There were six guns thrown in the courtyard on the side of the street, three of which were Whitworth rifles, which had been used by the insurance team's sharpshooters before, and were known for their accuracy, presumably for sniping. However, because it was a front-loading gun, it did not provide sustained firepower, so there were three more guns, Winchester 1873, and the bullets had already been emptied.

Fu Leisi followed the Qing soldiers into the small courtyard and found that there were no residents inside. Later, after inquiring with neighbors, I learned that the family had gone to the south to visit relatives. It is only said that it has been gone for nearly half a year, and there is no news at present.

After another half day of investigation in the vicinity, there are still no extra clues. After that, Fu Leisi returned to the British Embassy in China in Dongjiaomin Lane, and Minister Wei Tuma obviously got the news at this time, walking around the room, and when he saw Fu Leisi coming back, he hurriedly said: "What happened?" How could the Japanese minister Shishito be killed at this juncture? ”

Fu Leisi nodded, and recounted what he had heard and seen.

Wittoma looked shocked and said, "How can it be Russian?" What did they kill the Japanese minister for? ”

Fu Leisi thought about it, and was also very puzzled, and then said: "I heard that the Qing court sent General Sheng Jing to negotiate with Tsarist Russia, could it be that he wanted to provoke Qing-Japanese relations and increase his bargaining chips?" ”

When he thought about it, there seemed to be only one explanation, but he was even more skeptical that there was something shady in it.

"Have you identified the three Russians?"

"There are no clues at all from the Qing side, but I know two of them, they are military attaches of the Tsarist Russian embassy."

Later, the British Minister urgently summoned the other members of the Japanese Legation to tell him about the matter, but the Japanese Legation now had no one in charge, so it could not give a reply. The news can only be transmitted back to China first, and as for how to deal with it, it is not known for the time being. Then he met with the acting Russian deputy minister to China, Kaiyangde, who was currently the highest-ranking Russian official in China.

Of course, Kaiyangde would not admit that the assassination of the Japanese minister Shishido was officially supported by Tsarist Russia, and later he personally led people to examine the bodies and found that the three were indeed military attaches to his embassy. The cause of death was a shot in the back, and several bullets in the body. Surprised, Kaiyangde immediately returned to the embassy to inquire about the matter, and received the news that he had not instructed the operation.

A few days later, the new Japanese ambassador to China arrived in Beijing, a man named Takehiro Enomoto. (Enoki Jia three sounds)

Takehiro Enomoto was born in 1836 in Edo, Japan, into a samurai family, and was originally known as Kamajiro. When he was 19 years old, he went on adventures in Hokkaido and Sakhalin. In 1856 he entered the Nagasaki Naval Academy, studied in the Netherlands from 1862 to 1867, and after returning to Japan, he became the vice president of the navy of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the de facto commander.

During the Imjin War, Takehiro Enomoto led a fleet to dock at Tempozan in Osaka and transferred the shogunate's hides and wounded to Edo Castle after the Battle of Toba Fushimi. Soon after, Edo Castle was opened bloodlessly, and Enomoto Takehiro led eight ships and the main battle faction of the shogunate, including the Shinsengumi, to Hokkaido and established the Republic of Ezo, with himself as president. In 1869, the new Japanese government army invaded Hokkaido, the Republic of Ezo was destroyed, and Enomoto Takehiro was imprisoned, and then released under the campaign of Kuroda Kiyotaka, and then started reclamation work in Hokkaido.

In 1874, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Tsarist Russia, and signed the Treaty of Exchange of the Chiba Islands of Sakhalin with Tsarist Russia.

This time, the Japanese government sent Enomoto Takehiro, who had experience in dealing with Russia, to the Qing Dynasty as an ambassador in order to deal with the murder of its own minister, Shishido. However, the situation was even worse than Enomoto Takehiro imagined, because there was no clue about the matter at all, and not only Russia, Qing and even Britain were involved, but also embassy personnel were present. Therefore, there is chaos in the capital at present, and no one can figure out the original reason.

Then again, who did this? Wang Yi did it!

He planted a lot of power in the capital, some of them were engaged in trading, and some of them collected and stole Ouchi treasures and books. Of course, there are some people who work underground. The latest task given to them by Wang Yi was to sow discord between Japan and Russia. As for how to act, it is planned by Tu Xiaohua, and several plans will be gradually revised according to the specific situation. Move with the time, move with the situation!

Some of the members of the team in Beijing are responsible for monitoring the embassies of various countries, and these three military attaches of the Russian embassy have a habit of going to the small lake outside Beijing to swim. Originally, the weather in mid-June was still slightly cool, but the three of them didn't care at all.

