The second is offered, and then I ask you for a monthly pass, and I want a first order, please, please!

Just when Komatsu Kiyoyu, a wealthy man who could collect a few thousand stone in rent a year in Japan's Shimazu Domain, was waiting to meet Bai Siwen at the Ryukyu Merchant House in Guangzhou. Zhu Jishi is also visited by Japanese guests.

"The Japanese? Caught by your Hong Kong police? weishenme looking for bail? ”

The news of the Japanese guest's visit to Hong Kong was Will. Hemming brought it to the University of Jesa in Hong Kong. In other words, these Japanese are also unlucky, probably they have never been abroad, so they don't have much knowledge, and they are curious about what they see in Hong Kong. Especially for the kind of Western women who have big breasts and are dressed coolly...... Well, the Japanese have always been very loose in this regard. As a result, he had a dispute with a Western merchant who acted as a messenger to protect the flowers, and he also used a knife, although he did not cause any death, but he still alarmed the police uncle in Hong Kong. However, the Hong Kong Police Commissioner Will . Haiming was quite reasonable, and when he heard that they had come all the way from Japan to study in Hong Kong, he personally led their head Mito Jian Yu to Hong Kong Jishi University in Deep Water Bay to find Zhu Jishi.

Zhu Jishi quietly listened to Will. Hai Ming's explanation, scratched his head and said, "Okay, I'll let them out, where is that Mito Jian Yu?" Let him in. ”

Will. As soon as Heming left, Jinyiwei, who was standing guard at the door of the office, led in a tall and thin young man wearing a kimono with clogs on his feet, most of his head cut off, and a braid.

The young man stared at a pair of round eyes, looked at Zhu Jishi, and asked in fluent Chinese, "Is Your Excellency Mr. Zhu Jishi Zhu?" ”

"Exactly."

The young man hurriedly bowed. He cleared his throat and said in a loud voice: "Later, I learned from Zhu Jianyu, the flag of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan." Met Mr. The name of Mr. has been passed down to Fuso. After learning and other six people thousands of miles to study, Mr. Wanwang collected, passed on Western skills! ”

Zhu ...... Jian Yu? Zhu Jishi frowned, "Are you Chinese or Japanese?" ”

"The ancestor of the student is Zhu Shunshui, a remnant of the Ming Dynasty who crossed to Japan, so the student is Zhu, Miao Mito, and his name is Jianyu."

Still a descendant of the Chinese, no wonder he is quite tall, more than one meter and sixty. Zhu Jishi nodded. Then he asked, "You just said that you are the flag book of the Tokugawa family?" ”

Zhu Jianyu replied respectfully: "The ancestor of my Mito family is Kunizaki Gong, the son of Shun Mizuko, who was promoted to become a direct minister of the shogun, with 250 Shi Jialu, who has been serving as a Confucian teacher of the shogun's family for generations, and has passed it on to the students, and it is already the eighth generation. ”

Zhu Jishi knew Tokugawa Mitsukoku, and he watched a very funny Japanese historical drama called "Tokugawa Aoi Three Generations" in his later life, in which there is a very funny Tokugawa Mitsukoku. He was the grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the heir of the Mito domain. It should not be a problem to promote the son of a great Confucian of the Ming Dynasty to be a direct minister of Tokugawa in this capacity, but the official position of Confucian scholar Fan Shi is a bit strange. However, only 250 Shi Jialu is really a bit less, and the faction of the Tokugawa shogun's family is really a bit small.

"There are people in Japan who study Confucianism?" Zhu Jishi asked thoughtfully.

Zhu Jianyu said with a smile: "The most influential Mito school in Japan is based on the Confucian Zhuzi study. With the addition of the Japanese-based school, I am afraid that it is more authentic than the current Confucianism of the Qing Dynasty. ”

Hear the comments of Zhu Shunshui's descendants on Qing Confucianism. Zhu Jishi just smiled noncommittally and asked, "Mito-kun is also proficient in Confucianism?" ”

Zhu Jianyu was slightly stunned when he heard the title "Mito-kun". Then he said respectfully: "The student has been learning Confucianism under the teaching of his father since he was a child, and he has long been familiar with the way of Confucius and Mencius. This time, all the people who came with the students on the orders of Abe Laozhong were also proficient in Confucianism. ”

The main reason for this was that in this era, only samurai who were proficient in Confucianism or Japanese who traded with China in Nagasaki could use Chinese fluently, and only the former could be secretly sent by the shogunate.

