Haneda Airport, Tokyo, Japan.

When the plane landed, Zhou Qinghe walked out of the cabin door and saw Fujita Hidetake waiting next to the car.

"Yes, you have the right to pick up people at the airport, it's just too high-profile, you can just wait for me outside."

This is a civil airport, they have a car when they get off the plane, and other passengers are looking sideways, probably guessing whose dog this is.

"How can I have that power." Fujita Hidetake rolled his eyes and nodded at Yasuda Chiba: "Chiba, hello, take care of Heqing, thank you for your hard work." ”

"Yes, you're so polite." Chiba Yasuda smiled, and the money was in arrears.

Fujita Hidetake nodded and looked back at Zhou Qinghe, explaining:

"This is arranged by President Yasuda, I always have to go home first, so let me pick it up, otherwise Yasuda's car will come to pick you up, this is someone's airport, without his consent, how can I have the right to let the airport open a special channel for me."

"Really?" Zhou Qinghe threw an inquiring look at Yasuda Chiba, "Your airport?" ”

Chiba Yasuda nodded with a sigh: "The civil airports in Tokyo are all our homes, and the subway in Tokyo is also our home, and I don't know what else there is." ”

Hey, when you come to Tokyo, you can feel the terrifying control of the chaebol.

Public transportation such as the airport subway can actually be a private property, I can only say one thing. Admire.

"Let's go, talk as we go back." Fujita Hidetake was very anxious: "A bunch of people in the family are still waiting for you to eat together, don't let them wait for a long time." ”

"What are you waiting for me, I still want to go with Chiba to find some Tokyo snacks."

For Zhou Qinghe, coming to Japan is similar to traveling.

The trip to Japan, a few months, is a circle, and there is no big task goal that must be achieved, so the mentality is very relaxed.

"I'll eat snacks later, and then you don't know where snacks are available now, Tokyo has changed a lot, take a walk, get in the car and go home first."

Just said casually, Zhou Qinghe and Yasuda Chiba looked at each other and smiled, got in the car and left.

"Seeing that you are in such a hurry, I thought there was something going on in the school, how is the school?" Zhou Qinghe casually inquired about the situation.

Hidetake Fujita is currently the Chief of Education and Captain of the Military Police Corps at the Army Nakano School in Tokyo, two of the Army's two major schools, the Army Non-commissioned Officer University and the Army Nakano School.

The former is an ordinary person who is admitted and graduates as an ordinary non-commissioned officer, and the latter is an ordinary non-commissioned officer and an officer who is recruited and taught to be a gendarmerie and a secret policeman.

Cobain's spy agents all came out of here, and so did the police in Tokyo.

The gendarmerie is the basic plate of the Fujita family, and each generation must have someone who has served in the school for a few years, and the inheritance of power and the cultivation of descendants cannot be broken.

"There's nothing to do in school, but now the school is very idle, the gun class is gone, at least two hours a day is more free than before, and the physical fitness can't be practiced all day long, so I can only read books and study by myself."

I'm anxious to wait at home, and my uncle is here, and he is very busy, so I can't let him wait all the time. ”

"Hmm."

Zhou Qinghe nodded understandingly, this uncle should be the major general on the maternal side, it is indeed quite busy, after all, it is the age to fight.

It seems that this time I came back, and the family still attached great importance to it.

That's right, it's rare to come back once.

However, the gun skills lesson that Fujita Hidetake said was gone, and Zhou Qinghe was very interested.

"Why is the marksmanship class gone?" Zhou Qinghe frowned and asked, "Now the gendarmes don't practice guns?" ”

"Hey, I need to have a gun, too." Fujita Hidetake sneered: "The guns in the school have been taken away to support the battlefield, what are you going to practice?" Finger strokes? ”

"So serious!" Zhou Qinghe was surprised.

He knew about the shortage of military supplies in Japan, but he didn't expect that the guns of the military police school were all taken away, and this was a military police.

And agents, spies, policemen, these professions can still not practice guns?