It was also because after knowing this law that Wang's subordinates arrested the three people. On the same day, the news of Wang Yi's revenge on the massacre of 35 Japanese civilians in Mukden reached the capital, and according to the previous law, the Japanese minister would inevitably go to the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen to protest that day, and then the action would follow! This is the off-string sound of Wang Yi's murderous chess, seducing Shijito out of the trap from a distance.

Of course, if Shishido didn't go that day or the next day, the three Russians he captured would have thrown themselves into the lake and drowned.

Fortunately, the situation was still carried out according to Wang Yi's arrangement, in the private house, the agents of the big merchants attacked the Japanese minister, and it didn't matter whether he died or not.

After succeeding, the agents directly released the three people from other places, and all the traces on their bodies were done. For example, gunpowder residue on fingers, such as fingerprints on guns, and so on. Wang Yi doesn't know if anyone can investigate these things in this era, but it's better to be careful, and it will save the possibility of overturning the case due to technological progress in the future. Of course, there are no traces of excess, including traces of binding.

After the three of them escaped, it was simple, and the agents disguised as Qing soldiers followed directly and killed them.

The only variable was that there was a British minister in China at the scene, but fortunately, by the way, he became a witness. Moreover, there was no deal between Britain and Tsarist Russia, especially the infiltration of the Russians into the Far East, which made the British very careful.

Wang Yi looked at the report from the capital, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly. "No one knows what's going on now, it's interesting! Don't you have a 10,000-year-old elementary school student Conan in Japan, come and check me! ”

In 1879, two major events occurred for the Qing Dynasty, one was the Japanese invasion of Ryukyu in April, and the other was the signing of the Treaty of Livadia. However, the latter happened in August, less than two months away. Because Wang Yi's existence will be exposed in advance at this time, everyone will suddenly realize that the Russians' motives for committing the crime are so clear.

The killing of the Japanese minister also reduced people's attention to Wang Yi's massacre of Japanese civilians from a certain point of view. Of course, it is not impossible to suspect him in this matter, but there is no evidence. Moreover, the murderer was Russian after all, and most people did not believe that Wang Yi had the ability to bribe three Tsarist Russian diplomats.

Fukuoka, Kitakyushu, Japan, is the stronghold of the Japanese right-wing.

After the Meiji Restoration in Japan, a large number of low-ranking samurai classes were reduced to ronins who lived in a fixed place, and although they were grumbling from hunger, they still had broken grass roots in their mouths, showing that they were full of wine and food. Of course, in order to make a living, they had to work as assassins, spies, and bodyguards. These people are armed with sharp blades, do not work, and use killing as their long skill, although they seem to be lowly, but they contain huge social energy. These people later became the main force of Japan's foreign expansion, and Touyamaman was the king of Japanese ronin, the co-leader of the yakuza who was hiding behind the scenes!

However, the strange thing is that in the minds of the Japanese, this person is not a thirst for killing, but a representative of loving the people and the country. Therefore, part of the reason for Wang Yi's killing of Japanese civilians in the Northeast was to go to Toushanman, which means that unless you Xiangyangshe, you Toushanman has enough strength, don't make enemies with big businessmen, otherwise I will be angry with your people! Until you kill it all! Wang Yi knew that this kind of person was the most tolerant, because the Qing Dynasty was not the primary target of the Japanese, and there was a North Korea in front of him!

Wang Yi did not know whether the method of massacring Japanese civilians was useful or not, but one thing was certain, that is, the hatred between China and Japan would increase greatly for this reason! …… However, there is less hatred between us, now we are only crying in front of various massacre monuments, and the Japanese only laugh and shout! Don't let them learn to feel distressed, let them feel distressed like the United States dropped the atomic bomb! Let them crawl on the ground and lick the shit on the soles of their shoes, they can't do this, Wang Yi is unwilling in this life!

Toushanman has been poor since he was a child and has lived a hard life, but he has also developed a silent and introverted character. At the age of 16, Toyama suffered from eye disease and became acquainted with a female doctor who often traveled with women and men on horseback and saber. This woman admired the spirit of bushido, and because she was attracted by it, Mitsucai Toyama joined the Koshijuku founded by this woman, where she met Kotaro Hiraoka, Rokusuke Hakita and others. The teacher was Nomura Notoni, a member of the Emperor of Fukuoka Hirao Villa, who was a female nun who taught courses such as the Analects, Mencius, Historical Records, Three Kingdoms, etc., and at the same time, the most important thing was the idea of continental expansion!