"I see." Zhu Jishixin said that there is only one Chinese under his command who is proficient in Confucianism, Zuo Zongtang, although the problem of military teachers has been solved, but there are still no qualified Confucian teachers in Jishi University and Jishi Academy, so why not let these Japanese devils be substitute teachers for a while? Also, what do these Japanese want to learn here?

"What to learn is secondary, students waiting to come to Hong Kong, the first thing is to explore the reality of Western countries, I heard that Mr. has written a lot of Western scenery and terrain, I hope to find a few to bring back to China."

"I see." Zhu Jishixin said that the Japanese must have heard that the Manchus were attacked by the British in the Opium War, and they also knew that they were afraid, and they wanted to be anxious to understand the reality of the West so as to formulate a countermeasure. Well, since they have found themselves, then for the sake of the long-standing friendship between China and Japan, they should still give some pointers.

"The reality of the Western powers, "Taixi Military Strategy", "Taixi Political Strategy", "Westward Manji" and other books have detailed introductions, all of which have been translated into Chinese, I think you can also read them." Zhu Jishi lowered his voice and showed a solemn expression, "However, knowing the reality of the West does not mean that it can stop the invasion of the Western powers...... You are still a vassal kingdom in Japan, right? ”

"This ...... Indeed it is! Zhu Jianyu frowned.

Zhu Jishi sighed, "I still have the "History of the Fall of India" and "The History of the Reform of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt", you can take a look, and then you will know that the weak countries in the East and the powerful countries in the West need to be careful at all times, and it is best to consolidate national defense first, and then open the country, so as to ensure that national sovereignty is not lost." If the defense is not solid, and the country is opened first, the country of Western tigers and wolves will flock to it, and each will use its own means to attack and take it secretly, and the death of the country will only be a matter of time. ”

"Yes...... Is there such a thing? Zhu Jianyu took a breath, books such as "Taixi Military Strategy", "Taixi Political Strategy", and "Westward Journey" have actually been pirated in Japan! Zhu Jianyu was not the first group of secret talks secretly sent by the Tokugawa shogunate to the Qing state. Since the news of the Opium War reached Japan, the Tokugawa shogunate began to be nervous, and the old man Nakamino Tadashi, who had been in charge of the shogunate, sent several groups of people to follow the ships of Dutch merchants to Hong Kong and Guangzhou, and also brought back books such as "Taixi Military Strategy", "Taixi Political Strategy", "Westward Journey" and other books, and the great names of Zhu Jishi and Engels also spread in Japan as early as possible.

However, the three books, "History of the Fall of India", "History of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt Reform", and Marx's "History of the Opium Trade", had just begun to be published by the printing house of Jishi Academy, and they did not have time to be widely disseminated, and naturally the Japanese did not get them.

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Due to the agreement between China and Britain to "change Kowloon to Guangzhou", the original place of Nanguan in Guangzhou during this period of time has been a bit depressed -- of course, the transfer of commercial ports cannot be completed overnight, so in a short period of time, Guangzhou and Kowloon were opened at the same time, but the market is not as good as before.

The Ryukyu Merchant House was moved from Ningbo to Guangzhou during the Qianlong period, and was located outside the Nanguan of Guangzhou, not in the most lively area, but in a secluded alley. It was a pavilion with blue bricks and a white roof, and it was a little dilapidated at this time, and it seems that the trade of the Ryukyus Kingdom was not going very well.

Outside the small building, the three-star flag of the Ryukyu Kingdom and the signboard of the Ryukyu Merchant House are hung. In the past, the people who were in charge of the house here were officials and businessmen sent by the king of the Ryukyus, and most of them were Ryukyu nobles. But today, outside this small trading house, there are more than a dozen strong men in kimonos, each with a slender katana stuck in their waists. Suddenly, they were a little surprised to see a green sedan chair carried by eight people under the escort of a group of Qing soldiers with waist knives, and they all felt a little surprised.

And in this sedan chair is Bai Siwen, the assistant minister of foreign affairs, who lifted the sedan curtain, and he was also looking at these Japanese who followed Liu Aliang.

Are these people, as Liu Aliang said, all of them are fierce and fearless of death? If this is the case, it is not difficult to take Zhu Jishi's life, but the conditions they put forward are a little difficult to do, alas, with this Lin Zexu here, there is really nothing that is not difficult to do! I really don't know when this Lord Lin will be promoted and leave? (To be continued......)