Chapter 40: Serial Sets

At the beginning of August, Inaba Masakuni, the secretary of the Kyoto office, staged a coup d'Γ©tat, and led samurai to storm the Kyoto Imperial Palace to demand Muhito's abdication and establish a samurai kingdom with Tokugawa Shogun as the head of state. But then it was exterminated by the Matsudaira family of the Aizu Domain, and in the fierce battle, Kyoto turned into a raging sea of fire, and Inaba Masakuni was also killed in the fire.

The Inaba Masakuni rebellion is said to have been caused by his desperation at the collapse of the samurai society, which led to his unusual behavior, and he did not receive the support of the shogunate.

Because of its extermination, the Aizu Domain, which bears the name of the guardian of the royal castle, has always been a feudal domain of the shogunate, that is, a feudal domain related to the Tokugawa family, and it can be said that the Aizu domain can be said to be the front line against many foreign daimyo of Ou, and its position is extremely important, and a few years ago, it was entrusted by the shogunate with the important task of protecting Kyoto.

The 15 Articles of the Aizu Family Motto stipulate that the Aizu domain is the guardian deity of the shogun's family, and that the lord and retainers of the clan should never betray the Tokugawa world. This family motto has been adhered to by the Aizu Matsudaira family since its inception, and it is known as the "Aizu Soul".

Since he did not get the approval of the shogun, why did Inaba Masakuni dare to storm the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and because of Inaba Masakuni's death, this matter has also become one of the difficult mysteries in the late Edo era. Some people say that it was secretly instructed by the general, but because the British who supported the general's reunification and said that their own country had a backsliding attitude and an ambiguous attitude, the general had to brake suddenly, and Inaba Masakuni was just the general's substitute for the dead. Others say that there are Chinese involved. However, no matter what the argument is, it is difficult to justify itself, and there are countless reasons to refute it.

Having said that, at the end of the Edo era, there was a sharp ideological confrontation in the country, and Inaba Masakuni was only one of the "last samurai" and "desperate strugglers" who were called "the last samurai" by later generations. Internal and external troubles, in the face of great changes unseen in a thousand years, these pessimistic and distorted martial artists who have been tortured by various ideas really can't be speculated with common sense.

The blow to the prestige of the imperial family can be imagined, nearly 1,000 years under the rule of the shogunate, the emperor was snatched by the daimyo like a toy, claiming to be a god, but after the Meiji era, the royal family used Shinto to carry out the atmosphere of worshipping God and patriotism, worshipping ancestors and loyally loyal to the emperor, and the imperial power and prestige of the imperial family were far less than that of later generations.

As a result of the Kyoto Forbidden Gate Change, 176 of the 829 towns in Uekyo were burned down, and 5,435 of the 24,574 rooms were reduced to ashes. The disaster in Xiajing was even worse: 23,092 of the 24,840 rooms were destroyed.

When the news of the "Forbidden Gate Change" reached China, Ye Zhao was inspecting the front-line armaments in Boli, and heard that the fire in Kyoto was raging, and he said that history is really strikingly similar, in the same era, there was a fire in the previous life, and it also came once in this life, which makes people have to believe that there is a god in the underworld.

Boli is located at the confluence of the Heilongjiang River and the Ussuri River, the former dynasty was a military town, when the civil war broke out between the North and the South, the Russians took the opportunity to encroach and swallow, the Pingyuan army went out of the pass, and hit the north of Heilongjiang in one go, and Boli naturally recovered.

Wandering around this town that later belonged to Russia, Ye Zhao couldn't help but feel strange, and more than 400,000 square kilometers of land east of Boli to the coast of the Whale Sea (called Benhai) were also still in the hands of the empire, which was still the only neighbor of Korea.

Outside the customs is rich in resources, is the two years of private investment in the construction of the railway intensive area, trunk railway, Fengtian to Changchun Hall, Jilin Province of the railway has been opened to traffic, Jilin-Boli line, is also under construction.

Nowadays, it is only more than ten days from Jingshi to Boli, you can first take the train to Jilin Mansion, and then change to a fast horse to Boli.

Docks, small iron works, chemical factories and other factories have been built in Boli City, and small gunboats are cruising in the river, confronting the strongholds of the former Korean military and civilians settled along the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River.

