Manjiro Nakahama and Iwakura Gushi actually left Hawaii with Zhang Zegen on the battleship Daming, which first docked in Osaka and then headed straight for Tianjin. As a result, Nakahama and Iwakura arrived in Kyoto a few days earlier than Zhang Zegen's arrival in Beijing. However, Tokugawa Akiko did not immediately summon the two.

Although Mingzi is known as a female princess, she is not a real princess, but the concubine of the Ming Emperor, so naturally she can't casually meet men who are not related by blood, let alone low-status retainers and sinners. Even the small surnames around General Iieyuki have been replaced by warriors dressed as men. The sixteen-year-old female swordsman Chiba Sanako served Akiko with a small sword, not only as Akiko's swordsmanship teacher, but also as her bodyguard and bodyguard.

"Sanako is really a beauty, if you let His Majesty the Emperor see it, he will definitely be called to bed!" When I saw Sanako, who was known as the beauty of Little Chiba, Akiko suddenly had such a thought in her heart, and then she couldn't help but think about the coming of the Ming Emperor

"Your Highness, the Son of Heaven has written to you!" Soon after Sanako arrived at Akiko's side, she became her confidant, not only responsible for protecting Akiko's safety, but also sometimes helping Akiko with some paperwork. On this day, Zhu Jishi's handwritten letter to Akiko arrived in Kyoto. Before Mingzi became a "female princess", Zhu Jishi never wrote to her, but now he often confides his thoughts in letters. Akiko will also write some words full of affection and send them to Da Mingzi, as if the two are still in love.

"The Emperor's letter." Akiko showed a faint smile, "Your Majesty probably really misses me as a doll, right?" ”

"Your Highness, what are these words? Her Royal Highness is the adoptive mother of Ieyuko, the first strange woman in Japan! Sanako said in a tone of adoration.

Akiko shook her head with a wry smile: "The first strange woman in Japan also started as a doll. If it hadn't become the emperor's doll. There is no such thing as a female princess today. Isn't it? Sanako, why don't you go to China instead of me to be a puppet for the Son of Heaven for a while? ”

"Your Highness!" Zanako was so ashamed that her cheeks were red, and she didn't dare to raise her head.

"Hehe, Sanako is sixteen years old...... Just give it to the emperor for the first time, and you will be alive very quickly! Akiko looked at this female swordsman who was flushed with shame and felt very interesting. Send me the letter. ”

After taking the letter and opening it, it turned out that Zhu Jishi wanted her to go back to Beijing at a convenient time to discuss the matter of Japan sending troops to the war. She was also asked to promote the use of the Latin alphabet in Confucian education in Japan. It also proposes to set up new colleges in Japan to teach in Chinese, which will share teaching materials with colleges in the Ming Dynasty, and students can also apply for universities and military schools in the Ming Dynasty after graduation.

"Hehe, it looks like I'm going to the Old Summer Palace. Sanako, come with me. ”

"Hay!" Sanako blushed and nodded heavily, although she felt shy, but the lord's order could not be disobeyed.

"Go and ask Lord Quan Da Nayan to come over." Akiko put away the letter and returned to a dignified sitting posture.

Outside the door, there was another small surname of General Ieyuki (also a woman disguised as a man) on standby, and when he heard Akiko's order, he immediately went to the office of the elders.

"Sanako, can I give you as a gift to the emperor?" Akiko asked the question again, seemingly after much thought. "I had to stay in Japan for a long time. It's my responsibility, but I need someone to be there for him. ”

"But ......"

"Alright. Don't say it again, this is my order, and I will serve the Chinese Son of Heaven well in the future. ”

At this time, I only heard the voice of another "female surname" coming from the corridor: "Lord Quanda Nayan, Your Highness only invites you alone, these two can't go in, this can't be done......"

Tokugawa Saiaki seems to have brought someone else in to see Akiko.

"Let them in." Tokugawa Akiko commanded in a loud voice. Then the door opened, and in after Tokugawa Saiaki came Iwakura Gushi and Nakahama Manjiro. Gu Shi was dressed in the clothes of a sinner, but he was still alive and spirited, and he did not have the slightest awareness that he was about to be stabbed.