"There's really no way, I went to the maintenance bureau to ask, the production capacity of the military factory has been increased to the limit, there are some things to be imported, there is no money, plus the United States has embargoed some things on us, and we can't buy them at all."

"Tsk, alas~" Zhou Qinghe could only sigh and secretly enjoy in his heart.

"Tokyo has changed so much, how do I feel that I haven't been out for a long time, why are there so many fewer cars on this street?" Chiba Yasuda asked puzzled as he looked out the window at the rapidly receding street.

Zhou Qinghe also feels that the current Tokyo is very different from the previous impression.

Not just high-rise buildings, Tokyo's current level of development is comparable to that of the city centers of second- and third-tier cities in terms of real estate construction alone.

But it can be seen with the naked eye that there are very few vehicles on the street, except for Zhou Qinghe and this car, there is actually a car on this street.

"I remember when I was in school, there were a lot of cars on the road, huh?" Zhou Qinghe looked strange and asked, and reacted after asking: "Is it a lack of oil?" ”

Fujita Hidetake nodded, "Part of the reason is this, the embargo is not an embargo, that is, there is no foreign exchange to buy less, and now the main supply of oil is to the Chinese battlefield, so Tokyo is lacking."

Speaking of this, I have to blame the Mantie gang.

I heard that the geological exploration team of the Manchurian Railway Company in Manchuria has been looking for oil fields, and swore to the military department that there are oil fields in Daqing, but it cost tens of millions of yuan to dig up a bunch of stones after digging for so long!

What a waste, how much time was wasted?

It's strange to say, how can China have everything, but no oil? ”

Na, this is called the national fortune, if you dig out the oil field in Daqing, then the war situation will have to be rewritten by you, no life, no way.

Lack of money and oil, Zhou Qinghe looked at the roadside shops all the way, there are many shops on this street in Tokyo, all kinds of food stores, life service stores, but there are not many people shopping, it looks like it is really depressed.

It's far less lively than Shanghai.

Chiba Yasuda was disappointed when he saw it, probably because it was different from what he imagined and what he saw in reality, the war didn't make life better, but worse.

Hidetake Fujita pointed to the shop on the side of the street and said, "Look at this tempura shop, which used to burn gasoline, but now it burns coal, and it's not even good to buy cooking oil. ”

"How to cook without oil?" Zhou Qinghe was surprised.

"Just put a little bit and use it repeatedly, the oil is very expensive, and if you put too much in it, you won't be able to sell it at a higher price."

"Oh."

It seems that the life of the people at the bottom of Japan is also very difficult, the strong labor force has gone to join the army, and there are no more people who work, and there are ghosts who can live a good life.

However, they didn't have the money to buy oil, so it didn't prevent the Fujita family from holding a feast, and the oil and water pipes were enough.

Fujita and Kiyoshi are back, and they were called illegitimate children before they were released, although the family on the paternal side has not met much and has no feelings, but for the sake of blood, they may still take care of one or two.

It's good that the matriarchal side doesn't hate you.

I still want to put on a big feast, and I think it's so beautiful, I will definitely not be welcomed.

But now it's different.

The main lieutenant general of the family is dead, and the family road is about to fall, this Fujita Kazukiyo is a young and promising Nakasa, plus the son-in-law of the Yasuda family, then it is not called an illegitimate child, it is called a distinguished guest, and it is called hope.

It's a savior-like figure!

If it weren't for the seniority here, the elders of the family would have given up the main seat to Yasuda Chiba to sit on.

Zhou Qinghe had to admit that he belonged to eating soft rice.

It's good to eat soft rice, otherwise you have to look at a bunch of old men who don't know you and still have a tight face, and accept the guidance of the family's spiritual inheritance.

With Chiba Yasuda here, it's much easier now.

The etiquette process is simple, divide the gifts brought back from Shanghai, meet the elders of the family, and then give the former commander of the military police a solemn incense, and then the meal can be served.

After the meal, it was a meeting of the male decision-making level of the family.

