Berlin, at dusk.

Joey's day was very fulfilling. In the morning, I met the emperor's grandfather, who was crying by the prime minister, and also met the rich queen's grandmother from Grimm's fairy tale. In the afternoon, I went to see the crocodiles hibernating in the forest pond outside the Charlottenburg Palace.

While wandering around the palace, he met his cousin's maid, Dorothy. After receiving a letter from Dorothy to her Princess Elizabeth, Joey remembered that she was the eldest brother, delivering a love letter to the love of his first love. Finally, with a letter from his grandfather to his father and a dress that his grandmother asked to bring back, Joey rode in a carriage towards the crown prince's residence in Berlin, the princess's palace.

Joey's carriage travels through the city of Berlin along Charlottenburgstrasse, which is now known as the "Strasse of June 17th".

It didn't take long for Joey's carriage to enter the famous green lung of central Berlin, the Tiergarten Forest Park, and soon bypassed the five-star roundabout in the Tiergarten Forest Park. At this time, Joey noticed that the Victory Goddess Pillar, affectionately called "Golden Elsa" by later Berliners, was not here. It should still be standing on the King's Square opposite the German Reichstag, and was not moved to this roundabout by the later generations of Nozomi Mosaic.

The carriage drove along Charlottenburg Strasse through the Tiergarten Forest Park, without a monument to the fallen Soviet soldiers made of marble from the ruins of Hitler's Chancellery; There is also no graffiti on the famous Berlin Wall, and its famous kiss between Honecker and Brezhnev; There are no Jewish monuments; And even more so there are no tall and ugly anti-aircraft towers. Looking out at the Brandenburg Gate in the distance and the cool spring breeze blowing in the evening through the Tiergarten Forest, Joey felt nothing but pleasure and nature.

After passing through the Brandenburg Gate from west to east, Pariser Platz is connected to the famous Unter den Linden. Unter den Linden Street is lined with four rows of tall linden trees, which decorate Unter den Linden Street like a verdant promenade. After ten minutes of walking along the green promenade of Unter den Linden towards the Palace Bridge over the River Spree, on the south side of the street near the River Spree, there is a three-storey post-classical palace, the Berlin Palace.

The spring sun had set early, and Joey had finally returned to the palace.

As soon as Joey entered the palace hall, he saw the crown prince and his siblings opening their arms to him, and everyone lined up in the foyer to greet Joey.

After young William gave Joey a big hug, and was about to shake his brother's hand with his right hand, Joey immediately withdrew his hand and jumped away, shouting: "Willy, if you dare to play tricks on me with your right hand, I will never hand you the letter I received from someone in the palace today!" ”

William looked sneered and said; "Joey, I didn't mean that, I'm just glad you were dressed like a Prussian today."

"Hey, big brother, there is no Prussia in this family, only big brother Willy and brother Joey, they are both children of Frederick and Victoria, right, brother" Joey looked at William and said sincerely.

"Yes, you are my little brother." William hugged Joey again and whispered in Joey's ear, "Okay Joey, give me the letter." ”

The crown prince and his wife looked at each other and smiled.

"Are you all well, let my sister take a look!" Princess Charlotte cupped Joey's cheek in both hands, "It's just thin, right, George?" Princess Charlotte asked, looking at her husband, Prince Bernhardt III.

"Yes, dear."

"Where did I lose weight, and today my grandmother said I was fat." After Joey gave her second sister a hug, she said to her second sister, "Sister, you should eat more and gain weight for my nephew in your belly, you are too thin!" ”

"Yes, dear." Bernhardt III nodded at Charlotte.

"George, are you only going to say those two words?!"

"Yes, dear."

The fifth sister, Princess Victoria, with her legs slightly bent and her hands slightly on the sides of her skirt, nodded to Joey. Joey doesn't care, or gives his fifth sister a big hug. The fifth sister coquettishly classified Joey's behavior as having no etiquette, and Joey said with a smile, "Fifth sister, you should leave this etiquette to your sweetheart at the ball." Princess Victoria's cheeks turned red involuntarily when she heard this.

The rest of Alice and Princess Fiodora threw themselves into their brother's arms, noisily asking Joey to tell them stories at night, and Joey touched the heads of his two sisters and smiled and agreed.

Sitting at the dining table, looking at the lively family, Joey took a deep breath, it felt so good to be at home.

Ryukyu Naha, late at night, inside an izakaya outside Shuri Castle.

Michiyuki Matsuda, the chief of the Meiji government's internal affairs, hurriedly walked in and pushed open the shoji door of a tatami room. A group of young naval officers and two middle-aged men in kimonos sat around a long table in the room, looking at Matsuda as he pushed the door in.

Michiyuki Matsuda took off his top hat and, after bowing deeply to the two men in kimonos, said, "Two adults, the police of the Metropolitan Police Department have driven the Shotai family out of Shurijo Castle and taken them into custody at the Naha Police Station. It will be sent back to the mainland tomorrow morning. In addition, according to our internal line in the Qing Kingdom, the Great Qing Kingdom is still discussing how to deal with Japan's abolition of Liuzhi County, and has not yet made any decisions, and the Governor of Liangjiang and the Nanyang Navy Division are also calm as usual. ”

"Matsuda-kun, thank you for your hard work!." A middle-aged man with a horned beard in a kimono sitting on the left side of the long table in the room said, "We'll see you at the pier tomorrow morning." ”

Michiyuki Matsuda bowed again, pulled the shoji door and left.

"Saigo-kun." The middle-aged man wearing a kimono on the right side of the head said to the middle-aged man with a horned beard with a smile, "From the news from the officers of our tour of the Great Qing Kingdom (which are actually spies), the Qing Beiyang warship in Lushun has not made any moves. Today's abolition of Liuzhi County can be regarded as a success, and it is also a dream of Xixiang Jun! ”

"Onboard!" The group of young naval officers cheered.

"Qing has always been a huge empire, remember! We're working against a behemoth. That's why I've brought all the warships of the Japanese Navy to the Ryukyus, and Oyama-kun must be cautious about any move taken by the Qing Kingdom. This middle-aged man named Saigo reminded the somewhat hot-headed young officers in a clear voice.

"Oyama-kun and my lords, please remember that the Ryukyus are only a small target of the Japanese Navy. Taiwan, Taiwan is the primary goal of my Xixiang Congdao. ”