On the morning of the next day, Song Biao met with visiting Foreign Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa and President of Tokyo Higher Normal School Kano Jigoro at Sansui Hall.

Foreign Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa is visiting in the name of attending the 5th Shanghai Chuyu Judo Challenge, and since he is here in this name, no matter what the ultimate goal is, the focus is always on the issue of judo.

Song Biao is obviously more interested in Mr. Jigoro Kano, the father of Judo who takes "for the benefit of others and peace for the world" as his motto, and is now a 71-year-old old man, who came to China to establish a judo gym named after himself in China and personally train judo students in China.

Jigoro Kano played a very important role in the promotion of modern judo when he was the principal of the Tokyo Higher Normal School, and it was he who summarized the skills of the various schools of Jiu-Jitsu and proposed the modern Jiu-Jitsu that was more suitable for modern promotion.

He has a Chinese student named Cao Zhenggang, a native of Hubei Province, who also graduated from the Tokyo Higher Normal School, and is currently the dean of Shanghai Normal University, which also played a very important role in promoting the development of classical jiu-jitsu in China.

Seeing Jigoro Kano in person, Song Biao can generally appreciate the characteristics of Jiu-Jitsu, although this old gentleman is thin and short, but it is precisely because he can challenge those tall opponents that he can especially show the technical surname and value of Jiu-Jitsu itself.

Kenkichi Yoshizawa wore a formal Western-style dress, while Jigoro Kano wore a traditional black kimono, and both of them looked extremely humble and courteous in front of the Song Emperor.

Since it is in the name of competitive sports, Song Biao does not need to care about Fang Ze Kenji for the time being, and when the two of them sit down, Song Biao first said to Jigoro Kano: "Although Jiu-Jitsu is not the same martial art in nature, and the genres and characteristics are not the same, but they can help each other, tolerate each other, and develop together to today's level, I am personally very happy, and I also like these two different schools and inherited martial arts skills very much, so I am also very happy to meet you here, who is known as the father of Jiu-Jitsu." ”

Jigoro Kano immediately replied, "I am truly honored to be able to meet His Majesty the Great Emperor Hua who is alive in this world, and I am very grateful to be a person of this era. ”

Song Biao also bowed slightly, and said: "In fact, there has been a lot of controversy between the Chinese and Chinese people about Jiu-Jitsu sports, and I still know very well that Chinese Jiu-Jitsu is a stealing teacher from the Chinese Jiu-Jitsu Movement, and the media uses the words 'stealing the teacher', 'stealing', and 'plagiarism' a lot, and I am still very clear." China has its own principles, and we have always emphasized that classical Chinese jiu-jitsu is a revival of the martial arts of the Qin and Han dynasties, absorbing some of the technical rules of European classical wrestling and traditional Chinese wrestling, and inheriting from the large and small grapples of southern Chinese boxing martial arts, thus forming Chinese classical jiu-jitsu. In terms of naming, as in the book, we all hope to achieve an effect of overcoming rigidity with softness. The revival and organization of classical Chinese jiu-jitsu was originally carried out by Fu Jianqiu, the national jutsu instructor of the inner court, who was actually personally selected by me to do these things. Because we call it Jiu-Jitsu, you also call it Jiu-Jitsu, I propose that the Central Guoshu Association organize the Zhongshu Challenge, to see which Jiu-Jitsu has more room for development, and to exchange and learn from each other, in fact, we who have experienced the first Zhongshu Jiu-Jitsu Challenge should be very clear that the gap between the two sides in the rules is very large, in order to achieve a common competitive principle, each other has adjusted each other's rules. It should be held from the first to the fourth, in the past four years, the kind of jiu-jitsu advocated by each of them is indeed integrating with each other, and there is an obvious trend of integrating into a competitive sport from rules to technology. The structure and context of this matter is very clear, and I have always felt that there is no need to argue, and it is obviously meaningless to classify jiu-jitsu as a sport created by the Chinese people, or as a sport created by China. ”