Boli City adopts the political framework of the militia system unique to the empire, which is similar to the flag city of the previous dynasty and the military households of the Ming Dynasty, and the agricultural population of the whole city is "construction militia household registration", and the empire allocates land for the "soldier households" and collects a certain amount of land rent. Men over the age of 18 and under the age of 45 are reserve militiamen, who undergo military training during their off-seasons and are managed by the structure of divisions, corps, battalions, and outposts.

Of course, guns are usually hidden in arsenals, and only the standing "security camps" set up by families with a large number of men on a rotational basis are equipped with equipment 24 hours a day. However, the first-level units of the immigrant city division probably have 5,000 to 7,000 firearms of various types, such as fast guns, slow guns, fire guns, bird guns, etc., as well as guns, spears, steel knives, and other weapons, which cannot be compared with the regular army.

The construction of militia regiments, which was a special system in a special historical period, was widespread in the immigrant towns of the imperial frontier such as Kokand, Turkestan, Dushanbe, Bishkek, etc.

In Boli City, in addition to the farms of the various corps, there is also the existence of the imperial village. The islands of Black Blind Island are all royal farms, forest farms, and mines. The total area of the Black Blind Islands is nearly 400 square kilometers and is extremely rich in resources, but Ye Zhao agreed with the Privy Council to set up a royal village on the Black Blind Island, and the proposal to divide the entire Black Blind Islands as an imperial village is not for its value, but as the Privy Council said, it shows the determination of the empire to exist in the northern region and the determination of the royal family.

After all, Boli is adjacent to the front line, and the immigration cities in the Western Regions are different, the establishment of the Huangzhuang is extremely necessary to appease the people, and most of the settlements along the Heilongjiang River exist at the same time.

This kind of militia town, on the one hand, can expand the immigration, relieve the pressure on the cultivated land of the empire, and especially can gradually solve the rebellion of the displaced people in the year of natural disasters; second, armed self-defense, with a certain border guard capability; Third, it can provide some food for the border garrison. It's a no-brainer.

In addition to the recruited inland hired peasants, there are also a large number of Russian serfs, such as the women and children serfs arrested by Ye Zhao outside the customs more than ten years ago, many of those children have grown up and become one of the serfs, and there are Russian immigrants caught in the past two years, such as the Russian immigrants who have become captive in Boli City, most of them have become Huangzhuang serfs, and there are more than 1,000 Russian serfs in the entire Black Blind Island Huangzhuang, most of whom are women.

At this time, Ye Zhao walked on the Black Blind Island next to a Huangzhuang reclamation area, Qianmo vertical and horizontal, the clear water of irrigation farmland in the artificially dug ditch slowly flowed through, this piece is a wheat field area, wheat has just obtained a bumper harvest, the field, everywhere is a busy farmer, is replanting autumn cabbage, radish, in the Heilongjiang River Basin, the winter is cold and long, but if you cultivate spring wheat, between the wheat maturity and winter, you can also replant a round of winter storage vegetables.

The dirt road between the fields is extremely narrow, probably only three or four people in parallel, twenty or thirty guards surrounded Ye Zhao walking in the meantime, when the farm was busy, no one knew that the emperor came to the farm, at most he looked at this side curiously, and most of them speculated in his heart which way of the account office came from the capital.

It had just rained yesterday, and the air was very fresh and breezy, and I didn't feel the heat of midsummer.

Ye Zhao had already cut his hair and was wearing a snow-white tunic suit, and his whole person was white as if he had a halo.

Ye Zhao had studied a variety of hairstyles with the matchmaker, but all hairstyles, don't wear a gauze crown to show their solemnity, and in the end, Ye Zhao simply cut his braids, or short hair.

However, as the royal family and nobles began to wear the gauze crown and the head of the Chinese robe in various major ceremonies, the classical gauze crown and the Song costume with a straight collar placket became one of the dresses for important festivals and occasions, and then this kind of atmosphere gradually became popular among the people.

The schoolchildren wore a crown of veil, wore a Chinese Confucian robe, paid homage to the statue of Confucius in the Confucian Temple, listened to the schoolmaster's lecture on the way of loyalty and filial piety, and gave the imperial family blessings and encouragements to the schoolchildren enrolled in the country. This tradition has continued to later generations, and to a certain extent, the schoolchildren of later generations knew Rong'er before Ye Zhao.