The participants, Lieutenant General Fujita Ichiro, a retired lieutenant general of the older generation, Hidetake Fujita, the inheritor of the new generation, and Major General Suzuki Hiroshi of the military police who is in the prime of his matriarchal family.

First of all, it was Suzuki Okuma who expressed his gratitude to Zhou Qinghe.

smiled and said: "Heqing, your vision of finding a wife is very good, and our family should learn more from you for a night." ”

"Huh?" Zhou Qinghe expressed surprise, and then said with a smile: "We met by coincidence, we like each other, and some things are fate." ”

"Hahahaha."

Everyone believes this, if you don't say that the daughter of the Yasuda family was forced to snatch by Fujita and Qing, then she wouldn't be so bold.

"President Yasuda introduced me to the head of the Maintenance Bureau, and this matter is still through your personal connection, I have to thank you, thank you." Suzuki Okuma paused without saying a word.

Zhou Qinghe hurriedly followed: "You are too polite, relatives help each other, it is as it should be." ”

Suzuki Okuma is the head of the Army Ministry's Maintenance Bureau, where he is mainly responsible for the training, equipment and mobilization of the army.

It sounds very ordinary, training, that is far from the front line, far from the personnel work of the Military Affairs Bureau, and the financial management of the Accounting Bureau, sounds amazing.

However, as one of the seven major bureaus of the Ministry of the Army, the position involves the word equipment, and a little thought about it will show how valuable this position is.

Being among them, I know best, the elderly Fujita Ichiro sighed, "The way of the world has changed, and in peacetime, our two families, as gendarmerie families, clamp down on the army, have the power of life and death over the army, and have the same prestige in the army."

But in the war years, the generals with heavy troops and the generals with military achievements are the real power figures in the army.

As the old Chinese saying goes, when the general is outside, he can't even listen to the orders of His Majesty the Emperor, let alone our gendarme family?

I knew at the time that once the war began, if the eyes of the gendarmerie family were still limited to the country, then the power would sooner or later be replaced by the newly rising generals.

What awaits us next is a ruthless end.

So I tried my best to use my connections to run the Suzuki family together and went to Shanghai to seek change and fight for a glimmer of life for the family.

Who knows, the excellent name is actually broken in Shanghai. ”

Fujita Ichiro said with a sad look at this: "When I heard the news, I really thought it was over, the Fujita family continued to my generation, and there will be no generals from there, and then, what awaits us is only the end of the era."

Who knows, you've given me another surprise. Fujita Ichiro looked at Zhou Qinghe and said solemnly: "The son of a good name, a top surgeon, and also married to the Yasuda family, you have given me hope." ”

"Whether I have nothing to do with the glory of the Fujita family, Yingwu can still raise the prestige of the Fujita family." Zhou Qinghe paused.

Fujita Ichiro shook his head in denial, and his navel was determined: "He can't do it, without the help of external forces, Dazuo is his limit, if there is no Yumei's jade crushed to make him go further, he will not be able to be promoted to Dazuo until now, and my favors have basically been spent on Yuming, and I can't help a major general out." ”

Fujita Hidetake was ashamed and did not deny it: "I was the one who disappointed my grandfather." ”

"You didn't disappoint me, that's all your qualifications are, what do I have to disappoint me."

These words are really heart-wrenching, Fujita Hidetake paused, and his head is lowered.

Fujita Ichiro looked at Zhou Qinghe: "This time you go back to your hometown, the result of President Yasuda's discussion with us is to try to arrange you into a position of real power, and you must have more contact with the front-line army."

Therefore, it is easiest to place you in the medical bureau, or the maintenance bureau or something like that, but we have not arranged it, but we are seeking a closer position.

In fact, the situation faced by our family and the Yasuda family is somewhat similar, one step slower than others.

Our gendarmerie family is in control of the military police and gendarmes, but we are far away from the front line of the war, so that once the war starts, we cannot keep up.