Hearing these words, Foreign Minister Yoshizawa Kenkichi couldn't help but want to refute, but Jigoro Kano replied first: "His Majesty Emperor Hua and I are both people who actively promote this matter, and naturally we know it best, so I also regret that the people of China are fallacious and narrow-minded about this, a good sport can enhance the exchanges between young people from all over the world, we should be very happy that Jijitsu and Chinese Jiu-Jitsu can complement each other and merge into a new sport, no matter who is the main body, this itself is not important, It is important that the people of the two countries can actively love this competitive martial art together and promote it to every part of the two countries and to the world. Going back to the origin, the sumo wrestling is derived from China, and the source of the various schools of Jiu-Jitsu in the Middle Ages comes from the two masters of Fukuno Masakatsu and Miura Yoshichen, and the teachers of these two masters are the Chen Yuanyun master of the Fujian martial arts school in China, which is an undisputed matter, in the past, we were proud of it, and flaunted the nobility of jiu-jitsu stronger than other martial arts schools, but now we are ashamed of it, and everyone avoids talking about it, in fact, it is a shame in the martial arts world. I have always thought that the key to the integration of the two sports is that the basic kicking and wrestling techniques are the same, and the source of this technique is the traditional skills of Chinese martial arts, which are completely absent in the traditional schools of Chinese martial arts. ”

Of course Song Biao knew about this, and of course after hearing Jigoro Kano say this, he felt a lot.

Chinese things are sometimes so strange, we create a lot of things, and in the end it seems that they are all foreigners, why?

It's a question worth pondering.

Maybe it's because we have an innate lack of respect for technology, we're too realistic, too respectful of officials.

Song Biao couldn't help but sigh a little when he thought about such a thing, and said: "Actually, we have always thought that Yuben Jiu-Jitsu, especially at this stage of yours, is very characteristic of the rules and systems, which is very good, and we are also learning from them." If Jiu-Jitsu continues to be integrated, I think it can be promoted as a sport, and it can be seen as a common sport between China and China, rather than the fact that populism is allowed to ravage, and it is actually very detrimental to the promotion of this kind of sport to emphasize that it belongs to a certain nation. My wish has never changed, and I would like to promote Jiu-Jitsu as a competitive sport in all schools across the country rather than the traditional Chinese martial arts, which is too strong in martial arts, and encourage students to engage in active and healthy sports to exercise their bodies and strengthen their will. If we have been so one-sided in the spirit of populism and blindly ignoring the facts, and maliciously exaggerating our Chinese plagiarism of Jiu-Jitsu, even if our Jiu-Jitsu has borrowed and absorbed many technical rules of Jiu-Jitsu in the process of development, it will not be conducive to the promotion of this sport in China, and it is not conducive to the joint promotion of this new sport to the world. In such a crazy era of populism, we must more and more soberly respect the facts, have the courage to tell the truth, and do not exaggerate this movement as a struggle between two peoples, which is meaningless, although the relationship between China and China has not been good in recent years, and there are more wars than peace, but precisely because of this, we must promote the exchanges of non-governmental sports and gradually expand the foundation of peace between the two countries and nations, and only in this way can we achieve real and permanent peace. ”

Jigoro Kano replied: "His Majesty the Emperor is far-sighted, and the people admire him so much, and he is willing to speak out for this, hoping that the people of both countries will put aside the populist spirit in this movement and truly accept it." ”

Song Biao bowed his head again, and hoped that this matter could develop smoothly.

From the very beginning of his organization of classical Chinese jiu-jitsu sports, he actually deliberately did not learn from the techniques and rules of the Jiu-Jitsu school, because he did not want to be an improvement of Jiu-Jitsu in China, but as Jigoro Kano said, the origin of Jiu-Jitsu is Chinese wrestling and grappling techniques, especially in the four basic techniques of kicking, holding, grappling, and wrestling, and the two sides are completely identical.

Chinese classical jiu-jitsu absorbed some techniques and modern rules of European classical wrestling at the same time, and the rules of classical jiu-jitsu were formulated simply and quickly in two or three years, and were comprehensively promoted by the imperial central political axe, the royal family and the Central Guoshu Association.

In 1927, Song Biao also suddenly had an improvised idea to bring together the masters of classical Chinese jiu-jitsu and the masters of Jiu-Jitsu, and at that time, he also hoped to promote this sport and attract the attention of people across the country.

Of course, Song Biao has to admit that the Central Guoshu Association originally named this new martial arts school as "modern Chinese wrestling", and finally Song Biao himself named it "classical jiu-jitsu", which is also "overcoming rigidity with softness", which sounds more connotative and inclusive than wrestling.

