Saigo Takamori came to the crowd, raised the green bamboo cane in his hand, and shook it in the air to show that he was about to speak.

"Silence!"

"Silence!"

The Satsuma samurai shouted, and soon the crowd fell silent, at which point Saigo Takamori straightened up on horseback, looked at the people with compassion, and said loudly in a loud and choked voice, "Folks! All of you...... Suffered! ”

Saigo Takamori said, turned over and dismounted, and put his bamboo cane on the ground, he looked around at the people, as if they were much older in an instant, and then bowed deeply to the people.

Hearing Saigo Takamori's apologetic words, the refugees were moved, and when they saw the famous Saigo Shogun saluting him, the Kyoto refugees at the front of the line were all stunned for a while, and then bowed and returned the salute. The people who were far away didn't hear what Saigo Takamori said, but when they saw Saigo Takamori bending down and bowing, as if he wanted to apologize, the crowd in front of them all bowed and returned the salute, so they also bowed and returned the salute.

It was like a huge wave rippling in the boundless ocean, and countless people all bowed silently in one direction.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

Shinohara Kunikan and Shiro Ikegami, who were riding on horses, watched this scene and were stunned for a while.

"Saigo Yoshinosuke raised troops this time, originally on the side of the Qing monarch, except for the traitorous ministers, the new national government, and the people, but he was hindered by the traitors and thieves, and even more thieves will set fire to the city, causing everyone to suffer this catastrophe for no reason!" Saigo Takamori straightened up, tears already flashing in his eyes, "Yoshinosuke is here to apologize to everyone!" ”

Saigo Takamori said, bowing to the refugees again.

"General. Help us! I don't know who said that.

"Yes! Great General. Please save us! ”

"General help!"

"General help!"

More and more people are shouting. Some people even knelt down.

Saigo Takamori straightened up, looked at the ragged refugees in front of him, and burst into tears for a while.

"Silence, everyone! The Great General has something to say! Shinohara Kunigan shouted, but his voice was drowned out at once, and all the samurai shouted in unison, but everyone's cries for help were like waves crashing on the shore, and even the samurai's voices were suppressed.

Saigo Takamori raised his hands, and the refugees in Kyoto saw his gesture. Immediately stopped shouting.

"Folks! Kyoto suffered this tragedy, and Yoshinosuke was as heartbroken as everyone else! Yoshinosuke is not talented, and I am willing to do my best to help everyone, extinguish the fire, and let everyone live in peace! ”

Hearing Saigo's promise, the refugees cheered, and some even shed tears.

At that moment, Saigo Takamori issued two orders, one order was to quickly mobilize food and provide relief to the victims; Another order is to prohibit looting. If there is a robbery, the offender shall be beheaded; After the order was given, the panicked people quickly calmed down. At that moment, Shinohara Kunikan sent troops to various places to maintain order. and sent additional men to fight the fire.

"Oh my God, what's wrong with Kyoto?"

Lin Yiqing rode to the hillside, looking at the burning Kyoto City in the distance, and his eyes widened in surprise.

"It's ...... On fire? Hidehiko Sato rode to Lin Yiqing's side, looking at the smoke and dust in the sky and the fire on the ground, he was also surprised.

"Could it be that we're not here these days...... What else happened? It was also the first time that Kaori Rutsuki had seen a fire of this scale, and her brows that showed her mask furrowed suddenly, and she said vigilantly.

"It's not like it's caused by war...... Could it be that someone deliberately burned the city? Lin Yiqing said secretly in his heart.

After completing the assassination mission in Tokyo, Lin Yiqing quickly left Tokyo with everyone, in order to avoid the pursuers, he avoided the crowds as much as possible along the way, and traveled all the way without contacting anyone, because he did not know the news of an unprecedented fire in Kyoto.

"If you have the courage to do them, Kyoto should have been defeated a long time ago, right? How so? Hidehiko Sato said.

"Let's go! When you see the general, you will naturally know everything. Lin Yiqing said, a dozen horses, and rushed down the hillside. The people rode after them, and went away.

When Lin Yiqing came to Xixiang Longsheng's base camp, Xixiang Longsheng was frowning, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw Lin Yiqing come back.

