"Why did Mr. Haizhou say this?" Hirobumi Ito asked in surprise.

"Have Ito-kun heard of the legend of the 'Oriental Magic Box'?" Sheng Haizhou asked again.

"Of course I've heard of it!" Ito Hirobumi seemed to remember something, and his body suddenly shuddered.

"Ito-kun, not to mention whether this legend is true or not, just when the Franco-Prussian war between the two countries was at its fiercest, the French emperor wanted to attack the country with a navy, why didn't he choose many famous ministers and generals, but he wanted to use the solitary pull out of the ordinary?"

"You must know that at that time, Guba was just a small lieutenant colonel, serving in the colony, and had always been unknown, but he was able to stand out among the generals, make an exceptional appointment for the emperor, and then became famous in the first war, and then why did Guba become friends with Lin Yizhe? Isn't there some kind of connection behind this? ”

Hearing Katsu Haizhou's words, cold sweat broke out on Ito Hirobumi's forehead, and when he took out his handkerchief to wipe it, his hands unconsciously began to tremble.

"Ito-kun can't tell you the truth, such a person will make any opponent creepy!" Sheng Haizhou said.

"Fortunately, this man is now dead." Hirobumi Ito sighed.

"Although he is dead, his legacy is still there." Katsu Haizhou looked at Hirobumi Ito, "The foundation he laid for the Qianguo is by no means something that can be easily shaken by the current Japan. ”

"The matter has come to this point, does Mr. Haizhou have a good plan to make up for the lost sheep?" Hirobumi Ito asked.

"At least within 10 years, we must give up the idea of contending for victory with the Qianguo, make peace with the Qianguo, and even conclude an alliance with the Qianguo to wholeheartedly govern and reform the country internally, and only after 20 years can we reverse the unfavorable situation we have today." Sheng Haizhou said categorically.

Listening to Katsu Haizhou's words, Ito Hirofumi was silent again.

As if knowing that Ito Hirobumi would behave like this, Katsu Haizhou looked at Ito Hirobumi, sighed, and said, "I know, with Ito-kun's mind, the stigma of this 'dry detective' is probably also an unbearable weight in life. ”

Ito let out a heavy gasp, but still didn't speak.

Ito Hirofumi seemed to be lost in thought, but Katsu Haishu didn't say anything more, but stared fixedly at the freshly drawn drawing on the table.

The atmosphere in the room became extremely oppressive for a while.

After a long time, Ito Hirofumi came back to his senses, and he silently bowed to Katsu Haizhou, who sighed and bowed back.

After watching Ito Hirobumi's carriage leave at the door, Katsu Kaishu turned around and came to the table, looked at the painting with the number "Xianlin Maru", and muttered a few times "Xianlin" (the word "Xianlin" is taken from the "Book of Changes", which means the intimacy between the monarch and the minister), and then suddenly crumpled the sketch and threw it into the pile of old papers.

After leaving in a carriage, Ito did not return home, but went straight to the residence of Secretary of the Interior Okubo Toshimitsu, the de facto head of the Japanese government.

Seeing Ito Hirobumi's arrival, Okubo Ritsuzo had a premonition and asked, "Shunsuke, Mr. Kaishu doesn't agree to go out of the mountains to reorganize the navy, does he?" ”

"Yes." Hirobumi Ito sighed, found a chair and sat down a little tired.

"It turned out that he was worried that he was not Lin Yizhe's opponent, and he was afraid of ruining his reputation, so he refused to go out of the mountain, and now that Lin Yizhe is dead, it is the best time for us to catch up with Qianguo, why is he still unwilling to go out of the mountain?" Okubo Ritsu sneered.

Mr. Haizhou said that although Lin Yizhe is dead, his legacy is still there. We cannot shake the foundation laid by Lin Yizhe for the country. Hirobumi Ito replied.

"I didn't expect him to say that." The ridicule on Okubo Ritsu's face became even stronger, "Lin Yizhe left a large inheritance to Qianguo, but Mr. Haizhou seems to have forgotten that the inheritance will not work on its own, and someone needs to inherit it." Is there anyone in the current Qianguo who can inherit the Lin family's legacy? ”

Hearing Okubo Ritsu's words, Hirobumi Ito, who was originally a little depressed, raised his head suddenly, and his eyes also lit up.

"Has the political legacy left by Zhang Tho, the teacher of Emperor Wanli of the Min Dynasty, Emperor Wanli and his successors?" Okubo Ritsu sneered, "I think, no matter how much legacy Lin Yizhe left behind, it can't be compared with Zhang Thozheng, right?" Why does Mr. Haizhou think that someone in the Qianguo country can now inherit and carry forward the legacy of Hayashi Yoshizhe, so that Japan cannot shake it? ”

Li ...... Li Shaoquan? Hirobumi Ito unconsciously uttered a name.

"Li Shaoquan, Zeng Wenzheng's student, this person will be our strong opponent in the future, but he is far less terrible than Lin Yizhe, and although he is one of Lin Yizhe's allies, he is not the heir to the legacy left by Lin Yizhe." Okubo nodded, and Ito Hirobumi said a name, and he was able to continue the conversation, showing that he was very familiar with the situation in Qianguo.

Lin Yizhe's teacher, Wen Bochuan...... Prince Jing...... His uncle, Shen Youdan...... "Hirobumi Ito uttered a series of names.

"Wen Bochuan is a powerful person, but he is old, and I heard that he is seriously ill, and Lin Yizhe's death hit him very hard, and Liu Yuanjun visited him in Beijing and said that he will not live for too long." Okubo Ritsu said like a treasure, "Prince Jing is no longer trusted by the Empress Dowager of Qianguo since he killed his son to accompany the funeral of the dead emperor, and it is difficult for him to take power again. As for Shen Youdan, Lin Yizhe's uncle, de facto father, after Lin Yizhe's death, I heard that he was also hit hard, got seriously ill, and couldn't live long, but as long as he was in one day, he would continue Lin Yizhe's career and continue to walk, even if he was half the inheritor of Lin Yizhe's estate, he couldn't inherit it for too long. ”

"Pei Jinquan, the current commander of the Qianguo Shipmaster and Naval Division, the person who actually controls the main force of the Qianguo Navy, is considered the commander of the Qianguo Navy, will he become Lin Yizhe's successor?" Ito Hirobumi thought for a moment and asked again, "This person once defeated the Imperial Navy in Taiwan, and this time under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese merchants, he led the Qianguo Navy to capture the Ryukyus and restore the power of the Ryukyu Kingdom. ”

"No, it won't." Okubo Ritsu shook his head and said with a smile, "He is a sailor-born general, and the fleet he controls is put together temporarily, he does not have the power of a naval commander, and the Qianguo, which has always valued civil affairs over military force, will not value such a general with no civilian qualifications." So he is destined not to be the heir of Lin Yizhe. ”

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