The Yasuda family is close to the imperial family and the cabinet of the Ministry of Finance, and the relationship with the real power figures in the military is far less close than that of the Mitsui family and the Mitsubishi family. ”

You're not going to let me be the captain of some wing to lead the team to attack Jinchaji, right? Then I'll have to demine the glory of the Fujita family.

Zhou Qinghe was shocked when he heard this, but fortunately, Fujita Ichiro quickly said: "So the position we envisioned is the head of the Chinese section of the General Staff Headquarters, which is the most suitable position for your experience, we know that you are not very interested in spy matters, but I hope you will look at the overall situation and do not refuse." ”

Yes? Zhou Qinghe felt that the other party's attitude was a little strange, but isn't the Chinese class a professional counterpart, what is there to refuse?

At that moment, Zhou Qinghe nodded silently: "Since I am powerful to the family, then I am duty-bound." ”

Whew, as if everyone was relieved.

Zhou Qinghe: "."

The atmosphere is somewhat strange.

"Good, very good!" Seeing Zhou Qinghe agree, Fujita Ichiro said happily:

"In that case, when you go back to Yasuda's house with Miss Chiba later, you can tell President Yasuda that the Yasuda family has a lot to do with Prince Zaihito of the General Staff Headquarters, and it is most appropriate for him to arrange it."

"Prince Zaihito, understood." Zhou Qinghe nodded, and then said with a smile: "Can it only be the squad leader?" So I have a boss above me?

I'm not used to it, I'm in charge of my department in Shanghai. ”

Suzuki Okuma immediately added:

"The section commander has to be a major general.

Except for small-level classrooms like Manchukuo, where the section chief can be an adjutant, in countries like China, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the level of the section chief must be a general, and there are hard and fast rules. ”

"I see, I see."

was about to visit Yasuda's house, and Zhou Qinghe then left.

As soon as he left, the room opened up with easy communication.

"I was okay just now, right?" Fujita Ichiro asked.

"No problem." Suzuki Okuma was also much more relaxed, and said with a smile: "I said a long time ago, you are too worried, how can young people be so difficult to get along with." ”

"Ugh." Fujita Ichiro also smiled.

The disobedient son didn't make a fuss about becoming a doctor, which is simply a celebration for the whole world.

What a tough person Yuming, this Fujita Kazuqing was able to rebel against Yumei's meaning at that time, he had to go to study medicine, and he ran to study medicine by himself, it is conceivable that such a person must be stubborn.

Let a person who loves to study medicine, and who is not close to the family, have to be a spy, they also sweat in advance of the discussion, and grasp the words, for fear that the first in-depth communication will make everyone unhappy.

After that, it's going to be hard.

After all, although everyone is a blood relative, they are really not familiar with each other.

"Weird."

Zhou Qinghe couldn't understand why these people were so serious in their atmosphere.

"What's wrong?" Chiba Yasuda asked.

"It's nothing, it's just that I was asked to work in the China section of the General Staff Headquarters and be a squad leader."

"Oh." Yasuda Chiba nodded, frowned, and said, "Why is it a squad leader, and the section leader doesn't give you Fujita-kun?" It's too stingy too. ”

"It's just, stingy." Zhou Qinghe deeply agreed and nodded vigorously.

"Hahahaha." Chiba Yasuda died laughing.

When he arrived at Yasuda's house, he knew that Yasuda Chiba was coming back, and the people of Yasuda's family had been waiting for a long time.

Asked Yasuda Chiba to say hello, Zhou Qinghe and Yasuda Kenichi accompanied them to chat for a few words, and then went to the study.

"The elders of the Fujita family should have already told you about the basic situation, right?"

"Got it."

Kenichi Yasuda snorted and sat casually, "Okay, I won't talk about those, I think another reason why you went to the staff headquarters is that I know the people over there, if you really don't feel comfortable doing anything, I can help you change."

The Ministry of War is a little more troublesome, Mitsui and Mitsubishi have more factions, Lu Xiang, Tojo Hideji, and the group of people in Dochien, they are all from their faction, and the good positions are all controlled by them, I am afraid that you may not be comfortable if you go. ”

"It sounds like this, the strength of the Yasuda family in the military department is not very strong." Zhou Qinghe joked very straightforwardly.

