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Bai Siwen lazily shook out of his house in Hong Kong. His identity is not suitable to accompany the Russian crown prince to Yingtianfu, so after the end of the Battle of the Ryukyus, he returned to Hong Kong and bought a lot of land and houses - although he is loyal to the Qing Dynasty, but corruption is still greedy, after a few years of customs supervision and foreign affairs assistant ministers, the value of two or three million silver dollars is still there, all of which are stored in HSBC under pseudonyms. Now the price of land in Hong Kong is quite cheap, and Bai Siwen feels that the future prospects are very promising, so after arriving in Hong Kong, in addition to helping the Russian crown prince Zhang Luo contact the internal response of the Ryukyu Kingdom, he is to buy a house and land.

By the way, land in Hong Kong is not privately owned, but has a 75-year tenure, which is why the price of land in Hong Kong is now more than half lower than that of Kowloon on the other side. However, Bai Siwen is still very optimistic about the land market in Hong Kong, because in the past two years, more and more Westerners have lived in Hong Kong, and more and more foreign firms have opened offices in Hong Kong. Although the Ming Dynasty implemented a policy of opening up the whole territory, the people's xenophobic sentiment was also relatively strong, and conflicts between China and foreign countries often occurred. As a result, many foreign firms investing in Daming prefer to set up a regional headquarters in Hong Kong. In addition, Hong Kong's low tax and local tariff system is also a reason for attracting Bai Siwen, who has been the customs superintendent and foreign affairs assistant minister, how large is the scale of trade between East Asia and South Asia, and although the high tariffs of the Ming Dynasty can protect the domestic industry, it is very unfavorable to the development of entrepot trade (there is no export tax rebate in this era, and there is no concept of bonded zone. Even Zhu Jishi could think that his bureaucracy could not do such a thing).

As a result, Hong Kong will inevitably develop into a trade transit point in the South Seas and East Asia. Therefore, Bai Siwen has auctioned several plots of land one after another, ready to build warehouses and Western-style apartments—and also set up a Bai Kee real estate company, hired foreigners, and managed them all in the way of Westerners. He also hired a few Sikh bodyguards to protect his safety, and by the way, he was still in Russia to take care of Maria. Clementina's appearance was taken care of by a blonde and blue-eyed Polish beauty named Anna. Maria. Krupa is now raised in his house in Central, Hong Kong. Bai Siwen thought that if this beauty could add a piece to the Bai family. In the future, I will be Mrs. Bai - Bai Siwen's original yellow-faced wife has lost contact. may have died in the chaos of the Northeast, and now Bai Siwen is following this Polish woman and the Japanese concubine. However, he was left in Singapore by him, and he wanted to offer a plan to the Russians to take the Ryukyus, so how dare he take Jehime with him?

took the Polish beauty out of the house. Bai Sven's Sikh bodyguard opened the door of a black Western-style carriage. I respectfully made a gesture of please. Bai Siwen looked around left and right. There were no eyesores, but there were many passers-by who cast envious and jealous looks. He smirked and let Anna first. Maria got into the carriage. Then I sat down myself. Speaking of which, he is not bad now, his family property is millions, and he is a beauty in his arms, and he is really living a life of a master, the Qing Dynasty or something...... What does it have to do with him? Now that Emperor Tiande wants him to be the Minister of Military Aircraft, he doesn't want to go. When you go to the bitter cold land of Mongolia, where is the comfortable life now?

After a lap around Central, Blasven's carriage stopped at Royal Maria. At the entrance of the Clementina department store, this department store is the property of the French company Ségur, which is the most luxurious department store in Hong Kong, and all kinds of luxury goods produced in Europe can be bought here, and the price is of course quite expensive. But as long as Anna is bored. Maria smiled, Bai Sven didn't care about these little money.

While the beauties were shopping, Bai Sven went to the Royal Maria. Take a seat in the café on the ground floor of Clementina's department store. As soon as he walked out of the café, he saw two men in Ming-style clothes with wide clothes and big sleeves sitting by the window, a cup of milk tea in front of him was still steaming, and it seemed that he had only been here for a long time.

One of the men, Bai Siwen, recognized that it was Xiang Yonggong, the head of the Ryukyu Kingdom's merchant office in Hong Kong, who was now the minister of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and he didn't know how Lu Dao had time to come to Hong Kong? Sitting next to Xiang Yonggong was a man with handsome eyebrows, Bai Siwen seemed to have seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while. When he walked up to Xiang Yonggong, the man suddenly stood up and greeted: "Mr. Bai, I haven't seen you for many years, do you remember my Japanese friend?" ”

Japanese friends? Bai Siwen has already remembered that this person is the old Komatsu Qingyu of the Satsuma Domain in Japan! How did he come to Hong Kong? Did he know that he had offered his own plan to the Russians to attack the Ryukyu Kingdom? He's here to kill himself!

