Saigo Takamori waved his hand, signaling everyone to be quiet, and then asked, "What do you think, what do you think of Lin Jun's suggestion?" ”

"I support Lin Jun's plan!" Oyama Tsunara was the first to raise his hand and said.

"Lin Jun's plan is very good!" "We don't have enough muskets, and most of them are old guns, so we should replace them with new ones as soon as possible." ”

Lin Yiqing knew that what Shinohara Kunikan said was the truth, and as far as he knew, most of the guns equipped by the Satsuma samurai were breech-loading Enfield-style rifles, which not only had a slow rate of fire, but could not be used in rainy days, and most of the ammunition was provided by the samurai themselves or made by workers using local methods.

"Lin Jun! It's hard for you! Toshiaki Kirino looked at Lin Yiqing and said, "I heard that the French rifles made in Qianguo are very advanced, I hope you can buy them back for us!" ”

"Okay." Lin Yiqing said, "I will get back the best rifle produced by Qianguo." ”

"If you can get artillery, please bother Lin Jun too!" Tsunashi Oyama said, "We have very few artillery, and we haven't gotten new artillery for a long time!" Please Lin Jun help get some cannons and come back! Money is not an issue! As long as the performance of the artillery is advanced! ”

"I understand." Lin Yiqing nodded.

"Then please Lin Jun!" Saigo Takamori looked at Lin Yiqing, sat down and bowed, and the other warriors also bowed to Lin Yiqing.

Lin Yiqing returned the salute to everyone and said, "After Lin leaves, please protect Mr. Nanzhou, because our enemies are likely to take advantage of this time to poison Mr. Nanzhou." ”

"What Hayashi-kun said is that the 'Tokyo Lions' sent to Satsuma by Okubo's traitor's minions, Kawaji Toshira (the chief of police of the Meiji government), have been planning to be unfavorable to Mr. Nanshu, and most of them are under our surveillance, but there are still a small number of people who are missing, and if Hayashi-kun wants to leave Kagoshima, they will inevitably be stupid." Kirino Toshiaki looked at Lin Yiqing and said, "I don't know what Lin Jun's countermeasures are?" ”

Hearing Kirino Toshiaki say the name "Kawaji Toshira", the faces of Shinohara Kunikan and the other samurai showed a look of resentment.

Of course, Lin Yiqing knew why they hated Chuanlu Liliang so much.

Kawaro Toshira was a low-ranking samurai of the Satsuma Domain, and in his early years he became acquainted with Saigo Takamori and participated in the Shogunate Struggle, where he distinguished himself in the Forbidden Gate Rebellion and the Boshin War. After serving as the chief of the police system in Tokyo, he went to Europe to study the police system, and after returning to Japan, he vigorously advocated the expansion of police power. The proposal was adopted by the Meiji Emperor and the important ministers of the Restoration, and the Japanese government subsequently promulgated a unified prison system, established a new Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Ministry of Justice was transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs under the unified command of Secretary of the Interior Okubo Toshimitsu; At the same time, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and a police network distributed throughout the country were established, with Toshira Kawaji as the chief police officer, and the following year it was changed to a patrol officer, and the functions and powers of the police, which had been mainly to prevent thieves and murders, were expanded, and the so-called functions and powers of "detecting those who attempt to violate the laws of the country by covert means and protecting the people (to the government)" were established. Since then, the Japanese police have increasingly taken on the nature and characteristics of political agents.

Toshira Kawaji once said, "No one in Japan is politically superior to Europe, but I would like to be the best in the police system." He argues that "since ancient times, all those who want to build empires to expand their territory have paid attention to this (the police), as was the case with Napoleon I, and the same was true of the Prussian Empire." "A country is a family, the government is the parents, the people are the children, the police are its nannies, and the police are a means of preventing diseases in the country. The stubborn people do not know the benevolence of the government, and they think about change at every turn, and the government is the parent of the people. Is there anyone who allows young children to be free? His ideas typically reflect the attitude of the Japanese ruling class towards the people, and as a result of his efforts, Japan became a police state with police posts throughout the country as early as the early Meiji period.

After Saigo Takamori went into hiding due to a disagreement with Okubo Ritsu's political opinion, although Saigo Takamori had no objection, in order to "prevent trouble before it happens", Kawaro Toshira still sent a large number of spies into Kagoshima to secretly monitor Saigo Takamori, and once Saigo Takamori was found to have any abnormal movements, he could take action.

As a member of the Satsuma samurai but firmly on the side of the Meiji government, the chief of police, Kawaji Toshira, was not only a brave general, but also a scheming guy who had a deep understanding of the current situation and the relationship between the various forces. A large number of spies he sent to Kagoshima to carry out reconnaissance and discord missions, led by Nao Nao Nakahara of the Major Police Department, were the most shrewd and capable policemen under him. Most of them were born as "village soldiers" and had long been dissatisfied with the differential treatment between "village soldiers" and "city corporals". When Kawaji Toshira mobilized Nao Nakahara and others, in addition to the old-fashioned political agitation such as "being loyal to the emperor and crusading against the unsubordinate," he also particularly stirred up their hatred for the "castle corporal."

But it wasn't so easy for Kawaro Toshira to send spies into Kagoshima. During the Shogunate period, the Satsuma Domain was known as a "double lockdown" region (during the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Tokugawa Shogunate implemented a "closed country" policy throughout Japan, and it was forbidden to communicate with foreign countries except for some concessionary foreign activities. The Satsuma region was tightly organized, blocking news from the shogunate, and outsiders entering Satsuma would be closely monitored, but in fact they privately carried out commercial and cultural exchange activities with overseas countries, so it was called "double lockdown": the shogunate blockaded Japan, and Satsuma shielded the shogunate), and the Satsuma samurai at the end of the Edo period had a much broader vision than other feudal samurai, and their military power was much stronger than that of other regions. Once the spies of the old shogunate entered the Satsuma ground, it was difficult for them to return alive. How are the samurai of Kagoshima now vegetarians?

The activities of the Tokyo spies were soon discovered by the samurai of the private school, and a counterintelligence team was quickly arranged. As soon as Nao Nakahara, whom they called the "Lion of Tokyo," entered Kagoshima territory, they immediately reconnoitred their personnel, addresses, contact methods, and even secret numbers, and blocked the roads and ports, so that they could launch a "lion hunt" at any time. However, when the samurai heard that the "Tokyo Lions" were going to take a "special operation" and use all means to stop Saigo Takamori from raising troops, they thought that such a "special operation" could only be an assassination. The samurai immediately strengthened their protective measures against Saigo, considering waiting for a more suitable time to gather more evidence that the spies from Tokyo wanted to assassinate Saigo, so the samurai did not immediately start to capture the "Tokyo Lions".

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