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In Tai Shue Wan, Hong Kong, a group of people dressed in Chinese and Western costumes stood on the special passenger terminal of Nanyang Bank, watching a brand-new Canton ship slowly approaching the pier, and the workers on the pier skillfully took the rope thrown from the ship, tied it to the stone pillar of the pier, and then put the long gangplank on the side of the ship. The passengers, who had already crowded the side of the ship, were eager to disembark through the gangplank. Zuihou saw a few men dressed as servants carrying burdens and holding dolls that looked like young masters, and a woman wearing Lin Luo satin on her back, slowly walking across the springboard.

"Ming Gong, look, that's my family!" A middle-aged man with a short figure of five eyebrows pointed to the bunch of zuihou people who got off the boat, "It's not close to here from Hunan, it's really hard for them, it's hard for them." ”

A tall man in a straight suit beside the middle-aged man nodded, and said in a low voice: "Military advisor, Mrs. Zun's family has settled down, right?" You won't reveal the news about your husband and wife in Hong Kong, will you? ”

The middle-aged man waved his hand and said: "No, no, my wife is the husband of the middle school, and her knowledge is not under Zuo, and the affairs of the family must be taken care of properly, and no one will know that my husband and wife are both in Hong Kong." Ming Gong, come when you go down. As he spoke, he walked towards the noble woman who had just set foot on the land of Hong Kong and was looking around for her husband.

This group of people was Zhu Jishi and his military advisor Zuo Zongtang and some entourage escorts, and they were going to the Central Pier to greet Zuo Zongtang's family. The lady who let people get off the boat is the famous Mrs. Zuo Zhou Yiduan, a famous talented poet in Hunan. was born in a wealthy family in Xiangtan, and his appearance is passable. The three highest-ranking women of this era.

And what about Zuo Zongtang, uh. It's a bit miserable to say, although their Zuo family was also a big family, but by Zuo Zongtang's father, Zuo Guanlan's generation, it has been broken, and when it comes to Zuo Zongtang's generation, he can't even mix with the middle class. Although Zuo Zongtang was only eight years old, he couldn't marry a good wife, so he had to go upside down to be the son-in-law of the Zhou family...... Although relying on the wealth of the Zhou family, Zuo Zongtang has lived a happy life without worrying about food and clothing. But a hat that eats soft rice can't run away.

In Xiangtan, some people made up a slip to ridicule Zuo Zongtang, saying: Gui Zaitang (the name of the Zhou family's mansion), begging for a man. Slipped off a barn of grain and slept in a bed.

How can this make Zuo Zongtang, a talented man who compares himself to Zhuge embarrassed? And he didn't get into the Jinshi at the age of 35, and he couldn't even be a minor official. Can this Zuo Zongtang not be resentful of the Qing Dynasty? The reason why he is now under the banner of Zhu Jishi and wants to seek the status of a founding hero here in Daming is probably inseparable from such an experience, right?

"Liu Jun, what are you looking at?"

At this moment, in Dashu Bay, a dilapidated canton ship with a strange black background and white three-star flag, there are also several people leaning on the side of the boat to observe the scenery and buildings around Dashu Bay. One of them, a dark and thin young man in a long robe and a horse coat, suddenly seemed to have been spelled. His eyes were fixed in the direction of the passenger terminal, motionless. This person is Liu Aliang!

Beside him was a young man in a kimono. He was also dark and thin, but his eyes were large and bright, and a pair of sword eyebrows showed a little heroism. He also holds a katana in his hand. Looking at this dress, you know that this person is a Japanese samurai. However, this Japanese samurai was communicating with Liu Aliang in Chinese.

"Komatsu-kun. Look at the man, tall man in a gray coat. It's Zhu Jishi! ”

Liu Aliang raised his hand and pointed at Zhu Jishi on the passenger terminal, gritting his teeth and hating the authentic place.

The young man he called "Xiao Songjun" hurriedly took out a monocular and looked in the direction of Liu Aliang's finger. After looking at it for a while, he actually nodded and exclaimed: "Sure enough, there are people who look like kings, and they are really handsome!" He is a descendant of Emperor Hongwu again...... If there are such heroes in Japan, I, Komatsu Kiyoyu, should sacrifice my life to obey! ”

"Komatsu-kun, what do you mean? I'm talking to the old man at the mediation center, "......" Liu Aliang turned his head and glared at the young Japanese.

"Hehe, haven't you Qing Dynasty yet agreed to the conditions proposed by my Satsuma Domain? Besides, even if you, the Qing Emperor, agree to exempt the Ryukyu merchant ships from customs duties, I, Komatsu Kiyoyu, can still appreciate Zhu Jishi's talent. ”

"You ......" Liu Aliang snorted twice, not arguing with Zhu Jishi's Japanese fans.

