He poured the rest of the wine from the jug on his chest, and everyone trembled slightly, as if the cold liquor had poured into their chests, mixed with the hot blood, and was so hot that it was about to burn.

Koga Youwu slammed the wine jug on the table and smiled arrogantly, "It's not bad to have an opening in the chest, you can pour wine into it, my heart just bubbles out of the wine, and I don't know the pain when I die." ”

Everyone was silent, and in the laughter of Koga Yutake, the special envoy of the head office, Shinto Yoshima, seemed to have been forced into a corner, and obviously with Shinto-kun's reputation in the company, he was also a person who was unwilling to admit defeat. They are all East China Sea warriors who have seen bloody rain on the battlefield, and if you don't want to retreat, I can't retreat, so I can only pull out the sword.

"Listen! Someone is out there! Koga had a blank look on his face and made a gesture of listening.

The already tense emotions exploded in shock, and all the men moved at the same moment, some leaned over to listen, some approached the door silently like cats, and more people half-sat up, fastened the handle of their knives, and several strangely shaped firearms slipped into their masters' hands out of nowhere, and the room was filled with the sound of metal. Naosuke Takei grabbed the placket of his shirt and looked around blankly, while Terumoto Sugiyama patted him on the shoulder and sat still.

"Hahaha!" Koga Yuwu suddenly laughed again, pointing at the men who were like unsheathed swords, "Joke, what kind of place is this?" But the most expensive Fengyue Field in Seoul, North Koreans can't guess that we killers will come to the place where the nobles play with women, right? It's just that at the moment in Seoul, it is all the elites of the company, and everyone is here. If it is really known by the North Koreans. Send troops to attack. Although it is unlikely that the whole army will be wiped out, it is quite dangerous, right? ”

He turned to Shinto Yoshima, "Although it is thanks to Fuji-kun's generosity, it is not easy to come to this kind of place to enjoy, but is it a little ill-considered?" When North Koreans mention Japan now, there is no one who grits their teeth without hating it. ”

Hearing Koga Yutake's words, some of the samurai all changed their faces.

These people are all members of the "Heavenly Blessing Troupe," a branch of the "Hyunyang Society" in North Korea, and have been in North Korea for a long time. I know the situation in North Korea very well, and of course I know that Koga Yutakeshi is not alarmist.

The DPRK has long been a subject state of the Qianguo, and its system and culture have been emulated from the Qianguo. In 9064, the Joseon king Yi Seung died, and since he had no heirs, he was succeeded to the throne by his younger brother's son Yi Hee. Li Xi was twelve years old and ignorant of the world, and his father was regent as Dayuanjun (equivalent to the regent). Dayuanjun is extremely conservative in his thinking, not only stubbornly implementing the policy of "closing the country to the outside world", but also resolutely refraining from doing business with outsiders. He also repeatedly killed foreign missionaries who came to Korea to preach, and at one time triggered the Western powers to invade the Korean coast with warships. It was only because at this time the Western powers did not know the situation in Korea and took into account the reaction of the suzerain, and did not invade directly.

Ten years later, Li Xi grew up in power, and power gradually shifted to his wife, Concubine Min. Concubine Min was more open-minded and advocated emulating the Westernization Movement of the Qianguo and carrying out reforms. However, Daewonjun was greedy for power and self-serving, and opposed any political reform that weakened his power, and as a result, the top level of North Korea was divided into the Daewonjun clique and the Min Concubine clique, and the two factions fought openly and covertly, and the contradictions gradually deepened.

Like Qianguo, Korea is also facing tremendous pressure from the Western powers, especially Japan and Russia, and it has not been a day since they coveted Korea. Japan, on the other hand, was thriving day by day, and even mobilized troops against Qianguo Mowan a few years after the Restoration, and although it was defeated, its performance had already impressed some members of the Korean royal family and ministers, and many more were worried that Japan might turn its aggressive eyes to Korea in the future.