Now that he thinks about it, he just directly agreed with the suggestion of the Central Guoshu Association, so that he would not make such a fuss.

The book is now claiming that there is no jiu-jitsu sport in China, and the so-called claim that it is self-created is plagiarism from the book, and for China, it is impossible for anyone to plagiarize your book, including Fu Jianqiu, who is personally responsible for making rules and organizing classical jiu-jitsu affairs, and other members of the Central Guoshu Association are also very depressed, and they don't even know that there is jiu-jitsu.

In fact, these are really two different things, that is, in the past few years, because there is a national competition between the two sides, they are constantly studying each other's opponents, referring to each other's skills, and constantly making concessions and blending with each other in terms of rules, which has slowly become a sport.

If both countries are open-minded and admit that this is the result of the constant integration of the two sides in the game, it will be a good thing for both sides and this kind of movement, but the problem is that populist organizations and right-wing forces in their own countries will seize on this matter.

Things have come to this point, Song Biao has already thought very clearly, if Yue Ben continues to be so populist and crazy, he will directly interrupt the Zhong Jiu-Jitsu Challenge, all the rules will be changed back to the original state, and the name will be changed to "Modern Bo Player", everyone will play their own games, and they will not have anything to do with Yu Ben Jiu-Jitsu.

He initially engaged in this thing purely in the hope that young people would have martial arts and competitive spirit, and he used the name Jiu-Jitsu because he felt that it was more meaningful and suitable for promotion, and the development to this day is very much more than worth the loss.

So when he said these words to Jigoro Kano, Song Biao also felt very helpless.

The only thing you can do in the face of a bunch of crazy people is to stay away.

Jigoro Kano is very aware of this matter, because when the two sides organized the first challenge, the Chinese Guoshu Association and the Jiu-Jitsu Association also had a headache for a long time, on the surface, they are called Jiu-Jitsu, but in fact, the rules are very different, only some basic skills are the same, so they can officially compete in open competitions.

Good intentions are always wishes, and the truth is always cruel.

Song Biao really didn't have a good way to face his own madness, so he could only say directly to Jigoro Kano: "Although the wishes of both of us are good, the fact is that the populist spirit and the degree of madness of our people have had a great negative impact on the promotion of this kind of movement in our country, and it also has a very bad impact on us to promote this kind of movement to the world and the entire Asian region, so if we can't respond correctly and let the situation spread, Regardless of the outcome of this year's Jiu-Jitsu Challenge, we will completely interrupt such exchange competitions, and it is better for everyone to hold their own competitions behind closed doors, and there is no need to let China-Yue relations continue to be affected by this, although the relationship between the two countries is already very poor. ”

Jigoro Kano hurriedly said: "Regarding this matter, the Jiu-Jitsu Association will definitely do its best to explain to the people of the country, and in the spirit of responsibility and love for the Jiu-Jitsu sports of China and the two countries, I implore Your Majesty to retract the order." ”

Song Biao explained to him: "This is obviously the worst plan, I just inform you of this, if the situation is unavoidable in the end, I hope you can understand." The world is like this, not only you say that your own nation has self-esteem at all, your own face and dignity are more important than the sky, but the face and dignity of others can be trampled on and despised like shit, in fact, this is the so-called crazy runaway populism. Overall, with what I know about it, I don't expect too much from it. ”

Jigoro Kano could only feel the helplessness of Emperor Song at this time, and as the most important supporter of Chinese Jiu-Jitsu, Emperor Song should be said to be the most disappointed and self-reproachful person.

