Section 8: Imperial Grievances (I)
The two letters were written by two women, one of whom was Liao Yingyu. Tan Renhao didn't go to the cafeteria for dinner, and returned to the dormitory after buying a pack of biscuits, he didn't even take a cold shower first as usual, but hurriedly opened the letter sent by Liao Yingyu, and at the same time threw another letter on the table.
Liao Yingyu's handwriting is very beautiful, but there is a hint of man's fortitude at the tip of the pen, if a person's character is judged only by handwriting, then Liao Yingyu must be regarded as a heroine like the Red Whisk Girl. Now, she has been assigned to the Yantai Imperial Navy Sanatorium and is the assistant to the head nurse. In addition to introducing his own situation, the letter is nothing more than complaining that Tan Renhao did not take the initiative to write to her and other words.
After reading the letter, Tan Renhao couldn't help laughing. His acquaintance with Liao Yingyu was just an accident, an accident caused by an accidental car accident. That car accident made Tan Renhao lose the opportunity for the principal Nie Renfeng to wear the Golden Sea Lion Medal for him, but it also made him know Liao Yingyu. If you didn't know Liao Yingyu, it would be impossible to invite Liao Yingyu at the ball, and it would be impossible for the domineering Fan Peikun to end up disgraced. This may be fate, Tan Renhao is also secretly blaming himself, it has been more than half a month since he arrived in the Fifth Fleet, he almost forgot his promise to Liao Yingyu, and now he has a girl write a letter to himself first, this alone must have affected his image in Liao Yingyu's mind.
Thinking of this, Tan Renhao didn't hesitate any longer, and immediately took out a pen and paper, but just when he wrote down the payment, he saw another letter that he had thrown on the table. After hesitating for a moment, Tan Renhao put down his pen and picked up the letter. After a long hesitation, he opened the envelope.
The letter paper has more than ten thick pages and is divided into two parts. This is a family letter, the first part is written by Tan Renhao's sister Tan Qinglian, and the second half is written by his mother. After only reading the content of the first page, Tan Renhao put down the letterhead.
Tan Qinglian is two years younger than Tan Renhao, has just graduated from Wenzhou Girls' School, and is helping his father run a business at home. Tan Renhao was supposed to take over the family business, but Tan Renhao "ran away from home" and became the first soldier in the five generations of the Tan family, and as a result, the heavy responsibility of running the family business fell on his sister Tan Qinglian.
Tan Renhao's mother, Gu Xiujuan, is also from Wenzhou, and her mother's family is also a businessman. When she married Tan Renhao's father, Tan Jingkang, the Tan family was at its lowest point and was resolutely opposed by her mother's family. Later, the two started almost from scratch and worked hard for more than 20 years, not only having their current family business, but also raising two children. Gu Xiujuan is also from a big family, which can be seen from those beautiful words. When I was a child, because my father often went out, my mother was responsible for the enlightenment education of Tan Renhao and Tan Qinglian.
Tan Renhao has a good relationship with his sister, when he was a child, he often fought with those little hooligans who bullied his sister, and left a lot of scars. However, Tan Renhao knew very well the purpose of his sister and mother in writing this letter, which was nothing more than to make him change his mind and make him make sacrifices for a promise made by the Tan family twenty years ago!
Thinking of this, Tan Renhao was suddenly upset, and he didn't even have the mood to reply to Liao Yingyu. On this day, he also went to bed early and slept until dawn.
Tan Renhao was not the first person to arrive at the office for the second time, Chang Jianxin arrived for half an hour first, cleaned the office, and was eating breakfast.
"Chang, you're so early today!" Tan Renhao said as he sat down in his place.
Chang Jianxin smiled and continued to eat his breakfast. Ten minutes later, Hao Dongjue also arrived, but he didn't seem to wake up, probably went out to go crazy last night.
"Ren Hao, Lao Chang!" Hao Dongjue greeted the two of them, and then sat down, "It's really comfortable, I've never slept so comfortably last night." Renhao, do we have a new job? ”
"The colonel gave us a few days off." Tan Renhao stood up, and now the people have arrived, "However, a certain Japanese fleet will come to visit in more than a month, and then conduct a friendship exercise with our fleet, and the colonel will let us plan it roughly." ”
"Drills?" Chang Zhixin frowned, "These things should be taken care of by other people, right?" ”
Hao Dongjue also nodded, this kind of foreign-related activity should not be handed over to the three newcomers to be responsible for at all.
"I asked too, but the colonel just asked me to plan it roughly." Tan Renhao took out the prepared cigarette and scattered one for each of them. "We can't say for sure which fleet is visiting, but according to the Colonel's tone, I'm afraid this friendly exercise is not ordinary."
"The Japanese fleet? Come on, do you have to entertain them? Hao Dongjue cocked his feet on the edge of the table, "I think, it's best to drive them back directly, and have the cheeks to visit, this shows that the weasel is giving the chicken a New Year's greeting, and he didn't have a good heart!" ”
Hao Dongjue's anger is not unreasonable, for the country of Japan, almost all the imperial soldiers and civilians hated it to the core. Japan was once the Empire's friendliest neighbor and at the same time a "good student" of the Empire. For thousands of years, the empire has been taking care of a little brother, providing Japan with the best help it can, and in terms of culture, economy, military and so on, the empire has provided support to Japan almost unreservedly. As a result, more than 200 years ago, Japan stabbed the empire in the back for the first time when the empire was fully engaged in dealing with the Western powers, and until the last war, the "Hundred Years War" with Japan not only had a huge impact on the empire's national strength, but also lost a large number of overseas territories, allowing the Western powers to get the best opportunity for development. The most odious thing is that in the last war, the empire was attacked by Japan again, although in the end the empire defeated Japan, and completely recovered the Ryukyu Islands, as well as the Northern Ryukyu Islands (Tukala Islands and Osumi Islands) that Japan had stolen more than 200 years ago. However, this deprived the empire of a total victory, and eventually had to sign a series of armistice treaties with the Western powers, which were extremely unfavorable to the empire.
You can imagine how the teacher and the father would feel if a student betrayed the teacher and a son betrayed the father. Now, this is how the military and civilians of the empire feel about Japan!