In fact, some of these famous people are from the War Department.

Kenichi Yasuda laughed, and those who have confidence don't mind these ridicules at all.

"I can't say that, I can only say that everyone is attacking in different directions, and the relationship between the Yasuda family and the financial department is very good, and the relationship with the navy is also good.

Even if it is an army general, this relationship is not bad, but the Yasuda leadership at that time had a limited vision, thinking that Japan is an island country and should have a stronger navy than the army, so there are more generals who invest in the navy, do you think this idea is wrong?

In addition, the military power is granted by the emperor, and the generals on the army side are all appointed by His Majesty the Emperor, and our Yasuda family has a good relationship with the imperial family, so do you think it is necessary for us to curry favor with a specific general?

All investments can be wiped out by a change in the appointment of His Majesty the Emperor, which is unnecessary.

And if you are really optimistic and let the royal family promote, wouldn't it also have the effect of buying people's hearts? ”

Zhou Qinghe nodded, regardless of whether he agreed or not, nodding was always right.

Kenichi Yasuda continued: "If you really want to talk about it, the Yasuda family is the most willing to invest in the army, you think, the airport was built by our family first, Mitsubishi started a few years ago, why did we build airplanes at that time?" Where do you need an airplane? It's the army.

It's just the wrong direction.

As soon as the war started, the mistake of positioning the battlefield between China and Soviet Russia was particularly big, and if it was positioned as Hong Kong, or other island countries in Southeast Asia, it would not be wrong, it was the right investment, and it would definitely be the Yasuda family to defeat all the interests.

In fact, if it is really as the army said that China can be destroyed in three months, then the next target is not Soviet Russia, it should be other island countries in Southeast Asia, and the navy still has a chance, but how long did it take to take Shanghai now?

If you are dragged in China, you can't get out at all, and you have no other chance, right, the mistake is very big. ”

"That's true."

Yasuda Ken smiled: "No way, the mistakes made by the predecessors can only be made up by us."

Mitsui and Mitsubishi took the lead and looked for army generals, and now that the army is powerful, these people they have invested in have also risen.

We Yasuda want to intervene again, and these top echelons of the army don't need it, so according to my thinking, that is, to continue to maintain the relationship with the royal family, and then cultivate the middle level, select the elite, and replace them, people will always be old, right? ”

"yes, that makes sense."

"Ha, but there are also difficulties, the middle level is easy, if you want to go to the top, it will be difficult, not everyone has this potential."

After Yasuda Kenyi finished speaking, he nodded to Zhou Qinghe and said with a smile: "You are different from others, the Yasuda family can naturally push you forward with all their might, but even if you can't reach the top, I don't think it matters much." ”

"Why?"

"Because you have good medical skills, the top level of this army is a bunch of old men, even if they have Mitsui and Mitsubishi working behind their backs, can Mitsui and Mitsubishi still treat them? Yes? Hahahaha. ”

Kenichi Yasuda looked at Zhou Qinghe with satisfaction in his eyes, and the more he watched, the more happy he became.

Kenichi Yasuda can be regarded as confiding in his heart today.

That Zhou Qinghe also understood the reason why Kenichi Yasuda took the initiative to marry his daughter to him at that time, which was considered an insurance.

Even if the Yasuda family pushes other people and doesn't push it, just by virtue of the relationship between a top surgeon and the military, then there is a friendship, and the Yasuda family can overtake in the corner and snatch a piece of meat from Mitsui and Mitsubishi.

"Let's go, I'll take you to meet someone." Ken Yasuda together.

"Who?" Zhou Qinghe asked.

"Chief of Staff of the General Staff Headquarters, Uncle of the Emperor, Prince Naehito."

Kenichi Yasuda patted Zhou Qinghe on the shoulder with a smile, blinked his eyes, and hinted with a smile: "74 years old, old, you have to seize every opportunity when you are sick, and he is still the boss of your future boss." ”

(End of chapter)