Seeing Iwakura, Akiko's face changed and she twisted her head to the side.

"Oh, Akiko, this Iwakura wants to repent of his sins to you in person, and I think I should give him a chance." Tokugawa Saiaki seemed to sense his daughter's unhappiness, so he explained with a smile. But Akiko remained silent.

"Sinner Iwakura Gu has seen His Highness Ming!" Iwakura fell to his knees with a puff and bowed deeply to the ground.

"Now that you're guilty, you don't have to go to Mikawara......" Akiko glanced at her father, "Let's go to Patagonia and be exiled!" ”

Such a punishment is not much lighter than beheading, and many of the convicted ministers have committed suicide at home because they are afraid of going to Patagonia - the ministers convicted in this "Jiayong coup" are about the same as the 88 ministers convicted in the Anzheng prison in history. However, the situation of these people is much worse than in history, and it is a dream to make a comeback.

"I'm not going to Patagonia!" Iwakura Ha Lu Ha Da smiled, "Because Japan still needs me as a sinner, and His Highness also needs Iwakura Gushi!" ”

"I need you?" Mingzi said, and laughed out loud, "Okay, tell me, what do I need you for?" ”

"Yes, but this can only be said to His Highness, please retreat from His Highness!"

"What? Even I have to retreat? Before Akiko could speak, Tokugawa Saiaki asked first.

"Lord Quanda Nayan must retreat, otherwise I'd rather go to Mikawara and be stabbed!"

"Okay then, except for Sako, everyone else should step down." Akiko looked at her father with a grin, very mischievous. As for Sanako, she would not retreat no matter what, without this female swordsman, how could she dare to see Iwakura Gushi alone.

"Akiko, you ......" Tokugawa Qi Zhao angrily retreated with a few female surnames. In the main hall, only Tokugawa Akiko, Chiba Sanako and Iwakura Gushi remained.

"Say it, say whatever you want!" Akiko's face turned up.

Zi said: If the name is not right, the words are not good; If you don't go your way, you won't get ......"

"Say specifically!" Akiko Tokugawa interrupted.

"Yes......" Iwakura Gushi was silent for a moment, "How is Your Highness going to implement the combination of public and military?" ”

"There will be no combination of public and military forces in 20 years, and after 20 years, it will be a family luck and pro-government." Akiko said.

Iwakura kowtowed and said seriously: "What good can I do in 20 years?" A king is a king after all, and a minister is a minister after all! Even with a constitutional government like that of England, the power of the king is still enormous. And the prime minister of England is not hereditary from generation to generation, not only can it not be hereditary, but there are very few who can be for 10 years. Is Ieyuki willing to retire before the age of 30? ”

Akiko Tokugawa was silent. Iwakura sighed solemnly and said, "If the family is unwilling, the retainers of the Tokugawa family will not agree, such a combination of public and military forces is simply a hidden danger of the Japanese civil war, and it must not be implemented!" ”

"So how do we achieve the combination of public and military?" Tokugawa Akiko frowned slightly. The current roadmap of the Gongwu combination was not something she came up with, but from the former shogun Tokugawa Iekei. And Jia Qing, who is a faint monarch in history, how feasible can the method he came up with?

"The next way is to unite and unite, and the public and military forces are completely united!"

"Iwakura, don't go around in circles, you think I don't know? Are you bent on putting the imperial court above the shogunate, or even trying to annex it? "Tokugawa Akiko is very excited, and Iwakura has a calm complexion, as if he is confident.

"No, Your Highness, for your majesty, whether the imperial court annexes the shogunate, or the shogunate annexes the imperial court, it's all the same! Because Japan can only have one brain, and since the imperial court can't be this brain, let the shogunate come! No, it's to turn the shogunate into a court! ”

Tokugawa Akiko gasped, and her face became solemn: "Do you want the family to usurp the throne?" ”

Iwakura looked at it and kowtowed: "Iyayuki is the head of the Seiwa Genji and a descendant of Emperor Seiwa!" ”

"A descendant of Emperor Seiwa, but ......"

"Your Highness, please let me be the Minister of the Interior! I am willing to clear all obstacles for my family! (To be continued......)