At this moment in the port of Nagasaki, the sun is covered with golden sea, the sea breeze is gusting, and countless seagulls are flying in the sky, fluttering and falling to the surface of the water and spreading their wings. Ito Hirobumi straightened the bow tie of his tuxedo with his hands, those small black eyes, kept staring at Song Xiaofei's every move when he spoke, his lips closed one by one, coughed twice, and said: "China says that the two countries in East Asia, the closest to each other, the same culture and the same species, are fighting for the time being, and they are always good for the sake of eternity." Since the British and American ministers are here to mediate, I hope that your country will show sincerity. For example, in the second article, five Beiyang sailors actually asked for 500,000 taels of silver compensation, and one life of the Chinese is worth 100,000 taels of silver, this is outrageous, right? ”

Song Xiaofei saw that the British and American envoys present were also talking to each other, looked at Ito Hirofumi's dark gray and graying hair, and sat down again to reason with him: "Lord Ito, you miscalculated, not five lives, but eleven lives, the wives of these five sailors, after hearing the bad news of their husbands, all committed suicide in chastity, and among them was a pregnant woman with a three-month-old child in her belly, who died before she could see the world. ”

The British and American envoys to the Chinese government exclaimed, completely unable to understand the Chinese tradition of following husbands and wives. Song Xiaofei continued to explain: "For each Chinese life, 20,000 taels of silver will be compensated, and the other 300,000 taels will be compensated for the child in the pregnant woman's womb. All men are created equal, and I've heard that Ito-sama's father was just an ordinary samurai. This child would have had the opportunity to become a pillar of the country like Ito-sama, but unfortunately he was stillborn! Does Ito-sama think he's worth 300,000 taels of silver? We are very willing to spend 300,000 taels of silver to buy the Prime Minister to serve China. ”

Song Xiaofei said that unborn children and all people are born equal, which hit the weakness of humanitarianism in the British and American ministers, and Ito Hirobumi did not dwell on the reparations clause anymore, and instead attacked China for the sea power in East Asia is the old set of rules of the suzerain, which does not conform to the current rules of international law.

Song Xiaofei said strongly: "If necessary, China can learn from Yu himself and turn Ryukyu, Vietnam, and Korea into Chinese counties." What's more, China's desire for sea supremacy in East Asia is only to defend against the wolf ambitions of certain countries and to ensure permanent peace in East Asia. ”

The annexation of the Ryukyus set an extremely bad precedent, so Ito Hirobumi was hesitant and had nothing to say. Song Xiaofei continued to say to the British and American ministers: "Gentlemen, I believe that peace in East Asia is also extremely beneficial to the trade between Britain and the United States in Asia. ”

At that time, Britain and the United States, these old capitalist countries, developed industry early, mainly wanted to open the Asian market, and did not have the ambition of territorial expansion like this, Song Xiaofei's words, basically impeccable, Ito Hirofumi looked at this young and energetic face and firm eyes, this Li Hongzhang's proud protégé, vision and insight are better than Li Hongzhang, Ito believes that this is an invincible opponent, and his heart rekindles the idea of killing Song Xiaofei, He picked up a handkerchief and wiped the dense beads of sweat on his forehead, and hurriedly ended the day's negotiations under the pretext of being unwell. Hirobumi Ito, who was full of worries, walked down the Yangfan Tower, walked down the steps, stepped on the air, stumbled, and almost fell.

When Ito Hirobumi was about to leave by carriage, in the crowd of onlookers, suddenly rushed out of a tall young man wearing a peaked hat and a gray trench coat, he was holding a black-shelled Mauser in his hand, and before the guards around Ito Hirobumi could react, the muzzle of the gun was aimed at Ito Hirobumi, and he shot "bang" on his head, Ito Hirobumi's action on the carriage made his head move up half an inch, this shot hit Ito Hirobumi's eyebrows, almost a moment of electric light, Ito Hirobumi's eyes were not closed, Fell to the ground and passed out, blood-stained tuxedo.

