After discussing the military affairs of the empire, after Zeng Guanlan, Zuo Zongtang, Mao Qi, Luo Xuan, Liang Peiyou and others retired, Fan Ruzeng deliberately stayed and reported two things to Feng Yunshan.

Now, although Fan Ruzeng is only a small director, because it is a special agency like the Special Service Department, it belongs to Feng Yunshan's intelligence department, and he only obeys Feng Yunshan's orders, and there is a faint tendency to surpass all cabinet departments. Not to mention anything else, the opportunity for him to face the saint at any time alone is incomparable to many other ministers. What's more, he is Feng Yunshan's henchman, the intelligence leader of the entire Chinese Empire, and everyone is afraid of it.

"Ru Zeng, do you want to stay, what's the matter?" Feng Yunshan didn't always call Aiqing or anything like that in private, but he still called Fan Ruzeng like he used to do when he was a child, which was also a way for him to control people.

"Your Majesty, there are three things I want to report to you." Fan Ruzeng said: "The first two things are related to Japan. Does Your Majesty remember the former Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Yan King Qin Rigang who fled from the Changbai Mountains on the border between Jilin and Korea to Ezo Island, also known as Hokkaido Island, in Japan? ”

"Oh, what's wrong with Qin Rigang?" Feng Yunshan asked curiously, "He's not dead yet?" Didn't I send Lu Shunde and Li Guanlong to capture the island of Hokkaido a few years ago, and although I defeated the main force of his army, I didn't find his whereabouts? Why, now it has appeared again? ”

"Your Majesty, that's right. After that, Commander Lu led the Oriental Fleet and Commander Liang led the Beiyang Fleet, both of which arrived in Hokkaido more than once, and also sent people to investigate the island carefully, but no trace of Qin Rigang was found. Recently, the Edo Station of the Secret Service Department reported a top-secret information, saying that last time, the Japanese shogunate dispatched 8,000 Japanese feudal soldiers as mercenaries of our Chinese empire to send troops to the Americas. ”

Feng Yunshan was taken aback: "What? Qin Rigang fled to the United States? Or did the Pacific Fleet send him there? He suddenly had a feeling of insanity, extremely absurd.

At the same time, I can't help but sigh for Qin Rigang's tenacity. This Qin Rigang is really an immortal Xiaoqiang. Five times and three times into a desperate situation, but each time he was able to escape. Now those princes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, except for himself and Shi Dakai, the rest have turned into dust, but this Qin Rigang still comes out to jump from time to time. This person is not ambitious, and he can endure the burden, not to be underestimated, but unfortunately the luck is not good, otherwise, it is really possible to succeed.

When Qin Rigang fled to the northeast, he begged for mercy many times, claiming that he was willing to surrender to himself. However, Feng Yunshan was not ashamed of his character, and hated his old brothers Huang Wenjin and Zhu Xikun who wanted to harm the kingdom of heaven, and resolutely refused to accept his plea for mercy. Now that I think about it, it's actually more of a concern about this person, just guarding against him.

But now, for himself, he doesn't care. Now that the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has disappeared, although the Chinese Empire was developed on the basis of the Taiping Holy Kingdom, the Taiping Holy Kingdom is different from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they are all their own henchmen, and even Qin Rigang's status in the Heavenly Kingdom is much lower than his own.

"How did the Edo Intelligence Station of the Secret Service know about it?" Feng Yunshan couldn't help but ask: "Also, do you know how many of Qin Rigang's subordinates still went to the Americas together?" ”

"Returning to Your Majesty, the Edo Intelligence Station has recently recruited several Hakka soldiers from within the shogunate, and it has been discovered that among the feudal soldiers recruited to the Americas a few months ago, there are actually several Hakka people with Guangxi accents. After some secret investigation, the intelligence station found that it turned out that Qin Rigang hid in Hokkaido not long ago, and secretly colluded with the current vice boss of the Japanese shogunate, Ando Nobuya, under his cover, Qin Rigang and more than 600 of his subordinates disguised themselves as Hokkaido domain soldiers and hid in the Iwaki Ping Domain for half a year, and turned into a soldier of the Iwaki Ping Domain. Your Majesty, wasn't the chief of the shogunate last year, Naobi Naobi, assassinated? His Majesty put Hisashi Hiroshu and Nobumasa Ando in charge of the shogunate. Now the Secret Service Department has found out that this Jing Yi Naomi was assassinated by Ando Nobumasa, and the person who helped him assassinate was Qin Rigang's subordinates. Fan Ruzeng talked about the origin of the incident, and at the end, he continued: "As for Qin Rigang's more than 600 subordinates, they should all follow him to disguise themselves as vassal soldiers to the Americas. It is estimated that he made a deal with Nobumasa Ando. Your Majesty, this Ando Nobumasa dared to secretly collude with Qin Rigang, and also plotted to kill His Majesty's pro-feudal Da Lao Yi Naobi, which is not a good thing! ”