Korea was the most important vassal state of the Qianguo, and the Qianguo feared that the annexation of Korea by the Western powers posed a threat to the northeast of its Longxing Land. Yi Shaoquan, who was the governor of Naoli at the time, repeated the old trick of "using razing to defeat raze" and sent a letter to the king of Joseon, Yi Xi, instructing him on the opportune situation: "Use the strategy of attacking poison with poison and countering the enemy with the enemy, and take the opportunity to conclude treaties with the countries of Taixi (Europe) in order to contain Japan." ”

The stubborn and conservative Joseon monarchs were reluctant to do so at first, but eventually accepted Yi Shaoquan's "persuasion", and in June 9080, the Joseon king's imperial council adopted the policy of "enlightenment and self-improvement", and with the help of the Qianguo government, they successively signed trade treaties with the United States, Britain, Germany, France, and other Western powers. Japan also took advantage of the gap and signed a new treaty of trade with Korea, and the door of Korea was opened to become a stage for great powers to compete.

As a matter of fact, the measures taken by the Min Concubine clique, which controls the state affairs of the DPRK, are only means to maintain power and crack down on the opposition, and they are drunk and do not want to carry out real reforms for the sake of the future of the DPRK, and the opening up to the outside world was also hastily formed under the coercion of foreign countries, and it is not an equal and independent opening up. The Min Concubine clique is unwilling to sacrifice vested interests and has intensified its exploitation of the people, so the depth and breadth of its "reforms" are quite limited, and not only have they not enabled the DPRK to achieve the effect of enriching the country and strengthening the army, but on the contrary, it has made the lives of ordinary people in the DPRK more miserable and the class contradictions have been unprecedentedly acute.

As a result of its long period of seclusion and self-control, Japan did not know anything about foreign affairs, and Japan began to infiltrate and invade Korea from all sides. In order to consolidate its power, the Concubine Min group vigorously excluded dissidents, cronyism from the central to the local level, and supported cronies. Min Qianhao, Min Tae-ho, Lee Se-ying (Heung-in-jun), the backbone of the Min Concubine group, and others all stole power and became corrupt, and the local officials even set up clever names and expropriated violently. Since officialdom is like this, the North Korean royal family is naturally corrupt and degenerate. At that time, the Korean court "sang and feasted every night, advocated excellence, witch wishes, and gongxuan songs and blew the concubines, and the palace lights and candles were like day, reaching the dawn endlessly". After Concubine Min gave birth to Li Tuo, the son of the king, she was ecstatic, and she wanted to sacrifice 12,000 peaks of King Kong Mountain, and each peak was given a stone of rice, a horse of cloth, and a thousand words. Under these circumstances, discontent in North Korean society grew day by day, and Daewonjun tried to seize power. In 9081, An Jiyong, a close confidant of Dayuan Jun, conspired to abolish King Li Xi and set up Li Zaixian (the eldest son of Dayuan Junshu) as king, but the incident failed, Li Zaixian was given death, and An Jiyong and others were beheaded by Ling Chi. However, the Min Concubine Group did not restrain because of this, and was still arrogant and lascivious, and spent extravagantly, so that "the treasury and warehouse are empty, and it is difficult to continue the award of hundreds of officials." The situation of the army and soldiers is too much. to this year. The North Korean treasury is empty. The army has not been paid for 13 consecutive months.

At this time, Japan, harboring evil intentions, also began to encroach on Korea. Japanese businessmen took advantage of the loopholes in the Japan-North Korea trade treaty to plunder grain cheaply in Korea, resulting in the continuous outflow of necessities on which Korea depended, and the already impoverished Korean people were thus exacerbated by the situation, which greatly deepened the social crisis in Korea. Japan is also actively looking for agents in Korea and gradually launching infiltration into Korea, and the anti-Japanese sentiment of the Korean people is constantly growing. gritted his teeth and wanted to kill them, especially the small people." In June 9079, when the Japanese minister to Korea, Yoshikashi Hanabo, entered Seoul, he was attacked by people throwing stones all the way, and he was embarrassed. In March 9080, Japan's Okura-gumi employee Kodama Asajiro, Mitsubishi Corporation employee Obuchi Yoshinari and Higashi Honganji monk Hasumoto Kensei ignored the provisions of the Japan-Korea trade treaty and traveled to Anbian Province outside the Korean treaty port of Wonsan Port. Even "between the valleys of Linghu Lake." There are a lot of bandits, bees and ants. Rampant in the Lu, arson with troops, money and wood, robbing rich villages and households during the day, spreading and expropriating claims, saying that righteousness and cutting down the widows, and the uproar refers to the rebellion and loyalty". It can be said that the entire Korean society, from top to bottom, is permeated with extremely anti-Japanese sentiments.