After he arrived in Nagasaki, Japan, he learned that Zhu Jishi's reputation in Japan was far greater than that in the mainland of the Qing Dynasty! Zhu Jishi's articles and the books he translated are some of the most fashionable books in Japan! If anyone has never heard of Zhu Jishi's name and does not know the truth of "middle school is the foundation, Western learning is for use", he must be an uninformed country warrior......

And Liu Aliang, a Qing official who had met Zhu Jishi himself, was treated as a guest by the Nagasaki Commission, and he was allowed to live outside the island by exception. He also took this opportunity to collude with the representatives of the Satsuma clan in Nagasaki, and also hooked up with Hirogo, the old office of the Satsuma clan.

The reason why I found the Satsuma clan is because in Japan today, only the Satsuma clan "opens its eyes and looks at shijie". Only the feudal lords of the Satsuma clan could easily leave Japan. This is because the Ryukyu Kingdom was conquered by force by the Satsuma Domain more than 240 years ago and became a vassal of the Satsuma Clan. The Tokugawa Shogunate's Lockdown Decree was invalid against the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was not part of Japan's territory. Therefore, the Satsuma clan could take the ship of the Ryukyu Kingdom to come out to see Shijie, and the Guangzhou ship that Liu Aliang is now riding belongs to the Ryukyu Kingdom. Since Ryukyu still has the name of the Manchu Dynasty, there has always been a Ryukyu merchant house in Guangzhou, which is also a window for the Satsuma clan to peek into China's reality and understand the West, and the Satsuma clan naturally learned about Zhu Jishi and his people through the Ryukyus early in the morning.

Moreover, not only the Satsuma Domain, but even the Tokugawa clan, because of the ancestral family law of closing off the country, wanted to send people out of Japan to go out for a walk, and generally took the route of the Satsuma clan and the Ryukyu kingdom - although the Satsuma clan was the backbone of the Satsuma clan in the historical Shogunate Movement, the relationship between the Satsuma Shimazu family and the Tokugawa clan is still very good. Therefore, this time, Komatsu Kiyoyu was also entrusted by the shogunate elder Abe Masahiro to bring several envoys and students sent by the Tokugawa shogunate to Hong Kong to meet Zhu Jishi to study.

It is a bit ironic to say that Komatsu Kiyoyu, a Japanese feudal lord of the Satsuma Domain, who was ordered to discuss the "assassination of Zhu" with the Manchu government, was actually an admirer of Zhu Jishi, and those who came to Hong Kong with him were also students and envoys sent by the Tokugawa shogunate to study with Zhu Jishi.

After sending the Tokugawa shogunate ashore in Hong Kong, the Canton ship flying the flag of the Ryukyu King headed for the mouth of the Pearl River, and in a blink of an eye arrived at the Tianzi Pier in Guangzhou. Komatsu Kiyoyu took his people directly to the Ryukyu Merchant House to settle down, while Liu Aliang went to Bai Siwen's mansion outside Guangzhou to resume his life.

"What? Do you want to abolish customs duties on imported goods from the Ryukyus country? You promised? Bai Siwen frowned and looked at Liu Aliang, who had become a lot darker and had lost a lot of weight.

"Where can you, where the little one dares to agree, it's up to you to decide." Liu Aliang said with a smile.

"This thing...... I can't be the master either! Bai Siwen pressed his temples and felt a little pain in his brain, he was dedicated to protecting the Qing Dynasty, but the power in his hands was always a little small - he was just helping to handle foreign affairs, not the minister in charge of foreign affairs.

"By the way, those Japanese Assassins are reliable? Are they all masters? Bai Siwen asked again.

"It's hard to say whether it's a master or not, but it's definitely a dead man!" Liu Aliang said calmly, "This little one dares to vouch for his head!" ”

"That's ......" Bai Siwen was still a little skeptical, "Let that Komatsu ......"

"Kiyoyu Komatsu." Liu Aliang reminded.

"Yes, it's called Komatsu Kiyoyu, come to my house and see you." Bai Siwen thought for a moment and said, "He is a dead soldier sent by the Satsuma Domain?" ”

Liu Aliang smiled and waved his hand: "No, he is a noble man of the Satsuma Domain, and he has a territory of several thousand stones...... It is a big landlord who can make thousands of stone of grain a year. ”

"A few thousand stone of grain? Not much. Bai Siwen frowned, "You go and tell him, as long as he can help me get rid of the surname Zhu, I will give him 100,000 taels of silver!" That's enough for him to collect twenty years of rent! (To be continued......)