This terrifying thought was just a flash, and Bai Siwen knew that it was unlikely. I came into contact with the high-level of the Tsarist Russian delegation to China, which was not at all something that the Japanese spies could touch, and even if the Japanese wanted to send someone to assassinate him, they would not let someone of Komatsu's level come, and there was no shortage of dead soldiers in their country.

Thinking of this, he arched his hand and said, "I should introduce to the adults who I know, it turns out to be Mr. Komatsu." He sat down across from Kiyoyu Komatsu, "I wonder what Mr. Komatsu is doing in Hong Kong?" The great tomorrow is in Yingtianfu. ”

Komatsu Kiyoyu changed his solemn face, looked at Bai Siwen and said seriously: "Mr. Bai, the crisis that our Satsuma Domain is encountering now is not something that Ying Tianfu can solve, because Ying Tianfu is the in-law of General Tokugawa, and they support the Tokugawa family instead of Japan, let alone our Satsuma Domain!" This time the Ryukyu Rebellion, in the final analysis, was due to the repeated refusal of the Tenfu to accept the tribute of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and if the Ryukyu Kingdom was the Heavenly Domain of the Tokugawa family, it would never be occupied by the Russians! ”

Bai Siwen frowned, he didn't know much about the situation in Japan to be honest. Komatsu Kiyoyu's side explained to Nagako, "The Satsuma Domain and the Tokugawa Shogunate had a feud, and during the Battle of Sekigahara, the Shimazu family belonged to the Eastern Army and supported Ishida Mitsunari, the enemy of Tokugawa Ieyasu. After the Battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu abandoned his plan to eliminate the Shimazu family because he was too late to reach him, but for more than 200 years, the Tokugawa family has been trying to weaken Satsuma, and they still regard Satsuma, which has a strong army, as a serious danger. Extremely jealous of Satsuma's control of the Ryukyu Kingdom and the huge trade revenues ......"

Xiang Yonggong added a lot of salt and vinegar to the grievances between the Tokugawa shogunate and the Satsuma domain, and Bai Siwen didn't know whether it was true or false, but he still chose to believe the other party. Because in the Chinese way of thinking, any clan town that supports its own troops and respects itself must be the sworn enemy of the imperial court! The Satsuma Domain was a strong domain that could take out 20,000 or 30,000 elite soldiers, and it was far away from Edo, and the Tokugawa family whip could not destroy them, but the fear was certain.

Komatsu Kiyoyu said: "Now the Tokugawa family, with the support of the Ming Dynasty, has trained 24,000 new armies, opened the Yokohama commercial port, and the financial resources have also been greatly enhanced. Yin already has the strength to replace the Heavenly Emperor! If it weren't for the fear of opposition from a powerful feudal clan loyal to the emperor like the Satsuma Domain, the Tokugawa family would have been the emperor of Japan now! ”

Bai Siwen nodded, yes, how could the Tokugawa family be willing to be a shogun? I definitely want to be an emperor. And Zhu Jishi will most likely support his father-in-law to usurp the throne, I heard that Mingzi Guifei is a favorite concubine who can please Emperor Zhu!

Komatsu Kiyoyu sighed: "And this time the Satsuma Domain's loss of Ryukyu was also used as a handle by the shogunate, not only ordered a reprimand, but also prepared to change the Satsuma Domain, and to confiscate all the territory!" Now we in the Satsuma Domain are desperate......"

"Is it really desperate? So what did Mr. Komatsu do in Hong Kong? Bai Siwen had already guessed the other party's intention, and looked at Komatsu with a smile, "Mr. Komatsu wants to meet the big man in Russia, right?" I know a few of them below, and I can help with the introduction. In fact, the Russians did not have much ambition for Japan, all they wanted was an ice-free port. As for the opening of the country and trade, it is also beneficial to Japan, you can see what Zhu Ming did if you look at it. Of course, I can't say anything to the Russians, so you can just talk to them yourself. ”

Bai Siwen stared at Xiao Song tightly when he spoke, and when he saw a trace of surprise on the other party's face, he laughed in his heart, now Japan is going to be in chaos, it depends on what Emperor Zhu can do to help his father-in-law. (To be continued......)