Squatting on the ditch ridge, the flowing water is crystal clear, Ye Zhao couldn't help but stretch out his hand and bow a handful of water to suck, it was cool and sweet, refreshing. Ye Zhao smiled: "Good water!" ”

The empire had begun to replace the steam piston pumps that were prevalent in Europe with electric piston pumps, and wells were gradually appearing in the fields to draw water, of course, these pumps appeared in the collective farms of the empire, because the pumps were also equipped with small generators, and the small peasant economy was not conditionally equipped for the time being.

However, the farmland in the Boli area, the irrigation water is all used in the river water, and the river water is so sweet and clear, how can it not make Ye Zhao sigh?

Standing up, Ye Zhao waved his hand: "It's back!" ”

In the city of Boli, there are some Russian buildings, the style of Orthodox influence, the kind of onion-roofed buildings, and the brightly colored round towers, which are still quite beautiful in terms of aesthetics.

The mansion of the former Russian city lord where Ye Zhao lived was this style, but it was made of stones, rough and simple, after all, the building equipment of his immigrants in the Far East was simple, and he was afraid that there was no real architect.

I went into the study and looked through the message, and after a while, there was a knock on the door, and the charming and lovely voice of Jin'er Grandma outside: "Long live the lord, the concubine is back." ”

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Come in." ”

This time she came to Boli and brought Jin Feng, firstly, she managed the accounts of the Imperial Village, and secondly, this time she abolished the status of Russian serfs, gave her the status of hired peasants and imperial citizens of the Imperial Estate, and allowed them to marry freely. Of course, after examination, more than 100 people in Russia are thieves and criminals, and there are people who have oppressed the Chinese but their crimes do not lead to death, and these people will not be liberated, which is equivalent to labor reform.

The Russians, who had become freelance peasants, re-signed a labor contract with the Imperial Village, and from then on they had money to enter and were free to leave the Imperial Village. But I don't think anyone will choose the latter, in this imperial village, safety is very guaranteed, outside, these Russian women are like lonely geese, who knows what terrible things will happen?

"That's it?" After Jin Feng came in, Ye Zhao asked casually, to say that Jin Feng was very relieved to do things. Now the daughters of the Forbidden Palace are also considered to have their own duties, such as Lan Guiren, who is very close to Zhu Sisi, and the two often discuss the affairs of the Council, if it were not for the identity of Lan Guiren, Ye Zhaoke really wanted to send her to the Council.

Among the imperial concubines and concubines, even Niu Co Lu and Hua Ji have found their own fun, Niu Co Lu eats fasting and recites Buddha, and lives an extremely peaceful life; Hua Ji became a nanny, coaxing the two little girls to play all day.

During this time, none of the girls were pregnant, which made Ye Zhao wonder if there was something wrong with him, but he couldn't verify it.

"Jin Feng, let's go, I'll take you on horseback." Ye Zhaoxing stood up.

Jin Feng's watery and boundless phoenix eyes lit up, although he was a little scared in his heart, but this is his own man spoiling himself, isn't it? In Jin Feng's heart, he always called Ye Zhao Xianggong, every time he thought that his Xianggong was a long-lived lord and that he was a concubine, his body was fluttering.

More than half an hour later, dozens of fast horses galloped on the grassland, and in the west, the lush primeval forest could not be seen at a glance, and from time to time there were birds and beasts chirping and roaring.

Holding Concubine Jin's soft body galloping on the vast wilderness of the sky and the forest, it is really exciting.

Jin Feng wore a gorgeous cheongsam with pink and red flowers, beautiful legs in stockings, and a pair of soft little feet lined in red high heels, shining seductively under the noon sun.

Holding her delicate waist and galloping on a flying horse, it was like an aunt who had robbed the Republic of China version of the civilized world, and it was so incongruous with the surrounding vast world.

Jin Feng's face turned pale with fright, her eyes were closed tightly, and her little hand grabbed the placket of Ye Zhao's chest, it seemed that if it weren't for the guards on her side, she would have screamed a long time ago, and it was very hard to endure it, right? made Ye Zhao laugh.