Regarding the issue of jiu-jitsu between the Chinese and the Chinese, Song Biao also talked about this, and turned to the foreign minister of the country, Fang Ze Kenkichi, and thanked him: "Before this matter is finally decided, I still want to thank you on behalf of the Chinese Guoshu Association for coming and participating in the 5th Zhongyu Jiu-Jitsu Challenge. In fact, we now have a hope that this year's Zhongyu Jiu-Jitsu Challenge will be renamed the Zhongyue Jiu-Jitsu Invitational Tournament. There are enough challenges and competitions between China and China, and it is impossible to push both nation-states to the brink of war without limit, but there must always be some efforts and positive impetus for friendship, and only in this way can we face reality and history squarely, re-understand the two nations, and re-establish a new friendship. This is a very important thing for both peoples, for Asia as a whole. ”

He waited until this moment before he had the opportunity to speak, and couldn't wait to thank him: "Thank you very much, Your Majesty, for your promotion of the cause of friendship between China and China, and I am grateful to you. China said that there was indeed a lot of competition between the two countries in the past, and now is the time for us to work together to make progress. ”

Song Biao said: "I am a straightforward person, and I pay attention to happiness and directness in everything I say and do. We Chinese have an old saying called "Nothing to go to the Three Treasures Hall", you want to take this opportunity to come to see me, presumably there is something to discuss, you don't have to hide it, just talk about your business, if you can negotiate, then there is no reason not to talk, if you can't negotiate, then you don't have to force it. ”

Fang Ze Qianji immediately agreed, in fact, he didn't expect the Chinese emperor to be such a direct diplomatic style, and thought for a moment before saying: "Now is a difficult period for the world economy, and China says that both countries are modern powers in Asia, and they should respect each other, our navy is the first in Asia, and your country is the first empire of the world's army, our country believes that if China and the two countries want to ensure the relationship between the two countries, they must fully understand each other's needs, fully refer to the lessons of the First World War, and our country will not challenge your country's position in the field of the army. And your country should not challenge our position in the naval field too much. In this way, the two sides will be able to establish harmonious relations on an equal footing, and the two countries will naturally be able to maintain eternal peace. ”

Song Biao thought about it and roughly knew the plan of the person Inu Yangyi.

After the assassination of Yuyuki Hamaguchi, the political circles of the company can also be said to be shocked, and the mentality of retreating to the military department is very serious, but after all, Inuyang Yi can be regarded as one of the last big politicians of the company, the veteran of the three dynasties of the company, known as the ghost fox, is very sober about the balance of strength between the Chinese and the Chinese.

Therefore, after Inuyang Yi came to power, he ostensibly responded to the military's demands, declaring that he would be tough on China, maintain the naval superiority of the Great Empire, and maintain the status of the largest naval power in Asia, but in fact his hand was still very soft, and he had sent people to China secretly to express his goodwill many times.

Song Biao pondered for a moment, and then said to Fang Ze Qianji: "I can understand the difficult situation of your father-in-law, His Excellency Prime Minister Inuyangyi, in his own country, and I also very much hope that China can live in friendship and peace for a long time, but I can't give any answer to this matter you raised." I don't think you've done a lot of things in a very detailed way, and you don't have a real rational and objective judgment. Even without counting the colonies, protectorates, and overseas provinces, the territory of the Chinese Empire today is 45 times that of the original country, our population is 7.25 times that of yours, and our total economy is ...... You have always been very skeptical about this, but I can tell you with certainty that, according to the calculations of the Ministry of International Trade and the General Statistics Office of the Imperial Center, the total economic output of our country is at least 12 times that of the original state, and the gap between you and the United States is as large as the gap between you and the United States. In this case, you think that China is an equal Asian power that should maintain equal military strength like Britain and Germany before World War I. To put it mildly, you think that China is your biggest enemy, but in China's view, you are only one of China's enemies, and China's goal in the next 10 years is to re-emerge as the world's first, second, economic, cultural, and military power, and our naval plan is to reach a level basically equivalent to Britain and the United States in 10 years, and will not surpass them, but it should not be significantly weaker than them. The problem now is that we should face up to reality, and we should look at China from the perspective and standard of the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty when we talk about the domestic movement, and this is obviously inappropriate; we do not care about the issue of the naval contest in China; objectively speaking, our naval expenditures can be doubled or even tripled, and the impact on the central finances will not be very great, and if we digest and share the long-term national debt, it will basically not have much impact. ”

Song Biao's words actually embarrassed Fang Ze Qianji, this is a fact, not that he can not admit it if he wants to, for the data that Song Biao said, Fang Ze Qianji is skeptical, but it is estimated that the gap between the facts is not large.

Inuyang Yi said a very clear sentence about whether China's strength is strong or weak, he said that now is the era of the gold standard, gold represents the wealth of a country, China is not only the world's third largest gold producer, but also the world's largest gold reserves.

