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Guangzhou, the Yamen of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

"Mu Weng still remembers Liu Aliang of the Lanfang Liu family that Xia Guan mentioned to you?"

Liu Aliang ...... Is it the leader of the people who let Zhu Jishi take away the family business? ”

"Yes, it's this person, he just returned to Guangzhou from Nagasaki."

"Long ...... Rugged? In which province? Lin Zexu asked himself if he knew the terrain of the mountains and rivers of the Qing Dynasty well, but why couldn't he think of where Nagasaki was?

"Nagasaki in Japan." Bai Siwen replied in a low voice.

"Hey, why doesn't this guy stay in China well, and what is he doing in Japan?" To be honest, Lin Zexu didn't have a good impression of Lanfang Liu's family. became a minor, and also occupied a piece of territory abroad, thinking that he was not a good person, the most hateful thing was that he actually raised troops and pretended to be an official of the Qing Dynasty, but he was also wiped out by Zhu Jishi's soldiers! If Bai Siwen hadn't had to protect him, Lin Zexu would have wanted to order him to be arrested and questioned.

"He went to Japan to hire Assassins......"

"Hired Assassins?" The disgust on Lin Zexu's face became a little stronger, not because he was a great Confucian in the world, but because the assassination was not reliable at all, how could Zhu Jishi not have a master guard by his side? In the event of defeat, the other side is likely to retaliate and send assassins to kill the Manchu bureaucrats, and everyone will have to live in fear.

"I've already had some eyebrows." Bai Siwen frowned slightly, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped.

"What's wrong? If you have something to say, just say it! ”

Bai Siwen took a breath and lowered his voice, "Mu Weng." You also know that this Zhu Refu's identity is precious, and he is not something that ordinary masters can assassinate. You have to be a professional and a person of Jing Ke to succeed. And this kind of dead soldier is unusual in Japan, and it is not something that can be hired casually......"

"What do you mean? Did any Assassins hire them? Lin Zexu said. Killing Zhu Jishi requires a person who specializes in Zhu and Jing Ke, and killing himself only needs an ordinary master of the rivers and lakes!

Bai Siwen shook his head and said in a low voice: "The other party has made some conditions, as long as Mu Weng agrees......

"Conditions? What conditions? ”

Lin Zexu's face was long, and he looked very difficult to talk at first glance.

Bai Siwen smiled and said: "Mu Weng, in fact, it's not a big deal, the Japanese just ask us to give a little preferential treatment to the merchant ships of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and allow the Ryukyu merchants to purchase land in the five trade ports to start a trading house, and the goods imported from the Ryukyus are also exempt from customs duties......"

"Wait! Where did this Liu Aliang go to hire a killer? Lin Zexu immediately heard that something was wrong. looked at Bai Siwen with burning eyes, and asked in a deep voice, "Why do you want to give benefits to the Ryukyus when you hire a Japanese killer?" Enming, you shouldn't be hiding something from the old man, right? ”

"This ......" Bai Siwen looked at Lin Zexu with an inexplicable expression, "Mu Weng, this Ryukyu Kingdom is a vassal of the Satsuma Domain of Japan......"

"Nonsense!" Lin Zexu's eyes widened, staring at Bai Siwen, "How did you become a foreign affairs assistant minister?" The Ryukyu Kingdom is a vassal of my Great Qing Dynasty! How could it be a vassal of a feudal domain of Japan? You talk nonsense again. Be careful of the old man's excerpt on you! ”

Bai Siwen couldn't cry or laugh when he heard this, he really didn't even know a little about foreign affairs with this Lord Lin.

"Muon, this Ryukyu kingdom was occupied by Shimazu Iehisa, the lord of the Satsuma domain of Japan, in the 37th year of Wanli in the previous dynasty, and the Ryukyu king, princes, and hundred officials were captured and returned to Japan. After that, the Satsuma clan sent officials to the Ryukyu Kingdom. The army is stationed, and the king of the Ryukyus is the puppet of the Satsuma Domain, and most of the income from the trade between the Ryukyu Kingdom and us goes to the Satsuma Domain......"

"Is there such a thing?" Lin Zexu is really the first time I've heard of it! Zhu Jishi's books about shijie do not talk about Japan or the Ryukyus. It's all the case in the West. So he really didn't know that the Ryukyu Kingdom, which belonged to the Qing Dynasty, was actually controlled by Japan during the Ming Dynasty!

"No, during the Shunzhi period, the king of the Ryukyus also sent an envoy to ask for canonization. The court also agreed, what do you say about this? ”

"This is actually a trick made by the Satsuma Clan in order to gain the benefits of trade with our Qing Dynasty......"

"There is such a thing!" Lin Zexu snorted heavily. "This Japanese Satsuma clan is really hateful! He actually deceived me for more than 200 years! Enming, did you already know about this? Why don't you play the court? ”

"This ......" Bai Siwen was stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought of the Ryukyu Kingdom...... But big or small, at the smallest, it is treacherous and untrustworthy in a small country, and at worst, it is a bully! And one deception is two hundred years! The ancestors of the Qing Dynasty are lying to them as fools! How hateful do you say this Japanese is?

"The old man wants to go to the court and cut off trade with the Ryukyu Kingdom! Enming, do you want to work with the old man to make the Ryukyu affair a holy one? ”

Severed trade with the Ryukyus!!

