Ozaki wears a clean koji robe, and instead of wearing a katana around his waist, he wears a sachet pinned to him. If the height is not only 1.6 meters, it also has a kind of calm bearing of a scholar.

As the soldier walked to an office, Ozaki bowed slightly to the soldier standing in front of the door, and then knocked lightly on the wooden door.

"Please come in."

Ozaki exhaled softly and pushed the door open.

The office is elegantly decorated, with a beautiful Song-style wooden table in the room and an open window at the back. The warm sunlight shone in from outside, and the wind blew up the pale yellow curtains. The blue sea and blue sky of Kokura Port are unobstructed from the window, and the white seagulls fly on the sea, creating a scene of harmony and tranquility.

Behind the desk stood a young man in a blue military uniform, looking out the window. After Ozaki closed the door, the young man turned around and smiled at Ozaki, "Mole? ”

Ozaki hurriedly bowed and said, "Yes, Your Excellency, the contemptible person is the mole. ”

The young man beckoned Ozaki to sit down and said, "Ozaki-kun has worked hard in this battle and successfully completed all tasks, and he is remembered organizationally. ”

Ozaki said "Hi Yi", then realized that something was wrong, and changed his words: "Yes." ”

The young man smiled dumbly, waved his hand, and said, "Don't be so restrained, relax." He pressed the small bell on the table and called the guard outside the door: "Please take two cups of milk tea, one cup of whole sugar and ice cubes, and the other cup..."

Ozaki saw the young man's eyes looking at him, and hurriedly said, "It's all right, it's all right." ”

"Then another cup of standard sugar with ice cubes." The young man thanked the guards and continued to Ozaki, "The matter of the Battle of Kyushu is over, and the next stage, well, is not a secret content. ”

He paused, "The next step is to deal with the affairs of the shogunate." Taiwan and Chang'an, on their part, did not want to further expand the scale of the war with Japan, and this step was mainly a naval matter. ”

When Ozaki heard the "Chang'an" in his mouth, his heart was inexplicably shocked, and he felt a deep awe and yearning for that distant city.

"Ozaki-kun, we are going to make peace with the shogunate before sending you and Iida back to Edo, and we will ask you to live in Nagasaki these days." The young man smiled apologetically.

"If so, could you please teach Japanese martial arts in Nagasaki? My country is very interested in collecting and integrating the world's martial arts, and I don't know if I can get your cooperation. ”

Ozaki hurriedly said: "Of course, this is my honor, and it is also the honor of Japanese martial arts. ”

The young man got up with a smile and shook Ozaki's hand: "So, that's great." ”

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Qian Ran, a lieutenant commander of the navy and commander of the Japanese task force, responsible for the subsequent operations and negotiations with the shogunate. ”

"The Major Li Ruchu you know took a boat back to Taipei in the early hours of this morning, and it is estimated that he has already passed Nagasaki."

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Three days later, Taipei.

In the Doge's Palace, a grand banquet is taking place.

In the brightly lit hall, dozens of businessmen dressed in ornate Hanfu and Song costumes are toasting in celebration, bursting into hearty laughter from time to time. They were all capitalists who had advanced money for military expenses in this war, and many of them had even paid for special war bonds issued by the Governor's Office. There is no doubt that the war against the Tokugawa shogunate has been won, and their previous investment has recouped their capital. The next war is a question of how much to get in return.

Zhao An was wearing a black Song dress at the moment, and he was also wearing a precious gemstone brooch on his chest, and his face was full of spring breeze pride.

Before the war, he gritted his teeth and gambled, put all the family's merchant ships into the cause of transporting logistics supplies, and took out the silver buried under the ancestral house to buy more than 30,000 taels of silver bonds. At the height of the tension in the middle line, the hooligan thugs who came to collect debts almost made him gray hair, and even had the idea of hanging.

Fortunately, within a few days, the Ao-Song army, which was cowering north of Nagasaki Bay, counterattacked all the way, and the shogunate army, which was still in a good situation, was beaten like his son. With the 180° turn of the war, the bonds that had been falling step by step before suddenly soared, filling the gap in the Zhao family's deficit overnight, and now they have earned nearly 10,000 taels of silver. Counting the merchant ships handed over to the Ao-Song Navy for deployment, as well as the rent to be paid after the war by the Austro-Song military, Zhao An's business can take the Zhao family all the way to the 100,000 taels of silver club, even in Suzhou and Hangzhou, he is a wealthy businessman who should not be underestimated.