Feng Yunshan snorted coldly and said, "It seems that this shogunate is not as obedient as I imagined!" Although he didn't dare to oppose the empire openly, he secretly blocked me secretly. In that case, there is no need to keep him. How is that old man Jiushi Guangzhou, he is still obedient, right? ”

Fan Ruzeng said: "Weichen obeys the order!" This Jiushi Guangzhou is more obedient than the previous Ii Naobi. His idea was to curry favor with our Chinese Empire in order to maintain the interests of his Guansu Domain. This man is short-sighted and only cares about the interests of his own Sekijuku clan and the Kuyo family, and if His Majesty rewards him slightly, he will gladly betray the shogunate and Japan to serve His Majesty. ”

Feng Yunshan nodded: "Then leave Jiushi Guangzhou behind, and pass on my order to double the fiefdom of the Guansu Domain, on the condition that the Japanese Shogunate will provide 10,000 more shogunate recruits for the empire every year in the future to serve the empire!" As for that Qin Rigang, he immediately sent someone to secretly inform Peng Yulin and Lin Qirong, asking them to find a way, or to capture them secretly by surprise, or let them die on the battlefield without anyone knowing, in short, not to alarm other armies and sabotage my Hexi plan. This is one of them, what else is going on? ”

Fan Ruzeng hurriedly replied: "The second thing is still related to Japan. Does Your Majesty remember being placed under house arrest between Taiwan and Ryukyu on the Diaoyu Islands? ”

"How?" Of course, Feng Yunshan remembered that he insisted on imprisoning the Meiji Emperor on Diaoyu Island at the beginning, just for the obsession of future generations, but after that, Feng Yunshan laughed and didn't care anymore. Now that three or four years have passed, is it possible, and what has changed?

"Your Majesty, Namuhito is seriously ill, and Iwakura, who is being taken care of, is asked to go out of the island for treatment. At the beginning, Muhito and another fake Muhito and the palace minister named Iwakura Gushi were sent to live on the Diaoyu Islands, but nothing happened in the past few years. But last month, that Muren actually said that he moved a slightly older fake Muren to help him escape, taking advantage of the gap between the patrolling armed steam ship returning to the Jilong Harbor on Taiwan Island to replenish, and suddenly knocked out Iwakura Gushi, who was taking care of the two of them, and the two of them used a makeshift raft to escape from Diaoyu Island for more than 20 miles, and were overturned in the wind and waves, but fortunately, the waking up Iwakura Gu caught up with a raft and rescued him back to Diaoyu Island, but the fake Muren could not be rescued and had been buried in the sea. After that, Iwakura Gushi took the initiative to ask us to strengthen the guard of Muhito, and asked us to bring a message to His Majesty, saying that it would be five years in just over a year, and His Majesty had promised him that he would let him go out of the island to become an official after five years of guarding Muhito. ”

"Since he fell into the sea, he has contracted the wind and cold, and it may be that he has grown up a little more and has begun to understand his situation, and he feels that there is no hope of escaping, and he is disheartened and his illness worsens. Seeing that the situation was not good, Iwakura Gushi, who was guarding it, became anxious and reported it to the guards who were watching. Our secret service department has sent Lang Zhong to the island for treatment, and he has improved slightly, but he has not been able to cure it completely. It is said that Namuren turned from cold to tuberculosis, and recently he has been coughing up blood a lot, and his condition is not good. Your Majesty, do you want to take him back to Fuzhou City for special treatment? ”

Feng Yunshan waved his hand and snorted coldly: "Why bother to mobilize the people? A remnant of the Japanese royal family, since he has become tuberculosis, he is no longer cured, there is no need to toss anymore. Let him continue to stay on Diaoyu Island, even if he dies and becomes a handful of loess in his life, he can only stay on Diaoyu Island! ”

Fan Ruzeng was stunned.

Feng Yunshan seemed to be a little unbearable, and added: "If you send two or three famous doctors from Fuzhou City, whether you can be cured and survive depends on his own creation!" By the way, that guy named Iwakura Gushi is very good, absorb him into the secret service department, send him to Japan, supervise those shogunate elders, and tell him that as long as he works for the empire for a while longer, my original promise will not change, and after five years, I will be in charge, and I can give him the status of China, and from then on he will break away from the identity of the Hezu state and become a real official of the Chinese Empire. ”