Of course, whether it is the navy, the army, or the right-wing organizations within the society, there are still all kinds of fantasies about this, for example, they will loudly single out the Sino-Japanese War as an example, and the Qing Empire was many times stronger than the Qing Empire, but in the end it was still defeated by the capital.

The Great Empire is invincible, long live the Emperor!

As long as there is such a manic shout from the soldier, no one in the Cabinet, nor the Congress, will dare to say no to the soldier.

This is the root of all the problems of this book.

China's intelligence agencies and social science research institutes are still very powerful, and Song Biao is very clear about this, and he can only say that he is already terminally ill and there is no cure.

After a moment of silence, Song Biao continued to analyze with Fang Ze Qianji: "This is the case today, our country has no ill will towards the British alliance, if the British alliance is separated and the neutrality between China and Britain is maintained, it will be simpler, we welcome the alliance with China to deal with Britain with an Asian standpoint, and support Asian countries to break away from European colonial rule and rebuild a new order in Asia." To be precise, the direction of China's competition is Britain, and there are far more contradictions between China and Britain than between China and China. I'm not polite to say, what do I get by beating you instinctively? What place do you have that I should occupy? But if Britain were to fight a decisive battle with China, it would be two different things. If China, Britain and the United States are the three largest landlords in the world, you are not even tenants, you also have a navy in your hands. What I'm saying to you now may hurt your self-esteem and isn't something you should say diplomatically, but I'm just using the analogy that if I'm asked to apologize for that, I can publicly apologize to the people of Samo for it. However, you should be able to understand the fact that what I am saying is that the direction of international contradictions in China today has changed, and there is really nothing to do, unless you take the initiative to follow the British path to the end, then China has no other way. ”

Speaking of this, he finally added to Fang Ze Kenji: "Therefore, it is meaningless for Yuben to come and make demands on us now, because the goal of our country is not your Yuben, if Yuben can keep up with the naval competition between China and Britain, it is that you are very good, and we have nothing to say." Having said that, the contest between China and Britain is not something that can be decided in the next ten years, the history is very long, we all know that the history is long, this is likely to be a hundred years of history, if Asia wants to truly liberate and read, if it wants to truly become a modern Asia, the first thing to do is to overthrow the hegemony of British colonial rule in Asia, I think this is a fact that there is no way to deny this, since this is not the courage to confront Britain, then this kind of work to liberate Asia can only be undertaken by China. ”

Song Biao's words made Fang Ze Qianji not know how to answer for a while.

After a moment of silence, Fang Ze Qianji replied: "What His Majesty the Emperor Hua said is still too far away for the sake of the Emperor, and my country's current most concern is its own security, if we can't even guarantee our own security, our country obviously can't pay attention to the reading power and freedom of other Asian countries. I would like to take the liberty of reminding Your Majesty that the Imperial Navy has always had a good heritage and quality, and has a naval tradition of defeating opponents several times its own strength, while the Chinese Navy is still in the initial stage of rebuilding and learning Westernization, and it would not be wise to provoke the Imperial Navy too early. In order to promote friendly coexistence between China and China, both countries should make some necessary concessions, and we are willing to reduce naval military spending and recognize China's superiority in the field of army and air force, while China only needs to recognize China's naval superiority and reduce naval spending. ”

Song Biao retorted one by one: "First of all, how strong the navy of your empire is, and how weak our Chinese navy is, this is not something that can be concluded by touching the skin up and down. Secondly, what I should have said, whether it was ugly or good, I have already said it. We now hope to ease diplomatic relations between China and China, promote the friendly development of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and develop in a direction that is more in line with the collective interests of Asia, and even promote it into a new paramilitary alliance, but this is absolutely not a prerequisite for China to make concessions. It is impossible for us to change our country's grand strategy of promoting freedom in Asia as a whole, and whether you say that you want to engage in a naval race or not, our development has never changed. Finally, I understand the difficulties of His Excellency Prime Minister Takeshi Inukai, and I am well aware that the ruling environment in my country is deteriorating dramatically, but this is really not within the scope of our consideration, and it cannot be said that because the neighbor's family is getting divorced, our family will suspend the production of children, which are two different things. ”

Speaking of which, Song Biao is finished talking today, as for whether the internal politics of Yueben will make positive feedback because of this, he does not know, in fact, he really does not hold out any hope, because the problems faced by Yueben are already terminally ill, and they really cannot be reversed and changed.