"Hanpeng, you can be regarded as back......" Saigo Takamori stepped forward and took Lin Yiqing's hand, looked at him carefully, and saw that he was unharmed, and his face was full of relief.

"It's better to be fortunate than to be disgraced on this trip." Seeing the look of concern in Saigo Takamori's eyes, Lin Yiqing's heart was moved, and he immediately presented the cowhide bag containing Okubo Ritsu's head and the wooden box containing letters and documents to Saigo Takamori.

Saigo Takamori took the cowhide bag, sighed for a long time, couldn't bear it, didn't open it to see, but handed it to Shinohara Kunikan next to him, just opened the wooden box, and when his eyes fell on the letter placed on the top, his strong body couldn't help but shake slightly.

"Before Mr. Jiadong left, he asked me to hand over these two letters to Mr. Nanzhou." Lin Yiqing said.

Saigo Takamori nodded and slowly took out the two letters.

"Time is like flowing water, the deceased is like a dream, it's really like a dream of Nanke......" Saigo Takamori looked at the two letters in his hand, tears instantly welled up in his eyes, dripping onto the envelope.

Lin Yiqing understood why Saigo Takamori was so emotional, he had read them in his spare time on the way back, these two letters, one was written to Okubo Toshitsu when Saigo Takamori drove his troops straight into Edo during the Boshin War; The other is a photo of a suit sent to Saigo Takamori by Okubo Ritsu during a European inspection after the curtain was successfully falling, and Saigo Takamori replied to a letter ridiculing Okubo Ritsu's image as not suitable for wearing a dress. These two letters are the last proof of their friendship before their ambitions parted ways.

"When Jiadong goes, can you take it calmly?" Saigo Takamori put the letter back away, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and asked in a choked voice.

"At that time, Mr. Jiadong asked me to hand over these two letters to Mr. Yu, and he left calmly and calmly." Lin Yiqing replied.

Saigo Takamori sighed for a long time, and then asked about Hayashi Yiqing's trip, and learned that Kuroda Kiyotaka and Kayama Shikiki also died on the same day. sighed: "It's okay for the birch mountain thief." Kuroda-kun is a great talent. It is a pity that the government wants to make its army the enemy of our army, and now although our army has gone to a great enemy, the country has also gone to a great talent, what a pity! ”

"Dare to ask sir. But is Kyoto difficult to capture? Why is it that more than a month has passed since I left, and Kyoto has not yet fallen, and it is a fire phenomenon? Lin Yiqing asked.

"The events in Kyoto are heart-wrenching." Saigo Takamori sighed, "I went to the front line to watch the battle, and saw that our army was attacking the city and suffered heavy casualties, plus Kyoto is the old capital of Japan and a thousand-year-old city. In a land of great people, I fear that the war will destroy the city. It was the engineer team that harmed innocent people who did not use their courage as children, but ordered them to go south with Liqiu. Who would have thought that when the thief army saw that our army was strong, the thief actually ordered the city to be burned, so that the whole city of Kyoto was burned! Seeing this, I urgently ordered the army to enter the city to put out the fire, but it was too late, and now only a quarter of the city was not burned, and the fire did not go out, and hundreds of thousands of refugees were homeless, lacking food and clothing. ”

Lin Yiqing was surprised when he heard Saigo Takamori tell the cause of the Kyoto fire, but he couldn't help but wonder about Chiren's burning of the city.

As an imperial family and the most trusted person of Emperor Meiji, what kind of medicine did he take to do such a crazy thing?

Is it to take advantage of Saigo Takamori's psychology of cherishing the people in order to hinder the advance of the Satsuma army?

If that's the case, it's really troublesome!

"Now that most of the granaries in Kyoto have been burned down, the refugees have no food and clothing, there is not much food in the nearby villages, and our army's food cannot be used to help the victims. Saigo Takashi was in a hurry, and even asked Lin Yiqing how to help the victims.

"Yes, Han Peng has always been quick-witted, I don't know if there is a good solution?" Shinohara Kunigan also asked a little anxiously.

As the commander of the former enemy, he already understood that the Satsuma army was now under the fortified city, trapped by the fire of the city, and subject to hundreds of thousands of victims, unable to advance or retreat, and if it was delayed for too long, it was likely to be lost.