"Huh, Huh, ......Huh" At the edge of the dense forest, Ye Zhao restrained the horse, jumped off the horse with Jin Feng in his arms, Jin Feng's legs were already weak, and he stumbled and collapsed in Ye Zhao's arms.

Several maids hurried over, leveled the half-human-high weeds, pulled the folding wooden chairs apart, and carefully set them up, Ye Zhao sat with Jin Feng in his arms, and some of the guards went to hunt game, some stood nearby to guard, and some rode horses far away to sentry.

"It's idle to steal it!" Ye Zhao held the golden phoenix and sighed.

Jin Feng's fear faded away, and he smiled reluctantly.

Ye Zhao said: "You are not as good as Hua Ji, and Hua Ji still dares to ride a horse." ”

Jin Feng whispered: "Concubine, concubine body, go back to work and practice." ”

Ye Zhao smiled dumbly and said, "That's not necessary, in the future, it's easier for you to learn to drive than to learn to ride a horse." As he spoke, he stood up, looked into the distance and said, "I wanted to go with you to fight a few rabbits, forget it, let them go." ”

Jin Feng hurriedly said: "The concubine will accompany the Long Live Lord." ”

Ye Zhao waved his hand: "No need." ”

Jin Feng said: "Long live the Lord is difficult to breathe, Jin Feng doesn't want to sweep the prosperity of the Long Live Lord." ”

Indeed, although Ye Zhao was not as busy in political affairs in the capital as before, and only needed to grasp the general direction, he could not be idle, teaching at the university as a civil and military officer, and he had the name of a special consultant in Jingshi Renhe Hospital to grasp the clinical feedback information on aspirin and new anesthetics.

There is no way, the aspirin was made by him, and the anesthetic was improved by him, although he is a chemist, not a medical scientist, but he is really not at ease if he does not stare at the point.

Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) was actually born in a chemical laboratory more than ten years ago, but it did not attract people's attention, and now the chemistry laboratory of the Royal Academy of Sciences led by Ye Zhao has cooperated with the medical laboratory to begin clinical trials in Renhe Hospital and registered a patent.

As for anesthetics, in fact, ether and chloroform have been extremely common in the West, and Ye Zhao only improved the purification of chemical drugs.

A chemist is a pharmacist in this world, which makes Ye Zhao helpless.

Ye Zhao said with a smile: "It's been all these years of marriage, and you're still so careful, Jin Feng, let's be separated like this again." ”

Jin Feng chuckled: "It's a good life, Long Live Lord said, people will like the new and hate the old, husband and wife get along, keep it, keep it fresh, Long Live Lord, am I right?" ”

Ye Zhao smiled, and said in his heart that this is the experience of later generations, and it is very wrong to put it now, even if he is tired of being with them, he is not tired enough, not to mention that the time he has with them is limited. said: "That's right, but next time you dare to mess around, I'll spank you." ”

This time when she came to Boli, Jin Feng didn't know where to touch a beautiful baby again, and she brought her to serve Ye Zhao, but was driven out by Ye Zhao.

Jin Feng stuck out his tongue, unspeakably cute, and said, "Jin Feng doesn't dare." ”

In fact, Ye Zhaocai doesn't believe it, this second grandmother is right to please herself in everything, but if she has an idea, as long as she doesn't really lose her temper, she won't restrain herself, but then again, if you want to blow your beard and stare at her eyes because of this kind of thing, isn't it too hypocritical, she doesn't have that mind, but sometimes she thinks it's quite interesting.

Alas, I have changed a lot.

Stood up and smiled: "Let's go, let's go, go and play with a blind bear in the woods." ”

Just when he was feeling the bullet on the gun and preparing to go to the primeval forest with Jin Feng to explore, a horse rushed from afar, but it was the Kyosato emergency, the main castle of the Satsuma Torizu family was breached, and Hosokawa Shaobang unified Kyushu Island, and then led a large army to land on Honshu Island, and attacked Choshu Mori with Bizen and Misaku's allied forces.

Looking at the telegram, Ye Zhao sighed, the Tozu family and the Maori family were the most troublesome forces for Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the Warring States period, and there were unparalleled figures in the Warring States period, but now these prominent samurai have come to the end of the road.