Bai Siwen really has the heart to cry to death, why is this matter of the Qing Dynasty so difficult?

The preferential trade treatment given to the Ryukyu Kingdom was a condition that Liu Aliang negotiated with Hirogo, the old office of the Satsuma clan -- this is also the country that is also carrying out reforms, and it has been more than 10 years old, and the focus of reform is to sort out the finances. Although the Satsuma Domain was a strong feudal domain in Japan, there was a "Orchid Fetish" lord named Shigehiro Shimazu, who opened many schools in the Satsuma Domain, and in addition to teaching the "national studies" of cutting people, he also taught "Orchid Studies", that is, Western natural science, but as a result, he spent too much money and owed a lot of debts, so he had to carry out the reform of the feudal government, just to find a way to make more money. And this investigation office Guangxiang is a master who is willing to do anything to make money, and even did the matter of minting counterfeit banknotes! Naturally, I don't care about sending a dead soldier out to kill a descendant of the Ming Dynasty. That's why he sent Komatsu Kiyoyu to take the killer to Guangzhou secretly on a merchant ship from the Ryukyu Kingdom.

But now, with such a small request, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Zexu refused to agree! Not only did he agree, but he also wanted to go to the imperial court to cut off trade with the Ryukyu Kingdom! In this way, not only is there no hope of hiring Japanese killers, but even Liu Aliang's head is taken off in vain, in case Satsuma and Zhu Jishi take advantage of this to hook up...... Then my head is probably in danger!

"Muon, trade with the Ryukyus is related to our relations between the Qing Dynasty and Japan, so we must be cautious...... Now that the West is invading the East, Japan also feels threatened, and is also thinking about doing foreign affairs like us. "Bai Sven is spitting and spitting." So this time, I came back to Guangzhou with Liu Aliang, and there were several secret envoys of the Japanese Satsuma Domain...... Do you want to meet them, Muon? ”

"That...... What did Liu Aliang do when he brought the Japanese to Guangzhou? ”

Hearing Bai Siwen's words, Lin Zexu only felt a pain in his brain. Japan is not Korea, Vietnam, or Siam, and has no formal diplomatic exchanges with the Qing Dynasty, and the two sides are "mutually unrecognized." And even if you want to see it, you have to be an envoy sent by the Japanese emperor, where can I see the envoy of the Satsuma Domain? This is not in line with etiquette! What feudal dominance in Japan is the size of a county in the Great Qing Kingdom, how can the minister of the same rank negotiate with the representative sent by the county order? That's too cheap!

"Among the Japanese who came to visit, one was an important minister of the Satsuma Domain, named Kiyoyu Komatsu...... I heard Liu Aliang say that if we don't agree to be friendly with the Satsuma Domain, he will go to Hong Kong to see Zhu Yi......"

Lin Zexu was stunned for a moment, "See Zhu Reverse!?" What is this? Threatening the officer? I'm not afraid! ”

Bai Siwen was about to cry, and said in his heart, of course you are not afraid! You are a Han Chinese, and you are a famous Qing official, Zhu Jishi will only want to win you over, and will not want to kill your old man. But I'm afraid! If Zhu Jishi knew that he wanted to hire a Japanese killer to kill him, he would really have no peace in the future......

Thinking of this, Bai Siwen gritted his teeth, and then said: "Mu Weng, in fact, this Zhu Wei is also very famous in Japan, his books are widely spread in Japan, and some people in Japan call him Zhu Sheng, this Komatsu Kiyoyu is also very admirer of Zhu Shun, maybe Zhu Wei and the Satsuma Clan will collude with this......"

"Sensei talking that nonsense!" Lin Zexu interrupted a little impatiently, "Enming, what do you tell this official to do with this Komatsu Qingyou?" Withhold or kill?

He is not a citizen of China, he does not violate the laws of the Qing Dynasty when he reads a few books of Zhu Jishi in a foreign country, and he is also a Japanese envoy. What do you think can be done if this matter is reported to the emperor? I am a state of etiquette in the Qing Dynasty, can I do the thing of trapping foreign envoys? ”

Bai Siwenxin said, why aren't you afraid that Japan will collude with the Ming Dynasty to oppose the Qing Dynasty? You are also a famous minister all over the world, why don't you have this kind of responsibility?

"Muon, they have been closed off from Japan for two hundred years like us, and they are now worried about Xiyi entering the country day and night, maybe they can form ......an alliance with them," Bai Siwen said tentatively.

"In that case, you should go and talk to that Komatsu Kiyoyu, if Japan really has the heart to make friends with China, let their emperor send a minister to Guangzhou to meet with the old man." Lin Zexu said expressionlessly, "And that Liu Aliang was also sent earlier, this kind of person doesn't understand the rules at all, you have to keep him an official, and you will be responsible for it in the future." ”

"Muon, that ...... What about trade with the Ryukyus countries? Do you want to maintain it? Bai Siwen tentatively said with some uncertainty.

"This ......" Lin Zexu stroked his beard and thought for a while, and said, "Let's maintain it according to the old rules first." Enming, the old man knows that you are doing things for the court, but you also have to abide by the rules for the court, and you can't blindly rush and do whatever it takes, you know? (To be continued......)