When it comes to continental expansion, it is impossible not to mention one person, his name is Yoshida Shoin! He was a Choshu samurai, and his identity was a teacher at Matsushita Village Juku, 130 kilometers northeast of Fukuoka, in Hagi Castle (present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture), Choshu Domain! And the most famous slogan put forward by this person is to reclaim Ezo, collect the Ryukyus, take Korea, pull Manchuria, press China, and face India! Even today, we still think this slogan is too arrogant, but the Japanese almost did it! Although Yoshida Shoin died in the Downfall Movement, his Matsushita Village Juku cultivated a large number of talents—Shinsaku Takasugi, Takayoshi Kido, Hirobumi Ito, Aritomo Yamagumi, Kaoru Inoue, Genrui Kusaka, and Minoru Yoshida.

Takasugi Shinsaku is connected to Nomura Moto Nita, so Mitsumi Toyama was also greatly affected.

In 1882, a Japanese named Yukichi Fukuzawa was the first to put forward the idea of secession from Asia and entry into Europe, and at the same time believed that China and Korea would not be able to Westernize like Japan, and they would inevitably perish, and the Meiji Restoration China Policy was formulated with this as the core idea. The first step is Taiwan, the second step is North Korea, the third step is Manchuria, the fourth step is China, and the fifth step is the whole world.

In the Southwest War of Japan, the day after the death of Saigo Takamori, Toyamamitsu, who had rebelled with him, was released, and began to cultivate fields by the sea in Hakata, Fukuoka, and lived a life of asceticism, but even so, Saigo Takamori's legacy of continental expansion never gave up.

After that, he joined the Patriotic Society, which was retired from Itagaki and began to change his tone and advocate freedom and civil rights. Later, members of the Patriotic Society successfully assassinated Okubo Ritsu, and Ito Hirobumi became a central figure in the Meiji Restoration. From this time on, free and civil rights rose in Japan, and Itagaki Resuke advocated for an elected parliament and a constitution against the hereditary aristocracy. Toyama and other Japanese right-wingers took advantage of this east wind and gradually gained social influence.

In December 1878, Toyama Mitsuru and Kotaro Hiraoka and others established the Xiangyang Society, and two months later, with the support of the Kuroda family, the lord of the Fukuoka domain, the Xiangyang Yoshijuku was established to promote the expansion of the mainland, and at the same time, the Qingqing Volunteer Army was established to recruit and train Japanese ronin. (This is real history, not a fabrication)

Mitsumi Toyama, Kotaro Hiraoka and Rokusuke Hakoda were kneeling in a wooden hut outside an open space where many ronins were receiving formal training.

"Qingguo has a letter!" Hakoda Rokusuke said with a gloomy face.

Seeing his face, Toushan sighed in his heart and said nervously: "How?" ”

"Because one of our members attacked the Dashang Coal Mine, killing one and wounding five, the king of Dashang ordered the massacre of thirty-five Chinese nationals! He said that if one person died in the Qing Kingdom, ten people would need to be killed every day. If one person is seriously injured, five people will die. One person was slightly injured, and one person died! This is only the first blood compensation, and if any Japanese dares to do this in the future, he doesn't mind increasing his life tenfold! ”

"Yaga!" Toyama Mitsuru and Hiraoka Kotaro scolded at the same time. "Wang Yi, this coward!"

Hakoda Rokusuke also gritted his teeth and said, "The second piece of news...... The Japanese envoy to China, Shintoji, was shot dead in the street in Beijing, and it is rumored that it was the Tsarist who did it! Although the British Counsellor in China, Friedrich Fried, saw this with his own eyes, now all the killers have been killed, and there is no proof of death. And the Russians categorically denied this! ”

Toyama Mitsuru and Hiraoka Kotaro fell silent, Toyama Mitsuru is only twenty-four years old this year, and they can't say anything about this matter.

"What to do about Manchuria?" Kotaro Hiraoka asked at this time.

Toushan thought for a moment and said, "I mean let's suspend the attack on the big merchants for now, we can't gamble with the lives of our own people." I can see that Wang Yi is doing what he says, and if we attack Dashang again, I am afraid that he will really slaughter the civilians of our country in Manchuria! ”

Hakoda Rokusuke frowned and said, "That's it?" “

"Forget it?" Toushan snorted coldly and said, "The day we ask for the completion of the Volunteer Army is the time when his king chops up his bones and scatters ashes. ”

"Okay, that's it!" The other two agreed.

In addition to purging the volunteers, the biggest goal of the Xiangyang Society now is to promote the convening of the Diet and local self-government, and the Chikuzen Mutual Love Public Council with this purpose is currently being prepared, and I believe that the results will be achieved by the end of the year.