If the Korean military and civilians learned that a group of Japanese like them were holding a meeting in this place that was regarded as extravagant and lascivious, and conspired against North Korea, they would have known with their toes.

"Brother!" The man opposite Koga Yutake, who had been looking at his hand, lowered his voice and waved his hand as he winked, signaling him not to press any further. With Shinto Yoshima's status in the Genyosha, no one can say what will happen if he is offended. Koga Aritake's right-hand men looked at Shinto Yoshima's face vigilantly, and the rest of them also looked uneasy.

A cough broke the dead silence and drew everyone's attention.

Sugiyama Terumoto leaned over to Naosuke Takei, "My cup was given to Koga-kun to drink, I'm a little thirsty, can I drink your cup?" Anyway, we have been teachers and students for many years, and you know that I never mingle in the land of fireworks, and I won't let you get sick. ”

In front of everyone's eyes, Naosuke Takei picked up his cup and handed it to Sugiyama Terumoto, who took a sip of water, breathed a sigh of relief as if he had really quenched his thirst, and smiled. When everyone realized that Sugiyama Terumoto was really just drinking saliva, they felt that the tense atmosphere had loosened slightly, and Sugiyama Terumoto's natural laughter echoed in the room. Sugiyama Terumoto took out a cigarette pouch and slowly filled it with tobacco, and Naosuke Takei naturally lit it for him with a fire sickle, and the teacher and student were like no one around.

"What kind of cigarette did you smoke?" Shinto Yoshima asked suddenly.

"The tobacco leaves produced in the mountains of Yunnan in Qianguo have no name, but the taste is much better than that of flue-cured tobacco produced in Japan." Terumoto Sugiyama licked his lips.

"It's a pity that I don't smoke, otherwise I would have tried." Shinto Yoshima turned to Koga Yutake, "You're right, so this may be the only time we'll have a meeting together, after which my order will be delivered to you alone." From now on, I will be the only one in Seoul who will give orders, and you will do things. That's what the president's warrant says, and it couldn't be clearer, those who disobey will be dealt with by the company's rules. ”

Koga Yutake did not speak. The sharp energy just now was cut off silently by Sugiyama Terumoto, Koga Yuwu calmed down a little, Shinto Yoshima was holding the warrant of the head office after all, everything in the Heavenly Blessing Heroes Regiment is subject to the group rules, and disobeying the order of the first seat or the president is one of the most intolerable things in the company rules and group rules. The men below exchanged glances and remained silent, and Shinto Yoshima smiled silently, his first recognition since coming here in silence.

"The moonlight tonight is really good," he toasted to the bright moon outside the window, and the water in the cup was rippling, "Those who don't know that the catastrophe is coming, are now under the same moonlight as us......

He didn't know that there was a North Korean who was about the same distance from him to Koga Yumu at the moment, but three stories apart.

In a hut with the "Zilingqiu" brand, Jin Yujun sat on a sheep's fur, stuffed two pillows at the waist, and drank a pot of spirits from the north of the Qianguo country alone. He didn't drink much, and he liked to drink strong wines, and when he drank, he didn't like to eat food, and he always lay down and fell asleep while drinking.

He likes to sleep drunk.

As a child, he neither liked to drink nor to sleep. At that time, the old mothers of the Jin family had two special mothers who served the young master Jin to sleep, and immediately led him to the bed covered with a silk brocade quilt after lunch. Let him rest his head on the incense sand pillow that helps calm his nerves. Fan him to sleep. When the flowers bloom in the spring. When the summer bears fruit, when the autumn leaves fall, and when it snows in the winter, Jin Yujun is full of thoughts about going out to play, but the old mothers are not allowed, so Jin Yujun learned to pretend to be asleep, and when he squinted his eyes and saw the old mother who fanned him leaning on the side of the bed and falling asleep, he quietly got up and slipped out to play. At that time, he thought that there was nothing more boring in the world than sleeping.