"First, we should concentrate the existing rice and grain, set up a number of porridge factories, and distribute them according to the capitation, which can not only improve the utilization rate of grain, but also avoid the danger of unfair distribution." Lin Yiqing thought for a while and said, "Collect food from the towns around Kyoto, and then divide the troops to Kobe, take the grain from Kobe for emergency relief, and at the same time order the rich families of Osaka Kobe to donate food, and use the gold and silver of the two cities to buy food from foreign merchants in Japan, which can solve the urgent needs of the military and the people." ”

Hearing Lin Yiqing's proposal to buy grain from foreign businessmen, Saigo Takamori and others couldn't help but suddenly realize that they praised it again and again, but they didn't even think of this method.

Seeing the admiring looks of the samurai, Lin Yiqing couldn't help but secretly laugh at the Japanese in his heart.

In fact, he had already thought of the gold and silver of these two cities.

Osaka City is the economic center of Japan, Japan's mint is located in Osaka, after Osaka City was captured by the Satsuma army, a large number of gold and silver reserves in the city did not have time to be transported, all for the Satsuma army, Lin Yiqing's original plan was to use the money to buy foreign new weapons and equipment for the Satsuma army, but now an unexpected situation has appeared, he can only choose to use the money to buy food to solve the current urgency.

As the chief of the general staff of the Satsuma Army, of course, he understands the truth of "the soldiers are expensive and the gods are fast", but now the situation has changed unexpectedly, if the refugees in Kyoto are abandoned and the troops are not rescued, they may achieve quick results, but the act of "abandoning the people and ignoring the people" will make the Satsuma Army quickly lose the hearts of the people, and make the Japanese people more supportive of the Meiji government!

In addition to the fact that the act of "abandoning the people and not saving them" completely violated the philosophy that Saigo Takamori had adhered to, the Meiji government's consistent practice would even use this to launch a war of public opinion and put the charge of "arson on Kyoto" on the head of the Satsuma army, causing the image of the Satsuma army to plummet and no longer be a "teacher of benevolence and righteousness", thus falling into a passive position and ultimately being defeated.

Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, this old saying has not been said in vain for so many years!

And if the Satsuma army fails as quickly as it did in the original history, it will not be able to achieve its goal of weakening Japan!

By expanding the scale of the Southwest War, weakening Japan to the greatest extent is his ultimate goal!

Thinking that he could use the Kyoto fire this time to weaken the morale of the Meiji government, Lin Yiqing couldn't help but secretly thank the faint insect of Chiren for setting this fire.

"Hanpeng, do you have a way to extinguish the fire?" Hearing Lin Yiqing say the solution to the food problem, Saigo Takamori was overjoyed. actually asked Lin Yiqing how to extinguish the fire.

Seeing Saigo Takamori's questioning move. Shinohara Kunikan and Shiro Ikegami and other generals were secretly funny.

In their opinion. Although Lin Yiqing is full of wisdom, but after all, he is a mortal, and he is not an immortal, in the face of such a fire, tens of thousands of Satsuma soldiers are powerless, what good way can Lin Yiqing do?

Lin Yiqing got up and came to the window, looked up at the sky, and it was late afternoon. Daylight is at its strongest, but because of the smoke and dust that soars into the sky, it is like dusk.

A gust of cold wind blew, through the window, and blew onto Lin Yiqing's body, making him feel the slightest coldness, Lin Yiqing looked at the large clouds in the sky, his heart moved, and he couldn't help but laugh secretly in his heart.

Let yourself be in the minds of these samurai. Let's get more magical!

"Don't worry, sir, I've already figured out how to extinguish the fire." Lin Yiqing turned to Xixiang Takamori and said.

"What?" Heard Lin Yiqing's answer. Shinohara Kunikan and other samurai were all taken aback.

Seeing the surprise that Shinohara Guogan looked at him inexplicably as if he was looking at a monster, Lin Yiqing smiled slightly and said, "It's just that this method is a little weird to say." ”

"How is Hanpeng going to extinguish the fire? Tell me about it? At this time, Shinohara Kunigan's curiosity was completely aroused by Lin Yiqing, and he couldn't wait to ask.

"Artificial rain to extinguish this fire." Lin Yiqing replied.