The telegram also mentions the war in the northern part of Honshu Island, and Sakai Keyoshi's three feudatories coalition forces were defeated by the Echigo-Shikoku coalition forces, but the daimyo of the Mutsu feudal domains were obviously worried that the Echigo Shogunate coalition forces would take the opportunity to sweep Mutsu after completely defeating Sakai Yoshiyoshi, and they began to support Sakai Keyoyoshi in a blatant or covertly, and the northern battlefield of Honshu Island was deadlocked. Since the Warring States period, the daimyo of the Mutsu feudal clans have been at odds with the shogunate, and they belong to the distant feudal clans, but they are only nominally subservient, and they do not want the shogunate's relatives to enter the northern part of Honshu Island.

After reading the message, Ye Zhao pondered for a while, then picked up his rifle and smiled at Jin Feng, saying, "Let's go, go and fight the blind bear." ”

Jin Feng hurriedly followed, wondering in his heart, why did Xianggong like to take him to the old forest? I don't know Ye Zhao's thoughts, taking this delicate modern little stunner to hunt through mountains and rivers, but it's quite romantic, isn't it?

…… On 15 August, a Chinese merchant ship in Edo was sunk by explosives, and 23 sailors who were still on board were either killed on the spot or drowned. Although a Chinese reporter who arrived at the scene at the scene vaguely felt that the corpse was familiar, as if it was a death row prisoner who had been sentenced to death by hanging for rape and murder of a woman, which he had reported not long ago, this thought flashed away without him taking it to heart.

On 16 August, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned the atrocities committed by the mob and at the same time took a strong stance saying that it would no longer recognize the emperor and the shogun as its head of state, and called on all sides to immediately stop the armed conflict.

On August 18, Hosokawa Shaobang attacked Hagi Castle, the main castle of the Choshu Domain, and the lord of the domain, Mori Kei, was disemboweled.

On August 25, the Royal Heavy Infantry Janissary Brigade landed in Echigo, and this special operations force, the strongest infantry regiment in the Central Plains Empire, defeated 20,000 foot light musketeers of the Echigo Four Nations Coalition Army with zero casualties.

On the second day of September, he defeated Sakai Keiti, who was about to take the opportunity to counterattack Echigo, which made the daimyo of the Honhon-clan stunned and did not dare to move lightly.

At this time, the Imperial Family requested refuge in the Central Plains Empire, because Hosokawa Shaobang had already recruited merchant ships to prepare to go to Beijing, and there were various indications that armed groups were preparing to take advantage of the chaos in Hosokawa to take advantage of the chaos in Kyoto to wash the Kyoto Imperial Palace.

Muren immediately guessed that this was an armed force trained and supported by the Chinese, preparing to eradicate the royal family to prevent future troubles, and at this time, the only way to avoid the calamity of exterminating the clan was to break the cauldron and sink the boat, of course, among them, they must not be instigated by their cronies. And the fact that the chamberlain received a huge amount of money from the Internal Affairs Office of the Central Plains Empire every month was known to only a few people in the world, and it was even more obliterated in historical records.

After all, Muhito was just fifteen years old and fourteen years old, and when life and death were at stake, he couldn't help but panic, and Kyoto had just been in ruins in a sea of fire, and the Kyoto Imperial Palace was really not safe when the world was in turmoil. The female emperors and attendants of the filial piety emperor, including the nine long-cherished sons of the empress dowager, are all gloomy and miserable, and they can't end their panic, he is a fifteen-year-old boy, and there are people on the side who instigate him, so what do you care about for a while?

Who knows, this time the Chinese agreed to the royal family's request for refuge and began to mediate the reconciliation of various forces.

The Chinese also moved extremely quickly, and on September 13, the Peacock Infantry Regiment entered Kyoto, and before Muhito could come up with any calculations, more than 1,000 people from the Imperial Family, including maids, were "loaded" on the ship, during which the army of the Matsudaira Clan, the guardian of the royal castle, who wanted to forcibly intercept the imperial driver, was also routed by the Heavy Infantry Janissary Brigade.

At the end of September, the royal family arrived in Yanjing and was placed in the palace of Prince Yuansu, which is now renamed "Anle Hall".

Almost at the same time that the royal family left Kyoto, Hosokawa Shaobang's infantry crossed the sea to attack Edo and attacked Edo Castle Honmaru, and the shogun Tokugawa Ieshige was plagued by diseases such as throat, stomach, and beriberi, and was finally embarrassed and despondent when the castle was broken.

