There was only one table in the huge state banquet hall, there were only Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing on the table, and there were a few attendants standing on the side, Lin Yuan saw Emperor Meiji walk in and stood up to greet him, and said with a smile: "Mr. Emperor, the scale of today's banquet is relatively small, please don't be surprised."

Emperor Meiji smiled, didn't say anything, and sat down on the edge of the table, at this time Lin Yuan smiled: "I have prepared three styles of dishes for you, one is the traditional style of your country, one is the traditional Chinese style, and the other is the Western style, I don't know which one Mr. Emperor prefers?" ”

Emperor Meiji smiled and said, "Whatever you want, the traditional Chinese style is good." After speaking, he thought in his heart: "Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan, you are so polite to me, and you also arranged three flavors of dishes for me to choose, just to please me and let me order the Japanese people to give up resistance, how can I not know?" ”

Lin Yuan listened to Emperor Meiji's words, then turned back to his attendants and said, "Tell the back kitchen to cook traditional Chinese style dishes." The waiter agreed and walked out, and after a short time, he came up with four plates with lids, and the waiter put the plates on the table, and then stepped aside, at this time Lin Yuan smiled and said, "The dishes are ready, we can eat." ”

Emperor Meiji was stunned for a moment, and thought to himself, "What? Is there only four things in the 'state banquet' in Lin Yuan's mouth? Don't know what they are? ”

Shen Wanqing stood up and said with a smile: "According to the Chinese custom, the hostess has to introduce dishes to the guests. After she finished speaking, she opened the first plate, Emperor Meiji looked over, only to see that it was full of white rice, Shen Wanqing opened the second plate, only to see that it was a plate of cold dishes mixed with cucumbers, and two plates behind, one with cabbage stewed tofu, and the other with potatoes and braised pork, Emperor Meiji's eyes changed, and he thought: "This is the dish of the state banquet?" It's too shabby, isn't it? ”

Lin Yuan saw what Emperor Meiji meant on the side, and said with a smile: "Mr. Emperor, don't blame the shabby food, these things are the most often eaten by our Chinese people, I heard that you share weal and woe with the soldiers, and I eat the same things as the people, in the next three years, I hope to let the people of your country eat such things." ”

Emperor Meiji's face changed, and then he returned to normal, and said with a smile, "Let's eat first." After saying that, picking up the bowl to serve the rice, Shen Wanqing smiled on the side: "How can you let the guests serve their own rice?" Taking the bowl and filling it with rice for Emperor Meiji, Lin Yuan took this opportunity and smiled: "Mr. Emperor, cooperate with me." ”

Emperor Meiji knowingly asked, "How does Mr. Hayashi Yuan want me to cooperate with you?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "In Japan, there are still some people who are resisting us, and they have caused us a lot of trouble, so I hope you can issue an edict ordering them to stop resisting." ”

Emperor Meiji smiled and said, "I would like to make this edict, but they won't believe it." ”

Lin Yuan didn't continue to ask why they wouldn't believe it, but thought about it: "Emperor Meiji obviously doesn't want to cooperate with me, and now he just wants to perfunctory me. So Lin Yuan said: "Mr. Emperor, we are all smart people, so there is no need to go around in circles, from the first time I saw you, I saw that you didn't want to cooperate with me at all, you are harming the Japanese people by doing this!" ”

Emperor Meiji smiled and said: "Since Lin Shuai has made his words clear, then I will no longer hide anything, I can tell you clearly: If I wanted to issue this edict, I would have issued it a long time ago, so why wait until now?" ”

Lin Yuan's face sank, and Emperor Meiji laughed loudly: "Does Mr. Lin Yuan still want to invite me to dinner?" Are you going to send me to a prisoner of war camp? ”

Lin Yuan thought in his heart: "It seems that I really want to take him to visit Project Zero in a while." Lin Yuan made up his mind and smiled, and said: "Mr. Emperor is a distinguished guest, how can I send you to the prisoner of war camp, I must treat you well, let's eat first, after eating, you have a good rest, and when you are rested, I will take you around to visit." ”

Emperor Meiji saw that Lin Yuan was so gentle and it was not good to be tough, so he started to eat, Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Let me tell you about the current situation in Japan, you may not know it yet." First of all, there is the situation in Kyoto, after you left the Emperor's command post, General Kazuki Kiyokazu ordered the defenders of Kyoto to surrender, and Mr. Yamaguchi Aritomo was inspecting a military camp at this time, and he was unwilling to surrender, so he committed suicide. ”

"After the surrender of Kyoto was announced, the commander of the Tokyo garrison, Amami Yu, also announced the surrender, and the Japanese troops throughout the country basically gave up resistance, but there were also some Japanese troops who mixed in with the people and continued to resist us. This is the current situation in Japan, on the international side: the statements made by Britain, the United States, Germany and other countries, of course, are clichés against our aggression; France, Ethiopia and other countries issued statements in support of our country. ”

Lin Yuan told the emperor about what had happened recently while eating, and the emperor agreed with "uh-huh", and when the three of them finished eating, Lin Yuan asked the emperor to take him to rest, and as soon as the emperor left, an agent walked in and said to Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing: "Report to Lin Shuai and Director Shen, there is no gain from the interrogation of Ito Youheng, Ito Youheng didn't say a word, and the interrogation of the female bodyguard was relatively smooth." ”

"We brought No. 36, oh, no, it was Miss Lin Qing, who came from the prisoner of war camp, and she personally did the work of the female bodyguard, and it just so happened that the female bodyguard was No. 37, and she had a good relationship with Miss Lin Qing, so she said a lot of things, but unfortunately they were all daily trivialities, and there was nothing of value."

Lin Yuan asked, "What about the August unsolved case?" Does the number thirty-seven know? ”

The agent replied: "I don't know, when we were operating at the Yasukuni Shrine, the 37th was still in Kyoto, and I didn't know about it at all." ”

Lin Yuan then asked, "What about Japan's No. 1 plan?" ”

The agent shook his head slightly, Lin Yuan was right when he thought about it, No. 37 was just a bodyguard, how could he know such a confidential matter, and if he wanted to solve this qiē mystery, it seemed that the only way to use Project Zero to destroy the Emperor's will to resist.

At this time, the agent said: "Lin Shuai, when the 37th was talking to us about the emperor, we found a detail, this detail may be useful to you, and we recorded her words. ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly said, "What details?" Listen to it to me right away. The agent pulled out a small tape recorder and pressed play, and a soft voice came out of the recorder.