"What? Artificial rainfall? Saigo Takashi said strangely, "Could it be that Hanpeng wants us to pray for the rain instead of praying to the gods?" ”

"No, no, no." Lin Yiqing smiled and shook his head, "Lin's method is to use manpower to make the rain fall, not to borrow the power of ghosts and gods. ”

"How is this possible?" Saigo Takamori and the samurai all widened their eyes.

Lin Yiqing understood why they were surprised, for the people of this era, there is no other way to use manpower to promote the rain from the sky, except to worship God and save the rain, but for Lin Yiqing, a traverser, "artificial rainfall" is nothing new.

What's more, according to his observation just now and the knowledge he knows, it is not possible to make a heavy rain here in the next few days, and he said that he wants "artificial rain", in fact, he also wants to increase his prestige and make people believe that he has caused the heavy rain from the sky.

"Listen to my arrangement, and prepare the equipment." Lin Yiqing knew that it was useless to explain to them now, so he simply gave orders.

Although they felt that Lin Yiqing's words were too unbelievable, out of their consistent trust in him and the many miracles he had created, no one among the warriors objected to his words, but acted according to his orders.

A few days later, on the outskirts of Kyoto.

"You...... Going to start today...... Rain? Chiho Kirino looked at Lin Yiqing, who was pulling a big bowl of rice into her mouth and eating it deliciously, she didn't want to disturb him eating, but she was too curious in her heart, so she couldn't help but ask.

"I'll make a small correction here, Chiho. It's not asking for rain, it's rainfall, artificial rainfall. Lin Yiqing put down the dishes and chopsticks and replied with a smile.

"Okay, rain." Chiho Kirino said with some amusement, "You asked everyone to prepare so much salt powder just for rainfall?" ”

"Yes, yes." Lin Yiqing smiled and nodded, got up and came to her side, looked into her eyes, and nodded vigorously.

"But this ...... Will it work? ......" Chiho Kirino couldn't help but worry about him when she saw his confident appearance.

"Just look at it!" Lin Yiqing smiled and pushed her forehead with her head.

"You said yesterday that you were going to the porridge factory today, right?" Lin Yiqing saw a round wooden food box beside her and asked.

"yes. I made some rice balls for the orphans here and sent them over in a while, I'm afraid that the children won't be able to grab the adults. Chiho Kirino said.

"I remember that General Chishang arranged for the soldiers to maintain order, and there shouldn't be anyone to rob it, right?" Lin Yiqing asked.

"The order is good, but sometimes there are fights." Chiho Kirino Road.

"Go ahead, be careful, don't get hit." Lin Yiqing got up and said, "However, it's best to bring an umbrella today, because it may rain." ”

“…… Well, I bring an umbrella. Chiho Kirino laughed.

Chiho Kirino and several samurai's wives came to the porridge factory, and at this time the porridge factory had already begun to give porridge, and the victims crowded forward, and the workers of the porridge factory shouted loudly, while trying to maintain order as much as possible, scooping the thick porridge that had been boiled in the cauldron into the bowl in the hands of the victims with a large wooden spoon. Some of the victims tried to squeeze forward and not queue, but they were immediately driven back by the Satsuma samurai who maintained order.

Chiho Kirino came to a cauldron to check the cooking of the porridge, and the stewards of the porridge factory saw Chiho Kirino arrive and hurriedly ran over.

"Madam, please see, this porridge is cooked very thickly, and you can drink it to your heart's content." The steward smiled and inserted a chopstick into the porridge in the cauldron and said.

"Good." Chiho Kirino nodded happily when she saw the chopsticks standing in the porridge.

Chiho Kirino looked around and saw that although the order of the victims receiving the porridge seemed a little chaotic, the scramble was not too strong, and the people who received the porridge were either squatting or sitting, and they were all drinking sweetly there. Chiho Kirino's eyes are mainly focused on those homeless children, because children are weak after all, and they can't rob adults.

"The children are all over there, and a special stove is set up to receive porridge to prevent adults from competing for it." The steward seemed to understand Chiho Kirino's thoughts, smiled and pointed to a porridge shed not far away and said, "Madame, do you want to go over and have a look?" ”

Chiho Kirino nodded and walked towards the porridge shed for children. (To be continued......)

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