Although the Chinese immediately disarmed Hosokawa Shaobang, Edo Castle undoubtedly fell into the hands of the Hosokawa family.

The Hosokawa clan is a branch of the Ashikaga shogun's lineage during the Muromachi shogunate, and the Ashikaga family is the head of the family, the guardian of Mikawa, Ashikaga Yoshiki moved to Hosokawa Village in Mikawa Province, and the Hosokawa clan began to multiply.

The Hosokawa family went through the glory of the Muromachi Shogunate, the mediocrity of the Kamakura Shogunate, and then the rise and fall of the Kumamoto Domain of the Edo Shogunate, and finally entered Edo and became the most powerful daimyo in the post-shogunate era.

Hosokawa Shaobang can be said to have the bloodline of the first Shogunate Ashikaga clan, and at this time he occupied Edo, and his subordinates inevitably persuaded him, asking the Chinese to welcome back the emperor and lead the shogun himself, and from then on the country entered the Hosokawa shogunate era.

Hosokawa Shaobang did not do this, and did not even mention the matter to Ma Bowen, the Chinese consul general in Edo, who had a close personal relationship with him, but negotiated with various forces under the mediation of the Chinese to divide the clans, and some powerful clan lords were sealed to rich places.

By the end of October, Hosokawa Shaobang had proclaimed the establishment of the Republic of Hosokawa in Edo, and he was the first president of the country, and the lords of the feudal domains expressed their support.

It seems that the world has changed, but in fact it is exactly the same as the shogunate system, and he is still the nominal general who rules the feudal domains, but the emperor is no longer the god on his head.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs soon recognized the Republic of Shomoto and signed a series of treaties with Hosokawa Masaaxe to inherit the previous dynasty. At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China also expressed its recognition of the reading power of the Republic of Ezo, and although it regretted the Republic of Ezo's hatred of the Chinese, it would not resort to force, and at the same time hoped that the Republic of Ezo would abide by the diplomatic code and become a responsible political axe, and if there was a trend of piracy, it would bear the consequences.

Obviously, the nationalization of "terrorist organizations" is actually putting a tight spell on it.

The Empire also announced that, in view of the unfriendly and hostile policy adopted by the Republic of Ezo towards China, China would not engage in any form of trade with the Republic of Ezo, and that any trading firm registered in China that traded with the Republic of Ezo would be severely sanctioned.

In fact, Hokkaido is a bitter cold place today, and even if China does not ban it, there are not many businessmen interested in it.

When the matchmaker went to Prince Su's mansion to pass on the emperor's oral message to appease Muren and his party, she couldn't help but feel a little helpless about Ye Zhao's faction, always like this, which made people confused. The royal family, it can be said that it is marginalized in a vague way, and there is no statement like an abdication edict, saying that it is still there, and Yanjing came in a vague way, and it was not hijacked by the Chinese.

I'm afraid that most of the people are confused, and I can't say whether there is an emperor in my country or there is no emperor. Although it is said that the word republic is called a republic, the word republic is understood differently.

Prince Su's Mansion is very magnificent, with layers of courtyards. Hearing that the imperial concubine had arrived, Muren and the others greeted him.

Among them, there are Muhito and his two younger brothers, Kanin Palace and Fushimi Palace, the adoptive mother and daughter of the Imperial Mother (Empress Dowager) Kujo Suzuko, the biological mother attendant Nakayama Keiko, the aunt and the palace who are not much older than Muren, and the younger sister Ganluin Palace.

In the majestic Yin'an Palace, the matchmaker Wen Yan comforted Muren and the others for a few words, and said: "The emperor said, you can live in peace of mind, and this mansion will be given to the nobles, and the monthly expenses will be handled by the Zongren Mansion." ”

Muren and his younger brother and sister all learned the Central Plains language, and their adoptive mother and biological mother couldn't understand it.

Muren had heard of this imperial concubine in the Central Plains a long time ago, and couldn't help but secretly look at her a few more times, seeing that her eyes were like electricity, she hurriedly withdrew her gaze, made a dazed and slightly frightened look, and sighed deeply in her heart, perhaps, this is the test of heaven for me, the Chinese say that one day, I will return to my homeland.

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(To be continued)