle between the East and the West in Japanese history, the Western Army really did not have any historical achievements that made people feel happy.

After being silent for a while, Yama Prefecture Youpeng said, "Scarlet Village, I want to invite you to Tokyo to have a look." I don't know what happened to the other side after it was taken away, but I was very worried that the war between the two sides would be so fierce. ”

Scarlet Village put down the teacup and said to Youpeng in Shanxian County: "Okay, I'll go and have a look." Actually, there are some of my friends over there, and I'm worried about their situation as well. ”

Looking at the back of Scarlet Village, Shan County Youpeng was thinking in his heart. The person from a poor background in the scarlet village has an instinctive aversion to the ugly events of society. After Tokyo was taken away by the Hokkaido Army, it was probably tossed very badly.,Seeing that kind of Tokyo.,Scarlet Village will definitely be disgusted with the Hokkaido Army.,If you don't know it, Scarlet Village will start assassinating in Tokyo.。

Even if things don't go as Yama Prefecture Aritomo thinks, Yama Prefecture Aritomo also hopes to send Scarlet Village to Tokyo. This person has an unwavering insistence on justice, and since he can say that he supports the state-owned land, he must really support it. And this view is an alternative in the Meiji government, and whether it is good or not will lead to the purge of the scarlet village. Youpeng in Shan County does not want that to happen.

Tokyo on December 1 was slightly colder than Kyoto, and the doors of the noodle restaurants had been replaced with thicker and longer curtains. In the evening, the curtain was lifted, and the guests walked in. Regardless of who the guest was, the hostess immediately shouted, "Welcome." ”

When she looked up, she saw a familiar face. The red hair, the cross scars on his face, and the beautiful baby face made one wonder if he had reached the age of twenty.

"Boss, let's have three bowls of noodles." The young man laughed.

The proprietress looked behind the young man and saw a young woman in her early twenties standing behind the guest, holding the hand of a five or six-year-old girl. The little girl has a face that is super similar to her father, and such a little beauty leans next to her mother, looking curiously at the layout of the store.

Giving up the family of three to their seats, the proprietress said, "Guest, I recommend you to eat our new beef noodles." ”

"Why is there no Chinese soba anymore? I miss your noodles and eggs so much. Scarlet Village asked in surprise.

The proprietress didn't want to kill the regular customer, she smiled: "Guest, I won't hide it from you." Buckwheat egg noodles are too expensive to cost-effective, and we have already switched to beef noodles. ”

It could be seen that Scarlet Village couldn't understand this statement at all, and a puzzled expression appeared on his delicate face, "Could it be that beef is cheaper than eggs?" ”

"Guest, you're right. Now the flour and beef imported from Tokyo come from China, white noodles are cheaper than soba noodles, and beef is cheaper than eggs. The hostess explained.

Scarlet Village didn't know how to evaluate this matter, and this kind of thing was the first time he had encountered it, and there was no standard for evaluation at all. Since the proprietress recommended it so warmly, and hinted that beef noodles were cheaper than soba noodles, he didn't seem to have any other choice but to accept them.

As soon as the beef noodles came up, Scarlet Village didn't know what to say. The meat, eggs, vegetables, and soup were all rich that he had never seen before, and so many things were entrenched in a large bowl of noodles, and only from the exposed part of the thick noodle soup, the noodles were indeed white noodles. In terms of size, this is already a huge portion that is completely out of line with Japanese habits. At this time, Scarlet Village had no way to retreat. He took a sip of the soup first, it was really a thick broth, and it was really beef. Pick up a few more noodles and eat them, the noodles are firm and taste very good.

There is nothing to say for a family of three, and the three bowls of noodles are eaten cleanly. At this time, it was no longer a meal, and there was no one in the store, so Scarlet Village talked to the proprietress about it.

"Guest, you've just returned to Tokyo, haven't you?" The hostess asked. Seeing that Scarlet Village nodded, the proprietress sighed: "When the war is in chaos, many people have run away, and there is no way to do it." ”

"Your noodles are really cheap." Scarlet Village couldn't help but praise.

The proprietress said with some pride: "That's also something that can't be helped, a lot of crops were destroyed when the two sides were fighting, and when the war is stopped for the time being, where will there be so much food available in Tokyo." Now the government has let the Chinese open grain and meat shops here, and citizens can get grain and meat stamps as long as they open their household registrations, and go to these grain shops and meat shops to buy flour and meat. It's free and the meat is so cheap that at first I thought there must be something wrong with it. It took a while to make sure it was really fine. ”

"Do you really have money to buy food and meat?" Scarlet Village asked suspiciously.

"As long as you sign up for the government's project to rebuild Tokyo, the government will pay you for your work, and you will be given food stamps and meat stamps. But ah......" The proprietress sighed after she finished speaking.

"But what?!" Scarlet Village immediately asked.

The proprietress complained: "However, the grain and butcher shops in China only sell white flour and beef, and they don't sell anything else." Soba noodles and rice are grown locally, but the price is more than double that of Chinese white noodles. Guest, you like to eat my soba noodles so much, and the beef soba noodles taste very good. But the price of local food is too high, and I really can't afford it. ”

Poof! The woman who followed behind the scarlet village had just wiped the remaining traces on her daughter's mouth with a handkerchief, and she couldn't help laughing when she heard the boss's complaint. And Scarlet Village also lost his nervous expression, revealing a really happy look. Even if you don't understand why Chinese white noodles are bought so cheaply, at least everyone has something to eat and not starve, which is a good thing in the eyes of Scarlet Village.