Matsudaira Rongbao sighed deeply and said, "Sanjo-kun, please go back to Hosokawa, I say that my country can embark on the road of reading power and prosperity?" I know that Sanjo-kun has ambitions in his heart, and Sanjo-kun endures humiliation and burden, hoping to take back one of the emperors, but people's hearts are light, and in the long run, I don't know who will remember the turbulent royal family in the future, and who will know that I am the emperor for all generations. ”

Minoru Sanjo was silent and slowly picked up the teacup.

Matsudaira Rongbao sighed: "Floating and carrying the life of Shen Wu, defending the name and swearing to sacrifice my body." And ask what is precious in the world? ……”

Minoru Sanjo was speechless for a long time.

In June, after a clash between the Chinese armed police in the Edo Concession and the Saimoto Guard, the Imperial Marines landed in Miyagi and conducted a surprise attack on the headquarters of the Sendai Shinsengumi, killing dozens of armed men.

Matsudaira Rongbao severely condemned the cowardly behavior of the Sendai Yuben army to retreat without a fight, and even more bitterly denounced the behavior of the Chinese as naked aggression.

The frenzied attack on the Edo Chinese Concession by thousands of Samurai had clearly caused the situation to spiral out of control, and even Matsudaira himself could hardly restrain the radical forces at home.

A Chinese infantry regiment landed in Edo and almost crushed the mob and the Tsumoto Guard, taking control of the entire Edo Castle, and Matsudaira Yoho and others fled to Kyoto, but some members of the House of Nobles became prisoners of the Chinese infantry.

As early as two months ago, Chinese businessmen in the interior of the country had already withdrawn one after another, because of the lack of resources in the country, most of the Chinese businessmen were mainly engaged in trade, and only a few invested in the construction of factories, so they did not suffer too serious losses.

Fukuoka, Edo, Sendai, Osaka, and Yokohama, the five most important cities of the country, were occupied by China one after another, and the country's foreign trade was almost completely stopped.

In Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu, China has been operating for many years, and now it is rumored that the Chinese are preparing to hold a "referendum" on Kyushu Island and establish a people's government axe.

Matsudaira Rongbao finally realized the seriousness of the problem, and the "referendum" Yunyun was just a scam, but if such a stalemate continued, it was inevitable that the country would be divided, and even the Chinese would completely annex the country.

In July, Matsudaira signed a treaty at Kofu with the Chinese minister to Edo, Chang Yuzhao, in which he accepted in its entirety the claims made by the Chinese Masahawk three months earlier, and paid two million silver dollars as compensation for the losses of the Chinese merchants.

Matsudaira soon fell, and Hosokawa was reappointed as the Grand Ruler by the House of Nobles.

No matter how painful Songping was in the hearts of the people during this period, how tragic the struggle with the Chinese was, and how Songpei Rongbao abandoned his name when he signed the treaty in order to avoid his country being ruled by the Central Plains Empire under a high-sounding pretext, but in the eyes of the outside world, this short-lived political axe of only three months became a laughing stock, which was simply a funny farce.

From the very beginning, the conflict, which was completely controlled by China, was regarded by the European media as a game of adults teaching disobedient children, and the most direct consequence of this conflict was that Mitsui and other representatives of the chaebol comprador were able to enter the House of Lords, completely changing the balance of power in the House of Lords.

After Matsudaira Rongbao returned to his own territory, he announced that the banknotes circulated from the Printed Honpo Domain would no longer recognize the legal surnames of the banknotes issued by the Mitsui Bank, and some powerful daimyo followed suit, so chaotic that although the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy avoided the catastrophic consequences of its complete economic collapse to a certain extent, it was obvious that the development of the domestic situation in the country was gradually far from Ye Zhao's expectations.

In August, the visit of Vice Premier Zou Kaizhi to his country was considered the beginning of cooperation between the suzerainty and Hosokawa Masaaxe and the new House of Lords. Although this country, which is gradually forming a situation of warlord separation, is really not Ye Zhaozhi's expectations. Because of the lack of resources in the country, after the rise of China to monopolize the Asian raw material market and the trade of the entire China Sea region, it is theoretically difficult for the country to form a perfect heavy industry system, and Ye Zhao has long been less concerned about it when he first came to this world, and he does not want his country to become a warlord and chaotic pattern.

When the first batch of Chinese prisoners were extradited, it coincided with the Empire's introduction of electrocution as a means of execution, and several of the condemned prisoners sentenced to death by the Southeast International Tribunal became the first batch of executed prisoners in the world to be executed by electrocution.

The Statute stipulates that the International Court of Justice is located in Mukden, also known as the Mukden International Court of Justice, with nine judges, and China automatically has three seats, and the rest of the judges need to be elected by each country for a term of six years to deal with disputes between the Southeast countries.

The Mukden International Tribunal is not only a civilian court, but also a criminal tribunal that can be used as a criminal tribunal to hold those responsible for war accountable when conflicts break out between countries in the southeast.

Although there is no doubt that the suzerainty is now indulging in the Southeastern International Tribunal, for the first time, the subject countries feel the respect from the suzerain, and the people's sense of identity with the Central Plains is also unprecedentedly high.

In today's world, almost every day is changing, when the Chicago workers' movement in the United States demanded the introduction of an eight-hour workday, Germany and the United States began to introduce compulsory health insurance, the Imperial Armed Police officially equipped with the first batch of three-wheeled motorcycles, of course, a very small number, only equipped with the capital armed police force.

Ye Zhao does not know whether August 20 will be designated as International Labor Day in the future, on this day, with Chicago as the center, American workers held a large-scale strike and demonstration with more than 200,000 participants, demonstrators demanded to improve labor conditions, the implementation of the eight-hour work week, and then the Chicago political axe police crackdown, shot and killed several workers, the situation expanded, and finally the US Congress was forced to enact an eight-hour work day law.

In fact, the pioneers of the international workers' movement were mostly attracted by the provisions of the labour laws of the Eastern Empire, and the influence of the First International was minimal.

However, the laws of the Central Plains Empire, the rights of citizens' assembly, procession, etc., can only be legal after obtaining the approval of the relevant government offices, which many Western workers turn a blind eye to, and ordinary people always envy hearsay happiness, which is common all over the world.

Also this August, the national flag with the Taiji pattern designed by the DPRK was approved by the suzerain, and the Taiji flag officially became the national flag of the DPRK.

(To be continued)