He began to like to sleep. It's because his father died. Suddenly, the pillars of the Jin family collapsed, and the huge wealth of tens of millions of dollars, the debts of tens of millions of dollars, the expectations of the young and old of the Jin family, and the smart and ignorant sister all fell on the shoulders of Jin Yujun alone, when he was only a child in his early tens. He didn't know what to do, and he didn't know where to hide, he went to the mourning hall and listened to the women crying, and when he went to the account room, the gentlemen sighed and said to him that these borrowers took advantage of the death of the head of the family to collect the money. How did the father mourn, how did he deal with the relatives who were going to divide the family business. How do you reply to your condolences...... And the stubborn sister lost her temper with him endlessly, and ignored him for some reason. When he was a child, he felt that the Jin family mansion was his own whole world, spring flowers, autumn moon, summer fruits, winter snow, all the time is happy, every inch has every inch of fun, but his father died, everything changed, everyone was forcing him, every face was so heavy, and every question was confusing.

He climbed the highest building of the house and saw the crowds of mourners, people begging for debts, and relatives who wanted to separate the family, thinking that those people had to deal with them one by one, and finally couldn't help but hold his head and run back to his bedroom. He lay quietly on the bed he hated most before like a corpse, and for the first time he felt the softness of the silk brocade quilt and the fragrance of the pillow, and felt that he was slowly relaxing, and he could leave everything behind for a while.

When he was about to sleep, he heard two old women talking outside the door. One said that the debt collectors at the door scolded very ugly, but in fact, it was just that the head of the family died and couldn't turn around for a while, this is going to fall into the well, why don't you wake up the eldest young master and say a few words to them? The other sighed and said that the eldest young master is tired enough, you see that he fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow, it is not easy for the child, let's look at the greetings first, let him sleep well.

Jin Yujun laughed silently when he heard this. He fell asleep and had a long dream, in which it was pitch black, but it was extraordinarily sweet.

From then on, he liked to sleep, and drinking a little wine before going to bed made him fall asleep faster, and he also liked drinking.

The door opened, and the first thing that caught my ears was laughter. The young man in the light robe stepped on the sheep's fur with his bare feet, walked in front of Jin Yujun, and did not say a salute, sat down cross-legged, grabbed the wine glass and filled it himself, drank it dry in one gulp, and sighed in admiration, "Yes, the wine in Baoyuelou has always been good, and it quenches your thirst." ”

"It's a strong drink, and even if you drink a good amount of alcohol, can you really quench your thirst? What a cowhide to brag. Jin Yujun sat up straight and poured for the guests, "You're late." ”

"The whole Wang Jing dares to hang you Jin Da Zhuangyuan here, is it only me Hong Yingzhi?" The visitor drank dry again, "I deliberately came later, let you wait for me, next time I will brag to my friends that I put Hong Yingzhi in the eyes of a few people in Wang Jing?" Jin Yujun, I told him to wait! ”

Jin Yujun raised his eyes to look at him. The young man was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, his long black hair was simply knotted with a red rope and tied in a gauze hat, and he had only a moon-white robe on his body, which was open, revealing his collarbones and a thin chest, but he did not look weak, his bones were strange, his complexion was clear, and his cynical smile was quite famous.

"Dressed like that, do you really think I'm going to invite you to enjoy the flowers?" Jin Yujun's tone was mocking.

"It's not interesting to think about finding a woman with a stilted man like you." Hong Young-sik smiled, "I've changed my ways, you don't have to worry about it." ”

"Come on! When you went to Japan, didn't you look for a Japanese woman? I heard that Japanese women are gentle and beautiful, haven't you seen it? Jin Yujun asked with a smile.

"Hehe, when I went to Japan, socializing was naturally inevitable, just acting on the spot." Hong Young-sik smiled self-deprecatingly, and his face suddenly became solemn, "Besides, I went to Japan to investigate its national conditions, where is there so much leisure and leisure......"

"What is it like in Japan? Tell me about it, shall we? Jin Yujun no longer said joking, but straightened up and said with a straight face.

Just last year, Hong Young-sik was ordered by the king of Korea to participate in a "gentlemen's tour" to Japan for an inspection, which lasted for a year, and just returned to China at the beginning of this year.

"The strength of Japan today is due to the power of renewal." A flash of brightness flashed in Hong Young-sik's eyes, "If North Korea can follow Japan's example and strive for reform, it will be a new weather and be on the same scale as all other countries." ”

"Since the Meiji Restoration, although Japan's performance has been impressive, the southwest rebellion lasted two years, and the national strength was greatly damaged, and now there should be no more atmosphere at the beginning, right?" Jin Yujun asked. (To be continued......)

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