Thinking that his old rival Su Jia did not join this gamble, and now that he was far behind him, Zhao An couldn't help but take a sip of the wine in the glass, and the smile on his face became brighter.

At this moment, the door of the hall was opened by the guards, and a loud roll call sounded: "Governor of the Chinese Governor-General, Your Excellency Qin Xiangping has arrived!" ”

"The elder of the Senate, the deputy governor of the Chinese Governor-General's District, His Excellency Lieutenant General Zhu Mingxia has arrived!"

Everyone in the hall immediately put down the wine glasses in their hands. In the loud applause, Qin Xiangping and Zhu Mingxia walked in side by side, smiling and waving to everyone.

Zhao An noticed that several middle-aged people with peaked caps walked past him, holding notebooks and pens in their hands.

"Is it a journalist?" Zhao An thought, his hands clapping with the people in the hall.

After the applause gradually subsided, Qin Xiangping walked up to the podium, and his voice was full of energy.

“... Thanks to the heroic battles of the Wehrmacht and the officers and men of the Dongjiang Association, and under the conscientious leadership of officers at all levels, the expeditionary force won a great victory in military operations in the Kyushu region of Japan. The Tokugawa shogunate, which dared to challenge the authority of my Great Song Dynasty, was met with a merciless counterattack. Of course, Tokugawa Ieko can decide when the war will begin, but only we can decide when the war will end. ”

"As long as the Tokugawa shogunate does not surrender unconditionally to our country for a single day, the war will not end!"

"As long as Tokugawa Iemitsu does not kneel down and admit his mistakes for a day, the war will not end!"

"As long as the backbone of the Japanese slaves is not broken for a day, the war will not end!"

Qin Xiangping pressed his hands weakly, suppressed the tsunami-like applause that sounded in the hall, and continued: "However, when our defense army and the Dongjiang army were still fighting for the interests of our Chinese nation, we were surprised to learn that the Jianzhou bandit group that had stolen Liaodong had actually launched a provocation against our Liaonan garrison, and there was a tendency to further escalate into a full-scale war. ”

"Originally, we hoped that after solving the Japanese problem, we would gradually eliminate the anti-China and anti-Han Jianzhou clique. However, our country has never had the habit of swallowing its anger and waiting for the right time after being invaded! The dignity and authority of my Great Song Dynasty and my Great Han cannot be challenged in any form or to any degree! The ignorant and arrogant Jianzhou Jurchens must pay the price for their ignorance. ”

"Now, allow me to introduce it to you." Qin Xiangping took a step back and let Zhu Mingxia occupy the center of the podium, "Elder Zhu Mingxia was originally going to come to Nagasaki in person to guide the war against Japan. However, after learning of the situation in Liaodong, His Majesty decided to transfer to the commander of the Liaodong Front Army and directly command the war to destroy Jiannu. ”

"His Majesty has served as head of the European military delegation and has extensive experience in large-scale warfare. Please believe that our army is not a weak and incompetent Ming Empire army, nor is it an army of the Old Song Empire that has nothing to do in the face of barbarians. Under the leadership of General Zhu, the invincible Wehrmacht and the Dongjiang Army will definitely make Jiannu pay the price of blood! ”

In the applause that resounded in the hall again, Zhu Mingxia nodded to Qin Xiangping, coughed lightly, and said, "Thank you." Below will be the representative of the officers who returned from the Japanese battlefield, Major Li Ruchu. ”

Zhao An looked in the direction Zhu Mingxia pointed, and the young man who had appeared at the meeting before the war was walking into the hall and standing in front of the podium. Compared with more than a month ago, the young man in a gray military uniform has a darker complexion, but the military temperament on his body is more intense.

"Major Lee performed valiantly in the battle in the Kyushu area, successfully thwarted the attack of the Karatsu Domain, and guided the formulation of a counterattack strategy, which is a great credit."

"In accordance with the Law of the National Defense Forces of the Republic of Australia and the Song Dynasty, I hereby announce that Li Ruchu will be awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel of the National Defense Army. And, according to the Law of Nobility, the Governor of Qin would confer on Lieutenant Colonel Li the title of knight. ”

In the applause, lieutenant colonel, naval major, intelligence captain of the Republic of Australia and Song Dynasty Army (this was secretly promoted, approved by the night owl in his capacity as the director of the National Security Bureau of the Chinese Governor-General), knight, Li Ruchu, the son of Viscount Qingsong, bowed slightly.