At this point, there is no need for any further negotiations.

The current situation is that China is willing to promote peace with China, and the cabinet also has such expectations, after all, the situation is stronger than others, and the problem lies in the obstruction of the military and the right-wing imperial forces, and if China is willing to back down and satisfy the military to maintain the "hegemonic" status of the Asian navy, at least the Asian naval hegemony as they feel by themselves, the situation may be a little better, and if China is unwilling to make concessions in this regard, the result can be imagined, and it is impossible for both sides to make any real progress.

Fang Ze Qianji did not immediately say goodbye and leave, after all, it is not very easy to meet the Chinese Emperor, on the economic and trade issues, Fang Ze Qianji also had some discussions and negotiations with the Song Emperor, basically there is still not much benefit.

China's principle is very simple: China wants to promote friendship between China, but it cannot expect China to make any form of concession in its national interests, and China itself does not ask for concessions, because whether it is concessions or not, it will have little impact on China.

The two sides talked until noon, Fang Ze Qianji reluctantly left Yu Garden, before leaving, the Song Emperor presented him with a gilt copper plate carved map of the Chinese Empire, which was also engraved with the Emperor Hua's Shenwu jade seal.

When he walked out of Yu Garden, as a shrewd politician, Fang Ze Qianji had already had a premonition of the bloody and dark future.

Everyone stands from a different angle, and in Yoshizawa Kenkichi's view, the problem with Zhongshu is that China is arrogant and rude, just as the Ming and Qing dynasties generally looked down on Yuben at their peak.

Walking out of the gate of Yu Garden, he put his hat on his head, couldn't help but look up at the sky of Shanghai, as if he had seen the complete derailment of the military in this area, and the scene of the bloody battle of the navy in this sky, he thought, history will eventually prove the stupidity of the people, and it will also prove the bastards of those fools in the military department.

At this moment, it was as if he were just a neutral mediator.

Mr. Kano Jigoro did not leave Yu Garden with the foreign minister, but was warmly invited by the Chinese inner court and the imperial family to stay at the Yu Garden Imperial Garden for dinner, and it sounds like the Hua Emperor, who was keen on jiu-jitsu, would personally consult with Jigoro Kano to learn his skills.

Thinking of this, Yoshizawa Kenkichi couldn't help but be a little envious of Jigoro Kano's spineless old thing, and he sneered again, secretly sneering in his heart that the people of Shina were such a lowly, obviously stealing the national treasures and culture of the Great Empire, but he had to declare that he was the creator.

The people of China are the most shameless of all.

He sneered ruthlessly in his heart, and then under the arrangement of his entourage, he left Yuyuan Road in the two Cadillac official cars of the Consulate General in Shanghai, and sometimes, he was very envious of the United States for being able to produce such a high-level car, thinking that the Cadillac official car was also the top luxury car in the United States, and the special relationship between the Cadillac car and the Chinese car, he could not help but feel that the United States' support for China in the past 20 years in order to suppress the Navy, was really unreasonable.

As a foreign minister, he keenly felt that China and the United States were nothing but hypocrisy, and sooner or later, the United States would also suffer greatly from the dangers of tiger breeding, and he was eagerly looking forward to that day.

In short, he absolutely did not believe that the Chinese race would become the ultimate victor of history, but when he opened the gift given by the Chinese Emperor and really opened his eyes to look at the territory of the Chinese Empire, he felt a bizarre resentment and unfairness.

It was on this map that Fangze Kenji discovered for the first time that Laos had become an autonomous province of the Chinese Empire, and the total area of the Chinese Empire was officially marked as 19.58 million square kilometers.

Next to this empire of 19.58 million square kilometers is the Great Empire with a total territory of 420,000 square kilometers, and there is not even a fraction of it.

Fang Ze Kenji's patriotic heart burst out, full of real blood and greed, and he also realized more and more clearly that if the Great Empire wanted to become the hegemon of Asia and become a world power in the true sense, it must first divide and dismember China.

This is the only way for the Great Empire.

(To be continued)