The two guards closest to Ito Hirobumi reacted and rushed up to hug the young assassin who fired the gun, trying to snatch the gun from his hand, the young assassin threw off his trench coat, broke free from the two guards, and rushed forward to "bang" Ito Hirobumi's chest and fired two more shots, and he also fired two shots at the crowd, and the onlookers fled in all directions, causing chaos at the scene. The soldier in charge of the guard in the front row rushed out and fired two "bangs" at the young assassin's back, and the assassin fell to the ground bleeding from the shot, threw down his pistol, and shouted three times in Russian: "Russian people Ulla!" ”

When Song Xiaofei heard the gunshots, he jumped down from the stairs with his men, and seeing that the assassin was not dead, he used his M1847 revolver to shoot the assassin in the head, piercing the assassin's forehead. Although Song Xiaofei had sat in the pile of dead people on the battlefield to rest his breath, he was still tormented in his heart at the moment, and Song Xiaofei didn't know if he had changed the world, or the world had changed him, making him more and more hard-hearted!

Hirobumi Ito, who was bleeding profusely, was carried on a stretcher by his men and sent to the best hospital in Nagasaki. At that time, Ito Hirobumi was still conscious, and he asked the guards beside him, "Who fired this shot?" When he realized that it seemed to be a radical Russian revolutionary who had done it, Hirobumi Ito, who had always been gentle and elegant, scolded "Yaga" and fell into a coma.

After the death of Hirobumi Ito, Shigenobu Okuma really returned to the political platform and succeeded Hirobumi Ito as prime minister. However, Song Xiaofei did not expect that at this time, Shigenobu Okuma was no longer as radical as he was 14 years ago in the Meiji era, and he established the Constitutional Improvement Party, organized people who had knowledge, property, and fame, and also founded the predecessor of Waseda University, Tokyo Vocational School, to train people for constitutional government and modernization.

According to the information collected by Song Xiaofei, before his death, Ito Hirobumi invited Shigenobu Okuma to the bedside, and his dry fingers grabbed Shigenobu Okuma's hand with all his might, leaving a political last word: "Constitutionalism...... Forty-Seven Samurai".

Forty-seven samurai, is the widely spread "lying on the salary to taste the guts" of the loyal story, this story is true, happened in the shogunate period: Ako Castle lord Asano in Edo Castle stabbed Kira, by the shogun Tsunayoshi to cut the abdomen, he raised forty-seven samurai, led by Oishi Uchi Kurasuke, lying on the salary to taste the courage for a year and nine months to avenge the master, broke into Kira's mansion, killed eighteen people, and offered the head to Asano's tomb, and then, the samurai felt ashamed of being disloyal to the shogun, and committed suicide by seppuku to apologize.

Ito Hirobumi obviously wants Okuma to re-believe forbearance, implement constitutional government, and wait until the country is strong to avenge him! Song Xiaofei couldn't help but sigh for an opponent like Ito Hirobumi, and he was also impressed by the politicians in Yuben, as long as it was beneficial to the country, they could entrust their unfinished business to their former political opponents before they died. In other words, the opposition and the reactionaries are completely different things! In the thinking of the Chinese bureaucracy, opposition is reaction, not only from the spiritual criticism, but also from the top of the elimination to resolve the hatred, so even if everyone sits on the same broken boat, they will not say a word, will not point out problems, and the surface will be harmonious, until the ruling interest groups will go to destruction together and be buried at the bottom of history.

Shigenobu Okuma, as the new prime minister of the Samoto cabinet, did not rush to war with the Russians because the assassins were Russians, and he, like Ito Hirobumi, overwhelmed the main battle faction in the military department, sending Saigo from Michito to Nagasaki to continue peace talks with Song Xiaofei. After Ito Hirobumi was assassinated, most of the public opinion in Britain and the United States was inclined to sympathize with Yu Ben, and Song Xiaofei was worried that if China said that if there was another war, Britain and the United States would agree to lease ironclad warships to Yu himself, and the purpose of assassinating Ito Hirobumi to postpone Yu Ben's constitution had been achieved, so he made concessions in terms of compensation, and finally Zhong Yu reached a peace agreement, and the "Nagasaki Incident" was named a misunderstanding caused by language barriers: each dead Beiyang sailor was compensated 5,000 taels of silver, and the wounded Beiyang sailor was compensated 100 taels of silver, which was paid immediately.

However, for the restoration of the Ryukyus and the sea power in East Asia, Song Xiaofei did not make concessions, Saigo Congdao finally swallowed his anger and made concessions, agreeing to release King Shangtai to return to the Ryukyus, and recognized China's sea control over the Tsushima Strait, the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea.